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Michael Philipps ’64...........0.0....:) Associate Editor and Photographer Mrs. Joyce Carter........0...0. ccc eee Editorial Assistant TABLE OF CONTENTS Honor System Reaffirmed.........0cceeccecseeseeeteeeseeens l Kernan Grant oo. eeeesssceccceesstseececseenseeeeseeseseeeesesens 2 First Kenan Professor .........cecceecscceeeessteeeeeeeenneens 3 Catch 71 viecceesceesseessseeeteeertecssteesseeerseesseeeeneesneees 5 COMMENCEMENE 1971 ...ceccccccccceesseeessseeesssseeeeneeeseaes 6 The Role of Phi Beta Kappa Today .............006 8 Campus NEWS ......ccccccesceeseeeseeseeceeesseseneenseerseesseesneeenes 13 Traveller Laid to ReSt ...... ce eeeeeseeeeeereeseneeereeseeees 19 Great Year for Lacrosse ..........eeceeeeeneeeeeenseeeeeens 20 First Alumni Fund Chairman ........ ee eeeeeeeeees 22 Alumni Weekend... eceeeeesereeeeeeeeeenenneserens 23 New Alumni OfMCEYLS 0.0... ceecseeeeeteeeeteeeeeeseeeeeees 25 Chapter, N€WS: oes ceccesscceresnedapenesesnernsontcontesscsseneenens 26 CASS OGRE cei sisepedacecasercustonen cuztnswabececevseetocsreeers 27 Bill Streit, Great COach ......ceeceeeseeeseteeseeeeneernees 35 Published in January, March, April, May, July, September, November and December 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, Virginia 24450. Second class postage paid at Lexington, Virginia 24450, with additional mailing privileges at Roanoke, Virginia 24001. Application for change of title and frequency pending. Officers and Directors Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. RicHarp H. TurRELL, ’49, Short Hills, N.J. President A. CHRISTIAN COMPTON, ’50, Richmond, Va. Vice President T. Hat CrarkeE, '38, Washington, D.C. Treasurer WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, '40, Lexington, Va. Secretary Upton BEALL, ’51, Tyler, ‘Texas RIcHARD D. HAyNEs, ’58, Dallas, ‘Texas WILLIAM H. HItuirr, ’38, Chicago, Ill. S. L. Kopa.p, JR., 43, Memphis, ‘Tenn. J. PETER G. MUHLENBERG, ‘50, Wyomissing, Pa. J. ALvIN PHILPOTT, ’45, Lexington, N.C. Emit C. RassMAN, III, ’41, Midland, Texas BEAUREGARD A. REDMOND, 55, New Orleans, La. EVERETT TUCKER, JR., 34, Little Rock, Ark. On the cover: Dr. William A. Jenks, professor of history, head of the department, eminent scholar, and distinguished teacher, is Washington and Lee’s first Kenan Professor. His appointment was made possible by a gift of $600,000 from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. The gift and the ap- pointment, announced by President Huntley at commencement exercises, are reported in this maga- zine. The cover portrait of Dr. Jenks is by A. Michael Philipps, University photographer. € . ~*~. | mong _— we a ‘suspicion, threat, and — cious € Kenan grant establishes distinguished professorship —=* Washington and Lee University has received a $600,- ooo grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust of New York to establish a distinguished professor- ship. Dr. William A. Jenks, professor of history and head of the department, has been named the first Kenan Pro- fessor. Dr. Jenks, a graduate of Washington and Lee, is a recognized authority on the history of Austria and the Habsburg Empire and has published three definitive books in those fields. President Huntley announced receipt of the grant and the appointment of Dr. Jenks in his commencement remarks. “It is particularly heartening to be able to announce this gift on Commencement Day,” he said, “because in many ways it is symbolic of the new commitment which the University has made to move into the future with courage and conviction. That future will clearly require large dedication and effort by all those who labor for Washington and Lee. The Kenan grant is an emphatic indication that intelligent and discerning men who owe no special allegiance to us share our conviction and wish us to know that our confidence is justified.” The Foundation trustees said the principal of the Kenan grant is to be invested by Washington and Lee as part of its endowment and the income used to maintain ‘‘a professorship of eminence and distinction.” President Huntley said the Kenan Trust desired “‘to support a scholar-teacher of distinction whose enthusiasm for learn- ing, commitment to teaching, and interest in students will make a notable contribution to the undergraduate com- munity.” The man for whom the professorship is named, Wil- liam Rand Kenan Jr., devoted a lifetime to the advance- ment of higher education. He began his career as a country school teacher in Radford, Va., and subsequently became one of America’s most prominent industrialists. In his will he stated: “I have always believed firmly that a good education is the most cherished gift an in- dividual can receive, and it is my sincere hope that [the Kenan Trust] will result in a substantial benefit to man- kind.” A native of Wilmington, N.C., Mr. Kenan studied at the University of North Carolina, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in 1894. While a student, he 2 and his professor, F. P. Venable, discovered and identified calcium carbide. They determined its formula and learned that acetylene gas could be derived from it. This discovery became the basis of important industrial advancements throughout the world. Acetylene gas when mixed with oxygen burns hot enough to melt most metals, yet is easily controlled. Oxy- acetylene welding and cutting of steels and other metals is an essential part of the construction and manufacturing industries. Mr. Kenan, as a chemical and mechanical engineering adviser, was responsible for the installation of several im- portant plants for the carbide and acetylene industry in the United States, Austrialia, and Germany. Among them was the plant for Union Carbide at Niagara Falls, an electric furnace for the former Cowles Aluminum Co., and an early steam and electric plant for General Electric. Shortly after the turn of the century, Mr. Kenan joined Henry M. Flagler as a consulting and construc- tion engineer. Mr. Flagler was developing and expanding an empire of railroads, hotels, utilities, and other enter- prises in Florida. Mr. Kenan developed Florida’s first elec- tric power plant, and from 1924 until his death at the age of 93 in 1965, Mr. Kenan was president and part owner of the Flagler System companies, which included the Florida East Coast Railway and the Florida East Coast Hotel Co. The Kenan family interest in education dates from America’s early days. Mr. Kenan’s great-grandfather, James, became a member of the first Board of ‘Trustees of the University of North Carolina in 1790, and five members of the family have served in similar capacity. Eight of James Kenan’s descendants became major donors of books, scholarships, student loan funds and funds for professorships at UNC. William Kenan Jr.’s own con- tributions to UNC included a stadium, support of the university press and publications for the library. He left most of his estate—valued at more than $100 million—to the Charitable Trust to be used in establish- ing professorships, scholarships, instructorships, and fel- lowships. Under those provisions, Kenan professorships have been established at 29 colleges and universities, now including Washington and Lee, all of national distinction. WeL * by Robert S. Keefe Dr. William A. Jenks: first Kenan professor The William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust seemed to have Dr. William Alexander Jenks in mind when it endowed a Kenan chair at Washington and Lee “to support a scholar-teacher of distinction. . . .” The University’s first Kenan Professor is a scholar’s scholar. His books and other research publications—each without exception a primary reference in its field—have established him among America’s most respected authori- ties in modern Austrian history. His major works include the books The Austrian Electoral Reform of 1907, Vienna and the Young Hitler, and Austria Under the Iron Ring, 1879-1893. As a teacher, his students’ regard for him is almost al i ree ; - a LAA ty gle rs Ja ¢ | f Dr. Jenks is recognized at commencement. July, 1971 Ai f® bi unlimited, and their special success—in history and in other areas at Washington and Lee and later—demon- strates that their regard is well placed. Dr. Jenks’ own personal dedication to undergraduate education in general and to Washington and Lee in par- ticular is total. A number of years ago, Dr. Jenks made the decision that Washington and Lee is where he wants to stay, rather than teach at the graduate level. (The uni- versities that would like to have him on their graduate faculties may take consolation, though, that Dr. Jenks’ former students have become ranking scholars at a large number of the nation’s most prestigious graduate in- stitutions.) Just as total is his dedication to his students. By choice he continues to teach freshmen as well as upper- classmen; he appreciates in particular their perspectives and their approaches, their willingness to draw on what they already know and are learning in other courses as it pertains to the subject-matter immediately at hand. Besides his courses for underclassmen—the introduc- tory European civilization survey and a special seminar in modern European social and ideological development —Dr. Jenks teaches advanced courses in the Renaissance, Islamic history, and imperial and Soviet Russian history. Covering so broad a range of fields leads to a “certain skill on the part of the teacher,” according to Dr. Jenks, “in developing