es ee aie CS the alumni magazine of washington and lee Volume 52, Number 1, January 1977 William C. Washburn, 740......00000000cccccceeceeeeeeeeeee Editor Romulus T. Weatherman..............0....... Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, 68.00.0000... eee Associate Editor Joyce Carter, Jan Shivel.......00.0000... Editorial Assistants Sally Mann ooo... occcccceseteteseetteseee Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Liz and John in Lexington 20... ] Library Receives Johnston Papers ...........00..00....... 5 Dean Light Dies at 73 ooo. 7 W&L Geologists Map the ‘Terrain .......0..0..000.0.... 8 ... And Psychologists, the Brain .........00...00........ 9 Campus News Roundup oo... 10 ‘The Discovery of Louise Herreshoff .......0.0.00...... 14 Chapter News oii 27 Class Notes ec cetectteeteeeeeeeeeeeee, 29 In Memoriam 22oo..........cc ccc ceceeeeeceeceeeeeeeeee: 35 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. STiIEFF II, ’45, Baltimore, Md. Treasurer WiLiiAM C. Wasnsurn, ’40, Lexington, Va. Secretary WILLIAM P. BOARDMAN, '63, Columbus, Ohio Puitie R. CAMPBELL, 757, ‘Tulsa, Okla. SAMUEL C. DupbLey, 758, Richmond, Va. Epwin J. Foutz, ’40, Gladwyne, Pa. Marion G. HEATWOLE, ’41, Pittsburgh, Pa. SAMUEL B. HO tis, ’51, Memphis, ‘Tenn. CourTNEY R. Mauzy Jr., 61, Raleigh, N.C. Jerry G. Soutn, ’54, San Francisco, Calif. ROBERT M. WHITE II, ’38, Mexico, Mo. —_ = ON THE COVERS: The art world was taken by, storm this fall when 88 remarkable paintings by Louise Herre- shoff had their national premiere in Washington’s Cor- coran Gallery of Art. Her career as an artist had lasted only from 1897 to 1926; later she married Euchlin D. Reeves, a 1927 law graduate of Washington and Lee, and 10 years ago they gave the paintings and their other art treasures (including the famed Reeves Porcelain Collection) to W&L. On the front cover, Sword Lilies (oil, ca 1920); on the back cover, Le Repos (oil, 1899). An article about Louise Herreshoff: An American Ar- tist Discovered and five more color reproductions are on pages 14-23. by Robert S. Keefe, 68 A visitor from Hollywood captivates the campus At V.M.I. news conference... The newspaper headlines tell it best. “Elizabeth Taylor Casts Spell Over Lexington, 2 Schools.” “Fans Agog, Cynics Converted.” “Students, Press Swarm to Catch Glimpse Of Liz.” “Drama Students Hang Onto Her Every Word.” “Liz Hits Stride At W&L.” It all started a long time ago, when John W. Warner, a 1949 Washington and Lee graduate and a member of the Board of Trustees since 1968, accepted an invitation to help next-door ...and on the back campus mall Photos by Sally Mann Liz and John in Lexington With President Huntley on the front lawn .. . Virginia Military Institute celebrate the 201st birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps and to deliver VMI’s Founders’ Day ad- dress. It was logical that Warner should be the honored guest at the VMI ceremonies. His last official act as Secretary of the Navy, the post he had held before becoming head of the na- tion’s Bicentennial Administration, had been to sign the order creating a Naval ROTC unit at the Institute. But a funny thing happened to Warner on the way to VMI. Last spring he met Elizabeth Taylor, who, in case you’ve been on another planet, is the celebrated actress and legendary beauty. And they fell in love. So when Warner came to Lexington for his VMI appear- ances, he brought his fiancee with him, the same as any other W&L man would when he returned. (Warner told audiences here that his own father, also a W&L graduate, had wanted his bride-to-be to see for herself the school that had influenced him so strongly, and so he brought her to see the University shortly before they were married. Warner said he thought he should do the same for Miss Taylor.) She was just back from Europe, where she had starred in the film version of the hit musical “A Little Night Music.” And it struck her that since she would be visiting a college town, and not just any college town, but her future husband’s college town, she might offer to meet with drama students. Would W&L wish her to conduct a seminar or workshop? 2 ... and after a visit to Lee Chapel The W&L theatre at the time was in rehearsal for Doctor Faustus—in which Miss Taylor had starred in England. The group had long planned to present as one of its major produc- tions in the winter term Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?—for which Miss Taylor had won one of her two Academy Awards. And, after all, Elizabeth Taylor is . . . well, Elizabeth Taylor. Not in a long while has there been a more emphatic “yes.” When the couple arrived in town, they were met by 20 or 25 reporters and photographers (their number swelled to 50 or so for a VMI press conference the next day). Warner took Miss Taylor on a walking tour of the two schools. They posed patiently, graciously, while enough pictures were taken every step of the way to have gladdened the hearts of the accountants at Eastman Kodak. And even the members of the press, who pride theniselves on their objectivity, if not downright skepti- cism, began to melt. At first, the students tried to be blase. Not too many were in sight when they began their tour. But by the time they reached Lee Chapel, suddenly little bands of W&L men began to ap- pear from nowhere, more and more of them in the next few minutes, all drifting nonchalantly down the front lawn. (“I swore | wasn’t going to get excited,” the Washington Post report- er overheard one student lament to his girlfriend.) Though there had been no formal publicity, campus regulars observed that more students just happened to have been on the Hill that afternoon than there had ever been after classes before. Apparently, the cadets at VMI were less prepared. One rat =< Visitors on the Colonnade . . . in a hurry almost collided with the entourage in front of the Barracks, and when he looked up and saw whom he had come close to knocking down, he did a double-take that everyone agreed was a classic. The word swept through the Barracks at jet speed, and all the newspapers the next day ran a photo of a group of cadets watching from a second-floor stoop—one of whom hadn’t had time to put on more than a bathrobe. The Marine Corps birthday party the night of their arrival in Lexington was private. But when the couple left the Lee House on campus, where they were staying as guests of W&L, they found a not-so-small crowd waiting at the end of the drive- way. They were a little bit late for the VMI event—but Miss Taylor stopped everything and walked down in her formal white gown and blue sable coat to say hello and chat for a moment. The news conference the next morning was the first time they’d formally met the media for Q&A. The session took place in VMI’s library, and as the Associated Press reported it, “the feminine sighs of envy were audible. Tension showed in the faces of the men who, upon Miss Taylor’s entrance, sucked their sagging midriffs into a semblance of broad chests.” Warner has been much talked about, then and now, asa po- tential Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate next year (the incumbent, William Scott, has said he won’t run for re-elec- tion). But Warner consistently dodged the reporters’ ques- tions, repeating whenever one of them rephrased it a little that he was unwilling to take advantage of the hospitality of VMI ...and on the V.M.I. parade grounds and W&L to promote his own political ambitions. When it came Miss Taylor’s turn, she brought the report- ers full circle. They asked her what she thought of the idea that Warner might run for office. She told them “My aspirations are John’s aspirations,” flashed the widest smile ever seen in Lexington, and had them instantly charmed. Founders’ Day at VMI came the week after the Presidential election, long before President-elect Carter named the strate- gic members of his cabinet, but in his major address, Warner predicted Carter would back off from his promises during the campaign to trim defense spending substantially and “will con- tinue the current buildup of our national defense, with the support of the Congress and the people of the United States.” Warner said Americans have shown they want the nation’s military posture to be second to that of no other country, and if it becomes necessary, the people themselves will “take charge and voice the national interest”—as they have done on other occasions, notably the Bicentennial, he said. The drama seminar (if that’s the right word for a session with 146 students and one guest lecturer) took place that after- noon, after the VMI Founders’ Day ceremonies. There were no tape recorders, and picture-taking was limited, to allow the event to remain as informal and unstaged as possible. It was bitter cold outside; there had been a VMI parade to review between the news conference and the Founders’ Day speech—and so by the afternoon Miss Taylor was caught with a bad throat. But rather than cancel her appointment with the 3 Liz and John in Lexington In the Troubadour Theatre for an afternoon session on drama. . . drama students, she arranged for a microphone, and the ses- sion went according to schedule. After it was over, she said she had been nervous; she had never taught a college class before. But she jumped in as if she were a veteran professor, and everyone was awed. Except for comparisons (among her leading men, for example) and Vir- ginia politics, nothing was out of bounds. She talked about life as a child actress, about Hollywood studio intrigue and the “star” system, about film critics and her view of the Academy Awards (“I’m all for them—I’ve got two,” she said), about art, about Virginia Woolf (her favorite role was that of Martha) and how she rehearsed for it, worked into a convincing perform- ance as a woman on the downhill side of middle age when in fact Miss Taylor was 32. ‘Toward the end, somebody asked her if she feared she had fallen into a “rut.” “I don’t believe I’ve ever been in a rut in my life,” she said with her characteristic, infectious little laugh. She looked at Warner—who a month later would become her seventh hus- band—and told the audience, almost as an afterthought, “variety is the spice of life... .” Later that same afternoon, Warner and Miss Taylor were the special guests at a reception given by W&L’s College Re- publican Club. There were more questions-and-answers, in- evitably, and when they left to catch a plane back to Wash- ington, they were serenaded with the “W&L Swing.” As they stepped into the car, Warner looked back and shout- ed to the 300 or 400 who were there: “Only a Washington and Lee man could have done this!” 4 _.. 146 students were in rapt attention Gift of Johnston papers enhances library’s manuscript collection The papers of Zachariah Johnston, the farmer-statesman who represented Augusta and Rockbridge counties in the Virginia legislature during the Revolu- tion and the formative years of the state and nation, have been donated to W&L’s McCormick Library. The material, consisting of nearly 540 items and including letters from some of the most prominent men in Virginia and American history, greatly augments the library’s growing collection of primary sources dealing with the political and cul- tural history of the Valley of Virginia and the westward movement through the Valley to Kentucky. The Johnston papers were the gift of M. W. Paxton, retired Lexington lawyer and newspaperman. He is a 1918 alum- nus of Washington and Lee and a 1920 graduate of its law school. He inherited the papers about seven years ago from his cousins, the Misses Ann and Susan John- stone of Rockbridge County, whose fam- ily preserved them for six generations. (In later years, the family reverted to the ori- ginal Scottish spelling of the name.) Paxton said he had been thinking about giving the collection to McCormick for several years and decided to do so at the urging of his family. “We want the papers to be readily available to students and other research- ers, and we believe McCormick is the best place for that,” Paxton said. “The library in recent years has done an excellent job of organizing and preserving its manu- script collections.” Maurice D. Leach Jr., head librarian, said the Johnston papers “are the most valuable we have received in recent years.” He characterized the gift as “an af- firmation of faith in McCormick as the proper archive for historically important manuscripts, particularly those dealing with the development of the Valley and the western migration.” He noted that the Paxton gift of John- ston family papers enhances an earlier ac- quisition of Johnston materials, consisting mainly of petitions and instructions to Zachariah Johnston while he was a mem- M. W. Paxton goes over Zachariah Johnston papers, which he donated to McCormick Library, with Librarian Maurice D. Leach Jr. (right) and Mrs. Ollinger Crenshaw, assistant in special collections. ber of the General Assembly from Augus- ta (1778-92) and from Rockbridge (1797- 98). He noted too that the Johnston pa- pers dovetail with the library’s William Fleming collection, which bears heavily upon movement into Kentucky from the Valley. The Johnston papers date from 1747 to 1869, with the largest group in the period 1780 to 1800, the year of Zacha- riah Johnston’s death at the age of 56. In- cluded are many business items—bills, re- ceipts, transfers, notes and the like— which yield knowledge about the com- merce of the period. More significant is the correspondence, chiefly letters ad- dressed to Zachariah Johnston, dealing with business, government, and family af- fairs. These items offer insight into the temper of that turbulent but fruitful time in American history. Zachariah Johnston was born in 1774 and lived most of his life in Augusta County. He attended Liberty Hall Acad- emy and was an early trustee (1793-1800) of Washington College (both institutions were predecessors of Washington and Lee). He served 14 years in the legislature from Augusta and one term from Rock- bridge, where he moved in 1792. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Convention of 1788 that ratified the Federal Constitu- tion. He owned large tracts of land in Au- gusta, Rockbridge, and in Kentucky. He emerges as a man of serious mind and fierce integrity, deeply religious, keenly interested in the affairs of his day, devoted to his family, direct and fearless in his dealings, and respected by his fellow citizens and fellow lawmakers. Among his papers are one letter from James Monroe, three from George Mason, three from Edmund Randolph, three from “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, and a fragment of a letter from John Mar- shall. Included too is a facsimile of a 1790 letter from Thomas Jefferson, inviting Johnston to stop by Monticello “on your way down” to a legislative session so that 5 Johnston Papers they could discuss a subject that “can only be opened in private conference.” George Mason wrote him in 1790 ask- ing him to support James Monroe for a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Monroe, then a Senator, wrote him in 1791 from Philadelphia outlining his opposition to a bill in Congress to increase the ratio of representation as contemplated in the Constitution and informing him of the beginning diplomatic relations with Great Britain. “Light-Horse Harry” Lee wrote him concerning the disposition of land in Kentucky and regretting his inability to pay a debt. John Marshall and Edmund Randolph were his counsel in some busi- ness matters and wrote him about those affairs. Johnston’s son John wrote many let- ters from Philadelphia, where he had gone to study medicine. In 1791, he wrote his father that he “had a very clear proof of the utility or happy effect” of the vaccine against smallpox, which was in its trial stages. In 1790, he wrote a glowing report of the celebration in Philadelphia of Independence Day, then 15 years old. Johnston had 11 children, and at least one of his sons migrated to Kentucky and reported to his father on conditions there. His correspondence with his children provides a close glimpse of pioneer family life in the formative years of the nation. Johnston was an admirer of George Washington, and in 1789 he was chosen a presidential elector from the Botetourt district to cast the district vote for General Washington. The certificate naming him an elector and signed by the sheriffs of various counties is among his papers. He was a conscientious and able repre- sentative of the people of his county in the legislature. He was a leader in the struggle to enact Virginia’s famous statute of re- ligious freedom, and through his persua- sion and his vote he was instrumental in bringing about Virginia’s ratification of the Constitution. And among his papers is an eloquent argument in the form of a legislative peti- tion for the gradual abolition of slavery. “If it were totally abolished, it would do 6 Copy of letter from “Light-Horse Harry” Lee to Zachariah Johnston concerning land in Kentucky. much good,” he had declared in the argu- ment over slavery during the debate on the Constitution. Johnston did not live to see this issue ravage the nation he had helped establish. He died in 1800 and lies beneath the great spreading white oak in Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. But now, not far from there, his life’s record lies preserved for the benefit of all in McCormick Library. Charles Porterfield Light Jr., a teach- er for 47 years in the Washington and Lee School of Law and its dean for eight, died Nov. 19 following a long illness. He was 73. Dean Light was one of W&L’s legen- dary figures, and his influence reached to the highest levels of the legal profession. When he retired from teaching in 1973, he received accolades from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and from Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., whom Dean Light had taught at Washington and Lee. His principal fields of teaching were constitutional and administrative law and torts. More than 100 of his alumni—“the Light brigade”’—currently hold federal judgeships. Two of his students were elected presidents of the American Bar Association, Mr. Powell and the late Ross L. Malone. Many of America’s largest cor- porations have Dean Light’s graduates as their general counsel. He was born Dec. 29, 1902, in Martins- burg, W.Va., the son of the late Charles Porterfield and Margaret Harlan Light. He was a 1923 graduate of Virginia Mili- tary Institute and earned his law degree in 1926 from Harvard University. He joined the W&L law faculty in that year. In 1928, V.M.I. awarded him an M.A. degree for postgraduate work in political science. Dean Light was a vestryman and mem- ber of the board of trustees of the R. E. Lee Episcopal Church in Lexington for many years. He was also a member of the Alfalfa Club in Washington and a life member of the American Bar Institute. He belonged to many other professional and honorary societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Order of the Coif, the American Judica- ture Society, and the American, Virginia, and Virginia State Bar Associations. He became dean of the W&L law school in 1960. He first stepped down from that post in 1967, when he reached 65, the mandatory retirement age for ad- ministrators, and resumed full-time teaching. But his retirement from the deanship turned out to be short-lived. He had been succeeded by Robert E. R. Huntley—who also had studied under Dean Light—but less than a year later, Huntley was elected W&L president, and Dean Light was call- ed back into service as law dean until a permanent successor could be named. President Huntley commented: “Dean Light’s death is an incalculable loss Charles Porterfield Light 1902-1976 Dean Charles P. Light Jr., from a portrait owned by the University. to me personally, and to his other col- leagues and alumni and friends. And it is that kind of loss not only to Washington and Lee, but also to the legal profession he served so long and in so many exem- plary ways. “IT was his student and faculty col- league; he was my dean, and for a short while I was even his dean. And most im- portant of all, he was my friend, a friend- ship I have always treasured deeply—and which I will remember warmly, and miss so much.” Dean Light was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve in 1923, was promoted to major in the Judge Advocate General corps in 1940, and rose to the rank of colonel by 1944. Ever since that wartime service—for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit—his family and closest friends call- ed him “Judge.” He remained active as a reserve judge advocate until 1963. When Dean Light retired from the classroom three years ago, Chief Justice Burger praised his “dedication to legal education and scholarship” and his “fine leadership” in law. Mr. Burger had come to know Dean Light in the former’s capa- city as the Supreme Court justice in charge of reviewing Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals matters for the Supreme Court. The Fourth Circuit includes Vir- ginia. On the same occasion, Justice Powell —who was a student of Mr. Light’s from 1928 to 1931—recalled him as “an excep- tionally stimulating professor” and a “widely admired and respected” leader in American legal education. And in an article he wrote, also at the time of Dean Light’s retirement, Mr. Powell credited Dean Light with having helped enlarge and strengthen W&L’s law faculty, upgrade the curriculum, and bring the Washington and Lee law school “to the attention of the profession na- tionally. “But most of all,” Justice Powell wrote, “those of us privileged to have been his pupils and friends ever since have felt and appreciated the warmth and sincerity of his personality. We have admired the depth and dedication of his scholarship. Our University has been blessed to have had Charlie Light for so many years.” W&cL President Huntley, in an article he wrote also on Dean Light’s retirement, recalled his former teacher’s manner in the classroom. “Professor Light taught me torts. His boundless vitality and enthusi- asm rubbed off on even the dullest of us students. He would move constantly around the raised platform, answering our unimaginative questions just as if he’d never heard them before, hammering home his points with force—always with a sure sense of where the edges of the plat- form were. “T bet he never taught the same course the same way twice, never thinking he’d found quite the right way to do it, and probably never expecting he would. He is a great teacher, always getting better in- stead of slowly sliding downhill, which is the tempting and easy thing to do. “People have trouble being pompous around him, even lawyers and judges.... And if this younger generation is as smart as it thinks it is, they'll get to know him too—and be better lawyers for it, and bet- ter people too.” Dean Light is survived by his wife, the former Ethel Pearcy Kinnear, whom he married in 1942, by two daughters, Mrs. Paul Cressor III of Marion, Ohio, and Mrs. Edward L. Flippen of Rich- mond, and by four grandchildren. EE ERS SE OS OE a FR eT TE TE aE Et 7 Geologists ma the terrain As land-use planning becomes more and more important, so do detailed geo- logical surveys and analyses. And in a good-size part of western Virginia, the surveys come from Washington and Lee’s geology department. With the publication of a report this winter on the Daleville area—the 14th “quadrangle” mapped and analyzed by W&L geology teachers since 1965—mem- bers of the department broke the 1,000- square-mile mark in area covered. The Daleville report is by Dr. Odell S. McGuire. It’s his fifth 7%-minute quad- rangle (2.e., approximately 60 square miles). Daleville is just south of Buch- anan, halfway between Lexington and Roanoke; the quadrangle includes part of Tinker Mountain, a familiar landmark to anyone who ever dated at Hollins College. The reports are commissioned and published by the Virginia Division of Min- eral Resources. They examine topo- graphy and terrain, surface and buried rock formations, faults (which abound in the western part of the state, W&L’s geologists note), soil, water sources both above and below—in short, every detail of configuration, on the surface and _be- neath it, that can be of use or interest to Dr. Odell S. McGuire ... And psychologists the brain Significant increases in the scientist’s understanding of memory, learning, and brain disorders have resulted from the re- search of three members of Washington and Lee’s psychology department. Two of the W&L psychology pro- fessors, Drs. David G. Elmes and Joseph E. Thompson, have developed a new way to measure the mental images produced in the brain by words. Their method leads to more precise analysis of the role of such mental imagery in learning, memory, and meaning than previous research methods allowed. Their joint study, “Magnitude Estima- tion of Imagery,” is published in the Bul- letin of the Psychonomic Society. Psychonomy is the branch of psychology which focuses on mental imagery. In the same field, Elmes has also suc- ceeded in identifying the relationship be- tween two important ingredients in human memorization—the manner in which the learner “rehearses” the infor- mation to be remembered, and the specif- ic nature of the way in which his brain “processes” the information. Elaborate rehearsal together with variety in prac- tice, according to Elmes’ research, deter- mine the accuracy with which informa- tion is retained. He presented his findings recently at a meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Elmes’ investigations were supported by a Robert E. Lee Research Grant from WEL. And new research by Dr. Leonard E. Jarrard, head of the W&L psychology de- partment, has indicated that the portion of the brain known as the hippocampus contains at least two major separate parts with separate functions. Previously, it has been considered a single brain com- ponent with a single function. The hippocampus is intimately involv- ed not only with memory but also with epilepsy, and Jarrard’s conclusions may everyone from other scholars to highway- builders. The geological surveys are “a basic tool of land-use planning” by state and local governments, and are also instru- mental in mineral exploration and similar enterprises, McGuire notes. The reports include a 1:24,000-scale topographical map and an intricate data analysis (the average is about 50 pages long). Because of the scope of the projects and the minute scientific detail each re- port must contain, they can hardly be done quickly; it took McGuire three sum- mers, for instance, to gather the informa- tion for his Daleville study. McGuire’s quadrangles have been mostly in Botetourt County (where Dale- ville is located). Dr. Edgar W. Spencer, head of the department, has surveyed four quadrangles in Rockbridge; Dr. Samuel J. Kozak, another professor of geology, has completed four quadrangles in Augusta County, to the northwest of Lexington, and a 15-minute quadrangle (about 240 square miles) in Bath County, west of Augusta. Dr. Samuel J]. Kozak Dr. Edgar W. Spencer have important implications not only for an understanding of memory but also for isolating the causes of epilepsy and—per- haps eventually—how to treat it. His research, conducted primarily on rats, continues to be supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. Jarrard’s latest findings help explain why contradictory results have been reported by many other investigators. His recent article on the topic is carried in the cur- rent issue of the Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. Jarrard, a former chairman of the graduate program in psychology at Car- negie-Mellon University, spent the 1975- 76 academic year as a visiting professor at Oxford University in England. Dr. Joseph E. Thompson (foreground), Dr. David G. Elmes, and Dr. Leonard E. Jarrard. Campus News Briefs Most members of the Class of ’76 enter graduate school or find jobs Forty per cent of the members of Washington and Lee’s class of 1976 have entered graduate school, and almost 30 per cent have gone into business and business-related professions, according to the first comprehensive survey of its type taken among new W&L alumni. Only 16 per cent of the class is enrolled in law school, the survey showed. Six per cent went on to MBA programs; 5.6 per cent entered medical school; and 12.2 per cent are enrolled in other graduate programs ranging from architecture to zo- ology. The survey was conducted by Michael A. Cappeto, W&L’s director of placement and career development.Results are bas- ed on responses from 236—84.3 per cent—of the members of the class to whom survey questionnaires were sent. The study Michael A. Cappeto talks with a student about careers and jobs. included only students who had received B.A. or B.S. degrees in 1976, not graduates of the School of Law. The study showed an unemployment rate of 6.89 per cent among 1976 W&L graduates as of late October, about the same rate as the national average at the time. Almost as many of the job-seekers needed the summer and early fall to find employment as had jobs lined up on graduation day, the survey indicated. Among those in the class not planning on graduate school, the unemployment rate was 47.8 per cent at the time of graduation. But 12.2 per cent found jobs in June; 9.8 per cent in July; 5.7 per cent in August; 9.8 per cent in September; and 11.4 per cent in October. “Pessimism during the summer” among graduates who do not have jobs on graduation day, Cappeto observes in the re- port of the survey, published in January, therefore seems “not completely warranted.” 