1953 f fx] a a ee THE Washington and Lee University Alumni Fund THE ALUMNI FUND is your Ene Organized and directed by the alumni themselves, it provides the channel through which all men of Washington and Lee can express their confidence in, and contribute to the well being of their Alma Mater. And further, the appeal is made only once a year. Your Class Agent is doing an unselfish and ~ loyal job for the University. He will do his part. Do your part by replying to his letter. Appalachian—Jerry F. Stone, ’26, Kingsport, Tennessee Augusta — Rockingham — Ed Moore, ,’25 Waynesboro, Virginia Atlanta—Thomas E. Schneider, ’24, Box 173, Station C Baltimore—Frank C. Brooks, ’46, 1206 West Lake Avenue Birmingham—Clifford B. Beasley, Jr., ’46, 2824 Overhill Road Charleston, W. Va.—W. T. Brotherton, ’47, Box 2525 Chattanooga—Charles L. Claunch, ’27, Chat- tanooga Bank Building Chicago—W. C. Olendorf, °’46, 1059 Fairoaks, Deerfield, Illinois Cincinnati—Robert B. 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Wilson, ’48, 1000 Columbia Drive, Bucknell Manor, Alexandria, Virginia THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Published quarterly by The Washington and Lee University Alumni, Incorporated Drawer 897, Lexington, Virginia Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Lexington, Virginia, September 15, 1924 Printed at the Journalism Laboratory Press of Washington and Lee University PIHGOr Fe ee Harry K. (Cy) Younc, 1917 Assistant Editor...... J. W. BENJAMIN, JR., 1954 Vol. XXVIII JUNE, 1953 No. 3 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. President..... WittiaAmM L. WEBSTER, 1912 Vice-President... .Wyatt C. HEprick, 1910 Secretary...... Harry K. (Cy) Younc, 1917 Treasurer. .[aMMETT W. POINDEXTER, 1920 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Pau. C. Burorp, 1913 Hucu J. Bonino, 1936 EMMETT W. POINDEXTER, 1920 WiLiiAM L. WEBSTER, 1912 J. STEWART Buxton, 1936 Wyatt C. Heprick, 1910 JOHN F. HENDON, 1924 H. L. SHury, 1924 OUR COVER Award winners being honored by a corps review on Presi- dent’s Day ceremonies of the Washington and Lee ROTC. A Film Story of General Lee Washington and Lee alumni and students will soon be viewing a film based on the life and pub- lic services of General Lee. The picture, “Robert E. Lee: A Back- ground Study,” has recently been released by Coronet Instructional Films of Chicago. Prepared pri- marily for educational use in high schools and colleges, it will be ap- preciated and enjoyed by all who might be interested in the great Southern chieftain and the period in which he lived and served. In April a test print of the film was shown to different groups on our campus, and the response was en- thusiastic. “Authentic, dignified, and impressive” were among the words used to describe it. In this film no actor represents Lee, nor are historical scenes or events reenacted. The story is told by an “interpretative blending of scenes, buildings, portraits and statues, relics, maps, and Lee’s own writing—which in themselves serve to recreate “Lee: ‘All. the scenes are skillfully tied together by an excellent commentary which reveals the story of Lee’s life. Washington and Lee is inev- itably interested in any book or film which concerns General Lee, but we have a special interest in this film. The scenes begin and end at Washington College and empha- size the great service the general rendered to the college, the South, 2 By ALLEN W. MocGeEr and the Nation during those last five years of his life. Our students ap- pear in several scenes, much of the film was shot here, and the writer has had a lot of fun collabor- ating with the company in production of the film. As a young man (Pete Doyle of Florida, repre- senting the thousands who pay their respects at Lee’s tomb every year) approaches the chapel and the recumbent statue of Lee, the narrator begins: “In the chapel of Washington and Lee Un- iversity in the heart of Virginia lies the body of Robert E. Lee. From all over the world men come to do honor to this defender of a civil- ization that is gone from our land— g¢one—and yet living forever in the name and memory of its finest son. Many men have won greatness in victory; Robert E. Lee achieved greatness in defeat. His greatness was measured when his mother state split from the Union he loved. His greatness was measured when, the war lost, the people of the South looked to him to point the way.” After the story of Lee’s life the scene returns to Washington Col- lege: “Even in defeat, the great victory was his, for, he said, “There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done—the honor of the integrity of principle.’ ‘In- tegrity of principle’ directed Lee, after the war, to the grounds of Washington College (impressive shot of the columns of the central building at W&L). This home in Virginia he chose over a proffered estate in England, saying, “The thought of abandoning the country ...1S abhorrent to my feelings.’ This humble office he occupied after turning down positions of great honor, prestige, and fortune because he held it the duty of every citizen ‘to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony and in no way to op- pose the policy of the State or General Governments, directed to that object’ (letter accepting presi- dency of Washington College). Thus Robert E. Lee, the com- mander who had led the people of the old South through the war be- came the college president (shot of portrait as college president in Dr. Gaines’ office) who set an ex- ample for the new South by taking a small impoverished school and building it into a great institution of learning. This is his memorial (impressive view of W&L cam- pus )—a university which has for- ever linked his name with that of his hero, George Washington. Lee has returned to the soil of Vir- ginia. But, now he belongs to the nation, the common heritage of young men from every section (shot of several young men visiting the Valentine statue of Lee) who may well follow his example and take to heart his words: “Truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from a straight line.’ Here there was no mystery—no deviation from the path of Christian duty.” In the story of his life before 1861 Lee is presented as the de- vout Christian who learned self- control and Christian forbearance from his mother, and as a born Virginian who had served his na- tion well and whose belief in states rights was a part of his belief in the Union. Material which a single observer would find difficult to ob- tain is correlated and richly pre- sented in order to place Lee in the period in which he lived. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Amid the dissention of sectional conflict Lee prayed that it would be possible “to extinguish fanati- cism North and South, cultivate love for the country and Union, and restore harmony between the different sections.” On other occa- sions he wrote: “In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but what will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and po- litical evil in any country .. . Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild and melting influ- ence of Christianity, than the storms and tempests of fiery controversy.” “I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.” But the Union was disrupted and Lee, the Virginian, was forced to make the painful “decision he was born to make” because “I could take no part in the invasion of the Southern States.” The story of the war is told by | animated maps and battle scenes. One scene was made with the co- operation of Colonel Barksdale and some cadets at the Virginia Muili- tary Institute studying Lee’s strat- egy. A realistic scene of a Con- federate camp toward the end of the war shows tired, hungry, dirty, wounded, and shabby troops around camp fires and tents sud- denly rise to their feet In an open display of affection and trust as General Lee rides into camp on Traveller. The participants in this. scene were Washington and Lee students dressed in Confederate uniforms rented from a house in Chicago. The site was on the edge of an old quarry west of Buena Vista where no telephone lines or other modern impediments marred the view. Authentic Civil War rifles were borrowed from the mu- seum at V. M. I., and Southern Seminary provided a gray horse to serve as ‘Traveller, whose head only appears before the camera as Lee rides by. The rider is now Mrs. Robert Mish of Lexington. The author of the script and the producer of the film was Richard P. Creyke of Coronet Instructional Films. Born in Farmville, Virginia, Mr. Creyke has been a life-long admirer of General Lee, and the making of the film was his idea in the beginning. Most of the scenes were made in May and June of 1952 when the director, Gilbert Altschul, and two assistants visited Lexington and other places in Vir- ginia with full equipment for the job. Jack Willcoxon, a senior at Washington and Lee, helped in making up the students who ap- peared in the camp scene. This is a 16mm sound film about fifteen minutes in length, and it is available in colors or black and white. Primarily intended for in- structional purposes in schools and colleges, it will provide informa- tion for many who are not too well informed concerning General Lee’s unique and influential place in his- tory. Purchases can be made from Coronet Instructional Films, Cor- onet Building, Chicago 1, Illinois, and the picture can be rented from film libraries all over the nation. Cy Young has a copy of the color print which he plans to show at alumni meetings. It should be especially effective for use when alumni as- sociations are entertaining pros- pective Washington and Lee stu- dents. It has been a genuine pleasure for the writer to cooperate from the beginning with Mr. Creyke and others of the Coronet company in the preparation of the script and the Teachers’ Guide which is fur- nished with the film, and in the shooting for the scenes here at Washington and Lee. No group of men could have been more co- operative and pleasant, and a more authentic interpretation of General Lee would be difficult to produce. We hope you too will like it. _ New duPont Gift Announced Mrs. Alfred I. duPont has given Washington and Lee a new gift worth approximately $170,000, President Francis P. Gaines has announced. Mrs. duPont, who has contrib- uted generously to Washington and Lee, Hollins College, and the University of the South, increased her gifts to the institutions by 5,200 shares of du Pont stock. Washington and Lee and the University of the South share equally in the latest gift. Hollins College’s share is approximately $150,000. With the announced increase of the shares of stock, Mrs. duPont’s gifts to the three institutions now total 32,200 shares with a market value of more than $3,000,000, Dr. Gaines said. Mrs. duPont has been a bene- factor of Washington and Lee for a number of years. Her gifts to WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY the Bicentennial financial program several years ago exceeded $200,000. 