Ml the alumni magazine of washington and lee Volume 53, Number 8, November 1978 William C. Washburn, 40 ..................04. Editor Romulus T. Weatherman ............ Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, 68 .................. Associate Editor Jeffrey L. M. Hazel, ’77 ............... Assistant Editor Joyce Carter ............. 00. .00008, Editorial Assistant Sally Mann .............. cee eee ee eee Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Phase II Announcement ..............:::ccccccccseeesseteees l ~Remarks at R. E. Lee Associates Dinner ............ 3 Huntley in Defense of the Liberal Arts .............. 11 Conversation with Senior Professors ............0.+++. 16 Three New Trustees .............:::ccccccseesereceeeesneeeees 22 W&cL Gazette ..... eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 23 Homecoming and Reunions ...............cceceeseeeeeees 25 Edward F. Turner Jr., 1920-1978 ...........eeeeeeee 26 Betty Munger: A Profile 20.0.0... eee seeeeeeeseeeeeeeees 27 Fall Sports Roundup .......... ce eeseeeeesereeeeeeeeeeeneeees 29 Mike Wenke: Dynamo ..............ssceeeseceeeseeeeeeeeeees 32 Chapter NeWS o........eeeeeececeessneeeeeseeeeeeeeeseeeeeesnees 33 LO) ESS (0) oe 36 In Memoriam ...............ceeeeeeeesseencceeeeeeeeessnaceeeeeees 40 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. EDWIN J. FoLtz, ’40, Gladwyne, Pa. President WILLIAM P. BOARDMAN, 63, Columbus, Ohio Vice President RICHARD A. DENny, ’52, Atlanta, Ga. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, '40, Lexington, Va. Secretary Leroy C. ATKINS, ’68, Lexington, Va. Assistant Secretary W. Donan Barn, ’49, Spartanburg, S. C. PHILIP R. CAMPBELL, ’57, Tulsa, Okla. SAMUEL C. DUDLEY, ’58, Richmond, Va. JAMES F. GALLIVAN, ’51, Nashville, Tenn. JOHN H. McCormack Jr., 50, Jacksonville, Fla. WILLIAM B. OGILVIE, 64, Houston, Texas PAUL E. SANDERS, 43, White Plains, N. Y. ON THE COVER: The Roman numeral II is em- blematic of the University’s announcement of Phase II of its comprehensive development program, which took place at the 11th annual Robert E. Lee Associates dinner in New York City on October 27; the University crest on the back of an alumni chair symbolizes the institution the program is designed to support. Coverage of the event is on pages | through 15. Photographs by Sally Mann. PHASE II = $26 MILLION Increased Endowment, Library, Commerce School, Annual Giving Included Washington and Lee University has begun a $26-million second-phase development plan which will conclude its comprehensive $62-million program begun in 1972. Principal objectives of the second-phase plan are a 50 percent increase in the University’s current endowment; completion of major physical improvements—primarily the new undergraduate library now under construction and a completely renovated home for the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics; and an increase in the level of un- restricted annual contributions to more than $1 million a year. The $36-million initial phase of the decade-long W&L development program was successfully completed in 1976. The second phase is to be completed by the end of 1981. The University has already received more than $6.4 mil- lion toward the $26-million 1981 goal, President Robert E. R. Huntley said. That figure includes commitments from each of the 22 members of the Washington and Lee Board of Trustees in both the annual giving and capital grant cate- gories. The program calls for increasing Washington and Lee’s general endowment and its designated student-aid endow- ment by a total of $12.5 million. General endowment income is used primarily for faculty salaries and student services. The student-aid endowment helps provide needed financial assistance for approximately 23 percent of the W&L student body. The new program also requires $4.63 million in accumu- lated annual giving by 1981—unrestricted, recurring con- tributions toward operating costs from alumni, parents, the business community, and other friends. Washington and Lee depends on annual giving for ap- proximately 12 percent of its educational and general operating budget. This year, the University’s educational and general budget exceeds $8.9 million, and annual giving must account for $1.1 million of that total. The $8.87-million capital portion of the second-phase development effort calls for completion of funding for the $9.2-million new undergraduate library; $3 million to sup- port complete remodeling of McCormick Library for the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics; and funds for extensive improvements to utility services and campus grounds. Since the Phase II development goals were formulated, funding for the new library has been completed. The Uni- versity will move into the 130,000-square-foot facility, which will be the largest academic building at Washington and Lee, in January. After extensive remodeling and renovation, McCormick will be ideally suited for the commerce division--now severely overcrowded in Newcomb Hall. That building has become so inadequate even for existing needs that important cur- ricular changes as well as physical improvements and mod- ifications have been postponed because of the lack of space and because of the building’s incapacity to accept new tech- nology. The new commerce building will have more than four times as much space as Newcomb. When the commerce school moves, Newcomb will in turn be remodeled to accommodate other undergraduate de- partments which are similarly overcrowded. The second-phase development program represents a financial modification of Washington and Lee’s “comprehensive development program for the decade of the 1970s,” announced early in 1972. The objectives of the updated second phase are identical to those identified on George Washington’s birthday 6% years ago, but the dollar figures necessary to achieve them have been revised as a consequence of “facts of economic life with which no one is unfamiliar,” President Huntley said— rampant inflation, which has meant that 1972 cost projec- tions are now obsolete, and the erratic performance of the _ stock market with its severely negative effect upon the value of W&L’s endowment and the resulting real-dollar decline in income from endowment investments. In its 1972 announcement, Washington and Lee had said it would be necessary to raise $56 million over the course of the two-part program—$36 million by the end of 1976, and $20 million additionally in the four subsequent years. By the midpoint target date of Dec. 31, 1976, the University had exceeded its $36-million first-phase goal by almost $1.5 million. PHASE II OBJECTIVES INCREASED ENDOWMENTS (Professorships; General Faculty Salaries; Teaching Funds; Student Financial Aid; General Student Services) $12,500,000 PHYSICAL FACILITIES Library $2,100,000 Commerce School (Renovation of McCormick) 3,000,000 Renovation of Tucker, Newcomb 1,500,000 Campus Improvements, Utilities 670,000 7,270,000 ANNUAL GIVING 4,630,000 CAPITAL CHARGES (Bond Amortization; Capital Fundraising Costs) 1,600,000 Total $26,000,000 “Clearly, if Washington and Lee is to remain capable of providing the excellence of education for which we are justifiably noted, our development objectives are—bluntly put—crucial. Unless we meet them, we will be unable to continue to be superior; and unless we can continue to be superior, we ought not to continue at all.” —President Huntley. Trustee S L Kopald, Phase II coordinator Because the first phase of the program was largely con- cerned with construction—primarily the new law building Lewis Hall; the new gymnasium; new student apartments; and the beginning of the new library—the 1972 cost projec- tions had been adversely affected by greater-than-expected inflation in the construction industry, which approached a 12 percent annual rate by the end of the first portion of the program. W&L raised $3.1 million more for construction than the 1972 projections had indicated would be required, but there was nevertheless a shortfall. That gap was incorporated into the Phase IT objectives but has been covered by gifts re- ceived since the conclusion of the first phase. The objective the University had announced in 1972 for additions to endowment, $14 million, fell short by $4 million. ‘That endowment gap was also incorporated into determin- ing the Phase II goals. At the close of the 1977-78 fiscal year last June 30, Wash- ington and Lee’s endowment was valued at $23,503,530. That represents an endowment average of $13,492 per stu- dent. The additional endowment required under the second phase of the development program will bring the value of the endowment to $36 million. “It is a fact that the quality of the education which Wash- ington and Lee, as a private institution, is able to provide depends absolutely on the strength of its endowment,” said the Rector of the W&L Board, E. Marshall Nuckols Jr. Until the development program of the 1970s began, Washington and Lee had constructed only two new academic buildings since before World War I—duPont Hall (1954), primarily for the fine arts, and Parmly Hall (1958), for physics and biology. Its old law building, Tucker Hall, was burned in 1934 but was simply replaced. Most campus buildings were renovated or remodeled over the years, but none were enlarged other than the library, built in 1906 and remodeled in 1941. The renovation of McCormick to become the new com- merce facility is the last major physical project in the decade- long comprehensive development plan. Work is scheduled to begin next year, and the University expects to move into the remodeled facility in 1981. Mr. Nuckols said the Board itself will have principal re- sponsibility for the Phase II development effort. Coordi- nating the program will be S L Kopald, chairman of the Board’s Development Committee and president of Humko Sheffield Chemical Co. of Memphis. He is a 1943 W&L graduate. Working with Kopald, the Trustees’ Development Com- mittee, and the rest of the Board will be a volunteer “Devel- opment Council,” Mr. Nuckols said. Currently, the Devel- opment Council consists of 14 alumni throughout the country. Following the successful completion of the first phase of the comprehensive program almost two years ago, the Board —working closely with faculty, alumni and students as well as with the University administration—spent a great deal of time re-evaluating the original objectives set for Phase II, President Huntley said. The conclusion was that each goal identified six years ago remains essential. The Board then engaged in extensive financial planning for achieving those objectives and sought assurances of agreement and support “of sufficient magnitude to convince us to go ahead,” the President said. “Our achievements so far give us the confidence we need- ed—the confidence we knew we could expect from our alumni and other supporters who recognize the merit of Washington and Lee,” he said. “It is the confidence that we can indeed succeed, as we must; the confidence that we shall succeed. “Clearly, if Washington and Lee is to remain capable of providing the excellence of education for which we are justi- fiably noted,” Huntley said, “our development objectives are—bluntly put—crucial. Unless we meet them, we will be unable to continue to be superior; and unless we can continue to be superior, we ought not to continue at all.” In addition to the almost $37.5 million raised against the 1976 interim goal of $36 million, Washington and Lee re- ceived a restricted bequest of approximately $12 million from the estate of the late John Lee Pratt of Fredericksburg in January 1976. The effect of the Pratt bequest was not to achieve any of the development objectives identified in 1972, however, but rather to diminish the impact of general inflation and stock- market erosion which—without the Pratt fund to replace the money and purchasing power lost to those two economic circumstances—would have had an extremely negative im- pact on Washington and Lee’s financial position and its ability to pay competitive salaries and award essential stu- dent financial aid, President Huntley said. WHY PHASE II W&L Today as Viewed by Faculty, Students, Parents, Friends, and ‘Trustees Remarks delivered at the annual banquet of the Robert E. Lee Associates on October 27 in New York City; at that time the Phase II objectives of the University’s development program were announced. Mr. E. Marshall Nuckols, Jr., Rector of the Board of Trustees This is only the third occasion when we have met away from the W&L campus in Lexington. You may recall that we met at Mount Vernon in 1974, and in 1976 we met in Philadelphia for our nation’s Bicentennial. I am sure it is no surprise to any of you that our purpose tonight is to announce Phase II of our all-important Development Program. We are particularly pleased to have with us this evening a number of guests who have no direct connection with Washington and Lee. To all of you, we extend a very special welcome. We are very happy to have this opportunity for you to learn something about Washington and Lee. Our Lee Associates are of singular importance to the University. In the eleven years this organization has been in existence, Lee Associates have contributed more than one- half of the total amount raised through our annual giving programs. And that is despite the fact that in numbers, we represent only about six percentjof the total givers. Everett Tucker of Little Rock, Arkansas, who has been chairman of the Lee Associates for this past year, has done an outstanding job—and I am happy to report that he has consented to serve in that capacity for another year. I would also at this time like to recognize and note our thanks to Dr. John T. Fey, an alumnus of Washington and Lee’s class of 1939, who was chairman of the dinner committee tonight. Jack, you have done a great job and we thank you very much. Mr. Nuckols I should like now to call on two members of the Washington and Lee family—one a faculty member, the other a student. Each will share with you a personal perspective of what Washington and Lee is today and its direction of the future. May I introduce Dr. William A. Jenks, also a Washington and Lee alumnus in the class of 1939, who is our William R. Kenan Professor of History and head of the history department. Dr. Jenks A recent article in Time magazine gives a grisly picture of the plight of the liberal arts in an era of economic disequilibrium. There is, as well, a recent satire of a language professor who in effect promises A’s to anyone who will sign up for his course. No one in this room does not know of the oversupply of doctors of philosophy who desperately want positions in colleges or universities. Worse, there is no guarantee of academic tenure in many institutions if the Rector E. Marshall Nuckols Jr. with Rector Emeritus John Newton Thomas, who gave the invocation at the Robert E. Lee Associates banquet. person on tenure fails to attract a sufficient number of students. It is said that the full professor who once stumbled through his aging notes now mends his ways in order to survive. At Washington and Lee, we are not unacquainted with such trends, but past and present administrative policies and what I see as a blend of sensitivity and habit among members of the faculty have blunted the worst of what David Riesman calls “the war of all, against all, for student body count.” The administration considers, reconsiders, and checks the budget yet a third time before it approves an addition to any department. As a member of the president’s Advisory Committee, I have sensed an unspoken dialogue between the president and his deans as they evaluate the ebb and flow of student shifts in interest. At no time, however, have I felt that a legitimate claim for help has gone unheeded or that a discipline which deserves a place in a respectable curriculum will be scrapped. The faculty, insofar as I can tell, responds maturely to an ever-changing situation. As has always been true, the professor of administration urges his advisees to venture into philosophy, fine arts and history. The historian insists to his majors that no person should graduate without economics and that the prospective student of law should not ignore accounting. The undisguised hostility that existed between 3 WHY PHASE II some in commerce and some in liberal arts twenty-five years ago has virtually disappeared, I believe. That does not mean that certain curricular pressures from graduate schools have by any means diminished, as President Huntley will have reason to note. We are uncommonly healthy, however, in the balance which we continue to offer. A few examples will suffice to indicate that there have been substantial changes in students’ orientation, though I do not think they change our image as a school basically attuned to the liberal arts which also offers pre-professional training. In 1972-73 the departments or programs which attracted the largest number of majors were, in order, history, sociology, politics, journalism and English (tied), the interdepartmental major in natural science and mathematics, and economics and the B.S. in commerce (the last two tied). In 1977-78 the ranking departments or programs in terms of majors were the B.S. in commerce, history, politics, economics, biology, English, and journalism. In the six years under review these departments showed no striking variations: chemistry, drama, geology, German, mathematics, physics, psychology, religion, and Spanish. If we must use a body count, the following departments, in order, had 600 or more registrations last year: history, English, economics, administration, mathematics, politics, sociology with anthropology, and psychology. A professor by nature either complains of the number of papers and advisees he has, or voices his own conviction that he and his field are unappreciated. That phenomenon will never vanish from Washington and Lee or from any other school. It does, however, seem to me that we have a minimum of this on our campus, largely because each of us has a chance to make his mark in classroom, seminar, or laboratory, aided by an administration that maximizes our opportunities for research. ‘These considerations go far to explain why the dedicated teacher of undergraduates can coexist with the scholar who loves his archives, his rats, or his computer. Quite often the impulses which impel us to revamp a lecture and to analyze a new batch of documents can spin about in one individual psyche. Two young colleagues, one in history, the other in physics, worked all summer to prepare a program which would explain and demonstrate the late-18th century’s obsession with natural philosophy, that attempt to correlate the blessings of surer scientific knowledge with the promptings of a higher morality. In late August I teasingly asked the historian if he regretted returning to classes. His answer was instantaneous. He would like a few more days for his project, but what he disliked most of all about summer was the lack of a summer school. He would gladly teach the year around. I am glad he cannot do so, for I want him to revise and publish his dissertation, which concerns a lively 18th-century gentleman who mixed politics with the rediscovery of Palmyra. His older colleagues have added needed skills to 4 their performances in the classroom by taking advantage of fellowships and endowments which encourage us to take time off for research and for consultations with specialists here and abroad. We owe much to the Fulbright program, to the National Science Foundation, to the National Endowment for the Humanities, to the American Council of Learned Societies, to the Andrew W. Wellon F oundation, and I do not exhaust the list. Washington and Lee has very liberal provisions for sabbaticals, and the Glenn grants most of the time can subsidize projects in the summer and the underwriting of publication. Mr. Pratt’s extraordinary gift helps provide a solid foundation for faculty salaries and undergraduate scholarships, without which research and writing would be far more difficult. In a given year a biologist will be introducing the fauna of the Galapagos to some lucky students, a political scientist will be explaining American folkways to Austrians, a psychologist will continue his investigation of the hippocampus, and a poet will complete his study of Nabokov. Geologists take turns in ferreting out the secrets of the Pacific crust or in relating the mountain system of Scotland to our Appalachians. Nearer home, an historian of art continues her evaluation of Virginia’s architecture while representatives of a number of departments labor to exploit the promise of the computer. The great universities do all of this and more. In the past they and the government have lured from us teacher- scholars whom we should have liked to keep. There is no guarantee they will not raid us again. My own experience, in considering feelers and offers from graduate schools, may be an illustration of the counter-attraction which Washington and Lee exerts. At no other university could I discern a more generous policy of subsidization of research or a substantial reduction in teaching load. At some of these universities I know I would have faced less interesting students. This year, in preparing a monograph for publication, I worried as to whom I should dedicate it. “To my students” would be meaningless, and I had already made the necessary bows to family. The history department has been fortunate in helping prepare men for graduate study and for worthwhile careers as historians. I solved the dilemma, I thought, by selecting seven dedicatees who are known internationally for their books and/or articles. Four have won Guggenheims. Three have been or are heads of history departments at Columbia, Michigan, and Yale. At any rate, with my conscience somewhat appeased, I went to London in June to look at dispatches at the Public Record Office in Kew Gardens. There in the underground one day my name rang out. A fine alumnus, member of the humanities complex at Michigan State, first shook my hand heartily and next told me that his magnum opus would be published in England in a few months. I shall only be able to write him an apology, for my book with dedication was in press before I departed. I have been trying to answer the question put to me by President Huntley when he asked me to speak to you, Dr. William A. Jenks reviewed Washington and Lee from the point of view of a faculty member. Dr. John T. Fey (right) chairman of the dinner committee, talks with a friend during the pre-banquet reception. Trustee Thomas C. Frost Jr. in conversation with Everett Tucker Jr., chairman of the Robert E. Lee Associates. namely: What is affirmative at Washington and Lee toa person whose primary bent is scholarly or who knows that he cannot be totally satisfied with the University’s justified dictum that it wants good teaching, should there be conflict between research and the classroom? First, there need not be conflict. Second, the presence of older scholars on the staff and the respect our alumni have won should assure our junior teachers a fair hearing for their proposals with the large foundations. Third, the gifts of corporations, of family endowments, and of individuals should assure the school, we hope, adequate funding as inflation continues its frightening way. Since World War II, tidal waves of dollars have descended upon the American educational system. Much has been wasted, and Senator Proxmire now has an audience on the right as well as on the left. At Washington and Lee we have developed a sensible and balanced approach that cannot fail to attract teacher-scholars in the future. I can only hope that my comments will underline the University’s present commitment and its confidence that it will have friends to continue the good work. Mr. Nuckols May I now introduce to you Waller T. Dudley, who is president of our student body. Beau Dudley is