MAY 1979 iversity ALUMNI REUNIONS 1979 the alumni magazine of washington and lee un XH the alumni magazine of washington and lee (USPS 667-040) Volume 54, Number 4, May 1979 William C. Washburn, 40 .............-----085 Editor Romulus T. Weatherman ............ Managing Editor Robert S. Keefe, 68 .................- Associate Editor Jeffrey L. M. Hazel, ’77 ...........---- Assistant Editor Joyce Carter .......... eee ee eee eee Editorial Assistant Sally Mann ...... bowa dep ee oe Pee eek eee ee Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Annual Alumni Meeting .................0ceceeeeeeeneees 1 Growing Up on Campus ..............ccseeeeeeeeeeeeeees 5 New Endowed Professorship ................0eeeeeeee 9 Reunions in Pictures ..............ccee sence ee eeeeeeeenees 10 WL Gazette ........ ccc cccce cece e ence en eeeeneeeneeeneneees 13 Administrative Change ...............scseseeereeeneeeees 13 Desha Portrait Unveiled ................:seceeeeeeeeneees 16 The Real Father of Radio .................:cccceeeneeeee 18 Chapter NewS .........:0cccecceeceeeeeeeeeneeea nena eee 20 Class Notes: 220)escci Gass ee 22 In Memoriati i... isc cine fees etre dee nena 27 Published in January, March, April, May, July, September, Octo- ber, and November by Washington and Lee Unwersity Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Virginia 24450. All communications and POD Forms 3579 should be sent to Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Va. 24450. Second class postage paid at Lexington, Va. 24450 and additional mailing offices. Officers and Directors Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. WILLIAM P. BOARDMAN, 63, Columbus, Ohio President RICHARD A. DENNY, 52, Atlanta, Ga. : Vice President WILLIAM B. OGILVIE, 64, Houston, Texas Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 40, Lexington, Va. Secretary LeRoy C. ATKINS, 68, Lexington, Va. Assistant Secretary W. DONALD Ban, 49, Spartanburg, S. C. ANDREW N. Baur, 66, St. Louis, Mo. EDGAR M. Boyp, '42, Baltimore, Md. Puitie R. CAMPBELL, 57, Tulsa, Okla. SAMUEL C. DUDLEY, 758, Richmond, Va. JAMES F. GALLIVAN, 51, Nashville, Tenn. G. RUSSELL LADD, 757, Mobile, Ala. Joun H. McCorMackx Jr., 50, Jacksonville, Fla. PAUL E. SANDERS, 43, White Plains, N. Y. el» 7 ON THE COVER: Henry P. Johnston, ’29, of Birming- ham, Ala., who returned to the campus during Alumni Reunion Weekend for the 50th anniversary of his class, lays a hand of comradeship upon the arm of Dr. John Newton Thomas, ’24, of Richmond, rector emeritus of the W&L Board of Trustees. Their seats of intimate conversation are on the porch of the Lee House. Such tableaux of conviviality were frequent during the reunion celebration. Photograph by Sally Mann. ANNUAL ALUMNI MEETING Three Graduates are Honored; New Association Officers are Elected Everett Tucker Jr. An estimated 650 out-of-town alumni, their families and guests returned to Washington and Lee May 10-13 for the University s annual Spring Class Reunion Weekend, which included Law Day activities and the annual meeting of the Alumni Association. Reunions were held by members of the classes of 1929, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974 and the “Gold Star Generals’ —graduates prior to 1929. Charles R. McDowell Jr., ‘48, opened the reunion program with a talk in Lee Chapel. Excerpts from that speech are included in an article elsewhere in this issue. In addition to the traditional social activities and class banquets, the reunion program included a Reunion Ball, a mini Fancy Dress gala with music provided by Duke Ellington’s band. (The Ellington band, by the way, was the theme band for “The Glories of Egypt,” the 1978 Fancy Dress Ball.) The Reunion Ball was also open to members of W&L’s graduating seniors and third-year law students. Other activities included the John James H. Bierer Randolph Tucker Lecture, delivered this _year by Soia Mentschikoff, dean of the University of Miami School of Law, and the presentation of the Distinguished Alumni Awards at the Alumni Association’s annual meeting. This year’s recipients _were James H. Bierer of Pittsburgh, Joseph M. Glickstein of Jacksonville, Fla., and Everett Tucker Jr. of Little Rock. Elected president of the Alumni Board of Directors at its spring meeting was William P. Boardman, 63, ’69L, of Columbus, Ohio, an attorney with the firm of Porter, Wright, Morris, & Arthur. He _will continue as president through next May. Richard A. Denny Jr., 52, of Atlanta, an attorney with the firm of King & Spalding, was elected vice president. He was last year’s treasurer of the alumni board. Elected treasurer for the next year was William B. Ogilvie Jr., 64, of Houston, Texas. Ogilvie recently resigned as executive vice president of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. At the Alumni Association meeting, three men were named to four-year terms Joseph M. Glickstein William P. Boardman, new alumni president, with William C. Washburn, alumni secretary 1 ih a i ae eee ee ANNUAL ALUMNI MEETING Andrew N. Baur, new director on the board. They are Andrew N. Baur, 66, president of St. Louis County Bank, of Clayton, Mo., Edgar M. Boyd, ’42, a partner in the investment firm of Baker, Watts & Co., of Baltimore, and G. Russell Ladd, ’57, a partner with Thames & Batre, an insurance company of Mobile, Ala. They replace retiring members Edwin J. Foltz, 40, of Gladwyne, Pa., Jerry G. South, 54, °56L, of Mill Valley, Calif., and Robert M. White II, ’38, of Mexico, Mo. 2 Richard A. Denny Jr., vice president Edgar M. Boyd, new director William C. Washburn and Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins were re-elected as secretary and assistant secretary of the Alumni Association. The 1978-79 Alumni Fund trophies were presented during the annual meeting. The Bierer Trophy for the highest participation by an academic class graduated in the last 10 years—to the Class-of 1977A, Edward T. (Terry) Atwood III, class agent. The Malone Trophy for the largest amount raised by a law class graduated in the last 50 years—to the Class of 1934L, H. Taylor Jones, class agent. The Richmond Trophy for the highest participation by an academic class graduated in the last 50 years—to the Class of 1930A, Earl T. Jones, class agent. This is the second consecutive year 1930A has won the trophy. Annual Fund Chairman C. Royce Hough reports another record year. Earl T. Jones, ’30A, receives the Richmond Trophy a second time. H. Taylor Jones, ‘34L, receives the Malone Trophy for his class. Thomas Trophy goes to Jack P. Porterfield Jr., '49L, and E. Stewart Epley, James H. Bierer receives the Washington Trophy on behalf of Thomas E. ‘49A, for those classes’ reunion-year increase. Bruce, class agent of ’40A, winner four years in a row. 3 ANNUAL ALUMNI MEETING New Law Council President Robert E. Stroud The Washington Trophy for the largest amount raised by an academic class graduated in the last 50 years—to the Class of 1940A, Thomas E. Bruce, class agent. This is the fourth consecutive year 1940A has won the trophy. A newly established trophy, the John Newton Thomas Trophy, was presented— this year to the Class of 1949A, E. Stewart Epley, class agent, and the Class of 1949L, Jack B. Porterfield Jr., class agent. The trophy goes to the academic and law class observing a reunion which has the greatest increase in annual giving over the class's previous-year contribution. Also at the meeting, this year’s three distinguished alumni were presented citations for their outstanding service to Washington and Lee and their communities. A 1940 W&L graduate, Bierer recently retired as chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Corning Corp., of which he had also been president and chief executive officer. He is a former chairman of Washington and Lee’s annual fund and a member of the Washington and Lee 4 Dean Mentschikoff, Tucker lecturer chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national honorary leadership society founded at W&L in 1914. Also active with the national Boy Scouts, Bierer was director of operations for its 1973 National Jamboree and general chairman of the 1977 Allegheny Trails Council Jamboree. Glickstein, senior partner of the law firm of Glickstein, Crenshaw, Glickstein, Block & Slott, is a 1920 law graduate of Washington and Lee. He is a founder of Zeta Beta Tau, a social fraternity at W&L, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and the University’s Robert E. Lee Associates. In 1961, he established the Glickstein Memorial Student Loan Fund at Washington and Lee to assist deserving students. Tucker, a 1934 W&L graduate, is an internationally known expert on economic development. He is founder and president of Industrial Development Co. in Little Rock and past president of both the Southern and American Industrial Development Councils. In 1965 he traveled to Peru at the request of the Agency for International Development to Walter L. Hannah, retiring Law Council president teach back-country Indians techniques in industrial development. Tucker was president of the W&L Alumni Board from 1974 to 1975 and is currently chairman of the Robert E. Lee Associates, W&L’s most generous annual benefactors. Elections were also held at the Law Council meeting, part of the annual Law Day activities. Robert E. Stroud, 58L, of Charlottesville, was elected president of the Law Council, the law school’s equivalent of the Alumni Board of Directors. Ethan Allen, ’31L, of New York City, was elected vice president. Stroud succeeded Walter L. Hannah, ’50L, of Greensboro, as president, and Allen stepped into the vice president position vacated by Stroud’s change of office. Cherie Wright, executive secretary of the Law School Association, which is made up of dues-paying members of the law alumni, was re-elected. The alumni weekend was highlighted by the W&L lacrosse team’s victory over Hofstra University, 12-9. by Charles R. McDowell Jr., ’48 GROWING UP ON CAMPUS Of Harmony Hollow, Limericks, Herb The Dog Man, and Something Very Dear Charles R. McDowell Jr. is a 1948 WeL graduate who is now the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Richmond Times- Dispatch. He is the son of the late Charles R. McDowell, who taught law at WOL for more than 40 years until his death in 1968, and Mrs. C. R. McDowell, “the indispensable Mrs. Mac,” secretary to five law deans at the University. (Charley recalls that because of his parents’ connection with the law school, when he was growing up he was called “Footnote.” ) He is a columnist in the Russell Baker/James Reston genre, a sometime television commentator (“Washington Week in Review” on PBS), Gridiron Club panjandrum (largely responsible for the musical spoofs presented at that august organization’s annual black-tie banquet for the President and other high government targets), National Headline Award winner, and (hardly least) superlative raconteur. WerL invited him to be the kickoff speaker for this spring’s anniversary class reunion weekend, and these are some of his racontings. Thank you. Great heavens. It occurs to me that the thing to do maybe is to talk about something that most of us in this room have in common, which is this University. But lest I get into some deep dark thing about the liberal arts or the Lee tradition or something which I don’t want to do, I thought I'd talk about it from the point of view of just one person. And the only point of view I’ve got is mine. I'd planned to start humbly. I was going to explain that I grew up from age 6 months or a year right behind this Chapel, down in the place called Harmony Hollow. This has been sort of part of my front yard all my life. And to show how humble and plain the whole speech was going to be I was going to talk about a tree I know very, very well, which for my lifetime has been located right : : President and Mrs. Huntley are amused. Charley (Footnote) McDowell off the front corner of the Chapel. I remember when it was planted. That tree was going to be the foundation of my entire speech tonight. And as my mother and I walked up tonight, being a newspaper reporter and all, I looked around the corner just to make sure my tree was still there. it isn’t. It died last year and it’s gone. But I’m going to pretend it didn't. I don't know why, but that tree somehow symbolized this University for me. I remember, when I was a small boy, there were great diggings right up on that front corner and there was planted the very large tree some noble donor had given. The word was passed through the community that it was the only copper beech tree in Virginia. The only one. That impressed me tremendously. It was the only one, and that made us feel good. The University of Virginia didn’t have one. About three or four days later, I was in the Co-op, and there was this marvelous, irascible man named Laird Thompson, and I heard him telling some football players, “You know that big tree down at the Chapel,” and all these football players were nodding, and he said, “It’s the only copper beech tree in the eastern United States.” Well, I was in the Corner Store about a week later and I heard my hero Cy Young expounding to a large group of students, and he was saying, “only copper beech tree on the North American continent.” That copper beech tree is a sort of parallel. And I want no symbolic note taken that it is gone. W&L people like to have things in