WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY The Case for Faculty Salaries University News _ January 1956 Class Agents tor 1956 1887-1905—Alumni Office 1906 —F. R. Crawford, M.D., Box 208, Farmville, Virginia 1907 —C. C. Crockett, Stubbs Building, Dublin, Georgia 1908-A—Philip P. Page, Amherst, Virginia 1908-L—Hiram M. Dow, Box 547, Roswell, New Mexico 1909-A—J. Preston Irwin, 18681 Rivercliff Drive, Cleveland 26, Ohio 1909-L—The Rev. R. Allen Brown, 9501 9th Street, E.O.V., Norfolk 3, Virginia 1910-A—Chas. P. Robinson, 810 Park Building, Pittsburgh 22, Pennsylvania 1910-L—Hugh R. Hawthorne, 122 East 42nd Street, New York 17, New York 1911-A—Henry C. McGavack, 35-55 80th Street, Jackson Heights 72, New York 1911-L—Herman A. Sacks, National Bank of Commerce Building, Norfolk, Virginia 1912-A—J. J. Kelly, Jr., Big Stone Gap, Virginia 1912-L—Henry L. Crowgey, Box 43, Emory, Virginia _ 1913-A—Lewis Twyman, 999 S.W. First Street, Miami, Fla. 1913-L—T. R. Bandy, Box 626, Kingsport, Tennessee 1914-A—Col. Paul J. B. Murphy, “Kolosandra,” College Park, Staunton, Virginia 1914-L—James N. Daniel, P.O. Box 67, Chipley, Florida 1915-A—G. R. Shaw, Radio Corporation of America, Harri- son, New Jersey 1915-L—W. A. Keleher, Attorney at Law, 720-726 First Na- tional Bank Building, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1916-A—R. Preston Hawkins, Jr., M.D., Clifton Forge, Va. 1916-L—Lycurgus Hyre, Box 392, Buckhannon, W. Va. 1917-A—Col. Charles R. Stribling, Missouri Military Academy, Mexico, Missouri 1917-L—Harry V. Campbell, P. O. Box 1513, Charleston 25, West Virginia —Allein Beall, Jr., P. O. Box 618, Helena, Arkansas —The Rev. Joseph B. Livesay, P. O. Box 257, Center Moriches, Long Island, New York 1920-A—William E. Johnston, P. O. Box 520, New Orleans, Louisiana 1920-L—Joseph M. Glickstein, P. O. Box 1086, 512 Barnett Bank Building, Jacksonville, Florida 1921-A—Frank M. Pollock, 370 Withers Building, Norfolk 10, Virginia 1921-L—D. Boone Dawson, Box 1405, Charleston, W. Va. 1922-A—Chas. M. Campbell, 120 Main Street, Vincennes, Indiana | 1922-L—R. Bleakley James, 930 N. Irving Street, Arlington 1, Virginia 1923-A—Weldon T. Kilmon, 1207 Roundhill Road, Baltimore 18, Maryland 1923-L—John G. Ragsdale, 519 Lion Oil Building, El Dorado, Arkansas 1924-A—The Rev. Robert B. Campbell, Episcopal Rectory, Hickory, North Carolina 1924-L—J. Hampton Price, 206 Henry Street, Leaksville, North Carolina 1925-A—Henry K. Hill, 654 Starks Building, Louisville, Ky. 1925-L—Thomas R. Nelson, Box 397, Staunton, Virginia 1926-A—Emmett W. MacCorkle, Jr., Air Reduction Pacific Co., 2861 Leonis Blvd., Vernon 58, California 1926-L—W. Hill Brown, Jr., P. O. Box 7, Manassas, Virginia 1927-A—Luther H. Redcay, Isle of Que, Selinsgrove, Pa. 1927-L—G. Carlton Walters, 430 Langley Avenue, West Hempstead, New York 1928-A—Van Alen Hollomon, Majectic Theatre Building, Dal- las, Texas 1928-L—Bernard J. Wagner, 3334 Chase Avenue, Beach, Florida 1929-A—Graham N. Lowdon, 908 Greenhill Avenue, Wilming- ton, Delaware 1929-L—Alumni Office 1930-A—W. H. Hawkins, 206 Country Club Drive, Wilming- ton 3, Delaware 1930-L—W. W. (Mike) Palmer, 1605 Transit Tower, San Antonio 5, Texas 1931-A—Stuart Sanders, P. O. Box 615, Richmond, Virginia 1918 1919 Miami 1931-L—Wm. A. Glasgow, Union Trust Building, Washing- ton 5, D.C. 1932-A—Thomas W. Hancock, Morocco, Indiana 1932-L—James S. Shields, 1104 Exchange Building, Memphis, ‘Tennessee 1933-A—Edwin W. Chittum, 148 Granby Street, Norfolk 10, Virginia 1933-L—J. Hoge Tyler, III, Citizens Bank Building, Nor- folk, Virginia 1934-A—John Dillard Battle, Jr, M.D., 14311 S. Woodland Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio 1934-L—E. Rodney Massie, Jr., P. O. Box 545, Room 1, First National Bank Building, Clifton Forge, Virginia 1935-A—Allen Harrelson, Jr., R.F.D. 1, Middle Road, Glen- shaw, Pennsylvania 1935-L—Edwin T. Coulbourn, P. O. Box 627, Suffolk, Va. 1936-A—Richard T. Scully, One Grand Street, Hartford, Conn. 1936-L—Charles B. Cross, Jr., 210 Law Building, Portsmouth, Virginia 1937-A—Latham B. Weber, 821 Front Avenue, Salamanca, New York 1937-L—Edwin M. Marks, c/o J. Goldsmith and Sons Co., 123-137 So. Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee 1938-A—Seth N. Baker, Public Relations Dept., Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, Philadelphia 1, Pa. 1938-L—Dan Wilkinson, Box 257, Newport News, Virginia 1939-A—T. W. Bradley, Jr., 62 Lee Gardens, Bristol, Virginia 1939-L—Edgar L. Smith, Box 911, Lewisburg, West Virginia 1940-A—Uriah F. Coulbourn, Box 45, Windsor, N. C. 1940-L—Edwin J. Foltz, 917 Black Rock Road, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania 1941-A—C. H. Chapman, Jr., P. O. Drawer 887, Dothan, Ala. 1941-L—Louie A. Paterno, 404 Security Building, Charleston, West Virginia 1942-A—Sidney Isenberg, M.D., 101 Third Street, N.E., At- lanta 8, Georgia 1942-L—James A. Pine, 21 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, Towson, Maryland 1943 —Calhoun Bond, 341 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore 2, Maryland 1944 —George T. Wood, 2634 Landor Avenue, Louisville 5, Kentucky 1945 —H. Wise Kelly, Jr., Box 446, Fairfax, Virginia 1946 —George Stott, 242 Davey Street, Bloomfield, N. J. 1947. —William T. Romaine, 1262 Huntington Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia 1948-A—Johnson McRee, Jr., Box 229, Manassas, Virginia 1948-L—David B. Cofer, Jr., Box 325, College Station, Texas 1949-A—William H. Leedy, 15 W. 10th, Room 1200, Kansas City, Missouri 1949-L—Jack B. Porterfield, Jr., 1129 Delray Drive, Birming- ham 9, Alabama 1950-A—C. William Pacy, 169 Stanmore Road, Baltimore 12, Maryland 1950-L—Philip M. Lanier, Law Department, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, Ninth & Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky 1951-A—Upton Beall, 824 Fair Foundation Building, Tyler, ‘Texas 1951-L—F. Bert Pulley, Courtland, Virginia 1952-A—Gideon N. Stieff, Jr., 108 Ridgewood Road, Balti- more 10, Maryland 1952-L—J. B. Yanity, Jr., 207 Athens, Ohio 1953-A—Leonard B. Ranson, Jr., 905 Sixth Street, Durham, North Carolina 1953-L—Robert S. Goldsmith, Jr., Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association, 101 S. Jefferson Street, Roa- noke, Virginia 1954-A—Wiley Wright, Jr., 22-B Hillside Terrace, Lexington, Virginia 1954-L—L. C. Musgrove, P. O. Box 1868, Roanoke, Virginia 1955-A—Lowell D. Hamric, 3206 W. Franklin Street, Rich- mond, Virginia 1955-L—Gray C. Castle, 3513 South Stafford Street, Arling- ton, Virginia Security Bank Building, Appalachian—Albert G. Peery, ’32, Tazewell, Vir- ginia Augusta-Rockingham—Fred O. Funkhouser, ’34, Harrisonburg, Virginia Atlanta—Rodney Cook, ’46, 40 Pryor Street, N.W. Baltimore—David E. Ryer, ’51, 225 Stanmore Road Birmingham—W. Bestor Brown,’30, Liberty Na- tional Life Insurance Company Charleston, W. Va.—Ruge P. DeVan, ’34, United Carbon Building Chattanooga—Rody Davenport, ’50, 216 Stephen- son Avenue Chicago—Charles A. Strahorn, ’28, Winnetka Trust & Savings Bank, Winnetka, lllinois Charlotte—Herbert Woodward, Jr., ’41, 3916 Shel- lon Place 7 Cincinnati—Jack L. Reiter, ’41, 1020 Union Trust ., ’88, 1857 Union Building — Cleveland—Charles F. Clarke, Jr '21, 422 Ma- ommerce Building inia—R. Paul Sanford, Danville, virg sonic Building E. Tucker, Florida West Coast—W. Professional Building, Tampa Gulf Stream—L. L. Copley, ’25, Security Building, Miami, Florida Houston—A. Milton Morrison, ’38, 2323 Fannin Street Jacksonville—David W. Foerster, '51, Atlantic Na- tional Bank Building Kansas City—W. H. Leedy, ’49, 15 W. 10th Street Louisville—Ernest Woodward, II, ’40, Kentucky Home Life Building Lynchburg—C. Lynch Christian, Jr Mid-South—Harry Wellford, ’47, Commerce Title Building, Memphis, Tennessee , 87, 65 Broadway New York—Clark B. Winter New Orleans—Herbert Jahncke, '’30, Jahncke Serv- ’48, Stovall , 44, Box 638 ice New River and Greenbrier—Harry E. Moran, '13, Beckley, West Virginia Norfolk—Gilbert R. Swink, '35, National Bank of Commerce Building North Texas—John M. Stemmons, '31, 401 Repub- lic Bank Building, Dallas Northwest Louisiana — Richard Eglin, °44,. Shreveport, Louisiana 37, Jamestown _ Peninsular—Parke S. Rouse, Road, Williamsburg, Virginia Philadelphia—William L. Leopold, ’39, 133 Pelham - Bina M. Pullen, 36, 203 Southeastern | Building, Greensboro, North Caroli ina. Pittsburgh—Anthony E, D’Emilio, Jr., ‘41, 702 Frick Building Richmond—Don Fergusson, ‘ol, 802 Insurance Building a Roanoke—William B. Hopkins, ’42, Boxley Build- ing W. Goode, Jr., ’48, 407-09 San Antonio—John outh Texas Building "21, 4144 Lindell Ss St. Louis—John L. Patterson, Boulevard Tri-State—T. J. Mayo, ’31, Box 1672, Huntington, West Virginia Upper Potomac—William L. Wilson, Jr., ’38, 525 Cumberland Street, Cumberland, Maryland Washington, D. C.—Arthur Clarendon Smith, Jr., "41, You Street, N.W. JANUARY, 1956 Vol. XXXI No. 1 Application to change the frequency of issue of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine from four times per year in the months of March, June, October and December to four times per year in the months “of January, April, July and October has been filed at the Post Office at 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 Editor Harry K. (Cy) YounG, 1917 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC President JOHN F. HENDON, 1924 Vice-President STUARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 Secretary Harry K. (Cy) YounNG, 1917 Associate Secretary JAMEs H. PRICE, JR., 1941 Treasurer - HL L. Suuey, 1924 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Joun IF. HENDON, 1924 WILLIAM L. WEBSTER, 1912 H. L. SHUEY, 1924 MartTIN P. Burks, III, 1932 STuARD A. WURZBURGER, 1928 Hlowarp W. DosBIns, 1942 PARKE S. ROUSE, 1937 ERNEST Woopwarb, II, 1940 The Case OL aculty alaries $ THE RECENT GREAT GIFT of the Ford Foundation demonstrat- ed so dramatically, the time is past due for looking critically at the sal- aries paid to those who teach in the nation’s colleges. ‘This certainly ap- plies to Washington and Lee, too; all the proof that 1s needed lies in the fact that despite salary increases between 1946 and 1955, the gross purchasing power of the average full professor in the latter year was but 86 per cent of what it was in 1939. Putting it another way; while the consumer price index was in- creasing 92 per cent over its 1939 level, the average salary of a full professor at the University was increasing only 65 per cent. The average associate professor at the University has fared little better; his gross purchasing power during the same period has been re- duced to 88 per cent of what it was in 1939. Assistant professors have gained 5 per cent on the cost 2 of living increase. Only in the in- structor rank, however, has the bal- ance tipped appreciably in favor of the teacher; here 1955 purchasing power was 18 per cent greater than it was IN 1939. In a recent editorial which it gave wide publicity, the McGraw Hill Publishing Company viewed the problem nationwide. “From 1940 through 1954,” the editorial noted, “the real income of the aver- age industrial worker (that is, what his wages would purchase in goods and services) has increased by al- most one-half. Among professional groups, physicians have enjoyed an increase of about 80 per cent in their real income. Lawyers, far less favored financially, have had an increase of about 10 per cent, but faculty members have not only had no increase at all; over these years of prosperity their average real in- come has fallen by 5 per cent.” Facts such as these cannot be shrugged off with a casual, “Well, they knew what they were getting into when they decided to teach.” That attitude denies too many sig- nificant facts— —that the strength of America rests on a foundation of education, and that Washington and Lee’s faculty members make a very impor- tant contribution to the sturdiness of that foundation. Reference to Report of the President to the Alumni and to recent issues of the Alumni Magazine will furnish ample evidence of this fact. —that our faculty members are human beings who possess the same desires as others for some of the finer things of life, for a comfort- able home, and above all, for the financial ability to send their chil- dren to college— —that many faculty members have continued to teach at a real sacrifice to themselves and_ their families, and by this financial sac- rifice have been subsidizing Wash- ington and Lee and every student coming under their tutelage. ‘THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDING ade- quate faculty salaries at Washing- ton and Lee is one of both magni- tude and urgency. It embraces the necessity of restoring lost purchas- ing power, of meeting existing com- petition among colleges for obtain- ing and retaining able faculty mem- bers, and of satisfying the require- ments for additional personnel with which to.divide the Universi- ty’s teaching loads more fairly and to make its teaching more effective. The special Committee on Faculty Salaries and Benefits, one of num- erous committees. working in con- junction, ,. with Washington and Lee’s ‘Development Program, em- phasized very strongly: but addi- tional’ funds are needed now to meet conditions that exist today. Moreover, -it predicted very con- vincingly that:the years ahead will see a growing disparity between supply and demand in the ranks of able teachers;,: swith the result that it will become increasingly dificult THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE to maintain a teaching staff of high competence. According to conser- vative estimates, the size of the na- tion’s college student body will double by 1970. Expanding institu- tions will be seeking the very best teachers, and in large numbers. ‘To meet this demand, it is estimated that it will be necessary to recruit 7,900 college teachers annually be- tween 1960 and 1970. This does not take into consideration the need for replacing teachers who will die, re- tire, or leave the profession for other work. In 1951 and 1952, when the study yielding the statistics just mentioned was made, only 5,587 doctorates were awarded by Ameri- can colleges, and certainly not all of the recipients went into college teaching. The extent of the competition for teachers that faces Washington and Lee is clear. Its significance is underscored by the fact that out of the University’s present faculty of 7g men, 18 will reach retirement age within the next decade, and another 13 by 1970. In replacing these persons, and those who mav leave tor other reasons, the Uni- versity not only must meet the “normal” competition posed by other institutions experiencing sim- ilar needs, but it must meet the in- tense “abnormal” competition cre- ated by the expanding demands of business and industry and by the great need for teachers to serve the flood of young people already born and headed for our nation’s col- leges. MANIFESTLY, THERE ARE two stages in the solution of the faculty salary problem. The first is imme- diate, and calls for sufficient funds with which to restore as greatly as possible the purchasing power which faculty members have lost, and with which to meet the present competition among colleges for dis- tinguished faculty members. The second is concerned with the future and will require the steady procure- ment of additional funds with which not merely to maintain fac- ulty purchasing power in view of JANUARY 1956 | OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA To the Alumnt: On December 12 Washington and Lee was named one of the beneficiaries of the largest single gift in philanthropic history. I refer, of course, to the Ford Foundation’s 500 million dollar grant, of which 210 million is to be added to the endowments of the Nation’s independent colleges for the specific purpose