the alumni magazine of washington and lee university SEPTEMBER 1977 the alumni magazine of washington and lee Volume 52, Number 6, September 1977 William C. Washburn, 40 ...................2.. Editor Romulus T. Weatherman ............ Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, 68 ................25. Associate Editor Douglass W. Dewing, 77 .............. Assistant Editor Joyce Carter 1.0.0... 0... cee eee eee, Editorial Assistant Sally Mann .... 6. ee eee Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Keeping Pace in Journalism ................. ] Journalism Major .......... 2... cece e eee eee 3 Investigative Reporting ..................05. 7 W&L Gazette ....... cece 9 Internships at W&L ... 1... eee eee ee 13 Annual Fund Report ...................005. 16 Talks by Lewis and Coulling ................. 18 Chapter News ........ 00... c cece eee eee es 23 Class Notes .......... 0. cece eee e eee eee 24 In Memoriam ........... 0... e ec eee eee ee eee 30 Marion Junkin, 1905-1977 ................5. 31 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. EpwiIn J. Fortz, ’40, Gladwyne, Pa. President RoBert M. WuiteE II, 38, Mexico, Mo. Vice President Jerry G. Soutu,’54, San Francisco, Calif. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 40, Lexington, Va. Secretary FRED Fox BENTON Jr., 60, Houston, Tex. WILLIAM P. BOARDMAN, ’63, Columbus, Ohio Puitip R. CAMPBELL, 757, Tulsa, Okla. RICHARD A. DENNY, ’52, Atlanta, Ga. SAMUEL C. DUDLEY, ’58, Richmond, Va. MARION G. HEATWOLE, ’41, Pittsburgh, Pa. SAMUEL B. HO. its, ’51, Memphis, Tenn. CourTNEY R. Mauzy Jr., 61, Raleigh, N.C. PAUL E. SANDERS, 43, White Plains, N.Y. WéSL: the alumni magazine of washington and lee university ON THE COVER: This is the MVP, VDT" that punches the tape that drives the Linocomp’ that turns out the type that appears in Wé&?L*—the type, for instance, on the inside front cover. "Video display terminal, the electronic editing system in the De- partment of Journalism and Communications used for editing and correcting rough copy. *The new photo-compositor in the Journalism Laboratory Press that can produce eight lines of printer’s type per minute. *The gibberish before and after “W&L” are codes that tell the photo-compositor to change to italic type for “W&L” and then back to regular type. The funny symbol is called a bell code. By R. H. MacDonald Professor of Journalism Journalism education keeps pace with vast changes in technology MacDonald has been head of the Department of Journalism and Communications since 1974. A native of Vermont and a graduate of Boston University, he began his broadcast news career in New England. He moved to Roanoke in 1956, and at the time he jouned the WSL faculty in 1969 he was news director of WDB]-TV there. The remaining years in the twentieth century continue to promise spectacular change in journalism and communications. Already we are living in a world where computers and television screens have replaced typewriters in most newsrooms. We can look forward with some certainty to a day not too far off when “newspapers” in some form will be delivered electronically. Radio stations in many instances are becoming robots through automation, and in television, electronic newsgathering by means of videotape is rapidly replacing motion-picture film for news. It means, of course, that Washington and Lee’s journalism program has to keep pace—keep pace with this vast change, but at the same time never lose sight of our real purpose: providing our students with the knowledge, skills, and sensibilities to function as truly professional journalists. Our goal remains to leave the journalism student with a broad, liberal-arts education, combined with the ability to apply that knowledge in the practical world of mass communication. In the journalism department and its programs, the student brings to bear on the everyday occurences of his world the knowledge and skills he has acquired in other studies—the essential background of history, mathematics, science, language, and other disciplines. As a result, we place very few constraints on the journalism major as to other fields of study and interest. Another element of our approach is our attempt to provide studies in our fields for other students, studies which are general in nature, designed for those students with an interest in and a realization of the importance of the mass media in their lives. In recent years, the pace of change in journalism has been quicker than in perhaps any other academic field. Within the past several months the journalism department at Washington and Lee has seen the installation of electronic editing and typesetting equipment comparable to that used now by most daily newspapers. The obsolete hot-lead print production system that served the W&L community for so long has been phased out. This very article you are reading was produced electronically, edited on a video terminal, and produced photographically. It is not only to provide a modern printing facility or to become more efficient that these changes have been made. A constantly advancing industry has made it imperative that journalism students at Washington and Lee be taught the techniques of the newest print technology. It was for this Ronald H. MacDonald reason more than for any other that the investment was made in the new equipment. Once again the University’s print shop can live up to its formal name: The Journalism Laboratory Press. Exposure to professionals is, we believe, an essential part of the training of journalism students. (That is one reason why every member of the journalism faculty has extensive professional experience.) In this connection, the department is especially proud of a series of seminars, instituted three years ago, which bring professional journalists and media managers to campus for two- or three-day workshops three times a year. In such a setting, these professionals are able to ] Journalism Education at W&SL meet with our students and take part in discussions of such topics as education for journalism, newsroom management, high-school journalism, and a variety of other subjects. We look upon these workshops as a form of continuing education which we can provide for the professional journalists in our region. Seminars in the ethics of journalism established under the University’s Society and the Professions program also provide an opportunity for exposure of our students to professionals. During an ethics institute each year, a dozen or more practicing journalists are brought to campus to take part in two days of seminars with a nationally known professional. These institutes have been led by such men as Ben Bagdikian, Norman Isaacs, William Small, and others. Another area where professional exposure is available to journalism students is in our internship program. For a number of years it has been possible to send students off campus for the six-week spring term to take part in actual work experiences in a variety of media-related jobs. This has been an almost universally successful program and in some cases has resulted in full-time employment for the students. The change in the University calendar, which made internships possible, came at just the right time for us. It coincided with a nationwide surge in journalism enrollments that pushed our senior class from a total of five in 1969 to 39 in 1974, the peak year. The curriculum and calendar change gave us the opportunity to “re-tool,” so to speak. Our program had been geared to very small enrollments, and we were equipped for small classes. We have reconstructed the major courses and requirements, added equipment and enlarged the faculty so that we have been able to maintain a student-faculty ratio of about 8-to-1, and average classes at about 11. In recent years W&L has placed major emphasis on the creation of a modern radio and television laboratory. That, now, is virtually complete with the installation of a new stereo FM transmitter and fully broadcast-quality additional equipment for WLUR. The radio station is looked upon as something far more than a laboratory for interested students. Its programming for most of its 19-hour broadcast day is aimed at the general Lexington-Rockbridge community. As a non-commercial station, WLUR is able to provide air time for a wide variety of high-quality programming not otherwise available. The all-volunteer staff of about 50 students comes from all departments of the University. The University television facility is still relatively new and developing. It is used principally as a laboratory for students in television courses, but provides daily local news to the community through the Lexington cable television system. The development at W&L of radio and television courses and facilities has meant realistic laboratory experience for 2 SS SSS wf John K. Jennings, ’56, associate professor of journalism, teaches courses in communications law, public opinion, media-government relationships, and the motion picture as an information medium. the substantial number of students whose goal is to work in electronic news. The focus of our classroom and laboratory work in radio and TV is in the area of gathering, processing, and presenting news. We offer no studies in advertising or public relations, believing those fields to be related to, but apart from, our fundamental educational objective: teaching journalists. With all the development in electronics, our first concern remains with print journalism. Most new courses established in the last three years have been in reporting, writing, and editing for the print media. By Hampden H. Smith III Assistant Professor of Journalism — Journalism major fuses skills with broad liberal education Ham Smith worked on newspapers in Staunton and Petersburg before moving to the city desk of the Richmond News Leader in 1969. He joined the WSL faculty in 1974. The basic concept of journalism education at Washington and Lee today is strikingly similar to the principle of the first journalism program in the history of education, established while Robert E. Lee was president of Washington College. That original idea was that printers—the only people who had the skills that enabled them to be editors—would be schooled in the liberal arts and sciences so they could spread knowledge and information throughout a rebuilding South. The principle was: Practical use of a liberal education. That first program, however, never caught on. It was many decades before journalism education really developed at Washington and Lee, and the major emphasis has changed several times in the department’s history. Today, the approach is perhaps “purer”—or at least more unified— than it has been for many years. 7 The orientation is completely toward journalism—not advertising, not public relations, not mass entertainment. It is true that a number of alumni continue to enter these journalism-related fields—and many are quite successful at them—but the department no longer seeks to provide any education in those related areas. The department faculty members are pleased with this change. It has produced a program of much sharper focus, a program of a quality and depth not possible with broader offerings. Comparing the courses this year with those offered 10 years ago provides an illustration. Of the 20 journalism courses listed in the Catalogue for the 1967-68 academic year, two were in advertising, one was in psychological warfare and propaganda, and the primary focus of another was public relations; the advertising sequence was required of students taking the graphic arts course. Four newspaper writing or editing courses were offered. Twenty-seven courses are listed for the 1977-78 year. None is in propaganda, advertising, or public relations. Eight courses are now offered in news writing or editing. Added have been a broadcast newswriting course, an advanced course in magazine and newspaper feature writing, a course in advanced investigative reporting, and the spring internship. The orientation of several other courses has shifted strongly to journalism. Almost half the courses required for the journalism major at W&L are these “skills” courses. The introductory survey and four courses in communications law, mass media and government, ethics, public opinion, and the like complete the major. Each student must also take four advanced courses in some other discipline; the expectation is that he will thus have a solid background in some field he will find useful as a journalist. SSS Ss — SASS — SS SSS SSE Hampden H. Smith II sens Githons GEM CODs Oe SIS pees Bere eee, The Mergenthaler MVP, a video display terminal, used to edit and correct copy. On the display in this picture ts the same copy that appears on the front cover and in type on the inside front cover. 3 Journalism Education at WSL Meeting these requirements takes about a third of the student’s college program, and University regulations further assure that the student will have at least a smattering of courses in four broad areas. The result is that the W&L journalism major has a dual focus: an extremely rigorous program of training in journalistic skills and as broad a background as a liberal approach to education can offer in how the world operates. Throughout the journalism program, the emphasis is on the roles the news media do play, could play, and should play in the community and in the world. This means | instilling an appreciation for—almost a healthy fear of—the tremendous power of the press to inform and misinform. This means attention in all courses to questions of journalism ethics and to the broad principles behind the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press and behind the legal requirements of accuracy and fair play. Another important aspect of the department’s program— and a major concern of the department—is the technological revolution taking place in print journalism. Until very recently, the mechanics of producing a printed page were essentially those developed by Gutenberg: individual pieces of type were brought physically together letter by letter, ink was rolled over the assembled pieces, and paper was then pressed on the type. Electricity, hot-metal linecasting machines, and stereotype plates for large rotary presses modernized the process, of course, but the basic approach was unchanged. Then, in the 1960’s, computer technology struck. Today, information is relayed by satellite; laser beams transmit photographs; type is set by photocomposition machines at incredible speeds; whole classified advertising pages are produced automatically by computer; soon the rotary press will be transformed by the advent of computer-driven ink Jets. It is almost technologically possible—today—for a press in, say, Lexington to receive microwave facsimiles of the pages of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TV Guide, Newsweek and the Richmond News Leader, print the proper combination of these journals without stopping the press for even an instant, and provide the local news carrier with whatever selection of newspapers and magazines each subscriber desires. It almost seems that new concepts such as these appear daily. When every new photocomposer, optical scanner, and the like is obsolete as soon as it comes off the assembly line, it is impossible for any college to provide its students with the latest gadgetry. It is absolutely essential, however, to give today’s journalism student a familiarity with the basics of the major technological advances. In this way, he will understand in a general way the operation of nearly any space-age toy his employer may have just bought. 4 The New Technology, as it is called, has meant that W&L’s journalism department has had to abandon its cut- and paste, manual typewriter, hot-metal orientation. Students now write their stories on the University’s new video-display terminal, or they type them so they can be read by optical scanners. Plans have been made to begin replacing the department’s manual typewriters as they wear out with scannable electrics. These changes are taking place in conjunction with the transformation of the Journalism Laboratory Press from an outmoded hot-type operation to a modern photocomposition/ offset system. Because of the compatibility of the video terminal and the Press’s photocomposer, it is now simple to print newspapers and magazines produced by students in journalism courses. The teaching value of this new capability is tremendous. The department’s response to the New Technology might seem to foster in its students an inordinate concern for the mechanics of the profession. Actually, the reverse seems to be true. Because the journalism major is introduced to modern production techniques early on, they seem less formidable to him. Therefore, as a professional he will be able to concentrate more fully on the intellectual and human aspects of journalism than he would be if he were anxious about having to use unfamiliar computer codes and performing strange video terminal procedures. All the information the department receives from graduates and employers indicates that the current curriculum has been highly successful. Recent journalism Of the notions of editors .. . and making life less mysterious LE Larry Mason, a skilled operator of the Linotype, which produced metal type, is now an equally skilled operator of the Linocomp, the Journalism Laboratory Press’s new photo-composition system. 