a the alumni magazine of washington and lee (USPS 667-040) Volume 57, Number 7, November 1982 William C. Washburn, °40 ........ 0... cece cece eee eee Editor Romulus T. Weatherman ...... Diesen nec eee ee Managing Editor Jeffery G. Hanna ............. eee Associate Editor Robert Fure ................cccceceeeeeeeeeeeees Contributing Editor Joyce Carter ........ 0... cc cece eee eee eeneeeees Editorial Assistant Patricia B. Hale ............... 0. cece cece eee eee Editorial Assistant W. Patrick Hinely aa eee esseneeeeessechaceasennes Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Fall Weekends .................cc cece cceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees l John McDaniel: A Profile ............... 0.0... cece eee e ees 4 Election Night ’82 ...............ccccceeeceene eens eeeeeenes 8 Kemp Champions the Disabled .......................68. 12 W&L Accommodates the Disabled ...................... 15 WL Gazette .......... ccc ccc cece cece eee e ee eeeeeeeeeees 17 A Unique Gift ........... ccc cece cece cece neces enee seen 24 Hold the Liver! ........... 0... cc cece cece cece ee eeeeeeeeeees 25 Summer Programs Update ..................0cesceeeeee ees 26 Work/Play Photography Levtesere eel pasaseneractaeee 28 Chapter News ..............cccccecceec cece seas eeeenaeeneeeas 32 Class Notes ............ccc cece cece ee eeeeeenseeeeeeeeaees 33 In Memoriam .................ccccecc cece senate eeeeeeaeeeees 36 Published in January, March, May, July, September, October, and November by Washington and Lee University Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Virginia 24450. All communications and POD Forms 3579 should be sent to Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Va. 24450. Second class postage paid at Lexington, Va. 24450 and additional offices. Officers and Directors Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. G. RUSSELL Lapp III, 57, Mobile Ala. President EDGAR M. Boyp, 42, Baltimore, Md. Vice President WILLIAM E. LATTURE, ’49, Greensboro, N.C. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, *40, Lexington, Va. Secretary LEROY C. ATKINS, ’68, Lexington, Va. Assistant Secretary PETER A. AGELASTO III, ’62, Norfolk, Va. CHARLES R. BEALL, ’56, Martinsburg, W.Va. ANDREW N. Baur, ’66, St. Louis, Mo. WILLIAM N. CLEMENTS, ’50, Baltimore, Md. OweEN H. HARPER, ’59, Pasadena, Calif. CHARLES D. Hurt Jr., 759, Atlanta, Ga. SIDMON J. KAPLAN, 756, Cleveland, Ohio J. WILLIAM MCCLINTOCK III, ’53, Tunica, Miss. OLIVER M. MENDELL, ’50, New York City WILLIAM C. NorRMAN Jr., ’56, Crossett, Ark. Rice M. TIL.ey JR., 58, Fort Worth, Tex. S. MAYNARD TURK, 752, Wilmington, Del. CVU v ON THE COVER: J. Keith Shillington, professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee, has become a tradition unto himself at the University’s annual Homecoming celebration. For more than two decades Shillington has appeared at halftime of the Homecoming football game to present the Homecoming Queen with her crown and a congratulatory kiss. Renowned as a gourmet cook and an accomplsihed thespian, Shillington’s appearance is a highlight of Homecoming festivities. Those festivities and Parents’ Weekend are chronicled in photographs starting on page 1. Photograph by Charles Mason, °84. Lie ee Ley _ SoS SS ae : SSehAR iene nanaRANNoNoORI SE t Alumni and parents descended on Lexington for two weekends in October when Washington and Lee observed both Homecoming and Parents’ Weekend. Large crowds watched the Generals’ football team on both weekends and witnessed a victory over Randolph-Macon on Homecoming but a narrow loss to Sewanee on Parents’ Weekend. Above left, a student and his parents tour the Colonnade while (right) Alumni Association Vice President Edgar M. Boyd, ’42, registers for Homecoming. Charles Mason Photograph Charles Mason Photograph oe Be ey cao Bee ae eS ae os ss - tt se oe as ronin always, fellowship was the major ingredient iS _ ao rc Clockwise from top left: President Robert E. R. Huntley addresses parents in Lee Chapel during Parents’ Weekend; Robert Stewart conducts the Brass and Percussion Ensemble in the Parents’ Weekend concert which also included the W&L Glee Club; W&L students had plenty of time to relax with their families; and, parents were given an opportunity to ask questions of faculty, administrators, and students in panel discussions. by Robert Fure Digging for China Meticulous Archaeological Research Has Become A Valuable Part of the University’s Program WAL Professor John McDaniel: A Profile McDaniel and his students at the Liberty Hall dig: “We wanted to know about Washington and Lee, and what the school as it existed in the late 18th century could tell us further about the area at that time.’’ 4 The relation of most people to the historical past is at best whimsical. We have a few chronicles, mostly of the wealthy and politically prominent, a few artifacts, and in some cases, a hazy family narrative, passed down with adornments from one generation to the next. These serve to give us a vague sense that human civilization antedates our own existence. The usefulness of that sense is, as always, subject to debate, for walk as we may to a hill that was once the site of an ancient settlement or battlefield we are still alone, inured by the present moment and the limitations of human consciousness. The hill is grassy now and silent, our ancestors invisble and mute. The sun goes up and down, and we dream a little of what may have been. The relation of John McDaniel to the historical past is rather more contentious. It is immediately apparent in his bearing. A short, muscular man, he speaks of his profession, archaeology, with the intensity of a man clamoring for the hard facts of history. Among the academic disciplines, archaeology is perhaps the least abstract, the most skeptical, the most picayune. It is the historicity of concrete evidence, a discipline hardened by doubt. Social historians, whose science is the training ground for archaeologists, must forever endure the archaeologist who muses, ‘‘We’ll see about that.’’ In an easier world, they might more happily weave the fabric of prehistoric civilizations, spinning their material out of traditions, myths, and local legends. We might dream of Egypt merely by its pyramids were it not for the niggling sifters of archaeology, the field workers in the science of who we were before we knew enough to Say ourselves. So there is a certain aggressive pitch to John McDaniel’s shoulders. * * * McDaniel first came to Washington and Lee in 1960 as a student intent on lacrosse and a liberal education. The son of a Dartmouth economics professor who later became Executive Secretary of the Ford Foundation, McDaniel grew up with solid educational values to complement his exceptional athletic ability. At W&L, he won All-American honors in lacrosse and was selected Athlete of the Year in 1964. But more importantly he found a focus for his intellectual energies. ‘*T had always had an interest in archaeology since I was a kid, but it was the Gne introductory course in anthropology at W&L taught by Dean Leyburn that. . .’’ McDaniel looks off into the distance for a moment, **. . . Well, he was a tremendously effective teacher of undergraduates and simply excited me about the area. The following summer I went up to the University of Pennsylvania to take a graduate «|. The intensity of a man clamoring for the hard facts of history.”’ course just to see what it would be like. After that I knew what I wanted to do.”’ After graduating from W&L in 1964, McDaniel went back to Penn for a Ph.D. program in anthropology. His doctoral project took him to ancient ruins in Peru, where he dug, scraped, and dusted, measured, mapped, and drew conclusions, learning his craft. ‘‘T loved the archaeology, but during my years in graduate school frankly I became somewhat disenchanted with the large research-oriented institution. While I was at Photographs by Sally Mann Penn, however, I discovered that I truly enjoyed teaching. In 1972, Dean Leyburn asked me if I’d like to come back here. I knew that Washington and Lee gave me as good an opportunity to teach as any place, the research opportunities were interesting, and there were still a lot of people at W&L whom I respected. So I accepted the offer.”’ Yes, not to mention all those wild turkeys in the hills outside Lexington. But more of that later. McDaniel took up his duties at W&L with missionary zeal—as if it were an errand 5 Digging for China into the wilderness by a research scientist called to set up a laboratory and courses in a place that had previously enjoyed only Leyburn’s poetic historiography. When asked about his most satisfying accomplishment in his 10 years at W&L, McDaniel answers promptly and assuredly: ‘*What we’ve been able to accomplish with respect to establishing a department of anthropology.’’ The record is indeed impressive. Beyond the old introductory anthropology course is a curriculum now ranging from cultural anthropology to field archaeology. McDaniel has had to restrict enrollment in his spring seminar in field archaeology to 35. Two years ago, 60 students signed up. **Perhaps some of them mainly want to work on their tans. But others seem to develop a deep interest in what we’re doing. In some cases it lasts—currently we have eight W&L alumni either in graduate anthropology programs or working as professional archaeologists.’’ Remembering his own enthusiasm as an undergraduate, McDaniel has developed programs for summer study as well. He has hosted sessions in archaeology for Earthwatch and VMI summer students. The ongoing archaeological projects at W&L have created additional opportunities for continued study during the summer months. In fact, through a scholarship fund created by alumni in honor of Dean Leyburn, six W&L students spent last summer as paid assistants, *“Leyburn Scholars,’’ working on local projects. ‘“The money that alumni donated to this fund was astonishing. It’s testimony to how much Leyburn was revered by his students. Fortunately, Leyburn is still alive to know the admiration we all feel.”’ Leyburn’s photograph hangs over McDaniel’s desk. The expression suggests modest dignity but with an aspect somewhere between mild curiosity and bemusement. McDaniel himself gave Leyburn’s name to his first child. * * * Students in his various anthropol- ogy/archaeology courses refer to McDaniel as “‘Dr. Intensity.’’ The reasons are most apparent when he is discussing one of the ‘‘digs.’? McDaniel’s most absorbing archaeological project in recent years has been the Liberty Hall excavation, 1974- 6 4 2s # Working toward ‘‘the sort of ground sense that archaeologists develop over time.”’ 1979. The findings have led to significant revisions in our understanding of W&L’s earliest history. These were published in a 56-page monograph entitled Liberty Hall Academy: The Early History of the Institutions Which Evolved into Washington and Lee University. It is a model of archaeological research and an effective illustration of how archaeology can change historical assumptions. **We went to the Liberty Hall site with a set of questions. We knew something about the history of the settlement of this region. But we wanted to know more about Washington and Lee, and what the school as it existed in the late eighteenth century could tell us further about the area at that time.’’ McDaniel leans forward in his chair, punctuating his narrative with firm, compact gestures. ‘“We were looking for neat contrasts with William and Mary. As it turned out, we were as surprised as anyone.”’ What McDaniel and his crew of students found over the period of four years was china. True, they found buttons, coins, clay pipes, and the usual detritus of eighteenth- century schoolhouses. But the most revealing discovery was the china—tiny, precious shards of ceramic material much more elegant than they had expected to find in a frontier settlement. ‘‘Our purpose was not to contradict the historical record, but such contradictions occasionally occur. What we found was compelling evidence that the Rockbridge area was not truly a frontier region in the late eighteenth century. Nobody’s great-great grandfather was fighting off Indians at that time around here. In fact, the evidence indicates that Lexington was rather highly civilized, with regular access to Tidewater Virginia.’’ The brightest evidence is china. The book reads: The data resulting from the Liberty Hall excavation have led to new inter- pretations which contrast vividly with the themes of isolation, harshness, crudity, and danger which dominate traditional histories. Our analysis indicates that many of the implements used at Liberty Hall were imported. We have ceramics from England and China, gunflints from France, pipes from Holland, coins from South America, and metal buttons from England, to name several examples. In a 757- square-foot area immediately outside the Liberty Hall building itself, we uncovered 4,492 ceramic shards. Ninety-nine percent of the pieces were not of domestic origin. All our data support the hypothesis that economic and cultural isolation did not prevail. On the contrary, it is evident that there was ready access to imported goods. The evidence demonstrated that the perception of a predominantly self-sufficient frontier economy in which the only goods were homespun is fallacious—at least when applied to Liberty Hall. In the words ‘‘vividly,’’ *“*dominate,’’ ‘*fallacious,’’ and in those precise numbers, one sees McDaniel; ‘‘we’ll see about that’’ comes all the way around to ‘‘so there.’’ ‘‘Now, 1760 was quite different from 1780. There’s plenty of evidence of the Kerrs Creek Indian Massacre, which occurred out west of town in the early 1760’s. At the Cunningham House [one of the McDaniel digs at Kerrs Creek] we’re finding that 10% of the artifacts are gun- related as opposed to less than 1% at Liberty Hall. But the attack was an isolated episode. It occurred during the French and Indian War, when the Indians were on manoeuvers with the French. They all had guns, so none of the projectile points we’re finding are arrowheads. Actually, there’s no evidence that Indians inhabited this area at any time during the early migration of white settlers.”’ So things were generally tamer back then. ‘‘It looks that way—primitive, but tame.’’ And soon polite enough for china. The Liberty Hall excavation uncovered much more than china. On and around Mulberry Hill, the team found the sites of nine different structures associated with the Liberty Hall Academy, including the Rector’s and the Steward’s houses, a smoke house, stable, and an ice house. In most cases they worked without above-ground evidence, relying instead on surveys, test pits, and the sort of ground sense that archaeologists develop over time. During the winter months, McDaniel researched previous locations of *‘the institutions which evolved into Washington and Lee University,’’ following the little school through scrapbooks, minutes, and deeds back up the Valley to its earliest incarnation. The labor uncovered the hard Scotch-Irish names of W&L’s dimmest ancestry—Alexander, McNutt, and Graham—but, alas, no inkwells, buttons, or styluses. In a maddening coincidence, the construction of Interstate Highway 81 ripped through several of the old locations of the school. So it goes. Throughout his work, McDaniel relied on the work of his friend and mentor, James Leyburn, who had published a study of the region entitled The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Finally, Leyburn wrote a little introduction to McDaniel’s monograph, the historian bowing to his prize student just so: ‘meticulous archaeological research . . . has become a valuable part of the University’s program.’’ * * * McDaniel on historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists: *‘What holds us all together is that we are students of culture. We’re all trying to get at the elusive collection of ideas that people generated long ago wherever they lived. Archaeologists focus on material culture because sometimes that’s all there is. There are a lot of historical episodes that are not well understood, primarily because the people were not part of the documentary record.”’ With such concerns in mind, the federal and state governments have allocated funds to support archaeological research. In Virginia, the funds are administered by the Williamsburg Historical Preservation Center. Impressed by McDaniel and his work at Liberty Hall, the Center invited McDaniel to set up the Regional Preservation Office for Western Virginia. ‘‘Actually, we were quite flattered, since the commission came to us instead of to UVa. or VPI. Through our office now we do a lot of contract work. Whenever people find anything interesting, they contact us. Also, the federal government requires an archaeological survey before it approves funding for a project involving major excavation. Too bad that was not the case a few years ago during the construction of Interstate 81.’ The current archaeological projects at W2&L are in the ‘‘high hollows’’ of House Mountain. McDaniel pitches forward in his chair, rolling up his sleeves. ‘‘Again, we’re interested in the culture of these people— why they went there, when they got there, and why they left. Thus far, over 8,000 acres, we’ve found 76 historic sites, of which we’ve analyzed 14. ‘It’s really fascinating. Our research indicates that people began settling the region in the 1830’s and 40’s—much later than previously thought. We’re finding a tremendous influence on the iron mines, which were very productive in the region back in the first half of the nineteenth century. Many of the inhabitants were either farmers growing food for the miners or laborers who worked at Lucy Selina Forge or in the mines themselves. Some of these mountain people had incredible things— we’ve found evidence of huge parlor organs and such.’’ McDaniel laughs. ‘‘Now how did they get those things up there?’’ One question leads to another. *k ** * But one final question. 8,000 acres! How does John McDaniel come to know such enormous tracts of land? McDaniel brings to his avocation, turkey hunting, the same intensity and relentless thoroughness that characterizes his archaeology. He is celebrated by bird hunters everywhere as the consummate expert on *‘the king of gamebirds.’’ His text on the subject, The Turkey Hunter’ s Book (Amwell Press, 1980), is considered the bible of the sport. It is written in tight, muscular prose— as if McDaniel were in a crouch—and is so exhaustive in its research that it even includes tables on various shot loads measured for their efficiency by a chronograph. ‘“All you need to hunt successfully,’’ McDaniel writes (as if speaking to his spring seminar), “‘is a license, a modest amount of time, a modest collection of equipment, a large measure of determination, and a willingness to learn.’’ Then he elaborates on determination: It is nice to talk of how in May one can hunt turkeys in the morning and fish for trout in the afternoon; however, if you expect to kill your gobbler regularly in the spring you will fish very little. You must invest full days for success with spring gobblers. The season may end at | 1 a.m., but you have to scout in the afternoon and practice your calling in the evenings. In addition, the 2:30 a.m. alarm will dampen the enthusiasm with which one awaits the 3:30 p.m. hatch of mayflies. . . . If you kill grouse with your legs, you kill turkeys with your heart. Yes, as always, the heart is there, but one suspects that in McDaniel’s case the mind may be somewhat divided. Anywhere in the woods or in a clearing by a creek may be a faint knob of earth, a grassy swelling in the ground that suggests the decayed ruin of some former human habitation. One can imagine McDaniel coming upon such a place, squatting down in his digger’s posture, brushing back the leaves, delicately fingering through the webbed humus, and sifting a few loose granules of earth. Then, under a clod, poking a sharp edge up through the soil, bright in the sunlight again— **china, china, china!’’ by Jeffery G. Hanna Election ’ 82 Journalism Students Battle Deadlines, Technical Troubles to Produce an Election Simulcast Dave Ridlon (left) and Henry Langhorne prepare for the telecast. It is 7:50 p.m. Ten minutes to air time. The third floor of Reid Hall has already reached the state of chaos in which it will remain for the next four hours. Organized chaos, perhaps. But chaos all the same. Almost two hours have passed since the polls in Virginia closed on this election day. The returns are beginning to trickle in over the Associated Press teletypes in a corner of the journalism department’s newsroom. Elsewhere in the newsroom, a half dozen student reporters and writers are hunched Over typewriters, organizing their thoughts and their notes while keeping one eye and one ear on the two television sets tuned to national network reports of the day’s elections. Down the hall in the Cable Nine television control room senior Alan Armitage is trying to get a videotape of a previously recorded election analysis cued as the 30- minute election preview show winds down. The tape fails to produce an image on the monitor, and senior Dave Ridlon is temporarily left hanging in that nether world unique to television known as “‘technical difficulties.”’ Ridlon stares at his monitor and waits. Seconds pass. Still nothing. When the screen remains blank despite his hardest glares, Ridlon offers the foolproof explanation: ‘‘We seem to be experiencing some technical problems, but we’ll get to that report in a minute. Meanwhile... .’’ **Hang in there, Dave,’’ Armitage says as he fiddles with knobs and dials on the console in an attempt to get the balky tape cassette cued. Over in the WLUR-FM control room junior Mark Mitchow is asking someone at the other end of his headset, ‘‘What’s going on? Where are we going next?”’ Senior Chris Graham, the anchorman this evening, is checking the set one last time. As he exits the studio and heads back toward the newsroom, Graham asks over his shoulder: ‘“You’re not serious about that microphone, are you? Looks like Edward R. Murrow used it.” ‘“Who knows, Graham. Maybe it’ll make you sound like Murrow,”’’ a voice suggests from one of the rooms along the narrow hallway. On Tuesday, November 2, when most Americans settled down in front of their BE - television sets to watch the national networks report (and dissect) this off-year election, about 35 Washington and Lee students were gaining some invaluable experience by staging an election report of their own. ‘‘Election ’82’’ was broadcast simultaneously over Cable Nine, the University’s television station, and WLUR- FM, the campus radio station. The four-hour program, which included live audio reports from several locations in Lexington and from Richmond, was organized, produced, directed, reported, written, and researched entirely by the students. Members of the journalism department faculty were merely interested observers of the proceedings. **This,’’ said Robert J. de Maria, who teaches television production at W&L, ‘“‘is the kids’ show.”’ So it was. Steve Warren, a senior journalism major, was the executive producer of the ambitious effort. It was Warren who mapped the overall strategy, recruited and assigned the various reporters and writers, and even managed to scrape up $150 from several Lg e yg. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sih Districl rota & UNITED STATES SENATE -Virginia- Teta! RICHARD “DICK” DAVIS — gg OLN LER evn MAL PAUL TRIBLE, JR. ent FARISS precincts Reporting R08 Cable Nine’s graphics included mug shots of reporters Frank Jackman (above) and Greg Coy. Lexington businesses in order to have a telephone installed in Richmond’s John Marshall Hotel to provide live remotes from both the Democratic and Republican state headquarters. The game plan included an overall anchor desk manned by Graham. Ridlon reported on the senatorial campaigns, concentrating on the Virginia contest between Republican Paul Trible and Democrat Dick Davis. Senior Pryse Elam followed the national campaigns. Norma Anne Chattin, a senior exchange student from Randolph-Macon College, was assigned to the Virginia congressional races. Sophomore Bruce Potter and freshman Mike Allen shared the role of analyst in the studio. Out in the field, seniors Frank Jackman (Republicans) and Greg Coy (Democrats) filed telephone reports from Richmond. Junior Tori Richardson provided videotaped reports from Lexington’s Democratic headquarters. Junior Al Roberts and senior Art Bell phoned in results from the Rockbridge County Courthouse in Lexington. Senior Henry Langhorne was stationed in Buena Vista. And senior Bill France was in Amherst to provide results of rd the House of Delegates race that involved Lexington. It is 8:05 p.m. Graham is on the air now, giving a general rundown of the day’s results as they have been compiled thus far from the AP wire. A phone rings in the television control room. Richmond reporter Jackman is on the line. ‘*Heok flash extension 261!’’ shouts Warren. **I don’t know how to hook flash,”’ comes the response. Warren rolls his eyes and rushes to the phone. He puts Jackman on hold momentarily and writes a message to Graham that Jackman is waiting with a report. ‘*And now,’’ Graham tells the camera, ‘*we’re going to Richmond where Frank Jackman is standing by at Republican headquarters in the John Marshalt Hotel. Frank, are you there?’’ A pause. Breathing stops for a moment. Finally, Jackman’s voice comes booming through the monitors. Everyone breathes again. Frank is there. Not too many minutes later Graham will once again lift the telephone receiver on his Ridlon gets an update from Dave Hayslette (left) as cameraman Mel Cote awaits instructions. anchor desk and ask whether Coy, the other Richmond-based reporter, is there. Coy is not there. Technical problems, of course. ‘*We’re batting .500 on remotes,’’ says Warren. He is still smiling. Ronald MacDonald is the head of Washington and Lee’s journalism department. Before coming to W&L, MacDonald was the anchorman at WDBJ-TV in Roanoke for 13 years. He was anchoring frantic election night programs before most of the student-journalists at work in Reid Hall this night were born. The scene is a familiar one for MacDonald. ‘*In some ways, the production is very similar to the first election that I did in WDB3J in 1956,’’ MacDonald says, relighting his pipe and surveying the newsroom activity. ““We had pretty much the same kinds of problems then that the students are experiencing tonight, particularly because of technical limitations. ‘*We are not breaking any new ground in election coverage with the program that is being produced here tonight. But that isn’t the purpose anyway. It’s an extremely valuable learning experience. The kids on the 9 Hig Producer Warren talks with one of his reporters. air are feeling the same pressures any on-the- air reporters feel as they try to meet deadlines. And those who are clearing the wire and rewriting copy are learning quite a lot about the entire process. “More than anything, this gives them a chance to get their feet wet and see where it can go wrong.’’ It is 9:17 p.m. Things are going wrong. Someone in the television control room lets loose a string of undeleted expletives. It seems one of Cable Nine’s two cameras has chosen this moment to blow a transistor. ‘*Pan right, pan right, pan right, right, damn it,’’ Armitage yells into his headset as the cameraman with the operative camera moves into position to get Graham back on the screen. Eventually, after the viewers have been treated to a long, panoramic view of barren walls and empty sets, Graham appears again thanks to the one surviving camera. Tom Tinsley, ’75, director of technical services at W&L, enters the studio and takes a quick look at the failed equipment. Tinsley carts the camera out of the studio and into his 10 ‘ii Eric Fife rests a broken leg and edits a videotape report. workshop for some emergency surgery on the circuits. Meanwhile, the program continues with alterations necessary because of these new technical difficulties. The problem is painfully obvious when Graham finds himself staring at the lone camera and attempting to look nonchalant for long periods of time while the remote reporters file their audio stories. ‘‘T would imagine that this program sounded a lot better than it looked on TV,”’ Graham admits later that evening. ‘‘On radio you didn’t have to watch me just sitting there listening to the telephone reports. ‘“Things were hectic at the outset. The first half hour was rough. I could hear people yelling things outside the studio and didn’t know what was going on. But it got smoother. Steve Warren did a good job of keeping things moving, and the individual reporters filled in so that there were very few dead spots. We learned about teamwork, if nothing else.”’ Graham is no stranger to the cameras. In addition to his work at Cable Nine, he spent the spring term in 1982 as an intern with a television station in his hometown of Charlotte, N.C. ‘“Because of technical capabilities, it’s much different working on a program like this for Cable Nine and working on it for a big—I guess I should say ‘real’—station,”’ Graham says. ‘‘All the same, there is no substitute for being under those lights. ‘“Even if there were only three people out there watching tonight, there’s still pressure to get it right.’’ It is 10:05 p.m. The final returns from the local House of Delegates race have been tallied at the Courthouse several blocks away. Bell and Roberts report the outcome live via the telephone. In another room on the third floor, senior Eric Fife, his recently broken right leg propped on a chair, is feverishly editing a videotape delivered by courier from the Lexington Democratic headquarters where the Democratic candidate had told reporter Richardson that she was not ready to concede. Unfortunately, while the tape is on the editing machine, the final vote comes in Pryse Elam (left) sports Army fatigues and goes over details with Bruce Potter. and the candidate has lost. Oh for a live mini-cam! Oh for that No. 2 camera! ‘*Somebody needs to tell Tori that it’s pronounced ‘Car’s Creek,’ not ‘Kerr’s Creek’ the way it looks,’’ someone is telling Fife. ‘*This editing machine’s not working right,’’ says Fife. Warren appears in the doorway. The smile is still there. ‘“Take a deep breath and keep going,’’ Warren says. Deep breaths all around. On they go. Placed side by side as they were on the two television sets in the newsroom, the Cable Nine version of the election report looks and sounds terribly amateurish when compared with the network telecasts. A few unfamiliar words and names are given new and unusual pronunciations. Awkward pauses abound. And while the networks are displaying the returns with a galaxy of nifty computer-generated graphics. Cable Nine is showing hand-scrawled numbers on pre- printed posters. Comparison is not only unfair, it misses the point. ‘*The idea is to teach these kids how to do it,’’ says de Maria. ‘‘Sure, they may stumble. Sometimes it doesn’t look very pretty. But, hey, they’re learning. And what impresses me is that they’ve done this all on their own. ‘“Less than half the students involved in the election coverage are working because they’re going to be graded on the results. The rest are volunteers. They want to see what it’s all about.”’ It is 10:50 p.m. At the anchor desk, Graham is informed that Senator Paul Trible, a 1971 graduate of the W&L law school, is preparing to make a victory statement at the Richmond Republican headquarters. In Richmond, reporter Jackman has retreated from his station near the podium. ‘*A photographer who looked as if she meant business had just elbowed me in the face,’’ Jackman would explain the next day. ‘‘T thought I’d better move along.”’ Before moving along, Jackman had alertly tied into the podium microphone. Graham introduces Jackman who introduces Trible, and the Cable Nine-WLUR simulcast achieves its major coup—a live broadcast of Above, Tom Tinsley repairs a camera; below, the TV monitors are centers of attention in the newsroom. Trible’s speech. Only one of the commercial TV stations in the Roanoke market is live from Richmond at that moment. Never mind that the other station has a picture to go with the audio. You can’t have everything. One brief incident during the long, often- confusing, always exciting evening stands out and puts all the butchered pronunciations, all the bad camera angles, all the technical difficulties in perspective. Back in the journalism newsroom, one of the television sets, the color one, is tuned to NBC; the other set, the black and white, is on Cable Nine. The pictures are but a few feet apart. The black and white set is showing Cable Nine anchorman Chris Graham, W&L Class of ’83, sitting patiently behind his desk and listening to one of his reporters on the telephone. The color set is showing NBC co-anchor Roger Mudd, W&L Class of ’50, doing a live interview with Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy through that proverbial ‘‘magic of television.”’ Election °82. It is a beginning. 1] by Jeffery G. Hanna A Declaration of Independence Evan J. Kemp SJr., 59, Fights for The Rights of The Disabled WASHINGTON—When he was 12 years old, doctors told Evan J. Kemp Jr. that he was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the so-called ‘‘Lou Gehrig’s disease.’’ The doctors told Kemp at that point that he would die within the next two years. The doctors were wrong; Kemp did not die within two years. When he was 14, other doctors diagnosed the disease that was crippling Kemp as Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy. This time, Kemp was told that he would die during his late teens or, at best, his early 20s. Again, the doctors were wrong. This past May, Evan Kemp celebrated another birthday, his 45th. He is still alive and well and living a productive life. The emphasis here is on that adjective ‘‘productive.’’ Few lives are any more productive than Evan Kemp’s has been and is today. Maybe that has something to do with those dire predictions of an imminent death made by his doctors 33 years ago. Kemp has often wondered how being told that he had only two years to live actually altered or influenced the way he has lived his life. ‘‘T don’t ever have the feeling that being told I would die in two years affected me,’’ Kemp says, reflecting on that moment of his life. *‘But I do think that subconsciously it did affect me quite a bit. I think that it has been to the good in a lot of respects. ‘‘One of the problems our society has today is people expect to live to be 70 or 80 years old. So they are not willing to take chances, to do the things they really want, to live each day to the fullest. I think that is a problem.”’ It is a problem Evan Kemp, Class of 59, has solved. * * * The Disability Rights Center is located on the | 1th floor of a Connecticut Avenue office building in Washington. The floor is filled with offices manned by various groups with special interests. Next door is the headquarters for the Association for Women in Science. Across the hall are five suites occupied by the National Football League Players’ Association. The walls of the two rooms that comprise the Disability Rights Center are covered with posters, all of which leave little doubt what this place is about. One poster, the one above Evan Kemp’s desk pictures Franklin D. Roosevelt in a wheelchair. The legend beneath reads: ‘‘People who didn’t know FDR called him a cripple. People who knew him called him Mr. President.’’ In the outer reception area, a meeting is in progress. Voices filter into the inner office, Kemp’s office, and blend with the sounds of traffic from the busy street |1 floors below. Then Kemp begins to speak. Suddenly, all the extraneous noise disappears as he starts telling his story in a voice that is soft and deep and resonant. After a moment, Kemp excuses himself to fetch a glass of water. The motor from his wheelchair whirs; the chair’s rubber wheels squeak on the tile floor as he moves to a nearby sink and back again. There is something about a wheelchair, something about a person whose ability to move through this world is inextricably bound to such a device, that tends to make those of us who take walking for granted feel uncomfortable, ill at ease, self-conscious. 12 Kemp readily recognizes such feelings in others. He understands. ‘‘T have been in a wheelchair for 10 years now,”’ he explains. ‘‘Before I began using a wheelchair, I was deceptively weak. Then I broke my leg, smashed the tibia and fibula. I had depended on balance. The broken leg made that impossible. ‘‘People feel self-conscious when they meet someone in a wheelchair because for about 80 years disabled people were segregated in our society. We were kept at home. We went to special schools. A lot of people never saw a disabled person.”’ That is changing. Kemp points to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 as the key to that change. ‘*Children now go to school with disabled kids and are exposed to people with a whole range of disabilities at an early age,’” Kemp notes. “‘If you do that, the attitudinal problems drop out of sight rather quickly.”’ Attitudinal problems. Evan Kemp knows all about attitudinal problems. * * * The disease which has left Evan Kemp disabled was finally diagnosed correctly as Kugelberg-Welander syndrome. It is quite rare and quite similar to polio. The difference, says Kemp, is that while polio does its damage in a short span of time, a month or two, Kugelberg-Welander syndrome does the same damage over a space of three years or more. When he entered Washington and Lee in the fall of 1955, Kemp had begun using a cane. ‘Until the wheelchair, the cane was the only device I had used. But I found the cane clumsy because I used both hands for balance. I used the cane during rush week at W&L and for about a month afterwards. Then I threw it out,’’ he says. “Washington and Lee was very good about making accommodations that I needed, such things as a room on the first floor in the freshman dorm and permitting me to have a car my freshman year when that was not permitted all students. Princeton, where I was also accepted, did not seem as willing to make those accommodations, so I went to W&L.’’ At Washington and Lee, Kemp majored in history and was a member of the Executive Committee and house manager for his fraternity, Sigma Chi. After graduation, he spent two years selling mutual funds in Europe, fulfilling his ambition to travel abroad. He returned to Virginia in 1961 and entered law school at the University of Virginia. After two years at UVa, Kemp ranked at the top of his class and started looking for a job. It was then, without warning, that he encountered what he still considers the most dramatic moment of his life. ‘‘T had 39 job interviews and received 39 rejections. It was devastating,’’ says Kemp. ‘‘I honestly thought I would have my pick of jobs. I remembered the saying ‘Hire the Handicapped; It’s Good Business’ that was prevalent then and I merely assumed that my good grades and the extra plus that I was handicapped would assure me of a good job. But it didn’t.”’ What he did gain from that encounter with discrimination in the job market was an abiding interest in the rights of disabled people. Unsuccessful in his attempts to get a job with a private law firm, Kemp eventually went to work with the government, joining the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service. In 1967, he joined the Security and Exchange Commission, where he spent 13 years and won several awards for his work. While with the S.E.C., Kemp provided the Justice Department with information that won an anti-trust case against the largest wheelchair manufacturer in the world. He also won an employment rights lawsuit against the federal government that helped in the passage of the Part-time Career Employment Act of 1979. Two years ago, Kemp read Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave, a book that describes future society. He was fascinated to discover that the society Toffler was predicting ‘‘was the society that we in the disability rights movement have been advocating for the last 10 or 15 years. ‘‘It always amazed me that the disability rights movement had the laws before it had the movement. And we had the movement before we had the leadership. It was the reverse of all other movements. After reading Toffler, I decided that I would like to get involved with the movement full-time. ”’ So he left his position with the S.E.C. and became director of the Disability Rights Center, an advocacy group founded in 1976 by Ralph Nader. The move was a natural one. After all, Kemp had long before gained the reputation as one of the most forceful and eloquent ‘The idea that you can control people’ s lives— that’ s what I mean by paternalism, that’s what [fight against. . . . This is the biggest hurdle we must overcome.’ advocates for the rights of disabled people. The new position turned what had been an avocation into a full-time vocation. ‘It is important that we in this movement try to find a consensus and approach problems with that consensus in mind. There is a story that we haven’t gotten across for a variety of reasons. And it is a very important story.”’ * * * The disability rights movement is not, Kemp says emphatically, a civil rights movement. It is something more. First, you must understand Kemp’s rather unorthodox definition of a disabled person. ‘‘Anyone who is not 28 years old, 5-foot-10, 160 pounds, male, WASP, no physical or mental impairments—that is a disabled person,’’ says Kemp, squinting into the mid-morning sun that is peeking through the clouds and into one of the office windows. ‘‘Qur society has created this mythical perfect American, this 28-year-old, and we have ordered society to fit that myth.”’ 14 To support his argument, Kemp points to such things as health care and transportation and the Social Security system and education. Health care, he argues, is far too cure-oriented, aimed primarily at that mythical 28-year-old. ‘‘Sprain your ankle playing tennis and western medicine in this country is great,’’ he says. ‘‘With chronic health problems, our system breaks down.”’ He refers to this country’s public transportation system, noting that the two biggest steps in any public facility are the two steps getting onto a bus and suggesting that while the 28-year-old, the mythical American, can handle those steps with ease, ‘‘What about the rest of us?’’ (A footnote: Kemp has personally solved at least part of the public transportation problem in Washington. He does not rely on public transportation to get to and from work since he and his wife, Jane, live in a Georgetown apartment that is nine minutes, by wheelchair, from his office.) The education system, Kemp says, has historically produced workers for assembly line industries. Disabled people did not fit into that system because “‘to make an assembly line workable for me or for a blind person simply cost too much money.’’ The Social Security system has perpetuated the myth of the ideal American by suggesting people could not work productively past the age of 65. ‘“We have to get away from this mythical ideal American and realize that a person can work until he is 70 or 75, can work productively,’’ Kemp says. ‘‘Maybe a person at 65 can cut back from 40 to 30 hours a week. We have to be more flexible. ‘“As our population continues to age because of medical advances, more and more of us are deviating from that mythical model. In the next 50 years, the age group over 65 will grow 20 times faster than the 18 to 65-year-old age group. Roughly a quarter of our elderly are disabled in some way or another.’ The disability rights movement has persistently been pressing for adjustments and modification of technology and institutions in order to make them work for all Americans, not just that mythical 28-year-old ideal American. ‘Opening society will improve the quality of life not only for the disabled,’’ Kemp argues. “‘It will benefit all people.”’ * * * Paternalism. When Evan Kemp uses the word, it shrinks to four letters. A nasty word in his vocabulary. A word that symbolizes the worst the disabled rights movement must battle. There is, he explains, a significant difference between helping the disabled through interdependence and attempting to control the lives of the disabled by keeping them dependent rather than permitting them to become independent. Kemp has never allowed himself to be dependent. He has not permitted his disability to become a barrier to seizing control of his life. And he has fought—and continues to fight—against those attempts, well-meaning though they may seem, to keep disabled people dependent. ‘‘The idea that you can control people’s lives—that’s what I mean by paternalism, that’s what I fight against,’’ Kemp says. ‘‘There is a paternalistic attitude that the Jerry Lewis Telethon and Democrats and social do-gooders have fostered. This is the biggest hurdle we must overcome. ‘The Democrats have passed the laws that have been significant for disabled Americans, but I think the Republicans are the ones who will write the legislation and really integrate disabled people into society. The Reagan administration is the first that has met with disabled people and discussed the issues in depth. I know it seems a strange alignment—disabled people and Reagan Republicans—but there are striking philosophical similarities: both have accused big government of stiffling individual initiative, both advocate that only the truly needy receive welfare while others have ed) tt og te year he was involved in an Bruce Damark, ’83, makes use of the wheelchair ramp that was added to Graham-Lees dormitory during the remodeling of the facility last year. automobile accident and suffered injuries that have confined him to a wheelchair. ‘Since I knew the campus and was aware of the barriers that did exist to someone in a wheelchair, I thought the people at the University might suggest that I apply elsewhere. I would have understood their position,’’ Damark says. ‘‘But they told me that wouldn’t be necessary, that they would do everything they could to accommodate me.’’ Damark is the first student to attend Washington and Lee while in a wheelchair. His presence on the campus has been a learning experience for everyone. | ‘“We are learning from Bruce’s experiences what we must do to make our campus as accessible as possible,’’ says Frank A. Parsons, who has been involved in the architectural plans concerned with making accommodations. According to Parsons, the University has worked with its landscape and building architects in the preparation of a 10-year plan designed to make the campus as free of barriers as possible. Part of that plan is reflected in the newest campus buildings— the University Library, Lewis Hall, and the Warner Center, for instance—which have been made accessible through the architectural design. In some instances, that design involves the incorporation of a wheelchair ramp—the primary example is the Commerce School Building. Ramps for wheelchairs have been added to existing buildings such as duPont Hall and Evans Dining Hall. When the Graham-Lees freshman dormitory was remodeled in 1981, a section was created for disabled students and is accessible by a ramp leading from the courtyard. Several rooms in the section are specially designed for students in wheelchairs. The rooms have appropriate bath facilities as well. 16 Charles Mason Photograph A circular ramp was built onto the rear of the Commerce School Building (formerly McCormick Library) when that building was renovated. That is not to suggest that Damark’s return to W&L has been totally devoid of problems. The buildings along the University’s historic Colonnade are not accessible, or at least limited in their accessibility. ‘I am a psychology major, which means that many of my classes are in Tucker Hall,’’ Damark explains. ‘‘And since some of those classes are laboratories which would not be practical to move, I have to get a lift up the stairs from fellow students. That is the biggest inconvenience I face. You learn to work around those kinds of problems when they do exist. ‘By and large, the people have been accommodating. Professors will, for instance, agree to come down the stairs in Tucker for a conference with me when I ask them to.”’ Damark has found the new dormitory facilities in Graham-Lees to be accommodating, too. ‘“The ramp into Graham-Lees has been done quite well. And my room there is basically designed well. There are a few very minor things in my room that were done in such a manner that I know the architects were not in wheelchairs, but they are things only someone in a wheelchair would notice,’’ adds Damark, reflecting Evan Kemp’s sentiments that the only proper way to design a wheelchair, for instance, is to have it designed by someone in a wheelchair. Although Bruce Damark is the most obvious example, he is not the only student at Washington and Lee who suffers from a disability. Two students are legally blind while a third suffers a hearing disability. In all three cases, accommodations have been made, ranging from providing a note-taker for the student with a hearing disability, to permitting students with sight disabilities to register early for classes in order to have their textbooks ordered in braille or on recordings. & Gazette Reeves Center Gallery named for Mrs. Gottwald Washington and Lee has formally dedicated the gallery area of its new Reeves Center in honor of Elisabeth Shelton Gottwald of Richmond, Va. The Gottwald Gallery provides a permanent location for the display of Washington and Lee’s collection of paintings and watercolors by turn-of-the-century artist Louise Herreshoff Reeves. The Reeves Center for Research and Exhibition of Porcelain and Paintings opened in September. In addition to the Herreshoff Collection of Paintings, the Center houses the University’s Reeves Collection of 18th- and early 19th-century ceramics and will be used by Washington and Lee students for independent study and research. In naming the gallery area in honor of Mrs. Gottwald, the University is acknowledging the steadfast support of Mrs. Gottwald and her husband, Floyd D. Gottwald Jr., in the project through which an 1840s residence on the W&L campus was restored to become the Reeves Center. ‘*We are deeply indebted to the Gottwalds for their generosity and their support of the Reeves Center,’’ said James W. Whitehead, secretary of the University and director of the Reeves Center. *‘Both Mr. and Mrs. Gottwald have, for some time, been keenly interested in both the Reeves porcelain collection and the Herreshoff paintings and have been concerned that proper housing be provided for both collections. Naming the gallery in honor of Mrs. Gottwald is one small token of the University’s appreciation.’ Mr. Gottwald is chairman and chief executive officer of Ethyl Corporation, a Richmond-based chemical manufacturing company. The Reeves Center is located at one end of the historic Colonnade at Washington and Lee. The Center is named in honor of the late Mr. and Mrs. Euchlin D. Reeves, who gave the University their collection of more than 2,000 items of ceramics in 1967. The Reeves’ gift included the paintings done by Mrs. Reeves, who signed her early works with her maiden name, Louise Herreshoff. Members of Southern Comfort serenade Mrs. Elisabeth Shelton Gottwald during ceremonies to dedicate the Reeves Center’ s gallery area in her honor. The paintings of Louise Herreshoff are on permanent display in the Gottwald Gallery. W&L wins Dana award for annual giving success The Charles A. Dana Foundation has awarded Washington and Lee $83,500 under the foundation’s Alumni Annual Giving Challenge Grant program. Washington and Lee was one of five institutions throughout the country which were awarded such challenge grants from the Dana Foundation for the 1981-82 academic year. The University qualified for the $83,500 grant by increasing its annual giving in four different categories—total gifts, the size of the average gift, gifts from new givers, and the percentage of alumni participation. The 1981-82 annual fund at Washington and Lee exceeded its $1,250,000 goal in achieving a total of $1,279,983, establishing a new high in total giving. The fund posted a 9.3% increase over the 1980-81 effort. ‘“We are quite proud of the success of our annual fund campaign and deeply appreciate the Dana Foundation’s challenge grant, which made an extremely successful annual fund even more successful,’’ said Washington and Lee President Robert E. R. Huntley. The Dana Foundation is a private foundation chartered in 1950. The foundation has long been concerned with the broad fields of health and higher education, thereby reflecting the interests and concerns of the founders, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Dana. Through a program of grants in higher education, the foundation seeks to assist private institutions of recognized quality in strengthening their independence and their educational capacity. This is the second major grant that Washington and Lee has received from the Dana Foundation. The first, in 1969, was for $250,000 and was designated for use in the renovation project that resulted in a new home for the School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics—the Commerce School Building—in what was formerly the undergraduate library building. Because the 1969 gift was such an important element in the accomplishment of that project, the largest teaching area in the Commerce School Building has been named the Charles A. Dana Lecture Room. ‘*Everyone connected with Washington and Lee University should be grateful for the support the University has received from the Dana Foundation,’’ said William Ford of Atlanta, the chairman of the 1981-82 annual 17 ee Gazette fund. ‘‘The Dana Foundation’s challenge grant was an important component throughout the annual fund campaign, and we are indeed fortunate to have received the grant.’”’ International House established at W&L Washington and Lee has established an International House on its campus this year. Located directly across from the main campus at 218 West Washington Street in Lexington, the International House is designed as a residence for both foreign and American students at W&L and is also Closely aligned with the activities of the University’s International Club. ‘‘Our long-range goal is to create a truly international community,’’ explained Seng Kah (Henry) Baey, a senior from the Republic of Singapore. Baey has been a guiding force behind the International House concept, first approaching the University administration with the idea two years ago. ‘*Professor (Minor) Rogers (associate professor of religion) had mentioned the idea of an International House,’’ said Baey. ‘‘The idea struck me as one that could be extremely good for us to try.”’ Baey is one of five W&L students—two of whom are from foreign countries—who are residing at the International House this year. ‘*T think it is particularly important to emphasize that the idea is not to segregate foreign students from the rest of the University community. It is quite the opposite,’’ said Baey. ‘‘The foreign students who have come to Washington and Lee, many of them as part of exchange programs, are most interested in becoming active in all phases of the University’s life.’’ But Baey hopes that the International House will eventually become a place where students, faculty, and members of the Lexington community will gather to learn about and discuss different cultures. ‘*We had been hopeful that we could arrange a building that would accommodate about a dozen or so residents instead of the five we have this year,’’ Baey said. ‘But that may be possible in the future. ‘*Even so, the International House will provide a location for the members of the International Club to meet informally and to hold our gatherings. ‘“The presence of International House 18 International House residents are (seated, from left) Henry Baey and Dan Murphy; (standing, from left) Luke Chang, Jeff Knapp, and Gunnar Jordan. ought to be a positive force for the club. Our goal in the International Club is to provide educational programs that help promote better understanding of foreign cultures. These will take a variety of forms, from social gatherings to speaker forums.”’ Among the programs that the International Club at W&L is planning is a series of special international nights that will be devoted to a particular part of the world. ‘*We have talked of having a European night and an Asian night at the International House,”’ said Baey. ‘“‘We would have food from that area of the world and discussions or demonstrations representing some aspect of the culture. ‘*We also plan to create a speakers’ bureau through which the exchange and foreign students at W&L would make themselves available to area schools and civic groups to discuss their respective countries and cultures. We have already had a talk featuring a foreign diplomat. We will also bring some cultural groups to the campus and will have our second International Day.’’ For the 1982-83 academic year, Washington and Lee has 11 students enrolled from 11 different foreign countries. The students represent Japan, the People’s Republic of China, Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands, the Republic of Panama, Ghana, Hong Kong, Great Britain, the Republic of Singapore, and Pakistan. Peter Cronin Photograph H. Robert Huntley, associate dean of students at Washington and Lee and adviser to the International Club, said the establishment of International House represents an important element in the University’s continuing efforts to create a heterogeneity in the student body. ‘*T think one could argue that the active recruitment and presence of foreign students at Washington and Lee is a natural extension of General Lee’s concern that this be a place where young men of different geographical backgrounds and ideologies could study together in harmony and unity,’’ said Huntley. ‘‘If this made good sense for the last half of the 19th century, it makes at least as much sense for the world of the 20th century.’’ 31 in ‘*‘Who’s Who’’ Thirty-one Washington and Lee University students—23 undergraduate seniors and eight third-year law students— have been included in the 1983 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Students are elected to ‘‘Who’s Who’’ by a committee of the University’s student government. Selection is based on academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities, and potential for the future. The Washington and Lee seniors elected this year are James E. Averett of Atlanta, Ga.; James L. Baldwin of Dallas, Texas; Peter A. Baumgaertner of Syosset, N.Y.; Scott Bond of Wheeling, W.Va.; C. DeWitt Caruthers of Shreveport, La.; Steven D. Corbeille of Warrenton, Va.; Michael D. Drinkwater of Dallas, Texas; D. Mason Ellerbe of Latta, S.C.; Frank L. Eppes of Greenville, S.C.; James H. Falk Jr. of Great Falls, Va.; Harry A. Feuerstein of Smithtown, N.Y.; Stephen P. Geary of New Orleans, La.; Newton P. Kendrick of Norfolk, Va.; F. Eric Nelson Jr. of Charleston, W.Va.; David P. Ridlon of West. Hartford, Conn.; Bennett L. Ross of Huntington, W.Va.; Christopher D. Schram of Peru, Ind.; Jackson R. Sharman III of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Todd C. Smith of Tallahassee, Fla.; Christopher S. Stokes of Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; John C. Vlahoplus of Columbia, S.C.; H. Bowen Woodruff of Anniston, Ala.; and, Anthony J. Zaccagnini of Reisterstown, Md. The third-year W&L law students elected are: Michael J. Bommarito of Oxford, Mich.; Gaines H. Cleveland of Gulfport, Miss.; Deborah H. Combs of Princeton, W.Va.; David K. Friedfeld of Merrick, N.Y.; Howard M. Griffith of Salem, Va.; Terry J. McKenney of East Lansing, Mich.; Pamela L. Ryan of Groton, N.Y.; and Howard T. Wall III of Nashville, Tenn. Clarke is honored by Order of the Coif Charles F. Clarke of Cleveland, Ohio, 38, was awarded honorary membership in the Order of the Coif during the annual meeting of the Washington and Lee Law Council in Lexington earlier this month. The Order of the Coif is a national law school honor society which was founded to encourage legal scholarship and to advance the ethical standards of the legal profession. Washington and Lee President Robert E. R. Huntley made the presentation to Clarke, who is associated with the Cleveland law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. A former president of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, Clarke recently returned from a trip to the People’s Republic of China, where he joined approximately 20 other attorneys with special experience in railroad law. Clarke, who received his law degree from the Univeristy of Michigan, has a particularly diverse trial practice, which has ranged from corporate litigation to criminal law. He is chairman and president of the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland. He was awarded an honorary degree from Cleveland State University in 1977 and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Clarke’s award was made at a dinner attended by members of the W&L Law Council. Minority Cultural Center dedicated in October Washington and Lee’s new Minority Cultural Center was dedicated in ceremonies in October. Located at 10 Lee Avenue, the Minority Cultural Center is a residence for five Washington and Lee undergraduate students but also has office space for both the Student Association for Black Unity and the Black American Law Students Association. The Rev. Hoffman Fisher Brown III, ’77, was featured speaker for the dedication ceremonies. Charles F. Clarke According to John L. White, director of minority affairs at W&L, the Minority Cultural Center will serve a variety of purposes at the University. ‘*The Center’s primary purpose will be to help promote a sense of community among the minority students,’’ White said. ‘*There are a variety of ways in which we hope to accomplish this. ‘*One element that tends to set our center apart from similar facilities at other campuses is the residential aspect. I think this will help Jo to create the kind of community atmosphere that we hope to generate with the Center.’’ White noted that the Center will provide a location for organizations such as SABU and BALSA to hold gatherings both of an educational and social nature. ‘*We are planning to have art shows, small concerts, informal sessions with members of the faculty and administration, and mini-conferences with students from other schools,’’ White said. ‘‘The Center can have a very positive influence on academic life, too, in that we will schedule study groups during the week.”’ In addition to the dedication ceremonies and accompanying reception, the Minority Cultural Center has been used for a reception for parents during Washington and Lee’s recent Parents’ Weekend. White emphasized that the Center is governed entirely by students and added that ‘‘the goal is certainly not to emulate the fraternity system but primarily to provide minority students with certain opportunities, social and otherwise, that they might not have under other circumstances.”’ But, he added, ‘‘the Center is not in any way an attempt to remove the minority students from the mainstream of campus life. In fact, the idea is to provide opportunities through which the students can promote better understanding with the entire University community by having certain events, both formal and informal, that will be interesting and valuable to all students, not any one segment of students.’’ The Center is located in what was Ps , 77, at Minority Cultural Center dedication 19 a) a a phil 7 es with © We are \ “results of STU, oe entirely by students. The union began mailing letters. to the the long run, a successful union n helps — everyone, the students and the Lexington been heard on Saturday nights ever since. During the earliest days of ‘‘The Anti- Headache Machine,’’ the program featured a variety of music along with some discussion and news. By 1975, all announcements except for the mandatory station and program identifications had been eliminated in favor of four solid hours of music. The program’s producer is Doug Harwood, ’74, who originated ‘‘The Anti- Headache Machine’’ during his junior year and continued producing it following his graduation. According to Harwood, the program’s primary objective is entertainment, but ‘‘I hope it helps show that all music, no matter when or where it is made, has some common threads.”’ To that end, ‘‘The Anti-Headache Machine”’ offers a variety of music that often defies description. For instance, one recent show included music from the Beatles, J.S. Bach, an Albanian bagpiper, Duke Ellington, Hank Williams, and former Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand. Dr. Shannon lectures Dr. Edgar F. Shannon Jr., ’39, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, delivered the first Shannon-Clark Lecture at Washington and Lee in October. Shannon spoke on ‘‘ ‘The Thews of Anakim’: Postulations of the Superhuman in Tennyson’s Poetry.”’ An internationally recognized authority on Tennyson, Shannon is the author of Tennyson and the Reviewers as well as a number of important articles on the great Victorian poet, and is co-editor of The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dr. Shannon inaugurated the Shannon- Clark Lectures in English, established by an anonymous gift to support an annual lecture in English or American literature by a distinguished visiting scholar. The series honors the memories of Dr. Shannon’s father, chairman of the Washington and Lee English department from 1914 until 1938, and Harriet Mabel Fishburn Clark, grandmother of the donor. Campus speakers —Robert Craig, professor of architectural history at Georgia Tech, examined the relationship between art and technology as reflected in the history of architecture when he delivered a lecture at W&L in October. Craig’s lecture was entitled ‘‘From Ruskin to Wright: Architecture and the Two Cultures. ”’ —Dr. Ruben Raimey, head of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, presented a lecture entitled *‘Frederick Law Olmstead: The American Tradition in Landscape Architecture’’ in October. —Gordon Tullock, University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and founder of the Center for Study of Public Choice, argued for a drastic simplification of Dr. Edgar F. Shannon Jr., ’39, greets students following his lecture in October. the law and of the decision-making process in the courts during a colloquium on ‘‘Objectives of the Law’’ at Washington and Lee University’s Frances Lewis Law Center in October. The colloquium was the latest in a series designed to stimulate scholarship in changing areas of the law and to enhance the intellectual climate at the Washington and Lee School of Law. According to Frederic L. Kirgis Jr., director of the Lewis Law Center, the center commissions a paper by a leading scholar and invites that scholar to present and defend the paper in a two-day colloquium at the Law Center. Other experts in the field under discussion are invited to participate along with members of the W&L faculty. The presenting scholar is then asked to rethink the paper in light of the discussions, explained Kirgis, and then to publish the revised paper. The colloquia have resulted in three scholarly articles for the Washington and Lee Law Review. Tullock’s primary thesis was that the law’s objective is to control people’s behavior. He argued that it cannot do so if people do not know or understand what the law is. He further argued that the law has become so complex that people generally cannot know what it is. Moreover, he said that legal procedure is so cumbersome and time consuming that it wastes valuable resources when a lawsuit is brought. Discussants from outside Washington and Lee, in addition to Tullock, were Professor James E. Krier of the UCLA School of Law, Professor Keith S. Rosenn of the University of Miami School of Law, and Timothy J. Muris, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. In the arts —An exhibition of sculpture by Rubin Peacock was on display in the duPont Gallery in October. A native of Winston- Salem, N.C., Peacock is one of only a very few artists who are producing large-scale bronze sculptures. Peacock currently maintains studio facilities both in Richmond and in Aylett, Va., where his foundry is located. —An exhibition of prints and paintings by Richmond artist Ann Chenoweth went on display in the duPont Gallery on November |. Chenoweth is currently a gallery assistant for the Institute of Contemporary Art at the 21 is 5 Maximillian? Perspectives 0 on of art history, | an De in fine arts, gave p od history professor was a guest lecturer at ‘the Vigie Mere ur of Fine Arts in. The 3 colloguim nmi by the ind during the b= politica ems era. His | lecture was in conjunction with the Virginia n Medievalism: The Architecture of lite Era.’’ It was p i . Museum’s exhibition on pre-Raphaelites. —wWashington and Lee law professor Andrew W. McThenia Jr. served as reporter- draftsman of the Model Health Care Consent Act that the Uniform Law Commissioners (ULC) completed during its 1982 annual meeting. McThenia was one of six members of the committee that drafted the act. The ULC is a confederation of state commissions on uniform laws. The 300 practicing lawyers, judges, and law professors who are ULC members are selected by each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. They draft and urge adoption of legislative proposals designed to solve problems common to all states. In the instance of the Model Health Care Consent Act, the proposal focuses on who can consent to health care and attempts to ‘“provide guidance for those involved daily with the problem of how medical decisions are to be made for an individual who cannot do so for himself.’’ —Leonard E. Jarrard and David G. Elmes, professors of psychology, are the authors of an article published in the October issue of the Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. The article resulted from a two and a half year research project concerned with the psychological and physiological processes underlying the memory of food locations in laboratory rats. In their article, Jarrard and Elmes report that the hippocampus, a small neural cluster in the brain, is partly responsible for the accurate retrieval of past experience. Contrary to the results of earlier research, Jarrard and Elmes found convincing evidence for the disruptive effects of providing new food locations on the retention of previously learned food sites. The research project was supported, in part, by funds granted to Jarrard by the National Science Foundation. NBC’s John Dancy criticizes ‘Star Concept’ NBC News Correspondent John Dancy says that the ‘‘necessity to make stars of reporters is one of the greatest evils that we face in journalism today.’”’ Dancy, who covers the U.S. Senate for NBC News, made his observations during a lecture at Washington and Lee in November. The lecture was part of Washington and NBC News correspondent John Dancy (center) presented the keynote lecture and also participated in workshops for the Ninth Annual Journalism Ethics Institute in November. Lee’s ninth annual Journalism Ethics Institute, a three-day seminar in which practicing journalists, undergraduate journalism students, and W&L faculty members examined ethical issues facing journalists today. Dancy replaced NBC correspondent Douglas Kiker, who had been scheduled to present the lecture but was unable to appear because of a conflicting assignment. Noting that the national television networks tend to use their White House correspondents “‘to make them stars,’’ Dancy observed that the ‘‘star concept’’ is a relatively new, but extremely dangerous, phenomenon in journalism. ‘‘The idea of the journalist as the ink- Stained wretch whose name only rarely got in the papers is still persistent,’’ Dancy said. ‘But it has changed in the last 10 years as the networks and the newspapers have found it necessary to create stars of their reporters, to have a name who is known, someone whose telephone calls are returned. ‘It was, after all, the necessity to be a star that gave the Washington Post ‘Jimmy’s World,’ a story that won a Pulitzer Prize and then turned out to be an absolute fabrication,’ said Dancy, referring to the controversial Post story in which a reporter wrote of an eight-year-old drug addict who, it was later discovered, did not really exist. ‘“The reporter [who wrote ‘‘Jimmy’s World’’] wanted very much to be a star. There was great pressure on her at the Washington Post to be a star, just as there is that pressure at the networks.’’ Dancy further observed that such a ‘‘star system’’ has resulted in television reporters negotiating contracts that ensure their star Status. ‘“We have contracts being signed by network correspondents that grant the correspondents a certain number of appearances during the week, whether the reporter has a story or not. There are contracts being signed that specify certain types of stories that correspondents will not have to cover. ‘‘That is ridiculous. It prevents you from covering the real story. As far as I can tell, it prepares you for nothing more than covering cocktail parties in Georgetown. . . . But it is part of a system that treats news as a product to be marketed.’”’ Referring to the Washington press corps of which he is a member, Dancy noted that ‘‘to a large extent the way people see the President and the government and the job that they’re doing is through the news media. Mostly it is through television news because surveys show that two of three people get the majority of their news from television. ‘“How are we doing the job that everyone is expecting us to do? The answer is that we are not always doing as well as we should be. Our successes by and large are quiet ones. Our failues are rather spectacular.’’ The problem, added Dancy, is that in Washington ‘‘the competitive juices don’t flow when they should. We don’t do all in our power to cover a Story.”’ 23 State Trooper Jerry Hines administers the new Breathalyzer to Danny Murphy, assistant dean of students, during a demonstration of the new machine. At right is third-year law student Pat Davison, another participant in the demonstration. A Unique Gift Breathalyzer to Help Alcohol Awareness Program 24 Gifts from alumni to their alma maters wind up taking a variety of forms. Some gifts are used to build new buildings. Some are used to endow chairs for professors. Some are used to establish scholarships for deserving students. A recent gift to Washington and Lee from Andrew H. Baur, ’37, of St. Louis, is being used in an unusual, if not unique, fashion. Baur’s gift has been used to purchase a Breathalyzer, the testing instrument used by law enforcement officials to determine a quantitative analysis of blood alcohol concentration. According to H. Robert Huntley, associate dean of students at W&L, the University elected to buy a Breathalyzer as part of its overall efforts to make students more knowledgeable about alcohol use and abuse. “While Mr. Baur did not specify that his gift be used in this manner, he was particularly pleased to learn that it has been,’’ Huntley said. The first use for the Breathalyzer came during Alcohol Awareness Week in November when a member of the Virginia State Police demonstrated the use of the Breathalyzer for students from Washington and Lee, Virginia Military Institute, and the Lexington community. ‘*Although our plans for the Breathalyzer are still taking shape, I would guess that eventually it will be used much of the time in the Cockpit,’’ Huntley said, referring to a tavern in the University’s student union that serves beer. ‘‘We also hope to make it available for fraternities to use if they are interested. ‘*Although using the Breathalyzer will be entirely voluntary, we would hope that someone who has been drinking would decide to be tested, if only to become more aware of how many drinks it actually takes to reach the level of .10 blood alcohol that qualifies as driving under the influence.’”’ Huntley said members of the Executive Committee will be taught how to operate the testing device. ‘*That way we will always have on our campus a student who is trained to use the Breathalyzer,’’ Huntley said. While admitting that there is liable to be ‘*a certain amount of silliness’’ associated with the Breathalyzer’s use at first, Huntley said he is primarily concerned with increasing the students’ awareness of dangers associated with alcohol abuse. ‘Thanks to Mr. Baur’s gift, we have been able to acquire what is a rather expensive (about $1,200) item,’’ said Huntley. *‘But if the Breathalyzer makes just one of our students—or one student just visiting our campus—decide not to climb into his car when he would put himself and others at risk, then it will be well worth the price.”’ Real men may not eat quiche. But liver is the big loser when it comes to today’s college students. That, at least, is the consensus of the more than 100 independent college food service directors who met at Washington and Lee University in November. And who should know the eating habits of college students better than the food service directors who hear the complaints and have to be creative with the leftovers? Washington and Lee was the host for a three-day regional meeting of the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS). The participants represented colleges and universities from the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Asked to name the favorite and least favorite entrees of their students, the food service directors overwhelmingly listed liver (with or without onions) as the least favorite. Some other entrees that fail to tickle the palates of the college diners, according to the survey at least, are ham and potato au gratin, beef stew, cooked yellow squash, lamb, veal, baked fish, meat loaf, stir fried broccoli with tofu, and “‘garbage burger’’—the recipe LE Chef Charles Dunn p epares the whole smoked salmon Hold The Liver, Please!!! for which is among the most closely guarded secrets at Davidson College. The favorites? Roast beef placed slightly ahead of chicken (mostly fried) as the top choice. Steak, hamburgers, and pizza were next on the list of favorites followed, in no particular order, by sloppy joes, steamed shrimp, submarine sandwiches, lasagna, and turkey. Regionalism was evident in some of the for the Election ’82 dinner. Cook Billy Payne (left) and food service production manager Don Burch with the roast suckling pig. selections. The favorite food of students at Lebanon Valley (Pa.) College, for instance, was listed on the survey as ‘‘Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken Pot Pie.’’ Such regionalism did not prevail everywhere, though. Take the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The favorite food of the Midshipmen? Mexican dishes. Quiche, incidentally, failed to make an appearance on either list. Nor was quiche on the menu when Washington and Lee’s food service, directed by Jerry Darrell, prepared a special Election "82 dinner for both W&L students and the participants in the NACUFS conference. Included on that menu were such items as roast suckling pig, whole smoked salmon, beef and kidney pie, salt herring, and spoon bread—not exactly the sort of dishes you expect to find prepared in a college dining hall. Meanwhile, the food service directors spent three days on the W&L campus, discussing such diverse topics as ‘‘Baking For a Profit’’ and ‘‘Managing Organizational Stress.”’ Unfortunately (or fortunately perhaps), ‘New and Better Ways of Preparing Liver’’ was not on the agenda—at least not this time. Se uy ee 25 sceive program orms for the 1983 communication | and faculty, the faculty | dispel any anxieties the academic and -. Toward these curriculum, taught D c fessor of business rect or of the program, ] _ department, John Evans English, ; academic preparation a year of secondary education remaining, many students are able to remedy these problems before enrolling in college.”’ De Vogt emphasizes, however, the intellectual excitement of Summer Scholars itself, and this appears to be the major appeal of the program for the participants. Students are able to take courses at the college entry level, in a college environment, and under a regular college faculty. The W&L difference, of course, is the individual attention that each student receives. Each course is limited to an enrollment of 12, since many faculty regularly arrange individual conferences with the students. Summer Scholars also receive counseling on academic majors and on college selection. William Hartog, director of admissions at W&L, along with representatives from various women’s colleges in the area, conducts a discussion of college application procedures and the criteria for college selection. It should be noted that nearly all of the young men in Summer Scholars ’81 and "82 have applied for admission to W&L. DeVogt expects that Summer Scholars "83 will increase in enrollment over the 1981 and 1982 sessions. ‘‘The response to the program from parents, students, and faculty has been uniformly enthusiastic. Still, we need all the help we can get in spreading the word on this outstanding educational opportunity for young people.”’ Institute for Executives W&L’s Institute for Executives is perhaps the most ambitious of the University’s special educational ventures. A two-week program in the humanities, the Institute is designed to extend to the business community the University’s humanistic philosophy and to share its conviction that, in a healthy society, studies in the humanities and the concerns of business ultimately merge. Now in its third year, the Institute is steadily gaining recognition among middle and upper level corporate management as a highly rewarding, if unusual, executive development program. The focus of the program is on business ethics. Through an extensive reading list involving classic texts in literature and philosophy as well as business case studies, the executives and faculty analyze human values as components in difficult decisions. Thus the Institute offers, in effect, a seminar in decision making, but with a difference. ‘*In today’s stress-filled business atmosphere,’’ writes E. D. Crack, 1982 participant and manager for Construction Design Projects for Newport News Shipbuilding, *‘we allow too little time for humanistic consideration in decision making. The thought-provoking guidance by the W&L staff and the relaxed atmosphere of the campus itself provided a rare opportunity for self-awareness and assessment of personal values. Since the Institute, I.have found that I now pause to consider more precisely the alternatives—and the human factors—before rushing through a decision. This pause may last only a minute or two, but it does produce better quality decisions.’”’ Teaching in the Institute again in 1983 will be Professors Louis Hodges, the Institute’s academic director, Severn Duvall and Robert Fure from English, Joseph Goldsten from business administration, Barry Machado from history, Lad Sessions from philosophy, and Thomas Williams from physics. Joining the program as new faculty will be Larry Boetsch from Spanish and Thomas Shaffer from the Law School. The 1983 session is set for June 12-24. Please fill out this form and mail it to Robert Fure, Director (703) 463-9111, Ext. 290 Please send information regarding [_] Summer Scholars ’83 To: Help us spread information about these outstanding summer educational programs to those who may not be familiar with Washington and Lee. Office of Summer Programs Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia 24450 Among the program’s texts are Melville’s Billy Budd, Shakespeare’s Richard II, Plato’s Apology, Sophocles’ Antigone, H. R. Niebuhr’s The Responsible Self, and Swift’s Gulliver's Travels. The program includes several guest speakers and a variety of diversionary activities—films, lecture/demonstrations on art, and informal talks about subjects of general interest. Two evenings will be devoted to special presentations by top officers from two American corporations. Nearly all of the corporations, banks, and utilities that have sent management personnel to the Institute have continued to subscribe to the program. That alone is testimony to the Institute’s value and success. Here again, however, the large first step in an unusual educational program is to bring word of its value to an audience unfamiliar with Washington and Lee. The attached notice is designed to supplement that effort. Help Spread the Word [_] Institute for Executives Signed r ! ! ! é : ! 1 : t ! i f ! i i ‘ I I i ! i i i i i i § t i 1 i i i i i i i i ' i i t i ! i § i i i i i i i a i i No — Pat Hinely: Work/Play Photography The printing on the slightly over-sized business card reads: **Work/Play— Photography, etc.’’ The card belongs to W. Patrick Hinely, Washington and Lee’s University photographer. A 1973 graduate of W&L, Hinely is the latest in a succession of exceptional photographers that W&L has been fortunate enough to have employed in recent years. Hinely’s work for W&L appears regularly in University publications, is circulated widely through the news office, and has appeared on the cover of Shenandoah, the University’s literary journal. If you are a member of any W&L class since 1974, chances are that Hinely shot your senior portrait for the Calyx. But back to an obvious qustion: why **Work/Play’’? That trademark refers to another aspect of Hinely’s work. He has traveled the country, indeed much of North America, photographing musicians at work. (Or is it play?) ‘‘T’ve always felt that musicians work when they play and play when they work,”’ says Hinely. ‘‘I like to think I can do the Same with a camera.”’ His nine-year odyssey into the world of musicians and their music has tripped more than the shutter of Hinely’s camera. Not long after he began, Hinely started documenting the performers and their performances with words as well as photographs, explaining that it ““‘became expedient in the capitalistic scheme of things for me to write about what I was illustrating.”’ Consequently, his record and concert reviews have accompanied his photographs in such magazines as down beat, JAZZ, and Jazz Forum, a European publication. Both photos and liner note essays have been published on record covers in the U.S. and Europe. Earlier this year, Hinely was invited to write for one of the world’s most prestigious jazz publications, Tokyo-based Swing Journal. Most recently, German jazz impresario and publisher Joachim-Ernst Berendt, besides quoting from Hinely’s Wiis, Peter Cronin Photograph W. Patrick Hinely, ’73 ( right) with journalism Professor Bob de Maria, general manager of WLUR-FM and Cable-9, and O. W. Riegel, professor emeritus of journalism at ceremonies opening the O. W. Riegel Telecommunications Center in Reid Hall, where many of Hinely’s photographs are on permanent exhibit. Steve Swallow, bass guitarist and composer, at home in Guilford, Conn., December 1 979; purchased for publicity use by ECM Records. Hinely wrote a prose piece on Swallow for Europe’s Jazz Forum. 28 David Earle Johnson, percussionist and composer, in his front yard in Elloree, S.C., May 1980; published on album jacket by Landslide Records of Atlanta. String players at bluegrass festival in Buena Vista, Va., May 1973. This is the earliest photograph of those printed here. reviews in the latest edition of The Jazz Book, Europe’s leading anthology in the field, has purchased some of Hinely’s photos for use in his best-selling jazz calendar. While writing provides Hinely a different outlet for his interest in jazz, his first love remains recording the musicians through the lens of his Leica. But one complements the other. Says Hinely: ‘‘The photographs are better if I know the people and their music.’’ Hinely has long been an admirer of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the renowned French photojournalist. ‘‘Cartier-Bresson has a way of capturing life itself, poetically and without pretense,’’ says Hinely, insisting that he, too, prefers to work from life. “‘It is the only domain in the visual arts which is exclusively the camera’s, and only the camera can document accurately without intruding .. . as far as I’m concerned, there is no difference between arrangement and contrivance, so unless I’m doing a portrait, I try to be as inconspicious as I can. This can involve a lot of waiting. You have to outlast—or outwit—camera-shyness or, sometimes, just a subject’s simple awareness that they are being photographed . . . and all this time, you have to be ready for those elusive right moments.”’ Though he took up the camera in junior high school, Hinely’s first real working experience in photography came during his undergraduate days at Washington and Lee, where his work as a staffer for the Calyx introduced him to many possibilities of the medium. The 1973 Calyx, of which Hinely was editor, chronicles a striving for cleanness and simplicity in establishing a visual order for the everyday. Its success in both form and content were far from total, but, as Hinely says, borrowing an old song title, ‘‘Blame it on my youth. It’s definitely a case of ‘had I known then what I know now,’ but I’ve finally reached the point where I can live with that book.’’ It was also as a student at W&L that the ‘*Work/Play’’ motif began to take shape. In this case, Hinely’s involvement with WLUR, W&L’s radio station, served to pique his interest in music of all sorts. Shortly before graduating, Hinely met up with the chamber-jazz quartet ‘“‘Oregon,”’ whose members became his first professional subjects. His first year out of school, still working in Lexington, or as he puts it, ‘“subsisting in bucolic Rockbridge County as a freelancer,’’ Hinely persuaded the Contact 29 Work/Play Photography Symposium committe to present ‘‘Oregon’’ in Lee Chapel. He hosted the musicians at his house and photographed them in the barn. The picture ended up on the cover of down beat. Things were starting to come together. Even then, his work was play. ‘‘It was strictly volunteer work. None of us had much money, and I didn’t want the band’s because they were giving me their music. They also put in good words for me with a lot of their colleagues in New York, which got me access to a lot of situations I’d still be looking for if it weren’t for their help,’’ Hinely says in retrospect. ‘‘I was uncovering a sense of vocation with the camera at the same time these guys were showing me what musicians are all about. It turned out to be a very happy coincidence.”’ Hinely went to work for W&L in 1974, and his first commissioned assignment in the musical field came when he designed, wrote and illustrated a promotional booklet for ‘*Oregon’’ in 1975. But his biggest single break came in 1977, after Hinely had left W&L to return to his native Florida. He was invited to photograph operatic composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s newly-begun Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C. He has gone back to Spoleto every year since. ‘“The only musicians I’d photographed until then were either students, jazz players or bluegrass musicians,’’ he says. ‘‘It was reaching for the outside chance, using those images as credentials to get hired for a primarily classical music gig. ‘*Trying to find work in Florida, I had grown accustomed to a predictable run- around. When I took my work to newspapers, the people would say “These are great, but you don’t have any football action or car wrecks. You ought to show in galleries.’ Then I’d go to galleries, where they said ‘Gee, these are interesting, but you don’t have any still lifes or nudes. You ought to be in photojournalism.’ It was a pleasant surprise to have the Spoleto people figure out that I could transpose my experience from one subject to another.’”’ For now, at least, Hinely enjoys his ‘*quasi-full-time’’ arrangement with his alma mater, to which he returned in 1980. He notes that it allows him sufficiently frequent absences to pursue his personal work, which, besides musicians, includes an ongoing and yet-unpublished series of Floridian Paula Robison and Sam Sanders of the Spoleto Festival Chamber Company, Charleston, S.C., May 1979. The photo is unstaged. The performers rehearsed in masks so they could learn to read the music with their masks on, which is how they performed it in Charleston’s Dock Street Theater. Zé Spoleto Festival Brass Ensemble members waiting for stage call, College of Charleston Alumni Hall, May 1978; published on the cover of Shenandoah, W&L’s literary magazine. 30 photographs. He says both projects remain more a matter of love than money. ‘‘I may never do them full time, unless I can be sure of keeping free from the pressures of having to do that work just for the money. All work and no play just isn’t for me.”’ Hinely holds O. W. Riegel, professor emeritus of journalism at W&L, in high esteem. ‘‘What Tom Riegel taught me was more about how to think than how to write,”’ Hinely says. *‘He was always pushing us to take on a little bit more than we already felt comfortable with, in any subject. I guess I’ve applied that to the camera more than the typewriter.’’ That admiration for Riegel, especially his role in developing broadcasting at W&L, led Hinely to jump at journalism professor R. J. de Maria’s invitation to select a collection of his musicians photographs for the foyers of the O. W. Riegel Telecommunications Center in Reid Hall. Unlike many of his fellow photographers, Hinely has not shown his work widely in galleries. ‘‘Not that I didn’t try for a while,’’ he says, ‘‘but over the years, I’ve noticed that I get a lot more satisfaction from seeing my work published and circulated than from just seeing it hanging on a wall. I guess it comes down to / 7 : giving more credence to compliments from Sonny Rollins at soundcheck, Shoctor Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, August the musicians themselves and from everyday / 98 l; shot for Swing Journal of Tokyo, on commission for coverage of Jazz folks than from the type of people who grant City Destieas f4nage § \argegs, artists no credence outside of the gallery context. And making those huge prints is an exhausting process. But for Tom Riegel, I would do it.”’ The 24 photos on exhibition are among Hinely’s favorites: five have been published on album covers while seven others have appeared in magazines. There are a few portraits, but the rest are all shots of musicians at—what else?—work/play. His role as chronicler, commentator and sometimes satirist point up Hinely’s paradoxical quest to document the visible while trying to keep himself invisible, perhaps best summarized by an incident involving pianist Chick Corea. During the spring of 1982, Hinely spent two days photographing recording sessions with Corea. Several months later at a jazz festival in Canada, Hinely introduced himself to Corea and mentioned those two days of shooting the musician at work. Corea was nonplussed, telling Hinely, ‘“‘Funny, I don’t remember your taking any pictures.’’ To which Hinely flashed a broad smile of success and replied: ‘‘Good. That’s exactly how I like to work.’’ ¥ Beedle White, lutenist, Rockbridge County, October 1978. This is one of two ‘‘accidental photos’’ ; the composition was planned, but not the sunbeam. 