10 He says “underemployment,” however, remains “a serious problem” among 1976 graduates. Almost 40 per cent of those who are working said they are not using their college degrees and are holding jobs which Cappeto says in many instances are “the kinds of work students obtain as summer employment.” LAW IS STILL TOPS WITH FRESHMEN Almost a third of the members of this year’s freshman class at Washington and Lee say they plan to become law- yers—more than four times the national average among male freshmen at four-year colleges, according to survey results released by the American Council on Education. Three fields—law, business and medicine—account for two-thirds of the career choices indicated by the 373 W&L freshmen who participated in the survey. The freshman class at Washington and Lee has 406 members in all. The W&L figure for future lawyers is 30 per cent. Na- tionally, 7.2 per cent of male freshmen (and 4.1 per cent of female freshmen) at four-year colleges indicated that career preference in the annual nationwide survey. The higher percentage at W&L is about the same as it has been in recent years. After law, business and medicine are the next most popular career choices among W&L freshmen this year —again following traditional patterns. At W&L, 22.8 per cent said they intend to go into business (almost the same as the national men’s figure this year, 20.3 per cent), and 13.9 per cent indicated they plan to become physicians or dentists (the national men’s average is 8.7 per cent). Other data in the survey show Washington and Lee freshmen view themselves as substantially more “middle of the road” or conservative than their counterparts na- tionally. Of W&L freshmen, 81.1 per cent checked one or the other of those designations. Nationally among male freshmen this year, the figure was 68.7 per cent. Only 16.5 per cent at W&L said they are political liberals; nationally, the figure is 27.5 per cent. As usual, the largest proportion—85.9 per cent at W&L; only 47.8 per cent among male freshmen at four- year colleges—said the institution’s academic reputation was a factor of primary importance in choosing where to go to college. The second-most frequently noted reason among W&L freshmen was the University’s special academic pro- grams (17.3 per cent). One academic official at W&L, Dr. Robert W. McAhren, associate dean of The College, speculated that the principal “special academic pro- grams” the W&L freshmen may have had in mind are probably commerce and business, journalism and pre- medical studies. But only half of those “underemployed” graduates see no future in their work. The others, Cappeto notes, seem to be “finding career possibilities” in their current jobs. Other data in the survey show 1976 W&L graduates are earning salaries about equal to the national mean starting salaries in business, the natural sciences, and social sciences— but not in the humanities, where the W&L graduate’s average is between $7,000 and $8,000, in contrast to a national average of $9,300. There was no obvious reason for the discrepancy in that one area. The median starting salary range for the W&L graduates was $9,000 to $10,000, the survey showed. Slightly more than 8 per cent of those responding said they started work at salaries in excess of $13,000—but 19 per cent said their beginning salaries were below $7,000. The 29.8 per cent figure for 1976 W&L graduates in busi- ness-related careers includes those employed in administration and management (8.2 per cent), accounting (6 per cent), sales (4.7 per cent), insurance (4.7 per cent), and real-estate and self- employment (1.4 per cent combined). One inference from the survey is that career objectives—or career options, when it requires acceptance into graduate school to fulfill them—change substantially during a student’s college career. Four years ago, when the same students were freshmen, a survey of their career intentions showed only 15.7 per cent in- tending to enter business, 33.2 per cent planning to become lawyers, and 15.2 per cent planning to enter medical school. ENROLLMENT SETS A RECORD Washington and Lee enrolled 1,706 students this fall, 21 more than the previous record (1,685 students in 1972-73)— with larger undergraduate freshman and first-year law classes than ever before. The University had 406 freshmen—more than it antici- pated, because a higher proportion (51 per cent) accepted offers of admission than has been the pattern recently (45 and 46 per cent in the past three years). More than two dozen freshmen, as a result, had to be housed in the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Lexington. The law school had 114 first-year students, 30 more than the average number until this year. With the opening in Septem- ber of Lewis Hall, however, the law school is at last able to begin to increase the overall size of its student body (the increase will be gradual) to an eventual student population of 340 to 350, the size W&L has identified as ideal for its kind of law pro- gram. The number of students who applied for admission as un- dergraduate freshmen declined about 8 per cent, from 1,399 in 1975 to 1,298 last year, admissions officials have reported. But not only did an unexpectedly large number of those whom W&L actually accepted enroll; their average College Board scores and class rankings stayed as high as they had been in previous years (some of the statistics even showed slight in- creases). The admissions staff says it seems likely, therefore, that the dropoff in the number of applications came from high-school students who were not strongly inclined to come to W&L even if accepted, and from those who realized (or were advised by their guidance counselors, perhaps) that they didn’t have a very realistic chance of being accepted at W&L. The law school received 1,178 applications, up 13 per cent from the total the year before. It accepted about one-third of them (390), substantially more than the previous year (287), because of the planned increase in the size of the entering class. Even so, however, the statistical data for the first-year law students. showed increases. in median undergraduate. grade- average (3.29, up from 3.27) and median LSAT scores (643 this year, up from 638). As usual, W&L led other undergradu- ate schools in the number of students who enrolled in the Uni- versity’s law school—10. (Fifty-two had applied, and 20 were admitted, an acceptance rate substantially higher than the rate of acceptances by W&L of students from other undergraduate schools.) Virginia was second in the number of students it sent to W&L’s law school (seven); third, interestingly, were Colgate and the University of Michigan (four each). In all, 80 under- graduate schools and 30 states are represented in the first-year law class. Artist’s rendering of Lee Chapel re-landscaping. GARDEN CLUB SPONSORS LEE CHAPEL LANDSCAPING A brick terrace is being constructed at the front entrance to Lee Chapel, and the area immediately around it is being extensively re-landscaped—thanks to a gift to Washington and Lee specifically for those projects from the Garden Club of Virginia. The improvements are part of a statewide program of the garden club federation to “revisit” landscaping projects the group had previously undertaken. The organization origi- nally landscaped the chapel entrance and other nearby areas on the campus in 1933. (The Garden Club is also currently sponsoring a similar project around the Rotunda at the Uni- versity of Virginia.) In addition to the curved terrace, plans include planting new boxwoods and other trees, shrubs, and ground cover. Plans for the project were prepared by W&L’s landscape architects, Griswold, Winters, Swain & Mullen of Pittsburgh. The work was begun this winter by W. W. Coffey & Son, Lex- ington contractors, and is scheduled for completion this spring. 11 GLEE CLUB RECORDS W&L SONGS A new record album featuring the Washington and Lee University Glee Club performing songs about W&L has been released. In addition to a number of W&L standards, including “The W&L Swing” and “Fight, Fight, Blue and White,” the album contains the premiere performance of a new music-and-narra- tive composition about W&L’s 227-year history, “This Good Land for Our Heritage.” The piece was written especially for the W&L Glee Club by Parke S. Rouse Jr., a 1937 graduate of the University who is now executive director of both the Jamestown Foundation and the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission. Rouse’s son, Parke Shepherd Rouse III, was a member of the glee club Cover photo of Glee Club’s new album. when the recording was made last year. He graduated from W&L in June. In addition to the glee club songs, the album also contains two numbers—“The Swing” and “Fight, Fight,” W&L’s most famous “fight” songs—played on the piano by Mrs. Frederick M. P. Pearse. Mrs. Pearse’s renditions of the two songs have be- come extremely popular in Lee Chapel, where she works as a hostess and where the album was recorded. Four of the songs were written by the late John A. Graham, a W&L teacher from 1919 until his death in 1947—“Fight, Fight”; “Hold ’Em, Gen’rals”; “Onward for Alma Mater” and “The Only Girl.” Graham was director of the W&L theatre and glee club for many years. The 30-voice glee club is now directed by Dr. Gordon P. Spice, assistant professor of music at W&L, who also super- vised the recording. The technical engineer for the production was Thomas W. Tinsley, W&L’s audio-visual electronics tech- nician. The cover photo on the album, showing the glee club in colonial costumes in front of the Liberty Hall ruins, was taken by Sally Mann, W&L staff photographer. The album is available to alumni for $5 postpaid through Dr. Spice at W&L. NEW ADMISSIONS, PLACEMENT AIDE Curtis H. Hubbard, a 23-year Air Force veteran with ex- tensive experience in education and student counseling, has been appointed assistant dean of students and assistant di- rector of placement. Hubbard has special responsibility for working with minor- ity students on an individual basis and as advisor to the Student Association for Black Unity on campus. He is also active in ad- I2 missions and student recruitment, and is a member of W&L’s Admissions and Financial Aid Committees. In his placement capacity, Hubbard works closely with W&L’s director of placement and career development, Michael A. Cappeto, to expand the services offered in those fields to W&lL students and alumni. Hubbard holds a B. S. degree from Hampton Institute and received his master’s degree last year in guidance and counsel- ing, also from Hampton. He served with the Air Force during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. When he retired from the service in 1970, he had received the Air Medal with seven oak-leaf clusters, the Presidential Outstanding Unit Award, the Army and Air Force good conduct awards, and Japanese and Vietnamese service medals. NEW MAJOR IN ASIAN STUDIES A major in East Asian studies has been established at Wash- ington and Lee. The new interdepartmental major is an out- growth of W&L’s Asian studies program, which has expanded in the past five years to include 27 courses in seven depart- ments. The faculty approved the new major at its December meeting. Students who take a major in East Asian studies will be re- quired to complete two years of Chinese or Japanese language and a number of courses in history, religion, politics, art and comparative literature. HIGH-SCHOOL JOURNALISM WORKSHOP More than 90 high-school students and their advisors, representing schools throughout central and western Virginia, participated in a journalism workshop at W&L this winter. Area professionals and W&L journalism professors presided over a series of discussions of basic reporting, editing and lay- out, and individual student newspapers were evaluated. The workshop was sponsored jointly by the W&L campus and the Blue Ridge (Roanoke) chapters of The Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi. i Capt. Robert C Peniston (left) with T. Patrick C. Brennan, Lee Chapel student curator. DIRECTOR NAMED AT LEE CHAPEL Capt. Robert C Peniston, a U.S. Navy officer for 30 years until his retirement last summer, has been named to the new post of director of Lee Chapel. His duties include day-to-day administrative responsibil- ity for the 110-year-old chapel in which Robert E. Lee and his family are buried. The chapel is a National Historic Landmark. Capt. Peniston was director of naval educational develop- ment at Pensacola, Fla., at the time of his retirement. In that capacity he had responsibility for undergraduate and _post- graduate programs at the Naval Academy, in Navy R.O.T.C. programs at 58 colleges and universities, and elsewhere in the field. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy and received his master’s degree in personnel administration from Stanford University. He holds a number of decorations, including the Legion of Merit and the Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars. DEBATE NEWS Washington and Lee debaters won a first and a third place in two of the three competitions in which they competed in the fall. William Rudy, a senior, was awarded a first-place trophy in persuasive speaking at the annual Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha Forensics Tournament, held in Richmond. Novice debaters Joe Baker and David Talley were awarded a third-place certificate in competition at the regional Virginia Forensic Association tournament at William and Mary. Talley and Baker debated a 3-1 record. TWO RECEIVE L. K. JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIPS Two Washington and Lee students have been selected to receive the Lewis Kerr Johnson Commerce Scholarship, awarded annually by the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics. They are Jerry M. Baird of Fort Worth, Tex., and Steven C. Yevich of Richmond. Baird, a junior, was selected for the first time. Yevich, last year’s recipient, had his scholarship re- newed. The Lewis Kerr Johnson Commerce Scholarship was creat- ed in 1974 in honor of Dr. Lewis K. Johnson, professor of ad- ministration from 1933 and former head of the department. Dr. Edward D. Craun, new assistant dean. CRAUN NAMED NEW ASSISTANT DEAN Dr. Edwin D. Craun, an assistant professor of English, has been named to a three-year term as assistant dean of the Col- lege. Craun’s appointment will become effective Aug. 1. He will succeed Dr. Robert W. McAhren, professor of American his- tory, who has been in the post since 1971. McAhren will return to full-time teaching. Craun, 31, has taught English at W&L since 1971, the year he received his Ph.D. in Renaissance literature from Princeton University. He is also a summa cum laude graduate of Wheaton College, and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He teaches courses in Renaissance and baroque literature, and will continue to teach on a part-time basis. W&L RECEIVES BEQUEST FROM EBEN JACKSON, ’33 Washington and Lee has received $40,000 as part of an un- restricted bequest from the estate of a Massachusetts business- man and civic leader, Eben Jackson, who died July 13, 1975, at the age of 66. When distribution of Jackson’s estate is completed, the total Washington and Lee will have received is expected to be approximately $60,000, according to Edwin A. Morris, chair- man of W&lL’s estate planning council. Jackson was a 1933 W&L graduate who resided in Danvers, Mass. After graduation, he formed a company which manu- factured wire racks, baskets and display stands. The company was sold in 1946, and Jackson spent the rest of his career as manager and trustee of his family’s business interests. He was a member of the Danvers Board of Assessors for 25 years and a member of the town finance committee for 12. He was also a member of the Lions Club and was vestryman, treasurer, and, for more than two decades, senior warden of Calvary Episcopal Church in that city. In announcing the gift, Morris commented, “Eben Jack- son’s generous bequest to Washington and Lee is a significant help towards meeting the goals of our development campaign. Because it is unrestricted it is especially valuable at this time, allowing the Trustees to apply it to whatever need appears most pressing to them.” The use to which the gift will be put has not yet been designated. LIBRARIANS AT CONFERENCE Three Washington and Lee librarians were active partici- pants in the 67th annual meeting of the Virginia Library Association. University Librarian Maurice D. Leach Jr. was president of the association for 1976-77 and presided at the conference. Law Librarian Peyton Neal was a panelist on the copyright discussion panel, and Delmus E. Williams, instructor and cataloger, was chairman of a panel on the SOLINET com- puterized cataloging system. FACULTY NEWS Dr. James Holt Starling, who has taught biology at Wash- ington and Lee since 1942, has been named head of that de- partment. Starling, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s