a detached and expert critical eye.” That sort of close familiarity with the progression of ideas and events in a variety of fields (if history can be compartmen- talized into distinct “fields” at all) brings a measure of ex- pertise and perspective in one’s methods of analysis and assessment. Explaining his research interests, Dr. Jenks comments that he is “enormously interested in the ways ethnic groups get along—or don’t.” His current field of investiga- tion, the Habsburg dynasty’s relations with Italy between 1849 and 1882, is a classic example of conflict among peoples—and of the historian’s problems in analyzing it. There are literally thousands of books on the subject, but most of them are heavily colored in their presenta- tion. Have nationalistic Austrian and Italian historians “up-played”’ the bitterness of the rivalry between their countries? Wasn't there considerable cultural interchange —didn’t the Austrians admire Verdi, to take an example; 3 Kenan Professor wasn’t there a considerable interest in Italy toward the Germanic type of philosophy that predominated in 19th- century Austria? Did formal national policy exaggerate tensions which were perhaps not nearly so pronounced among each nation’s citizens? Is not a substantial re- evaluation necessary in determining the pervasiveness of the hostilities between the nations? And, hardly least, how does an historian go about uncovering the facts be- hind the passions? As a faculty fellow of the American Council of Learn- ed Societies and later under a Ford Foundation grant to Washington and Lee, Dr. Jenks has travelled to Italy, Austria and England to research those formidable ques- tions, sifting through century-old state records—first in Turin (where archives for the kingdom of Sardinia- Piedmont in the 1850s are located), then in Rome (where foreign office records for the 1860s and the 1870s are kept). It was an almost-overwhelming task: it required reading every report from every ambassador, every economist, every spy, a procedure duplicated in the archives in Vienna. Then it was onto the French consular records for what turned out to be “an excellent set of observations” of what had actually gone on in Venice and Milan in the era of tension. That research covered more than a year and a half in Europe, in the archives themselves. There were hundreds of articles and books to go through as well, evaluating facts and assertions, largely “finding out what isn’t im- portant.” Evaluation—“‘finding out what isn’t important’’—is one of the historical scholar’s greatest challenges. ‘“‘Much re- search is extremely disappointing,” Dr. Jenks says. “You spend six weeks going through raw material for one signi- ficant point.” Part of what makes Dr. Jenks a scholar, though, is that he perseveres—and eventually he comes up with that significant point. Now, four years after initiating his research, Dr. Jenks is set to begin writing. After g0 months of full-time research, he’s spending his summer on the book—writing one chapter of it. (“It’s a lengthy chapter,” he explains. Haste in analyzing, tying together, explaining a new thesis does not a scholar make.) He conducts all his research and writes all his books like that—when he isn’t teaching. No less than research- 4 ing, teaching is a full-time occupation. But the benefits derived from his scholarly investigation, the perspective and the sharpened analytic abilities it helps develop, rub off on his teaching, and serve to define the value of one who is a scholar-teacher as opposed to one who is either a scholar or a teacher. His students sense it; it’s an ingredi- ent in their regard for him. In class he encourages—requires—his students con- stantly to exercise and thereby refine their own analytic abilities. Typically he will drive home a crucial point in a deceptively easy manner: carefully portraying personali- ties and circumstances, then, without the slightest fan- fare, typing it all together with a perfectly logical thesis, the kind that leads to a flood of corollary insights. Just for a moment, a pause; then on to another point. His stu- dents don’t take him because he’s easy; \on the contrary. Dr. Jenks inclined toward European history when he came to Washington and Lee as a student. He recalls that his professors here strongly influenced his decision to enter graduate study after graduation in 1939 and enter teaching. He earned both the M. A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. After Army Air Corps serv- ice in World War II, he returned to Washington and Lee as an instructor, becoming a full professor in 1956 and head of the history department in 1970. He has been im- mersed in his specialty from the start. He has had a num- ber of research fellowships, including a Fulbright, grants from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as Washington and Lee fac- ulty grants. Why history, anyway? Isn’t it supposed to be, as they say, “irrelevant”? To Dr. Jenks, that’s hardly so. It’s sometimes difficult to demonstrate; to become cynical is “the easiest vice.” (That happened in the Renaissance; it happened in the eighteenth century—another lesson from history.) “History implies that there are a lot of Mondays in developing a personal philosophy of life. In a limited amount of time a teacher tries to help his students develop insights; he points to man’s magnificent achievements as well as to the conquerors and demagogues. “History implies that there are a lot of Mondays in life.” WoL w Mrs. Francis P. Gaines, wife of the late great president of Washington and Lee, was a guest at this year’s alumni luncheon, and President Huntley passed on to the alumni a story she had told him: The young child of a faculty member who lives near her home was visiting Mrs. Gaines one day as he often did. When the child was about to leave, Mrs. Gaines asked the child if he knew who she was. “Oh, yes, ma’m, I know who you are. You’re Mrs. Robert E. Lee.” m Newspapers carried a story recently about a scientist who had discovered that adults lose brain cells at the rate of 100,000 a day. A W&L administrator, seeing the story, said to Milton Colvin, professor of politics, “I thought that every day and in every way I was getting better and better, and now I find out that I am getting worse and worse.” Colvin’s comforting remark, paraphrasing a certain bard, was: “Tis better to have learned and forgotten than never to have learned at all.” a Jack Warner, a trustee, dedicated on May 8 a new headquarters building for his Gulf States Paper Co. in Tuscaloosa, Ala., an edifice of splendid oriental design. President and Mrs. Huntley, Treasurer and Mrs. Whitehead, and Dr. and Mrs. I-Hsiung Ju of the W&L art department, went down for the ceremonies, squeezing in the trip between the Alumni Board meeting on Friday and the alumni lunch- eon on Saturday. President Huntley re- ported that it appeared for a time that they were being guarded by a host of Pink- erton guards. ‘Then he discovered that the Japanese ambassador to the United States was staying in an adjacent room and the guards were for him. Anyway, the W&L party returned safely and on time—with July, 197] Catch 71 A collection of this and that from here and there about W&L people and things help of Jack Warner’s private jet. a Charles Clarke, this year’s alumni presi- dent, paid this tribute to Alumni Secretary Bill Washburn at the annual Association meeting: “He is the most dedicated, hard- est working human being I know, and his only problem is that he worries too much ... He does a magnificent job of being the bridge in the communications gap _ be- tween the campus and the community and the campus and the alumni, and it’s not an easy task.” Clarke called him ‘Willy Washburn,” explaining “I can call him Willy because I am two years older than he is.” Incidentally, his wife Libby always calls him “William.” But then she’s young- er than he is. Healey’s Jefferson = Washington and Lee’s portrait by Healy of Thomas Jefferson is now hanging in the Governor’s Mansion in Richmond. It is a loan to Gov. Linwood Holton, a W&L alumnus, who knew where to turn for one of the best portraits ever painted of the great Tom. The Governor and Mrs. Hol- ton gave a reception in May to “unveil” the painting. So W&L is one up on the Wahoos again. Jefferson, you recall, found- ed the University of Virginia. a Joe Lyles, coach of baseball and soccer, talks a lot like Casey Stengel. He has been known to tell his men “to bunch out” and “to pair off in three’s.” When he took the W&L baseball team to the Astrodome in Houston, he looked up at the roof that wards off wind and sun and said: ‘There will be no sun-blown homeruns in here.” a Sports Illustrated carried the following items in one of its May issues: “At Wash- ington and Lee they’ve finally got that skeleton out of the closet. Back in 1872, two years after the death of Robert E. Lee, the general’s favorite horse, Traveller, also died. For many years the horse’s assembled bones were on display at the Lee Museum —folks used to enjoy that sort of thing— but then they were put into storage in 1963. Now the skeleton has been suitably and finally buried, complete with marker, in a spot, we are happy to report, not far from the Lee family crypt.” It is not known exactly why Sports Illustrated fav- ored us in this way. It could be because John Hughes, the curator of Lee Chapel, is also W&L’s sports information director. Or it could be that Traveller did indeed have human