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Assistant Editor Joyce Carter ........ 0.0... cee eee Editorial Assistant Sally Mann 2... 2. ee cece eee Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS W&cL News Notes ...........ccccccccceccceeeeeessessessssssseeees l Gridiron OVETture .........eecececeseeeeecscsseesesssssssceeees 2 Maestro McDowell ..............ccccccccceeceececeeeesesseseeees 3 Superswimmer John Hudson ...........eecceeeseeees 6 Chapter NeWS ou... eeeeeescccesneceseeceseeeeseeesseesseeesaes 7 Class Notes .......ccccccccccccessssssssececeesessssessessssssseseeens 9 Tell US co eeccccccsssccccccccccccccessssssssssssecessssaseeeees 14 In Memoriam ...........cccceeeeeeeeeseseeeeeeeeeseseeseseeeesesees 15 Published in January, March, April, May, July, September, October, and November by Washington and Lee University Alumnm, 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. EDWIN J. FoLtz, ’40, Gladwyne, Pa. President ROBERT M. WuitE II, ’38, Mexico, Mo. Vice President JERRY G. SoutuH,’54, San Francisco, Calif. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 40, Lexington, Va. Secretary WILLIAM P. BOARDMAN, ’63, Columbus, Ohio PHILIP R. CAMPBELL, ’57, Tulsa, Okla. RICHARD A. DENNY, 52, Atlanta, Ga. SAMUEL C. DUDLEY, ’58, Richmond, Va. MARION G. HEATWOLE, ’41, Pittsburgh, Pa. SAMUEL B. HO L.LIs, ’51, Memphis, Tenn. CourTneEyY R. Mauzy Jr., 61, Raleigh, N.C. -PaAut E. SAnpeErs, ’43, White Plains, N.Y. ON THE COVER: An enlarged drawing of the ruins of Liberty Hall, the small eighteenth-century classical academy from which Washington and Lee University evolved. Fire destroyed the building in 1803; the ruins are preserved on the campus grounds as a symbol of the University’s honored past. This drawing, reduced in size, was used on the cover of the University report for the years 1960 through 1962. It currently appears on the inside front cover of the 1978-79 catalogue. W, @L° NEWS NOTES FULBRIGHT GRANT WINNER A W&L senior, John S. Strong of North Wales, Pa., has been awarded a Fulbright Grant for graduate study in Europe. Strong, who is taking an independent major in urban planning and administration, plans to pursue his studies in urban planning in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Student Recruitment Committee; an assistant head dormitory counselor; and a student representative on the faculty Courses and Degrees Committee. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT Waller T. (Beau) Dudley,:a rising third-year law student from Alexandria, has been elected president of the student body for the 1978-79 academic year. yas He received 58 percent of the votes cast in a three-way contest. The election marks the second time since 1965-that a law student has been elected president of the student body. Dudley was a 1974 graduate of WSL, receiving a B.A. in history. TWO ADMISSIONS AIDES Two graduating seniors, James M. Underhill and Mark A. Putney, have been named assistant directors of admissions at the University on one-year appointments for 1978-79. Underhill, president of the student body this year, is an Honor Roll student majoring in business administration and accounting. He is from Babylon, N.Y. Putney is co-chairman of the Student Recruitment Committee and is taking a major in business administration. He is from Richmond, Va. Since 1969, W&L has reserved one place on the admissions staff for a new graduate. Currently, the position is held by Kenneth P. Ruscio. The appointment of two graduates represents an intensification of the University’s admissions efforts. The two will travel extensively to secondary schools as part of W&L’s student recruitment program and will be involved in the full scope of on-campus admissions activity, including interviews of prospective students, evaluations of applications and committee work. ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR SEARCH Washington and Lee is currently engaged in an extensive search for a Director of Admissions (to succeed James D. Farrar, newly named coordinator of alumni for student recruitment) and for an Associate Director of Admissions. The University advertised the positions widely in professional publications in early spring and is now considering a large number of highly qualified applicants. Dr. Lewis G. John, dean of students (whose official responsibilities include the admissions office), says he is encouraged by the response, through formal and informal channels. Dean John said the University hopes to make a decision from among those who already have applied for the two positions or who express their interest in the immediate future. The University expects to have both vacancies filled by mid-summer, he said. NEW DEPARTMENT HEADS Drs. Sidney M. B. Coulling and Thomas G. Nye have been appointed heads of W&L’s English and biology departments, respectively, effective July 1. They succeed Drs. Severn Duvall and James H. Starling, who will return to full-time classroom teaching. Coulling, a 1948 B.A. graduate of W&L, received his M.A. and Ph. D. C Dr. Coullin Dr. Nye degrees from the University of North Carolina. He joined the W&L faculty in 1956. He is an authority in Victorian literature. Nye has taught at W&L since 1966. He earned his undergraduate degree in biology and social science at Fairmont (W.Va.) State College and his advanced degrees at the University of Kentucky. His fields of teaching and research specialty are ecology and general botany. Duvall is Henry S. Fox Jr. Professor of English, holding one of the six endowed professorships at W&L. He expressed a strong desire to relinquish his departmental administrative duties after 16 years, according to President Robert E. R. Huntley. Duvall joined the faculty as a full professor in 1962 after teaching at Dartmouth for nine years. Starling, 65, is at the mandatory retirement age for department heads. He has been a member of the biology faculty at W&L since 1942. He was acting department head for a time following the death in 1974 of Dr. Henry S. Roberts, and became permanent department head in 1976. RELIGION LECTURES PUBLISHED Thirteen lectures delivered at a major conference held at W&L in 1976 examining the world’s religious diversity have been compiled in a book just published. The volume, Christian Faith in a Religiously Plural World, takes its title from that of the three-day conference, sponsored jointly by W&L and the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions. Orbis Books, a division of the Roman Catholic Foreign Mission Society (Maryknoll), published the volume. It was edited by Donald G. Dawe of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond and John B. Carman, director of the Harvard University Center. Dr. David W. Sprunt, Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Bible and chaplain at W&L, wrote the preface to the book. He was co-chairman of the symposium. Dr. Continued on Inside Back Cover GRIDIRON OVERTURE Of Mollenhoff, McDowell, and the Show That ‘Singes, But Never Burns’ Clark R. Mollenhoff, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman-lawyer, joined Washington and Lee’s journalism faculty in 1976. In short order he developed a boundless enthusiasm for everything about W&L (he even has a drawing of the Colonnade on his personal stationery), and his students and his faculty colleagues reciprocated just as quickly. As a long-time member of the Gridiron Club, he viewed this year’s production with particular interest and a special background; late at night Clark will admit that he himself was a song- and-dance man in Gridiron shows of yore. | Charles R. McDowell Jr. grew up in Lexington; his father taught in the law school from 1926 until his death in 1968, and his mother, Catherine McDowell (“Mrs. Mac”), the irrepressible and indispensable secretary to five law deans, continues to live in Lexington and still provides Charley with some of his best material. Charley went to W&L, commuting from the Lee-Jackson House. After graduation in 1948 and a year in graduate school at Columbia, he was hired by the Richmond Times- Dispatch, and has worked there ever since. In 1955 he began writing his now- famous column (from which have been derived two books) on topics ranging in diversity from state and national politics to the Suburban Crabgrass Conspiracy and his close and always awkward encounters with technology of any kind, but especially vending machines. (His annual “Thirty days hath September . . . except February, which goes on forever” column is responsible’ for a significant increase in the use of Xerox machines all over the Times- Dispatch’s circulation area as readers make copies for friends everywhere else.) In 1965 he became Capitol correspondent for the paper. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of Omicron Delta Kappa; he has received the National Headliner’s Club award; in 1975 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from W&L. This year, either as a consequence of those achievements or despite them, he was chosen to be music chairman of the Gridiron’s annual white-tie extravaganza. He reports that it was the most demanding work he’s ever done, but also the most fun. The Gridiron Club, probably the most prestigious and surely the most entertaining and likeable group of journalists in Washington, if not the whole world, if there is any difference, bills its annual dinner “the White House Follies,” and Presidents and anyone else who can get an invitation wouldn’t miss it for anything. They wouldn’t dare. (Who would want to miss the kind of event, after all, where Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew capped the evening some years ago by playing a piano duet?) The Gridiron’s name reflects its good-natured philosophy: it “singes, but never burns.” This year, in addition to President and Mrs. Carter, guests Clark R. Mollenhoff Critic included the Chief Justice and members of the Supreme Court (Lewis F. Powell Jr., 28, ’31L among them), congressional leaders, cabinet officers, and the ambassadors of Egypt and Israel and seven other nations. Clark Mollenhoff was there too, and brought as his guests President Huntley and Sydney Lewis, ’40. Afterwards, on assignment from the editors of your alumni magazine, Mollenhoff directed his formidable talents as the nation’s premier investigative journalist to the question: “Why Charley McDowell?” This is his report. Sing Along DIDS RISD SS The Gridiron Chorus (to the tune of Another Op’nin’, Another Show): . .. Just once a year when we stretch the truth, Just once a