) ‘ =) r i i : i i d é j i ¢ j toh ete l2 “THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE } f 4 é x 4 es OF LIBRARY CF aa .,._. WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSI Washington and Lee University == uxncron, vA yee Volome V. NOVEMBER, 1929 Number 4 JUN 2 0 9// ee _ Fart Sports $2.50 Per Year 25c Per Copy : Ser ce oe a koe oe coca ee Aeon er ct enna eee “ % q £ : ‘ PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY - This directory is published for the purpose of affording a convenient guide to Washington and Lee alumni of the various professions who may wish to secure reliable correspondents of the same profession to transact business at a distance, or of a special professional character. Alumni of all professions who by reason of specialty or loca- f the same profession are invited to place their cards in the di- tion are in a position to be of service to the alumni o rectory. Rates on application. EDMUND D. CAMPBELL, 718 and ’22 R. E. MOORE THOS. F. 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Cy will also serve as Alumni Ce ae succeeding Verbon E. Kemp in that important po- sition. Young is known as the most outstanding athlete ever turned out at Washington and Lee, and the only man ever to captain four major sports’ teams during his stay here. Be- ing a most accomplished and versatile athlete, he was captain of the football, baseball, basket- ball, and track teams between the years 1913 and 1917. Cy played halfback on the South- ern Championship, an undefeated grid machine of 1915, and for two or three years led the Blue and White gridders in scoring. He played forward and guard in basketball and led the scoring on the Southern Championship Five for 1917. Cy has lived most of the time since leaving here at Helena, Arkansas. He has coached Freshman football and basketball at Wil- liam and Mary for two years and has a most successful record there. Cy was not only an outstanding athlete, but was one of the most popular men on the campus. He is of the ‘inspirational type who will appeal to the undergraduate and his fellow-alumni alike. His choice is undoubtedly a happy one. PRESIDENT SEEKING Able President Henry Louis Smith, within a year of the retirement age limit of seventy years, announced his intention to retire July 1, 1928. The University Board of Trustees recalled cne time president George H. Denny, President of the University of Alabama. Dr. Denny investigated; felt that his precarious health would not permit acceptance. 4, A special committee of alumni with Dr. J. Morrison Hutcheson as chairman and a faculty committee were invited to confer with the Trustee’s committee on the choice of Dr. Smith’s | successor. i | Trustee John S$. Munce of Richmond, chairman of the board’s committee was claimed by death. His successor, Trustee Hugh B. Sproul, 91, as chairman of the board’s president-seeking committee died suddenly September 5. President Smith was asked to delay his retirement until his successor could be chosen. Dr. Smith generously agreed to remain in office until January 1, 1930. Unauthorized reports emanated from Lexington announcing the probable choices of Dr. Wm. M. Brown, 714, Virginia Governor H. F. Byrd and Dr. Robert H. Tucker; were pub- lished in various newspapers of the State on different occasions. Throughout the period committee members have labored unceasingly, have carefully exam- ined the qualifications of a large number of prospects, have given consideration to every ex- pression and recommendation. January Ist and President Smith’s retirement approaches. The office still seeks the man. 6 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE THE YEAR Numerous improvements to buildings and grounds were made during the summer. The A. T. O. and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity houses were completed and the Sigma Nu _ house started. ek ee An unusual number of alumni visited or called at Lexington and registered at the Alumni Building. *K OK ook The football squad reported early and settled down to stiff preliminary drills under the direction of new Coach Oberst. =e Nine hundred students were reported as registered for the 180th session of Washington and Lee, when the opening formalities were completed. * se x The deaths of Hon. Hugh B. Sproul, 91, trustee, chairman of the Board’s presidential committee and member of the executive committee and of Dr. F. L. Riley, professor of history, shocked and_ grieved Lexington and the University. - ee The football team entered their fall playing schedule, won games played with Lynchburg College, North Carolina State and St. Johns, lost to Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and V. P. I., looked for- ward to the homecoming game with the University of Virginia Saturday, November 16th. The Board of Trustees met, received gifts, elected Louis $. Epes, ’08, to their membership, announced that no decision had been reached from their delibera- tions on the choice of a president to succeed. Dr. Henry Louis Smith, retiring. Judge Wm. A. Bell, 95, one time trustee, was ap- pointed alumni secretary pro tem, served two months, resigned because of ill health. This office also seeks a man. x * The Faculty studied reports on regulation of stu- dent automobile ownership and operation, decided that W. & L. students must secure parental consent, must register their cars with the dean. i. Alumni met in Richmond, Va. and New York City, carried on the business of their sucessful and en- thusiastic local associations. oe & Homecoming day with two football games, a luncheon and the annual meeting