JANUARY 1979 iversity e S a wo = "oO ington an f wash 1 Magazine O 2 the alumn Ce the alumni magazine of washington and lee (USPS 667-040) Volume 54, Number 1, January 1979 Withany G. Washburn. 40 «=. 2. ee Editor Romulus T. Weatherman ............ Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, 68 3... 6... ee Associate Editor yeltrey LM. Hazel, 77 eer s. a ee Assistant Editor Jey Carter: o..3 i ee Editorial Assistant Sale Mann in ee ee Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS The Gréat Move. .......0000.05 ee l A “Great Mover” at Work ......4..............4.... 6 New Commerce Home ..........,.555....... 10 W&L Gazette .ooccc i ee 12 Colvin in Oxford 2.0.0.0... .. 16 Latture at 87 2.000055) 18 “Coupon Scholarships” ......5 00.222 18 New Book by Davis ..............ccccceeeeeeeees Sela ene 20 William M. Hinton, 1907-1979 .........ccc ccc eeceeeeeee 21 “The W&L Ideal” by James G. Leyburn... Ze Chapter News (25. 25 Class Notes 6...002.55. 28 In’ Menforiait 0 A eee 38 Published in January, March, April, May, July, September, Octo- ber, and November by Washington and Lee Unuwersity 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. A a i Officers and Directors Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. EpwIn J. FoLtz, ’40, Gladwyne, Pa. President WILLIAM P. BOARDMAN, 63, Columbus, Ohio Vice President RICHARD A. DEnNNy, 752, Atlanta, Ga. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, '40, Lexington, Va. Secretary Leroy C. ATKINS, ’68, Lexington, Va. Assistant Secretary W. DONALD Bain, ’49, Spartanburg, S. C. PuHiLip R. CAMPBELL, 757, 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. ROBERT M. Wuite II, ’38, Mexico, Mo. ON THE COVER: The unusual photograph by Sally Mann on the front cover suggests the celerity with which 1,700 volunteers completed the transfer of 140,000 books from old McCormick into the University’s new undergraduate library. They were speedy. Instead of the seven hours predicted, the job took just two and one-half hours. One of the most ebullient participants was Rupert Latture, shown on the back cover in the full regalia for the “Great Move.” Mr. Latture recently turned 87 and is in his 68th year of service to W&L. His latest article on a sidelight of the University’s history—and a brief sketch to show that even if little else in life stays constant, at least Rupert Latture does—is on page 18. ” SN Seventeen hundred volunteers moved across the new back campus mall from old McCormick into new library (shown below, viewed from Tucker Hall). Photographs by Sally M ann jand Esther Burns THE NEW LIBRARY ‘Triumphant “Great Move’ Marks Opening of W&L’s Newest, Biggest Building The University moved into its new 130,000-square-foot, $9.2-million undergraduate library in January. The building, under construction since mid-1976 on the central back campus, is almost four times the size of the old library, McCormick, and is the largest building at Washington and Lee. The new facility, which has not been named, has study space for 800 students, about 60 percent of the undergraduate student body, with 600 individual carrels located throughout the four levels of stacks, enabling students working on particular projects to have their own undisturbed work areas where the books they need are actually shelved. There are also seminar rooms throughout the building and numerous private offices which faculty members and honors students may reserve for a term at a time. The new library is open 24 hours a day. The library has the capacity to accept every technological innovation currently known or anticipated, including computerized information retrieval. The building has a capacity of 500,000 volumes. The University’s undergraduate library collection currently THE GREAT MOVE consists of 370,000 volumes, but some of those books are located in separate departmental libraries in journalism and the natural sciences. The periodicals area in the new library has space for current issues of 1,500 publications. The reference room can accommodate 10,000 volumes. The special collections area—where rare books, the University archives, and similar resources are kept—has a large reading room and display area for 2,500 volumes. There are soundproof typing and music-listening rooms throughout the building. The library also has a 100-seat auditorium. The building is located immediately behind Washington Hall, and was situated so as to become “the physical as well as the intellectual hub of the campus,” the University notes. The new library has long been badly needed. McCormick was renovated and enlarged to its site limit in 1941 and could be expanded no further. But since then, the number of holdings had grown by more than 300 percent; the size of the undergraduate student body had doubled; the curriculum had expanded from 291 courses to more than 760. McCormick’s shelves were 95 percent full, and W&L even had to rent a warehouse to store some of its books. (A college library is considered to be at maximum efficiency when its shelves are 75 percent full.) Further, McCormick was structurally incapable of being equipped in any satisfactory way to accept new electronic and technological developments which could not have been foreseen in the 1940s. Thirteen years ago, in its accreditation report, Washington and Lee acknowledged that the space problem in McCormick was “critical.” Planning for the new building began almost immediately, and the new library became the largest capital project in Washington and Lee’s Development Program for the Decade of the 70s. The final stages of the move from old McCormick to the new library were a community-wide effort—with alumni and townspeople joining the W&L student body and faculty in carrying 140,000 books to the proper shelf areas in the new facility. Left: Head Librarian Maurice D. Leach (at right in photo) and Stephen L. Mangan, senior from New Britain, Conn., chairman of the Library Move Committee, were clearly pleased. Bottom left: Taking a break during the move is T-shirted toiler President Huntley. Below: Leach greets a library staff member of long ago, Miss Elinor Pendleton Gadsden, now 92, who was on hand for the occasion. “y The time: Mid-morning on the day of the “Great Move.” The place: Old McCormick Library. “Excuse me,” a newly arrived volunteer says. “I’m looking for the 5-A’s.” “This is the line,” a student says agreeably. “Good. Where do I pick up my shopping bags?” “Inside. But you don’t think you’re going to make nine trips now, do you?” “This is going to continue ’til 3 or 4 this afternoon—sure I'll make my quota.” An interruption from the lobby of McCormick. “Attention please. Attention/—thank you. All 4-B’s will now become 5-A’s. There are no more books on the fourth level.” “And you haven’t made one trip yet?” Fade out. The Great Move was clearly not meant for 10-o’clock scholars. | But who would have thought that 140,000 books—close to half of Washington and Lee’s undergraduate library collection—would be moved in 2% hours? Even the most optimistic University officials had expected it to take at least 9 seven, and that depended on 1,000 volunteers. (A professional crew would have taken 10 days and charged an estimated $60,000.) What happened to the University’s reckoning was that 1,700 volunteers showed up instead of 1,000. The Great Move was precisely that—great; glorious. They came—seventeen hundred students, teachers, administrators, alumni from all over Virginia, and hundreds of townspeople—insulated against subfreezing temperatures with down jackets, wearing layers and layers of coats, scarves, sweaters and hats. They moved one by one into the old library, talking to people nearby, shouting to friends and neighbors in earshot. Once inside, they moved up the stairs to individually assigned stack levels and removed two 12-inch slices of books at a time, placing each into a big Leggett bag (trustee Gordon Leggett, ’54, happens to be vice president for public relations of the department-store chain that bears his family name, and he saw to it that the 2,000 bags the move required would carry the Leggett name and emblem). Each group of books Top left: Samuel L. Sanderson, ’22, toted his share. Above: The old basketball arena in old Doremus Gymnasium was the command post where volunteers received their precise assign- ments. Left: A student takes a section of books from old McCormick. There were more than 10,000 “sets” of books marked off in groups for the move. THE GREAT MOVE was marked off by a color-coded computer card that directed the volunteer to a particular floor, “range,” section and shelf in the new library, a hundred or so yards away. Each carrier followed an assigned path to the new building and put the books, in order, in the proper space. Simple. And indeed it was. Everyone was impressed by the smoothness of the operation. (For those who are totally helpless when it comes to dealing with the points of the compass and who therefore find the simplest, clearest directions more confusing than a chart for nuclear physics, there even were friendly, patient traffic monitors everywhere along the routes.) The library was open for business that very afternoon. Some townspeople who had planned to begin work around lunchtime arrived to begin their labors but found students studying in the new building instead. “Overwhelming,” said Maurice D. Leach Jr., W&L’s jubilant head librarian, when it was over. Margaret Williams of the library staff was the guiding force behind the Great Move, responsible for all the logistics of the undertaking from the day planning began early in the fall. In a resolution adopted at its February meeting, the faculty, not famous for rash overstatement, confessed its “admiration and appreciation” for her meticulous planning and execution of the task—a sentiment endorsed by everyone who had taken part in the move. The library “triumph,” the faculty waxed, “became the University’s own,” and “will ever stand among the most exhilarating experiences in Washington and Lee’s long history.” Tom Mattesky, a reporter for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke (who happens to be a graduate of the W&L journalism department), said on the news that evening: “The two generals for whom the University is named would have been impressed by the organization and orderliness of it all.” The Great Move was more than just an achievement of planning and preparation. It was a community-wide effort of goodwill. Many townspeople worked the day of the move and many others had been involved in the preliminary work— taking inventory of the books in the old building, assembling shelves in the new library, and helping transport the Top left: A specially constructed temporary ramp from the second story of old McCormick allowed workers to head for the new building without running into workers returning for new loads. Above: Workers go in and out of the new Ii- brary; those in the top of the photo are using the “bridge” leading to the back campus. Far left: Leggett Department Stores supplied 2,000 sacks for the “Great Move.” Left: Robert L. Carson of Lexington brought a backpack-hamper so as to be able to carry several loads at a time. University’s rare books, archives, and special collections during the Christmas holiday. The point of involving W&L and townspeople alike in the move was to provide a way for them to acquire immediate, first-hand familiarity with the new library, Head Librarian Leach said—and to give them a personal stake in it. One reason townspeople responded so well is that in Lexington, a small college town, W&L looms large—and the University has always made its library resources fully available to residents of the area. A quarter of the W&L library’s book circulation and a quarter of the reference questions the staff is asked come from people in town who have no direct connection with the University—and the town appreciates it. To help encourage the volunteer turnout, the University provided snacks throughout the day and a roast-beef- sandwich lunch in the new building. Area businesses supplied premiums which were awarded by lottery throughout the day. Also awarded were T-shirts with a distinctive emblem noting “The Great Move,” and every participant received a plastic cup commemorating the Below: At party in vacated McCormick, Li- brarian Leach celebrates with a bottle of “Eau du New Library.” Right: After a morning of furiously paced work, students found the reading room—and everything else—in old McCormick bare. Bottom right: Diligent (and lucky) workers wore T-shirts which were awarded by lottery throughout the day. f occasion. The faculty cancelled undergraduate classes so students could participate fully. Of no small importance, too, was the prospect of the huge party the University gave in the old library after the work was completed—with two live bands and 40 kegs of beer. The original plan was that one would have to carry 18 loads of books to receive a ticket to the party. But when the move was completed before noon, with vast numbers of people still wanting to make trips but no books left to carry, the Move Committee decided to celebrate by opening the party to everybody who had worked at all. The party was a psychological reminder that venerable old McCormick, the University’s library for 73 years, was closing its doors—for the time being. (As reported elsewhere in this issue of the magazine, McCormick will be transformed over the next year and a half into a new home of the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics.) Even before the party, though, the verdict was in. “It was the social event of the year,” one Lexington resident said. “Better even than V-J Day!” Cyt Photographs by Sally Mann SHE MOVED IT Tracing the Steps of a ‘Great Mover’ One of the most enthusiastic volunteer workers was Mrs. Malcom D. Campbell Jr. of Lexington, whose late husband graduated from W&L in 1932. She was among the first to arrive in the morning, and stuck it out through the post-move party that night. Sally Mann, the University’s chief photo- grapher, followed Gillie Campbell and recorded her day’s work—and fun—in this picture essay for the Alumni Magazine. Wu ees 2. ... Mrs. Campbell became a “3-B” mover. l. Receiving her assignment in the gym, , 3. From the gym... Ij Wenabipiiie, BE sre Boa pans tenorannins ne Geewene senoniie 4, ... across the back campus . . . . First, pick up a shopping bag. . ... 0 the back of old McCormick. - Down one of the 3-B stacks in McCormick. 10. Take them off the old shelf, keeping them in order. 13. ... up the 3-B ramp into the new library. 12. ... across the new driveway behind Reid Hall... 14. Sally Wiant, head librarian in the School of Law, gives traffic guidance. 15. And onto the proper shelf in the new library goes the bagful of books. Then, in the elevator, Mrs. Campbell greets Dr. John M. Evans of the English department. 19. Out the front door and across the little bridge, | back to McCormick for yet another load of books, if any are still left. 21. And, that night at the gala party in empty old McCormick, a quaff of something cold — and frothy to celebrate the achievements of _ a memorable day. : 18. |... notes that Mrs. Campbell’s work was appreciated. 20. Roast beef sandurches with a group of fellow workers—students and their date s—in the new building. NEW HOME FOR COMMERCE $3.5-Million Renovation of McCormick Library Is Under Way The University has begun a $3.5- million, 18-month project to renovate and completely remodel the vacated Cyrus Hall McCormick Library building to become the new home of the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics. W&L moved from 73-year-old McCormick into the new undergraduate library building in January, as reported elsewhere in this issue of the alumni magazine. McCormick will provide more than three times as much usable space for the commerce school as Newcomb Hall— 37,545 square feet, vs. 11,542. The commerce division has been located in Newcomb ever since it was established in 1906 as the School of Commerce and Administration. The “new” commerce facility will have seven classrooms, including two auditorium-like “conference classrooms,” one seating 80 and the other 50; three seminar rooms; several studies, and offices for 23 faculty members, the dean, and staff. The reading room in old McCormick will be kept as the library and reading room in the commerce school. Current professional periodicals and reference and research volumes will supplement the main commerce collection, which was moved into the new undergraduate library. In addition to considerable seating capacity in the commerce library room, there will be two nearby rooms of student carrels. McCormick will also have a separate room for data- processing terminals linked to W&L’s new computer. There will be lounges for both faculty and students. The central section of the building will have three stories after the remodeling, replacing five levels of former book stacks. The exterior of McCormick will not be changed, but the area around it will be extensively landscaped, and the new mall which is being developed across W&L’s back campus will be extended to link McCormick with Reid Hall, the new library, and Parmly Hall (the “new” science building) and with the back of 10 McCormick Library is being renovated to house the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics. the Colonnade. The mall is named for John M. Stemmons of Dallas, the W&L alumnus and trustee emeritus who was chairman of the first portion of the University’s decade-long development program for the decade of the 1970s. As part of the McCormick project, extensive additional sitework will also be undertaken, including redevelopment of parking on the House Mountain side of McCormick and landscaping on the Front Campus side of the building, around the ODK Circle. Newcomb has long been too small and outmoded for W&L’s commerce program—even before the nationwide surge in the numbers of students taking business-related majors and elective courses. (At Washington and Lee, two social sclences—politics and economics—are physically and administratively included in the commerce school.) The commerce division was given full use of Newcomb in 1936 when a major renovation of the Colonnade buildings took place and administrative offices were moved from that building to Washington Hall. At that time, the commerce school enrolled 163 students, had a faculty of 11, and offered 42 courses. The full-time commerce faculty now numbers 20. This year, 72 different courses are actually being taught. And for the past five years, the average number of students enrolled as majors in the commerce school has been 298. (The figure this year is 315.) In 1978, business administration was the major taken by the largest single number of graduating students at the University (40 majors). Economics (with 35), accounting (30), and politics (28) were the third, fourth, and fifth most popular majors. In all, 45 percent of W&L’s 1978 B.A. and B.S. graduates took their degrees in the commerce school. Approximately the same percentage is expected again this year. Marcellus Wright, Cox & Ladd, of Richmond, is the University’s architectural firm for the McCormick project. The same firm designed not only the new library but also Lewis Hall, the $9-million law facility completed in 1976. Bass Construction Co., also of Richmond, will be the general contractor for the McCormick renovation. Bass was W&lL’s agent for the library, and University officials say they were impressed with both the quality of the contractor’s work and the construction schedule Bass observed on that project. (The library was completed six months ahead of the original schedule, and costs were kept at or slightly below estimates.) McCormick is actually two buildings— one inside the other. The central section was built in 1906, and the library was named for Andrew Carnegie. In 1941 it was remodeled and enlarged, by constructing a new building around the walls of Carnegie. It was then renamed for Cyrus McCormick, the Rockbridge County native who invented the reaper. McCormick was a trustee and important benefactor of Washington and Lee following the Civil War. After the commerce school moves into McCormick in mid- or late 1980, Newcomb will be renovated to accommodate undergraduate departments in the liberal arts and sciences, which are similarly overcrowded and scattered in various buildings on the Colonnade. 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Fulwiler Jr. Robert A. Fulwiler Jr., ’25, assistant general counsel of Hercules Powder Co., Fred O. Funkhouser, ’34, chairman of the board of United Virginia Bank of Spottswood, and J. Sanford Doughty, associate development director at W&L from 1970 to 1976, were “tapped” into honorary membership in Omicron Delta Kappa during the Founders’ Day Convocation in January. ODK is the national honor society for leadership. It was founded at Washington and Lee 65 years ago, and now has chapters on the campuses of more than 160 colleges and universities. Five law students and 18 under- graduates were also “tapped” into ODK membership. Dr. James Graham Leyburn, the eminent sociologist and social historian who was dean of the University from 1947 until 1954 and professor of sociology until his retirement in 1973, was the principal Founders’ Day/ODK speaker. The text of his remarkable address is printed elsewhere in this issue of the magazine. After graduation from W&L, Fulwiler earned his law degree from Harvard. He has been associated with Hercules Powder Co. of Radford, Va., since 1966. Funkhouser is a past president of the Virginia Industrial Bankers Association and past president of the Stuart Hall Foundation of Staunton. He joined United Virginia Bank of Spottswood in 1953. 