an undergraduate alumnus in the class of 1974 and is currently a third-year law student. His father, an alumnus before him, is a member of the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee. Mr. Dudley When I was introduced to the Board of Trustees at its spring meeting last year, I said that the two things I was most looking forward to in connection with my job as incoming student body president were meeting with the Board of Trustees and “spreading the gospel,” if you will, of Washington and Lee, both to those who have shown an affection for her and to those whom Washington and Lee wishes to bring within her family. It probably goes without saying, then, that I’m excited and very pleased to be in New York this weekend and have the opportunity to do both of those things. By way of further introduction, if not importance, I’ve had the pleasure of spending seven years in Lexington, almost; I somehow overcame my failure to work as hard as I should have while an undergraduate at W&L and am now currently in my third year, my final year, of law school. In an unguarded moment last spring the student body accorded me the honor of serving as its president this year. At any rate, I’m excited about the things I’ve seen about Washington and Lee both from my perspective as an almost- seven-year student and in my brand-new perspective as student-body president. I’d like to share with you just a few 5 WHY PHASE II of my thoughts about the things that Washington and Lee students can do at W&L and, in turn, things Washington and Lee does for her students. I’d like to focus, if I might, on one aspect of our school—the unusually high degree of direct student involvement which characterizes our student body both in our own affairs and the affairs of the University. We’re extremely fortunate, in my opinion, to have an administration, and in addition a system, which recognizes the tremendous benefits one can get from this approach. Our small size allows us to take perhaps even greater advantage of those same benefits. Like Professor Jenks, I will mention a few specific examples. Several years ago, the faculty voted to turn the administration and the governance of fraternities on campus over to an entirely student-member Interfraternity Council, and although from time to time we hear remarks about our resemblance to a recent movie of national fame [laughter], it pleases me no end that the fraternities on campus are to this day entirely governed by an all-student organization. Student government at Washington and Lee is just that—students governing students, students working on behalf of students. Subcommittees of the Student Executive Committee provide entertainment, films, speakers, publications and, in fact, just about everything that goes on at Washington and Lee for the benefit of students. Another committee handles every case of student misconduct, while another provides financial assurance to local merchants so that, as Washington and Lee students, we can enjoy virtually unlimited check-cashing privileges in Lexington and Rockbridge County. | None of those things may strike you as particularly exciting or different or surprising these days; it may, however, interest you to know that this year’s Executive Committee, comprising twelve students, had direct control over, and in fact appropriated, more than $75,000 in student body funds. This is done every year without so much as a word from the administration or faculty as to which group ought to get which amount of money and so forth. And I can assure you that for at least one student involved in that process, it was a very maturing experience—to deal with that kind of money belonging to your fellow students. In my opinion, that system also lends itself to a high degree of accountability on the part of those who hold positions in student government. It’s important also to note, I think, that students are appointed to standing faculty committees which deal with every important issue facing Washington and Lee at this time—from athletics to courses and degrees; from student health to freshman admissions. And last—and most important to a good many of us, myself included—our long- and (I’m proud to say) still- cherished Honor System is administered and enforced entirely by student representatives. Nothing has pleased me more since taking office some eight or ten weeks ago than 6 Waller T. Dudley, president of the student body, who discussed WESL from the standpoint of his fellow students. Ss Trustee J. Alvin Philpott talks with Miss Ruth Parmly, who made a generous gift to WSL several years ago in memory of her father. The banquet setting in New York City’s University Club. the degree of commitment and good judgment shown by the students with whom I’m lucky enough to serve in that Capacity. If what I’ve said so far sounds a little bit as if it comes from one who has been told to say “the right things,” I want to assure you that nothing could be further from the truth. Washington and Lee has her fair share of problems—some serious, Some not so serious; some short term and some quite long term. The meetings this weekend [of committees of the Board of Trustees and of the full Board] are designed to work toward reasonable solutions to those problems. We don’t live in Utopia in Lexington—in spite of our tendency sometimes to think we do. I have spoken from what is for me, and what is for most students, an honest conviction that we are very fortunate to be part of a special, a unique, University that is rewarding in many, many ways, only several of which time has permitted me to mention this evening. In closing, let me say that last spring I had the great pleasure of meeting and touring the campus with Miss Ruth Parmly, whose gift to Washington and Lee in memory of her late father came notwithstanding the fact that she’s had virtually no connection, nor had her family, with Washington and Lee in the past. I was immediately struck by this, and recognized once again then, as I'do from time to time, although not as often as I should, the significance of the spirit behind such gifts as hers and their importance to private institutions like Washington and Lee. I go to law classes every day in a facility which is commonly regarded to be the finest of its kind anywhere, and I’m keenly aware of the fact that had it not been for the almost-unbelievable generosity of two individuals, that facility would be little more than a dream at Washington and Lee today. I want to assure you that my fellow students share that awareness; they are deeply appreciative of those whose generosity has done so many things for us. And in addition, and perhaps even more importantly, they share exceedingly high hopes for participating in and helping mold Washington and Lee’s future. On behalf of the student body, I want to issue you a warm greeting and a very sincere word of thanks—thanks first of all for bearing with a rather nervous young man this evening, and, far more importantly, for your continuing devotion to and support of Washington and Lee. Mr. Nuckols With a faculty and student body like Bill Jenks and Beau Dudley, it’s not difficult to understand why the entire University family, collectively and individually, is tremendously excited about Washington and Lee’s present and its potential for the future. And it’s quite obvious that the trustees and the alumni have a tremendous responsibility to make sure that that potential is realized so that the Bill Jenkses and Beau Dudleys of the next generation will have the same, or even greater, reason to be enthusiastic about their University. The trustees, recognizing that in the early 1970s, formulated a development program calling for the raising of $56,000,000 during the ’70s, $36 million of it to be raised by 1976. That was a very ambitious undertaking for a small university that in all of its 220-plus years had not raised funds even approaching that sum. You are all familiar with our accomplishments to date, and I won't belabor those tonight; by the end of 1976 we had raised $37.5 million [applause], and, as all of you know, we have on the campus today many fine new facilities that were not there just a few years ago. Since the conclusion of Phase I at the end of 1976, our development program continued unabated, as I’m sure many of you individually know. The trustees have given very extensive thought to a reassessment of the goals for the remaining part of the program. It’s quite clear that the physical goals remain substantially unchanged, and we shall, during Phase II, complete those as we originally planned. But with the inflation that has been our continuing lot during the 1970s, the price tag on those goals has grown tremendously, and it has been necessary for us to raise our sights for the second part of our development program. Accordingly, it is my pleasure to announce here tonight that the goal, or the target, for Phase II will be $26,000,000, which we hope to accomplish by the end of 1981. We not only hope to accomplish it, we will accomplish it. That’s only $6 million more than we had originally targeted for Phase II. We have been able to hold the increase within those modest limits only because of the very handsome gift we received in 1976, more than $12 million, from the estate of John Lee Pratt, which Bill Jenks mentioned just a moment ago. Almost half of this $26,000,000 will be used to enlarge our endowment, which is woefully small for an institution of the size and caliber of Washington and Lee. That has to be one of the most imperative tasks ahead of us; there is no way we can maintain our position of excellence unless we bring our endowment up to reasonable levels. Most comparable schools will have an endowment-per-student ratio two, three, four or even more times larger than ours. So this is absolutely essential, and there is no way we can meet the continuing inflation in our operating costs unless we do get our endowment up to a more substantial level than it is today. About seven-and-a-quarter million dollars of that total of $26,000,000 will be used to complete the funding of our new library, which will be occupied this winter; it will be used to remodel old McCormick Library to serve as a new home for the School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics; it will be used to renovate Newcomb and Tucker Halls. When those are complete, our campus will be in truly A-1, top-notch condition. WHY PHASE II And with that increase in endowment which we will achieve, we will be in a balanced-budget situation, assuming that inflation and our endowment income run in line with our projections. I am happy to be able to report that almost 25 percent of that $26 million is already committed, with the trustees being very active participants. You may recall that the members of the Board of Trustees contributed more than one-third of the total raised in Phase I [applause]. Our Phase II efforts will be under the direction of Trustee S L Kopald, of Memphis, Tennessee, who is the chairman of the Board’s Development Committee. He will have assisting him a Development Council of distinguished alumni, fourteen in number, who are very personally and individually dedicated to the success of this effort. Mr. Nuckols Now, ambitious undertakings of the type in which we are now engaged succeed only through the efforts, interest, and generosity of very special people, and we have three such people here tonight whom I’m going to ask to tell you why they have regarded Washington and Lee as worthy of their support—and that support has been quite generous. The first is Martin Kempe. Martin is not an alumnus of Washington and Lee; he is a parent of a former Washington and Lee student, and is currently chairman of our Past Parents’ campaign. Mr. Kempe When I was back in the hotel a few hours ago, I thought maybe I could make the shortest speech on record and describe in one word the way I feel about Washington and Lee. The word is grace. If I asked all of you here tonight what “grace” means, you would each have a different definition. Grace is what has caused me to do for Washington and Lee what little I have done. It is in our surroundings; the campus is as beautiful as any in the land. There is the heritage; that is a part of the grace too. I see grace in the attitudes of the people at Washington and Lee; I see it in their intellectual accomplishments. Everything spells grace at Washington and Lee. Even a stranger sees it. I could even mention southern grace, but as a Dartmouth alumnus I’m not going to talk much about that. I am talking from my heart now, because I left my notes at home. I realized they wouldn’t do any good. I see the people here tonight whom Washington and Lee has touched. It speaks for them—for the Lewises, for Dr. Jenks, for Beau Dudley, for Bob Huntley. I am basically a rather shy man, and it took a lot to get me up here to talk to you at all. Five years ago when I was asked to take the chairmanship of the Parents’ Fund I said I’d do it on one condition—that I would never have to speak in 8 Martin Kempe, parent of a former WEL student, told why he thinks Washington and Lee is worthy of support. Author Tom Wolfe (right), 51, talks with characteristic animation to Charles J. Longacre, ’33, during the dinner. public. I still trust Washington and Lee people in spite of this. I did reach a crisis about three years ago, however. All of a sudden, I ran out of sons. My son had graduated, and here I was—what would I do? Would Washington and Lee simply put me on the shelf? I thought perhaps of adopting an eligible teenager or going to law school and becoming an alumnus myself, but these remedies seemed a bit extreme. But then I thought to myself, “You know, maybe I can secure my tenure’—I think tenure is one of the things you talk about so much now in academic circles—“if I could just have a constituency of my own. And I think I may have a little touch with past parents; I’m a past parent myself.” And my gosh they bought it. So I have been able to continue serving the University I had come to love. And now my tenure is inexhaustible, I think, because I’ll be a non- alumnus past parent forever. Here I am, an old Dartmouth grad, and I’m going to be working for Washington and Lee for as long as they want me. It has just been so great to have had the opportunity to serve. Washington and Lee is not my alma mater, but she sure is my alma mistress. Mr. Nuckols Next I would like to call on Ross R. Millhiser. Ross is vice chairman of Philip Morris Inc. Philip Morris recently made % Ross R. Millhiser told why he feels business and industry should support independent educational institutions like WEL. President Huntley displays check presented by Mr. Millhiser to Washington and Lee on behalf of Philip Morris Inc. an extremely significant gift to our development program, and I’d like Ross to give us some indication of why Philip Morris feels the way it does about Washington and Lee—why it would be willing to make such a gift. Mr. Millhiser Rector Nuckols; President Huntley; distinguished trustees; Lee Associates; alumni; friends of Washington and Lee University; talented and stalwart luminaries who have preceded me at the lectern: I believe it is appropriate tonight for me to cite three propositions, although you are familiar with them and I know you believe in them. The first is that our democracy—and our private enterprise system—are based on pluralism in thought and on free, independent, and innovative ideas. The second is that a wellspring of our pluralism in thought and innovation is our dual system of private, independent colleges and government-supported education. Without government-supported institutions, after all, many of our talented and promising young people would have had a much more difficult time attaining a college education. But without private, independent colleges, we would not have the broad and deep diversity of learning that led to the founding of this country and which remains its most precious resource today. I refer particularly to that special preserve of our private universities—the liberal arts, or, as I prefer to think of them, the liberating arts. And indeed they were the liberating arts when they produced the Age of Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary America. We all revere the Founding Fathers for their brilliance, but let us all thankfully recall that throughout the Colonies there were legions of learned people who understood and supported their cause. At that time, there were only two institutions of higher education in England. In America there were already six— and all of them were private, independent colleges. The English stood in awe of our learning in the humanities. Edmund Burke warned Parliament that, through education, “a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.” William Pitt said: “For solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, no nation can stand in preference” to America. In a dramatic speech-before Parliament, Lord Effington resigned his commission in the British army. He said: “In this dreadful moment, a set of men more wise and moderate than the rest exert themselves to bring us to reason. They state their claims and grievances; nay, if anything can be proved by law and history, they prove them.” My final proposition is that if liberal education ignites and preserves this spirit of liberty so fundamental to our private enterprise system, it is to the benefit of corporations to Support our private colleges. Philip Morris has long endorsed this proposition. For example, among our contributions to education has been our support of the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges for the past twenty-three years. Tonight I am pleased to announce a direct grant to one of the nation’s great private and venerable and vital universities, Washington and Lee. And it is a particular pleasure to give this grant to an old friend, one of the foremost, and most articulate? champions of education in the liberal arts—and I might say a most effective and graceful director of Philip Morris—Mr. Robert E. R. Huntley. Mr. Nuckols Now I would like to introduce Sydney Lewis, of our Board of Trustees, who with his wife gave us the funds for our very handsome new law school and for the Frances Lewis Law Center. Mr. Lewis Mr. President, friends. It’s a real honor to follow Ross Millhiser. Ross and I grew up in Richmond together. He went off to his independent college, Yale, and I made the better decision to go to Washington and Lee. I can’t let Ross get away without one other comment. Best Products Company had Bob Huntley on its board before Philip Morris. WHY PHASE II Several weeks ago, President Huntley suggested that I might spend up to five minutes with you discussing the pleasures and joys of giving and sharing. I laughed too—but for a different reason; if the Lee Associates don’t know that giving is pleasant then I don’t know who does. Thus I assumed that what Bob really meant was that I should say a few words about the joys of giving more. About a week later Farris Hotchkiss suggested that maybe I would also like to talk about why Frances and I wanted to make the gift to Washington and Lee we did. For me they are really one and the same subject. First, for one who is really not too expert with words—but who fortunately has a wife who is—it is very difficult to give a talk, long or short, about this, and it is even more difficult to convey in words one’s innermost feelings. But I will try. Perhaps I can start with a true story. About thirteen years ago, late one night after a long business meeting, a few of us entrepreneurial types were shooting the breeze. It was gradually dawning on us that the new catalogue showroom business we had started less than ten years before might really take off into the big time. We all were already successful; that is, our children’s college educations were assured, the old mortgage was paid off, a few of us were starting to take European vacations, and I even had an Andy Warhol portrait of Frances (actually twelve of them) hanging on my wall at home. One of us pipedreamed what would you do if we really got rich. Shot back another: “I know what I would do. I would stand up in the back of a meeting room and wave my hand frantically and say ‘I will give that new hospital wing!’ ” Now I can’t really describe to you the joy Frances and I felt several years later when we were able to tell Bob Huntley and Roy Steinheimer: “We will give you that law school and that law center.” I can’t describe to you, either, the surge of pleasure that Frances and I experienced as we could feel Bob and Roy realizing that they could now take their dream off the shelf and make it a reality. Obviously, just like every one of you, we wanted to repay W&L for the meaningful experience that it had been in my life. Through our gift we wanted to maintain the ideals, the traditions and quality of the University—knowing that this could not be done with good intentions alone. Further, and of the most enduring importance, what we saw in a gift to Washington and Lee was a chance to seize the opportunity to nourish the tradition of independent thinking which gave all of us here and those before us our ideas and opportunities and which would be a fountainhead for free thinking for those who come after us. It was really like giving to ourselves—to promote our own interests. Washington and Lee, like other independent institutions, remains one of the few precious roads that can lead to the kind of future in which independent thinking and freedom of choice will exist at all in this country. If we really believe that the educational choices are becoming limited for the young people of the future, then we had darn 10 Trustee Sydney Lewis told of the pleasure to be derived from supporting private institutions that “keep America vital.” well better put our money where our mouths are and attempt to do something about it. In the United States we still recognize that independent institutions keep America vital. You and I can therefore give our money to Washington and Lee instead of to the government. We still do get a tax break in the process of helping ourselves in this way. To the discredit of some of us, however, we don’t take advantage of the opportunities to spend some of our own money ourselves. Instead we let the government do it for us. Lyndon Johnson once looked at the Statistics of business giving and said he concluded that the captains of industry must figure that the government can spend their pre-tax profits better than they can. On the other hand, of course, a tax break is a darn poor reason for contributing to a worthy cause. In fact, some believe that philanthropy has lost more than it has gained by being associated both in fact and in the public mind with the tax advantage. The next time you sit down at a dinner party and the conversation turns—as usual—to the government’s sticking its nose into everything, ask your friends whether they have exercised their freedom recently to give more to one of the independent institutions which are trying to buck the trend toward conformity. Washington and Lee zs really nothing and can do nothing to counter that trend without our bucks, yours and mine. And that is what Frances and I see in Washington and Lee— a chance really to help ourselves. Exercising the choice allowed to us, voting with our dollars, still provides us all with a chance to reinforce those independent institutions that can keep freedom of choice alive. That is giving to promote our interests—and that is a real pleasure. by Robert E. R. Huntley THE W&L MISSION The President Scolds Diluters of a Liberal Arts Education The following remarks were delivered by President Huntley at the annual banquet of the Robert E. Lee Associates on October 27 in New York City; they were expanded in his Report to Parents in Lee Chapel on November 4. I wish to share with you a few reflections of mine about the educational mission to which