year when we lose our couth, Just once a year we’re fortissimo— Another op’nin’ of another show! Three weeks, we rehearse to be brash, ‘Two weeks, still averse to be brash, One week, will it ever suffice? The truth of it is, we’re too damned nice! We'll take our cue from you Democrats, The G.O.P. and the bureaucrats. . . DIIDIS SAND Gridiron reincarnates Teddy Roose- velt for a parody to the tune of Camelot: Ask ev’ry person if he’s heard the story, And tell it strong and clear with orchestra That still there is a fleeting wisp of glory Called Panama! Panama, Panama! I know it gives some people pause, But in Panama, Panama, We are the legal laws! By Clark R. Mollenhoff Professor of Journalism MAESTRO McDOWELL ‘Being Tone Deaf Is Not Essential, But It Helps’ When Charley McDowell was ten years old he manufactured what he purported was “a musical instrument.” It consisted of a variety of cans, a few bottles, an assortment of other junk and a foot pedal. His mother reports proudly that “it worked”—meaning that the Washington and Lee Swinger and a boyhood chum were able to make a reasonably rhythmic noise flow from this pile. Mrs. McDowell, who played the piano, observed closely for any interest Charley or his brother, John, might have in music. She found none. As far as she knows, in fact, the junk rhythm instrument was Charley McDowell’s one and only venture into the world of music—before January, 1978, when he emerged as music chairman of the Gridiron Club’s famous Washington musical extravaganza. , «: “I was completely surprised and more than a little puzzled,” Catherine McDowell commented after Charley's triumph in staging one of the best Gridiron shows in the 93-year history of the Washington newsman’s club. “I wanted to give the boys piano lessons when they were young, but Big Charley put his foot down. He believed it might make them sissies.” In the hope of finding a reason to bfeteyt plead with her husband for reconsideration of his “no piano” edict, Mrs. McDowell says she paid close attention to any flickering interest in music in either of her boys. “I can’t remember Charley ever singing around the house or at parties or anything like that,” Mrs. McDowell says. “I don’t know what he did at the fraternity houses or other parties like that, because, you know, it is always the mother who is last to hear. “Big Charley used to lead the singing when the crowd would gather around the piano, but I don’t believe I ever heard Little Charley sing. He might have been tone deaf as far as I knew.” There is ample evidence from confidential sources in the Washington bureau of the Richmond Times-Dispatch that Charley McDowell has considerable difficulty carrying a tune. Reporters in the Times-Dispatch bureau give consistent accounts of the cacophony of discordant sounds that emerge from McDowell’s office in the National Press Building as he and Ben Cole, Bob Boyd and Al Cromley try to sing the words they have written to a wide range of popular tunes, old standards and country music. These confidential sources report that, from time to time, it is possible to distinguish what tunes Charley and his Charley McDowell Librettist DIIDII SIA HN An Earl! Butz parody (to the tune of A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody): When you had Earl, You had pros-per-i-tee, The price of corn was high! Sunshine and rain | Brought big crops of grain! When you had me High par-i-tee Was easy to obtain: Those good old days Are just a memory, Dreams vanished with the dawn! Although born-again folks May not tell dirty jokes, When you had Earl, Good times just rolled on and on! DIIDIIIKSD Four business tycoons are parodied singing the Whiffenpoof lament for the three-martini lunch: Oh, those three-martini luncheons That we always loved so well, With an olive or perhaps a lemon twist! They are symbols of our power With our glasses raised high, And without them we can’t possibly exist! . . . We’re entrepreneurs who don’t want to pay— Drink, drink, drink! ... DIIDIDI SDN Republican National Chairman Bill Brock (W&L, ’53) is parodied to the tune of Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?: . Whatever happened to Margaret Chase Smith and Hiram Leong Fong? Whatever happened to Melvin Laird? Will the likes of them ever come along? Whatever happened to William Scranton, to Rocky and John Lind-zee? Whatever happened to all these is as plain as A, B, C— Whatever happened to Harold Stassen has happened to the G.O.P.! MAESTRO McDOWELL Gridiron associates are trying to imitate. On that sour note ended my efforts to trace the musical roots of Charley McDowell, ’48, for the W&L alumni magazine. It was the most exhausting, time-consuming and futile assignment in my entire career as an investigative reporter. The record was as devoid of clues as the mystery death of Jimmy Hoffa, or the real secret of why Jimmy Carter let Bert Lance keep his diplomatic passport and his White House pass. There was not one witness who would say Charley McDowell was a secret bathtub baritone. Nor was there one document or even a rumor that he came from a clan of Scottish bagpipe players. But after interviewing Mrs. McDowell at the end of my search, I noted I had overlooked the obvious. Does a successful Gridiron music chairman have to know anything about music? The answer was found by reviewing the most recent successful chairmen: novelist Fletcher Knebel, Ridder Publications executive Walter Ridder, Knight-Ridder bureau chief Robert Boyd, Indianapolis Star bureau chief Ben Cole, and Daily Oklahoman bureau chief Allan W. Cromley. The answer was clear. A high degree of musical talent is not necessary, and in fact may even be an impediment to the enthusiastic coordinating effort in the first days of rehearsing the motley Gridiron chorus. Being tone deaf is not essential, but it helps. The most important ingredients are a sense of humor, a confident feel for words, and, one hopes, a sense of the rhythm of words. Charley McDowell is blessed with all of those qualities. In addition, Charley McDowell is one of a handful of Washington newsmen whose style—as a humor columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch—is on the same beat as the political satire that is the trademark of the successful Gridiron lyricist. It takes only a slight shifting of mental gears for Charley McDowell to move from his work for the Times- Dispatch to his music chairman duties of writing the parodies for the Gridiron production, or editing and refining the parodies written by others. And from time to time Charley McDowell the Times-Dispatch columnist has stolen from Charley McDowell the Gridiron music chairman to fashion President Huntley Guest DIIADID RIND Democratic Sen. Russell Long is paro- died, singing, to the tune of Short People: ... They got a Ham Jordan W’ shiny li'l teeth. They wear platform shoes On their nasty li'l feet. Well, Ah can’t help them short people, Don’t need them short people, Don’t want no short people ’round here! ... Lil blue noses Halos by the bunch, Gonna knock off your three-martini lunch. They drive li'l cars That go beep, beep, beep, They got li’l voices Going cheap cheap cheap, They got liberal li'l faces "N conservative minds, They gonna fool ya—every time! DIDI SSD DS Defense Secretary Harold Brown is lampooned to the tune of Thank Heaven For Little Girls: Thank heaven for neutron bombs! They blow up in the most constructive way. Thank heaven for neutron bombs! They'll save the cities for another day. DDIDISID DS National security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski is parodied to the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (from the movie Mary Poppins): The headline writers pass me by ’though I deserve acclaim; For even if they had the room they couldn’t spell my name. I’m either long on consonants or else I’m short a vowel— But better all my problems than to switch with Jody Powell! some of his most readable columns. But when McDowell of the Times-Dispatch wrote about the 1978 Gridiron show and excerpted some of the lyrics chiding Republicans and Democrats, he did not reveal that he was the author of two of the Gridiron parodies he quoted. Charley McDowell’s career as a writer of verse started—and almost ended—at Washington and Lee in 1946. McDowell, who was writing a regular “Reporter at Large” feature for the student newspaper, decided to compose an entire column in verse. He received such a chiding from other W&L students for that effort that he started his next column with a versified pledge to end his humor-in-rhyme. In January, 1946, he wrote: The most popular lines ever written By a poet like me who is smitten By desire to write verse fy (which couldn’t be worse) Is simply: “Dear Reader, I’m quitfin’.” McDowell gives this account of why he broke that W&L pledge and went on to become the Gridiron’s music chairman: “After two years in the Gridiron chorus, I became convinced I was never As going to be able to carry a tune. Since then I’ve concentrated on writing the words, and have accepted the fact that I have no musical talent. “Even when I get the right words, occasionally they just won't sing, and Ann [Charley’s wife] comes in, shifts a few things around and saves me. It is a great asset for a tone-deaf music chairman to have a wife who knows something about music.” To take nothing from Charley’s role in the writing and production of the 1978 Gridiron show, it might be said that President and Mrs. Carter gave the show an added touch of class when they were persuaded to join the performers on the stage for a vigorous but graceful jitterbug in white tie, tails and sequins. It was the first time a presidential couple had performed as a team before the Gridiron Club since its first production in 1885, although all presidents since then have attended the white-tie dinner and stage show. If readers of the Times-Dispatch find that some McDowell columns appear a little soft on Carter, they probably won’t be wrong in assuming that Charley feels a bit of gratitude to the Carters for helping make the McDowell Gridiron show a smash success. President Carter Victim DIIDDIDIAS SD Former Democratic Party Chairman Robert Strauss, now the President’s Special Trade Representative, is lampooned, singing, to the tune of Sweet Georgia Brown: We've got hicks—now politics nowhere around; Plain to me, they’ve claimed D.C. as their Georgia town! Two left feet they think are neat in their Georgia town! They stumble and then They do it again—oh, my! Peanut farmers, snake-oil charmers keep fallin’ down, And Ham Jerden’s now our burden all over town. They don’t fraternize With our kind of guys. Carter trusts ’em, Carter bussed ’em, to this Georgia town! are There’s no fun in what they’ve done to this Georgia town; Old-time sin’s no longer in—you smoke and they frown. It’s been hell for Griffin Bell—his halo fell down. Their energy plan Was tossed in the can—some plan! There’s no feel for Tip O’Neill in this Georgia town. Some sodbuster from Augusta’s messin’ around. Fellers, you can see How much they need me To save the day—that’s why I'll stay in their Georgia town! By Bill Schnier Sports Information Director SUPERSWIMMER John Hudson, 17 times an All American, Has Attached His Name to an Era The “John Hudson Era” of swimming at Washington and Lee will become history when John Hudson, the superswimmer from Millersville, Pa., graduates in June with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He will leave behind him a four-year record of aquatic wonders that have made him and W&L swimming virtually synonymous. (Hudson is the son of R. Suter Hudson, W&L, Class of ’53.) Bill Stearns, who is completing his 12th year as head swimming coach at W&L, says without reservation that Hudson is “the best swimmer by far this school has ever seen.” This year, Hudson led the W&L swimmers to a 10-1 dual meet record, the best performance in the University’s history. During Hudson’s four years, the Generals have won 33 dual meets and lost only 9—a record made more formidable by the fact that W&L annually swims against the best NCAA Division I competition available in the area. This season, on its way to its 10-1 dual meet record, W&L defeated teams like Virginia Tech, James Madison, George Washington, William and Mary, and Old Dominion. The Generals’ only loss was to state champion Richmond, in the second meet of the season. W&L finished third in the 1978 Virginia championships. Hudson, during his four years on the team, has helped W&L win national recognition unparalleled in the University’s long and notable swimming history. W&L finished 10th nationally in the 1978 Division III championships held at Grinell, lowa. The team was ninth in 1977, eighth in 1976, and tenth in 1975. In fact, from the standpoint of the win-loss column, swimming is Washington and Lee’s most successful sport. W&L’s record of 33-9 during the four-year Hudson era raised its overall swimming record to 237-103-1 in 51 seasons of competition. John Hudson is a dedicated swimmer who says that nearly everything he has done for the past four years was aimed at achieving victory in the pool. His conditioning routine is to swim 4,000 6 rs W - SWIMMING John Hudson yards every morning and 7,000 yards every afternoon (7,000 yards is 280 lengths in a standard 25-yard pool). The payoff has been victory indeed. Hudson has won more than 140 times during his W&L career; in dual meets he has lost only three times. He has also accomplished a feat no other W&L athlete has come close to during a four-year span—being named a first-team All-American 17 times. Seventeen seems an almost incredible figure. How did he do it? In the national swimming championships, the top 12 swimmers in each event are named All-Americans. That may sound easy to do, but not so. The qualifying standards in each event are so difficult and demanding that only the superior swimmers succeed in making it to the national championship meet. Hudson, in four years, has achieved All-American status each season in the 200 freestyle, the 500 freestyle, and the 1,650 freestyle. That’s 12 times. To these add three All-Americans in the 800 free relays and two more in the 400 free relay— making 17 All-American recognitions for the 22-year-old Hudson. He was also the winner in 1976 of the Division III championship in the 500 and the 1,650 freestyle—the University’s first ever national swimming championship. He seemed to major in school records. He set individual marks at W&L in the 200, 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyle, and relay teams on which he swam hold school records in the 400 and 800. Only yesterday, it seems, W&L swimming fans were talking about a sensational freshman named “Hinson” or “Hulson” or something like that, who had the potential to be W&L’s best swimmer. There is no mistaking the name now. The name Hudson is firmly attached to an era of swimming that is a source of great satisfaction and pride for Washington and Lee. Canfield is Coach of Year; Dennis is All-American Verne Canfield, W&L head basket- ball coach, was named Coach of the Year in District III of the NCAA Division III for the second year in a row, and basketball star Pat Dennis was named first-team All-American by Basketball Weekly. Dennis has received a long list of post-season honors, including Player of the Year in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and Most Valuable Player in the South Atlantic Division III playoffs. Dennis, a senior, closed his career at W&L with 1,428 points; he scored 700 points during the 1977-78 season, establishing a W&L record. Canfield is now in his 14th year at W&L,; his teams have compiled a 225- 126 record. His 1977-78 team, with a 22- 6 record, captured the regular season and tournament championships of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference for the second consecutive year. For the third time in four years, W&L competed in the NCAA Division III South Atlantic Regional tournament, finishing as the runnerup. CHAPTER NEWS WASHINGTON—Maadison Co se APPALACHIAN—Stephen Kalista, ’70, and his wife talk with University Trustee John W. Warner, ’49, who is also running for the U. S. Senate. WASHINGTON, D.C. Michael Cappeto, director of the University’s office of career development and placement, spoke to a luncheon meeting of the Washington chapter on March 2. Cappeto explained the work he does in career counseling and placement, presented a report showing the career and graduate school choices of the Class of ’77, and asked for alumni help in placing graduates in jobs. Following his presentation was a question and answer session. Arrangements for the luncheon meeting at the Key Bridge Marriott Motel in Arlington, Va., were made by Grady C. Frank Jr., °75L, the chapter’s vice president. Special guests of honor were Madison Coe, 15, and E. Waller Dudley, ’43, ’47L, a University Trustee. William C. Washburn, alumni secretary, was also present. €, 15, a special guest, at luncheon meeting with Dr. Sidney Lyons, ’35, and John M. Duckworth, ’71, a development associate. APPALACHIAN. Two of the candidates in the battle for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate race in Virginia—A. Linwood Holton, 44, and John W. Warner, 49, who is also a University Trustee—were special guests at the cocktail party which preceded a dinner meeting of the Appalachian chapter at the Greenway Haven House in Abingdon, Va., on March 17. W&L alumni from three states attended the meeting, which featured short talks by John M. Duckworth, ’71, a development associate; Buddy Atkins, ’68, assistant alumni secretary; and William McC. Schildt, 68, assistant dean of the law school. Atkins spoke on the progress of the University’s admissions and alumni recruitment programs. Schildt briefly talked about some of the current ROANOKE—President Huntley, special gues Fitzpatrick, ’29, ’31L, and Martin P. Burks, ’32L. : os “7 Q APPALACHIAN—Robert A. Vinyard, ’70L, George W. Summerson, ’27, and James W. Elliott Jr., 67L, with Senatorial candidate A. Linwood Holton, ’44. t and speaker, talks with Earl strengths of the University and the changes he sees after five years away from Lexington and W&L. The speakers were followed by a lively and thought-provoking question and answer period. ROANOKE. The formation of a chapter board of directors was the primary business at the Roanoke chapter’s meeting on March 22. Held at the Shenandoah Club on one of the first beautiful days of Spring, the luncheon meeting, set up by Jay Turner, ’67, ’71L, turned out a good crowd. Guest of honor and speaker at the meeting was President Robert E. R. Huntley, who spoke on the state of the University. Enthusiastically received, the talk generated a number of questions during the discussion period which followed. 7 CHAPTER NEWS John W. Poynor, ’62, chapter president. Another special guest at the meeting was H. Gordon Leggett, 54, a Trustee. Also present were John M. Duckworth, ’71; Lewis G. John, ’58, dean of students at W&L; and William C. Washburn, ’40, and Buddy Atkins, ’68. TIDEWATER. The Annual Oyster Roast, a traditional chapter special event, was held at Bayville Farms near Virginia Beach on Saturday, April 1. A warm, sunny day with a touch of a sea breeze made the welcome by chapter President Richard C. Burroughs, 68, even more pleasant to the many alumni, wives and guests who enjoyed their fill of oysters, beer, hot dogs and lively music furnished with gusto by a small Jazz band. Special guests for the occasion were Justice A. Christian Compton, ’50, 8 ROANOKE—Development Staff Associate John Duckworth, ’71, and Trustee H. Gordon Leggett, ’54, of Lynchburg talk with Jeff Peck, ’77, after the well- attended luncheon meeting at which a board of directors was formed. BIRMINGHAM—Richard T. Scruggs, winner of the first John F. Hendon Award, with Mrs. Scruggs, Mrs. John F. Hendon, wife of the late Trustee, and TIDEWATER SOUTHERN OHIO—Treasurer James W. Whitehead at opening of Reeves Collection porcelain exhibit in Dayton on Dec. 2 with Thomas P. Winborne, ’51, Christian Compton, ’50, ’53L, is in background; others are Stockton H. Tyler Jr. Z9L, James H. Tyler IIT, ’31, ’33L, and Sam Jones, ’39. chapter president, Mrs. Winborne, and Dr. James Priest, 43, meeting host. ’"53L, a member of the Virginia Supreme Court and the University’s Board of Trustees, and his wife. Representing the University were Dean of the College and Mrs. William J. Watt; William C. Washburn, ’40, and Buddy Atkins, ’68, from the Alumni office and their wives; John Duckworth, ’71; and Doug Dewing, ’77. BIRMINGHAM. Richard T. Scruggs, father of a 1970 graduate of Washington and Lee, received the first John F. Hendon Award from the Birmingham chapter at its annual reception and dinner on April 6. Scruggs, a past chairman of the Parents Fund and chairman for two years of the Robert E. Lee Associates, received the award from John Poyner, ’62, president of the chapter. The principal speaker for the meeting, held at the Mountain Brook Club, was University Trustee Sydney Lewis, who spoke on “How it is at Washington and Lee” before a large and interested audience. At the head table for the dinner meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis; Mr. and Mrs. Poyner; ‘Trustee Jack Warner, ’41, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Col. William Rushton, ’21, of Birmingham; John Hollister, ’58, a development associate from Atlanta; and William C. Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary. Before dinner, a cocktail hour provided an excellent opportunity for greetings and lively conversation. Poyner announced during the meeting that the Reeves Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain would be exhibited in Birmingham in June, 1978. CLASS NOTES NA | Paina tghaadii ri SA eb ee ee ————ee io Why not a WSL rocker too? The Washington and Lee Chair With Crest in Five Colors The chair is made of birch and rock maple, hand-rubbed in black lacquer with gold trim. It is an attractive and sturdy piece of furniture for home or office. It is a welcome gift for all occa- sions—Christmas, birthdays, an- niversaries, or weddings. All profit from sales of the chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, ’14. ARM CHAIR Black lacquer with cherry arms $75.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. BOSTON ROCKER All black lacquer $60.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. Mail your order to: Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. Lexington, Virginia 24450 Shipment from available stock will be made upon receipt of your check. Freight “home delivery” charges can often be avoided by having the shipment made to 4n office or busi- ness address. Please include your name, address, and_ telephone number. Dr. WILLIAM MCELWEE MILLER is author of the book What is the Bahai Faith published by Eerd- mans Publishing Co. 1924 Howarop D. LEAKE (See 1926.) "TURNER RICE (See 1926.) 1926 CHARLES HENRY HAMILTON recently published a biography of Peter Franciscos-Soldier Extraordi- nary. A newspaper executive, Hamilton joined the Richmond News Leader in 1926, was a sports writer for six years, sports editor for four years, city editor for 15 years and managing editor for 19 years. He was also an assistant to the presi- dent of Media General, the parent holding company. GEORGE L. HILL, who lives in Dunedin, Fla., recently joined a mini-reunion at Navarro Beach with HOWARD LEAKE, 24; TURNER RICE, 24; and classmate DicBy West. The group found the fishing quite good. 1927 GEORGE W. SUMMERSON, manager of the Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon, Va., was honored as a certified hotel administrator during the 66th annual American Hotel and Motel As- sociation convention, held at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Wash., last October. Summerson was cited for his work as president and general manager of the Martha Washington Inn. He has also been mayor of Abingdon, a trustee and president of the Educational Institute of the American Hotel and Motel Association, presi- dent of both the Southern Hotel Association and the Virginia Hotel Association and is on the advisory committees of three senior and junior colleges in Virginia. 1930 FREDERIC G. SwINk, an attorney, enjoys cruising on Chesapeake Bay on his 33-foot sloop. 1931 Dr. EDWARD M. RILEy, former director of re- search for Colonial Williamsburg and lecturer in the history department at William and Mary, is working on a book about the life of Sir William Gooch, the royal governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1729. 1932 PAauL A. HOLSTEIN (See 1966.) 1933 Dr. RALPH S. EMERSON was president of the 9 CLASS NOTES New York State Medical Society from 1975 to 1977. He was also president of the New York State Society of Surgeons. THE REv. JOHN A. WOMELDORTF, retired after 40 years in the Presbyterian ministry, continues in church work. He and his wife will host the fourth annual Presbyterian (Reformation) tour to five European countries in September. 1934 W. O. LEFFELL retired as professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee last December after teaching for 42 years. He plans to farm and perhaps raise cattle. ROBERT B. SAFForD retired two years ago and lives in West Hartford, Conn. He is vice chair- man of a 375-member mens retirement club and membership chairman of a lawn bowling club. DANIEL B. STARTSMAN is an accountant at Nurre Building Material Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1935 GEORGE E. SHort, who retired six years ago from E. I. duPont, lives in Pompton Lakes, N. J., where he enjoys gardening and golfing. 1936 MARRIAGE: Dr. THomas H. ALpuIn and Betty W. Wilhoit, on Feb. 23, 1978, in Birmingham, Ala. SAMUEL L. ALEXANDER continues as clerk of the circuit court in Stafford County, Va. He and his wife have four grandchildren and live in Fal- mouth. Cyrus V. ANDERSON has retired as vice presi- dent, law, for PPG Industries, Inc., of Pitts- burgh, Pa., after 33 years. Anderson joined PPG in 1945 as an attorney, and was named assistant counsel in 1952. Three years later, he became assistant general counsel and in 1960 was named associate general counsel. He became vice president, law, in 1972. An antitrust specialist, Anderson was a member of the Attorney Gen- eral’s National Committee which studied anti- trust laws (1963-65), was national chairman of the American Bar Association’s section on anti- trust laws (1964-65), and was co-chairman of the ABA’s special committee on complex and multi-district litigation (1968-73). Anderson and his wife, Kay, live in Upper St. Clair, Pa. JAMEs O. Warrs Jr. (See 1968.) 1937 STANLEY BARROWS was awarded the DeWolfe Award by the Metropolitan Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers last 10 C. V. Anderson, ’ June. Paul Randolph, former dean of the archi- tecture school at Yale University, was the co- recipient with Barrows. DONALD C. REDFIELD JR. has retired from the First New Haven National Bank of New Haven, Conn., after 31 years. Since 1973, he had been senior vice-president and chief financial officer. He is president of the City Mission Association of New Haven, treasurer of the General David Humphreys Branch #1 of the Sons of the American Revolution and chairman of the board of North Haven Congregational Church. I. M. Scott, board chairman of TOSCO (Oil) Corp. and a member of the University’s Board of Trustees, was among a group of 20 promi- nent Philadelphia citizens who visited the Peoples’ Republic of China recently. The 17- day tour was organized by Philadelphia’s World Affairs Council. The travelers, upon their re- turn, “disclaimed having become instant China experts. They did agree that their visit had given them a taste of the warmth of the Chinese people and a glimpse of a genuine desire to be friends.” 1938 Retired Army Col. BEN L. ANDERSON was a guest of the Philippine Government in October at the dedication of the MacArthur Memorial on Leyte Beach. Anderson was on MacArthur’s staff for five years, from the New Guinea cam- paign through the occupation of Japan. Cyrus V. ANDERSON (See 1936.) JAMEs O. Warrs Jr. (See 1968.) 1939 Dr. Davip H. BOALs is practicing radiology at Park Place Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas. JOHN R. KaTELey has purchased and renovated a fine old stone house on Buffalo Creek in Rockbridge County. He recently retired from the duPont Co. He and his wife moved from Red Springs, N. C. Dr. Patrick S. MULLINS has retired from active practice. He plans to attend the 35th reunion of his class at the Yale School of Medicine in June. DONALD C. SMITH is retired from the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corp. He lives in Coventry, Conn. 1940 Dr. MELVIN R. McCaskIt of Little Rock, Ark., is a member of the governing board for ob- stetrics and gynecology at Doctors Hospital. He is past chief of OB-GYN at St. Vincent’s In- firmary and the Arkansas Baptist Medical Cen- ter. McCaskill is assistant professor at the University of Arkansas Medical School and a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is also a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecol- ogy. JUDGE JOHN C. SNIDOw Jr., is in the third year of a six-year term as judge of the general district of Virginia’s 27th Judicial District. Hat B. WaTTERSON will complete 37 years with duPont Co. this summer. Thirty years were spent with the Chattanooga, Tenn., Textile Fibers plant. 194] CHARLES M. LANDRUM Jr. was elected to a four- year term on the judicial council of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. He was chosen a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers and is a past president of the University of Kentucky alumni association. Co. STANLEY P. MCGEE Jr. is chairman of the Louisville and Jefferson County Visitor and Convention Commission, president of the Ken- tucky chapter of the Air Force Association, state chairman of the United Services Organization (USO), secretary and director of the Louisville Service Club, district director for the Boy Scouts of America and secretary to the Louisville and Jefferson County Air Board. 1943 Connecticut College has appointed R. FRANCIS JOHNSON, formerly professor of religion, as dean of the faculty, a position he has filled in an acting capacity since December, 1976. Johnson, who is also chairman of the Department of Re- ligious Studies and a consultant to the standing liturgical commission of the Episcopal Church, has been a resident fellow at the Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological Studies in Jerusalem. He went to Connecticut College from Amherst in 1969. Johnson is a native of Bed- ford, Va., and lives in Mystic, Conn. DONALD L. RICHARDSON has become a partner and branch manager of William C. Roney and Co., a stock brokerage firm in Troy, Mich. He also continues to do adjunct teaching at Walsh College and at Lawrence Tech. ROSCOE B. STEPHENSON (See 1966.) 1944 Dr. E. L. BECKER is director of the department of graduate medical evaluation for the American Medical Association. JAMES CALEB STANFIELD, an attorney in Paris, Ill., is also engaged in banking, farming and raising pure-bred cattle. F. M. Scarlett, ’50 D. L. Shuck, 52 1945 FRANK MARKOE Jr., vice chairman of the board of Warner-Lambert Co., has been appointed by President Carter to serve as one of five members of the board for international broadcasting, which has statutory oversight responsibilities for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which provide the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries with news of both the outside world and their own societies. Markoe succeeds Foy Kohler, former ambassador to the Soviet Union. The appointment is subject to Senate confirma- tion. Markoe, a resident of Far Hills, N.J., has worked for Warner-Lambert for approximately 25 years. Prior to his appointment as vice chair- man of the board, he was executive vice presi- dent and general counsel. 