qualities. The magazine ran the itera in its “People” section. « Washington and Lee has many tradi- tions, and one is that it never rains on Commencement Day—well, almost never. Anyway, the sun was shining brightly on the day of the Baccalaureate service, the day before commencement. University Marshal James H. Starling told the faculty at its meeting that morning that the Pres- byterians were in charge of the weather for Baccalaureate, but it was up to the Episcopalians to keep the air dry for com- mencement. ‘They did all right. It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm. Still, the Episcopalians barely made it. About a half hour after the exercises ended, the sky growled and lightning crackled. But, lo, just a few drops of rain fell on the camp- us. The downpour was elsewhere. Commencement 197] Washington and Lee graduated 290 seniors in commencement exercises on June 4. President Huntley, in his remarks, declared “that Washington and Lee’s fu- ture, accompanied by hard work and de- votion which has been so much a part of its past, can and will be a full one, a suc- cessful one, a relevant one.” Honorary degrees were awarded to A. Linwood Holton, Governor of Virginia; Jerome D. Holland, U. S. Ambassador to Sweden and former president of Hampton Institute; Dr. Daniel Blain, director of the Pennsylvania State Hospital in Philadel- phia and professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania; and Ed- win Hyde, a leading banking and business executive in Virginia, chairman of Miller gnd Rhoads, the Richmond-based depart- ment stores. The Doctor of Laws degree was con- ferred upon Gov. Holton, Ambassador Holland, and Mr. Hyde. The Doctor of Science degree went to Dr. Blain. Gov. Holton is a 1944 graduate of Washington and Lee, and in 1969 he be- came the first Republican elected Gover- nor of Virginia since Reconstruction. Dr. Blain is a former president of the Ameri- can Psychiatric Association and is a fifth- generation Washington and Lee alum- nus, having graduated in 1921. His son, Daniel Blain, Jr., Class of 1963, was the sixth generation of the family to gradu- ate from the University. Dr. Holland, who headed Hampton Institute for 10 years and was president of Delaware State College before that, is one of the most active American ambassadors in Europe and has effectively improved U.S.-Swedish relations which were severely strained be- fore his arrival in that country last year. Mr. Hyde is a director or trustee of more than a dozen state and local commissions and has devoted much of his time and sup- port to community and charitable institu- tions, including leadership within the Vir- ginia Foundation for Independent Col- leges. Among the graduates, 48 from the School of Law received the Juris Doctor degree. The B. S. with Special Attain- ments in Commerce went to 29; and the B. A. with majors in economics or polli- tics went to 39. The B. S. was awarded to 39 in the College, and the B. A. to 140. Earlier in the morning, 27 ROTC gra- duates were commissioned second lieuten- ants in the U. S. Army Reserve in cere- monies in Lee Chapel. The speaker was Gen. Lucius D. Clay, recently appointed commander-in-chief of the Air Force in the Pacific. His son, Lucius D. Clay, III, was among the W&L graduates receiving a commission. Four ROTC cadets were commissioned earlier in the year and six others will be commissioned after com- pleting ROTC training camp. Baccalaureate services were held the day before. Dr. David W. Sprunt, associ- ate dean of students and University chap- lain, was the speaker. Francis M. Lawrence, president of the Student Body, spoke for the graduating class. He noted what he believes to be a heartening trend at Washington and Lee, a rededication to a philosophy of faith and trust that has its roots in a personal code of honor established in the time of Robert E. Lee. Because of this, he said, there is no need for the codification of rules that for a time stipulated how students should behave. The result, he said, is a com- munity based more on trust and honor than on threats and rules. This year’s graduating senior with the Gen. Clay and son, Lucius, III, after commissioning ceremony. WeL * ital oe : — % % - +. oo a “ae * wee > s ge tt kl wpe * ae es bth ahi P — woes 7 Fa # President Huntley (second from left) with honorary degree recipients: Ambassador Holland, Gov. Holton, Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Blain. highest academic average was Richard S. Kampf, of Scarsdale, N.Y. He had a grade- point average approaching 4.00—the equi- valent of all A’s. The winner of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion, voted by the faculty, was John M. McCardell, Jr. of Hagers- town, Md. The award goes to that student “who excels in high ideals of living, in spiritual qualities, and in generous and disinterested service to others.” President Huntley said that, in a time when confidence in higher education has been shaken, it is clear “that no one in- stitution, no matter how large or how wealthy, can hope to provide the full range of choice which our complex civilization must have from its education system, and therefore that new patterns of education and new kinds of institutions must be al- lowed and encouraged to emerge—not in place of the patterns that now exist but in addition to them.” He said such an expanding diversifica- tion of American higher education will mean, among other things, “that each in- stitution will, to a greater degree than is now the case, have to provide its own rea- son for existence, its own internal justifi- cation for doing things the way it does.” Washington and Lee, he said, in the future as in the past, will not be afraid of change, but such changes that occur “will continue to be consistent with the July, 1971 basic educational objectives and ideals of the school.” He said the School of Law “will, with renewed vigor and effort, seek to prepare its students for professional careers which are characterized by competence, imagina- tion, and social awareness, fully cognizant of the fact that the profession upon which they embark will have a profound and direct influence upon our nation’s ability to fulfill its ancient promise and to achieve its highest ideals. “In its undergraduate schools, in the College and the School of Commerce, Washington and Lee will devote all of its considerable talents and its growing re- sources to continuing and strengthening its commitment to provide for a relatively small but diverse student body a liberal educational opportunity of the kind that enhances the likelihood that our gradu- ates will find for themselves lives of per- sonal fulfillment, lives marked by char- acteristics of rationality, perspective, and unselfishness—characteristics which in the final accounting are the only ones which can bring that quality of life which has been man’s oldest quest. “The preparation which our students receive here will allow them to select ca- reers for themselves in a variety of fields, but we will justify all that we do in the light of the overiding liberal educational objectives. ... “We shall not abandon our long-held conviction that the mind of man, discip- lined and tempered, will enhance his humanity and allow him to achieve his noblest aspirations.” Colleges Honor Huntley President Huntley was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Ran- dolph-Macon College at Ashland at grad- uation exercises on May 30. On June 7, he delivered the commencement address at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. Wake Forest also bestowed an honorary LL.D. upon him. Both institutions cited President Hunt- ley for his leadership in the field of legal and undergraduate education. He was dean of the W&L School of Law before becoming president of the University. In 1969, Gov. Holton named him to the Vir- ginia State Board of Education. Huntley, a native of Winston-Salem, is a member of a family important in the history of Wake Forest. His great-grand- father, Dr. William Royall, was the col- lege’s first professor of English, and his grandfather, Robert Royall, was a trustee for almost 50 years. His mother, Mrs. B. F. Huntley, lives in Winston-Salem, and his brother, Dr. Benjamin F. Huntley, III, a 1946 graduate of Washington and Lee, is a leading Winston-Salem physician. by Sidney M. B. Coulling Rational intellect vs. the new sensibility: Phi Beta Kappa and the cultural crisis Dr. Sidney M. B. Coulling, professor of English, presi- dent of Gamma of Virginia of Phi Beta Kappa, and a 1946 graduate of Washington and Lee, made the follow- ing remarks at the 1971 Phi Beta Kappa initiation ban- quet. His talk contributes to a better understanding of the role of learning in today’s society. In 1911 George V had recently ascended the British throne. Nicholas II was czar of Russia, and Friedrich Wilhelm was Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia. William Howard Taft was President of the United States and Woodrow Wilson was already an active candidate for the Democratic nomination. Theodore Dreiser published Jennie Gerhardt that year, and Edith Wharton published Ethan Frome. In the World Series the Philadelphia Ath- letics defeated the New York Giants, four games to two. And in Lexington, Virginia, the Washington and Lee football team was rebuilding, as the sportswriters put it, after a season which had been marked, according to a cryptic and ominous note in the Calyx, by “hostile agita- tion caused by the great