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Appalachian—Homer A. Jones, Jr., ’42, Box 82,

Bristol, Virginia.

Augusta-Rockingham—J. B. Stombock, Box 594,

Waynesboro, Virginia

Atlanta—Rodney Cook, ’46, 46 Fifth St., N. W.
"39, 518 Chestnut

Baltimore—Robert S. Hoyt,
Avenue, Towson 4, Maryland.

Birmingham—John V. Coe, ’25, 1631 North 38rd
Street

Charleston, West Virginia—Ruge P. DeVan, Jr.,

°34, United Carbon Building
Chattanooga—George U. Stephens, ’50, 904 Avon

Place
Chicago—Charles A. Strahorn, ’28, Winnetka Trust

and Savings Bank, Winnetka, Illinois
Charlotte—Charles L. Green, ’40, 1207 Commercial

Bank Building
Cincinnati—Jack L. Reiter, ’4-, 1020 Union Trust

Building

Clereland Boy D. Prentiss, ’44, 17605 Kinsman

oa

Danville—Richard L. Heard, ’44, 220 Robertson
Avenue

Florida West Coast—John A. Hanley, ’34, First
Federal Building, St. Petersburg

Gulf Stream—L. L, Copley, ’25, Security Building
Miami, Florida

Houston—Ted Riggs, ’38, 2000 First City National

Bank Building
Jacksonville—A. B. Conley, Jr., ’48, 625 Hogan
Street
Kansas City—W. H. Leedy, °49, 15 West 10th
Street
Louisville—Ernest Woodward, II, ’40, Kentucky
Home Life Building
°30, 409 First

Lynchburg—Edward S,. Graves,

Colony Life Building
Mid-South—Harry Wellford, ’46, Commerce Title

Building, Memphis, Tennessee
New York—Steven E. Campbell, ’41, 68 Carlton
Avenue, Port Washington, New York
New  Orleans—Herbert Jahncke, ’30, Jahncke
Service
New River and Greenbrier—Harry E. Moran, ’13,
Beckley, West Virginia
Norfolk, Virginia—Sam R. Ames, ’42, 603 Nation-
al Bank of Commerce Bldg., Norfolk 1, Va.
*31, 401 Re-

North Texas—John M. Stemmons,
public Bank Building, Dallas
Northwest Louisiana—Richard Eglin, ’44, Shreve-

por
Peninsula—Vernon T. Strickler, Jr., ’38, 3406
Washington Avenue, Newport News, Virginia
Philadelphia—James T. Trundle, ’50, 59-3 Drexel-
brook Drive, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Piedmont—A. M. Pullen, Jr., ’36, 203 Southeastern
Building, Greensboro, North Carolina
Pittsburgh—Anthony E, D’Emilio, Jr., ’41, 702
Frick Building
Richmond, Virginia—Robert A. Dementi, ’40, 4215
Seminary Avenue, Richmond 22, Virginia
Roanoke—H. Thomas Martin, ’41, 442 King George
Avenue, S.W.
San Antonio—John W. Goode, Jr., ’48, 407-09
South Texas Building
St. Louis—Andrew H. Baur, ’37, 50 Picardy Lane,
Clayton 24, Missouri
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, 1313 You Street, N.W.

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Summer 1958
Vol. XXXIII

No. 3

Published quarterly by Alumni, Incorporated
Washington and Lee University
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
WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 1940

Managing Editor
‘TINA C, JEFFREY

EDITORIAL BOARD

PAXTON Davis, JR.

FRANK J. GILLIAM
WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 1940

AMES W. WHITEHEAD

THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC

President

Davin D. JOHNSON, 1921

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Vice-President
FRANK C. BROOKS, 1946

Secretary
WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 1940

Treasurer
BEN W. DITTO, 1943

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ERNEstT Woopwarb, II, 1940
Davip D. JOHNSON, 1921
FRANK C. BROOKS, 1946

BEN W. DITTO, 1943

?EYTON B. WINFREE, 1935
CLARK B. WINTER, 1937
BERNARD LEVIN, 1942

PAUL M. SHUFORD, 1943

THe Cover: Cy YOUNG receives a book of messages
from alumni, as STUARD A. WURZBURGER, ’28, PREsI-
DENT GAINES, and ERNESY WooDWaARpD, ’40, look on, at
the general meeting of the Alumni Association.