1,566. graduates have experienced little or no difficulty finding good professional positions. That’s quite a claim, at a time when the number of journalism students in the nation is greater than all the newspaper and reporting jobs combined. Even the most prestigious journalism schools are ecstatic if half their graduates find jobs in the field. Although the concept of journalism education was originated in Lexington, Washington and Lee is hardly the center of journalism studies today. About 20 journalism majors graduate each year from W&L, while the most recent tally showed nearly 65,000 journalism majors in U.S. four- year colleges and universities. That’s too many. However, after nearly a decade of annual increases of 15 percent or so, the number of majors nearly leveled off last year; whether that is the beginning of a trend is not known. Further, “journalism” includes not only print and broadcast journalism. Elsewhere, that umbrella term also encompasses public relations, photojournalism, advertising, and journalism education. The most recent national survey placed 32 percent of the majors in the news-editorial sequence (print), 15 percent in broadcasting, 10 percent in advertising, and 6 percent in public relations; the remaining 37 percent were not identified as to emphasis. Some journalism schools are larger than all of W&L. The University of Texas at Austin lists 2,645 journalism majors, Syracuse claims 2,015, and Boston University identifies Although a large percentage of these 65,000 majors have Many editors—in Virginia and across the nation—see journalism education as training for a trade. Some like that; some don't. Some are concerned that the journalism major doesn’t graduate as a finished Pulitzer Prize-winner, complete with the literary ability of James Jackson Kilpatrick, the doggedness of Clark Mollenhoff and the breadth of vision of Walter Lippmann. Other editors believe journalism majors have been shortchanged in their education, that all four college years are spent studying nothing but communications theory and headline writing. Both types could have a better grasp of what the good journalism departments—and that includes Washington and Lee’s—are doing. Journalism courses generally take up about a fourth of the student’s academic career. That leaves a lot of time for history, English, sociology, political science, art, mathematics, business, economics, and so on. This means, to the first type of editor, that his new cub reporter might need a year or two before he is a seasoned veteran, before he is ready to uncover scandals on Main Street or write an award-winning series. It means, to the second type of editor, that his cub has both a journalism background and as broad an education as any — undergraduate. However, both types of editors are right about one thing: Journalism majors need a better command of the English language. (So, I would submit, do engineering majors, pre-law students, education majors and budding psychologists.) The sad fact is that the vast majority of the young people pouring into the nation’s colleges today are, in the most generous critical sense, nearly illiterate. Some who appear in the reporting class actually do not know that a standard sentence must have a subject and a predicate; others have no grasp whatsoever of proper placement of words, clauses, and phrases within a sentence. The grammatical background of the large majority of journalism students is so weak that the introductory reporting course now begins with six weeks of English. The hope is that these beginning journalism students, with this grounding in written expression, will be able to grasp much better and more quickly the fundamentals of journalistic 5 Journalism Education at WSL a very tough time finding a job in journalism—if they look at all—editors and news directors are turning increasingly to journalism majors for new employees. Nationally, about 65 percent of newsroom employees are journalism majors. In Virginia, a recently completed survey indicates it is about 45 percent. That’s a far cry from a century ago, when editors such as Horace Greeley pleaded to be protected from “college graduates and all other horned cattle.” His cross- town competitor, Edward L. Godkin of the New York Evening Post, called the idea of college-trained journalists “an absurdity.” A hundred years later, many editors sing a different tune. At least half a dozen times a year, an editor or news director seeking prospects for a reporting or desk job will call the W&L journalism department. But the Greeleys and the Godkins remain. A large percentage of editors have a poor grasp of what journalism education is and what it ought to be. Most W&L majors are outraged to learn that many editors consider the standards at journalism schools too low. The students are firmly convinced that W&L standards are so stiff that they have difficulty competing in the job market and for graduate school acceptance. (If they competed only on the basis of grades, they might be correct.) It is not clear why editors—throughout the nation as well as in Virginia— have a low opinion of journalism majors, but it could be that a good percentage of the job-seekers they see are those whose lack of skills keeps them hunting for jobs. The good Thomas W. Tinsley is the University’s audio-visual electronics technician. He ws a 1975 WSL graduate who majored in the interdepartmental sciences and ones aren’t hunting; they’re working. mathematics program. communication. It is not just the journalism department at Washington and Lee that sees this problem. Illiteracy is widespread throughout this University and in colleges and universities across the nation. In fact, judging by the relative success W&L journalism graduates have in the job market, they must be better than the average. This is both a satisfying and troubling conclusion. It is good to know that W&L students and graduates perform as well as the best. But it is upsetting to realize that the general level of language ability has dropped so low. If young people interested in communicating events and ideas handle the language so poorly, how weak must be the language skills of those receiving the information! 6 This spreading illiteracy is truly a national crisis, for in this increasingly complex world an inability to understand or be understood is a crippling burden. It is not that today’s college students, or high-school juniors, or third graders, are dullards. The fact is that they have not been taught. They have been cheated, as Vermont Royster put it, of their educational birthright, an understanding of their own language. Concerns about declining language skills cannot be dismissed as the expected carping of an intellectual elitist. It matters greatly whether one can think in concepts, whether one can express himself with clarity and exactness. This is obvious to anyone who has ever attempted to converse in his high-school French or German. Deprived of commonly understood words and language structures, he is reduced to the level of a child and is barely capable of communicating the simplest of ideas. Making practical use of a liberal education becomes little more than a wild dream. As Royster says, “The plain truth is that without language we can neither learn nor think. And those to whom written language is a mystery find, like some primtive people, that the world itself is a mystery.” So in its broadest sense, the Washington and Lee journalism department’s increased emphasis on the skills required of a competent journalist can be viewed as an attempt to assure that, for its majors, life will be a little less of a mystery. —H.H.S. By Robert S. Keefe, 68 Investigative reporting as taught by the master “Nineteen of the seniors in my seminar are already better than 75 percent of the reporters I’ve known.” —Clark R. Mollenhoff, professor of journalism at WSL, quoted in Weekend Magazine, a 1.7 million circulation news-feature magazine published in Montreal. Clark Mollenhoff knows good reporting when he sees it, because he practices it. He has a Pulitzer to prove it; he’s won three Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the highest honor the nation’s newsmen can confer on one of their own. He’s had a Nieman Fellowship, the most prestigious in journalism; he’s the author of eight books about politics and has six honorary degrees. Clark Mollenhoff is one of the acknowledged leaders in investigative reporting. He’s the one who told America what Jimmy Hoffa and Bobby Baker were up to. He won his Pulitzer for “persistent inquiry into labor racketeering” when Woodward and Bernstein were still in grade school. Clark Mollenhoff is no sniper without a feel for what it’s like to be on the inside. A lawyer by education, he’s been in government himself—briefly, to be sure. His assignment was to guarantee a high standard of ethics in the Nixon administration. (That year-and-a-half just might represent “one of the biggest failures in history,” he says now. He got out in mid-1970; his book, Game Plan For Disaster, tells the whole story as he saw it begin to unfold.) Clark Mollenhoff teaches at Washington and Lee. But make no mistake about it: he has hardly retired into an ivory tower. The last thing he can be called is aclassroom | theoretician. He teaches, and he continues to investigate and report. His own once-a-week column, Watch on Washington, is syndicated nationally by the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune, the papers he worked for from 1941 until he joined the W&L faculty last year (with time out for Navy service during World War II, his Nieman Fellowship in 1949-50, an Eisenhower Fellowship in 1960-61, and his White House sojourn in 1969-70). And now his students investigate and report alongside him. (They call the course “Super Snoop & Scoop.”) Are they any good? Well, for starters, just ask Henry Howell, the Democratic party candidate for governor in this fall’s elections in Virginia; or ask a gentleman named Robert Eugene Bales, of Glade Spring, in far southwest Virginia. Bales, 37, “is a handsome, articulate charmer,” the W&L advanced investigative journalism class reported last spring, “who talks with enthusiasm and seeming authority on the fortunes to be made through investments in the coal-rich mountain lands of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky.” Bales had operations everywhere, it seemed—even in Rockbridge County. His projects have names like “Treasure Mountain,” a “super-suburban development” near Abingdon, Va., planned to include 558 homes, 100 Clark Mollenhoff condominiums, a large apartment complex, an 18-hole golf course, camping and picnic areas, a pool, tennis courts, even a 75-acre lake. The mayor of Glade Spring, perhaps understandably, called Bales “the town’s leading businessman.” And Bales wanted Henry Howell, the firebrand populist former lieutenant governor, to beat the more traditionalist attorney general, Andrew P. Miller, in this summer’s primary for the Democratic nomination to run for Virginia’s number- one job. Howell won the nomination—but no thanks to Bales. Mollenhoff’s students had been looking into Bales’ operations for a long time, starting in Rockbridge, eventually realizing that the network of leads stretched from New York to Florida. They found that the Treasure Mountain deal had collapsed in 1973, its bills unpaid (a North Carolina architect filed for almost $1 million in unpaid claims), its charter 7 Journalism Education at WSL revoked by the state. Meanwhile, Bales found himself in trouble with an apartment complex he was developing in nearby Bristol, when one of his largest investors, a local bank, discovered that substandard building materials were being used in construction. One of the buildings subsequently collapsed, and Bales filed for bankruptcy on behalf of the apartment project too. In the end, the W&L investigators/reporters learned that while Bales had never served time in prison, judgments of more than $1 million had been entered against him and the “multiplicity of corporations” with which he has been involved over the past decade. He’d been convicted of grand larceny in Rockbridge County; he’d pled no contest in federal court to two counts of tax evasion and two of bank fraud. Pieces of the story had appeared in print, of course, from time to time, from place to place. But nobody knew the extent of it. What had been reported in the Louisville papers (when Bales was found guilty of trespassing on land to which he claimed to have title), for instance, had never seen the light of print in Bristol. For the most part, his convictions and the judgments against him had been treated as local incidents. ‘The Howell connection arose when Bales gave a $5,000 check to the candidate’s badly underfinanced campaign at the end of May, just two weeks before the primary. The media portrayed Howell as almost certain to lose, in large part because his opponent was outspending him dramatically. Howell, unaware of Bales’ criminal record and financial problems, accepted the check and Bales’ pledge of further contributions of $25,000 to $75,000 jubilantly—at first. _ The academic year at W&L had just ended, and Mollenhoff, who has no discernible ideological tugs (he is skeptical of politicians of every stripe and is convinced that the abuse of power in office knows no party bounds), gave the media copies of the students’ formal report as soon as it was completed. They had known of no tie between Howell and Bales. Howell returned Bales’ check instantly—with a P:S. that the campaign would accept no further help from him. From Mollenhoff the students had learned “ ‘the tricks of the trade’-—how to dig through obscure public records, how to get a reluctant source to talk, what to look for, how to look for it,” one participant wrote in a background article for the Ring-tum Phi. They started with Bales’ Rockbridge land scheme—a legal loose end that deserved looking into and seemingly manageable in scope for a term’s work. (Nobody knew then that it was an iceberg-tip.) Bales had made the mistake of paying title-transfer costs with a rubber check made out to the clerk of circuit court. He pled guilty in 1976 to a charge of grand larceny and was given a one-year suspended sentence and a $500 fine. The students divided into teams, one assigned to dig into Bales’ background, another to investigate the pattern of his maneuverings in the county. “Once the teams swung into high gear, it was obvious the class had stumbled upon a larger mess than it had anticipated,” the Ring-tum Phi background article reported. Students traveled to Bristol and Abingdon, to Harrisonburg and Staunton, to Richmond and Roanoke, to cities in West Virginia and Kentucky in pursuit of the facts. The result? “Profiles of several exceedingly slick businessmen who operate in the ‘grey’ area of the law. .. . If the amount of information the class now has is enormous, then the amount left to be uncovered is simply colossal. “The story, for the most part, was all out in the open. It had just never been pulled together before.” Which is investigative reporting with impact—taught by the master. & LG gazette Kresge library challenge grant; Holt law scholarships; new computer Kresge Foundation announces $250,000 library challenge gift The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich., has made a $250,000 challenge grant to Washington and Lee in support of construction of the new undergraduate library building. To meet the terms of the grant, W&L must raise the remaining cost of constructing the new facility, estimated at a total of $9 million. Not counting the Kresge grant, the University has raised a total of $8.1 million toward that cost as of mid-August. Construction on the new building— the largest physical element in Washington and Lee’s ongoing development program for the decade of the 1970s—was begun last summer. When it is completed, the new structure will replace the 69-year-old Cyrus Hall McCormick Library, which in turn will be renovated to become the new home of the W&L School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics. The Board of Trustees decided to proceed with construction last summer when bids were received showing that the library and associated projects could be completed for considerably less than previous estimates had indicated, if contracts were awarded quickly. At a special board meeting last summer, trustees themselves committed an additional $1.5 million specifically toward the library project in order to narrow the gap between the cost of the project and the funds available. Those gifts were in addition to $12.4 million in previous contributions by W&L board members toward the library and other portions of the decade-long development program. Of the $8.1 million raised toward the library project, $2.7 million has been contributed by foundations, corporations and other friends of the University, and $5.3 million has been contributed by alumni. “The generosity of the Kresge Foundation brings us a long way toward challenge grant, 1s well under way. completing the fund-raising for our badly needed new library,” W&L president Robert E. R. Huntley said in announcing the gift. “The challenge it contains—to raise the remaining $650,000—we accept with gratitude and confidence. “No less important and no less gratifying to Washington and Lee than the considerable tangible value of the grant and challenge, however, is the knowledge that the trustees of the Kresge Foundation have examined our programs and our progress and have judged them to be worthy of major support.” During the past 54 years, the Kresge Foundation has made appropriations of more than $283 million to institutions in the fields of higher education, health services, the arts, social welfare, and the care of the young and the aging. Construction and major renovation of facilities is the foundation’s primary concern, and grants are usually made on a challenge basis to encourage further fund-raising efforts. The foundation, one of the largest in Construction on the new undergraduate library, for which the University has recetved a $250,000 the United States in size of assets and appropriations, was created solely through the gifts of the late Sebastian S. Kresge, founder of the S. S. Kresge Company, now known as K Mart Corp. The company and the foundation are not related in any way. Law scholarship program established to honor Gov. Holt A new program of honor scholarships in the School of Law has been established through a $200,000 endowment from the Sarah and Pauline Maier Scholarship Foundation, Inc., of Charleston, W.Va. Income from the endowment fund will support aid grants to outstanding West Virginia law students at W&L, in memory of the late Homer A. Holt, governor of West Virginia from 1937 to 1941 and a graduate and long-time trustee of Washington and Lee. The $200,000 endowment will be administered by the West Virginia Emulation Fund, a trust created by the 9 Gov. Homer Holt Maier Foundation to supervise its scholarship endowments at private colleges and universities. Recipients of the Homer Holt Honor Scholarships will be named each year by the law school on the bases of academic distinction and personal and professional promise. The Maier Foundation was created in 1958 by William J. Maier Jr., and Holt, then an attorney in the private practice of law, helped draft its charter. Holt, a West Virginia native, received his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee in 1918 and his law degree five years later. He taught law at W&L for two years, and then began practicing law in Fayetteville, W.Va. He was elected state attorney general in 1932, and achieved distinction in the fields of state taxation, public education, and roads. His four-year term as governor followed, and after retiring from public service he became general counsel for Union Carbide Corp. and later resumed private practice with the prestigious Charleston law firm of Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O’Ferrell. He was elected a trustee of Washington and Lee in 1940, and retired from the board in 1969. He died Jan. 16, 1975, shortly before his 77th birthday. In a formal resolution, the W&L board described Holt as “a giant in his profession . . . one of the greatest statesmen in the history of West Virginia.” His service to W&L as a board member, the resolution said, had been characterized by “tough-minded wisdom . .. devotion to high ideals of education and principles of integrity.” In establishing the memorial to Holt at Washington and Lee, the Maier 10 Foundation described him this way: “In his private life this man of genius was distinguished by his humility, and his personal demeanor toward all his fellow creatures was an outstanding characteristic.” Atkins assumes No. 2 alumni post Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins II, a 1968 W&L graduate, is the new assistant alumni secretary at Washington and Lee. He began his duties Aug. 8. Prior to his appointment to the W&L post, Atkins was athletic director and a teacher of German at Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg. As a W&L student, Atkins was active in the Student Service Society, Student War Memorial Scholarship Fund Committee (SWMSFC), and Mongolian Minks. He was an SAE, a dormitory counselor, and a member of the football and lacrosse teams. Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins After receiving his B.A. degree with majors in history and German, he taught at VES for a year, then entered the U.S. Navy. He served on active duty until 1973, when he returned to VES. As assistant to Alumni Secretary Wiliam C. Washburn, he succeeds J. Martin Bass, who has entered the private practice of law in Fredericksburg. Grant helps University acquire new computer Washington and Lee will acquire the newest generation of computer technology this year and will inaugurate a comprehensive program to train faculty members in the natural and social sciences in its use. The new computer, a Harris S-125, replaces W&L’s nine-year-old IBM 1130, which was the latest word in technology when it was purchased. Now, however, the old IBM is unable to meet the demands placed on it by both students and faculty in fields where computer use has become increasingly important—and whose own familiarity with computer science has become increasingly sophisticated. Aided by a $218,700 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under its Comprehensive Assistance to Undergraduate Science Education (CAUSE) program, a program of workshops will be established beginning next summer to teach both experienced and “neophyte” W&L faculty members in the use of the new computer system. The grant and University funds will also be used to employ two consultants for substantial periods of time—one in the social sciences (politics, sociology, and economics) for 15 months, and another in geology for 12 months. Other departments will also have the opportunity to bring in professional consultants for several days at a time. In addition, the NSF/CAUSE grant will support the purchase of remote terminals, peripheral equipment, and software for the system. At first, there will be a total of 16 remote terminals on campus, three for use in the University’s administrative functions and 13 for academic use. Under the CAUSE grant, additional terminals will be added later. The new machine is faster than the old one by far. (For the statistically competent, it processes about 2 million “bits” —pieces of data—per second.) It performs various kinds of functions all at once. The IBM could calculate or it could print, but it couldn’t do both at the same time. The new generation of computers can. In computerdom, that sort of efficiency is essential, because it means the machine is vastly more productive per unit of operating time. ‘The new computer’s “memory” is enormously greater too—336,000 “bytes” vs. 32,000 for the old IBM. (A “byte” is a combination of bits. In addition to handling more of them, the new computer can take bigger bytes than the old one.) That’s the memory the machine actually brings inside its circuits and actively processes during any calculation. By using memory discs, of course, the capacity is expanded manyfold, and a computer can trade its active memory for a portion of its disc memory in a twinkling. Therefore, disc capacity is crucial too, for it determines how large a body of information the computer can draw upon. The old IBM’s discs stored 250,000 bytes; the Harris discs handle 80 million. The computer experts on campus say the new system will meet all the University’s needs for the forseeable future—through the current generation of technology, at least. It has the potential for growth—its memory can be expanded 300 percent, for instance, if that becomes necessary. As with the old IBM, the new computer will be used to keep the University’s financial accounts and many routine records, from the payroll to student grades. The conversion from the IBM to the Harris will require a year of program rewriting. But the time that will be saved once the job is done, and the new efficiency that will result, will make it well worth while, the University’s computer experts and the general administration agree. After the year’s conversion period, the IBM will be phased out and probably sold. A second campus computer—a PDP/8 “mini-computer,” a much smaller, simpler machine which serves five remote terminals on a time- sharing basis—will be kept. Schildt returns to W&L as assistant law dean William McC. Schildt, a former assistant United States attorney and associate in a prominent Baltimore law firm, has become assistant dean of the School of Law at Washington and Lee, effective Sept. 10. Schildt is a 1964 B.A. graduate of W&L, summa cum laude, and received his law degree from the University in 1968. He was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, and the Order of the Coif. Schildt was previously a member of the undergraduate administration at W&L from 1968 to 1972, as assistant (later associate) dean of students and admissions director. In 1970 he was given additional responsibilities as coordinator of the freshman year, then a new position at W&L. He also taught law, commerce, and administration during that time. He left W&L in 1972 to join the Baltimore law firm of Miles & Stockbridge, and later became an assistant U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland, working with U.S. Attorneys George Beall and Jervis Finney. He resumed the private practice of law with Miles & Stockbridge last February. William McC. Schildt As assistant law dean, Schildt will work in general administration and in law admissions. The new position reflects a substantial increase in the scope of law-school activities and is also a response to the gradual increase in the size of the law student body that has become possible with the opening of Lewis Hall last year, according to Dean Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Eventually, W&L will have a law- school student body of 350 men and women, the size long indentified as ideal for a program of the character of Washington and Lee’s. Before the new $9-million facility was completed, the size of the W&L law school had been limited by a lack of sufficient space to about 250 students. Two W&L scientists receive research grants Two scientists at Washington and Lee have been awarded grants to support their research. Frederic L. Schwab, professor of geology, has received a North Atlantic Treaty Alliance grant for research he will conduct this fall in Europe while on sabbatical. He will study the characteris- tics and distribution patterns of sedimen- tary rocks in the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps and in the Appenine belt in northwestern Italy. Leonard E. Jarrard, professor of psychology and head of the department, has received a $24,200 grant renewal from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support continuation of his pioneering research into the functions of the hippocampus, a small segment of the brain which is associated with motivation, memory, and patterns of basic behavior such as eating, drinking, and sleeping. Since 1965, the federally supported NSF has provided a total of more than $200,000 in support of his hippocampal studies. British vulcanologist elects W&L-Oxford exchange A prominent British geologist who is an authority on volcanoes will inaugurate a newly established faculty exchange program between Washington and Lee and Oxford in England. John David Bell is visiting professor of geology at W&L for the fall term. Bell is university lecturer in petrology in the department of geology and mineralogy at the University of Oxford, Sollas Fellow in geology at University College, and lecturer in geology at Keble College. University and Keble Colleges are component institutions of Oxford. In turn, Lewis H. LaRue, W&L professor of law, will spend the autumn semester at Oxford under the exchange program. LaRue, an authority in constitutional law, will conduct research at the prestigious British university into the relationships between law and society, in particular from the point of view of the influence of the English judicial system on the national economy. The exchange program was developed by Leonard E. Jarrard, head of W&L’s psychology department, and Lord Redcliffe-Maud, then master of University College, Oxford. Jarrard spent the 1975-76 year on a W&L- sponsored sabbatical at University College, teaching and carrying out advanced research in his area of specialization, the portion of the brain known as the hippocampus. Bell has been associated with Oxford since 1956, the year he received his B.A. degree there. He also holds the D.Phil. and M.A. degrees from Oxford. He is managing editor of the Journal of Petrology and is the author of Volcanoes, to be published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd., and co-author of Practical Study of Igneous Rocks, forthcoming from George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Bell is secretary of Oxford’s Expedition Council, and he has led or participated in expeditions to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, Iceland, Greenland and Sicily. Among his current research interests are geophysical and petrological studies of Mount Etna. 11 Fine Arts Workshop actors portray epitaphs on the new terrace of Lee Chapel. Workshop Players perform on new Chapel terrace Lee Chapel’s new terrace, donated by the Garden Club of Virginia, was put to a novel use this summer by the Rockbridge Fine Arts Workshop. It played the part of a cemetary. The Workshop presented Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, a collection of epitaphs in a small-town cemetary (called “The Hill”) which portray the lives of the people buried there. The actors, portraying tombstones, stood on W&L’s front lawn (also known as “The Hill’). To add further to the setting, the play was presented at sunset, although that may have been to protect the audience from the hot Lexington summer. Dan Scott, a May graduate who majored in drama, was the instructor for the workshop. Two of his three classes participated in Spoon River Anthology. His third class presented Dylan Thomas’ Under Milkwood inside Lee Chapel following the Masters play. Under Milkwood is similar to Spoon River Anthology in that both portray life in small towns. 12 named to faculty Twelve new teachers have joined the faculty at Washington and Lee. A prominent clinical psychologist who taught psychiatry and psychology at 12 the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, H. E. (Gene) King, has been named professor of psychology at W&L. King, an authority in the fields of behavior, learning, mental disorders and psycho-surgery, is the author of more than 80 research articles and essays published in books, scholarly periodicals, and encyclopedias. Named visiting professors of law were Frederic Lee Kirgis of the University of California at Los Angeles and Thomas H. Sponsler of Loyola University (New Orleans). Kirgis, formerly an associate in the Washington firm of Covington & Burling, began his teaching career at Colorado in 1967 and went to UCLA in 1974. Sponsler, a faculty member at Loyola since 1968, has been a visiting professor at Mississippi, Tulane, and Louisiana State University. New assistant professors in The College, W&L’s undergraduate arts and sciences division, are Robert E. Danford (McCormick Library), Robert J. deMaria (journalism and communications), Robert P. Fure (English), Carren O. Kaston (English), and John J. Wielgus (biology). New instructors in The College are Stephen S. Hahn (McCormick Library), George A. Planansky (geology), Constantine Roussos (mathematics), and John N. Swift (English). All the appointments were effective Sept. 1 except Hahn’s. He began work as assistant reference and public services librarian on June 15. a bits and pieces [J Roger Mudd, ’50, the CBS news- man, has joined the crusade to reha- bilitate the memory of his ancestor, Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Dr. Mudd was tried and convicted of complicity in the murder of the President. But many history buffs— not to mention the Mudd family— believe Dr. Mudd did not know at the time whom he was treating. “I think Dr. Mudd got railroaded,” the Associated Press quoted Roger Mudd (“one of the more famous de- scendants of the physician”) as saying. “As the bumper sticker says, I think he ought to be freed.” Roger Mudd is a nephew six times removed. The descendants, led by Rep. Paul Simon (D-IIl.), Dr. Mudd’s grandson, have asked President Carter to reverse Dr. Mudd’s military conviction. (J You probably always thought The Eyes of Texas was a Texan song. Well, it is, but the phrase, at least, had its origins in olde Virginia—at Washington College. According to an article by George Carmack of the San Antonio Express- News, it all traces back to one Col. William Lambdin Prather, a student at Washington College during the Lee years. Prather went on to become president of the University of Texas in 1899. He recollected Gen. Lee “would often tell his student body, ‘The eyes of the South (or the nation) are upon you.’” Col. Prather was apparently quite taken with the phrase, and adapted it himself. “In his frequent speeches to the [University of Texas] student body, Prather would say ‘Young ladies and gentlemen, the eyes of Texas are upon you.’ He got the idea from Gen. Lee.” Prather used the phrase so much, in fact, that it became a sort of campus joke. And when an undergraduate at Texas, John Lang Sinclair, essayed to write a school song for the glee club to perform, it was inevitable what the first line would be. LI “Get out of the way, here comes a grooved pitch .. . On the softball field in Plains this past week, the game waxed grim. It was the Press versus the White House. Billy Carter, who plays on the Press side, takes it all very seriously. He became quite naughty, Earwigs, after the Press team’s captain, Maurice Fliess [’66], White House correspon- dent from the Atlanta Constitution, sent in a Girl to play second base. Bad Billy, who does’ not _ subscribe __to Womensports, began howling: ‘I'll break your other arm!’ (Maurice had had a nasty bump earlier) and ‘The Constitution’s a commie rag!’ (Ear expects he meant Fliess’s paper.) ‘You think I’m kidding! I’m serious!’ Billy bawled. And he proved it, Earwigs. He grooved his pitches for the rest of the game. Ear is horrified, and it doesn’t even know what grooving pitches means.”—Item in “Ear,” the outrageous gossip column in the Washington Star, Aug. 13 (reprinted with permission). By Douglass Dewing, ’77 — Internships offer WSL students practical experience off campus In recent years, many colleges and universities, not least among them Washington and Lee, have attempted to broaden their students’ academic experience through the use of internships: off-campus, practical work experiences. During an internship the student is supervised by a professional. The internship almost always results in a greater understanding of the professional world for the student and, in many cases, improves his chances to gain a job. The value that students place on the internship is indicated by a politics student’s comment in a formal paper to his professor after an internship: “This three-month ordeal taught me more about politics and government than I learned in three years in college. In fact, I think you could read all the books in print on these subjects and still not have the insight into politics such as the one I have received. Reading and experiencing are two drastically differing phenomenons. The internship pulled together, and made sense out of, all the reading and learning I have done in the last three years.” Several Washington and Lee students took internships this year. Michael Missal, ’78, interned with Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff. Mark Bennett, ’78, worked in the Venezuelan mission to the United Nations. Scott Thomas, a journalism and history major who graduated in May, spent the winter term in Washington, D.C., as an intern in the office of U.S. Representative Paul Simon (D.-I11.) under the auspices of the Sears Congressional Internship Program for Journalism Students. David McLean, ’78, worked in the office of U.S. Rep. Harold C. Hollenbeck (R.-N.J.) during the spring term. Patrick J. Reilly, a May graduate in politics, spent the winter term as a legislative aid to a Pennsylvania state representative. James N. Falk, another May graduate who majored in politics, was one of 10 Virginia college students participating in a library internship program sponsored by the George C. Marshall Research Foundation. Robert Hedelt, ’78, worked during the spring for the Fredericksburg Free- Lance Star. The purpose of the internships, both special and departmental, is to provide the student with an opportunity to combine practical on-the-job experience with academic learning. Four departments at Washington and Lee offer internships: journalism, politics, art and sociology. Although the In Politics students work off-campus, their professors maintain regular contact, and the student must prepare a formal paper evaluating the program and his experiences at the end of the semester. The journalism internship is strongly recommended by every member of the department. Even though it is not required for the major, the professors feel it is invaluable for the student. “It is the practical climax of our program,” said Hampden H. Smith III, assistant professor and a former editor for the Richmond News-Leader. “It makes our students readily employable.” Smith said the average rate of placement for journalism schools is about 50 percent. W&L scores very close to full employment, and Smith credits the internship program for part of that. “The internship often leads to an offer of summer employment,” Smith said, “or an offer to return after graduation. One student got a job and never came back from his internship. “The internship allows the student to tread the fine line between theoretical and practical courses so he has the sophistication and background which leads to employment. It is vital that the student gain the kind of professional experience that the internship can offer,” Smith said. Scott Thomas’s internship with Rep. Simon was a special program sponsored by Sears, Roebuck & Co. The program is intended to give promising students contacts and experience in the nation’s capital. Only 25 students are accepted each year, and they rank at the top of their class. Thomas was one of two Phi Beta Kappa students in the program. He worked in almost every facet of office operations: from preparing resolutions and statements for the Congressman to taking coffee pots to the Congressional Wives’ luncheon (the Congressman’s wife was the chairman) to stapling press releases. At the same time, he was researching the topic of his honors thesis in history. Robert Hedelt’s internship with the Fredericksburg, Va., newspaper resulted in an offer of summer employment. Practical experience like that will help when he looks for a job in the tight newspaper market after graduation. The intern program which seem to have yielded the best results for the journalism department is with Roanoke’s station WDBJ-TV. Three Washington and Lee graduates work for the station now: Tom Mattesky, ’74, and Paul Lancaster, ’75, are reporters, and John Kessling, ’73, is the assignment editor. Both Mattesky and Lancaster were interns with WDBJ; Lancaster began work with the station right after graduation. 13 WEL Internships Career training is also the purpose of the art department’s internship program. Rather than place students in commercial art firms, the program arranges internships with museums. “Most W&L students aren’t aware of the field. It takes effort to educate them, to show them this is one area they should consider,” said Gerard Doyon, the program’s coordinator. “Ten years ago, or even five, there weren't as many art students graduating. They could get teaching jobs; it was just about guaranteed. Now the teaching field is virtually closed. “Most students want to go into studio art,” he continued, “but for each studio art position there are ten applicants. “The museum area is expanding. Community museums are springing up everywhere. Since 1945, small community-centered museums have been opening at the rate of one a month.” The Washington and Lee program is — modeled after one at Brown University. Students are required to have a solid liberal arts background and two years of a foreign language. Brown places its students in a museum associated with the university. “W&L doesn’t really have a full-fledged museum,” said Doyon, “so we try to place students with the Virginia Museum, the North Carolina Museum, Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, or in a museum in their home town.” Although no one participated in the program this year, a number of past participants have taken jobs in museums or related fields. Mark Miller, ’73, spent his internship with the Virginia Museum, which offered him a grant so he could earn a master’s degree in museum training. He recently opened his own art gallery and custom framing shop in Richmond. Frederick W. Woodward III, ’73, intended to major in history at Washington and Lee, switched to art history, and took the internship program. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in the museum field at Brown University. 14 a In Journalism Donald McBride III, ’74, took his internship with the North Carolina Museum. As a double-major in art and German, his specialty was research in German, which is almost the standard language for cataloguing. He’s carrying out research now in the Washington, D.C., area. Perhaps the most popular intern program is in politics. The department keeps its program flexible, encouraging students to work in programs they themselves discover, in programs the department finds, or in established programs. Students can be paid, unpaid or partially paid. They can work on the federal, state or local level, in the legislative, executive or judicial branches, with candidates, political parties, interest groups or lobbyists, or with any other institution or person which will provide them with practical learning experience in the field of politics. Congressional internships seem to be the most common. Yet some students seem disillusioned upon their return. Interestingly, the students who obtain internships in the Senate, the more prestigious branch of the Congress, often complain about the lack of responsibility with which they are entrusted. Michael Missal, in Sen. Ribicoff’s office, said many of the staff members felt an “intern should be seen but not heard.” When he asked the senator’s administrative assistant about a topic for the paper he needed to write for the politics department, the man suggested he write on “gophering.” Another intern, who worked for a senator in 1975, wrote, “Interns are placed under the supervision of one staff member and work in that particular area. As such, they obtain an in-depth view of one aspect of the office’s operation, but must make an effort to gain the overall view. “Congressional interns, on the other hand, seem to handle more of a variety of tasks,” this student observed, “although they still do not break into the upper echelons. One intern knows his congressman very well, is entrusted with answering mail, and performing several different tasks. Another attends dinners and other engagements for his representative when the congressman has a scheduling conflict. This can be contrasted with the fact that I have yet to personally meet the senator and | indeed in three weeks have only seen him twice. The smaller Congressional staffs allow interns more variety, while the Senate staffs allow more freedom for the intern to explore on his own.” That intern was working for the minority staff in one of the Senate’s subcommittees, rather than in the senator’s office, and was given much more latitude than the usual Senate intern. Missal worked on several projects, including a speech submitted to the Congressional Record and research on bills the senator was considering, but that was during time he hadn’t been assigned other work and at the request of an over-worked staffer. He also spent a lot of time opening mail, but was not deemed responsible enough to put it on the desk of the legislative assistant to whom it was addressed. Still, he was asked to continue working for Sen. Ribicoff’s office during the summer, with some increased responsibilities, and seemed to enjoy his work. Dave McLean, working for Pennsylvania Rep. Hollenbeck, wrote in his paper of the overwhelming priority a congressman places on his re-election. The pressure for re-election influences every action a congressman makes, McLean concluded, yet for the most part, those attempts can be squared with the idea of a representative government. Working in the smaller office of a congressman, McLean was given greater responsibility than Missal was in the Senate. He handled all of the office mail dealing with the controversial New Jersey Flood Plain program. He also planned and directed a weekend seminar on the subject in the congressman’s home district. McLean also accepted a summer position in Washington, as a special assistant on Hollenbeck’s staff. Lin Fine Arts Pat Reilly worked with Pennsylvania State Rep. Joseph Zeller, a maverick in the Pennsylvania state house who put Reilly to work on land use plans for the state. In the course of his work, Reilly moved from unpaid intern to paid secretary for the Land Use Task Force, a committee which reported to the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Council, while continuing to work for Zeller. Reilly returned from Pennsylvania enthusiastic about a career in politics, but aware of the opportunities for abuse of the system as well. In his paper he told his professor of the perils which befall a maverick legislator who doesn’t play ball in a legislature dominated by a machine. — Mark Bennett went from his intern- ship in the Venezuelan mission to Geneva, where he participated in an International Youth Conference sponsored by the United Nations. The arrangements allowing him to go to the summer conference were made by his supervisors in the mission. Following his graduation in May, Jim Falk participated in a second internship program. After spending the summer in Washington working for the Middle East Institute, Falk will do graduate work at the University of Virginia. His summer work ranged from researching middle eastern political issues to attending banquets welcoming dignitaries to ar- ranging and directing an art show. The show featured the work of four women, one of whom was Falk’s late mother. Falk arranged to bring the paintings to the U. S., handled all the arrangements for the show and directed the publicity. The newest internship program at Washington and Lee is in the sociology department. As with the others, the combination of practical on-the-job experience with theoretical work is the critical factor in that program. But there is a difference. There are a number of areas in which the sociology department does not have courses. The internship is an opportunity for the student to obtain knowledge in fields outside the University’s curriculum. “It is an option available for students who might benefit from new knowledge,” said Emory Kimbrough, coordinator of the program. “It gives them the opportunity to try out things related to their studies. For instance, we don’t offer any courses in corrections. By sending a student to work in the field of corrections, we give him experience and knowledge which the department can’t offer now. In Sociology ) “We also try to make the internship relevant to the major. If a psychology major takes the course, we'll try to place him in a mental hospital, or in some other related program. We want the internship to bear on his major work.” Students who go into the program often find they'll be working far harder than they would have at school. “They can spend as many as 40 to 50 hours a week on the job,” said Kimbrough, “often with no remuneration. And some of the students who go into the field undergo ‘culture shock’ and have to work their way out of that, too.” The department does not have a permanent list of opportunities yet. When a student has an idea for a place or field he would like to try, the department will try to place him. “We’ve had five people go through the program,” said Kimbrough, “and we're very pleased so far. But we are new at this and we're still feeling our way along.” 15 Annual Fund hits all-time high despite drop in participation The 1976-77 Annual Fund reached an all-time high of | $705,866 in gifts from alumni, parents, and friends—almost $18,000 more than last year’s record-setting total of $687,885. The average gift also hit an all-time high of $135.74, up from last year’s record high of $128.58. However, the number of donors fell from 5,350 last year to 5,200, and participation dropped from 34 percent to 32.3 percent. Leadership for the 1976-77 Annual Fund was provided by J. Carter Fox, ’61A, Annual Fund chairman and Academic Alumni chairman. Assisting him were S. Maynard Turk, ’52L, Law Alumni chairman; John H. Van Amburgh, Current Parents chairman; and W. Martin Kempe, Past Parents chairman. The 1976-77 trophy winners were: The Washington Trophy—for the largest amount raised by an academic class graduated in the last 50 years—went to the Class of 1940A, Thomas E. Bruce, Class Agent, with a record-setting total of $35,707. This was the second consecutive year that 1940A has won the Washington Trophy. The Richmond Trophy—for the highest participation by an academic class graduated in the last 50 years—went to the Class of 1954A, Frank A. Parsons, Class Agent, with a record-setting percentage of 60.8. Parsons previously won the Richmond Trophy in 1974-75 with the old record of 58.7 percent. The Bierer Trophy—for the highest participation by an academic class graduated in the last 10 years—went to the Class of 1971A, John M. McCardell Jr., Class Agent, with a partici- pation of 33.6 percent. This was the second consecutive year that McCardell has won the Bierer Trophy. The Malone Trophy—for the largest amount raised by a law class graduated in the last 50 years—went to the Class of 1940L, William F. Saunders, Class Agent, with a total of $6,155. The 1976-77 Annual Fund covered 9 percent of the University’s educational and general budget. In 1976-77, 214 alumni, parents, and friends contributed at the Lee Associates level ($1,000 or more), and 1,674 at the Colonnade Club level ($100-$999). Although Lee Associates and Colonnade Club givers comprised only 36 percent of the donors, their contributions amounted to 86 percent of the Annual Fund. REPORT OF THE ANNUAL FUND June 30, 1977 % Avg. Donors Dollars Part. Gift Alumni 76-77 4,769 $623,028 34.0 $130.64 (75-76) (4,970) ($612,546) (36.2) ($123.25) Parents 76-77 346 $ 73,198 17.1 $211.55 (75-76) (332) ($ 63,399) (16.6) ($190.96) Friends 76-77 85 $ 9,640 — 113.41 (75-76) (48) ($ 11,940) — ($248.75) Totals 76-77 5,200 $705,866 32.3 $135.74 (75-76) (5,350) ($687,885) (34.0) ($128.58) 16 - Thomas E. Bruce, ’*40A Washington Trophy Winner Frank A. Parsons, ’54A Richmond Trophy Winner A picture of William F. Saunders, ’40L, winner of the Malone Trophy was not available. John McCardell Jr., ’71A Buerer Trophy Winner CURRENT PARENTS—J. H. Van Amburgh, Chairman % Avg. Area Area Chairman Donors ___ Dollars Part. Gift I G. G. Carroll 32 $ 4,836 17.9 $ 151 II F. N. Godin 26 2,155 14.8 83 Ill T. J. Black 47 3,415 23.5 73 IV C. C. McGehee 23 6,514 12.2 283 V B. B. Lane 17 2,180 11.6 128 VI D. W. Boyd 33 6,255 16.4 190 Vil A. T. Drennen Jr. 24 12,121 26.1 505 Vill G. G. Tucker 19 7,474 18.6 393 IX R. E. Monahan 33 5,450 = =29.5 165 Total 254 50,000 18.2 198 PAST PARENTS—W. M. Kempe, Chairman W. M. Kempe 92 $ 22,798 13.3 $ 248 PARENTS TOTAL 346 $ 73,198 17.1 $ 212 Report of the Annual Fund by Classes ACADEMIC CLASSES Class Class Agent Donors Dollars Old Guard W. C. Washburn 934 $ 42,306 GROUP I/A—H. G. Jahncke, Vice Chairman 27A G. W. McRae 44 $ 5,602 28A S. A. Wurzburger 49 15,447 29A T. G. Gibson 47 9,025 30A E. T. Jones 73 9,208 31A S. Sanders II 56 24,125 32A J. W. Ball 65 4,698 TOTAL 334 68,105 GROUP II/A—J. E. Neill, Vice Chairman 33A C. J. Longacre 54 $ 11,454 34A S. Mosovich 82 9,250 35A J. M. Franklin 52 4,165 36A G. W. Harrison 58 10,393 37A A. A. Radcliffe 66 7,730 38A E. Williams 68 20,897 39A W. A. Jenks 66 10,881 TOTAL 446 74,770 GROUP III/A—R. G. Browning, Vice Chairman 40A T. E. Bruce Jr. 48 $ 35,707 41A R. C. Peery 88 21,927 42A R. G. Browning 79 19,122 43A K. L. Shirk Jr. 79 12,715 44A G. T. Woo 73 9,114 45A C. S. Rowe 30 11,084 460A D. S. Hillman 44 6,352 ATA W. G. Merrin 22 3,635 48A H. R. Gates 22 5,437 49A E. S. Epley 101 13,065 TOTAL 586 138,158 GROUP IV/A—R. S. Griffith, Vice Chairman 50A G. A. Fritchie Jr. 91 $ 14,078 51A J. E. Moyler Jr. 82 12,472 52A W. F. Barron Jr. 101 12,183 53A H. S. Glickstein 81 7,761 54A F. A. Parsons 132 27,000 55A J. W. Stackhouse 67 9,737 56A W. W. Dixon 77 6,695 57A S. M. Ehudin 85 6,821 . 58A V. W. Holleman Jr. 90 12,682 59A C.D. Hurt Jr. 96 8,124 TOTAL 902 117,553 GROUP V/A—J. H. DeJarnette, Vice Chairman 60A R. P. Hawkins 76 $ 8,859 61A J. H. Allen Jr. 91 11,081 62A P. A. Agelasto III 90 7,580 63A D. T. Balfour 108 8,141 64A B. Gamber 86 8,430 65A A. J. T. Byrne 86 8,770 66A R. C. Vaughan III 84 4,894 67A B. M. Herman 87 4,985 68A W. F. Stone Jr. 42 3,620 69A J. E. Brown 79 4,095 TOTAL 829 70,455 GROUP VI/A—R. D. LaRue, Vice Chairman 70A J. W. Thomas III 81 $ 6,335 71A J. M. McCardell Jr. 114 5,693 7T2A R. M. Turnbull 107 4,835 73A G. A. Frierson 92 2,862 74A M. Guroian 81 4,005 7T5A B. H. Turnbull 93 3,270 76A H. M. Glover 83 1,550 TOTAL 651 28,550 ACADEMIC TOTAL 3,983 $539,909 % Part. 33.4 40.4 46.7 34.3 56.2 35.7 43.3 42.4 37.0 50.0 35.4 36.5 36.7 41.2 31.7 38.1 28.4 43.3 39.3 37.4 42.0 20.4 32.8 31.0 27.2 50.2 36.8 29.7 35.3 43.2 35.8 33.8 31.4 40.5 38.0 43.4 38.8 30.8 40.4 33.1 37.0 29.7 31.0 26.8 29.9 14.0 24.3 29.3 23.0 33.6 30.1 24.0 21.1 22 20.3 25.1 33.2 Avg. Gift $ 181 $ 127 192 126 431 204 $ 212 113 80 179 117 307 165 168 $ 744 236 LAW CLASSES Class Class Agent Donors Dollars Old Guard W. C. Washburn 30 $ 5,235 GROUP I/L—J. N. Harman III, Vice Chairman 27L C. T. Smith 10 $ 1,183 28L G. O. Clarke 4 1,470 29L S. C. Strite 4 1,525 30L M. J. Arnd 10 1,155 31L E. Allen 8 4,701 32L J. S. Shields 9 3,188 33L F. R. Bigham 12 1,000 34L R. D. Bailey 6 2,899 35L E. T. Coulbourn 9 3,685 36L W. H. Seaton 5 260 37L H. T. Moreland 19 5,125 38L D. W. Wilkinson Jr. 10 1,435 39L = J. D. Goodin 15 650 40L W. F. Saunders 11 6,155 41L C. F. Heiner 15 1,952 42L C. F. Bagley Jr. 9 835 TOTAL 156 37,218 GROUP II/L—W. M. Anderson, Vice Chairman 48L C.R. Allen 32 $ 2,930 49L W. D. Bain Jr. 23 5,065 50L S. I. White 19 1,892 51L G. J. Kostel 23 1,762 52L .. Jol. Kiser 25 3,378 53L R. L. Banse 14 825 54L K. L. White 18 1,282 55L ‘J. M. Faison 14 972 56L M. T. Herndon 4 275 57L D. K. Frith 15 2,174 58L R. G. McCullough 7 570 59L O. A. Neff 10 1,085 TOTAL 204 22,210 GROUP III/L—H. Angel, Vice Chairman 60L I. N. Smith Jr. 18 $ 1,168 61L W. F. Ford 11 1,800 62L W. R. Moore Jr. 6 232 63L T. G. Ireland 7 305 64L R. L. Lawrence 16 755 65L F. A. Sutherland 16 772 66L R. H. Vizethann Jr. 23 1,700 67L W. R. Reynolds 21 1,502 68L L. A. Paterno Jr. 32 1,640 69L D. D. Redmond 31 1,588 TOTAL 181 11,462 GROUP IV/L—M. H. Squires, Vice Chairman 70L B. B. Cummings 26 $ 1,358 71L W. J. Borda 21 1,028 72L S. M. Hurtt 21 582 73L John C. Moore 45 1,180 74L J. S. Kline 35 1,605 75L A. Didier 40 737 76L F. L. Duemmler 28 522 TOTAL 215 6,992 LAW TOTAL 786 $ 83,119 % Part. 21.9 76.9 33.3 33.3 71.4 57.1 42.9 66.7 35.3 56.2 35.7 100.0 50.0 45.5 52.4 55.6 27.3 51.3 42.7 32.4 40.4 29.5 48.1 41.2 64.3 37.8 16.7 50.0 26.9 29.4 38.1 48.6 28.2 18.9 32.7 33.3 46.9 36.8 42.7 43.1 36.1 51.0 36.2 28.8 44.1 39.8 49.4 34.1 ,40.2 39.0 Avg. Gift $ 174 $ 118 409 17 By Sydney Lewns, ’40 Trustee The responsibilities of an alumnus When your president [Jack DeJar- nette] called me some time ago to speak at this meeting, I was so pleased to find my calendar open. There is nothing more attractive than a captive audience with Washington and Lee as the subject matter. About a year ago, I read a summary of a then recently published article by two economists which has remained very vivid in my mind, even until today. The article contained an analysis of college education as an investment. Their studies indicated that the “rate of return” on a college education fell from about 11 percent to 12 percent in 1969 to 7 percent to 8 percent in 1974. This meant that college graduate earnings over that of high school graduates fell from about 11 percent to 12 percent more annually in 1969 to about 7 percent to 8 percent more in 1974. These statistics have been widely quoted to raise questions about the value of a college education. However, in my judgement, the analysis, on its face, was very faulty. The economists’ theory of a radical decline was obtained by comparing earnings in years of good economic growth with the earnings of the recession years of very slow growth in the early ’70s—and then predicting that the future would be more like the recession years. I just don’t believe that any of us can buy that type of analysis. Further, there are many advantages of a college education from an economic standpoint which this “rate-of-return” analysis failed to consider. Studies tend to show very clearly that college graduates earn more money in a lifetime and have a more regular and less changing job history and are less likely to fall into deadend jobs. Their chances of alternative employment are much better. They will earn more during most of their working years, unlike the less well educated whose earnings are likely to fall off in their 50s. Studies also show that college graduates are more satisfied with their work, and as a result, with their lives. To assume, therefore, that By Sidney M. B. Coulling, ’46 Professor of English And of a professor Last spring the Richmond alumni chapter had the privilege of hearing talks by Sydney Lewis, a member of the Board of Trustees, and Sidney M. B. Coulling, professor of English. Against a background of changes in recent years, Lewis spoke on the responsibilt- ties of alumni, and Coulling spoke on the responsibilities of a professor. Together these talks offer all alumni an intimate look at where Washington and Lee stands today. The Phi Beta Kappa speaker at Washington and Lee this spring, commenting on the ambiguities of America’s past, quoted the wry observation by a French critic that ours is the first nation in history to be created perfect but still to expect progress. That observation, I think, describes equally well the attitude toward Washington and Lee of her alumni, who typically believe the University reached its pinnacle during their student days and yet who read eagerly about its later developments. The Washington and Lee they remember, of course, depends on the number of years they must go back in their memories. The Washington and Lee to which I returned as a faculty member some 20 years ago, for example, was a rather different place from the Washington and Lee of today. Dr. Gaines was then president; Mr. Gilliam was dean of students; Robert E. R. Huntley was a senior law student. Farris Hotchkiss was a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. The student body numbered just under 1,100—about 950 undergraduates and 120 law students; today it numbers above 1,700—about 1,450 undergraduates (a 50-percent increase) and more than 250 law students (an increase of over 100 percent). In 1956 Sidney M. B. Coulling 18 Sydney Lewis the value of a college education should be determined solely by the “rate of return” of earnings, which fell from 1969 to 1974, is rather absurd. College graduates are usually not limited to a working life in a job one might start out in after high school. One of the great benefits of a college education has been to develop an individual to deal with changing problems, resulting in a flexibility that is more important to their Jobs than the particular skills learned in college. Fortunately, almost every poll indicates that most Americans still feel that a college education is worthwhile— and we certainly do not want them to fall off that track merely because high school graduates make somewhat more proportionately than they used to. Anyway you want to look at it, a college education is worth a lot more than its cost. With this assumption, then, that a college education from an economic standpoint alone is desirable, and since there is an obvious benefit to our community to have more highly educated people, I think it is important that we consider the most obvious responsibilities of an alumnus. First, we should all recognize the need to locate good students in our particular community and persuade them to go to Washington and Lee. The strength of a school