number of casualties” the preced- ing year. Even so, the team had still managed to defeat the University of North Carolina, 5 to o, before losing to Alabama in the final game of the year, 3 to o. In Lexington also during the year 1911 a group of five members of the Washington and Lee faculty, four of them graduates of the Johns Hopkins and one an alumnus of Williams, formed the nucleus of a group which, that spring, secured a Phi Beta Kappa charter for the Univer- sity. These five, together with a trustee, became the char- ter members of the Gamma of Virginia Chapter. In March they elected 41 foundation members, including three United States Senators, the President of the Univer- sity of ‘Tennessee, Col. Robert E. Lee Jr., and an alumnus to whom more than one person in this audience feels an indebtedness, John M. Glenn. In April 10 more founda- tion members were elected, including the superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute and several citizens of Lexington whose names are familiar to residents of this Dr. Sidney M. B. Coulling: “I have not become president of Gamma of Virginia for the purpose of composing its obituary, nor would I have described the problems facing it if I did not have solutions to them.” 8 Phi Beta Kappa which they presumably encourage is unrelated to the real world in which we live; that they promote the acquisition of useless information and reward those who are engaged in its accumulation. In a recent article Nathan Glazer has described as a “sophisticated argument” the thesis that “tested academic ability is conceivably not related to any socially useful talents.” And only this past summer a medical doctor wrote impatiently to The Key Reporter, “Phi Beta Kappa, if it is to be meaningful, should get in- volved in life as it is lived today and not just address itself to very small audiences on very highly specialized sub- jects.” This questioning of the Society’s aims and functions is perhaps the reason why the same issue of The Key Report- er contained a Phi Beta Kappa address which an historian, Mrs. Ewart Lewis, delivered 15 years ago at Oberlin. ‘What is the point of Phi Beta Kappa?” she began. It ap- parently exists only to perpetuate itself, she answered, and then went on to argue that the point of it was completely ceremonial, ritualistic, symbolic. But this is clearly not enough to satisfy our activist friends, as I learned a num- ber of years ago when a student from one of the late Wil- liam Chaffin’s public speaking classes came to ask me what Phi Beta Kappa did. He was preparing a speech, he informed me, on useless campus organizations, and Phi Beta Kappa stood at the top of his list. When I told him that we elected members, heard an annual address from a distinguished speaker, initiated the members and honor- ed them at a banquet, and once every several years spon- sored a visiting scholar, he asked with incredulity, “And is that all you do?” When honesty compelled me to con- fess that it was, he left my office with the self-satisfied smile of one whose initial judgment has been confirmed. But of all the threats to Phi Beta Kappa as it has been traditionally conceived, probably none is more pervasive than that of the so-called counter-culture, with its eleva- tion of instinct over intellect, mysticism over reason, con- sciousness over scholarship, sensitivity over discipline. The signs of this new movement are everywhere around us, and they have already made their presence known within the Society. While one would be hesitant to say that Berkeley is the bellwether of American academic life, it is nevertheless true that trends there often anticipate larger trends across the nation. ‘There is reason to pause, con- 10 sequently, on the reflection that last year some of the students at California who were elected to membership declined to accept because of their conviction that educa- tion by “‘sensing’’ was more important than education by “learning.” By this time our initiates may have concluded that they are the victims of a cruel hoax. They have been con- gratulated on having won an empty honor, bilked of their money for the purchase of a key which is to be kept care- fully concealed, and trapped into spending a Saturday evening at a ceremonial dinner when they might have gone down the road. But of course to draw such a con- clusion would be a mistake. I have not become president of the Gamma of Virginia Chapter for the purpose of composing its obituary, nor would I have described the problems facing it if I did not have solutions to them. I have simply been employing one of the most ancient of rhetorical devices: leading you to the brink of disaster only to rescue you at the last moment and escort you to a safe vantage-point from which to envision new horizons. We may all agree, I think, that those who have been initiated into Phi Beta Kappa this evening would have been elected to membership regardless of the method of selection employed. And it goes without saying, of course, that the same assertion applies to everyone else in this room. Still, we would have to agree also that academic and curricular changes in this country have made the task of selection more challenging than it once was. In the future we may have to be more flexible, more daring, more imaginative in our search for those who deserve elec- tion to membership. Among the most significant conclu- sions of the Pass-Fail Committee, to which I earlier re- ferred, is the statement that “in the selection of members due attention [should] be paid to factors other than the grade point average, such as evidence of genuine intellec- tual interest and distinguished scholarship.” Precisely how these are to be determined is an obvious difficulty, and a crucial one. But it is one that we shall have to face. ust as we shall have to face also the question of social responsibility. Not that this is anything new; or that we “I would advise our initiates to hold onto their keys even if they never conspicuously display them, and I see nothing inappropriate in congratulating them on their achievement.” WeL a a ae Ss oad 2 _ a8 - - 7 oy es nip 7 - - aaa ae be Phi Beta Kappa I believe that in the present times it can and must be. It can serve as a force of reason, of sanity, of calm judgment, of respect for evidence and for logic. Among the less reassuring signs of the times is the sheer emotionalism that is brought to bear on some of our difficulties. Americans, a writer in The New Yorker re- cently observed, seen incapable of discussing any problem except on “the single level of atrocity.” An English critic, in a devastating review of The Greening of America, de- clared that we debate all our issues with a “mindless” and “self-dramatizing intensity.” In his parting remarks at the White House last December, Daniel Moynihan spoke of the hysteria with which we lurch “from crisis to crisis with the attention span of a five-year-old.” Under such circumstances, can anyone doubt that there is a useful role to be played by a Society which traditionally has sought to emulate the calm objectivity of the Greeks? And then there are the forces of a radical subjectivity which have assaulted academic life in particular. Several years ago Daniel Bell described this challenge of sensibil- ity, of private experience, as the most significant challenge facing American colleges and universities, and last Sep- tember the chancellor of Indiana University made it the subject of his address to the Triennial Council. In this new movement are elements which all of us can welcome, and it is not my purpose to condemn it. But at the same time one should recognize that by itself it is inadequate and that it needs a contrary force to check and order it. Art does not always tell the truth, Lionel Trilling once observed, nor does it always give us the best kind of truth. It can even generate falsehood and accustom us to them, and therefore, he concluded, it calls for the higher judg- ment of the rational intellect. This radical subjectivism of the present era is not a new phenomenon. In many of its manifestations it bears a striking resemblance to the Romanticism of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and in particu- lar to the reflections of one of the most appealing figures in that movement, John Keats. Like present-day subjec- tives, Keats asserted the primacy of the individual con- sciousness. The imagination, he said, was like Adam’s dream; “he awoke and found it truth.” And like the mod- ern prophets of a new sensibility, Keats espoused an epis- temology in which the sensuous faculties replaced the in- 12 tellectual. “O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!” he exclaimed. We would enjoy ourselves in the hereafter, he conjectured, by repeating in a finer tone what we called happiness on earth; but he warned his friend Benjamin Bailey that such a future was reserved for those who delighted in sensation rather than hungered after truth. Axioms in philosophy, he remarked, “are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.” But it was not by scorning truth and reveling in sensa- tion that Keats became one of the major poets of the English language. The comments I have quoted are the familiar ones always cited to show his sensuous side. There was another side, however, and a more splendid one. It is nowhere better illustrated than in the compari- son he once drew between poetry and philosophy. Poetry, he said, “‘is not so fine a thing as