of the Washington and Lee Alumni Association, Inc., attracted many to- ward Lexington Saturday, November 16th. COLLEGE OPENS 1749: Stern and stalwart youth abandoned ploughshare and pioneer axe, donned bear-skin and buck-skin, shouldered defensive muskets, trudged ambitious miles to the rude building that was Augusta Academy in 1749; became the first college students in the rising Empire of the West. 1929: Products of axe-hewn, musket-freed civilization modern youth wheeled ambitious miles from every compass point to the storied buildings that are Wash- ington and Lee University in 1929; matriculated 900 strong, for instruction during the 180th session. Orientation: No longer part and parcel of previous adolescent experience modern college life demands orientation preparatory to induction. Instructive directors to novitiates were Dr. R. W. Dicky, ’10, Dr. J. L. Howe, Coach Forest Fletcher, Dr. J. J. Murray, R. N Latture, 16, Dean W. H. Moreland, ’06, and Dean H. D. Campbell, ’82. Silent but effective orientators were the Lee Chapel and its priceless gem, the recum- — bent statue; the spacious lawns, the majestic old buildings, the campus customs in evidence. More factual and specific were the psychological tests. Matriculation: Thus were filled the days until Friday, Sept. 13th, when students, old and new, assembled at the gym- nasium for the formal opening. The selection of courses, registration, and the payment of fees kept professors and officials busy, completed the formali- ties of admission and qualified every entrant for pos- sible fraternity membership. Fraternities: “Rushed” since making their decision to enter Washington and Lee, freshmen reigned briefly in the nineteen Lexington houses symbolized by letters of the Greek alphabet in varied combinations. Ere the first two weeks of the anticipated college life had passed nearly two hundred wearers of the traditional blue cap were sorted and labeled by lapel buttons symbolic of their pledged fraternal affiliation. Improvements: Students, past the freshman stage in college life, — recuperated from the strain of re-settlement and fra- ternal rushing, noted the new curbs and walks to the gymnasium, to the library and between the main buildings and the Chapel, the Chapel and the memo- rial gate; noted the painters’ and plasterers’ freshen- ing touch within the college buildings. Ss THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE College Life: The gymnasium and the athletic field became bee hives of activity. Candidates for freshman and var- sity teams worked diligently under more diligent coaches. Betimes victrolas moaned and wailed, the post office was infested in premature anticipation ; tales of summer experiences were exchanged, student publications were brought to life, student societies and organizations began their seasonal functioning—the 180th session was in full swing. ee ee - ADMINISTRATION SUMMER: The routine of student applications for admission occupied President Henry Louis Smith, Treasurer Paul M. Penick, Dean H. D. Campbell and Registrar E. S. Mattingly. President Smith wrote bulletins, took a short vacation. Mr. Penick directed the num- erous additions to buildings and grounds with the able assistance of Prof. Hale Houston, ’92, and Prof. R, W.. Dickey, 10. BOARD: At the fall meeting of the Washington and Lee board of trustees in Lexington Saturday, Oct. 12, Louis S. Epes, chairman of the state corporation com- mission was elected a trustee to fill one of the two va- cancies on the board. Filling of the other vacancy was postponed. | The board continued the committee on the nomina- tion of a president to succeed Dr. Henry Louis Smith, -resigned. Dr. William McC. White was made a mem- ber of the committee to succeed Hugh B. Sproul, who died recently at Staunton. Other members on the committee are George W. St. Clair, John W. Davis, William A. McCorkle and James R. Caskie. As Dr. Smith’s connection as president ends January 1, the committee was urged to redouble its efforts in making a selection from the large number of names before the board. | Trustees present at the meeting Saturday were George W. St. Clair, rector; William A. Anderson, William McC. White, Harrington Waddell, William A. McCorkle, James R. Caskie, George Bolling Lee, W. L. Carson, Newton D. Baker, George C. Peery and William McC. Martin. It was the first meeting attended by Mr. Baker and Mr. Peery since their election as trustees. NEW TRUSTEE: Louis S. Epes, ’08, received his Bachelor’s degree at Hampden-Sydney, taught school for five years, en- tered the law school at Washington and Lee, received his degree from “Daddy” Burks in 1908, practiced law at Blackstone, Va., was appointed to the State Corporation Commission by Governor H. F. Byrd, Louts S. Epss, ’08 New Trustee was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Washington and Lee last year, looms potently in Virginia governmental affairs. ge 7 GIFTS CHAPEL: New tiling for the Chapel vestibule floor, marble covering for Chapel steps, new window panes, stone window tablets, a marker and a marble inscription plate constituted the gifts by the United Daughters of the Confederacy presented in formal exercises by Mrs. W. C. N. Marchant, and received in behalf of the University by Hon. Newton D. Baker, 94. : Secretary Baker expressed the satisfaction of the University at the sympathy and practical help ac- corded the institution by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the preservation of the memorials and tomb of General Robert E. Lee. He recalled that during the past summer much of his time had