1947 MARRIAGE: WarRREN G. MERRIN and Sue Christenbury of Birmingham, Ala., on Jan. 27, 1978. Merrin is sales manager for WSGN radio in Birmingham. RoscoE B. STEPHENSON (See 1966.) 1948 JAMES CALEB STANFIELD (See 1944’) 1949 H. WALKER HAWTHORNE, an attorney in Ken- more, N.Y., is a partner in the firm of Dale, Hawthorne, Markarian and Ginsburg. Haw- thorne also serves as a village justice on the Kenmore Village Court. JAMEs C. Hirz has been appointed director of student financial aid at the Medical College of Virginia, part of Virginia Commonwealth Uni- versity in Richmond. ‘THE REv. WILLIAM C, SMITH JR. was elected toa four-year term on the Durham, N.C., city coun- cil. 1950 Dr. Davin P. LarGey Sr. is practicing general surgery in Salisbury, Md. THE REv. Francis M. SCARLETT IV has been included in the latest edition of Who’s Who in Religion. He is a Presbyterian minister active in many parishes and church and civic organiza- tions. Scarlett is employed by the state of Florida and leads services at pastorless churches in Florida and Georgia. Scarlett and his wife, Jane, live in Tallahassee with their children, Katherine and Frank. ROBERT VAN BuREN, president of Midlantic Banks Inc., was featured in an advertisement carried in the Feb. 2 issue of the Wall Street Journal. Midlantic Banks Inc. is headquartered in West Orange, N.J. 1951 WILLIAM P. Rose is president of H. B. Light Engraving, Inc., manufacturers of quality en- graved stationery in Rochester, N.Y. JOE J. SCONCE works for the Agency for Inter- national Development of the Department of State. He, his wife and two sons live in Quito, Ecuador. 1952 DONALD L. SHuck has been honored by Moore, Leonard & Lynch, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based stock brokerage and investment banking firm, with induction into the firm’s prestigious President’s Club for the third consecutive year. Edwin F. Scheetz Jr., president of the firm, made the presentation to Shuck in recognition of his su- perior professional achievements during 1977. Shuck joined the firm as a registered repre- sentative in 1964. Shuck, his wife and their five children live in Sewickley, Pa. JOSEPH T. Mackey is a captain for Trans World Airlines, based in Laguna Niguel, Calif. CHARLES H. McCain Jr. is manager of long- range systems for Xerox Corp. in Rochester, N. Y. He, his wife and three children live nearby in Pittsford. JAMES P. MorEFIELD, president of South Texas Abstract Co. in Houston, Texas, has been named a director of the newly chartered Citizens Na- tional Bank. 1953 WILLIAM E. RAwLinGs, formerly a group vice president with Gillette Co., has now become president of American Maize-Products Co. The firm is a mini-conglomerate engaged in both industrial and consumer product fields. 1954 WILuiaM S. LucKETT, head of the metropolitan banking group of Morgan Guaranty Trust, was featured in an advertisement carried in the March | issue of the Wall Street Journal. PAUL MASLANSky, producer of a three-part TV documentary on the life of Martin Luther King, has recently finished filming The Silent Flute, set in Israel and featuring David Carradine and Eli Wallach. He is preparing for the filming of When You Coming Back Red Ryder, which will begin soon in New Mexico. SEDGWICK L. Moss, a long-time employee of American Airlines, is the Scheduled Airlines Ticket Office representative at the U.S. De- partment of Justice in Washington, D. C. THOMAS E. Rossins was recently reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of two successful novels, Another Roadside Attraction, published by Doubleday and Co., and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, published by Bantam Books. Originally from Richmond, Robbins now lives in LaConner, Wash. 1955 WILLIAM H. Bartscu, chief technical advisor on an International Labour Organization tech- nical assistance project in Indonesia since Octo- ber 1975, has been preparing a proposal for the Government of Indonesia on employment and income distribution strategy for the country’s next development plan, 1979-84. Last year Praeger Publishers published his book, Employ- ment and Technology Choice in Asian Agriculture, aimed at policy makers in developing countries encouraging them to plan to absorb more labor in agricultural producion. Bartsch is preparing a book on the history of U. S. fighter plane operations in the Philippines campaign, 1941- 42, which should be complete in early 1980. Davip ALAN WOUTERS is a management and marketing consultant in Toyko, Japan. He keeps fit with such activities as baseball and judo. 1956 EMMETT R. KELLEY, formerly engaged with Kelley’s Inc. stores in Richmond, Va., is now engaged in real estate. Kelley is associated with Savage & Co. He is a director of the Retail Merchants Association of greater Richmond and a former Retailer of the Year. 1958 Dr. J. GILL HOLLAND, a professor of English at Davidson College, had one of his poems, “No Forwarding Address”, included in a recently published collection entitled Contemporary Poetry of North Carolina. CHARLES H. MILLER JR. is headmaster of the Glenelg Country School, a prep school between Washington, D. C., and Baltimore. He lives in Ellicott City, Md. 1959 CHARLES W. COLE JR. is president of the First National Bank of Maryland and of the First Maryland Bank Corp. He lives in Owing Mills. JAMEs D. HaGuE JR. is on leave of absence from teaching in the Norfolk school system to pursue a doctorate at the University of Southern Cali- fornia. 1960 ARTHUR BLANK II is a vice-president and na- 11 CLASS NOTES tional real estate coordinator for Cushman & Wakefield, a national real estate brokerage firm in New York City. The Teachers College of the University of Berlin has selected Dr. RoBert C. HINKEL for his sec- ond guest lectureship there in the last three years. Hinkel is a member of the English De- partment at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. 1961 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Haywoop M. BALL, a son, David Winchester, on June 9, 1977. The Balls have three children and live in Jackson- ville, Fla., where Haywood is an attorney. EDWARD A. Ames III is president of the Acco- mack County Bar Association and chairman of the Accomack County Welfare Board. He also is vice-chairman of the board of directors of First National Bank of Onancock, Va. Dr. JOHN G. POWELL is president of the Mental Health Association of Lynchburg and is director of the Lynchburg Area Association of Retarded Citizens. He is in the private practice of pedia- trics. The Powells have four children. GEORGE R. TRIPLETT, former judge on the 20th Judicial Circuit in West Virginia, entered the private practice of law in January, 1977. He and his wife have three sons. The family lives in Elkins, W. Va. 1962 Dr. ROBERT P. CARROLL Jr. is in family practice in Nacogdoches, Texas. He is secretary-treas- urer of the County Medical Society; president of the district society; on the State Medical As- sociation Committee on Health Careers; and on the executive committee and governing board of the Greater East Texas Health System Agency. 1963 DONALD S. CAMPBELL, on sabbatical leave from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, is spending a year in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh. Johnson and Higgins, a Pennsylvania firm, has named Cuar es C. Hart manager of their Ma- rine/Aviation department. A vice president of J&H, Hart is also a member of the aviation committee of the Delaware Valley Council, the Port of Phialdelphia Maritime Society and the World Trade Association. F. Fox HENDERSON has been appointed vice president and general counsel of Turbodyne Corp. and Worthington Compressors and will move to the corporate headquarters in Holyoke, Mass. Henderson, who joined Turbodyne 18 months ago, is a former partner with the firm of Ireland, Reams, Henderson and Chafetz in 12 F. F. Henderson, ’63 Memphis, Tenn. He has taught at the University of Alabama School of Law and worked as a staff attorney for Rockwell International. PauL G. McBrIDE has moved to Mooresville, Ala. He is working in Huntsville as a commodi- ties specialist for Dean Witter-Reynolds. Davip C. Swann has been promoted to corpor- ate manager for Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. and will move to Winston-Salem, N. C. WILLIAM M. MatTTHeEws (See 1966.) 1964 RoBertT H. Powe zt III, a Norfolk lawyer, was recently featured in the Ledger-Star for his culi- nary talents. He and his wife, Elayne, have a son and a daughter. JUDGE SAMUEL J. SMITH has been appointed chairman of the Benefits Review Board of the U.S. Department of Labor. This board exercises appellate review authority, formerly vested in the U. S. District Courts, in Longshore and Harbor Workers Act and Black Lung Act cases. EDWARD A. AMESs III (See 1961.) 1965 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JEAN S. FRIEDBERG, a son, Michael Joseph, on July 5, 1977. Friedberg lives in Columbia, Md., and works for the man- agement consulting firm of McKinsey and Co. S. REED PAYNTER was transferred by duPont to New York where he is assistant manager of the New York regional marketing office. He is re- sponsible for selling synthetic textile fibers to apparel and home furnishings industries. STEPHEN W. RipeouT and Rosert J. TEST, ’69, are associates 1n a general law practice in Alex- andria, Va. FREDERICK A. STONE was promoted to second vice president-securities by Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. on March 1, 1978. He is respon- sible for management of bond and stock invest- ments and short term cash. Stone and his wife, Ardell, live in Roanoke, Va., with their three children. STEWART MINOR Hurtrt (See 1972.) 