NOVEMBER 1976 ol the alumni magazine of washington and lee Volume 51, Number 8, November 1976 William C. Washburn, °40..............0000cccccccccceeeceeeeee Editor Romulus T. Weatherman...................... Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, ’68.....................cccccccceeeeee. Associate Editor Joyce Carter, Jan Shivel.......0..000..... Editorial Assistants Sally Mamn ooo... ccc eee ttete cette Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Liberty Hall and the Revolution ........00...0000000... ] W&L in Philadelphia oo... 8 W&L’s Bicentennial in Review .....................0000.8.. 12 In Praise of Homor 2.0.00... cette 14 Smith at Oxford oo... ccceeee ett eees 16 Cook on Campus oo... 17 Winter Athletic Schedule ......0.00000000 oe. 20 Annual Fund Leadership .......0.000000 cc 21 Chapter News ooo... etc eteteseetereeees 22 Class Notes 20....0000.00cccccccceee ccc ccecssceeeseeeeverseeeennee, 25 In Memoriam 2000.00.00 ccccccccccceccsecceeeevesseeeeees 33 Distinguished Alumnus Award. .............0.00..00.00...... 36 Published in January, March, April, May, July, September, October, and November by Washington and Lee University Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Virginia 24450. All communications and POD Forms 3579 should be sent to Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Va. 24450. Second class post- age paid at Lexington, Va. 24450, with additional mailing privileges at Roanoke, Virginia 24001. Officers and Directors Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. THomas B. Brancu III, 758, Atlanta, Ga. President J. Tuomas Toucuton, ’60, ‘Tampa, Fla. Vice President CHARLES C. STIEFF II, ’45, Baltimore, Md. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WasHBurNn, 40, Lexington, Va. Secretary WILLIAM P. BOARDMAN, 63, Columbus, Ohio Puitie R. CAMPBELL, ’57, Tulsa, Okla. SAMUEL C. DuDLEy, 758, Richmond, Va. Epwin J. Foxtz, ’40, Gladwyne, Pa. Marion G. HEATWOLE, '41, Pittsburgh, Pa. SAMUEL B. HO tus, ’51, Memphis, ‘Tenn. CourTNEY R. Mauzy Jr., ’61, Raleigh, N.C. Jerry G. SouTtu, ’54, San Francisco, Calif. Rosert M. Waite II, ’38, Mexico, Mo. -_— o=—_ ON THE COVER: The Washington and Lee crest superimposed on a huge, lighted reproduction of the Declaration of Independence was the back- drop for a black-tie banquet in the Great Hall of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, attended by members of the Board of Trustees, Alumni Board of Directors, and Lee Associates. ‘The oc- casion was one of several memorable events that marked a commemorative gathering of W&L peo- ple in Philadelphia. See page 8. Photo by Sally Mann. | “Light-Horse Harry” Lee was awarded one of the eight medals voted by Congress during the American Revolution. He was decorated for his daring raid on Paulus Hook, N. J. in August, 1779. Lee was a friend and classmate of William Graham at the College of New Jersey at Princeton and, in later life, took an active interest in Liberty Hall, which Graham headed. Both his father, Henry Lee, and his father-in-law, Charles Carter, donated money to Liberty Hall. His son, Robert, and grandson, Custis, were presidents of the school. The gold medal is displayed in Lee Chapel, where the Commander of Lee’s Legion is buried. “Liberty! Liberty!” The Academy and the Revolution by Dr. I. Taylor Sanders University Historian _ Here we repulsed them again; and they a second time made us retreat back to our first ground, where we were deceived for reinforcement of Hessians, whom we took for our own, and cried to them to see if they were our friends and shouted LIBERTY! LIBERTY! and advanced up till they let off some guns; then we fired sharply on them, and made them retreat a little. But presently the light horse came on us, and not being defended by our own light horse, nor reinforced,—though firing long ceased in all other parts, we were obliged to run, and many were sore chased, and some cut down. From Rev. Sam Houston’s account of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse “Liberty,” the young man penned with a flourish, “is the nurse of Riches, Literature and Heroism.” It was early in 1780, in the midst of a hard winter. Ice covered the land from the Great Lakes to southwestern Virginia. Since September, Samuel Houston had been copying a manuscript belonging to his teacher Rev. William Graham, Rector of Liberty Hall Academy. ‘The American Revolution had very nearly brought the school, located on Timber Ridge, to a halt. A few students, however, lingered on to study with Graham at his farmhouse, situated “within a few poles” of the ridge where the imposing ruins of Liberty Hall stand today. The capstone of Graham’s curriculum was the impressive series of lectures by Rev. John Witherspoon, Graham’s teacher at the College at Princeton, New Jersey. Houston’s task was to copy a portion of the lectures on Moral Philosophy, and then, apparently to meet with Graham to discuss their salient points. Witherspoon, who had signed the Declaration of Inde- pendence, believed that the prime aim of education should be the preparation of young men for public service. Graham also championed this ideal which was made concrete in the Revolution by men connected with Liberty Hall. At every level, trustee, teacher, student and alumnus, they served the new nation in battle, in debate and in prayer. Liberty may well be the “nurse of riches, literature and heroism,” but it demanded a heavy sacrifice. By 1780 currency depreciation had become a plague. Officers who provided their own horses found that the cost of a suitable mount equal- ed 10 years of wages. Consuming their private fortunes, many patriots sank into poverty. The “endowment” of Liberty Hall dwindled as well. Between 1778 and 1783 a treasury worth ] more than 900 pounds had shrunk to the paltry sum of just over 40 pounds. Some of the sons of Liberty Hall would find riches, partic- ularly in frontier regions opened by the severed ties with Great Britain. Many would find ample opportunity for heroics. Yet, still others were left destitute by the war, or were lost to unmarked graves. Houston finished transcribing the lectures in February, 1780. A year later he was spending a cold night on wet ground in the piney woods of North Carolina preparing to fight Cornwallis at Guilford Courthouse. The battle forced the British general to take the first steps of a retreat that ended at Yorktown. ‘The road from Lexington to Guilford had been long and hard for Houston and his fellow militiamen from Augusta and Rockbridge counties. Houston left home on 26 February, 1781. Marching by slow stages, he reached the Dan River on 9 March. Militiamen were not -accustomed to crossing over the borders of their home states. ‘The commander of the 200 Virginians later reported that only “with difficulty” could he persuade “the men to cross the Dan into Carolina... .” On 13 March the Virginians, a mixture of raw recruits and seasoned veterans, prepared for battle. Houston wrote in his journal: “We paraded several times, and at last fired in Platoons and Battalions, in doing which one of the North Carolina militia was shot through the head.” Enough sons of Liberty Hall were present at the battle to hold a reunion. But they were concerned with other business that day. Although it may never be possible to compile a com- plete list of the alumni of Liberty Hall and its predecessor Augusta Academy, there are more than 50 known alumni who studied between 1749 and 1782. Of these, well over half are known to have served in the war, mostly as officers. A number of them, regulars and militiamen, converged at Guilford, where they were linked by family and school ties as well as by patriotism. Col. William Campbell, a hard-riding alumnus of Au- gusta Academy, had commanded the army of frontiersmen and mountainmen who decimated a British and Tory force at Kings Mountain the previous October. Tall, muscular and red- haired, he was a veteran of numerous forays against the In- dians. He joined the Americans at Guilford with 60 hand- picked veterans of Kings Mountain and was the ranking Liberty Hall man present. He pursued Cornwallis all the way to Yorktown and died just prior to the surrender at age 36. His young friend Lafayette wept openly over Campbell's coffin. : Campbell’s orphaned daughter married a son of Col. William Preston, one of the original Liberty Hall trustees of 1776. A native of Ireland, Col. Preston had a long career of 2 While Robert E. Lee was president of Washington College, he wrote a biographical sketch of his father, “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, pub- lished as a part of the elder Lee’s war memoirs in 1869. Col. Lee's interest in Liberty Hall was extensive. It is believed that he in- fluenced Washington to donate his James River Canal stock to the school, and he was instrumental in procuring the gift of the Society of the Cincinnati of Virginia. The map is from Lee’s memoirs, which ranks among the finest campaign reminiscences in the Eng- lish language. ‘The asterisks superimposed on the map mark the approximate position of Samuel Houston during the Battle of Guilford. After his unit was scattered, his retreat took him some 14 miles to the north. \ Virginia Historical Society public service as burgess in Williamsburg, county surveyor, coroner and militia colonel. At Guilford he served under Campbell, whose sharpshooters operating in conjunction with “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, covered the American flanks and in- flicted heavy losses on the enemy. Riding with Lee’s elite corps was Henry Bowyer, who after joining the army as a private had been promoted to first lieutenant the previous month. Bowyer, a nephew of an ori- ginal Liberty Hall trustee, served on the board of Washington College in later life. During the Yorktown campaign, his uncle led another contingent of Rockbridge and Augusta troops against Cornwallis. In the early nineteenth century, trustee Henry Bowyer was instrumental in winning a $25,000 endowment for the school from the Society of the Cincinnati of Virginia. After the war Bowyer had been one of six men with academy connections who joined the society, an organization composed of Con- tinental officers, who had rendered long service during the war. The original motion to grant the endowment was made by Bowyer’s old chief, “Light-Horse Harry’ Lee, who had been William Graham’s classmate and friend at Princeton. If long-term service in the Continental line helped to break down regional jealousies and turn the Colonies into a na- tion, service in the militia was a prime factor in revolu- tionizing the general populace and transforming it into a people. At Guilford Courthouse, the Augusta and Rockbridge mili- tia units were commanded by Liberty Hall men, who were brothers-in-law. Col. Samuel McDowell, who led the Rock- bridge contingent, was no stranger to warfare. His father had been killed by Indians near the forks of the James River in 1742. A captain at the bloody battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, McDowell was one of the most important men of the Valley, having been a member of the House of Burgesses, a delegate to the state constitutional convention, and a member of the first Virginia General Assembly in October, 1776. In June, 1781, he was appointed to the Governor’s Council. Col. McDowell, an original trustee who erected the first Liberty Pole seen in the Valley, was very active in the school’s early fund-raising efforts. As a member of the Gen- eral Assembly’s committee on religion in 1776, he attempted to disestablish the Anglican church in Virginia. Col. McDowell’s brother-in-law, Col. George Moffett, had studied at the academy in Augusta and was a trustee of Lib- erty Hall. At Guilford, he commanded the Augusta battalion. A veteran of the Indian wars and the battle of Point Pleasant, he had served his county as justice of the peace. Cols. McDowell and Moffett were well served at Guilford by other academy men. Alexander Stuart, McDowell’s batta- lion major, had donated 40 acres of land to Liberty Hall in 1776 and served on the board. He came to Guilford wielding a The modified sabre carried by Maj. Alex- ander Stuart at the Battle of Guilford has been called ‘a ponderous broadsword” and “a somewhat uncouth weapon, presumably of local manufacture.” His family later present- ed the weapon to the Virginia Historical Society. Stuart, a Liberty Hall trustee, was captured at Guilford, where Cornwallis held the field, but lost about a third of his army. massive broadsword and astride a beautiful mare. During the fight the horse was killed and Maj. Stuart was captured. Stripped by the British and left standing on the field in cocked hat, shirt and shoes, he spent six months on a British prison ship off Cape Fear, North Carolina. Other sons of the school fared even worse. Capt. Alexander Tedford, an alumnus of Augusta Academy and leader of a Rockbridge company, was killed in the opening stage of the battle. Capt. James Tate, another alumnus, was mortally wounded. A veteran of the American victory at Cowpens the previous January, Tate had returned home only to retrace his steps to join the Americans at Guilford. Tate, whose com- pany won Lee’s praise for its conduct at Cowpens, was on reconnaissance with Lee and Campbell just prior to the major fight at Guilford. After a skirmish with Tarleton’s “Green Dragoons,”. Lee’s unit ran smack into the main British force. In the fire fight Tate received a mortal wound. His widow, a cousin of Maj. Stuart, later remarried. But Capt. Tedford’s widow never recovered. She went south in a vain search for his body and, it was said, “‘crazed by her hard- ships and suffering,” she soon died. Father and son often accompanied each other to battle. Archibald Stuart, the son of the captured battalion major, studied at Augusta Academy and enrolled at the College of William and Mary where he was president of Phi Beta Kappa. When he answered the call to join his father at Guil- ford, he brought..the seal of the Society with him and car- ried it through the battle. When the Society was revived at Williamsburg after a lapse of some 70 years, his family returned the seal to Williams- burg, where it was lost in the chaos following the Civil War. After the Revolution, Stuart had a distinguished career in politics and was a trustee at Washington College. Stuart’s con- temporary, John McDowell, may have interrupted his studies to join his father in the field. By 1781, Col. Samuel McDowell’s son had already done his fair share of fighting. At the opening of the war he en- listed as an ensign in the 12th Virginia, Continental Line. By the time he resigned in December, 1779, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant, had crossed the Delaware with Washing- ton, had been in the battles of Princeton and Trenton, had suffered at Valley Forge, had been wounded at Brandywine, and had fought at Monmouth. It is quite possible that he was studying with Graham at Liberty Hall prior to the march to Guilford, where he fought in the line with his father. It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to determine how many Liberty Hall boys marched with Houston to Guilford. A strong local tradition maintained that students formed a sizable portion of Capt. Tate’s company. But this is impossible to prove. Years later, however, Graham’s brother wrote a short paper, 3 in which he discussed the students’ exploits. Edward Graham, who studied under his brother and taught for many years at the College before his death in 1840, would have been about 16 years old in 1781. He wrote that “several’’ Liberty Hall students were drafted when “Cornwallis was marching triumphantly across the Caro- linas toward Virginia .. .” and described how his neighbors expressed their low opinion of the “military prowess of stu- dents .. . It ain’t worthwhile to send these students to the war. They can’t fight. I would not give a chew of tobacco for a hundred of them. Why only look at their hands! ‘They as soft as the hands of ladies.” Graham maintained that the “Majority of students not only, merely behaved themselves well” at Guilford, “but they distinguished themselves,” displaying “daring courage... calmness and self-possession, in the midst of danger, which has seldom been exceeded, even by” veterans. He explained that were “it proper in this place, I could relate anecdotes” to prove the students’ worth. Unfortunately he neither names the students involved, nor does he elabor- ate. Houston, whose journal does not mention such a group, is not listed in militia returns for the period. At most there would only have been a handful of men studying with Gra- ham in 1781, and military records and student lists are very incomplete for the period. Among the other alumni present were Dr. William Brown, surgeon of the Rockbridge militia, Samuel Blackburn, who would receive a B.A. degree with Houston at Liberty Hall’s first commencement in 1785 and Lieut. James Mitchell of Tate’s company, who like Houston became a Presbyterian minister and trustee of the school. Houston’s brother James, an alumnus, may also have been present. Capt. William Lyle, the son of a trustee, a probable alum- nus of the school and a future trustee, was commissary of- ficer for the Rockbridge troops. Apparently Lyle drew courier duty during the battle. Shortly before the fight Houston saw him riding by, hailed the staff officer and asked whether or not the Rockbridge troops would see action. He soon got his answer. Houston and his companions were placed on the left in the second of two militia lines. Their task, which they did well, was to blunt the charge of British regulars, who would then face four fresh regiments from the Virginia and Maryland Continental lines. After fir- ing his rifle 14 times in a see-sawing tree-to-tree fight that last- ed more than two hours, Houston and his compatriots were scattered by British cavalry. The ferocity of the fight was un- derscored by the fact that almost half of the dead and close to a third of the wounded in Houston’s brigade were from Rock- bridge units. But they had carpeted the field with British dead and wounded, and were obliquely complimented by 4 Cornwallis, who after the battle inquired specifically about those “rebels who took position” in the “orchard and fought so furiously.” A more grisly compliment was offered by a captured British regular, who asked to see one of the Augusta long rifles after the fight. He is said to have exclaimed: “God and law should forbid the use of such deadly weapons.” In later years, Houston recounted how on the morning of the battle he climbed into the top of an old tree and “committed himself to the wise and protecting providence of God.” Prayer and sermons helped fortify eighteenth-century warriors from the backwoods. One Liberty Hall trustee, the Rev. James Waddell, pas- tor of Tinkling Springs Church near Staunton, preached a sermon to the Augusta troops before the long march to North Carolina. Samuel Doak, an Augusta Academy alumnus, who graduated from Princeton College in 1775, delivered a fierce sermon to the “over-mountain’’ men who gathered in ‘Ten- nessee before the trek that ended at Kings Mountain. One original trustee, the Rev. Charles Cummings, went on cam- paign against the Cherokee in October, 1776, preaching to the troops along the way and carrying a rifle over his arm. The Rev. William Graham, a firm champion of indepen- dence, was elected militia captain. Some months after Guil- ford, during Tarleton’s raid on Charlottesville, he shouldered a musket, rallied his troops and marched north to Rockfish gap to stop the British from entering the Valley. Had not Tarleton turned back toward Richmond, he would have found the mountain east of present-day Waynesboro, ‘“‘covered with riflemen.” Trustees and sons of Augusta Academy and Liberty Hall were willing to defend their homes as well as to fight the British far afield. They took part in campaigns that began with Dunmore’s War and ended at Yorktown. Many fought Indians in Kentucky and the Carolinas and served with valour in all theatres as militiamen and regulars. Several rose to prominence in the political sphere as well. Independence led to a marked increase in the number of places available at the higher levels of government. Liberty broadened the base of the Virginia oligarchy. The inner coun- cils of government opened to the sons