12 J. Sanford Doughty Doughty received his bachelor’s degree from Williams and his M.B.A. from Harvard. Before joining the W&L development staff he was development director at Lake Forest (Ill.) College, and prior to that was manager of advertising and public relations for Container Corporation of America. He is retired in Lexington. The undergraduate seniors inducted into membership in ODK’s Alpha Chapter are John C. Bovay of Lakeland, Fla. (an accounting major), member of the Student Recruitment Committee and former member of the student Executive Committee; Robert M. Burkholder Jr. of Lebanon, Pa. (politics), president of Pi Sigma Alpha, the honor society in politics, and co- chairman of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes; Robert A. Calvert of Lynchburg (history and art), member of the student E.C. and former class president; Also, James O. Davis III of ‘Tampa (English), president of the Interfraternity Council; David A. Hamra of Charlton Heights, W.Va.(economics), co-chairman of the University Council, which is delegated by the faculty to act in many non- curricular areas; Harry F. Hoke III of Richmond (mathematics and physics), captain of the swimming team and former class president; John E. Jacobsen of Washington, D.C. (English and drama), officer and ODK ‘Taps’ Two Alumni, 23 Students, and Former University Official Fred O. Funkhouser student director of the University Theatre; Freeman E. Jones of Richmond (American history), president of the senior class, former class vice president; Parker B. Potter Jr. of Bexley, Ohio (English and French), president of the Publications Board and editor last year of Ariel, the student literary magazine; James R. Shoemaker of Frederick, Md. (English), editor of Arzel this year; William T. Thistlethwaite of Washington, D.C. (biology), co-chairman of the Student Recruitment Committee and assistant head dormitory counselor; Michael F. Wenke of Glendolen, Pa. (psychology), captain of the basketball team and student director of intramurals; and Richard B. Wiles of Danville, Va. (physics and engineering), Most Valuable Player on the football team and co-captain of the basketball team. Undergraduate juniors elected to ODK membership are David E. Costine III of Richmond (European history), vice president of his class last year and this year; P. Craig Cornett of Camp Springs, Md. (politics and economics), president of the University Federation, W&L’s service society, and co-chairman of the 1980 Mock Republican Convention; Leslie A. Cotter Jr. of Columbia, S.C. (economics), president of his class this year and last year and a Mock Convention steering committee member; Singleton D. Keesler Jr. of Charlotte, N.C. (English and German), member of the student E.C., the University Council, and the I.F.C.; and William M. Matthai Jr. of Baltimore (chemistry and independent major in mathematics and the natural sciences as well), first in his class academically and dormitory counselor. Law students “tapped” were Waller T. (Beau) Dudley, of Alexandria, Va., president of the student body and a captain of the W&L National Moot Court Team; Richard P. Goddard of Mishawaka, Ind., former member of the student E.C. and currently research editor of the Law Review; John Thomas Jessee of Princeton, W.Va., Burks Scholar in law and a captain of the National Moot Court Team; Jessine Monaghan of Garden City, N.Y., a Burks Scholar and president of the Women Law Students’ Organization; and John F. Murphy of Metuchen, N.J., a Burks Scholar, contributor to the Law Review, and semi-finalist in the National Moot Court Competition. New film society focuses on ‘quality’ movies A new film society, dedicated to sas é bik. providing “an alternative to the kinds of movies shown by area commercial theatres and other campus film? organizations,” was formed at Washington and Lee in October, and made good on its promise in its first three months by presenting Ingmar Bergman’s acclaimed Cries and Whispers; a West German thriller, Chinese Roulette; another West German film, a serious character study-cum-thriller, The American Friend; and a classic 1960 French comedy, Zazie. The W&L Film Society is supported largely by a grant from the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment Fund and through private contributions. Leaders of the organization are Dr. Carren Kaston, assistant professor of English who teaches courses in film as literature, and Jay A. Diesing, a sophomore from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. All the films presented by the society are shown free of charge to the public. Faculty activity The Civil War letters of a prominent Lexingtonian and 19th-century Washington and Lee University official, Dr. Gerard Maurice Doyon Col. J. K. Edmondson, have been collected and edited by Dr. Charles W. Turner, professor of history. The book is My Dear Emma: War Letters of James K. Edmondson, 1861-65, and is the sixth in a series of Rockbridge histories ‘Turner has written or edited in recent years. Edmondson was a Washington College graduate who fought with the Stonewall Brigade; after the war he was elected mayor of Lexington and judge of the local court. He was treasurer of the college from 1865 until 1868 and was secretary of the Board of Trustees from 1870 until 1898. “Emma” was his wife Emily, whom he married in 1856. Dr. Gerard Maurice Doyon, professor of art history, is the new director of the University Center In Virginia’s atelier in Paris—an art and music studio located on the right bank of the Seine, available for use by faculty members from the University Center’s 15 member institutions. Doyon will direct the atelier operations while remaining a full-time faculty member at Washington and Lee. Dr. I. Taylor Sanders II, associate professor of history and W&L’s official historian, was the speaker at Lee- Jackson Day ceremonies in Staunton this winter. Sanders told his audience— composed of civic club members from throughout western Virginia—that at a time when the concepts of “duty and honor have been debased at the highest levels of government,” Americans ought to turn to the example of Robert E. Lee “and study him, and learn from him what it meant to be a great Victorian gentleman.” Dr. John M. McDaniel, assistant professor of anthropology and director of the Liberty Hall archaeological excavation, was chairman of a session on academic sites in January at the annual conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This was the first year that academic sites have commanded the attention of that scholarly organization, McDaniel said, and he credits the five- year-old Liberty Hall project with giving “legitimacy” to the topic. Freshmen choose law, business, medicine—again Law, business and medicine, in that order, are the leading career choices of this year’s Washington and Lee freshmen, according to results of a survey taken in September by the American Council on Education (ACE). A quarter of the freshmen—25.2 W&L Board member John W. War- ner, 49, was sworn in as the new U.S. Senator from Virginia Jan. 2 in a cere- mony in Richmond. He had been elec- ted in November in perhaps the closest election in Virginia history. Warner’s first day in Washington— Jan. 3—was described by Richmond Times-Dispatch Washington columnist Charles R. McDowell Jr., 48: “Begin- ning Senators tend not to complain about [being assigned offices “on a back corridor, pretty far from the elevator and without much of a view”]. They are too pleased just to be in the institu- tion. They spend their first days getting deferred to by just about everybody The Senator is new; the subway 1s old hat around the Capitol, selecting a per- sonal staff that will be paid an aggregate up to about $700,000 annually, learning about their allowances for supplies and computer terminals and branch offices, petitioning their party leaders for choice committee assignments, and maybe catching the little subway train to the Senate chamber where they will officially take the oath on Jan. 15 and officially become statesmen. “Warner did a little of all that yester- day, and did it with considerable charm and grace. He had worked around here before, as secretary of the Navy and head of the Bicentennial, and he knows his way to the subway.” 13 percent—said they intend to become lawyers. By way of comparison, the national average for male freshmen at undergraduate colleges was only 6.5 percent. A fifth of the freshmen—20.3 percent—said they plan to enter business. The national men’s percentage was 16.0. Medicine was named as their career choice by 16.4 percent of W&L’s 1978 freshmen, compared with 6.4 percent nationally. The statistics are taken from survey data released in January by the acre. The survey encompassed freshmen at 254 other four-year colleges across the nation in addition to Washington and Lee. Law, business, and medicine have been the top career choices among Washington and Lee freshmen in every recent ACE survey. This year, however, the figure for law dropped from its usual 30-to-35-percent level, and the proportion of freshmen who said they were “undecided” on a career rose to 16.4 percent in 1978 from the previous year’s 11.1 percent. The drop can probably be attributed to widespread national publicity in recent years about the overabundance of lawyers in the job market, W&L officials say. The University noted that even with the drop, the figure for W&L is four times the national men’s average. The figures for business and medicine among Washington and Lee freshmen this year were virtually identical to the W&L figures in those categories for each recent year in the annual ACE surveys. Washington and Lee’s “strong academic reputation” was named by 86.5 percent of the 1978 freshmen as a “very important reason” in deciding to attend W&L. (Only 50.7 percent nationally included that as one of their “very important reasons” in choosing a college.) As they always have, Washington and Lee freshmen again this year characterized themselves as political conservatives in far greater proportion than did their peers elsewhere—39. 1 percent at W&L, almost twice the 20.9 percent figure among male freshmen in the 254 other colleges surveyed. And only 11.8 percent at W&L said they regard themselves as liberals, less than half the 23.9-percent national figure. The AcE survey included a large number of questions on individual social attitudes, and Washington and Lee’s freshmen took a laissez-faire, “keep- 14 government-out” attitude toward all of them. Combined with their self- professed conservatism, that seems to indicate a generally libertarian attitude among W&L’s class of 1982, observers in the media and on campus agreed. Two appointments in Lewis Hall library Lynn Wishart, a member of the Washington University (St. Louis) law library staff since 1971, and Nan Elizabeth Smith, a 1978 librarianship graduate of Emory University, have been named to the professional staff in Lynn Wishart Nan Elizabeth Smith the Wilbur C. Hall Library of the law school. Ms. Wishart is the W&L law library’s new associate librarian. She is a political science graduate of West Virginia University who holds her library degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from Washington in St. Louis. Ms. Smith received her undergraduate degree from Smith College before enrolling at Emory, where she was a library assistant while working toward her graduate degree. Journalism workshop attracts 85 high-schoolers More than 85 secondary-school students from western and central Virginia took part in a journalism workshop sponsored by the Department of Journalism and Communications in December and by the campus chapter of the professional journalists’ organization Sigma Delta Chi. Hampden H. Smith III, assistant professor of journalism and former assistant city editor of the Richmond News Leader, organized the day-long series and spoke to the students on the topic “Accuracy and Precision: The Journalist’s Guideposts.” Clark R. Mollenhoff, professor of journalism and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, spoke on “The First- Amendment Responsibilities of the Press.” In addition, a number of professional newsmen from the area conducted small panel discussions on such topics as editing and makeup, sportswriting, feature writing, editorial writing, basic reporting techniques, and newspaper business management. Lewis Hall landscaping receives architects’ award Lewis Hall, the University’s new law building, received the 1978 “Merit Award” of the Pennsylvania-Delaware Mrs. John G. Boatwright of Danville, Va., a generous benefactor of Wash- ington and Lee for many years, died Dec. 19. She was chairman of the board of Carter Glass & Sons Inc. of Lynchburg, publishers of the Lynchburg Daily News and Advance. Her husband, who sur- vives her, is a member of W&L’s class Mrs. John G. Boatwright, benefactor of W&L of 1915. Their son, the late Robert Mc- Dearmon Boatwright, was a 1942 B.A. graduate. In 1971, the Boatwright Fund for special library collections at W&L was established in memory of Robert Boat- wright, and Mrs. Boatwright was a generous supporter of that endow- ment. chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for “improving the quality of man’s environment.” The Lewis Hall landscaping was the design work of GWSM Inc. of Pittsburgh, formerly Griswold, Winters, Swain & Mullen. That firm, through W. Thomas Borellis, its associate who is Washington and Lee’s principal landscape planner, has also designed most of the rest of W&L’s landscape projects throughout the 1970s, including those at the new undergraduate library, near Lee Chapel, by the Warner Center gymnasium complex, and at the old McCormick Library, currently being renovated and remodeled for the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics. The fine arts at W&L The Gemini Trio (formerly called the Amata Trio) presented a concert of works by Bach, Brahms, Berg, Stravinsky, Messiain and Prokofiev in the forms of solos, duets and trios on piano, flute and clarinet. Baritone Gerald Crawford, associate professor of music in applied voice at Western Illinois University, presented a program of works by Mozart, Schumann, Rorem and Ives. The University Theatre opened its current season with a production of Otherwise Engaged, a two-act psychological drama by British playwright Simon Gray. The production was directed by drama major John Inner courtyard as viewed through a window of Lewis Hall Jacobsen as his senior project. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was presented in the round, and was directed by Dr. Albert C. Gordon, head of the fine arts department and professor of theatre. The third major production of the season was Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, directed by senior drama major Hunt Brown in February. A Japanese actor and teacher, Akira Matsul, was in residence at W&L fora week this winter under the auspices of the Glasgow Endowment. Matsui, founder of schools in Wakayama and Akira Matsui conducts a workshop in Noh drama. Tokyo dedicated to training performers in the classic conventions of Japanese acting, conducted a five-day workshop in that dramatic form, known as Noh drama. Exhibitions in the University’s duPont Gallery have included: Sculpture by H. I. Gates, a member of the studio art faculty at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in a W&L show organized by Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Weinstein, friends and patrons of the University’s art department for a number of years; Sculpture by Jacob Epstein from the collection of the Museum of African Art in Washington, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution; Paintings and prints by Chinese artist Liao Shiou-Ping; Prints by a 1975 Washington and Lee graduate, Turner McGehee, a former student of the University’s artist-in- residence, I-Hsiung Ju, and currently a graduate student in etching and lithography at the University of North Carolina (Greensboro). Another fraternity at W&L Washington and Lee has a new social fraternity—the University’s 16th. Chi Psi, a national fraternity founded in 1841, expects to establish its permanent W&L home in the old Ann Smith School building at the corner of Nelson Street and Lee Avenue, across 15 from the post office and adjacent to the W&L Student Center at the southeast edge of the campus Chi Psi formed at Washington and Lee in 1976. It has chapters at 30 other colleges throughout the country. Washington and Lee bought the abandoned Ann Smith building for $130,000 from the city in December on Chi Psi’s behalf. The fraternity plans to renovate it extensively. No timetable has been set for the fraternity’s occupying the building. In the meantime, Chi Psi has temporary headquarters in one of the University’s Wood’s Creek Apartment buildings behind the main campus. W&L’s Lafayette featured at Washington Antiques Show Washington and Lee’s famous portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, painted in 1779 by Charles Willson Peale as a companion piece to his earlier portrait of George Washington, was the principal exhibition loan item at the annual Washington, D.C., Antiques Show in January. The painting was also reproduced in color on the cover of the catalogue of the exhibition, which is regarded as one by Milton Colvin Professor of Politics I had not been in England for thirty- four years. In December 1944, I was wounded in Belgium and was flown to London. I remember asking a flight nurse for a pen, and I carefully wrote the word “very” in front of “seriously wounded” on a tag attached to my jacket. Now I was on sabbatical from Washington and Lee and was going to Oxford under our exchange program with University College of Oxford. My arrival this time was altogether differ- ent. I was not being carried on a stretcher. I walked energetically down the ramp with my wife and youngest daughter at my side. Oxford would offer me the research resources I needed for a book I am writing, and what Oxford could not provide I could find in London. It all turned out to be a rewarding experi- ence, thanks in part to Dr. David Bell 16 of the three most important antique shows in the east. The theme of the exhibition this year was Lafayette Square, the park located across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Washington and Lee had also supplied the central theme exhibition for last year’s Washington Antiques Show—the Reeves Collection of Chinese export porcelain. George Washington commissioned Peale to paint the portrait of his Revolutionary War ally. Peale had painted Washington’s own portrait, the first ever made of Washington from life, seven years before. W&L also owns that portrait, which was itself shown in the nation’s capital in 1974 as the central work of art in the National Portrait Gallery’s Bicentennial exhibition “In the Minds and Hearts of the People.” Why Frank Parsons hasn’t any hair left All those best-laid schemes for the Great Move nearly all went a-gley when the company supplying shelving for the new library was hit with a strike late in October. The Andrew Wilson Co. of Lawrence, Dr. Colvin on the Ridgeway near the site of the famous White Horse, Uffington Castle, Berks of University College, the Oxford geo- logist who spent a term at Washington Mass., informed the University on the first of November that a work stoppage had occurred and that the Nov. 6 delivery date for the initial shipments couldn’t be met. As it turned out, the strike lasted just two weeks—but its impact delayed the arrival of the first shelf units until Dec. 18 High anxiety prevailed in Lexington. Postponement of the Jan. 10 moving date was quickly ruled out, and everyone concentrated instead on overcoming the delays and problems introduced by the Wilson situation. As important as Jan. 10 was in the overall planning, Dec. 18 was a closer critical date, because the actual moving of books from McCormick to the new building was scheduled to begin then. Head Librarian Maurice Leach had hired 27 students and others to work during the Christmas vacation, and W&L’s Buildings and Grounds Department had committed a crew of 10 and two trucks just to'‘move the fragile Special Collections and other library paraphernalia which would require special attention in advance of the Jan. 10 public Great Move. All this planning, of course, assumed that there would be shelves in the new building to receive the books. Not to worry. Mercifully, Murphy’s Law was somehow suspended, and in the end, everything worked out better A political scientist (unwounded and energetic) goes to Oxford and Lee last year, and to L. H. (Lash) LaRue, the W&L law professor, who had immediately preceded me at Ox- ford and had been favorably received. I also owe thanks to a distant branch of the Colvin family in England, who were willing to accept a sketchy 18th-century relationship as real. Rather than recount here my per- sonal experiences, I thought it would be more interesting to the reader to answer some of the questions that have been directed to me since I returned at Christmastime. For instance, what kind of students go to Oxford, and what do they do once they are there? The first question is easily answered: only the best go to Ox- ford, but not all of the best. After all, a mere two hours away on the banks of the River Cam is Cambridge, an arch- rival and an effective competitor. No other British university competes with than anyone had even dared dream. With Walter C. Wilson Jr., president of the shelf supply firm, personally involved, the manufacturer’s promised delivery indeed began on Dec. 18 and more than kept pace with the progress of installation. The real pressure fell on Installations Unlimited, the Richmond company engaged by Wilson to put the shelving units in place. Its top man, Sam Summers, promised a herculean effort but he couldn’t be sure he’d be able to complete a six-week job in three weeks— in the middle of the Christmas season to boot. In any event, the shelf units couldn't be braced or otherwise “finished.” But he bent to it on Dec. 18 with his regular crew of seven, supplemented by 10 full-time local extras. Summers managed to keep one jump ahead of the McCormick movers and the Buildings and Grounds crew. An arrangement was worked out to permit some of the library’s student movers to erect shelves during