the alumni magazine of washing PO av A eveeastin ea a 2 1980 4 (@1 01,4 ,GONVENTION the alumni magazine of washington and lee (USPS 667-040) Volume 55, Number 4, May 1980 William C. Washburn, 40 ............. 0. cece ee ee eee eee ee Editor Romulus T. Weatherman .................... Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, 68 ..............c.ccee ceases Associate Editor M. Gray Coleman, 79 ...............0.c0c0cee Assistant Editor Joyce Carter .......ccccccccceccecce eee eee ens Editorial Assistant Sally Mann. ............ccceccccececeee cece eu eeeeeeaes Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS It's Reagan on the First Ballot .....................00085 1 A Five-Star Convention .............cccceeeeceeseeeeeees 3 Convention High Moment ..................c0ceeeeeeees 7 A Thrill a Minute ............c cece eee cee eeseeeeeeeeeeees 8 Convention in Pictures ............cccccceeeeeceeeeeeeees 10 Tom's Tall Talk wo... cccccccceeceeeeeeeeeaeeees 16 Alumni Association Meeting ................c0cceeeeeues 21 A Golden Class ............ccc ccc ccccecceeeeeecceseeeeeenes 23 Campus NeWS ...........0ccceccceeeeeeeeseeeeeeseeaeennees 24 Cleveland P. Hickman, A Profile ...................... 28 Glee Club in England ..................ccccceeee sees eens 30 A W&L Vignette ....cccccccccccccsccsessecseeseeseeseeseen 33 Books by W&L Men. ............cccceceeeeenee eee a 34 Chapter NeWS ............ccccccesececeeeeeeeeeeeeesnenenens 37 Class Notes .........c.ccccccecceceeeecceeeeeueeaceeeaeneeaes 40 In Memoriam ............ 0. ccc ccc eeccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaes 44 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 paid 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. EpGaAR M. Boyp, 42, Baltimore, Md. JAMES F.. GALLIVAN, 151, Nashville, Tenn. Ow EN H. HARPER, 59, Pasadena, Calif. G. RUSSELL LaApD, 57, Mobile, Ala. WILLIAM E.. LATTURE, 49, Greensboro, N.C. JoHN H. McCorRMACcXk JR., 50, Jacksonville, Fla. WILLIAM C. NORMAN JR., 56, Crossett, Ark. ef 7 ON THE COVER: Youre nose to nose with Jewel— a remarkable 10-foot-high pachyderm which may best symbolize the size and scope (not to mention party affiliation) of the most recent Mock Convention, held on the campus May 9-10. A series of special articles on the 1980 convention, along with extensive photo coverage, begins on the next page. Cover photo by Sally Mann, who made most of the pictures featured in the lead articles. cea oP re OO again this year “privy to what most [G.O.P.| leaders considered ‘classified’ information. Some of the guidelines the real Republican officials revealed will not be known publicly until the Republican convention in Detroit this July.”) That the real politicians regard W&L’s Mock Convention as unusually significant was proved almost the minute the balloting was over in Warner Center. An urgent telephone call came through to the podium; it was the chief of George Bush’s campaign in the mid-Atlantic region. What had happened, he wanted to know—which delegations did what, and why, and on whose authority? He was impressed with the answers—not happy, but impressed. To no one’s surprise, Reagan moved out front with the very first delegate votes cast—Alabama’s, where he captured 18 of 27. Former China envoy and CIA director George Bush, the only other hopeful whose name was even placed in nomination by the mock Republicans, never had a chance. In fact, Alabama—perhaps interestingly—was the least solidly pro- Reagan state in the old Confederacy, the consequence of a binding primary. Even the border states, except Arkansas—also perhaps interestingly—went overwhelmingly to Reagan. Bush managed to take majorities in only 10 of the 53 delegations, and all of them except Michigan were tiny states numerically and most were predictable— Connecticut, the District, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in addition to Arkansas and Michigan. Bush's biggest single bloc came from Michigan, but even that state’s majority of 43 in his favor represented a scant 4 percent of the 998 needed to win the nomination. Reagan’s nomination came only 21 minutes into the session—the speediest resolution of a Mock Convention in memory. The student delegates, flawlessly faithful to their mission of trying to be accurate in every particular, launched a flag-waving celebration when Reagan went over the top. But as they acted out that réle, the 2 Nice try for Bush, but in vain W&L men and their dates, despite the student body's reputation for hard-core political conservatism, seemed not to have their own hearts wholly in it. The victory demonstration lasted less than two minutes, and in fact, the cheering when W&L's lacrosse team was mentioned (twice: by Illinois and by Virginia) was notably more enthusiastic. Perhaps because of the utter lack of suspense over the outcome of the presidential nomination, and perhaps also because of their predecessors’ success in prophesying who would be tapped as running-mate four years ago (when Jimmy Carter too had pretty much sewn up the nomination by Mock Convention time), the 1980 mock politicians paid a good bit of attention to the vice-presidential nod. And the word was Howard Baker. Again, in good measure it was inside information from real party pros that directed the W&L convention. (Look for a focus on the vice- presidential nomination to become a fixture at future Mock Conventions. At W&L, once is a precedent, and twice is a tradition. ) [Clark R. Mollenhoff, of the W&L journalism faculty and the Washington press corps, collaborated on this report. ] - rn oe ; : 7 - 7 a ; - “ - - - : : : ; - / - - 7 : - 7 | / . . ; ; - - . - - . . . 7 ' " : : oe : _ 7 - - - . / / | . 7 - / - - 7 - 7 - : / / : - ve ; — - - - - - - - 7 - 7 - - - 7 . . 7 - / : / - o - - - - + : . - - - | | ; - : . | : - - - : - —— . . ; A Two-Day Triumph great undertaking,’ one judge described it, and a credit to state chairman Scott Bond, a freshman who didn't take very long to catch the Mock Convention spirit. Real politicians abounded at the Mock Convention, and the big names were bigger than ever before. To bring together the Republicans’ most venerable Senator, the party chairman himself, W&L’s and Virginia's own Senator, a rising young representative from the once-solidly Democratic deep South, and the governor was no easy proposition. Mayor Charles F. Phillips Jr., W&L’s President Robert E. R. Huntley, Sen. Warner, and Gov. John Dalton each came to the podium in the first session to offer greetings to the delegates. Dalton confidently predicted that each of the delegates would “be fully converted to the Republican party by the time this is over.” Judging by the response to his speech, most already were—at least for the duration of the weekend. And though Warner got good-natured boos from the crowd when he explained that his wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor, couldn't be present because of moviemaking commitments, he received an ovation for stating he was proud as a W&L man to be “guided every step of my career by the great Lee principles of excellence, duty and honor.” Arizona s Barry Goldwater, Senate patriarch and 1964 Republican candidate for president, brought several thousand delegates and spectators to their feet time and again with a keynote address filled with assaults on the “meat-headed liberals” and “knothead president” he regards as ruining the government. “The word ‘simple’ just kills the press and the liberals,” he began, “and when a conservative suggests that we try what has always worked, it scares the hell out of om.” America’s decline in military power and its economic woes were Goldwater's chief targets as he slammed away at the Democrats. “We're losing. I don’t like to lose.” And the crowd roared when he jibed at President Carter: “I’ve known some pretty smart peanut farmers