your school is dedicated, and some of the threats to which I think it is exposed—and some suggestion as to our determination to pursue and achieve the objectives to which our tradition commits us. The word “liberal” is used in so many contexts with so many differing connotations that we may forget that its primary meaning has to do with freedom: liberty and liberation. A liberal education is an education designed to liberate the mind, to free it from ignorance and from the animal emotions and instincts which may constrict and dominate it, and to free it from the aimless and useless thrashings-about to which the untutored intellect is prone. So far as I am aware, it is only the mind of man which makes him a distinctive creature on earth. It is his mind that gives him the capacity for rationality and belief—and these are his distinctive characteristics, reason and faith. A liberal education is intended to cause the mind to become as useful as it is capable of being! In this sense, the purpose of a liberal education is the most utilitarian of all. We may inquire: What are the attributes of a useful mind? The principal attribute is the capacity for sustained, disciplined thought—about any significant subject to which it may assign itself. L. me mention a few of my ideas about the way in which a liberal arts college like Washington and Lee attempts—or should attempt—to provide its students the foundation of a liberal education, to help its students develop useful minds. The curriculum should include courses in all or nearly all the subjects which time has proven to be fit for disciplined and orderly inquiry and which reveal and explore important segments of mankind’s accumulated experience. This is a tall order. It’s easy to discern certain subjects which must be included—history and literature, for example. Others come quickly to mind; the natural sciences, philosophy, religion, economics, for example—by no means an exhaustive list. All these subjects, and some others, readily meet the two basic criteria I suggested earlier. Each is a fit subject for orderly and disciplined inquiry. Each encompasses a _ massive accumulation of thought and knowledge and wisdom of mankind over an extended time. Each has been the subject of orderly and disciplined exploration by the best minds of the past. Thus, each can be taught and learned in a manageable way. Each of them represents an important segment of man’s earthly experience, which means that the knowledge one obtains through careful study of these subjects is in itself likely to be relevant to the future. Note that the absorption of knowledge or information is not the principal purpose of the liberal arts education but rather is a valuable incident of the quest for a useful mind. Once it is determined that the curriculum includes comprehensive treatment of the proper subjects, it must be assured that these subjects are properly taught. The teacher must be accomplished—an accomplished scholar and a master of his field—and must himself have achieved a liberally educated mind. And he must be able and willing to apply his mastery to the process of leading the relatively untutored minds of his students into a rigorous learning process. He must be patient; but to a degree he must also be ruthless in his demands upon his students. His objective is not to gratify his students; his objective is to educate them, to help them achieve tough, disciplined, useful minds. The courses, properly selected and properly taught, must be imbedded in a curricular structure which is well ordered and purposeful. A random array will not do. The undergraduate student must be guided into this curriculum in a way which will cause him to achieve two immediate objectives. First, he must have a significant learning experience in each of the several kinds of subjects which make up a liberal arts curriculum— humanities, natural sciences, languages, social sciences. There may be several ways of causing this diverse selection without requiring this or that specific course, leaving the student a wide choice. But the choice must be sufficiently restricted to allow it to be intelligently exercised by the student and to assure that no choice exists which thwarts the basic objective of the liberal arts educational process. E urthermore, the student is required to achieve approxi- mate mastery of at least one liberal arts subject. He may become a major in economics, or physics, or English, for example. Note that this process, the liberal arts process, is not the same as what is sometimes called “general education.” “General education,” if I understand that term, seeks to tell the student a little bit about a lot of things—to produce a well-informed and presumably well-adjusted human being. A_ liberal arts education postulates that the student should have the real experience of learning and thinking in each of several arenas of knowledge where the greatest minds of the past have plowed fertile ground—and that in one of them he should become, as nearly as he can, an expert. Its purpose is not to produce well- informed graduates, though it may incidentally do that. Its purpose is to produce well-educated graduates, who can quickly become well informed in almost any field, and who can apply a tough and discriminating intellect to the information they obtain. In other words, the well-educated graduate is confident of his ability to master difficult knowledge; he is aware by 11 “A liberal education is intended to cause the mind to become as useful as it is capable of being. In this sense, the purpose of a liberal education is the most utilitarian of all.” experience of the ways in which knowledge has been achieved and can be used. He is also aware of the limits of reason and intellect—and thus has the potential for real faith. He can discern the lasting values—and thus has the capacity for judgment. The ideal of the liberal arts tradition is not easily attained, even by those institutions such as Washington and Lee which strive purposefully to attain it. At best, there must be compromises and experiments which changing times seem to require. Knowledge is not static, and the new experiences of mankind must be incorporated into the curriculum. But if the ideal is kept intact, and clearly agreed upon by those at the college, the way can be found to achieve for a preponderance of the graduates the foundations of a useful mind. B. make no mistake. The liberal arts educational process, and the liberal educational ideal, are under attack in a number of ways, both practical and philosophical. Often, the attack is not articulated—a tacit undermining—but it is occurring nevertheless. I am encouraged to some degree by the increasing number of speeches and articles defending the liberal arts tradition in education. I am distressed that there is a need for a defense. (Someone once said that a person who must ask the purpose of a liberal education would be incapable of understanding the answer.) In part, the need for such a defense grows out of the universality of educational opportunity, which to our credit we as a nation have come very close to achieving. But in our quest for universality we may have tacitly redefined education to mean preparation. And with preparation as our objective, it is more likely that we practical Americans will want to know: Preparation for what?—for what specific tasks? Thus, for example, it is commonly assumed that one who spends much time in college on, say, history or English must be preparing himself to teach those subjects. Others—that is, those who don’t plan to teach them—must defend the apparent impracticality of their serious study of the humanities. Education has been confused with training. A bird dog needs training, and if he is to be a good bird dog, he must have training. A human being needs education, and if he is to be a good human being, he must have education. Human beings may also be trained—whether or not they are educated. But for an important task, any intelligent employer except a despot will always choose an untrained well-educated person over an uneducated well-trained one. For human beings, training is important; education is vital. ote liberal arts tradition represents the major example in all history of a sustained effort to develop educational pro- cesses and educational institutions. It may be that the United States is the last place on earth where institutions dedicated to a true educational purpose can survive. Let us pray they can survive here, for there are many pressures which threaten their survival. 12 Professional medical education has, in my opinion, become in recent years a prime example of destructive pressure on the liberal arts and on liberal education. Medical educators frequently state their belief in the need for liberally educated physicians, but the actions of their schools often belie their words. No one expects that medical schools will be able to provide their students with a liberal education. They are primarily complex—and effective—training institutions. If the medical student or the physician is to become an educated person, the foundations for that prospect will almost certainly have to come from his college years. Probably few would argue with this premise. But the medical schools are increasingly squeezing the undergraduate college in the direction of diluting seriously the liberal educational experience of the pre-medical student. This Squeeze apparently results from the need to screen the large numbers of applications for admission to medical school, an understandable problem. Any admissions process which must reject many quite well-qualified applicants would presumably have some unhappy side effects. Many medical school admissions officers appear to be solv- ing their problem by laying primary emphasis on the applicant’s specific achievement in advanced science courses. The applicant who has A’s in such science courses and B’s in, let’s say, history, English, and economics will be preferred to the applicant whose A’s are in the humanities and whose science grades are good but not superlative. Pre-medical students learn this simple lesson very quickly and adjust their course selection and their study habits accordingly—to the detriment of their total educational experience. And the college itself must soon react to the pressure, because if its pre- medical students do not achieve admission to medical school the reputation of the college suffers in the market place. It may react by revising its curriculum to satisfy the medical school admissions pressure, revisions which may run counter to the educational ideals which I have sketched. To make matters worse, the medical aptitude test has recently begun to stress especially the applicant’s specific scientific information in several areas, a problem exaggerated by the pattern of taking the test at the end of the junior year in college. I was especially disturbed when reading the report of a conference of medical educators held this summer under the auspices of the American Council on Education. The conference addressed itself to many topics selected in advance by poll from the medical educators. One of the choices offered as a topic for discussion was the interaction and mesh between medical education and pre-medical education. Apparently not one medical educator checked that as a subject even worthy of discussion. Ne may ask: Why do the colleges permit this unwanted in- trusion into their domain? The answer, I am afraid, is not a “The liberal arts educational process and the liberal educational ideal are under attack in a number of ways... . Often the attack is not articulated—a tacit undermining. .. .” “It may be that the United States is the last place on earth where institutions dedicated to a true educational purpose can survive. Let us pray they can survive here. ... 99 happy one. Partly, it is lack of conviction. Partly, it is lack of concern. It is also possible that many of our large public institutions— not all, but many—have long since lost the battle to preserve a liberal educational ideal. If this be true, then the last line of defense is the independent liberal arts college, which is not ina strong position to exert effective pressure on our educational system. The pressure from medical schools is, of course, merely one example. Similar pressure may come and has come, from time to time, from other forms of graduate education. Not uncommonly, it also comes from potential employers, some of whom must see the specific and immediate applicability of each course to the business at hand before hiring a graduate. Each new pressure, even if it eventually recedes, erodes some part of the ideal, unless there is a spirited and determined effort to preserve it. I would mention, further by way of example, the growing pressure on the private or independent sector of education from the public or governmental sector. This seems to me to be a fairly telling point because of what I perceive to be the close identity between the small independent college and the liberal arts tradition. The tradition began there and that is its principal residence today. In large part, this identity is because of the very fact of independence, and hence a kind of insulation from the practical, political, and societal pressures of the moment. In any event, whatever the reason (and that would be another speech), even casual observation will reveal that the identity exists—the identity between the small liberal arts college and the liberal educational ideal I mentioned. And so what threatens the independent liberal arts college obviously threatens the ideal. Tie public education system faces its own problems. In recent years we have all heard much about the diminishing college-age population. Most private institutions—certainly Washington and Lee—have long since learned to live, and indeed desire to live, with student populations of stable size. Most public institutions have become accustomed to living on what I would call “the margin of growth” in the years since World War II; in those years, there have been rapid annual increases in student enrollments at nearly all public institutions. At most such institutions, increased operating income is a direct and immediate result of increased student body size, but the additional costs of enlarged size tend to lag by several years. Therefore, even if there are no permanent unit economies of scale to be derived from largeness, there will be an apparent financial health provided by the margin of growth. As that growth diminishes or levels off to zero, the pressure on the public institution to find students will become increasingly insistent. At that point the large differential between the cost to the student of attending a public institution on the one hand and a private institution on the other will become more and more critical. I might digress to point out that I say the cost to the student. 14 There is no evidence that the cost of education of the kind delivered at Washington and Lee is greater than the cost of education delivered in public institutions. The tab is paid in a different way. A second pressure coming to bear upon private institutions from the public sector has to do with fundraising. As the numbers diminish and as, at the same time, legislators and legislatures become more and more restrictive about their willingness to keep open the faucet of unlimited public funds, public institutions all over the country are turning to private philanthropy. I don’t blame them for that; I simply cite it as a fact. I would point out one or two salient economic points about that observation. For the public institution, private philanthropy is the icing on the cake. For us, it is the cake. For a private institution like Washington and Lee, a small school which can afford to spend only so much money on fundraising, our effort to raise funds must be _ highly productive. For a public institution which turns to private philanthropy to supplement its major resources from the public sector, the amount of manpower and the amount of | money which can be and is being spent to raise each dollar can be far larger. So there is a distinct likelihood that the public institutions, in the years ahead, will increasingly drain from the pockets of private philanthropy those assets upon which we independent colleges depend. If I am correct in my assertion that the liberal arts tradition will not survive very long without the survival of small independent institutions such as Washington and Lee, then the prospect of the demise of such institutions is a serious one. ©). other point I would note—not entirely in jest—is that public institutions never die. There is no death mechanism for a governmental organization. Private institutions have many ways of dying. Many have; many will. There are other threats of this practical variety. There is, however, one philosophical threat that is perhaps of greater concern. I will allude to it only briefly; I have perhaps suggested it in my opening remarks. I believe there is a growing doubt among educators and among the populace of America about the value of the kind of education I’ve attempted to describe. I am no longer as certain as I would have been twenty years ago, no longer as certain as I would like to be, that most persons in America agree with my emphasis on the importance of liberal education. I suspect that this grows from several factors. The increasing demand for practicality, for immediate applicability of everything learned, is one. Another, more disturbing, is the increasing distrust of reason and rationality. You can see it all around you—the turn to the occult, to the metaphysical; the eschewing of reason as the primary basis for human existence. You sometimes hear this notion summed up in the question: “Is education “We will survive—with your help—as at least one institution that believes in the liberal education, in the value of the human mind, and in the aspirations of the human spirit.” relevant?” (I suppose the more modern thing would be to ask: “Are you with it?”) I think there are at least three meanings I have detected that are attached to the word “relevant” when it is used in the context of condemning education. It implies, first, that education must be timely, contemporary, must relate directly and demonstrably to the problems of the moment, and to the solutions which may be found to those problems—it must apply itself immediately to closing the portholes of the sinking ship. Second, it implies that education must be self-executing; that is, not merely an exposition of the problem and its range of possible solutions, but must be accompanied by direct action to implement the favored solution. Third, it implies a profound distrust in the processes of reason and rationality, a vague suggestion that reason and humanity are antithetical. Too often, goes the suggestion, the latter has yielded to the former, and what is needed now is less reason and more humanity, a kind of gut-feeling way of living. To these kinds of criticisms, education should respond positively and with conviction. It is my impression that it has not yet done so. ee fifty years ago the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset addressed himself to the issue of the mission of the university in a little booklet by that name, developed from the notes of a speech he had delivered to a university audience in Madrid. According to Ortega, the purpose of education at a university is the transmission of culture. He is at pains to point out that by “culture” he does not mean those vague notions of enlightenment which make culture appear as the “ornamental accessory for the life of leisure.” I find this disclaimer par- ticularly appealing, for I have always detested the suggestion that culture is merely an ornament of the educated mind. It is, rather, its essence. Ortega says: “Culture is what saves human life from being a mere disaster; it is what enables man to live a life which is something above meaningless tragedy or inward disgrace.” At Washington and Lee now, as for many years, most of our students will find their careers in the professions—law, business, medicine, teaching, journalism, the ministry, or others. For us, Ortega says this: “The man who does not possess [for example] the concept of physics (not the science of physics proper, but the vital idea of the world which it has created) and the concept afforded by history . . .and the scheme of speculative philosophy, is not an educated man. . . . [It] is extremely unlikely that such a man will be, in the fullest sense, a good doctor, a good judge, or a good technical expert. But it is certain that all the other things he does in life, including parts of his profession . . . will turn out affairs of the heart ... will be crude and ridiculous; he will bring to his family life an atmosphere of unreality and cramped narrowness. . . which will warp the upbringing of his children; and outside, with his friends, he will emit thoughts that are monstrosities and opinions that are a torrent of drivel and bluff.” Ohc¢: spoke strongly. “Civilization has had to await the beginning of the twentieth century,” he said, “to see the astounding spectacle of how brutal, how stupid, and yet how aggressive is the man learned in one thing and fundamentally ignorant of all else.” As to educational objectives, Ortega dwells on what he calls “economy,” by which he means the teaching of what can be learned. We must begin with “the ordinary student” and must teach exclusively what can be learned by such a student and can be taught with intellectual discipline and stringency. Culture, he says, is the system of ideas which each age possesses, the repertory of our active convictions as to the nature of our world and our fellow creatures—convictions as to the hierarchy of the values of things: Which are to be more esteemed, and which less. And then this passage: “. . . Ateach moment it is necessary to make up our minds what we are going to do next. ... We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness. ... Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself.” Ortega’s ideas suggest a mission that is at once practical and sublime. I would wish to believe that it is the mission of this Uni- versity. It might be pleasant and easy to think otherwise, that is, to conceive of ourselves as trainers rather than as educators; to regard this place as a resting-place where young people will “find themselves” and grow up; to regard inquiry and information as our purpose rather than as an incident of our purpose; or to conclude that none of it really matters. Bu. that we cannot do. Washington and Lee stands on a tradition of more than two centuries of endurance. There are few, very few, institutions of any kind, in or out of education, which have such a tradition. It is not merely a matter of survival or of historical accident which puts us here today. We are here because through all the adversities and mistakes and digressions of the past, there has emerged a constantly unfolding perception of the value of the educated mind, and of Washington and Lee’s role in cultivating that value. We must—and we can—make certain that the perception of that value and of that role does not wither because of our preoccupation with other, more transitory concerns, and that it does not suffocate because it becomes too deeply buried in the complexities of modern life and survival. At Washington and Lee, I believe I can speak for the faculty, the students, and the Board of Trustees in assuring you that it is our determined intention to retain our educational ideal. We will survive—with your help—as at least one institution that believes in the liberal education, in the value of the human mind, and in the aspirations of the human spirit. With your assistance, this school, two hundred years from now, will still represent the traditions and the strengths which it has represented for the two hundred years that have gone before. I, like all of us at Washington and Lee, am grateful to you for the assistance you have given us in the past. We count on you for much in the future. 