1966 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Houston L. BELL JR., a son, Houston Lester III, on Jan. 20, 1978. Bell is a senior vice-president of Roanoke Memorial Hospital. The Bells, who live in Salem, Va., also have a daughter. RUDOLPH (DUKE) BUMGARDNER III, a Staunton, Va., attorney, was sworn in as a judge on the 25th Judicial Circuit on March 8, taking the place of Judge Pau A. HousTeEIn, ’32, of Lex- ington, who retired in December. Judge William S. Moffett Jr. of Staunton and Judge Roscoe B. STEPHENSON, '43, ’47L, of Covington, also on the 25th Judicial Circuit, participated in the ceremony. Bumgardner, one of the youngest of the more than 100 circuit court judges in the state, will sit in seven Virginia counties and five cities. Bumgardner and his wife, Dorothy, have two children. BAXTER L. Davis and WILLIAM M. MATTHEWS, 63, and their law partner, Ron L. Quigley are authors of a new book, Georgia Law Office Ad- ministration. DAVID FLEISCHER is assistant professor at the George Washington University School of Medi- cine and assistant chief of medicine at the Washington Veterans Administration Hospital. Fleischer, his wife, Karen, and two sons moved to Washington in July, 1977. PAUL R. SCHLESINGER Is associated with Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York City. 1967 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES T. STAPLES, a daughter, Elizabeth Dorsey, on May 4, 1977, in Columbus, Ga. PHILANDER P. CLAxTOoN III, chief executive officer of Watkins Corp., an investment firm in McLean, Va., is the head of an investor group acquiring control of the Buffalo-based Firstmark Corp. The group has agreed in principle to buy approximately 61 percent of Firstmark’s com- mon stock for an estimated $8 million. Claxton has interests in several firms in the Washington, D. C., area includng International House of Pancake franchises. KEVIN C. EARLE is studying for the master of divinity degree at the Assemblies of God Graduate School at Springfield, Mo. He plans to earn a second master’s in cultural anthropol- ogy, and then work as a missionary with primi- tive Indian tribes in Latin America. THomas J. Harpin IJ, a securities analyst in the investment management division, has been promoted to vice president by North Carolina National Bank. Hardin lives in Charlotte, N. C., with his wife and three-year-old daughter. FRANK WestT MorRISON is a partner in the law firm of Bell, Coward, Morrison and Spies in Lynchburg, Va. Dr. THEODORE K. Oates II will complete his residency in general surgery at the University of Rochester in June and has a fellowship in peripheral vascular surgery in Toronto for the following year. J . I. Briggs, 68 Pf. Lykes III, ’70 1968 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN H. WarD IV, ason, Andrew Blythin, on Nov. 24, 1977. Ward is associated with Financial Benefit Service Corp. of Louisville, Ky. The family lives in Anchorage, Ky. CHARLES M. BERGER is corporate counsel and secretary of Huyck Corp. in Wake Forest, N. C. He is living in Raleigh. Manufacturers Hanover Trust has elected JEF- FREY |’. BRIGGS as an assistant vice president in the corporate cash management department. He is a graduate of the American Institute of Banking. Briggs, his wife and son live in Port Chester, N. Y. Puitie G. Corre. Jr. has earned the MLS. de- gree in accounting from the University of Ken- tucky and is working on his doctorate. A captain in the army, he teaches Civil War military history in the R.O.T.C. department at Kentucky. Cottell and his wife, Lin, have two children, Sigird and Philip. H. GiLBert SMITH JR. earned a‘Ph.D. in bio- chemistry in 1976. Since then, he has been guest scientist at the Institute for Neurobiology of the German Nuclear Research Center in Juelich, West Germany. STEPHEN H. Warrts II is vice president-counsel for CNG Transmission Co., a natural gas pipe- line firm. Watts, his wife, Beverly, and daughter, Day, are living in Richmond. Watts had practiced law in Lynchburg with his father, James O. Watts Jr., 36, ’38L, who remains in practice there. 1969 FREDERICK C. FLETCHER I] is associated with the law firm of Swartz, Campbell and Detweiler in Philadelphia. Fletcher lives in Devon and runs cross-country on the weekends. JAMES C. HAMILL has been appointed assistant to the director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission. Hamill lives in Washington. RoBerT J. Test (See 1965.) 1970 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN NOLAN, a son, Michael Kyle, on March 17, 1977. The family lives in Springfield, Va. Nolan is employed by the U. S. Post Office in Washington, D. C. Josepu T. Lyxes III has been appointed tonnage controller on the staff of Lykes Brothers Steam- ship Co., Inc. Previously he held overseas posts in London, Antwerp and Tokyo. FRANK WEsT Morrison (See 1967.) J. W. Carson, ’72 L. W. Croft, 1971 MARRIAGE: Dr. THomas E. REYNOLDS and Charla Keith Leonard on June 12, 1977. Rey- nolds is in his first year of a three-year residency in family practice at Riverside hospital in New- port News, Va. MADISON F. Cote Jr. has been named account manager for the Atlanta-based insurance firm of Johnson & Higgins. JEFFREY A. DAVIS is a law associate with the firm of Reynolds, Allen and Cook in Houston. Capt. JOHN O. ELLIS JR. is completing his final army tour as a defense counsel in the JAG office at Fort Lewis, Wash. E. WRrEN Hupoins and his wife, Leigh, are in Washington state where Hudgins is finishing work on his Ph.D. in educational psychology. He received an M.A. in psychology from the University of Northern Colorado and taught French and skiing in Verbier, Switzerland, prior to moving to Seattle. STEPHEN H. KERKAM and his wife, Bev, are both employed by the Board of Education in Carroll County, Md. They live in Westminster. CHRISTOPHER B. Murray received the M.F.A. in furniture design from Virginia Common- wealth University last June. Murray has a shop in the McGuffey Arts Center in Charlottesville, where he manufactures “one-of-a-kind furni- ture for enormous sums of money.” MICHAEL PECK, after serving with the U. S. Army in Korea and Italy, is now attending Vanderbilt University Law School. 1972 MARRIAGE: J. PAYNE HINDSLEY and Pamela A. McDonnell on Feb. 25, 1978, in Houston. Mem- bers of the wedding included William G. C. Clore, ’72; Richard E. Gray, ’73; Richard M. Marsh, ’73; and William C. Zattau, ’71. Hindsley is with the American General Insurance Cos. in Houston. MARRIAGE: STEWART MINOR Hurtrt and Su- zanne Spence Hearon on Jan. 20, 1978, in Anna- polis, Md. Hurtt lives in Laurel, Md. MARRIAGE: RosBert M. TURNBULL and Ann Tucker Bell on Sept. 10, 1977, in Staunton, Va. Groomsmen included B. Harrison Turnbull, 75; William B. Boyd, ’72; George C. Cherry, °72; and William C. Washburn Jr., 66. Turnbull is an investment officer for First and Merchants Corp. in Richmond where he is involved with the asset and liability management function of the bank holding company. He is currently president of the Richmond W&L Alumni Chapter. 73° BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. JOHN B. BLALOCK JR., a daughter, Beverly, on Aug. 31, 1977. Blalock completed medical school at the University of Alabama in 1975 and is a second-year general surgery resident at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. E. GEORGE STOOK, a son, Everett George III, on July 2, 1977, in Lynch- burg, Va. Stook is a financial analyst for Lynch- burg Foundry. JAMES W. Carson has been appointed an opera- tions officer and assistant treasurer of Trust Co. of Georgia, an Atlanta-based statewide bank holding company. He is assigned to the control & planning department. Carson joined the company in 1976 as a financial analyst. He had previously been employed by the Atlantic Steel Co. in Atlanta. He and his wife, Constance, reside in Marietta, Ga. FREDERICK C. FLETCHER II (See 1969.) 1973 MARRIAGE: JaMEs F. BARTER and Anne [arra- bino in June, 1977. Barter, who graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School, is completing an internship in internal medicine at the University of Kentucky. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN C. UppikE JR., a daughter, Abigail Anne, on Oct. 10, 1977. Up- dike is married to the former Penelope Jane McKay of Winter Haven, Fla. The family resides in Lake Wales, Fla., where Updike is a vice president of Alcoma Association, Inc. BRIAN R. ADAMS is working at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as an employee of the National Park Service. Previously, he worked for the Park Service at the Robert E. Lee Memorial at Arlington House after duty with the Peace Corps in Korea. L. PRicE BLACKFORD will be working for the next two years in the London office of Dillon Read Overseas Corp., after which he will return to New York. LAWRENCE M. Crort, of Columbia, S. C., has been made a vice president and trust planning officer of the First National Bank of South Carolina. Croft, who joined the bank in 1973, is in business development. He is a director of the Columbia Touchdown Club and the Richland County unit of the American Cancer Society, and is a member of the Columbia Sertoma Club and the Executive Association of Greater Columbia. He is also a member of the American, South Carolina, and Richland County Bar As- sociations, and the American Judicative Society. W. Parrick HINELY’s writings and_ photo- graphy have recently been published in Jazz 13 WSL was well represented at the wedding of Edwin O. Wiley, ’74, to Sally Collins on Aug. 21, 1977, at Ramsey, N.J. The wedding party included (left to right) Jim Lawson, ’77; Mac McCarthy, ’76; Tom Suydan, ’75; Paul E. Weeks, ’72; David Piner, ’74; Sally Wiley; Edwin O. Wiley; David Davis, ’77; Buster Briggs, ’76; Bob Lander, °76; Bob Evans, ’74; and Richard Jenkins, ’74. The couple lives at Awosting-Hewitt, N. J.; Wiley is attending Fairleigh Dickenson University Dental School. magazine and the International Jazz Forum. He is freelancing in Florida, and has joined the East Florida Rangers of the Historic Florida Militia, headquartered in St. Augustine, the nation’s oldest city. CHARLES D. PERRy JR. is assistant vice president and assistant secretary-treasurer of Perry Supply Co. in Birmingham, Ala. JOHN RIDGLEY PorTER III, an attorney, was re- cently selected as the Outstanding Young Man of 1977 in Portsmouth, Va. He is an avid history buff, whose family figures prominently in Tidewater history. 