3] Chapter News CLEVELAND. The W&L Generals and the Virginia Wahoos went at it tooth and nail on Aug. 21 in the chapter’s annual softball game at the University School in Shaker Heights. A large crowd of spectators watched the game which went into extra innings, with the Wahoos finally winning 21-20. The chapter officers are now planning the annual Christmas luncheon at the Union Club. SAN FRANCISCO BAY. Bill Hartog, director of admissions at Washington and Lee, conducted the program at a fall reception for alumni and guests on Sept. 20 at Paoli’s in San Francisco. Hartog was on a fall recruiting trip to the West Coast and had invited representatives of several high schools in the Bay area. His report on the Status of admissions at the University as well as on recruiting efforts in the area was eagerly received. Nat Baker, ’67, chapter president, made the arrangements. He issued a warm welcome to all in attendance and announced plans for a Christmas party on Dec. 9. CHICAGO. Dr. I. Taylor Sanders, professor of history and University historian, 32 CLEVELAND—Shown after a tough softball battle with the Virginia Wahoos are (front row, L-R) Jim Dickinson, ’70; Howard Busse, 65; Kevin Marie, ’85: Tom Friedman, ’58; Brian Ogler, ’86; Tom Goss, ’80; (back row) Bob Silverman, ’73; unidentified player; Gary Okin, ’74; Charlie White, ’72; Dave Donahey, ’82; Jim Bonebroke, ’54; Bill Smith, ’75; Bob Donahey, ’83. SAN FRANCISCO BAY—At fall reception held at Paoli’ s are Tom Green, ’64, Jim French, ’64, Emmett MacCorkle, ’26, Trustee Jerry South, ’54. Philpott, ’45. was a special guest at the chapter’s dinner meeting on Oct. 18. He gave an excellent talk on the visions of Washington and Lee as seen through the eyes of many of its past presidents. He also told of the excitement on campus generated by the naming of Dr. John D. Wilson as the new president of W&L. Dr. Sanders’ talk was enthusiastically received. He was substituting for Dr. William A. Jenks, ’39, head of the history department, who was unable to attend because of an accident suffered by his wife, Jane. Stanley A. Walton, chapter president, presided and welcomed everyone, especially several guidance counselors from area high schools. He talked about future plans of the chapter, including a possible early visit by President Wilson. He recognized Tim Haley, ’73, for his effective service in the area of student recruitment. William C. Washburn, °40, alumni secretary, was present and made brief remarks about the freshman class and told about the exciting and successful summer programs on campus. PIEDMONT. The chapter welcomed President and Mrs. Huntley back to his hometown of Winston-Salem at a meeting in their honor on Oct. 19. The reception was PIEDMONT—President Robert E. R. Huntley addressing Piedmont C hapter at dinner held in his honor at Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, N.C. Also seated at head table are Chapter President John Cocklereece,’76,’79L: Mrs. Huntley; Trustee and Mrs. C. Royce Hough, ’59; Trustee and Mrs. J. Alvin PIEDMONT—Alumni and friends gathered at Sawtooth Center reception to honor President and Mrs. Robert E. R. Huntley. held in a gallery of the Sawtooth Center in Winston Square. A catered dinner in an adjoining meeting room followed. The distinctive architecture and decorative arts of the center provided a spacious, attractive site for the large number of alumni and friends who gathered to honor the Huntleys. Among the guests were Trustee and Mrs. Alvin Philpott, °45, of Lexington, N.C., and Alumni Board Director and Mrs. William Latture, °49, of Greensboro. University Trustee C. Royce Hough, 59, of Winston- Salem introduced President Huntley, paying tribute to the President for his outstanding service to Washington and Lee during his tenure. President Huntley spoke of the challenges that lie ahead for the University and of his great confidence in Dr. John D. Wilson as his successor. He received a standing ovation at the end of his remarks. Chapter President John Cocklereece, 76, *79L, directed the program and offered a special note of thanks to Thorns Craven, ’62, for his assistance in planning the meeting, especially in recommending the site and the caterer. Buddy Atkins, ’68, assistant alumni secretary, spoke briefly about on-campus alumni programs. Class Notes WASHINGTON AND LEE ARM CHAIRS AND ROCKERS With Crest in Five Colors The chairs are made of birch and rock maple, hand-rubbed in black lacquer (also available by special order in dark pine stain; see note below). They are attractive and sturdy pieces of furniture and are welcome gifts for all occasions—Christmas, birthdays, graduation, anniversaries, or weddings. All profits from sales of the chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, ’ 14. Now Available: A child’s Boston Rocker in natural dark pine stain, with the crest in gold. Price $55.00. By Special Order Only: The Arm Chair and Boston Rocker are also available by special order in natural dark pine stain, with crest in five colors, at the same price as the black arm chair and rocker. Allow at least 12 weeks for delivery. ARM CHAIR, Black Lacquer with Cherry Arms, $125.00 f.o.b. Lexington, Va. BOSTON ROCKER, All Black Lacquer, $110.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. CHILD’S BOSTON ROCKER, Natural Dark Pine Stain, $55.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. Mail your order to WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Lexington, Virginia 24450 Shipment from available stock will be made upon receipt of your check. Freight charges and delivery delays can often be minimized by having the shipment made to an office or business address. Please include you name, address, and telephone number, and a telephone number, if known, for the delivery location. A. N. Hill, ’52 1931 PAUL A. Hornor, aconsulting engineer with Hornor Brothers Engineers in Clarksburg, W.Va., was recently presented a plaque at a dinner given in his honor by the Benedum Airport Authority in recogni- tion of his 45 years of continuous service as the airport engineer. 1933 JUDGE JOSEPH M. INGRAM retired after 40 years on the bench of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Tennessee. He practiced law for eight years in Columbia, Tenn.., before being elected to the bench in 1942. Judge Ingram served five full eight-year terms prior to his retirement in Culleoka, Tenn. 1940 MARRIAGE: CHar-eEs C. Curt and Jacqueline G. Campesino on Sept. 11, 1982, in Saint Simons Island, Ga. Curl is a retired airlines pilot. The couple will live in Hialeah, Fla. 194] HUGH G. ASHCRAFT JR. addressed a business ethics class at Lenoir Rhyne College on Oct. 19 as part of a program using members of the college’s development board as classroom speakers. He is the first member of the Lenoir Rhyne College developemt board to participate in the program designed to utilize mem- bers’ talents and experiences in an educational setting. Ashcraft lives in Charlotte, N.C., and is chairman of the board of Harris-Teeter Super Markets Inc. 1942 HERBERT M. WEED, retired after 36 years with Ana- conda Co. and 16 years as an officer, has now joined United Park City Mines Co. of Salt Lake City, Utah, and is busy acquiring the Cimarron Corp. of Dallas, an oil and gas producer. The resulting organization will be known as Cimarron Corporation and will be listed on the Néw York Stock Exchange. United Park City Mines is engaged in lead, zinc and silver mining and has extensive real estate holdings at the ski resort of Park City, Utah. 1952 In January 1975 HAROLDN. HILL was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia by Governor Jimmy Carter. He was recently elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and began serving in that capacity Nov. 1, 1982. Hill received his law degree from Emory University and practiced law in Atlanta until being named to the bench in 1975. He is a former member of the Legal Education and Admis- sion Committee of the State Bar of Georgia and served as chairman in 1974. Hill also continues as an adjunct professor of law at Emory. He is amember of the American Bar and the Georgia Bar. 1953 JOHN D. HEARD has been appointed vice president of 33 a _ ILLIAM C. WASHBURN IR. has on 71 H. D. LeTourneau Jr., dent of First & Merchants National Bank, joined United Virginia Bank-Lynchburg in August 1982. He has recently been promoted to the position of assistant vice president. Fauber is a graduate of the National Commercial Lending School at the Univer- sity of Oklahoma and is presently enrolled in the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers Uni- versity. He and his wife, Beth, have two daughters. JAMES A. MERIWETHER has been made a partner of Arthur Andersen and Co. He is with the Washington office of the accounting firm. The Rev. JOHN E. MILLER was awarded his Ph.D. degree in systematic theology by Union Theological Seminary in Richmond during May 1982. He is assistant rector of St. Marys Episcopal Church in Goochland, Va., and an adjunct instructor in religion at the University of Richmond. ALAN C. OAKES has been appointed director of fiscal planning for the international marketing division of Mobil Oil Corp. 197] The REV. JOHN D. COPENHAVER JR. and his wife, Marsha A. Childs, are co-directors of the Harrison- burg, Va., area Wesley Foundation. This campus ministry of the United Methodist Church serves James Madison University, Bridgewater and Eastern Mennonite Colleges and Blue Ridge Community College. Copenhaver completed the graduate program in Christian spiritual guidance at Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Washington and earned an M.A. degree in religion and culture from Catholic University. G. CARR GARNETT is the costume designer for the CBS daytime television serial As the World Turns. North Carolina National Bank in Charlotte promoted Harry D. LETOURNEAU JR. to senior vice president. He joined NCNB in 1973 after earning an M.B.A. degree from the University of Virginia. LeTourneau became a vice president in 1979 and head of the cash management department in 1981. He and his wife, Terry, have two children. ALVA M. LUMPKIN III is senior development engineer for Electromagnetic Sciences Inc. in Atlanta, Ga. 1973 BIRTH: The REv. and Mrs. FREDERICK E. ROBERTS, a son, Joseph Frederick, on Oct. 9, 1982. The young man joins an older brother, James Stewart. Roberts is pastor of the United Methodist Church in Hatteras, N.C. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. RALPH H. SmiITH II, a second son, William Patterson, on Sept. 9, 1982. Smith is a practicing attorney in Birmingham, Ala. T. HAL CLARKE JR. (See 1976.) FANCY DRESS TICKETS AVAILABLE The Student Activities Board at Washington and Lee cordially invites all alumni to the 76th Fancy Dress Ball on March 4, 1983, in the Warner Athletic Center. Tickets are $30 per couple and can be ordered by writing: Fancy Dress Tickets, Student Activities Board, University Center, Wash- ington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. 24450. SAB officials urge that any alumni planning to attend make hotel reservations as soon as possible. E. ROBERT GIAMMITTORIO (See 1969.) 1974 A. J. ALEXIS GELINAS became a partner in the New York law firm of Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell and Petty. He earned an LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University in 1978 and specializes in fed- eral income tax law. Gelinas, his wife, Linda, also an attorney, and 2-year-old son, Paul, live in Brooklyn. WILLIAM B. HILL Jr. has been promoted to senior assistant attorney general in the State of Georgias Department of Law and has been assigned as the director of the criminal division. He is the youngest man to hold the rank of division director in the depart- ments history. He joined the State Law Department in June 1977 and has been an assistant division direc- tor since January 1982. Hill resides in Atlanta with his wife, Melba, and their daughter. HANNES F. VAN WAGENBERG is working in the foreign institutional investment department of Brown Brothers Harriman and Co. in New York. He had been with the international division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. 1975 JOHN R. EMBREE, formerly with the United States Tennis Association in New York City, has now be- come director of tennis at the Rivercenter Tennis Club in New Orleans. The club is owned and operated by the New Orleans Hilton Hotel and Towers and includes an outstanding tennis facility as well as other sports facilities. BENJAMIN M. SHERMAN, sports information director at the University of Delaware, has also been named pe Z4 et I bi BV ii AtFG3 Lr, oy) i, A ae S ry ae; M7, ord a ara. 4, A ep at WA oe i YAH B y; TY WY Vj 4 y 4 js oy i; ee TD fy J a YL, f} WY J id aN f , WIL Z, AY! 7 INGA A ALE SA AA UL Vif AVIS. Cee! publicity director of the East Coast Conference. The ECC is composed of American University, Bucknell, Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra, Lafayette, LaSalle, Le- high, Rider and Towson State. Sherman has been at Delaware since 1976 after serving as sports editor of the Edina Sun newspaper in Minnesota. 1976 BIRTH: T. Hat Clarke Jr. and NAN ROBERTSON CLARKE, a son, Charles DeSaussure, on Aug. 18, 1982, in Atlanta, Ga. The young man joins an older sister and brother. He is a practicing attorney with the Atlanta firm of Mitchell, Clarke, Pate, Anderson & Wimberly. BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. Paut O. CLay Jr., twin daughters, Katherine Paige and Rachael Evelyn, on Sept. 21, 1982. Clay is a partner in the Fayetteville, W.Va., law firm of Conrad and Clay. He and his wife, Linda, also have two sons, Christopher 3 and Nathan 2. ERNEST (BUD) LOWELL (See Gregory Scott Thomas 1977.) 1977 BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. BENJAMIN J. BONAVENTURA, a son, Benjamin Joseph Jr., on July 6, 1982. Bona- ventura is dean of students and baseball coach a t Christchurch School in Christchurch, Va. In May 1982 his baseball team won the conference cham- pionship and he earned a masters degree in educa- tional administration from the College of William and Mary. BIRTH: Mk. and Mrs. JAMES H. NEwTon, a daugh- ter, Susan Elizabeth, on April 17, 1982, in Jackson- ville, Fla. PAUL B. Burns graduated from the University of Southern California Law Center in May 1982. He is an associate with the firm of Fox and Fox in Newark, N.J. Burns also is working on an LL.M. degree in taxation at New York University. ROGER P. RYDELL has been elected vice president for public relations of Trailways Inc. in Dallas. He and his wife live in Carrollton, Texas. GREGORY Scott THOMAS and a fellow W&L alum- nus, ERNEST (BUD) LOWELL, 76, are two-thirds of the three-member news staff for WXXI radio in Rochester, N. Y., which recently won 10 awards for news coverage from the state Associated Press Broadcasters Association. WXXI was the first FM station in New York State to receive the associations Grand Prize, awarded to a TV or radio station for outstanding achievement. Thomas is news director for WXXI while Lowell is one of the stations two producer-reporters. Other awards that the station re- ceived included first-place awards for best spot news coverage, best local documentary, best news com- mentary, and best feature. 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