philosophy—for the same reason that an eagle is not so fine a thing as a truth.” Here, I think, is the final judgment to be passed on the espousers of a new consciousness, a new sensitivity—and it is pro- nounced by one of their own. This is why I am not doubtful about the future of Phi Beta Kappa. I would advise our initiates to hold onto their keys even if they never conspicuously display them, and I see nothing inappropriate in congratulating them on their achievement. Though we are confronted by a counter-culture which challenges all our basic assump- tions, we have it on the highest authority—that of the most sensuous poet since Spenser, the most felicitous poet since Shakespeare—that poetry is not so fine a thing as philosophy, for the same reason that an eagle is not so fine a thing as a truth. On this note I should like to conclude the observance of our sixtieth anniversary. At this sedate age it would perhaps be unseemly for us to celebrate until three in the morning, and, besides, the prohibition passed in 1912 and perpetuated for 59 years gives little cause for rejoicing beyond a sober hour. With my warm congratulations to this year’s initiates, then, and with the wishes of Phi Beta Kappa for their continued success; with my sincere thanks to all of you who have helped make this a pleasant —and for me memorable—occasion; and with the wishes, expressed on behalf of the entire Chapter, that Gamma of Virginia may have many happy returns, I declare the Phi Beta Kappa ceremonies of this day to be concluded. WeL 5 } Campus News Scholarship program established in memory of Basil Manly A major new endowed scholarship pro- gram has been established in memory of Basil Manly, a 1906 graduate of the Uni- versity and a distinguished government economist, corporate executive, and au- thor. The Basil Manly Memorial Scholar- ships will be awarded competitively to en- tering students on the basis of personal character, academic promise, and financial need, President Huntley said in announc- ing the program. Prospective Manly Scholars will visit the University on Scholarship Weekend, when competition begins for the school’s most prestigious scholarships. The week- end is held each spring, and a select group of outstanding students who will enter Washington and Lee as freshmen the fol- lowing fall visit the campus for personal interviews with the financial aid com- mittee. The first Manly Scholarships will be awarded to students entering the Uni- versity as freshmen this September. The new program was established by Mr. Manly’s widow, daughter, and grand- sons. Basil Manly, a native of Greenville, S.C., was named a fellow in political sci- ence at the University of Chicago after earning his A.B. degree from Washing- ton and Lee. He was awarded the M.A. de- gree from Chicago in 1910. He served as chairman of the Federal Power Commission for three years during World War II, as co-chairman with Wil- liam Howard Taft of the War Labor Board in the first World War, and drafted two of the most comprehensive and im- portant labor reports in this century. His four-volume Jron and Steel Report, issued in 1912, laid the foundation for abolishing the seven-day work week and for adopting the eight-hour day, and is recognized as the most significant investi- July, 1971 gation of a single American industry. The Child Labor Report, issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with which he was an expert, and known as the “Manly Report,” was 11 volumes in length and, with an edition of 100,000 copies, was the most widely circulated such govern- ment document ever issued. Following issuance of the two land- mark investigative documents, Manly served as director of investigation for the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations and subsequently as an economist for the Federal Power Commission and for the states of New York and Wisconsin. In 1931 he drafted a new Corrupt Practices Act while serving as special coun- sel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Cam- paign Expenditures, and in World War II was named by President Roosevelt as vice chairman of the National Defense Power Committee. In 1944 he was appoint- ed supervising commissioner with the Na- tural Gas Investigation Agency, and short- ly thereafter he retired from governmental service to become vice president and di- rector of the Southern Natural Gas Co. In addition to government work, Mr. Manly served as economic adviser to the Newspaper Enterprise Association and as special correspondent for several news- papers, including the Brooklyn Eagle, the New York World and the Newark Even- ing News. His wife, who shared in establishing the new scholarship program at Wash- ington and Lee in his memory, is the for- mer Miss Marie Merriman Bradley. They were married in Lexington Dec. 15, 1912. He died in Washington, D.C., May 11, 1950. Mr. Manly was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Manly. The Rev. Mr. Manly was president of Furman University from BASIL MANLY 1881 until 1897, and subsequently served as pastor of the Lexington Baptist Church from 1903 until 1914. The Rev. Mr. Manly’s father, Basil Manly, had: himself been a university president (Alabama). Shortly after his death in 1924, the congregation of the Lexington Baptist Church renamed the church Manly Mem- orial, in recognition of the “unusual love and esteem” in which its members held him. Major Library Grant The National Endowment for the Hu- manities and the Council on Library Resources have joined in making a $50,000 grant to Washington and Lee for an in- novative five-year program designed to in- 13 >. ee aos: oe a 4 Peyton E. Rice, Jr., above, graduated roo years after his maternal great-grandfather, , Peyton D. English, seated right below, graduated with honors from Washington > and Lee. } | | ~ July, 1971 lish and father of Peyton, Jr., is a 1940 graduate of Washington and Lee and owner of the Rice Employment Agency in Little Rock. At W&L, young Rice was secretary of Alpha Epsilon Delta premedical fraternity and a member of the swimming team. Geologists at Work Detailed geological studies and analy- ses of Virginia localities, prepared by two Washington and Lee professors, have been published by the state Division of Mineral Resources. Dr. Samuel J. Kozak is the author of Geology of the Elliot Knob, Deerfield, Craigsville, and Augusta Springs Quadrangles, and Dr. Odell Mc- Guire is the author of Geology of the Eagle Rock, Strom Oriskany, and Salts- bury Quadrangles. Both studies, the result of several years’ investigation, mapping, and field research, contain exhaustively detailed analyses of the geology of the various areas. They are parts of a long-range statewide project undertaken by the Min- eral Resources unit, in which Washing- ton and Lee’s geology department plays a substantial role. The department has pro- vided the major share of work on the pro- ject in the region. Copies of the several studies are available through the Mineral Resources Division in Charlottesville. J-School Reaccredited The American Council on Education for Journalism has reaccredited the Uni- versity’s department of journalism and communications for a five-year period. The action reaffirms Washington and Lee’s status as the only institution with an accredited journalism program in Virginia. The accreditation came after detailed analysis by the council of course offerings in journalism, the quality and scope of its faculty, and other phases of operation of the department, and following a regular visitation by representatives of the organi- zation. Washington and Lee’s is one of the smallest journalism programs to be ac- credited by the Council. Fewer than 70 are accredited in the nation. The University has received full ap- proval continually since accreditation be- gan in 1948, according to Prof. Paxton Davis, head of the department. Busy Debate Team Two debate teams from Washington and Lee took eighth and 10th places in the New York University Debate ‘Tourna- ment, in competition against teams from 64 colleges and universities from across the nation. Novice debaters Thomas Peard, a fresh- man from Atlanta, and Lawrence E. Evans, Jr., a sophomore from San Felipe, Tex., took eighth in their division of the tour- ney, compiling a 4 and 2 record. Co-cap- tains Robert Bruyere of Houston and M. Anderson Bradshaw of Norge, Va., both sophomores, also achieved a 4 and 2 rec- ord, taking 10th place in their division. The NYU tournament, one of the most competitive and respected annual debate meets, brought to a close a winning season for Washington and Lee’s debaters, who— though almost all underclassmen—carried home three trophies and several designa- tions as best team or speaker. In all, the W&L debaters participated in about 15 tournaments from Florida to New York. Other active members of the team in- cluded Cal Seaton, a junior, and Lenny Kaufman, Brian McNeil, and Averill 15 OS ee — - - oe a - ee a ee POET BETA RP ge RT . -as_-—s- Williams was one of the finalists in he the Burks eompetitio? on po- 1 to neue in a ayy “eight yeu une before ‘being ar. O “ rginia, was honored by the Un niversity’s “s inted mayor to fill an onexpined erm wucdent 1 go to another « Bookstore in “April, j just before his autobio- | and later T being elec ted year, acc prvuamed to De an Willi graphy was published, : & secon The bigge TT e new book , Man From the 2 Valley: femoirs of a 20th Canby, Virginian, was unities for students 2 at tm i