1953 SIPA Convention Largest Yet; 865 Attend This year’s Southern Interschol- astic Press Association convention, attended by 865 delegates, was the largest ever sponsored at Washing- ton and Lee. Among the many outstanding speakers present for the Journalism Foundation-sponsored event were Elmer Davis, noted news commen- tator; novelist James Street, author of Tap Roots, and The Gauntlet; King Feature cartoonist Stan Drake; Frank Fehlman, New York advertising counsel; and many other prominent newspaper men. The convention, an annual event for 24 years, is a standout feature in the South. W. and L. Becomes Model Rail Center Lexington’s dream of becoming the most important rail center be- tween Pittsburgh and Atlanta is long forgotten, but this quiet col- lege town is rapidly becoming the center of model railroading in Vir- oinla. Interest in model railroading here owes its birth to the Generals’ Short Line Association, a model rail fan club formed a little over a year ago under the sponsorship of the ROTC Transportation Corps unit. Members of the Association, like all true rail fans, eat, sleep, and breath railroading. Most of their spare time is spent reading litera- ture on railroading, watching movies on railroading, taking rail- road excursions, and working on their own model rail system in a remarkably square “roundhouse” behind the gym. An air of informality character- izes the organization of the rail club. There are no dues and no membership lists. All rail fans in Lexington are invited to partici- pate in the Short Line’s activities. Lt. Col. Richard W. Jones, Jr., commanding officer of the ROTC unit and sponsor of the Short Line Association, said the club’s activ- ities were carried on by about 35 “more or less active” students. In addition to students, faculty mem- bers and their children are always dropping by to see films about rail- roading or to watch the model trains. Movies about railroads and sub- jects connected with railroading are shown at the Association’s meetings every Monday night. After the movies, club members usually go to the “roundhouse” to work on the club’s elaborate model railroad system. Mainstay in the system, and only road now under construction, is the Rockbridge and Pacific, an “HO” gauge model railroad adver- tised by Short Line members as 4, “The Road of Southern Comfort.” In the blueprint stage is the Shen- andoah Southern, an “O” guage line designed to go “Through the Core of the Apple Country.” Also still in the planning stage is the Blue Ridge Intermountain 'Trac- tion Line, a future “S” guage over- head electrified line known as “The Up and Over Line, High Wheels— High Speed.” All tracks, trains, and other equipment in the Generals’ Short Line system is constructed to a very exact scale. With “O” guage equipment the scale is one-fourth of an inch to a foot. The scale on the “HO” guage is one-half that— one-eighth of an inch to a foot. “S” gcuage is halfway between the “O” and “HO” guages—three-sixteenths of an inch on the model railroad represents one foot on a standard railroad. When completed, the Rock- bridge and Pacific will wind through the entire “roundhouse.” The R&P will consist of four di- visions: a metropolitan division with passenger and freight termi- nals, a roundhouse, and a complete — rail yard; a mountain division with scale model mountains of various orades; a desert division; and a port division with more yards and facil- ities for loading and unloading cars. | Cars, locomotives, track, and track-side scenery are constructed from model kits by members of the Association. Most of the equipment is personally owned by the mem- bers. At present the rolling stock of the Rockbridge and Pacific con- sists of one road engine, one diesel, two general purpose switchers, a dock-side switcher, and a number of freight and passenger cars. When completed the Rockbridge and Pacific will have automatic switches handled from a single central control point and a fully automatic traffic signal and con- trol system. This will prevent trains from entering a section of track guarded by a red signal. The complex wiring and elec- tronic systems necessary for these controls are being installed by members of the club as work on the the rails progresses. Work on the first major loop of of the Rockbridge and Pacific is ex- pected to be completed by June. Completion of the entire R&P sys- tem with all its auxiliary lines, yards, siding, signals, and land- scaping is not expected for about two years. Work on the Shenan- doah Southern and the Blue Ridge Intermountain Traction Line may begin before the finishing touches are put on the Rockbridge and Pacific. Major problem facing the Short Line Association before these two systems can be built is where to put them. Members are hopeful of eventually expanding into a second room in the “roundhouse” now used by the ROTC band. While work is progressing on the main line of the Rockbridge and Pacific, members are using a small “O” gauge set owned by Colonel Jones to work out prob- lems of making up trains, switch- ing them, and cutting cars out of one train and joining them to an- other. Members of the Short Line are divided into three groups: Those interested primarily in planning and constructing the track, switches, and track-side scenery; those mainly interested in_ build- ing the model cars and locomo- tives; and those whose chief inter- est lies in operating the model trains. The operating group meets every Friday afternoon and dons caps of railroad engineers, dispatchers, or switchmen. An elaborate switch- ing problem involving exchanging several cars between different trains is set up. the dispatcher thinks over the problem, then gives orders THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE to the engineer and switchmen. “Brownies,” or demerits, are given to the dispatcher for the wrong di- rection; to the enginer for derail- ment, bumping cars, or collision; and to the switchmen for failure to throw the right switches at the right time. Winner of the after- noon’s problem is the man who comes out with the least number of “brownies.” “Most people think of a model train as something to run around a Christmas tree,” Colonel Jones said. “Very few ever realize the many intricate things that can be done with a model railroad that has a couple of switches.” Over-all purpose of the Gener- als’ Short Line Association, as de- fined by Colonel Jones, is to “re- store a consciousness of the im- portance of transportation at Washington and Lee.” Colonel Jones points out that Washington was very interested in canals, the major means of transportation in his time, and that Lee was a very active supporter of the Valley Rail- road, designed to run from Harp- -er’s Ferry through Lexington to Salem. | As a means of stimulating this interest, the Association has ac- quired a collection of books and periodicals on railroading and its history as well as several paint- ings and photographs of famous locomotives of the past. Included in the collection of photographs are pictures of the Baltimore and QOhio’s locomotive, President Washington, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac’s General Lee. The picture of the > General Lee, now retired from ac- tive service, was taken especially for the Generals’ Short Line As- sociation. In the collection of paintings is the George Washington, put in service in 1837 by the Columbia Incline (now part of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad System) and_be- lieved to be the first locomotive named after Washington. Also in- cluded is a painting of The Gen- TRAIN SYSTEM IN OPERATION—Randy Kean, senior from Richmond, Vir- ginia, and president of the Generals’ Short Line Association, is shown above as he operates three of the trains on the Rockbridge and Pacific model rail line. (Pitard Photo) eral, famous locomotive captured by Northern spies during the Civil War and used in an attempt to cut the line of supply of Beaure- gard’s army. Periodicals in the club’s library include all of the major railroad- ing and model railroading maga- zines of the United States as well as some published in England, France, and Australia. Walls of the club’s “roundhouse” are covered with color pictures of old and new locomotives, mostly taken from calendars and adver- tisements of various railroads. Ranky Kean, senior from Rich- mond, Virginia, is president and chief construction engineer of the Short Line Association. Pete Craw- ford, junior from Gaylord, Vir- ginia, is secretary. And so, though Lexington’s hopes of becoming a southern Chi- cago died when the Valley Rail- road went bankrupt before it reached Salem, the Rockbridge and Pacific may one day link a scale model Lexington with a scale model Pacific—50O feet away. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Chicago Meeting The Chicago chapter of the Washington and Lee Alumni As- sociation held a most successful dinner meeting at the University Club on Tuesday evening, March 17. Dr. Francis Pendleton Gaines was the principal speaker of the evening and, as always, made an inspiring and delightful address. Dr. Gaines delivered the principal address before the American Rail- way Engineering Association at its annual three-day meeting at the Palmer House, Chicago, on the evening following the Alumni din- ner. Officers elected to serve for the coming year were William C. Olendorf, ’46, President, and Alton D. Farber, ’4.0, Secretary. Washington Elects New officers for the Washing- ton, D. C., chapter of the Alumni Association are: Thomas C. Wil- son, Jr., °43, President, Jack Crowder, ’47, Vice-President, and Fred Vinson, Jr., ’48, Secretary- Treasurer. Intramural Program Is Purposeful Like Saturday’s hero on the in- tercollegiate scene, every frater- nity has its “week-end” hero, the amateur athlete who scored the winning basket against the hated rivals from the house across the street. The intramural race at Wash- ington and Lee is fierce. The sys- tem is so broad that every student has the chance to be a “hero” some- time during his collegiate career, the tempo of competition so intense that it couldn’t be increased with- out hurting some other aspect of college life. Approximately 78 per cent of the student body takes part in the program which in- cludes 12 team sports and a num- ber of individual contests. Purpose of the intramural sys- tem is three-fold: to stimulate par- ticipation in team and individual activities, to give everybody a chance to compete in athletics as a form of recreation, and to give the students healthy exercise. To aid in the program the Uni- versity is fortunate to have a full time intramural director, Norm Lord, who supervises an intricate organization of student helpers. Heading up the student adminis- trative body is an intramural manager. This manager also is a member of the intramural board which includes Norm Lord, the di- rector of physical education, and two elected students. The board is responsible for the over-all direc- tion of the program. Under the board the organization splits into three parts: admihistration, of- ficials association, and the Intra- mural Manager’s Council. This council consists of 18 stu- dents, one representative from each team. The administration board, which takes care of the equipment and plans the competition, consists of one freshman from each team, 10 sophomores selected from the previous year’s freshmen, four 6 juniors, and finally one senior— who is the student intramural man- ager. The program itself is divided into three seasons: Fall, winter and spring. The fall season includes touch football, tennis, and bowling. The winter is divided into two phases, the first phase including handball, table tennis, and basket- ball. The second phase _ has volley- ball, wrestling, and swimming. In the spring the sports schedule turns to track, softball, and golf. In ad- dition sports carnivals in the spring provide a chance for individual star athletes to win points for their teams. Competition is run on a round- robin tournament basis. The 18 teams are divided into four leagues, which compete within themselves Cy Twombly, Norm Lord and Dick Miller check the Intramural Team Standings THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE to see who goes to the finals. An- other round-robin tournament is then played among the four survi- vors to determine the University champion. A trophy is awarded the winning team and all-tournament teams are selected in each sport to add interest. The point system for the pro- gram is intricate, with the empha- sis on competition rather than winning. Each fraternity entering a team automatically receives 50 points. The winner of a league re- celves 30 more while the grand champion receives a total of 100. Points are deducted for forfeits, in- fringement of rules, and failure of the teams to cooperate in their share of the administration of the program. Sports are varied as the occa- sion demands. Last year billiards, archery, and horseshoes were on the agenda and future years may find other activities as a part of the program. The faculty has found the com- petition an ideal way to check the advances of middle-age, and to in- crease informality with the stu- dents. This year they entered a volleyball team in the tournament and promise to enter other sports in the future. Norm Lord is the first to say the program is not perfect. Limited facilities shorten the seasons. A limited budget cuts down on the equipment and students participat- ing in most sports must provide their own. There is no towel sys- tem whereby participants can draw a clean towel for a shower following a work-out. No pay is provided for officials and this pro- vides little incentive for capable students to give up their free time for this most necessary function. The faculty has accused the tempo of the program as being so great that it has hurt studies, but after discussion the Intramural Board was able to prove that the top intramural athlete in each fra- ternity was not in any manner lack- ing good grades, nor was