of the Valley, who could not have dreamed of holding high office under the Crown. ‘Iwo members of the original board moved into this new revolutionary talent elite. William Christian, who was Patrick Henry’s brother-in-law, was a Virginia senator from 1776 to 1777 and from 1780 to 1784. The son of a wealthy merchant, he led successful punitive expeditions against the Indians in 1781 and was named to head a peace commission on the frontier. Emigrating to Ken- tucky, with many of his contemporaries in the mid-1780s, he was killed by Indians in April, 1786. Christian County was A portion of Edward Graham’s paper, signed “‘A Citizen,” in which he lauded the effectiveness of Liberty Hall students during the Battle of Guilford. A page from Samuel Houston’s manuscript of Witherspoon’s lec- tures on which appears the line: “Liberty is the nurse of Riches, Literature, and Heroism.” From McCormick Library Special Collections one of five in Kentucky named for members of the Liberty Hall board of 1776, or alumni of the school. Sampson Matthews rose to prominence in Staunton by operating a tavern and general store. This board member served in the Virginia Senate from 1776 to 1782 and from 1790 to 1792. An alumnus of Augusta Academy, he was re- sponsible for raising Virginia troops in 1781 for the southern campaign. ‘Taken as a group, the original 24 trustees included the leading men of the Valley. Excluding Graham, eight were Justices, lawyers and politicians, five were ministers, five were planters, three were merchants, one was a physician and one was a commercial planter. They expressed their patriotism two months before the Declaration of Independence, when they christened their little school Liberty Hall. At least 10 served on campaign during the war. United by marriage ties and a common interest in educa- tion, the trustees continued to play an important part in the exciting affairs of the day. Of course they did not always agree politically. Although Graham was heatedly opposed to the Federal Constitution, six members of Graham’s board voted for ratification at the State Convention in 1788. With- out their votes that instrument would have been rejected by the state. The tradition of public service was continued by the members of Liberty Hall’s first graduating class. The 12 men who received bachelor degrees on the second Wednesday in September, 1785, had completed their courses of study some time before. Collectively they achieved an impressive joint record of public service. Among their number, which included at least three veterans of the war, were a governor, members of the Virginia, Georgia and ‘Tennessee legislatures, State and Federal judges, teachers and several college presidents. ‘The majority entered the Presbyterian ministry. At a time when only about one Ameri- can in six hundred had entered any college as a student, it is not surprising that these graduates were marked men. A college degree was a great rarity, particularly on the unsettled frontier, where most of them made their mark. Education was at a premium, and the learned man was not only afforded deference and respect, but also he was looked upon as the natural leader of his community. Expected to serve the public weal, he usually did. Sam Houston, one of those 12, was no exception. Following the battle at Guilford, the Virginia militia, which had won the praise of their commander, Nathanael Greene, decided that they had seen enough war for the time being. Despite the fact that one of Greene’s subordinates “came and raged” at them, Houston and many of his com- panions headed for home. Col. McDowell remained behind with Gen. Greene. Samuel Houston’s 1836 letter in which he called for celebration of Independence Day in “a rational and dignified manner” rather than by “Bacchanalian entertainments.” From McCormick Library Special Collections 6 Houston was soon licensed as a Presbyterian minister and began a career that spanned more than 50 years. As a trus- tee of Liberty Hall and Washington College, he was a notable supporter of higher education. By the middle years of the 1780s, he was involved in tangled political issues on the frontier. Calling on Graham for advice, he helped draft a proposed constitution for the counties of western North Carolina. The idealistic proposal, incorporating some of Witherspoon’s ideas, was still-born and the state of Franklin, as it was called, never materialized. ‘The counties eventually entered the Union as part of ‘Tennessee. In June, 1836, Houston was in his 80s and still preaching the gospel. That year the exploits of Gen. Samuel Houston, the preacher’s kinsman, were on everyone’s lips and the neigh- borhood was swept by patriotic fervor. ‘The citizens of Lexing- ton invited the Rev. Houston to take part in the festivities marking American independence on July 4, 1836. Houston’s response gives some insight into how a wizened veteran might commemorate Liberty. In part he wrote that he “had always thought our country should annually in a ra- tional and dignified manner” recount “some of the memorable deeds of the Revolutionary times.” He believed that the “patriotic exertions of Rockbridge only known now tradi- tionally by most of our citizens’? should be “brought into view.” In the year of our National Bicentennial, which is also Liberty Hall’s, Washington and Lee has endeavored to carry out Houston’s wishes through a variety of scholarly programs, aimed as much at educating the present generation of under- graduates as they are at bringing “into view” the deeds of the past. Certainly one of the most exciting programs is the archeolo- gical dig at the Liberty Hall ruins. Directed by Dr. John M. McDaniel, assistant professor of anthropology, the project has brought to light a rich collection of artifacts which form a picture of student life on the eighteenth century “hill.” Mrs. Betty Kondayan, head reference and public service librarian at McCormick Library, has done an invaluable service bringing together and analyzing the core of books in the Liberty Hall Library. ‘The library has microfilmed trustee, faculty, and other papers for easier access by student and faculty researchers and is working to expand its manuscript holdings. A grant from the Maurice L. Mednick Memorial Fund supports an investigation of Liberty Hall’s “curriculum.” A number of students have done extensive research into the history of Liberty Hall and their work is reflected in this survey. For example, Marshall Snyder, a senior from Bryan, ‘Texas took a close look at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Penn Plummer, a senior from East Liverpool, Ohio, presented a composite picture of the early trustees, with special emphasis on their impact on local, regional and national affairs. Wil- liam Graham’s later life was investigated by Dennis Oakley, who graduated last June. Bill Watson, a senior honors student from Richmond, studied Liberty Hall as a training ground for lawyers, many of whom made important contributions in the post-revolution- ary west. Mark Bradley, a senior Robert E. Lee Research student from Roanoke, is investigating the unsuccessful at- tempt by the Virginia General Assembly to transform the Academy into a state institution during the 1790s. ‘The back- ground of the gift by the Society of the Cincinnati is being! studied, and students enrolled in military history courses, a part of W&L’s R.O.T.C. program, are looking into all aspects of Washington and Lee’s military involvement under the di- rection of Capt. John R. Miller, assistant professor of military science. Charles Watson, a 1975 graduate, undertook a number of projects ranging from an analysis of the first graduating class to a study of the school’s impact on religious revivals during the late eighteenth century. Watson spent last year as Wash- ington and Lee’s first Liberty Hall Postgraduate Fellow and presented three papers to various scholarly meetings. David Moore, a June graduate and current Liberty Hall Fellow, is undertaking a variety of projects, including a close scrutiny of Liberty Hall’s Scotch-Irish heritage. Taken together, it is hoped that these and future projects will help formulate and preserve an accurate account of Rev. Houston’s old school. The crucible of the Revolution pro- duced a remarkable group of Valley leaders, who found in Liberty an ample nursemaid for “riches, literature and hero- ism,” and who left a worthy legacy to Washington and Lee in the heritage of Liberty Hall. The Bicentennial investigation of the history of Liberty Hall rests on a thorough study of the primary historical source material and the rich collection of eighteenth-century artifacts uncovered by the archeologists working in the shadow of the Liberty Hall ruins. Among the special collections at McCormick Library are a number of books used by students, including volumes of NATURE DIS- PLAYED, a popular survey of natural philosophy and Samuel Clarke’s edition of Homer’s Iliad, published in 1774 and purchas- ed for the school in Philadelphia on March 15, 1776. Of special im- portance is Houston’s manuscript copy of Witherspoon’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy—transcribed between September 4, 1779, and February, 1780. The archeological program has uncovered personal belongings of Liberty Hall men ranging from buttons and a thimble to eating utensils and a spur. Buckles, marbles, beads, flints, and pipes enrich our knowledge of dress and recreational habits. Students wrote with slivers of graphite on pieces of slate. The foundations of outbuildings, a spring house, and building ma- terials and tools give insight into eighteenth-century craftsmanship. Projectile points are a poignant reminder of the Indian menace lurking beyond the mountains. veh ig Trustees of Washington and Lee University met this fall in the same historic location their predecessors did 100 years ago during the nation’s Centennial—Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Members of the W&L Alumni Board of Directors were special guests of the trustees for the half-hour ceremony. In conjunction with that meeting and other business ses- sions over a two-day period, including one in Philosophical Hall, the trustees were hosts to the Robert E. Lee Associates at the annual black-tie banquet of that group of major bene- factors. The affair was held in the Great Hall of the Franklin Institute. Trustees and alumni directors had gathered a day earlier for another black-tie dinner—this one in Carpenters’ Hall, where the First Continental Congress met in September 1774. (It was not until 1775 that the soon-to-be revolutionaries began meeting in the State House, now called Independence Hall.) Arrangements for both the business and social activities— including the use of Independence, Carpenters’ and Philo- sophical Halls, privileges rarely granted to private groups, and then only for occasions of extraordinary importance—were made by W&L’s two Philadelphia-area trustees, Isadore M. Scott and Board Rector E. Marshall Nuckols Jr., and by Alum- ni Director and past Lee Associates Chairman Edwin J. Foltz. The Independence Hall ceremony commemorated a WkL meeting held there Oct. 21, 1876, “to organize a movement for the better endowment” of the University. It was because of that specific historic precedent that Independence Hall was 8 Washington and Lee keeps a date with Philadelphia made available this year. In his remarks during the ceremony, Nuckols observed: “Our purpose has not changed during the intervening hundred years.” But, he added, this year’s ceremony had an additional purpose—“‘to reaffirm once again those enduring principles upon which this University is based, and from which I think we can truthfully say we have not wavered.” The meeting was opened with a moving prayer by Scott, who noted the aptness of the historic setting for a gathering of “a University which is so much a part of America—and so much a part of all of us.” In his welcome, Nuckols quoted a comment made at the outset of the 1876 meeting. Today, just as then, he said, Wash- ington and Lee’s representatives had assembled in Indepen- dence Hall out of a common devotion to “ ‘an institution of learning which was endowed by George Washington and the soldiers of the Revolution. That this object is a most worthy one, who will dispute? That the time chosen for its accom- plishment is most auspicious, who can deny? And it is gratify- ing to know that the many eminent men, in all parts of the United States, who have been asked to participate—however widely they may differ on other subjects—on this feel an entire unanimity of opinion....’” Foltz then spoke on the response to that 1876 call for a “better endowment,” and suggested that the men and women who supported the University magnificently 100 years ago “would be pleased with Washington and Lee today.” And when W&L meets again in Independence Hall 100 years in the Above: Board Rector E. Marshall Nuckols Jr. welcomes W&L guests during the com- memorative meeting in the Long Gallery of Independence Hall, just above the room in which the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution drafted. The 1876 meeting took place in the Governor's Select Chamber (in the room through the doorway in the left of the photo); the 1976 commemorative meeting was held in the larger gallery to accommodate the larger group. Left: Trustee Isadore M. Scott (seated) re- creates 1876 endorsement of a program to increase Washington and Lee’s endowment. With him are the other two Philadelphia hosts, Rector E. Marshall Nuckols Jr. (left) and Alumni Director Edwin J. Foltz. future, Foltz said, there is likely to be even more reason than there is now to recall the words of the nineteenth-century news- paper editor who wrote: “We would pause to meditate on these things [W&L’s “splendid record” and “mightly influences’’], and to turn our thoughts in the direction of profound thank- fulness to God for what has been accomplished through Wash- ington and Lee University.” President Robert E. R. Huntley also spoke briefly, noting that in one sense the 1876 and 1976 meetings were simply reaffirmations of a commitment to fierce educational and political independence that had been set forth initially in 1776 and reiterated in 1796. In 1776, he said, Liberty Hall Academy, as W&L’s predecessor institution had just renamed itself, under- took its first major fund-raising drive, seeking support from those “whose hearts are set for the promotion of learning and 10 Above: W&L trustees assembled in the Gov- ernor’s Select Chamber in Independence Hall. From left: James W. Whitehead, board secretary; S L Kopald; John W. Warner; Frank C. Brooks; Dr. John Newton Thomas, rector emeritus; J. Stewart Buxton; John F. Hendon, trustee emeritus; J. Alvin Philpott; T. Hal Clarke; Joseph L. Lanier; Sydney Lewis; Jack W. Warner; Joseph T. Lykes Jr.; Thomas D. Anderson; Thomas C. Frost; EF. Waller Dudley; E. Marshall Nuckols Jr., rec- tor; Calvert Thomas; Dr. Edgar F. Shannon Jr.; Isadore M. Scott; Robert E. R. Huntley, president; John L. Crist Jr.; John M. Stem- mons; H. Gordon Leggett Jr. Left: Black-tie banquet in Carpenters’ Hall for trustees and alumni directors and their Lexington guests was preceded by a cocktail hour. The hall was the site of the first meet- ing of the Continental Congress in 1774. the good of their country.”’ That effort drew to the little school in the mountains the endorsements of five of Virginia’s seven signers of the Declaration of Independence, including Thomas Jefferson. Among the 104 others who pledged their financial and philosophical support were most of the other Virginia statesmen who were destined to play crucial roles in the na- tion’s struggle for freedom and in giving direction to the re- public once that freedom had been secured. The success of that 1776 drive for support gave Liberty Hall its first measure of permanence—a base of financial independence on which the institution’s entire subsequent history has been built. The 1797 episode, President Huntley remarked, represent- ed a struggle for independence of another kind. After George Washington’s landmark gift to Liberty Hall in 1796, the Vir- ginia General Assembly apparently decided the school ought to Left: The “Energy” exhibit section of the Franklin Institute provided a unique setting for cocktails preceding dinner in the Great Hall. Below left: Alumni Director Charles C. Stieff II displays the key to Independence Hall that was the model from which his Balti- more-based silver company fashioned small pewter replicas and fitted them with chains. The necklaces were presented to the women guests. Below center: Dr. James G. Leyburn delivers the principal after-dinner address in the Great Hall of the Franklin Institute. Below right: Trustee Joseph L. Lanier of West Point, Ga., addresses the dinner guests after the announcement that he is retiring as a regular member of the board and as- suming emeritus status. Dr. John Newton Thomas, rector emeritus, lauded Lanier’s service to the University and presented him a silver tray bearing the engraved signatures of all the trustees. become a state college—and enacted a new charter to supercede the old one, without even informing the trustees. The Liberty Hall board members viewed that act as a “tyrannical imposi- tion” and “a singular instance of infringement on the rights of an incorporated body,” and early in 1797 they adopted a ringing resolution not merely objecting to the attempted poll- tical takeover, but flatly declaring that they “will not submit to the act” and specifying six reasons why. They argued their case in Richmond, and in the end they prevailed. The offend- ing new charter was repealed, and Liberty Hall endured. A handsome set of reproductions of the 1776 fund-raising document and the 1797 resolution rejecting the attempted seizure of control by the General Assembly—accompanied by an attractively illustrated booklet containing an essay by Dr. I. Taylor Sanders II, University historian, describing the two “declarations of educational independence” in detail—was dis- tributed to those who attended the Independence Hall cere- mony and the Franklin Institute banquet, and the materials have also been mailed to Lee Associates who were unable to attend. At the Franklin Institute banquet for the Lee Associates— to which Philadelphia-area alumni were also invited—Dr. James Graham Leyburn, dean emeritus and professor of sociology and anthropology at W&L for a quarter-century until his retirement in 1973, was the principal speaker. His topic was Washington and Lee’s heritage and its future. As seems to happen when- ever Dr. Leyburn returns from his retirement farm in Martins- burg, W. Va., to address a W&L function, his observations and challenges were greeted with huge warmth and a by-now-tra- ditional standing ovation. I] Wes L’s Bicentennial: A fanciful look back PITTSBURGH PRESS The nation’s. Bicentennial this year has made Washington and Lee mindful of its own Bicentennial, back in 1949. Like the current Bicentennial, that one had its share of big events, testimonial speakers and commemorative publications. One such booklet—organized and compiled entirely by students— included tributes from several contemporary journalists and cartoonists. Historians Virginius Dabney and Douglas Southall Freeman, and even Eleanor Roosevelt, contributed laudatory remarks to the booklet 200 Years Young. And such diverse cartoon personalities as Donald Duck, Little Orphan Annie, and Alley Oop trooped through its pages—all in original draw- ings penned especially for W&L’s Bicentennial. The booklet was printed on campus by the Journalism Laboratory Press and was distributed as an alumni publication. The booklet was organized and edited by Art Wood, a junior during W&L’s Bicentennial. (His son, James Arthur III, incidentally, was a senior at W&L during the nation’s birth- day year.) Wood was well suited for such a task, having been interested in cartoons and having collected original drawings for several years. Before enrolling at the University, Wood served in the Navy during World War II. The experience provided him an opportunity to work with noted cartoonists involved in serv- ice publications. He recalled those times in a recent profile in a cartoonists’ magazine: “I did everything from VD posters to brochures for soldiers overseas, did a Sunday page, ‘All Thumbs,’ about a little Navy character—really a steal on ‘Sad Sack’—and wrote gags for cartoonists.” By the time he arrived at W&L, Wood knew most of the cartoonists in the comic-page line and a number of the political cartoonists as well. The idea of a student Bicentennial publication developed one evening when he was having dinner with the Francis P. Gaines family, Wood recalls. “Dr. Gaines and others on the faculty were anxious to have active student participation. Since Gen. Lee had originated the idea of a school of jour- nalism at the college, my thoughts turned to this area. Why 12 " .. AMONGST THE MOTIVES To SUCH AN INSTITUTION, THE ASSIMILATION OF THE PRINCIPLES, OPINIONS AND MANNERS OF OUR COUNTRYMEN BY THE COMMON ED- UCATION OF A PORTION OF OUR YOUTH FROM EVERY QUARTER WELL DESERVES ATTENTION... ” Cee ‘ .I CONSIDER THE PROPER EDUCATION OF YOUTH ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OBJECTS NOW TO BE ATTAINED, AND ONE FROM WHICH THE GREATEST BENEFITS MAY BE EXPECTED...” rice FoR WASHINGTON and LEE UNIVERSITY —Truly a place of light, of liberty and learning for —— -_ ey 200 years zegards TON AND LEE UNIVERSITY |: — 1TH = 1949 } Age =——=_—. Saree 4 FRE0 O. VEIT Ww WHEN A UNIVERSITY LASTS TWO HUNDRED YEARS AND IS GOING STRONGER. NOW THAN EVER, THERE MUST BE A GOOD REASON / SURE=: TWO REASONS, “DADDY”. GEORGE WASHINGTON AND ROBERT E, LEE! AS LONG AS A UNIVERSITY TEACHES WHAT THEY LIVED, [T’LL LAST A THOUSAND YEARS, | BETCHA!