of improv- ing faculty salaries. From this, and from an earlier 50 million dollar Ford Foundation grant, Washington and Lee will receive a total of $516,000. It is impossible to over-estimate our gratitude for this mag- nificent gift. It is deep and sincere. In accepting the Foundation’s beneficence, we accept also two obligations. Obviously, the first is to use the income from this gift to improve teaching salaries. ‘he second, in some ways the more important obligation, is to use this gift as testimony to every friend of higher education that the need to improve the income of those who teach in our colleges is critical, and that the need is far beyond the ability of this great Foundation gift to satisfy. With the latter obligation in mind, I shall note these facts. As endowment, the gift which we have received will earn perhaps $21,000 to $24,000 a year, which in turn will enable current teach- ing salaries to be increased, on the average, four or five per cent. Despite numerous increases granted during the past few years, Washington and Lee’s immediate salary needs (in all branches of our operations) are nearly three times that which this Foundation grant, as endowment, will produce. Our longer range salary needs are even more pronounced; to meet them it is estimated that the in- come on at least another two million dollars in endowment will be required. For these reasons, therefore, the current efforts of the alumni to add appreciably to the Alumni Fund, the desire of the parents to assist through their newly inaugurated Parents’ Fund, and the work of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges take on added importance. In such measure as each achieves its ob- jective, Washington and Lee will be able to progress toward the goal to which the Ford Foundation so dramatically has pointed the way. Buncra [out th FRANCIS P. GaInEs, President what probably will be a continu- ing rise in the cost of living, but far more important, with which to meet the critical situation wherein the demand for teachers of compe- tence will far exceed the supply. Work is going forward to secure the necessary funds. University ae N EARLY JANUARY President Fran- I cis P. Gaines announced that year-end gifts to Washington and Lee had totaled $1,291,655. “hese funds mark a substantial step to- ward achievement of the Univer- sity’s $8,000,000 goal for long-range development. ‘They either had been received by the University or had been announced to it since Sep- tember 1, 1955. Included in the total were the $516,000 grant re- cently announced by the Ford Foun- dation (see pages 3 and 14 for re- lated articles) and a previously dis- closed $250,000 gift from an anony- mous donor to establish the Robert EK. Lee Scholarships. Pointing out that the gifts were ’ Dr. Gaines emphasized that the total did not include donations received annually through such regular channels as the Alumni Fund or the newly es- of a “special nature,’ tablished Parents’ Fund, or from the Virginia Foundation for Inde- pendent Colleges. In his “State of the University” message to the fac- ulty and students on Founders’ Day, he reported that donations through these sources were heartening and should provide new _ highs for alumni and corporate giving. Among the special gifts the larg- est single donation was from Mrs. Jessie Ball duPont of Wilming- ton, Delaware, for $368,000. Ex- clusive of this amount, her previous donations to Washington and Lee approximate $3,000,000. | Other amounts received were $88,000 from three members of the University’s Board of Trustees, $3,500 from the Standard Oil Com- pany of New Jersey, $2,000 from the Eastman Kodak Company, and $9,155 in miscellaneous gifts, in- cluding a number of donations from newspapers for journalism depart- ment use. ‘Iwo previously announc- ed bequests of $30,000 and $25,000 were also part of the total. Dr. Gaines added that the money would be used “principally for the permanent funds, with special ref- erence to scholarships and salaries. “Our gratitude for these magnifi- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE cent gifts is deep and sincere,” he declared. "It is the fervent hope of these benefactors that their gifts will serve to stimulate this Univer- sity to greater effort in meeting the goals that have been set for its continuing development. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly to that end.” Dr. Gaines pictured the gifts as a substantial step toward achieve- ment of the initial goals of Wash- ington and Lee’s Development Pro- gram now in its third year under the direction of Donald E. Smith. These goals, established through careful study and approved by the Board of Trustees in June 1954 call for an additional $4,300,000 in endowment (or the equivalent in assured an- nual income) for faculty salaries, scholarships, the library, and gen- eral operations. Another $4,000,000 will be needed for capital expendi- ture for improvement and expan- sion of the physical plant. The growing contributions of Virginia corporations drew praise and thanks from Dr. Gaines in his Founders’ Day talk. He said that the Virginia Foundation for Inde- pendent Colleges, of which Wash- ington and Lee is one of the twelve members, had received a total of $271,000, during the last calendar year. Washington and Lee’s share in this sum is roughly one-tenth. FACULTY m THE RESIGNATION OF Dr. James G. Leyburn as Dean of Washington and Lee University was announced October 25 by President Francis P. Gaines. Dr. Leyburn will continue his administrative duties until his successor takes office, and beyond that will remain at Washington and Lee on a special George Washing- ton Professorship established by the gift from an anonymous donor. The University’s Board of Trus- tees accepted Dean Leyburn’s resig- nation with regret at its regular meeting on October 21. The Board promptly elected him to the special teaching position and immediately JANUARY 1956 authorized the President to proceed with the recommendation of a new dean. At the January faculty meet- ing, Dr. Gaines reported that prog- ress toward selection of Dr. Ley- burn’s successor was being made but added, ““We’re in no hurry.” “In recent years,’ Dr. Leyburn said in explaining his decision, “I have been unable to resist the temp- tation to take on an _ increasing amount of teaching, and the more I taught, the more I realized my first love was teaching. The time had come when I had to make a choice between administration and the classroom, and so, regretfully, I have resigned the deanship.” Dr. Leyburn currently is teach- ing two courses in ancient history and one in anthropology. ‘Total en- rollment in his classes is 165 stu- dents, making his teaching load among the largest of any at Wash- ington and Lee. In announcing this resignation to the faculty, Dr. Gaines paid tribute to Dr. Leyburn’s contributions to Washington and Lee and to his teaching effectiveness. “I speak with certain knowledge,” he said, “when I say that he has made a contribution of high importance to Washington and Lee as dean. He has labored with unusual intelli- gence and with full conscience. I be- LEYBURN With unusual intelligence, full conscience lieve that all of my colleagues rec- ognize in him an_ exceptionally fine teacher and share my pleas- ure that he is to continue as a member of our group.” Dr. Leyburn came to Washington and Lee in 1947 from Yale Univer- sity where he had taught for twen- ty years and had risen from in- structor to full professor of soci- ology. He holds A.B. and A.M. de- grees in economics from ‘Trinity College of Duke University, an A.M. degree in economics from Princeton University, and received his Ph.D. in sociology at Yale in 1927. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Omicron Delta Kappa. Dr. Leyburn was professor of economics and sociology at Hollins College from 1922-24, and instruct- or in economics and social institu- tions at Princeton from 1924-25. During 1943-44 he served as prin- cipal mission officer of the Lend- Lease Administration in Johannes- burg, South Africa. He is the author of four volumes, including The Haitian People, for which he won the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1941 as the best published work on racial relations. He also has been a frequent contributor to scholarly publications in the field of sociology. His father graduated from Wash- ington and Lee in 1884, and his great grand-father served as rector of the University’s Board. TRUSTEES m CLIPPINGS FROM Two French news- papers have come to the Alumni Secretary which will be of interest to some of the Washington and Lee family. On October 8, L’Est Re- publicain and Le Republicain Lor- rain, published at Nancy and Metz, respectively, gave half-page reports, with press pictures of the occasion, of an official ceremony granting the keys to the City of Custines to James R. Caskie, 06, Rector of the University Board of Trustees. Mr. Caskie was stationed at the small town of Custines thirty- seven : 5 years ago during World War I. He came to love the place and the people, and to make many friends there; so much so that he has sung the praises of the French, of Lor- raine, and of Custines ever since, until, says one of the clippings, he has become known by the name of “Monsieur Custines” to many of his friends. When he returned to France last fall to attend an international con- ference of the iron industry as Di- rector of Lynchburg’s Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Company, Mon- sleur André Grandpierre, _ presi- dent of Glamorgan’s associate in France (and incidentally the uncle of Jean-Marie Grandpierre, a cur- rent Washington and Lee senior), made arrangements for him to visit his old haunts. ‘He was welcomed by the Mayor and Council and other dignitaries in front of the City Hall, and then conducted to the new schoolhouse, where speeches by the Mayor and Mr. Caskie were in order, and duly made, and in French, too! The Mayor presented him with a parch- ment naming “James Randolph Caskie an honorary citizen of the City,’” but reminded him that: he would find. things quite different after thirty-seven years. The reply by the new citizen, who according to the accounts was “visibly moved” and spoke French “correctly” but “a little hesitatingly,” told of his grati- tude for the honor and of his joy in again visiting Custines. And indeed he found that things had changed. For example, at the end of the village a mother stood at the door of her house. She was recognized by the visitor, “Why, it’s Germaine!” (Mlle. Germaine, who became Mme. Brevert.) “You've gained weight,” observed the lady of Custines. “You, not I! I used to eat at your house.”’ “We have folks in America. My husband’s sister has been there thirty-three years. Her son is a pro- fessor.” Then there was the young lady, Mademoiselle Emilienne Nekar, to whose family he had written “sev- eral times.” She is now a grand- Mme. Dubois, and _ her grandson was with her. When ‘Monsieur Custines”’ visited his for- mer billet he was greeted by his landlady, a white haired octogener- ian leaning on a cane; in the old days she was Mme. Rossi, but is now the widow Toiller. (Those French ladies seem to do very well in spite of the shortage of men in France.) mother, LAW SCHOOL m IN AN ATTEMPT TO supplement classroom legal education, the Stu- dent Bar Association has launched a very successful speakers’ program this year. ‘Ihe periodic talks are on practical aspects of the law given by men who are active in their various fields. Mr. Arnold W. Schlossberg, B.S. 29, LL.B. ’33; Honorable John G. Fox, A.B. 748, LL.B. ’49; and Mr. R. W. Jordan, A.B. ’26, LL.B. ’28, have addressed the students. Mr. Schloss- berg, a member of the Roanoke Bar Association, spoke on labor law from the point of view of a union attorney. Mr. Fox, Attorney Gen- eral of West Virginia, discussed “Public Law.” The third speaker, Mr. Jordan, Vice-President and Counsel of Lawyers ‘Title Insur- SCHLOSSBERG, ’29 A union attorney considered labor law ance Corporation with home offices in Richmond, Va., discussed the methods employed to obtain evi- dence of title and real estate prac- tices in most of the states and the part attorneys and title insurance companies play in the picture. His talk was co-sponsored by the Law- yers ‘Title Insurance Corporation. ‘To open the program for the second semester, on February 14 the speaker will be Mr. Wiliam Zim- mer, a visiting member of the Uni- versity of Virginia Law School and author, from Richmond. He will speak on “Taxation and The Gen- eral Practitioner.”’ On March 21, Mr. Collins Denny Jr., of the firm of Denny, Valentine, and Davenport of Richmond, will discuss the lawyer’s place in col- lective bargaining and labor law from the point of view of manage- ment. As a final speaker for the regu- larly scheduled program, Mr. Ed- mund D. Campbell, A.B. 718, LL.B. 22, of Washington, D.C., will talk on “Federal Court Practice.” THE FIRST JURY MOCK TRIAL under the auspices of the Student Bar Association was held on November 14, 1955. Uhe trial was called Com- monwealth v. Benign, and con- cerned a Dr. Bertram Benign who was accused of murder. He alleged- ly attempted a mercy killing by either administering poison or mak- ing it easy for Mrs. Sam Gentry, a cancer victim, to take her own life. However, the nurse, Miss Catherine Condole, drank the poisoned milk and died, while Mrs. Gentry was revived. Dr. Benign stood trial for the murder of the nurse. ‘The prose- cution and defense were under- graduate law students. The trial was conducted under Virginia law procedure. Mr. Wilson Miller, Lex- ington attorney, presided. The moot courtroom in ‘Tucker Hall was filled to overflowing, and, after a long afternoon of listening to testimony, the jury could not agree on a verdict. Dean Williams and the members THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE of the faculty were much pleased with the experiment and expressed the hope that the Mock ‘Trial will become a fixture in the legal train- ing of University Law students. m THIS YEAR'S WASHINGTON and Lee Moot Court team did not achieve the victories of the 1954 team, but did receive valuable experience by participating in the Regional Rounds held at Chapel Hill, N.C., on the 18th and 19th of November. The 1955 National Moot Court competition concerned a case in which the Petitioner, Leopard Oil Company, charged that Respon- dent, the Superoil Corporation, had violated section 7 of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which prohibits a corporation from acquiring stock or assets of another corporation which may substantially tend to les- sen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce. ‘The team was composed of Doug- las I. Buck, a senior law student from Flint, Michigan, and C. J. Bal- dree, an intermediate from Melber, Kentucky, who argued the case. Edward Ellis, a senior from Fort Knox, Kentucky, was the third member of the team who assisted in the preparation of the brief. Bev Stevenson and Bill Draper, both senior law students, were the co-chairmen of the Moot Court Committee of the Student Bar. m™ THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S R.O.T.C. Unit for 1955-56 is com- posed of sixteen Law students among whom are seven Army Re- serve Officers, two Naval Reserve Officers, one Marine Corps Reserve Officer, and six Army enlisted Re- servists. A change in Army policy hmits enrollment in this unit for the future to commissioned person- nel. ‘his change does not affect the six presently enlisted members. In November, 1955, the Unit was officially inspected by representa- tives of the Judge Advocate Gen- eral’s School, U. S. Army, which is responsible for the preparation of the instructional material used by the Unit. JANUARY 1956 Fox, °48 The attorney