common, and sometimes it helps us to soup them up a bit. I’m sure everyone is aware that we have on this campus one of the most beautifully qualified man- made wonders in America: we have the longest concrete non- suspension footbridge in the world. And that has just pleased me my whole life. Ifanyone ever asks me about W&L, I don’t say that Washington gave it some money and Lee carried it on and Bob D MEMOIRS OF A FOOTNOTE Huntley made it great. I say, “You know we have got the longest concrete non-suspension footbridge in the world. The statue on top of Washington Hall is the only wooden statue of George Washington more than six feet tall that exists.” People take that for a kind of humility. When the archaeologists come into this Valley and work that statue over they ll find that every other layer of paint is white. The others are red or yellow. When this place gets filled with snow, they scrape it, and ice forms and you get a ski run from the front of Washington Hall down to this Chapel and then you have to make a right turn that your average Lexington, Virginia, skier on Sears Roebuck skis with no proper fittings doesn’t know how to make, and then you go down the long run and cut through the parking lot and you can end up pretty well into Red Square. I skied down that slope in my youth, and when I was very small, I didn’t make that turn properly and skied right down the Chapel steps, and claim now in the best Lexington tradition to be the only person that ever did ski down them. I began coming into this Chapel when I was 4 or 5 years old. I'd come to visit the skeleton of Traveller. Your average kid, of course, is not reverent toward skeletons. Put that down. I would come to look at it because it was a marvelous skeleton and I knew that if you looked very closely you could see the initials of football players you remembered. We also, as everybody here knows, Im sure, brought down from the biology lab a very small horse skeleton, and students, irreverent students paid some small wage to show visitors through the Chapel, would point to the two skeletons and say, “Now that, of course, is the skeleton of Lee’s faithful horse Traveller, and the small one is Traveller when he was just a colt.” It’s mildly disillusioning when you consider that about four-fifths of the tourists nodded and accepted it. Outside the Chapel here, kind of on the sidewalk, worked a friend of mine named Herb The Dog Man. Herb The Dog Man was very smart. He commuted between the Corner Store where he loafed, and up around Main Street where he had friends, and this campus on the weekends when girls were here. He sold dogs, pups, always very small. He was an ingratiating person, and he would see some W&L guy walking some girl from Hollins or Sweet Briar and he would show them these pups and tell the student he ought to buy the pup for the girl. And the pups were cute, and it trapped the guy. So Herb sold a lot of pups. Questions would arise, and the boy would say, “Well, now, wait a minute there, Herb, you said that’s a purebred dog.” And Herb would say, It certainly is, it’s a purebred foxhound—a foxhound, that’s what it is.” And the guy would say, “How do I know that?” And Herb would always say, “Look at the freckles on his belly, that’s a foxhound if I ever saw one.” If there was any question about anything about the dog the answer was always the same. Look at the freckles on it, and that settled it. Herb lived near a Lexington landmark called The House The Trucks Hit, the house down beyond the V.M.I. passover toward 6 Herb The Dog Man and purebred foxhound East Lexington where the highway turns very sharply, and the large tractor trailers that used to roll through Lexington with ba:ely a pause—we were a no-stoplight town in those days—used to hit that house. There were people in town who kept count, and by the time J left W&L it had been hit 17 times. Cy Young would have told you 16. Laird Thompson would say 17—they’d bet. But they were very close. I have been in the audience in this room maybe 150 times. I was trying to think of great speeches. I heard Dr. Gaines speak here 50 times, 44 of them the same speech. I liked it every time. It was a good speech. I came here once, brought by my parents when I was fairly young to hear Robert Frost read poetry. It was an awesome experience. I didn’t know his work too well, but I guess in school I had been subjected to a poem or two, and here he was, a majestic man, and the Chapel was jammed. But after a while it became apparent the program wasn’t about to start. There was fidgeting and people pacing and nodding and talking. Finally someone came down the aisle and I heard him say he won’t go on until we get him a glass of water. It seemed like somewhere in the whole University could be found a glass of water, but no glass of water was produced. Twenty-five minutes, and W&L was about to lose its address by this great American. Finally, though, somebody, I think it may have been Dr. Bean, arrived with a glass of water. Maybe he went all the way home down to Harmony Hollow and brought it; I don’t know. But Robert Frost read his poems at last, and he was good. He didn’t ever touch his water. The next time I saw Robert Frost was when I was grown up and he was reading his poem at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. And that was when I learned why he wanted water. The rostrum at the inauguration caught fire. Larry Watkin, noted writer of limericks, from the ’38 Calyx I don't know whether anyone realizes that our neighbor Charlie Light could sing music-hall songs and do little tap dances. His other claim to fame, that just awed me as a youngster, was that he had been to V.M.I. I didn’t know that if you’d been to V.M.I. you ever got to take those suits off. Charlie Light taught me how to tell time. I don't know that that matters to anyone in the world, but I appreciated it. The Deshas had three beautiful daughters, which improved our neighborhood tremendously. I was very impressed by Dr. Desha. He was a man who had written a book and I had seen it because my mother typed it. I had seen the typescript in our own house, his book on our table. That’s awesome—just awesome. I liked Mrs. Desha too because she was kind to small boys—an imperial lady who was kind to small boys. And that mattered. Mrs. Moffatt lived in Harmony Hollow too, the head of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which in this town was formidable. She was also an actress with the Troubadours. The Troubadours were headed by one of the most creative and funny men who ever lived, Larry Watkin. The fact that Larry Watkin and Mrs. Moffatt shared the Troubadours and that Larry Watkin and Dr. Moffatt were on the English faculty together was about the end of the things Larry Watkin and Mrs. Moffatt had in common. They did not have the U.D.C. in common. Larry Watkin wrote a limerick. It was the first limerick I ever learned, and I can’t think of a better place to tell it than to a sympathetic group. The limerick about these two people I love very much, Mrs. Moffatt and Larry Watkin, says: Lila Nance Moffatt sat on a toffet Praising the U.D.C. So busy thinkin’ How stinkin’ was Lincoln She forgot about Robert E. Lee. Longest concrete non-suspension footbridge in the world On the top of the Corner Store was a whole floor of athletes. On the second floor was the pool parlor that for a considerable period was owned by a very large man named Jabo, who had one of the finest intellects in this town. And on the first floor was the Corner Store itself. The Corner Store was owned by Cap’n Dick Smith and maybe some friends. In the earlier days it had a huge blackboard where scores were put up as they came in, jokes were written, requests for rides to Lynchburg, the whole business. If Lexington and W&L had a center, it was the Corner Store. It was a remarkable place. I’m not so sure it wasn’t a sort of seminar that has never quite been equaled. I started going there with my father when I was 7 or 8 and I haven't ever stopped going back. Billy Hinton worked there as a student. He used to race me around the block when I was 7 years old and gave me a half-a- block head start. My father spent a little piece of nearly every evening there. Hig Williams was there. (I don’t know why this bounds into mind, but Hig Williams had a marvelous way of sounding objective until the end of a sentence. He would say “Herbert Hoover was a great engineer, a great humanitarian and generally a fine man. His only problem was that he was a damn fool.”) Ollie Crenshaw was there at the Corner Store, Ollie who wrote the history of W&L, one of the most marvelous wits I have ever known. Larry Watkin was there, who everybody knows went on to write a great novel and leave W&L to write in California, which he still does. Tom Riegel, Raymond Johnson, Rowland Nelson, Charlie Light, Laird Thompson, Cy Young—basketball players, townspeople, everyone would mingle there at all times. All this talk about colleges, about whether students get to talk with professors, has always seemed eerie to me. I have seen them sit there in the Corner Store and drink beer and argue into the night with each other, all mixed together—which is what mattered. And the subjects of those discussions there when I was a 7-year-old listening, or when I was a 20-year-old participating, were sports and politics and arts and literature and theatre and 7 MEMOIRS OF A FOOTNOTE very intellectual British jokes and sonnets and poetry. Back and forth in the Corner Store. It’s where I learned you aren’t a sissy to care about the theatre or art. It’s where I learned that an English professor telling a story about how it was at Oxford can absolutely silence four tackles from the football team and interest them and intrigue them. It’s where I began to see the breadth and knowledge of these people—the breadth of what they knew and what they cared about. That they were experts and that there was a humility—that was the last part you got to, but it was there too. You began to see their pride in each other as they argued. You began to see how they shared their stories and arguments and humor. And I think maybe it was in the Corner Store listening to that mix that I began to get some notion of what this place is all about. The old law building up at the top of the hill—a bad building; those of you who are a little older rememeber that it was not at all like the Colonnade. It was stone and looked like a very large wart. It burned in the 1930s. It burned thoroughly, and I can remember being waked by my mother or father and being taken through a window of our house and put on the roof in a blanket so I could watch the glorious sight of that law building burning to the ground. Syd Lewis had the first long hair in America on a grown athlete. His hair was bushy and he had a sort of lumpy way of playing basketball. He was a good basketball player, about the fifth or sixth man on the team. He was Dick Pinck’s friend. Dick Pinck was not only a great athlete, the smoothest guard that ever played basketball, but he was also handsome, and he was trim, and he had style. He was debonair. He had a blonde girl and a blond car. I was impressed by both. Syd Lewis would drive the car. Dick would be out on the football field being put through terrible paces by Tex Tilson and other friends of mine, and here would come Syd with his hair blowing out in the wind and the blonde girl in the blond car. Pinck would finish up with practice, and everyone else would trot across that longest concrete non- suspension footbridge in the world to get dressed up in the gym, but Pinck would come over and Syd would move back and Pinck would drive the blond car out through the woods. It always seemed to me that that was my brush with the makings of a novel. I thought that’s what novels were about—the marvelous athlete with the good and trusty friend and the blonde girl and the car. The novel is in the library. It was written by Millard Lampell and it’s called The Hero. I guess the point I’m making is that W&L is the kind of place where the fifth or sixth man on the basketball team gives you a new law school. That’s nice. Cy Young was a 16-letter athlete who could learn anything. He took up golf when he was an old man just to show he could do it and he won the Virginia State Senior Championship. His speeches at rallies were classics, as anyone who ever heard one knows. They were wild, screaming fits. They were marvelous. They were all just for our benefit and he meant them no more deeply than 8 Cy Young looses his frenzied “Beat the Wahoos” battle-cry. Everett Dirksen meant most of what he said. Cy was to me the closest thing to a sort of poet and genius that we ever had around. . .» Lewis Johnson in full cry. I heard every one of his lectures and never took a course from him. ... Tom Wolfe, who invented a kind of journalism I’m not too clear about, but, Lord, the writing’s good. Incredibly good. Incidentally, one of my first acts as a rising newspaperman was to reject the first three things Tom Wolfe ever turned into the Ring- tum Phi. I also rejected the first piece Harrison Kenney ever submitted to the Southern Collegian. So he sold the piece to the New Yorker. Harold Ross was able to abide it. This is very elemental stuff. But I have a feeling it means a lot—the enthusiasm of W&L’s people, an enthusiasm that grows, I think, out