depends no less on the student body than on the faculty. I believe we, here in Richmond, are still maintaining a good record of encouraging outstanding young men to attend W&L, and I hope we will try to strengthen this effort. This is true of many other localities, such as Baltimore, Dallas, Atlanta, Memphis, and Jacksonville. However, some of our communities which used to send contingents of outstanding students to Washington and Lee back in the “ancient ages” of the 30s and ’40s no longer do so. I can attribute this primarily to the failure of the alumni to do a really creative job of there were some 40 full professors; there are now twice that many. Tuition that year was less than $500; it is today six times that amount. Despite these changes, however, the University has in some ways altered remarkably little during the past two decades. The front campus appears almost the same, and the students, notwithstanding their long hair and casual dress, are recognizably the sons of my classmates. Furthermore, compared with some neighboring institutions— with John Hopkins, for instance, which has abandoned its honor system; or with Randolph-Macon in Ashland, which has become coeducational; or with Davidson, which has moved toward the policy of amateur athletics we adopted long ago—Washington and Lee has hardly changed at all. Still, it would be idle to pretend that changes have not taken place. During the past 20 years Wahington and Lee, like the rest of the world, has changed in real and significant ways, and I’ve been asked to speak to you this evening about how I, as a professor, view my responsibilities as they have been affected by these changes. At the outset two qualifying remarks should be made. The first is that at Washington and Lee a professor’s foremost responsibility is always understood to be his teaching. My comments, therefore, concern only those duties beyond this obvious and fundamental obligation of the undergraduate teacher. The second qualification is that I come to you as only one member of the faculty and don’t presume to speak for others. But though I hope I’m not like the Presbyterian divine who confused his own ideas with those of the deity, I believe that most of my colleagues would agree basically with what I have to say. If you think about it for a moment you'll see that a faculty member has responsibility toward what might be called three constituencies—the student body, the University, and the world of scholarship and research. I have the duty, for example, of supporting and cooperating with the student- administered honor system; I act as adviser to freshmen and write letters of recommendation for seniors. I also serve on University committees and attend faculty meetings, and occasionally, as this evening, have the pleasant task of speaking to alumni. And I belong to professional organizations, such as the Modern Language Association of America, and contribute as I can to my field of special study. Each of these areas has legitimate claim to my attention, and considering them separately and in order I'll try to describe how my responsibilities to them have changed over the years. First, the students. When I joined the faculty 20 years ago the concept of in loco parentis was still firmly entrenched. Faculty members, as the phrase indicates, were supposed to act as surrogate parents, and the first committee on which I served, the old Social Functions Committee, was the complete embodiment of this principle. It was charged with such responsibilities as selecting dance weekends, finding chaperones, and preserving decorum in Doremus Gymnasium. In keeping with the same concept, a regular item on the agenda of faculty meetings was a report by the dean of students on any misbehavior brought to his attention. I’m embarrassed, even now, to recount how grown men spent their time carrying out a policy as extinct today as the dodo. But if the concept of in loco parentis is dead, the faculty’s commitment to students is not. On the contrary, it is probably more alive than it was 20 years ago. I have the impression that students are entertained more widely in faculty homes than before, and that greater numbers of them enjoy close and lasting friendships with members of the faculty. Even if this impression is false, however, 19 Lewis selling Washington and Lee. Unfortunately, the general activity of an alumni chapter seems to run parallel with the failure to obtain good young men to attend W&L. Strong alumni chapters and strong students tend to follow each other like day and night. We know that the stronger and more active the chapter, the stronger the students from that locality. This, in turn, results in a continuing strengthening of the chapter, as it is constantly being refreshed as the young men return to the community when their education is completed. Obviously, it is also important that each of us endow Washington and Lee with as large a part of our means as we can—both on a capital giving basis and an annual giving basis. I am sure that all of you here receive an annual appeal from your class agent. These annual funds are a very important part of the Sydney Lewis annual operating budget of Washington and Lee. In fact, the funds raised annually through this appeal to the alumni consists of about 72 percent of the total budget. I think it is important that all of us remember that not a single one of us paid the full cost of our education at W&L. The tuition that any of us paid never paid the full cost—nor are there any plans in the future to provide that tuition alone will pay a student’s cost at W&cL. Just as others have made it possible for each of us to have an education at Washington and Lee, the responsibility is ours to see that those who follow us also have this opportunity. In the late 1930’s, my tuition covered between 60 percent and 65 percent of the cost expended on my education. That figure has not changed even today. For example, a student attending W&L today will pay tuition of approximately $12,000 over the next four years. The total cost to the University for this education will be in excess of $18,000. Therefore, when the student graduates, he will, in truth, be indebted to Washington and Lee to the tune of over $6,000. Coulling a change for the better has clearly occured: faculty counseling of students is now at the mature and professional level it should be. This change is in part attributable to the spreading influence of permissiveness in our society and to the corresponding decline in parental authority, but two other reasons are of more immediate importance. One is that our high schools have produced graduates whose urgent need is not for social guidance but for academic help. Just the other day, in reading the London Times Literary Supplement, I ran across this statement by a professor at Ohio State: Shocking as it may seem, the average Ameri- can first-year university student has so little formal grasp of his language, so little certainty about using it, and such great difficulty in com- prehending a page of even the most lucid modern prose, that by any reasonable stand- ard he must be regarded as a non-native speaker. No one would suggest that this des- cribes the situation at Washington and Lee, but like every other college in the country we depend for our students on an educational system that has become a national scandal; and even with highly selective admissions policies and careful screening some students are admitted— at Washington and Lee and everywhere else—who are not fully prepared for college work, particularly in English and mathematics. The difficulty they encounter breeds discouragement; discouragement breeds frustration; and frustration often breeds a sense of defeat. At least partly because of this the characteristic malaise among students in recent years has been the simple inability to do a job, to complete an assignment, to write a required paper. It has replaced sex and religion, the University chaplain tells me, as the students’ number-one problem. The counseling of students has become more difficult also as a result of another national problem: the economy has made it harder to get a job, and much harder to get into graduate school. Even entering freshmen are aware of the tightness of things; whereas a few years ago I might discuss the Orioles or Redskins with my advisees, I now spend all my time answering questions about when to take economics or whether to take accounting. The problem has made more delicate, especially for an adviser in the humanities, the work of striking a balance between courses that are culturally enriching and those that are “practical,” and in a number of departments it has posed the dilemma of whether to encourage students to continue in areas with uncertain futures. For career counseling, of course, students may always obtain the professional help of persons like the University’s director of placement. But the increasingly complex responsibility of advising about courses and majors rests finally with members of the faculty. These, then, are the two principal ways I’ve found my counseling of students to have become a more challenging task during the past few years. But before I leave the subject of students I’d like to mention one other responsibility I have toward them: attracting to Washington and Lee the very best students we can get. I was gratified to hear Mr. Lewis’s appeal to you for help in student recruitment, and I wish to echo it. John Henry Newman once said that if he had to choose between a university that had a large faculty and required of its graduates an extensive knowledge, and one that had no faculty at all but merely brought a number of students together for three or four years, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter. You can hardly expect a professor who must support a wife and children to make the same choice as the celibate Newman, but there is nevertheless profound meaning in what 20 My guess is that not very many of you here this evening have been aware until just recently that W&L has been conducting a capital fund raising campaign since 1972. Within the past 60 days, President Huntley proudly announced the successful completion of Phase I of our development campaign, with the results exceeding, by over $1 million, our $36 million goal. Phase II’s goal was originally an additional $20 million to be raised by 1980. Obviously, however, a $56 million total goal, which was established for the decade of the ’70s, did in no way anticipate the terrible inflation which has been inflicted on our economy. As a result, although we raised the goal dollars in Phase I, the dollars raised were simply not sufficient to meet the projects originally designed for Phase I. In addition, it was only, finally, through the herculean efforts of our Board of Trustees that we were able to begin to undertake one of the primary projects of Phase I, namely, the library. As some of you will recall, the letting of the library contract was announced in the late fall of 1976. From the time that the library project was announced as part of our Phase I goal in 1970, the cost of the project escalated from $5 million to $6 million to between $9 million and $10 million when the contract was finally given out, with no improvements in the plans. In fact, if anything, there was a slight reduction in the originally planned library features. The difference in cost was merely the result of increased prices over a five-year period. I think everyone should be aware of the role played by the Board of Trustees in making the library possible. When Phase I was coming to an end in 1976, and it was rather obvious to the Board that the library was not going to be built as planned because of our inability to raise the necessary funds, it is to the credit of the Board that, at a special meeting called at Dulles Airport, John Stemmons, the Development Committee chairman, proceeded to raise about $1.7 million among fewer than 15 Trustees— all that money in spite of the fact that already, in Phase I, the W&L Board had responded to the need with individual commitments over and beyond the call of duty. One of the problems which we faced in Phase I in our campaign, and one which we will surely face in Phase II, is that the vast majority of our alumni are really not aware of the great needs of the University in order to maintain a Number | standing. I do not blame this lack of knowledge of the University’s needs on the alumni. After all, other than our annual giving appeals, 95 percent of our alumni have never been approached for a capital commitment, either during the course of Phase I of our current development program during the past five years or, for that matter, never before in their alumni life. As a result, most alumni simply feel that we can continue to be a top notch Sidney M. B. Coulling he says. Students act on the minds of other students in ways that no faculty member can. They affect, for good or for ill, what takes place in the classroom, and during the academic year they’re outside the classroom ten hours for every hour they’re in it. Alumni need never fear that students at Washington and Lee will become a collection of eggheads or that they will lose their love of pleasure and their ingenuity in pursuing it. We still want the well- rounded student we’ve always attracted. But we want the well-rounded student of intellectual seriousness, and when some of our ablest students tell us that the lack of this seriousness on campus is Washington and Lee’s only real weakeness, they confront us with an inescapable responsibility: to get the best students we can, for the sake of the students themselves. This suggests a second area of my responsibility—the University as a whole. Now precisely what do I mean? In a legal sense the University is a corporation; in an educational sense it is a degree-granting institution; in a gen- eral sense it is the alma mater remembered in myriad ways by alumni. But the only sense in which the University is a living reality is the community of scholars—faculty and students—who are at Washington and Lee at a given time, and if I were asked to name the single greatest loss accompanying the changes of the past 20 years I would say that it has been the gradual weakening of this awareness of community. I use the word not in the sense of some cozy togetherness, but in the same sense Auden intended when he explained why he was leaving New York to return to Oxford. The weakening began, someone said to me facetiously, when nearby women’s colleges liberalized their rules and thus started a mass exodus from fraternity houses to apartments, so that now on some weekends there are not enough students at Red Square to play a game of chess. I don’t completely deplore this development, for unquestionably it has allowed students a broader freedom of choice and encouraged a wider diversity of life. But together with other forces— the immeasurable effects, for example, of an enlarged faculty and student body, an expanded curriculum, the absence of Saturday classes, and the pervasive idea of doing one’s thing—it has helped to fragment the student body and to erode the sense of unity. This, among other reasons, is why the new library is of vital importance to us, and why many of us have the highest hopes for it. With its central location it can be the focal point of campus life, 21 Lewis university without any further substantial help from the alumni. However, this is very far from being the truth. If the University does not start receiving substantial commitments from those who did not participate in Phase I, and even from those who did as well, then, we are going to be in real trouble beginning in the ’80s. Very frankly, this leads me into the most important reason why it is so urgent that each and every alumnus of Washington and Lee commit to the financial support of the University in a meaningful way. I believe that, as an alumnus of our particular University, we have a very special responsibility—and only one that we, and others from a small group of independent colleges, can understand. Today, we all see the dangers on the American scene of big labor, big business, big media, and big government. Unfortunately, we have also begun to see big education. Bigness in education is certainly no less an evil than other bigness in our society. However, bigness in education involves elements which are too crucial for us to overlook. The elements are the next generation and that of the dissemination of knowledge. We here, as Washington and Lee alumni, are the inheritors of the dwindling field of the only alternative to uniform, govermentalized, flat-footed, big-time education. We are among that small group of people who can still prevent the disaster of all education falling into the hands of the politically appointed boards, government- mentality grantors of funds, compromisers (as they must) of principles which are unpopular. Mediocrity is the only outcome we can expect if we allow politically supported education to become the only kind of education available to future generations. What will be the alternative to government fiat if we fail to keep alive the few top quality, independent institutions which still remain in the U.S.A.? Who can possibly do it but Washington and Lee alumni and the alumni of other independent institutions such as Yale, Davidson, Princeton, Williams, or you name them? There are not too many of us, however. How else can one of us leave a better thumb print on this old world than one which will keep individuality and real freedom alive? Maybe it’s a last gasp—I hope not. In any event, someone kept that alive for us. To let it die for those who follow us would really be a disgrace. I sincerely hope that none of us will ever forget the importance of independent education such as we offer at Washington and Lee and which we all experienced there. If we fulfill our responsibilities to W&L to keep it strong so it can provide a meaningful education to those who follow us, we will really be doing what is, in fact, a great service to our country. Coulling and if used to full advantage it can become the unifying force of the University. Meanwhile the individual faculty member can do what he can, by working closely with his students, to revitalize the concept of a university as a community of scholars bound together in the common pursuit of knowledge and truth. The community of learning extends beyond the University, however, and this is why a professor has responsibility toward a third group—the worldwide body of scholars to which he belongs. Everyone knows that for years the consuming desire for recognition by this body led to flagrant neglect of students and contributed to their protests of the 60s, and some of you may recall that when he was honored on his retirement from Harvard one of the most celebrated of absentee professors, John Kenneth Galbraith, was congratulated by a senior for at last appearing on campus. But the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction, and the danger now is that it will swing too far. It is a danger, first of all, to the students themselves. They can lose as much as they gain from a faculty member’s undivided attention. They need the test of independent work in order to develop their own talents, formulate their own ideas, discover their own resources. And most of all they need to learn that the function of a university is not to make itself relevant to them, but to help them become relevant to the world at large. I don’t see why I should hesitate to say in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis what I’ve already said behind their backs—that even for undergraduates there is potential of the greatest significance in Lewis Hall, which can bring to campus students of law from across the nation, visibly linking Washington and Lee with other centers of learning and serving as a reminder of the University’s obligation to scholarship and research. A second and greater danger in the notion that a professor has only to teach is to the professor himself. He needs the additional challenge of research and the discipline it entails. In the classroom he is almost never accountable to his peers, but when he delivers a paper at a professional meeting or publishes an article in a scholarly journal he addresses those who are capable of judging him. He needs time for study, for reflection, for taking a fresh look at his subject. He needs the stimulus to the same growth and development he expects of his students, for without it he will atrophy as surely as the mother who never leaves the nursery or the housewife who is forever in the kitchen. ‘And he especially needs relief from teaching responsibilities, at regular intervals and for considerable periods of time. I’m now on leave of absence, investigating an area that is of interest to perhaps no more than half a dozen people in the world—nineteenth-century British autobiography. It may lead to nothing, and I can’t say that it will make me a better teacher. But I think it’s good for me to be on leave, and good for my students; they’re never the last to get the point. Seeing me go daily to my office, not to prepare for classes but to engage in my harmless and esoteric study, they gain a new sense of Washington and Lee’s commitment to the pursuit of knowledge. The University has a bright future. It is in good hands, with a generous and dedicated Board of Trustees, an able administration, and a faculty devoted to their students. But if we are to make that future a reality we will need your help. I say this not as a fund-raiser, but as a member of the faculty asking for help in ways that are equally important—sending us your best students and supporting our efforts to strenghten Washington and Lee as a community of scholars and a center of learning of which we can all be proud. 