15 cehikinmeaeebanmnnenen AND GLADLY TECHE’ —Chaucer Conversations with Senior Professors About Why They Stick With W&L And Why They Teach Basic Courses In recent years at Washington and Lee, in the 1970s especi- ally, there has been a notable increase in the number of sophis- ticated, advanced courses and whole new specialized pro- grams—East Asian studies and professional ethics and “the corporation in society”; “environmental geomorphology” and “seminar in Buddhist thought” and the history of Venice and “organic qualitative analysis 111”; and on and on and on. Wash- ington and Lee offers more than 700 different courses this year; twenty years ago, just 333 were taught. The natural question is: At what cost? Washington and Lee always cherished its role as an institution that grounded its students faithfully in the liberal arts—an institution that recognized no higher priority than introducing its students (who were carefully selected specifically on the basis of their capacity to appreciate and profit from the W&L approach) to broad fields of academic inquiry in a manner that would prepare them in a superior way for useful and fulfilling personal and professional lives. The question then is legiti- mately posed: Have we given that up in favor of specialization- ad-absurdem? The answer is: Hardly. Quietly, without the fanfare that seems always to attend the introduction of new courses and programs, Washington and Lee continues to do what it has always done well—and continues to do it perhaps yet better, thanks precisely to the stimulus that accompanies advanced courses and new programs. The latter do not replace the for- mer. No less naturally than by design, they complement them. What is impressive is that almost without exception, W&L’s new programs and new advanced courses, esoteric to us lay- men, have been instituted by teachers whose primary personal commitment remains to the broad-based liberal arts. Many— perhaps most—of them would not care to be characterized as hard-line traditionalists in the general sense of the term. (Some would.) The fact is, however, that each of them has chosen to subscribe to what has been, throughout its history, traditional at Washington and Lee: an unyielding insistence that every student be exposed to the best faculty in the University’s power to assemble—from the day the student begins his first class as a freshman. It is the opportunity offered to every student, “liter- ally every student,” as Trustee Emeritus Lewis F. Powell Jr. put it, “to study under the great senior faculty members who grace this institution.” At Washington and Lee, the introductory courses are not relegated to the junior faculty. Still less does W&L employ graduate-student teaching assistants. It would probably have a salutary effect on the budget (and therefore on tuition and on our expectations from the Annual Fund) if we did. But it is clear that it would have exactly the opposite effect on the quality of our academic programs. We were struck, in fact, as we talked with these senior professors, at their unanimity in not wanting to be relieved of what we had assumed might be the “burden” of survey or introductory courses. We chose these professors precisely because they do not have to teach basic courses. Any of them could, if he wished, be on 16 the faculty in almost any graduate school and never see a fresh- man or a sophomore at all. Many of them we know to receive frequent feelers and actual offers of graduate-school chair- manships and endowed chairs. All of them have decided to remain at Washington and Lee. We asked them more or less the same question: “Why? Why stay at W&L, and particularly why consent to teach, or’—in the case of department heads—“assign yourself to teach, the intro- ductory courses?” What was perhaps most interesting is that most of them were baffled that the question would be asked at all; surprised that the answer shouldn’t go without saying. —R.S.K. WILLIAM W. PUSEY III S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of German W.,, do I “consent,” as a senior professor, to teach intro- ductory courses? I suppose the main reason is that I enjoy teaching beginning German; I’ve done it almost every year since I’ve been at Washington and Lee—I enjoy teaching stu- dents who are, by and large, enthusiastic about a new subject; over the years I’ve developed, at least I think I’ve developed, considerable expertise; P’ve done it now for close to 35 years. When I was head of the department, I always assigned myself a section of beginning German. I just like to teach people who are—in many instances—enthusiastic about what they’re learn- ing. Of course I also teach courses that might be considered esoteric; for instance, one in Russian literature of the 19th century, which I enjoy doing for other reasons. I don’t find this incompatible at all, teaching introductory and upper-level courses; I enjoy the mix. It’s the mix that’s important, in fact— maintaining that delicate line of balance. William W. Pusey III, S. Blount Mason Professor of German. BA, Haver- ford College; Ph.D., Columbia. Came to W&L 39 years ago. Head of the German department, 1939-76; Dean of The College, 1960-71; Acting President of the University, 1967-68. Founder and first chairman of the East Asian Studies Program. Author: Louis-Sebastien Mercier in Germany (1939); Miltary German (1943); The Interrupted Dream: The Educational Program at Washington College/Washington and Lee University, 1850-80 (1976). Teaches introductory German; intermediate German; seminar covering special topics in German literature; elementary Russian; Rus- sian literature in translation. EDGAR SPENCER Professor of Geology WVschington and Lee offers an especially happy combina- tion of conditions which make teaching here very attractive to me. I would find it difficult to put these in strict order of relative importance, but it is clear that having well-prepared and well-motivated students, good physical facilities, and an administration that supports the faculty through good salaries, benefits such as our leave program, and both faculty and un- dergraduate research programs are all important. It should also be noted that this is a very pleasant community in which to live. The beauty of this valley and the interesting local geology are very important to me. I enjoy most of my contact with undergraduates—especially in seeing them discover and be- come interested in geology. Fred Schwab and I spend a lot of time with freshmen and sophomores during the Spring Term when we work with students several hours each day and are often away on field trips in our course in field methods and Appalachian geology; this is certainly the most satisfying teach- ing experience I have, and I believe that is because we really do have a chance to know one another and to share a common interest. W&L is one of the strong undergraduate colleges in the country, and we aspire to offer one of the best undergradu- ate geology programs. Edgar W. Spencer, professor of geology and head of the department. BA, W&L; Ph.D., Columbia. Came to W&L 21 years ago. Author: Basic Concepts of Physical Geology (1962), Basic Concepts of Historical Geology (1962), Geology: A Survey of Earth Science (1965), Introduction to the Structure of the Earth (1969; second edition 1977), The Dynamics of the Earth (1972). Fellowships: National Science Foundation (1958-63, Precambrian geology; 1965-66, regional tectonics in New Zealand and Australia). Advisory editor, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., publishers. Teaches introduc- tory (general) geology; meteorology; field methods; oceanography; geophysics; structural geology and tectonics. WILLIAM BUCHANAN Professor of Politics The topic is so fascinating—the differences between big universities and small colleges such as Washington and Lee— that I can produce not three but thirty minutes of observations. There are some satisfactions in teaching at a big university, in supervising M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations; working with somebody who knows a good bit about his field and is working on a problem that’s of interest to both of you. There’s always the possibility of coming up with something new; at least you both share the hope. It is gratifying to teach graduate seminars, when you're dealing with people who've read or are reading most of the major works, and know the terminology. And you’re more likely to have speakers come through for conferences and seminars and the like; that’s one of the things I think maybe undergraduates in a liberal arts college miss. ‘The compensations are in terms of breadth. Here, I cover the whole field of American government; I teach courses that would be taught by five professors in a big university. It’s hard- er; you have to stretch. Keeping up with the literature through- out the whole discipline is much tougher than keeping up with one’s own specialty. But I find this challenging—and exciting in its way. And the exposure to other disciplines here is so much broad- er, too. One of the things we’ll miss most about Ed Turner is that over in the Alumni House, at coffee every morning, he could talk about black holes or the origins of scientific theory in a way we all would understand. Ata large university you might have a Nobel laureate, but he wouldn’t be having coffee with the political scientists and economists and the religion and the philosophy teachers. Here, the study of government meshes with the study of language and literature and art. That’s an important part of a liberal arts education, I think. It would be nice, for instance, if we could have a course in the governments of the Arabs, but I think it’s more important to do it the way W&L does. There is at the same time a lot of research and writing that goes on here. But we do it notas the alternative to perishing; we do it because we like to do it. I get almost as much satisfaction showing undergraduates what social-science and political re- search 7s as from doing it. It requires skill; some knowledge of logic; a certain detachment or objectivity; a certain mode of discovery; certain precise ways of communicating. This is ob- 17 viously not the sole way of looking at the world; other depart- ments teach other ways—and this is really the essence of the liberal arts education, to look at the world from two or three different valid points of view, to be able to contrast different approaches and different ways of thinking. William Buchanan, professor of politics and head of the department. BA, MA, W&L; Ph.D., Princeton. Came to W&L 12 years ago after teaching at Tennessee, Southern Cal, and Mississippi State. Author: Understanding Political Variables (1969, second edition 1974), Legislative Partisanship (1963). Co-author: The Legislative System (1962), An Interna- tronal Police Force and Public Opinion (1954), How Nations See Each Other (1953). Chairman, Committee on Undergraduate Study, American Political Science Association (1969-7 1). Fellowships: National Science Foundation faculty fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast, and University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1971-72; Fulbright (Australia), 1977. Teaches introductory American government survey course; upper level Ameri- can political process; public policy-making; the legislative process; re- search methods. CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF Professor of Journalism "Teaching at the undergraduate level at W&L is enjoyable to me because of the opportunity for close personal contact with the younger students. I’m certain it is more satisfying than teaching at a large graduate institution. I like to believe I can stimulate them in the introductory courses in journalism, and show them the vital role of mass communications in our society. 18 And then after having had a crack at them in a large class, I have another opportunity to give them an understanding in greater depth of the analysis of government operations from a press viewpoint in my contemporary issues seminar. It’s particularly gratifying to get to know them as individuals in their sophomore year—to have the opportunity to guide, encourage, and, I hope, inspire them as they start to mature. There is an added pleasure and satisfaction in dealing with them later in a smaller class where I can help them gain the confidence that they can, with sufficient study and work, gain a competence in dealing with the analysis of actual problems. Washington and Lee is particularly attractive because of its size. Students—and teachers as well—get lost in larger institu- tions. I like to know my students personally; I like to have a grasp of the influences they’re subjected to; and I like to know what my colleagues are teaching them at any given moment. I’ve found that Washington and Lee students are uniformly bright, and with great potential. With only a few exceptions, they can be stimulated to mature and balanced thinking on the most complicated problems of the press and government. Clark R. Mollenhoff, professor of journalism. JD (law), Drake University. Came to W&L in 1976 after 25 years with the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune (Washington correspondent from 1950; Washington bureau chief from 1970). Presidential ombudsman in the first Nixon admini- stration, 1969-70. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, 1958. Author: Washington Coverup (1962), Tentacles of Power (1965), Despoilers of Democracy (1965), The Pentagon (1967), George Romney: Mormon in Politics (1968), Strike Force (1972), Game Plan for Disaster (1976), The Man Who Pardoned Nixon (1976). Honorary degrees from six colleges. Fel- lowships: Neiman, Eisenhower. Teaches introductory mass communi- cations; contemporary issues; advanced reporting; “The Mass Media.” LEONARD E. JARRARD Professor of Psychology O.. of the important considerations in my decision to come back to Washington and Lee was that I missed the exposure to the undergraduates. I was primarily involved in graduate education at Carnegie-Mellon, and I felt something was lack- ing—having taught here before} having taught undergraduates and the introductory course. I missed that an awful lot, that exposure to the undergraduates. All of us in the department here teach the introductory course; this is important to us. And it’s a lot of fun—seeing the reactions of undergraduates. It’s a challenge to be able to present complex material in a way that a person without previous exposure to the field can interpret, can make sense of. Students here get to know their professors, on a personal level, in a way they wouldn’t at a larger institu- tion. I wouldn’t really be content teaching only psychology majors. Some of the satisfying students I’ve had, in fact, have been majors from other disciplines—English and history, political science, business. I enjoy the pre-med students thoroughly; they’re bright and motivated and interested. One of the advan- tages of Washington and Lee is that students are genuinely encouraged to take courses in disciplines other than their majors. I think that by doing that they truly do broaden them- selves. They need that breadth—they’ll get depth if they go on to graduate school. | I think our research opportunities here increase the value of the education our students receive. This is specialization of a sort, but not specialization as one usually thinks of it; not aimed solely at students who are going on to graduate study in a narrow field. It provides them with a way of thinking about research, an understanding of what research entails—the kinds of questions one must ask, and the procedures for determining answers. For example, if a student goes on into politics, his education ideally ought to have included some development of an understanding of what’s involved [in research]. In an un- dergraduate situation such as W&L’s, we’re not really training them only to go on ina particular field; we’re broadening their experience. It gives them an advantage, I think, that students elsewhere generally don’t have. Leonard E. Jarrard, professor of psychology and department head. AB, Baylor; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon. Taught at W&L 1959-65; returned in 1971. From 1966 to 1971: Taught at Carnegie-Mellon University; chairman of the graduate program in psychology 1968-71. Editor: Cognitive Processes of Nonhuman Primates (1971). Author of 16 research articles, primarily about the hippocampus (a portion of the brain), in scholarly journals and books of readings. Consulting editor, Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. Grants, fellowships: National Science Foundation support for research into the hippocampus from 1966 to the present; visiting lecturer and professor, University of Oxford (England), and fellow, University College (Oxford, England), in 1975- 76. Teaches introductory psychology; psychoactive drugs and behavior; physiological psychology. SIDNEY M. B. COULLING Professor of English I made the decision twenty years ago to remain at Washing- ton and Lee; I’ve never regretted it. With regard to teaching introductory courses—teaching freshmen and sophomores—I suppose honesty says that most of us think we should. We think it is better for the students; I believe it is better for faculty morale as well, for senior professors to take their part rather than turn it all over to instructors or assistant professors. I think we find that it’s more fun to teach freshmen and sometimes sophomores in the introductory courses. They’re fresher, sometimes. They’re less jaded; they have the spon- taneity, perhaps the naivete, and the ingenuousness to ask different questions—different and difficult. 19 The difficulty with teaching only at advanced levels is that anyone, after a while, develops such a professional competence, or, aS we say, “expertise,” that he can teach—or talk to— persons only at that more advanced level. It becomes manifestly unfair for him to talk to persons who know so much less about his specialty. He may lose sight of what is important and what ts unimportant; this often leads to pedantry. He senses it too; he is frequently uncomfortable in trying to present his subject toa general audience because he feels he is falsifying. What he would prefer to do is talk about his subject to his peers, who are other specialists, of whom there may be only one hundred in the entire world. That’s worse than being able to talk only with the Cabots and the Lodges. When I deal with my specialty [Matthew Arnold], I have literally read everything he has writ- ten, and have read almost everything that has been written about him, certainly in the important journals and books. But when I teach the survey course, I am not in that position, and to some degree I too am learning some of these matters with the students. I think my teaching is more spontaneous. In any event, it is more stimulating. And I think, finally, it is more satisfying because one very often has a sense of tangible, concrete reward. It’s easier to see the development, the maturation, the growth, the improve- ment, the progress of a freshman than it is of a senior. One reason some of us enjoy teaching the composition course is that progress is visible; it is specific. It’s personally rewarding and enriching to know you have played a part in that progress. It’s much harder to see the progress of a student in, let us say, coming to a greater appreciation of an ode by Keats or an essay by Arnold than it is to see that in his own writing he is improv- ing. Sidney M. B. Coulling, professor of English and head of the department. BA, W&L; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Came to W&L in 1956. Author: Matthew Arnold and His Critics (1974). Teaches introductory courses in various literary forms; basic survey of British literature; autobiography in prose and poetry; Romantic poetry; Victorian poetry; Victorian thought. CHARLES F. PHILLIPS JR. Professor of Economics i the decision many years ago that I’d prefer to teach at an undergraduate institution, at Washington and Lee—in large part because of the challenge it offers and also in large part because of the close contact one has with students, seeing them develop over a period of three or four years. If you ask me specifically about the elementary courses I teach, there’s no question that—at least in economics—the introductory course is one of the most difficult courses any student has to take. It’s new to most students; it’s almost like learning a new language with new concepts. I find that challenging. I wouldn’t want to have the introductory courses taken over by a teaching assistant, for a couple of reasons. For one, I did that myself at [the University of] New Hampshire, and I shudder at some of the things I did. Second, I think you lose the very contact with the students which is so important—the basic reason I’d rather remain at an undergraduate institution. There are times when it would be easier, when from a grading point of view it would be helpful to have an assistant to read the exams. But there again I think there’s considerable value in the person who’s teaching the course also doing the grading. The teacher learns something from the grading process as well, from the way the students answer. You can identify students 20 who do not seem to grasp a concept; it becomes pretty clear in grading their papers where you should change things in the classroom, do things differently. I don’t think that at an undergraduate school a teacher ought to get locked in to thinking he can do nothing but practice a certain specialty. I don’t think that’s the function of an under- graduate school. And Washington and Lee is an undergraduate school, and that is why we are here. There’s no reason why a teacher can’t have a specialty; probably a good teacher should. Probably to be a good teacher, he must. The advanced course- work, the advanced research, are an important component of one’s introductory teaching. Charles F. Phillips Jr., professor of economics. BA, University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., Harvard. Came to W&L in 1959. Author: Competition in the Synthetic Rubber Industry (1963), The Economics of Regulation (1965, revised 1969). Editor of annual volume of research papers on regulation and communications since 1974. Author of more than 40 research articles including “What’s Wrong With Profit Maximization?”, widely reprinted in management and marketing texts. Section leader in num- erous corporate and executive development programs for American business and industry. Consultant (currently or in the recent past) to many regulated companies and industries, including AT&T, The New York Stock Exchange, Gulf Oil, Vepco. Expert witness before Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. House committees, regulatory com- missions in 15 states. Mayor, Lexington; member, Commission on the Review of the National Policy toward Gambling (1971-76). Faculty associate, Management Analysis Center Inc. Teaches introductory eco- nomics; government and business; regulated industries. Director, Corporation and Society program. WILLIAM A. JENKS William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History E or me there is no problem at all in dealing with freshmen. They’re an awful lot of fun; they always have been. There’s a good deal of enthusiasm; they’re rather vivacious. They ask naive questions on occasion; on the other hand, you may get a young man who can smarten you up a good bit. And I think you also have to remember that the senior pro- fessor is not unaware of the number of majors who may or may not come into the department in future years; quite often you can keep up a student’s interest or perhaps develop an interest that was latent. I think most of all I prefer to