of curiosity and an argumentative kind of tolerance and a pride in one another, and a zest not only for life but also maybe for some learning, a zest for the values and ideas and notions that make it all mean something. I think we have a sense around W&L that our tradition has a lot of crucial elements in it. They include George Washington and Robert E. Lee and a bunch of Scotch-Irish two centuries or so ago who thought education mattered. I think it includes Herb The Dog Man and the Corner Store and the longest concrete non-suspension footbridge in the world. I think Cy Young comes pretty close to being the right symbol for all of it. When he turned red in the face and waved his arms and led us in the W¢7L Swing, he knew, and we knew, and he knew we knew, that we weren't just singing about beating some nice college. When he turned red and sang that song and everybody joined him, Cy knew he and we were singing about something very important, and very profound, and very dear in the lives of all of us. ROBERT G. BROWN PROFESSORSHIP Dallas Couple Endows Chair in the C-School; Dr. L. K. Johnson is Honored _A Dallas oil executive and his wife, Robert G. and Judy Brown, have established an endowed professorship in the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics. Their gift of $500,000 was announced by W&L President Robert E. R. Huntley during Brown’s 30th anniversary class reunion in May. Endowed professorships are estab- lished through permanent endowment gifts of $500,000 or more. Brown is the first W&L alumnus to create an endowed professorship by an outright gift during his lifetime. Brown is chairman of the board and director of Universal Resources Corp. of Dallas, an American Stock Exchange-listed oil and gas exploration firm. He is also a trustee of the Eisenhower Medical Center of Palm Desert, Calif. The Board of Trustees, in customary manner, will designate the teacher who will hold the Brown Professorship jin the commerce division. f As part of the May 12 announcement, however, Dr. Lewis Kerr Johnson, retired professor of business administration at Washington and Lee, was designated the Robert G. Brown Professor of Adminis- tration, Emeritus. Dr. Johnson—in recognition of whose 40-year teaching career at Washington and Lee the Browns’ gift was made—is one of W&L's best-known and most widely admired professors as well as a nationally known authority in management in his own right. Dr. Johnson began his teaching career at Washington and Lee in 1933 and retired in 1973. He and his wife, Peggy, attended the 1949 class reunion banquet. When he retired from teaching six years ago, his former students surprised him by creating a $25,000 scholarship endowment in his name, the income from which is awarded annually to a student or students who share his views of professional compassion for employees and colleagues and his carefully articulated views on marketing, corporate administrative policy, and the other components of the successfully managed business. Top: Dr. and Mrs. Lewis K. Johnson with Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Brown, donors of an endowed professorship. Middle: Dr. Johnson is applauded upon his designation as the Robert G. Brown Professor of Administration, Emeritus. Left: Bob Brown exchanges greetings with Dr. E. C. Griffith, professor of economics. Reunion Weekend Activities In Pictures Handshakes and broad smiles abounded during reunion weekend. Oe oe Rain fell and a tent went up to shelter cocktail and buffet party. George McClure, ’34, came up from Dallas. Joe Wilson, ‘69, brought along son Add, ’99. W. C. Williams models beanie at 1954 class banquet. 10 Some took time out to read the alumni magazine. Members of the Class of 1929 returning for their 50th reunion were (seated left to right) Benjamin C. Eastwood, Irwin T. Sanders, Alfred Boyd Jr., Robert B. : Lee, Adrian L. McCardell, Earl A. Fitzpatrick, Dave S. Jones, Harry B. Fozzard, Benjamin P. Knight Jr., Royal B. Embree; (standing) John B. Towill, E. Ballou Bagby, Robert W. Pharr, O. Norris Smith, Arthur D. Simmons, Richard D. Carver, William G. Sargent, William F. Chandler, T. Graham Gibson, Edward H. Ould, William A. McDonough and Henry P. Johnston. Il Steve Elkins, ’74L, and Joel Kocen, ’59A, ’61L. oe ee eeeOthtt: ng Colonnade. Marc Schewel, ’69, with classmate at cocktail party. A group of young alumni discuss their tour of the new library. Ee carers ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE Whitehead to Focus on Board, Development, Art; Epley to Become Treasurer James W. Whitehead, University treasurer since 1966 and secretary of the Board of Trustees since 1968, will leave his financial management duties Jan. 1 to devote increased attention to his Board duties and to expanded responsibilities for University development activities together with his curatorship of W&L’s nationally important art collections. E. Stewart Epley of Stephentown, N.Y., a 1949 Phi Beta Kappa graduate in accounting who was formerly chief financial analyst for a $1-billion series of college building programs in New York State, will join the University administration July 1 as assistant to Whitehead with the expectation that he will succeed Whitehead as treasurer six -months later. Since 1974, Epley has been a Development Staff Associate and has worked full time in that capacity sirice 1977. Development Staff Associates represent the University in a widefrange of operations, primarily in fund-raising with additional responsibilities in alumni relations and admissions, in various areas of the country where Washington and Lee has particular historical strength. Epley’s region has included most of the northeast, from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania through all of New England. For 13 years he was an associate in the international management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., was an associate and later a manager of Price, Waterhouse & Co., and worked previously in other international, government, and private non-profit firms. He has been director, treasurer and chief administrative officer of Knight, Gladieux & Smith of New York and for two years was also vice president of Small Business Investment Co. on Wall Street. Whitehead will assume substantially enlarged duties as W&L’s Board secretary under the new arrangement. He succeeded Robert E. R. Huntley in that capacity when the latter was elected president 11 years ago. Shortly afterward, the W&L Board was substantially reorganized, and the new, more active Board has long required more extensive liaison with the on-campus University James W. Whitehead E. Stewart Epley administration, President Huntley said. That need has become particularly apparent, Huntley said in the course of the two-part $62-million Development Program begun in 1972 with a target date for completion of 1981. Whitehead joined the W&L administration in 1958 as director of University relations and administrative assistant to then-President Francis Pendleton Gaines and subsequently to Gaines’ successor, Fred C. Cole. In 1966 he succeeded the late Earl S. Mattingly as treasurer. When he became treasurer, Washing- ton and Lee’s annual operating budget was $3,550,687. This year, the budget is $10,075,646. Beyond the vastly increased annual operating budgets, the treasurer's office since 1972 has had responsibility for financial oversight of several multi-million- dollar major capital construction projects, the first of their kind at Washington and Lee since the 1950s—the $3.25-million gymnasium renovation and addition; Lewis Hall, W&L’s $8-million law building, and the $9-million undergraduate library building, all now completed, and, still underway, the $3.25-million renovation of old McCormick to become the new home of the School of Commerce, Economics and Politics. The year Whitehead became treasurer, the endowment for which he had primary day-to-day policy-making responsibility was $11.9 million and endowment income was less than half-a-million dollars. This year the endowment is double that figure, $23.5 million, and endowment income is almost $1.1 million. Whitehead was educated at the University of Tampa (Fla.), where he was director of public relations for five years. For the next five years he was finance director for the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and from 1955 to 1958 was executive director of the Empire State Foundation of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges in New York, an agency similar to the 12-member Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, of which Washington and Lee was a founding member in 1953. Almost as soon as he became treasurer, Washington and Lee received two related collections of art objects that were, in time, to become of exceptional importance in the academic and art worlds, almost solely through the efforts of Whitehead and his wife, Celeste—the 2,000-piece 13 & GAZETTE Reeves Collection of Chinese export porcelain and nearly a hundred undiscovered, almost discarded paintings by Louise Herreshoff, a turn-of-the- century artist who, as a consequence of Whitehead’s research, now ranks among the premiére talents of American expressionist art. Euchlin Reeves, for whom the porcelain collection is named, was a 1927 Washington and Lee law graduate. Louise Herreshoff became his wife in 1941, 14 years after she had abruptly ended her career as an artist. Since Whitehead’s interest in the two collections began to develop, they have achieved international prominence. Together and separately, they have been shown in 63 of the nation’s most prominent galleries. He has also been intensely interested for many years in restoring and promoting Washington and Lee’s priceless collection of portraits, mostly from the 18th century, originally owned by George Washington and his family. The collection includes the famed painting by Charles Willson Peale of Washington, the first painting ever made of Washington from life, the companion portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, also painted by Peale, and numerous others which hang in Lee Chapel and now constitute Washington and Lee’s most valuable and historically important portrait collection. “Jim Whitehead’s management of Washington and Lee’s financial resources has simply been phenomenally successful,” President Huntley commented. “I may add that the Board of Trustees is in complete and enthusiastic agreement with that observation. “The manner and seeming ease with which he has executed his increasingly formidable duties is astonishing—even by the standards which we at W&L like to apply to our people. “That he has done this and at the same time led us to a position of pre-eminence in fields of art and culture are almost beyond the powers of the rest of us to comprehend. I know that I, for one, have never met or heard of anyone who could do either, much less both together, with such notable success and grace. “With Stew Epley now joining us—as formidable a talent as I expect we might find in financial management—and with Jim Whitehead eager to meet the need both he and all of us have recognized for 14 some years for more specific direction in Board management, and able too to pay even more of the necessary, critically useful attention to our historic national art collections, we find ourselves, as it seems Washington and Lee just about always does, in a position of uncanny good fortune.” Whitehead received an honorary doctorate from Tampa, and in 1976 he and his wife received the Lynchburg Citation, the highest distinction any Washington and Lee alumni chapter can confer, for “signal contributions to the enrichment of life throughout the University community in sensing opportunities for developing unique new dimensions of fiduciary feasance [i.e., creating unusual ways of enhancing W&L’s treasury] through the symbiosis of finance and fine arts.” Among the achievements recognized by that citation was the arrangement Whitehead developed with Wamsutta Mills, the textile manufacturer, which reproduced portions of three Reeves Collection patterns on textiles for commercial sale—with a royalty coming to the University’s unrestricted operating budget. One of the patterns, Blue Butterfly, became the seventh-best selling pattern in the United States. Chosen for use in the White House, it brought more than $100,000 to Washington and Lee in royalties. Whitehead is one of only three persons ever to have been honored twice by the student newspaper with its Ring-tum Phi Award—for the second time this spring, but initially in 1975 when he was characterized by the students as “financial wizard par excellence, imaginative baron of the porcelain and portrait tours, king of the blue butterflies, and, most important, friend to every one of us at Washington and Lee.” Pate is named top admissions aide Van Haigler Pate, director of financial aid at Washington and Lee for the past six years and assistant admissions director for two years prior to that, will become associate admissions director this summer. Pate fills a newly created number-two position on the W&L admissions staff under the reorganization begun last year, according to William M. Hartog, director of admissions. Van H. Pate Pate is a 1971 W&L graduate and has been assistant professor of French in addition to his financial aid duties. In the new position