the fraternity leading the competition the lowest academically. A freshman can participate in only one intramural sport per sea- son. Upperclassmen may partici- pate in two sports if their grade point ratio is 1.4. A Dean’s list man can participate in three. Varsity coaches have occasion- ally found the intense competition between fraternities hurting their teams. Star athletes sometimes pre- fer to play for intramural teams rather than the intercollegiate. The solution has been a rewarding of points for the team members par- ticipating on University varsities, and a black list banning from in- tramurals those deemed capable of varsity competition. Eligibility for the teams is closely watched to prevent frater- nities from padding their teams. No varsity squad man is eligible for intramurals in his particular sport or sports. A physical is required of all those planning to play intramurals for the protection of the individual. Norm Lord says his ambition is to keep the system at its pres- ent high level, with intramural and intercollegiate athletics comple- menting and supplementing each other for the betterment of the stu- dent body. Journalism School Receives Giits The Lee Journalism Foundation continued its expansion this year through the generosity of two gifts. The donations make possible 24-hour ticker-tape news service, and a course in movie-making. Telegraphic news around-the- clock service has been added to the facilities of the Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation. O. W. Riegel, director of the Foundation, said acquisition of the day and night news report, which is used by a number of journalism classes, was made possible by gifts WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY from a group of ten Virginia daily newspaper companies. Gifts by these newspaper com- panies supplemented the Frank Fuller Fund, established last year by Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, former editor of the Richmond News Leader, to provide journal- ism students with a basic wire service. Dr. Freeman established the fund with a gift of $500 in honor of Fuller, who as chief of the Richmond Bureau of the As- sociated Press was marking his 25th anniversary of AP service. The telegraphic copy includes up-to-the-minute news from all points on the globe. The service is the same as that used by many of the daily newspapers in Vir- ginia. Students process the copy during laboratory periods, writing headlines and correcting and trim- ming where necessary while mak- ing up dummy layouts of news- paper front and inside pages. Radio news students use wire copy in preparing their daily 15- minute world and local news pro- eram, broadcast each evening through the facilities of the Lex- ington radio station. The movie-making course was made possible through a gift of valuable equipment given by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Applegate of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Purpose of the course will be to familiarize students with the tools, techniques, values, and production standards of motion pictures, in connection with the department’s objective of acquainting students with both press and non-press media of communication. The faculty of the Foundation this semester includes Riegel, C. O. Voigt, Jr., and C. Harold Lauck; William Atkinson, managing edi- tor of the Roanoke Times, who teaches copy editing; William G. Leverty, chief of the copy desk of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, who teaches advanced reporting, and Herbert Patchin, laboratory in- structor in photography. News trom the Campus Band at Spring Concert Delta Upsilon Fraternity has purchased the Colonial Inn on South Main Street as a chapter house. They will occupy their new home next September. During the thirties the Inn was run by the ATO’s, now no longer on campus due to financial difficulties. * * * The Ring-tum Phi, student newspaper, has changed to allow for two editors-in-chief. One edi- tor will have complete charge of the Tuesday edition, and the other com- plete charge of the Friday edition. It is hoped that the change will al- low the editors more time to do a better job. * * * Coronet Instructional Films has asked Dr. Allen Moger, Professor of History, to serve as educational collaborator for three films con- cerning the American Revolution. (See page 2 for information about the “Film Story of General Lee.” ) + * * Three Washington and Lee seniors have been awarded Ful- bright scholarships for study abroad. John Maguire, Jackson- ville, Florida, will go to the Uni- versity of Edinburg to study philos- 8 ophy. Nick Hollis, Lakeland, Florida, will go to the University of Brussels to study Belgian novel- ists. Bentz Howard, Danville, Vir- ginia, will go to West Germany to study chemistry. Joe Gray, Lynchburg, Virginia, has been awarded an alternate scholarship to study German literature in West Germany. * * * Professor Edwin Howard of the accounting department has been appointed Registrar to succeed The 1953 Winners Receiving Intramural Trophies Charles Green who will resign September 1. Howard graduated from Washington and Lee in 1924, and began teaching the same year. He has done graduate work at Columbia, and worked during the war with the Office of Price Ad- ministration. Green has been registrar since 1949. He will leave the Universi- ty to take a job in private business. oF * * The new 64-bed Rockbridge County Hospital, which will prob- ably open in March of 1954, will contain a special ward reserved for use of University students. * * % Ruel Tyson, Greenville, North Carolina, has been awarded a grad- uate fellowship by the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis. He will enroll at the Yale Divinity School in September and enter a field called “Teaching and Research in Religion.” , - , Students returning to school next fall will find an improvement in Doremus Gymnasium. As a re- sult of a $10,000 donation by Will H. Smith, Ardmore, Oklahoma, the shower rooms will be retiled and new fixtures installed. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE John Collins Honored Dr. JoHN T. CoLuins, 724, of Lewisburg, West Virginia, has re- cently been honored by election to fellowship in The American Acad- emy of Optometry. The May issue of the Journal of the Academy features an article by Dr. Collins on the building of an ethical prac- tice in a small town, where he re- lates the story of his move to Lewis- burg and his experiences of the first few years. This article is to be used in sey- eral of the optometry colleges for gvuidance of graduates in start- ing their own practices. Phi Beta Kappa Flects Two Alumni Two prominent alumni were elected to membership in the Vir- oinia Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, along with 21 undergraduate Washington and Lee students. Dr. Henri M. Peyre, Yale University, was elected an honorary member and spoke to the initiates. The alumni selected were Colo- nel John H. Tucker (1910), of Shreveport, Louisiana, and Wil- liam A. Keleher (Law School, 1915). Both are lawyers, Colonel Tucker having received his law de- gree in 1920 from the Louisiana State University. Keleher has written three books on the history of New Mexico and is currently working on a fourth dealing with the period, 1868- 1883. Colonel Tucker was a leader in drafting the Louisiana Revised Statutes. They were selected for membership in the national honor- ary fraternity for distinguished achievement in creative work. Among the students chosen for membership were fourteen seniors, five juniors, and two law students. Junior members are: David E. Drum, Richmond; Frederich G. Lackmann, Jr., Lexington; Robert O. Paxton, Lexington; Harold J. Dr. Gaines, Rear Admiral Wood and Lt. Colonel Jones at the ROTC President’s Day ceremonies Quinn, Jr., Shreveport, Louisiana; and Henry A. Turner, Bethesda, Maryland. Senior class initiates are: Leo Barrington, Mohican Hills, Mary- land; Joseph A. Chouinard, Jr., Johnson, Vermont; Maxcy A. Evans, Jr., Charleston, South Car- olina; Robert L. Figgers, Buena Vista; James C. Galt, Charlottes- ville, Virginia; Eric C. Gambrell, Jr, Dallas, Texas; William M. Hol- lis, Lakeland, Florida; Stephen F. Lichtenstein, Roanoke, Virginia; Frank W. Ling, Roanoke, Vir- ginia; James W. McClintock, HI, Tunica, Mississippi; Charlie F. McNutt, Jr., Charleston, W. Va.; John D. Maguire, Jacksonville, Florida; George W. St. Clair, WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Richmond; and Alan Weber, White Plains, New York. Law School members are: John C. Calhoun, Huntington, West Virginia; and Kermit E. Hund- ley, Charleston, West Virginia. New Honor Fraternity A new honorary fraternity came to the Washington and Lee campus with the formal installation of 21 advanced ROTC students as L Company, 10th Regiment, of the National Society of Scabbard and Blade. Membership in the Society is open to all students in ROTC units who can successfully meet the high military and academic re- quirements set up by the organiza- tion, William L. Lord, ’07 William L. Lord, ‘O77, Will Retire This Month WittiamM LELAND Lorp, A.B. 07, M.A. ’?09—“Uncle Billy” to two generations of Woodberry Forest boys, to whom he has taught mathematics for 36 years—will re- tire in June and settle down to peace and quiet in a new home he and Mrs. Lord and their daughter Louise have built in Orange, four miles from the school. William Leland Lord is the fourth generation of Lord educa- tors. His great-grandfather was president of Darthmouth College for many years until 1863, but being one of those rare individuals known as a Yankee Southern sym- pathizer, he withdrew for a more congenial atmosphere. His son be- came a teacher, but for a short time only. The third generation was represented by William Gay Lord, who when young Leland was 2, bought Bellwood Seminary in Anchorage, Kentucky, and it was amidst the bevy of young lady boarders at this school that Leland Lord grew up. He says now that the only dif- ficulty he ever experienced in this exotic environment was that he fell in love with all the girls who cuddled him until their real beaux LO appeared, whereat the sub-teen suf- fered agonies of jealousy. When he had graduated, at 16, his father sent him off to Washington and Lee, where he took his A.B. de- gree in three years instead of four, and then decided to study engi- neering. After a year of that, he discovered it was not what he wanted and remained a fifth year to take his master’s degree. When he left Washington and Lee, armed with two degrees, he taught for seven years in a day school for boys in Nashville, Ten- nessee. In 1916 he went to Woodberry, beginning one of the longest single careers of anyone connected with the school. He was married to Miss Georgie Hume in 1917, whom he had met while in Nashville. Dur- ing these years, he has had three conspicuous avocations, the Pres- byterian Church, the Boy Scouts, and the Rotary Club. (The above is condensed from an ar- ticle appearing in The Times Dispatch written by Elizabeth Copeland.) Burton A. Farber, ‘32, Cincinnati Musician. BurTON A. FarBer, 732, has been so much a part of Cincinnati’s musical life that some young peo- ple think he has been there since music began. Actually he is only in his upper 30’s and came to the Queen City to join WLW in 1943. As a WLW musical director he is a very talented fellow at a key- board or in front of a band. Burt has not only done TV and radio work but also has led his own orchestra at so many proms, parties and public dancing spots that Cincinnatians who _ haven’t glided to his music-making are few and far between. He has made ap- pearances with the Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra, playing works of Gershwin, his favorite composer. Mr. Farber has a national repu- tation as well as a local one. Throughout the years he has journeyed to Chicago and New York to help out in the big leagues. Lately he has been commuting to New York where he is employed by a talent agency to choose and arrange numbers for singers sche- duled for appearances in top New York hotels, and also has been helping a new recording artist work his way into jukebox promi- nence. Burt is married to a Southern lady who, he says, goes to bed with a cook book instead of a detective novel. Her way with a dish is such that he’s usually planning to take off a few pounds but seldom does. They have one son, Cliff, who is studying law. Address: 909 Reilly Road, Wyoming, Cincinnati 12, Ohio. William M. Tuck, ‘21, Goes to