22 Frank Brooks, ’46, in attendance. Results of the May election were announced and the new chapter officers are: John A. Wolf, ’69, ’72L, president; James Dawson, ’68, ’71L, vice president; William Reinhoff, ’74, secretary; and Joseph C. Wick, 69, treasurer. Events scheduled for the future include an alumni reception at the Peale Gallery in October or November. Chapter news WASHINGTON. _ A joint cocktail party was held with Hollins alumnae on May 18 at Washington’s unique Botanic Gardens. Music was provided by Looney Toones, Inc., a mobile music company owned and operated by Gilbert S. Meem Jr., "72. Enthusiastic partygoers from both schools enjoyed the occasion and J. A. Meriwether, ’70, president of the W&L chapter, announced that plans for future joint meetings are being considered. SAN FRANCISCO. Alumni and wives from the Bay area gathered for lunch at the Fournous Ovens restaurant at the Stanford Court Hotel on July 8. The principal guests for the occasion were CHICAGO. President Robert E. R. Huntley was the guest of honor at a reception and dinner held June 14 at the Chicago Bar Association Building. Stanley A. Walton, ’62, ’65L, president of the chapter, introduced other University representatives there, including: Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, director of development; Adrian Williamson Jr., 50, a development staff associate; Ken Ruscio, ’76, assistant admissions director; and Bill Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary. President Huntley’s report on the University was enthusiastically received. Walton announced plans for a chapter directory and future chapter activities. Special emphasis was placed on the need for alumni volunteers in the area of student recruitment. ATLANTA—Cabell Heywood, ’58; Michael Mas- inter, 58; John Hollister, ’58. ATLANTA. A very large and fun- loving group of alumni, wives and dates met for cocktails and a buffet at the home of Nathan V. (Pete) Hendricks, 65, *69L, on June 15. The highlight of the occasion was the presentation by the chapter of an engraved silver cup to Thomas B. Branch III, ’58. He was honored for his exceptional leadership, both in chapter and W&L affairs. Branch is retiring this year as president of the Alumni Association. The presentation was made by the chapter’s president, Philip C. Thompson, ’68, ’°71L. Additional remarks were made by Farris Hotchkiss, 58, on behalf of President Huntley, who was unable to be present. Bill Washburn, ’40, expressed thanks on behalf of the entire chapter to Pete and Kathy Hendricks for their hospitality. ATLANTA—Farvis Hotchkiss, ’58, (right) con- gratulates Thomas B. Branch, ’58, on his leadership award. BALTIMORE. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry LeBrun, ’58, was the setting for a chapter cocktail party and very short business meeting on June 18. A number of alumni and wives enjoyed the usual Baltimore good-time spirit and were honored to have Trustee and Mrs. CHICAGO—Gerard E. Grashorn, ’30; Robert C. Dyer, ’34; William H. Hillier, ’38. Scott Franklin, ’77, and his brother David, ’78, a rising senior at W&L. The two delivered excellent reports on the University, the Honor System, social life, and athletics. In a brief business session, Richard L. (Dick) Kuersteiner, 61, was elected president. Outgoing president Emmett McCorkle Jr., ’26, used the occasion to inform the chapter of the recently-established Philip Sprouse, ’26, Memorial Fund. Jerry South, ’54, treasurer of the Alumni Board of Directors, attended and extended greetings to the chapter from the Alumni Board. The arrangements were made by Michael Jarboe, ’75. EO ATLANTA—Francis G. Jones III, 67; Stuart Finestone, 67; J. D. Humphmes III, ’66, ’69L. CHICAGO—Stanley A. Walton III, ’62, ’65L, talks with Joseph L. Topinka, ’63, and his wife. CHICAGO—Mark M. Heatwole, ’69, ’71L, and wife talks with Pleas Geyer, ’73, and wife. 23 Class notes Why not a WSL rocker too? Pa ow Re rere ee: aha ee ei De ae y ft The Washington and Lee Chair With Crest in Five Colors The chair is made of birch and rock maple, hand-rubbed in black lacquer with gold trim. It is an attractive and sturdy piece of furniture for home or office. It is a welcome gift for all occa- sions—Christmas, birthdays, an- niversaries, or weddings. All profit from sales of the chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, ’14. ARM CHAIR Black lacquer with cherry arms $75.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. BOSTON ROCKER All black lacquer $60.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. Mail your order to: Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. Lexington, Virginia 24450 Shipment from available stock will be made upon receipt of your check. Freight “home delivery” charges can often be avoided by having the shipment made to an office or busi- ness address. Please include your name, address, and_ telephone number. 24 1923 Andrew H. Harris Jr. has remained active since retiring from the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad as an assistant to the chief engineer for communications and signaling. Recently he took a volunteer part-time job as coordinator for the energy council in New Hanover County, N. C. Before that, he was coordinator of civil preparedness from 1968 to 1976 for the county and the cities of Wilmington, Caroline Beach, Kure Beach, and Wrightsville Beach. He is also a retired Army colonel. 1930 © Marion H. Roberts Jr. retired July 1, 1975, from the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. 1932 District Judge Charles E. Long Jr. of Dallas, Texas, who has been on the bench longer than any other full-time judge at the Dallas County Courthouse, retired June 30, 1977. He has served in the 134th District Court since 1953, when he was appointed by Gov. Allan Shivers. Long served as an assistant city attorney for Dallas from 1938-42; as a naval officer during World War II; as counsel to the U. S. House Judiciary Committee in 1946 and as the civil district attorney for Dallas County in 1947. From 1948-53, he was in private practice with the law firm of Touchstone, Long & Bernays. Long is a past president of SMU law alumni and the Dallas Lions Club. He is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church and a trustee of the First Presbyterian Foundation. 1933 Howell Arthur Lamar, flag lieutenant to Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz between 1941-1945, has published a book entitled J Saw Stars. The book is a collection of memories by Lamar of Nimitz and is published by the Admiral Nimitz Foundation of Fredericksburg, Texas. 1934 Arthur Tonsmeire Jr., an executive with First Southern Federal Savings and _ Loan Association of Mobile, Ala., was instrumental in the restoration and improvement of an area called Fort Conde’ Plaza. When planning began for a tunnel under the Mobile River, an archaeological investigation discovered some remnants of the original Fort Conde’. The city rebuilt the fort over the tunnel’s entrance. Also within the 14-acre area were several old houses which needed restoration. Tonsmeire and First Southern worked to insure that the property would be purchased by owners interested in W. H. Edwards, ’39 restoration. The houses now contain shops and other commercial ventures and make up the core of the plaza. 1938 Dr. Floyd R. Mays Jr. has retired from private medical practice and lives in Big Spring, Texas. Mays is an enthusiastic scuba diver in Guaymas, Mexico. Robert Edward Surles, a practicing attorney in Summerville, Ga., took a trip through Mexico studying the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. 1939 Warren H. Edwards, attorney for Holmes County, Fla., school board and past-president of the Kiwanis Club of Orlando, has been elected a trustee of Kiwanis International during the annual convention of the organization in Dallas, Texas. The Kiwanis International Board of Trustees represents the organization of 7000 clubs in 61 countries. Edwards served as governor of the Florida. Kiwanis District, and as both member and chairman of a number of district committees. He is a life fellow of the Kiwanis International Foundation. Edwards is a member of the American Bar and the Florida Bar Association. He is president of the Orange County Bar Association; County Solicitor of Orange County; and judge of the County Court of Record. He is active in a number of city and state organizations and a director of the Visiting Nurses Association of Orlando and the Florida Central Academy. Edwards and his wife have two daughters. John L. Hawkins II is executive secretary of the Professional Wrecker Operations of Florida. He is also executive vice president of David L. Hunter Construction Co. of Gainesville, Fla. 1940 Edwin J. Foltz, vice president for corporate relations for Campbell Soup Co. and president of the Washington and Lee Alumni Association, has been elected president of the Citizens Crime Commission for the city of Philadelphia. His election took place at the annual meeting on June 2 at the Philadelphia Sheraton Hotel. Foltz has been a member of the Crime Commission since 1972 and was elected to the board of directors in 1974. A former FBI agent and administrator, he has experience in the criminal justice field. Foltz is a member of the president’s council of the American Management Association; and a vice chairman, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia; and a member of the Philadelphia Committee on Foreign Relations. He serves on the executive committee of the South Jersey Chamber of Commerce and is the recipient of several community service awards and citations. Robert C. Walker, president of the United Virginia Bank of Williamsburg is also vice mayor. 1943 James C. Walker celebrated his 30th wedding anniversary in May, 1977. He and his wife have two sons and one grandson. He is owner and president of Outdoor Equipment Co. of Maryland Heights, Mo.; director of United Missouri Bank and the Chamar Investment Co.; and president of Turf Equipment Distributors Association. 1945 Benjamin M. Kaplan, is in the private practice of cardiology with the Clinical Cardiology Group, Ltd., in Chicago. Prior to entering private practice he served as chief of the section of cardiology at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, IIl., between 1953 and 1957. Kaplan is an_ associate professor at Northwestern University Medical School and an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He and his wife, Miriam, have a son and a daughter. Kaplan enjoys golf and tennis and writes often for medical journals. 1946 After 25 years as a hospital administrator, Frederick C. Sage has joined the department of Health, Education and Welfare, serving as an administrator in the Medicaid program. ~ Harry W. Wellford is U. S. District Judge for the western district of Tennessee. He is also chairman of the ‘Tennessee Historical Commission and a member of the Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commis- sion. 1950 Philip M. Lanier, senior vice president-law for Seaboard Coast Line Industries, has recently been named executive vice _ president- administration. Lanier was appointed attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1955. He was elected vice president-law for L&N in 1968 and in 1973 became senior vice president-law for Seaboard Coast Line Industries. Seaboard Coast Line Industries is the holding company for the Family Lines System which is made up. of various railroads including the Seaboard Coast Line, the Louisville & Nashville, Georgia, Clinchfield and West Point Route. Lanier is also president of the Louisville Philharmonic Society. 1951 Capt. Joel H. Berry, U.S.N., is commander of Destroyer Squadron 15, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. His command consists of 1,300 officers and men and is composed of two destroyers and three fleet frigates. He and his wife and three sons reside in base quarters at Yokosuka. 1952 Capt. Robert F. Connally is the commanding officer of the Navy recruiting district in Houston, Texas. 1954 Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Van Cott, a daughter, Marianna Morrill, on Dec. 15, 1976. She joins four older brothers and the family lives in Goldenrod, Fla. Roy T. Matthews, a professor at Michigan State University, has been selected to serve on the school’s long range planning council. Charles R. Thomas Jr. is with the Virginia State Health Department as administrator of the Crater Health District, a five county and three city health district south of Richmond. 1956 Birth: Mr. and Mrs. E. Duncan McCarthy, a daughter, Dudley Noel, on June 3, 1977. The McCarthys have four daughters and two sons. McCarthy is special assistant for administration at the headquarters of the chief of naval Reserve in New Orleans. Dr. Oscar H. L. Bing, has been promoted to associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology, holds a research career development award from N.I.H. and has published approximately 100 papers and abstracts in the field of cardiac muscle mechanics and _ physiology. He _ recently published a clinical EKG guide for practical use by student nurses and practitioners. 1957 Robert G. Bannon has been appointed vice president and state counsel of Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. Bannon, who will manage the new Commonwealth branch office in Hartford, Conn., has been in the land title insurance field since 1964. He is active in the New England Land Title Association and the Connecticut Board of Title Underwriters, having served as_ president of both 25 organizations. He is also a member of the executive committee of the real property section of the Connecticut Bar Association. 1958 J. William Reid, senior vice president of First & Merchants National Bank in Richmond, has been elected to a two-year term on the board of directors of the Virginia Bankers Association. He was recently elected to the board of directors of the Virginia College Fund. Reid joined First & Merchants in 1961. He became assistant cashier in 1965, assistant vice president in 1967, vice president in 1970 and senior vice president in 1973. William A. Towler III has been elected president and chief operating officer of American-First Title and Trust Co. of Oklahoma City, Okla. Dr. Watson G. Watring has been appointed director of gynecologic oncology of the New England Medical Center Hospital. He is also an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Tufts University School of Medicine. He held similar positions at the University of California’s Los Angeles Medical Center. Watring has been a consultant at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Naval Hospital. He was elected by the American Cancer Society as the three-year recipient of the Junior Faculty Clinical Fellowship. Watring is a fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He and his wife, the former Ann Densmore, have five children. 1959 John C. Fay Jr., after passing the Alabama State Bar in February, 1977, is now with Central Foundry in Tuscaloosa, Ala., as president and chief executive officer. He and his wife, Mary, have three daughters and the family resides just outside Birmingham in Sterrett. Dr. John C. Kotz, visiting scientist at the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, spent a few days visiting the chemistry department at Washington and Lee in April. William H. Pixton is director of freshmen composition at Oklahoma State University. He was formerly coordinator of freshmen and sophomore English at Troy State University. Boardman Stewart is a partner in Equitable Securities in Nashville, Tenn. He is also 26 Calhoun Bond, ’43 (left), fire com- missioner of Baltimore City, and Bull Pacy, ’50, liquor commissioner of Balti- more County, represent WSL at Cotton Patch Beach, Del., where both have cottages. president of the Nashville Society of Financial Analysts and president-elect of the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson Co. He and his wife, Lillian, have three children. 1960 Marnage: D. Allen Penick Jr. and Rheta Karen Dean on July 9 in Lexington, Va. Paul M. Penick, 63, brother of the groom, was best man. The couple will live in Reno, Nev. Birth: Maj. and Mrs. Edward A. Corcoran, a son, Brian Edward, on Dec. 28, 1976. The young man joins three sisters. The family lives in Salinas, Calif., where Corcoran is currently assigned to the U. S. Army headquarters command, sixth ordnance company. In May, 1977, Corcoran was awarded a Ph. D. degree from Columbia University. Robert L. Elder and his wife, Sarah, are professional journalists who have worked in Miami, Atlanta and Nashville. Currently, they are doing post-graduate work at Stanford University on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. As a reporter in Nashville for the Banner and the Tennessean, Elder received several awards for his stories on housing, unemployment and other urban problems. Sarah has worked for the Atlanta Constitution. H. Tudor Hall has been transferred to the Sacramento, Calif., office of Cessna Finance Corp. This is the lending subsidiary of Cessna Aircraft Corp. Hall holds the position of western manager. John Ashby Morton is an assistant professor of history at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. Louis H. Burford is a member of Headquarters Camp #584 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Charles W. Day heads the firm of Shehan, Day & Associates, Inc., an actuarial consulting firm in Pittsburgh, Pa. In February, 1976, he was enrolled by the joint board of the Department of Labor and the Department of the Treasury for the enrollment of actuaries to perform services under the Employment Retirement Act of 1974. Edson B. Olds, formerly with the Peoples Drug Co. in Washington, D. C., is now vice president of The National Bank of Washington. He works with the trust and operations center. He and his wife, Carol, have three children and the family lives in Rockville, Md. 1962 Birth: Dr. and Mrs. John Ollie Edmunds Jr., a daughter, Caroline Murphy, on May 16, 1977. Edmunds recently joined the faculty of Tulane Medical School as an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery. He and his wife have three children and they live in New Orleans. Alan M. Corwin is an account executive with Dean Witter & Co, Inc., with offices in Portland, Ore. Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, head of the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, has been selected as a co-holder of the Paul J. Thomas Chair of Medicine. Goldstein was one of two scientists who discovered a fundamental chemical pathway by which the body controls the production of cholesterol. The chair was created through a donation to the medical school by Mr. and Mrs. J. Erik Jonsson. Goldstein has been widely recognized for his work in discovering a genetic defect which causes high blood fat. For that research, he received the Heinrich Weiland Prize three years ago in Germany and the American Chemical Society's Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry in 1976. Dr. Kenneth B. Jones Jr. who practices general and pediatric surgery in Shreveport, La., became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in October, 1976. He is also clinical assistant professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at L.S.U. School of Medicine. Major Wesley R. Ostergren is assigned with the U. S. Army in Antwerp Province, Belgium, as Commander, M R LOGAEUR BENELUX. He and his wife, Margaret, have two sons. 1963 Birth: Mr. and Mrs. John E. Tipton, a daughter, Mary Bowman, on May 8, 1977. The Tiptons also have a son and the family lives in Webster Groves, Mo. Daniel R. (Randy) Cole is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Krooth & Altman which specializes in commercial, corporate and real estate practice. Between 1970 and 1973 he was an attorney with the Office of General Counsel of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He then served three years as director of HUD’s housing production and mortgage credit division. G. McNeir Tilman has been elected an officer by the directors of the National Bank and Trust Co. of Charlottesville, Va. Tilman has been assigned special responsibility for supervision of the bank’s new ready reserve account service. From 1965 until joining the bank, he was president of Tilman’s Inc., a family owned department store in downtown Charlottesville, and a founder of Trula’s of Charlottesville. Tilman is a former director of First Virginia Bank, the Retail Merchants Association, the Virginia Retail Merchants Association, Downtown Charlottesville, Inc., Charlottesville Parking Center, Inc., the Chamber of Commerce, Town Hall Levy Opera House Foundation, the United Way and the Heart Fund. He was married in 1964 to the former Nancy Kingery of Roanoke. The couple has two daughters. 1964 Stanley Fink, a member of the Board of Trustees of Temple Beth O’r for six years, has been elected president of the congregation of Temple Beth O’r in Clark, N.J. He is a practicing attorney and is a past president of the Clark Jaycees, the Linden Bar Association, and the Board of Trustees of the Union County Legal Services Corp. Fink is vice president of the northern New Jersey region of the United Synagogue of America and a member of the Board of Governors of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Union and Essex Counties. Dr. Peter S. Trager has opened an office in Marietta, Ga., for the general practice of dentistry. Stuart J. Yoffe is a pediatrician in Houston, Texas. He expects to have a book published soon entitled, How to Ratse a Perfect Child. Robert G. Bannon (See 1957.) 1965 Adam J. Fielder is now practicing obstetrics and gynecology in Richmond, Va. He previously served as chief resident of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He is the author of several published articles. Dr. L. Shannon Jung, assistant professor of religion and sociology, has been named the first recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award at Virginia Intermont College. Jung holds degrees from Union Theological Seminary, Yale University Divinity School, and has a Ph. D. from Vanderbilt University. Jung is also an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church. Woodward D. Openo is a volunteer in architectural restoration at Strawberg Banke, a historic preservation organization = in Portsmouth, N.H. The restoration program district includes some 30 buildings and the program is a long term project. William L. Putnam has been appointed personnel administration manager of the headquarters offices of Celanese Corp. in New York City. He had been personnel manager at the Greer, S.C., plant of Celanese Plastics Co. Putnam joined Celanese in 1973 as a personnel supervisor at the Greer plant, and became industrial relations manager in 1974. He had previously held personnel positions with Allied Chemical Corp., Morristown, N.J., and Hertz Corp., New York City. He and his wife and daughter live in Convent Station, N.J. Walter H. Ryland is assistant attorney general for Virginia and head of the public education section. He and his wife, Madelaine, live in Richmond. Robert G. Thomas, former assistant counsel for the New York State Banking Department, has become a member of the New York City law firm of Yamada, Condemi, Thomas & Dean. 1966 Birth: Dr. and Mrs. M. Neely Young II, a son, Joshua Neely, in March, 1977. Young is a professor in the history department at Pace Academy in Atlanta, Ga. Since 1974 F. Ronald Laupheimer has been an attorney in the legal department of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. He previously had served one year as a clerk for Judge Ira Brown of the San Francisco Superior Court. John C. Moore has joined with classmate Thomas F. Coates III and others to form the Richmond, Va., law firm of Coates, Comess, Settle, Moore & Taylor. John A. B. Palmer has been promoted to the newly created position of director of financial accounting and reporting in the corporate controller department of Springs Mills, Inc., of Fort Mill, S.C. Palmer joined Springs in December, 1975, after working with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co. in Greensboro, N.C. He holds a master’s degree in business from Emory University in Atlanta. Palmer is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of CPAs. He will have responsibility for both internal and external financial reporting. He and his wife, Marty, have two children and the family lives in Lancaster, S.C. 1967 Birth: Mr. and Mrs. B. Michael Herman, a daughter, Marshall Michelle, on April 14, 1977. Herman is general counsel for Blue Cross of Southwestern Virginia with offices in Roanoke. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. James W. Oram Jr., a second son, Brook Ballinger, on April 19, 1977. Oram is with IBM Corporation with offices in Philadelphia. Samuel P. McChesney III is president of McChesney Development Co. in Lake Quivira, Kans., a firm specializing in multi-housing development projects. Recently, a “ground breaking” ceremony was held for Parkview Gardens, which McChesney is developing. The housing complex is for the elderly and the handicapped. Dr. John R. McGill is completing residency training in plastics and reconstruction surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. In July he began a one year fellowship in hand surgery at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. Walter H. Ryland (See 1965.) Marriage: Frederick Arthur Meiser Jr. and Carol Ann Minnich on June 10, 1977, in San Diego, Calif. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Frost Jr., a son, Robert J. III, on June 2, 1977. He joins two sisters, Virginia Anne and Katherine Elizabeth. The family lives in Silver Spring, Md. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Harmon III, a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, on May 20, 1977. Harmon and his wife, Melinda, are practicing attorneys in Houston, Texas. James Moore Boyd received a J.D. degree from Hastings in 1974 and an L.L.M. (tax) degree from New York University in 1976. He is now associated with the Wall Street firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. Joel S. Kline is practicing law in Rockville, Md. His wife, Betsy, manages a travel agency in Potomac. John R. Reynolds is a partner in the law firm of Jackson, Tanner and Reynolds in Nashville, Tenn. He and his wife, Janis, have a daughter, Virginia Elizabeth. The Reynolds recently remodeled a 90-year-old building and received a certificate of merit for significant contributions to the preservation of Tennessee’s historical heritage from _ the Tennessee Historical Commission. John D. Roberts, former Assistant U. S. Attorney in Anchorage, has become Alaska’s first full-time United States Magistrate. The ceremony was held June 3, 1977, and included the presence of all federal judges of the United 27 W. C. Tyler, ’69 States District Court of Alaska. Chief Judge von der Heydt presided at the event. The new fulltime position was recently authorized across the country by the administrative office of the U.S. Courts. The new magistrate is expected to help with increasing case loads and can be delegated an expanded range of new pre-trial duties as authorized by the Federal Magistrate’s Act. Roberts had been U. S. Attorney in Anchorage since 1974. Previously he had been with the U. S. Attorney’s office in Jacksonville, Fla. Charles B. Tomm, a practicing attorney with the Wall Street firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, participated in the Washington and Lee Applied Ethics Program in March 1977. He led the discussion and presented materials on the topic entitled “Issues in Representing Multinational Corporations.” His wife, Sallie, is working on a master’s degree in occupational therapy at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. 1969 Marriage: Robert E. Price and Mahala Jane Simms on May 21, 1977, in Houston, Texas. The Rev. Julian W. Walthall, ’60, performed the ceremony. The couple will live in Houston where Price is an attorney with the firm of Lockett & Embry. Joseph E. Bates is general manager, West, of Iddings Paint Co. with offices in Los Angeles, Calif. W. William Melnyk, formerly with Deering- Milliken, is now a realtor with the Still Agency in Spartanburg, S.C., specializing in residential and commercial real estate. Philip W. Norwood is practicing with the Birmingham, Ala., law firm of Johnson, North, Haskell & Slaughter. He and his wife have a daughter, Elizabeth Pritchard. William A. Timmerman is in Paris, France, where he is in charge of credit and marketing at the Paris branch of the Chase Manhatten Bank. Timmerman was promoted to the position of vice president in September, 1976. His wife, son and daughter live with him in Paris. William C. Tyler has joined Coldwell Banker Management Corp. as a real estate finance officer responsible for handling Atlanta-area financing activities. Prior to joining the firm, Tyler was an assistant vice president in the commercial mortgage banking division of Citizens and Southern Financial Corp., Atlanta. Coldwell Banker Management Corp. is the financial __ services, development, and investment management subsidiary of Coldwell 28 Banker (NYSE/PSE), a real estate and real estate-related firm operating throughout the United States. Jeffrey Wexler is editor and publisher of The Beacon, and continues in the same capacities with the South Shore Record. Both are Long Island newspapers. Having a penchant for politics and civic activities, Wexler is also a district representative for Congressman John Wydler; public affairs commissioner for the village of Cedarhurst; a director of the Five Towns Community Council; and a director of the local chamber of commerce and historical groups. Thomas F. Coates III (See 1966.) 1970 Marnage: Steven F. Unti and Jane Foster Berry on June 4, 1977, in Union, S.C. Unti is an attorney with the Atlanta firm of Mitchell, Clarke, Pate & Anderson. He _ recently published an article “Dollars from Defunct Pension Plans are Searching for a Home” in the April issue of Savings and Loan News. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Turpin, a son, Justin Tyler, on March 6, 1977. The family lives in Richmond, Va. Jeffrey B. Grossman is administrative manager of the western division of Calvert Distillers. He works out of Santa Monica, Calif. Steven T. Mahaffey works for Ashland Oil Company. He has been named _ regional manager for reviewing the activities of state and local governments in the Upper Midwest including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and North and South Dakota. Mahaffey expects to reside in St. Paul, Minn. 1971 Marnage: Claude M. Walker Jr. and Joann H. Cason on May 7, 1977, in Atlanta, Ga. Among the wedding party were classmates Arthur Cleveland, Jack Cartwright, Bill Kahn, Tom Daniel and Rick Murray. Also attending were Hagood Ellison ’72, Rob Walker ’72, Joe Walker "76, and Claude M. Walker ’41. The groom received his M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina in 1974 and is associated with the Standard Warehouse Co. in Columbia, S. C. Harold H. Catlin, after receiving an M.B.A. from the University of North Florida, attended Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University and received a J.D. degree in 1976. He is now associated with the law firm of Marks, Gray, Conroy & Gibbs in Jacksonville. John D. Copenhaver Jr. received a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and is now serving as United Methodist minister in Boyce, Va. Brad Wright, a real estate developer in Houston, is serving in the Texas House of Representatives. He and his wife, Lois, have a daughter. Marriage: Robert G. (Bo) Brookby and Kathy Ross on June 11, 1977, in Saratoga, Calif. The couple will live in Darien, Conn. Marriage: Robert A. White and Theresa Diane Dalton on June 24, 1977, in Albany, Ga. After leaving the U. S. Marine Corps where he was a JAG captain, White is now practicing law in Gainesville, Fla. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Terry W. Tyler, a daughter, Courtney Elizabeth, on Jan. 24, 1977. She joins two older brothers: Welby, 2'4, and Lee, 1. The family lives in Louisville, Ky. James W. M. Carson isa financial analyst for the Trust Co. of Georgia in Atlanta. David F. Guthrie is practicing law in El Dorado, Ark. He and his wife, the former Mary Gladey, have one son. Gilbert S. Meem Jr., formerly with Reynolds Securities Inc., is now account executive with E. F. Hutton and Co. with offices in Washington, D.C. Meem is also owner and operator of a chain of “traveling discos” under the name of Looney Toones, Inc. The chain of music entertainers operate in the New York and Washington areas. Roger A. Pond has joined First & Merchants National Bank in Newport News, Va., as vice president and trust officer. Maj. Paul A. Robblee Jr. is stationed at West Point Academy where he is an instructor. He and his wife, Joanne, have two children. Lloyd S. Wolf, after receiving an M.B.A. and a J.D. degree from S.M.U. in 1976, is now president of the Coastal Cookie Co. in Florida. 1973 Marriage: Scott Rickoff and Faye Steigman on June 26, 1976. Attending the wedding were classmates Dave Kantor, Larry Levenson, John Margolis and Bob Silverman. Also among the guests were Art Furhman, 772, and Kenny Murov, ’72. Rickoff, a graduate of the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine is doing his residency at Kern Hospital in foot and leg surgery and now resides in Warren Ohio. The Spirit of ’76 prevailed at the wedding of Michael Eric Wagoner, ’76, center with his bride, Miss Mary Tiss- (a erand. His attendants (from left) were | Steward Barroll, Steve Strawsburg, Neil Johnson, and Lecky Stone, all of the Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Thorton Hardie III, a daughter, Sarah Marie, on June 5, 1977. Hardie is an attorney with the Dallas firm of Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. MacDougal, a daughter, Emily Susan, on March 25, 1977. She has an older brother, Colin Douglas, and the family lives in Honolulu. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Middleton Jr., a son, Christopher Townsend, on June 18, 1977. The family lives in Savannah, Ga. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Preston III, a son, Lathrop Lee, on March 13, 1977. The family lives in Kansas City, Mo. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Wasilausky, a son, Adam Philip, on May 1, 1977. He joins an older sister and the family lives in Baldwin, N.Y. Pleas Geyer completed an internship in internal medicine and is now a resident in psychiatry at the University of Chicago. C. Christopher Giragosian is assistant staff counsel for the Bank of Virginia Company. He received his J.D. degree from T. C. Williams Law School in Richmond, Va. Dr. J. Griffith Steel is in first year residency in internal medicine at the U.S.A.F. Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Sidney C. Roseberry, after two years in the Peace Corps in Senegal and 15 months in France and Zaire as projects officer for the National Church of Zaire, is currently working in Chad, Africa, for AID in the Food for Peace Program. He expects to enter graduate school at Texas Tech this fall. John C. Moore (See 1966.) 1974 Birth: Mr. and Mrs. R. Glennwood Lookabill, a daughter, Kimberly Jane, on April 8, 1977. Lookabill maintains a private practice while serving as assistant Commonwealth Attorney for Pulaski County, Va. His wife, Jane, is a guidance counselor in the county school. Kent Masterson Brown, after working for a law firm for three years, is now a partner in the firm of Collins, Holladay & Brown in Lexington, Ky. He won the Republican nomination for the state legislature. The election will be this fall. Lt. David V. Finnell is with the U. S. Army as personnel officer at H Q 5th U. S. Army in Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. He expects to complete his masters degree in English at the University of Texas at San Antonio this year. Class of ’76. Fred W. Frick is attending medical school at Indiana University. John F. Hanzel is corporate secretary and general counsel for Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Co., Inc., of Roanoke, Va. Peter H. Jones received his M.D. degree with the highest honor from Baylor School of Medicine at graduation exercises on June 1, 1977, in Houston Texas. Joseph C. Leary III, who received an M.B.A. from William and Mary in June, 1976, is associated with Milliken & Co. in the marketing department. He is territory manager for Louisiana and Mississippi. He and his wife, Margaretta, live in New Orleans. John H. Tisdale has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve. B. Michael Herman (See 1967.) Joel S. Kline (See 1968.) 