of associate _ admissions director, he will be principally involved in representing Washington and Lee on visits to secondary schools, reviewing and evaluating admissions applications, and generally developing and carrying out admissions and student- recruitment policies at the University, Hartog said. Student body president receives Gilliam Award Waller T. (Beau) Dudley of Alexandria, president of the student body, received the University’s highest student honor, the Frank Johnson Gilliam Award, at the traditional senior-class banquet this spring. The Gilliam Award is presented annually to the graduating student who has made the most valuable and conspicuous set of contributions to life at W&L. The recipient is selected by non-graduating student government representatives. Dudley received his law degree from W&L in May. He is also a 1974 B.A. graduate of the University. He was captain of W&L’s moot court team and was a co-winner of the law school’s Burks Moot Court Competition. He is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national collegiate leadership they oppose it this year. In 1976 the W&L Board voted to remain all-male at the undergraduate level, following a two-year study of the effects of coeducation at other colleges similar to Washington and Lee. The W&L law school, the University’s only graduate division, has been coeducational for seven years. Almand Coleman will return as visiting lecturer in *79-’80 Almand R. Coleman, one of the nation’s foremost professors of business administration for 40 years, will rejoin the W&L faculty next year as distinguished lecturer in accounting. Coleman earned two bachelor’s degrees at Washington and Lee and received an honorary degree from W&L William J. Watt, dean of The College, presents Gilliam Award to Beau Dudley. two years ago. He was professor of accounting at W&L from 1939 until 1954. society founded at W&L in 1914. During the 1970s, W&L under- He held the endowed Charles C. When he was elected last spring, it was graduates have wavered in their __ Abbott professorship in business only the second time in 15 years a law view of whether the University should administration at the University of student had captured the student body’s become fully coeducational. In 1972, bya _ Virginia’s Colgate Darden Graduate School top office. | 3-to-2 margin, they defeated a resolution of Business Administration for 11 years The Gilliam Award won by Dudley is which would have called on the W&L until retiring in 1976. In 1978 U.Va. named for Washington and Lee’s-Dean Board of Trustees to order coeducation. established the Almand R. Coleman Chair and Admissions Director for almost 40 But a year later, by exactly the same in business administration in the Darden years—who was described by the Richmond _ margin, the students passed the same School. Times-Dispatch at the time of his death in _ resolution. Since 1976 he has been visiting 1976 as “a legend” and “the absolute In 1978, 56 percent of the under- professor of business administration at antithesis” of “impersonal” assembly-line graduates participating in a coeduca- Tennessee Tech, with primary education, “quite a man [whose] credo of __ tion poll said they favored it—almost responsibility for establishing an M.B.A. personalized education is a tradition that the exact percentage by which they said graduate-degree program there. W&L should strive to carry on—and that others should strive to adopt.” Coed poll see-saw; This year’s verdict is no A majority of W&L students who participated in a poll are opposed to coeducation, the Ring-tum Phi reported this spring. About 30 percent of the University’s freshmen, sophomores and juniors took part in the questionnaire survey. That level of response is typical for attitude surveys at W&L. Of the participating students, 57 percent answered “no” to the question “Should W&L become coeducational?” at : =e ; i | Slightly more than a third, 35 percent, said Honored by the University s Board of Trustees recently were Dr. and Mrs. William Grover Jr. of “yes.” § ee Richmond (second and third from right), who donated a collection of important pieces of European eg ee aes porcelain to Washington and Lee. Dr. Grover is a’39 graduate. At right is their son, Peter, a’73 expressed no opinion. graduate. At left are Mr. and Mrs. James Bland Martin of Gloucester. Mrs. Martin is a WUL Trustee. 15 Ee carerve Almand R. Coleman Coleman received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard University and was visiting professor of accounting there for the 1954- 55 academic year. He is a certified public accountant. Three seniors are awarded study-abroad fellowships Fulbright Grants for postgraduate study in Europe have been awarded to two 1979 Washington and Lee graduates, and a third has won a Luce Scholarship for study in the Far East. Named Fulbright Scholars were Michael F. Follo of Gadsden, Ala., and William M. Webster IV of Greenville, S.C. Both will use their Fulbrights for study in West Germany next year. Michael F. Wenke of Glendolen, Pa., is W&L’s Luce Scholar—the second W&L has had since the Henry A. Luce Foundation’s selective Asian studies program was established five years ago. Only 15 Luce Scholars are chosen a year. Follo was graduated summa cum laude with honors in geology this spring. Webster received his B.A., also summa cum laude, with majors in both English and German. (Graduation itself will be covered in the next issue of the alumni magazine.) Both Follo and Webster are members of Phi Beta Kappa. Follo plans to study geological 16 Portrait of Dr. Desha is Unveiled A portrait of Dr. Lucius Junius Desha was unveiled recently at a banquet given by the Board of Trustees. Representing the family was Angelica Didier Lloyd, Dr. Desha’s granddaughter, and a ’°75 law graduate of WL. | Members of the Desha family were pleased by the painting by Scaisbrook Abbott of Lynchburg. Dr. Desha taught chemistry at W&L from 1920 to 1955, was dean of the University after World War II, and directed WL’s own Bicentennial observance. The portrait hangs in Washington Hall. degree magna cum laude in psychology. The Luce program is unique in that it is open only to students whose undergraduate major was not Asian studies. The fellowship carries a stipend in addition to travel expenses. W&L is one of 60 colleges in the country selected by the Luce Foundation (created in 1936 by the co-founder of Time and Life magazines) to participate in the annual Luce Fellowship competition. formations and sedimentary rock composition in the Swiss Alps while at the University of Freiburg next year. Webster will study at the University of Regensburg, north of Munich. His Fulbright project will be a comparison of the work of William Blake, the English poet and engraver, with that of Klemens Brentano, the German writer. Wenke—captain of W&L’s basketball team this past year—received his B.A. SLE AIEEE TEN SE ERIS Awards are presented at All-Sports Barbecue Participants in Washington and Lee’s 13 intercollegiate sports teams gathered on May 22 to celebrate the conclusion of the 1978-79 season with a barbecue and awards ceremony. The event took place at the University’s Wilson Field. Six of the 13 teams completed their seasons with winning records—basketball 17-10, golf 14-2, lacrosse 9-4, track & field 7-2, water polo 11-9, and wrestling 6-5; three achieved national rankings—golf (11th), lacrosse (12th), and tennis (tied for fourth); and two—wrestling and tennis— won championships in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC), successfully defending their 1977-78 titles. (Gary Franke, coach of the wrestling and tennis teams, was named ODAC Coach of the Year in each sport—the first time that a conference coach has won the award the same year in two sports.) This year The Preston R. Brown Memorial Award, given to W&L’s most valuable senior athlete for overall’ — performance and athletic proficiency during his college career, was presented to two star athletes, David E. Leunig and Richard B. Wiles. The award is the highest honor a W&L athlete may receive. Leunig is a four-year letter winner in basketball and golf. He ranks tenth on the W&L basketball all-time career points list with 1,005 points. He is this year’s recipient of the Coaches and Captains award, and ODAC Golfer of the Year, a title he also earned in 1977. He received the Felix Smart MVP award last year and has been named all-conference three times. He is from Louisville, Ky. Wiles is a four letterman in football and baseball. He was this year’s first team football All-ODAC choice as a wide receiver, and recipient of a NCAA post- graduate scholarship. Wiles has been co-captain of the baseball team for two years, and received this year the Coaches Baseball trophy, given in recognition of unselfish dedication and contribution to the baseball program. He is from Danville, Va. The Wink Glasgow Spirit and Sportsmanship Award was awarded to George A. Berry of Charlotte, N.C. The award has been given annually since 1958 to the W&L senior who has demonstrated Richard B. Wiles George A. Berry the highest qualities of true W&L spirit and sportsmanship in his career. Berry was a tri-captain of this year’s football team. The Outstanding Freshman Athlete Award was presented to Michael J. Pressler of Wilton, Conn. The award, established in 1960, honors the freshman athlete who shows the most athletic ability through his participation in one or more sports. Pressler played middle guard in football and was an attackman on W&L’s lacrosse team. Five W&L athletes received All- American honors in 1978-79, three of them as first team choices. They are Carl Folcik, who received honorable mention in football; Gerry Barousse, golf; Stewart Jackson, tennis (he finished among the top eight singles players in the national championships); and Chip Hoke and Drew Michael J. Pressler Pillsbury, for swimming. Also announced at the banquet were this year’s most valuable players: Thad Ellis, baseball; Carby Hoy, basketball; Richard Bird, cross-country; Stewart Atkinson, football (offensive); Carl Folcik, football (defensive); Dave Leunig and Gerry Barousse, golf; Bob Clements, lacrosse; Bryan Williams, soccer; Keith Romich, swimming and water polo; Stewart Jackson, tennis; Jack Norbert, track & field; and Ed Rodgers, wrestling. Sports publications which received recognition this year were the soccer brochure, wrestling brochure, and tennis brochure, all of which were voted “Best in the Nation” in Division III by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The football game programs received second-place honors. 17 THE REAL FATHER OF RADIO Marconi? Don't Believe It! Herewith the Strange Saga of Mahlon Loomis, D.D.S. Every schoolchild knows that radio was “invented by an Italian named Guglielmo Marconi, right? It’s there in black-and- white in the World Almanac, isn’t it, and haven't there been government postage stamps saying as much, and what could be proof more positive than that? There's a spot of a problem, though, with the conventional wisdom. The fact, you see, is that radio was invented—that is to say: intelligible electromagnetic impulses were transmitted from one place to another place without benefit of connecting wires—considerably before Marconi was even born. The true story has been there in the records, in archives here and there, in scattered bits and pieces, for more than a hundred years. But until now it just never all got pieced together. And in instances like that, legends conjure themselves up, and everyone knows that fanciful stories die hard or not at all, like the one Mencken started about Millard Fillmore’s installing the first bathtub in the White House. “Tain't so, McGee, but you can’t stop people from thinking so anyway. Make no mistake about it; Marconi’s contributions to the development of practical radio technology were monumental, and he deserves all the postage stamps and all the entries in all the almanacs. . But he didn’t invent radio. He brought it up, but he wasn’t its father. He was its nanny. Almost nobody has heard of a dentist named Mahlon Loomis; he’s never been commemorated on a postage stamp, and if you want to see a memorial to him you have to pull off Virginia State Route 7 east of Berryville and read one of those little roadside markers. But the fact of the matter is, it was Mahlon Loomis, D.D.S., who sent those very first wireless signals, from Mount Marshall not far from Front Royal, all of 20 miles to Bear's Mountain Den between Leesburg and Winchester in Loudoun County, on a clear, cool October day in 1868. Marconi was minus 6 years old at the time. Loomis used a vertical antenna, a high- frequency detector, something called a 18 Drawings from Loomis’s 1854 patent for a new method of making false teeth c’ me A Loomis drawing from his 1881 patent on a convertible valise spark-gap transmitter—and electromagnetic waves. Dr. Mahlon Loomis had in fact invented broadcasting. And that—as Mahlon Loomis’s pioneering experimentation enables Walter Cronkite to aver each evening a hundred and eleven years later—that is the way it really is. The saga is told in the new issue of Iron Worker, an excellent, but undeservedly obscure, quarterly journal published by the Lynchburg (Va.) Foundry, devoted largely to details and BOG e ene ae Wag Me ee ogee sidelights of Virginia history. The article is