<~ EH, SANDY? 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A group of students working on school publica- tions—Bob McNeil, Fran Russell, Ozzie Osborne, Marshall Ellis and I—got together and worked out the details. Since | knew the cartoonists I contacted them for special drawings. We also invited a number of leading editors and columnists to contribute. I had spent one afternoon with Mrs. Roosevelt at Sweet Briar, and she said she would do a short piece for the publication—and so like ‘Topsy, it grew.” Wood’s interest in cartoons continued to grow as well. After graduation from the University in 1950, he worked at the Richmond News Leader as political cartoonist. Later he served as chief editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Press. Now he is working for the U.S. Independent Telephone As- sociation as editor of a Washington, D.C., newsletter and its cartoonist. He is also immediate past president of the As- sociation of American Editorial Cartoonists. The good humor, energy and enthusiasm which developed the student Bicentennial publication in 1949 have helped him to amass a comprehensive collection of graphics for posterity. Wood’s collection of drawings has grown until it encompasses a wide assortment of illustrations, comics, poli- tical and gag cartoons, animation and caricatures. Not only does it include the work of twentieth-century artists, but it extends back to Hogarth’s work in eighteenth-century Europe. The scope and range, as well as the success, of the collection are due to Wood’s desire to develop a legacy for posterity. He became interested in preserving cartoons before museums and art galleries took an interest in them. And since the jour- nalist/collector never intended to sell them and is genuinely interested in each artist’s talent and work, he has received most of his drawings from the artists themselves over a period of years. “By this time most people in the business know of my collection, its scope and purpose,” he says. ‘““They also know that I’m not a dealer in cartoons. I’ve kept every drawing and I have them all arranged chronologically by artist.” 13 Honor? We in it. Sandy Stradiman, vice president of the Student Body, addressed these re- marks to freshmen during orientation at Natural Bridge. He prepared the state- ment in collaboration with Mike Luttig, °76, last year’s president of Omicron Del- ta Kappa. More than 150 men are now before the Honor Committee at West Point, long one of the nation’s most cherished institutions. Their offense?—cheating; their penalty?—yet to be decided. Some- thing doesn’t quite mesh here does it? Why is the penalty yet to be decided at an institution that has an honor system as old as the university itself and for vio- lation of which there exists but one penalty? The answer, I’m afraid, is all too simple. Today in West Point, New York, there are too many cadets who no longer believe that honor is worth the price that often has to be paid. ‘There are too many cadets who are unwilling themselves to live by the very oath that they willfully took when they entered. There are too many cadets who are content to deceive themselves, deceive themselves into be- lieving (or so they say) that if one has to choose between the two, it is often far more desirable to be an achiever than a man of honor. And, finally, there are far too many cadets who claim that honor is outdated, that “the code has failed to adapt to the Twentieth Century in which we now are all participating.” 14 Well, Washington and Lee is, at least with regard to the long-standing respect for honesty, an institution quite similar to West Point. More specifically, we have a rigid honor code for which there is but one penalty. Keep in mind, if but for a moment, that our 200-year-old institution has stood almost entirely on this principle that we call “personal honor.”’ And at the very least we owe our continued success to this recurring theme of “personal honor.” So what does all this have to do with freshman orientation 1976? I’ll tell you. We're all here to orient you to a university, but most of us believe that to do that we must tell you about our con- viction, our personal feeling, our value which we hold so closely—honor—and it’s not outdated in Lexington, Virginia. But the fact is that it could be at some point in the near future if we continue a trend which, over the past year, I sense has been beginning, but as yet only begin- ning. And there is a distinct parallel be- tween this trend that I speak of and the trend which, as I understand it, had be- gun at West Point as early as two years ago. That disastrous trend is characteriz- ed by a thinking which says something to the effect that: “Oh, this is so small it couldn’t have anything to do with honor.” Well, the analogy is obvious. I trust that you know by now that we’re here at Na- tural Bridge to learn about the Honor Code; but, let me tell you, you’re miss- ing the point entirely if you think that to do so is merely to become familiar with a set of rules. Quite the contrary. To learn about the Honor Code at Washington and Lee is to be let in on a philosophy Sandy Stradtman (r) greets friend during freshman registration. that runs much deeper than any set of rules. It is to be let in on something that goes far beyond tradition. Indeed, it is to learn about a belief that presently binds and will continue to bind together Wé&L men both on and off this campus for years to come; if, that is, you con- front this year with the belief that honor, above all else, must characterize those of us here at W&L. You see, we place a lot of emphasis on trust here. We don’t think it’s too much to ask for a man to do his own work, represent himself truthfully, and claim only that which is his. And believe me you're going to have contact with guys here for whom these three simple requests mean everything; guys who are appalled by even the thought that they might not be able to believe what their fellow classmates say, guys whose stomachs turn at the thought of their friend cheat- ing to get ahead of them, guys who can easily muster up almost a hatred for some- one who steals from another. These kinds of feelings, though, are not as extreme as they might seem at first hearing. Be- cause, remember, their feelings are not based on something as inherently “cold” as a set of written rules—no, not quite. Rules rarely engender in a man that kind of intense emotion. But heartfelt be- liefs do, and it is that heartfelt belief, that conviction that to be honorable is to live as a man ought, that forms the impenetrable base of the Honor System at Washington and Lee. You see, we don’t think it’s “in” or “neat” to try to get away with everything you can. We do, though, think it’s kind of “neat,” if you will, to be a man of integrity. And let’s not fool ourselves, in this day and time, to be a man of unquestioned integrity is to be a little bit different from the rest. I, for one, like that, though—and what’s more— I think that in but a short period of time you will, too. Now, there are several different ways that you can think about this concept of honor when you leave here tomorrow. One of the most prevalent of these dif- ferent ways, in past years at least, is to think something like the following: “Well, I’m here and probably going to be here for four years. And since every- one seems to be big on this honor bit, I’ll go along so as not to rock the boat. Really, being honest, though, is not that big a deal to me, but it seems to be to a lot of others, so who cares, you know; I'll play their game.” Well, all I can say is that I think it’s sad when a guy buys into this type of thinking. My gosh, be honest for your own self, not because you think maybe it’s the thing to do. Let personal honor become a source of pride. Look at it in terms of something that no one can ever take away from you. Recognize it, for Pete’s sake, as the quickly disappear- ing, but most sought-after quality that it, in fact, is. And last, don’t fall into that misled group who so arrogantly contend that it’s “‘studly” to le and cheat just a little. It’s not. Also, let me tell you of some termi- nology about honor that has been float- ing around this campus for the past few years. And it is representative of the kind of talk that in little or no time can un- dermine the system to the point that if © no longer exists. I can remember all too well what one student said just last year: “Oh, but honor is such a nebulous con- cept.” Is it? Really? I hardly think so. ‘To the contrary, my background tells me that honor is very simple, and what’s more honor is the paradigm of concreteness. By this I mean that you don’t ever have to wait for someone to tell you whether what you did was honorable or dishonor- able. Gome on now. We know when we intentionally try to mislead or deceive someone, we know whether we received help that we shouldn’t have on a paper or test, and we certainly know whether what we have in our possession is ours or not. And these are the kinds of things that the Honor System seeks to punish— intentional, dishonorable acts—and we know every time whether what we’re doing is on the up-and-up. So why pre- tend that we don’t? ‘The Honor System is ours. It is not structured to work against us. It is not an ever-present guard over our every ac- tion. And it’s not devised to put fear into the honest man. What is true is that the Honor System exists to insure that we have the kind of community that years and years of experience have told us is the most desirable, that community which reinforces the attitudes which are slipping away so rapidly elsewhere today. Let me Just pass on a word of caution which, similarly, someone passed on to me; this is, that although the mechanics of the sys- tem are important to learn, it is the prin- ciple, the rationale, that we want you to come to grips with in the next few days. And let me suggest that we cannot main- tain the honorable community that we now have unless you all decide right now to do your part during the coming year. Undoubtedly, from time to time, you will hear comments like “stealing a sign or a Bic pen is not that big a deal,” or “getting one answer off one guy’s paper is certainly not going to hurt anything,” or “aw, he won't care if I take just this one beer.” Well, the fact is that here at W&L we do care, and we care just as much about these types of things as we do about full-fledged copying, outright stealing, and blatant lying—because the overwhelming majority of people here on this campus is smart enough to under- stand that honor is not measured by de- gree, such is only a sad rationalization for someone who lacks the conviction that it takes to be a man of honor. Either we try to be honest or we don’t. I just can’t see that there is any room for a guy who is honest most of the time in a univer- sity which sends representatives all over the country telling people that we have the most effective honor system of any college we know. We do have one of the best univer- sities in this country. And you can bet that we can attribute a lot of that suc- cess to Just what we’re here to talk about during these two days—honor. We be- lieve in it. And I’m going to graduate in 1977 and you in 1980 from a school that refuses to accept the tenet that “honor is outdated in this Twentieth Century.” Thank you. 15 Rhodes Scholar reflects on Oxford Ralph H. Smith at Oxford. Ralph Harrison Smith II, a native of Birmingham, Ala., is a 1973 summa cum laude graduate of Washington and Lee. He won a Rhodes Scholarship when he was a senior, and spent the next three years in Oxford, reading politics, phi- losophy and economics, graduating from Corpus Christi College last summer with honors. He is married to the former Betsey Oakley, a Sweet Briar graduate, and they now live in New Haven, where Ralph is a first-year student at Yale Law School. Shortly after returning to the United States, he wrote this account for the WeL alumni magazine of his impres- sions of Oxford in general and his view of the distinctive British approach to education, reflected in his experiences at Oxford, as it compares with the Ameri- can approach, perhaps typified by Wash- ington and Lee. History, charm, and grace abound in the United Kingdom, but nowhere is the combination manifest more delight- fully than in the medieval university town of Oxford, 60 miles up the Thames River from London, at the periphery of 16 England’s Cotswold hills. The attractions of Oxford are many and varied; it is a cultural center and a great architectural treasury—but it is these things and many more primarily because it is the home of one of Europe’s oldest and most highly respected universities. No one knows exactly when the uni- versity of Oxford began. It certainly had no founder, and no real date of found- ing. It appears to have developed prin- cipally as a result of the general intellec- tual awakening that spread across Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. “Oxenforde” had been an informal center of learning for many centuries, but it in- creased in stature in 1167 when, as a re- sult of a dispute over the killing of Tho- mas a Beckett, Henry II of England re- called the English scholars then studying at the University of Paris. Many of these scholars eventually settled in Oxford, and it is from this date that the university began its ascendancy. Visitors to Oxford often ask to be di- rected to the university, or to the cam- pus, ignorant of the fact perhaps that they stand in the middle of it as they inquire for directions. This confusion stems at least in part from the peculiar constitution of the university, which resembles more closely a federation of semi-autonomous units than the univer- sities we know in the United States. Ox- ford, Cambridge, and to some extent Trinity College, Dublin, share the dis- tinction of being the three universities in Europe which have preserved the medie- val collegiate system. In Oxford, more than 30 independent colleges and halls grew up in response to the need of schol- ars to pursue their studies in peace and quiet, protected from the wrath of irate townsmen. ‘Town-and-gown battles have been bloody in the history of the univer- sity, and it was at least partially the need for defense and discipline which prompt- ed the construction of the fortresses of academic Oxford. Even today these for- tresses are more than curiosities of an- other age, for the colleges not only pro- Photos by Elizabeth Duke Wilkerson, wife of William R. Wilkerson, ’69. She is editor of the University of Virginia Record. vide the city with some of its most mag- nificent architecture, but also remain the heartbeat of the modern university, and contribute to the unique variety and excitement of its intellectual life. Thus the structure of Oxford Univer- sity, the styles of its architecture, and even the winding chaos of the city streets reflect the variety and individuality which dominate academic life. Each college with its Own traditions and each street with its unique history combine to form a very rich experience for the student or visitor to Oxford. And while there are readily apparent contrasts between American and English academia, the variety which char- acterizes life in both undermines most casual comparisons and generalized ob- servations. Many of the strengths of Washington and Lee stem from a similar willingness to allow for individual ex- pression within a framework of mutual trust and respect. Whether the student is taught in tutorials or in classroom lec- tures is not as important to the ultimate success of the academic process as how the spirit of inquiry is nurtured and sus- tained. It is very fortunate for all of us that many of the great universities of the world share in the ideal of liberal educa- tion, an ideal which in its best applica- tion allows growth, change, and develop- ment, as well as consistent integrity of purpose. He came to learn... and teach The annual fall alumni conference al- ways brings many distinguished gradu- ates back to the Washington and Lee campus. Among them this time was Field- er Cook, ’47, a successful theater, motion picture and television director. He ar- rived on the rain-soaked campus four days early with several of his films, and made them available to film classes in the jour- nalism department. After showing the films Big Hand for a Little Lady, (a full- length motion picture), The Hands of Cormac Joyce, and Judge Horton and the Scotisboro Boys (both filmed for the Hallmark Hall of Fame series), he answer- ed questions and discussed topics ranging from the techniques of filming and _act- ting, the mechanics of our present “tran- sistorized” society, and the necessity of “creating out of your heart.” The students were more than enter- tained: they learned a good deal about professional and personal ethics as well. As Cook told them, “If you can earn a living in keeping with your heart, you’re in a good place.’ His work shows that he has followed his own advice. He has con- sistently been linked with quality pro- ductions, having directed and produced for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television series, Philco and Goodyear Playhouses, and Playhouse 90. He has also directed the pilots for many popular television series, among them ‘Ben Casey,” “Mr. Roberts,” “Going My Way,” and most re- cently, “The Waltons,” and ‘Beacon Hill.” He has directed a Broadway pro- duction, A Cook for Mr. General, and several full-length movies, among them Patterns, Home is the Hero, and Eagle in the Cage. In all of his. productions, he says, he trys to portray the “human condition.” The resulting warmth and sincerity have been recognized and appreciated through- out the nation, and he has been reward- ed for his achievements with several Emmys, two Director Guild plaques, and many other awards and nominations. His alma mater has recognized his talent as well—in 1973, he was awarded an honor- Fielder Cook (r) with his old teacher and friend Tom Riegel. ary Doctor of Fine Arts degree. And in the late ’50s, the Fielder Cook Award for creative film-making was established in the journalism department by O. W. (Tom) Riegel, former head of the depart- ment and Cook’s long-time friend. It was partially as a tribute to Riegel that his former student made this journey to meet and talk with film students—one of many similar trips. Cook credits Riegel with helping him discover his aspiration of di- recting. “We all have dreams inside us; they just have to work themselves out.” But he admits he derives a great deal from sharing himself with students. “I get more out of it than I give. The students here are great.” By week’s end, as those students’ thoughts started to turn to road trips and parties ahead, the alumni conference began. Cook turned his attention ear- nestly to learning more about “his” school. The first night of the conference, at the opening banquet, he discovered two of his Delt fraternity brothers, Calhoun Bond, ‘43, and Lynch Christian Jr., ’44, both of whom he hadn’t seen “for more than 27 years!” After the banquet, they went down to the Cockpit, downstairs in the Student Center, drank a couple pitch- ers of beer and caught up on stories of family and children, recalled trips and adventures and relived some college me- mories—sharing a bit of the warmth and affection that Cook is so partial to. So despite the constant, cold rain, the mud, the slick leaf-covered sidewalks, the week Fielder Cook spent at Washington and Lee turned out to be a very warm bright one indeed for him and the University. 