in my life. But this isn’t one of them.” a ... and 24 hours later, only the debris remains. Henson Moore, the representative from Louisiana, followed Goldwater, describing the party platform as “a statement of principles and goals—almost a roadmap. A great electoral victor in a state famous for its affection for Democratic politicians—and the more eccentric, the better— Moore noted laughingly, “if you're a Republican in Louisiana, you ll be happy to speak to any group of two or more people—and if at least one doesn’t walk away, you’ve scored a great success.” As he hammered against governmental controls on individual 7 ; : ; . - - - ” : - / | | : : | . me ance a nmr I ILIAISN— EE EE SR = . the trio of portraits at left. nd two students on the 1 front, then Goldwater, [. Sounds pretty basic. It il the first fan made her ious. A middle-aged © : set of glossy color gushed, “I’ve kept politics faculty who. came to the rescue Rushing off the dais, he bellowed, “What do you people th think yin ? > B . _ your seats!” The shock value was > effective—for about 10 seconds, just ugh for u : p with the others rn m n ‘Sidney Simmons > hall. - e Senator should leave the _ nearby cackled. | newspaperman. One of the ones you can | something lik | e! poG fon i and he’s got a plane to catch back to | Washington tonight,” someone urged. We were about to break up the © conference—but the huge bulk of Clark Mollenhoff got in our way. “He’s got a book in his hands,” one of the students “do you suppose he’s the Senator with a copy of gonna present _ The President Who Failed [Mollenhoff S newest book]?” Not at all. Mollenhoff was bearing a N , With No- ar urned out he’s quite a fan of And once we got out of the he ig for Goldwater's limousine curity g guards is by now— Sidney t he ’s a good — believe. You listen | to me. In’t Pe A passer- r’s voice, runs a ever 1 before. shard t to gol —_ A Thrill a Minute An Incendiary Float, a Latesleeping Elephant, and the Lost Voice of Reagan There wasn't much of a horse race for the nomination at W&L’s 17th Mock Convention, but—scrupulously maintaining another venerable convention tradition—there was no lack of unscheduled drama and buffoonery. At the parade reviewing stand, pyrotechnics magnate Francois Blot stands poised on the roof of the Robert E. Lee Hotel with a fireworks display—watching stray fragments set the Wisconsin float on fire. The incendiary float, which began as a salute to the dairy industry, is one of the last floats in the parade, and the city fire department's truck (in line anyway to close the procession), is ready to douse the rather spectacular flames. But not to worry. Cool-headed spectators and delegates calmly douse the fire with glasses of milk, or other libations, even before the Lexington firefighters can move into action. There was parade chaos even before the parade started. Fifteen minutes after it was supposed to have stepped off, when nothing had happened, convention officials learned that (1) the elephant had overslept, and there was some question about how to remedy such a situation and who would do it; (2) the ceremonial ribbon Sen. Warner was supposed to cut was too short to reach across Main Street; (3) it almost didn’t matter, because the Senator himself was late and almost stranded, having stopped in the fire lane at a super- market outside Roanoke for a carton of milk, leaving his student driver momen- tarily alone—to be accosted, inevitably, by the police. (The driver’s response: “Listen, I'm driving a Senator to W&L!” The constabulary was about to put the student in the tank to sober up when Warner returned and settled the situation impressively.) Clark Mollenhoff, the Pulitzered investigative reporter turned W&L prof, is overheard in the press gallery, muttering “Only one thing's wrong. This is so darned much better organized than any real convention.” When Jean Baxter—third-year law student, western states co-ordinator, the first woman ever to sit ona Mock Convention Steering Committee— is 8 brought to the podium, the male delegates greet her with a barrage of jovial boos, then rise in a happy ovation that lasted a full three minutes, longer than any other at the convention. . . Everyone has his favorite thrill at the convention. It was difficult to find out what the big one was for treasurer Chip Arnold, until that consummate accountant let it be known: “I’m so glad. I got to use my new electronic calculator.” Greatest collective heart-stop of the weekend: actually losing Ronald Reagan on the telephone when he called to make his acceptance speech. About ten minutes of unbelievable tension, until the gracious Governor called a second time and asked “Don't you guys want me to say a few words?” Dewar's Pays Off LEXINGTON, Va.— Washington and Lee University newspersons exulted on learning that the good grey New York Times had devoted a full column in its front news section to the University's Mock Republican Con- vention. The story, by Francis Clines, focused on Sen. Barry Goldwater’s appearance at the Mock Convention and also quoted liberally from Clines’s interview with student pol Kevin Dwyer. “Hot damn!” exclaimed the PR chief when he heard about the Times article. “I told our gray-bearded, avuncular boss it was worth it to bring out the Dewar’s instead of feeding them that cheap Passport scotch!” —E. Stewart Epley W&L Business Correspondent Judge Charles E. Long Jr., a member of the board of the Sumners Foundation, overheard on the VIP balcony: “Every dollar we gave these men has been seen in the work they ve put out. This really is practical politics and I love it practical.” (The judge later declared his intention to go back to the foundation and recommend that another $20,000 be appropriated right away, to insure the stability and success of the 1984 W&L convention. ) State parade-float slogans— Hawaii's “Aloha, yall”; Iowa’s “Cheaper Crude Or No More Food’; North Carolina's rueful “Number 10 in Lacrosse; Unrated in Love’; Idaho’s “French-Fryin’ Legion Marching Kazoo Band and Chowder Review Society ; Wyoming's “Disco Buffalo.” And the states’ self-characterizations during the roll-call votes! California: “Home of two great faults, the San Andreas and Jerry Brown.” Indiana, asserting that its basketball team is the best in the nation, drawing the weekend's biggest spontaneous raspberry, and Oklahoma, “home of the finest football team money can buy,’ and Ohio, “home of Woody Hayes and the recession.” Virginia, “home of nine presidents, counting Jefferson Davis,” and Wisconsin, “unfortunately bound by law to cast six votes for that political chameleon, John Anderson.’ Connecticut, voting predominantly for Bush, declaring its interest in electing “experience that can’t be found in a peanut field or on a movie set.” President Huntley, jumping from the car with Sen. Warner and Miss Virginia after their early leg of the parade, then walking back to the Robert E. Lee Hotel to see the rest of the pageant. As they cut across Main Street, co-chairman Simmons despaired: “That’s gonna disrupt the entire parade. Everyone will mob around them.” Junior W&L publicity official, semi- veteran of Mock Conventions of old, responds, “No one is even going to notice those three with those big floats on the street.” No one did. Two points for junior PR man. And a crashing victory for the convention parade. —M.G.C. The Speakers Brock predicts a banner year for the GOP in 1980. Sen. 