any slack time they encountered, thus giving Summers as many as 37 workers in his force at a time. And whenever a new truckload of shelves pulled in from Massachusetts, everyone pitched in to unload— including librarians and clerical staff. The result: Summers did tKe job in two weeks, not three or six. Not only did i MOST PLEASING SOCIAL OBSERVATION OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE ’70s—Girls are dressing better than they used to. (Alternative hypothesis: W&L men are making even better choices than they used to.) The phenomenon began to be noticed more than a year ago; dili- gent follow-up investigation by the Alumni Magazine staff has confirmed it. At student parties, the stevedore look is out. Girls wear skirts, often even dresses. They spend _ inordinate Golly! What’s next? Hoop skirts? amounts of time fixing up their hair again, and they’ve returned to the subtle use of makeup. They even wear sweaters, just like in the ’60s. Pastels predominate: pink for Sweet Briar girls, yellow for Mary Baldwin, but Kelly green for R-MWC. (You’re hope- lessly out of touch if you aren’t aware that a kind of sweater called “Fair Isle” is in. We used to call them ski sweaters.) The lean years are over at last for Pap- pagallo and The Villager! he get the 28,000 three-foot shelf units into place on all four stack levels in the new building, but by Jan. 10 he had them braced as well. The preliminary phases of the move itself were completed a week ahead of schedule, effectively relieving the anxiety pains being felt in Lexington, Richmond and Lawrence, Mass. Because a lot of folks were willing not only to work hard, but also to work hard at working together, a potentially disastrous situation was turned into a substantial triumph that augured well for the major success of the Great Move itself. Others who played important roles in meeting the shelf crisis were John Esserwein of Baltimore, the manufacturer’s representative for Wilson; James A. Arthur, W&L’s Buildings and Grounds superintendent, and his moving crew foreman, Herman Huffman; plant projects director D. E. (Pat) Brady Jr., and his assistant, Scott Beebe; architect Frederic H. Cox Jr., and his interior designers Barbara Goodwin and Anne McCrae; and Robert Bass of Bass Construction Co., the principal contractor, and his superintendent, William Wiseman. Frank Parsons, the author of this article (and former managing editor of the Alumni Magazine), is Assistant to the President in charge of everything, especially problem- solving. ern free eee oan oe Oxford quite as well as Cambridge; however, good departments in such places as the University of York and London University do attract bright students in their own right. Neverthe- less, in the main, it is the Oxford-Cam- bridge combination (Oxford, as the phrase goes) that dominates the British educational scene—with an occasional and distant nod toward Trinity College in Dublin. Only those with strong academic credentials have any chance at all of getting into Oxford. The university has its Own examinations, and its colleges often ask for personal interviews. Gone are the days when the right family con- nections (the Royal Family aside; Prince Charles is a graduate of Cambridge) or great personal wealth was enough to assure entrance. Merit alone now de- termines that. Nearly all students are on some kind of government grant; therefore money is not a major prob- lem. But if a particular college wants a particular student, that college can offer its own scholarship, and this is a signal for the other colleges to keep hands off. It is a gentleman’s agree- ment. Once a student enters a college (Oxford is a conglomerate of auto- nomous colleges), he is assigned a tutor in his chosen field and meets with him about once every two or three weeks. ‘This tutorial relationship is central to his college life. Lectures are given, but poorly attended. The student’s pro- gress 1s determined by the work done for his tutor, the books assigned, the papers written, the examinations taken. The student is on his own. He is told what he should look for; it is up to him to find it and master it. The system, by our American standards, is a narrow approach, but it offers unparalleled Opportunity for independent study and a wide-ranging choice for the curious mind. In the end, the student knows Just about everything there is to know about his subject. The college itself, whether it be University College, Magdalen, or Christ Church, is the student’s home for the three years of his undergraduate study and his identity with Oxford. He may row for the college crew or play on its rugby team. It is where he belongs and what he defends. In the end, if he has met all the standards of his disci- pline, he receives his undergraduate degree. Graduate work is offered and doctorates are given. But it is the un- dergraduate degree that makes a per- son an Oxford man, specifically a Balliol man or a Queen’s College man, etc. It gives, at least to some, a lasting sense of superiority over lesser mortals (al- though graduates of equally famous and equally ancient continental schools are not likely to let his sense of su- periority go uncontested).* I went to Oxford prepared to be impressed. And I was impressed. It lived up to all my expectations. But it also gave me an awareness of the value of what we are doing at Washington and Lee. We are not far behind Oxford, and we are catching up. * Professor Colvin holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, founded 600 years ago. 17 RUPERT AT 87 Hale and Hearty, Mr. Latture Remains W&L’s Essential Reference Book Rupert Latture turned 87 years old on Jan. 18. He celebrated by coming to work as usual. He was at his desk in the president’s office, where he is special advisor, at 8:30, as always, and put in a full day, as always. Or nearly a full day. Rupert Latture’s birthdays, and W&L has seen plenty of them, are quasi-holidays in Washington Hall, traditionally marked by a small celebration or three. He enjoys them a great deal; everyone does. But mostly, he spends even his birthdays at his typewriter—sometimes, of course, over in the Alumni House, or in the library, or wherever else he is taken by his work, which consists mostly of correspondence and sorting out and interpreting W&L’s historical records, as literally only he has the capability to do. As everybody who knows Washington and Lee already knows, he has spent essentially his whole adult life at the Uni- versity, beginning when he arrived as a timid, eager freshman, up from the outskirts of Bristol, Tenn. ‘That was nearly 68 years ago. He shows no sign of preparing to slow down yet. He received his B.A. degree—as class valedictorian—in 1915 and earned a master’s degree a year later, also at W&L. He taught in Albemarle County for a year, then, when World War I broke out, served a year with the French army, then a year with American forces when the United States joined the war. He returned to Virginia in 1919 to become principal of a private academy in Patrick County, then a year later joined the political science faculty at his alma mater. He’s been here ever since. He retired as professor of political science in 1962 when he reached the age of 70. His career had spanned the administra- tions of four presidents (he’s on his fifth now). He’d spent half his 42 W&L teaching years as head of his department. He’d been director of freshman work since 1938, and had substituted at various times for practically all the officers of the University, from the registrar to the dean of students. For Rupert Latture, though, “retirement” has had a peculiar meaning. In practical terms it involved simply moving from Newcomb to Washington Hall. His abiding interest, understandably, remains Omicron Delta Kappa, the now-national honor society he helped found before World War I. (ODK’s “tap day” ceremonies customarily occur in conjunction with the Founders’ Day Convocation, which by Rupert N. Latture W&L’S ‘COUPON SCHOLARSHIPS’ They’re Still Turning Up, Raising A Pandora’s-Boxful of Questions ol a (fg ONS ss Coupon MH Be ; oy CSUN TY WAAL ML UNG ME her : ‘% ft. 4 a UW AALS T UM cn iillely | , arte COLLEGE JIRGINIAD | a/A0} mint lall litte tnd WNT wil, f NV MM OOS SOMO SOSSOWAV AMV OL, : hy ee UMatenite ort WIM uw ye Y 2, the, etd. Arl . : Hivustere Un te a oe Not long ago the University received a letter from the direc- tor of admissions at Way College in Emporia, Kan., enclosing a photocopy of an 1875 scholarship certificate issued by Wash- ington and Lee. The letter asked about the value of the certifi- cate today. The photocopy showed that the certificate had been sold to a W. H. Litchford of New Orleans. Attached to it were four coupons, each redeemable for a year’s tuition at W&L. Though Dr. Crenshaw made _ passing reference to “coupon scholarships” in General Lee’s College, latter-day University officials had not really been aware of the existence of such cer- tificates until that letter arrived from Kansas. Subsequent checking showed, however, that the late Lucius Junius Desha had presented a claim for credit in 1903 on the basis of a similar coupon on a certificate once owned by his family. (Freshman Desha did not possess the actual certificate or coupon; his request was based on a family tradition that his grandfather had bought the certificate about 1878 for $250, and that Cave Desha Lucas had used one coupon in 1891. The University Treasurer, John L. Campbell, allowed young Desha $50 credit toward the cost of tuition, which then was $80.) In 1958, Dr. Desha—by that time professor emeritus of chemistry at W&L, former head of the department, and former Rupert N. Latture is no newcomer to Washington and Lee or to the alumni magazine. His most recent contribution to these pages was the saga of the 1917 battle between Miss Annie Jo White and Virginia’s Commissioner of Prohibition [September]. takes place the day after Mr. Latture’s birthday; this year, as every year, preparing for that occasion commanded much of his time and attention on his “own” day.) His friends and co-workers, which are two names for the Jip t th 2 Me yp Mag. . a. A. “bhi (fork ~~ begin, i nhc Ort. Cha t the % feces ¥ 74 CLES Ze AS eS, a Thor re — 3 he : Mage hla pele “ MG afte ie Lieto Rey ; fbr CELLO LEE co 8 7 ee Veco ie ee ieee Soe ES “gy e —. a : Marsketrigle yt fe Moye, ' LOL lief COL OLE yt yee nis Of valfeven : Mere Pigg lee 678 Lr oe he fee Cee hee 3 2G ree oe oS i) é Sons Me ee RoR. ore 4d & yz (es PRAT HI HL ee \ ¢ : : at ¢ ak Se One ee wd ech: Opposite is a facsimile of one of the coupons attached to the scholarship certificate issued in 1875 toa W. H. Litchford of New Orleans; above is a reduced copy of the certificate with the coupons attached. same group of people, agree that it’s impossible to imagine what Washington and Lee would be like if he had not been here these nearly seven decades. It’s easy, of course, to measure the success of ODK since 1914, when he and his roommate, the late J. Carl Fisher, came up with the notion of setting up an organ- ization at W&L to recognize campus leadership. Today, ODK has 162 active circles on campuses across the nation (and three more to be installed this spring). More difficult would be gauging the reach of his quiet Washington and Lee work—the network of alumni with whom he corresponds, for whom he is the central link to Washington and Lee; the people (on campus and off) who regard him as the only source of information on 20th-century Washington and Lee they need. (They’re right, of course. If Mr. Latture doesn’t know it, and doesn’t come up with an anecdote or two about it, and add some sidelights or footnotes to flesh it out—then it’s probably not worth contem- plating in the first place.) When he is on campus, the alumni files are almost super- fluous; people use them when they want dates or street num- bers, but not when they want to know about an alumnus. Then they call R.N.L. Dean of the University—wrote the treasurer, telling him the story of the certificate tradition and suggesting that each of his grandchildren be allowed the same $50 credit on tuition if they should enroll at Washington and Lee, not so much for the monetary value as for the sake of the sentiment. And two of Dr. Desha’s grandchildren, D’Arcy and Angelica Didier, were in fact given that credit toward tuition in the School of Law on the basis of his request. The scholarship certificates, it turned out, had been au- thorized in 1869 by the Board of Trustees when the financial circumstances of Washington College (as it was then called) were truly critical. The Board decided, in essence, to sell futures in tuition. A $250 certificate carried four coupons, each entitling the holder to a year’s tuition and fees; a $500 certificate bore 10 coupons, and a $1,000 certificate had 24. Over the years several of the certificates have turned up. The widow of one purchaser asked if a refund would be allowed on the $125 her husband had paid toward a $250 certificate before he died; it was. In another instance, a certificate was auctioned as part of the holder’s estate settlement. (It fetched $55.) In 1910 a woman who held a certificate wrote to then- President George H. Denny about her son’s obtaining tuition credit in exchange for coupons; Dr. Denny assured her they would be honored. Now that someone in Emporia has come into possession of a $250 certificate, a Pandora’s-boxful of questions arises. Is there a kind of “statute of limitations” in such matters? What is the fair value today? How many more certificates are out there? 19 Paxton Davis Ned, by Paxton Davis, was published this autumn by Atheneum ($7.95). Davis taught journalism at Washington and Lee from 1953 until 1976 and was head of the department from 1968 to 1974. His previous books include The Battle of New Market (Little, Brown), Two Soldiers (Simon & Schuster), One of the Dark Places and The Seasons of Heroes (both Morrow), and A Flag at the Pole (Atheneum). This review is by Hampden H. Smith III, assistant professor of journalism and a regular book reviewer for the Richmond (Va.) News Leader. Paxton Davis’ most recent book, Ned, is asmall gem of literate introspection. In Ned, Davis, who was forced to re- tire from W&L’s journalism faculty in 1976 because of ill health, grapples with the nature of the enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia. Ned is not history, nor is it one of those “psychohistories” that now pepper the shelves of bookstores. Davis’ picture of Thomas Edward Lawrence is too internally cohesive to be termed a musing, too ruminative to be called biography. But what matter labels? Its strength is in the quality of its narrative, at once both misty and precise. Davis sees Ned’s life strongly influenced by his medieval studies, and Davis structures his reflections around a concept of medieval life. Ned’s. preparation—his term as squire—was focused in an archaeologi- cal excavation at Carchemish, along the Euphrates in Syria. During those years Ned “moved almost imperceptibly to an integration of his gifts, ideals and per- sonality such as few men achieve in a lifetime. [Yet] he had not left his youth.” Ned’s term as knight, as_ the instigator and leader of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I, was both the apogee and perigee of his life: the glory of success ina deeply felt cause, the heady rush of power; the disillusionment at venality and collusion, the shudder at the gore of war. “They had never fought so ’ Ned: ‘A Small Gem Of Literate Introspection’ cruelly, nor would they again. ... They killed indiscriminately, with bullet, blade and lance, then turned and despoiled their victims’ bodies, riding across them and firing into them again and again... . That night the field was silent with the great slaughter his assent had unleashed, and in the silence he felt the last of his virtue leave him. He was deep in blood.” Thus driven from life, Ned flees to the monastery of peacetime military service. “He understood at last why so many medieval knights, stout heroes of his imagination, had ended as monks—in the lie life gave their lives, the discrepancy between ideal and reality, between the wish to serve and the need to kill, lay the need to expiate.” Being “no longer tainted by mortal ambition . . . was the culminating achievement of his chivalric quest, per- haps. ... Yet with it, as only he knew, came a denial of further interest in liv- ing... . He was empty and knew it, ex- hausted of purpose and bereft of a future.” That he ended his life in a final chivalric act to save the lives of two small boys seems, in Davis’ hands, both apt and assuasive. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. May May May May May Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. 20 LACROSSE 3—Chesapeake L. C. HOME (Exhibition) 7—Duke HOME 10—Mt. Washington L.C. Away (Exhibition) 14—Salisbury State HOME 17—Syracuse HOME 20—Ohio Wesleyan HOME 24— Univ. of North Carolina Away 28—Univ. of Delaware HOME 31—Towson State Away 4— Brown HOME 18—Rutgers Away 22— Univ. of Virginia HOME 28— Washington College Away 5—Roanoke College Away 12—Hofstra HOME 16—NCAA Quarterfinals TBA 19—NCAA Semifinals TBA 26—NCAA Championship Game TBA BASEBALL 9—West Virginia Tech HOME 10—West Virginia Tech HOME 16—Eastern Mennonite HOME 17—Longwood HOME Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. May Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. 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His wit, common sense, and sound judgment significantly influenced the lives of both students and fellow fac- ulty members.” Faculty Resolution February 5, 1979 William M. Hinton, a member of the W&L psychology faculty for 47 years until his retirement in 1977, died on New Year’s Day. He was 71. Surviving him are a son, W. M. Hinton Jr. of Winter Park, Fla., and two grandchildren. He was buried in Stonewall Jackson Cemetery in Lexington beside his wife, 1907-1979 Mary Moore Harper Hinton, who died in 1977. A 1929 B.A. graduate of Washing- ton and Lee, he received his master’s degree from W&L a year later and his Ph.D. degree in psychology from Ohio State University in 1937. Except for a year in graduate school and four years of Army service during World War II, during which time he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, Dr. Hinton remained at Washington and Lee for his entire professional ca- reer. His “entertaining and informative stories,” as the resolution unanimously adopted by the faculty noted, helped preserve a large part of the oral history of the University. His “deep loyalty and unselfish service” to Washington and Lee were clearly evident. Dr. Hinton began his teaching ca- reer at W&L as an instructor in educa- tion and psychology from 1930 to 1936, becoming assistant professor in 1937, associate professor in 1946, and full professor in 1951. He was head of the psychology department from 1959 to 1972. He had been, for several years before that, director of the University’s counseling and placement service. Asa licensed psychologist, Dr. Hin- ton also undertook testing and con- sultation work for the Rockbridge County Welfare Department and was a former chairman of the Virginia Ex- amining Board for clinical psycholo- gists. He also taught on a part-time visit- ing basis at the University of Virginia, Virginia Military Institute, and Sweet Briar and Randolph-Macon Woman’s Colleges. His teaching fields included elementary, educational, abnormal, social, industrial and developmental psychology, theories of personality, and measurement of human traits and abilities. Dr. Hinton was a Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association and was a member and former presi- dent of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, the Vir- ginia Academy of Sciences, and the Virginia Psychological Association. While at Washington and Lee, Dr. Hinton was particularly devoted to the sports program. He served on the Uni- versity Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics for 25 years and was chairman most of that time. When Dr. Hinton retired from the committee in 1972, Dr. William W. Pusey III, professor of German and former dean of The College, composed a poem of tribute, the last stanza of which remains a fitting reminder: He helped us with all his mind, And heart, and soul, for thus it was That Billy Hinton his service gave. 21 by James G. Leyburn “THE W&L IDEAL’ Dr. Leyburn On Areté, Magnanimity, And His Hopes For The University Dr. Leyburn, who was dean of the University from 1947 to 1955 and professor of sociology from 1947 to 1970, delivered these remarks at the Founders’ Day-ODK convocation on January 19. The aims he propounded at the beginning of his deanship provided the pattern for most of the University’s academic progress for the next 25 years. It always delights me to return to Washington and Lee, and I am especially happy to be allowed a part in this Founders’ Day and ODK Assembly. Washington and Lee has absorbed a good part of my life and thoughts and affections; and as you will see from my remarks, ODK expresses many of the ideals I have long cherished for this University. My acquaintance with Washington and Lee goes back to my childhood, with my father’s stories about his undergraduate days here, and with visits to Lexington, which had long been the home of the family. I was struck, even in those childhood days, by what seemed to be an intangible quality that pervaded the campus, as if some indefinable spirit hovered about the place and the people who pass through its halls. I hasten to remark that I am by no means a mystic (who ever heard of a mystical streak in a bluestocking Presbyterian?). But I am not alone in sensing this indefinable quality of which I speak. In classical antiquity, that most practical and hard-headed of people, the Romans, held the idea that at birth an individual acquired a kind of attendant spirit—they called it a genius—which protected him through life and which gave him the unique qualities of body and mind which he possessed. By