17 by Bill Schnier Sports Information Director Improved football team struggles to its best record in five years W&L’s football Generals went into their final game of the season, as this issue went to press, with a 4-5 record— their best record in five years. ‘The team put together back-to-back wins this year for the first time since 1973, and a win against Georgetown in the season’s last game, would give the team a .500 season for the first time since 1967. Along with seven other colleges in Virginia, W&L is a member of the newly formed Old Dominion Athletic Confer- ence. In addition to Washington and Lee, Bridgewater, Roanoke, Emory and Henry, Hampden-Sydney, Eastern Men- nonite, Randolph-Macon and_ Lynch- burg sponsor intercollegiate football. ‘The Generals finished this year’s inaugural conference season with a 2-2 mark, de- feating Randolph-Macon 7-3 and Bridge- water 16-7, while losing to nationally ranked Hampden-Sydney 15-7 and to Emory and Henry 24-17. Junior quarterback Ted Hissey had an excellent season and was the ODAC’s leading passer. Junior Raynard Scott and freshman Stewart Atkinson gave Wk&L a sold running attack, while senior co-cap- tain Tony Perry and sophomore flanker Richard Wiles led the team’s receiving corps. Linebacker Carl Folcik and Jeff Slat- coff, the Generals’ other co-captain, have been running one-two in the team’s tack- ling race. Sophomore cornerback Jack Norberg is leading the conference in that category, with six to date. Rolf Piranian, ’74, an outstanding soccer player himself, returned to his alma mater this fall and coached the soccer team to a season record of 3-10. The Generals ended the year in style, winning their final game 1-0 over con- ference foe Roanoke. W&L completed its ODAC soccer season at 1-3. Sophomore forward Bill Stone was the Generals’ most consistent striker all season, leading the team in scoring with six goals and one assist for 13 points. Junior goalkeeper Mark Bennett had what Coach Piranian termed “a sensa- 18 Junior halfback Raynard Scott picks up yards against Emory and Henry. Senior co-captain Mike Burns in action for cross-country team. tional year.” Bennett set a school record for most saves in one game, stopping 28 Navy shots, and finished the season with 192 saves, a record. With one season re- maining, he is already W&L’s all-time ca- reer leader in saves—with 338. Bennett and Mark Derbyshire will be co-captains of the 1977 soccer squad. Coach Richard Miller’s cross-country Generals completed their dual-meet sea- son with a 9-5 record, and finished fourth in the ODAC championships at W&L. Junior Allen Weeks was the team’s most consistent performer throughout the year, while freshman Richard Bird gave the harriers good promise for the future. W&L’s abbreviated fall tennis slate was basically a training exercise for the difficult spring 1977 schedule. Coach Den- nis Bussard’s netmen played two matches, won both, and have hopes for national ranking this spring. W&L now sponsors four winter sports —varsity and junior varsity basketball, swimming, wrestling, and indoor track and field. The swim team, under the di- rection of Bill Stearns and assistant coach Col. Louis McFadden, opened the winter — =—_" season with an exhibition win over the Briarwood A.A.U. Club. Four All-American swimmers have re- turned this season: Keith Romich, Chip Hoke, and co-captains John Hudson and Tad Van Leer. Hudson won the NCAA Division II national championship in the 500-yard and 1650-yard freestyle. ‘Ihe swimmers finished eighth in the national championships last season, and hope to improve on that record next March. ‘The team’s 10 dual meets include some of the most challenging opponents in the east, including five Division I and four Divi- sion II teams. Coach Verne Canfield’s basketbail Generals are coming off a 19-7 season, with visions of an NCAA tournament berth dancing in their heads. The ODAC champion this year will qualify automa- tically for a berth in the NCAA Division III South Atlantic Regional. The Gen- erals open their 1976-77 schedule with an exhibition game.against the Peruvian na- tional team, and move into a 26-game regular season schedule highlighted by three tournaments in W&L’s Doremus Gymnasium. The W&L Tip-Off Tourney is scheduled for Nov. 26-27; the W&L In- vitational Jan. 7-8; and the ODAC Tour- ney Feb. 25-26. Ten lettermen returned to lead the Generals, including senior co-captains Bob Flint and Kim Sims. The junior varsity basketball Gen- erals, under Coach Dennis Bussard, will play a six-game schedule this season. Coach Gary Franke’s wrestling team is hoping for its third straight winning year. The wrestlers were pre-season favor- ite to take their first ODAC title. Senior Jim Crytzer, team captain, and sopho- more Kevin McFadden are expected to lead the Generals this season. The grap- plers are hosting both the W&L Invita- tional in December and the conference championships in February. Looking ahead to the spring, Coach Jack Emmer’s lacrosse Generals—ranked seventh nationally in Division I a year ago—open their season with a home game March 5 against Duke University. Coach George Barclay (center). Lea Booth presides with gusto at Gator Bowl reunion banquet to the amusement of 25th Gator Bowl reunion Members of W&L’s 1951 Gator Bowl football team and their friends returned to campus for their 25th reunion on Sept. 17. Players, coaches, sports writers, reunion committee members, and their wives gathered early for the day’s activi- ties, which included a spirited luncheon at the Lee House, followed by their 1975 successors’ home game against Emory & Henry. The group sat in the President's box and were recognized at half-time. That evening, during a banquet in Evans Dining Hall, the former Southern Con- ference champions reminisced with two of their coaches, George Barclay and Her- bert Miller. Lea Booth, W&L sports in- formation director at the time of the Bowl game, presided. Quarterback Gil Bocetti, who scored the only touchdown at the Bowl game for the Generals, was present, as were the team co-captains, Donald M. Fergusson and Joseph B. Mc- Cutcheon. Others who returned for the reunion included Wesley E. Abrams, John I. Bowman, Paul Giordani, Reno Harp, H. Gordon Leggett, William H. Lyon, John D. Maguire, Wallace R. Oref, Charles R. Smith, James P. Stark, B. G. Arnold, Donald R. Leister, Xen N. Si- deris, Roland E. Thompson, David L. Waters, and Raymond F. Bee. Jack Carper and Andrew H. Mc- Cutcheon, sports information writers who covered the exciting games of the 1950 football season and the 1951 New Year's Day Bowl game, also took part. William D. McHenry, current athletic director, and John A. Wolf, alumni repre- sentative on the W&L _ Intercollegiate Athletics Committee—both members of the Gator Bowl Reunion Committee— also attended. Although the Generals lost the Bowl game to the University of Wyoming 20-7, the cheerful reunion group proved by their 25-year old recollections that it’s not important whether you win or lose, but how you remember the game. 19 Name your candidate In compliance with Article 9 of the By-Laws of Washington and Lee Alum- ni, Inc., the names and addresses of the Nominating Committee for 1976-77 are listed here: E. Michael Masinter, 758A, ’61L Committee Chairman Hansell, Post, Brandon & Dorsey 3300 First National Bank ‘Tower Atlanta, Ga. 30303 W. Upton Beall, ’51 Robinwood Bldg. & Development Co. 419 ‘Troup Road Tyler, ‘Texas 75701 Edgar M. Boyd, ’42 Baker, Watts and Co. 100 Light Street Baltimore, Md. 21203 The committee is now receiving the names of candidates to fill three seats on the Alumni Board of Directors and one vacancy on the University Com- mittee on Intercollegiate Athletics. Under the By-Laws, any member of the Alumni Association may submit names of alumni to the Nominating Committee for nomination for the of- fices to be filled. Alumni may send names directly to any member of the committee or to the committee through the office of the Executive Secretary of the Alumni Association at the Uni- versity. The committee will close its report on March 15, 1977, and present its nominations to the annual meeting of the Alumni Association on May 7, 1977. Winter athletic schedule BASKETBALL Jan. V.M.I1., ‘Towson HOME Nov. 21 Peru National Team HOME Jan. 29 William & Mary Williamsburg, Va. Nov. 26-27 W&L Tip-Off ‘Tournament HOME Feb. 5 Morris Harvey College | Charleston, W. Va. (Hampden-Sydney, W. Maryland, Feb. 11 Virginia Commonwealth HOME York College, W&L) Feb. 19 Old Dominion HOME Dec. 2 Lynchburg College HOME Feb. 24-26 State Meet Richmond, Va. Dec. 4 Emory & Henry Emory, Va. Mar. 17-19 N.C.A.A. Nationals Division II Dec. 8 Hampden-Sydney HOME Oberlin, Ohio Dec. 10 St. Mary’s College HOME INDOOR TRACK Dec. 20 Pratt Institute New York, N.Y. . Feb. 5 V.M.I. Relays Lexington, Va. Dec. 21 C. W. Post College Brookville, N.Y. Feb. 9 Lynchb Lynchb V ir eb. ynchburg ynchburg, Va. Jan. 7-8 W&L. Invitational a Feb. 12 State Track Meet Lexington, Va. (Haverford, UNC-Greensboro, Feb. 19 Lynchb Rel Lynchb V ; ynchburg Relays ynchburg, Va. SAAR ie Feb. 26 ODAC Lynchburg, Va Jan. 12 Lynchburg College Lynchburg, Va. 7 Jan. 14 Eastern Mennonite HOME WRESTLING Jan. 19 Queens College HOME Nov. 20 Millersville ‘Tournament Millersville, Pa. Jan. 22 Emory & Henry HOME Dec. 1 Lynchburg, Virginia State Lynchburg, Va. Jan. 25 Hampden-Sydney Hampden-Sydney, Va. Dec. W&L Invitational HOME Jan. 29 Bridgewater HOME (George Mason, Madison, V.M.L., Feb. 1 Eastern Mennonite Harrisonburg, Va. Liberty Baptist, Maryville, Feb. 3 Shenandoah College HOME York, Howard, W&L) Feb. 5 Virginia Wesleyan HOME Dec. 7 V.M.I. HOME Feb. 9 Randolph-Macon HOME Dec. 9 Liberty Baptist “HOME Feb. 12 Maryville College Maryville, ‘Tenn. Jan. 12 Eastern Mennonite HOME Feb. 16 UNC-Greensboro Greensboro, N.C. Jan. 15 George Mason HOME Feb. 19 Bridgewater Bridgewater, Va. Jan. 22 Citadel Tournament Charleston, S. C. Feb. 25-26 Old Dominion Athletic HOME Jan. 24 Colgate HOME Conference ‘Tournament Jan. 26 Hampden-Sydney Hampden-Sydney, Va. Mar. 2 Madison College HOME Jan. 29 Virginia State Meet Charlottesville, Va. Feb. 2 Virginia Commonwealth HOME SWIMMING Feb. 5 Brave Invitational Pembroke, N. C. Nov. 10 Briarwood Club HOME Feb. 11 Catawba Salisbury, N. C. Nov. 13 Millersville Relays Lancaster, Pa. Feb. 12 Davidson Davidson, N. C. Nov. 19 Madison College HOME Feb. 16 Madison Harrisonburg, Va. Dec. 4 University of Richmond HOME Feb. 23 ODAC Tournament HOME Jan. 8 Virginia Tech HOME Mar. 3-4-5 NCAA Division III Jan. 15 George Washington Washington, D.C. Championships Binghamton, N. Y. 20 J. CARTER Fox, ‘61, Chairman of the 1976-77 Annual Fund. Fox will also serve as Academic Alumni Chairman. A _ former Class Agent and Vice President, he was Alumni Fund Chairman last year. Fox is vice president for Corporate Planning and De- velopment of the Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia and lives in West Point, Va. ALUMNI VICE CHAIRMEN OLD GUARD (1900-26): William C. Washburn *40A Group IA (1927A-32A): Herbert G. Jahncke *30A Group IIA (1933A-39A): John E. Neill ’38A Group IIIA (1940A-49A): Russell G. Browning *42A Group IVA (1950A-59A): Robert S. Griffith ’52A Group VA (1960A-69A): Jack H. DeJarnette ’65A Group VIA (1970A-76A): Robert D. LaRue ’72A Group I Law (1927L-42L): J. N. Harman III ’40L ALUMNI CLASS AGENTS Academic 27A Gossett W. McRae 28A Stuard A. Wurzburger 29A 'T. Graham Gibson 30A Earl T. Jones 31A Stuart Sanders II 32A John W. Ball 33A Charles J. Longacre 34A Scott Mosovich 35A James M. Franklin 36A George W. Harrison 37A Albert A. Radcliffe 38A Ernest Williams 39A William A. Jenks 40A ‘Thomas E. Bruce Jr. 41A Robert C. Peery 429A Russell G. Browning 43A Kenelm L. Shirk Jr. 44A George T. Wood 45A Charles S. Rowe 46A Donald S. Hillman 47A Warren G. Merrin 48A Hallett R. Gates S. MAYNARD TuRK, 752 Law, Law Alumni Chairman. A for- mer Class Agent, he served last year as Vice Chairman of the Alumni Fund with responsibil- ity for the Law Classes of 1948 through 1959. He is general counsel for Hercules, Inc., and Joun H. VAN AmBuRGH, Cur- rent Parents Chairman. He is the father of Michael B. Van Amburgh, ’80, Steven W. Van Amburgh, 775, and Thomas G. Van Amburgh, 773. Van Am- burgh is president of Explo- sives, Inc., and lives in Dallas. lives in Wilmington, Del. Group II Law (1948L-59L): Willis M. Anderson ’52L Group III Law (1960L-69L): Henry Angel ’66L Group IV Law (1970L-76L): Malcolm H. Squires, ’70A, ’73L Telethon: L. Gordon Miller ’45A PARENTS AREA CHAIRMEN Ted J. Black Darnall W. Boyd George F. Carroll Alan T. Drennen Jr. Frederick N. Godin Bernard B. Lane C. Coleman McGehee R. E. Monahan Gordon G. Tucker 49A 50A 51A 52A 53A 54A 5DA 56A 57A 58A 59A Charles D. Hurt Jr. 60A Robert P. Hawkins 61A J. Harvey Allen Jr. 62A Peter A. Agelasto III 63A Daniel T. Balfour 64A Brice Gamber 65A Alfred J. T. Byrne 66A Rob C. Vaughan III 67A B. Michael Herman 68A William F. Stone Jr. 69A Jeremy E. Brown 70A John W. Thomas III 71A John M. McCardell Jr. 72A Robert M. Turnbull 73A G. Archer Frierson E. Stewart Epley Gus A. Fritchie Jr. James E. Moyler Jr. William F. Barron Jr. Hugh S. Glickstein Frank A. Parsons John W. Stackhouse William W. Dixon Stephen M. Ehudin Vernon W. Holleman Jr. 7T4A T5A 76A Law 2th 28L 294, 30L 31L S21; 33L 34L 35L 56L 37L 38L 39L 40L 41L 421, 48L 49L 50L 51L W. MARTIN KEMPE, Past Par- ents Chairman. He is the father of M. Alexander Kempe, 775. Kempe served as Chairman of the Parents Fund in 1973-74 and in 1974-75. Formerly vice president of the Rochester Cor- poration, he is retired and manages the family farm in Orange, Va. Unified Annual Fund has strong leadership In recognition of the singular importance of gifts to support current operations, the Alumni Fund and the Parents Fund, which have been separate in the past, have been unified this year into a single Annual Fund. Shown on this page are the men who will provide the volunteer leadership so vital to the Annual Fund’s success. Listed are the names of the more than 100 volunteers who will be working to achieve this year’s goal of $735,000 (an increase of 7% over the amount given by alumni, parents, and friends last year). Michael Guroian B. Harrison Turnbull H. Mynders Glover Charles T. Smith G. Oldham Clarke Samuel C. Strite Maurice J. Arnd Ethan Allen James S. Shields Franklin R. Bigham Robert D. Bailey Edwin T. Coulbourn William H. Seaton Harry T. Moreland Daniel W. Wilkinson Jr. John D. Goodin William F. Saunders Charles F. Heiner Charles F. Bagley Jr. Carter R. Allen W. D. Bain Jr. Samuel I. White George J. Kostel 52L Jackson L. Kaiser 53L Robert L. Banse 54L Kimber L. White 55L John M. Faison 56L Milton T. Herndon 57L Douglas K. Frith 58L Robert G. McCullough 59L Owen A. Neff 60L Isaac N. Smith Jr. 61L William F. Ford 62L William R. Moore Jr. 63L ‘Timothy G. Ireland 64L Richard L. Lawrence 65L Francis A. Sutherland 66L Raymond H. Vizethann Jr. 67L W. Roscoe Reynolds 68L Louie A. Paterno Jr. 69L David D. Redmond 70L Benjamin B. Cummings 71L Walter J. Borda 72L Stewart M. Hurtt 73L John C. Moore 74L Jody S. Kline 75L Angelica Didier 76L Frank L. Duemmler 21 Chapter news SOEs PHILADELPHIA—Area fres CHARLOTTE—Trustee John L. Crist, 45; Dennis E. Myers III, ’73; Bonnie Greer; J. Pegram Johnson, ‘66; and James J. White III, 51. hmen with Alumni Director Edwin J. Foltz, ’40, (fourth from right standing), Francis D. Crew, ’37, i host, (right of Foltz), and John E. Kelly, 66, chapter president (right of Crew). CHARLOTTE. A large group of alum- ni gathered Aug. 9 at the home of Presi- dent David T. Johnson Jr., ’68, for a beer and hot dog party honoring the eight area freshmen. Both Bill Washburn, 40, and Marty Bass, ’70, from the alumni office in Lexington, were at the cookout to wel- come the freshmen, their parents, and cur- rent students. During a short business session, the following new officers were elected: W. Joseph Dozier Jr., 70, presi- dent; J. Pegram Johnson III, ’66, vice president; Dennis E. Myers III, ’73, sec- retary; and Alan W. Lee, ’69, treasurer. After taking the chair, Dozier recognized John L. Crist, 45, a member of the Uni- versity Board of Trustees, and expressed deep appreciation to Dave and Page Johnson for the fine hospitality of their home. He discussed a proposed program for the new year and solicited the con- tinued enthusiastic support from his fel- low alumni. Ze PHILADELPHIA. The chapter _ wel- comed the new area freshmen and their parents at a reception Aug. 10 at the lovely home and farm of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crew, ’37, in Glenmoore, Pa. Bill Washburn, alumni secretary, was present to greet and congratulate the entering freshmen. The group enjoyed cocktails and a buffet picnic featuring fresh corn from the Crew farm. John Kelly, ’66A, ’69L, chapter president, extended a warm welcome to the new students and much appreciation to the Crews for their hos- pitality. WASHINGTON. The chapter’s annual stag luncheon honoring 36 incoming freshmen, their fathers and current stu- dents, was held at the University Club Aug. 11. John Schoenfeld, ’49, gave a brief report on the University’s new undergra- duate library, on which construction had just begun. Visitors at the meeting in- WASHINGTON-Stuart S. Bailey, ’50; John Schoenfeld, ’49; Edson B. Olds IV, ’61; J. Michael Winston, ’59. CHARLESTON, W.VA.—Group of alumni enjoy reception. At far right are Fred Belden, 60, and Ruge DeVan, ’34. cluded Charles C. Stieff Il, °45, from Baltimore, a member of the Alumni Board of Directors, Bill Washburn, ’40, and Marty Bass, ’70, both from the alum- ni office. In a brief business session pre- sided over by Chapter President John Zamoiski, ’74, the members unanimously approved a motion to contribute a $100 gift to Washington and Lee as a memorial to Dean Frank J. Gilliam. CHARLESTON. The chapter met at the Edgewood Country Club on Aug. 17 to honor the incoming area freshmen and to welcome University guests Verne Canfield, basketball coach; Bill Wash- burn, alumni secretary; and Marty Bass, assistant alumni secretary. After cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, Louis Paterno, ’65, chapter president, presided over a short program and introduced the guests. Coach Canfield spoke on the overall sports pro- gram at W&L with emphasis on the bas- PALMETTO—Area freshmen Hud Paschal, Norris Laffitte, Kevin W. Dickey, Leslie A. Cotter Jr., Carl Lowder, and Charles N. Plowden III. PALMETTO-—In foreground are Claude M. Walker, ’41, Joe Walker II, "76, and Sandy Stradtman, ’77. ketball squad. Washburn reported on the start of construction of the new library. Paterno expressed concern over the num- ber of students from the Charleston area enrolling at Washington and Lee. He urged the chapter members to lend their assistance in the area of student recruit- ment. PALMETTO. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lumpkin and their son, Larry, ’76, were hosts at a cocktail party at their home in Columbia on Aug. 18. ‘The occasion honored the six incoming freshmen from the area and a large group of alumni and current students were present to welcome and congratulate them. Verne Canfield, basketball coach, and Bill Washburn, alumni secretary, both attended and made brief remarks to the group. Chapter Presi- dent Philip G. Grose Jr., ’60, presided over a brief program during which he thanked the other chapter officers and their wives for making the arrangements. He was joined by the entire group in thanking the Lumpkins for the hospital- ity of their home. LYNCHBURG. Alumni gathered for a reception honoring area freshmen Aug. 25 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Fralin Jr., ’57. Fralin, chapter presi- dent, and Starke Sydnor, ’66, secretary- treasurer, planned and arranged the gathering. Marty Bass, ’70, assistant alum- ni secretary and Mrs. Bass represented the University. CLEVELAND. A small group of alum- ni met for lunch at the Union Club in Cleveland Aug. 25 to honor the four in- coming area freshmen and several cur- rent students. The meeting also honored Benjamin F. Fiery, ’13, who had received the Distinguished Alumnus Award earlier in the day. Bill Washburn, alumni secre- OKLAHOMA CITY—Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Shaffer flank their son, Jay D. Shaffer, °78, and David J. McCubbin, ’80. OKLAHOMA CITY—Col. Harold J. Sullivan, 32, and Millar B. White, 725. tary, was present to extend congratula- tions to Fiery and to the new students. After a color slide presentation of the campus, Washburn recognized Sid Kap- lan, 56, who has been named president of the chapter. Kaplan expressed his ap- preciation to those alumni present for their interest and support and spoke of future plans to reactivate the chapter. OKLAHOMA CITY. Alumni in Okla- homa City and its surrounding communi- ties gathered Aug. 27 for the purpose of organizing an alumni chapter. The en- thusiastic group met for cocktails and a buffet dinner at the Beacon Club and were pleased to welcome several current students and incoming area freshmen. John McMurry, ’66, presided and ex- plained the purposes of the chapter. He recognized Col. Harold Sullivan, ’32, Fred Shellabarger, *40, ‘Ted Duncan III, ’69, and H. Eugene Melton Jr., 62, all of 23 PENINSULA—Herbert G. Smith III, ’80, Mrs. Sherman and son, F. Will Sherman, ’80. PENINSULA—Dr. table are Mrs. Jenks; Ben A. Williams III, ’71; Mrs. Williams; Mrs. Dowding; and Phillip M. Dowding, ’52. whom had greatly assisted in the organi- zational endeavors and were named to the steering committee. Representing the University was Bill Washburn, alumni secretary, who officially recognized the chapter and established McMurry as its first president. After a presentation of color slides of the campus and a brief re- port on the University, the meeting ad- journed. PENINSULA. ‘The chapter honored the nine entering area freshmen and their parents at a reception and dinner at the James River Country Club on Aug. 31. Ben Williams, ’71, chapter vice president, presided in the absence of Charles Spen- cer, 59. Williams introduced the fresh- men and presented Dr. William A. Jenks, 39, who is the William R. Kenan Jr. Pro- fessor of History and head of the history department at Washington and Lee. Dr. Jenks’s report on the University was well received by the group. In the brief busi- 24 PENINSULA—Entering freshmen William L. Robertson Jr., David M. Murray Jr., and Thomas A. Wornom. ness session, I. Leake Wornom Jr., ’50, re- ported for the nominating committee and named Williams as president, Phil Dow- ding, ’52, as vice president, and Conway Shield III, 64, as secretary-treasurer. The slate was unanimously elected. Also at- tending from the University, were Mrs. Jenks and Alumni Secretary and Mrs. Bill Washburn. Washburn spoke briefly about the new alumni directory and pre- sented several photographs of the archi- tect’s model of the new library, on which construction had just begun. FLORIDA WEST COAST. The four freshmen from the Tampa Bay area were honored at a barbecue cookout at the home of George W. Harvey Jr., 63, chap- ter president, on Aug. 25. Forty-four per- sons, including alumni, current students, the freshmen and their parents, attend- ed the gathering. The party was hosted by Harvey, Donald W. Belveal, ’63A, ’65L, Michael L. Carrere, ’71, George T. PENINSULA—Dr. B. Voss Neal, 51; Peggy Smith; Joan Forrest; William H. Forrest Jr., 55, and Judge Herbert G Smith ’17. Coward, ’63, J. ‘Thomas Touchton, ’60, and Herbert J. Friedman, father of Frank Friedman, ’78. CUMBERLAND VALLEY. Alumni met for cocktails Sept. 1 at the Shera- ton Motor Inn in Hagerstown. Special guests of the chapter were John Psillas, an incoming freshman, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Psillas. Mr. and Mrs. Marty Bass, ’70, represented the University. Bass briefly addressed the group on new developments, the admis- sions program, and the impact of recent large gifts at Washington and Lee. Dur- ing a short business session, the following new officers were elected: Dr. George Smith, ’56, president; John Hoke, ’60, vice president; and Hamp Tisdale, ’74L, secretary-treasurer. Outgoing President Ken Long, ’69, received a hearty round of applause for his work as president dur- ing the past year and for his efforts in arranging the very successful meeting. Class notes ‘THE WASHINGTON AND LEE CHAIR With Crest in Five Colors The chair is made of birch and rock maple, hand-rubbed in black with gold trim and arms finished in cherry. It makes a welcome gift for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, or wed- dings. All profit from sales of the chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Gra- ham, ’14. Price: $68.00 f.o.b. Lexington, Virginia Shipment from available stock will be made upon receipt of your check. Please include your name, address, and telephone number. Mail your order to WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Lexington, Virginia 24450 192] Cot. WILLIAM J. RUSHTON retired June 30, 1976, as chairman of the board of directors of Protective Life Insurance Co. in Birming- ham, Ala. Rushton began his career in the family business, the Birmingham Ice and Cold Storage Co. In 1927, at the age of 27, he was elected to the board of Protective Life. In 1938, he was named president and during his tenure the company grew from a small, solid company to a nationally re- spected giant with assets in excess of $269.5 million and insurance in force of $4.2 billion. Rushton has been exceedingly active in civic affairs and honors which have come his way are too numerous to mention. He is a mem- ber of the U. S. Army Reserve and was call- ed to active duty in 1940. He served as com- manding officer of the Birmingham Ordance District and was awarded the Legion of Merit at the close of World War II. Rushton was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor. 1924 DR. JAMES P. BRAWNER, retired professor emeritus of English at West Virginia Uni- versity, conducted a series of public lectures in London this past August. Sponsored by the College of the City of London, he spoke on Shakespeare and authors of the romantic movement—particularly Wordsworth and Keats. In addition to lecturing, Brawner con- ducted discussion seminars for the summer students at London Polytechnic University. 1927 GIBSON B. WITHERSPOON is the author of a lead article in the October issue of the Jn- ternational Association of Insurance Coun- sel Journal entitled “Why Expand Unin- sured Motorist Coverage.’’ Witherspoon lives in Meridian, Miss. [29 E. Harris GEE of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., re- tired in 1972 after more than 40 years in the leaf tobacco exporting business. ESS | In August 1976, DUNCAN MCCONNELL be- came a professor emeritus at Ohio State University where he had taught in the Col- lege of Dentistry and the department of geo- logy and mineralogy. He served as chair- man of mineralogy and as assistant dean of the graduate school during the mid ’50s. Be- fore joining O.S.U. in 1950, he had been af- filiated with the Gulf Oil Corp., the USS. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the University of Texas. Mc- Connell has held appointments as research associate with the Argonne National Labora- tories and the O.S.U. Research Foundation, and has lectured in France, Germany, Eng- land, Canada, and Mexico. He is author of more than 100 articles included in scientific journals, books and the Encyclopedia Bri- tannica. He is listed in World Who’s Who in Science and Who’s Who in the World. 1934 ARTHUR T. GUNN JR., veteran newspaperman, has retired from the Lynchburg Daily Ad- vance where he was editorial page editor. He began his newspaper career in 1935 as editor of the Altavista Journal. Later he also worked with the Hopewell News and served as secretary of the Hopewell Cham- ber of Commerce. Gunn came to Lynchburg in 1940 as a reporter for the News. After a tour of army duty during World War II, he returned to become political reporter for the News and then city editor in 1946. Gunn was named assistant editorial page editor of the News and Daily Advance in 1957 and editorial page editor of the Daily Advance in 1958. EVERETT ‘TUCKER JR. was quoted in the Oct. 4 issue of U. S. News & World Report in an article about school integration. Tucker, an industrial developer in Little Rock, was presi- dent of the school board from 1959 to 1963. The article states that Little Rock has “about as extensive a mixing plan as you can get.” He was concerned that “from the time the crisis began in 1957 through 1961, no new industrial plants located in Little Rock.” To quote the U. S, News & World Report, “the Little Rock story has been one of healing wounds, rebuilding community cooperation and getting the Arkansas city moving again.” 1935 KARL P. WILLARD retired in July 1976 after 41 years with Willard Mirror Co., a family owned firm. He and his wife Helen spend summers in Colorado Springs and winters in Fort Smith, Ark. 1936 Virginia Delegate LEwis A. MCMuRRAN Jp. of Newport News has been elected chairman of the Bicentennial Council for the 13 ori- ginal states for a 12-month period ending July 1977. The Bicentennial Council is head- quartered in Alexandria and sponsors nu- merous Bicentennial projects. 25 Class Notes 1937 KELLEY E. REED, formerly with the Reed, Shannon Insurance Agency, has joined Wheat, First Securities, Inc. as a registered representative. Reed is president of Reed Shannon Agency. He was also president of Kelley Reed Pontiac from 1971 until 1975 and is treasurer of Kelley Green Land Co. He served in the Army during World War II and obtained the rank of major. Kelley is a director of the City National Bank and the Dollar Savings & Loan Co. He is a past presi- dent of the West Virginia Independent In- surers Association and a past president of the Charleston Exchange Club. The Reeds have three sons and the family lives in Char- leston, W. Va. 1940 SYDNEY LEwis, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Best Products Co., Inc., of Richmond, Va., has been selected by the trustees of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. to serve on the company’s 1976 examining committee of policyowners. ‘The committee, which has existed in its pre- sent form since 1919, represents Northwes- tern’s policyowners in reviewing company operating policies and practices. Although appointed by the board of trustees, commit- tee members have complete autonomy in de- termining areas of investigation and estab- lishing meeting agendas. Lewis is a trustee of Washington and Lee and Virginia Union University. He is a member of the acquisi- tions committee of the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the board of visitors of the School of Visual Arts, Boston; the advisory board of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania; and the board of directors of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C. He is also a 1976 National Honoree of Beta Gam- ma Sigma, a national honorary business soc- iety. 194] Jack W. WARNER, chairman of the board and president of Gulf States Paper Corporation of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was awarded an honor- ary Doctor of Laws degree from the Univer- sity of Alabama during the summer com- mencement activities. Warner’s honors and awards include the Governor’s Award, Ala- bama Forest Conservationist of the Year, 1970; Man of the Year, Alabama Council for the National Management Association; and Man of the Year, Culver Military Academy, 1972. Warner is a trustee at Washington and Lee. Lewis A. McMurran Jr. (r) ’36, chairman of the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, escorts Queen Elizabeth II as she enters the Western Virginia Bicentennial Center in Charlottesville on July 10. 26 Sydney Lewis, ’40 1943 MARRIAGE: MALcoLmM A. DEANS and Susan C. Foss, on Dec. 13, 1975, in Cecil County, Md. At the time of his marriage, Deans was assistant managing editor of the Philadel- phia Bulletin. He is now on the facuty of the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His wife teaches jour- nalism at Metropolitan State College in Denver. ‘The couple lives in Boulder. 1944 After four terms in the Indiana General Assembly as vice chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, WILLIAM S. LaAtTz is now executive director of the Indiana State Of- fice Building Commission in Indianapolis. 1946 JEROME D. GREENBERG and his wife Florence attended the Olympics in Montreal. It was their third Olympics, having attended the 1968 games in Mexico and the 1964 games in Tokyo. 1947 Dr. ‘THOMAS M. WRIGHT practices surgery in Falls Church, Va. He is also chief of general surgery at Fairfax Hospital and assistant clinical professor of surgery at Georgetown University. Wright is a trustee of the Fair- fax Hospital Association and vice president of the Virginia Surgical Society. 1948 GEORGE S. BRYAN, an investment banker for the New York Stock Exchange firm of Alex Brown and Sons in Chattanooga, Tenn., was awarded the distinguished service award by the Baylor School of Chattanooga. 1949 Rear Adm. D. EARL Brown Jr. assumed the position of commanding officer of the Naval Regional Medical Center at San Diego, Calif., on July 9, 1976. The center is the largest military medical facility in the world, serving roughly a half million local bene- ficiaries. During September WILLIAM E. LATTURE visited his company’s plants in Johannes- burg, Durban, Nairobi, and Abidjan in Africa. His wife Louise accompanied him. Their trip also included Paris, London, and Glasgow. 1950 JoHN McKELway, a staff writer for the Wash- ington, D. C., Star, was the author of a series A. Williamson Jr., ’50 of sports page articles, in that paper, about the Professional Golf Association’s August tournament which was plagued by violent thunderstorms. McKelway, a_ self-avowed “hacker,” mused that washout had always come to him with the enjoyable expectation of sitting in the clubhouse with a few friends and drinks and listening to amusing tales of golf. Not so with professionals, he notes, that “sooner or later, they must finish.”” When he isn’t hacking (at golf) McKelway is, among other things, proprietor of the Star’s column, “Names and Faces,” a capsule report and commentary on news and quasi-news de- velopment. WiLLtiAM N. (NAT) Weaver, formerly with Colley, Trumbower and Howell, a certified public accounting firm in Orlando, Fla., has been tapped by the Internal Revenue Service to act as a passive trustee of Keogh plans and individual retirement accounts. It was not an easy recognition to obtain and came about only after one year of study and discussions with the IRS regarding the Em- ployee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and subsequent regulations. After much discussion, Weaver was notified in June 1976 that he did qualify as a passive trustee in such accounts. He has formed the Retire- ment Accounts, Inc., and is engaged in sell- ing his services to brokerage houses through- out the Southeast and in conducting semi- nars for those who do not have established pension plans through their employers and are therefore eligible for individual retire- ment accounts. Several years ago ADRIAN WILLIAMSON JR. con- ceived a plan for a Monticello, Ark., civic center which would encompass local and regional health, education and cultural facil- ities. After much organization and_prep- aration, the plan became reality and _ this fall the Drew County Health, Education and Cultural Complex opened. The $7.5 million complex, located southwest of Monticello, includes a new 50-bed county hospital, the Monticello High School, a vocational-techni- cal center, a doctors’ clinic, a school for chil- dren with learning disabilities, and a regional mental health center. The complex was dedicated in honor of Williamson who de- veloped the idea of the multi-purpose cen- ter after reading about the numerous and varied projected improvements in Monti- cello. After suggesting a consolidation of structure, Williamson worked tirelessly to locate the necessary land, funding and sup- port for the project. Williamson is currently a development associate of Washington and Lee. He also serves as a consultant of the H. W. Jones Jr., "52 Arkansas State Council of Economic Educa- tion and has had extensive banking, indus- trial and advisory experience. 195] ROBERT W. PITTENGER has been elected as- sistant vice president of the investment re- search department of Wheat, First Securities, Inc. Formerly a securities analyst with First Securities Corp. of North Carolina, Pittenger joined Wheat in 1971 when the North Caro- lina firm merged with Wheat & Co. Pit- tenger lives in Chester, Pa. FREDERICK G. UHLMANN, vice president of Drexel Burnham & Co., Inc., an establish- ed New York banking and investment firm in Chicago, Ill., has been elected to the board of directors of the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Uhlmann has spent most of his working career in the com- modity brokerage business. He is a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. loz HENRY W. JoNEs Jr. has been elected presi- dent of the Southern Hardwood Lumber Manufacturers Association, the trade associa- tion representing the major hardwood lum- ber companies in the Southern states. Jones is a second-generation lumberman and _ is president of the Cathey-Williford-Jones Co. in Memphis. He is also associated with the Bellgrade Lumber Co. Jones has taken an active role in many lumber industry activi- ties and presently is serving as vice president of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- tion and as an alternate to the board of di- rectors of the National Forest Products As- sociation. He is a founder of the Hardwood Institute. Jones and his wife, the former Carol Lewis, have three children. 1953 Tuomas A. BULL is a practicing child psy- chiatrist in Duxbury, Mass. He and his wife have two sons. JAY W. Jackson, formerly the insurance com- missioner for the state of Connecticut, has been appointed legal counsel to Gov. Grasso. Jackson is a former Democratic state sena- tor. In addition to his post as the governor’s legal counsel, he will continue his private practice of law in West Hartford. STEPHEN F. LICHTENSTEIN, formerly in private law practice, has become the general coun- sel, vice president and secretary of Lenox, Inc., of Trenton, N. J. 1954 GEORGE H. GREER, president of W. H. Greer Supply Co., Inc., in Owensboro, Ky., has been elected to the board of directors of Western Kentucky Gas Go. Greer is a former Ken- tucky state representative from the 13th dis- trict and served for eight years as a city commissioner of Owensboro. He also served for four years as mayor pro tem. He holds memberships in a number of gas industry and equipment supplier associa- tions. He and his wife, the former Ann Hadaway, have two daughters and two sons. WiLltIAM S. LUCKETT is vice president in charge of metropolitan banking for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. He is also vice com- modore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. He and his wife Dede have four children. 1955 ‘THoMAs M. ScHMIDT is owner and director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Albu- querque, N. Mex. The center includes an art gallery, a small theater, and spaces for art workshops of all types. JERRY F, STONE JR., a managing director with Lehman Brothers Inc., the investment bank- ing house in New York, has been named to the board of directors. 1956 CHARLES A. MACINTOsH of Ardmore, Pa., has been appointed to a position with Episcopal Community Services, the health and human services arm of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. He will serve as director of All Saints’ Hospital, a physical rehabilita- tion facility in Chestnut Hill, and a nearby retirement residence at Springfield, Pa. Prior to accepting his new position, MacIntosh was associate administrator at Temple Uni- versity Hospital in Philadelphia. He has also held administrative posts in the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Genesee Hospital in Rochester, N. Y., Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia and the hospital of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. MacIntosh is a fellow of the American Hospital Association, the Delaware Valley Hospital Council, the American Management Association, and the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania. 1957 LAWRENCE B,. CLARK was presented a lifetime membership as senator in Jaycees Interna- tional by the Mobile, Ala., chapter. He is also a member of Crew, an honorary associa- tion of former Jaycee national officers. 