de- grees from the University of Alabama and his Ph.D. from Duke, has also been coordinator of pre-medical studies at W&L since 1963. He replaces Dr. Royal F. Ruth as department head. Ruth returned to the University of Alberta in Canada after a year at W&L. Betty Ruth Kondayan has been named head of the refer- ence and public-services staff in W&L’s McCormick Library. A member of the library staff since 1971, Mrs. Kondayan holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English literature from the Univer- sity of Illinois and a master’s degree in library science from Wisconsin. Before coming to W&L, she taught at Berea College in Kentucky and at the American College for Girls, a division of Robert University in Istanbul, Turkey. Mrs. Kondayan suc- ceeds Barbara Jeanne Brown, who has become assistant uni- versity librarian at Princeton in charge of general reader serv- ices. Susan McPherson Coblentz has been appointed assistant special collections librarian at McCormick, with responsibilities which include continuing the indexing of W&L faculty minutes and trustees’papers, in addition to general reference services and teaching courses in bibliographic resources. Ms. Coblentz Continued on Page 24 13 Louise Herreshoff in Paris at age 24 (1900) LOUISE HERRESHOFF An American Artist Discovered The paintings of a woman artist whose remarkable career began in the 1890s and stopped abruptly in 1926 had their na- tional premiere this fall at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Wash- ington, D. C. The artist is Louise Herreshoff, who later became the wife of Euchlin D. Reeves, a 1927 law graduate of Washington and Lee. She died 10 years ago at the age of 91 in Providence, R. I., where she had lived almost all her life. Most of her known paintings are now owned by Wash- ington and Lee—part of the Reeves’ bequest that included the now-internationally famed Reeves Collection of Chinese Ex- port Porcelain. They had decided to give all their objects of art to Mr. Reeves’ alma mater, but at first the porcelain collection was al- most the sole center of interest. It was only by a lucky series of 14 coincidences, in fact, that Louise Herreshoff Reeves’ long-for- gotten paintings ever came to light at all. The porcelain was a magnificent gift indeed. (See the cover article in the January 1973 issue of the alumni magazine.) In the last decade, it has become an important study collection, commanding the attention of scholars and collectors through- out the world. In America, the Smithsonian Institution selected 200 pieces from the Reeves Collection for a two-year nation- wide tour. Asa result of that tour as well as other exhibitions ar- ranged directly by museums with the University, the collection has been on view in 31 cities in 16 states and the District of Columbia so far. It had taken 200 barrels to contain the porcelain collection when it was shipped from Providence to W&L in 1967. As the van was ready to move out, somebody asked James W. White- head, Washington and Lee treasurer and a close friend of Euchlin and Louise Reeves who was there to direct the trans- fer, whether the University also wanted a number of old, dust- covered picture frames that were scattered about the Reeves’ two houses. There was room on the van, and Whitehead knew that stu- dents in W&L’s studio art classes could always use frames, and so they were put aboard—gathered from attics and base- ments and obscure nooks and corners, where they had been ob- viously untouched for years. A couple of months later, Whitehead was looking over the still-unpacked treasures one day in Lexington, and by chance he wiped a wet cloth across the glass covering one of the picture frames, just out of idle curiosity about what might be under- neath—hardly expecting to find anything significant. But instead of a dime-store lithograph, he later recalled, he saw “an explosion of color.” He had discovered one of Louise Herreshoff’s brilliant paintings. And soon it turned out there were more, dozens more—nearly 100 in the end, and all part of the Reeves’ gift to WEL. Whitehead began to investigate both in the art world and among Euchlin and Louise Reeves’ friends and family. It de- veloped that she had been highly talented and obviously prolif- ic, and when Whitehead showed the paintings to professional critics they were startled to see a capsule reflection of the trends in art in the twentieth century. Louise Herreshoff had been born in Brooklyn during America’s centennial year; she was a descendant of the broth- ers for whom Brown University is named. Her father was a not- Top left: Louise in Fontenay-aux-Roses at the end of the century. Top right: In St. Mark’s Square, Venice, autumn 1898. Above: At the Arc de Triomphe, 1895 (Louise Herreshoff is in the center, smoking a cigarette or small cigar; the woman standing at left is believed to be Mary C. Wheeler, her Providence teacher with whom she went to France several times in the 1890s). 15 ed chemist, a co-founder of the American Chemical Society and the man who perfected the process for the commercial production of sulphuric acid. Her uncles included the famed “boatbuilders of Bristol,” Nathaniel and John Brown Herre- shoff, regarded today as the world’s greatest yacht designers, whose ships successfully defended the America’s Cup six times during Louise’s early years. When Louise was just four years old, her mother died, and it was the mother’s sister, Elizabeth Dyer—“Aunt Lizzie”—who brought the little girl up and became the dominant influence in her life. Louise studied initially in Rhode Island, then spent five years at the turn of the century in France, working under the traditionalistic masters there. She loved Paris, and on one trip back there she wrote to Aunt Lizzie: “We talk over Fontenay 16 Left: “Girl in Garden,” 1899, oil on canvas. Top right: “White Sail,” ca. 1911, oil on canvas. Below right: “In a Minor Key—Rockport,” ca. 1921, oil on canvas. [Fontenay-aux-Roses, the suburb in which Louise lived in France] and Paris, and you don’t know how much I long to see it. We plan to sketch as soon as we reach Fontenay and Miss Wheeler [Louise’s American teacher] has already engaged her model. I long to see some poplar trees sticking up in a row.” In those early years she painted mostly portraits, employing the realistic, not-so-imaginative style that prevailed then. But gradually, she came under the influence of the French Im- pressionists and the Fauves, and in the first years of the new century she began to experiment with the dramatic use of color and broad-brushed, heavily applied oils that would come to characterize her later work. The gentle, ethereal quality of her paintings disappeared. She replaced it with a boldness of technique and a shimmering brightness in pigment. Her style was dramatic enough for any Girl With Violets (Portrait of Miss T) oil on canvas; 1897 ; 3 : ea Ss Se . — e ee mone: ee Se eee ee | See iS Be as : - pine . : Rooster l on canvas te Wh ca. 1925 9 Ol ing page: On fac Weathered Boats—Rockport (top) ca. 1924 l on canvas; Ol Rock (bottom) Floating ca. 1925 l on canvas; Ol Portrait of My Aunt Elizabeth (“Aunt Lizzie”) oil on canvas; 1926 Above: Elizabeth Dyer, who was to become Louise Herreshoff's “Aunt Lizzie,” in an 1860 photo at the age of 21. Right: Euchlin Dalcho Reeves, whom Louise would marry in 1941, ina photo taken in 1927, the year of his graduation from Washington and Lee’s School of Law. Elizabeth Dyer and Euchlin Reeves were the two most important influences in Louise Herreshoff’s life. painter—and especially for a woman artist in that era. Louise Herreshoff became a radical. After she returned to the United States in 1903, she began her most productive period as a painter. She traveled exten- sively throughout New England, painting the shore and the countryside, returning to portraiture only at the very end of her artistic career for a series of five portraits of her beloved Aunt Lizzie. It was soon thereafter that Aunt Lizzie, her “surrogate mother,” died—and Louise abruptly put all her paintings out of sight. No one knows why. Except for a few casual sketches, she never painted again. After that sudden and mysterious abandonment, Louise began to devote almost all her time and resources to collecting fine antique porcelain, which had intrigued her ever since childhood. Soon she met Euchlin Reeves, who shared that in- terest, and in 1941 they were married. It was described as “a fragile union”—perhaps understandably; she was 66, and he was 38. But the next quarter-century proved its soundness. They continued to collect porcelain together until they had sO many pieces that their house on Benevolent Street in Provi- dence was literally filled. It was nearly impossible even to walk from room to room. So Louise and Euchlin Reeves simply bought the house next door, moved into it, and went right on collecting—keeping the old house as their own private little museum. By the time of their deaths (which occurred in close succession in 1967), they had assembled one of the finest private porcelain collections in the country—more than 5,000 pieces in all. Her career as an artist had covered only 30 years—but what a 30 years. The well-known art scholar and dealer Norman Hirschl, writing in the catalogue published on the occasion of 23 Below: “Parrot,” ca. 1918, oil on canvas. Right: “Rocks,” ca. 1925, watercolor on paper. Below right: “Japanese Plate No. 1,” ca. 191), oul on canvas. the Corcoran premiere, said her early paintings “have the in- trospective solidity of Sargent and Chase.” Her later works, Hirschl observes, “might well have been exhibited next to the best of the Expressionists in the Armory Show of 1913.” Louise Herreshoff is, Hirsch] said, “a new name” to add to the list of contributors to “America’s pre-eminence in the field of twen- tieth-century art.” Or take the view of Roy Slade, director of the Corcoran: “Her early work is academic and competent, showing genuine ability and accomplishment. Gradually, her paintings become more adventuresome. She was not afraid to experiment. Even today, the paintings are strong and vital, refreshing and re- warding in the clarity of expressive imagery—bringing to the viewer the inner energy inherent in a dedicated and devoted painter.” And the critics unanimously agreed. 29 “She is an exciting painter, and the range of her style is as- tonishing,” wrote Norman Nadel, cultural affairs editor for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. “Very few American artists of the years 1910 to 1927 used color more venturesomely than Louise Herreshoff,” said Ben- jamin Forgey in a Washington Star review. “The popular American colorists of the period, the ones who sold lots of paintings and won the prestigious prizes, never went beyond a polite, domesticated impressionism. Herreshoff did.” “From wistful portraits to gnarled landscapes, Herreshoff’s paintings were worth the wait,” said Phyllis Richman of the Washington Post's Sunday magazine, “Potomac.” In a separate review, Jo Ann Lewis of the Post wrote: “Anyone who questions her painterly skills need only look at her exquisite sandy beaches from 1910, or her final works, a series of portraits of her beloved Aunt Lizzie. In a real sense, her art mirrors not Clockwise from above: Some 300 guests attended a black-tie preview and reception at the Corcoran. Trustee Lewis F. Powell Jr. chatted with visitors at the entrance to the gallery where 88 Herreshoff paintings were ex- hibited. Sixty dozen red roses decorated the buffet tables at the reception (WSL was a “gracious host” and the evening had the “special flair” it deserved, the Washington Post said). Guests browsed leisurely through the gallery all evening long. Afterwards, James W. Whitehead (WSL treasurer and “discoverer” of Louise Herreshoff) and Mrs. Whitehead toasted the evening’s success. only her own struggle, but that of all early twentieth-century American modernists.” A “master of expressionist art,” King Features called her. “A talent that is sensitive and spirited far beyond the level of most American artists of her era,” F. D. Cossitt, art critic for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, wrote. “For art lovers, especially those who treasure brilliant colors and impressionist styles, the unearthing of the paintings is great good fortune,” wrote Roy Cohen, United Press Inter- national art writer. “To have lost these works would have been tragic. Her incredible use of colors is breathtaking. Her range is wondrous—from her portraits of Aunt Lizzie to New Eng- land seascapes to Van Gogh-like still lifes. The porcelain was their [Euchlin and Louise Reeves’] legacy to Washington and Lee, but her paintings are a legacy to the world.” CATALOGUE AVAILABLE The 80-page catalogue published by Washington and Lee, Louise Herreshoff: An American Artist Discovered, con- tains 42 full-page color reproductions of Louise Herre- shoff’s paintings, an introduction by W&L President Ro- bert E. R. Huntley, critical essays by Norman Hirschl of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, and Roy Slade, di- rector of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and a biographical essay by James W. Whitehead, W&L treasurer and dis- coverer of the Herreshoff paintings. Alumni and friends may order copies of the catalogue for $5 postpaid (the commercial price is $7.50) by writing to the W&L News Office. Zo earned her A.B. degree with high honors from Queens College and the master’s degree in library science from the University of North Carolina. The World War I letters of the late George Junkin Irwin, a long-time professor of French at W&L, have been edited and published by Dr. Charles W. Turner, professor of American history. The volume, fourth in a series of Rockbridge County- related histories published in recent years by Turner, is pub- lished by McClure Press ($6.50). Irwin was a member of the W&L volunteer ambulance unit that served in France in 1917- 19, and his letters provided a vivid picture of the soldier’s life both in training and on the battlefields of Europe. Robert E. R. Huntley, president of Washington and Lee, was elected this winter to the 12-member board of directors of Philip Morris Inc., one of the world’s largest cigarette manu- facturing companies (whose holdings also include a number of diversified subsidiaries). Dr. Charles F. Phillips Jr., professor of economics, is the editor of Competition and Regulation: Some Economic Concepts, an anthology of essays originally presented in the form of papers at a four-day conference last summer co-sponsored by W&L and the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Cos. Phillips organized and directed that symposium, and will do so again this summer (for the fifth time in five -years). In addition, Phillips has just completed four years of service on the blue- ribbon national commission to evaluate national policy toward gambling. That group’s study will be released by the federal government later this winter. O. W. Riegel, professor of journalism at W&L for 43 years until his retirement in 1973, has not let up the pace of his pro- fessional activity. He has recently written an essay, “The Polli- tics of Satellite Communication,” which appeared as the lead article in The Journal of The Centre For Advanced Television Studies (published in London); he is the author of a three- part series on the state of cinematic arts in Hungary that has been described as the best analysis on the subject yet written— by someone who ought to know, the editor of New Hungarian