extension, they conceived that each of their important localities and institutions—the Senate, for example—had its genius loci. This “genius of the place” was compounded of its physical appearance, the distinctive impression it made upon visitors to it, but more importantly its way of inspiring affection and loyalty, its curious quality of demanding that one work to make it uniquely great. To me, Washington and Lee has such a genius loci that gives it a quality which distinguishes it from every other university. No one could, after five minutes on this campus and an observation of its students, mistake Washington and Lee for a state university or for Notre Dame or for Georgia Tech. It is not merely that our campus is different from theirs, that we have our special traditions, that our curriculum is our own, that our athletic program is not the same. Who can say what has gone into the creation of the genius of this place that makes us love it and recognize its uniqueness? Our genius loci is compounded of the beauty of the Colonnade under snow on a moonlit night, of sunset behind House Mountain, of the Honor System, of great teachers and their courses, of long hours in the library boning up for tests and exams, of Fancy Dress, of victories (and defeats) on Wilson Field and in the gym, of going down the road, of pride in Washington and Lee’s academic standards—indeed, of 230 years of accumulated tradition a2 built up by men whose names most of us would no longer recognize. What has always interested me about the Roman idea of genius, especially as applied to Roman citizenship, is the demands it made on a person and the almost amazing acceptance by Romans of their obligations. In a moving passage in the Aeneid the ideal is held up of Roman rule of justice and peace and discipline; and it was this kind of practical idealism that, to my mind, explains the major part of “the grandeur that was Rome.” On the day in which ODK honors those who have made a distinctive contribution to the University I suggest that Washington and Lee’s genius loci, like the god Janus, looks in two directions: backward to our great heritage, and forward to our expectations for the future. It is to the future that our motto points: non incautus futuri. If we are truly to be “not unmindful of the future,” it might be well to clarify our hopes for the University. With diffidence, I suggest two ideals I have long cherished for Washington and Lee; and since I have spoken of these before on this campus, I ask the indulgence of older members of the community if my next remarks seem for them a twice-told tale. The first of these ideals is that of excellence—and I am sure that all of us would acknowledge the validity of such an ideal for a first-rate University like ours. But the excellence I have in mind is of a different quality from that ordinarily implied by the word. I resort again to classical antiquity. By common consent, the Athenians of the fifth century B.c. reached a pinnacle of achievement. Within a few decades (actually only about two generations) the small city of Athens, not as large as Richmond, produced such men as Themistocles and Pericles, Socrates and Plato, Aeschylus and Sophocles and Euripides, Phidias, Aristophanes, and dozens of others whose names ring down the centuries. How could all this happen? Not, I think, because of some sudden miraculous combination of genes in its citizens, but chiefly because the Athenians had a clear ideal to strive for, one inculcated into every youth from the moment he started to school. The Greek word for this ideal was areté, and the dictionary blandly defines this simply as “excellence.” For the Athenians, however, the word and the ideal had overtones and undertones far richer than the ordinary meaning. From the outset, the schoolboy in Athens was made to realize that it was never enough to be pretty good; he must strive to excel, and in every part of his curriculum. We certainly share with the Athenians their stress on excelling in sports and games. Like us, Greek youths trained their bodies; they exercised daily and strenuously (they invented the gymnasium, in which they trained both body and mind); they played constantly (once again, it was the Greeks who started the Olympic games, and they were the first people in the world to have competitive sports). But now consider how the ideal of excellence ramified, and how far it went beyond excellence of body. One could never be considered up to the ideal unless he was versatile. Areté really meant “excellence in all that is admirable.” Every boy was expected to be thoroughly at home with literature, and many Athenian youths could recite from memory long passages from Homer and the other poets. During this great age Athenians built the Parthenon, and its architects and sculptors knew that their work would be appreciated by true connoisseurs—that is, by men schooled to cultivate the arts. One of the best examples of areté was Sophocles, the great playwright. He was reputed to be one of the most skilled flutists and dancers in Athens; he was an industrialist (and a successful one), was elected treasurer of the empire, was twice chosen as general in the army, as well as the author of 121 tragedies. It was assumed that the purpose of education was to make every youth a good citizen, willing to devote endless time in service to the city, listening almost daily to political debate in the agora, voting on domestic and foreign policy, serving in the army or navy. What to me makes these Athenians most memorable and admirable is the way they used their minds. They seemed to have infinite curiosity, and they discovered that intellectual exercise was by all odds the most stimulating and rewarding part of life. They were always eager to learn something new. When Herodotus came back from Egypt or Persia, the Athenians gathered daily in the agora to ask him about how other people lived and thought. When Socrates showed up, youths left their exercise and games to query that wise man: “What really is truth, Socrates?. What is beauty? How can we know what is worth living for?” Their curiosity and imagination made them the first natural scientists the world had known. They had tremendous courage of mind; they dared to be skeptical and questioning, no matter how disturbing this might be to their peace of mind: they went constantly to witness the great tragedies that challenged what had always been regarded as eternal verities. I could go on and on about these great Athenians; but you can see why Edgar Allan Poe spoke of the glory that was Greece. It was glory—because these Athenians lived in a perfect ferment of the mind and found it exhilarating and rewarding. Now for my point: how could all this glory come to pass within a few decades? Not by some transcendent miracle; nor do I believe for a moment that these Athenians had any better minds than ours. I am certain that Washington and Lee men are quite as intelligent as Athenians of the fifth century, quite as quick and capable. They made an imperishable name for themselves and for their little city because they exercised their minds and creative imaginations to the fullest, not content to be merely good in a single field. Why should this Washington and Lee community not become the Athens of America? Can we truthfully say that our Washington and Lee ideal of excellence has so touched our minds and hearts that every man here feels the compulsion to excel in many areas, to open his mind to new ideas and seek out knowledge about what is unfamiliar to him? I have always felt disappointed that many Washington and Lee students so soon begin to specialize that they miss the riches of this University’s superb curriculum, and that other students seem so intent on grades that they refuse the challenge of difficult courses. I believe I should say that the besetting sin of Washington and Lee students is their conventionality of mind—their willingness to follow accustomed paths instead of launching out into the unknown. I am struck by a curious phenomenon: that there always seem at least to me to be many more eccentrics on the faculty and staff at Washington and Lee than there are among the students half their age. Why should this be? We certainly encourage incipient scholars and financiers and businessmen; but I think the University would be healthier if more students left those beaten tracks. Oddballs are not comfortable for administrators and teachers; nevertheless, I wish students on the campus more frequently caused some fluttering in the dovecotes of the sedate. Or again, I know 23 how many honors theses are produced and that is fine; but why does the University not seem to stimulate other and less conventional forms of originality and creativity? Where are the Washington and Lee poets and novelists, our composers and painters and sculptors in this country, for example? Have we narrowed down the ideal of areté to make it conform to the values of a job-getting career? The second ideal I cherish for Washington and Lee—and here I draw upon the French language of chivalry and feudalism—is that of noblesse oblige. It was a recognized part of the code of a nobleman that he must undertake obligations for those weaker and less privileged than himself. Nobility obligates! No law required this duty: it was simply understood that, in the very nature of things, those who have power must protect those who are weak, those who have means must care for the needy, those who rule must concern themselves with the welfare of those who are ruled. Because one was well-born, one naturally assumed full responsibility for the community. All privilege obligates. Needless to say, power was often abused; but few noblemen—indeed, few gentlemen up through the 18th century—would deny the obligations of their privileged position. There were many rewards even for those who concerned themselves with the lowly. The chief of these was perhaps a sense of holding together a community, of knowing that one was needed, of finding inner satisfaction in duty done and in kindnesses beyond the call of duty. No men in modern America are more privileged than students at Washington and Lee. Economic background, education, health, range of acquaintance, knowledge of the world, personal gifts, awareness of moral imperatives—all these advantages and more put Washington and Lee men in a position similar to that of the aristocrats who lived by the code of noblesse oblige. Can we then say that it 1s characteristic of this University’s graduates and students that they automatically, and without having to reflect on the expenditure of time and energy and imagination, exert themselves for the benefit of their communities? To return for a moment to the great Greeks, let’s ask why Athenian youths were so eager to live up to the ideals of areté. What did they gain? At most, in a material way, only the crown of a simple laurel wreath. Much more important was the awareness that one’s abilities might bring glory to his polis, his dear city, that would make it shine more brilliantly than ever. Here was something bigger than self to live for; and the more honor one achieved personally, the more significant his contribution might be to the community. Perhaps because of the self-centered world of our childhood, we find it easy to think only of ourselves. We want to win honors for the acclaim they bring; but the applause turns to ashes if one’s achievements remain simply personal. The true satisfaction of a triumph is the opportunity it gives to be useful to others. Once again, it is a temptation at college to try to win acceptance by doing what 24 the crowd does, even when it is brainless and destructive; or to live passively, without making any extra effort. But even to mention these ways of life makes us realize that they are not satisfactory. They produce no areté. I suggest that the ultimate wisdom of the Athenians in their dedication to the ideal of areté was the insight that achieving excellence could benefit other people, their polis, their community. That was the real reward of all their striving. Parenthetically, the Greek word, idiotes, which we translate into English as “idiot,” means literally living a private life, concentrating only on what benefits oneself. How truly idiotic! Once again, as in the ideal of excellence, we might learn from our attitude toward sports. Any member of a team knows what it means to work for the success of the team, not concentrating on becoming a star for his own glory. Does that wisdom extend beyond the playing fields and the gymnasium? What have you done to make Washington and Lee a more admirable university? The first by-law of this institution declares that we are not a denominational institution; but then the by-law continues: “The obligation to inculcate the Christian ideal is hereby affirmed.” I think I should name as our greatest shortcoming our failure to take that obligation seriously. Whatever else the Christian ideal comprehends, it surely includes compassion, kindness to others, service, loving one’s neighbor as oneself. Not many students seem truly aware of the conditions of life beyond the campus, of the poverty and distress and injustices that exist within a mile of this building and in Rockbridge County; and I fear that only a few of our 1700 students are doing anything positive to alleviate these conditions and this suffering. There is a splendidly sonorous word, beloved of Milton and Bacon, that sums up both the ideal of areté and that of noblesse oblige. Vhat word is magnanimity. The great Oxford Dictionary is rich in its comment on the word. It means great-souled; greatness of mind and heart; the habit of feeling and acting worthily under all circumstances; high- mindedness; intrinsic nobility (note here the implication of noblesse oblige). The Oxford continues: “In its earlier use the word implies especially high courage and noble steadfastness of purpose; in its later use, high-minded generosity.” This was what Newman had in mind when he named the essentials a university should instill in its students, and put magnanimity among them. My hope and dream for Washington and Lee 1s that from this Tap Day forward, from this day when we honor those adjudged excellent among us, your generation of Washington and Lee men will dedicate themselves to magnanimity, to cultivating the ideals of areté and noblesse oblige. You could from this day forward transform the University. Then in future years we might all look back on this day and say, with Henry V to his men just before Agincourt, “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers... will stand a tip-toe when this day is named!” CHAPTER NEWS Palmetto Chapter Sponsors First Combined Reeves— Herreshoff Exhibition PALMETTO—Chapter President John W. Folsom (right) presents framed memento to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Reeves of Charleston. Mr. Reeves is the surviving brother of the late Euchlin D. Reeves, ’27. PALMETTO. An estimated 600 alumni, parents and other guests attended a gala black-tie opening at the Museums of Art and Science in , - Columbia, S. C., in November of a combined exhibition there of the Reeves Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain and the paintings of Louise Herreshoff. The Columbia event marked the first time the two nationally famed W&L collections had been exhibited together. The round of special activities in connection with the exhibition began with a dinner given for W&L guests by South Carolina Gov. and Mrs. James B. Edwards. Among those who attended from Lexington were James Whitehead, W&L treasurer and curator of the collections, and Mrs. Whitehead, Dean of The College and Mrs. William J. Watt, Director of Development and Mrs. Farris P. Hotchkiss, Assistant Professor of Music and Mrs. Gordon P. Spice, Alumni Secretary and Mrs. W. C. Washburn, and Assistant Alumni Secretary and Mrs. Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins. John W. Folsom, ’73, Palmetto chapter president, presided. Among the special guests were Development Staff Associate and Mrs. John C. Hollister of Atlanta. In turn, Washington and Lee has placed a number of items from the 2,000-piece Reeves Collection on loan in the Governor’s Mansion there. Because Euchlin Reeves, ’27, who with his wife PALMETTO—Members of “Southern Comfort,” a select singing group within the WESL Glee Club, entertained at a banquet given by Gov. and Mrs. James B. Edwards (shown in governor’s mansion parlor, above). Louise Herreshoff Reeves assembled the collection, was born and raised in South Carolina, a number of items in it have distinct ties to the Palmetto State. Treasurer Whitehead was a guest lecturer at the museum in connection with the Reeves/Herreshoff exhibition. Whitehead is curator and developer of both collections; he “discovered” Louise Herreshoff and is a nationally known expert in the field of 18th-century Chinese export porcelain. A stag luncheon took place at Columbia’s elegant Summit Club, and President Huntley was the principal speaker. At the opening and reception in the museum, W. R. Reeves, Euchlin Reeves’s surviving brother, was a special guest of honor. He attended with several other descendants of Mr. Reeves, and W. R. Reeves was awarded a splendidly framed citation by the Palmetto Chapter commemorating the 1967 gift of the Reeves Collection to WEL. Entertainment at both the Governor’s banquet and the formal Opening was provided by Southern Comfort, a select group within the W&L Glee Club specializing in casual music from spirituals and college songs to barbershop harmony and comic ballads. Comfort also sang to delighted audiences at the Hammond Academy, a preparatory school in Columbia, and at the Trinity Cathedral close by the museum, which happened to be having its annual Christmas bazaar on the day the W&L group was in town. (The bazaar further happened to have as its chairman Jackie Adams, wife of Patton Adams, ’65.) Instrumental in making arrangements for the exhibition and reception were T. Patton Adams, ’65, and his wife Jackie; Augustus T. Graydon; J. Hagood Ellison Jr., 72, a broker with Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Chapter President Folsom, ’73, vice president of South Carolina Federal Savings & Loan; Philip G. Grose Jr., 60, director of the State Reorganization Commission of South Carolina; Willoughby Newton III, ’60, CLU with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.; William H. Townsend, 50; Claude M. Walker Jr., 71, general manager of the Standard Warehouse Co.; Addison G. (Joe) Wilson, ’69, and his wife Roxanne; Arlen Cotter, and his wife Janet, parents of Leslie A. Cotter Jr., 80; and Walter Hathaway, director of the Museums of Art and Science. Virginia Grose, vice president of South Carolina National Bank, edited and designed the magnificent color- cover catalogue and invitation. A grant from the State-Record Foundation of Columbia covered the cost of publication. The J. B. White Co., one of 25 | MID-SOUTH—Trustee Emeritus J. Stewart Buxton, ’36, and Mrs. Buxton were honored at a cocktail buffet. The Buxtons, at right, are shown in conversation with W. Carrington Jones, 54. Buxton was a member of the Board of Trustees for 25 years. MID-SOUTH—At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Schuler Jr., from left, Jody Brown, ’65; James Gallavan, ’51, Alumni Board member; Mrs. Milburn Noell; Mr. Schuler, ’56; Mrs. Schuler, and Mr. Noell, ’51. Columbia’s leading department stores, sponsored the reception. MEMPHIS. A large group of alumni and friends gathered at the home of Jacques Schuler Jr., 56, in Germantown on Nov. 16 to pay special honor to J. Stewart Buxton, ’36. (The Schulers served a cocktail buffet to the guests.) The chapter presented a framed certificate of recognition to Buxton for his outstanding service to Washington and Lee—a member of the University Board of Trustees for 25 years—and to the alumni chapter. During the presentation, Buxton commended the University’s current development program and praised the efforts of S L Kopald, ’43, chairman of the Phase II Development Program, who is also a Trustee and member of the Memphis chapter. Mark Putney, ’78, an ad- missions counselor, discussed his recent visits to local high schools. Also present were James F. Gallivan, ’51, a member of the Alumni Board of Directors; Milburn Noell, 51, a University staff associate; and William (Bill) Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary. Jody Brown, ’65, president of the chapter, was master of ceremonies. NEW ORLEANS. The chapter gave a dinner and cocktail party on Nov. 17 at the Delmonico Restaurant on St. Charles 26 Street. Special guests for the occasion were Dr. Edward C. Atwood, Dean of the School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, and Mrs. Atwood. A large group of alumni, wives and dates listened to Dean Atwood’s remarks about Washington and Lee, “Thirteen Items of Good News/Bad News.” Rick Christovich, 68, president of the chapter, was master of ceremonies. He reported on the future program plans for the chapter and on student recruitment efforts. Also in attendance were Joseph T. Lykes Jr., 41, a University Trustee; Judge John Minor Wisdom, ’25, Trustee Emeritus; Milburn K. Noell, 51, staff associate for development; and William (Bill) Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary. LYNCHBURG. The chapter’s annual Christmas dance took place at the Elks Club on Dec. 1. Alumni and their guests danced to the music of A Sound Investment. The dance has become a traditional gathering for Washington and Lee Alumni and Lynchburg graduates of many other schools. Cecil Taylor, ’39, ’41L, chapter president; Starke Sydnor, ’66; and Bill Washburn Jr., 66, organized the black tie affair. JACKSONVILLE. The chapter met at the River Club on Dec. 6 to honor John H. McCormack Jr., ’50, chairman of the NEW ORLEANS—Dean Edward C. Atwood Jr. (standing) was the speaker at a cocktail party and dinner banquet in November. Also shown are, from left, Milburn K. Noell, ’51, Joseph T. Lykes Jr., 41, member of the University Board of Trustees; Mrs. Lykes, and Richard K. Christovich, ’68. NEW ORLEANS—Apbparently enjoying themselves impressively were, from left, Michelle Carrere; Joseph Carrere, ’77; Julian Good, ’78; Elizabeth Jackson; Frederick (Rick) Bates, ’76, and Marybelle Bates. Atlantic National Bank and a new member of the Alumni Board of Directors, and James W. Whitehead, treasurer of the University and curator of the Reeves collection of Chinese export porcelain and the Louise Herreshoff paintings owned by Washington and Lee. (Several items of the porcelain collection were “lead” exhibits at the Jacksonville Antique Show taking place in the city.) Charles Commander III, ’62, newly-elected chapter president, presided at the meeting. James Whitehead discussed some of the unique gifts given to Washington and Lee—including the gifts of porcelain and the Herreshoff paintings by the Reeves family—and explained their significant benefit to the University. Also present were John Hollister, 58, an Atlanta attorney who is now a development staff associate; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stein, who organized the gathering and the cocktail buffet; and William (Bill) Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary. Commander concluded the program with the news of a future chapter function on March 4— the exhibit of the University’s Chinese export porcelain and Herreshoff paintings at the Cummer Gallery in Jacksonville. MILWAUKEE. Alumni from Wisconsin gathered at the Town Club in dance festivities. chapter president. Milwaukee on Dec. 13 to receive their chapter charter—presented by Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins, 68, assistant alumni secretary—and elect officers. Elected were Price M. Davis Jr.,’36, president; David R. Braun, ’76, vice president; and Thomas H. Baumann, ’76, secretary- treasurer. Farris Hotchkiss, 58, director of development, delivered an update report on the University. After a presentation of slides of the campus, the meeting concluded with a question and answer session. DETROIT. Alumni from the Detroit area met on Dec. 14 at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe to establish the 62nd chapter of Washington and Lee alumni. After cocktails and a dinner, arranged by Alfred F. Taylor, °27, the chapter elected its first slate of officers. Elected were James W. Large, 68, president; John F. Mozena, ’67, vice president; and Thomas J. Gage, ’70, secretary-treasurer. Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins, ’68, assistant alumni secretary, spoke about the growing importance of alumni chapters in the future needs of Washington and Lee and presented the chapter charter to the officers. President Jim Large reported on the successful Old Dominion Day Dance conducted earlier in the year and announced future gatherings in the spring and fall. Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, director of LYNCHBURG—E. Starke Sydnor, ’66, 73L; Mrs. Sydnor; William V. Giles, ’61, and Mrs. Giles, during a break in the chapter’s annual Christmas JACKSONVILLE— John H. McCormack Jr., ’50 (right), new member of the Alumni Board of Directors, is recognized by Charles E. Commander III, ’62, Whitehead. JACKSONVILLE—Alumni, wives, dates and other guests lent an attentive : ear during remarks by Treasurer and Reeves-Herreshoff curator James W. ATLANTA—Front, Jeannie La ‘69L; rear, Robert Woodward, ’71; Michael Lawrence, 66; Whitlow Wyatt, ’70; Ee \ 4a eee wrence, Claudia Wyatt, J]. D. Humphries, ’66, > Randolph Hutto, 72; Liza Jamison; Curt Jamison, ’70; Elizabeth Johnson. development, reported on the current status of the University. A slide presentation of campus scenes and a question and answer session concluded the evening program. NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. A Christmas holiday reception for current students at Washington and Lee, as well as for prospective students from the Shreveport area, took place Dec. 19 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Murphy, parents of Tom Murphy, ’77. James E. Burt IV and Charles D. Caruthers, entering freshmen under the Early Decision admission program, attended. The reception was organized by T. Haller Jackson III, 73. FLORIDA. An exhibit of the Washington and Lee collection of the Reeves Chinese export porcelain and the Louise Herreshoff paintings was given at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach on Jan. 12. A cocktail party and buffet dinner preceded a program which included remarks by President Robert E. R. Huntley and a short talk about the collections and their impact on W&L by James W. Whitehead, University treasurer and curator of the collections. Among the guests were Mrs. Jean Flagler Matthews, granddaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler and Dr. E. O. Mitchell, a former astronaut. The arrangements committee included Kenneth S. Beall Jr., 61, ’63L; Manley P. Caldwell Jr., 58, ’60L; and Beverley H. Smith, ’32. Also in attendance were Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, director of development, and Mrs. Hotchkiss; John Hollister, ’58, staff associate, and Mrs. Hollister; Leroy C. Atkins, ’68, assistant alumni secretary, and Mrs. Atkins; and William C. Washburn, ’40, alumni secretary, and Mrs. Washburn. ATLANTA. A group of alumni met at a local restaurant on Jan. 19 to honor the birthday of Robert E. Lee. A similar gathering took place last year. This past October, the chapter elected John W. Hines, 63, president; Robert G. Woodward, ’71, and W. Whitlow Wyatt, ‘70, vice presidents; Fleming Keefe, 61, secretary; and Madison F. Cole, ’71, treasurer. The 13th annual W&L/U.Va. football game took place on Oct. 21 at the Polo Grounds. W&L was narrowly defeated. Representing their alma mater were David C. Black, ’64; Frederick N. Black, 69; Claibourne H. Darden Jr., 66; Randolf L. Hutto, ’72; Curt B. Jamison, 70; Peter K. Kintz, ’66, *69L; Charles W. Kuhn, 70; James L. Nalley Jr., °74; William H. Runge, ’74; William F. Skinner Jr., 65; Michael (Thunder) Thornton, ’70, ’73L; and William A. Tyler, ’75. 1 27 CLASS NOTES 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 $85.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. BOSTON ROCKER All black lacquer $70.00 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. 28 1917 Mrs. Harry KILLINGER YOUNG, widow of W&L’s beloved Cy YouncG, gave a disco tea dance at the Indian Creek Yacht and Country Club in Kilmarnock, Va., on Oct. 27. Mrs. Young was “Queen of the Ball” and led her own Grand March in which all of her friends, regardless of age, joined with the usual W&L spirit and gusto. She was presented a W&L monogram sweater and cap by Frank Jones Jr., ’38. 1919 T. H. (Hamp) SCOVELL is chairman of the board of Scovell Oil Co., a distributor of Amoco Pro- ducts in DeLand, Fla. 1920 Joun F. WHITE, retired from the hardware business, manages a 900 acre farm in Cadiz, Ky. 1922 SAMUEL LOGAN SANDERSON, a retired educator now living at Natural Bridge Station near Lex- ington, is having a book published. Recently, Sanderson climbed to the summit of House Mountain. 1923 FRANK BENJAMIN Horr has published a book, “A History of Ferrum College 1914-1974, An Uncommon Challenge.” Hurt, who was among a very few students admitted in 1913 to the new Ferrum Training School, was commissioned by the board of trustees of Ferrrum to write the school’s history. He began work on the book in February 1972. Hurt received his master’s in economics from the University of Virginia and his master’s in history from Princeton Univer- sity. He has also studied at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, and done work at the University of North Carolina, Western Maryland College, the University of Maryland, and Ferrum College. He was named professor emeritus at Ferrum in 1970. 1924 E. ALMER AMES JR. continues to practice law with his son, Edward A. Ames III, 61, ’64L, in Onocock, Va. The name of their firm is Ames and Ames. 1925 CLARENCE E. HINKLE is associated with the law firm of Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield and Hens- ley in Roswell, N. M., where he has a position of counsel. WILLIAM A. McRiTCcHIE, currently class agent, retired in 1968 as vice president and senior trust officer of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. He resides in Bronxville, N. Y. E. ALMER AMES Jr. (See 1924.) 1926 The ALMAND R. COLEMAN chair, an endowed professorship, has been established in the Col- gate Darden Graduate School of Business Ad- ministration by the board of visitors of the Uni- versity of Virginia. Coleman, professor emeritus at the university, taught business administration there from 1953 until 1976. WILLIAM BuRKE WILLIAMSON, who practiced law in Chicago for 50 years, is now living in Ashe- ville, N. C. He maintains a connection with the law firm in Chicago. 1927 GeorGE E. Burks of Louisville, Ky., still plays golf with his foursome, who have played to- gether since 1939. During the past 20 years, the foursome, with rare exception, has attended every W&L-Centre football game. They manage -.0 play several golf courses on the weekend of the game, including the courses at the Green- brier and the Homestead. 4 1929 } WILLIAM F. CHANDLER is retired as president of the coating division of Porter Paint Co. He re- sides in Louisville, Ky., where he continues to do some consulting work and keeps active in civic affairs and the seniors golf tournaments. Roya B. EMBREE, on the faculty in the psychol- ogy department at the University of Texas in Austin, has retired from the university but has been retained as a member of the faculty by a provision of the Texas State Retirement Code. Embree teaches one class each semester and continues to clear up doctoral and master’s papers. BENJAMIN P. KNIGHT JR. and his sisters own B. P. Knight and Co., a general store in Buena Vista. Knight, who retired from the C&O Rail- road in 1970, lives on his farm outside Buena Vista. A. L. LUNSFORD is owner and operator of the Lunsford Farm Supply Co. in Brookneal, Va. Among the products sold are seed, hardware, Purina feeds for livestock and poultry. WILLIAM G. SARGENT of Flushing, N. Y., con- tinues to operate his industrial hardware busi- ness. 1930 CHARLES W. COCKE continues to hold several official positions with the National Association of Retired Federal Employees. He is a member of the executive board of the Federated Chap- ters, the 2nd Congressional District field officer, and chairman of the Membership Committee. He is also a plantation guide for the Thomasville —Thomas County Chamber of Commerce. Dr. AND Mrs. Ipus DERRELL FELDER have re- turned from a cruise down the Adriatic from Venice to Athens. The couple, who traveled to Copenhagen in June 1978 on the W&L tour, where they met classmate Dr. and Mrs. George Craddock, plan to travel to Spain in early 1979. L. PALMER Brown (See 1951 Hollis.) 1931 Dr. LEONARD C. BORLAND is on the staff of Friendship Manor, an institution in Roanoke, Va., devoted to geriatrical care. His wife is a concert pianist. Jupcr THomas S. Fox, after surgery in 1974, retired from the bench in January 1975. He continues physical therapy and walks with a knee brace and a cane. Morton P. Levy lives in Portsmouth, Va., where he is helping in the Senior Citizen Program. 1932 Dr. WILLIAM D. Hoyt of Rockport, Maine, re- mains involved in many activities. Among his professional and community commitments are the curator of the Historical Society, vice chair- man of the Historical Commission, the Historic District Commission, and the Conservation Commission. R. H. Rurr retired in 1973 from the Appalachian Power Co. after 38 years of service. A former member of the board of Lions International, he continues to be active in the Lions work in Welch, W. Va. In November 1978 JUDGE GEORGE RosE SMITH was elected to a new eight-year term on the Supreme Court of Arkansas. He was first elected in 1948 at the age of 37. 1933 Tuomas S. Fox (See 1931.) 1935 WINSTON W. Brown retired as senior attorney with United Energy Resources, formerly United Gas Corp. He resides in his hometown of Shreveport, La. James M. FRANKLIN is completing his seventh year on his church’s board of trustees. Retired since 1975, Franklin and his wife keep busy with church and community volunteer work, and traveling. The couple resides in Pleasantville, N. J. LoyAL P. GassMAN retired in December 1978. J. S. Bruce, He and his wife spent Christmas in England with their son, who is in the U.S. Air Force. The Gassman’s expect to return home in March. LeRoy HopcEs Jr. retired from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture as of January 1978. He now resides in Richmond, Va. 1936 Hucu J. Bonino retired as president of Bostik South Division of USM Corp. in October 1978. He has started a new firm in Greenville, S. C., the Alva Inc., a distributor of chemical colors, adhesives, coatings and equipment. Joun T. Cover, of Staunton, Va., is regional vice president (Southeast) with the Church Pen- sion Fund, an affiliate of the Episcopal Church. JorL Grayson III is vice president and part owner of Bio Lab Inc., a manufacturer of chemical components for swimming pools, poultry, dairy, and janitorial supplies. His son, Joel IV, is executive vice president of the firm. Grayson is a director of the Southeastern Swimming Pool Association and a director of the Georgia Poultry Federation. PauL G. HERVEY, after suffering a stroke, retired as chairman of the psychology department of Del Mar College. He had served public educa- tion in Texas for 43 years. Dr. KENNETH G. MacDona.p still practices sur- gery in Charleston, W. Va. He is extremely in- terested in boating and was elected vice division captain of the 2nd Eastern District of the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. MacDonald is also com- mander in chief of the Great Kanawha River Navy, Inc., and an avid Rotarian. Puivip H. MILNER, retired executive vice presi- dent of Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York, lives in Key Largo, Fla. He continues to serve on the board of directors of six corpora- tions. 1937 JAMEs S. BRUCE, director of corporate relations, has been named a senior vice president for Eastman Kodak Co. Bruce has held a number of management positions since joining the com- pany in 1939. In 1976 he was named a vice president and the following year was elected to its board of directors. GIVEN W. CLEEK retired from the Bureau of Standards in 1974. He continues to do some part-time consulting work. 1938 Tuomas A. MaALLoy JR. is a professor of sociol- ogy at Ferris State College in Big Rapids, Mich. 29 TN 1939 EDWARD F. Burrows, after teaching history for 31 years at Guilford College in Greensboro, N. C., plans to retire in May 1979. CHARLES P. LyxEs is a director of Seaboard Coast Line Railway System. He is also president of Lykes Brothers, Inc. in Tampa, Fla. The firm together with its subsidiaries, Lykes Pasco Pack- ing Co. and Lykes Bros., Inc., of Georgia, are primarily in agribusiness. They are associated with ranching, packing plants, citrus, citrus concentrate, forestry, sugar cane, and outdoor recreational facilities. Lykes is also a director of various other business and civic organizations. Dr. EDGAR F. SHANNON JR., a Washington and Lee Trustee and former president of the Uni- versity of Virginia, was honored at the annual fall convocation in Charlottesville. A new garden in the west courtyard of the Rotunda was dedi- cated to him. Shannon, a Tennyson scholar, is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. 1940 JAMEs H. Brerer has retired as chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Corning Corp. He expects to do considerable traveling. W. B. “BLAKEY” WALKER lives in Forest, Va., where he is a manufacturer’s representative on gift lines in six Southeastern states. 194] CHARLES H. CHAPMAN JR., president of Chap- man Corp. in Dothan, has been elected presi- dent of the Alabama Chamber of Commerce. The Chapman Corp. is in the construction, de- velopment, and sales of commercial, residential and industrial real estate. Chapman is a veteran of World War II having served with the U. S. Navy. His civic and business activities include vice chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Dothan; director of Southern Bancorporation; vice chairman, board of directors of the Dothan Oil Mill Co.; vice president and director of the Twitchell Corp.; elder, First Presbyterian Church; presi- dent of Dothan-Houston County Rotary Club and a member of the board of visitors, School of Commerce, University of Alabama. Jack W. Warner, Trustee of Washington and Lee University and president of Gulf States Paper Corp., has received the “Good Turn Award” by the Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In making the pres- entation the Scout executive stated, “This award tonight is being presented to a company and its president who believe in making our community a better place to live. They are involved in vir- tually every aspect of our community life . . .” Warner served on the Council’s Exploring 30 Committee in 1972, its executive board from 1973 to 1977, and currently serves as a member at-large. 1942 W. Joun Daniet (See 1951 Hollis.) 1943 J. TyLer Bowie, formerly with G. Calvert Bowie, Inc., a mortgage banking firm in Wash- ington, D. C., retired in 1971 and moved to Hilton Head Island, S. C. Bowie is currently the president of Moss Creek Development Corp., a subsidiary of the Northwestern Mutual Life In- surance Co. of Milwaukee. He continues to be a tournament golfer and was tournament director for the Sea Pines Heritage Golf Classic 1973-75, and also for the Women’s International at Moss Creek 1976-78. Bowie is also the 1975 Champion of Sea Pines Club. 1944 HuGuH ASHCRAFT is president of Harris-Teeter Super Markets, Inc., a retail grocery chain with 76 retail stores in North Carolina. Ashcraft re- sides in Charlotte, N. C. R. BRuCE QuaAYLE has been elected a vice presi- dent of Columbia Gas System Service Corp. of Wilmington, Del. Quayle joined the Service Corp. in 1969 as director of public relations. Before joining Columbia he was director of public relations for the Sinclair Oil Corp. and had been with that organization from 1952. Quayle has been a member of the public rela- tions committees of the American Gas Associa- tion and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America and active in other intra-industry information organizations. He and his wife have four children. Co. CHARLES E. SAVEDGE, headmaster of Au- gusta Military Academy in Fort Defiance, Va., was honored in October by the Newspaper Fund in New York City as the 1978 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. A grant, given to Augusta Military Academy, where Col. Savedge is also a journalism teacher and advisor to the yearbook, will help establish the Journa- lism Learning Center at the school’s library. The yearbook at Augusta Military Academy has received the Medalist, the highest rating of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, every year since 1959. Savedge is past president of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and he has won the Medal of Merit from the Journalism Education Association. This year he was design editor of Photography Fundamentals for Stu- dent Photo-journalists and a contributing editor for the latest edition of Newspaper Funda- mentals, a text for high schools. ROBERT H. SEAL, president and director of the National Bank of Commerce in San Antonio, Texas, has been elected a moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of Red River. The Synod includes the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- sas, and Louisiana. Seal has served as a member of the Division of Ministerial Relations in Del Salvador Presbytery and is an elder in the First Church, San Antonio. He is also a member of the board of directors for the Texas Presbyterian Foundation. Dr. LLoyp H. SMITH Jr. has served 14 years as chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is president of the Association of Professors of Medicine and an overseer of Harvard Univer- sity. 1945 W. E. FRYE is a teacher in the city school system of Santa Barbara, Calif. FRANK MARKOE Jr., vice chairman of the War- ner-Lambert Co., has been elected a director of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce. 1946 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. T. RyLanp Dopson, a daughter, Amy, on Jan. 9, 1978. Dodson has recently been appointed district judge of the 22nd Judicial District. 1947 ROBERT A. MOSBACHER, whose business, estab- lished in 1948, now has oil and gas operations in all of the Gulf States, many other states in the U.S., and in Canada, is currently director of the Texas Heart Institute, American Petroleum In- stitute, and Texas Commerce Bancshares. He is also a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Joint Operating Committee for St. Luke’s and Texas Children’s Hospital. He is the immediate past chairman of the board of visitors of M. D. Anderson Hospital. Mosbacher is still active in sailing and particularly boat rac- ing. He was considering the 1976 Olympics when he was appointed national finance chairman for the President Ford Committee. Prior to this, he had won second place in the 1965 Olympic trials in the Dragon Class and, in 1969, second place in the World Championships in Spain. In 1957, Mosbacher was part of the crew of a boat, owned by Alfred Fay, which won the Gold Cup (5.5 meter) in Norway. Mosbacher is a member of the Texas Corinthian Yacht Club and won the Atlantic Cup Championship held at Southport, Conn., in 1942, his first big boating win. T. RYLAND Dopson (See 1946.) 1948 Howarp M. FENDER has been appointed district judge of Criminal District Court #2 in Fort Worth, Texas. He has served as district attorney J. P.B owen Jr. 5 T and assistant district attorney general in Texas. 