by R. H. MacDonald, a veteran broadcaster himself and now professor and head of the Department of Journalism and Communications at Washington and Lee University. It’s the result of several years’ research and an obsession of modest proportion to set the record straight that MacDonald has never quite been able to overcome. Mahlon Loomis’s “inventive mind never stayed quiet long,” MacDonald observes with understatement. Early in his career he developed a new kind of Cokoeton Insunlin Va. - Sfur of 1 lax vEidge ramet ot ack ctonely fart of the way , 148 anche Aare Vv + « ‘ gicand as wt - ying 49% Att Gy 2 w s Ae m Bg a if ‘ a £ bra. Te ow aor bf OF Siar mak Af4 | " Gk - nn anil eer Fi I. he io Cote. w/ EEA YR V a. Ofiar of Ale Boag, * + Sint Chena by hruat ekeg sath "he feces oe Lit sG@Long by edsadng eit a Arck wnat imal’ coAfer eel’ ahlachid te : = . ’ ° - Zz, 7 en fa fre fect lastong AG / ° 4." A Loomis sketch showing telegraphic signals being sent between two kites. A sketch showing some of Loomis’s equipment for sending Morse code. Loomis's inventive mind was never still for long; he even devised a collar-cuff stay. Washington and Lee’s Ron MacDonald, chronicler of the Loomis story, has been hither and thither himself too. He began his career in radio at Boston (Mass.) University. Subsequently he went a little way north, to Waterbury, Vt., but eventually meandered south and went to work for WDBJ-TV News in Roanoke, and was news director there when he was appointed to the Journalism faculty at Washington and Lee in 1969. To be fair to MacDonald, his article in Iron Worker is a serious, scrupulously researched and meticulously documented work of first-rate scholarship. The present embellishments and irreverencies are chargeable solely to Bob Keefe, who, alas, may soon be available for new employment. porcelain compound for the manufacture of false teeth. In 1881 he received a patent for a combination briefcase and miniature Morris chair that you took along on the train and it converted into a desk. That, though, came after he had succeeded in developing the principle of radio communication and making it work. He formed a company, but his luck was like Joe Bptfslk’s in the old Li’l Abner strip. His first investors lost everything in 1869's Black Friday market crash. A couple of years later the Chicago fire wiped out his second set of backers’ assets. “Finally, the company was put to rest forever by the Wall Street panic of 1873.” Loomis lived just about everywhere at one point or another. He was born in upstate New York and grew up in what today is considered suburban Washington, D.C. He learned dentistry in Cleveland, practiced for a time in New York, then soon afterwards moved to Massachusetts. In the 1870s he lived near Lynchburg, where, incidentally, he invented a collar- cuff stay. Chicago was the site of the series of collapses of his financial ventures. (None of this is to suggest that he was a drifter, of course. After all, Loomis was an inventor and possessed an education. So let it be said simply that he was eccentric and very, very mobile.) He died in 1886 (and, peripatetic to the end, was buried in West Virginia). It was nine years later that Marconi received his patent for a system of transmitting radio signals. In 1922 Literary Digest, then preeminent in its field but today, come to think of it, of memory only slightly more blessed than Mahlon Loomis’s, noted with a touch of sadness that “plaudits are reserved for the man who succeeds in making the principle or method or mechanism known to the world, rather than for the original investigator. So there is not the slightest probability that the name of Mahlon Loomis will ever supplant that of Marconi as ‘the father of the radio. ” But Iron Worker has lasted longer than Literary Digest, and so, as a matter of fact, has Ron MacDonald. There may be hope yet. 19 Mie. CHAPTER NEWS CHATTANOOGA. An enthusiastic group of alumni gathered for cocktails and dinner in the Century Room of the Coo Choo Read House on March 28 to greet William M. Hartog, Washington and Lee’s admissions director. Hartog gave a short speech during which he explained the new “marketing” techniques being used by the admissions office and urged alumni support to help make them work. Also in attendance were Milburn K. Noell, ’51, who spoke briefly on the progress of the Phase II development campaign; William C. Washburn, ‘40, alumni secretary, and Crews Townsend, an incoming freshman from Baylor School in Jackson, Tenn. Alexis Tarumianz Jr., 69, 72L, chapter president, presided over the meeting. BIRMINGHAM. The chapter's annual banquet took place on March 29 at The Club on Red Mountain. The dinner was preceded by a “Happy Hour.” David R. Pittman, 75, chapter president, introduced several prospective freshmen from the Birmingham area, along with their parents. The speaker for the evening was William M. Hartog, W&L admissions director. Hartog discussed the present and future plans for student recruitment at Washington and Lee. Also attending the banquet were John H. Scruggs, ’77, chairman of the alumni admissions program in Birmingham, and William C. Washburn, 40, alumni secretary. PITTSBURGH. The chapter gave a reception on April 5 at the Press Club in downtown Pittsburgh. Special guests of the chapter were Rody Halcomb and Gordon Fisher, two incoming freshmen, and their parents. William M. Hartog, Washington and Lee’s admissions director, and E. Stewart Epley, 49, W&L development staff associate for the northeastern United States, also were in attendance. ROANOKE. A luncheon for chapter members took place at the Shenandoah Club on April 11. Guest speaker for the occasion was Dr. Charles F. Phillips Jr., W&L economics professor. Phillips discussed federal regulations affecting 20 CHATTANOOGA—Gerry | Stephens, °50, (right) gives © directions to brothers Edward S. Brown Jr., '40, and Wesley G. Brown, 51. ROANOKE—New officers of the chapter are James W. Jennings Jr. 65, 72L, vice president; James M Turner Jr., 67, 71L, president, and E. Bruce Wilsie Jr., 72, secretary-treasurer. industry, particularly the utilities. Following the address, chapter members elected officers for the next year. Elected were James M. Turner Jr., 67, ‘71L, president; James W. Jennings Jr., ‘65, "72L, vice president; and E. Bruce Wilsie Jr., 72, secretary-treasurer. Leroy C. (Buddy) Atkins, 68, assistant alumni secretary, John W. Duckworth, ’71, development staff associate, and William _ SOUTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT— At the meeting on March 22 (reported in the April issue) are David Geer, 65; Ellis M. John- _ ston II, 68, and Mrs. Geer. C. Washburn, '40, alumni secretary, also attended the meeting. BLUE RIDGE. The chapter met for cocktails and dinner on April 18 at the Boar's Head Sports Club near Charlottesville. Dr. Edgar Shannon, ’39, a chapter member, University Trustee, and former president of the University of Virginia, introduced the speaker for the BLUE RIDGE—At the Boar’s Head Sports Club are Bill Wilkerson, 69, and Rob Vaughan, 66. DELMARVA—At Chestertown, Md., meeting are Mrs. Cornbrooks with husband Ernest I. Corn- brooks III, ’67, chapter president; host Alex Rasin, 65, and hostess Mrs. Rasin. L r evening, University President Robert E. R. Huntley. President Huntley spoke about the positive contributions of the Board of Trustees, the faculty, the students and the alumni in perpetuating the unique qualities and educational excellence of Washington and Lee. Special guests of the chapter were Mrs. Isabel Hoxie Middleton of Charlottesville, and Mrs. Huntley. H. Dan Winter III, ’69, | BLUE RIDGE—Also at the Char- | lottesville gathering are Thomas E. Bruce, 40, and Tim Echols, ’41. DELMARVA—Also enjoying the gathering after WeL’s lacrosse victory over Washington College are Fred Paone, 72, and Joe Wich, 69. chapter president, discussed plans for future chapter activities. John Little, ’73, chapter treasurer, organized the event. NEW YORK. The chapter’s annual coaches night dinner took place at Charley O’s in Manhattan on April 5. Gary R. Fallon, associate professor of physical education and Washington and Lee’s football coach, spoke about the positive gains made by the Generals in the past season and about his plans and progress in working to build the W&L football program into a regular contender and winner in NCAA Division III competition. Special guest of the chapter was Walter E. Michaels, 51, head coach of the New York Jets. John M. Ellis, 56, chapter president, presided over the occasion. NEW ENGLAND. A reception for area alumni took place at the Dedham Country and Polo Club on April 25. Several prospective freshmen from the area and their parents also attended. Special guest of the chapter was James D. Farrar, ’49, coordinator of the alumni-admissions program. Arrangements were made by E. Stewart Epley, 49, Northeast development staff associate, Charles W. Pride, 72, chapter president, Stephen T. Hibbard, 65, and Ronald N. Stetler, ’71. CENTRAL CONNECTICUT AREA. More than 60 area alumni and their guests gathered for a reception at the Hartford Club on April 26—the first alumni event in Hartford in 30 years. Several prospective freshmen from the area and their parents also attended. Special guest of the chapter was James D. Farrar, 49, coordinator of the alumni-admissions program. Arrangements for the event were made by Paul G. Cavaliere, 48, E. Stewart Epley, ‘49, Northeast development staff associate, John L. Ericson, ’33L, and Calvert Thomas, 38, 40L, a W&L Trustee. DELMARVA. Following Washington and Lee’s lacrosse victory over Washington College on April 28, a victory celebration took place at the home of Alex Rasin, ’65, in Chestertown, Md. In addition to the Eastern shore alumni and guests who were present, there were a number of loyal W&L lacrosse fans from the Baltimore chapter. The lacrosse team and parents of the players were also invited. The chapter provided a buffet supper—complete with steamed clams, Maryland fried chicken and plenty of beer—to welcome the Generals. Ernest I. Cornbrooks III, ’67, chapter president, and David R. Hackett, ‘69L, treasurer, also welcomed guests. 21 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.0o.b. Lexington, Va. Mail your order to WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Lexington, Virginia 24450 Freight charges and delivery delays can often be minimized by having the shipment made to an office or business address. Please include your name, address, and telephone number. Shipment from available stock will be made upon receipt of your check. G. L. Campbell, ’28 1920 JUDGE EMILE B. Beatty, lawyer and judge in Beattyville, Ky., was paid a tribute in the April 1978 issue of the Masonic Home Journal of Kentucky, climaxing an exceedingly active involvement in Masons for many years. Judge Beatty was honored as senior past grand master. Beatty entered the Masonic Order in 1916 and was named grand master in 1943. He was the first grand master of Kentucky to devote his entire time to fulfilling the duties of the office. He became senior past grand master December 16, 1974. Beatty, as early as 1940, had received the Scottish Rite Degrees up to and including the 32nd degree. Judge Beatty served on the Beattyville city council for many years. While a member of the Beattyville Board of Education he proposed the Beattyville grade school. He received the Outstanding Citi- zens Award from the Kiwanis Club in 1963. He served as chairman of the Lee County chapter of the American Red Cross and for over 35 years served as county chairman of the Kentucky Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Judge Beatty is the third member of his family to serve as attorney general of Lee County. 1928 GABE L. CAMPBELL was recently awarded a cer- tificate of appreciation by the San Diego (Calif.) Council of Engineering Societies. The award recognizes his contribution to this year’s San Diego County's National Engineers Week (February 18- 24). The purpose of the National Engineers Week is to familiarize the public with the work of engi- neers and to honor outstanding members of the profession. 1930 JAMES N. HEss is employed by Western Tem- porary Services Inc. As a retired accounting supervisor, Hess spends several days a week doing personnel work for Tulox-Lumelite-Bradley Co. He visits the company’s plants in Connecticut and New York ensuring that employees are regularly heard by management. MARION H. ROBERTS retired in 1975 as manager of cost and billing for Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. He enjoys his retirement and a life of hunting, fishing, shrimping, and looking after five grandchildren. CHESTER C. WINE retired this year after serving 21 years on the Texas Industrial Commission. He served under four governors. 