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Re : - pt ee / Ris. ee . ae te ; ; - - > At left, secretary Rick Corrigan opens the proceedings with the official “call,” while a face from the past is lampooned below. Other scenes tell their own stories. w eee Bes ee ge He: athe i ai as Ses oe 7 J , Sate , ih. Ba ae ee — = bei Be sets a es setae es Bie i ee - i yy - a - : oe oan Pe See = | se ; - # Z Big: ee b ee ——- acs Toms Tall Talk Wolfe's Remarks to Alumni Turn Out to Be the Right Stuff. . . and More More than 400 out-of-town alumni and their families—a record number—were in Lexington on the weekend of May 8-10 for spring reunions. Highlights of the three-day series of events were the annual meeting of the Alumni Association, the John Randolph Tucker Lecture, the Mock Convention, and a match between W&L’s fourth-ranked lacrosse team and the University of North Carolina—not to mention much socializing and reminiscing. Tom Wolfe, 51, award-winning author of The Right Stuff and other books, opened the weekend with a talk Thursday night to his fellow alumni in Lee Chapel. Excerpts from his speech are published below. I am deeply appreciative to all of you who are from pentennial and decennial classes for inviting me to come talk to you tonight. I am a member of the class of 1951, which makes me an off-year alumnus. One member of our class has been very much in the news recently, that is Herb Hunt, the son of the fabled oil billionaire, Herb Hunt Sr. Herb and his brother, Bunker Hunt, have recently been haled before a thoroughly baffled Senate committee to face charges, if that is the correct word, of having cornered the silver market. Actually, Bunker Hunt is a little more flamboyant, more talkative than Herb, and he has managed in the last week of this episode to add a few choice mots to the lexicon of the Bartlett’s Quotations of Famous Remarks in the History of American Capitalism—one of which was, “A billion dollars ain’t what it used to be.” And the other when one of the Senators peered down at him and demanded to know what Bunker Hunt’s net worth was and Bunker Hunt said, “I don’t know,” and the Senator said, “Come now, Mr. Hunt, you must know what your net worth is.” Bunker replied, “Senator, it has been my experience that people who know what their net worth is aren’t worth as much as they think they are.” And that remark caught my attention because I have never figured out my net worth. So I sat down a few nights ago and figured out my net worth, and you know, he was right. 16 But, you know, never while Herb Hunt was at Washington and Lee did he try to display the fact that he was one of the wealthiest young men on the face of the American earth. In fact, he went to great length to avoid this, but every now and then there would be a little sign to tell you that something unusual was going on here. Mr. Herbert Hunt Sr. decided that it was none too soon for Herbert Jr. as a freshman to start at the bottom of the oil industry and learn what it was all about. So in pursuit of that end he bought the Texaco station at the corner of Main and Jefferson for him, right back behind Lee Chapel here. Herbert Hunt was on the football team, and remember at this time, fall of 47, Washington and Lee was in the throes of a disease called big time football. It was a memorable time though, and I don’t think any of us will ever forget it. In those days it was necessary to play a team like Army once a year. Army was the number- one-ranked football team in the country and the purpose of playing Army was that they could go to any stadium in the nation and draw 70,000 souls, the gate receipts from which would pay for the entire athletic program of any team that was willing to play them. So W&L would get on the train on Friday evenings and head north to New York. Well, they got on the train this particular year, 60 W&L football players, and the conductor comes along, and they discovered to their horror that the trainer who had the tickets was somehow stranded on a platform in Staunton, where the train didn’t stop. Everybody figured that there would be no problem, just explain that it was the Washington and Lee football team on their way to a game in Yankee Stadium with Army. But they ran into a conductor who listened to every argument and even confronted eight of the biggest tigers on the train. And with that remarkable, fireproof bureaucratic stare that only an old time railroad conductor can give you, he said: “Listen, if I don’t get sixty tickets the whole bunch of you is getting off in Winchester.” There was great despair because here was a man that would not be moved. Suddenly Herbert Hunt came up and said, “Excuse me, sir, is it still possible to buy tickets on the train once you get on?” The conductor said, “Sure, son, if you happen to have 60 times $32.” And so Herbert Hunt mildly reached into his wallet and peeled off $1,920 and gave it to the conductor. As the conductor stared, Herbert began ripping through the remains of his bankroll to see how much he had left. And he turned around and shook his head and said, “Fellows, three of you are somehow going to have to pay your way back from this trip.” I think Washington and Lee has been marvelous, mainly due to the people that have been here, in its unerring ability to keep traditions that were worth keeping and to get rid of that, even if it was unpopular, which should not be kept. One of the great things that Washington and Lee has preserved through thick and thin _ 7 - 7 . ss we oe : a - a : - - - 7 7 a - 7 Oo : : i > -_ an - - - _— - _ - - a - 7 - oe - a - . - 4 - : - - a - - a on a 7 - oo eo - 7 - - - 7 7 7 7 - - - - . . 7 - - 7 - - : _ - - 7 ; 7 - - - - - - - - - - - - . ; . - - - - 7 : A‘ - - - - - 7 7 : - - . . - - - . : - - - - - : 7 : a - . 7 - . - : - - - - - 7 : - . - - . : . - . - - - . : - - - 7 7 - a - Oo - 7 ao - 7 - : - 7 i _ - > _ _ . 7 - aL: rsity’s by James B. Feinman, ’80 Alumni Association Meeting New Officers Named; Distinguished Alumni Honored; Trophies Presented New officers were elected and three Distinguished Alumnus Awards were presented as the W&L Alumni Association conducted its annual meeting this spring during reunion weekend. Richard A. Denny Jr., 52, of Atlanta, an attorney with the firm of King & Spalding, was elected Association president for 1980-81, succeeding William P. Boardman, ’63, of Columbus. Elected vice president was William B. Ogilvie, 64, of Houston, director of management information at the Baylor College of Medicine, alumni treasurer last year. Paul E. Sanders, '43, of White Plains, N.Y.., manager of international sales for General Electric Co. and a member of the Alumni Board, was elected treasurer. Newly elected Alumni Association directors are Peter A. Agelasto III, 62, a Norfolk attorney with the firm of Agelasto & Bernard; William E. Latture, ’49, a director of Blue Bell Inc. in Greensboro, N.C.; William C. Norman Jr., ’56, chairman and chief executive officer for the First National Bank of Crossett, Ark.; and Owen H. Harper, 59, executive vice president of Crocker National Bank of San Francisco. Retiring directors were Boardman, Philip R. Campbell, ’57, and Samuel C. Dudley, 58, who completed their terms on the Board. Henry P. Johnston, 29, Houston H. Harte, 50, and Lewis A. McMurran Jr., 36, received the 1980 Distinguished Alumnus citations. Johnston, of Birmingham, Ala., is former publisher of the Huntsville (Ala.) Times and a founder of the Alabama Broadcasters Association. Harte, of San Antonio, is board chairman of Harte-Hanks Communications Inc. and president of Matrix Land Co. McMurran, a resident of Newport News, Va., is chairman of the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, a past member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and former secretary, treasurer, and board member of Citizens Rapid Transit Co. Harte and McMurran received their citations in absentia. Six trophies for extraordinary success in the 1979-80 Alumni Fund were also awarded to Class Agents during the annual | . . ae meeting, which took place in Lee Chapel Henry P. Johnston (right), Distinguished Alumnus award winner, with President Huntley. Richard A. Denny Jr. (left), incoming alumni president, presents plaque of appreciation to