OR MANY AN alumnus in the far
EF reaches, the primary contact
with Washington and Lee alter
graduation has been a_ cordial
gentleman named Harry Killinger
Young. For twenty-nine years, he
has been alumni secretary, and as
such, has endeared himself to lit-
erally hundreds of former students
at the Lexington school.

His retirement on June 30, 1958,
ended thirty-three years of illus-
trious service to his alma mater. For
Cy, there never was any job that
could have measured up to the one
he held, because of his everlasting
affection for Washington and Lee.

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A younger Cy in his famous and frenzied “Beat the Wahoos” batile-cry.

He might have made a larger salary
elsewhere, he might have held an
executive position in industry, but
he chose to spend his years at the
University. And—who knows?—he
may have touched more lives as
alumni secretary than he ever could
have as a tycoon of business. Cer-
tainly his influence has been felt
afar, and Washington and Lee has
benefitted exceedingly by his pres-
Clee.

One alumnus wrote President
Francis P. Gaines in 1954, “From
behind the scenes, I have watched
with interest the careers of many
Washington and Lee men, but the

most true-to-life Gentleman from
the University, both in sports and
graduate life, is that man we all
love and admire—the man that im-
pressed me most as a freshman, and
who has done more than most
Washington and Lee men have ever
realized to preserve those traditions
of freedom that we all hold dear—
Cy Young.”

That letter is probably typical
of the feclings of a good many more
alumni, for honors galore have
been heaped upon Cy during the
past year. He has been feted at a
dozen alumni chapter meetings,
and has been presented handsome

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

 

Mr. Young has given his Alma Mater the finest quality of service, and
in the largest possible dimension. His devotion and his energy, together
with his warm sympathy, have enabled him to become greatly influential
in building a better Washington and Lee.

‘The love and the prayers of their innumerable friends will always follow

Mr. and Mrs. Young.

fo eae

President

 

gifts. He was elected to Lifetime
Membership by the American
Alumni Council, at its national
meeting at Lake Placid in June. He
was elected to the All-American
basketball team for 1917 by the
Helms Athletic Foundation. And
word comes that Cy is to be named
on the National Footbail Hall of
Fame on a coast-to-coast television
program September 23. On July g,
he was medalist in the Virginia
State Golf Association Seniors
tournament with a three over par
74 at the Homestead course in Hot
Springs.

Cy’s athletic records will stand
for a long time at Washington and
Lee. As a student from 1913 until
1917, he won four letters each in
football, basketball, track, and base-
ball, and he was team captain in
each sport. As a football star, he was
an all-Southern Conference selec-
tion three years and the team’s
leading scorer each season except
his junior year, when a broken col-
larbone sidelined him midway in
the season. He twice won all-South-
ern recognition in basketball, led
the team in scoring, and played
on the only unbeaten Washington
and Lee basketball team, in 1917.
In baseball, Cy was the team’s lead-
ing hitter, scorer and base stealer
for three years. His school track
record of g.8 seconds for the 100-
yard dash has been equalled, but
not broken. And to top it off, he
was popular with students and
faculty alike. He was president of
his senior class and president of
Finals.

SUMMER 1958

While head basketball coach
from 1933 ‘til 1939, his teams won
the Southern Conference cham-
pionship in 1934 and 1937, and
were runnersup in 1935 and 1936.

Cy, a native of Charleston, West

Virginia, was married to Ruth

Neely in 1918. He is the father of
a son, Neely, ’43, and the grand-
father of two left-handed boys who
may yet learn to play golf right-
handed like Cy.

Looking back over his long asso-

clation with the University, Cy
enumerated these events as high-
lights of his career as coach and
alumni secretary:

His first Southern Conference
championship ball team in 1934.