1931 BEVERLY J. LAMBERT JR., a retired banker of Little Rock, Ark., has been chosen as the state bank commissioner by Gov. Clinton. The state bank department, a division of the state commerce department, regulates 192 state-chartered banks, two investment firms and three industrial loan institutions. As bank commissioner, Lambert is one of five members of the state board of finance, which sets the interest rate for investing state funds in Arkansas banks. Lambert began his banking career at the Bank of Holly Grove and later joined the Bank of West Memphis, where he served as president for 15 years. He was president of the First State Bank of Crossett for seven years before retiring two years ago and moving to Little Rock. He has been working as a consultant for Powell and Satterfield, an investment banking firm in Little Rock. Lambert is past chairman of the state board of higher education which he has served for 18 years. He is a past president of the Arkansas Bankers Association; has served on several committees of the American Bankers Association, and is a former president of the Crossett and West Memphis Chambers of Commerce. 1934 JOHN H. THOMAS of Charleston, W.Va., is semi- retired as president of the Empire Federal Savings & Loan Association. He spends considerable time in Delray, Fla. 1937 a STANLEY BARROWS continues to teach the history of architecture and history of decorative arts in the department of interior and architectural design at the University of the State of New York in New York City. He expects to conduct a short course in Palladian and other Venetian villas for members of the American Society of Interior Designers in June 1979. 1938 THE REv. ARTHUR L. BICE retired in September 1977 after serving as rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Little Falls, N.Y., for 21 years. He was made rector emeritus and a reception in his honor was given by the vestry. Jay H. REID Jr. continues as director of information for the International Monetary Fund, headquartered in Washington, D.C. He has been with IMF since 1948 and has done extensive traveling. 1939 ARCH H. TuRPIN retired Dec. 1, 1978, and now resides in Stuart, Fla. He enjoys golf several times each week and recently returned from a Caribbean cruise. 1940 DONALD T. BURTON retired in 1975 after 20 years with Kendall Co., a division of Bauer Black. Since 1975 he has been selling for a sporting goods distributor through South Florida. 1941 Dr. ROBERT E. LEE of Pensacola, Fla., recently E. O. Moore. 45 returned from Egypt where he attended a 10 day seminar on the Great Pyramid. 1942 BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. ROBERT L. PINCK, a daughter, Giséle, on April 17, 1979. Pinck is chairman of the department of radiology at the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. 1944 JoHN G. Fox is an executive with American Telephone and Telegraph in Washington, D.C. His son, David, is serving in the West Virginia Legislature. 1945 ELLIS O. Moore has been promoted to vice president of corporate relations for the American Broadcasting Co. Inc. Moore, ABC's vice president for public relations since 1972, will work closely with the members of the senior corporate management as well as with the heads of the company s operating divisions. Moore entered the broadcast public relations field in 1952 when he joined the Press Dept. of the National Broadcasting Company as a staff writer. He later became NBC’s vice president for press and publicity. From 1963 until he joined ABC in 1966 as vice president of press relations, he worked with the public relations department of Standard Oil Company (N.J.), now the Exxon Corp. Moore was a newspaper reporter with the Pine Bluff, Ark., Commercial. after serving with the Army during World War II in the Philippine Islands and Okinawa. He also worked as a reporter for the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. from 1947 to 1952. He was awarded a National Headliners Award in 1950. KENNETH G. PULLER is manager of the mid- Atlantic area of Coca-Cola USA. He and his wife, Martha, reside in Arnold, Md. CHARLES ROWE, editor of the Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, Va., is one of three new members elected to the 12-member board of directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. 1947 CHARLES HARWOOD SHOOK, after completing his Ph.D. in business administration (accounting) at’ Oklahoma State University and receiving his CPA, is now with the personnel and administration staff of Deloitte Haskins & Sells, an international public accounting firm. Shook resides in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. 1949 JOHN H. REED JR., is an attorney in Hurricane, W.Va. His son, John H. III is serving in the West Virginia Legislature. CARROLL L. THOMAS is counselor for the Virginia Department of Correction. He is married and has two sons. JOHN G. Fox (See 1944.) 1950 OLIVER M. MENDELL, senior vice president of Chemical Bank in New York City, was elected to a second three-year term as president of the Fifth Avenue Association, one of the best-known civic organizations in the metropolitan area. The board of directors of the organization is comprised of the presidents of most of the large and nationally fam- ous department and retail stores on Fifth Avenue. Mendell is a trustee of the Citizen's Budget Commission which oversees the budget for New York City. C. WILLIAM Pacy has been named by the mayor of Baltimore to be president of the newly formed Market Center Development Corp. of Baltimore. The city corporation will develop and oversee a revitalization program for the downtown retail district of Baltimore. W. B. PRuitT is a vice president of Piedmont Engineers, Architects and_ Planners, in Greenville, S.C. He is in charge of the structural engineering department. 1951 JOHN F. Kay Jr., a partner in the Richmond law firm of Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, has been named to the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners. Kay was appointed to the board by the Supreme Court of Virginia this past November and will serve on the five-member panel until 1981. Kay is a past chairman of the board of trustees of collegiate schools. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society, the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel and the American College of Trial Lawyers. Capt. RICHARD R. MCDONALD is doing his second tour of duty in Hawaii as staff commander in chief, Pacific. He has just completed a tour in the Pentagon as executive assistant to the director of Naval intelligence. 1953 HUuGH S. GLICKSTEIN, an attorney in Hollywood, Fla., was sworn in as Circuit Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida in ceremonies Apr. 30, 1979, in the Boward County Courthouse in Ft. Lauderdale. 1954 SEDGWICH L. Moss, after many years in customer service positions with American Airlines, has become affiliated with Oversees Travel Agency in Washington, D.C. H. Riper has had a varied career 23 WILSON including five years immediately following graduation with the U.S. Navy as a Chinese linquist. He then had 17 years in the banking business divided between the Hartford National Bank and the Shawmut Bank in Springfield, Mass. He recently purchased a milling specialty business which furnishes the fastener industry. 1955 HuGu S. GLICKSTEIN (See 1953.) JOHN F. Kay Jr. (See 1951.) 1957 WILLIAM J. BOWERS is director of Northeastern University s Center for Applied Social Research in Boston. His current research project in Texas, Georgia and Ohio supports an earlier finding in Florida that the death penalty is not applied equally in all murder cases and is more likely to be applied for murdering a white than a black. Bowers findings have been quoted recently in the press as potential support in the last resort appeal of a Florida death sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court. 1958 PHILIP H. WEEKS, CLU, is now with Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in Richmond, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH S. LEWIS, a son, Brent Kirkwood, on Jan. 13, 1979. The family resides in Oak Hill, W.Va. Maj. PAUL KNox is currently assigned as alcohol and drug control officer for the Mainz Military Community in West Germany. He expects his tour of duty to extend another year. 1961 Dr. JOHN G. POWELL is practicing pediatrics in Lynchburg, Va. He is currently the president of the Mental Health Association and chairman of the local human rights committee of the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital. He and his wife, Christie, have two sons. 1962 NORMAN R. FRISBIE has been appointed to the position of vice president of E. F. Hutton and Co. Inc. and is working in the company’s Washington, D.C. office. Frisbie, a former Army captain, is active in local civic organizations and is a trustee of Randolph-Macon Academy. 1963 BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. MICHAEL D. SUSSMAN, a daughter, Torah Elizabeth, on Aug. 1, 1978. Sussman is an orthopedic surgeon at the 24 B. W. Rider, 66 Children’s Rehabilitation Center of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. JOHN F. REFO is president of Hayden & Refo Inc., an executive search and management consulting firm headquartered in Boston. The firm serves the financial, educational, and medical communities and consults on selection for senior staff and general management positions in industry. Before founding Hayden & Refo, John was director of personnel for Shawmut Corp., a large regional bank holding company. PETER M. WEIMER is in his second year of full operation of Weimer-Stone Realty Inc. in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, which now has a sales staff of 18 persons. He and his wife have two daughters. 1964 PHILIP BOOTH continues to have a splendid record with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is finishing his fourth season with the Metropolitan and this spring had his New York City Opera début. Next season Booth expects to take the part of Lodovico in Othello, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, and Zuniga in Carmen. Dr. BRUCE CHOSNEY is in the private practice of hematology-onocology in Sacramento, Calif. KENNETH P. LANE JR. is aftercare coordinator for the Rockbridge Mental Health Clinic. He began work with the clinic three years ago. COTTON RAWLS Jr. was incorrectly identified as Dr. Rawls in the March 1979 issue of this magazine. Rawls is employed in the executive headquarters of Fotomat Corp. in Stamford, Conn. BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. Mark G. HAEBERLE, a son, Will, in April 1978. Haeberle is in the private practice of obstetrics and gynecology in Rome, Ga. THE REV. WILFRED B. WEBB JR. is now president of the Pinellas-Pasco Counties (Fla.) Mental Health Board. In 1977 Webb was selected as Outstanding Small Church Pastor of the Year. His skills in role playing, gestalt therapy, transactional analysis, community skills, team building, conflict management goal setting and planning, problem solving and decision making, make him very qualified and helpful on the District Mental Health Board. Webb is pastor of the Faith Presbyterian Church in Dunedin, Fla. 1966 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. C. THOMAS BURTON JR., a son, Calvin Thomas III, on Aug. 5, 1978. Burton is a partner in the Roanoke, Va., law firm of Wetherington, Flippen, Melchionna, Bosserman & Burton. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. GAVIN R. GARRETT, a W. P. Canby, ’71 daughter, Mary Oleta, on July 30, 1978, in New Orleans. Garrett is a reservoir engineer in the offshore division of Shell Oil Co. BRUCE P. COOPER is the Birmingham district manager for the foundation division of McDowell Contractors, a Nashville based construction company. He resides in Morris, Ala. RAnpy H. LEE has been named acting dean of the School of Law at the University of North Dakota until a new dean is named. Lee has been on the law faculty at North Dakota since 1975. BRUCE W. RIDER of Honeoye Falls, N.Y., will work as a full-time volunteer during the next year to obtain jobs for qualified blind persons in Rochester, N.Y., corporations and government agencies. Rider, blind for the past seven years, is community action program manager for Xerox Corporation's Information Systems Group. He is one of seven Xerox employees participating in the companys 1979 social service leave program, which allows employees to take full-time, full-paid leaves to pursue self-chosen social projects working for nonprofit agencies. Rider is working during his leave as director for employment for the Association for the Blind of Rochester and Monroe County Inc. Rider is a Presbyterian elder and serves on the board of directors for the Association for the Blind and for the Honeoye Falls Rotary Club. 1967 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. W. LAURENCE FELLMAN, a second son, Bradley Ryan, on Feb. 8, 1979, in Dallas, Texas. Fellman is in the commercial real estate industry, specializing in shopping center development and leasing. CHRISTOPHER F'. ARMSTRONG recently delivered a paper to the Southern Sociological Society in Atlanta. He is a sociology professor at Bloomsburg State College and resides in Catawissa, Pa. THOMAS J. HOLDEN III moved to Berryville, Va., in August 1978 to serve as minister of the Berryville and Stone’s Chapel Presbyterian Churches. He served seven years as minister of the Carolina Beach (N.C.) Presbyterian Church. Dr. FREDERIC P. SKINNER completed his residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center and entered the private practice of internal medicine in Elmira, N.Y., in July 1978. He and his wife, Edie, have two children, Eric, age 12 and Cary, age 7. 