Quarterly, in which the series is now being published. Riegel is also a member of an international committee organized to mark the 70th birthday this year of the famed Belgian artist Jean Milo. Four works by Washington and Lee’s sculptor-in-residence, Isabel Mcllvain, were displayed in New York this autumn— three in a five-person group exhibit at Gallery 4 x 10, and one in Lever House on Park Avenue (part of an exhibition ar- ranged by The Sculptors’ Guild, of which Miss MclIlvain is a member). A professor of law at W&L, Lawrence D. Gaughan, was a panelist this fall in a symposium entitled “Straight Talk About Families,” sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Mental Health As- sociation. Gaughan led a discussion of parental strife and how it affects children, and also participated in a session on ways parents can help their children grow up to be “responsible, well-adjusted adults.” Two Washington and Lee art historians delivered papers this fall to the Southeastern College Art Conference—Dr. Gerard M. Doyon on “The Two Images of Benjamin Frank- lin: American and French,” and Dr. Pamela Simpson on 24 “Beauty, Utility and Economy: The Uses of Architectural Books at Mid-Century.” A professor of classical languages and literature, Dr. Her- man W. Taylor, has been elected chairman of the board of publishers of Shenandoah, W&\L’s prize-winning quarterly literary review. Taylor succeeds Miss Barbara Jeanne Brown, now a member of Princeton University’s library administra- tion. _ Dr. John F. DeVogt, professor and head of the Department of Administration, received the Outstanding Service Award of the Southern Management Association at its annual meeting in Atlanta in November. DeVogt was president of the organiza- tion in 1974-75. The service award was one of only two pre- sented at the convention this year. W&L—OXFORD FACULTY EXCHANGE ESTABLISHED Oxford University’s oldest component, University College, and Washington and Lee have announced a faculty-exchange program, to be inaugurated next fall. Under the program, professors from the prestigious British university will spend a term or a full academic year teaching classes at W&L. In turn, Washington and Lee pro- fessors will have the opportunity to spend sabbaticals at Ox- ford, principally to conduct research. Dr. Edgar F. Shannon Jr. NATIONAL PHI BETA KAPPA FEDERATION ELECTS DR. SHANNON VICE PRESIDENT Dr. Edgar F. Shannon Jr., a 1939 W&L graduate and a member of the Board of Trustees since 1974, was elected this winter to a three-year term as vice president of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Shannon is the former president (1959-74) of the Uni- versity of Virginia and is now Commonwealth professor of English there. His election to national Phi Beta Kappa office came in Williamsburg—where it was founded 200 years ago— during the society’s 1976 triennial assembly. Delegates from 214 chapters were represented. Shannon was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa while a student at W&L, where his father taught English for many years. Edgar Shannon Jr. was a Rhodes Scholar, and has held Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships as well. He joined the U.Va. faculty in 1956, three years before being named president, after six years teaching English at Harvard Univer- sity. He has been a member of the national senate of Phi Beta Kappa since 1967 and is currently president-elect of the chap- ter at Virginia. Dr. Pamela Simpson, organizer of “American Sculpture in Lexington” exhibition, and Dr. Gerard M. Doyon, art professor, take a close look at equestrian statue of Lee. The entries were discussed during a slide-lecture preceding the opening of the exhibition. On the screen is Proctor’s equestrian statue of Lee. THE ARTS AT W&L An exhibition of important American sculptures from public collections in Lexington took place at W&L this winter. The exhibition was the result of a year-long research and study projects by nine students working under Dr. Pamela Simpson, assistant professor of art history. In all, 19 sculptures—ranging from a miniature cameo of George Washington to a larger-than-life statue of Stonewall Jackson—were included in the exhibition. (The sculptures too large for W&L’s duPont Gallery were represented by detailed photographs and, in several instances, by smaller preliminary models the sculptors had made.) Most of the pieces are owned by Washington and Lee and Virginia Military Institute. Dr. Simpson remarked that the quality of public sculpture in Lexington is exceptional largely because of the desire on the part of admirers of Washington, Lee and Jackson to memorialize their heroes in the town where each had a strong influence on education. W&L sculptures represented in the exhibition were Old George, carved in 1884 by Capt. Mathew S. Kahle, a local cabinet-maker; Edward Valentine’s famous Recumbent Statue of Lee asleep on the battlefield, completed in 1875 (though not installed in the chapel until 1883); the tiny Washington cameo, made in 1862 by John Crookshank King; two busts of Wash- ington by Jean Antoine Houdon, one of the so-called Mount Vernon type and one of the Louvre type, both made in 1785; a medallion cast in 1889 by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his ap- prentice, Philip Martiny, to commemorate the centennial of Washington’s inauguration as President; a life mask of Lee made in 1869 by Clark Mills; a bas-relief portrait in marble of Lee, carved in 1874 by William Henry Rinehart; a bust of Lee by Andrew F. Volck (1866) and another by Sir Moses Ezekiel (1886), and a bronze model of the statue by A. Phimister Proc- tor designed for Lee Park in Dallas (1933-36). Washington and Lee has published a 48-page catalogue containing brief essays and full-page photographs of each sculpture in the exhibition, with a critical introductory article by Dr. Simpson. Alumni may obtain copies of the catalogue for $1 postpaid by writing to the Department of Art. Other duPont Gallery exhibitions this fall and winter have included a retrospective show of five years of oils, watercolors and drawings by David Loren Bass, visiting artist-in-residence during the autumn term; works by the noted sculptor Peter Agostini, and 22 scale models derived from Leonardo da- Vinci’s most important and inventive drawings. A new painting by Ray Prohaska, artist-in-residence at W&L from 1963 to 1969, has been added to the University’s permanent collection as a gift from his friends and former stu- dents. Prohaska, a former president of the American Society of Illustrators, now lives in Bridgehampton, N. Y. The University Theatre (as the Troubadours are now call- ed) presented Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus this fall, and are now in rehearsal tor Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Ablee and Three Penny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Vanya was one of the drama group’s most innovative productions to date; it was staged in the boiler room (converted nicely into a small theatre, to be sure) of Old Main Street, formerly the Rockbridge Laun- dry building (and Sheridan’s Livery stable before that), now a quaint indoor shopping mall with more than a dozen small shops. U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., “Contact” speaker. CAMPUS VISITORS THIS FALL AND WINTER —U.S. Sen.Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), “Priorities of the New Administration,” sponsored by “Contact,” W&L’s annual student-organized symposium; —Charles B. Seib, ombudsman of the Washington Post, “Watching the Watchdogs: Ethics and the Power of the Press”; —John Seigenthaler, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, “Publish and Be Jailed: The Contempt Power and the First Amendment”; —Franklyn S. Haiman, professor of communication studies and urban affairs at Northwestern University, “Access to the Media: Free-Speech Rights in Conflict”; —Sandy Gall, reporter and newscaster for Britain's Inde- pendent Television Network, on the role of the foreign corres- pondent; —Roger Hillsman, assistant Secretary of State for Far East- Pty om © ern affairs during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and now professor of government at Columbia University, “The Crouching Future”; —Rene C. McPherson, self-described “maverick business- man” who is board chairman and chief executive officer of the Dana Corp., for a week of meetings with classes and individu- ally with W&L students as Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow; —The Black Voices of the University of Virginia for a con- cert of gospel and sacred music; —Lord Redcliffe-Maud, recently retired after 13 years as master (chancellor) of University College (Oxford), England, “Government and the Arts”; —James Merrill, National Book Award-winning poet (for Nights and Days, 1967), for a reading from his works, sponsored by the Glasgow Endowment; —Lord James Crichton-Stuart, “Britain in 1976,” spon- sored by the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics; —A putative former Red Guard named “Wan Fat-lai” (in truth, Dr. John Israel, professor of Chinese-history at Virginia, though that wasn’t disclosed. in advance), “Recollections of the Cultural Revolution,” sponsored by W&L’s East Asian Studies Program; oe ae PS Cb ean a —Juan Lopez-Morillas, professor of Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Brown University, “Utopia and Anti- Utopia as Themes in Narrative Fiction”; —Paul E. Potter, professor of geology at the University of Cincinnati, “Shales and Black Shales”and “New Developments in Paleocurrents”; —Jeffrey St. John, conservative columnist and CBS radio commentator, “Jimmy Carter’s Betrayal of the South,” sponsor- ed by the W&L College Republican Club; —The Annapolis Brass Quintet, pianist Robert Silverman, Chinese musicologist Tsai-ping Liang, harpsichordist Frances Cole, and the Stradivari Quartet, all in concerts sponsored by the W&L Concert Guild. Division IIT All-American Tony Perry. PERRY IS ALL-AMERICAN Senior co-captain Tony Perry of Waynesboro, Va., was named to the American Football Coaches Association first- team NCAA Division III All-American football team. The award was co-sponsored by the Kodak Co. Perry, a split end/tight end, had a brilliant four-year career with the Generals. In 39 games, he caught 154 passes for 2,122 yards and 16 touchdowns. He is W&L’s all-time leading pass receiver. He finished the 1976 season with 31 catches for 565 yards and three touchdowns. He led the Generals to a 5-5 sea- son, their first .500 mark in nine years. He was earlier named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference’s Player of the Year and the ODAC’s first-team all-conference tight end. 26 Tom Wolfe will return to campus. Copyrighted by Jill Krementz WOLFE, WITH HOT NEW BOOK, TO RETURN FOR ‘CONTACT’ SPEECH Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine by Tom Wolfe, ’51, was called in a glowing Time magazine review “Wolfe’s finest book and the keenest look at the psychedelic ’60s yet written. ...No one has better aim than Wolfe.” The book has, in fact, received such enthusiastic reviews everywhere. “We need Wolfe. He should be declared a national asset,” raved the Washington Post. “Wolfe knows something about everything.” (Both Time and the Post, incidentally, compared Wolfe with the late H. L. Mencken.) The book, just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is a satire on pop culture—on what’s “fashionable,” what’s oh-so- chichi. (The tithe comes from the name of a caterer, MG&M, and the name of a florist, C&V.) It’s his seventh book (some of the others are his controversial The Painted Word, 1975; Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, 1970; and The Kandy- Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, 1965). Wolfe got his start in journalism and creative writing at Washington and Lee, as a sports reporter for the Ring-tum Phi and a founder of Shenandoah. After graduation he earned a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale and worked as a reporter for several newspapers. Since 1968 he has been a contributing editor to New York magazine. He received an honorary degree from W&L in 1974, and will be back on campus this spring as a speaker in the student body’s “Contact” series. OUT SEEING THRO Se aS EPRR ODE STEREO BEM UUHETSS MO PURO VENET CTHAME VEEN, OLICH ROUTE NUTEU PRG ning Chinytenin NCUA UGS A SUN Bs ec Lit ai] fs SHAN Gas Ee OU WRU raat Sige ER sce Ea} aT INET Re INE REEDS ci rag AGW Capper P ts SPORE AURORA VC Ue QE AT NPDS GENK IVS USOT RICUIC UNG RR PRCT eH ioe ET Open APC TEN OM IC PTAC SOA ONCE CURR cel ec ARON SMMC CTRL PON DAN BOERS ENN ARR mn GIT DA Resear ea Chapter news HOUSTON. University Treasurer James W. Whitehead and Mrs. White- head were special guests at a buffet dinner on Nov. 3 at the Forest Club. A large group of alumni and parents of current students heard Whitehead tell about the University’s magnificent Reeves Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain and its impact on Washington and Lee. He and Mrs. Whitehead exhibited several pieces from the collection during the talk. Arrangements for the meeting were made by W. B. (Buck) Ogilvie, outgoing chapter president. He received special praise for his leadership of the chapter. Don McFall, ’64, reported for the nomi- nating committee, and the following offi- cers were elected: Robert I. Peeples, ’57, president; Daniel F. Boyles, 63, vice president; Richard E. Gray III, 73, treas- urer; Allen B. Craig III, ’68, secretary. Alumni Secretary Bill Washburn was present and thanked the chapter for its outstanding support of the University. SAN ANTONIO. Alumni Secretary Bill Washburn was the guest and speaker at a cocktail-reception on Nov. 4 at the San Antonio Country Club. Washburn gave a thumbnail report on the University and showed color slides of the campus. His presentation was well received by a large group of alumni and the parents of cur- rent students. Of particular interest to the group were slides of Lewis Hall, the new law school building, and the beginning of construction work on the new under- graduate library. Ralph Lehr, ’41, chapter president, made the arrangements. NEW YORK. The chapter held a din- ner-dance on Nov. 19 at the Princeton Club in Manhattan in honor of President and Mrs. Robert E. R. Huntley. Jasha Drabek, ’53, chapter president, was toast- master and introduced President Hunt- ley, who spoke briefly on the status of the University. Many alumni, parents, and friends were present. Also present from Lexington were Alumni Secretary Bill Washburn and Assistant Alumni Secre- tary Marty Bass and their wives. NEW YORK—At head table are University Trustee Calvert Thomas, ’38; Mrs. Jasha Drabek; President Huntley; Mrs. Huntley; Chapter President J asha Drabek, ’53; Mrs. Calvert Thomas; and L. Roper Shamhart, ’47. LYNCHBURG. The chapter’s tradi- tional holiday dance was held on Dec. 3 at the Elk’s Club. Music was by the Vel- vetones. George H. Fralin, ’57, chapter president, and E. Starke Sydnor, ’66, sec- retary-treasurer, made the principal ar- rangements for the event. WASHINGTON, D.C. Alumni gathered for a grand celebration at P.W.’s Saloon after Washington and Lee’s football vic- tory over Georgetown University on Nov. 20. Then on Dec. 30 they came together again for the chapter’s traditional holiday luncheon at the University Club. A num- ber of current and prospective students joined the group. The speaker was Tom Jones, the University’s trainer and physi- cal therapist. He reported on the fall athletic