general discussed public law mg IN SPITE OF THE GREAT amount of school work facing them, the fresh- men law students had 100% at- tendance at a luncheon given in their honor by the Board of Gov- ernors of the Student Bar Associa- tion. Dr. James G. Leyburn, retiring Dean of the University, spoke on the subject “Law in Primitive So- clety.”” He was introduced by John Stump, head of the social and speak- ers’ committee of SBA. The second annual Student Bar Association Dinner Dance was held in the Pine Room of the Mayflower Hotel on Saturday evening, Novem- ber 19. here were approximately 100 guests consisting of students, their wives and dates, and members of the Law faculty and their wives. m INSPIRED BY ITS CHAMPIONSHIP softball team of last spring, the Law School has actively entered the cam- pus intra-mural program for the first time in recent years. To date it has entered teams in each of the three fall sports, tennis, golf, and touch football. The tennis team again won the championship trophy IN 1955. JOURNALISM m THE LEE MEMORIAL JOURNALISM Foundation’s director, Professor O. W. Riegel, continued to bring ex- perts in widely varying fields to lecture in the Department of Jour- nalism and Communications. John C. Broger, president of the Far East Broadcasting Company (the Asian equivalent of Radio Free Furope), told of anti-Communist propaganda efforts in the Far East, while Lt. Col. John Wilson, Jr., a staff officer in the office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare Department of Army, spoke on planning for “psywar’’ operations. Both addressed students in psycho- logical warfare and propaganda. John C. Coulburn, managing edi- tor of the Richmond Times-Dis- patch, talked to members of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fra- ternity, on the current status of newspapers in the field of mass com- munications. And R. Wallace Ebe, Jv.. °42, production manager for Ketchum, McLeod, and _ Grove, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, told advertising students of the day- to-day workings of a large city ad- vertising agency. Wallace Werble, ’33, editor of I'ood - Drug - Cosmetic Reports, spoke on “Business Publications and Other Special Fields,’ and Cranston Williams, secretary-mana- ger of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, gave an up- to-date account of ‘““The Govern- ment Suit Against Advertising Practices.” Perhaps the most thought-pro- voking speaker to talk to journalism students was V. M. Newton, Jr., managing editor of the Tampa, Florida, Morning Tribune and chairman of the Freedom of Infor- mation Committee of the Associated Press Managing Editor’s Associa- tion. His topic, “Freedom of Infor- mation” dealt with restrictions on a nation’s free press brought on by what he called unwarranted classi- fication and withholding of news by government agencies. OF THE Communica- tions Laboratory, a_ fast-growing component of the Department of Journalism and Communications, 7 m@ STUDENTS brought to Lexington and Rock- bridge County radio listeners two new series of Wednesday night half- hour programs over Lexington’s station WREL during the fall semester. One show, “Kaleidoscope,” was written and produced by students of the radio journalism course taught by Assistant Professor Pax- ton Davis. Beginning on October 19 and continuing every other week throughout the semester, ‘‘Kaleido- scope, presented a series of short- story dramatizations, studies of musical forms, word pictures of various phases of American life, and other programs of wide popular and cultural appeal. With Davis serving only in an advisory capacity, each student in the course was responsible for conceiving, writing, producing, and broadcasting a one half-hour pro- gram. ‘Ihe shows were tape-re- corded in advance and_ broadcast over WREL from the remote facili- ties located in the Journalism Li- brary in Payne Hall. Senior John Jennings, of Fayette- ville, ‘Tennessee, acted as executive producer for “Kaleidoscope” as well as writer and producer for his own show on “Tennessee Folk Music.” One of the best received programs dealt with “The Arizona Cowboy.” It was produced by Jeb Rosebrook of New York City, who tape re- corded interviews with cowboys on an Arizona ranch while he was working there during the summer. “Kaleidoscope” is the second pro- duction of the Communications Laboratory now being aired. “Home Edition,” nightly 15-minute newscast of predominantly local in- terest, is in its seventh year. The Communications Laboratory and Washington and Lee Glee Club inaugurated a new musical series entitled, “The Glee Club Presents.” Heard at the same hour as ‘‘Kaleido- scope” on alternate Wednesdays, it presented the best of campus music and singing, both past and present. The fifty-voice Glee Club, the Southern Collegians, and a more re- 8 PRICE, °41 New duties as associate alumni secretary cently organized singing group, the Sazaracs, were among current stu- dent organizations contributing to the show, while other programs fea- tured recordings of Brian Shanley’s (55) famed Dixieland band, of Glee Clubs of the past, and of choral groups of neighboring girls’ schools. Producer for this series was senior William T. Grigg of Bethesda, Maryland. He was assisted by Roy Martin of Glasgow, Virginia, and Duncan McCarthy of Orlando, Florida. Professor Robert Stewart, Glee Club director, acted as faculty advisor. ‘The Glee Club series will continue throughout the spring. The acquisition of a sound input radio console, a gift of R. J. Rock- well, vice-president and director of engineering for the Crosley Broad- casting Corporation, provided the impetus for both program series. A Western Electric 23-C model, the console permits the mixing of sounds from various sources, in- cluding recorders, playback ma- chines, and up to four microphones. It also allows simultaneous output to broadcast facilities, recording machines, and monitors. “The new console fills a pressing need and makes technically possible the production of radio programs of all types at a professional level,’ Mr. Riegel declared. He added that the Communica- tions Laboratory is interested in be- coming a campus radio center pro- viding technical and program assist- ance to other University activities which may wish to produce radio shows. ALUMNI m THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE will have a new editor next issue. He’ll be James Hubert Price, Jr., a member of the Class of 1941, who assumed new duties as associate alumni sec- retary with the advent of the New Year. Editing the magazine will be just a part of his job, for he will take over a share of the work involved in administering the Alumni Fund and other duties previously performed exclusively by Alumni Secretary “Cy” Young. Mr. Price comes to Washington and Lee after 10 years with the Hopper Paper Co. of Richmond, Virginia, most recently as the sales representative in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. After receiving his B.S. in Com- merce he was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy and saw long service in the South Pacific. Upon his discharge he held the rank of leutenant commander. During undergraduate days, Mr. Price was elected to membership in Omicron Delta Kappa and was se- lected for listing in “Who’s Who Among Students in American Col- leges and Universities.””’ He served as Executive Committeeman for his freshman class and later as senior football manager. He was a presi- dent of the Interfraternity Council and a member of Phi Kappa Sigma social fraternity. Mr. Price is 35 years old. His wife is the former Miss Harriette Vaden of Richmond, Virginia. BOOKS m TWO MEN ASSOCIATED with Wash- ington and Lee who served as com- bat medics in widely separated theatres of World War II have written novels based upon their wartime experiences. The Trumpet Unblown (Double- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE day) by William Hoffman, ’53, who is now an instructor in English at Hampden-Sydney College, was re- viewed widely when published in December and is currently available at bookstores. Two Soldiers (Simon and Schuster) by Paxton Davis, as- sistant professor of journalism, 1s scheduled for publication in May. The setting for Hoffman’s power- ful story is in Europe in the bloody days following D.Day. It is the story of an idealistic young man whose moral disintegration is effected. by the brutalities of the war into which he has been thrust. Dr. George Fos- ter, associate professor of English who taught Hoffman while the 30- year-old author was studying ad- vanced composition here, describes the book as “strong medicine.” Davis, also 30, drew upon his ex- periences in the China-Burma-India Theater during the war. His book is actually two short novels, one en- titled “One of Us’ and the other, “Myitkyina.” The first deals with rear area troops at Ledo, the famed jungle supply depot, from which the vital supply road stretched into China. The second tale is a combat story of the fighting that raged around the Japanese citadel of My- itkyina, deep in the Burmese jun- gles. The connecting link between the two stories is not only the locale but also a common theme of dis- covery of courage by two soldiers, each in a different way and under different circumstances. “One of Us” is also due to appear in Blue Book Magazine at approxi- mately the same time the Simon and Schuster edition is published. Davis is a native of Winston- Salem, North Carolina, and a grad- uuate of Johns Hopkins. Before coming to Washington and Lee, where he has been a member of the faculty for three years, he was a re- porter on the Winston-Salem Jour- nal and the Twin-City Sentinel, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. SPEAKERS m WASHINGTON AND LEE’S ‘‘Semi- nars in Literature” program opened its fifth year last fall by bringing to the campus two outstanding figures in the world of letters. Irish-English novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, spoke on “The Critic and the Author,’ and included com- Athletic Committee. Name Your Candidate In comphance with Article 9 of the By-Laws of the Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc., we are listing below the names of the Nom- inating Committee for the coming year. Under the By-Laws any member of the Association may submit the names of alumni to fill the vacancies on the Alumni Board of Trustees and for the alumni representatives on the University There are two vacancies to be filled on the Alumni Board of Trustees, and two on the Athletic Committee at the June, 1955, meeting of the Alumni Association. Members of the Association are urged to submit names of their candidates for these offices. The Nominating Committee will close its report on May 15. The Committee is as follows: Sorsby Jemison, ’og, Chairman, Young & Vann Supply Company, 1731 North ist Avenue, Birming- ham, Alabama; Leonard T. Brown, ‘19, Lott-Merlin Incorporated, 500 Water Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut; John G. Fox, ’44, State Capitol Building, Charleston, West Virginia. JANUARY 1956 ments on her own work as well as the writings of contemporaries. Her best known works in America are The Heat of Day, a Literary Guild selection in 1949, and The Death of the Heart. Freshmen were offered an oppor- tunity to meet the man who helped edit their literature textbook when Cleanth Brooks, Yale professor of English, spoke at the year’s second seminar. His Topic was ““T. S. Eliot: His Attitude Toward His Audi- ence’ and dealt with the religious elements in Eliot’s poetry. Mr. Brooks is a co-editor of Ap- proach to Literature, a widely-used freshman college textbook. His col- leagues were John Purser and Robert Penn Warren, current best- selling novelists. Miss Bowen and Mr. Brooks were the 15th and 16th teachers, au- thors, and critics to speak as a part of the popular program. A former “Seminars in Litera- ture” speaker, Russell Kirk, passed some complimentary remarks con- cerning Washington and Lee in an article published recently in Na- tional Review. He said the Univer- sity “has been one of the most vig- orous Southern universities in re- cent years, and one of the most en- terprising centers for the revival of truly liberal education.” Another campus visitor last fall was Dr. Erico Verissimo, one of Latin America’s most successful novelists, who spoke on ‘“Franken- stein’s Workshop: How Novel Char- acters Are Born.’ The Brazilian author has been a long-time asso- ciate of Dr. L. L. Barrett, professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee, who has translated four of Verissi- mo’s works into English. Dr. Verissimo’s appearance was under the sponsorship of the De- partment of Romance Languages. STUDENTS m IT'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION year again, and at Washington and Lee that means ‘Mock Convention.” ‘This year’s two-day extravaganza, during which the student body will 9 seek to pre-guess the Democratic party’s candidate months before the summer national convention, 1s scheduled for April 30 and May 1. All plans are under the direction of student chairman Carl D. Swanson, 23-year-old intermediate lawyer from Kansas City, Missouri. He has appointed a_ five-man steering committee composed of Wiley R. Wright, Jr., of Arlington, Virginia (state delegations); David G. Simpson of Harronds Creek, Kentucky (publicity); ‘Theodore M. Kerr of Midland, Texas (parade); Charles J. Baldree of Melber, Ken- tucky (convention secretary); and Patrick D. Sullivan, Lorton, Vir- ginia (reporter). Two other students, David S. Henderson of New Bern, North Carolina, and John Hardin Marion, III, of Bon Air, Virginia, were put in charge of convention hall decora- tions. All have reported steady progress and Swanson is predicting that the 1956 Mock Convention will be one of the best ever held. Most alumni will remember at least one Mock Convention. It’s a time of parades and oratory when Doremus Gymnasium becomes be- decked with flags and bunting, and students become frenzied supporters of favorite son candidates whose convention delegates are swapped and traded in much the same man- ner as the maneuverings of the bona fide convention. In its nearly half-century long history, the Mock Convention dele- gates have correctly named the can- didate for the party out of power six out of ten times. In 1952, a last- minute switch by the large and powerful California delegation from Earl Warren to Eisenhower gave the nomination to the man who went on to become President. Because of the heated intra-party campaigning shaping up among the Democrats, this year’s convention promises to be lively. With student delegations keeping closely in touch with party leaders in each of the 48 states, an attempt is made to reflect as accurately as possible the 10 course these delegations will fol- low at the national convention. Recognizing the authenticity fol- lowed by Mock Convention proce- dure, the national press, radio, and T.V. media have always provided excellent coverage for the event. A special pictorial brochure has been prepared for pre-convention distri- bution to newspapers, radio, and TV. stations, hoping to interest them in the convention and thus provide even more excellent pub- licity for the event and for Wash- ington and Lee. Helping out in convention plan- ning is a senior law student who has a first-hand appreciation of all the problems which Chairman Swan- son will encounter. He is ‘Townsend Oast, 51, who headed the successful 1952 Mock Convention. Oast has no official role this year, but is assist- ing in an advisory capacity. m NATIONWIDE RADIO publicity again came to Washington and Lee last Fall when the University’s “varsity scholars” appeared on the National Broadcasting Company’s “College Quiz Bowl” for three successive weeks. Just one week after classes had begun, the Washington and Lee panel helped “kick-off” the third Quiz Bowl season by defeating last year’s defending champions, Ford- ham University, by a score of 180- 20. The next week Northwestern University was beaten by a 145-55 score, but on the team’s third ap- pearance on the Wednesday night half-hour show, the combined forces of Hobart and William Smith Col- leges of Geneva, New York, pre- vailed by a go-35 margin. . ‘This year’s team was composed of seniors Ed Hood of Birmingham, Alabama, and Clay Carr of Win- chester, Virginia, and sophomores Max Caskie, Jr., of Arlington, Vir- ginia, and Jack Lackmann of Lex- ington, Virginia. All of these stu- dents were veterans of the panel which lost in 1954-55 to the Univer- sity of Minnesota, the Quiz Bowl’s all-time record-holder with thirteen straight victories. By winning twice, Washington and Lee received from Goodhouse- keeping Magazine, sponsors of the show, a total of $1,000 to be ad- ministered by the University. “wo years ago a Washington and Lee panel of seniors composed of Fred Lackmann (Jack’s brother) and Robert Paxton of Lexington, Vir- ginia, Harold Quinn of Shreveport, Louisiana, and Henry ‘Turner of Bethesda, Maryland, won $2,500 for the University by recording five “What’ll you have?” ask Deans LEYBURN and GILLIAM and University Treasurer MAT- TINGLY. The mealtime services of this distinguished trio were donated to the ZBT’s as a reward for their leading in contributions to the University’s Student Community Chest. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE straight victories over Smith Col- lege, the University of Chicago, Princeton, Barnard College, and Pittsburgh, before being stopped by Syracuse University. By vote of the team, prize money went to establish the John Higgins Williams Mem- orial Scholarship. In the audience at Washington and Lee for the first program was John Moses, producer of the show, whose son Harry is a member of the sophomore class. Quiz Bowl questions concerned just about every imaginable sub- ject, including literature, mythol- ogy, music, philosophy, science, his- tory, geography, and current events. Many letters were received from Washington and Lee well-wishers all over the United States suggest- ing possible questions which might turn up on the program. We do not know whether the suggested ques- tions were of help, but we do know that the words of encouragement were gratefully received. = FOR THE FOURTH CONSECUTIVE year, 17 Washington and Lee stu- dents were selected for listing in “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universi- ties.” The 1955-56 edition of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, publication carries the names of two senior law students, two intermediate lawyers, and 13 academic school seniors. Included are Beverly G. Stephen- son, Wakefield, Virginia, and George S. Wilson, III, Owensboro, Kentucky, senior law class; Robert R. Huntley, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and John W. Stump, Clarksburg, West Virginia, inter- mediate law class; and Ellis B. Drew, Anderson, South Carolina, Clay B. Carr, Winchester, Virginia, Dale G. Cornelius, Charlotte, North Carolina, Charles M. Drum, Richmond, Virginia, Michael R. Dubin, Cedarhurst, New York, Edgar G. Givhan, Montevallo, Ala- bama, R. Gordon Gooch, Fort Worth, ‘Texas, Victor Hanson, Yorklyn, Delaware, William A. Henley, Williamsburg, Virginia, JANUARY 1956 Wrestling Coach Dick MILLER and_ 1737- pounder JOHN ELLs (page 19) talk it over. Sanford R. Maslansky, New Or- leans, Louisiana, Samuel A. Syme, Jr., Chevy Chase, Maryland, George F. Milligan, Des Moines, Iowa, and New Orleans, Louisiana, academic senior class. Henry Heymann, Recommendations for selection are made to the book’s editor by a faculty - student committee which considers “excellence and sincerity in scholarship, leadership, partici- pation in extracurricular and aca- demic activities, citizenship and ser- vice to the school, and promise of usefulness to business and society. ATHLETICS IN basketball, swimming, gw DISAPPOINTMENT surprising success in and promise of better times in wrestling—this is the Washington and Lee winter sports picture at the end of the first semester. Some Washington and _ Lee basketball followers are likening the current sputtering campaign to that of 1949-50, a season when great things were expected of a promising team but which, somehow, just didn’t turn out that way. Hopes were high at the season’s beginning, and justly so, for the ‘“5-Star Generals,’ who had finished so brilliantly in a late-season surge last year, were back intact and the bench was strong and deep. On hand was one of the most potent one-two scoring punches the Blue and White had ever boasted. And having ranked 15th in the nation in scoring last year, the Generals seemed ready to reassume the old title of “Blue Comets,” so proudly worn by the teams of the middle and late 1930's. But that was at the season’s outset, and there’s lit- tle joy in Mudville now. ‘The Generals got off to a running start, beating Bridgewater with ease and edging the defending Big Six champs, Richmond, in a home court thriller, 78-76. Sophomore guard Dom Flora and junior center Lee Marshall were living up to their reputations as prolific point-pro- ducers, and Coach Billy McCann was getting tremendous support from his veterans reserves. In the first half of the Richmond contest, Marshall suffered a severe ankle sprain, and while he finished that game, he was out entirely for the next two and severely handicapped for another pair of games. Few people recognized it at the time, but that was the beginning of a long, long chain of misfortune for Washington and Lee’s basket- ball aspirations. Other players be- gan nursing injuries, but of far ereater consequence was the fact that some boys just weren’t display- ing the kind of ball that had charac- terized their play as sophomores and freshmen. ‘The Generals found themselves “blowing” big leads in the late stages of games, or falling far behind at the start and seeing the game go hopelessly out of reach before beginning to click as a team. ‘They carried a 2-4 record into the Christmas holiday run of games meeting Dayton University, the na- tion’s No. 2 team, in a contest where the towering Flyers were hard- pressed for a half before pulling away from the out-classed Generals. In the All-American City Tourna- ment at Owensboro, Kentucky, the team’s stock took a temporary surge upward. College of the Pacific was (Conintued on page 18) 11 LL the objectives of higher education ultimately depend upon the quality of teaching. In the opinion of the Foun- dation’s Irustees, private and corporate philanthropy can make no better investment of its resources than in helping to strengthen American education at its base—the quality of its teaching.... Nowhere are the needs of the private college more apparent than in the matter of faculty salaries. Merely to restore professors’ salaries to their 1939 purchasing power would require an aver- age increase of at least g0 per cent. Even this would not bring teachers in our private colleges to their economic position be- The Gitt of the Ford Foundation 12 [PXHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of the Ford Foundation on December 12, 1955, announced an appropria- tion of $210,000,000 to help raise the level of faculty salaries in Amer- ica’s 615 regionally accredited, pri- vately supported colleges and uni- versities. This is in addition to the appropriation of $50,000,000 an- nounced by the Foundation last March. Washington and Lee has been named to receive a portion of both grants. Its gift will total approxi- mately $516,000. Under the Ford Foundation pro- gram, each of the 615 colleges will receive a portion of the $210,000,000 grant approximating itS 1954-55 payroll for full-time teachers in the arts and sciences. When invested this gift, called an Endowment Grant, will produce income sufh- client in most cases to raise faculty salaries by an average of approxi- mately four per cent. About one-fifth of these colleges— 126 in number—have been desig- nated to receive an additional amount from the original $50,000,- ooo grant. These are called Accom- plshment Grants. Income from their investment would raise facul- ty salaries in these 126 institutions by an additional average of approx- imately two per cent if devoted to this purpose. | The colleges and universities offered a portion of the original $50,000,000 grant are those which THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE fore World War II in relation to that of other professions and occupations. ‘hey have not begun to share the benefits of the expanded productive power of this nation, and the whole edu- cational system suffers from this fact. Industry, commerce, government, the arts, the sciences and the professions—indeed our whole way of life depend heavily upon the quality of our education. Recognizing this fact, the Trustees of ‘The Ford Foundation want to do everything they can to em- phasize the cardinal importance of the college teacher to our society. appear, among the institutions of similar type in their regions, to have made _ outstanding — effort throughout the period since World War II to raise the economic level of their teachers, and to have rec- ognized in other ways the central importance of the faculty in the educational process. In recommending a plan for al- locating the $260,000,000 _ total among the 615 eligible colleges and universities, the Foundation’s Col- lege Grants Advisory Committee said: ‘The Committee unreservedly en- dorses the Foundation’s objective of making grants to private colleges and universities that will improve faculty salaries and emphasize fur- ther improvement. . . . There are certainly other needs, but we re- gard the improvement of the eco- nomic position of college teachers as vital. [The Committee] did not at- tempt to compare the caliber of these different colleges, the general excellence of reputation. Indeed, our study confirms the belief so widely held that variety of excel- lence is a healthy aspect of our en- tire system of higher education, whether publicly or privately sup- ported. ‘This variety cannot be readily reduced to mathematical comparison or scores. “Naturally we have been mind- ful of the effect of granting such a JANUARY 1956 Henry Forp, II, Chairman. large sum. Therefore, we propose a simple, practical plan which we know will aid in raising faculty salaries and which cannot help but attract attention to their central importance, but will not distort any of the carefully evolved patterns of our system of higher education. Above all, the distribution of this money ... should not reduce in any way the desirable diversity of char- acter among these institutions.” IN ITS ORIGINAL PLAN for the Col- lege Grants Program the Founda- tion contemplated grants totaling $50,000,000 to about a hundred col- leges. Continued study, however, contributed to a developing sense of the vastness and importance of the problem and brought the real- ization that a much larger invest- ment not only was merited but ac- tually was essential. From the beginning the emphasis of the College Grants Program has been on the liberal arts and sciences. Colleges participating in the Ac- complshment Grants Program were selected entirely from those in which the liberal arts and sciences predominate. All private, regionally accredited, four-year colleges will participate in the Grants Program. Endowment The Endowment Grant is to be held as income-producing endow- ment, the income being used to im- prove faculty salaries, for a mini- mum of ten years, after which either capital or income may be used for any academic needs. Each such grant under the Endowment Grants Program 1s approximately the figure reported by the college as the total of basic contract salaries in 1954-55 for full-time teachers of candidates for bachelors’ degrees in the arts and sciences. Each college selected to partici- pate in the Accomplishment Grants Program has been offered another grant equal to approximately half a year’s payroll. This grant, either the principal or income, may be used for faculty increases, or it may be devoted to other pressing academic needs. Apportionment of salary in- creases among different teachers and different ranks of teachers within the arts and sciences, both graduate and undergraduate, and in other undergraduate curricula, is left en- tirely to the discretion of the insti- tution. It is the expectation of the Foun- dation that colleges receiving the Accomplishment Grant will make every possible effort, during the next few years, to obtain at least equal financial support from other sources further to increase salaries. Therefore no formal matching re- quirement has been made. Grants are to be paid in two equal installments, one before July 1, 1956, and the other before July 1, 1957. 13 Parenti Nearly goo persons sat down to lunch in Doremus Gymnasium on Saturday, November 19, on the oc- casion of Washington and Lee’s first annual Parents’ Day. Of these, 409 were parents; 6g were other out-of- town guests; the rest were students and members of the faculty and administration. Visiting parents repre- sented 238 of the University’s 1,050 students and came from 24 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. During the course of the day the visitors registered their attendance, toured the campus, viewed a “Humor in Painting” exhibit, visited classes with their sons, and kept pre-arranged appointments with members Front cover: A football game followed lunch. (1) 478 visitors reg- istered. (2) Guided tours included the Lee Chapel. (3) At noon all paths led to Doremus Gymnasium and (4) through the serv- ing lines. (5) Christian C. Luhnow, co-chairman of the Parents’ Advisory Council, Mrs. Luhnow, and Dr. Marion Junkin (right) ’ Day, 1955 of the faculty. They gathered in Lee Chapel to hear from President Gaines, other University officials, and officers of the Parents’ Advisory Council, braved the none too cooperative elements to watch Washington and Lee’s efforts on the gridiron, and for the day's finale listened to a thoroughly enjoyable concert by the band and glee club. Reports of Parents’ Day have been almost unani- mously favorable, so much so, in fact, that University and Parents’ Advisory Council officials already tenta- tively have scheduled the second annual Parents’ Day for November 3, 1956. were instrumental in arranging the “Humor in Painting” ex- hibit. (6) Parents gathered in the Lee Chapel to hear President Gaines (insert) and others. (7) The luncheon menu included vocalizing by the Sazaracs. (8) Professor Robert Stewart led the University Band and Glee Club at their evening concert. Dr. HOWE The satisfaction which comes when well rendered service meets with full appreciation With the deaths of Dr. Howe and Dr. Hancock Washington and Lee lost ‘Two Devoted ‘Teachers R. JAMES LEwis Howe died on December 20, 1955, at the age of ninty-six. Countless alumni will receive this news with deep regret— and perhaps many will share the feeling of one who wrote, “I should 16 not have been surprised. Actually I was, for I had come to feel that we would always have him with us.” Born at Newburyport, Massachu- setts, August 4, 1859, young Howe was graduated from Amherst in 1880 and continued his education in chemistry at the University of Gott- ingen, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1882. He began his career as a teacher at Central University, Richmond, Kentucky, in 1883 and continued later at its afhliated Hos- pital College of Medicine, which he also served as dean, and the Louisville College of Dentistry. During this period he was likewise lecturer and scientist for the Poly- technic