Washington Ex-Governor Wirtitiam M. Tuck, LL.B. 721, LL.D. (honor- ary) °49, was returned to public office on Tuesday, April 14, in a special election to fill the vacancy in the United States Congress caused by the resignation of Thomas B. Stanley of the Fifth District on February 3. Mr. Stanley will run for the nomination for Governor of Virginia in the July primary to succeed John S. Battle Burton A. Farber, ’32 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE The above picture (received too late to be included in the March issue of the Alumni Magazine) was taken at a luncheon meeting at the Hotel Peabody in Memphis on February 12 in connection with Dean’s Gilliam’s trip through the South, as reported in the March issue. The group includes parents of present students and a few alumni who had secured a list of high school students who would be regarded as good prospects for Washington and Lee. On the same evening there was a dinner at the Memphis Country Club for prospective students and their parents. whose term will expire December 31, 1953. Seldom do the predictions of the future of graduates in college an- nuals come true as they have in Bill Tuck’s case. We quote from the 1921 Calyx of that year. “It is not only predicted by the members of his class but it is conceded by the entire student body that no man has a more promising future as a Statesman than ‘Bill’ Tuck.” Tuck has held office for almost William M. Tuck, ’21 27 of his 56 years. He served in the State Legislature as Delegate and Senator, became Lieutenant- Governor and then Governor of Virginia, 1946-50. Following his term as Gover- nor, Tuck retired to his 600 acre “High Hill Farm” near South Bos- ton in Halifax County, with its cattle and tobacco. One of the big- gest lures of the country for him is his Buckshoal Cabin, a well- equipped retreat with a cutoff switch on the telephone, where a man could go to meditate and listen to the soothing fiddle music of Old Jack Rollins. Rollins came to prospect for gold and copper years ago and “stuck around.” Tuck says he’s just going to take his seat in the House, listen and as- similate, digest and formulate. But like the country boy he likes to call himself, his path is bound to pass a hornet’s nest, and Tuck can hardly ever pass a hornet’s nest without at least a tentative prod at it. While at Washington and Lee Congressman Tuck was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, social fra- ternity, and Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Varsity-Alumni Football Game Eleven members of the cham- pionship Southern Conference foot- ball team of 1950 started for Gil Bocetti’s alumni team April 18, in a regular game scrimmage against the 1953 edition of the Big Blue. Bocetti, former All-Southern signal-caller of 1950-51, started as quarterback. Walt Michaels, now a member of the Cleveland Browns, filled his old shoes as fullback. Wes Abrams and Randy Broyles, who finished 1-2 in the Southern Conference for rushing yardage gained last fall, ran from the halfback positions. Jim Carpenter and Bob Gold- smith started at ends; Jack Dela- hunty and Don Fergusson at tack- les; Charlie Smith, a converted tackle, and Dick Schaub, were at the guards; and Joe McCutcheon, now in the army at Fort Eustis, centered the ball. Opposing the _ star-studded Alumni squad was an all veteran Washington and Lee team which had just completed 20 days of spring practice. Joe Lindsey, Har- 11 vey Lee Hill, Eddie Landis, and Ciro Barcellona, opened in the var- sity backfield. The final score was 19-13 in favor of the “old men” of the Alumni, but Coach Carl Wise had something to smile about as his youngsters nearly made off with a deadlock against their experienced and heavier opponents. Guard Dick Schaub pulled the game out for the Alumni when he grabbed a Varsity fumble in the last quar- ter and raced 30 yards to paydirt. Included among the oldtimers who played in the game were Charlie Harrington and Jim Stark. 7 Schools Drop Out of Southern Conference In a surprise move late this spring, seven large members of the Southern Conference dropped off to form their own league. Those seceding are: South Carolina, Duke, North Carolina State, Clem- son, University of Maryland, Uni- versity of North Carolina and Wake Forest. The name of the new confer- ence has not yet been chosen but it will be in operation next fall. Those remaining in the Con- ference with Washington and Lee are: William and Mary, Davidson, Furman, Citadel, George Wash- ington, Richmond, Virginia Maili- tary Institute, and West Virginia. At the close of the school year, West Virginia was reported anx- ious to join the new conference. Reason for the split has not been specifically given but it is believed financial reasons motivated it in part. Differences in the sizes of the schools in the old Conference with the resulting disagreement on the number of scholarships allowed and rules interpretations have also been advanced as reasons. The new conference is expected to take part in bowl games, while the old Conference, in an attempt to curb athletic expenses in com- parison to academic expenses, will curb scholarships and probably al- 12 low freshmen participation in var- sity sports. “Cap'n” Dick Smith, old man of the Washington and Lee ath- letic world, said the new split will aid the Generals as they will be up against more equal competition. “The new conference has a differ- ent approach to the game,” he said, “Washington and Lee will stick to the traditional Southern Confer- ence. We want an educational in- stitution, not an academic club.” J. Somerville, ‘12, To Be Foreign Representive Burns and Roe, Inc, Engineers and Constructors at 233 Broad- way, New York City, have an- nounced the appointment of JAMES SOMERVILLE, B.A. 712, M.A. 713, as Foreign Representative. Mr. Somerville has had many years of experience as an expert on foreign economic, trade, and commercial matters. Immediately prior to his present position, Mr. Somerville, as a For- elon Service Officer of the Depart- ment of State, was on special as- signment in Washington, serving as a Consultant on foreign eco- nomic development. From 1944-49 he was stationed in Jran—attached to the American Embassy as First Secretary and Principal Eco- nomic Officer. He also served as Charge d’Affaires (1948-49). Dur- ing World War II, Mr. Somer- ville was on the staff of the Amer- ican Embassy in London as First Secretary and Liaison Officer with the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, and also as Director of the Embassy’s Economic Warfare Division. Other assignments have included that of Assistant Com- mercial Attache with the American Embassy in London (1935-41) and Trade Commissioner (1929-35 ) — also in London. Mr. Somerville’s career has been interesting and varied. Following his graduation from Washington and Lee University (B.A. 1912, M.A. 1913), he spent three years James Somerville, ’12 as Headmaster in a boys’ prepara- tory school. In 1920 he did gradu- ate work in economics at Johns Hopkins University. After being disqualified on physical grounds for military service in 1917, he en- gaged in relief and rehabilitation work in the famine stricken areas of Russia, first with the Interna- tional Committee of the Y.M.C.A. (1917-21), and then with the American Relief Administration (1921-23). This was followed by many years service with the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce and with the State Depart- ment, including tours of duty as Chief of the Russian Section of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (1928-29) and Director of the Eastern European Division of the Office of International ‘Trade (1950-51). Hyman and McMullen Hold ‘Confab’ in Texas On a recent trip to Texas, WIL- LiaAM A. Hyman, ’13, was greeted by his old friend of college days, CLEMENTS McMULLEN, 711. A brilliant Air Force career, both as a pilot and administrator, has brought Major General Clem- ents McMullen to command the San Antonio Air Materiel Area, with headquarters at Kelly Field THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE AFB. On October 20, 1952, he completed 35 years of service with the Air Force. He was an officer-pilot in World War I, and after the war, having become enamoured with flying, he continued in the army as a flying officer. Since that time he has serv- ed in many places and capacities which army service prescribes, having visited and flown in all continents except Africa and Aus- tralia. in October, 1948, he re- turned once more to Kelly Air Force Base as Commanding Gener- al of the San Antonio Materiel Area, the position he now holds. Still an expert and active pilot, General McMullen flies his own plane when he travels. He is rated by the Air Force as Command Pi- lot, and as a Combat Observer and a Technical Observer, and one of the nation’s top authorities on mili- tary supply and aircraft main- tenance. His 35 years of service in the Air Force was climaxed by a cele- bration at which he was presented with a hand-made tea table that was constructed by members of the 2899th Depot Training Group. While General McMullen has been making his mark in Texas, William Hyman has been achiev- ing a like success as a member of the New York bar. William has re- ceived recognition for his work in the field of international law and in the field of insurance law. Not long ago the Insurance Advocate paid him high tribute for the great ser- General Clements McMullen, ’11, greets Bill Hyman, 713 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY vice he rendered as counsel for the Aetna Casualty and Surety Com- pany in a case before the United States Supreme Court. The deci- sion in this important case over- threw the doctrine of sovereign im- munity and gave the insurance companies the right to sue the goy- ernment without permission. William is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Brook- lyn-Manhattan Trial Counsel As- sociation composed of more than four hundred lawyers. He is Chair- man, also, of the New York Sym- phony Orchestra. History Repeats . The class was graduating and the class orator had a few words for them and the times they were about to meet. Listen to him: “As the sons of this venerable institution and the inheritors of her priceless legacy, she has the right to look to us for aid and sup- port in the accomplishment of the noble purposes to which she is dedicated. And it is only through the aid of her sons that she will be able to maintain the proud po- sition she occupies among our southern institutions. “Our country, too, stretches out her hands to us in her hour of peril.... The genius of the temp- est is abroad. Error has marshalled her hosts on every hand, and, standing with defiant front, chal- lenges truth to the encounter.... With the spirit of Communism dis- gcuised under the specious names of civil rights and labor reform, she would have us disregard the mel- ancholy example of France and re- peat the experiment of her stupen- dous folly.” The year? The words were de- livered by Samuel H. Chester (A.B. W. and L., ’72) at Washington and Lee University, June 27, 1872. ‘The manuscript of the ad- dress came to the Dallas News from his son, A. EK. Chester of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, Dallas. 