program and urged continuing alumni support in the future, promising an exciting lacrosse season. Carter Mc- Neese, associate director of development, was also present and reported on the Uni- versity’s annual giving program. The guests were accompanied by Alumni Sec- retary Bill Washburn. During a business session, the following officers were elect- ed: Jay Meriwether, ’70, president; Grady Frank, ’74L, vice president; Jeff Twardy, ’68, secretary; and Don Sigmund, ’58, treasurer. PIEDMONT. Alumni met for cocktails on Nov. 20 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hannah, ’50, in Greensboro, N. C. Special guests were Dr. Edward C. At- wood, Jr., dean of the School of Com- merce, Economics, and Politics, and his wife. James S. (Chip) Mahan, ’73, of Win- ston-Salem, chapter president, helped make the arrangements and presided at the meeting. RICHMOND. The chapter met twice before Christmas. The first meeting was a social gathering on Nov. 18 in the Execu- tive Dining Room at the Top in the First & Merchants Bank Building. Special guests were Thomas B. Branch III, ’58, of Atlanta, president of the Alumni Board of Directors, and E. W. (Sandy) Stradt- man, ’77, vice president of the W&L stu- dent body and a pre-med major. Branch 27 Chapter News reported on the alumni program and the responsibility of alumni to support the University. Stradtman discussed student life on campus today and assured alumni that traditions and values are being main- tained. Another highlight of this meeting was the presentation of the chapter’s first John Newton Thomas Distinguished Alumnus Award. The 1976 recipient was William B. Jacobs, ’29, who over the years has shown unusual dedication to Wash- ington and Lee and the Richmond chap- ter. The award is named in honor of John Newton Thomas, ’24, rector emeritus of the University’s Board of Trustees. The chapter’s annual business meeting was held on Dec. 6 at the Bull and Bear Club in the Fidelity Building. After the com- mittee reports, the following officers were elected: Jaquelin H. DeJarnette, °65, president; Robert M. Turnbull, ’72, first vice president; Dr. John Newton Thomas, 24, second vice president; John A. Con- rad, 73, secretary; and Robert H. Yevich, 70) RICHMOND—William B. Jacobs, 29, is presented the John Newton Thomas Distinguished Alumnus , treasurer. Award. With him are Dr. Thomas (left) and Dan Balfour, 63, 631. Spring Class Reunions ANNIVERSARY CLASS REUNIONS of the ACADEMIC AND LAW CLASSES 1927 1937 1952 1962 1967 and the OLD GUARD (All classes prior to 1926) will be held on campus May 6 and 7 Mark Your Calendar Now! Plan to Attend! SPECIAL NOTICE: If for any reason you are not carried as a member of one of these classes but feel closely related to one and wish to return for reunion, please advise the Alum- ni Office immediately. 28 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 1920 J. GLen Evins is in his 5lst year of serv- ice with the Lykes Bros. Insurance Agency which he founded in Tampa, Fla. Evins, a senior national swimming competitor, swims a mile every day of the year. 1921] Dr. SAMUEL L. RAINEs, Methodist Hospital staff physician and associate in the Mem- phis Urology Group, has been awarded the Ramon Guiteras Medal by the American Urological Association. The award, named for one of the founders of AUA, is given in recognition of distinguished contributions to the arts and science of urology. The pres- entation was made in May 1976 at the an- nual meeting of the association in Las Vegas. A member of the 1975-76 executive commit- tee, Raines is chairman of the review and long-range planning committee. He _ has contributed numerous papers to the AUA and has served on a number of committees to further urology in the United States. Raines is a former president of the south- eastern branch of the AUA. From 1954 to 1966, he was chairman and head of the De- partment of Urology at the University of Tennessee. He is a past president of the Memphis and Shelby County Medical So- ciety and has twice served as chief of staff of Methodist Hospital. 1924 EDMUND MCCULLOUGH CAMERON was induct- ed into the National Football Hall of Fame at the Nineteenth Annual Awards Dinner Dec. 7, 1976, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. He is the second Washington and Lee man in the Hall of Fame. The other is “Cy” Young, 717. William D. McHenry, 54, athletic director, attended the _ cere- monies. Cameron played fullback and _ line- backer for W&L in the 1920’s. He won eight letters in football and basketball. Following graduation and a year of teaching and a year of prep school coaching, Cameron became the backfield coach at Duke University, serving under coaches De Hart and Wallace Wade. Later he became head football coach, winning 25 of 36 games with one tie. In 1942, he became athletic director of Duke University. He is now retired and lives in Durham, N. C. 1925 Dr. HERBERT POLLACK has been named to the board of the Medical college of Pennsyl- vania. MCP’s National Board is comprised of 160 persons who serve as a national ad- visory and support group for the college. Pollack, a professor emeritus in clinical medicine at George Washington University, is one of four male board members of MCP, which was formerly known as The Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania. He also serves as special radiation con- sultant to the U. S. State Department, an appointment which stems from his continu- ed activity over the years on the Electro- magnetic Radiation Management Advisory Council. For recreation Pollack rides to the hounds with the Piedmont Pack near his home in Upperville, Va. bO29 WILLIAM F, CHANDLER is the retired presi- dent of Porter Coatings Co., in Louisville, Ky. He is active with the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky. The combination store and post office owned by ASA JANNEY in Lincoln, Va., was _ pic- tured in a Washington Post feature article on Oct. 17, 1976. The current residents of Loudoun County have petitioned to desig- nate the central county area as Goose Creek Historical Preservation District. The region is unique for the number of homes preserv- ed in their original condition. Janney is a retired federal postmaster. 1930 WILLIAM 'T. ALsop, associated for 35 years with the wholesale food firm Pillans & Smith, of Ocala, Fla., is now chairman of the board of that firm. L. PALMER Brown, president of L. P. Brown Co., Inc., has been named 1976 Master of Free Enterprise by Junior Achievement of Memphis, Inc. This award is made annu- ally to a Shelby County citizen who, in the opinion of the selection committee, has achieved success in his chosen endeavor that makes him a vivid example, particularly to the youth of the community. Brown was honored at a banquet on November 22. He is past president of the Rotary Club, Future Memphis Inc., Downtown Association, Meth- odist Hospital Board of Trustees, Family Service of Memphis, Memphis Cotton Carni- val Association and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He was named “Distin- guished Alumnus” by the Washington and Lee Alumni Association in 1976. He is cur- rently a trustee of Southwestern at Memphis, Porter-Leath Children’s Center, Sunshine Home for Aged Men and the Boys Club of Memphis Foundation. 29 Class Notes CHARLES W. COCKE is president of the Geor- gia federation of chapters, National Associa- tion of Retired Employees, and has just re- turned from the National Convention in Salt Lake City. His term as president will expire in May, 1977. Cocke also serves as plantation tour guide for the Chamber of Commerce in Thomasville, Ga. MONTE ROSENBERG is senior trial counsel for the City of Miami Law Department. 193] STANLEY D. WAXBERG has a full schedule as senior partner in the law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Hander on Park Avenue in New York City. 1932 Davip B. KirsBy is a retired member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission where he served as a legal assistant. He lives in Harrisburg. In the November 1976 elections, Jack G. Marks was re-elected for a fourth term of four years as Judge of the Superior Court of Pima County, Ariz., at ‘Tucson. KENNETH R, ROUTON maintains a home in Huntington, N. Y., but travels a good bit of the year in his motor home. He continues to hunt, fish and play golf. 1934 RICHARD W. GRAFTON, C.L.U., a representa- tive of New York Life Insurance Co., lives in Ft. Myers, Fla. He has completed 40 years of service in the insurance industry. His awards include the Chartered Life Un- derwriters designation and the National Quality Award which he has received con- tinuously for 26 years. FoOsTER M. PALMER continues as librarian of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medi- cine in Watertown, Mass. GEORGE L. REYNOLDs retired from the Public Service Electric & Gas Co., of New Jersey in March 1975. He spends his winters in Pompano Beach, Fla. He plays tournament tennis and is currently playing the National Senior Circuit (60 years and over). 1935 WILLIAM P. Diccs retired after 28 years with the F.B.I. and now lives in Sun City, Ariz. NORMAN S. FITZHUGH JR. lives in Charleston, W. Va., where he continues to study the 30 1976 Internal Revenue Code revisions and to do tax work. GEORGE E. SHORT retired in 1971 after 33 years with E. I. duPont. He and his wife live in Pompton Lakes, N. J., where Short en- joys gardening and golf. 1936 OrAY M. Davis Jr. retired from the U. S. Corps of Engineers in 1972. In August 1976 he moved to Stephens City, Va., where he is busily engaged in writing books and visit- ing friends. 1937 CHARLES S. McNULTy Jr. retired as real estate assessor of Roanoke, Va., in January. He will continue as a fee appraiser and real estate tax consultant. 1938 SAMUEL P. MCCHEsNEY, formerly of Cleve- land, Ohio, has been living for the past several years in Plymouth, Montserrat, West Indies. He is president of the Montserrat National ‘Trust; the Montserrat Building Society, a savings and loan association; a director of Caribbean Cinema; vice chair- man of Montserrat Foundation; and a past president of the Rotary Club. 1940 CHARLES C, Cure Jr. is a pilot for Braniff Airlines. He currently flies between Dallas and Honolulu. 1942 Dr. JAMES H. Davipson has practiced inter- nal medicine in Durham, N. C., for 27 years. He recently toured Mexico. AWARD WINNERS ALL Four W&L alumni won awards in the Virginia Press Association’s 1976 writ- ing competition. Edward P. Berlin Jr., 49, of the Waynesboro News-Vir- ginian, won a first-place award in the editorial writing category. Among the second-place winners were Charles R. McDowell, ’48, for his column; Robert G. Holland, 63, for editorial writing; and William P. McKelway Jr., ’70, for his feature story on Floridians who said they were told by God to move north. McDowell, Holland, and Mc- Kelway all write for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. 1944 EDWARD DEvOL Jr., formerly managing edi- tor of the press division in the U. S. Infor- mation Agency, is now a free-lance writer. 1948 Dr. JOHN P. STEWART was elected president of the Kentucky Medical Association House of Delegates for the 1976-77 year. Stewart, a radiologist at King’s Daughters Memorial Hospital in Frankfort is the immediate past chairman of the board of trustees, having served as a trustee from the seventh district since 1973. A past president of the Fayette County Medical Society, Stewart is a for- mer chairman of the Committee on State Legislative Activities. M. WILLIAMSON Watts (See Watts, 1975.) 1949 After 18 years at Far Hills Country Day School, RiIcHARD S. COOLEY is now acting chairman of the mathematics department at Buckley School on East 73rd Street in New York City. He and his wife Nancy have three children. 1950 GERARD A. BURCHELL JR. has received the M.S. degree in education from the Univer- sity of Maine. Dr. GEORGE WILLIAM WHITEHURST of Vir- ginia Beach, Va., has been elected to his fifth term as U. S. Congressman. 195] In October GEORGE F. ARATA Jr. resigned as director, president and chief administra- tive officer of the Southeast Bank of Dade- land in Miami, and as chief executive offi- cer of the Southeast Bank in Sebastian, Fla. JupcE RoBeErT L. POWELL took the oath as circuit judge in the 29th Judicial Circuit on Feb. 5, 1976. He lives in Pearisburg, Va. 1952 Jupce F. NeEtson Licut of Chatham, Va., was a deputy to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. It was his eighth time serving as a deputy. FLETCHER 'T. MCCLINTOCK, a special projects geologist with Cities Service Co. for some 23 years, has resigned to become an on shore senior exploration geologist for Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co., a subsidiary of American Natural Resources Co. ROBERT B. MUrRpbocK is serving as a federal administrative law judge in charge of the Roanoke, Va., office. 1953 Dr. JOHN I. BOWMAN is commissioner of the Eastern Virginia Medical Authority. He has also been elected for a three-year term to the executive committee of the Virginia-Tide- water Dental Association. ROBERT J. MACCuBBIN of Charlotte, N. C., is executive vice president of Rogers-American Co., a ,statewide food brokerage firm. He and his wife have two daughters and a son. KEITH NELSON has been appointed to the board of directors of the University of Texas Law School Alumni Association. He lives in Wichita Falls, ‘Texas. 1955 DaAvip M. CLINGER has been named director of publications and public relations services for Reynolds Metals Co., whose headquar- ters are in Richmond, Va. Clinger joined the Reynolds public relations staff in 1957 and served as regional manager in Houston and Chicago before returning to the cor- porate headquarters in 1965. Before joining Reynolds he was on the staff of newspapers in Richmond, Fredericksburg, Va., and Wil- liamsport, Pa. Capt. THOMAS E, LOHREY Jr. is currently serving as deputy assistant judge advocate general in the office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Washington, D. C. JoHN A. RUTHERFORD, an administrator with Radford College in Virginia, has been nam- ed the 1976 Compatriot in Education, an honor bestowed upon him by the Kappa Delta Pi honor society. 1957 H. NEIL CANFIELD recently joined Ohio Plate Glass Co. as vice president and general man- ager of the floor division. Before moving to ‘Toledo he was employed by Armstrong Cork Co., as manager of the carpet division, Em- pire Carpet Corp., a wholly owned subsid- iary. After serving as U. S. attorney for the east- ern district of Pennsylvania, ROBERT E. J. CURRAN has joined the law firm of Kassab, Cherry, Curran and Archbold in Media, Pa. JAMEs H. Davis is vice president of the First City National Bank in Houston, Texas. Capt. THOMAS E. Lowrey Jr. (See 1955.) 