Society of Kentucky, and re- ceived the honorary degree of M.D. from the Hospital College. Appointed professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee, Dr. Howe and his family moved to Lexington in 1894 and into the house on the campus which he occupied continu- ously for sixty-one years. Having served as Dean of the School of Ap- plied Science from 1921 to 1932 and as head of the chemistry de- partment, he was retired in 1938 as professor emeritus and University historian. In 1946, the University conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. At a time when the entire chem- istry laboratory was the room now used as the print shop—then over the noise, dirt, and vibrations of the power plant—with his _ office and a balance room partitioned off at one end and one small research laboratory at the other, Dr. Howe managed to accomplish extensive research in his special field, the chemistry of ruthenium. The Jour- nal of the American Chemical Sc- ciety carries the results of this work and also many “Reviews of the Progress of Inorganic Chemistry”’ which he prepared. Probably, how- ever, his most important contribu- tion to science is his “Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum group,” covering the subject from 1748 (the first mention of platinum in the literature) to 1950. With the 1940-50 volume still in printer’s proof, Dr. Howe was active as re- cently as last summer in carding current literature for 1950-1960! His acknowledged mastery of this field led to his selection in 1917 by the THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Research Council for important public service in connection with the war-time shortage of platinum. The Bibliography was cited also as the major basis on which he was awarded the Herty Medal for the advancement of science in_ the Southern States (1937). Other — scientific cluded membership in many learn- ed socities. He was at one time general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science aud was an organizer and an early president of the Virginia Academy of Science. Among other public duties he served three times by presidential appointment on commissions for assaying the coin- age at the United States mint. activities in- Dr. Howe was notable for his widespread interests and activities outside as well as within the field of science. Presbyterian elder, bank president, finance chairman of town council, a charter member of the Fortnightly Club and of the Lex- ington Kiwanis Club, a Knight ‘Templar, and member of the Shrine, he still found time to take an active part in the Phi Beta Kap- pa and Omicron Delta Kappa, to play the piano, to accumulate an impressive stamp collection, to help revise the Presbyterian hymnal, and to participate in such national movements as the United Society of Christian Endeavor (of which he was a life trustee), the Students’ World Missionary Movement, and the campaign for simplified spell- ing. Above all else, James Lewis Howe was a great teacher. Alumni over a period of forty years will recall having used his “Inorganic Chemis- try’ as a freshman text, and—how- ever much they may have forgotten what was in the book—they will never forget the man who wrote and taught it. Their thoughts of him cannot be summarized better than was done thirty years ago by S. C. Lind, ’99, when he wrote: “His uni- versal interest 1n science, in church, in humanity; his absolute lack of any petty qualities; his unfailing JANUARY 1956 optimism and unflagging energy; his ability to awaken enthusiasm in all of his hearers, linked him indissolubly to students and _ col- leagues alike. With him the spirit of service has always been foremost. This has given the South for a third of a century one of its most brilliant teachers of chemistry and_ has brought to Howe that satisfaction which comes when well rendered service meets its full share of ap- preciation.” OCTOBER 27, 1955, MARKED the close of the distinguished and pur- poseful career of Dr. Glover Dunn Hancock, emeritus professor of economics. Washington and Lee be- came his school by adoption: he loved it profoundly and gave to it devoted service for a period of forty- two years. ‘Testimonial to the worth of his hfe and his work was the re- spect accorded him by the many college generations who knew him as their teacher or who knew him in his capacity as dean of the School of Commerce and Administration. ‘This same respect was accorded him by his colleagues as well, who have paid unanimous tribute to the apt- ness of his administration, the con- scientiousness of his teaching, the unselfishness of his friendship, and to his high academic standards and Dr. HANCOCK The respect accorded by many generations his keen interest in the individual welfare of his students. Dr. Hancock was born in Los Angeles on January 10, 1878. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, in 1898, and the Master of Arts degree one year later. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1908. He was a member of the Amerli- can Economics Association, the American Political Science Associa- tion, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He belonged also to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Nu fraternities, and he was an active member of the Fort- nightly Club of Lexington. After serving as assistant pro- fessor of economics at Amherst Col- lege from 1908 to 1910, Dr. Hancock came to Washington and Lee as professor of economics and com- merce and director of the School of Commerce, which had been found- ed in 1906. In 1919, he assumed the newly established office of Dean of the School of Commerce and Ad- munistration, and he served in this capacity until 1949. He continued part-time teaching from 1949 to 1952. Under his direction, the School advanced to a place of out- standing rank. Among his outside activities were a period of service as a special agent of the Wisconsin State ‘Tax Com- mission, membership on the Vir- ginia State Commission on Person- nel Administration, the State Com- mission on Workmen’s Compensa- tion Insurance, and the role as special lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Virginia. The funeral service was held at the Robert E. Lee Memorial Epis- copal Church, which Dean Han- cock had served as a senior warden for twenty years. Dr. ‘Thomas V. Barrett was assisted by Dr. Church- ill Gibson, known to many alumni as the former rector of the church and long-time friend of Dr. and Mrs. Hancock. 17 UNIVERSITY NEWS (Continued from page 11) edged out, 65-64, in a tremendous comeback victory, and in the semi- finals the Blue played its best game of the year in handing Kentucky Wesleyan College its first defeat of the year, 88-78. It looked like the Generals were beginning to roll. Even the defeat in the tourney finals wasn’t discouraging, because, after all, the team had played four nights in a row and was weary. But then came successive losses to West Virginia, and William and Mary, the latter contest well within the Generals’ grasp with a 68-68 tie with a minute to play. Roanoke College was victimized, but the bit- ter pills began coming thick and fast. Davidson, a team defeated easily twice last year, Overcame a seven- point Washington and Lee lead in the final minutes to win easily. Vir- ginia nudged the Generals by a two- point margin, Virginia ‘Tech came from behind to triumph by 11 points in the closing seconds, and Villanova proved the superior team from the very start to win 82-66, despite an evenly-distributed second half. The exam break mercifully halted the string of defeats for the time being. Coach Billy McCann is at a loss to explain what brought about such a sharp reversal of form from that of last season when the Generals won 11 of their last 14 contests. Flora and Marshall, while sporting good averages, haven’t been able to combine their abilities in the same game except on rare occasions. ‘The team’s passing, rebounding, and de- fensive play have been sub-par, but the greatest single factor has been an inability to hit the basket. Last year the team hit 42 per cent of its field goal attempts. ‘he rate this year is around 33 per cent, although players are shooting more Marshall scores against Richmond as Cap- tain SroricK (9) and Hoss (19) look on. The Generals won the game by a 78-76 margin. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE on the average than last season. Coach McCann hopes the exam break may work the same kind of wonders as last year. ‘The Generals came back from their lay-off then to work a 5-10 record into a win- ning 16-13 final standing. Gone are hopes this year of a better show- ing than last, and foremost at the moment is the problem of finishing better than eighth in the Southern Conference race. In other winter sports, the pic- ture is much brighter. The swim- ming team of Coach Cy ‘Twombly has been nothing short of magnifi- cent. Undefeated after four meets, the General mermen have coasted to easy victories over Catholic Uni- versity and Lynchburg College and pulled off upset wins over Virginia and Davidson, with both of these meets being decided in the final 400- yard freestyle relay. While every boy on the squad gets Coach ‘IT'wombly’s praise, the work of two youngsters deserve special mention. Lou Allioti, a pint-sized swimmer from Izmir, Turkey, has been taking part in three and four events at each meet and ‘Twombly says it’s Allioti’s drive and enthusiasm that have proved contagious to the team. ‘The other boy is Jay Fox, of Bluefield, West Virginia, current Southern Conference breast stroke champion, who has twice set new pool records in his speciality this year. Against Catholic he went the goo-yard distance in 2:34.5, and against Davidson he lowered the mark still farther by turning in a time of 2:30.0. In his 30 years of coaching General swimming teams, ‘Twombly says Fox is his first breast stroke champion. Men in all other events had previously won Southern Conference titles for ‘Twombly. On the wrestling mats, things are looking up. ‘The General grap- plers dropped their first two matches to Virginia Tech, defend- ing conference champion, and per- ennial power Franklin and Mashall by substantial margins, and were edged out in the next by Duke, 16- JANUARY 1956 13. But Coach Dick Miller’s boys have bounced back to beat North Carolina, 26-10, and tie West Vir- ginia, 14-14. Co-Captain and conference 167- pound champ Gibby McSpadden, who hasn’t lost a match since his freshman year when he dropped a lone decision in the conference finals, is still terrorizing his weight class. ‘Two of his victories this year have been pins, while the three de- cisions have never been close. John Ellis continues to stand strong at 137 pounds, while some freshmen talent in Dennis Patton and Butch House promises well for the future. Chapter News APPALACHIAN The annual meeting of the Appa- lachian chapter was held in Ab- ingdon, Virginia, at the Martha Washington Inn on Decemter 3, with 50 alumni and guests present. A social hour preceded the dinner. A. G. Lively, ’12, president of the chapter, presided. Dr. Charles W. Turner, of the history depart- ment, and Dr. A. Ross Borden Jr., of the English department, repre- sented the University. Following the talks a short business meeting was held and the following officers were elected to serve for the coming year: Albert Peery, ’32, Tazewell, Virginia, President; Allen W oftord, 32, Johnson City, ‘Tennessee, H. L. Crowgey, ’12, Emory, Virginia, Clif- ford Smith, ’24, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Dick Rouse, ’30, Bristol, Virginia, Vice Presidents; and James N. Harmon, Jr., "44, Laze- well, Virginia, Secretary- Treasurer. AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM The chapter met at the Belle- Mead restaurant, Harrisonburg, on December 2, for a delightful social hour and dinner. ‘There were 75 alumni and guests present. Bill Chipley, football coach, spoke to the group on the present athletic policy of the University. Edward C. Atwood, of the Commerce School, spoke on University affairs. Col. Paul J. B. Murphy, ‘14, president of the chapter, presided. The following officers were elect- ed for the coming year: President, Fred O. Funkhouser, °34; Vice- Presidents, Richard W. Smith, °41, J. B. (Gus) Stombock, °41; ‘Treas- urer, Richard T. Sloan, ’42; Secre- tary, William B. Gunn, ‘42. BALTIMORE The Fall meeting of the Balti- more chapter was held at the EIk Ridge Country Club on December 3, with 60 alumni and guests pres- ent. Bill Pacy, ’51, president of the chapter presided. Dr. Marvin Perry, of the English department, spoke to the group on “The Impressions of a New-comer to the Campus,” and Dr. William M. Hinton, of the Education and Psychology depart- ment, and chairman of the Un1- versity Athletic Committee, on the “University’s Present Athletic Policy.” Officers elected to serve for the coming year were: Dave Ryer, ‘51, President; Talcott Bond, ’51, Vice- President; Gideon Stief, Jr., ‘52, ‘Treasurer; and Sam Williams, °44, Secretary. 19 BIRMINGHAM Coaches Bill Chipley and Charlie Harrington spoke to some 40 alum- ni in Birmingham on November 29 at the fall meeting of the local chap- ter. The dinner meeting, preceded by a social hour, was held at the Mountain Brook Club. Bester Brown, chapter president, presided. Dean Gilliam, while visiting high and preparatory schools in the South, was in Birmingham on De- cember 6. Local alumni arranged an informal coffee party for him at at the ‘Tutwiler Hotel where he talked with prospective students and members of their families. ‘The Birmingham alumni have been re- sponsible for sending many excel- lent boys to the Universitv. CHARLESTON Forty alumni and their wives met for dinner at the Daniel Boone Hotel in Charleston on Friday eve- ning, October 14, with Ruge De- Van, Jr., 34 presiding. Dr. Gaines, guest speaker of the evening, went down the alphabet during his talk, starting with “Admissions” and end- ing with “University Scholarships,” The Mid-South meeting in Memphis featured President Gaines (right) and the newly elected chapter officers ED Marks, °37, SAM HOLLIs, ’51, and HARRY WELLFORD, °46. 20 covering for those present up-to- date campus information. A direct outcome of Dr. Gaines’ talk was the plan for the formation of alumni committees to visit various local high schools and to present to graduates information about Wash- ington and Lee which may lead to their becoming students here. Dr. Gaines had spoken in the afternoon at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Charleston Rotary Club. MID-SOUTH The Mid-South Alumni Associa- tion held a dinner meeting at the University Club in Memphis on November 8, with more than 150 alumni, their wives, parents of pres- ent students of the University, and friends in attendance. S. L. Kopald, '43, presided and introduced Presi- dent Gaines, the principal speaker of the occasion. In a short business meeting Harry Wellford, ’46, was elected President of the alumni group, succeeding S. L. Kapold, ’43. Ed Marks, °37, was named Vice- President, and Sam Hollis, ’51, Secretary- Treasurer. Dr. Gaines had a busy day in the city, appearing before the student body of South- western University at 10:00 a.m. as a speaker in the series of talks there on “Free World Issues.’ He also spoke at the noon meeting of the Memphis Rotary Club at the Pea- body. ROANOKE Seventy-five Roanoke, Virginia, alumni met for their annual dinner at the Shenandoah Club-= on Wednesday, November 16, with Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, President of the chapter presiding. Officers elected to serve for the coming year were William B. Hop- kins, ’42, President, succeeding Mr. Fitzpatrick; Richard ‘IT. Edwards, 93, Vice-President; and Robert S. Goldsmith, ’53, re-elected Secretary- ‘Treasurer. Student leaders who spoke on student activities were Ellis Drew of Anderson, South Car- olina, student body president; Bill Williams of Roanoke, editor of The Ring-tum Phi; Sam Syme of Chevy Chase, Maryland, President of O.D.K.; and Milton Herndon of Oak Hill, West Virginia, President of the Student Bar Association. H. K. (Cy) Young, Alumni Secretary, and Martin P. Burks, III, a mem- ber of the Alumni Board of Trus- tees, spoke briefly to the group. SOUTHWEST ‘TEXAS Seventy alumni and friends of Washington and Lee held a most successful fellowship hour and din- ner meeting on November 14, at the Houston Club in Houston, Texas, with chapter president Milton Mor- rison, ’38, presiding. Ben Ditto, ‘48, introduced the guests and friends. President Gaines, the principal speaker of the occasion, was pre- sented with some field binoculars to be placed in the Lee Museum, by Mr. Harry M. Jay, Memphis, ‘len- nessee, in memory of his wife, Laura Jay. The glasses case bears the in- scription “From G. W. C. Lee to Katherine Stuart.’’ Dr. Gaines gave a delightful and most enlightening description of the present state of affairs at the University. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE 06 H. L. HANpD.uEy retired from the Bureau of Public Roads. Kansas City, Missouri, in August, 1955. He now lives at 308 Montclair, N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico. / 4 J. GoopLogr JACKsON, president of Upper Potomac Alumni Chapter, who 1S a loyal Democrat, was appointed by Gov- ernor McKeldin to the Alleghany County Board of Education for a term of 5 years. Address: 610 Shivers Avenue, Cumberland, Maryland. Incidentally Governor McKel- din, who has a freshman son at Wash- ington and Lee, was a guest of the Uni- versity on Parents’ Day. During his stay he spoke to one of the local honorary fraternities. / 6 Jose CAMINERO, formerly of the Diaro de la Marina, Havana, and now Cuban Ambassador in Nicaragua, reports that it takes a long time for news of the University to reach him (by slow boat) in Managua. He reports that another alum- nus, HENRY MAHLON WEIS, 28, lives in Managua, Apardo 466. 17 PAuL D. PICKENs has been appoint- ed a member cf the Housing Authority of the City of Cumberland, Maryland, for a five year term. 22 Dr. Harry Lyons was recently elected president of the American Dental Association at its meeting in San Fran- cisco, California. Dr. Lyons, dean of the Dental School of the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, was also honored recently in Richmond when the faculty of the dental school presented his portrait to the college. 2 4 CHARLES A. COHEN has moved his law offices to 267 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, New York, as of November 1, 1955. JANUARY 1956 25 Correction. ‘Through the misplac- ing of two semicolons in the 1955 Alumni Fund Report under the Academic Class of 1925, two Alumni Fund contributions indicated that Philip F. Howerton and Charles S. Heilig were deceased. We are happy to make this correction as both of them are very much alive. The asterisks indicating “In Memoriam” listed _ be- fore their names were intended for their clasmates Archie (Red) Hawkins and John Hocker. EDWARD Matz, Sr., has just returned from a three months trip abroad where he visited several countries looking over in- dustrial plants. He is still president of Kurly Kate Corporation. Address: 2215 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 16, Illinois. 2 6 Eart A. CapMus has been appoint- ed Associate Trial Justice and Substitute Juvenile Judge of Norfolk County, and has a new address at Colony Road, Ports- mouth, Virginia. Caru B. Knicut, publisher of the Big Stone Gap Post, vacationed in Puerto Rico in May. In June he served a 15-day tour of duty at Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama. He holds a commission as Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserves. M. Lu GOopMAN is practicing as a certi- fied public accountant under the firm name of M. Lu Goodman & Company, of- fices in Citizens Bank Building, Norfolk, Virginia. He reports an unusually heavy tax season in spite of the filing date hav- ing been moved up to April 15. EDWARD FELSENTHAL is still with New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1618 @60060600600060800000000060080 Class of 1906 50-Year Reunion and Convocation May 11 and 12, 1956 Sterick Building, Memphis, ‘Tennessee. He is happily married and has a son, age 13, who hopes to attend Washington and Lee, and a daughter, age 15, who hopes to at- tend dances here before said son enters. GeorcE L. HILL is a manager of a Bank of America branch which open in its new building in Singapore, Malaya, October 1. This is Mr. Hill’s second sojourn in the Southeast Asia metropolis. He was an overseas Officer for another U. S. bank for 14 years before World War II and spent part of that time in Singapore. He served during those years at London, England; Batavia, Java; Hong Kong; Peiking, China; and Manila. A native of Roanoke, Virginia, he graduated from Washington and Lee in 1926, and later did postgradu- ate work at New York University. His office is at 31 Raffles Place in the heart of the city, and supplements a network of Far Eastern branches of the bank. DANIEL S. MAcCoORKLE has owned and operated his own business under the name of D. S. MacCorkle, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, since 1944. He is married and has two daughters, one entering Northwestern University School of Jour- nalism this fall, and the other in Mill- burn High School. Residence: 19 Gap View Road, Short Hills, New Jersey. 2/ Eppy GILMoreE, of the AP London Bureau, covered the “‘summit”’ conference in Geneva in July. LE Dr. G. WALDO DUNNINGTON, profes- sor of German and English at Northwest- ern State College, Natchitoches, Louisiana, is the author of a study of the life and work of Carl Frederick Gauss, one of the three greatest mathematical geniuses of all time, recently published by Exposition Press, Inc., 386 Fourth Avenue., New York 16, New York. Dr. Dunningham has made a life study of Gauss, and in February 1955, visited Brunswick, Germany, and the Uni- versity of Gottengen, Germany, for the centennial of the death Carl Frederick Gauss. Not only is the biography based on rare material, but extensive appendixes preserve much of the private data that heretofore has not been available outside the family archives in Germany. 29 RICHARD POWELL CARTER is the author of “Fire Under the Skin,” an ar- ticle on shingles that appeared in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post. RICHARD POWELL CARTER, JR., is a freshman at Washington and Lee. Puitie R. BrEcKER, formerly of Coolidge, Becker, Wall & Wood, has become a partner in the law firm under the name of Cowden, Pfarrer, Crew & Becker, with offices at 712 Winters Bank Building, Dayton 2, Ohio. Joun JAY Puitiips has spent most of his life since graduation in the insurance business, resigning a few years ago as General Agent of the Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co., for the State of Oregon. Since 21 that time he has been a rancher in Ven- tura County, California, raising lemons, oranges, avacados—‘‘and three children.” Address: Rt. 1, Box 330 Moorpark, Cali- fornia. J. M. SHACKELFORD is still an Accountant with Johns Manville Co., his main out- side activity in the past year being as na- tional secretary of the National Society for Business Budgeting. He continues to de- vote considerable time to church affairs as Finance Chairman of the Board of Trustees, First Presbyterian Church, Me- tuchen, New Jersey. Address: 25 Clinton Place, Metuchen, New Jersey. 3 / ‘TALcoTr C. LANCASTER is still with Electro Metallurgical Co. as chief chemist. Address: 102 Hillcrest Drive, Marietta, Ohio. 33 Dr. W. Topp DEVAN, retired as Lt. Col. Medical Department U. S. Army, is now practicing his profession in sur- gery in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He is married and has three sons, ages 7, 6, and 2 years old. He lives at 213 Eichelberger Street, Hanover, Pennsylvania. 34 E. N. S. Grrarp is Director of Pub- lic Information in Europe and Africa for the American Red Cross with head- quarters in Stuttgart, Germany. His son, E. S. N. Grrarp, II, is a freshman at Wash- ington and Lee. 3 5 Don R. WALLIS is now in the news- paper business with the Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana. He was launching his new 40-foot steel and aluminum house boat on the Ohio the first of June, and hopes all good Washington and Lee men will drop by for a cruise when in the vicinity. PEYTON D. WINFREE, JR., executive editor of the Lynchburg News and Daily Ad- vance, has been named chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association. His son, PEYTON B. WINFREE III, is a freshman here this year. 3 6 Ben A. THIRKIELD, USIA Informa- tion Officer at Helsinki, Finland, reports that the Thirkield family is flourishing, the Finnish summer this year was wonder- fully warm and sunny, and that he is 22 looking forward to home leave in the fall of 1956. He was formerly stationed in South Africa. 3/ ANDREW H. BAUER is President of the recently formed corporation, Indus- trial Properties, Inc., 34 North Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. This organization has acquired a site of 4714 acres which, when fully developed, will be the largest indus- trial subdivision in the St. Louis area. After Mr. Bauer’s service in the Army he organized and operated Ladue Supply, Inc., flour mills which he sold this past summer. The Bauers, who live at 50 Picardy Lane, Clayton 24, Missouri, have four children. He writes that between home and business he is kept about as busy as he was in “making the grade” at Washington and Lee. HARLEY E. CLuxton, Jr., M.D., Director of the Clinics at Northwestern University Medical School, was elected to Who’s Who in America in December, 1953, and _ is therefore listed in the 1954-55 edition. Address: 700 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. ‘THOMAS BEEBE RIpy is now in the truck- ing business as part owner and manager of Lawrenceburg Transfer Co. He is past- president of Lawrenceburg Rotary Club; present Mayor of Lawrenceburg; and ac- tive in many social clubs, Chamber of Commerce, church, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Ripy have five children, two boys and three girls, ages from three to 16, with the oldest boy entering college in 1956. He pre- fers Washington and Lee. Lous P. CASHMAN, JR., business manager of the Vicksburg, Mississippi Post and Herald, has been appointed director of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Asso- Ciation. PARKE Rousk, JR., is the author of a pam- phlet on printing in Colonial Williams- burg, published this year but written be- fore he was granted a leave of absence by Colonial Williamsburg to become di- rector of the 1957 Jamestown Celebra- tion. 3 & COMMANDER WILLIAM B. Bacsy, on the staff of Commander Operational De- velopment Force, has a new address as of October, 1955; U. S. Naval Advance Base, Navy No. 913, c/o F. P. O., New York, New York. His wife and their three sons, Francis Cocke, William Boyle, Jr., and Robert Daniel, are now with him. Class of 1931 25-Year Reunion and Convocation May 11 and 12, 1956 ©800020006090000600009809668609 Joun E. NEILL is Associate Manager of the College Department of Henry Holt and Company, publishers, New York City, and lives in Eastchester. WILLIAM M. Hupcins, who served four years as Admiral Carney’s aide in Eu- rope, writes that he has “returned to the plow a la Quintus Cincinnatus” and has been looking after the home place at Chase City, Virginia, with side trips to the Caribbean, pending his next assign- ment. 3 9 CAHRLES G. GILMORE on October 1, 1955, Was promoted to Assistant Vice- President of Marsh and McLennan, Inc., insurance brokers, and also named As- sistant Manager of the Insurance Bureau of the United States Steel Corporation. Marsh and McLennan has been the in- surance department of U. S. Steel since Steel was formed in 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore are the parents of a_ second daughter born December 16, 1954. H. L. HANDLEY, JR., was promoted from Branch Claims Manager in Kansas City of Farmers Insurance Group to Assistant Superintendent of Claims in the Home Office last March. Address 9713 Emperor Avenue, Arcadia, Florida. Joun F. Ganonc has opened his office for the general practice of law at 1533 Main Street, Walnut Creek, California. Ross P. SCHLABACH has resigned as pro- fessor and dean of the school of journal- ism at the University of South Carolina effective at the end of the present semester. BARRET HIERs, JR., is working for the Ti- tanum Pigment Corporation. He visits the eastern part of Virginia and is very hope- ful that he and his wife with their two sons, Rhet and Craig, can return for a visit to Washington and Lee for a day or two before long. Address: 48 Meadow Lane, Levittown, Pennsylvania. WarREN H. Epwarbs is still practicing law as a member of the firm of Pleus, Ed- wards and Rush, Box 3146, Orlando, Florida. He is now President of the Orange County Bar Association. He is active in U. S. Marine Corps Reserve and is a Lt. Colonel and commanding officer of the Organized Reserve Unit in Orlando. 40 MATTHEWS A. GRIFFIN has been ap- pointed executive director of the Wood- row Wilson Centennial Commission of Virginia, which is planning a Centennial observance in 1956 of the birth of Wilson in Staunton, Virginia. He is in charge of the Centennial office in Staunton. Louis F. (Lov) PLUMMER and his family were visitors at his mother’s home, Elm- croft, here in Lexington, Virginia during the past summer. Address: 156 Angela Avenue, Walnut Creek, California. C. O. (RED) Turner, Turner’s Drug Store, Lexington, Virginia, is also Manager of the V. M. I. Post Exchange. He has re- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE cently been promoted to Major in the Air Force Reserve Program. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1942, he served overseas for 18 months with the 12th Air Force in Italy and France. He has a total of twelve years of military service in the Regular Air Force and Reserve. E. S. Rosy, Jr., has retired after three terms as Mayor of Kenbridge, Virginia. He is now farming and in the mercantile business in Kenbridge. 4] HucuH G. ASHCRAFT has been elect- ed Vice-President of R. S. Dickson & Co., investment banking firm of Charlotte, North Carolina. Address: 783 Sedgefield Court, Charlotte, North Carolina. James A. RUSSELL, JR., is NOW major in the U. S. A. F. R. and farming in Jones- town, Mississippi. He and his wife, the formrer Mary Nan Monaghan, have a daughter 7 years old and a son 1 year old. d 2 RoBERT F. CAMPBELL, JR., formerly city editor of the Asheville, North Caro- lina, Citizen, joined the staff of the Wins- ton-Salem, North Carolina, Journal and Sentinel this year as an editorial writer. Dr. MicHaEL W. Lau has opened offices for the practice of medicine at 9730 Wil- shire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, with practice limited to Urology. ROBERT G. BAKER lives at 19686 Westover Avenue, Rocky River, Ohio. He is travel- ing for the B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company throughout Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and would be glad to know of any of his classmates living in that area. He is married and has a daughter 4 years old. EpwaArD M. Korry, formerly UP Bureau Chief in Paris, is chief of the European headquarters of Look Magazine with of- fices at 231 Rue St. Honore, Paris. ROBERT G. WALKER, formerly cashier of the First National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, is now Executive Vice-President of Pen- insula Bank & Trust Co., Williamsburg, Virginia. GEORGE A. WOLFENDEN is supervisor of the Dealer Advertising Department, The Bur- roughs Corporation, Detriot, Michigan. 