The Generals’ smashing victory
over the University of Virginia in
1951 by a 42-12 margin, the only
loss suffered by the “Wahoos”’ that
season.

And in 1956, the success of the
Alumni Fund when it exceeded the
$100,000 mark for the first time, a
$40,000 increase over contributions
during the previous year.

Cy and Ruth plan to live in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, so Cy can play
golf often—during the intervals he’s
not zipping back up to Lexington
for some event. And with the
Youngs go the best wishes and love
from myriads of friends who will
never forget what Cy has meant to
Washington and Lee.

 

At any Washington and Lee party, Cy was the life of the party. Here he does a fancy

dance step at the reunion jamboree this year, while other guests cheer him on.

Alumni Give Scholarship

Fund in Cy’s Honor

ASHINGTON AND LEE alumni

honored Cy with the establish-
ment of a $15,000 scholarship in
his name, made up of contribu-
tions from hundreds of alumni, and
announced to him at the annual
meeting of the Alumni Association
on June 5.

Stuard A. Wurzburger, °28, of
New York, described the fund, and
served up in traditional “banquet
fare” other gifts for each course of
the meal. The entree was the
scholarship fund. Under its provi-
sions, Cy will receive for the rest
of his life the income from the
endowment fund, and upon his
death, the fund will support a
scholarship for a student whose
qualifications will include ‘“partic-
ular emphasis on athletic ability.”

Among his remarks, Mr. Wurz-
burger said, “If any retirement of
a beloved figure can be called a
happy occasion, I would say that
to date, Cy’s retirement has been
the happiest on record, and what
follows should make it even hap-
pier.... Like the banquet menus
Cy knows so well, we shall serve
these to him course by course, with
this exception. Cy does not have to
eat his banquet, he can take it home
and digest it at his leisure in the
years to come.”

The appetizer was a calling card
for a retired man, reading, “H. K.
Young, Retired, No Business, No
Phone, No Address, No Money.”

The soup course was an album
of messages from alumni of 61 dif-
ferent classes, as far back as 1890.
The bread and butter was a resolu-

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tion by the Alumni Board of ‘Trus-
tees that Cy be retained as a con-
sultant in alumni affairs for the
university “for as long as his serv-
ices may be available.”

As the chicken, gravy, and trim-
mings, Mr. Wurzburger said, “In
presenting the album to Cy, I
mentioned that messages had come
from friends all over the world.
These friends, and also many

others, wishing to perpetuate Cys
memory in the annals of Washing-
ton and Lee University, also sent
in money, and it gives me both
pleastiie and pride to announce ap-
proxiniately $15,000 has been turn-
ed ocr to the University for the
creation of what will be known as
the H. K. Young scholarship fund.”

James R. Caskie, rector of the
University of the University board
of trustees, gave the ice cream and
cake portion—the details of how
the scholarship will function. He
said he could think of no better
tribute to Cy’s athletic feats than
the scholarship.

In words that came difficult, and
with streaming eyes, Cy declared
his thanks, and said, “I only hope
my grandson can qualify for this
scholarship. ”

 

That warm, wonderful YouNG smile and hearty handshake will not soon be forgotten.

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

NOTHER SCHOOL YEAR came to a
A close on June 6, as Washing-
ton and Lee graduated 193 men in
exercises held on the lawn in front
of the president’s home. President
Francis P. Gaines awarded degrees,
and made the commencement ad-
dress. He cited the urgent need to
“establish the world spiritually.”

“If we can sacrifice our own
pocketbooks so that other people
may not starve, then we’re on our
way, he declared. “If we sit back
in our selfcenteredness, we are sign-
ing our death warrants.”