1958 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Epcar H. MAcKIn- LAY, a daughter, Alexandra Lee, on Jan. 1, 1976. MacKinlay is a practicing attorney in Virginia Beach. After several years in Baltimore, Md., MAx- WELL CASKIE has returned to ‘Tallahassee, Fla., where he is working with Florida State University editing a series of science text- books for the government Project ISIS un- der sponsorship of N.S.F. JOHN S. COLEMAN has joined Altair Airlines Inc., a Philadelphia-based commuter carrier serving southern New England, mid-Atlantic states and Richmond, Va., as director of mar- keting. He is responsible for all sales pro- grams, advertising and public relations. The Rev. E. JAMEs Lewis, Rector of Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Charleston, W. Va., has published a book entitled West Vir- ginia Pilgrim. The book is described as the reflections of a man who has been stalking for ten years the parish ministry, not wild game. Following college, Lewis was a marine corps officer for three years and then at- tended Virginia Theological Seminary in 1964. He has served in three churches over the past ten years. The book is published by the Seabury Press of New York City. RANDY LUNSFORD has been elected to the governing board of the Michigan Educa- tion Association Public Affairs Council. He is also doing part-time work as a probation officer with the Walker Municipal Court in Walker, Mich. WILLIAM A. TOWLER III, executive vice presi- dent of Rattikin Title Co., in Fort Worth has been elected a director of the Texas Land ‘Title Association. He is also chair- man of the national committee of the Ameri- can Land Title Association and is a member of the board of managers for the Fort Worth YMCA. S. ScoTT WHIPPLE wrote an article, “May the Lord Toss Him a Bone,” which appeared in the September issue of Westchester Illustrat- ed. The article is about America’s oldest pet cemetery. 1959 JOHN G. KOEDEL Jr., a resident of Warren, Pa., has been elected to the board of the Pennsylvania Bank & Trust Co. RICHARD A. POWELL continues as a teacher in the overseas dependents’ schools under the Department of Defense. He is teaching high school reading in Bermuda. 1960 WILLIAM J. HALEY is a partner in the law firm of Brannon, Brown, Norris, Vocelle and Haley in Lake City, Fla. He was elected at- torney for Columbia County and is a past president of the National County Attorneys’ Association. JOHN S. HOPEWELL received his Ph.D. de- gree in U. S. history from the University of Virginia in August 1975. He is now teach- ing at Chatham Hall in Chatham, Va. He and his wife Betsy have two children. 1961 WALTER J. CRATER JR. is senior systems en- gineer at Systems Consultants, Inc., of Wash- ington, D. C. He is currently working on the integration of electronic warfare sys- tems into the Navy ship combat systems. 1962 JAMEs APPLEBAUM, an advertising executive in New York, recently was a guest lecturer at Rutgers University on the subject ‘“Mar- keting Communications by the Federal Gov- ernment.” DaAvip W. BENN, associated with the interna- tional division of Chemical Bank, New York, has been transferred back to New York City from Sydney, Australia. L. Davin CALLAWAY III, vice president of Citibank New York has been assigned to Hong Kong where he is head of the cor- porate banking group. He will be in charge of the bank’s relationship with Hong Kong- based corporations. He joined Citibank New York in 1964, Between 1964-67 he attended New York University’s Graduate School of Business. In 1972 he took part in the man- agement program organized by Harvard Uni- versity Graduate School of Business. Calla- way and his wife Sally have two children. The family has joined him in Hong Kong. ALAN M. Corwin has recently joined Dean Witter & Co., as an account executive. He resides in ‘Tacoma, Wash. RicHARD L. LANG is managing partner for the Kalamazoo, Mich., law firm of Bauck- ham, Reed, Lang and Schaefer. The firm en- gages in general practice with emphasis on municipal law. 31 Class Notes Maj. Rurus C. YOUNG JR. was recently as- signed as head of military law in the Judge Advocate Division of Marine Headquarters. He, his wife, and two daughters live in Annandale, Va. 1963 Frep L. BAKER, of Riverside, Conn., has been promoted to the position of manager of strategic planning for IBM, Americas-Far East Corp. He also serves on the Greenwich, Conn., Town Council. J. DOUGLAS FARQUHAR is an associate profes- sor of art history at the University of Mary- land. He is author of the book Creation and Imitation: The Work of a 15th Century Manuscript Illuminator, published by Nova University. . Dr. MICHAEL SUSSMAN has joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as assistant professor of orthopedic surgery. He comes to Charlottesville after a year at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston. He and his wife Nancy have one son Evans. 1964 MICHAEL E. LEVIN, an attorney and former mayor of Lakewood, N. J., served as Ocean County coordinator for U. S. Sen. Harrison A. Williams’ re-election campaign. Levin, a graduate of the New York University Law School, is a past president of the Ocean County Young Democrats. J. BRUCE WHELIHAN, formerly with the White House staff in Washington, D. C., is now as- sociated with Alex Brown & Sons, a stock- broker in Washington. Epcar H. MACcKINLAy (See 1958.) 1965 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE M. SANDERS, a daughter, Judith Lee, on April 28, 1976. The family lives in Cherry Hill, N. J., where San- ders is staff clinical psychologist at the gui- dance center of Camden County, N. J. C. EDMONDs ALLEN III, an investment banker, is president of Gloucester International Ltd. Formerly with the University of Maryland history department, HAL S. CHASE is now a full-time professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. Victor R. GALEF and wife Mimi, live in Northbrook, Ill., with their two children. Galef is director of marketing for Wyler Foods, a division of Borden Co. 32 1966 Maurice R. Firess has been named a_ na- tional correspondent in the Washington Bu- reau of the Cox Newspapers. He will be part of a three-person team assigned to cover the Carter White House and administration. The Cox Newspapers include a number of city newspapers in Georgia, Florida, Texas and Ohio. Fliess joined the Cox organization in 1970 as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal. For the past four years he has served as the Journal Washington correspondent. He and his wife Elfi live in Reston, Va., with their son Kevin and daughter Katja. CHARLES N. GRIFFIN IJ, former coordinator of international estimating and planning for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N. Y., has been named operations manager for Kodak in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He and his wife Jody and two sons moved to Brazil in December, 1976. 1967 MARRIAGE: RICHARD LEWIS GRIFFIN and Denise Lorraine Donnelly on Oct. 2, 1976. The couple lives in Framingham, Me. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. W. LAWRENCE FELL- MAN, a son, Marcus Asher, on Sept. 2, 1976. Fellman is working with shopping center development with the firm of Rader Proper- ties in Dallas, Texas. He is also on the eco- nomics faculty of the Dallas County Com- munity College District. BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. W. H. SLEDGE, a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, on May 6, 1976. Sledge is a doctor with the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, and expects to pursue an academic career in psychiatry. E. THomMaAs Cox, formerly with the law firm of Booth, Prichard & Dudley in Fairfax, Va., is now in Newport News. He has been named an associate of the Patten & Wornom law firm and serves as an assistant city attorney. BrAD ROCHESTER is working on a_ weekly newspaper, The Courier, in Clemmons, N. C. He worked actively in politics in 1976 as Democratic precinct chairman and was a delegate to the county and state Democratic conventions. WILLIAM L. WANT has been working as a Four WEL men have formed a law partnership in Pensacola, Fla. The name of the firm is Clark, Parting- ton, Hart & Hart. Pictured in their new office are W. Christopher Hart, '68; William H. Clark, ’60, '63L; Robert D. Hart Jr., 63; and Donald H. Partington, ’61, ’64L. United States of America trial attorney at the Department of Justice for the last three years. He is involved in the pollution control section which repre- sents the environmental protection agency in litigation. 1968 C. EpMonps ALLEN III (See 1965.) 1969 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. DANIEL S. HALL, a daughter, Allison Scott, on Nov. 15, 1976. Hall is assistant vice president of Palm Beach Trust Co. in Palm Beach, Fla. Roy G. HARRELL JR. is engaged in the pri- vate practice of law in St. Petersburg, Fla. HENRY L. (Roppy) RoeEpiGeR III is spending the 1976-77 academic year as a visiting as- sistant professor of psychology at the Uni- versity of Toronto. He is on leave from Purdue University. WILLIAM W. STUART is engaged in the pri- vate practice of law in Chicago, and is a pro- fessor at DePaul University College of Law. He recently published an article entitled “Tax Status of Scholarship and Fellowship Grants” in the Emory Law Journal. 1970 MARRIAGE: CHARLES P. CowELL and Anne Katherine LaHue, on Sept. 2, 1976, in Santa Barbara, Calif. ‘The ceremony took place in the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens. Cowell is pursuing an M.A. in organic chemistry at the University of California Santa Barbara. His wife also attends UCSB and is pursuing a doctorate in marine biology. H. WALTER BARRE has joined the firm of Frost, Johnson, Read & Smith, Inc., in Spar- tanburg, S. C., where he works in the area of financial planning. Davin S$. CUMMING is presently room serv- ice manager at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Dr. Henry A. FLEISHMAN is in his third year of general surgery residency at the Univer- sity of Kentucky Medical Center in Lex- ington. ANDREW M. GomBos Jr. received the M.S. de- gree in geology from the University of Ili- nois in 1973 and completed work on_ his Ph.D. last sumer at Florida State University. While at FSU he participated in the Deep Sea Drilling Project’s Leg 36 to the Anarc- tic. He also spent a semester studying in ALUMNI INVITED to FANCY DRESS 1977 February 25 Woody Herman Band $12 in advance $15 at door Write the Student Activities Board, Washing- ton and Lee University, Lexington, Va. 24450 ‘THe Srtepenr Acrivities Boarp OF WaAstuNGYON AND LEE UNIVERSITY CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO JOURNEY TO PARIS, FRANCE TO CELEBRATE THE SEVENTIETI ANNUAL TANGY, DRESS BALE featuring Woopy HERMAN AND THE “PituNDERING HERb FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIETH NINETEEN FLUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN AY HALF PAST EIGHT EARLY-FIELDING STUDENT CENTER PAssPORT MUST BE PRESENTED AT THE DOOR Biack Tie Germany. He is now employed as a produc- tion geologist with Chevron Oil Company in Lafayette, La. WILLIAM M. GOTTWALD, who holds the M.D. degree from Tulane University, is currently an intern at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. REEVE W. KELSEY graduated from Duke Uni- versity School of Law last spring and passed the Ohio bar exam. He is now engaged in private practice in Toledo. The Rev. JoHN E. MILLER is currently en- gaged in doctoral graduate studies at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. He has received the Charles F. Myers Fellowship for study in theology and ethics. Miller has taught in the religion department at the University of Richmond since 1974. SHELDON MILLER graduated from Memphis State University School of Law in 1974 and is now engaged in the private practice of law as a partner in the firm of Weiss and Miller in Memphis, Tenn. EpWARD A. (NED) POWELL JR. is attending the University of North Carolina in their graduate business administration program. He lives in Chapel Hill. HARRY L. SALZBERG has relocated in Rich- mond, Va., where he is employed as a stock- broker with Wheat, First Securities, Inc. Salzberg was formerly with the Honolulu office of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon. Dr. Bruce S. SAMUELS is presently a second- year resident in internal medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, La. 197] CHARLES F. (CHIP) Harris, formerly with Prentiss Court Advertising Agency in Green- ville, S. C., is now president of Upper Valley Press, Inc., of Bradford, Vt. The firm pro- duces 15 weekly newspapers and_ shopper- type publications. Harris and his wife Carol have one daughter Ramey. DR. CONNOR SMITH completed medical school at Emory University, did a surgery intern- ship at the Medical University of South Carolina and is now in the flight surgeon program of the U.S. Navy. He and Marian E. McGregor were married on Dec. 28, 1975, in Anderson, S. C. PAUL S. ‘[RIBLE was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Ist District of Virginia and assumed office in January. Trible was formerly law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Albert Bryan and Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He lately served as Commonwealth’s Attorney for Essex County. 1972 MARRIAGE: JOHN C. O’NEAL and Nancy Todd Vaughan, on Aug. 7, 1976, in Frede- ricksburg, Va. Among the groomsmen were Charles Perry Jr., "73 and Nimrod Long Jr., ‘73. O'Neal is pursuing a doctoral degree in French at UCLA. The couple live in Los Angeles, Calif. BIRTH: Capt. and Mrs. MIcHAEL N. Warb, a son, Christopher Michael, on Aug. 3, 1976. Ward is presently serving as a chemical ad- visor with the U. S. Army and is stationed in Butzbach, Germany. Ropert R. HATTEN has become a partner of the Newport News law firm of Patten and Wornom. Prior to joining the firm Hatten served as law clerk for Federal District Court Judge John A. MacKenzie. 1973 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JAMEs S. MAHAN III, a son, James Slaughter IV, on Sept. 21, 1976. Mahan is a corporate bank officer with Wa- chovia Bank in Winston-Salem, N. C. L. Pric—E BLACKFORD is an associate in the corporate finance department of Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., in New York City. JAMes H. Ciapp is serving as law clerk to Judge Marvin H. Smith, Associate Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. G. ARCHER FRIERSON II, a partner in the Frierson Plantation, is engaged in the cotton, timber, soybean and beef cattle busi- ness. He is a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church and an active member of the Shreve- port Downtown Rotary Club. He and _ his wife, the former Ivy Bratton Hedgcock, live in Shreveport, La. MicHAEL Houck recently received the M.S. degree in Library Science from Catholic Uni- versity and is currently employed as a con- sultant by the Communications Workers of America at their Washington headquarters. WILLIAM G. K. MERRILL is employed _ by Management Leadtime, Inc., as a consultant in corporate strategic planning in Pitts- burgh, Pa. CHARLES D. PERRY JR., is employed by Perry Supply Co., Inc., in Birmingham, Ala., and is also president of Charles Perry Re- 33 Class Notes claiming Co. He is president of the Birming- ham German Club and a junior board member of the Birmingham Downtown Club. Bruce L. PHILLIPS is engaged in the private practice of law as a partner in the firm of Venzie and Phillips. He and his wife and their two daughters reside in Springfield, Pa. FREDERICK E. ROBERTS is in his second year as pastor of the Gaston Charge of the Unit- ed Methodist Church of Gaston, N. C. Since receiving his M.A. degree in physical education from Appalachian State Univer- sity in June 1976, MICHAEL SCHAEFFER has been employed as soccer coach at Providence Day School in Charlotte. The team won the Charlotte Independent School Athletic As- sociation Soccer Championship this fall. PAUL C. SUTHERN was promoted to admini- strative assistant of the executive vice presi- dent of Conval Corp. in October 1976. His duties will include marketing, finance and manufacturing work in the U.S. and abroad. Conval Corp. is a division of Condec Corp. in Old Greenwich, Conn. Tell us! Mark R. Younc, who holds the M.B.A. de- gree from the University of Virginia, has joined the sales staff of WXEX-TV in Rich- mond, Va., as local account executive. 