43 MAJOR JOHNSON C. YouNG recently was graduated from the associate of- ficer advanced course at The Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Georgia. His home is in Morehead, Kentucky. JoserH F. Eis, Jr., of the Clarksdale, Mis- sissippi. Press Register, is Vice-Chairman of the School of Journalism Committee of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Asso- ciation. LAWRENCE W. GALLOWAY with the Coca- Cola Bottling Co. has been transferred to JANUARY 1956 Legion Commander WAGNER When conventioning American Legionnaires elected J. Addington Wagner as their new national com- mander at Miami last October, it marked the second time that an alumnus of Washington and Lee University had been named to this high position. Like his Legion- naire predecessor, Stephen F. Chad- wick, 14, “Add’’ Wagner is an at- torney, a member of his family’s law firm in Battle Creek, Mich., where he lives with his wife and 12-year-old son. As a Purple Heart Navy veteran, he had devoted much time and ef- fort to the affairs of the Legion’s General George A. Custer Post 54. His work won for him the support of his fellow Michigan Legionnaires and ultimately those of the nation. When the 41-year-old former col- lege swimming star took over the Legion leadership, he inherited a position mandated to support pro- grams in the fields of agriculture, foreign relations, military prepared- ness, underprivileged children, jun- ior baseball, service, anti- communism, civil defense—to name but a few. It’s a good bet he’ll do a fine job, his Legion friends say. civil He is best remembered at Wash- ington and Lee as co-captain of the swimming team which stroked its way to the Southern Conference championship in 1936 and 1937. His swimming prowess was as na- tural as his leadership abilities, for he had captained his Battle Creek High School team to the Michigan State title in 1932. Following his graduation from Law School in 1937, he joined his father and sister in practicing law, but when the war came he was commissioned an ensign in April, 1942. In the meantime, he had be- come the husband of Virginia Dare Beagle, his school-girl sweetheart. In 1946, Wagner returned from the war, a lieutenant commander, and bearing scars of wounds suffered during a Japanese Kamikaze attack off Okinawa in the waning days of the Pacific war. His subsequent activities with the Battle Creek Legion post helped make it the largest in Michigan. His youthful enthusiasm and determination were rewarded last fall when delegates of three million war veterans elected him as their national commander for 1955-56. SSHSHSSOHOHSHSSSHSHOGOHOSOHSSOSHSSHSSSSSHOHSAGSHHOSHOCHOSCHOCHOSCCELEEEOEEES New Bern, North Carolina. Address: Box 134 Bridgeton, North Carolina. His home is on Route 17 and he hopes to see some W. and L. people passing through. 44 WALLACE E. CLAYTON has been transferred to the J. Walter Thompson Detroit office to head the Public Rela- tions office there. Address: J. Walter ‘Thompson Company, 535 Griswold Street, Detroit 26, Michigan. WILLIAM READ MILLER as of January 1, 1956, became a partner of the law firm under the name of Duval, Duval and Mil- ler, Richmond, Virginia. 45 Davin LLoyp JONEs has joined Mc- Kinsey & Company, management consult- ants, as a consultant in their New York office, 60 East 42 Street, New York 17, New York. He came to the company from Pa- cific Mills Division of Burlington Mills. 23 46 FREDERICK C. SAGE has been Admin- istrator of the Jackson County Public Hospital, Maquoketa, Iowa, since April, 1953. The Sages have two boys, 3 years old and 5 months old. 4/ ROPER SHAMHART graduated from Union Theological Seminary in June, 1950, with the B.D. degree and later in 1951 was ordained Deacon and Priest of the Episcopal Church. He served as Rector of the Episcopal Church in Christians- burg, and in Wytheville, Virginia. He is now in New York working on a Master’s degree in Church History, and is tempor- arily located at 175 Ninth Avenue, New York 11, New York. q & CAPTAIN JAMES M. WATSON was re- lief pilot of one of the B-47 aircraft crews that won the Mackey Trophy for 1954 for the Strategic Air Command’s 308th Bom- bardment Wing, Hunter Air Force Base, Savannah, Georgia. General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, recently presented the trophy in his Pentagon office. The award was made in recognition of a 10,000 mile non-stop flight made by two B-47 bembers from Hunter to Europe and back last year. The Stratojets were refueled four times in flight, twice in complete darkness. One crew completed the flight in 24 hours and four minutes and the other in 25 hours and 23 minutes. The trophy has been awarded annually since 1912. It was donated by the late Clarence H. Mackey as an annual military aviation award. The trophy has _ been awarded in past years for speed, altitude, endurance, and distance flights. Captain Watson’s wife is the former Vivian Buchanan of 11 Houston Street, Lexington, Virginia. FREDERICK J. (JACK) AHERN, Financial and Economic Analyst with United Corpora- tion, 6 Leffingwell Place, New Rochelle, New York, was recently elected Assistant Secretary of the organization. Jack L. GrossMAN and Frederica Judith Kolker were married on Marsh 12, 1955, at Pikesville, Maryland. They are at home in Baltimore, where Jack has engaged in the general practice of law since he passed the bar in 1949. He was associated with a firm until January, 1954, when he opened his own office. RosperT G. PATTERSON, the new Assistant Professor of Bible, Southwestern Univer- 24 sity, Memphis, ‘Tennessee, after receiving his A.B. degree at Washington anu Lee, was awarded his B.D., at Union Theolog- ical Seminary, and is now a candidate for his Ph. D. at Yale. His teaching career has carried him to McCallie School in Chattanooga, Collegiate School in Rich- mond, and Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. He also has held pastorates in Virginia, North Carolina, and West Virginia. Address: Southwest- ern University, Memphis, Tennessee. H. Maurice MITCHELL is a partner in the firm of Lasley, Spitzberg, Mitchell & Hays in Little Rock, Arkansas. Maurice was with the U. S. Treasury Department, and then served as Assistant Attorney, Ar- kansas State Revenue Department, for two years. He practiced alone until January, 1954, when the present partnership was formed. Maurice has served as Secretary- Treasurer of the Arkansas Bar Association since 1951, and as an instructor at Ar- kansas Law School since 1951. The Mitch- ells have three children. JOHN M. STEvens has been with Kentland Coal and Coke Co., Pikeville, Kentucky, since April, 1951, and is now Superinten- dent with local supervision of 90,000 acres. He practiced law in West Virginia for three years and was admitted on motion to the Kentucky Bar. John is a member of Pikeville Planning Commission, Ken- tucky Forest Industries Committee, and is President of Pikeville Rotary Club. WILLIAM HARRELSON is a partner in the law firm of Fraust & Harrelson and has en- gaged in general practice since finish- ing school. He has served as City Attor- ney for ‘Troy, Ohio, since October, 1948. Address: 10614 W. Main Street, Troy, Ohio. James R. Lyte has formed a partnership with T. R. Bandy, Jr., for the general practice of law under the name of Bandy & Lyle, Kingsport, Tennessee. Jim was with Kingsport Times-News for a year and had practiced alone since 1950. His son, James R. Lyle, Jr. (Robin), was born in September, 1954. WILLIAM LAWRENCE GARVIN is attending M. I. ‘T. to work on his master’s degree in Architecture. His address is now Apart- ment 4, 262 Harvard Street, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts. RUTLEDGE H. DEASE, JR., was married to Virginia Slaughter in 1951. They have two children, Katheryn Louise, age 214 and John Edward, age 3 months. Rut has been with the Carter Oil Co., for the last 4 years till May 1, 1955. He now has his own oil and gas lease business in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Ad- dress: 110 Bruce Street, Shreveport, Louis- iana. 49 REID R. AGNoR, JR., is secretary of the W. L. Foltz Insurance Co., and presi- dent of the Lexington-Buena Vista Asso- ciation of Insurance Agents. He has re- cently been promoted from first lieuten- ant to captain in the Air Force Reserve Program. During World War II he served 43 months and was stationed overseas in the European theatre for 23 months with the 344th medium bomber group as a flight officer. Address: P. O. Box 530, Lex- ington, Virginia. ALAN W. SPEARMAN, JR., is now State sales representative for Jenkins Lumber and Manufacturing Co. of Birmingham, AI- abama. The company is owned and op- erated by RALEIGH JENKINS, JR., ’24, 2832 Niazuma Avenue, Birmingham, Alabama. Address: 2813 11th Avenue S., Apartment B, Birmingham, Alabama. EVERETT L. TaAytor, Jr., M.D., interned until December, 1955, at Greenville Gen- eral Hospital. He and Mrs. Taylor have a son 4 years old. Address: g-A Perry Court Apartments, Greenville, South Car- olina. EVERETT C. EASTER, JR., is in the advertis- ing department, Tampa Electric Co., Tam- pa, Florida. Address: 70 Davis Boulevard, Apartment 3, ‘Tampa, Florida. PETER D. DEBOER is Cost Accountant at E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Waynes- boro, Virginia. He is married and has a son two years old. He is a member and Secretary of Waynesboro Kiwanis Club; on the board of Waynesboro Community Concert Association; member, Waynesboro Musicians Group; and was appointed, June 1, 1955, to Board of Trustees of Waynesboro Community Hospital, Inc., and appointed its ‘Treasurer. Address: 628 Pine Avenue, Waynesboro, Virginia. 50 WILLIAM R. LINTON sang several roles in the Atlanta Opera-Arts Associa- tion’s production of Tales of Hoffman, November 11, at the Atlanta Woman’s Club Auditorium. He also appears in Opera-Arts productions of La Traviata and Il Trovatore and is tenor soloist at Col- lege Park Methodist Church, Atlanta. After two years at Washington and Lee, he received his A. B. degree from the University of Florida. Jim CARRINGTON (HOOFNAGLE) served two years in the army following graduation with a stint in Yokohama. After attend- ing radio school in New York, he worked first as sports director for Phil Hirsch (formerly of WREL, Lexington) at WLEU, Erie, Pennsylvania, and then for station WNXT, Portsmouth, Ohio. He is now sports director for Station KBUN, Bemidji, Minnesota. Gus A. FRITCHIE, JR., is now in the service as a Lieutenant (j.g.) and took part in the Tachen evacuation. Gus received his Law degree from Tulane Law School in 1953 and was married on November 20 of that year. He expects to practice law with his father, Gus A., Sr., ’19, when his ser- vice is completed. Address: 309 Cleveland Avenue, Slidell, Louisiana. Houston H. Harte took the 13-week NAEA advertising sales training course at the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune last spring. He praises the course highly and recommends that it be offered at Washington and Lee. A third child, a THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE girl, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harte in Des Moines last December. CHARLES H. ROBERTSON has been working for Pet Milk Co., Abington, Virginia, since June, 1951. Address: 123 Fraser Lane, Staunton, Virginia. 51 Jor C. Sconce, after graduation in 1951, was drafted into the army and sent to Officer Candidate School. In 1952-54 he served as Public Relation Officer, Informa- tion and Education Officer, and Assistant S-3 in the Army. In 1954-55 he attended the School of advanced International Stu- dies of Johns Hopkins University for one year working on his Masters degree. He is now studying on an Italian Goverment Fellowship at the University of Bologna, Italy. Address: Collegio Irnerio, Piazza v. Puntoni 2, Bologna, Italia. HENRY BRECKINRIDGE VANCE, now with the Corporation Council cf the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., has been ap- pointed city attorney of Buena Vista, Vir- ginia, to succeed Henry J. FORESMAN, LL.B. 48, whose resignation became ef- fective September 1. Mr. Vance will assume office February 1, when he moves to Buena Vista with his family. In the interim Judge William S. Moffett, Jr., of the Buena Vista Circuit Court, has appointed CHARLES H. Davipson, Jr., LL.B. °35, of Lexington, to serve as Commonwealth’s attorney for Buena Vista from November 1-December 31 to relieve Mr. Foresman who has been granted a two-month leave of absence because of ill health. Guy Bowers HAMMOND has recently grad- uated from Yale Divinity School with the B.D. degree. This fall he will go to Vanderbilt University to study for his Ph.D., and then will devote his time to teaching religious education. Address: 3912-11th Avenue, S., Birmingham, Ala- bama. J. K. BoarpMAN, Jr., has recently been transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, as man- ager of the record office, C. & P. Tele- phone Company of Virginia, 423 Boush Street, Norfolk, Virginia. R. E. WuirTson, JRr., is now back in Vir- ginia with the Riverton Lime and Stone Co., Dominion Minerals Division, with headquarters at Piney River, Virginia. He and his wife are frequent visitors to Lexington. 5. 2 WALTER GARRETT RIDDICK has been appointed assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, the appointment effective immediately. A native of Little Rock, Mr. Riddick has been in practice with the firm of Rose, Meek, House, Barron and Nash. He is an A.B. graduate of ‘49 and LL.B. ’52, and a son of the late JupcE WALTER G. RIppICK of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, class of 1905. THOMAS D. GARDNER was finally transfer- red from his old carrier, the U.S.S. Kear- JANUARY 1956 sarge, and is now enjoying a stretch of shore duty near home. Address: Photo Laboratory, Halligan Hall, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. EMMETT E. ‘TUCKER is a member of the recently formed partnership for the gen- eral practice of law under the name of Elisha Hanson with offices at 729 Fit- teenth Street, N.W., Washington 5, D.C. PauL D. WEILL recently returned from Korea after serving there as a_ First Lieutenant with the Marines. He was re- leased from active duty and is living at 190 Evans Avenue, Freeport, New York. SAMUEL E. E. CONKLIN finished a_ six months’ training program at the home office of the Maryland Casualty Co., and was transferred to the Richmond, Virginia, office in March. Address: 14 Oak Lane, Richmond 14, Virginia. 53 LAWRENCE S. WHITTEN, JR., has just completed a course at the Naval School of Justice at Newport, Rhode _ Island, standing second in a class of 140 men. He will return to his ship, the U.S.S. Kermit Roosevelt, in California. He was married to Jeannie McCarty and has a son, Michael Lawrence, born May 18, 1955. CHARLES PRATT RATHER, Jk., is now in the air force stationed in Germany. He is taking University of Maryland extension courses and will return to Auburn to get his degree when he gets out of the serv- ice. Home address: 3820 Forest Glen, Birmingham 9, Alabama. C. CRAIG FRITSCHE, after graduating from the Officer’s ‘Training School at the New- port, Rhode Island, Naval Base, as an en- sign, subsequently completed training as a deep-sea diver at Indianhead, Mary- land, and is now assigned to the U.S5S. Pinnacle (minesweeper) and based at the Charleston, South Carolina, Naval Base. Address: U.S.S. Pinnacle, (MSO-462), FPO, New York, New York. ALAN WEBER was married to Mary Angela Russell of Ashland, Ohio, October 23, 1954. Their son, Alan Russell Weber, was born October 4, 1955. Alan, Sr., is now a law student at the University of Michi- gan. He completed two years active duty with the Navy as a commisisoned officer in August, 1955. Address: 1106 Norman Place, Apartment 4, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Joun I. BowMAN, Jr., has completed his first year at the Dental School, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. Home address: 3009 Hemlock Road, Roa- noke, Virginia. 