1974 Scott S. AINSLIE and his wife, Laurie, spent the past year touring Ireland, France, Germany and England where he performed a concert series of traditional music sponsored by the U. S. In- formation Service and the British Arts Council. He lives in Chapel Hill, N. C., and performs regularly in that area. NorMaAN D. FaGGE expects to complete his mas- ters degree in geology this spring at the Univer- sity of Kentucky. J.S. JAY) FULCHER is a representative for Shen- TELL US! andoah Life Insurance Co. in Roanoke and Lexington. He was awarded membership in the company’s President’s Cabinet for his record sales in 1977. Fulcher was also awarded the National Health Insurance Quality Award and membership in the Virginia Association of Life Underwriters Leaders Club. DUNCAN S. KLINEDINST Is a senior law student at the University of Virginia. Following gradua- tion this spring, he plans to work in Washing- ton. Gary W. McAultrFre and his wife, Betty, have moved to Richmond where he is a territorial sales representative for the Ciba Pharmaceutical Co. DouGLas NEWELL is working on an M.B.A. at the College of William and Mary and is living in Williamsburg. R. PALMER TRICE II lives in Portsmouth, Va., and works with high school students for Young Life in Chesapeake. 1975 MARRIAGE: Jor WELDEN JR. and Karen Cribb in September, 1977. The couple lives in Bir- mingham, Ala., where Welden is in his third YOU ARE NOW A REPORTER FOR W&L. Please send us news of yourself so that we can pass it on through the magazine to your W&L friends. AND REMEMBER, DON’T MAKE A MOVE WITHOUT LETTING US KNOW. Every address change provided by the Post Office now costs 25 cents. We could go broke at that rate. So please send your correct address and news to Alumni Office, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450. Name Class Address City State Zip News Item year at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JEFFREY S. MILLER, a daughter, Amy Adele, on Oct. 25, 1977. The Millers also have a son and the family lives in Jacksonville, N. C. GREGG AMONETTE Is vice president of Saunders Coal Corp. in Richmond. His chief responsibility is analysis of coal, oil and gas ventures for foreign and domestic investors. BEN BaILey suffered a leg injury 1n an automo- bile accident and was forced to miss a year of law school at Harvard. He worked for a judge on the state court of claims while recuperating. He will return for his second year of law at Harvard in the fall. WILLIAM H. BIESEL JR. is employed at Hunt- Stephens Investment, an investment firm specializing in designing and developing shopping centers. He lives in Dallas. ROBERT H. CRAwrForp works in the Dallas downtown store of Neiman-Marcus. He began as a wine salesman and is now in the credit- customer service department. THOMAS Barry Davis of Chevy Chase, Md., associate publisher and advertising director of the magazine Washington Dossier, is forming a new mail order company, The Soundsationals, which will market high quality sound and televi- sion systems at discount prices. JOHN R. EmMBREE, now in his third year as tennis pro at the Boonsboro Country Club in Lynch- burg, recently played professionally in Australia and New Zealand. THAD GRUNDY Jr. is enrolled in the first year law class at the University of Houston. ROBERT H. F. JONes works in the commercial credit department of the First City Bank of Dallas and occasionally does freelance photo- graphy. Guy H. Kerr expects to graduate from SMU Law School in May, 1978, and to begin practice with the firm of Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney and Neely. He and his wife, Cindy, live in Dallas. Dan K. Moore received the M.B.A. in finance from Florida Atlantic University in March, 1978, and lives in Boynton Beach, Fla. VERNON F. OTTENRITTER JR. has been elected vice president of the sophomore class at the University of Maryland Dental School. Eric C. ROweE made a tour of Europe during the Christmas season and one of the stops was in Bamberg, Germany, to visit classmate Kim STENSON and his wife, Kathy. JAMES WILSON is in his third year as account representative in the Roanoke Times & World News retail advertising department. He also coaches junior varsity basketball at Roanoke Catholic High School. 1976 MARRIAGE: WILLIAM L. Cooper III and Robin Kera Turner on Sept. 24, 1977, in Rocky Mount, Va. Classmate GERALD D. N. Bryant III was a groomsman. The Coopers live in Alexandria. He is a legislative assistant to Congressman M. Caldwell Butler. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JAmMes A. Mercy, a daughter, Corey Rogers, on Oct. 18, 1977. Mercy and his wife, the former Deborah Rogers live in Decatur, Ga. He is working on his Ph.D. in sociology at Emory University. JeFrFREY A. Baum is a second-year medical stu- dent at the University of Virginia. J. GLENN DULKEN and Brian M. LEVINE are owners and operators of the Nautilus Fitness Center in Towson, Md. The physical gondition- ing center has attracted wide attention in local newspaper and television coverage. Among the center’s members are many Baltimore athletes including players from the Colts and the Orioles. Davin K. EuBANK is a management trainee with Citizens Bank and Trust in Silver Spring, Md. He is taking courses with the American Institute of Banking in Washington. After completing his M.B.A. at St. Bonaventure University in May, JOHN HENZEL Jr. will enter the University of Georgia to earn the Ph.D. in business finance. He hopes to teach at a univer- sity and work as a consultant. The 2nd Street Gallery in Charlottesville dis- played woodcarvings and other art by STEVEN K. RoBertTs from March 12 to April 13. Roberts, who studied in both Asia and Europe, is now living in Lexington. RUSHTON E. PATTERSON JR. is completing his second year of medical school at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. PEYTON A. VIA lives in Virginia Beach and is working ina management training program of Virginia National Bank. 1977 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM R. BALDWIN III, ason, Andrew MacLeod, on Feb. 13, 1978. The family lives in Abingdon, Va. HOFFMAN F. Brown III isa first-year student at center. Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. He is already licensed to preach by Concord Baptist Church of Baltimore and plans to study for ordination. WILLIAM H. CLeMons is working on the M.B.A. in international management at the University of Dallas. W. CralG COTHRAN is doing cancer research in the microbiology department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is working ona radio-immune assay. ALLEN R. EMMERT III is a chemist for Martin Marietta Cement Co. in Martinsburg, W. Va. STEVEN N. GABELMAN is a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech, where he is working on his mas- ter’s degree. SHELTON Barcus HUNTER is attending law school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. THomaS H. Murpuy is with the land department of the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co. in Shreve- port, La. WILLIAM G. OGLEsBy is vice president of All American Insurance Agency, Inc., in Rich- mond, Va. He plans to enroll in law school in the fall, probably at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. VAUGHAN M. PULTz is living in Franconia, West Germany, and recently spent a week in Prague with a group from the foreign students’ office at the University of Erlangen-Nurenberg. W. KIRKLAND RuFFIN is a first-year medical stu- dent at the University of Virginia. EARL W. (SANDY) STRADTMAN JR. is attending Harvard Medical School. IN MEMORIAM 1902 JUDGE WILLIAM HENRY Brown, Washington and Lee’s oldest graduate, died Feb. 23, 1978, in Oklahoma City, Okla., at the age of 101. Born in Mississippi, he was elected to the Mississippi legislature at 23, two years before he attended W&L. He went to Oklahoma in 1906, one year before statehood, settling in Stigler. After statehood was approved, Brown was named judge of the 5th Judicial District, noted for cattle stealing, murder, and bank, train and post office robberies. In 1919 he entered private practice and later moved to Muskogee. In 1929 Brown moved to Oklahoma City to become assistant state attorney general and in 1931 Brian Levine, ’76, (left) and Glenn Dulken, ’76, with Baltimore Oriole pitcher Jim Palmer in their physical conditioning became general counsel for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Then as Oklahoma City Municipal counselor, he drew up the first parking meter ordinance ever drafted in the United States. Brown received _ special recognition in November, 1972, from the Oklahoma Bar Association which cited his legal participation in parking meter cases. Brown was a charter member of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. 1911 GEORGE COLE BELL died in Monticello, Fla., on Jan. 29, 1978. After retiring from the Aluminum Steamship Line of Philadelphia, he was a regional purchasing agent for the Forest Service. He retired to Florida some years ago. 1912 BENJAMIN CLINE MOooMAw Jr.,_ known throughout Virginia as the “father of the Gathright Dam,” died March 12, 1978, at his home in Falling Springs Valley near Hot Springs, Va. For more than 37 years, Moomaw led the Covington-Alleghany County Chamber of Commerce’s program to bring industry to the Alleghany highlands. He was instrumental in his support of the controversial Gathright Dam, which was conceived in 1945 and should be completed next year on the Jackson River north of Covington. He was the last charter member of the Covington-Hot Springs Rotary Club, formed in 1920, and was recently honored by that club by being named a Paul Harris Fellow, the highest award given by Rotarians. He was a former secretary and past president of the Virginia Folklore Society, a member and chairman of the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College board of directors, and an elder for more than 50 years in the Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church. 1915 WALTER CALAHILL LESTER, a resident of Roanoke, Va., died Feb. 23, 1978. At one time, Lester was employed by the United Supply Co., Inc., of Thorpe, W. Va. 1916 ALBERT NICHOLAS Cocks, a_ resident of Corvallis, Ore., and a former dealer and distributor of automobiles, died Feb. 18, 1978. Cocks had worked in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Fresno, Calif. 1918 Harry M. Abams, former Circuit Court Judge in Memphis, Tenn., died Feb. 18, 1978. He served as judge from 1934 to 1958. Adams began his law career in 1919 after serving in the Navy during World War I. He was first vice president and treasurer of the Shelby County 15 IN MEMORIAM Bar Association. While at W&L, Adams starred in football and basketball. 1921 BENJAMIN W. PARTLOW S8R., an associate pro- fessor of chemistry at Madison College in Har- risonburg, Va., for 24 years before his retire- ment in 1968, died Jan. 6, 1978. Partlow had lived in Harrisonburg since 1944. He did graduate work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and George Washington Univer- sity. Partlow also taught at Staunton Military Academy, Randolph-Macon Academy and Emory and Henry College before going to Madison. 