13 Class 99.... James Mullen is a member of the law firm of Williams, Mullen, Pollard and Rogers, 1001 East Main Street, Richmond 19, Virginia. For the past year he has been in closer contact with the University than for some time due to the fact that he is one of the Trustees of Virginia Foundation for Indepen- dent Colleges and a member of the Executive Committee. He says, “This has brought me back to Lexington and in closer contact with our very able President, which contact is a pleasure.” Ol.... W. W. Glass is living at Fort Loudon Apartments, 411 North Loudon Street, Winchester, Virginia. He is now retired as an attorney and interests himself in history and genealogy, especially that of Winchester and _ Frederick County, Virginia. While on a recent visit in Louisville, Kentucky, Mr. Glass had a reunion with “Kid” Sampson (F. A. Sampson, ’03). They were fellow occupants of the “Old Blue Hotel” during college days. O3.... Stuart Chevalier is a member of the law firm of Miller, Chevalier, Peeler & Wilson, Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles 13, California. During the last year he has been chairman of the Los Angeles County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Pa- ralysis. In their recent March of Dimes they raised $1,550,000, the largest amount raised by any chapter in the United States. O5.... Judge Walter G. Riddick is living in the same house which he left to enter Washington and Lee, 2416 Wolf Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. His son, Walter G., Jr., received his A.B. and LL.B. degrees from Washington and Lee and is now, after trips to Germany and Korea, beginning the practice of law in Little Rock. A married daughter also lives in Little Rock. 06.... Claude Pobst is gratifying a lifelong ambition to travel and last June made a trip to Alaska, traveling nearly 12,000 miles. He has about 450 feet of 16 mm. films of the beautiful scenery and many lovely native art works collected on 14 =. = , ly, SRLS, gm | opt TEZ Sl Hl YS alli rm fy f f y Wht = ‘ Ay / Se Se OR WANA! * n swans ee ut uw Wi 1) “ all it ik Nos Let us remind you again that the ma- terial from which these notes was compiled consists of letters received by the class agents during the spring and summer and from questionnaires returned by alumni during that period. If notes are not up-to-date, we would appreciate any further information you can let us have the journey. He and his wife spent some time this spring travelling in Florida and next year plan an extended trip to Europe. He is still practicing law in Grundy, Virginia. Rev. Samuel Register Neel retired four years ago as a minister of the Methodist Church, after serving pas- torates in Baltimore, Roanoke and Cumberland. He is a member of the Baltimore Conference. Address: 311 Maryland Avenue, Cumberland, Mary- land. R. T. Flanary writes his Class Agent that he is still moving under single blessedness, but since he has living seven sisters and a brother and they have plenty of children, grandchildren and a couple of great grandchildren, he is never lonely. He is with the Nor- ton Hardware Company, mine and mill supplies, Norton, Virginia, Box 61. Brent E. Clark, 526 N.W. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, sold out his business a year ago and retired to look after his real estate and his family. He has three married children and six grand-children. He writes, “The Honor System is one of the greatest trainings that I obtained at Washington and Tee and I have retained it all through my business life.” O8.... Alonzo B. McMullen, Suite 316, Tampa Street Building, Tampa, Florida, has served seven years as Chairman of the Court House Committee, plan- ning and financing, and building the new Court House, which they are now occupying. He has also served seven years as Chairman of the Hillsborough County Soil Conservation District; and four years as Director of Florida Citrus Mutual. On the side he practices law and raises citrus fruit. il.... Judge William F. Blanton began his 36th year of service as Judge of Dade County, Florida, on May 2, 1953. When Judge Blanton took office in 1918, the judicial circuit which included Dade County had one judge to cover the South Florida area from Fort Pierce to Key West. Now Dade County alone has 10 Circuit Judges. Judge Blanton received his LL.B. degree in 1911; passed the Virginia and Florida bar examinations when he was 19, but had to wait until he reached the age of 21 before obtaining his Florida certificate to practice. Judge Blanton and his wife live at 1637 Tiger Trail Avenue, Miami, Florida. ae ee Rev. Lloyd R. Craighill, formerly Bishop Craighill of the Episcopal Mis- sion in China, is now Rector of Saint James Parish, Herring Creek, Lothian, Maryland. With no bandit raids, up- risings or revolutions on their door- step, as in the past, he reports no ex- citing news. His son, Lloyd, Jr., with his wife, have gone to Japan to begin their missionary service there; daughter Kate, with her husband and two chil- dren, is moving to Lancaster, Penn- sylvania, where her husband will in- tern after graduation from Yale Medi- cal School; and the youngest son is in his second year at the Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria. Dr. Craighill and his wife have bought a small house on the edge of Lexington, Virginia, where they plan to live upon his re- tirement. 13 e@eoe® Judge S. W. Maytubby, Jr., Class Agent for °13-Law, was married to Elizabeth Byrd in 1924 and they have two sons, 25 and 23. The older son, Dudley, is in Medical Technology work in Oklahoma City, and the younger son David, is a jet pilot in the Air Force, stationed at Nelli A.F.B., Las Vegas, Nevada. Address: 1712 N.W. 38th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 14.... Stuart Moore is rounding out 32 years of county law practice in the same office. Mr. and Mrs. Moore’s children are grown up, the daughter, Louise, is at the Embassy in Bangkok, and the son, Stuart, Jr., a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps in California. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Stephen L. Chadwick has had an interesting year, including a month spent in the Philippines as a member of a five-man team evaluating Mutual Security Agency operations at Mr. Stassen’s request. Similar groups went to each of eleven countries and their reports will probably be productive of results in the near future. Address: 656 Central Building, Seattle, Washington. 15 eee ® Judge C. C. (Cush) Chambers has served two full terms of 8 years as Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of West Virginia, and is now serving the third term, having been elected to succeed himself last year. He served 6 years as a member of the Judicial Council of West Virginia. Address: Logan, West Virginia. Richard B. Laughran is president of Beaumont Furniture Company, Ashe- ville, North Carolina. Since 1919 he had been associated with his father, a retired financier, as his attorney and business associate. His father died last year at the age of 94 and he is now his execu- tor and trustee, settling his estate. Mr. and Mrs. Laughran have two married daughters. Address: 27 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, North Carolina. 16.... Selden S. McNeer is a member of the law firm of Campbell, McNeer and Woods, First Huntington National Bank Building, Huntington, West Vir- ginia. His older son, Seldon S., Jr., re- ceived his A.B. and LL.B. degrees here and is now in his father’s office. The younger son, Richard G., is now a freshman at Washington and Lee. Parker W. Buhrman, after long ser- vice with the State Department, re- tired from foreign service in 1948. Address: University Club, Washington, D.C. J. C. (Chief) Myer is president of Central Supply & Equipment Co., Danville, Kentucky. His son, J. C., Jr. is vice-president and sales manager of the company. Address: 908 Perryville Street, Danville, Kentucky. Clyde H. Miller, 631 Rockford Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, writes he has been working in the same office for 31 years. He has one son, James Lee, an engineer, working in the research department at Frigidaire Division of General Motors; and four grandchil- dren. J. Crawford Rivers, for the past twenty years, has been in the fund raising field for colleges, hospitals and churches directing financial campaigns. This field of activity takes him all over the country and at the present time he is directing a $150,000 campaign for the Grosse Pointe Woods Presbyterian The Honorable JOHN W. DAVIS, A.B. 92; LL.B. ’95, has been appointed an honorary knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. The British Embassy announced on April 12, 1953, that the decoration was the highest rank of the order, which was instituted in 1917, and was the highest civilian distinction the Queen can be- stow on a United States citizen. Mr. Davis, who was 80 years old on April 13, 1953, served as United States Am- bassador to Britain from 1918 to 1921. He was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1924. Church in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich- igan. Home address: Smallwood, New York. Harrison Magruder has been doing editorial work for the past twelve years with the Federal Security Agency in Washington, D. C. Address: 1750 Church Street, N.W., Washing- ton, D.C. T. A. Myles has pacticed law in Fay- etteville, West Virginia, since gradu- ation. His oldest son is his law partner, his married daughter is his secretary. The youngest son, who is 21, finishes his second year medical work at West Virginia University in June, and next year will go to Richmond, Virginia, for further study. 7. Col C. R. Stribling was elected presi- ident of the Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the U. S$. at the annual meeting of the group in Washington, D.C. Col. Stribling has been president and superintendent of Missouri Military Academy at Mexico, Missouri, since 1933. 19°... William M. Farrar, Jr., is now asso- ciated with the Syndicate Department of A. M. Kidder & Company, member New York Stock Exchange and other WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY leading Domestic and Canadian Ex- changes, 1 Wall Street, New York 5, New York. James R. Fain is president of the City National Bank of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He says the only news he has to report is that his son, Second Lieutenant James R., Jr., 49, expects to be discharged from Army service in June, after finishing thirty-three months of service. 20)... 6's W. E. Johnston is still Sales Manager for the American Sugar Refining Com- pany’s Southern District, which em- braces ten states. His daughter, Ro- salie graduated last year from Sophie Newcomb College. Address: 132 North Peters Street, New Orleans 1, La. 21. os Noble B. Hendrix is Dean of Stu- dents at the University of Alabama, which position he has held since 1943. He is married and has two sons, one of whom is a second lieutenant in the Chemical Corps of the U. S. Army, and the other is eight years old. Robert G. Kelly is a member of the law firm of Jackson, Kelly, Morrison & Moxley, 1601 Kanawha Valley Build- ing, Charleston 22, West Virginia. For the past six years he has had three childien in college or preparatory schools; the oldest, Robert King, re- ceived his LL.B. degree at Washington and Lee last June; the oldest daughter will graduate next June from the Uni- versity of North Carolina, and the youngest will graduate the following June from Hollins. He says, “One can- not walk down any street in Charleston without meeting an alumnus in every block.” William A. Gibbons, Jr., in January 1953, was promoted from Assistant Cashier of the Colonial-American Bank of Roanoke, Virginia, to Vice-Presi- dent in charge of real estate loans. At the same time Harold G. Robertson, ’20, was elected Chairman of the Board of of the bank and reelected President. John Bell joined the law firm of Knight, Thompson, Knight and Bell, Tampa, Florida, almost thirty years ago. He writes his Class Agent that the last survivor of the members of that firm passed away last February, and P. O. Knight, Jr., and himself will change the name of the firm to Knight and Bell some time before the end of this year. H. Gray Funkhouser has been teach- ing at Phillips Exeter Academy since the fall of 1932, and feels it is an ideal place for the practice of his profession. His oldest son, John, is a freshman at Amherst; his daughter, Ann, is sixteen and will enter Northfield School for Girls next fall for a two-year prepara- tory course before entering college. 15 Dike 9 she William Francis McCann is still as- sociated with the New York Central Railroad. Last fall he took a vacation trip to the Pacific Coast. Address: 413 Northview Avenue, New Castle Penn- sylvania. 24.... H. Sinclair Phillips has recently re- tired from his law firm of Phillips, Marshall and Blalock and is devoting his time to the operation of a bus company and his energy to his vegetable and flower gardens. Address: 1346 22nd Street, Newport News, Virginia. J. Melvin Lovelace has recently been declared Democratic nominee for the office of Commonwealth’s Attorney for another four year term beginning Jan- uary 1, 1954, having served in this ca- pacity since January 1, 1938. He has been giving most of his time to the practice of law, with the exception of a few business ventures on the side. He has been on the Executive Board of the Boy Scout movement in his area for the past 10 or 15 years; is Superin- tendent of the Sunday School of the Baptist Church, and is on the Board of Deacons and the Boy Scout Committee of his church. He and Mrs. Lovelace have one daughter who is in her second year as a student at Westhampton College in Richmond, which is a part of the University of Richmond. Ad- dress: Suffolk, Virginia. ZDie #6 Clarence E. Hinkle is a member of the law firm of Hervey, Dow & Hinkle, Roswell, New Mexico. His son, James Lisle, will graduate with the A.B. de- gree here in June, and Mr. and Mrs. Hinkle expect to attend the Com- mencement exercises. Judge George O. Patterson has prac- ticed law in Clarksville, Arkansas, since 1927, and last year was elected Chan- cery Judge for the Ninth District of the state. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the College of the Ozarks, where he received his academic education. Address: Ninth Chancery Court District of Arkansas, Clarksville, Arkansas. Murrel D. Klein has had his own insurance agency in Louisville, Ken- tucky, since 1926. His family consists of two daughters, one 19, who is married, and one 15. Address: Klein & Appel, Starks Building, Louisville, Kentucky. W. E. Moore is Commonwealth’s At- torney and practicing law in Waynes- boro, Virginia. His son, Edward, Jr., is finishing his sophomore year at Wash- ington and Lee and daughter Mary is completing her Junior year at Rand- olph-Macon Woman’s college. He was in Lexington for the Alumni vs. Varsity football game at the end of spring prac- tice. 16 Walter W. Wood has pacticed law in Roanoke continuously since graduation at Washington and Lee. He is a fre- quent visitor to the campus and at- tended the Alumni vs. Varsity football game this spring. Address: Colonial- American Bank Building, Roanoke, Va. Harry Dawson is in his nineteenth year with “Uncle Sam” in the General Accounting Office in Washington. He married Helen Hendricks in 1936 and they have four children, Polly 16, Helen 14, Harry, 3rd, 12, and Edith 6. They are in four diffe:::: schools, which keeps the family bus: !{arry, Sr., gives much of his time to Church work, sings in the choir with the two older girls, and has just been elected to the vestry of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase. Address: 6309 Beech- wood Drive, Chevy Chase 15, Maryland. H. Edward Rietze, Jr., is owner of Rietze & Company, agents for elec- trical equipment. He and Mrs. Rietze are very proud of their two children, Edward, III, 15, now attending Mc- Callie School in Chattanooga, and Lucy Scott 13, attending school in Louis- ville. Address: 139 South Fifth Street, Louisville 2, Kentucky. Charles L. Gaines, Jr., is a Director and General Manager of Shook & Fletcher, Supply Company of Birming- ham, Alabama, which has large ore mining and coal mining interests. He is also President of Shook & Fletcher Insulation Co., and a Director of Twin Mining Co., of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He and his wife Margaret, son Charles 12, and daughter Hansel 9, merely ex- ists between weekend fishing trips; a month’s trip to Florida in the winter, and a month’s trip north in the summer. mainly for fishing pleasure. Address: Box 2631, Birmingham 2, Alabama. 26.... Edwin G. Hundley has been elected a Vice-President of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore, and will be transferred to Baltimore. He was formerly a New York manager of the company and has been living in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. Dr. Charles Wesley Lowry, one of Washington and Lee’s best known clergymen, has announced his resigna- tion as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase, Maryland, to take effect upon the appointment of his successor. Dr. Lowry came to All Saints from the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria where he served as pro- fessor of systematic theology from 1934 to 1943. Since the publication of his last book ‘Communism and Christ” and the consequent opening in varied ways and ever increasing measure to write, lecture and broadcast, new fields of service have made it necessary to re- sign his pastorate at All Saints. He will continue to live in Washington. Edward A. Dodd is a member of the law firm of Dodd & Dodd, Suite 515 Marion E. Taylor Building, Louisville, Kentucky. He is married and has a daughter 10 years old, and a son 8. Carl B. Knight has just completed a tour as president of the Virginia Press Association. He is editor of The Post, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and president of the Wise Printing Company. He is married and has a daughter 11, a son 8, and a daughter 3 years old. D7 is ante Euclin D. (Euc) Reeves, Class Agent for ’27-Law, and his wife have engaged passage on the Queen Elizabeth for the coronation. Later they plan an extensive tour of the continent, includ- ing Florence where they will visit Mrs. Reeves’ sister, Lady Borgianni. 29.... Earnest E. Sanders is a member of the law firm of McDonald, Sanders, Nichols, Ludlum, Wynn & Ginsburg, Oil and Gas Building, Fort Worth 2, ‘Texas. Henry P. Johnston is Executive Vice-President and Managing Direc- tor of WSGN, P. O. Box 2553, Bir- mingham, Alabama. He and Mrs. Johnston have two children, a_ son, Henry P., Jr., and a daughter, Margaret Ann, 2 years old. Robert S. Bacon is Executive Vice- President of the First National Bank, Mobile, Alabama. His daughter is a freshman at Hollins, so he will prob- ably be in Lexington more frequently during the next few years. James Gould Ritchie, after leaving Washington and Lee, lived in Massa- chussetts for 10 years, and in Texas 6 years. He has a son who is in his first year at the University of Louisville, and a daughter who will be ready for college in five years. Address: 416 Christopher Place, Louisville, Ky. Robert H. Williams, M.D., is Profes- sor and Executive Officer of the Uni- versity of Washington, School of Medi- cine, Seattle 5, Washington. : Gilbert A. Ladd, Jr., is in the in- surance business in Mobile, Alabama. His oldest son, Russell, has been ac- cepted for the fall term at Washington and Lee, which he says will naturally increase his always keen interest in the school. Address: 108 St. Joseph Street, Mobile, Alabama. J. L. Lockett, Jr., is a member of the law firm of Lockett, Lockett & Tallichet, 14th Floor, 1114 Texas Avenue, Houston 2, Texas. He is mar- ried, has two sons and a daughter, and a law practice confined mainly to his own locality—‘far too far removed from other Washington and Lee men.” THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE J. M. Shackelford during the past year has continued as Budget Manager for Johns-Manville, and has been ac- tive in the National Society for Busi- ness Budgeting, a rather new organiza- tion of budget men in industry. His oldest boy is now in the Air Force, the next boy in high school and the little girl is proud to be in the first gerade. Address: 25 Clinton Place, Metuchen, New Jersey. John Bell Towill is a member of the law firm of Hull, Willingham, Towill and Norman, Southern Finance Build- ing, Augusta, Georgia. He and his wife Harriet, have two daughters, Becky 15, and Virginia 19, now a student at Hollins College. BOs aes F. Wayne Fesenmyer is [xecutive Vice-President of the Minard Run Oil Company and a Director of the South Penn Oil Company, both of Bradford, Pennsylvania, and also President of the Lobdell-Emery Manufacturing Com- pany of Alma, Michigan. He has re- cently celebrated his twentieth wedding anniversary. He and Mrs. Fesenmyer have four children. Address, Bradford, Pennsylvania. John Lynch, M.D., has been Chair- man of the Health Division of the Richmond Area Community Council. He is also a member of the Bed Study committee for the Richmond Academy of Medicine to survey the needs for for increased hospital beds in Rich- mond, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Urban League which is an inter-racial group. On April 30 he attended a meeting in Roanoke, Vir- ginia, of the Virginia Conference of Social Work as a Resource Specialist in the field of geriatrics. He is much in- terested in this field, the science of the care of the aging, which is becoming an increasingly important problem. Ad- dress: McGuire Clinic, St. Luke Hos- pital, Richmond, Virginia. William H. Hawkins is still with the duPont Company in Wilmington, and says he still can’t break 80 on the golf course even on one of his ‘good days.” Address: 2206 West Eleventh Street, Wilmington 100, Delaware. Leonard W. Jacobs is president of Mayer & Company, one of the leading’ decorating establishments in and around Washington, D.C. He is also president of Peerless Furniture Co., of Washington. He has served for many years on the Board of Governors of the Washington Boys Club and also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Police Boys Club. He has a wife and two children, the boy, Benjamin, age 12, and daughter, Marsha, 14. Address: Care of Mayer & Company, Seventh Street, between D and EK, Washington, D. C. Col. John H. Tucker, A.B. 710, and William A. Keleher, LL.B. 715, were initiated to honorary membership in Virginia Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Wash- ington and Lee University, on April 13, 1953. Chosen for distinguished achieve- ment in creative work, Col. Tucker was a leader in drafting the Louisiana Revised Statutes; while Mr. Keleher has written three books on the history of New Mexico and is currently working on a fourth dealing with the period, 1868-1883. 5 ee. Dr. George Allen Fleece has been elected president of Columbia Bible College, Columbia, South Carolina. 32.... Henry MacKenzie is a member of the law firm of MacKenzie, Carr and MacKenzie, New Kirn Building, Ports- mouth, Virginia. After being with the government and a title company up to the time of the war, he spent four years in the Navy on destroyers and assorted craft and after the war re- turned to his home town and went into private practice. Sherwood W. Wise is a member of the recently formed partnership for the practice of law and matters of taxation under the firm name of Byrd, Wise and Smith, with offices at 1007 Deposit Guaranty Bank Building, Jackson, Mississippi. George A. Speer, Jr., has been prac- ticing law in his home town, Sanford, Florida, since 1932. He and his wife Rose, the girl he had up for finals the year of his graduation, son, Tommy 18, and daughter, Rose 14, spent several happy days in Lexington for the Bi- centennial celebration. Tommy has been accepted for the 1957 class at Wash- ington and Lee. James D. Sparks is State Senator, Thirtieth Senatorial District, Louisiana. He is Chairman of the Highway Com- mittee of the Louisiana Legislative Council which has just signed a con- tract for a survey of the entire road WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY system—State, Parish, and Municipal— which is the first of its kind in Louis- iana. When he is not otherwise engaged he practices law as a member of the firm of Thompson, Thompson & Sparks, Bernhardt Building, Monroe, Louisiana. He has a wife and two sons. Charles E. Long, Jr., has been ap- pointed 134th District Court Judge, Dallas, Texas, by Governor Allen Shivers, to succeed Judge Mac Taylor, resigned, effective March 15, 1953. Long, 42-year-old civil attorney and former Dallas civil district attorney, will serve out the remaining twenty- one months of Taylor’s four-year term. He is a member of the law firm of Touchstone, Long and Bernays, and chairman of the Board of Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church. He lives with his wife and two young sons at 4912 Wenonah, in Northwest Dallas. SF ees Lieutenant Commander A. P. Thom- son, after service with Commander Service Force, Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, was released to inactive duty and resumed civilian duties as Marine Engineer at the Bureau of Ships, where he is at present. In 1948 he joined U. S. Naval Reserve Training Unit Automo- tive Transportation under Potomac River Naval Command, and on Novem- ber 30, 1952, was promoted to Lieu- tenant Commander in Ready Reserves. He was married on October 12, 1951, to Cliffe A. Scott, Morganton, North Carolina, and they have a son, Augustus Pembroke Thomson, II, born Febru- 17 ary 23, 1953. Permanent address: Bay- ard, Warren County, Virginia, where he owns a 55 acre farm and apple or- chard. Robert R. Smith, M. D., is practicing his profession in Langhorne, Pennsyl- vania. The Smith’s have two children, Bobby 11, and Nancy 9 years old. Ad- dress: 123 West Maple Avenue, Lang- horne, Pennsylvania. M. Hoge (Mo) Crighton, after three and a half years in Dallas, Texas, is back at his old stand in Chicago as Bond Production Manager for Chubb & Son. His territory is 14 middle western states, but he flies most everywhere, so is home for week-ends. They have bought a big old “haunted” house in Wilmette and chased the ghosts away by doing it over completely in and out. His son, Richard, was four years old at Christmas. In March they adopted a daughter, Melissa (who was. six months old), a real beauty, pink, bald and a 20 pounder. Address: care of Chubb & Son, 175 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago 4, Illinois. 