s col colleges J uly, 1971, 7 a oe em re ee es - oe 7 = ee Traveller is laid to rest near the grave of his master The skeleton of Traveller, General Lee’s faithful “Confederate grey,” has been buried near the tomb of his master. A granite headstone, a gift of the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, marks the location of the grave on the south side of Lee Chapel a few feet from the crypt where General Lee and members of his family are buried. The marker was presented to the Uni- versity by Mrs. Dewey Wood of Front Royal, Va., past president of the Virginia Division, UDC, during a brief ceremony on May 8. President Huntley accepted the marker on behalf of the University. He told the concern expressed by many alum- ni and friends of Washington and Lee when during the restoration of Lee Chapel in 1962 Traveller’s skeleton was removed from display in the Lee Museum and plac- ed in permanent storage. He read the pro- logue to a poem sent to the University in 1965 by a distinguished alumnus: “For skeleton of Traveller, General Lee’s horse, generations the _ rearticulated stood in the basement of Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University just a few steps from the mortuary crypt of Robert E. Lee. There thousands of students felt its mellowed, yellowed, smooth bones with affection—a tangible link with the past. Some dared to desecrate its remains with the egotism expressed by their patronymic scrawls. Now even Traveller’s skeleton has transmigrated to parts unknown. Senti- mental eyebrows are elevated and deep concern is felt because of its disappear- ance.” The President said, ““Among other rea- sons, I am delighted to accept the dedica- tion of this marker at Traveller’s burial place to relieve that sense of concern and to restore all who have been concerned about Traveller to a sense that he has now July, 1971 et a es ed a ~ ast ‘ee? s ad 5 % ee 7 4. ee i ” gle ¢ if “ % Ls been finally layed to a resting place near his master.” He noted that Traveller has a special place in the hearts of all Virginians and all admirers of General Lee, and “I think an even more special place in the hearts of all who have known anything about Wash- ington and Lee University.” A special guest at the ceremony was Col. Jack Maury, a direct descendant of the Virginia family which gave Traveller to General Lee for the nominal sum of $1. The iron gray horse, with black mane and tail, became the General’s favorite. He was with the General throughout the Civil War and carried him through many battles. When the General came to Lex- ington to head Washington College, he came on Traveller. He often spoke and , 3 ae * * , J - ‘s :. » C4 : F 7 aS P sd . : a es ’ a ie 3 "3 led Pe <3. ‘ a ae ah, C eae 3 ad & ra ‘ ae P a Po 7, 7 ie 3 F F he hy Fg a eS nF The famous Miley photograph of Gen. Lee on Traveller. hae Se 4 . * oe &s* 2 6 : s Ae? 3. 4 a ORME ER he Bet - SW a a nee 4 aS si + : , « “gt 4 t : $ a 4 b Pe, Oe + pee est 4 jf iam Z eC) a + 3 ' ; ‘ sa 4 - . # PLP . ALS wrote of his affection for the horse. “How is Traveller?” he once wrote to his family while on a trip. “Tell him I miss him dreadfully and have repented of our sepa- ration but once and that is the whole time since we parted.” Traveller outlived his master by two years, dying of tetanus after stepping on a rusty nail. He was 15 years old. His re- mains were exhumed in 1907 from their original campus gravesite, and the skeleton placed on display. Now Traveller has been returned to the earth in keeping with Stephen Vin- cent Benet’s tribute to Traveller in John Brown’s Body: “. .. They bred such horses. in Virginia then, Horses that were remem- bered after death/and buried not so far from Christian ground... .” 19 Athletics Generals’ lacrosse team becomes a national power during 1971 season Washington and Lee’s lacrosse team became a national power this spring when the Generals put together finesse and speed to fashion an 11-2 record, finish ninth in a coaches’ poll ranking the top schools in the nation, and share the cham- pionship of the South Atlantic division with ‘Towson State. Head coach Dick Szlasa’s squad also placed five players on the Little All-Ameri- ca team and five performers on the all- division list, and Szlasa himself was select- ed to the coaching staff of the North- South game held this year at Tufts Uni- versity in Boston. The 11-2 record was the best ever for a W&L lacrosse team, representing wins over North Carolina (10-3), Duke (16-2), Ran- dolph-Macon (14-8), Baltimore University (17-3), Washington College (7-2), Balti- more Loyola (17-1), Maryland-Baltimore County (21-8), Dartmouth (13-3), Wesleyan (13-6), Connecticut (10-1), and a team of touring English college all-stars (13-11). The only losses were to Navy, 10-8, and Virginia, 13-4, At the time of those games, Navy was the nation’s third-ranked team and Virginia was No. 1. The Generals led the Naval Academy, 8-6, at one point, but the Middies came on with a pressure de- fense that led to their come-from-behind victory. At Charlottesville, W&L took a 3-2 first quarter lead, but then quickly fell under a blistering Wahoo attack and stingy defense. In leading their division for the first time, the Generals went undefeated in conference play with a 7-0 record. Co- champion Towson, which ended with a 9-0 mark in league games and a 13-1 over- all record, was not on the W&L schedule this spring but will be next year. Named to the Little All-America first team were senior defenseman Billy Brum- 20 ee: ec eT ee ee en eee sail _ ote te ee ee ee ean or Sophomore crease attackman Sam Englehart scores against Navy. back and sophomore attackman Sam En- scored 48 points on 45 goals and three glehart. Brumback was a first-team selec- assists. Senior midfielder Whit Morrill, tion last year, and Englehart this year who went to the North-South game, was WeL Bill Inge tion list. 197 shots, turning | - - | - - . | \ Bierer is appointed first Alumni Fund Chairman First Alumni Fund chairman will be James H. Bierer, Class of 1940, from Pittsburgh, Pa. 22 Washington and Lee has its first Alumni Fund chair- man. He is James H. Bierer, 40, of Pittsburgh, president and chief executive officer of Pittsburgh Corning Corp. and chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Corning of Europe. As chairman of the annual giving campaign, Bierer will direct the fund-raising effort in close cooperation with the University’s development, alumni, and publications offices. He will help in the recruitment of class agents and of metropolitan area chairmen and represent the Alumni Fund in communications with alumni and alumni fund workers. He was appointed by the Alumni Board of Directors at its May meeting. Charles F. Clarke, president of the Alumni Association, prefaced his announcement of Bier- er’s selection this way: “These are perilous times for pri- vate universities. The raising of funds from the alumni is essential to the survival of the University. So this year the University has decided and the Board of Directors has agreed to appoint a chairman of the Alumni Fund.” He praised Bierer’s willingness to take a difficult job and added: “He proposes to be more than just a waxwork chairman, and he will work hard at the task. We on the Alumni Board of Directors are grateful to him.” President Huntley described the board’s selection of Bierer as “an important forward step in long-range plan- ning for the fund,” saying that “Mr. Bierer will bring the talent and energies of an experienced administrator to the organization and operation of our program.” Bierer majored in both geology and physics at Wash- ington and Lee and holds the M.B.A. degree from Har- vard University. He became affiliated with the Corning Glass Works in 1946, advancing to manager of marketing for the corperation in 1959 and general manager of the consumer products division and vice president by 1965. He assumed his present post with Pittsburgh Corning in 1968. He is a past president of the American Glassware Manufacturers Association and has been active in sup- port of the Boy Scouts of America since 1930 and is cur- rently a member of the National Council. Bierer will begin work immediately in reviewing plans for the 1971-72 Alumni Fund program in coopera- tion with members of the Washington and Lee develop- ment staff. Wel / 7 = 7 re re - ee _* ao - te 7 form of higher education, has much been dedicated all the future ahead of it. There are good reasons way in which this mis perhaps for prophets of doom to pro- change—has changed. ’ claim ‘that the end is not far away for -_ +. Richard H. Turrell, 49, of Short Hills, N. J., was elected president of the Alumni Board of Directors at its May meeting. He succeeds Charles F. Clarke, Jr., ’38, a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney. Turrell is senior vice president of Fiduciary Trust Company of New York, who was treasurer of the Alumni Associa- tion last year. He is also chairman of the Steering Committee of the Robert E. Lee Associates. A. Christian Compton, ’50, of Rich- mond was named vice president of the board, succeeding Emil C. Rassman, III, 41, of Midland, Texas. T. Hal Clarke, ’38, of Washington, D. C., was elected treasur- er, succeeding Turrell. William C. Wash- burn, ’40, of Lexington was re-elected sec- retary. Named to four-year terms on the alum- ni board were Richard D. Haynes, ’58, of Dallas, ‘Texas, an attorney; J. Alvin Phil- pott, 45, of Lexington, N. C., vice presi- dent of the United