see the potential lawyer and businessman and doctor and not deal solely with those who will be going on in the same career as I have. I think it’s more interesting, in the long run, to deal with younger people than to deal with those who must by necessity specialize. Some of the best students I’ve had have gone on in other fields. Any teacher in the history department will tell you that when you have a really good man from another discipline, from economics or accounting, for example, you are certainly likely to have a class in which he will stimulate others. Often a student from another department will spice things up considerably. It was a shock to go to Columbia as a graduate student after Washington and Lee. Most graduate schools are enormously large and rather impersonal; I’ve always liked the small school. And as a teacher, I’d hate to give, as I would on a graduate faculty, a course on the Habsburg monarchy from, say, 1780 to 1918 every year. I've been much happier teaching medieval history for a while, then teaching the seventeenth century for a while, then French Revolution and Napoleon for a while—just moving around with a great deal of freedom. You don’t have that as a graduate-school teacher. This year I'll be teaching History 102, the second half of the European survey, for the first time in four or five years, because another professor in European history will be on leave. I genuinely look forward to that. William A. Jenks, head of the history department and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor. BA, W&L; Ph.D., Columbia. Came to W&L 22 years ago. Author: The Austrian Electoral Reform of 1907 (published 1950), Vienna: and the Young Hitler (1960), Austria Under the Iron Ring (1965), Francis Joseph and the Italians (1978). Fellowships: Fulbright; Social Science Research Council; American Council of Learned Societies. Teaches freshman and sophomore history; survey course in European civiliza- tion, 1500-1789; the Renaissance; Islamic history; history of Imperial Russia; history of Soviet Russia. LOUIS W. HODGES Professor of Religion L., terms of my 18 years of teaching at Washington and Lee, the most impressive and important single fact is that we see ourselves, and indeed perform, as a teaching institution. I find that this University does make good on its promise to be a teaching school. We carry out research and we publish—more than most faculties in colleges our size—but the fact is, we receive our principal reward and our principal sense of achievement from teaching. Washington and Lee has an eloquent “statement of institu- tional philosophy”; I suppose all colleges do. I imagine you are familiar with ours. It is an unusual statement of ideals, but that is not what is important about it. What is important about Washington and Lee’s statement, in my own view, is that more than any other place I’ve known, Washington and Lee comes close to providing in actual fact the environment in which those ideals can be pursued and achieved. This is the most impressive fact about the strange place we are. It’s unusual, it seems to me, for colleges to achieve what they claim in their statements of philosophy they intend to achieve. That is one of the things that keeps me impressed, and encourages me in my own teach- ing role; that’s the kind of place where I personally want to teach. Louis W. Hodges, professor of religion. BA, Millsaps College; Ph.D., Duke. Came to W&L 18 years ago. Co-author: The Christian and His Decisions: An Introduction to Christian Ethics (1969). Editor: Social Respon- sibility: Journalism, Law, Medicine (series published annually since 1975). Director, Society and the Professions program since 1974; co-teacher of courses in biomedical ethics, ethics of journalism, and legal ethics. 21 THREE NEW TRUSTEES Alumni Nominee Branch, ’58, South, ’51, and Swinarton, 750, Elected to Board Three alumni—an Atlanta attorney who was president of the Alumni Association in 1976-77, a San Francisco banking executive, and a New York brokerage firm executive—have been elected to the University Board of ‘Trustees. The three are Thomas B. Branch III, a 1958 B.A. and 1960 law graduate; Jerry G. South, a 1954 economics graduate who is president of BA Mortgage and International Realty Corp., a subsidiary of BankAmerica Corp.; and Robert W. Swinarton, a 1950 summa cum laude graduate who is vice chairman of Dean Whitter Reynolds Inc. All three were elected to initial six- year terms on the W&L Board at the trustees’ regular October meeting. Each will be eligible for re-election to one additional six-year term. Branch was nominated for Board membership by vote of the membership of the Alumni Association. He had been elected to a three-year term on the Alumni Board in 1974 and was elected national president of the association for the final year of his term. Jerry G. South 22 A partner in the firm of Greene, Buckley, DeRieux & Jones, he is president and chairman of the executive committee of the Lawyers Club of Atlanta and is an active member of the American, Georgia, and Atlanta bar associations, the American Judicature Society, the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, and a wide range of other professional and civic organizations. South joined Bank of America in 1958 and became counsel in its legal department in November 1967. Five months later he was named secretary and counsel of that company and shortly afterwards became secretary of the parent firm, BankAmerica Corp. He became vice president of Bank of America in 1970 and was made vice president and secretary of Bank of America two years later. He assumed his present position in January 1977. After graduation from W&L, South earned his law degree at Stanford University. He is active in several banking, lawyers’ and civic organizations. Thomas B. Branch IIT South was elected to the alumni board of directors in 1975 and was treasurer of the national association in 1977-78. Swinarton began his career with Dean Whitter in 1950 after graduation from W&L. He became municipal bond manager in 1958, sales manager partner in 1961, director of national research in 1963, and director of transaction services, a position he still holds, in 1969. He was given additional responsibilities as vice chairman of the board in 1972. He became a member of the board of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) in 1974 and was chairman in 1976. He has also been a director of the NASD Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) system since its inception in 1976. He has been a member of the Federal National Mortgage Association’s advisory committee and belongs to both the Bond and Municipal Bond clubs of New York City and to many other professional and community organizations. Robert W. Swinarton GAZETTE Philip Morris Ties W&L’s Strength in the Liberal Arts to $100,000 Gift Philip Morris Inc. has made a $100,000 capital gift to Washington and Lee toward the cost of renovating McCormick Library to become the new home of the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics. The gift was announced by Ross R. Millhiser, vice chairman of the Virginia- based corporation, jointly with W&L President Robert E. R. Huntley. Millhiser is the immediate past president of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, of which W&L is a member institution, and Huntley is a member of Philip Morris’s board of directors. Unlike business schools at almost any other institution, Washington and Lee’s incorporates two social science departments, politics and economics, with the academic disciplines of commerce, public and business administration, and accounting. The W&L commerce division places strong emphasis on combining the liberal arts with a rigorous pre-professional curriculum—a characteristic to which Millhiser pointed in announcing the Philip Morris grant. H “The interests of American private enterprise and American higher education—particularly independent higher education—are identical,” Millhiser said. “They are mutually dependent, and if either is to continue its progress and continue serving the American people, they must do it together. “We share Washington and Lee’s view that any education—in business or science or any other apparently dissimilar field—which disregards the liberal arts is an inadequate education. Our own corporate experience has shown time and time again that business and the arts and humanities are inseparable,” Millhiser said. “This grant, then, recognizes Washington and Lee’s distinguished tradition of academic excellence and service to the business sector and thus to the nation. It also reflects Philip Morris’s firm confidence that the course Washington and Lee has charted as its own educational program is the right one, a course which assures that business leaders in the future as in the past will be richly educated in the liberal arts as well as in their specialized fields of professional interest—which is to say, in Lexington, published last year, and she is short, that they will continue to receive working currently on a companion excellent educations.” volume about Rockbridge County The W&L commerce school was architecture. established in 1905, and is the smallest accredited unit of the American The first listing and evaluation of the Association of Collegiate Schools of books contained in Liberty Hall Business. In recent years about 75 Academy’s 18th-century library has been percent of Washington and Lee’s published in the Virginia Magazine of undergraduates have taken at least one —_ History and Biography. The article is by course each year in the school, and 45 Betty Ruth Kondayan, head reference percent of graduates last year earned and public-services librarian. Her their degrees in commerce, economics research was based on a recently or politics. discovered list of 101 titles in the library of Washington and Lee’s predecessor institution. Almost half the volumes, Mrs. Kondayan notes, were on the topics of religion, though a number of them Faculty activity The premiere performance of a new composition by Robert Stewart, professor of music, highlighted a concert by the Paul Price Percussion Ensemble in December. Stewart’s composition is entitled Voiages for Percussion and Piano, and was inspired by accounts of Cartier’s exploration of the St. Lawrence River. Pamela Hemenway Simpson, assistant professor of art history, presented a research paper on the topic “Vernacular and Provincial House Types in Rockbridge County” this fall at the annual meeting of the Southeast College Art Conference in Little Rock. Area architecture is among Dr. Simpson’s several research interests; she is co- author of The Architecture of Historic were by “nonconformist divines.” English literature was the next most Betty Ruth Kondayan heavily represented type of holding Leyburn fund grows identified on the book list, which she traces tentatively to 1796—followed by history, biography and travel as a single category, then by language and classics. Contributions from W&L alumni continue to augment the scholarship fund established in honor of Dr. James G. Leyburn by three of his Roger B. Jeans, assistant professor of former students at Yale University. Asian history, presented a paper entitled Dr. Leyburn taught sociology at Yale “Chang Chun-mai’s Educational from 1927 to 1947. He came to W&L Thought and Activities: A Case Study of in 1947 as dean of the University, a Experiments with Private Universities position he held for eight years, and [in China] During the Republican taught sociology until his retirement Period” to the annual mid-Adanue in 1970. He was one of W&L's most regional meeting of the Association for inspiring teachers and active schol- Asian Studies this. falk. ars. Additional contributions to the Leyburn Scholarship Fund may be John M. McDaniel, assistant professor sent to the W&L Development Of- of anthropology and director of the fice. Liberty Hall archaeological excavation under way at the University since 1974, 23 has been elected vice president of the Virginia Council of Archaeologists. John R. Handleman, assistant professor of politics, is the author of a research paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association this fall and an article published in the journal Asian Survey. The topic of both the paper and the article is the role of multi-national corporations in the formulation of mainland China’s foreign policy. Lawrence D. Gaughan, professor of law, presented an analysis of “The Implications of National Health Insurance for the Financing of Marriage | and Divorce Counseling” this fall to the 40th annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations. Visiting lecturers Speakers and performers who visited Washington and Lee this fall included: —Former U.S. Sen. James L. Buckley (R-Con., N.Y.), for a Lee Chapel lecture, co-sponsored by “Contact” and the 1980 Mock Republican Convention; —U.S. Rep. M. Caldwell Butler (R- Va.), whose district covers Lexington and who received the honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University last spring, for class sessions and a public question-and-answer forum, sponsored by the School of Law; —Dick Gregory, the nationally known comedian and social activist, for a lecture and reception, sponsored jointly by the Student Association for Black Unity (SABU) and the University Office for Minority Affairs; —Harold S. Gulliver, editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, for a lecture entitled “Ethics and the Journalist,” sponsored by the Society and the Professions program; —Prizewinning filmmaker and producer Ed Emshwiller, for a workshop and public lecture, sponsored by the journalism department; —A. Walton Litz, chairman of Princeton University’s English department, for a lecture entitled “The Meaning of ‘Modernism,’ ” sponsored by W&L’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; —The 38-member Hampton Institute Choir, for a concert of historical music, including traditional black spirituals, co- sponsored by SABU, the minority affairs office and the fine arts department; —Baritone Oscar McCullough, for a performance of Schubert’s song cycle 24 Winterreise, sponsored by the W&L Concert Guild; —The Rev. Henry H. Rightor, retired professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, to speak on “The Demoralization of the Law and the Desocialization of Religion,” as the inaugural lecture in a series sponsored by the School of Law; —Dr. Donald Gillin, professor of history and head of the East Asian studies department at Vassar College, for a lecture, “Misconceptions: America on China, China on America—Visual Images of One Another in Their Media, 1900 to the Present,” sponsored by W&L’s Asian studies program; —Leo Damrosch, professor of English at the University of Virginia and an authority on Samuel Johnson, for a lecture, “Freedom and the Self in the Puritan Imagination,” sponsored by the newly formed W&L English Club; —Andrei Voznesensky, noted Russian poet making his sixth tour of the United States, for a dramatic reading from his own works and for two receptions, under the sponsorship of the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment Fund, established in 1960 to promote “the art of expression by pen and tongue’ ; —Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek novelist and journalist, author of Z, made into a successful commercial motion picture, for a lecture and reading, also sponsored by the Glasgow Endowment; and —W. R. Carter, professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University, for a lecture, “The Life History Principle: Am I Identical With My Body?”, sponsored by the philosophy department. Scholarship established in memory of Halstead, ’79 An endowed scholarship has been established in the memory of Douglas C. Our trustees in print “Only Trigere kept me clothed during this ghastly hiatus of sloppy, falling-off clothes. The Paris show- ings give me hope that this utterly distasteful period of fashion will soon be on the wane.” —Mkrs. JAMES BLAND MARTIN quoted in W (published by Women’s Wear Daily), Nov. 10-17, 1978. Halstead, class of 1979, Washington and Lee University. The scholarship fund was established by his parents, Col. and Mrs. Warren Halstead, of McLean, Va. Douglas Halstead, born on June 2, 1957, was killed in a car accident while riding as a passenger on Nov. 16, 1976, in Arlington, Va. He had completed his freshman year at W&L. The Douglas C. Halstead Memorial Scholarship will be awarded on the basis of personal and academic merit, with preference given to students from Northern Virginia, particularly the McLean area. Endowed scholarships are created at Washington and Lee in recognition of gifts to endowment of $25,000 or more. John W. Warner, ’49, Trustee, elected to U.S. Senate John W. Warner, a 1949 Washington and Lee graduate and a member of the University’s Board of Trustees since 1968, was elected U.S. Senator from Virginia in November. He is a Republican. Warner defeated Andrew P. Miller (whose father, the late Francis Pickens Miller, ’14, was W&L’s first Rhodes Scholar) by a vote that was so close that it was not certified until almost four weeks after the election. Warner’s mar- gin of victory was 4,742 votes out of 1.2 million cast—less than 0.4 percent. Miller has said he may seek a recount. Warner received his B.S. degree in engineering and physics. He also holds a law degree from the University of Virginia. The Senator-elect is the son of another distinguished Washington and Lee graduate, the late Dr. John Warner, a physician who had received his B.A. degree in 1903. From 1955 until 1960, Warner was an assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. He was a lawyer in private practice in Washington at the time of his election to the W&L Board. He had been active in the 1960 and 1968 Presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, and in 1969 he was appointed Undersecretary of the Navy. He became Navy Secretary three years later. In 1974, President Ford named him to head the national Bicentennial Administration. After the Bicentennial, he returned to private life as a farmer in Middleburg in northern Virginia. He is married to the actress Elizabeth Taylor. Warner had sought the GOP Senatorial nomination last summer but lost to former state party chairman Richard Obenshain. The nominee died in an airplane crash during the campaign, however, and Warner was subsequently tapped to succeed him as the Republican candidate. At the nominating convention, Warner’s opposition had also included former Gov. Linwood Holton—a classmate and fraternity brother at W&L. In 1970 Holton had become the first Republican to win statewide office in Virginia since Reconstruction. Warner’s victory in November continued the revivified GOP’s sweep of most statewide elections ever since. When he is sworn in in January, among Warner’s colleagues—across the aisle—will be J. Bennett Johnston, ’54, Democratic Senator from Louisiana. President’s mother; Mrs. Huntley’s father The mother of President Hunt- ley and the father of Mrs. Huntley died this fall. Mrs. Elizabeth Royall Huntley of Winston-Salem, N. C., died Nov. 19 after a long illness. She was the widow of B. F. Huntley. In addition to Presi- dent Huntley of W&L, she is sur- vived by another son, Dr. Benjamin F. Huntley Jr., a physician;in Win- ston-Salem who attended ‘W&L in 1942-43 before going on to Duke and Harvard, and by six grandchil- dren. A memorial service took place in Winston-Salem. Eldridge Hall Whitehurst of Vir- ginia Beach, father of Mrs. R. E. R. Huntley, died Oct. 21. He was the retired vice president and general manager of Curtis Bay Towing Co. of Norfolk, a past director of the Vir- ginia State Chamber of Commerce, and former director and treasurer of the Hampton Roads Maritime Association, among many civic and professional distinctions. In 1968 he received the Hampton Roads For- eign Commerce Club’s “Commerce Builders” award. In addition to his daughter Mrs. Huntley, he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edith Winslow Whitehurst; two sons, William A. of Virginia Beach and Eldridge A. of Columbus, Ohio, and eight grandchildren. A funeral service took place in Virginia Beach, and burial was in Norfolk. Homecoming and Fall Reunions, 1978 A a Some students were carried away by the festivities at a Homecoming party at Zollman’s pavilion Homecoming Queen Lynn Williams of Mary Balduin College, representative of Sigma Alpha Epsilon The Classes of 1933, 1943, 1948, 1958, and 1973 held reunions during Homecoming weekend, and handshakes and cocktail conversation were the order of the day at this party on the Alumni House terrace. Among those present for the 45th reunion of the Class of 1933: (first row) John D. Crowl, Nace R. Collins, W.H.H. Wertz, Frank Calhoun, Copeland E. Adams, Gray Hume Jr.; (second row) John D. Copenhaver, Dodd DeVan, Henry M. Bandy Jr., Wallace N. Tiffany, John A. Culley, Allen D. Symonds. 20 EDWARD F. TURNER JR. Art is long and time is fleeting, said the poet. I take this to mean that the arts of men—those liberal arts that liberate us from the fetters of ignorance and super- stition, that illuminate the remote re- cesses of the world we live in and delineate man’s relationship to it—that these arts transcend time. It has long been a hall- mark of Washington and Lee that educa- tion in the sciences has been regarded as an integral part of this liberating process. Dr. Edward F. Turner Jr. Parmly Hall Dedication October 17, 1975 Edward Felix Turner Jr., scholar, teacher, researcher and author, was a man of deep and enduring commit- ments. He was devoted in full measure to his students and to helping them learn, not merely about academics but about life itself. To his teaching he brought consummate skill, compassion, and dedication. On Saturday, September’30, 1978, Dr. Edward F. Turner Jr., professor of physics at Washington and Lee and head of the physics department since 1961, died of cancer in a Charlottesville hospital. He was 58. Dr. Turner joined the Washington and Lee faculty in 1957—seven years after receiving both B.A. and B.S. de- grees from Washington and Lee and three years after serving on the faculty at George Washington University. (He had served during World War II as an infantry lieutenant with the 44th Divi- sion in Europe. He was wounded three times.) Turner earned his M.