a the alumni magazine of washington and lee (USPS 667-040) Volume 55, Number 6, September 1980 William C. Washburn, °40 .............. ccc eee cece cece eee Editor Romulus T. Weatherman ....................... Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, 68 .............. cc cece cee e ee ees Associate Editor P. Craig Cornett, 80 .......... ccc eee eee Assistant Editor Joyce Carter ....:..iiieie ba eee ii eae Editorial Assistant W. Patrick Hinely, ’73 ............. cece eee eee eee Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Fraternity Improvements ....................cceeeee eee eees 1 Lee: The Benign Humorist .................... cc eeee eee e es 3 A Step Back in Time ........... 0. cece cece cece cence een ees 8 WL Gazette ........ cece cece eee eens dcseevdcevase 11 Keller, New Trustee ...............cccccceeeeee eee eeeeeeees 12 Major W&L Dates ......... 0... e cence eee eens 17 Annual Fund Report ...............cccceeee cece neces eee ees 18 Water Polo at W&XL ......... cece ccc eee eee eee eens 20 Chapter News .............cce eee eee eee ee ence eee ene ene eneens 22 Class Notes .............ccccecceeceeeeeee eee eeeeeeeeas bosons 23 In Memoriam ............... ee ecee eee e eee e eee e ne nee eens 30 Supply Store Gifts 2.2.0... .... cece cece eee eee eee e eee 31 Published in January, March, April, May, July, September, Octo- ber, 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 postage Hold at Lexington, Va. 24450 and additional mailing offices. Officers and Directors Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. RICHARD A. DENNY JR., 52, Atlanta, Ga. President WILLIAM B. OGILVIE, 64, Houston, Texas Vice President PAUL E. SANDERS, 43, White Plains, N.Y. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 40, Lexington, Va. Secretary LEROY C. ATKINS, 68, Lexington, Va. Assistant Secretary PETER A. AGELASTO III, 62, Norfolk, Va. W. DONALD Bain, 49, Spartanburg, S.C. ANDREW N. Baur, 66, St. Louis, Mo. EpGaR M. Boyp, 42, Baltimore, Md. JAMEs F. GALLIVAN, 51, Nashville, Tenn. OwEN H. HARPER, 59, Pasadena, Calif. G. RUSSELL LADD, 57, Mobile, Ala. WILLIAM E. LATTURE, 49, Greensboro, N.C. Joun H. McCorMack Jr., 50, Jacksonville, Fla. WILLIAM C. NORMAN JR., 56, Crossett, Ark. ols op. ON THE COVER: Biology Professor Gary Dobbs, ’70, coun- sels an incoming member of the Class of 1984; 342 freshmen went through similar experiences with their faculty advisers as the University began another year. Cover photo is by W. Patrick Hinely, ’73, who with this issue returns to W&L as University photographer, following four years in his native Florida as a freelance for such diverse endeavors as Gian Carlo Menotti’s Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and various jazz publications and record companies both here and abroad. FRATERNITY IMPROVEMENTS University Takes Charge of Mechanical Maintenance in All 15 Houses Washington and Lee has assumed responsibility for maintaining the plumbing, heating and electrical systems of the 15 fraternity houses at the University. The University is also tightening its review of the financial operation of all 17 of its social fraternities. The two moves are the first steps arising from a study and report completed last year by a special on-campus committee of University officers, teachers, and the W&L Interfraternity Council’s student president. The report was submitted to W&L’s president and Board of Trustees, which has a special committee of its own considering the question of the University’s financial relationship with fraternities. The campus committee’s report notes: ‘‘Most fraternity houses are in such a state of physical deterioration as to require major renovation soon,’’ and it estimates the average house’s repair bill at $100,000. All 15 fraternities with houses hold subsidized, low-interest mortgage loans from the University’s general endowment. In all, the outstanding amount of the 15 mortgages exceeds half-a-million dollars. In addition, 10 of the 15 houses are situated on land owned by the University. Under the new arrangement going into effect this year, W&L’s Buildings and Grounds department will provide ‘‘daily maintenance and repair of plumbing, heating and electrical wiring.’’ Major renovation and contract work will not be included, but the University will help fraternities arrange for those kinds of projects when necessary, in recognition of the ‘‘serious difficulties’ fraternities have experienced in recent years when they have tried to obtain those services themselves. President Huntley said, in a letter to each fraternity president, that the University will absorb ‘“‘some of the overhead costs’’ in the new program, but “‘cannot assume all [the] expenses.’’ Houses will be charged a maximum of $2,800 this academic year as the basic fee, with the possibility of a downward adjustment later in the year for the two or three fraternities whose houses are in comparatively good shape. After the first year, the University hopes to charge fraternities ‘‘on the basis of services actually received,’’ President Huntley wrote, but a uniform assessment is necessary in the beginning because of the absence of data by which individual charges might be predicted. Two employees have been added to the Buildings and Grounds staff to carry out the program, and other B&G personnel will contribute their expertise in various technical areas as well. Participation by all W&L’s fraternities in both programs—the mechanical-system maintenance program and the financial- review program—is being required by the University. W&L’s official attention to the fraternity question grew out of concern primarily for the health and safety of fraternity men and secondarily for protection of the capital investment in fraternity structures both of alumni corporations, which own each house, and of the University. In the report submitted to the University trustees, the campus committee noted: ‘Fraternities at Washington and Lee cannot survive without University financial assistance in some form.”’ In his letter to each fraternity president, W&L President Huntley wrote: ‘‘Washington and Lee’s commitment to a strong and healthy fraternity system is clear, although individuals may differ on the most appropriate means to carry out that commitment.’’ Last year, more than 60 percent of W&L’s undergraduates were members of the fraternity system—814 men in an undergraduate population of 1,328. The 60- to-65-percent figure has been about average in recent years. An estimated 225 men, almost all sophomores, live in fraternity houses, and about 550 regularly take their meals in fraternity houses. The two steps adopted this fall— assumption of responsibility for maintaining heating, plumbing and electrical systems and | FRATERNITY IMPROVEMENTS regular review by the University of each fraternity’s monthly financial statements— are described by President Huntley as ‘*interim’’ measures. The campus committee’s full report outlines three ‘‘long-range models’’ for the W&L fraternity system, from continuation of existing policies with some modifications through direct University ownership and operation of all houses to ‘‘a somewhat radical departure from fraternity life as it currently exists,’’ creation of an on-campus complex of social lodges that would replace the off-campus houses where members eat and live as well as socialize. That report, President Huntley said in his memo, will become the subject of ‘*full and extended discussion’’ beginning this fall among students, alumni, trustees, faculty members and W&L administrators. W&L’s fraternity system as a whole has come under fire in recent years from a broad coalition of groups ranging from the fraternities’ own alumni to Lexington’s 2 townspeople because of the perceived dilapidation of many fraternity houses. (In other respects than the physical, fraternities at W&L, as elsewhere, have been targets of criticism for as long as anyone can remember. But lately, increasingly serious charges have been leveled against W&L’s fraternities on the grounds that they overemphasize social activities to the severe detriment—some say to the virtual exclusion—of the University’s academic purposes. (In 1978, the W&L faculty put fraternities on formal notice that midweek house parties, an institution in recent years, would no longer be tolerated. A Student Affairs Committee report, endorsed by the University Council and submitted to the faculty, noted: ‘‘The fraternity system as a whole probably does little to promote scholarship, [although] some fraternities promote academic performance. . . . Just as any sweeping generalization about fraternity house appearance and maintenance overlooks significant differences among fraternities, so also would any similar statement in regard to fraternities and academics. Quite simply, some fraternities actively promote achievement, some are neutral in this regard, and some may in fact discourage academic achievement through a general house attitude and overemphasis on social activities.”’ (In a recent column on the topic, Robert N. Fishburn, ’55, commentary-page editor of the Roanoke Times & World-News, called the new W&L policy ‘‘a bold step, but one obviously necessary,’’ and he attributed the problem chiefly to the disappearance of the fraternity housemother. ‘‘Her presence,”’ Fishburn wrote, ‘‘however fleeting and ritualistic, provided the semblance of civilization, like a doily perched atop a tattered chair.’’ Fraternity men, he said, used to be more diligent looking after the physical state of the house not always “‘because of some vague, societal obligation, but [at least in part] because we didn’t want to feel her sepulchral chill.’’) OS oe ak Sn RES RS Bn re rr 7 the is enough.’ ’ But I by Robert Fure Assistant Professor of English A STEP BACK IN TIME A Chronometrical Survey of Some of the University’s Timely Assets The Chandlee clock, in the Lee House 8 A student in my modern poetry course once asked why I had such an interest in old clocks and watches. Missing the point of my happiest analogy, he surmised that a poem bore at best only quaint resemblance to a clock. It struck him further as odd that a professor of the modern would have much interest in the antique. I explained on reflection that, while the work of his classmates created in me a natural preoccupation with time, I went to these things mainly for relief. In the exquisite movement of an ancient watch, for example, I found a lustrous and precise universe. There everything made sense and moved in perfect harmony toward a profoundly useful function. As a humanist, of course, I would never want to live there, but as a teacher in the inexact science of literature I found it salutary to visit such a place at least once a week. So my interest in old timepieces was more than a diversion to my profession. It was in part a consequence. On this occasion, my interest is an excuse for some minor pedantry as well. We have at Washington and Lee several venerable old clocks and watches that are, or ought to be, as remarkable to the general public as they are to the horologist. Two of them in particular, the Chandlee clock in the Lee House and George Washington’s watch in the Lee Chapel Museum, have doubtless considerable historical value. We are indeed fortunate to have them. But to the inveterate clockwatcher, such as myself, there are in the halls, offices, and closets of our campus a number of pieces whose appeal may extend beyond their common function. Centuries ago, clockmakers promoted their art with the slogan, ‘‘Good clocks tell more than time.’’ Today, by their very taciturnity, these old clocks seem to fathom and contain whole epochs. The Chandlee clock is one of them. The plaque on the Chandlee clock reads: This clock, made by Benjamin Chandlee about 1752 and owned by the Lee-Custis family at Arlington, was received by Washington and Lee University in 1972 as a gift from the estate of Frederick A. Fitzgerald of Lexington, Virginia. That the Lee-Custis clock should find its way to Lexington independently of Washington and Lee is itself an extraordinary circumstance. We have the good offices of The Chandlee clock, (detail), ca. 1752 Rupert N. Latture to thank for discovering the coincidence and arranging the Fitzgerald bequest to the University. A note by Mr. Fitzgerald on a photograph of his beloved clock explains how the piece came into his possession. It began its journey from Lee’s home at Arlington during the Civil War when, in the hands of Federal troops, it was sold at auction to a Mr. John Mitchel, then of New York. Mr. Mitchel later moved to Montclair, N.J., and, in 1895, sold his clock to a Dr. S. C. G. Watkins, a local dentist and civic historian who regaled his patients with the clock’s tradition. In 1938, Mr. Fitzgerald bought the clock from the Watkins estate and some years later moved to Lexington, where he owned and operated a bookstore on Main Street. Some time after the death of her husband, Mrs. Fitzgerald called upon Mr. Latture, seeking counsel on the clock’s rightful disposition. Thus in 1972, over a hundred years after its departure from Arlington House, Lee’s noble clock arrived at its post in Lee’s final residence. Apart from its association with the Lee family, the Chandlee clock has an illustrous Lee and his college (banjo clock, detail) The familiar Lee Chapel clock tradition of its own. It is one of the few surviving tall case clocks made entirely in the American colonies. From the eighteenth century well into the nineteenth, most tall case, or grandfather, clocks owned movements manufactured in England. The American ‘‘clockmaker’’ made only the case. Benjamin Chandlee Jr., (1723-91) and his father, however, were highly skilled artisans who possessed both the rare knowledge and equipment for the manufacture of brass movements. The process was slow but, with the demand from the increasing number of people in the colonies who could afford a clock, the Chandlee clockmaking business thrived. Of the 40 clocks made by the senior Chandlee at the family shop in Notingham, Md., only six are known to exist. Benjamin Jr., produced about 60, though only 20 have been found. The clock inherited by the Lees from the Custis family was probably made by Benjamin Jr., as certain refinements in its style indicate some straying from the Quaker austerity of the elder Chandlee. The ornate brass spandrels on the face have been lost and the finials appear to be replacements, but otherwise the clock and its mahogany case are remarkably well-preserved. Today, it Inside the Chapel belfry stands at its proud height at the end of the entrance hall of the Lee House. Mr. Latture, I am told, pays it an occasional visit. Five other clocks on campus deserve at least brief mention. Most of them have been bequeathed to the University. They include three tall case clocks, all with movements made in England. The George Slater clock in the Head Librarian’s office was made around 1850 in Josiah Wedgewood’s little town of Burselm in Northwest Staffordshire. It has been handsomely restored by a local cabinetmaker, Irvin Rosen of McKinley. A clock marked ‘‘R. Preco, Tewksbury, Mass’’ arrived with the Reeves Collection from Providence, R.I. Mr. Preco may have made the case, but the works were imported from a London clockmaker named Wilson in the early 19th century. It awaits restoration. An elegantly inlaid clock marked ‘*London, 1759’’ stands in the outer office of the President. It offers a revealing cultural contrast to the pious simplicity of its colonial counterpart, the Chandlee clock. American cabinetry did not aspire to such sophistication until the Philadelphia school of the later 18th century. A ‘‘one-of-a-kind’’ banjo clock made by Waltham in the early 20th century is in the 9 A STEP BACK IN TIME Lf esse §eecnte. Pad ANDERSON & ROWS S Oy LANCASTER George Washington’s watch care of Bub Mohler, director of University services. An unsuccessful prototype designed for the Southern trade, it displays a rather earnest painting in reverse of Lee and his college on the pendulum glass. The clock itself is ‘‘temperamental,’’ according to Mr. Mohler, as well it should be. This leaves the most visible face on campus, the tower clock above Lee Chapel. Early photographs suggest that the tower always wanted a clock. Leslie Lyle Campell, a retired physics professor who earned one of the few Ph.D.s awarded by W&L, had one finally installed in 1948. He donated the clock and Westminster chimes to the memory of his friend and classmate, Livingston Waddell Houston, who drowned in the North River in 1886. (There’s a memory.) The clock is powered by a small electric motor and is generally reliable, though in its early years it had a capricious tendency to run backwards. It has a full complement of chimes designed to signal each quarter hour, but as a courtesy to the general population the clock is programmed to sound only on the hour. On the day I climbed the tower ladder to investigate the mechanism, at precisely three o’clock I lost my hearing for two days. Even in its time, George Washington’s 10 His initials on the reverse pocket watch, with its small hour and minute register and long sweep second hand, was an unusual piece. The emphasis on seconds in its design suggests a rather vaunting testimony to its accuracy. By the hallmarks on its case, one can date the watch at 1786. The English firm that made the watch, Anderson and Robinson of Lancaster, ceased production shortly thereafter. It is not known whether this was the only watch Washington owned in his later years—he may have kept as many as he had sets of teeth. Certainly its price must have made it very dear to him. Even for a gentleman of his wealth and position, a 22 carat, pair-cased gold watch was quite expensive. Washington also may have found it a bit clumsy as well; the bulky fusee style watch was beginning to be replac- ed by models that seemed somewhat less like a large walnut in the pocket of one’s waistcoat. It may have been carried only on formal occasions, as the soft gold case does not show much wear. Lee himself came into possession of Washington’s watch when the Polk family, which had owned the watch in the early 19th century, honored Lee’s distant relation to Washington through the Custis family. Lee’s own watches were of the thinner, more practical variety. The Lee Chapel Museum Its inside inscription has two of them, both gold keywind models. One made by M. T. Tobius of London, ca. 1820, was reportedly found in Lee’s tent by advancing Union soldiers. It was donated to the Chapel Museum by a descendant of one of them, Mrs. A. P. Silverthorn, in 1947. The other (with a dial favoring Confederate gray) is a fine Swiss watch by Gounouilhon and Francois, given to the Museum by Lee’s grandson, George Bolling Lee. Perhaps the most gorgeous watch in the Museum collection is that once owned by Bolivar Christian, the trustee who nominated General Lee to the presidency of Washington College. So astonishing is it in its glittering grandeur that the watch is virtually unreadable. It arrived with ceremony in 1975, bequeathed to the University by Christian’s great nephew, Harry Lee Christian. There are doubtless other clocks and watches at the University with stories perhaps more amusing than those above: the digital chronometers of the coaching staff, for example, synchronized for a chorus of ‘‘beeps’’ on the hour, or the teacup-rattling class-change bell clock on the third floor of Washington Hall. But this treatise must end. And I haven’t yet explained how a clock is like a poem. GAZETTE Ce $1.1-Million Tucker Renovation Begins; New Trustee; Boothology ? Washington and Lee has begun a year- long, $1.1-million renovation and remodeling of one-and-a-half floors of the former law building on the Colonnade, Tucker Hall, to accommodate the psychology department and computer center. The project is being undertaken in two phases. In the first, the old law library reading room—which occupied the back half of Tucker Hall’s main floor—is being readied to house the computer and a mezzanine is being added in the middle of the room to provide offices and classrooms for the psychology