5 4 Lr. WILLIAM HILit, who has been with the Transportation Corps at Fort Story, Virginia, was assigned to a summer tour at Frobisher Bay, Canada, where the Barc’s are bringing in supplies for the DEW line. Bill wrote in August: “So far the weather has been much like early spring or late fall there. We are living in tents that have floors and walls about four feet up the sides. Running water is right across what we jokingly call the ‘street’.”” Bill wrote earlier from Fort Story that he was putting his journalistic training to good use and had also given his company two courses in psychological warfare. ARTHUR DEAN Guy is in the service and is stationed at Fort Amador, Canal Zone. His home is at 253 Ward Parkway, Kansas City 12, Missouri. JERRY C. Murpnuy recently completed the officer’s basic course at the Anti-Aircraft Artillery and Guided Missile School, Fort Bliss, ‘Texas. His home address is: c/o Mr. and Mrs. Fred Murphy, 1025 Spring Street, Mocksville, North Carolina. GLENN Scott, author of A Sound of Voices Dying, put in a stint at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, after induction, and was then transferred to the Adjutant General School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, In- diana. He reported seeing Bos Cross, ’54, from time to time at Fort Jackson. Glenn is making notes for the next book, and was observed in Richmond in October. 55 SECOND LIEUTENANT WALK CLARIDGE Jones, III, recently was graduated from the Army’s Transportation School at Fort Eustice, Virginia. Lieutenant Jones com- pleted the school’s transportation officer basic course for officers who recently re- ceived their commissions. After graduation from Washington and Lee he entered the Army last August. Home address: 727 South Perkins Road, Memphis, ‘Tennessee. DAVE CLINGER has returned from Europe with an excellent color motion picture film taken on a three months’ tour on a motor scooter. He reports that in Rome he was given a warm reception by Ep (Scoop) JACKSON, °45, UP Bureau Chief. Dave is working for the Fredericksburg, Virginia, Free Lance-Star until army in- duction. Lew CopE is stationed at Fort Eustis, Vir- ginia, and editing the unit newspaper. Editorial duties bring him to Richmond once a week. Dave Clinger’s movies had a markedly soothing effect upon Lew when Lew and Dave visited Lexington for Homecoming week-end. SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM E. Moore, JR., recently was gradauted from the Army’s Transportation School at Fort Eustis, Virginia. Lieutenant Moore com- pleted the school’s transportation basic course for officers who recently received their commissions. Home address: 645 Cherry Avenue, Waynesboro, Virginia. 5 6 PRIVATE JAMES H. Pruitt is playing football in Germany with the g2nd In- fantry Regiment team. Private Pruitt entered the Army in January, 1955, and completed basic training at Fort Ord, California. He arrived in Europe in July. Home Address: 117 Rivercrest Drive, Ft. Worth, Texas. 25 1891 Rev. CARLYLE R. WOMELDORF, gi, retired Presbyterian missionary to Brazil, died at his home at East Lexington, Virginia, December 6, 1955. He had been in de- clining health for some years. After at- tending Washington and Lee, he was graduated from Union Theological Sem- inary. He spent nine years in the mission field in Brazil for the Presbyterian Church and twenty years in El Paso, and Houston, ‘Texas, working among the Mexicans. 1895 Dr. ByRAN JARRED Cook died October 11, 1955, at the home of his daughter in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. He had moved to Michigan several years ago. Interment was in Bovina, Mississippi, his former home. 1897 THOMAS HENRY Wess died at a hospital in Austin, Texas, on October 24, 1955, following a long illness. He was 80 years of age. Mr. Webb was an engineer with the Texas State Highway Department for 33 years and later an assistant engineer un- til his retirement in 1951. His home was at 1400 Ethridge Avenue, Austin, ‘Texas. 1902 SAMUEL MADISON DuNLAP, 78, president of Myers Hardware Company, Lexington, Virginia, died October 31, 1955, following a long illness. Mr. Dunlap had been a leader in community affairs in Lexington until ill health curtailed his activities several years ago. 1906 KELLY WALKER TRIMBLE died September 6, 1955. His home was Staunton, Virginia. 1907 VirciL S. BEATTY, 72, died on September 27, 1955, at his home in Beattyville, Ken- tucky, following a heart attack. He is sur- vived by a brother, JupGE Emit B. BEatty, of the Law Class of 1920. 1908 PERRY W. ‘TuRNER died October 28, 1955, at his home in Birmingham, Alabama. 26 IRVIN AsHzR Downey died September 6, 1954. His home was in Princton, West Virginia. 1911 Jos RANDOLPH SAUNDERS died May 81, 1955. His home was in Suffolk, Virginia. 1912 ROLAND ACREE WaApbpILL died October 18, 1655. His home was in Washington, Mary- land. 1913 CARTER GLAss, JR., 62, co-publisher and general manager of the Lynchburg News and Daily Advance, died following a cerebral hemorrhage, December 1, 1955. Son of the late United States Senator Carter Glass and Mrs. Glass, he had been associated with the Lynchburg papers since 1913. He was a former member cof the Senate of Virginia and a former president of the American Philatelic Society. Graduating from Washington and Lee University in 1913, his newspaper career was interrupted when the Virginia National Guard was ordered out for ser- vice on the Mexican border and he was stationed with Old Dominion troops at Brownsville, ‘Texas, from July, 1916, to January, 1917. Shortly after the declaration of war with Germany, he was ordered to the first officer’s training camp at Ft. Myer. He saw service in the Meuse-Ar- gonne drive in France. Mr. Glass is survived by his wife, the former Ria Binford ‘Thomas and. three children, Carter Gtiass, IIT, 42, THOMAS REAKIRT GLass, ’49, and Mrs. Nyal Lee Cline. Dr. HERMAN PORTER DAvipson died Octo- ber 8, 1955, following a heart attack. After graduation here he completed his medi- cal course at Johns Hopkins University in 1917. After serving as a first heutenant in the Medical Corps during World War I, he spent a year at the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston and soon thereafter went to Chi- cago where he began a successful practice as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. He was eye surgeon for the Pullman Car Company and was on the faculty of the University of Chirago as a clinical associ- ate in opthalmology in Rush Medical Col- lege. Dr. Davidson was also on the staff of Presbyterian Hospital and maintained offices in the Loop and the Beverley Hills suburb. He was a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association. 1914 ‘THE HONORABLE WILLIAM H. SMATHERS died September 24, 1955. Mr. Smathers served as United States Senator from New Jersey from 1936 to 1942. 1915 MALVERN SPENCER BARROW, 63, died De- cember 11, 1955, following a heart attack. Mr. Barrow’s home was in Alberta, Vir- ginia, and he had been president of the Bank of Alberta since 1917. 1925 JOHN SENTMAN STRAHORN, JR., died Novem- ber 13, 1955. At the time of his death he was professor of Law at the University of Maryland. 1926 SAMUEL JAMES ‘THOMPSON, former Com- monwealth’s Attorney for Campbell Coun- ty, Virginia, died December 10, 1955. Mr. ‘Thompson had been most active in alumni work, having served as agent for the Law Class of 1929 for a number of years. His son, S. J. (THOMPSON, JR., is in the junior class at Washington and Lee. 1930 Ropert WiLLiAM Mostry died September 15, 1955. His home was in Conway, Ar- kansas. 1931 Parry McCiurer Sruarr died November 10, 1955. His home was in Covington, Vir- ginia. GEORGE Morcan Lupron, president of Lynchburg Coca-Cola Bottling Works, died October 3, 1955. HORTON WASHBURN Masry died April 28, 1955. His home was in Daytona Beach, Florida. 1933 JAMES INGRAM GILLEspreE died November 9, 1955. A lifelong resident of Birming- ham, Alabama, his home was at 1830-12th Avenue S., Birmingham, Alabama. 1953 Eric CORBELL GAMBRELL, JR., died De- cember 11, 1955, following a long illness. His home was at 4621 Edmondson Avenue, Dallas, Texas. 1955 ‘TOMMY KiNG Lovinc died December 6, 1955, in the University of Virginia Hos- pital after a long illness. 1949 GRANVILLE S. R. BOULDIN was married to Martha Elizabeth McCullough on Septem- ber 16, 1955, in Murfreesboro, ‘Tennessee. 1950 WILLIAM HALE BARRETT was married to THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Lelia Banks DuPre on November 12, 1955, in Rome, Georgia. WILLIAM S. CALE was married October 5, 1955, to Lois Johanson of Leeds, Ala- bama. ‘They were married in the Manse of the Leeds Presbyterian Church of which Mrs. Cale’s father is pastor. Mrs. Cale was born in Africa, where her par- ents were missionaries, and has been living in this country since 1942. They are making their home in the Manse of the Oakdale Presbyterian Church, Clover, South Carolina, of which Mr. Cale is pastor. 1951 RoBERT LEE HOpkKINs, JR., was married to Louise Augusta Gilliam, daughter of Dean and Mrs. Frank J. Gilliam, on Saturday, November 26, 1955, in the Robert E. Lee Memorial Church, Lexing- ton, Virginia. Serving as ushers were FONTAINE GILLIAM, °51, brother of the bride, WILLIAM HAGAN, °51, and DADE FOOTE, ‘59. L. PRESTON COLLINS, III, was married to Mary Marshall Steck of Winchester, Vir- ginia, on November 26, 1955. Son of Mrs. Collins of Marion, Virginia, and the late L. Preston Co..ins, II, ’20, Lieuten- ant-Governor of Virginia. The groom, A.B. ‘51, 18 now a student in the Law School here. ‘They will make their home in Lex- ington. Washington and Lee attendants in the wedding party were JACK ORSBORNE, JR., 53; BILL Pacy, ’50; JACK WALKER, 755; Ep MOYLer, JR., 51; JACK Kay, ’51; and Ep ‘THOMAS, ’50. DonaLp W. MASON was married to Dorothy Ebert on September 17, 1955, both of Cumberland, Maryland. 1952 RUSSELL KENNEDY ADAMS was married to Margaret Lynn Farley on November 26 in Charleston, West Virginia. JAMES HuGH Gorpbon, JR., was married to Katherine Moulthrop on August 25, 1955- Epwarpd Davis Matz, JR., was married. to Jan Keefer of Peoria, Illinois, on Septem- ber 24, 1955. Ed was graduated in June from Northwestern University Law School and over the summer passed both the Washington, D.C., and Illinois bar ex- aminations. Address: Park Dearborn Hotel, 1260 North Dearborn, Chicago, IIli- nois. 1953 ALDEN MCLELLAN PrrarD was married to Barbara Anne Hendrick on October 22, 1955, In San Diego, California. FreD Epsey CarTER was married to Shirley Celeste Rasberry on October 1, 1955, in El Paso, ‘Texas. Joun PAuL RYAN was married to Dorothy Sue Looney on October 19, 1955, in Fort Worth, Texas. HuGH SELWYN GLICKSTEIN was married to JANUARY 1956 Rose Dorothy Haber on November 6, 1955, in Jacksonville, Florida. 1954 RICHARD ARTMAN HARTLEY was married to Susannah Paige Smith on November 5, 1955- 1955 Bitty G. FuQUA was married to Marcia Randall on July 8, 1955, in St. Joseph, Mis- souri. Washington and Lee members of the wedding were WALTER R. RANDALL, JR., 52; Bitty V. Ayres, 37; ELBRIDGE G. Bar- KER, IV, 51; and THomas J. HIL1, IV, ‘52. Billy graduated in June from the Univer- sity of Louisville Law School and, after passing the state bar examination, opened an office in Russellville, Kentucky. SIDNEY MILLS ROGERS, JR., was married to Bette Gwendolyn Thomas on November 12, 1955, in Danville, Virginia. BEAUREGARD ANDREW REDMOND — and Suzanne Angele ‘Toledano were married October 15, 1955, in New Orleans, Louis- lana. 1929 Mr. and Mrs. ALFRED C. JUNKIN are the parents of a son, Preston Davis, born November 10, 1955. 1930 Mr. and Mrs. JosepH C. Broapbus are the parents of a daughter, Anne Elizabeth, born October 17, 1955. 1936 Mr. and Mrs. Epwarp S. Boze, Jr., are the parents of a son, Blair Manson, born August 24, 1955. 1945 Mr. and Mrs. Roperr BERTINI are the parents of a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born July 29, 1955. They also have a son four years old. 1946 Dr. and Mrs. Parrick C. DEVINE are the parents of a son, Patrick Campbell, Jr., born October 26, 1955. 1947 Mr. and Mrs. HARRISON KINNEY are the parents of a second daughter, Barbara Lee, born on August 28, 1955. 1949 Mr. and Mrs. JOHN S. R. SCHOENFELD are the parents of a son, John Reid, born September 3, 1955. 1951 Mr. and Mrs. F. J. AHERN are the parents of a daughter, Nancy Jane, born Novem- ber 22, 1955. Their son, F. J., Jr., was born February 9, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. JOHN OTHO MARSH, JR., are the parents of a son, John Robert Marsh, born October 20, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. Davin E. Ryker are the par- ents of a son, David Christopher, born October 6, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. Ep BASSETT are the parents of a daughter, Sarah Jack, born October 15, 1955: 1954 Lr. and Mrs. E. Ross WAGNER, JR., are the parents of a son, Edward Ross, III, born November 11, 1955, at Camp Pendleton, California. Address: g0g Buena Vista, San Clemente, California. Don’t forget to turn the page 27 S emetlhing le Shink About a Despite numerous salary increases, Wash- ington and Lee’s teachers have fallen victim to the times. Their real income has de- creased appreciably during the past decade and a half. In effect, therefore, those who teach are subsidizing the University by their own financial sacrifice, in return for the opportunity to continue the mission which Additional funds must be found to eliminate they consider so vital to our way of life. this sacrifice. m It has been said that the heart of a Uni- versity is its library. At Washington and Lee the libraries have experienced steady growth; that growth has not been suff- ciently rapid, however, to keep pace with the demands imposed by minds inquiring Addition funds must be found for books for after ever-increasing amounts of knowledge. the use of inquiring minds. a justifiable pride in Washington and Lee’s environment for living and learning is the birthright of every alumnus. Yet just as that environment has changed and in- proved steadily since the days of Liberty Hall, so it must continue to change and improve in the years ahead. To stand still is to retrogress; and to retrogress is to deny the value of past gains and limit the scope Additional funds must be found to assure an of future opportunities. ever-improving educational environment. ‘These are basic and immediate needs. Annual giving can provide a large portion of the additional income that is required. If you have not yet made your contribution to the 1955-56 Alumni F und, please do so TODAY. Send your gift to your Class Agent or directly to the University. Either way your class will receive credit. ns THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE The Washington and Lee Chair (with Crest in five colors) This Chair made from Northern Birch and Rock Maple—Finished in Black with Gold trim (arms finished in Cherry.) A perfect Gift for an Alumnus for Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary or Wedding. A beautiful addition to any room in your home. All profit from the sale of this chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, ’14. Mail your order to: WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Box 897, Lexington, Virginia Price: $25.00, f.o.b. Gardner, Mass.—Delivery within three weeks WASHINGTON AND LEE ommemorative Plates Wedgwood Sold only in sets of eight different scenes Price, $21.00 per set (in Blue only Shipping Charges Prepaid WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Lexington, Virginia