1949 BRIAN BELL is counselor for public affairs at the American Embassy in Santiago, Chile. GLENN CuHarFer is selling real estate—specializ- ing in waterfront condominiums—in the Strat- ford, Conn., region. He and his wife have four daughters and two grandchildren. THOMAS W. TUCKER is president of the Bank of Lubeck in Parkersburg, W. Va. ‘THOMAS S. Hook is acting chief, Public Inquiry Center, Federal Aviation Administration, in Washington, D. C. He received special achieve- ment awards in 1977 and 1978. 1950 WILLIAM G. (GILL) Brooks has been made chief financial officer and business manager of the Boys Latin School in Baltimore, Md. ROBERT VAN BurREN, chairman of Midlantic Na- tional Bank of Newark, N. J., has recently re- ceived considerable publicity in the Wall Street Journal with the bank’s “Hungry Banker Awards.” The advertisements feature the var- ious heads of the bank’s departments as well as the individual employees. R. DABNEY CHAPMAN remains in Berlin, Ger- many, with the U. S. Mission as director of In- ternational Communication Agency (formerly USIA). Dr. WILLIAM J. GARDNER III of Ogden, has been elected president of the Utah State Medical Association. Houston Harte, chairman of the board of Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc., has be- come a director of Frost Bank in San Antonio, Texas. The Harte-Hanks firm owns and oper- ates 26 newspapers and 61 non-daily publica- tions in 34 markets. It also owns television and radio stations in four states including Texas. Harte sits on boards of several organizations including the Cancer Therapy and Research Foundation of Southwest Texas, and Com- munications Properties, Inc., of Austin. He is a former member of the board of visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy. W. DonaLD MUNSON Jp. is associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Henderson- ville, N. C. He was formerly the director of development at Montreat-Anderson College. 1951 JOHN P. BOWEN JR., associate editor of the Tzmes- Herald, in Newport News, Va., has been reap- pointed to the Virginia Travel Advisory Com- mittee by Gov. John Dalton. He was first ap- pointed to the committee, which is charged with maintaining liaison between travel promotion activities of the Commonwealth and the private sector, by former Gov. Mills E. Godwin in 1974. J. ALAN Cross is a CPA in Coral Gables, Fla. He also has experience in insurance, securities and real estate. A former chairman of the Citizens Budget Advisory Commission for Coral Gables, he serves many varied community organiza- tions. He is also a tournament bridge life master, an accredited sports umpire, and a retired lieu- tenant commander with the Naval Reserve. SAM B. HOLLIs, president of Southwide, Inc., of Memphis, Tenn., was instrumental in the pur- chase, by Southwide, of another cotton-service company, Delta and Pine Land Co. of Scott, Miss. W. JOHN DANIEL, ’42, is president of Delta and Pine Land. Southwide is the parent com- pany of Federal Compress and Warehouse Co.; Delta and Pine Land markets the popular Del- tapine cotton varieties. Southwide is also the 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 7 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—Ernest I. Cornbrooks III, ’67, Webb, Burnett & Simpson, 115 Broad St., Salisburv, Md. 21801 Detroit—James W. Large, 68, 406 Mt. Vernon, Grosse Pointe, Mich. 48236 Eastern North Uarolina—E. 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. McMurry, ’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—John C. Martin III, 78, 2462 E. 30th St., Tulsa, Okla. 74114 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 Woodland Trail, Abilene, Texas 79605 Wisconsin— Price M. Vavis Jr., 36, 10060 N. Range Line Rd., Mequon, Wisc. 53092 31 parent company of L. P. Brown Co., which is headed by L. PALMER Brown, ’30. The Brown firm is a supplier of bale packaging materials. Hollis said Delta and Pine Land will continue to operate under the same name and manage- ment. He added that Southwide is interested in further expansion in agribusiness and _ has formed a farm management company. WarkREN L. SNEAD, president of Bob Smith Con- struction Co. of Greeneville, Tenn., has been elected to the Tusculum College board of trus- tees. Snead is active in church and civic affairs in Greeneville. 1952 FLETCHER McCLINTOCK is employed by the Ranger Oil Co. as South Louisiana district ex- ploration geologist. He was formerly with Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Co. 1953 Dr. T. Kyte Creson Jr. has left his private practice and is now associated with the Medical Group in Memphis, Tenn., practicing internal medicine and hematology. Dr. JOHN D. Macuireg, president of State Uni- versity of New York, College of Old Westbury, was among 100 young educators featured in the magazine Change in October 1978. The survey in a sense “is a supplement to ‘Who’s Who in Higher Education.’ ” Maguire recently delivered the William P. Fenn lectures on “Asian and American Universities” at 20 universities in seven Asian countries. ALDEN M. (PETE) P1TaRD has been promoted to chief of administration at Kennedy Space Center for Planning Research Corporation’s Systems Services Co., Florida Division. In his new as- signment, he will have responsibilities for the business functions supporting PRC’s design en- gineering contract which includes finance, con- tract administration, industrial relations, and administrative services. Prior to joining PRC in 1975, Pitard was director of manpower training for Brevard Community College. He also spent 15 years with the Boeing Co. in Seattle, Wash., and Cape Canaveral, Fla. At one time he was industrial and labor relations manager for Boe- ing during Apollo and Skylab. He and his wife, Barbara, have three children. DaniEL E. Popovicy has been named senior account representative for the polyethylene di- vision of the plastics department of Exxon Chemical USA. Popovich resides in Atlanta, Ga., and is responsible for accounts throughout the Southeast. He has been employed with Exxon in various Capacities since 1959. Joun A. WILLIAMSON, founder and chairman of the board of California Plan, Inc., with offices in Santa Clara, Calif., has been elected a trustee 32 A. M. Pitard, ’53 of the Hill School. Williamson is also founder and board chairman of Exchange Security Corp. and of California Consumer Plan. He also founded and is president of Cal Delta De- velopment Co. 1954 Larry C. PALMER is with COMSAT Laboratories in Washington, D. C. In October 1978 he at- tended the 29th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Dubrovnik, Yugo- slavia and presented a paper, “Future Trends in Communication Satellite Systems.” 1955 THe Rev. WILLIAM L. DOLs, rector of Im- manual-on-the-Hill Episcopal Church in Alex- andria, Va., was guest preacher at the Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, S. C., on Thanksgiving weekend. Dols has served churches in Mary- land, North Carolina and Virginia. Since his church is on the campus of Virginia Seminary, he preaches each Sunday to faculty and stu- dents. CHARLES F. PATTERSON JR. was elected president of the 325 member Consumer Bankers Associa- tion at its national convention in November 1978. Patterson is a group vice president at Trust Co. Bank in Atlanta, Ga., and is a trustee of the Graduate School of Consumer Banking at the University of Virginia. 1956 WiLuiaM H. Houston III, an agribusinessman from Tunica, Miss., has been elected to the board of directors of First Tennessee Bank, N.A. of Memphis, Tenn. Houston is a director of Le- Bonheur Children’s Hospital and director of the 16-county Delta Council, the chamber of commerce in Mississippi. 1957 LAWRENCE A. ATLER, an attorney in Denver, is the entrepreneur and partner-developer of a large restaurant in an Old English Tudor manor in Denver, Colo. Atler and his two partners have spent the past 2% years restoring and ex- panding the 1920 mansion. The new complex is known as the Wellshire Inn. There are two res- taurants, the Windmill and the Dutchman, both under the same roof, offering different cuisine and atmosphere. LAWRENCE B. CLARK is senior engineer with Michael Baker Jr. Inc., Engineers and Survey- ors, with offices in Jackson, Miss. Capt. THomas E. Lonwreey Jr. is serving as Force Judge Advocate for Commander Naval Surface Forces, U. S. Pacific Fleet, in San Diego, Calif. 1958 MARRIAGE: Puiipre C. LAaBro and Francoise C. F. Patterson Jr, 55 Coulon on Aug. 12, 1978, in East Hampton, N.Y. Labro is a film director and journalist residing in Paris. BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. RICHARD A. Davis, ason, Richard Hill, on Aug. 29, 1978. This is the second son for the Davises, who reside in Char- lotte, N. C. GerorGE Doucuty Hiccs has been elected to the board of trustees of Tusculum College of Greeneville, Tenn. Higgs lives in Mountain Lakes, N. J., and is president of Carex Health Care Products, Inc., of Newark. He was preced- ed on the board by his mother, Mrs. Josephine Doughty Higgs of Greeneville, and his grand- father, George Willis Doughty. Rurus L. SAFForp operates the Serendipity Inn, a restaurant in Mill Harbour, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. 1959 C. DuBosE (DuBy) AUSLEY, former chairman of the Florida State Ethics Commission and a Talla- hassee attorney, has been named to Florida’s board of regents, which runs the state university system. Ausley, a member of the Constitution Revision Commission, is also chairman of the Florida State University Council of Advisers and a member of the Florida State University Foundation board of directors. JOHN EsPeERIAN is in his third year as headmaster of Linden Hall School in Lititz, Pa., one of the oldest girls schools in the United States. THOMAS R. GOWENLOCK is vice president in charge of oil and gas tax-sheltered investments for Pennaco Resources Corp., a drilling activity located throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Davip C. POTEET is president of Crawford Pub- lishing Co. He resides in Danville, Va., and is also executive director of Evangelical Caucus. May. B. R. WILKERSON is head of the Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Program for Fort Campbell, Ky. Wilkerson re- signed from the U. S. Army in 1976. 1961 MARRIAGE: Dr. Cuar-es E. BusH and Carolee Silcox in January 1978. Bush is chairman of the architecture department at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Va. The cou- ple resides in Williamsburg. MARRIAGE: WALTER J. CRATER JR. and Lynn Keenan on Aug. 26, 1978. The couple resides in Arlington, Va., where Crater is the senior pro- grams engineer at System Consultants, Inc. WILLIAM M. Bow EN was elected recently to the Beaufort (S.C.) County Council. He is a partner Dr. E. D. Vaughan Jr.,’61 K.D. Martin, 62. in the Hilton Head Island firm of Bowen, Cooper, Beard & Smoot. Dr. WILLIAM J. FIDLER is a pathologist at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. ROBERT FUNKHOUSER is vice president for sales of Choice Vend located in Windsor Locks, Conn. His responsibilities include the develop- ment of a marketing effort and assisting the regional managers. He and his wife, Barb, have a son and a daughter. Compr. Hayes I. Gorpon and family have been transferred to Newport, R. I., where he is at- tending the senior officer warfare course at the Naval War College. E. DARRACOTT VAUGHAN JR., a noted urologist and clinical investigator, has been appointed attending surgeon-in-charge of the urology di- vision at the New York Hospital and head of the division of urology, Cornell University Medical College in New York City. Vaughan succeeds another Washington and Lee alumnus, Victor F. Marshall, ’34, who has been associated with the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center since 1937. Vaughan was a professor in the department of urology at the University of Vir- ginia School of Medicine. He joined the faculty there as an assistant professor in 1971. After several months he left Virginia to go to Columbia University’s Department of Medicine where he remained for two years, first as clinical research fellow and later as research associate. From 1971-1973 he also was a special fellow in urol- ogy, U. S. Public Health Service. Vaughan trained from 1965 to 1967 at Vanderbilt Uni- versity, Nashville, and for four years at the Uni- versity of Virginia School of Medicine. For one year while at the University of Virginia he was under the National Institute of Health, Urology Training Grant. His academic honors include membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, national honor medical society, election to membership in the Southern Society for Clinical Research and Sigma Xi, national honorary society de- voted to the encouragement of scientific re- search. Vaughan was a member of the board of directors, University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association; faculty advisor for Alpha Epsilon Delta; and chairman, pre-medical student ad- visory sub-committee, University of Virginia Medical Alumni. Vaughan also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Kidney Foundation and is secretary-treasurer of its urology council. He is also a member of the medical advisory board of the American Heart Association’s council for high blood pressure research. He and his wife reside in Manhattan and have a son and a daughter. 1962 BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. RoBerT A. COUNCIL JR., a fourth child, Justin Hodges, on June 27, 1978. The family resides in Benton, Ark., where Council practices obstetrics and gyneocology. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. STEPHEN W. RUTLEDGE, a daughter, Jordan Covalt, on Sept. 21, 1978. This is the second child for the Rutledge’s, who also have ason. Rutledge is associate advertising manager in the food division of Proctor and Gamble. He is responsible for all marketing activities throughout the United States relating to the company’s Duncan Hines products. The family resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. STEPHEN R. CHERNAY of Hopewell Junction, N. Y., is in the practice of pediatrics. He is a member of the Dutchess County Board of Health, a member of the executive committee of the Dutchess County Medical Society, and in the business of raising thoroughbred horses on his farm. W. Hayne Hipp has been named chief executive officer of Liberty Corp., and chairman of Liberty Life Insurance Co., Liberty Corporation’s larg- est unit. K. DOUGLAS MARTIN is now in Atlanta, Ga., as president and chief executive officer of Scripto Inc. The firm is composed of four divisions, all of which are in the fields of writing instruments or disposable lighters. 1963 BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. OMER LEE JETER JR., a daughter, Laura Lee, on April 28, 1978. This is the fourth daughter for the Jeters, who reside in Orange Park, Fla. COMING IN THE NEXT ISSUE Fancy Dress 1979 8 Marion Junkin Memorial Art Exhibition Dr. R. THomas Epwarbs is practicing internal medicine and cardiology in Roanoke, Va. He is chief of medicine at the Community Hospital and president of the Roanoke Valley Heart As- sociation. Edwards was recently selected as an alumni member of AOA, honorary medical society at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. STEPHEN GUILD is associate director of education in a graduate research center at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Epwarp W. Homes holds an association pro- fessorship of medicine and an assistant pro- fessorship of biochemistry at Duke University Medical School. Warren B. Hucuss is vice president of Wills- grant Marketing Communications in Philadel- phia, Pa. Dr. E. Ross KyGEr III, of Houston, Texas, and Worthington Brown Jr., 62, of Memphis, ‘Tenn., were recently reunited on the main street of Carmel, Calif. They adjourned immediately to the Hog’s Breath Tavern where they discussed the more austere and metaphysical aspects of the Washington and Lee curriculum. Capt. JOHN G. S. WIGGINS is serving as a wea- pons-systems officer with a unit of the Alaskan Air Command at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. Wiggins was previously at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. SHERWOOD W. (Woopy) WISE JR., a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, served as chief scientist on a 54 day multi-disciplinary cruise (marine geology, geophysics, and physical oceanography) of the Ara Islas Orcadas to the Antarctic Ocean as part of a cooperative research program between the U. S. National Science Foundation and the Argentine Government. 1964 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN Harris KIRKLEY, a daughter, Sunnie Marie, on Aug. 23, 1978. Kirkley is a staff member of the News World in New York City. J. F. Williams IT, ’65 L. N. Miller Jr., 66 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. W. B. (Buck) OGILVIE Jr., a son, William Buckner III, on Dec. 21, 1978. This is the fourth child for the Ogilvies, who have a son and two daughters. Ogilvie is in the office of the executive vice president of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. CraliG S. CROCKARD is vice president of Avondale Mills in Sylacauga, Ala. He was formerly with Blue Jay Knitting Mills in Weaverville, N. C. Epwarb S. Crort III is first vice president in the corporate finance department of the Robin- son-Humphrey Co., Inc., an investment banking firm headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. In addition, Croft had started a company in Montgomery, Ala. He continues his community activities in- cluding coaching his 9-year old son’s basketball team and his 8-year old daughter’s soccer team. He also is in his third year as canvass director of his church. Joun D. Eure Jr. practices law in Suffolk, Va. He and his wife have two children. Dr. KEN E. GREER is on the faculty of the Uni- versity of Virginia Medical School in Char- lottesville. He is also on the board of directors of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni As- sociation and serves on the admissions commit- tee for the medical school. Greer is married to the former Louise Lyle of Norfolk. WILLIAM A. JEFFREYS has been elected president and director of Export Management Corpora- tion, an international marketing and manage- ment firm in New York City. DoucG.Las McDowELt is vice president in muni- cipal bond sales at Ehrlich-Bober and Co. in New York. McDowell, his wife, three sons and a daughter reside in Gladstone, N. J. RICHARD J. Tavss has opened a new office for the general practice of law in Norfolk, Va. REx H. Woo.pribcE has joined the Houston, Texas, architectural firm of Kendall, Weather- ford and Associates. He and his wife, Lisa, have two daughters. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. GEorGE F. MADISON, a daughter, Sarah Pierce, on May 20, 1978. This is the second child for the Madisons, who also have a 2-year.old son. They reside in Bastrop, La. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. J. LInDsEy SHORT, twins, Shelley Farish and Sidney Fitzhugh, on Oct. 3, 1978. Short is a practicing attorney in Houston, Texas. JoHN L. MENDELL owns Broussard Green- houses, a wholesale greenhouse operation, in Lafayette, La. Mendell and his wife, Helen, a 34 practicing attorney, have two children, Eliza- beth, 5, and John, 2. WALTER H. (Rusty) RYLAND has been appointed as chief deputy to Virginia’s Attorney General, J. Marshall Coleman. Ryland became associated with the attorney general’s office in 1968. Roy D. STALLINGs JR. has been appointed to the school board of Newport News, Va. Stallings is senior vice president of Fidelity American Bank and is active on the boards of the Peninsula Boy’s Club, Nature and Science Center, and Counselling Services. J. F. WrxuiaMs III, newly elected president of the Richmond Real Estate firm of Harrison & Bates, Inc., has also been elected to the board of directors of Bank of Virginia. Williams joined Harrison & Bates in 1971 after five years of sales experience with Custom Business Forms, Inc. He is president-elect and a director of the Richmond Board of Realtors, a member of the Big Brothers of Richmond, and a former vice president and director of Junior Achievement of Richmond. 1966 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RoBERT R. BALDwIn, a son, Robert R. Jr., on April 5, 1978. Baldwin is assistant general counsel in the tax section of the law department for Metropolitan Life In- surance Co. The Baldwins reside in Chatham, N. J. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. KENNETH L. BERNHARDT, a daughter, Karen, in Washington, D. C. Bern- hardt is on a federal faculty fellowship grant working as consumer research advisor for the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. Dr. F. Scott KENNEDY, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Louisiana State University of Medicine in Shreveport, has been named secretary of the Northwest Louisiana Section of the American Chemical Society. Lewis N. MILLER JR. has been designated chief financial officer of Central National Bank of Richmond by its board of directors. Miller was senior vice president and manager of the finan- cial group. He also serves on the board of direc- tors of Miller Manufacturing Co., Inc., and the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood. CHARLES W. REESE JR. has been named assistant general counsel for Kaiser Cement & Gypsum Corp. in Oakland, Calif. Reese joined the Kaiser organization in 1975 as an attorney for Kaiser Industries. In 1977 he joined the legal staff of Kaiser Cement. Prior to joining Kaiser Indus- tries, Reese was an attorney with the San Fran- cisco law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen. I. L. Donkle IIT, ’74 1967 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JEFF Twarpy, a daugh- ter, Elizabeth Ellsworth, on Nov. 1, 1978. Twar- dy is in private law practice in Alexandria, Va. KEvIN C. Ear_E has graduated from the masters of divinity program at the Assemblies of God Graduate School in Springfield, Mo. He was recently appointed supervisor, Teen Challenge Center in Muskegon, Mich. He is married to the former Patricia Lynn, a 1974 graduate of Cen- tral Bible College, who has been appointed educational director of the Muskegon pro- gram. WALTER H. RYLAND (See 1965.) 