department. Simultaneously, the front part of Tucker’s basement is being remodeled to become a cluster of laboratory and work areas for experiments in psychology. Once the new computer facilities are completed—about Christmastime this year— the computer itself, now operating in temporary quarters in the back part of the Tucker basement, will be moved upstairs to its new permanent location, and work will begin to convert that part of the basement into other labs, offices, and teaching and research facilities in psychology. That second part of the Tucker project is expected to be completed next summer. The new mezzanine level in the old law library is being constructed as a kind of island in the middle of the two-story room, in order to preserve the architectural character that distinguishes it. The computer center on the main level will provide ample work areas for students, teachers, and the computer staff in addition to the computer itself. W&L’s computer is used for formal instruction in computer ; sian Be | science through the mathematics department, Halli Hicuuaiial | ib a pees ROLLE for teaching and research by students and | : | eg | faculty in a large number of departments— principally in the natural and social sciences—and for many administrative functions, from payroll and accounting to keeping students’ academic records. When the basement is completed, it will become the teaching and_research center for W&L’s psychologists. In addition to another faculty office, the basement will have several small laboratories that will be used by teachers and psychology students for research, and most on eB : of the labs will be equipped for sophisticated A vintage view of Tucker’s double-story law library Hs 11 de GAZETTE experiments in a wide range of subfields of psychology. There will be two laboratories equipped for research in developmental psychology, for instance; another for electrophysiological experimentation such as measurement of brain waves; a lab for research into perceptual phenomena; one for psychomotor testing, and another for psyometric testing. Each of those subfields is one in which W&L offers coursework, and at least one W&L professor is also actively engaged in research in each. The two psychology classrooms, which have been specially designed, will be equipped with videotape playback capabilities. There will also be videotape recording and playback equipment in all the laboratories in which it will be useful. The Tucker renovation will add extensive new facilities for research in human psychology that have been inadequately provided in the department’s current area in duPont Hall. There will also be several small rooms devoted to animal experimentation in the portion of the Tucker basement being renovated in the first phase of the project. W&L’s fine arts department will move into the space in duPont freed next summer when the psychologists complete their move to Tucker. The renovation of 45-year-old Tucker— an element in W&L’s decade-long $62- million development plan—is part of a general program to provide badly needed additional classroom, office and research space for many of the undergraduate departments in the social sciences and humanities. Tucker was partly renovated, after the law school moved to Lewis Hall, in order to accommodate most of W&L’s foreign language classroom-and-office needs. And Newcomb Hall will be remodeled after the commerce school moves to McCormick and will become the home of the history department and perhaps one or two other, smaller departments. Bishop Keller, ’39, elected to Board of Trustees The Right Rev. Christoph Keller Jr. of Little Rock, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Arkansas since 1970, has been elected to the University’s Board of Trustees. He begins his initial six-year term next January. The son and grandson of Episcopal priests, Keller embarked on a career in business after graduation from Washington 12 The Right Rev. Christoph Keller Jr., ’39, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas and Lee in 1939 and service with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. By 1955 he had risen to the executive vice presidency of Murphy Oil Co. of El Dorado, Ark., and the presidency of one of its subsidiaries, Deltic Farm and Timber Co. In that year, however, he resigned those positions to answer a late vocation to the ministry, and he undertook his theological education at General Theological Seminary in New York City and at the Graduate School of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. He was ordained a priest in 1957 and moved with his family into the Arkansas Ozarks, where he ministered to three mission congregations. In 1962 he was called to St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Jackson, Miss., a city embroiled at the time in racial crisis. His church became a notable force of reconciliation in that community. In 1967 he was elected bishop coadjutor of Arkansas, and three years later he became the state diocese’s 10th bishop. He received an honorary Doctor