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology and his Ph.D. de- gree in physics from the University of Virginia. He became a full professor at Washington and Lee in 1959 and was named head of the physics department two years later. Under his leadership, the depart- ment of physics developed into a de- partment with physical equipment and a breadth of instruction virtually un- paralleled in colleges the size of Wash- ington and Lee. Yet, Turner was, per- 1920-1978 haps, most respected by his colleagues for the excellence he demanded in his students, while nurturing in them a love of learning and a compassion for their fellow human beings. His was devoted to others, always giving his undivided attention to a perplexed student or an inquiring colleague. Whether working with one or with dozens of people, his thoroughness and his absorption in the task at hand were unfailing. His determined ambition was to be good: a good scholar, a good teacher, a good member of his family, a good Christian, a good man. He worked tirelessly at these objectives—and achieved them all. Robert E. R. Huntley Memorial Service October 3, 1978 His commitment to undergraduate education led to his pioneering study of special problems and needs of college libraries through his directorship in 1967-68 of a project entitled “A Study of the Implications of Modern Tech- nology for Small College Libraries.” His other research interests includ- ed computer technology, and as chair- man of the University’s Computer Committee he committed vast amounts of time and talent to research on com- puters as well as to inaugurate, develop and insure the basic continuity of the committee. He was also extensively in- volved in the development of W&L’s computer center. In 1971-72, Dr. Turner was elected president of the Virginia Academy of Science, later becoming a Fellow of the academy in 1975. He was active in the American Physical Society, the Ameri- can Association of Physics Teachers and the American Association for Ad- vancement of Science. He was a mem- ber of Phi Beta Kappa and a former president of the W&L chapter and of numerous other honorary and _ pro- fessional societies. He was a deacon of Manly Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington and was active as a Sunday school teacher of young adults. The Washington and Lee com- munity mourns the untimely death of Dr. Turner, a dear friend and trusted colleague. “The longest life is a fleeting instant in the spectrum of time. Measured in the far less ephemeral terms of the quality of life, Dr. Turner may have outlived us all.” Robert E. R. Huntley Memorial Service October 3, 1978 26 by Gray Coleman, ’79 THE IRREPRESSIBLE MRS. M. For Her, Hooking Kids on Books Beats Playing Bridge and Drinking Sherry Betty Munger in a rare moment of repose in her Bookstore office. She arrives for her interview in a flurry of overcoats, order forms, and lunch-hour purchases. In rapid-fire fashion she answers questions from sales assistants, places a special book order for a faculty member, and greets a party of prospective students—all in something under three minutes. The interviewer follows in her wake, stunned by the activity. And just as he feels she’s forgotten their appointment, she swings on him with an open smile. “Would you like me to put on some makeup or something?” she asks, smoothing down her hair. “I just finished swimming 25 laps. Now I’m ready to get down to business.” Betty Munger is W&L’s Bookstore manager—and a dozen things more. Always in the forefront of campus discussion, her opinions are many, varied, and emphatically spoken. A graduate of Bennington College and a native Northerner, her road to W&L was a long one. “Of course you can ask me my age,” she laughs. “I can remember the Armistice of World War I; I was born in 1916. At college I was a pre-med—if you can believe it—but I had no money, so I ended up as a lab technician at Harvard Medical School.” There she met Dr. Robert Munger, a recent graduate of Tulane Medical School, and began a career that has occupied her to the present: “answering the phone for the family physician.” His work finally took them back to New Orleans, where they lived in the heart of the French Quarter. “It is a beautiful city, but Bob wanted a place where he could be a real family doctor,” Mrs. Munger remembers. “An academic community was what we decided on—preferably one with hills, because the flatlands and the heat of New Orleans were killing this Yankee wife. We just got in the car and stopped in dozens of little towns along the East coast. Finally, we got to Lexington, where Bob had spent two years as a W&L student. We returned soon after, knowing that Lexington was the place for us.” The Mungers were settled in Lexington by 1941, and this doctor’s wife proceeded to take the town by storm. When she arrived, the Lexington public library consisted of three shelves in McCrum’s Drug Store; in response to this challenge, she formed a library committee—and suddenly stood at the head of the Botetourt-Rockbridge library system, now located in a Gray Coleman is editor-in-chief of the Ring- tum Phi. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappaasa junior and is Louisiana’s first Harry S. Truman Scholar. 27 $100,000 building. Meanwhile, Mrs. Munger founded the local chapter of the League of Women Voters. Today, she can’t even count the number of organizations of which she has been head. “I consider myself a real professional in this respect. I really have served on more darned panels.” Her children, who grew up during these years, are (to put it mildly) a remarkable group. The oldest, Robert Jr., is another prominent physician; the second son, Chris, is a Hollywood director whose most recent project was the Grizzly Adams television series. And finally there is, of course, Sally Munger Mann, Washington and Lee’s award- winning photographer, who was “sort of a P.S.,” 10 years younger than the boys. Mrs. Munger seems as stunned by her family’s success as the rest of us. (“I get the feeling that they did it in spite of me.”) But she handles this, like all matters, with aplomb: “I’m as surprised as you are. And they’re all such great guys. The wonderful thing about kids is that when they grow up, they become your friends.” A fortunate series of coincidences brought Betty Munger into direct contact with Washington and Lee. She remembers that “the University, as a result of its Self-Study in 1966, gave top priority to creating an honest-to- goodness bookstore. The faculty especially pushed for it as part of the vital non-classroom teaching facilities— along with computers, laboratories, the theatre.” An extension was built onto the Supply Store, and in late 1966 the Bookstore opened with an inventory of $25,000. A law professor’s wife had been hired to manage the new store, but when her husband accepted a visiting lectureship the following spring, the University began looking for a new manager. “T was interviewed by nine faculty members—most of whom I’d known since they were little boys,” Mrs. Munger laughs. “When they asked why a 50- year-old woman would want the job, I told them, ‘My children are grown and 28 gone, I have a lot of life left to fill, and managing a bookstore sure would beat playing bridge and drinking sherry.’ ” Betty Munger’s commitment to W&L has grown steadily with her years of service. From the beginning, she has brought in numerous speakers and given autograph parties; among her guests have been the likes of James Dickey, Art Buchwald, and Howard Nemerov. “Truman Capote stood us up one afternoon,” she says, and many students still remember her unexpected arrival at another party for Capote later that same afternoon. Arms filled with books, she demanded that he make amends to her customers. He signed them on the spot. She has been given the “wonderful freedom” to keep the Bookstore filled with interesting (and often valuable) ooks. Five thousand titles or more are stocked at any given time, an amazing total for a campus so small. Responsibility for the textbook department and the campus record shop also passed to Mrs. Munger in 1977. (And as if that weren’t enough, she has Poet-novelist James Dickey and Betty discuss poetry ... among other things. been one of the Ring-tum Phi’s most faithful contributors of late, in her column “Eye and Ear.”) In spite of all that activity, Mrs. Munger’s greatest fame on campus comes as a result of her outspoken opinions on the widest imaginable range of subjects. The W&L faculty: “Their diversity and willingness to offer dozens of new courses is our greatest strength.” The Honor System: “Paraphrasing Churchill, it’s the worst form of student government, except for every other form that’s been invented. Honor is an internal thing. It comes down to the individual’s decision.” Coeducation: “I feel we discriminate against half the population. I miss the female presence here.” Such honorary organizations as Who’s Who Among Women, to which she was elected some years ago: “I told them they must be hard up for Virginia women if they got down to me. I also didn’t appreciate the $48 bill for their mock-parchment certificate.” Interested in all phases of W&L life, Mrs. Munger has won quite a following on the campus. One anonymous official states: “She’s the only parlor-radical and ERA zealot whom I could ever truly love. Betty is one of the few liberals who likes individual people as much as she likes humankind.” What is most refreshing is that she doesn’t take her situation too seriously. “How could I?” she asks. “After all, I’ve been around here so long that I can remember auditing a literature course and sitting between those two nice students Robert Huntley and Roger Mudd.” Betty Munger is, quite simply, an exceptional case. She sees her job as being “to hook kids on books, to help develop in them a habit of recreational reading which they will keep all through life.” But above all, she is a hell of a good friend. “You know,” she says, “I always knew I liked books and people, but I never expected the wonderful ‘extra’ of the great friendships I’ve found on campus.” Mrs. M., the pleasure is all ours. by Bill Schnier Sports Information Director | FALL SPORTS ROUNDUP The Football Generals Wind Up 2-8, But Watch Tailback Atkinson Fly The 1978 Washington and Lee fall sports season is now history and the winter season is occupying center stage. The football Generals finished their season with a 2-8 won-loss record in the first year under head coach Gary Fallon. W&L was fourth in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference race. After an 0-6 beginning, W&L won their next two games over the University of the South 14-13 and Bridgewater 23-12 before dropping a one point loss to Emory & Henry 18-17 and a two point decision at Georgetown University 27-25 in the season finale. The Generals were only three points away from a 4-6 season. Coach Fallon saw many positive signs watching his young team from the first game at James Madison through the finale at Georgetown. The positive and winning attitude of all the team members was evident throughout the season, and the hope is that the groundwork laid in 1978 will begin to pay dividends next fall. The highlight of the season was the play of junior tailback Stewart Atkinson. The Atlanta native nearly rewrote the entire W&L football record book with his play this season. In three seasons including his freshman year when he was only a part-time starter, Atkinson has gained 2,164 yards which is W&L’s all-time career high by over 700 yards. He is the only W&L back ever to rush for over 100 yards five games in a row, which he accomplished during the final five games of this season, including a season high 169 in the win at Bridgewater. His 928 yards this season (688 of them coming in the last five games) is a new single season high as is his 198 carries. The junior also holds the career records for touchdowns by rushing, 16, and career carries, 509. His 215 yards against Bridgewater in 1977 is a University single game high. The only feat Atkinson did not achieve this season was to rush for 1,000 yards, and he still has 1979 to accomplish that. Freshman quarterback Rich Hachenburg stepped in to lead the team in the fourth game of the year and completed over 50 percent of his passes Record-rusher Stewart Atkinson on the season. His 18 of 27 effort for 248 yards and one touchdown against Georgetown was the best W&L quarterback performance of the season. Senior split end Rich Wiles completed his W&L career with 112 catches, third on the all-time receiving list. A total of 14 seniors will graduate including tri-captains Car] Folcik at linebacker, Don Crossley at free safety and George Berry at offensive tackle. A very strong nucleus of young, experienced players does return, however, making the outlook for 1979 a bright one. The W&L players have elected Atkinson, and rising seniors Syd Farrar, a punter-tight end, and Scott Smith, an offensive guard, as 1979 tri- captains. SOCCER The soccer Generals completed their season with a 3-8-2 overall record and a fifth place finish in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. W&L’s three wins came over excellent soccer teams in Virginia Tech and Richmond, both Division I schools, and Dixie Conference champion Virginia Wesleyan. W&L played excellent defense throughout the season but had difficulty putting the ball in the net. The Generals were unable to score more than two goals in any game all season. Defensemen Homer Bliss and Dave McCollum played well as did goalie Kevin Carney. Sophmore Mark Turner led the team with two goals and two assists for six points, while seniors Howie Collier and Bill Stone each had a pair of goals. The soccer team has elected rising seniors Doug Dorsey, Dana Samuelson, and Doug Seitz as 1979 tri-captains. CROSS COUNTRY The 1978 cross country team finished their dual meet season at 7-8-1 and fifth in the ODAC. Co-captains Richard Bird, a junior, and Bob Bates, a senior, were W&L’s top runners throughout the course of the season. Bird narrowly missed qualifying for the national champ- ionships finishing ninth in the District ITI qualifying meet. The top eight individuals are eligible for the national competition. WATER POLO W&L’s water polo team put together a 15-9 overall record against the best competition in the eastern United States, in this, its second varsity season. The Generals finished an excellent second place in the 10-team Southern League behind champion Richmond. W&L finished ahead of Duke, East Carolina, North Carolina, James Madison, VMI, Georgia Southern, George Washington and Lynchburg. By virtue of their second place league finish, W&L represented the southeast in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships at Brown University, 29 FALL SPORTS ROUNDUP losing to host Brown, Ohio State and MIT. W&L was second in the Virginia State Championships which it hosted over Parents’ Weekend. Senior Keith Romich led W&L in 1978 with 78 goals in 24 games and Biff Martin was not far behind with 74. Romich and defenseman Mike Foley were named to the All Southern League first-team while Martin was selected as an alternate. Romich, Martin and Drew Pillsbury were named to the all-state team. WINTER SPORTS The 1978-79 winter sports season began on November 18 when the wrestlers participated in the James Madison Takedown Tournament and the swimmers hosted the JMU Dukes in Lexington. The wrestlers are defending ODAC champions and are looking to improve on their 1977-78 record of 9-8. The swimmers were tenth in the nation in Division III last year, their fourth straight season in the top 10. They also finished their dual meet season at 10-1, the best record ever for a W&L swimming team. Four returning All- Americans form a very strong nucleus for the 1978-79 mermen. The basketball Generals, defending ODAC champions and winners of 45 of 56 games during the past two seasons, opened the year over Thanksgiving weekend, hosting York and Allentown Colleges. W&L is defending their conference title without the “franchise” of the past two years, All-American Pat Dennis, ’78, who recently had a tryout with the Boston Celtics of the NBA. Coach Verne Canfield thinks his team has the potential to win over 20 games again this season and also be selected for the NCAA tournament, which would be W&L’s fourth appearance in the last five years. Seniors Mike Wenke, Dave Leunig and Ardith Collins will be asked to lead the 1978-79 Generals. BASKETBALL Jan. 20—Citadel Invitational «0.0.00... eee Away Nov. 4a Vora GS cee HOME _ Jan. 27—W&L College Invitational ................ HOME Nov. P5—AI]ENtOWN ........ceececescseeeceeeeeeceeeeeeeenee HOME (Catawba, Davidson, Eastern Mennonite, Nov. 29—Hampden-Sydney .................cseeeeeeees HOME Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg, Longwood, Dec. TA VETELO 650i. ek iT. aa HOME Pfeiffer, W&L) Dec. 5B—Lynchburg. ....... ee eeeeeeeeeeseeeoeeeneeenees HOME Feb. 1—Liberty Baptist «10.0... HOME Dec. 19-20—Rose-Hulman Tournament ................ Away Feb. 3—Pembroke State Brave Invitational .....Away (Terre Haute, Ind.) Feb. 7—Hampden-Sydney, Longwood ............ Away Jan. 5-6—Allegheny College Tournament ......... Away Feb. 9—Davidson 000... eeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaes Away (Meadville, Pa.) Feb. LO—Catawba ........ccccccccssccssscceceeesceneeeeeeeees Away Jan. 9—Castleton State, ...........ccccccccceeesesstreees HOME Feb. 15—James Madison .........-s:sseseeseresereeeeees HOME Jan. 12-13—11th Annual W&L Invitational ........ HOME Feb. 20—ODAC Championships ..............:::c08 Away (Transylvania, Ursinus, Maryville, W&L) (Lynchburg) Jan. 16—Hampden-Sydney ........:ccccseeeeeneee Away Feb. 23-24—NCAA Eastern Regional .............:++++. Away Jan. 18—Eastern Mennonite 2.0.0.0... Away Qualifying Tournament Jan. 20—Emory & Henry .........ccccccccceeeeeteees HOME Mar. l-3—NCAA Division III Championships ...Away Jan. 25—-GettySDu rg oo. c cocci cede ecesheheremamete st HOME (Humboldt State, Arcata, Calif.) Jan. 27—Bridgewater ..........sccceesseeeeesseeeeeeeseeees Away Jan. 30—Clinch Valley .....ccccccccccseceseseseseeeeeeees HOME INDOOR TRACK & FIELD Feb. I—Lynchburg ou... cece ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeees Away Feb. B—VMI Relays... eeececscsseccsesseeeeeeeeeeeeeees VMI Feb. 3—Randolph-Macon ..........:ceeseeeeeeeeeees HOME Feb. 10—Lynchburg ........ ee G shesuerdeesedegecsss Away Feb. 8—Emory 8 Hemry ......cceececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Away Feb. 24—-ODAC Championships ..............:caceees Away Feb. 10O—Bridgewater ............cccccccecscceseeeeeeeees HOME (Lynchburg) Feb. 13—Eastern Mennonite ............:ccccceeees HOME Mar. 3—Lynchburg Relays .................0:0cseeeeeeees Away Feb. L7—Ma ryville .0..........cccccssscssesseceevsesevsnneeoees Away Feb. 19—Oogelthorpe foie caccerscesenstenseconete Away SWIMMING Feb. 22-24—ODAC Championship Tournament ...Away Nov. 18—James Madison .............ccceeeeesseeeeeeeees HOME (Bridgewater, Va.) Dec. 2—RichMnd. ...........ccceeeeeeeecceeeeeeeeeeeeeees HOME Mar. 1-3—NCAA Regionals .........:cceeceererereerens TBA Dec. 6— Virginia Tech ...........:ccccceeeeseeeeeeeeees HOME Mar. 9 or 1LO—NCAA Quarterfinals 0... eee TBA Dec. 26-Jan. 6—Swimming Hall of Fame ..........0e Away Mar. 16-17—NCAA Division III Championships ...Away (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) (Rock Island, Ill.) Jan. 13—George Washington .............ccccccccceeeees Away Jan. 19—Morris Harvey ..........cccccccccccseseeeeeeees HOME WRESTLING Jan. ZO—Towson State 2.0.0... ceceeeececeeseeeeeeeeeeeees VMI Nov. 18—James Madison University .................. Away Jan. 27—William 8 Mary ......ccccecceeessseeeeeeeeeeeees Away Takedown Tournament Feb. 10—Old Dominion, VML ....................006 HOME Nov. 29—Lynchburg ......ee ee eeeeeeeeeeeeenees HOME Feb. 17—UNC-Wilmington, Virginia ................ Away Dec. 2—W&L INVITATIONAL ........ HOME Commonwealth (Maryville, G. Mason, JMU, Liberty (Wilmington, N. C.) Baptist, York, VMI, Campbell, W&L) Feb. 22-24—Virginia State Championships ............ Away Dec. BV Merce oie cegteccccsssnsenseseumcataednevens HOME (Blacksburg, Va.) Jan. 13—Duke, George Washington ............... HOME Mar. 15-17—NCAA Division III National ............... Away Jan. 17—FEastern Mennonite ...............::eeee HOME Championships at SUNY/Geneseo 30 by Phil Timp, ’79 MIKE WENKE: DYNAMO On the Court and Off, He Wins Respect for His Intensity and Leadership His coach calls him “twerp,” says he’s a nut but still thinks the world of him. ‘Teammates respect him for his leadership on the basketball court. And it appears the entire Washington and Lee student body is proud to know Mike Wenke. He’s now in his fourth year at W&L, and you just don’t hear anything bad about the 5-foot-9-inch, 145-pound package of perpetual energy. He says he lives his life with intensity, trying to share bits and pieces of it with anyone he can—and he seems to savor every minute of each day. On the court, Mike’s scrappy frame, seemingly swallowed up by an oversized W&L basketball uniform, is in constant motion as he dogs an opposing guard and forces him to take a hurried shot or make a bad pass. As a student, he is equally diligent with his studies, working hard to maintain a 3.6 average and hoping for acceptance into law school. And as a dorm counselor, one of the most prestigious student positions on campus, Wenke stresses to the 20 or so freshmen under his care the importance of finding moments of relaxation away from the grind of academic pressure at the small liberal arts school. “T love counseling the freshmen; I love this kind of responsibility,” Mike says, a smile broadening under a thick, black mustache. “I thrive on responsibility, I guess, and I try to do my best at whatever I try. This is something my parents always told me to do,” Wenke states with obvious pride in his voice. Mike is also genuinely interested in people. He craves attention from anyone who'll give him a minute or two to get wound up, and his vigor and vitality during the conversation most often wins him a friend. Wenke has defined his role in life as a leader, as the guy in command. And he began filling his role early in life. He always took it upon himself to be in command of situations and have others Phillip J. Timp is a senior journalism major from Abingdon, Va. Mike Wenke, scrappy “Twerp” look up to him—or at least look at him. As a youngster, with four brothers and five sisters growing up in suburban Philadelphia, Mike sometimes had trouble getting attention from mom and dad. Consequently, other people, most often strangers, would be subjected to large and unexpected doses of the fearless kid. As soon as he began to walk, Mike was wandering away from his Glenolden, Pa., home, leaving his diapers on the front steps. A constant attention seeker, Wenke stole from other picnic baskets when the family met in a park for the annual parish gathering. In the image of Dennis-the-Menace, Mike was the kid who'd go up to anyone and begin jabbering, who'd pull Santa Claus’ beard off his chin, and who’d snoop through the insurance salesman’s briefcase while the other Wenke children hid under the kitchen table fearing the intruder. At five, he visited one of his sister’s classes and proceeded to dominate and almost destroy the classroom. He perched himself on the instructor’s desk and spent the next hour “teaching” the third graders everything he knew. His sister, meanwhile, had bolted from the room in embarrassment and in tears. Mike claims all he wanted was to get involved. He didn’t want to be left out. Wenke filled his Cardinal O’Hara High School days with diversity, which included participation in activities ranging from athletics to drama to student government. Mike concentrated on basketball in high school and forgot about baseball, a primary interest in grade school. Using his quickness and his brains, the sparkplug of the high school team earned all-district honors and won the “Unsung Hero” award from his classmates. But school was much more than simply activities and books for Mike Wenke. He began realizing the importance of giving attention rather than receiving it all the time. He began to feel a sense of responsibility for other people. “T like when people come to me and _ask if they can lean on me,” Mike reflects. And it’s doubtful he ever turns anyone away. Although Wenke enjoyed success throughout high school, he was to reach greater heights at Washington and Lee. Head basketball coach Verne Canfield, a master at detecting a ballplayer’s strengths and weaknesses, was immediately impressed by Wenke’s hustle and dogged determination to win—whether it was a one-on-one match after practice or an Old Dominion Athletic Conference game against rival Lynchburg College. Canfield took Mike under his wing _and began to mold him into the point guard who would lead the Generals to three successive ODAC championships. Canfield clearly defined Wenke’s role as the point guard—he was the deft ball handler, the leader and signal caller on the court, and the guy who was) supposed to steady the team in tight, pressure-packed games. Wenke responded well to the pressures applied by his coach so early in his college career, but he wasn’t flawless. He admits to sometimes letting his emotional intensity override rational basketball thought. Mike recalls one play in particular his freshman year that 31 MIKE WENKE exemplified his extremely intense and emotional court play. With time running out on the clock and