Furniture Division of Burlington Industries; and Everett Tuck- er, Jr., 34, of Little Rock, Ark., president of the Industrial Development Co. They replaced Charles Clarke, Joe F. Bear, ’33, of Montgomery, Ala., and Ed- ward H. Ould, ’29, of Roanoke, Va., whose terms expired. Named to the University Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics was Thomas W. Goodwin, ’62, of Roanoke, a bank and trust officer. He succeeds Richard W. Smith, ’41, of Staunton, Va. Members of the nominating committee were William King Self, 39, of Marks, Miss., chairman, James H. Bierer, ’40, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Robert M. White, ’38, of Mexico, Mo. Alumni weekend brought the reunions of the academic and law classes of 1921, 1931, 1946, 1956, and 1961, and the Old July, 1971 | Turrell is named president ‘ of W&L Alumni Association Guard, those who were at Washington and Lee more than 50 years ago. These classes participated in a full round of banquets, campus tours, cocktail parties, and attend- ed a lacrosse game in which Washington and Lee defeated Loyola of Maryland, 17 to l. The reunions coincided with Law Day activities, including the John Randolph R. H. ‘TURRELL Tucker Lecture delivered by the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard, chief judge of the Unit- ed States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. His lecture on “Trial by Jury and More Speedy Justice” will be published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. The finals in the Burks Moot Court Competi- tion were also held along with the annual meeting of the Law Alumni Association. Members of the Old Guard and the Class of 1921—seated left to right: FE. Jackson, ’21, S. L. Raines, ’21, R. N. Latture, ’15, J. T. Gray, ’11, T. F. Raines,’14, H. K. Gibbons, ’21, W. Wisdom, ’21, E. W. Poindexter, ’21; standing: J. L. Patterson, ’21, D. Blain, ’21, G. Moss, ’21, B. James, ’21, J. F. Bain, ’21, J. R. Stuart, ’21, W. A. Gibbons, ’21, and B. Dawson, ’21. 25 Chapter News D.C. alumni honor Holton and Huntley Virginia Gov. Holton, ’44, and Presi- dent Huntley, ’50, and their wives were guests of honor at a reception and dinner in Arlington sponsored by the Washing- ton area alumni chapter. A large group of alumni attended the meeting in the Chesapeake Room of the Marriott Twin Bridges Motor Hotel and heard Charles McDowell, ’48, columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, be- come, what he called, “shamelessly senti- mental” about the campus on which he grew up and where he attended college. His father, the late Charles R. McDowell, taught law at W&L for 41 years. Typical of the stories McDowell told was how Huntley broke the news of his being elected president of the University to his parents. Huntley came by the house and found the McDowells at dinner. “He leaned against a wall in the kitchen and sort of slid on down to the floor,’’ McDowell re- called. They talked about various things for awhile, and finally Huntley, hunkered on the floor, told the news. “My mother didn’t say anything for a moment,” McDowell said. “My father took a bite of steak and then he said, ‘Katherine, get the President a chair’.” McDowell praised Gov. Holton for his moderate approach to politics in a era of rapid and upsetting change. He said Hol- ton avoided the approach of “playing 26 UNG A bed | Columnist McDowell relating stories about Gov. Holton and President Huniley. havoc and getting upsetter than the peo- ple who are upset.” Instead, he chose to “educate, conciliate and unite people.” Another honored guest was John W. Warner, Jr., 49, Under Secretary of the Navy. Also present were Robert E. Lee, IV, ’49, and Armistead Boothe, a former Virginia state senator and a member of the Alexandria law firm for which Presi- dent Huntley worked before coming back to W&L to teach law. Boothe was a guest of Alumni Secretary Bill Washburn. Arrangements for the meeting were made by Edson B. Olds, ’61, president of the Washington alumni chapter, with the help of several other alumni. NEW YORK. The annual alumni dinner and reception was held March 19 in Man- hattan in honor of President and Mrs. Huntley. Chapter President Matthews A. Griffith, ’40, presided over a short busi- ness session that included the election of new officers, and he introduced President Huntley, who gave a brief report on Uni- versity life. Griffith recognized Ross L. Ma- lone, 32, general counsel of the General Motors Corp. and Richard H. Turrell, ’49, chairman of the Robert E. Lee Associates program. Attending from the University Farris Hotchkiss, Professor of Religion Louis Hodges, and Alumni Secretary W. C. Washburn. were Director of Development NORTH TEXAS. A large number of alumni were on hand April 21 in Dallas to welcome Alumni Secretary Bill Washburn, who reported on many aspects of campus life and presented slides on University activities. Washburn complimented the chapter on helping to locate 13 candidates for admission to the University, several of whom were present at the meeting. Chap- ter President Richard D. Haynes, ’58, presided. WeL : visor to the Foundation. _— - The chair j 1S sages ° fb | rock maple, hand-ruk eC black with gold trim and welcome gift : birthdays, annive1 S: ir ec dings. All profit from ham, ’14. Price: $42. .00 f.0.b. Gardner, Massachusetts | Mail your order to” - Wasa INGTON AND. ‘Lee ~ ALUMNI, INc. _ Lexington, Virginia 244 50 _ The normal ship “the order. finished in cherry. It makes _ a | for Christ mas, s, or wed- rom sales of the | chair goes to the scholarship — fund in memory of John Gra-_ cooon fay eee pare Juvse Epwarp S$, DELAPLAINE of | a has. written two articles for, The ‘News mete ; ing an _ uninvited Meco psie Gaviionmenal ‘Authority, a | land-protection program incorporating the city of Memphis; Shelby, Tipton, Fayette, and rdeman Counties in Tennessee; and DeSoto, Marshall, and Benton n counties i in Mississippi. lifelong conservationist in the Mem- ‘d continually for the pro- milion. and extend | first : ling. He 1 | ieee | from the Army i in| 8 lonel, and he was recently promoted tte won in A Nanotas 4 1a d a ‘for ie Sais = i Wilmington = N.C. ss 1995 | tee B. WITHERSPOON is now serving ‘on the rd of governors of the American Bar a | | 7 1996 | io Dr. CHARLES W. Lowry is currently governor a of the North Carolina Piedmont district of Rotary International. ‘He will attend | pow Convention in } Australia Hine au im tne Com iideat of the Pace . He eno re | sides in Naples, Fla. 7 with eo Roebuck and ©o., i. retired July 31, 1970, and ng and . traveling. e / yeats: with the DuPont Co., mostly rial relations for he owdon joined DuPont in eC: sistant in the patrol divi- t is now the employee relations ecame division manager in toa and i in 1945 1 went to the Old Hickory work, | GRAHAM N. Lowpon re oe | In 1957 he eas | appointed managet | eee oe While _ _ hes n eles two years r of 40 years as a merchant. ; presi ie _Kingsp ) Orchestra \ssociation, vice ‘presi- ‘dent of the Tennessee Merchants Association, and a director of the United Community Fund. He is anaes a director of the Hol- ston Valley Community 'y Hospital. “The Rey oe Ty. RayMonp is vicar of St. ohn’s Episc ey Church in | Tulare, ae is president and chairman of . 1 of Rahal Communications Corp. pany has subsidiary radio and TV -etersburg, Allentown, Pa. and 5 ann in the oil 1 business, Jou D. 28 Queen City Brewery and chairman | comiaite eee. Demo gan, Ill, CHESTER PALMER joined | advertising and sales promotion. Fi siege State Rec € rently steward at Latonia, Churchill Downs, and Miles Park. tia L. WItson of Cumberland, Md. has een appointed by Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel as a new member of the State Roads Commission for the remainder of a four- year term which began in June, 1970. Wilson has been a member of the board of trustees of state colleges since Tuly, 1962. appointed by Gov. J. Millard Tawes in 1965 for a nine-year term. He is. — of cratic. State ( ee After 16 years with Johnson Motors a , Wauke- Pierce Co. in Rockland, Mass. as dir ufactures: outboard motors and v PAUL M. MILLER - is program 1 officer of i inter- national conferences with the bureau of In- ternational — _Organizations—Departinent of State. 