William P. Boardman, outgoing president. Alumni Association Meeting ies : 3 ee “4 <> es ; 5 x ‘3 e between the Mock Convention's nominating session and the lacrosse game against North Carolina. O. P. Pollard, ’57L, received the Ross L. Malone Trophy, given to the law class graduated in the past 50 years that raises the largest amount of money. Pollard lives in Richmond, where he is a partner in the firm of Moore & Pollard. The Bierer Trophy, presented to the academic class graduated in the past 10 years with the highest percentage of participation, was awarded to Class Agent James A. Meriwether, representing the class of "70A. Meriwether, an audit manager with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Alexandria, Va., steered his class to a 31% record. The Washington Trophy, awarded to 22 William E. Latture and Peter A. Agelasto III, new alumni directors. Earl T. Jones, super 1930A Class Agent, is presented a special award by President Huntley. the class with the highest dollar contribution, went to 1940A. Thomas Bruce of Scottsville, Va., Class Agent, accepted the trophy for his class. For the third year in a row, the Richmond Trophy went to Earl T. Jones and the class of 1930. The award is given to the academic class from the past 50 years with the highest participation level. Jones and his classmates achieved the almost-unheard-of record of 92 percent. The John Newton Thomas Award, given to the reunion class with the highest increase in giving over the past year, also went to the class of 1930—with an increase of $46,000 over the past year's contributions. Jones accepted yet one more award— this time especially for establishing their Photographs by W. Patrick Hinely, ’73 Thomas Bruce receives Washington Trophy for Class of 1940A. participation percentage record. The Law School Alumni Association also held its annual meeting during the weekend. Elected to four-year terms on the alumni council were Justice Alexander Harman, '44L, a member of the Supreme Court of Virginia; Donald LaTourette, ’°54L, a member of the firm of Hamblett & Kerrigan in Nashua, N.H.; and Edward F. Meyers, 61, 63L, of Cleveland, a member of the firm of Arter & Hadden. New officers of the law school’s alumni board are Ethan Allen, ’31L, with the firm of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher of New York City, president; William Ford, ’61L, of Atlanta, a member of the firm of Ford, Harrison, Sullivan, Lowry & Sykes, vice president; and Darlene Moore of the law school staff, secretary. i rr - > Oo Oo . - > ae 4 OS 7 *. 7 - - ae a > en : : eos : : : : \ a : - a 7 ; : .. ; : a ; / - / r ; - : / OO . . ; 7 | | | - , ; / | | | * « ; : : a : a | - - - 7 | ; / - . 7 - 1 with reviving it when it was a lse of Polit in May on his. II, a 1979 Phi a "year as assistant director ofthe controversy in 1969 nt University’s n nd pu i r of a io graphy of John White , ugh,” a history of the W&L | School of Law and its predecessors by — Matthew Ww. Pant xton Ir, S editor of the Lexington News-Gazette n MeCulioch s Stories a Ole L Lexingt to Lexington, 4 in n favor of coedu referendum, reasons s of size . i others: 1 The 1e Scl ; gra coeducational since pola. | Gitetent more: stre uct u school i implied n } es | pot a emphases. — arti st, | —_ rh he oe : an Brandywine in exhibit. a | ~ Euchlin and Louise Reeves donated their 2 ,000-piece an of Chinese export porcelain, a | the early years of thie ect nitury, to W&L i in oh, . Since t hen, the por selain has been c wn 1 in more than 50 museums and | pughout the United States (and ion val Museum of History in | f paintings, c ich had d their premiere exhibition at the Th , Tipin Times from the 1930s 4 40s. Washington and Lee’s East Asian Studies program involves 33 | courses in eight disciplines, including 12 in Japanese language, history and cultural studies. The University’s library specialized collection in Asian studies now numbers more than ,300 volumes, all readily accessible to students at neighboring colleges and — scholars throughout the state of Virginia under an interlibrary loan network: pis ones from Charles C. Hart, ’67, n n attorney 5 living in Gadsden, Ala., who eS Aa sy we ee ee Be TR - ome leveland P. Hickman Jr. at work in the Galapagos Islands produced a series of definitive college textbooks in general zoology, Biology of Animals, in its second edition in 1978, and Integrated Principles of Zoology, with a sixth edition last year, to name only two. It may be noted that W&L Hickman’s wife, Rae, resisted the impulse to run right out and acquire a degree in zoology when they married in 1950, setting up a “four Cohans” of sorts in the scientific world. Instead, she handles the string section of their flute-violin duets. He is the force behind the biology department's Spring Term study program in the Galapagos Islands. Since 1975, three groups have gone from W&L to see Darwin’s fabled paradise of unique plant and animal life. On top of it all, he enjoys woodworking and photography— “when I can get the time...” Now a 13-year veteran of W&L’s academic community, Hickman has emerged as a thoughtful and energetic critic of campus affairs. One object of his appreciation is the fact that one can truly use the word “community” in regard to the campus. “At Alberta, there were greater divisions between teachers in various biological branches— genetics, physiology, botany—than we have here between such different disciplines as art and mathematics.” The Honor System also comes under Hickman’s gaze: “I was fascinated by the idea when I first came here. To be honest, I never thought anything of the type could work, but it does—in spite of an occasional challenge or bit of erosion. This cannot be watched too carefully, because if the system is lost, we'll never get it back. And only someone who has had to endure being without such trust can tell you how much better it is to live under its benefits.” measurements in any direct way,’ he notes, “because they're too small to be seen—even with an electron microscope.” So the professor and his aides do it indirectly, using a substance called dextran, developed in Sweden several years ago. Dextran molecules of varying sizes are injected into the bloodstream of the fish. Then, by collecting a sample of urine from the fish, investigators are able to see how small the dextran molecules must be to pass through the pores in the kidneys. Hickman’s interest in fish kidneys began when he noticed the limited scope of research regarding the porosity of the organ. Only humans and some higher mammals had been checked. He turned to marine subjects, “not really knowing what to expect. I suppose that’s the big difference between basic and applied research. In the former, our interest is entirely in an unknown, with no real end in sight. “At any rate, it was a happy surprise to discover that the glomerular pore size in the fish examined was almost identical to that of the human kidney, making it an ideal model for our research.” Reluctant as he is to predict future uses for his research (“Nothing makes a scientist engaged in basic experimentation more upset than being asked what his work will be used for’), Hickman mentions one possible consequence. “In certain kinds of kidney failure,” he says, “particularly with severely burned patients, the porosity of the kidney grows out of all proportion—even allowing valuable proteins to escape the body. By using the model fish systems, one day we may be able to provide a background of information to speed the recovery of such patients.” Hickman’s fish tastes have shifted over the years. For some time, he was a fan of the southern flounder. But beginning this spring, he’s conducting research on a new subject—as he describes it, “a really remarkable amphibian, the amphiuma, actually a large aquatic salamander.” Assisting the professor in his labors is an undergraduate senior, David W. West of Washington, D.C. An honors student in the W&L commerce school, he was a member of the four-man team that took first-runner-up honors in the Emory University business games this winter. Even so, West is an accomplished science student, and recently decided to change his plans for a business career in favor of medical school in the fall. —M.G.C. 29 ' e : a + ea rs . Se oe tG aN - OS ee : ee / 7 . > a oe OO ; ; : Oo SS 7 . 