1968 MARRIAGE: Davin E. Bass and Jane E. Sullivan on March 4, 1978, in Ilion, N. Y. Bass resides in Vienna, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. C. Howarp Capito, a son, John Wylie, on Nov. 16, 1978, in Louisville, Ky. Capito is employed by Citizens Fidelity Bank and Trust Co. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Mouton S. DOWLER Jr., a daughter, Emily Morton, on March 4, 1978. Dowler is an attorney with the firm of Gresham, Davis, Gregory, Worthy and Moore in San Antonio, Texas. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. D. WHITNEY THORNTON II, a son, Bryan Whitney, on Sept. 19, 1977. Whitney practices law in Washington, D. C. JOHN S. ANDERSON is now associated with Pan- handle Eastern Pipe Line Co. in Houston, ‘Texas. James H. Krersky is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Georgia Institute of Technol- ogy. Kiersky, his wife and two daughters, reside in Atlanta, Ga. 1969 ALAN H. Cooperisa reporter for the Richmond News Leader. Cooper graduated from the Uni- versity of Virginia Law School in May 1977. J. BARTON Goopwin has been promoted to vice president in the private placement department of Kidder, Peabody and Company, investment bankers. Goodwin resides in New York City with his wife and infant daughter, Carson. RONALD B. HEAD is assistant dean for career services at Mary Washington College in Fred- ericksburg, Va. Head received his Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Virginia in May 1978. STEPHEN A. SHARP has resigned as legal assistant to Federal Communications Commissioner, At the wedding of Harold R. Howe Jr., 76, were (Ist row) Burt Bartlett, ’78; Stowe Rose, 78; Ben Philpott, 75, ’78L; Matt Calvert, ’75, 79L; (2nd row) Kim Ratliff, ’76; Howe; Mrs. Howe; Doug Faris, ’76; (3rd row) Bill Thompson, ’76; Rodney Cook, ’78; Scott Stevenson, ’76; Paul S. Cobb, ’78; Peter Lami, 76; John Wheatley, ’78; Paul Vavala, 76; Tom Hunter, ’77; Morris Newell (Davidson alumnus), and Phil Boger, ’75. Margita E. White, in order to enter private law practice. Sharp is now associated with the Washington, D. C., office of Schnader, Harri- son, Segal and Lewis. Sharp has been with the FCC since 1972 except for a one year absence in 1974 to serve as counsel to the Impeachment Inquiry of the House of Representative’s Com- mittee on the Judiciary. CHRISTIAN STRALEY received the M.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Delaware in June 1978. EDWIN B. VADEN JR. has been business editor of the News and Observer in Raleigh, N. C., since September 1978. He had been reporting on state government for the paper since March 1977. 1970 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RicHAarD T. SCRUGGS JR., a daughter, Sarah Palmer, on July 8, 1978. Scruggs is employed as project manager for the Fisk Electric Co., an engineering and contracting firm with main offices in Houston, Texas. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RoBErt P. Trovr, ason, Robert Carter, on March 28, 1978. The ‘Trouts reside in Silver Spring, Md. j Dr. FRANK E. FISHER is in a two-year program in endocrinology and metabolism at the University of California, San Francisco. CLINTON B. PALMER III is completing his mas- ter’s of fine arts degree in film production at the University of Southern California. He is a teaching assistant at USC in beginning and ad- vanced camera workshops. 1971 Henry A. Harkey is in the general practice of law with the firm of Harkey, Foggart, Coira, Fletcher and Lambeth. Harkey and his wife, Catherine, live in Charlotte, N. C. Joun W. HINsHaw is an animal products sales representative for Elanco Products, the agricul- tural marketing division of Eli Lilly and Co. Hinshaw earned a master’s degree in marketing from the University of North Carolina in 1978. He is working in the Mason City, Iowa region. CLARK B. LEUTZE is a systems analyst for the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of United Technologies in Hartford, Conn. He was re- cently promoted to lieutenant in the U. S. Navy Reserve and is mission commander of a P3 Pa- trol Aircraft. Last May, Leutze received his master’s of business administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He and his wife have a son, Scott Turner, born Aug. 13, 1977. ALvA M. LuMPKIN is living in Atlanta and study- ing for a master’s degree in electrical engineer- ing at Georgia Tech. LAURENCE L. MCCONNELL, editor and publisher of the newspaper weekly, the Georgetown (S.C.) Times, has been successful with an “op-ed” (commentary) page. The page features two columns, “Before you Wrap the Fish” and “Ex- pert Witness.” His wife, Cathy, serves as assistant editor. Dr. Barry W. MITCHELL is performing his resi- dency training at Buffalo General Hospital in Buffalo, N. Y. JEFFREY B. SPENCE has been appointed executive director for the Kansas City region of the Na- tional Conference of Christians and Jews. Spence resides in Gladstone, Mo. Ho .uis C. TaGGarrt, a New Orleans attorney, is an art investment consultant with the fine arts firm of Kurt E. Schon, Ltd. Taggart specializes in 19th century European paintings for collec- tors and investors. MarTIN B. WHITAKER received a special com- mendation from the U. S. Attorney General for his work, from 1974 to 1978, with the tax division of the Department of Justice. Whitaker is now associated with the law firm of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Johnson and Williams in Houston, where he is a tax specialist. 1972 LELAND CLEMONS has been transferred by the First National Bank in Dallas to its branch in London. Clemons is vice president and is re- sponsible for U. S. companies in Northern and Central Europe. He and his family reside in London. Lynn D. DurHAM JR. is associated with the law firm of Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe, Morrow and Dawson in Midland, Texas. WiLuiAM J. Monica, having obtained his real estate brokers license, is a broker-associate with Progress Realty, Inc., of Salem, Va. In December 1978 he was elected president and chairman of the board of the Roanoke Valley Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia. Dr. FREDERICK H. SANDs is a senior resident in internal medicine at the University of Virginia Hospital until June 1979. He plans to enter practice in Atlanta. JoHN GRAHAM TUCKER is a cataloguer in the antique silver department of Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York. 1973 BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. JOHN H. Dumas II, ason, John H. III, on Feb. 25, 1978. Dumas is a second-year resident in internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Craic T. DUMESNIL, a son, Joseph Peterson III, on Dec. 17, 1977, in Louisville, Ky. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. G. ARCHER FRIERSON II, ason, George Archer III, on Oct. 15, 1978. The family resides in Shreveport, La. J. JASon MaTTHEws is a research analyst and aide in the defense attache’s office of the American Embassy in Athens, Greece. JAMES E. PATTERSON has been elected to a four- year term as Judge of Probate Court for Han- cock County, Maine. ANDREW D. Stang has been promoted to pro- duct director for the health care division of Johnson and Johnson. ROBERT J. TAYLOR IV is operating General Re- pair Maintenance in Atlanta, Ga. With 25 em- ployees, the firm is doing major renovation and remodeling work as well as minor repairs. MARRIAGE: KENNETH J. WERNICK and Sharyl B. Hammer, on Aug. 26, 1978. Wernick, after two years as a practicing attorney in Fairfax, Va., is now with the office of privacy and infor- mation appeals, U. S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D. C. GeEorGE B. WOLFE completed a clerkship for the Fourth Circuit, U. S. Court of Appeals in July 1978. After a three month sabbatical of back- packing and fishing in the Rocky Mountains from Colorado to Canada and visiting friends around the country, Wolfe moved to Washing- ton, D. C., where he is associated with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering. Jerr Twarpy (See 1967.) 1974 MARRIAGE: STEPHEN ELkInsS and Elizabeth Jones on Oct. 7, 1978, in Baltimore, Md. Mem- bers of the wedding party included Art Bolton, °74L; Dennis Gilchrist, ’74L; Mark Kelso, ’68, "74L; Dave Beyer, ’74L; John Broadway, ’74L; Rick Corrie, ’°74L; Tom King, ’74L, and Kevin Twillman, ’75. Elkins is a lawyer for the Labor Department and attends tax school at George- town University Law Center. Mrs. Elkins is a paralegal for a Washington law firm. The couple resides in Arlington, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. LAWRENCE H. FRAMME III, a son, Lawrence H. IV, on Dec. 2, 1978. Framme is associated with the Richmond law firm of McGuire, Woods and Battle in the litiga- tion section. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Buss Y. Hicky, a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, on Sept. 30, 1978. 35 The Hickys reside in Marianna, Ark., where Hicky works his farm. MicHAEL D. BriTTIN won first prize in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition at Wil- liam and Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law. His essay was entitled “Constitutional Fair Use.” The competition is sponsored annually by AS- CAP to stimulate interest in the field of copy- right law. Brittin is a senior law student at Wil- liam and Mary where he holds a legal writing scholarship and serves as research editor of the Law Review. Brittin’s winning essay is now elig- ible for a national prize in the Burkan Competi- tion. JEFFREY D. BuRKE is employed by Price Water- house in Richmond, Va. Burke passed the CPA examination in August 1978. I. LANGSTON DONKLE III is a broker with I. L. Donkle Cotton Co., Inc., of Greenville, S. C. He is also chairman of the Democratic Party for the city and serves Washington and Lee as president of the local alumni chapter and as the chairman of the Alumni Admissions Program. WILLIAM L. DownING, after a trip to Seattle, Mexico City, San Juan, Martinique and St. Thomas with Jay Fulcher, ’74, is with the law firm of Wilcox, Savage, Lawrence, Spindle and Dickson, P. C. in Norfolk, Va. W. BRADNEY GRIFFIN has been named chairman of the board of zoning adjustment for the town of Mendon, Vt. ERNEST J. LicHtruss JR. received his master’s degree in educational leadership from the Uni- versity of Delaware in June 1978. BRADFORD NEAL MarrTIN is associated with the law firm of Leatherwood, Walker, Todd and Mann in Greenville, S. C. GEOFFREY N. NOLEN is senior account officer 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. At the wedding of E. Neal Cory, ’77 (reported in the September issue) were (Ist row) William W. Crawford, ’76; Roy Sumkins, "55; William R. Cory, ’43; Frank K. Turner, ’77; (2nd row) Don Sharp, ’69; Thomas H. Wall, ’75; Robert R. Gray, ’75; William _Kennedy Simpson, ’75; Cory; (3rd row) Ned Hancock, ’77; William H. Ogburn, ’76; Rogers L. Crain, ’°75; Boyd Martin, °77; Edmund K. Seibels, ’74; Mark J. Mennel, ’75. with Citicorp Real Estate, Inc., in Atlanta, Ga. Nolen has worked for Citibank of New York, the parent company of Citicorp, for the past three years. Nolen earned his master’s degree in management from Northwestern University in June 1975. JAMES G. ROGERS is assistant to the treasurer of General Waterworks Corp., a subsidiary of IU International, where he is responsible for cash and debt management of 65 subsidiaries. Rogers and his wife reside in St. Davids, Pa. WILLIAM R. SporrorD III has been awarded a Business Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., fellowship which he is using toward his MBA degree studies at the University of North Caro- lina at Chapel Hill. JoHN PauL WOODLEY JR. is working as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Dortch Warriner in Richmond, Va. 1975 WILLiAM D. CUNNINGHAM graduated on May 12, 1978, from the Bates College of Law at the University of Houston. He is now a trust real estate officer at First Hutchings-Sealy National Bank in Galveston, Texas. WarREN Parte HI i is employed by Oxford In- dustries in Atlanta, Ga. Hill earned his master’s degree in accounting in June 1978 from the University of Georgia. He was a cum laude graduate of Covenant College in 1975. He and his wife, Rebecca, reside in Atlanta. THOMAS RITTENBURG is 4 Captain assigned to the Judge Advocate General’s office at the Wal- ter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D. C. Rittenburg graduated from law school at the University of Tennessee and is a member of the Tennessee Bar. CHRISTOPHER P. ScuLLy (See 1976 Scully.) 1976 MARRIAGE: Haro xp R. Howe Jr. and Kath- erine P. Jackson on Sept. 9, 1978, in Charlotte, N.C. Groomsmen included Kim Ratliff, ’76; Doug Faris, ’76; Burt Bartlett, ’78, and Stowe Rose, ’78. A large number of other W&L men were guests. Howe is a member of the Bowman Gray Medical School of Wake Forest University. The couple resides in Winston-Salem, N. C. MARRIAGE: Henry MANN MOonrtTAGUE and Marsha Ann Exum on Sept. 9, 1978, in Char- lottesville, Va. Among the ushers were Douglas W. McRae, ’76, and Timothy P. Ingram, ’77. Montague is employed by Montague, Miller and Co. The couple resides in Charlottesville. MARRIAGE; CHARLES ALBERT Zipp III and Mary Elizabeth Miller, on Aug. 20, 1978, in College Station, Texas. Zipp is employed by television station KXII in Sherman, Texas. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Davip S. MARTIN, ason, David Sheffield Jr. on June 5, 1978. The Martins reside in Decatur, Ga. Craic Dorvat is production director for KPBS public broadcasting at San Diego State Univer- sity in San Diego, Calif. Mark E. GEorGE is an assistant national trust examiner for the comptroller of the currency’s regional administrator of National Banks in Houston, Texas. George received an M.B.A. degree from Southern Methodist University Graduate School of Business Administration in August 1977. H. Mynpers GLovER, after two years as a CPA with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Co. in Houston, Texas, and Washington, D. C., is now in his first year at Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Mark R. MauraIs is working for Cross Associ- ates Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants in Cape Coral, Fla. In June 1978 Maurais earned his M.B.A. in real estate from the University of Florida, where he was awarded a scholarship from the Florida Association of Realtors and was co-author of two textbooks for the Florida Real Estate Commission. His graduate research results will be published as an article in a future issue of The Real Estate Appraiser and Analyst, a professional journal. Davip LEE NICHOLSON is working with the world-wide marketing and sales of industrial process control computer systems for the Taylor Instrument Co., a division of the Sybron Corp. He resides in Rochester, N. Y. STEVEN K. RoBerts has opened a studio in Washington, D. C. This past December a new series of his silkscreen prints and woodcarvings were exhibited in a group showing at the Huber Gallery in Georgetown. STEPHEN M. ScuULLY, ’76, and CHRISTOPHER P. ScuLLy, ’75, have formed a corporation, along with their father, to acquire and sell oil and gas properties in the Rocky Mountain States. The new corporation has its offices in Denver. 1977 MARRIAGE: Ricuarp J. Bacsy and Kaye An- drews on June 24, 1978, in Danville, Va. Bagby is employed by the First National Bank of Mar- tinsville and Henry County. The couple resides in Fieldale, Va. MARRIAGE: Gary C. Courier and Alice Horton on Sept. 16, 1978, in Lee Chapel. In the wedding party were classmates George Smith, Mickey Flowers, ’78. Clary, Jon Grigg, Walt Kelley, Chuck Rogers, Kirk Ruffin, and Rob Hedelt, ’78. Collier is manager of the Houston Port Truck Terminal. The couple resides in Humble, Texas. MARRIAGE: Brap ey J. Frerz and Donna Forwabia on Sept. 2, 1978, in East Hartford, Conn. Mike Hightower, ’77, and John Scruggs, ’77, were ushers. The couple resides in Indiana- polis. MARRIAGE: Cartton Monroe Henson II and Catherine Mozley Goodhart on June 10, 1978, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Ga. Included in the wedding were Thomas Montgomery, ’77; Brice Williams, "78; Thomas Tift, ’78; William Taylor, ’78; William Cranford, ’79; Henry Taylor, ’78, and Robert McCreery Flowers Jr., 79. Also attending were Chad Hoover, ’78, and William Fresna,’77. The couple resides in Athens, Ga. where Henson is a second-year student at the University of Georgia School of Law. MARRIAGE: Ricuarp H. McCu.ocu and An- gela Earle Christian on Nov. 18, 1978, in At- lanta, Ga. Members of the wedding included Michael D. Armstrong, ’77; James C. Foreman, °78; Douglas M. Jackson, ’79; Curt B. Sharp, °78, and James S. Taggart, "79. Also present were Allen W. Weeks, ’78; Isaac A. Fisher, ’76, and Edward A. Burgess, ’78. McCulloch is as- sociated with Pringle Dixon Pringle Advertising in Atlanta and his wife is in the sales department of WSB Radio. MARRIAGE: KENNETH SCOTT VOELKER and Lynne Marie Gilbert on Sept. 2, 1978, in Athens, Greece. Voelker is associated with the Birming- ham, Ala., firm of Tradco-Vulcan, Ltd. CamILuus L. AVENT received his B.C.E. degree in December 1978 from Georgia Tech. LANCE C. BRAMBECK is the Southeastern repre- sentative for Academic Press, Inc., textbook and research publishers. He resides in Atlanta and covers a five-state area. MICHAEL A. FERRARA Is an education writer for the Chronicle in Augusta, Ga. WILLIAM J. FLESHER works as a competitive div- ing administrator for the Amateur Athletic Union in Indianapolis, Ind. ENSIGN JON R. Gricc has completed the Officer Indoctrination School at the Navy Education and Training Center in Newport, R. I. The six week course is intended to prepare newly com- missioned staff officers for Navy duty corres- ponding to their civilian profession. Grigg is a medical student at the University of Virginia. Ernest C. Matrox III joined the manufacturing trainee program of Burlington Industries and is now a supervisor at the Burlington Glass | At the wedding of Carlton Monroe Henson II, ’77, were | (left to right) Thomas Montgomery, ’77; Brice Williams, °78; Thomas Tift, 78; William Taylor, ’78; the bride and groom; William Cranford, ’79; Henry Taylor, ’78; Robert Fabrics plant in Hurt, Va. WILLIAM L. DownincG (See 1974.) BRADFORD NEAL MartTIN (See 1974.) 1978 MARRIAGE: JOHN EsTEN Byers and Alexandra Stephanie Laccetti on Aug. 26, 1978, at R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church, Lexington. Members of the wedding party included Michael Boley, Jeffrey V. Badgett, and Steve Yeakel, all °78, and Chester B. Goolrick III, ’73. MARRIAGE: Mark W. Hampton and Becky Hart on Oct. 7, 1978, in Gainesville, Fla. The couple reside at Ft. Sill, Okla. where Mark is with the U. S. Army. Purp E. BAILey is a graduate student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa. Jerry M. Bairrp is working as a systems analyst for his family’s business, Mrs. Baird’s Bakery, in Fort Worth, Texas. Baird plans to enroll in the M.B.A. program at Harvard Business School in 1980 on a deferred acceptance. ALAN JEFFREY Birp is attending law school at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. Dur- ing the summer of 1978 he worked in the office of the Maryland District Attorney. WILLIAM K. BurTON is employed by Venture Technology in Norristown, Pa. MIcHAEL T. CLEARY is assigned to the 4th Divi- sion, Infantry Mechanised, at Ft. Carson, Colo. He received his Ranger certification this past November after completing the infantry officer basic course at Ft. Benning, Ga. JOHN CLAYTON Croucu works in the executive development program at Nieman-Marcus in Dallas, Texas. E. Townes DUNCAN is associated with the law firm of Bass, Berry and Sims in Nashville, ‘Tenn. WILLIAM M. Ewin is employed by Clayton En- vironmental Consultants in Royal Oak, Mich. Davip G. FRANKLIN is working as a management trainee in the corporate division of Chemical New York Corp. Juttan H. Goope Jr. is employed by Residio Sportswear, a division of Wembley Industries in New Orleans, La. He is production coordinator for Residio Trousers. MARYELLEN FLAHERTY GOODLATTE IS associated with the law firm of Wetherington, Flippin, Melchionna, Bosserman and Burton in Roa- noke, Va. 37 RICHARD C. GRacE is completing the survey officer course at Ft. Sill, Okla. He recently com- pleted the field artillery officer basic course at Ft. Benning, Ga. Grace expects assignment to Ft. Carson, Colo. early this year. JAMEs B. Hayes passed the Florida bar exami- nation in July 1978. He is associated with the Boca Raton firm of Deschler and Reed. Hayes resides in Pompano Beach. JOHN D. Lonc is working in the corporate bank- ing department of the Fidelity Bank in Phil- adelphia, Pa. G. Davip Low is enrolled in a master’s degree program in mechanical engineering at Cornell University. Harry A. MAZAHERI is student bar association representative for the first-year class at Dickin- son School of Law in Carlisle, Pa. Davin S. Park is associated with the law firm of Salomon and McCarthy in Hampton, N. H. Park and his wife, Anne, reside in Brentwood. JEFFREY M. SONE isa first year law student at the University of Texas. IN MEMORIAM 1912 JUDGE ARLOs J. HARBERT, retired judge of the Criminal and Juvenile Court of Harrison County, W. Va., died June 27, 1978, in Clarks- burg. A memorial to Judge Harbert was pre- sented at the September meeting of the Harrison County Bar Association, where he was remem- bered as a respected jurist and an outstanding citizen. Judge Harbert was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court of Harrison County in June 1928. In 1930 he was elected to the Legislature and served as chairman of the Finance Commit- tee of the House of Delegates. Later he was elected Judge of the Criminal Court of Harrison County and, when additional duties were added to his court, he became Judge of the Juvenile Court. He rendered an outstanding public service for a period of 36 years and retired from the bench in February 1959. Judge Harbert was an active member of the county, state, and American Bar Association. He was a past presi- dent of the West Virginia Judicial Association. Active in many civic affairs, Harbert devoted much of his time and concern to the Harrison County Society for Crippled Children and Adults. ROBERT McCMurrRAN KNOTT, a retired director of probation and parole for the state of West Virginia, died Aug. 1, 1978, in Shepherdstown. 