been spent in motoring through England; each day he vis- ited castles, abbeys and cathedrals, and in all of them he found ‘memorials of men who had served their country well and left behind enduring reputation for high character. It was a multitude of such men, he thought, that had made that little country master of half the world. The men he thought were multiplied from generation to generation because the youth of the land in passing through it were ever confronted with memorials of the great and the good in English- es 8 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE men. He drew a lesson to be learned by Washington and Lee students from their contact with this tomb and chapel. It was an ever present reminder of the great man whose body lay in the crypt of the mauso- leum. COMPANY “THE STUDENTS WINTER RESORT” Quality Specialists in College Printing EVERY ORDER PROMPTLY AND ACCURATELY HANDLED THE MICHIE COMPANY Printers : Charlottesville, Va. Service ‘Reasonable ‘Prices Printers of The Alumni Magazine 30 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE JOHN A. MOORE, ’08, of Miami, Florida, spent his vacation in Rockbridge County. DR. W. M. MORRISON, ’08, of Durant, Okla. motored to Lexington covering a distance of 1400 miles in five days. RUEBEN RAGLAND, ’09, of Tampa, Fia., visited friends in Lexington during the late summer. . DR. CHARLES DEVINE, ’09, of Norfolk was also a sttmmer visitor to the Campus. JOHN McKEE, ‘10, of Friars Point, Miss. is still in the business of raising cotton on his delta plantation. S Bo HARPER, 13, of Fort Smith, Ark & first vice-president of the National Tire Dealers Association. His organization has proposed a hun- dred million dollar retail tire store chain. FRANCIS P. MILLER, 714, chairman of the In- ternational Student Christian Association with head- quarters at Geneva, Switzerland, visited W. M. Mc- Elwee, ’77, during the early summer. WM. H. OAST, 716, ran for the clerkship of the Portsmouth Hustings Court. The election was con- tested in the Court of Judge B. D. White, 88. FE. B. SHULTZ, ’16, one time secretary of the W. & L. Y. M. C. A. and now student “Y” secretary at the University of Kansas who has received a fellow- ship to Columbia University was in Lexington re- cently. WOODSON P. HOUGHTON, ’1I7, has been made a member of the law firm of Ellis, Ferguson, Houghton and Gary, with which he has long been connected in Washington, D. C. The senior member of the firm is Wade H. Ellis, ’88. JAMES E. BEAR, 717, missionary to China is visiting friends and relatives in Staunton and Lex: ington on furlough from his missionary post. CHARLES KUPFER, 718, is now associated with the firm of Tompkins and Maurice with offices at 30 Broad St., New York City. DEAN OWENS, ’24, lawyer of Rome, Ga., vis- ited Lexington during the summer before the de- parture of his brother-in-law, C. H. Patterson, ’19, for China. GEORGE F. MITCHELL, ’24, is the junior member of the law firm of Killion, Di Mento and Mitchell at 294 Washington St., Boston, Mass. MARVIN F. HUMMER, ’25, has been made a partner in the firm of W. F. Hummer and Son at 802 B. St., N. E., Washington, D. C. HUGH BRYSON GLASS, B. S., ’25, is now con- | nected with the Du Pont Co. at their experimental station after graduating in chemistry at Johns Hop- kins. His address is 919 Gilpin Ave., Wilmington, Del. W. H. WILCOX, JR., ’26, is connected with the Texas City Terminal Railway Co. at Texas City, Texas. | EMMETT W. McCORKLE, B. S., ’26, received his E. E. degree from Cornell last June and is now with the Kentucky and West Virginia Power Co. at Ashland, Ky. MARION M. JENKIN, ’26, who has been study- ing art in New York visited his Lexington home dur- ing the summer. . DICK FEAMSTER, ’23, is teaching at the San Diego Army and Navy Academy at Pacific Beach, San Diego, Cal. : | REV. H. B. LEWIS, ’94, represented Washington and Lee at the Centennial celebration of Illinois Col- lege at Jacksonville, Ill., October 12-15. REV. D. L. GWATHMEY, ’09, Episcopal minis- ter at Wytheville, Va. and Leroy Cooper, ‘06, cotton factor of Memphis, ‘T'enn., visited Lexington during August. LOUIS S. EPES, ’08, new trustee, chairman of the Va. Corporation Commission has been appointed to the Va. Supreme Court of Appeals. His successor on the Corporation Commission will be GEORGE, H. PEERY, ’99, trustee and one time congressman. SIDELIGHTS: “Jimmy” Mattox, ’21, famed as a catcher and a quarterback, and more particularly for his winning drop-kick against Georgia Tech. in 1919, was a lines- man at the V. P. I-W. & L. game in Lynchburg. Younger brother “Monk” Mattox (yes, still another Monk), sophomore, was out with a sprained ankle. Coach Oberst undertook to teach the art of tackling by submitting himself as an object. The Coach, height six feet, five, weight 225 pounds, dashed down the practice field. Three student tacklers, willing to learn, dived simultaneously. The Coach reported to the practice field on crutches for several days there- after, still game, but wiser. As we go to press we learn the Generals have again appeared in the winning column with a victory over St. Johns of Annapolis to the time of 18-6. Mr. Faulkner and Mr. Williams accounted for the scor- ing. : In the meantime the University of Virginia lost to V. P. I. 33-12 at Charlottesville. — ee —— Official Fleet of The Intercollegiate Alumni One hundred and three College and Uni- versity alumni organizations have selected the United States Lines and American Merchant Lines as the official alumni transatlantic lane to Europe. 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