7 : , | LL maa 4 - : > _- - - . - : - 7 ‘ > Inside St. Margaret's Lothbury Church Spices and the Whiteheads— received a truly royal treatment from the Abbey clergy. Their tour of the magnificent structure lasted more than two hours, and took them to several rooms rarely seen by the public, including the famous Jerusalem Chamber. (According to tradition, this was the room where young Price Hal of Shakespearean fame took the crown off the head of his dying father, Henry IV, to signal his succession as Henry V, the “hero king.”) Other official concert appearances during the week came at Our Ladye, Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Greenwich; St. Nicholas’ Anglican Church in Fyfield, Essex; St. Margaret's Lothbury Church in London; and St. Helen’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Brentwood. To express the official thanks of the University, church officials at each concert site were presented with a reproduction piece of porcelain from W&L’'s Reeves Collection. “The St. Margaret's concert was unique in terms of our audience, Spice also noted. Located directly across from the Bank of England in the heart of London’s Wall Street, the midday clientele at the church “is composed almost completely of business executives and financial bigwigs on their lunch hour. But they were an extraordinarily receptive group. Many of them stayed for our entire hour of songs, and congratulated us after the concert.” The tour wasn't all work. The students had two days free in London—“and they did an enormous variety of things, ” according to Spice. Said Whitehead, “My wife and I spent a good deal of time in the A tour of the historic Jerusalem Cha Photographs by Ann Spice mber London museums and galleries, and it seemed that we ran into hordes of Glee Club members at such places all over London, whenever they had a free minute.” Activities on these free days included tours of St. Paul’s, the British Museum, Madame Tussaud’s, the National Portrait Gallery, the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London, the neighborhoods of Soho and Piccadilly—and much more. A group of students even ran into Dustin Hoffman on the street, in London to promote his film Kramer vs. Kramer less than a week after winning the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. And one Glee Club member, with relatives in the north of England, was even able to ride up to their town for a visit—to which nearly the 31 The entryway at St. Martin’s Church—from which bodies were temporarily suspended in the days of shaky medieval medicine to insure that the patient had truly died! whole populace came in order to give an official greeting. The concerts outside London gave the W&L party an opportunity to make a number of interesting side-trips: to Windsor Castle and the magnificent Ely Cathedral; to Runnymede, where the medieval barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta; to King’s College in Cambridge; and to Canterbury Cathedral, site of Thomas Becket’s martyrdom eight centuries ago. And once back in London, several of the student singers availed themselves of that city’s theatrical riches. Many went to see Yul Brynner in The King and I or the revival of My Fair Lady, and one and all saw the stage production of Agatha Christie’s The Mouse-Trap, currently in its ¥ A farewell serenade to the driver-guide at the Lon 28th continuous year. English pubs saw a lot of Washington and Lee action, too. In Fyfield, there was only one pub in town—“And the pubs are usually closed by 11 p.m.,” said Spice. “But one of our guys kept talking and singing with the chief of police, and he not only let the place stay open, but presented the student with his English ‘bobby’ hat at the end of the night.” All the Glee Club members lodged in English homes along the concert route, making for instant friendships. And some changed perceptions. In one case, two W&L men were to stay at the home of a priest, whose housekeeper—an elderly maiden lady— maintained rather exaggerated preconceptions about American youth (i.e., that they are all don airport muggers and plunderers), and spent the first night restless and nervous. Next morning, it was related, she hesitantly entered the breakfast room, not knowing what to expect. What she saw were the two students giving thanks before they ate, and she spent literally the rest of the day calling her friends to tell them of the miracle that occurred in her house. The Glee Club esprit de corps was indeed catching—and sunny spirits were reflected in the London weather that week, about the clearest to hit the island kingdom in more than three years. All in all, conditions were ideal for this fifth anniversary tour by Spice and company, who concluded, “If you weren't an Anglophile before this trip, you have to be one now. —M.G.C. 32 =o SS a a who demanded that he “perform a few more of them tricks”— McCardell dryly notes the result of the experiment: his “cabbages came up radishes.” He describes the campaign to purge all things Northern from Southern school books, leading D. H. Hill of Wash- ington College to write a new mathematics text requiring students to calculate the rate at which Indiana militiamen deserted a battlefield, and the profit earned by a Yankee who peddled adulterated meat and wooden nutmegs. Research undertaken to demon- strate the biological inferiority of blacks led Dr. Samuel Cartwright to the discovery of such hitherto unknown diseases as “drape- tomania’ which transformed docile slaves into runaways, and “dysaethesia” which turned them into rascals. Flourishes like these make McCardell’s book a genuine joy to read. Combined with exhaustive research and perceptive insights, they mark him as a scholar of real ability and promise. In spite of its obvious merits, The Idea of a Southern Nation falls into a trap common to intellectual history. It is elitist history. It demonstrates that the most intelligent, most articulate, most outspoken of the South's leaders nursed the dream of Southern inde- pendence—and for a brief time during the 1860s, made that dream a reality. But it fails to demonstrate that the mass of ordinary Southerners shared this dream more than superficially, or for long after the exhilaration provoked by secession. The case for a gen- uine Southern nationalism rests, in the end, on the great body of ordinary Southerners. Until McCardell can prove that these men and women participated in the dream of a Southern nation, his argument necessarily remains asserted but not proved. Nevertheless, his cogently argued and elegantly written book is one that no serious student of Southern history can afford to miss. John McCardell graduated cum laude from Washington and Lee University in 1971. In the acknowledgments of his book, McCardell points to his undergraduate years as the source of his interest in Southern history. He singles out “the late, inimitable” Pro- fessor Ollinger Crenshaw and “his skilled and friendly colleagues” Allen Moger and Robert McAhren for their examples as teachers and scholars. One may also note that the book has already been awarded the Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of Ameri- can Historians. McCardell was born in Frederick, Md., in 1949, and attended the public schools there. After graduation from Washington and Lee, he served briefly with the U. S. Army and entered