of Oo = ; ‘ I’m a re- arbad and BS Reports | — = a i - 7 Le GAZETTE by W&L faculty or staff, have found the campus and area ideal for summer conferences. The Summer Development Workshop, an annual event elsewhere for the past five years for development officers from various educational, artistic, and civic groups and institutions from across the nation, found Washington and Lee an ideal location for 1980. Most of the workshop’s meetings and lectures took place in the new undergraduate library. Summer 1981 will find the campus even busier, with the inauguration of two business-related conferences. Planning has already begun for a conference for rising high-school seniors to acquaint them with economic and business-related fields. The architects of the program expect to enlist between 50 and 60 students, primarily from Virginia, to participate in the program. Professors in W&L’s School of Commerce, Economics and Politics will conduct the conference. A summer institute in the. humanities for business executives is also being planned. It is envisioned as a two-week program of intensive interdisciplinary study of a topic of critical interest to upper and middle-level executives, and will be conducted primarily by the W&L faculty in the humanities, with support from the business-administration faculty. After two centuries, Booths come in pairs now Even at Washington and Lee, where family ties that reach into hoary mists of history and distance are the rule rather than the exception, there can’t be many genealogical networks as vast as that of Cary Gamble Booth and George Lea Booth, who received their degrees this past June. (They were the only identical twin sons of an alumnus in the class. In fact, they were the only twins in the class. But that is another story.) The Booth brothers’ background could hardly be more solidly W&L. Their family ties to the school run like lacework through both sides of the families of their parents: A. Lea Booth of Lynchburg, a 1940 W&L graduate, and Mary Morris Gamble Booth, a Sweet Briar graduate. It all goes back seven generations to their great-great-great-great-grandfather, Robert Gamble, who went to Augusta Academy even before it was chartered in 1782. He was a colonel in the Revolution, then entered business in Richmond, where Gamble’s Hill is named in his honor. He was a founding 16 officer of the Society of the Cincinnati, whose Virginia treasury was donated to Washington College. The line traces through a great-great- grandfather, uncles, in-laws, and cousins at varying degrees of removal through, inexorably, their father, Lea Booth, whose W&L connections are themselves about as extensive as anyone’s ever were. He was the University’s public-relations chief for a time and taught journalism; he was and is the founding executive director of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, a group created 28 years ago largely at the instigation of then W&L president, Dr. Francis P. Gaines, to raise money from business and industry on behalf of 12 of Virginia’s private four-year liberal arts colleges. In 1976, he received an honorary LL.D. degree from his alma mater. Other family members with W&L connections include a great-great-great-great- uncle, Cary Breckenridge, an 1816 graduate; a great-great-grandfather, George William Peterkin, who received honorary doctorates in both divinity and law in 1878, became the first missionary Episcopal bishop of West Mary Morris Gamble Booth and Lea Booth, ’40, with sons George and Cary, ’80, (or maybe Cary and George). Virginia, and was aide-de-camp to General Pendleton in the Civil War; and a great uncle, Edmund Lee Gamble, class of 1929, who became a distinguished professor of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most prominent antecedents of the Booth twin brothers was their great- grandfather, David Gardiner Tyler, son of President John Tyler. ‘‘Gardie’’ Tyler, who eventually became a Congressman and a judge, studied at Washington College both before and after the Civil War, graduating in 1869. Tyler revered General Lee during his years as a student at Washington College and wrote in a letter that Lee was ‘‘universally beloved and reverenced by all the students, and his word is law with them. . . . His influence and energy alone have made what was formerly a simple Academy one of the finest colleges in America.’”’ It is fitting that Tyler became one of ‘*General Lee’s boys,’’ because Lee was also a relative of Cary and George Booth—a first cousin, five times removed. But with Booth and Gamble and Tyler and Lee connections, who’s counting? vo HI led cated 1980 s a THE ANNUAL F TIA . | IIS | 10,041 110 7,210 125 8,044 100 — 7,421 140 6,832 ACADEMIC CLASSES—James W. McClintock, Chairman 74A OE fe Rae 1 III NN N > Class Class Agent — Donors Dollars Part. = 774 89 GROUP I-A—W. C. Washburn, Vice Chairman a 78A 108 3,487 All Other W.C. Washburn 51 ——— -$ 23,225 31.5 79A — C.S. Jones a — «68 1,740 A. W. McCain 370 35.7 TOTAL 1,088 $ 69,679 2,825 47.1 | | 46.7 Class Class Agent | Donors — ~ Dollars 34.7. GROUP I-L—W. C. Washburn, Vice Chairman an | — 37.5 All Other W.C. Washburn 25 — 21L J. E. Moyler 23L =W.W. Ogden — 26L R. 0.1 Bentley LL. HL Davis . M.M. Weinberg , M.P. Burks &F -R. Bigham — | . z Qrmesm vn ~~ mo zs . 