1975 William E. (Top) Allaun III received his M.B.A. in August from the College of William and Mary. He’s working with Allaun Corp. in Newport News and Gloucester, Va. James Becker just received an M.A. in psychology from Northwestern University and expects to enter Johns Hopkins in September to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. T. Barry Davis and partner Jay Mangan, representing Washington Dossier magazine, recently took first place honors in Division II tennis doubles during the Advertising Club of Washington tournament at Indian Springs Country Club. The pair also took first place honors for the highest team point total in all divisions. Randy L. Flink has been busy since graduation. In the summer of 1976 he interned with Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank in Siena, Italy, which has been in continuous operation as a commercial lending institution since 1472. Returning to the states, he received his M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan in April, 1977. This summer Flink interned with the Philips Corp. in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, as an analyst for the firm’s Department of Foreign Economic Relations. In September, Flink began work as a credit analyst for the First National Bank in Dallas. William E. Forland Jr. is materiel controller for Boeing Aerospace Co. in Seattle, Wash. Thad Grundy Jr. is an examiner for the Chicago Title Insurance Co. in Houston, Texas. He expects to enter law school in the fall. Henry M. Houston is business manager and assistant sales manager of the Mount Vernon Dodge agency in Alexandria, Va. Frank Slavin has entered the practice of law in Wytheville, Va. He is associated with Virginia State Senator Daniel W. Bird. Wiliam L. Warren Jr. has just completed a year of study at the European Baptist Theological Seminary in Ruschlikon, Switzerland. In the fall of 1977 he expects to attend the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., to complete his Masters of Divinity degree. Jeffrey L. Willis, after passing the Arizona Bar, is practicing in Phoenix with the firm of Streich, Lang, Weeks, Cardon & French. Robert Wyckoff Jr. is entering his third year of law school at the University of Florida. He expects to seek an M.B.A. after law school. Charles B. Tomm (See 1968.) 1976 Marriage: Michael Eric Wagoner and Mary Tisserand on July 23, 1977, in Evansville, Ind. Groomsmen and attendants included Stewart Barroll, °76, Steve Strawsburg, ’76, Neil Johnson, ’76, and Lecky Stone, ’76. Brad Bethel is attending medical school at Guadalajara, Mexico. After two semesters at Rutgers University, William E. Birbick is now employed as a mechanical engineer for Reynolds Metals Co. in Richmond, Va. Steven Settlage is working with the Richmond, Va., law firm of Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen. Deborah Susman is deputy prosecuting attorney for Kitsap County with offices in Bremerton, Wash. Peter A. J. Symolon has been promoted to assistant head of circulation of the Mullen Library at Catholic University. He has been employed by the library since July, 1976. Symolon entered the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in August, and will retain his position in the library as he takes classes. Richard T. Woulfe is associated with the Miami law firm of Bradford, Williams, McKay, Kimbrell, Hamann & Jennings, P.A. 29 SUPPORT THE GENERALS! Buy a 1977-78 Season Ticket Good for All Home Athletic Events Admits Your Whole Family Only $20.00 Use the coupon to order yours today. 1977 Marriage: Robert A. Ford and Kathryn S. Lotz of St. Petersburg, Fla., on May 21, 1977. In the wedding party were classmates S. F. Raymond Smith and Benjamin M. Lowe. Guests included classmates Doug Dewing and Richard Martin. The couple will be in E] Paso until October, then will move to Germany. Howard Cobb Alexander’ has_ entered Vanderbilt University’s Medical School. A Robert E. Lee Research Scholar at Washington and Lee, Alexander was also a tutor in the Lexington elementary schools. He recently obtained a private pilot’s license. Camillus L. Avent is studying for a degree in civil engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Scott Thomas is news director for National © Public Radio affiliate WMRA in Harrisonburg, Va. In Memoriam 1916 William Bernard Sullivan, a longtime resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., died June 2, 1977. 1919 Dr. T. Dewey Davis, who practiced medicine in Richmond for more than 50 years, died July 6, 1977, while fishing in a pond near West Point, Va. Davis entered W&L when he was 15 years old and began studying medicine at the Medical College of Virginia when he was 17. He opened his practice in .achmond when he was 21 years of age and retired from active practice in 1975. He was also a professor of medicine at the Medical College of Virginia. Davis was a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, the Virginia Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and_ the Southern Medical Society. He had also been a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a past president of the Medical College of Virginia Alumni Association and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church. 1921 Reginald Ford Trotter, a prominent businessman of Monticello, Ark., died April 28, 1977. Trotter was a merchant with V. J. Trotter & Sons, general merchandiser and cotton buyer, one of Drew County’s most historical 30 Athletic Department Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia 24450 Please send me........ family 1977-78 season ticket to all home Washington and Lee athletic events at $20.00. Check is enclosed. Name Adress business operations. Trotter was a guiding influence in the formation and establishment of Union Bank and Trust Co. of Monticello and served as a director. He was particularly knowledgable in the field of investments. 1922 Garland Gray, former Virginia State Senator from Waverly, Va., died July 9, 1977. Gray, a banker, lumberman, and stalwart of the Byrd Machine, became one of the Virginia General Assembly’s most influential members. Gray made his first bid for the state senate in 1942, after serving as chairman of the State Ports Authority for six years. At the time of his retirement in 1971, he had represented his district for 29 years. Gray was chairman of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee and a member of six others. Gray was president of JUDGE CARTER LAUDED A memorial service for the Honorable John DeWeese Carter, ’27L, was held in the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland on May 27. Judge Carter, a retired judge of that court and former chief judge of the Second Judicial Circuit on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, died Feb. 25. He worked tirelessly throughout his career to improve the administration of justice and to better the quality of life in his home community of Denton in Caroline County. The four speakers, whose remarks were made a part of the court record, lauded Judge Carter’s qualities on and off the bench, citing particularly his ability always to keep the human element in focus. “There lay his real love,” a colleague said, “and there lay his judicial forte, as well as his personal forte—helping people.” The speakers were H. Vernon Eney, a prominent Baltimore attorney and former president of the Maryland Bar Association; the Honorable George B. Rasin Jr., a judge on the circuit court; the Honorable James A. Wise, ’32L, judge of the circuit court for Caroline County; and the Honorable Thomas H. Lowe, an associate judge on the Court of Special Appeals. ~The Honorable Lewis F. Powell, ’31L, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, was a fellow student of Carter’s at W&L, and Powell asked Eney to speak for him at the service. “I admired Jack Carter a great deal,” Powell said. “Our friendship continued over a long period of years. He was ahead of me in college, but we were in the same fraternity, and he was the leader at the time I was there. Judge Carter was a fine person and a friend.” Zip the Bank of Waverly at his death. He was active in many Civic organizations, including the Boy Scouts, the Sussex County Welfare Board and the Sussex School Board. Charles O. Handley of Lewisburg, W. Va., died June 10, 1977. He was a nationally known and respected wildlife conservationist. Handley had been superintendent of game for the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries; leader of Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at VPI; and chief of game division, West Virginia Department of Natural Resources. He was an honorary Phi Beta Kappa; a recipient of the Nash Conservation Award and the Issac Walton League Award. A public hunting and fishing area in West Virginia was named in his honor in 1971. He was the author of numerous articles on wildlife conservation and management, and in 1976 published a book, Birds of the Great Kanawha Valley. Lewis Waters Milbourne, a business executive of Baltimore, Md. died July 9, 1977, after along illness. Milbourne had been manager and vice president of WCAO (CBS) radio station in Baltimore since 1938. Before managing the radio station, he was in the real estate business in Baltimore, and also in Hollywood, Fla. Between 1926 and 1938 he was in the investment banking business in Baltimore. Milbourne served as class agent for the alumni fund for Washington and Lee for many years. 1923 Dr. Harry Blair Yeatts, a former resident of Danville, Va., died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 17, 1977. After serving an internship in Sloan’s Hospital at the Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, Yeatts went to Argentina with the Standard Oil Co. While there, he managed the firm’s hospitals in Argentina, Bolivia and Columbia. He returned to Danville shortly before World War II. He served throughout the war mostly in the Pacific area resigning as a lieutenant colonel. Shortly after the war he returned to Buenos Aires to make his home. In addition to his private medical practice in Buenos Aires, he was a physician for the United States Embassy there until his retirement. 1925 Amos J. Cummings, a one time teacher at the Oakridge Institute in Oakridge, N.C., died May 1, 1977. At the time of his death he was living in Narraganset, R.I. 1934 W. Gilbert Faulk, prominent real estate broker and civic leader in Monroe, La., died May 3, 1977. Following service in World War II, Faulk was discharged with the rank of captain. He was a past commander of the L. B. Faulk Post 13 of the American Legion, a past president of the Monroe Rotary Club and of the Monroe Little Theatre. For eight years, Faulk served in the Louisiana legislature and was a candidate for the U. S. Senate. The Associated Press voted him the outstanding freshman member of the state legislature. While serving as a state representative he sponsored the bill which established Monroe as a port and he remained active in supporting efforts to develop the port. Faulk became a member of the Monroe Utilities Commission. He was owner of Faulk and Foster Real Estate & Insurance Co. and was also owner and president of Nationwide Moving and Storage Corp. in Shreveport which is an agent for Allied Van Lines. Faulk was a past president of the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama chapter of the Society of Industrial Realtors and in November, 1975, was elected to their national board of directors. John Withnell Hager, who since graduation had been working for the family corporation, Hager Hinge Co. of St. Louis, died June 9, 1977. Hager rose through the ranks of the firm which is one of the largest in the field of manufacturing firms producing builders hardware in America. The firm has a subsidiary factory in Canada and _ warehouses in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and Seattle. In 1945 John Hager was named corporate secretary and a member of the board of directors. At the time of his death he had served as treasurer of the company for 14 years. Hager also served as director of the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association for approximately 10 years. He was a resident of Clayton, Mo. Marion M. Junkin, retired pro- fessor of fine arts at Washington and Lee University and founder of its De- partment of Fine Arts, died June 18 at his home in Lexington after a long illness. He was 71. He was born in Chunju, Korea, where his father was a Presbyterian minister. After his graduation from Washington and Lee in 1927, he studied art in New York for five years—at the Art Students League, at the Metropolitan Museum and under George Luks. Following his studies, he returned to Virginia, teaching for seven years at the Richmond School of Art, now part of Virginia Commonwealth Uni- versity. In 1941, he founded the Department of Art at Vanderbilt Uni- versity. Eight years later, he returned to Washington and Lee to establish a department of fine arts. His work had been exhibited at such places as the Carnegie Institute, the Whitney Museum and the New York World’s Fair. He received awards for his works from the Virginia Museum and the Butler Art Institute Biennial. In 1949, W&L awarded him the Doctor of Fine Arts degree. His talents lay in several media, including painting, sculpture, and printmaking. But it was for his frescoes that Junkin was best known. (“Few Marion Junkin, Founder of Art Department, Dies at 71 one artists can plaster,” began newspaper article about him, fewer plasterers can paint.”) He became interested in fresco in the 1950s and conducted extensive scholarly research into fresco techni- ques. He has executed several, one of them 55 feet long. Among the most notable Junkin frescoes is ‘The Struggle for Intellectual Freedom,” completed in 1952, in the University’s McCormick Library. Other frescoes are in Richmond and Memphis. Another work, entitled “The Sources of Healing,” is in Lex- ington’s Stonewall Jackson Hospital. After his retirement as the head of the art department in 1968, he devoted much of his time to developing, cataloguing and evaluating Washing- ton and Lee’s permanent art collec- tion, and did much restoration work. He retired from active teaching in 1973. He was instrumental in preparing the University’s collection of paintings by Louise Herreshoff for exhibition last October in their first public viewing at Washington’s Corcoran Gallery. President Huntley, writing about Junkin in 1975, said he was “hardly an lvory-tower academician; his own talents as an artist are formidable, and have been widely recognized . . . But his first love has always been—and in fact still is, even in retirement—to share with others, to spark in them, his own sense of the completeness which art and the understanding of art can lend to life.” He is survived by his wife, Marguerite Eddy Junkin; a son, Michael Eddy Junkin of Norfolk; a daughter, Margo Patricia Junkin of Lexington; two grandaughters, Kari and Marian Junkin of Athens, Ga., and two brothers, Edward Leyburn Junkin of Lewisburg, Pa., and Alfred Junkin of Annandale, Va. 31 Walter William Pollock Jr., chairman and former president of Manufacturers’ Appraisal Co. of Philadelphia, died June 20 in Pebble Beach, Calif. Pollock became president of Manufacturers’ Appraisal Co. in_ 1953, succeeding his father. Pollock retired in 1966 and had served as chairman since that time. Dominick A. Spina, former Newark, N. J., police director, died June 19, 1977. Spina joined the Newark police force in 1940 and served as director for eight years. He was replaced as director in 1970 and served as a deputy chief until his retirement in 1976. Spina founded and operated his own security busi- ness. William Henry Vick, vice president of Oklahoma Hardware Co. and a buyer for the firm for many years, died June 20, 1977, in Oklahoma City. He was a member of the Crown Heights United Methodist Church. 1949 Richard Merrell Peek, an insurance and investment executive, died June 10, 1977, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Peek had been in business in West Virginia, Montana and California. In previous years he had worked in_labor- management relations for the county of Santa Clara in San Jose. He served in the China- Burma-India Theatre during World War II. 1952 Charles G. Hutzler III, president of Hutzler Brothers Co. of Baltimore, died June 28, 1977. He had joined the family firm in 1955 as assistant store manager and rose through the ranks to buyer, general merchandising manager and vice president and_ then succeeded his uncle as company president in May, 1975. The department store is the oldest in Baltimore and one of the few such enterprises in the United States operated by a single family. Hutzler was chairman of the cultural resources subcommittee of the policy committee of the Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research at Johns Hopkins University. He served on the board of directors of Sinai Hospital and the Baltimore Symphony; was a trustee of Morgan State College, the Baltimore Museum, and the _ Baltimore Museum of Art; and was on the board of the American Red Cross and the Maryland Children’s Aid Society. 1973 Myron Wesley Tolbert of Hudson, N.C., died Jan. 21, 1977. 32 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. Jon D. Allen, ’68 James F. Berry, ’43 Robert N. Brand, 74 James H. Brooks Jr., ’73 Jerome L. Croston Jr., ’66 John E. Curran, ’66 Addison Dimmitt Jr., ’39 Charles W. Glasgow Jr., ’71 Bruce N. Gordin, ’74 William H. Jamison, ’65 Edmund P. Lawrence, ’44 David C. Lotts, ’74 Jon D. Markley, ’75 Meinhard H. Myerson, ’10L Scott G. Patterson, ’71L Harry J. Phillips Jr., 72 Timothy D. Roche, ’74 Joseph C. Savage, ’79 Thomas W. Stobbs III, 750 David P. Swank, ’16 James T. Swann III, ’72 Robert E. Sweeney, ’67 Thomas S. Sweeney, ’42 Seuchiro Takemura, ’32 Jo C. Tartt Jr., ’65 John E. Taylor, ’29 Oliver J. Taylor, ’40 Thomas N. Tennant, ’39 John R. Terney Jr., ’53 Wallace B. Thacker, ’51 James L. Thixton, ’11 Arthur D. Thomas, ’55 Eugene F. Thomas, ’21 Walter C. Thomas, ’41 William D. Thomas, ’34 James E. Thompson, ’46 Michael C. Thompson, ’69 John R. Thorsen, ’68 Carl L. Tipton, ’34 Joshua Tobin Jr., 67 Stephen F. Tomasek Jr., ’62 Glenn M. Torgerson, ’72 Arthur H. Train, ’50 John L. Trowbridge, ’77 Max Turk, ’29 Herman A. Turner, ’60L Joseph L. Turner, ’35 Robert D. Turpin, ’35 Joseph A. Tvedt Jr., ’65 Blake Tyler, ’20 Theodore R. Tyler, ’30 Gary M. Underhill Jr., ’64 Bane T. Underwood, ’42 Robert C. Utley, ’67 Edward R. Vaden, ’49 Paul J. Van Buskirk, ’38 John J. Vandale, ’37 William E. Vanderbilt, ’31 Charles M. Van Dyke, ’42 Howard P. Vanetten, 60 Gary Van Hassent, ’76 Charles E. Van Horn, ’27 Milton S. Van Hoy, ’65 Willis A. Vann, ’23 Irwin L. Victor, ’13 Royal S. Vilas, ’54 Joseph K. Vinson, ’32 Verling A. Votaw, ’61 John L. Waddy, ’03 John W. Wade, ’30 Thomas H. Wade, 18 Courtney Y. Wadlington, ’41 David M. Waelder, ’70 Charles E. Wagg Jr., 41 John W. Walker, ’23 Robert D. Walker, ’33 Thomas W. Walker, 32 William S. G. Walker IV, ’69 David S. Wallace, ’75 Samuel S. Wallace III, 68 Woollen H. Walshe Jr., 57 Raymond S. Walters, ’11 Robert M. Walters, ’14 Marvin I. Walton Jr., 59 William R. Walton, ’15 Bernard R. Walzer, ’07 Patrick C. Warfield, ’43 John D. Waring III, ’45 Moffett D. Warren, ’63L David W. Warthen, ’28 Dale V. Watkins Jr., "75 Edward D. Watkins, ’38 James D. Watson, ’16 Frederic A. Watts, ’24 James M. Wearn, ’64 Charles R. Weisbrod, ’53 Henry E. Weise, ’55 Donald D. Welch Jr., ’43 William A. Welch, ’36 Stephenson Wells, "37 Orville M. Wellslager, ’27 Edmund A. P. West, ’65 Roy L. Wheeler Jr., 43 Henry M. White, ’32 Isaac L. White III, 52 James T. White, ’70 John T. White Jr., 06 Edwin N. Whitehead, ’27 Gary H. Whitfield, ’56 John C. Whitton, °35 Robert L. Wieland, ’23 John S. Wilder Jr., °33 John W. R. Wiley, ’68 James E. Wilkerson, ’64 F. R. D. Williams, ’45 Francis S. Williams, ’48 George A. Williams Jr., ’44 John W. Williams, ’60 Lawrence M. Williams, 18 Price Williams Jr., ’31 Thomas K. Williams, ’35 Otis T. Williamson, ’59 James D. Wilson, ’38 John C. Wilson, ’74 Marshall Wilson, 63 Merrill E. Wilson, ’25 Steven A. Wilson, ’78 Jonathan C. Windle, ’73 Rader W. Winget Jr., ’57 Albert F. Winkler, 73 Stephen S. Wittmann, ’71 Douglas G. Wolfe, ’32 Albert E. Wolff, 34 Arthur A. Wolk, ’32 Steve P. Womack, ’30 Warren W. Wood, ’11 William P. Wood, ’40 John M. Woodcock, ’32 Stephen J. Woodhouse, ’12 Albert H. Woodruff, ’46 Corbin Woodward Jr., ’55 Howard L. Wormser, ’41 Charles W. Wright, ’13L J. Warren Wright, ’36 Allen B. Wrisley Jr., ’73 John P. Wurster, ’29 William H. Wyly, ’63 Kenneth E. Yager, ’32 Peter S. Yager, '42 Arthur L. Young, ’25 Edwin J. S. Young Jr., ’59 John W. Young, ’32 Peter E. Youngs, ’67 Philip K. Youritzin, ’69 George Zack, ’45 Julius R. Zelmenovitz, ’29 George R. Zimmerer, 34 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, INC. 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