1939 Groce H. VANTA \ has moved to 0 Atlanta where he is divasion n manager for the Eutectic Weld- “to provide cout S the development of its internati of captain. He joir He was re- | Ropert H. ADAMS: has 7 ment of Defense in wee mom’ for tl st lO V the uniform license appl: . A partner in- al of meetings, seminars, workshops, and. pub- lications. | | ARTHUR w. MANN, Jn. h has been named vice president of Elizabeth River Terminals, Inc. in Norfolk, Va. A 2q-year Navy veteran, Mann retired from the service in 1965 with the rank | Elizabeth River Termi- nals i in 1965; | as assistant manager. Oo Formerly vice president and director of River- side Press, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., THOMAS ~H. McCutcHeon is now plant manager of | Rand. d McNally in Taunton, Mas | . committee. | the off-track More recently, eee | betting committee. Wel Hampton, Va. CPA firm, ERLEY W. LEE, Jr. IS als also. on the evening — faculty at Christopher “Newport College, as SE central Peant He j ned 1960 as staff ation rl has Scorr Wuurrte authored an article in the BORN: Mr. and Mrs. Ja January-February ‘issue of New Gu d the dau hter, Jo - 7 Young Americans for Freec | pina i | ambique_ with an “exploratory dril gram, he expects to | Arabia for temporai he is also oe paged i in in privete practice.» erson ‘on ‘April 3 in Plai fielc NJ THOMAS E, STOVER and his father, ‘Epwarp E. STOVER, '37, formed artnership for the ‘BORN: Mr. and 1 Mrs. RICHARD C. HARrcKovE, general i gece of law, with ¢ offices in V Wa a daughter, Heather Leah, on Sept. 11, 1970. ingtor | is now with the: regal depart rent | S on the faculty of V Washington re I wo the U P. HOrRINs : D.C, ‘since ‘graduation from Vanderbilt law school, H. DANIEL Jones, Wt has become governm ent relations assistant at | the American Textile Manufacturers In- : | stitute. Previously, he served in the Republi- a the Navy, J Harey L. PAR- can national campaign, the er of phthalmology residency at sas and as a legis ative aid to ¢ Congre ame Te ple, ae. this a Housron Ba, a nt wR, E a promotion with Chubb & Sons, Rovat 7 <7 ‘Williams = Hoe TrReL, Jr. has been t ee where he will have i logy. Currently, he i is ; clinical psycho! the Veterans Hospital in Alle ‘Park, He has private practice in syc Grosse Pointe and is a consultant to th len Hospital i in Warren, Mich. a Jack H. ‘De JARNETTE is. now ass sistant n for Soeitunional sales at Wheat & Co. | After completing his clerkship with the Su- — preme Court of Appeals in Virginia, WILLIAM - G. BROADDUS is now with the office of the | r ge a of Virginia. class agent for the Alumni Fund for a number of years. 1926 EARL LESTER VALENTINE, a Lexington attor- ney and former municipal judge, died May 7. Except during the war years, Valentine prac- ticed law in Lexington since 1926. 1928 GEORGE T. SMITH, a prominent attorney from Portsmouth, Va., died in March. Smith re- tired five years ago. 1929 GILBERT R. LApp, JR., a native and business- man from Mobile, Ala., died March 27. Ladd, a partner in a general insurance firm, was a trustee of the University Military School, a director of the YMCA, and a director of the Mobile Arts and Sports Association. 34 1930 CHARLES Fox URQUHART, JR., a prominent at- torney from Courtland, Va., died March 15. Urquhart was a former mayor and council- man of the town, and he was a former com- missioner of accounts for Southampton County. 193] James E. Prersot, a resident of Oklahoma City, Okla., died April 20. He operated the Piersol Bond Co. for many years. 1932 Cot. DAvip M. MILLER, Virginia lawyer and sportsman, died March 10. Miller received his law degree in 1932 while serving as freshman football coach at VMI. He was an athletic di- rector and coach in the Virginia school system, and entered the Air Force in 1940, from which he was separated in 1947 as a full colonel. Since World War II, he has traveled widely, in connection with his activities as an aviation broker and sports fan. ROBERT KEENE HOADLEY, an English teacher for many years, died Feb. 27. He taught in Tenafly, N.J., at the Hill School in Potts- town, Pa., and at the Ladue School in St. Louis. KENNETH ARTHUR SMITH, an attorney from Watseka, IIl., died March 23. He was Master in Chancery, Circuit Court of Iroquois Coun- ty, Ill. Smith was also a director of the First Trust & Savings Bank, as well as the First Bank of Meadowview. 1936 SAMUEL HAMPTON HALLEY, JR., who was as- sociated with Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. of Lexington, Ky., died March 28. 1938 ERNEST L. BEALE, JR., manager of the 500 Shop of Miller and Rhoads in Richmond, Va., died March 19. Before joining the firm Beale was cwner and operator of the Beach Mart, an exclusive gift shop at Kill Devil Hills, N.C. 1940 DonaLp G. Buck, formerly assistant manager of sales service for the American Broadcasting Co., died March 17 in Forest Hills, N.Y. He was a veteran of World War II. 1944 Dr. WILLIAM BELL GUTHRIE, professor of Eng- lish and chairman of the department at the University of Richmond, died March 13. Guthrie was a teacher at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., at Washington and Lee, and at the University of Virginia. 1965 LESLIE CHRISTOPHER WEISS, II, a licensed cer- tified public accountant, died Nov. 19, 1970. He was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Weiss was at- tending William and Mary graduate school, working on his master’s degree. 1967 RICHARD WINBoRNE died January 29. He had received his MBA from the University of Chicago and at the time of his death was employed as a marketing analyist for Humble Oil and Refining Company in Charlotte, N.C. WeL ~~ Bill Streit: great athlete, A measure of a man’s character and achievement is often the esteem in which he is held by the people who knew him best—the citizens of his hometown. Cer- tainly the Washington and Lee alumni of Birmingham, Ala., admired Bill Streit, and this tribute to him comes to you through their courtesy. William Charles (Bill) Streit, Jr., Class of 1908, acclaimed worldwide for his con- tributions to athletics, from college foot- ball to international olympics, died at the age of 86 on April 4, 1971, at his home in Birmingham, Ala. His athletic career, which began with an assistant coaching job at W&L in 1908 and spanned more than 53 work-filled years, won praise on many levels—from the Boys’ Club in his hometown to the White House to International Olympic headquarters. From the smallest to the mightiest well wisher, all were equally meaningful to Bill Streit. Fellow athletic leaders held esteem as well as affection for this man who devoted so much time and energy to amateur ath- letics and young athletes. Ole Miss Coach John Vaught hailed him as a “true sports- man giving generously of his time and loyalty without thought of personal gains and interests.” J. Lyman Bingham, execu- tive director of the U.S. Olympic Com- mittee in 1957, heralded his contributions “to the development of the spirit of sports- manship, fair play and volunteer service in the minds of our young people.” And from the White House, Deputy Assistant Wilton Persons sent congratulations and praise on behalf of the President when Birmingham paid tribute to its native son on Bill Streit Day in 1957. Though he was born and lived most of his life in Birmingham, Bill Streit left a July, 1971 -a Sportsman s sportsman BILL STREIT legacy of athletic contributions that reach- ed around the globe. A dominant figure in southern football as a player, coach and official, he was also a high U. S. Olympics official. Streit entered W&L in 1907, after at- tending Auburn University, where he participated in football, basketball and track. At W&L he captained both the 1908 football team as a tackle, and the track team as a weight man. After graduation he coached for three years at W&L. The story is told about the General's preparations of their big game. Streit wrote coach Mike Donahue of Auburn, asking for details on the famed line divide formation the Plainsmen were using suc- cessfully. Donahue diagrammed the play for him but made him promise to use it only in that one game. It won. But athletics were only a part of Bill Streit’s varied life at W&L. He was an all- round campus leader, and in recognition of this fact, he was honored after gradua- tion by being named an alumnus member to Omicron Delta Kappa, a national lead- ership fraternity for men founded in 1913 at W&L. 35 Bill Streit | In 1911 Streit joined the staff at Au- was president of the Birmingham Athletic read like a Who’s Who of Sports. | burn as line coach. It was Coach Donahue Club from 1921-23 and was made an hon-- Daniel J. Ferris, AAU secretary-treas- ss urer said: “It is nice to know, after many 1 the Olym- years of devoted service to a worthy cause, ointed that the work you have done is recognized and appreciated . . . I extend congratula- tions to you on being honored in a justly deserved manner.” Avery Brund dent of the Mm aaa i of International supporter of U.S. Olympic « n, you have © made a tremendous contribution through | the years.” | | _ And praise came in the coaching 1 world. From Shug Jordan, Auburn head _ football coach, a boy Bill practically rais- ed: “Let me con; yratulate you on this won- _derful day. In my travels I come across so many people who . 1948, at In | itstan dir rary presi- - figures gathered | in Bin ‘Bill Streit is live wherever th A Special Conference for Alumni Representatives October 7, 8, and g will Put Your Eye on Washington and Lee University A three-day conference for chapter representatives, class agents, regional agents, and others upon whom the University depends for understanding and lead- ership will be held October 7 through October g. This is the fourth in a series of such conferences designed to inform the participants about every ele- ment in the life of Washington and Lee—its strengths, recent changes, needs, aspirations, and plans for the future. Participants will not only hear the Washington and Lee story in detail from Uni- versity officials, faculty members, and students, but will also have numerous opportunities to exchange views with them in formal and informal sessions. The hard work will be interspersed with social gath- erings, and on October g Washington and Lee will play Hampden-Sydney in football at Hampden- Sydney. While the conference is primarily for those who fit into the categories of chapter representatives, class agents, and regional agents, there will be room for other alumni. If you are interested in attending this conference, please write to William C. Washburn, Alumni Secre- tary, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450. 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