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JEFFREY EDITORIAL BOARD PAXTON DAvIs, JR. FRANK J. GILLIAM JAMES H. PRICE, JR. DONALD E. SMITH Harry K. (Cy) YOuNG THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. President MartTIN P. Burks, III, 1932 Vice-President HowarpbD W. DoBBINSs, 1942 Secretary HARRY K. (Cy) YOUNG, 1917 Associate Secretary JAMEs H. PRICE, JR., 1941 Treasurer STUARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MarTIN P. Burks, III, 1932 JoHN F. HENDON, 1924 STUARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 Howarp W. DoBBINS, 1942 PARKE S. ROUSE, JR., 1937 ERNEST Woopwarb, II, 1940 Davin D. JOHNSON, 1921 FRANK C. Brooks, 1946 COVER: Officers and dates at Fancy Dress Ball on February 1 line up in front of the Don Giovanni setting THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 18, 1957 Dear Dr. Gaines: It is a privilege to join you in observing the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee. The traditions of Washington and Lee University provide a splendid setting for this commemoration. Son of Washington's cavalry officer and friend, Lee was by marriage and spirit a member of George Washington's family. For over thirty years, ag a surveyor, engineer and soldier, he helped to secure the boundaries of the United States. In the tragedy of divided loyalties, even while he led the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee served as the highest standard of leadership for soldiers both of the North and South, One of the noblest men our Nation has produced, his influence remains unchanging and his picture is on the wall of my office next to Lincoln's. On the campus of the University to which he gave his last full measure of devotion, his contribution to the Union, his leadership and integrity are carried forward in the hearts of your young students. In the promise of these men, gathered equally from all parts of the United States, I find the fulfillment of Lee's career. With warmest greetings to you all, Sincerely, Dr. Francis P. Gaines President Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia { THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE HE WINTER MONTHS SPED_ by Ta at Washington and Lee University, broken by the two-week vacation at Christmastime. Students participated in a frenzy of pre-holi- day activities, dispersed all over the continent on December 20 to spread Yuletide cheer to parents and loved ones, then returned for a couple of weeks of nose-to-the-grindstone studying before semester examina- tions began. Although Lexington had a com- paratively mild winter, a three-inch snow fell on January 16, and re- mained on the ground for three days. Students slipped away from their books long enough to have some good snowfights, and to slide WINTER 1957 University News screaming down an icy Letcher avenue hill on sleds borrowed from small fry, or on turkey platters bor- rowed from fraternity kitchens. Winter activities were many and varied, as clubs and organizations roared into high gear. The Univer- sity Glee Club entertained resort hotel managers from all over the world at a weekend convention be- ginning November 24 at the Green- briar Hotel. The club’s musical presentation brought high praise for Washington and Lee from those present. | On December 4, the ‘Troubadour theater presented the first of three performances of “The “Tempest.” The Glee Club joined the Sweet Back Campus after January Snow Storm. Briar college choir on December 7, to present selections from Handel’s Messiah in Lexington Presbyterian church. On December 8, the Corn Bowl classic was played on Wilson Field for the benefit of the Student War Memorial Scholarship Fund. Participants in the gridiron melee were the Red Kernels, composed ot Red Square fraternities and Kappa Alphas, against the White Cobs, composed of players from all other fraternities. Victors were the Reds. Betore Christmas, seven fraterni- ties gave parties for Rockbridge county underprivileged children, and all fraternities banded together to contribute $340 to the Christmas basket program of the county. The 3 Joun N. BEHRMAN Candlelight Service was held in Lee Chapel at 10:30 p.m. on De- cember 18. On January g, a concert to bene- fit the Emergency Appeal for Hun- garians was presented in Doremus gymnasium by Miss Iren Marik, Hungarian concert pianist, now on the music faculty at Sweet Briar College. Sponsored by the Concert Guild, her performance _ raised about $200 for Hungarian relief. The Southern Collegian an- nounced on January 10 that its printing contract had gone to a Lynchburg company for the three remaining issues. Due to crowded conditions in the University Print Shop, delivery could not be guar- anteed for the three dance sets, February 1-2, April 19-20, and June 5-6, so the book will be printed off campus, instead. Students at the University joined in special tribute to the memory of General Robert E. Lee in a Founder’s Day assembly at noon, January 19, the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great general and educator. President Gaines de- livered his annual address, and read a letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower praising General Lee as “one of the noblest men our na- 4 tion has produced.” The President said he kept Lee’s picture on the wall of his office, next to Lincoln’s photograph. Fancy Dress Ball this year had as its theme Mozart’s ““Don Giovanni,” with the setting as the National Theater in Prague on October 209, 1787, premiere date for opera. Stu- dents and dates came costumed as royalty of Europe in colorful satins, laces and white wigs—a fact which didn’t deter them in the least from rocking and rolling, 1957 style, to the music of Les Brown and his or- chestra. An innovation this year was a special student-faculty recep- MARSHALL W. FISHWICK tion prior to the ball, held at the Robert E. Lee Hotel, with appro- priate music furnished by the Rich- mond String Quartet. PROMOTIONS FOR SEVEN members of the Washington and Lee faculty will be effective September 1, au- thorized by the Board of ‘Trustees at its last meeting. Three men were made full professors, three others raised from assistant to associate professorships, and one was pro- moted from instructor to assistant professor. Named