34 ok. W. Gilbert Faulk is representing the lower house of his Parish in the State Legislature of Louisiana, and Jim Sparks, LL.B. °32, is represent- ing the Parish in the upper Chamber of the State Legislature. They are both residents of Monroe, Louisiana. Everett E. Fisher, discharged with the rank of Major in 1944, has been back in service, stationed in California, and writes that he is now out of the army again. He and his family liked California so well that he has opened up a law office and started practice for himself. Address: 1361 Park Street, Alameda, California. Frank C. Bryant made “the grand tour in Europe” in the summer of 1935 with Sam Canty and Bill Landreth and others, and had a lot of fun. Then went to the University of South Car- olina studying law, passed the bar ex- amination; only to be caught in the draft and the War for three and one- half years. He is now living in his old home in Orangeburg, South Carolina, working with his brother who has a Photographic Supply Shop. Address: Box 164, Orangeburg, South Carolina. Fred O. Funkhouser is President of Harrisonburg Loan & Trust Corpora- tion, Harrisonburg, Virginia. The Funkhousers have two sons, Charles R., age 11, and Douglas V., age 10. Iricidentally they have the same birth- day one year apart. They also have a daughter, Janice Jay, who will be two years old on June 24 this year. j. C. Leigh, Jr., since leaving school, had six years with the Home Owners Loan Corporation and Reconstruction Finance, Cincinnati, Ohio; six years in the insurance business, which was 18 interrupted by two years in the Marine Corps; and since then has been with the Royal Crown Bottling Company of Hamlet, North Carolina. He is mar- ried and has three girls and two boys, whose ages range from six months to 14 years. Foster M. Palmer has been with the Reference Department of the Harvard College Library for the past 15 years. In an article published in the winter 1953 issue of the Harvard Library Bul- letin, he described the recent changes in his part of the library. Photography has continued to occupy much of his spare time. Address: 28 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. oI ee J. Meredith Graham, Jr., is President of the National City Bank of Rome, Georgia. He and Mrs. Graham have four children, Johnny 12, “Rickie” 10, Barry 5, and Frances 3. J. Hoston White has written the Registrar for transcripts of his Un1- versity record for matriculation pur- poses. He is completing his language requirement as well as preparatory studies at the Sarbonne where he will take his final examination in June. He will need these transcripts in order to transfer to the University of Paris V’Institute de Science Politique, in which he expects to take his Doctorate in Political Science in June 1955. Ad- dress: 19 Allee Beausejour, Villenevue, St. Georges (S. et O.) France. Tom Mehler is a field representative for Remington Arms Company, Inc., in Virginia and East ‘Tennessee, with headquarters in Waynesboro, Virginia, where he lives at 725 Locust Avenue, with his wife and two daughters. L. Edwin Martin, formerly with the J. C. Penny Company of Fayetteville, North Carolina, is now with the same company in Silver Spring, Maryland. 36.... David Basile was a recent visitor to the campus. He is teaching Spanish at the University of North Carolina; mar- ried and has two little daughters, Jen- nie and Gloria. Address: 50 Davie Cir- cle, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. John M. Miller is the author of “Law of Freight Loss and Damage Claims,” Wm. C. Brown Co., Publishers. The book covers rail and freight forwarded claim liability as well as that of motor carriers. Member of Law Department of American Trucking Association, Inc., from 1937 to 1939, Mr. Miller is former General Counsel of the Mason Dixon Lines, Inc., and attorney for other motor carriers; Assistant District Manager of Office of Defense Trans- portation and Transportation Special- ist for U. S. Board of Transportation and Research. Address: 219 Baden Street, Silver Spring, Maryland. 37 eae Charles M. Williams wrote from Torino, Italy, where he and his wife and young son are living for six months. Charlie is on leave of absence from Harvard Business School to serve as a visiting professor in a new graduate school of Business Administration there. Home address: 108 Mayo Road, Wellesley 81, Massachusetts. Edward E. Stover is practicing law with offices in the First National Bank Building, Washington, New Jersey. The Stovers have four children, Mary Ellen 12, Tom 10, Dick 4, and baby Ed 14% years old. Arnold Matthews expects to be re- tired to inactive duty in June after teaching for two years at the Naval Academy. He and his family will then return to their home, 1626 N. W. 7th Avenue, Gainesville, Florida, where he will resume his position as Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Florida. Robert P. Kingsbury is district pro- duction manager of Interchemical Cor- poration—Finishes Division, 590 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles 13, California. Richard N. Brooke has been practic- ing law in Front Royal, Virginia, since 1937, except for time in the Army as an enlisted man and later in the Navy as an officer. He has a seven-year-old son who intends to go to Washington and Lee, but first, he wants to become a cowboy. 38.... Waldo G. Miles is a member of the law firm of Jones, Woodward and Miles, Bristol, Virginia. His firm is general counsel for the S. EK. Massen- gill Company, a pharmaceutical manu- facturing company, and has had some experience in antitrust matters. He and Mrs. Miles have two daughters, six and one years of age. Frank L. Price is still with the F. B. I. working in Washington Head- quarters as Supervisor in Charge, Criminal Section. His wife, Josephine, and two boys, David age 9, and Jim- my age 7, compose his family. Address: 7309 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park 12, Maryland. Paul M. Miller, who has been U. &. Vice-Consul in Hong Kong, expects to return to the States in the spring for a vacation. He may get duty in Wash- ington or else attend a New England college in order to study the Chinese language. Otherwise he hopes to get a European post for a change. 39.... John W. Beaire is District Manager of State Farm Insurance Companies, Wheeling, West Virginia. He has specialized in the life insurance lines THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE and this year his district was enlarged to include four counties in the West Virginia panhandle. Address: 1020 Hawley Building, Wheeling, W. Va. John D. Goodin is practicing law at 111Tipton Street, Johnson City, Tenn., having recently bought the office build- ing in which he is located. 40 wes. Robert C. Hobson writes his Class Agent that he and Mrs. Hobson now have a Washington and Lee candidate, Robert C. Hobson, born November 16, 1952, who he hopes will be in the Class of 1974. He says it shocks him to think about such a date since by that time he and “Crewser,” his wife, will be grandparents, as their daughters, “Breezy” is 8, and “Pan” is 6. Address: Suite 1805-26 Home Life Building, Louisville 2, Kentucky. Tae. William M. Manger, M.D., is now doing research work at the Mayo Clinic, where he expects to be for the next two years. Address: 1421 Berkman Court, Rochester, Minnesota. Alex M. Harman, Jr., is a member of the law firm of Gilmer, Harman & Sadler, Pulaski National Bank Build- ing, Pulaski, Virginia. In addition to his law practice he is a director and general counsel for Electro Plastic Fabrics, Incorporated; a director and associate attorney for the First Federal Savings and Loan Association and a member of the Board of Buchanon Coal Company and Mayberry Buick, Incor- porated. Harry L. Martin is now getting straightened out after three years “in the Wild Blue Yonder,’ presumably the Air Force. He is going back to Embalming School in connection with his work with Martin Funeral Home, 145 West Fifth Street, East Liverpool, Ohio. Norvelle W. Moses has been asso- ciated with a Virginia concern for the past two years, his work consisting of interesting medical doctors in the phar- maceutical specialties made by A. H. Robins. Co... Inc, ‘main efice, 1/11 Ellen Road, Richmond 20, Virginia. Ad- dress: 923 Donaldsoh, San Antonio, Texas. A et Russell Ingham, since leaving school, has been with his father in Russell’s Market, 917 N. Federal Highway, Hol- lywood, Florida. Emmett Stuart Epley has been with Standard-Vaccum Oil Company, Cebu, Philippine Islands, for the past two years. He was a recent visitor to the Campus and will be in this country. Ad- dress: care Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., 26 Broadway, New York. DR. WALTER J. WILKINS, 41, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has been made a diplomat by the American Board of Surgeons. He recently returned from Cincinnati where he underwent the second and last half of an examination to be awarded the diploma in recognition of his ability as a surgeon. Dr. Wilkins has been practicing in Pine Bluff since 1951. Prior to that year he spent two years at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago as resident in surgery, the last eight months of which he was chief resident surgeon. He also served as co-chief resident surgeon of the Jefferson Hospital at Roanoke, Virginia; and 18 months as a captain in the U. S. Medical Corps’ 49th General Hospital in Tokyo, as a member of the surgical staff. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilkins, ’14, of Pine Bluff. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY John H. Casey, after finishing Law in 1950, went to work for an Independent Oil Operator in Midland, Texas, using his Geology and Law in handling duties of oil exploration and lease acquisition, etc. About a year ‘ago he opened: his own office at 1316 North Meade Ave- nue, Glendive, Montana, doing consult- ing work in Geology and handling oil properties in the Williston Basin for himself and clients. He has a young son, now four years old, born in Lexington while he was in the Law School. Standrod Tucker (Stan) Carmichael will receive the Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge on the fourth of June, and on the twentieth of June will be ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Harry H. Orgain, Jr., is in the build- ing material business with his father, uncle and brother in Clarksville, Ten- nessee. He married Hansi Dunzlemann in 1947 and they have two daughters, Nancy three and one-half, and Hansi Dee nine months old. Address: 727 McCraw Street, Clarksville, Tennessee. AO cin os John B. Holley is in the second year of a six year course studying for the Catholic priesthood in St. Mary’s Sem- inary, North Paca Street, Baltimore 1, Maryland. Dr. Roger M. Winbourne, Jr., is a Captain in the Army Air Service and is now stationed at Langley Field, Va. Edmund S. Willis is Supervisor of Sales to industrial accounts for the Electronic Division of an Erie, Pennsyl- vania, Corporation manufacturing elec- tronic comforts and molded plastics. Address: 431 Vermont Avenue, Erie, Pennsylvania. Robert W. H. Mish, Jr., has been appointed local agent for the Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada, for Lexington, Virginia. His offices are 17 Court House Square, Lexington, Virginia. ee Clarence E. Ballenger is represent- ing . Craddock-Terry Shoe Co., of Lynchburg, Virginia, in Kentucky and Tennessee. Address: 1312 Euclid, Bowling Green, Kentucky. T. W. (Bill) Sommer is with the Chief Counsel’s Office, Bureau of In- ternal Revenue, Washington, D. C., working mainly with cases under the Bankruptcy Act. 43.... Marvin Daves, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Daves, of Lexington, Virginia, has been accepted for internship at Lakeside Hospital of Western Reserve 19 Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, upon graduation from John Hopkins Univer- sity Medical School in June. He has re- ceived an appointment as assistant resident in radiology at Johns Hopkins upon completion of his internship. Captain Jack G. Murray, now with the 580th Holding & Briefing Squad- ron, Garden City, Libya, where he had been for six months, says it was pretty grim up to a week before that time when his wife and three kids joined him. He and his family will be there until March, 1955. Incidentally, he says that Garden City hasn’t a single blade of grass. Frederick B. M. Hollyday is now stationed at Karlsruhe, Germany, and is a historical writer for the Historical Division, United States Army, Europe (USAREUR). Address: Pvt. Frederick B. M. Hollyday, RA 13434615, 10 Mil. Hist. Det., APO 164, care of P. M., New York, New York. Neal N. Herndon, Jr., became pastor of the Wheaton, Maryland, Presby- terian Church on April 1. This is a new church organized last July, with no church building, but with a lot of en- thusiasm. He says, “Any alumni in the vicinity are invited to come to church.” 