Johns Hopkins University in 1972. There he became a student of David Donald —perhaps the most influential scholar ac- tively writing and teaching in the field of Southern history today. McCardell followed Donald to Harvard, and completed his doc- toral studies there in 1976. Since that time, he has been assistant professor of history at Middlebury College in Vermont. “Uncle Boomer” Mollenhoff by Hampden H. Smith III Assistant Professor of Journalism A Presidential Roast CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF. The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control. New Jersey: Mac- Millan, 1980. A couple of winters ago, when the snow was deep and sludgy in the Valley of Virginia, journalism students at Washington and Lee University could tell their professor was coming when they heard a “whump-clickety, whump-clickety” down the hall. In an instant, a mountain of a man in a fur- collared greatcoat would be wheeling through the hallway and, in a sort of lumbering charge, barrel into his office. Most likely, the phone would be ringing. Very likely, the caller would be an admiral or a congressman’s aide or an assistant to a Cabinet officer or a senior reporter from a leading newspaper. Quite likely, the Lexington side of the con- versation would be clearly audible—routine profanity and all—at least throughout all of Reid Hall's second floor. The whump-clickety? That came from his old black rubber galoshes, unbuckled either from impatience or because the sheer bulk of the man made fiddling with those silly little clasps more trouble than it was worth. The boots whomped in agony as the heels thudded to the floor and the buckles went clickety as they shuddered from the impact. Not only galoshes shudder from the im- pact of contact with Clark Mollenhoff, scourge of Presidents, nemesis to all Wash- ington perpetrators of evil, mismanagement and fraud. But his young charges, as can college stu- dents pretty universally, were not to be buffaloed by the brawn and bluster of their giant pedagogue. Anybody with all that idealism, anybody that determined to ferret out every scintilla of Washington wrong-do- ing, couldn't be but so awful. So they named Clark Mollenhoff, dean of investigative reporters, Pulitzer winner, confronter of Presidents, recent convert to academe, “Uncle Buckles.” But now has come Mollenhoffs latest book, his tenth—The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control. It is much like the earlier book on Ford (The Man Who Par- doned Nixon) and the one on Nixon (Game Plan for Disaster)—a litany of perfidy, collu- sion, shady deals, remarkable coincidences, stupidity, deceit, chicanery, mismanage- ment, fraud, felony. The facts roll off the pages and over the reader in waves, from records of congressional hearings, from transcripts of presidential press conferences, from documented statements by officials ahigh and low. With the publication of The President Who Failed have come dozens of articles and re- views, one of which focused more on the man than the book. And in it was revealed the horrible truth that, among some in 39 Prize- Books by W&L Men on? > Why the false- why the cronyism? f believes, lies 3 cated story. They don’ t deal with the ‘in depth, don’t tell what they go back and 1 analyze the events they "By c contrast, Mollenhoff H explains, | in Reprinted with permission | from the May 1980 Chapter News Lynchburg Citation Is Presented to the McDowells at Annual Banquet The Lynchburg Citation—first awarded some 20 years ago, and the highest recognition conferred by a W&L alumni chapter—went this year to Catharine Feland McDowell and her late husband, Professor Charles R. McDowell. The citation was presented at the Lynchburg chapter's annual banquet on April 12, at the Oakwood Country Club. E. Starke Sydnor, 66, '73L, chapter president, made the presentation. Mrs. McDowell, better known as “Mrs. Mac’ to the students she knew while acting as secretary to five W&L law deans, retired in 1976. Her Tucker Hall career spanned 30 years. Prof. McDowell was himself an institution among generations of y ! 2 young lawyers, teaching at the University Professor Charles R. McDowell Catherine McDowell—“Mrs. Mac” from 1927 until his death in 1968. Accepting the award on behalf of Mrs. McDowell, who was unable to attend the banquet, was her son, Charles R. McDowell Jr.—graduate of the class of 1948 and distinguished Washington columnist for the Richmond Times- Dispatch. McDowell also delivered the major speech of the evening, an interesting “off the record” report on the national political scene and the 1980 presidential race. Just before the citation was presented, a letter was read from one of the few people who were aware of the recipients | identities in advance: Supreme Court J * ustice Lewis F. Powell, 29, ’31L. It said oe LYNCHBURG—At reception before making his “State of the Chapter” address is Bert Schewel, ’41, in part that Professor McDowell was one with Mrs. Marc Schewel, Marc Schewel, ’69, Mrs. Bert Schewel. of the most engaging faculty members I have ever known. Catharine McDowell also has a prominent place in the hearts of generations of law school graduates.” And as he accepted the citation, the son of these two tremendously gifted people quietly expressed his thanks: “I know how happy mother will be to receive this—and father would be, too. Especially. It just says the right things.” The evening began with a cocktail party, leading into a delicious dinner for the guests, with well over 100 in attendance. The enthusiastic crowd was kept helpless with laughter during the chapter's satiric committee reports that have become a | ae hallmark of the Lynchburg annual LYNCHBURG—Chapter officers are Marc Schewel, meeting. Once again, Bert Schewel, ’41, 66, vice president; Walter B. Potter, 48, president. 69, secretary-treasurer; Bill Washburn Jr., 37 SN SS SS SS ie en e rn ia RAL 4a . a c. - - = announcements about chapter business and introduced the speakers. Bill Hartog, director of admissions at W&L, spoke about the University’s long-range plans for recruitment work and reported on the status of this year’s admissions program. Gary Dobbs, ’70, assistant professor of biology, delivered an enthusiastic address on W&Ls unique faculty advisor system, after which both he and Hartog responded to questions from the audience. Other guests from the University were Assistant Alumni Secretary Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins, 68, and Robert S. Keefe, 68, director of the University News Office. SHENANDOAH. With proper ceremony and fanfare, alumni of the Winchester, Leesburg, Front Royal and surrounding areas joined for the inauguration of the Shenandoah Chapter on March 21, at the Wayside Inn in Middletown, Va. President and Mrs. Huntley were on hand for the occasion, as were Alumni Secretary William C. Washburn, 40, and Mrs. Washburn. Presiding over the meeting was Jay Denny, 73, who handled the introductions and expressed thanks to Bill Fifer, "76, and the many others instrumental in the organization of the chapter. Following cocktails and dinner, Washburn spoke on the role of alumni chapters and their impact on the University. President Huntley also added an interpretation of the essential need for alumni support, and the many ways in which it helps to give Washington and Lee its unique appeal. Another highlight of the program was the presentation by Jim Eastham, 74, to Huntley of an original letter written by Edward Valentine concerning the latter's Lee Chapel sculpture of Robert E. Lee. Huntley read the letter aloud to the audience and accepted it with thanks on behalf of the University. In the short business session which ended the evening, Jay Denny was requested to appoint a nominating committee for the purpose of electing a slate of officers for the chapter. TIDEWATER. W&L's Norfolk area alumni held their annual oyster roast on Saturday, March 29, at Bayville Farms. SHENANDOAH—At inauguration of the new chapter are Mrs. David Andre, David Andre, ’64, President Huntley, and James R. Denny III, ’73. 