as professors were: John N. Behrman, economics and _politi- cal science; Marshall W. Fishwick, American studies; and John Harvey Wheeler, Jr., political science. New associate professors are: C. Westbrook Barritt, Spanish; Jay C. Cook, Jr., accounting; and George Francis Drake, French. Thomas E. Ennis, Jr., was promoted to assist- ant professor of accounting. @ FRANK J. GILLIAM, dean of stu- dents at Washington and Lee, has been named to the board of trus- tees of the Episcopal ‘Theological Seminary in Virginia at Alexandria. He will represent the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. Filling a recently-created vacancy, Dean Gilliam will serve until 1958 under the present appointment. More students are now attending the seminary from Washington and Lee than any other college in the United States, Dean Gilliam says. # DR. EDWARD D. MYERS, On one year’s leave of absence in Munich, Germany, to work on a special pro- ject for the Fund for the Advance- ment of Education, has had a busy winter of research and_ writing, JOHN HARVEY WHEELER THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE New initiates and local graduate members of Omicron Delta Kappa gathered in front of the Student Union building on November 30, 1956, for this picture. On the front row in the center, are RUSSELL Lapp, president of the chapter; Dr. Francis P. Gaines; and Dr. HARRY J. CARMAN, dean emeritus of Columbia University, guest speaker at the tapping ceremony. plus some speaking engagements designed to cement good German- American relations in the area. Under the joint auspices of the Office of Public Affairs of the Amer- ican Embassy at Bad Godesburg, and German schools and universi- ties concerned, he lectured as fol- lows: November, ‘Differences Be- tween English and American Lan- guages’ to foreign languge teachers in four German high schools; Jan- uary 30—Nuerenburg, in coopera- tion with Hockschule fiir Wirts- chafts and Sozialwissenschapten on ‘Toynbee and His Critics,’ in Ger- man language; January 31—at Er- langen University, same topic in English: Feb. 1-4, one lecture at the Padagogische Hochschule Ber- lin-Laukwitz, on ‘‘Education in Per- spective,” in German; one lecture at Free University, Berlin; Feb- ruary 5, lecture at Frankfurt Uni- versity; February 6, Heidelberg University. Doctor Myers, professor of phil- WINTER 1957 osophy at Washington and Lee, was in London from December 4-15, working in the Reading Room of the British Museum on the project, and has now begun the task of writ- ing it. m JAY D. COOK, JR., 43, assistant pro- fessor of accounting, was awarded his doctorate degree on December 20, 1956, from Ohio State Univer- sity at the autumn quarter convoca- tion. m AS IN THE PAST, Washington and Lee attracted an unusual array of outstanding speakers during the winter, and they spoke on a variety of subjects. Dr. Walter Starkie, author and lecturer, and former professor of Spanish and Italian literature at Dublin University in Ireland, gave three lectures on November 15 and 16, sponsored by the department of Romance languages. His topics: “Gypsy Life, History and Music’: “The Wanderings of Don Quixote and Sancho: A Visit ‘Today to the Scene of La Mancha”; and “A Sym- posium in Elysium: Shaw, Piran- dello, Becente and O’Neill.’’ An alumnus, Dr. David Wice, ’27, Rabbi of Rodeph Temple in Phila- delphia, chose as his subject on No- vember 28, “Does Scientific Know- ledge Make It Difficult to Accept Religious Faith?” His visit was sponsored jointly by the Christian Association, Washington Literary Society, Graham-Lee Society, and the Student Service Society. He also spoke in several classrooms during his visit. Dean Harry J. Carman, dean emeritus of Columbia University, spoke at ceremonies in Lee chapel on November go, at which sixteen men were tapped for membership 5 in Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fraternity. ‘The annual Seminars in Litera- ture series began on December 10, with Dr. Carlos Baker, chairman of the English department at Prince- ton, and a Hemingway authority, as speaker. His subject was “Heming- way and the Emotionated Land- scape.’ Professor David Daiches of Cambridge University, England, was speaker on February 11 at the second seminar in Literature. Au- thor of numerous studies, including “The Novel and the Modern World,” “Poetry and the Modern World,” and “A Study of Litera- ture,” he addressed students and faculty on “The Background of Modern Literary Criticism.” Pro- fessor Justin O’Brien of the French department at Columbia Univer- sity, was scheduled as the third sem- inar speaker on March 2g, He was to speak on the work of Gide. On December 6, A. M. McNickel, vice-president in charge of business development and public relations for the Fidelity Trust Company of Pittsburgh, spoke to the Law and Commerce schools on estate plan- ning. The third annual International Relations Week was held February 4 through 7. Speakers were: Dr. Edward H. Carr, noted British poli- tical scientist, historian and author; Dr. Robert J. Koblitz, associate pro- fessor of political science at Bard College, New York, a division of Columbia University; and Dr. Mil- ar Hapala, associate professor of government and economics at Sweet Briar College, and a native of Czechoslovakia. ‘Their — subjects were, respectively: “Bolshevism in Asia”; “Soviet Influence in India’; and ‘Recent Developments in Po- land, Hungary, and Czechoslovak- ia.” All three experts participated in a round-table discussion on the week’s theme, “Soviet Influence in Asia and Eastern Europe.” Christian Council speakers on four Tuesday nights in February and March were: Dr. Edward L. Long, Jr., who opened the series of discussions on “You in the Un1- versity” on February 12, with the subject, “Crisis in the University”; Dr. Leland W. McCloud, associate professor of commerce, who spoke on February 26 on “The Christian and the Social Mill of the Cam- pus’; Dr. ‘Theodore A. Smedley, professor of law, was to speak on March 15 on “The University: A Mental Maze”; and Dr. David W. Sprunt, professor of religion, who was to wind up the series by dis- cussing “The Christian in the Uni- versity: What Should He Do?” # THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL Southern Interscholastic Press