1923 Davip Hawkins LINDSAy, a former school teacher at Fork Union Military Academy and Commonwealth’s Attorney from Gloucester Co. (Va.) in 1927, died Jan. 5, 1978. Lindsay prac- ticed law until 1942. He had been retired for some years. FREDERIC NEAL Pass, a retired president of the Service Agency, Inc., a large insurance firm in Detroit, Mich., died in Gulfport, Miss., on Feb. 3, 1978. Pass had a long and distinguished record in the insurance field and at one time, while with Casualty Insurance Cos., had been in Hartford, Conn.; Denver, Colo.; New Orleans; Birmingham; Little Rock, Ark.; Chica- go; and other large branches. He had lived in Gulfport for several years. Dr. MALCOLM STINNET, a long-time physician in Buchanan, Va., died on Nov. 29, 1977, in Buch- anan. 1926 JAmeEs LUKIN Brown, who operated the family farms, rentals, and drug business in Silex, Mo., died in February, 1978. Brown was a past em- ployee of the Missouri State Revenue Depart- ment and was once a candidate for the Missouri legislature. He was a long-time member of the St. Louis Metro Citizens Council and just prior to his death was a tax consultant and occasional writer. LEE HAMILTON REBER, a retired superintendent of transportation for Eastern Greyhound Corp., died Feb. 15, 1978, in Glenarm, Md. At one time Reber was in the real estate business in Florida and for twelve years was special repre- sentative for the Commercial Investment Trust Corp. in Southern California and Arizona. He retired from Greyhound in 1966. 1927 FRANK BRUCE JACKSON, a former vice president and director of Southwestern Wood Preserving Co. of Muskogee, Okla., died Jan. 3, 1978. Jack- 16 son retired from Southwestern in 1976 after 36 years with the firm. Jackson was involved in many Civic activities and was a member of the board of directors of the Boy Scouts Council. HERMAN DANIEL VOORHEES, an attorney in Houston, Texas, died Aug. 9, 1977. Voorhees had been former owner and operator of the Hempstead Abstract Co. and had been a part owner and publisher of the Hempstead Waller Co. News. Before service in the Navy during World War II, he worked with the U.S. Post Office. Voorhees was a member of the State Bar, Hous- ton Bar and American Bar Associations. He had served on the legal aid committee for the Texas State Bar and was chairman of that com- mittee in 1957-58. 1929 ROBERT CLOW Burris, who retired from the public accounting firm of Turner, Burris and Wolf in October, 1973, after 27 years, died in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, on Feb. 27, 1978. WILLIAM Woop Grass III, a Presbyterian min- ister, died Jan. 31, 1978, in Clarkton, N.C. Glass held pastorates in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky. He was first ordained by the Roanoke Presbytery in October, 1935. He held an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Athens College of Alabama. JAMES PricE Lowry, a resident of Venice, Fla., and retired general buildings engineer for the Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania, died Feb. 7, 1978. Lowry served with the Navy during World War II and retired from the Naval Re- serve in 1966 with the permanent rank of cap- tain. Officiating at the services in Venice was his brother, the Rev. Dr. Charles W. Lowry, ’26. 1930 WILLIAM E. R. (PECK) BYRNE JR., a certified public accountant, died Feb. 21, 1978, in Yuma, Ariz. He was an active member of the national foundation of the March of Dimes for 25 years. Prior to moving to Yuma in 1945, Byrne was chief auditor of the West Virginia Tax Commis- sion’s income tax division. 1931 GeorGE H. JENKINS SR., a farmer and business- man in Columbia, S.C., died Feb. 17, 1978. He had been owner and president of the board of directors of Jenkins Development Co., a real estate firm. Jenkins was a 35-year member of the Lions Club and received the Lion of the Year award in 1970. He had served as chairman of the Crabtree watershed project and was a member of the city planning commission. PHILIP DOANE SHARP, formerly an employee with duPont Rayon Corp., died in Richmond, Va., on Jan. 14, 1978. 1932 CLARENCE PENDLETON (BILL) LEE JR., humani- ties teacher at Jacksonville University in Jack- sonville, Fla., died March 7, 1978. Lee was the chairman of the humanities division from 1967 to 1973. He began teaching in Jacksonville in 1962 and was elected Professor of the Year in 1967. Lee had taught at Harvard University, Clark University, the University of Tennessee and Southwestern University. Three days following his death, Lee had been scheduled to attend the professor of the year banquet to receive a silver tray honoring his career. Lee was a Rhodes scholar, diplomat, author, musician, benefactor and teacher. He had been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Athens in Greece, and served as cultural attache in Athens and Brussels during the 1940s. 1935 Dr. WILLIAM ARTHUR COVER, former director of the Buchanan-Tazewell district for the State Health Department, died Dec. 27, 1977. Cover worked as an accountant for E. I. duPont de Nemours from 1935 to 1941. He then practiced medicine until 1968. He was named to his last post in February, 1969. Cover was president of both the Buchanan County and Tazewell County medical societies. He served two four-year terms on the Tazewell Town Council. 1938 EArt THomMas WELLS, president of E. T. Wells, Inc., a large farming operation in Helena, Ark., died Feb. 1, 1978. Wells was a successful farmer and a director in several farming organizations in both the state and the county. He was a former director of Farmers Oil & Supply Co. in Helena. 1939 THE Rev. Jos—EPH ScoTr CROWDER, a retired Methodist minister, died in Alexandria, Va., on Feb. 21, 1978. Crowder entered the church in 1944 and at one time was minister of the River Road United Methodist Church in Richmond, Va. More recently, he had been the administra- tor of the Hermitage Retirement Home in Alexandria. 1949 GEORGE Mark Losey, director of community development for Marshall, Texas, since 1975, died Jan. 31, 1978. Before his development job, Losey was assistant executive director and real estate director for Marshall’s urban renewal agency. Losey moved to Marshall from New Mexico, where he had been a staff member at the New Mexico Military Institute, a farmer, real estate broker and a cashier for the American Express Co. He was a member of the Marshall Lions Club and was president of the Harrison County Humane Society. Continued from Page 1 Minor L. Rogers, assistant professor of religion at W&L, is the author of the introduction. The symposium took place under the auspices of the Philip Fullerton Howerton Fund at W&L. That endowment was established in 1973 by Mrs. Howerton as a memorial to her late husband, for the purpose of supporting special programs in the Department of Religion. Howerton, a 1925 alumnus, was a prominent Charlotte, N. C., insurance executive and a former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern). In addition to several lectures reflecting “the dialogue within Christianity,” the book contains responses from scholars of the Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim faiths. INVESTMENTS CLASS IN N.Y. Students in Dr. Joseph Goldsten’s investments class took a field trip to New York City this winter for first-hand exposure to the operations of stock and commodity exchanges, investment firms and the other institutions of the world of investments. The 22 students had a lecture from an officer of the New York Stock Exchange, and they visited the floor of the exchange at closing time, courtesy of William R. Johnston, 61, a trading specialist. (Johnston’s father used to do the same thing for Dean Adams’ investment students.) They met with commodities specialists, Federal Reserve Bank economists and the New York Society of Security Analysts; they spent a day at Dean Whitter, the investment company, and observed operations at the American Stock Exchange and at Solomon Bros., the bond-trading firm. SUMMER-STOCK THEATRE The Troubadour Theatre will be transformed this summer into the Henry Street Playhouse and Stock Company, a theatrical sum- mer-stock troupe with 19th-century traditions and consisting largely of W&L students. Receiving support from both Lexington and the University (cash from the city and air conditioning for the theater from W&L), the company will produce three turn- of-the-century plays—Little Mary Sunshine, a musical melodrama; Matchmaker, written by Thornton Wilder and later stolen—lock, stock and cast names—to become Hello Dolly; and Rip Van Winkle, based on the story by Washington Irving and one of America’s most popular plays between 1850 and 1910. Rip Van Winkle will run in early June, Little Mary Sunshine in mid- and late June, and Matchmaker in late June and early July. The theater plans nightly performances at 8 and Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. The summertime Henry Street Playhouse was the idea of drama professors Albert C. Gordon and Thomas J. Ziegler, and has been launched by the students enrolled in W&L’s Spring Term “total theat- er” class. NEW LAW LIBRARIAN Sarah K. (Sally) Wiant has been named law librarian at the School of Law. She has been assistant law librarian since 1972 and acting head law librarian since this past Jan. 1, when the former law librarian, Peyton R. Neal Jr., left. She has her advanced library degree Sally Wiant from North Texas State University in Denton and received her undergraduate education at Western State College, Gunnison, Colo., with a major in social studies and minors in biology and secondary education. Wiant has also been taking law courses at W&L and will receive her juris doctor degree this June. She will be an assistant professor of law at W&L beginning next fall as well. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and current chairman of its Education Committee and former chairman of its conference of Newer Law Librarians. She is also a member of the Virginia Special Libraries Association and a former chairman of that organization’s Recruitment and Membership committees. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Lexington, Virginia 24450 Ww MR RUPERT N LATTURE BOX 886 | LEXINGTON VA 24450 512828 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, INC. For members and their immediate families presents Pick A Trip 1978 IRCLANG «*«x« Your Trip Includes- July 24—August 1, 1978 our [rip inciuae D T D % Round trip jet pansportation oe et interngtions! 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