W&L behind by a point, Wenke stole a pass and converted a layup, putting the Generals up by one. He says he then became hyper, lost his head and committed a foul by diving after a loose ball. Fortunately for Mike and the Generals, W&L hung on to win the game. And this wasn’t the only time Mike could have played the role of the goat if luck hadn’t been on his side that initial year of college ball. “After ’'d make a big basket, I’d come down the court and I was just too intense,” Wenke says in a hurried, excited voice. “I’d come back on defense and kill the guy I was guarding if he had the ball. I’d just clobber him. I was crazy. I was so up I couldn’t think!” ,o A year of experience on the court and what Mike calls maturity followed him into his sophomore season. Mental mistakes occurred with much less regularity for Wenke, and the Generals thrived on the backcourt duo of Pat Dennis with his blistering jump shot and the little point guard dishing out assists. The team that year had its best record ever, 23-5, and were ranked fourth nationally among Division III schools. Wenke contributed heavily with a school record 196 assists, breaking Doug Clelan’s single season record by a margin of 74 assists. In his sophomore season, Wenke emerged as the real team leader, and the terms “Wenke” and “winning” easily became interchangeable when W&L basketball was mentioned. As Canfield saw fit, Wenke was given additional responsibilities his junior year, such as trying to sell the basketball program to interested high school seniors and calling most of the offensive plays on the court. Canfield says the added pressures were good for Wenke because “this is when he operates at 100 percent efficiency.” Mike’s teammates increased the pressure on him in his senior year by naming him captain—the only time 32 Wenke sends up a quickie. W&L teams have not chosen co-captains in recent years. This reflects on Mike’s leadership ability and confidence others have in him. Teammates Rob Smitherman, Pete Farrell and Carby Hoy all mention Wenke’s leadership role first when attempting to describe the spirited and devoted General. New assistant coach Jim Casciano, admitting that he didn’t know much about Mike prior to the first practice session Oct. 16, sees him as the epitome of the type of player W&L “probably tries to get to play for them.” Casciano, also from the Philadelphia area, has the highest respect for Wenke already, calling him “another coach on the court.” A man who’s known Mike for three full years, W&L Sports Information Director Bill Schnier is impressed with Wenke’s endless determination to win. “T’ve never seen a player try harder to give that extra effort,” Schnier says. “There are not many athletes at W&L as enjoyable as Mike.” Overshadowed by All-American Pat Dennis last year, Wenke nevertheless had by far his best season and consistently performed his role with crisp, exact passes to an open teammate breaking to the bucket for an easy layup. In fact, he did it so well, he shattered his record by over 60 assists. The Generals enjoyed another fine season, with a 22-6 record and a trip to the finals of the NCAA Eastern Regional Tournament. Excited about the prospects for a good season upcoming, Wenke talks about the competitive but close feeling that exists among the 14 players on this year’s team. “We're all friends, like a fraternity— but there’s lots of competition too,” Wenke says. “Like two or three guys are after my position now, and if I let up, someone’s going to get it. But I know that I’m never going to let up, so if someone does get my job, it’s because he’s a better ballplayer than I am. It’s not that I didn’t hustle and go 100 percent.” Mike has as much respect for the eight returning lettermen this year as they have for him. “Every one of the guys who played here last year is a leader, and they’re all showing it in a little different way,” Wenke says. He goes on about the “total determination” put forth by senior center Ardith Collins during practice, and Dave Leunig’s willingness to play on two very weak knees. Wenke points out the total absence of animosity among the ballplayers. He believes a team can only be successful when the boys give 110 percent to help each other on the court. “T’ve heard that other teams have disunity. But not us,” Wenke nods defiantly. “We’re a team, which is why we win. .. and that’s a great feeling.” Mike preaches learning from others and helping them in return. And he has been just such an example with his diverse schedule at Washington and Lee. As student manager at the dining hall and a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Mike says he stays in contact with 75 percent of the student body—a student body he thinks is great. He says he’s learned from them, and they’ve certainly profited by knowing Mike Wenke. CHAPTER NEWS AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM—Ross Hersey, ’40, chapter president; Dr. Hansford Thomas Jr., 31, with freshmen Thomas Thomas, John Wells, 68, and Mrs. Stowe. Michael Sokolowski, and Dr. Randolph Shields, ’32, vice president. AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM: A picnic, sponsored by the chapter to welcome three entering freshmen from Augusta and Rockingham counties, took place on Aug. 13 at the home of Dr. Randolph Shields Jr., 32, chapter vice president. Chapter president, Ross Hersey, ’40, welcomed the guests. Dr. Hansford Thomas Jr., ’31, attended with his son, one of the three entering freshmen. On Sept. 9 a small group of area alumni and guests attended a cocktail-buffet at the Spottswood Country Club in Harrisonburg. The occasion was a pep rally prior to the Washington and Lee football game against James Madison University. The arrangements were made by Bill Gunn, "42, and Dick Sloan, ’42. President Huntley and Mrs. Huntley headed a group of University representatives including three coaches wives: Mrs. Fallon, Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Miller. Also attending were Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins, ’68, assistant alumni secretary, and Mrs. Atkins, and William C. Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary, and Mrs. Washburn. CHARLOTTE. Area alumni and guests gathered with local Washington BUFFALO—Bob Priddy, ’67; Stewart Epley, 49, development associate; Joel Kocen, ’59, ’61L, Mrs. Kocen, and Dr. Jack Freeman, ’59. ~ and Lee students on Aug. 16 to welcome entering freshmen from Charlotte and their parents. The reception took place at the home of Alan Lee, ’69, chapter president. A brief business meeting was held to announce the chapter officers for 1979. Elected were: Gary Murphy, -’70, president; Lat Purser III, ’73, vice president; Tom Gillespie, ’72, secretary; and Henry A. Harkey, ’71, treasurer. Assistant alumni secretary, Buddy Atkins, 68, and Mrs. Atkins were guests of the chapter. BUFFALO. Alumni in western New York state met Aug. 20 at the Nichols School for a lunch given by Robert B. Priddy, 67, and Joel E. Kocen, ’59, ’61L. Assistant alumni secretary, Buddy Atkins, 68, showed slides of current campus scenes. Special guests included Bryan Kocen, ’82, and E. Stewart Epley, 49, development associate for the Northeastern United States. COLUMBIA. The Palmetto chapter of Washington and Lee alumni held their annual reception for area freshmen on Aug. 22. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lumpkin, parents of Larry Lumpkin, ’76, was the site of the CHARLOTTE—Gary Murphy, ’70, new chapter president; Harold Stowe, COLUMBIA—Larry Lumpkin, 76, and John Folsom, 76, Palmetto chapter president, at the meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lumpkin. gathering. Chapter president John Folsom welcomed the six young men from Columbia, who continue the steady flow of students from South Carolina to W&L. Guests for the meeting included development associate, John Hollister and Mrs. Hollister and Buddy Atkins, 68, assistant alumni secretary. The alumni discussed plans being developed for the exhibition of the Reeves Porcelain collection and the Louise Herreshoff paintings together for the first time at the Columbia Museum in November. CUMBERLAND VALLEY. A reception for nine current students and four entering freshmen took place at the Bavarian Inn in Shepherdstown, W. Va., on Aug. 24. Arrangements were made by chapter president, John Hoke, ’60, and his wife, Donna. Hoke also presided at the meeting. Charles Beall, 56, presented the report of the nominating committee and the following officers were elected: R. Noel Spence, ’56, 58L, president; John H. Tisdale, ’74L, vice president; and James B. Crawford III, 67, °72L, secretary-treasurer. Elected directors were: John Hoke; Roger Perry, ‘D4L; Judge Robert E. Clapp Jr., ’30; 33 CHAPTER NEWS Hoke. SSS PHILADELPHIA—Ned Coslett, ’70, chapter president, with Nim McCane, 72; Mrs. Bruce Phillips, and Bruce Phillips, ’73L. oh Howard Kaylor, ’50, 52L; and Mason Hendrickson, ’44. Present for the occasion and representing the ~ University were John Duckworth, ’71, staff associate for the development office and William Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary. MARTINSVILLE. The Southside Virginia chapter of Washington and Lee alumni conducted a dinner meeting on Aug. 25 at the Chatmoss Club in Martinsville. Area freshmen and their parents were honorees at the meeting which was arranged by Buddy Eanes, 54. Chapter president Victor Millner, 54, ’60L, welcomed the guests and introduced the speakers for the evening. Development associate, John Duckworth, ’71, and assistant alumni secretary, Buddy Atkins, ’68, made very brief remarks about the financial state of the University and the goals of the Alumni Association. Lewis John, ’58, dean of students, spoke about the academic state of W&L and the future of the University in the face of national trends. Mrs. John was also a guest at the meeting. NEW ENGLAND. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Gooch, ’31, in 34 EK SS SS CUMBERLAND VALLEY—Mrs. Robert Clapp and Judge Robert Clapp, MARTINS VILLE—Doug Frith, ’57L, with Vic Millner, ’54, ’60L, 30, talk at Shepherdstown, W. Va., meeting with John Hoke, ’60, and Mrs. x NEW ENGLAND—Mark McLaughlin, 82, and Nate Lovell, ’82, are president of the Southside Virginia chapter, at the meeting in Martinsville. greeted at freshman reception by senior Shaun Levesque, ’79. Worcester, Mass., was the setting for a reception for entering freshmen from the area and their parents on Aug. 25. William Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary, presented a series of colored campus slides. A question and answer period followed with a number of upperclassmen giving advice to the freshmen. Stewart Epley, ’49, University staff associate for the New England area, was also present with his wife, Nancy. PHILADELPHIA. The annual summer picnic of the Washington and Lee alumni in the Philadelphia area took place on Aug. 29. Chapter president, Ned Coslett, ’70, gave the party at his family’s home in Media, Pa. He was assisted by John Kelly, ’66, ’69L. A large group of alumni and guests gathered to welcome several freshmen from the area and their parents. University Trustee, James M. Ballengee, ’48L, was also present. MONTGOMERY. Many alumni and guests gathered at the Montgomery Country Club on Aug. 30 to meet and honor incoming freshman Alan S. Kendrick, and his parents. Mike Jenkins, ’64, president of the chapter, acted as master of ceremonies. John C. Hollister, 58, of Atlanta, who is a staff associate of the University Board of Trustees, spoke briefly of Phase II of the development campaign. Also attending was William Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary, who made remarks about Washington and Lee and presented color slides of the campus. NEW YORK. Chapter officers and other alumni attended a reception for 40 incoming freshmen and their parents at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan on Aug. 30. Special guests for the occasion were Dr. and Mrs. Louis W. Hodges. Dr. Hodges, professor of religion at Washington and Lee, was guest speaker. Jay Blumberg, a junior at W&L, commented about student activities and the honor system. Also attending from the University and taking part in the program was Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, director of development, who reported on some of the physical changes at W&L and emphasized the availability of faculty advisors and their counseling to students. John Ellis, 56, president of the chapter, concluded the program. On Oct. 27 the alumni of the New York area gathered at the University Club in Manhattan for one of $ and President Huntley, ’50. ye the largest luncheon functions on record. John Ellis presided atthe luncheon and expressed his -' appreciation to the Trustees and the representatives of the college for the opportunity of meeting with the New York alumni. He announced, very briefly, future plans and programs for the New York chapter. The occasion marked the fall meeting of the University Board of Trustees and also the meeting of the Robert E. Lee Associates whose annual dinner and meeting took place that evening. UPPER POTOMAC. Area alumni met for dinner on Aug. 30 at the Cumberland (Md.) Country Club. While noting that the chapter has had a graduate in each of the past two years, discussion took place about the recruiting efforts for the future. Albert D. Darby Jr., 43, volunteered to coordinate W&L recruitment activities with college-night programs about the area. CHICAGO. The chapter conducted a dinner meeting on Sept. 14 at the Chicago Bar Association Building. President Robert E. R. Huntley was the special guest and speaker for the MONTGOMERY—Philip L. Seller, 75; J. Michael Jenkins ITT, ’64; John Walter Stowers, ’42, and Charles Savage, 64. The meeting was held at the Montgomery Country Club, with John C. Hollister, ’58, presiding. NEW YORK—John Ellis (center) ’56, president of the New York chapter talks at University Club reception with Rector E. Marshall Nuckols Jr., ’33, evening. Other guests were college counselors from a number of the area secondary schools. Chapter president, Stanley A. Walton III, 62, ’65L, directed the program and greeted the large group of alumni and guests. ROANOKE. A large group of alumni and guests gathered on Sept. 22 fora reception at the Roanoke Fine Arts Center—Cherry Hill. The occasion, sponsored by the Roanoke Fine Arts Center and the Roanoke alumni chapter, was a preview exhibition of the paintings, drawings and water colors by Louise Herreshoff. Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Fishburn, ’55, were the hosts of the occasion. David Goode, president of the Roanoke Fine Arts Center, began the program. William L. Andrews III, ’72, president of the Roanoke chapter, expressed sincere thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Fishburn and then introduced James Whitehead, treasurer of Washington and Lee and curator of the Herreshoff paintings. Whitehead spoke of what the Herreshoff paintings have meant as a special gift to Washington and Lee. He was followed on the program by President Huntley who emphasized the University’s appreciation of the Herreshoff paintings UPPER POTOMAC—Standing with their wives seated in front are Leslie C. Rucker Jr., 64; L. Leslie Helmer, ’36; Albert D. Darby Jr., ’43; James A. Black, ’34, and William L. Wilson, ’38. ROANOKE—President and Mrs. Robert E. R. Huntley at the Roanoke Fine Arts Center with Mrs. Robert N. Fishburn and Robert N. Fishburn, ’55. A ‘ and expressed his delight at having this occasion to meet so many alumni and friends. Mrs. Huntley and Mrs. Whitehead also attended the reception. RICHMOND. The chapter conducted a dinner meeting on Sept. 27 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. During the meeting the following officers were elected: Robert H. Yevich, ’70, president; David D. Redmond, ’66, ’69L, vice president; L. Gordon Miller Jr., ’45, secretary; and J. Lee Keiger III, ’76, treasurer. Following the business meeting, members were invited to a lecture in the museum. RALEIGH. The eastern North Carolina chapter met on Oct. 27 at the home of Ted Vaden, ’69, chapter president. Betsy Vaden and secretary- treasurer Walter Lockhart III, 69, and his wife, Sarah, helped greet the guests. The recent visit of Mark Putney, ’78, W&L admissions representative, and the increased interest of potential applicants from area secondary schools in Washington and Lee were discussed by many of those present. Assistant alumni secretary Buddy Atkins, ’68, and his wife, Evan, were present for the reception. 35 CLASS NOTES oo ' THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ARM CHAIR AND ROCKER 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 occasions—Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, 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 $80.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. BOSTON ROCKER All black lacquer $65.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. Mail your order to WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Lexington, Virginia 24450 Shipment from available stock will be made upon receipt of your check. Freight “home delivery” charges can often be avoided by having the shipment made to an office or business address. Please include your name, address, and telephone number. 36 129 Lewis F. PowELL, JR., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, received the Alumnus of the Year Award of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity at ceremonies in Richmond, Va., on Oct. 21. The award was the first such annual award presented by the national fraternity. Powell is a Trustee of Washington and Lee University and of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Serving with the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, Powell rose to the rank of full colonel and was awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and France’s Croix de Guerre with Palm. He was president of the American Bar Association in 1964-65 and is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is also an honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, London. 1930 JupGE Rosert E. Capp Jr., former associate judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, with chambers in Frederick, has recently been named chief judge. The designation indicates that Judge Clapp is senior to his fellow judges in the circuit. 1931 Lewis F. POWELL JR. (See 1929.) 1934 Dr. JOHN D. BATTLE JR. is retired as head of the hematology department at the Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic. He is listed as Resident Emeritus Consultant and has been active in audio-visual education and has produced several video tapes relating to hematology. In July 1978 he presented the tapes before the International Society of Hematology in Paris. 1937 Howe it W. RoBERTS JR., a retired employee with the Aviation Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is now with the Greensboro-High Point (N.C.) Airport Authority as administration and properties manager. Roberts was with the New York Port Authority for 30 years and the last 15 years were spent at Kennedy Airport in properties administration. He and his wife moved to Greensboro in August and have built a new home. LATHAM B. WEBER, retired editor and publisher of the Salamanca Republican-Press (N. Y.) has been named visiting lecturer in journalism at Alfred University. Latham will teach a workshop course in advanced reporting and newswriting under terms of a grant from the Gannett Newspaper Foundation of Rochester. Weber worked for 23 years as a reporter, business manager and managing editor of the Salamanca newspaper before succeeding his father as editor and publisher in 1961. He retired in early 1978. 1940 RICHARD W. BoIssEAu, prominent businessman of Petersburg, Va., is executive director of the Appomattox Basin Industrial Development Corp. The firm represents the counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, and Prince George, and the cities of Hopewell, Colonial Heights, and Petersburg. The firm encourages new industry to locate in the area. 1943 WILLIAM G. S1zEMoRE of Greensboro, N. C., has been named president of Wachovia Mortgage Co. Sizemore is senior vice president and secretary of the Wachovia Corp., parent company of Wachovia Mortgage. 1945 RoBERT H. BeErrTINI is vice president and sales manager for Contractors Lumber & Supply Corp. of Greensboro, N.C. __, . Dr. S. ALLAN MCALLISTER is serving as a visiting assistant professor of chemistry at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla. McAllister has taught chemistry at several other colleges and was senior patent chemist in the photo products department of E. I. duPont before he entered the teaching profession. 1951 Davip C. G. KERR, prominent attorney and partner in the law firm of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, has been installed as president of the Greater Tampa (Fla.) Chamber of Commerce. Kerr has been active in community organizations for several years. His associations include: the University of Tampa, the Bar Association of Tampa and _ Hills- borough County, and the Committee of 100. He is past chairman of the Committee of 100. Kerr also serves as a director of the Atlantic Bank of Tampa, Smalley Transportation Co. and Tampa Ship Repair and Dry Dock Co., Inc. 1952 JOHN C. Joyce JR. has been appointed feature editor of the News in Lynchburg, Va. He has been city editor of the paper since 1966. Joyce, his wife, Estelle, and daughter, Elizabeth, live in Lynchburg. 1958 SHELDON CLARK is headmaster of Saint Michael’s School in Stuart, Fla. Clark’s career has included assignments at Westminster School (Simsbury, Conn.), Pembroke-Country Day School (Kansas City, Mo.), and most R. M. Tilley Jr., °58 recently, Ransom-Everglades School (Miami, Fla.). The Clarks have three children. Dr. Mark E. SmuLson has been promoted to professor of biochemistry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Smulson, his wife and two sons have returned from a sabbatical in London where he did research work in molecular biology at Kings College. Rice M. TIL.ey JRr., a member of the firm of Law, Snakard, Brown and Gambill in Fort Worth, Texas, has been elected to the board of directors of the Fort Worth National Bank. Tilley received his law degree from Southern Methodist University Law School and holds an L.L.M. Degree in Taxation from the New York University Law School. He currently is serving as chairman-elect of the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Section of the State Bar of Texas and was editor of the section newsletter from 1973 to 1978. He is a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and a member of the American College of Probate Counsel and of the Taxation and Corporate Sections of the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association. Tilley is a former president and current advisory board member of the Lena Pope Home, a former president and current board member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, Van Cliburn Foundation, Texas Art Alliance, Fort Worth Symphony Association, and the James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts. He is a member of the Fort Worth Progress, a former chairman of the Fort Worth Business and Estate Council, and recently completed a six- year term as a member of the board of governors of the Fort Worth Club. 1960 ROBERT L. ELDER has been named editor of editorial pages of the San Jose Mercury and News. Elder is married to the former Sarah Virginia Jones of Tullahoma, Tenn., and the couple lives in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. WALDO E. KNICKERBOCKER JR., a Native of Houston, Texas, was inaugurated as Dean of the Memphis (Tenn.) Theological Seminary in ceremonies on Sept. 27, 1978. Knickerbocker received his B.D. and Ph.D. from Emory University. He served two years in the U. S. Army. His ministerial experience includes local pastorates, campus ministry, college and seminary teaching. He is a member of the Memphis Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. For the past five years Knickerbocker has been professor of church history and Methodist studies at the seminary. He will continue his teaching responsibilities as he assumes the Deanship. He and his wife, Sandie, have two children. 