40 ses Ed. M. Thomposn, after graduation began working with his father and two brothers in the wholesale grocery business. His duties are concerned with sales policy and direct selling. He was married in 1950 to Miss Sunshine Jones of Montgomery and they have a daugh- ter, Sally, 22 months old, and a son Edward, Jr., 5 months old. Address: care of Hudson & Thompson, 745 De- catur Street, Montgomery, Alabama. William Cheney Smith, Jr., has re- ceived the B.D. degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louis- ville, Kentucky, on April 30, 1953. 30 ics George Whitehurst, Class Agent for °50-Academic, has just completed a television series in Norfolk on a pro- gram called “Trouble Spots Around the Globe.” Together with other mem- bers of the History Department of the Norfolk Division of William and Mary, they covered the international area of the week. He and Mrs. Whitehurst have bought a home and after July 1, their new address will be 5429 Argall Crescent, Norfolk, Virginia. He says after that time they will welcome any and all Minks who come their way. Timothy McDonald, admissions coun- selor at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, has been awarded a graduate assistantship in the history department of Duke University, effective Sep- tember, 1953. During World War II he 20 served in the European theater of op- eration and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Croix de Guerre. He was recalled to Army duty while a student here, and after his discharge, received the A.B. degree from Wil- lamette University in February, 1953. David S. Croyder, following gradua- tion, was in the Army. He is now in Harvard Business School for a two- year’s Master’s course, expecting to graduate in June 1954. Howard Steele accepted a job a year ago as sales manager of Beverly Farms, Greenville branch, and is now Secre- tary-Treasurer of the Company. After living in Mercer, Pennsylvania, and commuting 30 miles round-trip to Greenville each day, he and his wife and son, John, have moved to 288 Main Street, Greenville, Pennsylvania. Dlogs +2 Dick Pruitt was married on April 17, 1953, but forgot to give us the name of the bride. He has been associated with the Allstate Insurance Company of 110 Main Street, Anderson, South Carolina, since last December. His brother, James K., ’50, is also located in Ander- son, South Carolina, and is with J. P. Stevens and Co. Ensign Caleb Richard Williamson, 1012 Main Street, Danville, Virginia, was selected for officers’ training in the Coast Guard. He is now serving aboard the icebreaker “Westwind” as Assistant Gunnery Officer, Assistant First Lieu- tenant and Education Officer. Frederick J. (Jack) Ahern, Jr., is as- sociated with the United Corporation, a public utility holding company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Ad- dress: Stratford Road, Port Washing- ton, New York. Ted Van Leer is working in his father’s chocolate plant. Address: 175 Forest Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J. Richard P. Marcus was attending a Naval Officers Candidate School in September. Home address: Harmony Home by the Sea, Bixby Road, Little Compton, Rhode Island. Richard D. (Dick) Davis, in August, was at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Dallas, Texas, working in the disburs- ing office. Home address: 1111 East Taylor, Harlingen, Texas. Richard P. (Dick) Cancelmo is in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Home address: 201 Clwyd Road, Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. W. M. (Bill) McKinney graduated from the University of North Carolina and also received his commission as ensign in the Navy last December. He is serving on the U.S.S. Barton, a de- stroyer, in the Pacific. Home address: 2909 Avenham Avenue, Roanoke, Va. Tom Wash is in the University of of Virginia Medical School. Home ad- dress: 2326 Stuart Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. James Jones (Jimmie) White, III, is working for the duPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. Address: 1016 North Clayton Street, Wilming- ton, Delaware. John A. F. Hall, Jr., is now in the Harvard Law School. Address: 65 Langdon Street, Chambridge 38, Mass. Jim Stark has been in the Air Force since the latter part of July, 1952, and has been stationed in Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts, since January, and is work- ing in the comptroller’s office, Cam- bridge Research Center. Address: Cam- bridge Y.M.C.A., Cambridge, Mass. William C. (Bill) Bean is working for Fidelity & Deposit Company, Rich- mond, Virginia. He is a special agent and travels a great deal, visiting local agents scattered over Virginia and West Virginia. Address: 420 Mutual Building, Richmond 8, Virginia. Richard A. (Dick) Pizitz is doing graduate work in the Harvard Busi- ness School. Address: Chase A-, Sol- dier’s Field, Boston 63, Massachusetts. Bob Salisbury started his graduate work in Political Science last Septem- ber at the University of Illinois and was slated to finish his Master’s thesis in June. He received a fellowship and will go on for his Ph.D. Home address: 125 West Seminary, Wheaton, Illinois. Peter Edward Forkgen is working as a petroleum geologist with Mene Grande Oil Company, Barcelona, Vene- zuela. Address: Mene Grande Oil Co., Geology Department, Apartado 45, Barcelona, Venezuela. John Baldwin is now with Wash- ington National Insurance Company of Evanston, Illinois. His job is group representative working out of the home office, selling Teacher Group Insur- ance. Home address: 316 Main Street, Evanston, Illinois. George M. Persinger, who has been associated with the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., of Covington, Virginia, is now with Earl N. Levitt, Inc., Men’s Furnishing Store, in Lexington, Va. D2 a Bs J. B. Yanity, Jr., has successfully passed the Ohio State Bar Examination and is now a member of the law firm of Lavelle and Yanity, 207 Security Bank Building, Athens, Ohio. Frank Barron has received a com- mission as Ensign in the Navy and is aboard a Destroyer off the coast of Korea. Home address: Box 297, Rome, Georgia. (Please forward.) THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Thomas P. Winborne is a private of infantry and is now stationed in Salz- burg, Austria. Home address: 209 High- land Avenue, Lenoir, North Carolina. S. Maynard Turk is now associated with the law firm of Dodson & Pence, State & City Building, Roanoke, Va. 2a Leonard C. Dill, III, continued in the Army as a private, first class. He has just finished a year’s study of Rus- sian at the Army Language School in Monterey, California, and is now at Ft. Devens, Mass., waiting for an as- signment which will cover his last year of service. Home address: 257 Hatha- way Lane, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. PAs a Herwig (Johnny) Brandstetter re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Laws on March 4, 1953, from the University of Vienna, Austria. _ Marriages 1936 Edward S. Boze was married to Miss Margaret Blair Boisseau on April 11. They are living at 4307 Oxford Circle, West, Richmond, Virginia. 1945 John Letcher Crist, Jr., was married to Suzanne Lowry on May 28, 1953, in Tampa, Florida. 1946 Dr. Pat Devine was married to Linda Marie Dofflemoyer on June 13, 1953, in Orange, Virginia. 1952 David Leighton Waters was married to Olga Madeline Smith on March 7, 1953, in Covington, Virginia. George Stewart Boswell was married to Lara Margaret Lasser on June 3, 1953, in Conway, South Carolina. 1953 Thomas Morton Fry was married to Cornelia Frances Ahern on February 14, 1953, in New York City. They will make their home in St. Catherine, Ontario. Births 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Evans are the parents of a son, Robert Earl Evans, II, born February 13, 1953. 1939 Mr. and Mrs. J. Vaughan Beale are the parents of a son, James Vaughan, Jr., born February 16, 1953. 1941 Mr. and Mrs. George Kerr of Ben- nettsville, South Carolina, are the par- ents of a son, Thomas George Kerr, born April 28, 1953. 1943 Commander and Mrs. John R. Lig- on are the parents of a daughter, De- borah Susan, born March 29, 1953. 1946 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ottignon are the parents of twin daughters, Jean and June, born March 1, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Garland S. Daniel, Jr., are the parents of a daughter, Jo Lee, born March 30, 1953, in Greensboro, North Carolina. 1948 Mr. and Mrs. Donald 8. Hillman are the parents of a son, Peter Norman, born: March 19, 1953. 1949 Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Chaffer are the parents of twin daughters, Kerry and Kyle, born May 4, 1953. 1950 Mr. and Mrs. John Craig Carmichael are the parents of a son, John Craig, Jr., born April 12, 1953. Johnny, Sr., is now flying with the U. S$. Airforce in Korea. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill (Pete) Palmer are the parents of a daughter, De- borah, born March 8, 1953. They have a new address at 2312 Rice Avenue, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1951 Mr. and Mrs. William Herbert Hunt are the parents of a son, Douglas, born in January, 1953. In Memoriam 1893 Robert Edmundson Wade of Oak- land, California, died October 28, 1952. He was 8&1 years old. 1894 Joseph M. Dudley died March 22, 1953. His home was at Route 1, Blacks- burg, Virginia. 1904 Judge Julian F. Bouchelle, who re- tired December 31, 1952, after serving sixteen years on the Kanawha County, West Virginia, Circuit Court bench, died February 16, 1953, of a heart at- tack. 1905 Dr. Robert Lapsley died on May 22, 1953, at Jefferson Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia, following an operation. Re- tired pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, where he had served for over 21 years, he was well known as a speaker on religious sub- jects. He was the author of five books on religious and home life. Dr. Lapsley was noted as a raido speaker. He broadcast practically every Sunday morning service during his pastorate. He received the B.A. degree from Washington and Lee in 1905, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1924. At the time of his death, Dr. Lapsley was serving as Class Agent for 1905 for the 1933 Alumni Fund. His home was at 2115 Crystal Spring Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia. | 1907 John Strother Moore, retired official of the United States Bureau of Re- clamation, died April 28, 1953. His home was in Yakima, Washington. William Edwin (Riley) Wilson, died in Charleston, West Virginia, on Oc- tober 6, 1952. ae 1908 Dr. Grover A. Batten died February 20, 1953, in Honolulu, Hawaii. 1915 Zachariah Justice, of Pikeville, Ken- tucky, died January 12, 1953. 1917 John Britts Owen died February 18, 1953. His home was in Clinton, Missouri. es, John J. D. Preston, former chairman of the West Virginia Public Service Commission and former Charleston City Solicitor, died of a heart attack on February 14, 1953, in Charleston, West Virginia. Robert Henry Gardner, General Sales Manager of the A. M. Byers Co., Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, died March 9, 1953. Harold Terris Hagan died February 23, 1953, in Atlanta, Georgia. 1921 Clifford Boyd Hartley died January 18, 1953. William Cecil Kenney, of Warren- ville, South Carolina, died April 15, 1953. 1930 Howard B. Busold of East Orange, New Jersey, died March 30, 1953. 1934 William Edward Fulwiler died Febu- ary 14, 1953. His home was in Arling- ton, Virginia. 1941 ! Clifford West Stewart, of Opelika, Alabama, died November 5, 1952. 1949 Kenton Anton Williams died April 15, F953: 1952 Horace Roberson died of a heart ail- ment in a New York hospital on May 19, 1953. His home was in Bayonne, New Jersey. 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