5 SHENANDOAH— Happy about the new chapter are Mrs. James Eastham, James Eastham, ’74, Richard Pifer, 72, Betsy McIntyre, William Pifer, ’76, Mrs. John Wetsel Jr., and John Wetsel Jr., 70. % it, TIDEWATER—At the Norfolk area alumni’s annual oyster roast at Bayville Farms are Peter Agelasto, 69, Tommy Rueger, 69, and Sam Dudley, ’57. weather and an ominous forecast gave way to a sunny afternoon that enhanced everyone's enjoyment of the day. Taped music for the occasion was provided by Peyton Via, 76. Arrangements were handled by Richard Burroughs, 68, and chapter officer Bill Ballard, 73, Tommy Rueger, 69, John Richard, ’70, and Dick Phillips, "76. Their efforts were rewarded, as threatening 39 1944 FRANK D. UPCHRUCH JR. is Judge of the District Court of Appeals for the 5th District in Florida. His offices are in Daytona Beach. He notes that several other Washington and Lee men hold simi- lar positions in Florida: Hugh S. Glickstein, ‘53, ’55L, is Judge of the 4th District Court of Appeals, Gavin K. Letts, 51, is also of the 4th District, and Robert P. Smith Jr., 54, sits on the Ist District Court of Appeals. 1947 JAMES N. (JIM) BALDWIN of Coconut Grove, Fla., has been named comptroller for the First Florida Building Corp. in Miami. 1949 THOMAS R. Guass has vacated the post of associate publisher and executive editor of The News and The Daily Advance of Lynchburg, Va. He has been named publisher emeritus. Glass will remain as vice president of the Carter Glass Newspapers Inc. 1950 EDWIN M. GalINgEs, professor of history at the University of Arizona, Tucson, has been elected vice president and president-elect of the University of Arizona chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He has also been elected to the board of the University of Arizona campus ministry. ROBERT F. SILVERSTEIN of Charleston, W. Va., first elected to the Kanawha County Commission in 1978, has now been elected president of the commission. He is also the owner and operator of the Robert S. Silverstein Agency, specializing in insurance and bonds. 1952 KARL P. WARDEN will become the new dean of the School of Law at the University of North Dakota on July 1, 1980. He has been on the law faculty of Vanderbilt University since 1964. He replaces act- ing dean Randy H. Lee, ’66, ’69L. 1954 J. BENNETT JOHNSTON of Louisiana has been in the U.S. Senate for seven years and was named to the energy committee in January 1973. He is now the third-ranking man on the committee and is helping to shape the administration's response to the energy crisis. 1955 Scott B. CLINTON is with the solid state division of RCA with offices at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. M. Lewis CopE, a staff writer for the Minneapolis Tribune, received the Howard W. Blakeslee Award from the American Heart Association for his writings H. F. Kurz, ’62 to inform the public about cardiovascular diseases. He specializes in medical reporting and has pub- lished a book on health. DouGLas E. RITCHIE JR. expects to complete his masters degree in financial sciences at the Ameri- can College in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He plans to practice life and health insurance underwriting. 1958 FREDERICK H. (TED) TARR III is off and running again for re-election to the position of Town Se- lectman in Rockport, Mass. In addition to his years spent in politics, Tarr now operates a small busi- ness consulting office. 1960 FRANKLIN S. DuBols Jr. has been elected chair- man of the board of managers of the West Hartford, Conn., branch of the YMCA. DuBois is associated with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. 1962 H. F. Kurz has been named president of Somerset Wine Co., a division of Somerset Importers Ltd., which is part of Norton Simon Inc. Kurz had pre- vious experience in wine marketing and has been with Norton Simon since 1979, in marketing for the fashion and cosmetics sector. Somerset is the exclusive U.S. importer of the Alexis Lichine wines from France and is owner of the San Martin Winery of California. Kurz earned his M.B.A. in 1968 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsyl- vania. Kurz and his wife, Gloria, an attorney with the firm of Burns, Jackson, Miller, Summit and Jacoby, reside in New York. ROBERT D. LEwis became the compensation manager on the Corporate Personnel Staff of Xerox Corporation in January 1980. He is responsible for salary policy and program planning for all U.S. operations. 1963 DANIEL T. BALFOUR, a prominent attorney in Richmond, Va., has been appointed by the gover- nor to the board of visitors for Virginia Common- wealth University. 1964 JOHN F. LACKEY was featured in an article of the January bulletin of the Harvard Divinity School. He commutes there as a ministerial student and candidate for a Master of Divinity degree from his home in Richmond, Ky. While attending school, he maintains his private law practice with his wife, Kathy, and continues to operate his 564-acre to- bacco and cattle farm. The Lackeys have two chil- dren. He received his J.D. degree from the Uni- versity of Kentucky and an L.L.M. from Yale. In 1975 he was elected to the Kentucky State Senate and was chosen Outstanding Freshman Senator. He resigned that post in 1977 to pursue his studies. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. STEWART M. HuRTT, a daughter, Elizabeth Louise, on Jan. 15, 1980, in Laurel, Md. T. PATTON ADAMS, a partner in the Columbia, S.C., law firm of Cobb, Adams & Herring, has been re-elected to the city council. FRANCIS A. SUTHERLAND JR. has been promoted to general counsel for Life of Virginia. He lives in Richmond. JOSEPH G. WHEELER, formerly with Thompson Tractor Co. in Birmingham, Ala., is now vice president of the industrial and engine divisions of Carolina Tractor and Equipment Co. with offices in Charlotte. 1966 ROBERT S. CULPEPPER, a Lexington attorney, was elected by the Virginia General Assembly to a six- year term as Judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in the 25th District. Culpepper will begin his term on July 1, 1980. He succeeds Judge James M. Davidson Jr., ’38, '44L, who an- nounced his resignation in January 1980. On June 30, 1980, RANDY H. LEE will complete his year as acting dean of the School of Law at the University of North Dakota. He will return to full- time teaching as a tenured associate professor of law. Karl P. Warden, ’52, will become the new dean on July 1. H. RICHARD LEvy is a buyer for Herman’s World of Sporting Goods, a division of W. R. Grace, the world’s largest chain of sporting goods stores. He lives in East Brunswick, N.J. JOHN H. RUTHERFORD is an editor for NBC News in Washington, D.C. 1967 GALEN E. ANDERSEN is developing a coal mine and coal-to-methanol conversion plant in North Dakota with initial production being planned for 1986. R. TRACY DuGGaN of Cary, N.C., is a member of the General Assembly of the Research Triangle Park Chapter of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America Inc. His group is the first North Carolina based chorus to represent the Dixie District, a seven-state area, at the international competition which is held annually, and this year in July, in Salt Lake City, Utah. J. ANDERSON STALNAKER became a partner in the Norfolk law firm of Williams, Worrell, Kelly and Greer on Jan. 1, 1980. 41 Class Notes J. DEVON ALLEN is an instructor i in accounting and finance at the University of Houston at at Clear Lake lysts Journal. Allen is also pu purs “ ‘his doctorat from the Colgate Darden Graduat ness, Administration at the | elected the | 198 ciated Press Ma ; Memphis in in 7 7 - ee °C medicine vesideoney training p progra am i ville. Lawson is an elected member of the Ameri- can College of Physicians. | Chicago. WILLIAM A. Toone AN has left C - ROBERT S. CULPEPPER (See 1966.) RANDY H. LEE (See 1966.) 