1961 Dr. E. DARRACOTT VAUGHAN JR., formerly with the department of urology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, is now the Colt Professor and the head of the Division of Urology at Cornell Medical Center and the New York Hospital Complex. EpGAR B. WERTHEIMER III has been elected a senior vice president of Wheat, First Securities, Inc., in Newport News, Va. Wertheimer has been with the firm since 1969. 1962 American Insurance Marketing Corp. of Falls Church, Va., has appointed Davip AuLp vice president of the firm. GeorGE H. Van Sciver has been promoted to sales manager for the eastern region of ABEX Corp. in Philadelphia. Van Sciver lives in Radnor, Pa., with his wife Barbara and their two children. Harry TETER JR. resigned as executive director of the 13-state Appalachian Regional Com- mission to return to the private practice of law. Teter served as executive director for over five years. 1963 GreorGE W. Harvey Jr. has been selected as chairman of the board of counselors at the Uni- versity of Tampa. The board of counselors is a group of civic leaders from the Tampa Bay area who assist the university in fund raising and student-related activities. In this position, Har- vey will also be an ex-officio member of the University’s board of trustees. J. RicHarp UHLIc II has been named manager of the newly created department of office buildings development and operations of Maryland Properties, Inc., a subsidiary of Mc- Cormick & Co., Inc. Uhlig was previously marketing manager of MPI, which he joined in 1971. He is secretary-treasurer of the Balti- more-Washington chapter of the National Association of Corporate Real Estate Execu- tives. 1964 JouN M. Drxon is in a private ophthalmology practice in Albany, Ga. and has been elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Ophthal- mology. He is also head of the department of chalazion surgery at Palmyra Park Hospital. ROBERT MOTTLEY, after receiving his master’s degree from the University of Delaware, became a reporter for the Roanoke (Va.) World-News. For a year, 1971-72, he was a film critic with Knickerbocker News-Union Star in Albany, N. Y. Since 1972 Mottley has been in New York City as editor of publications at District 2 MEBA- AMO, a maritime union of licensed engineers 37 and mates on U. S. merchant ships. Since 1976 he has been editor in chief of the American Mari- time Officer, a newspaper for the maritime in- dustry. He is married to the former Pamela Guinau. 1965 MARRIAGE: HENRY BAXTER QUEKEMEYER JR. and Kathleen Frank on Sept. 23, 1978. The couple lives in Alexandria, Va. JAQUELIN H. DEJARNETTE has joined the Dayton, Ohio, office of McDonald and Co. DeJarnette, his wife and daughter are living in Dayton. Dr. ROBERT STAUFFER has been promoted to assistant professor of economics at Roanoke College. Stauffer has taught at several Virginia colleges, most recently at Hollins. 1966 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. KENNETH L. BERNHARDT, a daughter, Karen Sunday, on Aug. 22, 1978, in Washington, D. C. 4: BIRTH: Maj. and Mrs. RANDOLPH T. POORE, a daughter, Jennifer Lynn, on April 12, 1978. Poore graduated in June 1978 from the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College and is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N. C. He earned the MSME degree from the University of Alabama in 1974 and a master’s degree in engineering management from the University of Detroit in 1976. WILLIAM D. CANNON Jr. has been re-elected to the board of directors of the University of Vir- ginia Student Aid Foundation. Cannon is a realtor-builder and now lives in Culpeper, Va. J. PEGRAM JOHNSON III has been elected an assistant vice president of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. in Charlotte, N. C. Johnson joined Wachovia in 1973 and became a trust admini- stration officer in 1977. He received a law de- gree from the University of Virginia. 1967 In November 1977, PHILANDER P. CLAXTON III set a new time record for circumnavigating the world in a twin-propeller airplane. His record time was 104 hours, 5 minutes and 30 seconds and included nine stops for fuel. This broke the previous record by more than 18 hours and was accomplished on his fifth attempt. Claxton is chief executive officer of the Watkins Corp. and lives in McLean, Va. CHARLES C. HarT is now practicing law in Gads- den, Ala., and studying for an M. A. degree. Hart had a poem, “Dry Fly Fishing in Washing- ton, D. C.” published in the May 1978 issue of Washingtonian. 38 1968 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD K. CHRISTO- VICH, a son, Patrick Ambrose, on July 18, 1978. Christovich is a practicing attorney in New Or- leans. Dr. NEWTON B. MILLER is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology in Norfolk, Va. After leaving Washington and Lee, he completed his B.S. degree in business from Old Dominion Univer- sity where he lettered in wrestling and was on the newspaper staff. Following ODU, Miller went to Naval Aviation OCS and later became a Navy pilot. He was discharged from service in At Ogburn wedding are (kneeling) Daniel Drennen, ’76; Robert Gray, °75; Rush Dickson, ’76; Mrs. Ogburn; William Ogburn, ’76; Howell Morrison, 76; Robert Schuler, 81; (first row) William Cogar, ’76; Russell Chambliss, 74; William Pritchard, ’76; Douglass Farris, ’°76; John Darivin, 76; Kim Ratliff, °76; Walter Robertson, 76; Robert Couch, ’78; Barry Barlow, ’77; William Crawford, ’76; Kennedy Simpson, ’75; Neal Cory, 77; Don Sharp, 66; Edward Callison, ’77; (second row) Dennis Oakley, ’76; Woody Ray, °75,; Felix Drennen, ’73; Walter Kanstiener, ’77; Hal Welford, ’76; Tom Murphy, ’77; Bob Snyder, 76; Harry Hall, ’75; Edmund Seibels, °75; Richard Abernathy, ’73, and Billy Hiden, ’75. 1972 after which he entered a pre-med program for two years at Old Dominion University. He then attended Eastern Virginia Medical School and was awarded his M.D. degree in 1977. 1969 MARRIAGE: Rurus Dixon Kinney and Mar- garet Carolyn Perry on April 8, 1978, in Monte- vallo, Ala. Donald C. McClure Jr. attended the wedding. Kinney is enrolled in graduate school at the University of Montevallo. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Ray V. HARTWELL III, a CHAPTER PRESIDENTS Appalachian—Robert A. Vinyard, °70, Smith, Robinson & Vin- yard, 117 W. Main St., Abingdon, Va. 24210 Atlanta—John Hines, 63, Trust Co. Bank, P. O. Box 4418, Atlanta, Ga. 30302 Augusta-Rockingham—Ross V. Hersey, ’40, 1060 Lyndhurst Rd., Waynesboro, Va. 22980 Baltimore—James J. Dawson, ’68, ’71L, Cable, McDaniel, Bowie & Bond, The Blaustein Bldg., Baltimore, Md. 21201 Birmingham—David R. Pittman, ’75, The John G. Pittman Agency, 1101 S. 22nd St., Birmingham, Ala. 35203 Blue Ridge—H. Dan Winter III, ’69, Route |, Box 4, Fairgrove, Earlysville, Va. 22936 Central Florida—Warren E. Wilcox Jr., 57, Sun First Natl. Bank of Orlando, P.O. Box 3833, Orlando, Fla. 32897 Central Mississippi—Joseph P. Wise, ’74, P.O. Box 651, Jack- son, Miss. 39205 Charleston—Louie A. Paterno Jr., 65, ’68L, 710 Commerce Square, Charleston, W. Va. 25301 Charlotte—Gary L. Murphy, ’70, 1925 Shoreham Dr., Char- lotte, N.C. 28211 Chattanooga—Lex Tarumianz Jr., 69, ’72L, 111 Maclellan Bldg., 721 Broad St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 37402 Chicago—Stanley A. Walton, ’62, ’65L, Winston and Strawn, One First Natl. Plaza, Suite 5000, Chicago, Ill. 60670 Cleveland—Sidmon J. Kaplan, ’56, Landseair Inc., 1228 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Cumberland Valley—R. Noel Spence, ’56, ’58L, 123 W. Wash- ington St., Hagerstown, Md. 21740 Dallas—J. Harvey Allen Jr., ’61, 3919 Cobblestone Dr., Dallas, Texas 75229 Delaware—Benjamin M. Sherman, °75, 9-C Anthony Circle, Newark, Del. 19702 DelMarVa—FErnest I. Cornbrooks III, 67, Webb, Burnett & Simpson, 115 Broad St., Salisbury, Md. 21801 Eastern North Carolina—FE. B. Vaden Jr., 69, 3519 Turn- bridge Dr., Raleigh, N.C. 27609 Florida West Coast—George Harvey Jr., 63, WFLA-TV, 905 Jackson St., Tampa, Fla. 33601 Fort Worth—Rice M. Tilley Jr., 58, Law, Snakard, Brown & Gambill, Fort Worth Natl. Bank Bldg., Fort Worth, Texas 76102 Gulf Stream— Mercer K. Clarke, 66, Smathers & Thompson, 1301 Alfred I. duPont Bldg., Miami, Fla. 33131 Houston—W. B. Oglivie Jr., 64, Office of Executive V.P., Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030 Jacksonville— William H. Jeter Jr., °71, Adams & Adams, 314 Duval Federal Bldg., 135 W. Bay St., Jacksonville, Fla. 32202 Kansas City—Henry Nottberg III, ’71, U.S. Engineering Co., 3433 Roanoke Rd., Kansas City, Mo. 64111 Little Rock—William F. Rector Jr., 70, 506 N. Elm St., Little Rock, Ark. 72205 Long Island—Jeff Wexler, 69, The Oceanside Beacon, Box 126, Oceanside, N.Y. 11572 Louisville—Charles W. Dobbins Jr., ’70, 222 S. Birchwood Ave., Louisville, Ky. 40206 Lynchburg—Cecil W. Taylor, ’39, ’41L, 3844 Peakland Place, Lynchburg, Va. 24503 Mid-South— Jody Brown, 65, Box 77, Memphis, Tenn. 38101 Middle Tennessee—Ben S. Gambill Jr., 67, Briad Electric Co., 1100 Demonbrun Viaduct, Nashville, Tenn. 37215 Mobile— McGowin I. Patrick, 60, P.O. Box 69, Mobile, Ala. 36601 Montgomery—J. Michael Jenkins III, 64, 1655 Gilmer Ave., Montgomery, Ala. 36104 New England—Charles W. Pride, 72, Sexton Can Co., 31 Cross St., Everett, Mass., 02149 New Orleans— Richard K. Christovich, 68, 1208 Pine St., New Orleans, La. 70118 New York—John M. Ellis, 56, HAUS International, 1212 Ave- nue of The Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036 Northern California—Richard L. Kuersteiner, ’61, 1808 Black Mountain Rd., Hillsborough, Calif. 94010 Northwest Louisiana—John Madison Jr., 64, Wilner, Weiss, Madison & Howell, 411 Commercial National Bank Bldg., Shreveport, La. 71101 Oklahoma City—John C. McCurry, 66, 219 Couch Dr., Okla- homa City, Okla. 73102 Palm Beach-Fort Lauderdale—Nicholas S. Smith, 63, 2910 Okeechobee Blvd., W. Palm Beach, Fla. 33401 Palmetto—John W. Folsom, ’73, South Carolina Federal Savings & Loan Assn., P.O. Box 69, Columbia, S.C. 29202 Peninsula— Benjamin A. Williams, ’71, 134 Hampton Roads Ave., Hampton, Va. 23661 Pensacola— Robert D. Hart Jr., 63, 3985 Piedmont Rd., Pensa- cola, Fla. 32503 Philadelphia— Edward W. Coslett III, °70, 64 Paxon Hollow Rd., Media, Pa. 19063 Piedmont—James S. Mahan III, ’73, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Box 3099, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27104 Pittsburgh— Richard M. Johnson, ’56, Hillman Company, 2000 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219 Richmond— Robert H. Yevich, ’70, 6931 Navaho Rd., Rich- mond, Va. 23225 Roanoke— William L. Andrews III, ’72, 430 Canterbury Lane, Roanoke, Va. 24014 Rockbridge—P. B. Winfree III, 59, P.O. Box 948, Lexington, Va. 24450 San Antonio—Ralph E. Lehr Jr., 73, 10 Elmcourt, San Antonio, Texas 78209 St. Louis— Wallace D. Niedringhaus Jr., 66, 330 Oakley Lane, St. Louis, Mo. 63122 South Carolina Piedmont—I. Langston Donkle III, ’74, P. O. Box 695, Greenville, S. C. 29602 Southern California—Frank A. McCormick, ’53, Box 1762, Santa Ana, Calif. 92702 Southern Ohio— Thomas P. Winborne, 51, °53L, 3510 Arnold Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45226 Southside Virginia—H. Victor Millner Jr.,’54,’60L, Vansant & Millner, Drawer 110, Chatham, Va. 24531 Tidewater—Richard C. Burroughs, 68, 409 Yarmouth St., Norfolk, Va. 23510 Tri State—Charles F. Bagley III, 69L, Box 1835, Huntington, W. Va. 25719 Tulsa—Dan W. Higgins Jr., 69, 1200 First Natl. Bldg., Tulsa, Okla. 74103 Upper Potomac— Albert D. Darby, ’43, 507 Cumberland St., Cumberland, Md. 21502 Washington— James A. Meriwether, ’70, Arthur Andersen & Co., 1666 K St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 Westchester/Fairfield Co.—Chester T. Smith, 53, 108 Inwood Rd., Darien, Conn. 06820 West Texas—Stephen H. Suttle, 62, 1405 Waodland Trail, Abilene, Texas 79605 second son, William Scherer, on July 19, 1978. Hartwell, an attorney with the Richmond law firm of Hunton and Williams, has been on the board of governors of the Antitrust Law Section of the Virginia State Bar since 1977, and was elected vice president of the section at the an- nual meeting in June 1978. GREGORY B. Crampton has become a partner in the law firm of Broughton, Wilkins, Ross and Crampton. He lives in Raleigh, N. C., with his wife and two daughters. JOHN Ray TuRMAN is completing his dissertation for a doctorate in German literature at the Uni- versity of Texas. His subject is the influence of mysticism and idealistic philosophy on German Romantic literature. Turman recently self- published a science fiction novel, Saxon and the Sorceress. 1971 J. GREGORY TINAGLIA, a chartered life under- writer, has joined with three partners to form an insurance consulting firm in Roanoke, Va. Tinaglia is a director of the Roanoke Valley Association of Life Underwriters. 4 } 1972 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. WaAtrTeR S. BLAKE, a son, Thaddeus Malachi, on Aug. 6, 1978. This is the second child for the Blakes, who have a daugh- ter, Malaika, age 7. Blake is an associate in the firm of Hammer, Siler, George Associates, a Washington-based economic and development consulting firm. The family resides in Reston, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. W. HENRY JERNIGAN JR., a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, on Feb. 28, 1978. Jernigan is associated with the firm of Jackson, Kelly, Holt and O’Farrell in Charleston, W. Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Roperick A. Munpy JR., a son, Lawrence Roderick, on July 30, 1978. Mundy received a doctorate in political science from the University of Florida and is now on the faculty of MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Il. ROBERT P. BEAKLEY has been selected for inclu- sion in the 1978 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America. RoBERT A. Carrere earned his master’s degree in humanistic psychology at West Georgia Col- lege in June 1978, and is now working on his doctorate in clinical psychology at Adelphi Uni- versity in New York. Lawson H. Marsua_t has been named city edi- tor of the News in Lynchburg, Va. He had been the state editor of the News since 1974. Marshall and his wife, Kathleen, have a daughter, Jessie. At Ruffin wedding are Peter C. Keefe, 78; W. Kirkland Ruffin, ’°77; Mrs. Ruffin; Walter D. Kelly Jr., °77, 81L; James N. Falk, ’77. 1973 MARRIAGE: E tuts L. GuTsHALL and Deborah Lee Coleman on Sept. 9, 1978, in Birmingham, Ala. Gutshall is employed by the First Virginia Bank in Roanoke, Va. The couple resides in Salem. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. DENNIs Myers, a daugh- ter, Michele Elizabeth, on July 31, 1978. Myers is an accountant with Arthur Young & Co. in Charlotte, N. C. JEFFREY DIAMOND is a purchasing agent for Astro Chemicals, Inc., of Springfield, Mass. He and his wife, Wendy, live in Longmeadow. WabE D. Gowt is a sales representative in the home office of Porta-Space Inc., a Baltimore based firm that leases and sells construction trailers throughout the country. Davip S. Grossman is teaching junior high school history and coaching soccer and tennis at L. N. Nau, ’74 Jacksonville Country Day School in Jacksonville, Fla. After finishing medical school at the University of South Carolina and one year of general sur- gery at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. JoHN MARGOLIs is now in a neurosurgery residency at Baylor. He is also president of the Baylor Housestaff Association. 1974 MARRIAGE: Wi.u1aAmM DuvaL Apams IV and Patricia Alene Beckley on Aug. 19, 1978, in Roanoke, Va. The couple lives in Charlottesville where Adams is employed by the University of Virginia Bookstore. MARRIAGE: BeERnarp J. Lewis and Deborah Fravel on Aug. 5, 1978. Included among the wedding party was Jerrod Godin ’73. Lewis completed his doctorate in psychology at the University of Virginia and is now working as a staff psychologist at the Community Mental In compliance with Article 9 of the By-Laws of Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc., the names and ad- dresses of the Nominating Commit- tee for 1978-79 are listed below: Peter A. Agelasto III, ’62 Committee Chairman Agelasto and Agelasto P.O. Box 3217 Norfolk, Va. 23514 James P. Sunderland, ’50 President, Ash Grove Cement Co. 1000 Ten Main Center Kansas City, Mo. 64105 Owen H. Harper, ’59 Executive Vice President Crocker National Bank 611 West Sixth Street Los Angeles, Calif. 90017 The committee is now receiving the names of candidates to fill three seats on the Alumni Board of Direc- tors and one vacancy on the Univer- sity Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics. Under the By-Laws, any member NAME YOUR CANDIDATE of the Alumni Association may sub- mit names of alumni to the Nominat- ing Committee for nomination for the offices to be filled. Alumni may send names directly to any member of the committee or to the committee through the office of the Executive Secretary of the Alumni Association at the University. The committee will close its re- port on March 12, 1979, and present its nominations to the annual meet- ing of the Alumni Association on May 12, 1979. The annual meeting coincides with the Spring Reunion Weekend. Members of the 12-man Alumni Board of Directors are elected to four-year terms, with the terms of three members expiring each year. Retiring from the Board in May are: Edwin J.. Foltz, ’40, of Camden, N. J., Robert M. White II, ’38 of Mexico, Mo., and Jerry G. South, 54, of San Francisco, Calif. Alumni members of the Athletic Committee serve two year terms, with one alumni member retiring each year. ‘The member retiring in May is Sid- mon J. Kaplan, ’56, Cleveland, Ohio. 39 Health Center in Vincennes, Ind., where his wife is a special education teacher for the city schools. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. C. D’Arcy Dip1IeER a son, Benjamin Peal, on Oct. 2, 1977. Didier has left the private practice of law in Bridgeport, Conn. and has joined Continental Forest Industries as area manager, Industrial Relations, for its Corrugated Division with offices in Columbus, Ohio. He and the family reside in Worthington, Ohio. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Norsert S. GARBISCH III, a daughter, Samantha Mary, on Sept. 22, 1978. Garbisch lives in Connoquenessing, Pa. Larry N. Nau has joined Bank of Virginia Co. as an assistant vice president in the marketing division, where he will be manager of product planning. Nau resides in Richmond, Va. 1975 MARRIAGE: Tuomas Woopwarp TINSLEY and Pamela Page Whitesell on Aug. 5, 1978, in Lex- ington, Va. Tinsley is an electronic technician on the Washington and Lee staff. ‘William G. Tinsley, ’39 was best man. : S. LAWRENCE DuMVILLE graduated in’May 1978 from law school at William and Mary. Dumville lives in Virginia Beach and is associated with the firm of Breeden, Howard and MacMillan in Norfolk. PETER G. D. ERTMAN is a geologist with the Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Depart- ment of Interior. He is temporarily in Phoenix, Ariz., in a training course entitled “Mineral Re- source Management.” He expects to return to his permanent station in Las Vegas, Nev., in December 1978. Ray V. HARTWELL III (See 1969.) W. HENRY JERNIGAN Jr. (See 1972.) 1976 MARRIAGE: James C. Goutp and Dorothea B. Hecht on Aug. 5, 1978, in Tampa, Fla. Gould is a senior at Harvard Law School and his wife is a lawyer employed by the Securities Exchange Commission in Washington. MARRIAGE: WILuiAM H. OcBurn and Elizabeth Schuler on May 20, 1978, in Birmingham, Ala. Included in the wedding party were: William Cogar, ’76; Hal Welford, ’76; Barry Barlow, °77; William Crawford, ’76; Neal Cory, ’77; and Robert Schuler, ’81. The couple is living in Nashville, Tenn., where Ogburn is finishing his last year in the MBA program at Vanderbilt. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Danie. E. DRENNEN II, a son, Glenn Ireland, on June 25, 1978. Drennen 40 “a Foster, 80; Steve Hallowell, ’80. isa senior at the Cumberland Law School in Birmingham and will graduate in December. CRAIG GRAHAM is working with Domino Inter- national Inc. out of Alexandria, Va., and will have short assignments in Madrid, Spain and Paris, France, as well as other European mar- kets. Prior to accepting this position, Graham had completed a Rotary Fellowship in Cairo, Egypt and had been employed with American Filtrona Co. of Richmond. WALTER S. ROBERTSON III is working in the commercial department of De Jarnette and Paul Insurance, Inc. in Richmond, Va. 1977 MARRIAGE: ANTHONY GAYLE PERRY and Deborah Elizabeth Baker on Aug. 26, 1978, in Lexington, Va. Eugene C. Perry Jr., ’75, ’78L and John X. Miller, 77, were members of the wedding. Perry is a lieutenant in the U. S. Army finance corps stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. MARRIAGE: W. KirkLanpD RUvuFFIN and Julia Clare Ziurys on June 17, 1978, in Gates Mill, Ohio. Members of the wedding included James N. Falk, ’77; Peter C. Keefe, ’78; and Walter D. Kelley Jr., 77, °81L. The Ruffins live in Char- lottesville where he is a second-year medical student at the University of Virginia. MicHaeEL A. BraGG is associated with the law firm of William Rogers McCall, ’73L in Bristol, Va. He just completed a clerkship for U. S. Circuit Court Judge H. Emory Widener Jr., *B3L. Douc ass W. DewinG is a first year law student at Washington University in St. Louis. JAMEs M. Dick has been appointed technical correspondent for purification sales of Darco carbons in the specialty chemicals division of ICI Americas, Inc. at corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Dick, his wife, Mona, and daughter live in Claymont, Del. BrabD-ey S. ELLiort is working for the Augusta (Ga.) Herald, an evening daily paper. Elliott works with Howard Eanes, a former W&L pro- fessor. Rep H. GrirFIn has passed his CPA exam and been promoted to staff A at Coopers and Ly- brand in Richmond, Va. WALTER H. KANSTEINER III is a member of the faculty at the Baylor School in Chattanooga. VAUGHAN M. Put7z has returned froma year of graduate study at Friedrich Alexander Univer- sity in Erlangen, Germany. He also traveled extensively in western and central Europe. Pultz is now enrolled in graduate school at the Uni- versity of Minnesota. At Strong wedding are (first row) Ken Ruscio, 76; Mark Ulmer, ’77; Craig Cornett, 80; Syd Farrar, ’80; Mrs. | Strong; John Strong, ’77; Pete Abitante, ’78; Stewart Atkinson, ’80; (second row) Dave M eyers, 80; Steve Herald, 80; Randy George, ’81; John Sacco, ’78; Jay G. Scott THomas is working for WXXI, a radio station in Rochester, N. Y. SAMUEL E. THOMPSON is sports editor of the McDuffie Progress in Thomson, Ga. JAMES B. WoopDDELLt is a second-year student at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry. 1978 MARRIAGE: JaMEs G. SHERIDAN JR. and Jenni- fer Lane Bodenhorst on July 29, 1978, in Lee Chapel. Members of the wedding included James G. Sheridan, ’50; John M. Sheridan, ’74; and Steven C. Yeakel, 78. Sheridan is studying for a year in Germany. MARRIAGE: JOHN STRONG and Carol Ritten- house on June 24, 1978, in Worcester, Pa. After a honeymoon in New Hampshire, the Strongs will spend the next year in Sweden where he is on a Fulbright Scholarship. ROBERT H. JACKSON is enrolled at Louisiana State University Medical School at Shreveport. IN MEMORIAM 1912 RODERICK BEDDow, one of the most prominent lawyers in the state of Alabama, died Sept. 13, 1978, in Birmingham. After graduating from Washington and Lee, Beddow received his law degree from the University of Alabama. 1925 FRANK PHILIP FISCHER, founder of the Frank P. 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