1974 MARRIAGE: Jack E. ALTMAN III and Mar- garet Lee Bryson, on June 12, 1976. Alfred Marshall, ’74, was a member of the wedding party. Also in attendance were Charles H. Sipple III, ‘53, and Charles H. Sipple IV, ‘78. The couple lives in Nashotah, Wis., where Altman is a senior at the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Nashotah House. MARVIN P. DANIEL has been promoted to marketing officer with Southern Bankshares Inc., of Richmond, Va. R. LEIGH FRACKELTON JR. is in his third year of study at the T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. JEFFREY A. Hooper, an attorney in private practice, is also currently serving as _assis- tant solicitor for Zanesville, Ohio. JAMEs RoGERs is with Philadelphia National Bank in the credit department, working in YOU ARE NOW A REPORTER FOR W&L. Please send us news of yourself so that we can pass it on through the magazine to your W&L friends. AND REMEMBER, DON’T MAKE A MOVE WITHOUT LETTING US KNOW. Every address change provided by the Post Office now costs 25 cents. We could go broke at that rate. So please send your correct address and news to Alumni Office, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450. Name Class Address City State Zip News Item 34 Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic financial in- stitutions. G. WATSON TEBO JR. is working on his M.S. degree in microbiology at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette. He holds a graduate assistantship for teaching and research. 1975 MARRIAGE: PAu B. Kurtz and Katherine Neilson on Nov. 6, 1976. The couple lives in St. Louis, Mo. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES J. BROWN IlJ, a daughter, Courtney Slone, on May 12, 1976. Brown is engaged in the practice of law with the firm of Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va. CAROLINE WATTs has formed a partnership for the general practice of law in Madison, Va., with her father, M. Williamson Watts, 48L. 1976 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. THomas P. O’DELL, a son, Andrew Peyton, on Nov. 12, 1976. The family lives in Hodgenville, Ky., where O’Dell is engaged in the private practice of law. PETER R. CAVALIER is a management trainee in commercial credit with Fidelity Union Trust Co. in Newark, N. J. He is a member in the Essex County Chapter of the Ameri- can Institute of Banking. FRANCIS CHARLES CLARK has recently joined the law firm of Womble, Carlyl, Sandridge and Rice in Winston-Salem, N. C. FRANK L. DUEMMLER received the $250 first prize in the 1976 Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition for his essay, “Library Photo- copying An International Perspective.” The Burkan Competition is sponsored annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers designed to stimu- late interest in the field of copyright law. Duemmler is associated with the New York law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Pal- mer & Wood. MARINUS QUIST is port representative for Tidex International, Inc., in Jakarta, In- donesia. Tidex is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tidewater Marine Service. Quist’s re- sponsibilities include management of 15 vessels. PAUL SIMPSON has been appointed staff as- sistant to the admissions department of Alliance College. He lives in Meadville, Pa. In Memoriam 191] JAMES GRANVILLE JOHNSTON, a retired civil engineer, died Nov. 19, 1976, in Lexington, Va. Johnston served as chairman of the Selective Service Board from 1941-46. He was a former member of the Rockbridge Historical Society and an Elder of the Oxford Presbyterian Church. LOL? The editor sincerely regrets this delay in re- porting the following obituary of Raymond Francis Garcia. At the time of his death in May 1974, RAYMOND FRANcIs.) GaArcrIA lived in Daytona Beach, Fla., and was a retired consulting engineer and an _ executive of several companies. He attended Washing- ton and Lee’s law school as a special student in 1911-12 but soon after entered the en- gineering business. Garcia was a former vice president of Central Foundry Co, in New York City and later was associated with M. R. Boyce Co. of Clearwater, Fla., J. B. McCrary Engineering Corp. of Atlanta, and M. G. Aldridge Contracting Firm of Macon, Ga., until his retirement in 1964. He con- tinued as a consulting engineer until a few years before his death. 1914 ROGER JONES BEAR, a former engineer and safety director with Kroger Co. of Cin- cinnati, died Oct. 27, 1976, in Pulaski, Va. Prior to joining Kroger Co. in 1933, Bear was an engineer on the construction of the Cincinnati Union Terminal and with the Norfolk & Western Railway. He was a veter- an of World War I and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Safety Council. 1917 JosePpH Hopcson BALL died Oct. 25, 1976, in Jacksonville, Fla. He had lived in Jackson- ville for 44 years, Ball was formerly in Washington, D. C., where he served with the Federal Housing Administration for a short time. He was instrumental in estab- lishing F.H.A. offices in Tampa and Miami. He was chief of the mortgage and risk sec- tion of the F.H.A. for 30 years and also was acting chief underwriter. Ball was a veteran of World War I having served in the Army Air Corps. HERBERT GROOMS SMITH died Nov. 1, 1976. A native of Newport News, Smith was named judge of the Corporation Court there in 1938 and held the position until his re- tirement in 1961. Smith served overseas with the U.S. Army during World War I. He opened a law practice in Newport News in 1920 and five years later was elected Com- monwealth Attorney. Smith was instrumen- tal in establishing the Peninsula United Fund and in raising funds for the construc- tion of Riverside Hospital. He was a 50-year member of the American Legion and served as a member of the board of directors of the United Virginia Bank, Citizens and Marine. 1918 ADISON GILMORE CUMMINGS, superintendent of schools for 21 years in Bedford County, Va., died Sept. 16, 1976. Cummings had been involved with education since 1919 and serv- ed as principal in Rockbridge County, Alex- andria, and Farmville, Va. He retired in 1953. DR. ROBERT G. VANCE JR., a roentgenologist in Boston, Mass., before retiring to Sara- sota, Fla., in 1958, died April 12, 1976. Vance received his medical degree from the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1922. He was a mem- ber of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Ameri- can Roentgen Ray Society, the Radiological Society of North America, and the New Eng- land Roentgen Ray Society. 1920 CARL KNApp GILCHRIST, former city council- man of Charleston, W. Va., and former vice president of public relations with Columbia Gas of West Virginia, died Oct. 7, 1976. He was secretary of the board of trustees for Morris Harvey College where he served for a period of time as public rela- tions director. He was also a former mem- ber of the municipal planning commission. Gilchrist was a past president and lieuten- ant governor of the Kiwanis Club, a for- mer member of the Community Music As- sociation, Visiting Nurses Association and the Council on World Service and Finance of the United Methodist Church. 1925 W. CARROLL (JOHNNY) MEAD died Nov. 2, 1976. He began working in the brokerage business in 1926 after teaching for a time at St. Paul’s School. In 1932 he developed his own brokerage partnership, Mead, Irvine & Co., in Baltimore. He continued there until 1971 when he became a consultant and ad- viser to Reynolds Securities, Inc. In the late ‘30s, Mead served as president of the Balti- more Stock Exchange. During World War II, he served as a captain in the Marine Corps with an air unit on Midway Island. In 1950 the United States Marines Post of the American Legion, of which he was a member, honored him for his civic service. That same year, Mead served as state chair- man of the annual fund drive of the Ameri- can Cancer Society. A former vice president of the Investment Bankers Association, he served as president of the Baltimore Bond Club, trustee of the Peabody Institute, trustee of St. Paul’s School for 40 years, and as a member of the South Balti- more General Hospital. 1929 JAMEs MARSHALL FAULKNER, a former attor- ney of Georgetown, Del., and judge of the family court of the State of Delaware, died Sept. 23, 1976. Faulkner was a salesman and executive in the package industry from 1932 to 1947 and operated a dairy from 1947 to 1962. After attending the University of Maryland night school between 1957 and 1960, he was awarded the LL.B. degree in 1960. In 1962 he began to practice law in Georgetown. HARRY MAURICE WILSON JR., a banker and in- vestment analyst of Jacksonville, Fla., died Nov. 10, 1976. Wilson retired as vice presi- dent and trust officer of the Florida Na- tional Bank of Jacksonville in 1970. Previous- ly he had been a partner in Childress and Co. He was a founder of the Jacksonville Financial Analysts Society. During World War II he was a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Navy. Wilson was an honorary mem- ber of The Seminole Club, Timuquana Country Club and the Navy League of Jack- sonville. He was also a past king of Ye Mystic Revellers. 1930 HAROLD MERWIN PLATT, a former attorney of South Hampton, N. Y., died Nov. 14, 1976, in Winter Haven, Fla. Platt was a former member of the Supreme Court of the United States Bar, New York Bar, and the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Bar. He was a member of the American Legion. 193] Boyp H. LACKEy, a retired executive with American Cynamid Co. of Savannah, Ga., 35 died in April 1976. Lackey joined the company in 1931 and was production super- intendent. 1932 Lestie S. LOCKETT, an attorney in Corpus Christi, Texas, died in July 1976. Lockett was a partner of the firm Kleberg, Mob- ley, Lockett & Weil. JoHN HENRY WALKER, a resident of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., for the last five years, died Oct. 28, 1976. He was active in the insurance business and had his own agency in Jacksonville, Fla. Prior to moving to Florida, Walker was well known in the in- surance circles in Chicago, Ill. He served as a commander in the Naval Reserve in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. 1934 FRED WILLIAM KELLEY, an electronic engi- neer with the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., for 21 years, died Jan. 31, 1976. Kelley served with the United States Navy during World War II. 1935 Described by the Knoxville News-Sentinel as an “athlete ... artist . . . sports writer . official . . . instructor .. . friend,” WIL- LIAM HASKIEL Dyer died Oct. 30, 1976. Dyer worked at the News-Sentinel for many years, first as a sports writer and later as cCar- toonist. He was renowned for his Dyer- grams, cartoon illustrations of the Univer- sity of Tennessee’s football games. Some of Dyer’s sketches adorn the walls of the Stokely Center, UT's athletic center. Dyer was a charter member of the Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church and _ served as_ both an elder and deacon at the church. He taught in the Sunday School and provided many cartoons for church projects. 1953 OAKLEIGH RUSSELL FRENCH JR., president of French Advertising in Creve Coeur, Mo., and an advertising and public relations con- sultant, died Aug. 25, 1976. French was a past president of the Industrial Marketing Club of St. Louis and a member of the re- ception committee for the advertising clubs of St. Louis. He was a former assistant dis- trict commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America, a former director of public rela- tions for the City of Creve Coeur, and a former sales promotion manager for the Monsanto Chemical Co. of St. Louis. 36 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. F. Sheldon Anderson Jr., ’70 Kent W. Andrews, 66 Benjamin L. Bailey, ’75 Michael L. Beatty, *69 Augustus P. G. Biddle, *68L Alden E. C. Bigelow, 68 William E. Boggiano Jr., ’56 Jeffrey C. Burris, "73 James F. Bycott, °70 David R. Duncan, ’68 George H. Dunn, ’65 Calvin L. Durham, ’27 William C. Dwiggins, 37 William D. Dyer, °62 Daniel A. Eadie, ’67 George E. Eagle, 752 David V. Eakin, ’61 James T. Earle, ’46 Gerald M. Earley, ’58 Vincent B. Earley, °38 Gilbert S. Earp, °25 Everett C. Easter Jr., ’49 James H. Eckert, "40 Wallace C. Edmondson, 731 John F. Edmundson, ‘33 Raymond W. Edwards, ’27 George W. Effinger, ’08 Wilfred Eldred, ’09 William P. Ellington, ’25 James B. Ellis Jr., ’31 John G. Ellison, ‘14 James G. Elms, °24 Clausen Ely Jr., ’67 Thomas P. England, ’20 Lawrence E. Englert, *44 Walker G. Erickson, *64 Peter Erlinghagen, 7°56 William A. Edwin, 713 Bill E. Evans, *64 Donald E. Evans Jr., ’68 Gill C. Evans, °58 Robert C. Evans, ’51L Robert N. Evans, °59 J. G. Blaine Ewing III, °67 Roy E. Fabian Jr., ’43L Francis W. Falconer, ’31 Charles J. Farrington Jr., ‘50 Robert K. Faust, ’72 John S. Fechnay, ‘69 James F. Feeney, “49L Green B. Fenley Jr., ‘20 Willard S. Ferris, °36 Robert L. Fertig, ’75 Joel F. Fields, °56 Randolph D. Fingland, ’67 Harry J. Fisher, *56L Iver Fishman, 750 William M. Fittge, °50 Terence Flannery, °53 Robert L. Fleming, °59 Mark S. Floyd, ’71 Robert Floyd, ’42 Edgar D. Flynn Jr., °37L William H. Foard, ‘06 James N. Foley, °66 Harry A. Foltz, 62 Hugh L. Fontaine, ‘16 George W. Fooshe, ’24 Francis W. Foote, °67 Charles H. Forbes Jr., ‘51 Douglas J. Ford, °75 Jonathan Ford, °38 William J. Forrestel, "44 Clinton D. Forsyth, ‘23 Malcolm O. Forsyth, 34 Eugene B. Fortson, °57L Carl A. Foss, ‘20 C. B. Foster, 713L Lester’ J. :Fox, 21 Roland J. Fraier, °48 Frank E. Freeman, ’31 James B. Frizzell, ‘51 Richard F. Gaines, °59 Charles D. Gardner, ’26 Francis P. Gardner, °13 Zalmon H. Garfield, ’°39 Daniel B. Garrett, 66 Henry L. Garrett, °12 Bernard C. Garrison Jr., 35 Gordon D. Gary, °43 John E. Gates, °37 Steven T. Gates, *71 Eldridge L. Gathright, °37 Samuel A. Gay, ’59L Howard E. Gellis, °57L Charles Ghiselin Jr., ‘12 David M. Gibson, ’6l Edward D. Gibson, °57 Fred G. Gibson, ’20 William L. Gibson, °14 William R. Gibson, °72 David W. Giese Jr., °72 Burr E. Giffen Jr., 43 David A. Gilbert, °73 Falconer R. Gilbert, °50 John H. Gilbert, ’67 Webster R. Gilbert, ’28 James S. Gilman, ’70 George E. Gilmore, ’22 Leland T. Gilmore, °53L Samuel D. Gilpin, ‘11L William M. Ginn, 69 Eugene N. S. Girard II, ’59 Howard Gise, ’3l Stephen A. Giuffra, ’29L Philip Glass, °26 William B. Glasscock, ’24 Robert D. Glasser, ’11 Norman G. Glassman, ’66L William R. Glattly, °53 Claude T. Glenn, ’23 William S. Glenn III, 753 Jacob Goldberg, °27 John Gonzales, ’45 Sam Goodman, ’26 William C. Goodwin, °33 Laurence E. Gordon Jr., ’45 Philip J. Gordon, 31 Charles F. Gore, ’25 Joseph D. Gorman, ‘65 Alexander E. Graham, 749 Bert Graham, °49 William W. Graham, ’71 John C. Grandin, ’70 William M. Gravatt III, ’71L Theodore W. Graves Jr., ‘65 Forest W. Gray Jr., 49 John B. Gray III, ’61 William D. Gray, °43 William F. Gray Jr., ’65 Steven H. Greenia, *68 Otis T. Gregg, °12 Harry J. Gregory, ’50 Thomas W. Griffin, ’30 Charles B. Griffis, ’38 David R. Grogan, ’63 Ira Gross, 731 John E. Grossman, ’27 Henry E. Guerriero Jr., ’48 John G. Guthrie, ‘61 Robert L. Guyer, 55 Lewis L. Haas, ’34 Peter E. Haiman, ’60 Thomas J. Hale, ’08 Larry D. Hall, °52 Reginald Y. S. Hallett, *50 Charles W. Hamilton, 735 James C. Hamilton, °43 Alvin M. Hammell, ’27 Joseph Hanaway, ’55 George G. Hancock Jr., ’60 James C. Hanks, *49 Robert S. Hansel, ’12 John H. Hansford Jr., ’23 Mark K. Hanson, ’75 Richard Harding, *44 Pliny H. Hardy, ’09 Frederick G. Harmon, 753 No library is complete without... 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