27 Bill McWilliams, ’61 E. Topp TERRES is employed as comptroller for the officer in charge of construction for Trident, the organization responsible for the Trident Submarine Base in Bangor, Wash. He lives in Bremerton. 1958 MICHAEL J. BARRY has been appointed ac- count supervisor at J. Walter Thompson, a national advertising agency in Chicago, IIl. His most recent position was associate re- search director. Barry first joined the agency in 1963 as an account research manager. FREDERICK J. RAMSAY, former associate dean of student affairs and acting chairman of the department of anatomy, has recently been ap- pointed to the newly created post of associ- ate dean and director of the office of gov- ernmental liaison at the University of Mary- land School of Medicine. He has an active role in federal and state legislative matters. VERNON W. HOLLEMAN Jr., a certified life underwriter of the Washington agency of Home Life Insurance Co., has received that company’s highest honor. At a special cere- mony, held in St. Martin, Dutch Antilles, Holleman was inducted into Home Life’s Hall of Fame. Only 35 other members of the company’s organization have previously achieved such status. Holleman’s career with Home Life began in 1960 and he has con- sistently been one of the company’s leading underwriters, earning the top 25 awards and placing in the top ten. He is a qualifying and life member of the Million Dollar Round Table and has received the industry’s qual- ity business award each year he has been in the business. Holleman is active in pro- fessional affairs and has served as president of the D. C. Life Underwriters Association and as vice chairman of consumer affairs for the National Association of Life Underwrit- ers. He is very active in community affairs as well and serves as chairman of the Davis Me- morial Goodwill Industries, and as vice presi- dent of the Washington, D. C., Kiwanis Club. He is also a director of Perpetual Federal Savings and Loan. GARY McCPHERSON, former head coach at Virginia Military Institute, has been named top basketball assistant at the University of Cincinnati. McPherson started his coaching career at Bluestone (Va.) High School where he stayed for three years before taking a job at Ferrum College in 1961. He went to VMI as an assistant in 1963 and the next year was named the youngest head coach in the nation at 27 years of age. He coached the VMI Keydets for five seasons before taking 28 a job as assistant basketball coach at West Virginia University in 1969. After five years at West Virginia University, McPherson was named head coach at Alderson-Broaddus in 1974, where he continued until taking the position with Cincinnati. CABELL C. HEYwarp (See 1960, Shields.) 1959 Dr. THomas P. FOLEY JR. is assistant profes- sor of pediatrics in the division of endo- crinology and metabolism at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Clinical Research Center at the Childrens’ Hospital of Pittsburgh. In addition, Foley finds time for membership in the Alleghany River Boys, a group which performs traditional bluegrass music in the Tri-State area. 1960 E. PETER LITTON (correction September, 1976) is vice president and general manager for Litton, Inc., the Volkswagen and Audi auto- mobile dealership in Ft. Smith, Ark. (not Little Rock as reported). H. GERALD SHIELDS is director of guidance at Augusta Preparatory School in Georgia. He also teaches English and coaches soccer. ‘The headmaster of Augusta Preparatory School is Cabell Heyward, class of 1958. 196] BIRTH: Maj. and Mrs. CLINTON ANDERSON, a son, John Stuart, on Aug. 21, 1976, in Washington, D. C. Anderson was recently transferred from Ft. Sill, Okla., to the Ad- jutant General Center where he is an ac- tion officer with the education directorate. WILLIAM (BILL) MCWILLIAMS has been ap- pointed executive vice president of the cor- porate group for United American Bank of Knoxville. The corporate group includes the national account and the _ correspondent bank divisions. McWilliams began his bank- ing career with Wachovia Bank and Trust Company in Asheville, N. C. He then moved to the Bank of Virginia in Richmond where he became senior vice president with respon- sibility for the corporate banking division. He serves on many Civic organizations’ and was a past officer of the North Carolina Young Bankers Association. He and_ his wife Karen have two daughters. 1962 WORTHINGTON BROWN Jr. has organized and begun an import tile company, Old World Tiles, Inc., of Memphis, Tenn. The company also handles domestic tiles for special jobs and imports many other types of building supplies. RosBert A. DUNLAP JR. has been elected to assistant vice president, trust division, of Irving Trust Co. of New York. Dr. Jos—EPpH L. GOLDSTEIN, associate professor of medicine at the University of ‘Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, is a recipient of the 1976 Pfizer Award in en- zyme chemistry. Administered by the Ameri- can Chemical Society’s division of biological chemistry, the award recognizes outstanding achievement by young scientists engaged in non-commercial research. Goldstein complet- ed his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and served as a teaching fellow at Harvard University Medical School. Between 1968 and 1970, he was a clinical associate with the National Heart Institute. He then joined the University of Washington School of Medicine as a special National Heart In- stitute fellow in the division of medical genetics. W. HAYNE Hipp, president of the Green- ville, S.C., Urban League, Inc., was elected a director of the National Urban League at the organization’s annual conference in Bos- ton. Hipp, senior vice president of invest- ments at Liberty Life Insurance Co., is the only member from South Carolina. He is a trustee of the Greenville County School Dis- trict and vice president of the Metropolitan YMCA. He is also a director of the Liberty Life Insurance Co. and is on the advisory board of the Citizen and Southern Na- tional Bank. WILLIAM L, ROBERTS JR. is in London where he is with First National City Bank in charge of the European account manager training unit. After graduation, WILLARD ‘TAYLOR began work immediately with Warner and Swasey, a major manufacturer of machine tools, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1964, he was moved to Massachusetts and in 1968 was made New England district sales manager for Wiede- mann Division of Warner and Swasey. In 1970, Taylor joined The Jessam Corp., a holding company located on Cape Cod. The Jessam Corp. was instrumental in financing Videocom, Inc., and in 1971 Taylor was ap- pointed director of marketing. He holds the position of executive vice president in Videocom which has become one of the most successful videotape houses in New England. More recently Taylor has become a J. W. Fowler, ’63 partner in Casselman Taylor, Inc., a film subsidiary of Videocom, Inc. As chief oper- ating officer, he will be responsible for the business affairs of both companies. Taylor and his wife Dianne have three children. HARRY TETER JR., executive director of the Appalachian Regional Commission, was the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Health Services Founda- tion in September at the Ohio University Inn in Athens, Ohio. Teter, an attorney in Frostburg, Md., is one of the youngest in- dividuals to hold such a post in the federal government. The commission, created by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 is a joint federal-state agency adminis- tering the largest regional economic develop- ment program in the United States, 1963 JoHN M. Fow er, formerly with Sealtest Foods in Charlotte, N.C., has accepted a position as manager of employee and pub- lic relations at Texasgulf’s Phosphate Opera- tions with headquarters in Aurora, N. C. Fowler served with the U. S. Army in the Adjutant General Corps from 1963 to 1965. He was with Capitol Records from 1965 to 1968 and with Doubleday & Co. from 1968 until 1972. While with these companies he served in various industrial relations capa- cities. He is a member of the American So- ciety of Personnel Administrators. He and his wife, the former Susan Bentley, have three children. ALLAN H. JOHNSTON has been promoted to group brand development manager by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a subsidiary of R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. Johnston joined Reynolds Tobacco Co. in 1972 as a marketing assistant. He was promoted that same year to assistant product manager. In 1974 he trans- ferred to the marketing department of RJR Foods, Inc., also a subsidiary of R. J. Reynolds Industries, as brand manager for new products. He returned to the tobacco company in 1975 as brand development manager. Before joining R. J. Reynolds, Johnston was with the marketing department of General Foods Corp. 1964 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. DONALD B. MCFALL, a daughter, Katherine Atkinson, on April 25, 1976. McFall is a practicing attorney in Hous- ton, ‘Texas. In July, Puitip H. LEMon became a partner in the law firm of Dodson, Pence, Viar, A. H. Johnston, ’63 F. C. Schaeffer, ’64 Young & Woodrum in Roanoke. LESLIE C. RUCKER JR. has been promoted by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland to the position of district man- ager, customer service, in Cumberland. FREDERICK C, SCHAEFFER has been named di- rector of Commercial and Industrial Bank in Memphis, Tenn. He has been an agent and supervisor with New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. since his graduation from Washington and Lee. He is a life member of the Million Dollar Roundtable. Among his civic and community endeavors, he is a trustee at both the Hutchinson School and Presbyterian Day School and an elder at Second Presbyterian Church. He is a member and a director of both Memphis Country Club and The Memphis Hunt and Polo Club and is active in the Memphis Cotton Carnival. 1965 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JosEPH R. WILSON, a daughter, Martha Amanda, on May 3, 1976. Wilson is district Manager for Rollins, Inc., in Raleigh, N. C. H. MEADE CADOT Jr., after receiving a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Kansas, is now on the faculty of the Antioch-New England Graduate School in Keene, N. H. He is also the director of the Harris Center for Conservation Education and the Willard Pond Audubon Sanctuary of Hancock. JAQUELIN H. DEJARNETTE has been named senior vice president for block trading and institutional executions at Wheat, First Se- curities, Inc., in Richmond, Va. He also will be responsible for executions in connection with restricted and letter stock. DeJar- nette is a registered block positioner with the New York Stock Exchange. He joined Wheat in 1965 as a systems analyst, became a regi- stered representative and then a member of the institutional department. He was elected vice president in 1971 and named manager of the department the same year. HAROLD (HAL) L. HOLLADAY has become an instructor in English at Hamilton College in Clinton, N. Y. After graduation from Washington and Lee, Holladay studied for his M.A. at Vanderbilt University. He later took graduate courses at the University of Michigan. At both Vanderbilt and Michigan, Holladay was a research and editorial assis- tant, teacher, lecture assistant and grader. JosepH G. WHEELER, formerly with Cater- pillar ‘Tractor Co., is now employed as L. N. Miller Jr., 66 B. W. Rider, ’66 marketing manager for Thompson ‘Tractor Co., a Caterpillar dealer in north Alabama. He and his wife Lynn have two children. The family lives in Birmingham. WILLIAM MCWILLIAMs (See 1961.) 1966 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM A. SCHROE- DER III, a son, William A. IV, on Aug. 17, 1976. Schroeder is assistant vice president of Corroon and Black-Armistead, Miller, Wal- lace Inc., of New Orleans and specializes in international insurance and reinsurance. HARRY E. BRooksBy is with Mobil Oil Corp. in Dallas, Texas, as an associate exploration geologist. He is working in new exploration ventures with a task force group making evaluation of U. S. offshore acreage on the continental shelf. Lewis N. MILLER JR. has been named senior vice president of the Central National Bank of Richmond. He joined Central National in June 1972, and was promoted to planning officer in March 1973; assistant vice presi- dent in November 1973; and vice president in February 1976. Miller served as a lieu- tenant with the United States Navy and was released in 1969. Bruce W. RIDER has been appointed com- munity action program manager of the in- formation systems group for Xerox Corp. He joined Xerox in 1971 and has held various positions in sales and marketing areas. In his present capacity, he will be involved in community action programs. W. Court SOLOFF is the security director for the General Telephone Co. of the Southwest with operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- sas, and New Mexico. He works out of the general offices in San Angelo, Texas. 1967 MARRIAGE: JEFFREY T. ‘TwArpy and Mary Patricia Martin, on Oct. 2, 1976, in Roanoke, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM M. FLATAU, a daughter, Virginia Marshall, on April 13, 1976. Flatau is a practicing attorney in Ma- con, Ga. BIRTH: Capt. and Mrs. JOHN R. MILLER, a daughter, Sara Elizabeth, on May 15, 1976. The family lives in Lexington, Va., where Miller is assistant professor of military science at W&L. Zo Class Notes BIRTH: Mr, and Mrs. HUBERT H. YOUNG Jr., a daughter, Christine Brooks, on July 4, 1976. Young is general counsel for Trammell Crow Co., an international real estate de- veloper based in Dallas. Howarp J. BECK JR., an attorney in Mar- tinsville, Va., has been elected vice chairman of the criminal law section of the Virginia State Bar. He is also editor of the section’s newsletter. J. Mac HOoLiapAy served with the United States Navy between 1967 and 1972 as an aviator. He served as a pilot in the Far East including Guam, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia. After being discharged with the rank of lieutenant, Holladay became associated with the Memphis area Chamber of Commerce. He is a former manager of its member rela- tions and staff vice president of special pro- jects. Holladay has recently left Memphis to assume the position as executive vice presi- dent of the Columbus, Ind., area Chamber of Commerce. Among his many professional and civic activities, Holladay is a member of the board of trustees of the Southern As- sociation of Colleges and Schools. He is one of three lay members to serve on this board. Dr. Ropert L. Hott has begun the practice of periodontics with offices in West Palm Beach and in Boca Raton, Fla. Dr. LEE PARSONS has been appointed assis- tant professor of mathematics at Alleghany College in Meadville, Pa. Parsons received his master’s of science degree from Ohio University in 1968 and the master’s of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1975. He has just completed his doctoral studies at Wisconsin. He served as a teach- ing assistant at Wisconsin and at Ohio Uni- versity. In the 1968-69 school year he was an instructor in the Ohio University math de- partment. Parsons served in the U. S. Navy from 1970-72 and currently holds a com- mission in the U. S. Naval Reserve. 1968 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RIcHARD C. Bur- ROUGHS, a son, Richard Chamberloine Jr., on April 10, 1976. Burroughs is vice presi- dent of Harvey Lindsay and Co., a commer- cial real estate company in Norfolk, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES C. LEWIS, a daughter, Brooke Corling, on Feb. 27, 1976. The young lady joins an older sister. Lewis is a partner in the Warrenton, Va., law firm of Tiffany, Tiffany, and Lewis. 30 JoHN R. CRIGLER, a consulting statistician at the Naval Surface Weapons Center in Dahl- gren, Va., is teaching statistics courses as an adjunct professor through V.P.I. as part of an employee development program. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, FRANK A. JACKSON is associated with the Security National Bank & Trust Co. in Wheeling, W. Va. WILLIAM K. (BILL) McDavip is half-owner and head guide for a resort area at Jackson’s Hole in Jackson, Wyo. His firm, ‘Teton World Travel, manages a resort area which includes a whitewater or scenic float trip on the Snake River and a wilderness ranch for hiking, fishing, and horseback riding. GEOFFREY L. STONE, assistant administrator at the Washington Hospital Center, Wash- ington, D. C., has been advanced to mem- bership in the American College of Hospital Administrators, which is a_ professional Society offering personal membership to qualified candidates in the field of health service administration. Stone entered George Washington University’s M.A. program in health care administration in 1969 and serv- ed as an administrative resident at Washing- ton Hospital Center from 1971 to 1973. He was appointed assistant administrator in 1973. Stone and his wife Virginia have one daughter. The family resides in Arlington. 1969 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. REINHARD W. FISCHER, a daughter, Margaret Cary, on Feb. 26, 1976. Fischer is associate corporate counsel with Southwest Forest Industries, Inc., and is head- quartered in Phoenix, Ariz. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. MARK MARION HEAT- WOLE, a daughter, Mary Phyllis, on Sept. 21, 1976. The family lives in Lake Forest, Il. Heatwole is a practicing attorney in Chicago. BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. THOMAS NEWMAN, a son, Stewart Thomas, on Aug. 12, 1976. The family lives in North Miami, Fla. JorceE E. Estrapa, after working for Sun Oil Co. in Peru, Bolivia, and Kenya as a geographical supervisor, is with Western Geographical Co. of America as a general manager and is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since leaving the Army in 1974, RICHARD E. KRAMER has continued his interest in the theater. He has attended classes at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York. Currently, Kramer is completing an M.F.A. degree at Rutgers University where he is a teaching assistant. In September 1976, he appeared in the off-Broadway production, The Ugly Duckling. Dr. BRITTAIN MCJUNKIN, a gastroenterologist, is quoted in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association con- cerning the lethal consequences of excess consumption of acetaminophen. McJunkin is currently a fellow at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburg, Pa. Dr. NicHoLas H. SHEA has been appointed director of emergency medicine at King’s Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. His practice will be limited to the emer- gency room. Shea previously served as emer- gency physician at the Lakeshore Hospital in Lake City, Fla. After receiving his M.D. degree from Georgetown University, Shea completed a general surgery internship at the University of Iowa and a year of resi- dency in orthopedics at the University of Florida. PETER M. VANDINE has been elected assistant vice president of Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Co., where he is engaged in estate planning and business development in Bethesda, Md. He and his wife Becki have one daughter, Amy. The family lives in Vienna, Va. DoNALD B. MCFALL (See 1964.) HuBERT H. YOUNG Jr. (See 1967.) 1970 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs, J. DONALD CHILDRESS, a son, Jack Donald Jr., on May 7, 1976. Childress is associated with Trammell Crow Co., a real estate development company and the family lives in Cherry Hill, NJ. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL R. MurpuHy, a son, Michael Brendan, on Sept. 14, 1976. The family lives in Atlanta, Ga. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. TOM ROBINETT, a son, Richard Graham, on Aug. 10, 1976. The young man joins an older brother and the family lives in Farmville, Va., where Robi- nett is practicing law. After graduation from the University of South Carolina Medical School in 1975, Dr. W. JoHN Bayarp interned at the University of Georgia in Augusta for one year. He was married June 19, 1976, to Ruth Sallenger of Charleston, S.C., and is now serving with the U.S. Army for two years. MIcHAEL M. COoLe recently completed all course work toward the Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology at North Carolina State University. On Sept. 1, Cole began a clinical psychology internship at the Counseling- Psychological Services Center, University of Texas at Austin. CHRISTOPHER D. COURSEN, an attorney in Washington, D.C., has recently joined the Marmet Professional Corp. CHARLES ‘TI’. GARTEN JR. is in Tennessee where he is a research associate in the environ- mental sciences division of Oak Ridge Na- tional Laboratory. CLIFFORD H. KERN has been appointed an instructor in zoology at DePauw University. Kern received an M.A. degree from Indiana University in 1973 and expects to get his doctorate from Indiana this year. Bruce R. MCQUEEN and his wife Elaine have been traveling in Central and South America after his release from the Army in October 1975 with the rank of captain. CLINT PALMER is working on an M.F.A. in film production at the University of South- ern California in Los Angeles. His wife, the former Karen Newman, is writing her Ph.D. dissertation in comparative literature and is an instructor at the University of California at Berkley. 197] MARRIAGE: JouHN L. (PAT) SULLIVAN and Mary Virginia Ruddock, on July 2, 1976, in Cleveland, Ohio. Among the wedding party were: William A. Gatlin III, ’71, Wendell Montgomery Smith, ’71, and Charles L. Henry III, ’73. Sullivan received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School in June. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS O. BEAR, a son, ‘Thomas Winfrey Oliver, on Aug. 30, 1976. The young man joins two older sisters and the family lives in Northport, Ala. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. FRANK C, BROOKS Jpr., a son, Robert A., on May 24, 1976. Brooks is in New York City with Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. as an assistant vice president. ‘The family lives in Greenwich, Conn. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES MINER HARRELL, a son, Charles Miner Jr., on Feb. 11, 1976. After graduation from Emory University Law School in 1974, Harrell became a practicing attorney in Pensacola, Fla. Joun D. CopEeNnHAVER Jr., is attending Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., where he is completing his master’s of di- vinity degree. CLARK B. LEUTZE ended his tour of active duty as a Naval flight officer and returned to State University of New York at Albany, where he completed an M.A. in history and is now working towards an M.B.A. He is a mission commander aboard a P-3 patrol aircraft with the reserve patrol squadron 64. His wife Pam is employed by the Home Savings Bank in Guilderland, N.Y. KENELM L. SHIRK III, formerly the law clerk to the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, is now associated with the law firm of Shirk, Reist & Buckwalter in Lancaster, Pa. Upon graduation, CHARLES W. Brown Il traveled for about six months and then began working on a framing crew as a Car- penter building houses. After three months, he was hired as an assistant construction superintendent for the John Crosland and Co. in Charlotte, N. C. A year later he was made warranty service manager for the same company. He then became a construction manager for Century Home Builders in Charlotte, building large custom homes in North and South Carolina. Last April after obtaining his contractor’s and real estate li- censes in North and South Carolina, Brown formed Bishop Builders Inc., which is now involved in home construction in the two Carolinas. REINHARD W. FISCHER (See 1969.) CHARLES C. LEwis (See 1968.) PETER M. VANDINE (See 1969.) 1972 MARRIAGE: PETER MARLEY SOMERVILLE and Mary Paige Temple on Aug. 7, 1976, in Jarratt, Va. Among the wedding party were: William Garwood Crister Clore, ’72, Charles James Harland Jr., ‘72, and Robert C. Walker Jr., "72. Also in attendance were: Juan Cassell, "72, Paine Hindsley, °72, Rich- ard Pifer, ’°72, William Ballard Jr., ’73, and Christopher Giragosian, 73. The couple re- sides in Columbus, Mo., where Somerville is a student at the University of Missouri School of Law. MARRIAGE: J. Craic Kerr and Darlene Dixon on April 10, 1976, in Syracuse, N.Y. Kerr is a partner in the law firm of Nott- ingham, Paltz, Cerio and Engel in Syra- cuse. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JAMES ABELE JR., a son, James Augustus III, on July 3, 1976. The family lives in Birmingham, Ala. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT P. MCWHOoR- TER, a son, Thomas Wade, on Oct. 4 ,1976. The family lives in Montgomery, Ala., where McWhorter is a director of the Y.M.C.A. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES L. WHITE, a son, Charles L. Jr., on Feb. 24, 1976. White is an assistant trust officer with Society Na- tional Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in personal trust administration. Dr. C. JAMES HARLAND JR. graduated from the Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry in May 1976. He is stationed as a dental officer at the Navy training center in Orlando, Fla. ROBERT C, JORDAN, formerly with Burroughs Corp., joined the J. L. Hammett Co. of Braintree, Mass., as manager of the bid and contract department of the Southern Re- gional Branch. He and his wife Louise live in Lynchburg, Va. JEFFREY O’DELL has recently completed in- ventories of early architecture and archaeo- logical sites for the city of Petersburg and Henrico County. The reports are to be used in historic preservation efforts by both private and governmental groups. His next architectural survey will take him to Ches- terfield County. Dr. STEVEN J. Ory has started medical train- ing at the Mayo Graduate School of Medi- cine which is part of the division of educa- tion of the Mayo Foundation, a non-profit organization which owns and operates the Mayo Clinic. It is one of the largest centers for graduate medical education in the world. FRED PAONE, who holds the J.D. degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law, has recently completed an appointment as law clerk to Judge Matthew S. Evans, chief judge for Maryland’s 5th Judicial Circuit. Paone is presently with the State Attorney's office for Anne Arundel County. EVERETT TUCKER III, a certified public ac- countant has become the argicultural busi- ness officer for the Commercial National Bank of Little Rock, Ark., and will have re- sponsibilities as liaison officer between the agricultural customers and the departments of the bank that offer specialized services. The newly formed department will pro- 31 Class Notes vide special financial services to farmers and agricultural industrial management. Tuck- er has an M.A. in business administration from the University of Arkansas at Fayette- ville. He is a member of the American In- stitute and the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants. Tucker has been a com- mittee chairman for major projects of the Arkansas Heart Association, the Little Rock Jaycees and the American Cancer Society. He is on the major sports attractions com- mittee of the Little Rock Chamber of Com- merce and is a member of the Arkansas Arts Center. MARK MARION HEATWOLE (See 1969.) 1973 MARRIAGE: 'T. HALLER JACKSON and Sue Rebecca McConnell, on July 31, 1976. The couple lives in Shreveport, La., where Jack- son is clerk for Judge Ben C. Dawkins Jr. of the U. S. District Court. MARRIAGE: MARSHALL P. WASHBURN and Rebecca Ann Marsh, on Oct. 2, in Pitts- burgh, Pa. Classmates attending were Tim Haley, Peter Grover, Hatton Smith, Brandon Herbert, Paul McClure, Bill Nickel, Bar- clay Armstrong, Jimmy Farrar and Bill Mer- rill. Washburn is employed with Derring Milliken and the couple lives in Spartan- burg, S. C. JOHN R. Bacsy, formerly with the state gov- ernment in Frankfort, Ky., is now in the private practice of law in Lexington, Ky. JAMEs H. Beaty II will graduate from the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis in December 1976 and expects to begin a surgery internship at the Baptist Memorial Hospital there in January. DouGLAs A. FORSYTH, who graduated from the University of Missouri Law School in May, is now a member of the Missouri Bar and employed as assistant circuit attorney for St. Louis. BRIAN E. RICHARDSON, who holds an M.A. degree in communications from the Univer- sity of Florida, is serving as community serv- ices coordinator with the Easter Seal Re- habilitation Center in Tallahassee, Fla. JOHN C. FULLERTON III is in his fourth year of medical school at the University of Vir- ginia. This summer he completed a six-week tour of active duty at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco, where he rotated between the obstetrics and gynecol- ogy service. JrEFFREY T. Twarpy (See 1967.) 32 1974 MARRIAGE: JAMEs C. FITTER Jr. and Gail Bloom on June 26, 1976, in St. Louis, Mo. Among the wedding party were Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Gilchrist, 74, W. Bradney Griffin, ‘74, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Lamb III, 74, and Phillip H. Milner Jr., 73. Fitter is an attor- ney in Kansas City. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JoHN F. HANZEL, a daughter, Patricia Holly, on July 19, 1976. Hanzel is an attorney with the Pittston Co. Coal Group in Lebanon, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. LAWRENCE YOUNG, a son, Adrian Lawrence, on Aug. 9, 1976. The family lives in York, Pa., where Young is a practicing attorney. LAWRENCE V. YOUNG is practicing law with the firm of Laucks & Monroe in York, Pa. Davin V. FINNELL holds the rank of first lieutenant at the Fifth Army Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. He is also the substitute organist at St. David’s Episcopal Church. Chapter Presidents Appalachian—Robert A. Vinyard, ’70, Smith, Robinson & Vinyard, 117 W. Main St., Abingdon, Va. 24210 Arkansas—William C. Norman, Jr., ’56, P. O. Drawer 597, Crossett, Ark. 71635 Atlanta—William C. Tyler, ’69, C&S Mortgage Company, P.O. Box 4065, Atlanta, Ga. 30302 Augusta-Rockingham—William B. Gunn, ’42, Box 668, Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 Baltimore—John H. West III, ’65, 6213 Moss- way, Baltimore, Md. 21212 Birmingham—Richard S. Abernethy, ’72, Southern Rubber Co., Inc.. 917 6th Ave., P.O. Box 10762, Birmingham, Ala. 35202 Charleston—Louie A, Paterno, Jr., °65, 1401 Somerlayton Road, Charleston, W. Va. 25314 Charlotte—W. Joseph Dozier, ’70, 1753 Mary- land Ave., Charlotte, N.C, 28209 Chattanooga—David M. Berlinghof, ’55, Car- gill, P.O. Box 4227, Chattanooga, Tenn. 37405 Chicago—Stanley A. Walton, III, ’62, One First National Plaza, Rm. 5000, Chicago, Ill. 60603 Cleveland—Sidmon J. Kaplan, ’56, Landseair Inc., 1228 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Cumberland Valley—Dr. George Smith, ’56, Rt, 5, Box 459, Frederick, Md. 21701 Dallas—Edward G. Woodson, Jr., ’60, Shind- ter-Cummins, Inc., 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd.. Suite 404, Dallas. Texas 75219 Eastern North Carolina—James T. Hedrick, "D0, Suite 423, ne Eleven Coraran St., O Durham, N.C. 27702 Florida West Coast—George W. Harvey, Jr., 68, WFLA-TV, 905 Jackson Street, Tampa, Fla. 33601 Fort Worth—Rice M. Tilley, Jr., ’58, Law, Snakard, Brown and Gambill, Fort Worth National Bk. Bldg., Fort Worth, Texas 76102 Gulf Stream—A. J. Barranco, ’64, Suite 1004 Concord Bldg., 66 West Flagler St., Miami, Fla. 33130 Houston—William B. Ogilvie, Jr., °’64, 7519 Del Monte, Houston, Texas 77042 Jacksonville—Harry M. Wilson, ’69, 1306 Avondale Ave., Jacksonville, Fla. 32205 Kansas City—William N. Leedy, ’49, 814 Westover Road, Kansas City, Mo. 64113 Louisville—Henry H. Knight, II. ’63, John- ston, Brown, Burnett and Knight. Inc., 425 South 5th Street, Louisville, Ky. 40202 Lynchburg—George H. Fralin, Jr., ’57, Wil- liams, Martin, Taylor & Fralin, CoOpera- tive & Loan Bldg., Church St., Lynchburg, Va, 24504 Mid-South—Jerome Turner, ’64, 325 N. Rose Road, Memphis, Tenn. 38117 | Middle Tennessee—Ben S. Gambill, Jr., ’67, Braid Electric Co., 1100 Demonbreun Street, Nashville, Tenn. 37219 Mobile—Harvey E. Jones, Jr., ’64, 204 Walsh- wood, Mobile, Ala. 36604 Montgomery—Joe F. Bear, ’33, 2134 Rose- mont Drive, Montgomery, Ala. 36111 New England—John P. Mello, ’72, 37 Brookley Rd., Boston, Mass, 02130 New Orleans—Richard K. Christovich, ’68, 118 Central Park Place, New Orleans, La. 70124 New York—Jaroslav A. Drabek, ’53, 8 Wendth Avenue, Larchmont, N.Y. 10538 Norfolk—David T. Shufflebarger, ’69, 1115 Manchester Ave., Norfok, Va. 23508 Northern California—Emmett W. MacCorkle, Jr., °26, 1100 Sharon Park Drive No. 25, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 Palm Beach-Fort lLauderdale—Nicholas S. Smith, ’63, 2910 Okeechobee Blvd., W. Palm Beach, Fla. 33401 Palmetto—Philip G. Grose, Jr., ’60, Executive Assistant for Governmental Relations, Office of the President, University of South Caro- lina, Columbia, S.C. 29208 Peninsula—Ben Williams, Esq., ’71, 23 Brook- field Dr., Hampton, Va. 23666 Pensacola—Robert D. Hart, Jr., ’'63, 3985 Piedmont Road, Pensacola, Fla. 32503 Philadelphia—John E, Kelly, III, ’66A, 69L, 1208 Panama St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 Piedmont—James S. Mahan III, ’73, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Loan Administration, Box 3099, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27104 Richmond—Jesse F. Williams, III, ’65, P.O. Box 305, Richmond, Va. 23202 Roanoke—William L. Andrews III, ’72, 430 Canterbury La., Roanoke, Va. 24014 Rockbridge—P. B. Winfree, III, ’'59, P.O. Box 948, Lexington, Va. 24450 San Antonio—Ralph E. Lehr, Jr., ’73, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co..900 National Bank of Commerce Bldg., San Antonio, Texas 78205 St. Louis—Andrew W. Baur, ’67, 20 Foxboro, St. Louis, Mo. 63124 South Carolina Piedmont—Alvin F. Fleish- man, ‘41, P.O. Drawer 4106, Station B, Anderson, S.C. 29621 7 Southern California—Frank A. McCormick, °58, Box 475, Santa Ana, Calif. 92702 Southern Ohio—Thomas P. Winborne, ’52, 3510 Arnold Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45226 Southside Virginia—H. Victor Millner, Jr., *54A, ’60L, Vansant & Millner, Drawer 110, Chatham, Va. 24531 Tri States—Charles F. Bagley, III, ’69, Camp- bell, Woods. Bagley. Emerson, McNeer & Herndon, P.O. Box 1835, Huntington, W.Va. 24719 Tulsa—Dan W. Higgins, Jr., ’69, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, 1200 First National Bldg., Tulsa, Okla. 74103 Upper Potomac—Albert D. Darby, ’43, 507 Cumberland Street. Cumberland, Md. 21502 Washington—John M. Zamoiski, ’74, Mid- Atlantic Swensen’s, 7649 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, Md. 20014 West Texas—Stephen H. Suttle, ’62, 3010 Ventura, Abilene, Texas 79605 Wilmington—S. Maynard Turk, ’52, Box 3958, Greenville, Wilmington, Del. 19807 W. LEwis HANNAH Jr., a former employee of the North Carolina National Bank, had an active role in the Atlanta Democratic headquarters with the Jimmy Carter cam- paign. ROBERT E. JOHNSON Jr., after receiving his M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University in May, is now employed by Ford Motor Co. as a fi- nancial analyst. He lives in Farmington Hills, Mich. ERNEST J. (SKIP) LICHTFUSsS JR. is pursuing a masters program at the University of Dela- ware in the educational leadership program. He is the assistant lacrosse coach. He and his wife reside in Newark, Del. ROLF PIRANIAN has returned to Washington and Lee as varsity soccer coach. For the past two years, Piranian has been teaching high school and coaching soccer in Jacksonville, Fla. WILLIAM LEE WARBURTON is located in Lex- ington where he is engaged in the import of batik and tapestries from Java, Indonesia. He also gives exhibitions and slide presenta- tions at various Virginia colleges on the subject of batik. 1975 MARRIAGE: Gravy C. FRANK Jr. and Lila Lamb Pryor, on Sept. 25, 1976, in Decatur, Ala. Frank is an attorney with the firm of Boothe, Prichard and Dudley of Fairfax, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. TERRENCE G. JACK- SON, a son, Colin Wood, on March 29, 1976. Jackson is an attorney with the general counsel’s office of the U.S. Dept. of Agricul- ture. The family lives in Alexandria, Va. PAUL MCELVENN FLEMING has been named director of public information at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. Fleming was formerly associated with the Martin Agency, Inc., and The New Community School. He will continue as special consul- tant to the Virginia Ballet Theatre. ENs. KARL E, KLINGER, USNR, has completed flight training and been designated a naval flight officer in Pensacola, Fla. He is now stationed at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach where he will serve as a bombardier/naviga- tor aboard the A-6E intruder all-weather at- tack aircraft. ANTHONY (Tony) M. Murray has had two one-man shows this year at the Botetourt- Rockbridge Regional Library. He displayed pen and ink drawings, acrylic and water- color paintings of the Rockbridge country- side. J. Scott NELSON is teaching earth science at the William Monroe High School in Stan- ardsville, Va. FRANK L. (BUz) WALTERS JR. is assistant to the president for Ferguson Enterprises, Inc., of Newport News, Va. Ferguson Enterprises is a wholesale pipe, valve, and fitting distri- butor. Tom Rosinett (See 1970.) 1976 MARRIAGE: G. DONALD BRYANT and Sally Matthews, on Aug. 7, 1976, in Marion, Va. The Bryants are in Tallahassee where Bryant is attending graduate business school at Florida State University. MARRIAGE: Bruce D. DUNNAN and Wendy Wagner, on July 10, 1976, in Tacoma, Wash. Among the groomsmen were: Paul B. Cromelin III, 76, H. Sprague Eustis, ’76, Stephen Scully, ’76, Edward De Saussure, ’78, and Richard D. Wagner, ’78. Also attending was Christopher Scully, ’75. The couple will live in Chapel Hill, N. C., where Dunnan is pursuing an M.B.A. at the University of North Carolina. MARRIAGE: GREGORY W. JOHNSON and Mary Carolyn Jones, on June 5, 1976, in Baltimore, Md. Peter Cavalier, ’76, was best man and James Doyle III, ’76, was in the wedding party. Also attending the cere- mony were classmates Ted Merrick, James Pearson, James Gould, David Denny, David Knack, Andy Harvin, and James A. Mercy. Jay Denny, ’73, and John Uhl, ’75, also at- tended. Johnson is enrolled in the graduate school of business at Indiana University. MARRIAGE: JOHN G. PopGajNy and Laura Jean Fusco, on Aug. 7, 1976, in Chester, Pa. Musicians at the ceremony were Stephen Hand, 77, and Don Berlin, ’°77. Among the guests were Skip Lichtfuss, 74, Jim Becker, ‘75, Greg Croghan, ’75, Jeff Baum, ’76, Jeff Baker, °76, Gary Fitzgerald, ’76, Paul Ma- loney, ’°76, Pat Dennis, ‘77, Mike Missal, ’78, Bob Flint, 77, Bob Forlenza, ’78, Jim Ber- lin, °79, Dave Leunig, 79, Mike Wenke, ’79, and Stephanie Maxson, exchange student "75-76. Davin W. DENNY is pursuing graduate studies in anthropology at the University of Ten- nessee. In Memoriam 1906 A portrait of JOHN W. EGGLESTON, retired chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court who died May 18, 1976, was unveiled in the Court’s Richmond Chambers in October 1976. Former Governor Colgate Darden Jr., presided at the unveiling and paid tribute to Justice Eggleston. During his remarks, Dar- den observed that Eggleston was among “the State Justices who in character, learn- ing, and dedication to the administration of justice stood side by side with the ablest members of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Several other high-ranking officials in Virginia government made tri- butes to Eggleston. He is remembered as standing alone in 1963 when he refused, in School Board vs. Griffin, to sanction the clos- ing of public schools in Prince Edward County. After retiring from the Court in June 1969, Eggleston continued to work in his office in Norfolk City Hall on the Court’s business. He died toward the end of his 90th year. 1908 ROBERT SAMUEL KEEBLER, a retired govern- ment attorney who had participated in some of the most publicized legal cases of the cen- tury, including the famous Scopes trial in Tennessee, died Sept. 1, 1976, in Silver Springs, Md. After the Scopes trial, Keebler, as a special attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, took part in several trials involving labor leaders and alleged radicals. In 1934, after the establishment of the Na- tional Recovery Administration (NRA), Keeb- ler was asked to assist in the review board’s hearings. Once the review board’s work was concluded, he joined the legal staff of NRA. In 1938, he joined the Public Utilities Divi- sion (later the Corporate Regulation Divi- sion) of the Securities and Exchange Com- mission as its chief trial attorney. During World War II Keebler was on the legal staff of the Office of Price Administration. He retired in 1959. Keebler was a member of the National Association of Retired Govern- ment Employees. 