1968 BIRTH: Dr. and Mrs. ROBERT M. WEIN, a daughter, Erin Diamond, their fifth child, on March 19, 1979. Wein is in the private practice of obstetrics and gynecology in Greensboro, N.C. CRAIG H. BARLEY has returned from five years in Brussels as data processing manager for the parts distribution facility in Belgium of Caterpillar Tractor Co. He earned his MBA there from an extension of Boston University. Barley, his wife, Gail, and sons, Matthew and Andrew, reside in Morton, Ill. After serving six years in the Army as a military intelligence officer, A. BRUCE CLEVERLY joined Gillette Co. in Boston in 1975. He is now in marketing for Gillette as product manager for the Atra Shaving System. Cleverly and his wife, Jackie, reside in Hingham, Mass., with their two daughters, Paige and Samantha. CaPpT. PHILIP G. COTTELL JR. is resigning his Army commission effective August 1979 to enroll in full-time study for a doctorate in business administration at the University of Kentucky. Dr. F. STRAIT FAIREY JR. is in a family medical practice in Mount Pleasant, S.C. He received his M.D. at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1971 and performed a three-year residency in family practice there. Fairey and his wife, Charlotte, have a son, Shephard, age 9 and a daughter, McRae, age 7. os Dr. Eric P. MANTZ completed a , surgical residency at Tulane University in 1977 and then served one year on the surgical staff at West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is now in the private practice of general and vascular surgery in Charleston, W.Va. Mantz and his wife, Sandi, have a son, Bryan, age 5, and an infant daughter, Erica. 1969 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN B. ADAMS, a daughter, Nena Bowman, on Feb. 18, 1979, in The Plains, Va. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. J. Ross FORMAN III, a daughter, Emily Thomas, on April 16, 1979. Forman is a partner in the Birmingham, Ala., law firm of Thomas, Taliaferro, Forman, Burr and Murray. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. CLARK M. GoopwIn, a daughter, Emily Anna-Carrie, on March 9, 1979, in Atlanta. JOSEPH T. CHADWICK JR. has been elected vice president of T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., a Baltimore-based investment research and counsel firm. Chadwick, who specializes in tax-sheltered retirement plans, joined the firm in 1971. Before joining T. Rowe Price, Chadwick was employed for two years as a trust administrator by Maryland National Bank. RICHARD E. KRAMER and KIRK WOODWARD collaborated on two theater productions in New York in the past year. In December and January, Kramer directed and appeared in Aladdin, an original children’s play written by Woodward. In ~ Seldomridge, ’76. February and March, Woodward directed a production of Macbeth in which Kramer played the role of Malcolm. Though both old friends have been active in New York theater since 1974, these were their first opportunities to work together. Gary D. SILVERFIELD has been named president of Stokes and Silverfield Inc., a newly formed real estate agency in Jacksonville, Fla. The agency, combined with Jacksonville's largest home- builder, will manage exclusively a number of subdivisions and commercial properties. RANDY H. LEE (See 1966.) 1970 BIRTH: MR. and Mrs. BRYAN BALDWIN, a daughter, Kathryn Rhett, on Nov. 8, 1978, in Birmingham, Ala. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Davip R. FRANKSTONE, their first child, a daughter, Susan Venable, on Sept. 2, 1978. Frankstone practices law in Chapel Hill, N.C. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT H. YEVICH, a daughter, Courtney Catherine, on Dec. 18, 1978, in Richmond. LAWSON CANNON is attending Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Ore. In May 1977 he was married to Cathryn Jennings of Carmel, Calif. CHARLES P. COWELL III is teaching part-time at Santa Barbara City College and will teach in the summer session at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Cowell is writing his dissertation in organic chemistry and expects to receive his doctorate this summer. He resides in Goleta, Calif. JACK A. KirBy's book, Estate Planner’s Kit, has been published and marketed by the Institute for Business Planning Inc. Kirby was panelist and speaker on the 1976 Tax Reform Amendment and the Revenue Act of 1978 at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute seminar in October 1978. He is an assistant professor of estate planning and director of examinations in estate planning and taxation for the American College of Certified Life Under- writers in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Kirby teaches a course in basic income taxation there. ROBERT W. ROOT Jr. is doing environmental studies on ground-water flow systems for E. I. duPont Co. at the Savannah River Plant. He received his M.S. degree in geology from the University of Illinois. Root resides in Aiken, S.C. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. CARL ADAMS III, a son, Carl Martin, on Dec. 14, 1978, in Birmingham, Ala. _. ~ At the wedding of Peter Cavalier, 76, are Mrs. Mark _. Diverio and Diverio, ’75, Mrs. Cavalier, and Gary BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. ALAN B. GANwNn, a son, Jason Kent, on March 25, 1979. GaNun is supervisor of group underwriting for Mutual Benefit Life of Newark. He resides in South Plainfield, N.J., with his wife, Cindy, and a 2- year-old daughter. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER M. NADING JR., ason, Alexander Montgomery III, on March 31, 1979, in Birmingham, Ala. WILLIAM P. CansBy has been promoted to assistant vice president in national corporate banking by the Trust Company Bank in Atlanta. Canby has been with the bank since 1972 and in the national corporate division for a year. Harry D. LETOURNEAU has been promoted to vice president by North Carolina National Bank in Charlotte. LeTourneau joined NCNB in 1973 as a credit analyst. He is a national accounts officer in the bank’s U.S. department. 1972 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. LANDON B. LANE JR., a daughter, Logan, on Aug. 28, 1978. Lane is director of finance and administration for the Venture and HTB divisions of the Lane Co. Inc. in Hickory, N.C. Joe D. Pippin has become a partner in the law firm of Pippin and Pippin in Norton, Va. ROBERT B. B. SCHATZ is associated with the litigation firm of Lawrence Ring Associates with offices in Philadelphia and Beverly Hills, Calif. Schatz resides in Philadelphia. MARC JAMES SMALL is pursuing a law degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law _ in Williamsburg, Va. 1973 MARRIAGE: JOHN R. BaGBy and Adanne Pruitt Hancock on Nov. 29, 1978, in Clark County, Ky. Bagby practices law in Lexington, Ky. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. JOHN W. FOLSOM, a daughter, Katrina Graham, on March 29, 1979, in Columbia, S.C. WILLIAM C. CLARK received his M.S. in French at the University of Virginia. He has taught for the past four years at Fork Union Military Academy, where he is chairman of the foreign language department and an admissions officer. JAMES P. Di1Forio Jr. was elected vice president and treasurer of the Union Savings Bank of New York in January 1979. W. PATRICK HINELY had his photographs of the artists in the Spoleto Festival featured in an exhibition entitled Two Worlds of Spoleto at the 25 Columbia Museum of Art. The exhibition opened May 22 in Columbia, S.C. E. BRYSON POWELL, president of Midlothian Development Corp., has been appointed to the board of directors of the United States Industrial Council, a nationwide business organization based in Nashville, Tenn. THEODORE H. RITTER was appointed a trustee of the Cumberland County Bar Association and a delegate to the general council of the New Jersey State Bar Association in June 1978. In January 1979 he was appointed assistant county prosecutor for Cumberland County and also opened his own general law practice in Bridgeton, N.J. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. T. LEE BROWN Jr., a second son, Christopher Lee, on April 4, 1979, in Richmond. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. REx M. LAMBIII, asecond daughter, Katherine Caulkins, on Oct. 8, 1978. Lamb became a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Redfern, Butler and Morgan on Jan. 1, 1979. He also has a daily radio program of legal advice sponsored by the State Bar of Georgia on WGST radio. DavIp R. BEYER has become a corporate planning analyst at First and Merchants National Bank in Richmond. He had worked in F&M’s central operations department for three years. JOHN R. BROADWAY Jp. is staff attorney for the Virginia Code Commission and registrar of regulations for the Commonwealth. He served four years in the governor's office as assistant to the secretary of the Commonwealth. THOMAS A. MATTESKky is a member of the news department at WBTV in Charlotte, N.C. He had been a reporter at WDBJ-TV in Roanoke. 1975 MARRIAGE: ROBERT A. KEATLEY and Mary Josephine Tussing on June 2, 1978; in Des Peres, Mo. The wedding party included Spencer Heddens, ’75; Sam Bell, ’75; John Ratzel, 75; Tom Ramey, 75; Mike Monahan, ’77; Mike Luttig, ’76, and Harrison Turnbull, ’*75. Among the guests were David Mathews, '75; John Killpack, ’75; Bill Flesher, 76; Art Wood, "76, and Bryan Cook, ’74. Keatley resides in Kansas City, Mo. MARRIAGE: ROBERT M. LANDER II and Cheryl Lynn Wood on Nov. 11, 1978, in Ferndale, Mich. Attending the wedding were Buster Briggs, 76; Mac McCarthy, ’76; Bill Ewing, 78; Tom Suydam, ‘75; Will Clemons, 77; Ed Wiley, 74, and Tom Mattesky, ’74. MARRIAGE: Davin H. SLATER and Leah DeAnne Brown on July 1, 1978, in Tallahassee, Fla. David Rigby, ’75, and Jay Fries, "76, were members of the wedding. Slater is an exploration 26 geologist for Mobil Oil in New Orleans. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. FRED K. GRANADE, a son, Taylor Rives, on March 18, 1979, in Bay Minette, Ala. T. BARRY DAVIS, formerly associate publisher and advertising director with the Washington Dossier magazine, is employed as the Washington- Baltimore sales manager for Media Networks Inc. He is responsible for the new product division which solicits advertising for Playboy, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful, and Bazaar magazines. MARK X. DIVERIO is with the First National Bank of New Jersey as an investment officer and director of shareholder relations. He was recently inducted into the Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society in Business Administration at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Graduate School of Business. EDMOND B. Grecory III has been promoted to audit manager with Linton, Shafer and Company, CPA, in Frederick, Md. Guy KERR, after passing the Texas bar exam in November 1978, is now associated with the Dallas firm of Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely. On April 18, 1979, W. JEROME KNAUER was elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. He is a senior at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. Knauer has been awarded a house officer appointment for 1979-80 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Va. His postgraduate training will be in internal medicine. RICHARD B. THOMPSON received his commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Thompson is now undergoing navigator training at Mather Air Force Base, Calif. JOSEPH E. WELDEN JR. was graduated from the University of Alabama Medical School in May 1979 and will enter post-graduate training at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. His specialty is internal medicine. CAPT. JOEL A. WILLIAMS is a trial counsel in the staff judge advocate’s office of the Third Infantry Division in Schweinfurt, W. Germany. ROBERT Q. WYCKOFF JR. is associated with the West Palm Beach, Fla., law firm of Cone, Owen, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri and Roth. He specializes in personal injury litigation. Jor D. Pippin (See 1972.) 1976 MARRIAGE: PETER R. CAVALIER and Marjorie Elyse Raulintis on Sept. 16, 1978, in North | At the wedding of Robert M. Lander II, ’75, are (left to right) Buster Briggs, 76; Mac McCarthy, ’76; Bill Ewing, 77; Tom Suydam, ’75; Mrs. Lander; Lander; # Will Clemons, ’77; Ed Wiley, ’74, and Tom Mattesky, ’74. Arlington, N.J. Among the guests were Mark Diverio, ‘75, and Gary Seldonridge, ’76. Cavalier. is assistant manager of the commercial credit department of Fidelity Union Trust Co. in Newark, N.J. He is also pursuing an MBA degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. The couple resides in North Arlington, N.]J. MARRIAGE: H. MYNDERS GLOVER and Martha Carrington Clements on May 19, 1979, in Carson, Va. The couple will reside in Charlottesville where Glover is attending the Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. MARRIAGE: Scott M. STEVENSON and Hollis Lynn Hibbert on Aug. 5, 1978, in Houston, Texas. Classmates in the wedding were Alan Pettigrew, Joe Walker, Lee Keiger and Paul Vavala. Also present from W&L were Clark Thompson, 777; John Gorden, ’78; Don MacLeod, ’78, and Peter Hall, °78. Stevenson is a third-year law student at Wake Forest University. He will become associated with the Charlotte, N.C., law firm of McConnell, Howard, Pruett and Bragg. SCOTT AINSLIE is in New York City where he is performing traditional music and studying shiatsu (acurpressure massage) and Japanese as well as other aspects of oriental diet. S. MICHAEL MCCOLLOCH received an American Jurisprudence Award for insurance law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. He is a law intern with the U.S. attorney’s office in San Antonio, a staff writer for the law school’s legal research board and a dean’s list student. VERNON E. O’BERRY Jr. will enroll in the School of Dentistry at the Medical College of Virginia in August 1979. He is presently completing work on his M.S. in biology at the University of Richmond. DONALD C. OVERDORFF is vice president of operations for Quaker Sales Corp. in Johnstown, Pa. JAMES D. PEARSON earned his MBA in May 1978 from Indiana University. He is now a banking associate in the commercial division of Continental Illinois Bank and Trust in Chicago. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. STEVEN P. BAILEY, a daughter, Blaire Shields, on Jan. 10, 1978. Bailey is associated with a law firm in Albuquerque, N. Mex. J. AUSTIN BALL is performing research in endocrinology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He will enroll in the Col- lege of Medicine this fall. WILLIAM F. BEAUCHAMP is a management assistant with Loyola Federal Savings and Loan in Baltimore. JoHN R. Downey is working as an advertising copywriter for Thalhimers in Richmond. BRADLEY S. ELLIOTT is working as police and courts reporter for The News in Lynchburg, Va. He had been police reporter for the Augusta (Ga.) Herald. W. SCOTT FRANKLIN is assistant manager of the main office of First National Bank of Maryland in Baltimore. Franklin won first place in the American Institute of Banking public speaking contest and competed in a regional contest in Virginia Beach. CrAIG F. HAMILTON graduated in December 1977 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He is working in the bond department of Florida First National Bank in Jacksonville. B. CARL HARNISCH has resigned from Bunge Grain Elevator and now expects to serve as a grain broker in San Antonio, Texas. SHELTON B. HUNTER is in law school at Texas Tech University. f Mark A. KRIEGER III is working in production planning and customer service at the’ John D. Lucas Printing Co. in Baltimore. He is also coaching junior league lacrosse. sales for JEssE C. O'NEAL is a_ technical representative in Winston-Salem, N.C., Dearborn Chemical Co. KENNETH E. PAYNE is working for the law firm of Eric E. Adamson, P.C., in Front Royal, Va. SAMUEL E. THOMPSON is a sports writer for the Savannah News. MARK R. ULMER is a second-year student at the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Ala. DANIEL E. WESTBROOK is a second-year law student at Washington and Lee. He is captain of the Jessup International Moot Court team, which won the regional trials, and competed in the national finals in Washington. Westbrook will clerk this summer for law firms in Dallas and Milwaukee. 1978 MARRIAGE: Lt. JOHN S. HUDSON and Janet M. Rakoczy on March 17, 1979, at Sweet Briar, Va. W&L men present were John Bruton, ’79L; David Lytle, ‘76; R. Suter Hudson, 7°53; Gary Seldomridge, ’76, and Jim Adams, "79. The couple resides in Hinesville, Ga., where Hudson is a tactical intelligence officer for the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Stewart. ANDREW M. AIRHEART is assistant coordinator of the First Association Club for First Tennessee Bank in Memphis. PARKE L. BRADLEY is director of public relations for The Big Apple Scenic Studio Ltd, in New York. The firm builds scenery, props, and special effects for broadway shows, television and rock music tours. Previously he worked for Robert F. Jani Productions as a talent coordinator and production assistant. They produced half-time shows for the 1979 Orange Bowl and Super Bowl XIII in conjunction with NBC Sports. COURTNEY C. BROOKS JR. is a first-year student at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. GEORGE L. CARSON Jr. is a_ territory representative in the greater Philadelphia area for the Walker Manufacturing Co. He resides in Cherry Hill, N.J. DANIEL C. COFFEY is an office manager trainee for W. W. Coffey and Son Inc., general contractors in Lexington. BEN I. JOHNS is the tennis teaching professional at the University Club in Memphis, Tenn. the GERALD L. MAATMAN Jr. received At the wedding of John Hudson, ’78; are (front row) John Bruton, ’79L; David Lytle, ’76; Mrs. Hudson, and Hudson; (back row) R. Suter Hudson, ’53; Gary Seldom- ridge, 76, and Jim Adams, ’79. Outstanding Solon E. Summerfield Scholar Award at the 59th national meeting of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity on Aug. 11, 1978, in Kansas City. Representing the W&L chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, Maatman was chosen for the $2,000 stipend from the 98 nominees representing each chapter of the national fraternity. Maatman used the award along with the NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship he won at W&L to complete his first year of law school at Northwestern University. The award is based on _ leadership, scholarship, and participation in collegiate affairs. Maatman will clerk this summer for a law firm in Chesapeake, Va. He was W&Ls first NCAA All-American golfer in 1977 and 1978. He finished 34th in the 1978 Illinois State Open tournament. ROBERT J. MARVIN JR. has completed training and is now working as a computer programmer for [BM in Kingston, N.Y. JAY D. SHAFFER is a field engineer for Schlumberger Well Services working in the oil and gas fields of southern Louisiana. He resides in Lafayette, La. RAND D. WEINBERG will enter law school at Washington and Lee this fall. IN MEMORIAM 1913 HERBERT TYLER TAYLOR, a former public ac- countant with the firm of A. M. Pullen & Co. in Richmond, Va., died March 7, 1979, at the Pres- byterian Home of South Carolina in Summerville. He was a veteran of World War I, a Mason and a Shriner. 1916 JOSE CAMINERO, former ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Cuba to Nicaragua (1953- 57); Columbia (1957-58); Peru (1958-59); civil en- gineer, writer, journalist, and diplomat, died Nov. 10, 1977. Caminero, a native of Havana, Cuba, was educated in Cuban schools before attending Washington and Lee. He also attended Villanova College. He was the winner of the Rodrigo de Xerez literary prize in 1946. Caminero was a columnist for the newspapers Diario de la Marina, Advance, and El Mundo, all of Havana before Castro. He was a Cuban delegate to several inter- national conferences and, while serving as presi- dent of the Cuban Red Cross, was delegate to the International Red Cross Conference in Toronto in 1952 where he served as chairman. Caminero was obliged to leave Cuba and become a resident of the United States in 1959. He lived for several years in Florida but moved in the early 1970's to West New York, N.J., where he died. 1919 NELSON LAURIE BROWN of Natural Bridge, a retired dairyman, died April 10, 1979, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salem, Va. Before becoming a Rockbridge County farmer and dairyman, Brown was associated with the Cold Springs Cooperative Creamery in Roanoke. He was a member of the Falling Springs Presbyterian Church for 35 years and was, for many years, superintendent of the Sunday school. Brown was a member of several civic clubs including the Lexington Rotary Club, the Natural Bridge Ruritan Club, the Knights of Pythias, and the Natural Bridge Lions Club. 1921 SAMUEL EDWIN BAYLOR, who was a farmer and cattleman in Cedar Bluff, Va., for many years, died Oct. 12, 1978. Baylor also was active in a general merchandise store and in the business of curing hams. He was owner of a business, The Wardell Store and The Wardell Farm. 1924 JAMES BAIN PRICE, who has been retired from the 27 IN MEMORIAM hardware and oil leasing business for many years, died March 5, 1979, in Beaumont, Texas. He was closely identified with early Beaumont history. Gladys City, now restored, was named for his mother. EDWARD BENSON WOODBERY, a former vice president and trust officer of the Quincy State Bank in Quincy, Fla., died Nov. 29, 1978. Woodbery was on the board of directors of the Quincy State Bank as well as the Northwest Florida Banking Corp. He was active in the Boy Scouts and in the local United Fund. 1927 Joy Y. MCCANDLESS, a retired district sales manager with Babcock & Wilcox Co., died Jan. 13, 1979, in Vero Beach, Fla. After graduation from W&L, McCandless was a teacher and also coached high school football and basketball in Beaver Falls, Pa. He joined Babcock & Wilcox in 1937. In 1970 he retired to his home in Vero Beach. 1928 G. OLDHAM CLARKE, a Louisville, Ky., attorney and civic leader, died March 7, 1979. Clarke was a practicing attorney with the law firm of Stites, McElwain and Fowler, active in the Democratic State Central Executive Committee and a former commissioner for Jefferson County. Between 1935 and 1937, Clarke was assistant U.S. Attorney in Louisville and was county judge pro tem in the early 1950s. He was a past president of the Louisville and Kentucky Bar Associations, the YMCA and the Kentucky Easter Seal Society. 1930 JAMES LEWIS CURRIE, a prominent farmer in Crawfordsville, Ark., died Feb. 28, 1979. Dr. CARL EVERETT LORENZ, a prominent ophthalmologist in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., died March 21, 1979. Lorenz held the rank of commander and served as medical officer in the United States Navy Reserve. 1931 EDWARD CuRTIS NICHOLS, a resident of Jackson, Miss., died April 18, 1979. Though a native of . Huntsville, Ala., Nichols had lived in Jackson since early childhood. He was a veteran of World War II serving as an Army major in the European Theatre. He was a former member of the Rotary Club of Jackson. Before his retirement he was co- owner of Nichols & Garland, Food Brokers, and had served as president of the Jackson Food Association. THOMAS ELDRIDGE MEARS JR., a resident of Portales, N. Mex., died Nov. 1, 1978. Mears had practiced law in Portales for many years. 1935 CLARENCE OGDEN CARMAN died Oct. 3, 1978, in Beckley, W.Va. Carman was an instructor and superintendent for Eastern Associated Coal Corp. at the Stotesbury mining operation for 30 years prior to his retirement. He was instrumental in introducing long-wall mining and conventional Sie FEE Dick Pinck from the ’41 Calyx. THE HERO Richard Harold Pinck, Class of 1941, one of Washington and Lee’s foremost star athletes, died on April 4, 1979, in Passaic, N.J. While at W&L, Pinck excelled in football, basketball, and tennis. Indeed, he was an all-round athlete who had quick hands and quick legs and could play any sport and perform well above the average. He compiled a glittering record as an athlete in preparatory school before he came to W&L. He was recognized as an outstanding natural athlete in Paterson, N.J., and he wona scholarship to The Hun School, where he made all-state in both football and basketball. Pinck’s career attracted the attention of Millard Lam- pell, then a budding novelist, who used him as a model for the protagonist in The Hero, the theme of which was that youthful athletic fame is comet-like and transitory. The novel was later made into a movie, Saturday’s Hero, by Columbia Pictures. After graduation, Pinck went into the real estate business and, in his later years, was connected with the Automobile Association of New Jersey. He won many prizes for salesmanship. 28 roof support in the United States. While at W&L, he was a member of the 1934 Southern Conference championship football team. He was a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Beni Kedem Temple. STANLEY ARMSTRONG TWEDDLE died April 14, 1979. Tweddle was a retired employee of James Lees and Sons of Glasgow, Va., which is now a division of Burlington Industry. He had been in service with James Lees and Sons for over 30 years. Following his retirement from business he was employed by the U.S. Forest Service until his death. He was a deacon in the Buena Vista Baptist Church and served as assistant Sunday school superintendent. 1939 RALPH D. KIRCHER JR., who joined Standard- Vacuum Oil Co. in July 1940 and later headed its marketing operations for Esso Standard Oil Ltd., died April 4, 1979, in Freeport, N.Y. He had retired from Exxon Corp. in 1970. Dr. ARCHIBALD PAXTON STUART, a prominent research chemist of Sun Oil Co. for many years, died May 21, 1977. Stuart joined Sun Oil as a research chemist in 1941. He was appointed chief of applied research section in 1963 and was named assistant to the director of commercial development in the research and engineering departments in 1965. He became director of that department in 1969. 1956 WALTER W. BURTON, a prominent practicing attorney in Princeton, W.Va., died April 2, 1979. Burton was a former director of the Mercer County Bank, Osborne Mining Corp. of Bluefield, W.Va., the Princeton Community Hospital Association, and the Princeton Memorial Hospital. HARRISON STEELE (BUDDY) DEY Jr., of Staunton, Va., died March 20, 1979, after a long illness. Dey, after graduating from Washington and Lee, served in the Army in Korea, and later worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. In 1962 he returned to Staunton and was employed for two years with the American Safety Razor Co. He later became a law partner in the firm of Dey and Rhea, which later became Baylor, Wray and Dey. He was a member of the American, Virginia State, and Augusta County Bar Associations. 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