38 He was a member of the Sons of the Confed- eracy, the Mount Nebo Lodge A.F. & A.M., and a World War I Army veteran. 1914 WILLIAM MeEapors MINTER, a lawyer in Fin- castle, Va., died Jan. 3, 1979. Except for serving during World War I as senior legal member of the Rationing Board in Baltimore, Md., Minter had practiced law in Fincastle since 1930. At the time of his death, he was senior member of the firm of Minter, Wiegandt and Ladenheim. Before moving to Fincastle he had practiced law in Pocahontas and Logan, W. Va. Minter estab- lished the Lawyers Title Insurance Office in Roanoke and was a member of the Virginia and American Bar Associations, Catawba Masonic Lodge and Fincastle Presbyterian Church. 1917 Harry VAN METRE CAMPBELL, senior partner in the former Charleston, W. Va., firm of Campbell, Love, Woodrow, Gilbert and Kizer, died Dec. 9, 1978. Campbell was a member of the American, West Virginia and Kanawha County Bar Associations. For many years he was a member of the standing committee, one of the trustees, and a member of the Bishop’s Advisory Council in the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia. He was a member, vestryman and senior warden of St. Matthews Episcopal Church. Campbell was a former member, ap- pointed by the governor of West Virginia, of the State Licensing Board for Public Institu- tions. He was also a former secretary and treas- urer of Daywood Foundation. Dr. KEITH C. RICE, a physician in Atlanta, Ga., died Aug. 18, 1978. After receiving his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, Rice began practice in Atlanta in 1926. He was the author of many medical papers. 1918 HERBERT L. MAacGREGor, a former foreman, machinist and executive in the shoe industry, died April 20, 1978, in Derry, N. H. MacGregor had served three terms in the New Hampshire Legislature. He was a former chairman of the Derry Village School Board, moderator of the school district and president of the Derry His- torical Society. 1919 SAMUEL HIGGINBOTHAM BAKER, a _ retired executive with Sharon Steel Corp. of Sharon, Pa., died Aug. 31, 1978. He lived in Philadel- phia. Baker served during World War I with the Army’s 5th Engineers in France. ALFRED ALEXANDER LANDER, a retired con- tractor and real estate developer in Dallas, ‘Texas, died Dec. 5, 1978. Lander was an active member and served as an elder of the First At the wedding of Richard H. McCulloch, ’77, were (left to right) Douglas M. Jackson, ’79; James C. Foreman, ’78; Michael D. Armstrong, ’77; the bride and groom; James S. Taggart, ’79; Curt B. Sharp, ’78. Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the Texas Presbyterian Foundation. Lander was one of the first naval aviators commissioned during World War I. He went to Dallas in 1919 and worked with Central Real Estate. He later formed the Lantex Construction Co., which is still operating. Shortly after World War II, Lander became an investor and constructor of commercial and industrial property. E. Howarp McCates, former chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Oct. 30, 1978. He was assistant U. S. attorney in 1924, after which he returned to private practice. Mc- Caleb was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1941, was elected, without opposition, in 1946 and was re-elected in 1960 for another 14-year term. He was a member of numerous organiza- tions including the Sons of American Revolu- tion, Order of the Coif, and Phi Alpha Delta. 1921 JOHN LYNDELL PATTERSON, insurance executive and long-time devoted member of the St. Louis Alumni Chapter, died Oct. 17, 1978, in Char- lottesville, Va. Patterson had returned to Vir- ginia for the Homecoming and Reunion Week- end. He became ill after arriving in Lexington and was taken to the hospital in Charlottesville. Patterson was owner of his own insurance agency in St. Louis for many years and more recently was associated with R. B. Jones of St. Louis, Inc. ‘Through the years Patterson had served in many different capacities for W&L, including past president of the St. Louis Alumni Chapter. 1923 LEE HAMPTON BENTON, who had been associated with the teaching of music in county schools for more than 50 years, died Nov. 15, 1978, in Chatham, Va. Benton’s first music endeavors were at Schoolfield High School before its an- nexation to Danville. While the band and glee club were being organized, he worked with boys’ clubs, coached basketball, baseball and track. After serving in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, Benton returned to his post at Schoolfield where his music groups continued to win recognition. He served as organist and choir director of the First Presbyterian Church in Danville for over 50 years. In 1972 the Chatham Sertoma Club presented Benton with its distinguished service award. RICHARD D. Jorpan, head of the Better Business Bureau of Greater Milwaukee for 30 years until his retirement in 1969, died Dec. 2, 1978, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jordan began his work with the Better Business Bureau in Detroit in 1926 where he was responsible for checking the truth of retail advertising. He moved to Milwaukee in 1939 to become general manager of the Better Business Bureau. His title was later changed to president. In the three decades that Jordan headed the bureau, its staff grew from four full- time employees to ten. Jordan was a former lay leader of the Christ Episcopal Church, a former president of the Rotary Club, a former president of Travelers’ Aid Society and a former vice president and board member of the National Association of Better Business Bureaus. 1924 MATTHEW P. MATHENEY, an attorney, business- man and realtor in El Dorado, Ark., died Jan. _ 21, 1978. Matheney was formerly president of the Union County Bar Association and was awarded a certificate of distinction as a fellow of the Arkansas Bar Foundation for outstanding services for more than 50 years. CHARLES HOMER PHILLIPS, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates and a realtor and developer in Richmond, died Feb. 17, 1977. He was the founder of Charles H. Phillips & Co. in Richmond. ALVAH LEE TyRrEE, who served for 20 years as treasurer of the City of Bluefield, W. Va., died Dec. 22, 1978. He became city treasurer in 1949 and served until 1969. Tyree was a charter member, past president and treasurer of the University Club of Bluefield and a member of the Bluefield Lions Club. 1925 JOHN TRUEHEART McVay, businessman and sales manager for E. W. Mootz Bakery, a whole- sale firm in Huntington, W. Va., died Nov. 29, 1978. McVay was a former employee of the advertising department of the Huntington Publishing Co. He served Washington and Lee as Class agent for many years. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, active in the Heart Association, and a past member of the Huntington Manufacturers Club. 1926 NELSON WEILER Burris, an employee of Tenn- essee Eastman-Holston Defense Corp., died Oct. 14, 1978, in Johnson City. Burris had worked in personnel at Bemberg, Elizabethton, and at Holston Ordinance in Kingsport in recent years. From 1930 to 1941 Burris was director of Stryker Lane Community Center. This position involved work with youth and adults on West Side New York. Burris became associated with Tennessee Eastman in 1943. He was a life mem- ber of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and a life member of the Masonic Lodge of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. h GEORGE L. HILL, a resident of Dunedin, Fla., for several years, died Sept. 5, 1978. At one time Hill had been an assistant secretary and assistant treasurer for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. of Canada, Ltd. He served five years with the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in various capacities from 1942 to 1947. Hill had an outstanding record in the banking business. He joined the John Esten (Jeb) Byers, ’78, and his bride, the former Alexandra Stephanie Laccetti. Bank of America, N. T. and was stationed in ‘Toyko, Singapore and San Francisco from 1948 until 1960. From 1961 until his retirement in March 1968, he was with the National Banking Dept. with Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago. MARSHALL Amos Mott, for many years presi- dent of Cleveland (Ohio) Better Business Bur- eau, Inc., and a national leader in establishing ethical codes of business conduct and consumer protection, died Aug. 16, 1978, after a short illness. Mott headed the Better Business Bureau from 1944 until his retirement in 1969. During this time, he developed an advertising review board of major businesses in Cleveland, helped found the consumer credit counseling service, and started a magazine which became a model for other Better Business Bureau Agencies. Mott was chairman of the board of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service, president of the Vocational Guidance and Rehabilitation Services, and vice president of the Cleveland Homemakers Service Association. He was also on the board of the Cleveland Welfare Federation and the Com- munity Chest. 1929 Retired Navy Capt. WILLIAM JOSEPH Davis BELL Jr.,a former Washington, D. C., representative of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Co., died Oct. 21 at a Hollywood, Fla., hospital. During World War II, Bell was wounded while acting as beachmaster in the invasion of the Japanese- held islands. After the war, he served as a planning officer for the Military Sea Transport Service. Bell moved to Washington as a consul- tant in private industry. In 1966 he joined Jones and Laughlin Steel Co. as their representative. Bell was very active in the Republican Party and was reported by the press for his “good will” tax1 service, which he began at the National Con- vention in Miami Beach in 1968 and repeated in the conventions of 1972 and 1976. Bell was a former treasurer of the Army & Navy Club where he also resided. He was also treasurer of the Historical Research Foundation in Wash- ington. 1930 JAMES WILLIAM Davis, a retired news editor with the Associated Press in Washington, died Nov. 27, 1978. Davis began his work on news- papers in Bristol, Va.-Tenn., Asheville, N. C., and Johnson City, Tenn. He joined the Associ- ated Press in Washington in 1937. 1931 CLIFFORD S. RICE, a retired sales representative for the industrial engineering firm of Cleworth Co. of New York City, died in St. Petersburg, Fla., Dec. 30, 1978. His business career also included service as personnel representative for Hercules Powder Co., employee relations rep- resentative with the Va. State Employment Service and manager of the Wiley Hall Motors of Salem, Va. 1933 BERNARD B. Davis, an attorney and judge in the state of Kentucky, who practiced for many years in Shelbyville, died June 26, 1978. Davis had served as commissioner for the Court of Appeals of Kentucky which is the judicial officer for the highest Kentucky court. Judge Davis was a former president of the Rotary Club, Lions Club and the county Chamber of Commerce. He was also chairman of the Shelbyville County Demo- cratic Executive Committee. During World War II he served with the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation as a special agent. After his retirement from the Court of Appeals, Judge Davis prac- ticed law with the firm of Handmaker, Weber and Meyer in Louisville. SAMUEL BELL STEVES, a businessman and former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, died Aug. 24, — 1978. One of the founders of Jefferson State Bank, Steves was also owner and president of Tampo Manufacturing Co., Inc., in San An- tonio. Steves was the city’s last street commis- sioner, serving when the city was governed by a commission form of government. When the city changed to a council-manager government, Steves was elected to the first nine-member city council. His grandfather, his great-uncle and his great-great-grandfather were all mayors of San Antonio. Among his fraternal, civic and religious achievements Steves was appointed a Knight of St. Gregory in 1973, the highest honor the Pope can bestow upon a layman. WILLIAM FOWLER SyMoNDs, former president and vice chairman of the board of W.-D. Allen Mfg. Co. of Broadview, IIl., died Feb. 16, 1978. The firm manufactures interior fire protection equipment, lawn goods, sprinklers, and fire nozzles. Symonds had retired a few years ago as vice chairman of the board. He was a former member of the Westmoreland Country Club and the Chicago Athletic Association. 1934 KENNETH EDWARD Davis, a former executive with Simonds Saw & Steel Division of Wallace Murray Corp., died Nov. 13, 1977, in Altamonte Springs, Fla. 1936 Dr. Epwin RicHarp McCoy of Statesville, N. C., died Aug. 9, 1978. He was a retired specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. He had joined the staff of the Davis Hospital in 1961 and practiced there until illness caused his re- tirement in 1976. McCoy was affiliated with Memorial General Hospital in Elkins, W. Va., from 1951-55 and with Staats Hospital in Charleston from 1955-61. During World War 39 II he served as a flight surgeon with the U. S. Army. 1937 JAMES A. BLALOCK, an attorney and senior title examiner for the Dallas Title Co. since Jan. 25, 1968, died Oct. 16, 1978, in Dallas. From 1949 to 1967 Blalock had been attorney examiner with the Federal Trade Commission in Wash- ington, D. C. He had retired in 1968 to enter the real estate title business in Dallas. Blalock was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a former member of the Virginia and Miss- issippi Bar Associations, the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and the U. S. Court of Military Ap- peals Bar. HENRY Woops McLauGH In Jr., died Aug. 10, 1978, in Halifax, Va. McLaughlin was an assis- tant trial justice for the Circuit Court of Halifax County during the period 1939-1956, and he was substitute county judge from 1939 to July 1, 1978. McLaughlin was also assistant judge for the town of Halifax from 1958 until his death. At the time of his death he was also commis- sioner of accounts for Halifax County. 1938 JOHN Grant TOMLIN, a Cincinnati lawyer who had been a professor at Salmon T. Chase College of Law at the University of Cincinnati, died Aug. 21, 1978. Tomlin was a member of the firm of Dinsmore, Shohl, Dinsmore and Todd from 1954-1960, and a partner with the firm of Doyle and Tomlin from 1947-1954. Tomlin also taught special law seminars at Xavier University and was a member of the Governor’s Commis- sion for Revision of Statutes for the Common- wealth of Kentucky. A former board member of Formica Corp., Tomlin played golf and bridge competitively. He was also interested in farming and owned farms in Walton and Ve- rona, Ky. 1940 SAMUEL JAMES SUBLETTE JR., for many years associated with and an officer of Sublette Feed and Supply Co., a wholesale grocer in Bluefield, W. Va., died in June 1978. Sublette was an Air Force veteran of World War II having served in England, France and Holland. 194] CHRISTOPHER CLAUDE CoBBs DuNN, a native of Birmingham, Ala., died Nov. 3, 1978. Dunn was a veteran of World War II having served with the U.S. Army Air Corp. 1942 WILLIAM CARNES WHERRETTE, a professor in the College of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle, died June 6, 1978. Wherrette served with the Marines during World War II. 40 JOHN W. B. PRESTON Jr., of Bowling Green, Ohio, died June 7, 1978. He had been a pur- chasing agent for AP Parts, a division of Questor Corp. He had been with AP Parts for 22 years and previously with Campbell Soup Co. At one time Preston had been mayor of Weston, Ohio. He was a Navy lieutentant during World War Il. 1943 Dr. JAMES FREDERICK BERRY, a physician in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., died Aug. 26, 1978. Berry re- ceived his medical degree from George Wash- ington University in 1947 and practiced medi- cine in Ft. Lauderdale until his death. During World War II he served with the Navy on the staff of the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was a member of the Smith Reed Russell Medi- cal Honor Society. 1944 - ROBERT SIDNEY IRONS (See 1949.) 1946 JEROME Davip GREENBERG, president of Cor- porate Counselors, Inc., a management con- ‘sultant firm with its base office in Palm Beach, Fla., and an office in Philadelphia, Pa., died Oct. 25, 1978. Greenberg was, at one time, president of Palm Crest Investments, Inc., a diversified land and building developer in Palm Beach, Fla. He was a former vice president of the Temple Israel in Palm Beach, a former member of B’nai B’rith, and a past district chairman of the Boy Scouts of America. 1947 The obituary of Davip THomMas LAUDERDALE Jr., who died Nov. 4, 1978, appeared in the November issue. Here are excerpts from remarks made at the memorial service by Dr. William L. Pressly, President Emeritus of The Westminster Schools in Atlanta: “We all recognize that for twenty-five years we have had in our midst a unique, powerful personality of great and lasting influence. “To begin to understand any more we must look to his family, his roots. He (David Lauderdale) was the son of a brilliant, devout Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister of Lexington, Va., who loved the Lord and loved his fellowman. He reserved the Psalms and recited them frequently and beautifully. David Lauderdale adored his father and almost decided to follow him in to the ministry. Instead he became the Christian teacher we all loved and admired, with strength of character of a Scottish covenanter and with the sensitivity of a poet. “All of you who were his students have heard him read and recite poetry . . . To hear him was to feel the poem, and to love David Lauderdale. Every one of you, his students, through this moving experience will ever be more sensitive, a more loving, a more understanding human being. “Mr. Lauderdale served = education nationally through his position as a reader of Advanced Placement Examinations for the College Board’s Educational Testing Service... He was areader of the College Entrance Examination’s English comprehensive essay. He was chairman of the English section of the Mid-South Association of Independent Schools. “For many years, Mr. Lauderdale has been the School’s College Counselor . . . In recognition of his influence on their lives, twice the senior boys have dedicated the yearbook to him... His students admired and loved him for his Christian faith, for his real courage, for his subtle humor, for his broad knowledge, for his warm compassion, for his profound influence on their lives... one graduate summed up the impact of David Lauderdale’s life when he wrote to him while he was in the hospital, ‘on my job I think of you every day. You taught me how to live’. And that, dear friends, describes the ideal teacher.” 1949 ROBERT SIDNEY IRONS, a Radford lawyer serving as special assistant to the Virginia Supreme Court, died Aug. 30, 1978. Irons was assistant U.S. attorney for Western Virginia when he was appointed to the position with the Supreme Court in 1970. His primary duty was to review petitions for appeal in criminal and habeas cor- pus cases and make recommendations for dis- posing of those petitions. Prior to his appoint- mentas assistant U. S. attorney, Irons practiced law in Roanoke and Radford. 1953 CHALLEN BROWN BEATTIE, formerly president of Beattie Associates of New York City, died July 25, 1978. In Stavanger, Norway, where he moved several years ago, Beattie was teaching art at the university. He was a former member of the Princeton Club in New York City. 1955 PETER Moore DANZIGER JR., a real estate specu- lator in Brooklyn, N. Y., died May 5, 1978. Danziger, who had speculated successfully in real estate, owned extensive property in Brook- lyn, Southampton and Puerto Rico. 1977 CHRISTOPHER R. LARSON, an outstanding athlete in his four years at Washington and Lee, died Aug. 13, 1978, as the result of an automobile accident on the Baltimore Beltway. Larson was a leading midfielder on the nationally ranked W&L lacrosse team. He was also an outstanding member of the basketball team. His family lives in Lutherville, Md. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ANNIVERSARY CLASS REUNIONS MAY 10, 11, 12, 1979 When Wash-ing - ton and Lees men fall in line, Academic and Law Classes of 1929, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974 & Gold Star Generals WW. (All Classes Before ‘29) & Get in the Swing This Spring! A Great New Act! An Expanded Program For Reunion Classes On May 10, 11, 12, the Academic and Law Classes of 1929, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, and the Gold Star Generals (all Classes .- before 1929) will return to campus for festive class reunions. Anenlarged program will greet them: On May 10, the speaker will be Charles McDowell, °48, the witty Washington correspondent for the Richmond Times- Dispatch; on May 11, there will be a campus update program and a black-tie dinner and ball with music provided by a nationally famous orchestra; on May 12, there will be the annual meeting of the Alumni Association, the Tucker Law Lecture, a lacrosse game between W&L and Hofstra followed by class banquets and parties. There is more to see on campus now than ever, not the least of which is the University’s magnificent new undergraduate library, now occupied and in operation. Don’t Miss This W&L Gala! All 4’s and Yers— Make Plans Now To Be Here. We're going to win a - gain an -_ oth-er time;_— THE YEAR OF THE 4's & Sers Lexington, Virginia 24450 a n on oo S {flilan Yatt t Dr. W W rgin 1a a Lexington, V: WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY 24450 ca i ' sO Miche Bs) am