192] M. BisHop ALEXANDER, former correspondent with International News, a reporter with the Charleston, S.C., News and Courier and a staff editor with The Associated Press, died in October 1976. Alexander founded the Ad- 33 In Memoriam vertising Service Agency in 1931 and served as its president for many years. He was a veteran of World War II. WILLIAM W. LYNN Jr. of Lynchburg, Va., vice president of the Yellow Cab Co. and former president of the old Hotel Carroll, died May 31, 1976. A native of Lynchburg, Lynn was vice president of the Southern Passenger Motor Lines and a former vice president of the Old Lynchburg Ramp Ga- rage when he became associated with the Hotel Carroll, which was owned and operat- ed by his family. Lynn had served as a direc- tor of the American Hotel Association and as a director and secretary/treasurer of the Southern Hotel Association. He also had serv- ed as treasurer, vice president and president of the Virginia Hotel Association. In 1960 he was a member of the Sweet Briar College Parents Advisory Board. Lynn was a retired director of First and Merchants National Bank and a former deacon and elder of the First Presbyterian Church. EVERETT W. CUMMINGS, a longtime resident and businessman of Winston-Salem, N. C., died June 5, 1976, after a short illness. Since 1950 he was owner and operator of the E. W. Cummings Associates Sales, Inc., a manufacturers’ representative firm specializ- ing in cast iron foundry products, building supplies and drainage and revent systems. Before organizing E. W. Cummings Associ- ates, he was in flour and milling products sales and was associated with Ralston-Purina Co., Ubiko Milling Co. and Pilot Milling Co. 1924 JOHN ANDERSON DUPRE, retired founder and president of the John A. DuPre Cotton Co. of Memphis, Tenn., died May 29, 1976. DuPre was a former president of the Memphis Cot- ton Exchange. Before coming to Memphis, he worked for a time as North Mississippi representative for Anderson-Clayton Cotton Co. An avid sportsman, he bred bird dogs and was active in the Memphis Amateur Field Trials Association. He was a deacon of the Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis. EDWARD DOUGLAS GIBSON, a retired business- man and production coordinator for the Mansfield Playhouse’s “1976 Spotlight Re- vue,” died in Mansfield, Ohio, Aug. 5, 1976. Gibson was involved in amateur theater ac- tivity for 41 years. For many years he operat- ed the Studebaker auto agency in Mansfield and also operated public parking lots. 34 1925 JOHN CAMPBELL ANDERSON, a retired branch manager and former director of Brown & Williamson ‘Tobacco Corp., died Sept. 20, 1976, in Petersburg, Va. Anderson joined Brown & Williamson in 1926 after working for the First & National Bank of Bristol, Tenn. He moved to Petersburg in 1934 from the Louisville, Ky., office of Brown & Wil- liamson. Anderson was a past president of the Chamber of Commerce and a past chair- man of the redevelopment and housing au- thority. He was a member of the Peters- burg Hospital Authority, the advisory board of F&M National Bank, and a former mem- ber of the board of visitors of Virginia State College. DAvis CRITTENDEN, a distinguished engineer, historian, and author, died July 21, 1976 in Fall River, Mass. Crittenden pursued a life long interest in marine lore, and wrote the book, Captain Danger, a biography of his grandfather who was a celebrated Massa- chusetts skipper. A mechanical design engi- neer by profession, Crittenden worked at one time with his cousin, Clifford Holland, on the design and construction of the Hol- land Tunnel in New York City. An historian of acknowledged scope, he specialized in research on American steamships, and in par- ticular, the Fall River Line. 1930 JAMEs M. Counrtiss, a cattle farmer and vice president of Delta State Bank at Elaine, Ark., died at his farm in Rose Bud on Sept. 14, 1976. A director of Helena Cotton Oil Co., Countiss was a director and former presi- dent of Farmers Oil and Supply Co. and a director of the Cotton Belt Drainage District. He was a former president of the Arkansas Hereford Association. 1931 JOHN RANDOLPH ‘TUCKER ALFORD, a native of Lexington, Va., and for many years a pro- minent businessman in Chicago, died July 24, 1976, in Silver City, N. Mex., Alford’s grandfather was John Randolph ‘Tucker, longtime dean of the Washington and Lee Law School. Alford was admitted to the bar in 1933 and practiced law in Phoenix, Ariz., for several years. He was also president of the First Management Corp., a real estate and mortgage loan concern, in Chicago. In 1949, Alford and his family moved to Mary- land where he had a dairy farm. At one time, he operated the Lake Shore Hotel in Cleve- land, Ohio. Alford retired in 1964 and mov- ed to New Mexico. 1939 ALAN BuxTON Hoses, a lawyer and retired corporation executive, died Sept. 23, 1976, in Sturbridge, Mass. Hobbes received a J.D. degree from George Washington Universjty in 1947, and the L.L.M. degree from GW in 1950. He joined the staff of the Federal Trade Commission in 1948, becoming As- sistant General Counsel for the Appeals in 1959. Hobbes was admitted to argue before the United States Supreme Court. He joined American Optical Corp. in 1961, and was General Counsel and Secretary of AO from 1967 until his retirement in 1975. He was a director of ‘Todd-AO Corp. and Riley Stoker Corp. He served as captain in the USMCR in World War II, was wounded at Guadal- canal and received the Purple Heart. He was past president of the D. C. Society and president and national trustee of the Sons of the American Revolution. RALPH WYATT MILLs, a former FBI agent, died at his Fort Myers, Fla., home on July 13, 1976. Mills had been prominent in bank- ing circles in Florida for many years. He was last associated as trust officer with the Edi- son National Bank of Ft. Myers, Fla. Dr. W. PASCHAL REEVES, former associate provost of the University of Georgia and a professor in the department of English, died July 16, 1976 in an Atlanta hospital. Reeves joined the faculty at the University of Georgia in 1964, becoming an associate pro- fessor in 1966 and a full professor in 1969. He was from 1966 to 1969 the associ- ate director of graduate studies in the Eng- lish department. Reeves was the author of five books on Thomas Wolfe and, in addi- tion, wrote numerous articles and reviews on American literature. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and was active in many local civic organizations, 1942 W. BRADFORD DUNSON, owner of Dunson Co., a textile supply house in Greenville, S.C., died Sept. 14, 1976. Dunson was a prominent executive in the textile mills supply business and a textile manufacturer representative. He was a veteran of World War II, a mem- ber of the Rotary Club and a communicant of Christ Episcopal Church. Dr. RosBert W. HAINEs, an ophthalmologist of West Hartford, Conn., died Sept. 11, 1976. He was a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. He was also a member of. the Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association. Haines was on the staff of the St. Francis Hospital and the St. Mary’s Home in Hartford. 1943 Dr. JAMES MORRISON HUTCHESON JR., an as- sociate medical director of the Life Insurance Co. of Virginia, died Aug. 3, 1976. Hutche- son joined Life of Virginia in 1958 as a part- time assistant medical director. He joined the staff on a full-time basis in 1963 and was named an associate director in 1964. Hutche- son took his training at hospitals in Galves- ton, Texas, and Boston. He returned to Richmond in 1955 and joined in a practice with his father. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of Virginia, the Richmond Academy of Medicine and the Association of Life In- surance Medical Directors. EDMUND DANIEL WELLS JR., an attorney in Bluefield, W. Va., died Aug. 1, 1976. Wells served as a class agent for the Washington and Lee Alumni Fund for many years. He was a member of the West Virginia legisla- ture from 1959 to 1962. 1948 EpMUND D. WELLs Jr. (See 1943.) 1949 PAUL BOWEN CROMELIN JR., a supervisor in the Potomac Electric Companies Consumer Services Group, died Aug. 22, 1976. Before attending Washington and Lee, Cromelin served as a tail gunner on B-29 bombers in the Army Air Force during World War II in the Pacific theater. Following graduation, he was an investment broker and an em- ployee of Griffith Consumers Co. Following those jobs, he worked for 11 years as an executive with the former Electric Institute of Washington, an organization of manu- facturers and dealers in electrical equip- ment. Cromelin worked for the Potomac Electric Power Co. for the last four years. A 32nd degree Mason, he was a member of Temple Noyes Cathedral Lodge No. 28 and Almas Temple. Cromelin was a member of the Chevy Chase Club and active in the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church. Help us round up these lost alumni The Alumni Office does not have correct addresses for the alumni listed below. Please check the list carefully. If you know the addresses of any of these alumni, send the information to Alumni Office, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450. Additional lists of lost alumni will be published later. William E. Adcock, ’76 Edward H. Bradbury, ’66 Percy A. Calkins, ’17 Joseph E. Callaway Jr., ’23 Carlos R. Callejas, ’27 James R. Camm, ’43 Robert A. Cammack, ’42 William T. Camp Sr., ’34 Alexander D. Campbell, ’35 John B. Campbell, *40 Robert F. Campbell, ’33 Carl C. Carey, ’70 Gordon W. Carlson, ’42 Irwin P. Carlson, 754 Walter C. Carlton Jr., *40 Donald E. Carmody, ’37 Herve D. Carr, ’29 Russell Carr, 712 Cleland N. Carter, ’29 Mel I. Cartwright, ’70 Craig A. Castleman, ’74 Eric A. Catmur Jr., ’67 Howard D. Cecill, 731 Sterling H. Chadwick, ’74 Rankin Chambers, ’32 Stephen F. Chambers, °33 George W. Champe, ’36 John T. Chandler, ’49 William H. Chandler, ’05 Michael E. Chaney, ’57 Edward C. Chapman, ’70 George R. Charles Jr., ’58 Jackson K. Cheatham, ’72 John M. Cheatham Jr., 63 John M. Cherrybone, 59 Homer E. Chevyrier, ’33 Lenox C. Chew, ’11 William G. Clancy, ’30 Frederic N. Clark, ’40 Christian H. Clarke, ’65 John H. Clarke, °47 David B. Clarkson, ’33 Lucius D. Clay III, ’71 Paul E. Clayton, ’59L John E. Clegg, ’49 Matthew W. Cliett, 71 Forrest W. Cobb, ’23 Kenneth R. Cobb Jr., ‘14 Richard W. Cocke, ’68 Donald S. Cohen, ’55L Albert N. Cole Jr., ’39 Abe L. Colinsky, °35 James H. Coll, ’32 Archibald D. Collins, ’19 Lawrence M. Collins, 710 Ragan T. Collins, ’24 William P. Collins, ’30 John A. Collison, ‘31 Robert A. Connaughton, 751 George L. Conner, 731 Barnum Coolidge, ’37 Bruce P. Cooper, °66 Harry R. Cooper, ’27 John W. Corfield, ’28 Clifton F. Corpening, ’31 Gerald E. Corry, ’23 John T. Corry, ’67L Calvin R. Couch, 758 Gerald H. Coulson, ’52L Francis V. Covucci, ’66 George E. Cowan Jr., ’36 Layion Cox, '38 Samuel N. Craddock, ’48L Russell L. Craft, °17 Harold C. Craig Jr., ’58L Sharpe Craig, “11L Ulrich E. Craig, ’26 Martin D. Cramoy, ’38 James B. Crane, ’31 Charles G. Crawford, 58 Stewart L. Crebs, ’01 John B. Crewe, ’28 Roger W. Crews, ’63 Douglas S. Critz, *17 Galley B. Critzer, °50 Carl E. Crockett, ’25 Roy C. Cromer, ’04L William L. Cromley, ’64 Phillip L. W. Cromwell, ’39 Edward C. Crook, 42 Noel A. Cropp, ’03 John G. Crosland Jr., ’30 Charles F. Cross, ’23 John C. Crough, ’23 James F. Crowder, ’28 John D. Crowl, ’33 Herbert B. Crowley, ’30 David W. Cummings, 754 Waddy G. Currin, ’51 James W. O. Curtis, °37 Raymond W. Curtis, ’21 William J. Dalzell, ’57 Charles L. Dana, ’57 John L. Daniel, ’58L John K. Daughtrey Jr., ’65 Ira E. Davenport, ’11 Peter F. Davidson, ’72 William A. Davidson, °45 Jeffrey O. Davies, ’73 Exum C. Davis Jr., ’38 Howard W. Davis, ’67 James B. Davis Jr., ’57 James D. Davis, "75 John C. Davis, 53 — Robert P. Davis, ’59 Charles O. Dawson II, °56 David M. Dawson, 58 William A. Dawson, ’22 Clarence C. Dean, ’23L Adrien DeBeaumont, ’08 Guy L. Decker, ’28 Dieter Dedeke, 62 Thomas P. Degnon, 759 Walter B. Degree Jr., °55 Ralph E. Deitrich, ’71 Rogelio de la Guardia, °52 Mario de la Ossa, 735 Robert S. Delligatti, 56 Kester W. Denman III, ’68 Alfred G. Dennison, ’34 Steven R. Denton, ’71 Millard A. Derr, ’16 Herman E, Detering III, ’60 David B. Deuel, 61 David T. Dewey, ’58 Ralph Diamond, ’29 Alfred D. Dickerman, ’06 James G. Dickinson, ’70 Andrew B. Dillard, ’49 Luther A. Dillon, 713 F. M. Dingwall, °17 Robin M. Dingwall, ’62 Charles T. Dixon Jr., ’48 Eldridge C. Dixon Jr., 68 Jack J. Doherty, ’42 John A. Doherty Jr., °52 Herbert G. Dollahite Jr., ’32 Mark R. Donald, ’72 Theodore Donaldson, °40 Frank T. Dotson, ’06 Marshall F. Dotson, ’18 Ray A. Douglas, ’05 Robert H. Douglas, ’31 Walter R. Douglas, 34 Leon F. Douglass III, 750 James R. Dowell, ’28 William H. Dowling Jr., ’42 Carrol W. Downey, ’63 Jan Drabek, °57 Louis Drezek, *40 Edward O. Driscoll, ’69 James D. Driver, ’24 Jettie Driver, °35 William T. Duane, ’05 Mathew H. Duffy Jr., °36 John M. Duhe Jr., 755 Allen C. Dukes, ’69 Charles H. Duncan Jr., ’34 35 FIRE OFF YOUR NOMINATION TODAY! Nominate your candidate for Distinguished Alumnus Now is the time to nominate your candidate for a 1977 Distinguished Alumnus Award, the high- est honor conferred by the Washington and Lee Alumni Association. The Distinguished Alumnus Awards program was initiated in 1974 by the Alumni Board of Directors with the approval of the University Board of ‘Trustees. ‘The first years of the program have been highly acclaimed, and even broader par- ticipation in the selection process is sought among alumni this year. The awards recognize the recipients for extra- ordinary achievement in their personal and voca- tional lives. Among the qualities considered are superlative service to society, exceptional support of and loyalty to Washington and Lee, outstand- the honorary degrees bestowed by the University. An awards committee appointed by the Alumni Board of Directors screens the nominations, and the Alumni Board as a whole makes the final se- lections—not more than three a year. University President Robert E. R. Huntley and Alumni Board President Thomas B. Branch III will present the 1977 awards at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association in May. The Alumni Board urges alumni to seize this Opportunity to nominate for one of these coveted awards a fellow alumnus whose life and work have brought distinction to Washington and Lee. THE DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS IS FEBRUARY I, 1977. ing character, notable success in a profession or business, and singular contributions in worthy en- deavors. ‘The awards program, in fact, supplements USE THE FORM PROVIDED IN THIS MAGAZINE TO MAKE YOUR NOMINATION. Fiery receives award in special ceremony A small group of chapter officers and close friends were on hand Aug. 25 to honor Benjamin Fiery, ’13, as Bill Wash- burn, alumni secretary, presented to him the certificate of recognition and cita- tion of the Distinguished Alumnus Award of 1976. Announcement of the award was made by the Alumni Board of Directors in May and an article was carried in the July issue of the Alumni Magazine. Fiery was unable to attend the spring award ceremony held at W&L. The small cere- mony was held in the Newton D. Baker Conference Room of Fiery’s office in Cleveland. Fiery is a retired member of the law firm of Baker, Hostetter and Pa- terson, which was founded by Newton D. Baker, ’94, former Secretary of War under President Wilson. ‘Those alumni sharing in the brief ceremony were: Dr. John Battle, ’34, Robert Moore, ’44, James Hoe F. Fiery, 713, holds his Distinguished Alumnus Award certificate flanked by fellow alumni who joined in honoring him. They are (l-r) James Bonebrake, ’54; Bonebrake, ’54, Sid Kaplan, ’56, and Ed __ gig Kaplan, 56; Dr. John Battle, 34; Ed Meyers, 61; and Robert Moore, ’44. The Meyers, ’61. portrait is of Newton D. Baker, 94. 36 Fill in, detach, and mail to: Awards Committee Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. Lexington, Virginia 24450 The deadline for nominations is February 1, 1977 NOMINATION FORM FOR THE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD NOTE: Be sure the Nominee: 1. Has been out at least 10 years—his class must be ’66 or earlier. 2. Has not received an Honorary Degree from Washington and Lee University. 3. Is not an employee of the University in any capacity. 4, Is not a member of the University Board of Trustees or the Alumni Board of Directors. Nominee’s name Ce Ca emer em em meme eee e eee emer ere r ers eee esses oe essere eeeeeeeeseee eer eeeeeeraeer ee eeeeerer eer eeeeEe Deere reeEeeeEreeesesreseereeeseoeeors CC ) Deemer e rere reer reese sear eee reee seers see ees ereresr eee reese ss severe seeeser ere ereeesereseeeeesereseresreresesesreseresrereeooe pee eer ees e eee renee secre see ees eee eee EES SEE EEE ORE EEE EOE OOHRS HOHE EEE EEE ESHER EEE EE HEE HEE EERE HOHE HS OE EHH SHEE EO OER EHO EEE HEHEHE Hee ee ERE HOE HERO HEHE EHO EEE EOE HO eH CORO DEH EE HEHEHE REE EEE EHO HEHE EHO eee OOO EEO e meme meer e ere eee eter rea eer eee ees eesessreseeeeeseesresreserseseesreeesereereseeeseoesreeneeeesese PP ee OM Service to W&L (class agent, alumni activity, student recruitment and referrals, loyalty). 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RECORTETIIE 09 nn ccecee cetecceencessenensnecoesacbaceonsesetonneratesusapeasssannbaudpensvausitessesrsoverescessesasressessasassslsssussescsunsosuranevessssnasasesanes AGT OBS ooo cncoccccccccctccceccrvecccccescescecvacesvocscesicnccacecocssscevenscosesceseestguiscnselaseunsseygerseersoctetcuausesvsctuecscetusenerss Phone Corr cecersereeeereveeet ss eeeeeee WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Lexington, Virginia 24450 : EP | Dr. William Vatt Washington Hall Coming in the next issue.... Until lately, Louise Herreshoff was known best as the wife of Euchlin D. Reeves, ’27. Together, they as- sembled one of the nation’s finest private collections of Chinese export porcelain—and gave it to Washing- ton and Lee. But—though almost no one knew it— Louise Reeves had also been a painter before her marriage. She herself hid away nearly all her works, _ however, and as a result she was very nearly lost to history. The story of how her extraordinary paint- ings were discovered, and how they have captured the art world, is as remarkable as it is both romantic and mysterious. For the moment, suffice it to say that her oeuvre, which received its world premiere this fall in no less distinguished a setting than the Corco- ran Gallery of Art, has been hailed by critics in terms ranging from “exciting . astonishing” (Scripps- Howard Newspapers) to “breathtaking . . . wondrous a legacy to the world” (United Press Interna- tional). W&L Trustee John W. Warner, ’49, until recently the head of the national Bicentennial administra- tion and Secretary of the Navy before that, delivered a major address in November at V.M.I. And when he came to town, he brought somebody special with him—his bride-to-be, two-time Academy Award-winner Elizabeth Taylor. At her own initiative, Miss Taylor spent an afternoon in a workshop-seminar with W&L drama students and other guests in the University Theatre. She fielded questions for an hour, and after- wards she said shé*iiad been nervous, because she had never taught before. But she shouldn’t have been. She was thoughtful and witty and philosophical and candid. And, to be sure, she was beautiful unto the legends. W&L saw a side of Elizabeth Taylor that not too many people have seen before, and the consensus afterwards was that if she didn’t already have a career, she could become a college professor in a minute if she wanted.