1970 MARRIAGE: JEREMIAH S. MILLER and Carol Jean Perschino on Feb. 23, 1980, in Darien, Conn. Miller is a partner in the New Canaan law firm of Hawthorne, Ackerly and Dorrance. mi MR. Rapenisn JAMES H. MALONEY, a loney is chairman of the Winches. : mittee : and a on 1 the board of i a In August 19 Puitie D. Dou tartec the new Gainesville Presbyterian Church in ~ Manassas, Va. The parish is already self-supporting with 35 member families. | Dr. J AMES W. Major Jr. graduated from the RICHARD | versity of Alabama Chicago Medical School in 1978. He _ is now a general. surgical resident at the Polyclinic Medical Center i in Harrisburg, Pa. 1971 | BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Joun G. CROMMELIN IV, a son, John Geraerdt V, on Dec. 5, 1979, in Atlanta. Crommelin joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in regional bond sales in October and was s promoted to vice president in February 1980. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RICHA: son, Patrick Hathaway, on Nov. 7, 1979. Murray is the public and sports information director at James Va. CARL ADAMS IIT is a partner in Adams Brothers Produce Co. in Birmingham. He and his wife, Mims, have two children, Mims, 3, and Carl, 18° months. KENELM L. SuHirkK III is a partner in the law firm of Shirk, Reist & Posey. The firm practices in five different locations in Lancaster ‘County, Pa. Shirk lives i in Ephrata. a G. Hoy WrpENER has completed two years of medical school at the University of Kentucky. He and his wife, Ann, live in Lexington with their two sons, Justin, 4, and Colin, 2 1972 MARRIAGE: GILBERT S. MEEM JR. and Knight Patterson on Dec. 15, 1979, in New York. Gilbert Low. 5S: Meem, '38, was best man and Peter Botts Meem, "78, was an usher. Meem is a vice presi- dent in the financial planning office of E. F. Hutton -and Company Ine. in Washington. Joun, R. Sarpy, upon graduating in May 1980 from Loyola University Law School, will join the New Orleans law firm of Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel and Johnson. 1973 MARRIAGE: EvERETT W. NEwcoms III and Shirley Vigneau't Ch ipman on March 8, 1980, at Fort Myer, Va. Newcon nardsville, NJ. “Ze BIRTH: Mr. and! Mrs. RICHARD V. ANDERSON, a daughter, Beverly Roberts, on Nov. 29, 1979, in _ Cincinnati, Ohio. a LAWRENCE B. CARLSON has formed a new law partnership of Kincheloe and Carlson in Fairfax, a C. CRITTENDEN is a student at the Uni- .Me tical School in Birmingham. » J. Murray, ae Madison University. They live near Bridgewater, mb is an osteopath in Ber- _while a student in 1971 In September 1979, RONALD T. GOLD became an associate with the Atlanta law firm of Birnbrey and Kresses. JOHN M. SHUEY Jr. is associated with the Shreve- port law firm of Shuey, Smith and Fleming. His specialty i is oil and g gas law. 1974 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RUSSELL HEwIT, a son, Russell Lyle Jr., on Feb. 16, 1980. Hewit has irm with another partner i in West- iC ee ‘h AC He ] son and the f family lives in New Providence, N,J. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. WiuiAM Pp. WALLACE Jr, a son, Willi n Paul III, on Feb. 19, 1980, in anoke. Wallace is asso cecal with the law firm of EL BRUCE N. GorDIN have fulfilled their 1 undergraduate ambitions by estab- lishing a law practice together in downtown Phil- adelphia. Gordin received his law degree from Cleveland State University in 1977 and operated a financial planning consulting business in Florida prior to the partnership. Cimino received his law degree from Widener University and worked in the corporate law department of a large national insurance holding company. MICHAEL Guro1an purchased the Kwick Wash Laundromat in Stamford, Conn., in March 1979. With extensive renovation, new decoration and some unusual innovation, including Guroian him- self as an attendant on roller skates, he has in- creased the business 80 perc , er laundromat. acquire 2 anot! WRENCE B. CaHoon is finishing his research for : a Ph.D D. in. zoology at Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C. He will return to ham ‘to. write his dissertation and assume a temporary j pos iti n as a zoology instructor at Duke. T. BARRY DAVID is a publisher's advertising exec- utive representing several magazines in the Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia markets. He is also operating his mail order business started , Big Barry's HI FI Ware- house Co. ROBERT H. F. Jones i is working asa photographer for Fox Photo in Houston. STUART B. 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Bn SO BS a | a 7 Be one are cone or scone deseo eS one ecgeone masnscrne nid fose ou maine one Shenandoah ‘THE WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY REVIEW Shenandoah 30/3 $1.50 Writers of this stature appear in SHENANDOAHB: ROBERT PENN WARREN ALLEN TATE PETER TAYLOR ELIZABETH BISHOP Roy FULLER ROBERT LOWELL RICHARD HOWARD REYNOLDS PRICE W. S. MERWIN JOYCE CAROL OATES Two stories that appeared in SHENANDOAH during 1977-78 won coveted O. Henry Awards for distinguished brief fiction. Won't you subscribe to Wash- ington and Lee _ University’s award-winning magazine of fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism? Published quarterly $5.00 a year $8.00 two years Shenandoah The Washington and Lee University Review Box 722 Lexington, Virginia 24450 Enter my subscription to SHENANDOAH for [_] One year @ $5.00 My check for $ enclosed. L] Two years @ $8.00 Name Address City State Zip I go on admiring [Shenandoah], none in the country does better with its resources. —Robert Lowell, 1967 I can think offhand of only two or three uni- versity-financed reviews in which the impact of a strong editorial personality has created a vital magazine. The examples that come to my mind are those of David Ray and the strong social-radical consciousness he has brought to the editing of New Letters for the University of Missouri at Kansas City; of the elegant and rather patrician standards James Boatwright has given to Shenandoah at Washington and Lee; and of Robin Skelton, who has brought such a distinctively inter- national flavor to the Malahat Review at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. —George Hitchcock, editor of Kayak, in The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History (TriQuarterly, Fall 1978) You are the best “little” magazine in the country. —Allen Tate, 1970 In this year’s collection are twenty-one stories. . . . Sixteen were first published in the pages of little magazines, quarterly re- views, irregularly issued periodicals reaching a small, a very small, readership. (Shenan- doah, for example, one of the best of these magazines from which I have taken two stories, prints approximately one thousand copies of each quarterly issue.) —William Abrahams, in the introduction to Prize Stories 1979: The O. Henry Awards Dr. Robert Coles, child psychiatrist and author, is, by his own description, one of those “Yankees who went south and fell in love with the region.” He is a loyal subscriber to several “good southern literary quarter- lies’: The Sewanee Review. . . The Southern Review . . . The Georgia Review; and Shen- andoah.” —*“Where Opinion Makers Get Their Opinions,” Esquire, June 5, 1979 a9 me Scone masse or ssf oe Lefer ne Sisco A Or So coe Sse Second Class Postage Paid The Alumni M agazine of At Lexington, Virginia 24450 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY And Additional Mailing Offices (USPS 667-040) Lexington, Virginia 24450 Ww CF te ng ‘ite ame ae U. S. Sen. John Warner and Virginia Gov. 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