5 17,642 34.7 14,699 11,640 12 35.3 30.2 29.7 33.2 28.8 35.4 24.1 28.5 18.6 30.2 41.4 44.7 39.0 41.0 47.2 51.0 45.7 51.0 24.6 36.5 35.6 40.6 by Kenneth Ries Sports Information Director WATER-POLO PIONEERS W&L’s Newest Team Aspires to Swim Its Way to Eastern Championship The youngster in the W&L athletic family is beginning to grow up—and grow up fast. In the fall of 1977, water polo began as the University’s 13th intercollegiate sport. That season, the Generals finished with an 11-9 record; in 1978 it was 15-9; last fall it was 20-7 and included a trip to the Eastern Intercollegiates. ‘*This sport and our reputation are indeed growing,’’ says head coach Page Remillard, who took the helm beginning with the 1979 season. *‘We’re developing into one of the strongest teams in the East. The next team goal—maybe even more like a dream—is a spot in the NCAA Championship Tournament. That would be quite an accomplishment for a Division III (non- scholarship) school.”’ Remillard, a mustachioed 1974 graduate of the California State Polytechnic University 20 Coach Remillard and team swimmers huddle during a time out. at Pomona (Cal Poly-Pomona for short), inherited the W&L program from Bill Stearns, who initiated the sport on a club- team basis in 1972. Early success coupled with player desire led to adoption as a varsity sport. ‘*There was a tremendous amount of enthusiasm among those early W&L players,’’ recalls Remillard, who in May of 1977 journeyed from California’s Claremont- Mudd College to conduct a water polo clinic here at the University. ‘‘As the pioneers of the sport at W&L, they devoted their energies toward firmly establishing the sport. The team’s success these first three years is mainly due to their efforts. Most of these ‘‘pioneers,’’ however, have graduated. For the 1980 season, only one player remains from the initial squad. Yet once departed, the athletes have remained true to both school and sport. ‘“These early players, now in graduate schools or business along the East Coast, have stayed in touch,’’ Remillard explains. A case-in-point is Biff Martin, a 1979 W&L graduate who accepted a position with the University’s admissions office this past summer. A three-year water polo letterman and the team’s leading scorer in 1979 with 98 goals, Martin will assist Remillard this fall. ‘“As great as these pioneers were, we’re now Starting to see a new breed of water polo player at W&L,”’ says Remillard. ‘*Prospective student-athletes today have the same enthusiasm, but they are coming to us with more skills and with more individual goals. ‘“The early players, for the most part, picked up the sport here at W&L. Athletes today are coming from established high school programs. Like soccer in a pool **These new athletes are also coming in with more individual goals. The pioneers’ goal was to provide the University with a stable, competitive varsity sport. And they’ve done that. Incoming players, while still wishing to remain stable and competitive, are looking for more individual challenges. Specifically, the challenge to expand their present skills, much as a student strives to expand his knowledge in a particular subject.’ To help these newcomers, Remillard and his assistants (he’s constantly on the prowl for interested people) are directing their coaching efforts toward teaching. The idea is to present players with as much water polo information as possible and let them mix in their respective skills. ‘*T believe that we have a better educated team than ninty-nine percent of our opponents,’’ he states. ‘‘We’re not always better skilled, but our players know more techniques, more game situations than opponent players.”’ If these newcomers, their new goals, and Remillard’s teaching philosophy mesh together properly, will W&L become the East Coast power? ‘It’s a possibility. Let’s just say that we're on the right road and heading in the right direction. We can see the Emerald City and hope to arrive soon.”’ Essentially, water polo is soccer in a pool—using a cantalope-size ball featuring a sandpaper-type surface; using it with hands, but with no feet touching the bottom; teams of seven players each, including a goaltender; four seven-minute quarters; if necessary, two three-minute overtime periods, and then sudden death. W&L plays in the Cy Twombly pool at the J. W. Warner Center, which was completed in 1972. Never mind that the pool has a deep and a shallow end, water polo still works quite well. ‘‘Ideally, water polo requires a 30-meter length pool with at least a seven-foot depth,”’ Remillard explains. ‘‘But realistically, you can play it anywhere. Most colleges can’t go out and build a water polo tank, so they adapt the sport to fit their facilities. ‘“We play in tanks and shallow-deep pools during our season. We’ve encountered no problems at all switching back and forth.”’ The Generals belong to the 12-team Southern League, one of four collegiate conferences east of the Mississippi. The others are the Mid-Atlantic, Mid-East, and North-East. The top two teams from each league championship gather to compete at the Eastern Intercollegiates. Making it from the east to the NCAA Championship Tournament requires an invitation. W&L’s Southern League counterparts include: Virginia, Richmond, Hampden- Sydney, Lynchburg, Georgia Southern, Duke, North Carolina, V.M.I., James Madison, George Washington, and East Carolina. WA&L is co-host again to golf Invitational If at first you succeed, then by all means do it again. In October 1979, the W&L golf Generals joined forces with their counterparts across town to host the V.M.I./Washington & Lee Invitational at the Lexington Golf and Country Club. Thirteen schools from around the state participated in the event, the first of its kind for the area. Encouraged by the large turnout and exciting finish (the University of Virginia edged Virginia Tech on the second hole of a sudden-death play-off), the teams were hosts to the 36-hole event again this fall. Play was scheduled for Sept. 20-21 on the 6,444-yard Lexington course. ‘*It appears we’ve got a fine annual tournament here,’’ said Buck Leslie, who this fall began his seventh year as W&L’s coach. ‘*So far, we’ve got every team back from last year’s tournament, and we’re hoping to enlist a few more schools.”’ The Generals finished eighth among all teams in the 1979 Invitational and second among NCAA Division III members in the event. **Having so many fine Division I teams competing makes it a tough event for any school to win,’’ said Leslie. ‘‘We like to think that with a home course advantage and with some fine players, W&L will challenge for both team and individual honors in future Invitationals.”’ Generals whom Leslie expected to strive for honors this fall included junior and co- captain Bill Alfano of Butler, Pa., classmates Jim Kaplan of Wilmette, Ill., and Titus Harris of Houston, Texas, and sophomore Bert Ponder of Macon, Ga. These men helped W&L compile a 13-3 dual match record during spring 1980. 21 CHAPTER NEWS Reeves Porcelain and Herreshoff Paintings ee eS ea hw gg" Delaware Chapter President Ben Sherman, 75, at the Brandywine reception. . 2 3 R. H. MacDo At Bran nald (third from left) presents certificate to Newport News newspaper representatives: Mr. nnd ete F Yel p dywine Museum, E. Stewart Epley, ’49, (extreme left) greets Edwin J. Foltz, ’40L, and at Brandywine River Museum oa eas Sf ge William L. % Garrett, father of Bill Jr., a 1980 law graduate; Mrs. Foltz is at right. . = i, and Mrs. William Van Buren, Norman L. Freeman, and Mrs. Dorothy Bottom and Raymond Bottom. About 150 alumni and other guests attended a lavish buffet reception and special showing May 31 at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa., not far from Wilmington, Del., where selections from the University’s Reeves Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain were on display all summer. Paintings by the turn-of-the century artist Louise Herreshoff—who later married Euchlin D. Reeves, ’27—were also shown at the Brandywine, one of the newest but most prestigious museums in the east. Principal speaker at the event was James W. Whitehead, curator of the Reeves and Herreshoff collections and secretary of the W&L Board. Mrs. Whitehead accompanied him to Chadds Ford for the occasion. Also 22 attending from the University were E. Stewart Epley, treasurer, and Mrs. Epley; Alumni Secretary and Mrs. William C. Washburn; L. C. (Buddy) Atkins, assistant alumni secretary, and Mrs. Atkins, and several members of the faculty and their spouses. The elegant reception was organized principally by Benjamin M. Sherman, ’75, of Newark, Del., president of the Delaware Alumni Chapter. PENINSULA. A large number of alumni, their wives and guests joined for cocktails and dinner at the James River Country Club in Newport News on June 12. Chapter president Phil Dowding, 52, ’57L, presided over the dinner meeting. The featured EE eee Chiversity 2 = Veen Arevness ia id W&L Trustee Mrs. James Bland Martin presents Distinguished Alumnus Award to Lewis A. McMurran, ’36, head of Virginia’s American Bicentennial program. speaker of the evening was Professor Ronald H. MacDonald, head of the journalism department at Washington and Lee. MacDonald presented a certificate of appreciation to The Daily Press of Newport News recognizing the many contributions of equipment the publishing company has made to Washington and Lee over the years. Later in the evening Lewis A. McMurran, ’36, was presented with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. W. C. Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary, read the citation, and Mrs. James Bland Martin, a University trustee, presented the certificate. Arrangements for the evening were made by the chapter’s vice president, Conway H. Sheild, ’64, ’67L. 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