Honorary degrees were awarded
to three well-known alumni, and to
a Virginia college president. Doctor
of laws degrees were conferred upon
John... Hellums “Pucker, ‘10, of
Shreveport, Louisiana, founder and
longtime president of the Louisiana
Bar Institute, and an authority on

SUMMER 1958

 

the Napoleonic code; and to Ross
L. Malone, ’32, of Roswell, New
Mexico, president-elect --of the
American Bar Association. “The
doctor of science degree was award-
ed to Dr. Robert Glenn Craig, ’17,
of San Francisco, California, presi-
dent of the American College of
Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr.
Joseph C. Robert of Hampden-
Sydney College received a doctor
of letters degree, in recognition of
his “vigorous leadership as a young
president of an old college.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pas-
tor of New York’s Marble Col-
legiate church, and a well-known
author, delivered the Baccalaureate
sermon on ‘Thursday morning,
June 5, in Lee Chapel... Dr. Peale’s
son, John, a philosophy major, was
among the Washington and Lee
graduates this year.

 

The Baccalaureate Processional starts down through the rows of black-gowned seniors to Lee Chapel, as parents and friends watch.

Finals began on Tuesday night,
June 3, with the first of the gradua-
tion dances. On Wednesday, the
trustees met for the end-of-the-year
business, and that night, the Count
Basie orchestra played for the sec-
ond dance, followed by a concert
on the footbridge to Wilson field
‘til the wee small hours. On Thurs-
day, alumni held their general
meeting, at which the retiring
alumni secretary, H. K. Young, was
honored. Other events of the day
included the annual alumni lunch-
eon on the lawn, a meeting of the
alumni board of trustees, and the
annual President’s reception for
seniors and parents that night.

Representatives of the Army,
Navy, and Marine Corps presented
reserve officer commissions to 71
R.O.T.C. seniors Friday morning.
Commencement exercises followed.

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SIX MEN WILL JOIN the Washing-
ton and Lee faculty during the
coming year. They are: Dr. Ken-
neth F. Bick, assistant professor of
geology; William S. Carter, instruc-
tor in biology; Norris Eastman, 1n-
structor in physical education; Dr.
Walter A. Bass, assistant professor
of philosophy; John S. Ellett, I,
instructor in accounting; and
Thomas O. Sloan, instructor in
public speaking.

Dr. Bick received his doctorate at
Yale this summer. Mr. Carter is re-
placing J. J. Murray, Jr., who will
study for his doctorate at Oxford
during the next year. Dr. Bass is
replacing Dr. Edward D. Myers,
professor of philosophy, who will
be abroad for a year. Mr. Ellett
replaces ‘Thomas E. Ennis, Jr. as-
sistant professor of accounting, who
will continue study for his Ph.D.
degree. Dr. Sloan is receiving his
Ph.D. degree this summer at North-
western University. In addition to
teaching public speaking, he will
supervise the debate team, and
teach two courses in freshman Eng-
lish.

= TWO MEMBERS OF the _ faculty
have been honored by being chosen
to head state associations in their
fields.

Dr. Ollinger Crenshaw, _profes-
sor of history, is president of the
Virginia Social Science Association.
He has also served as vice-president
of the group. Dr. Crenshaw, ’25,
has been a member of the Washing-
ton and Lee faculty since 1926. He
is the author of a book, The Slave
States in the Presidential Election
of 17860, published in 1945.

Dr. William M. Hinton, ‘29, has
been named. president-elect of the
Virginia Academy of Science, and
will take office in the spring. Dr.

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Joun M. Larson of Washington, D.C.,
delivered the valedictory address.

Hinton has been at Washington
and Lee since 1931, and has been a
full professor since 1951.

=m TWO FACULTY PROFESSORS will be
in Europe for the next year on Ful-
bright teaching and research fel-
lowships, and another will join the
United States Information Agency
in Germany, as cultural attache.

Dr. Marshall W. Fishwick, pro-
fessor of American studies, will go
to Denmark in March, 1959, to
lecture on American civilization at
the University of Copenhagen and
the Peoples’ International College
at Elsinore. He will complete the
lectureship in July, 1959.

Dr. Thomas P. Hughes, assistant
professor of history, will do research
at Munich, Germany, on the his-
tory of the electrical industry in
Germany in the late nineteenth
century. He will be associated with
the ‘Technical University in Mun-
ich during the next school year.

Dr. Edwin D. Myers left in July
on a two-year leave of absence from
Washington and Lee to serve in
Bonn, Germany as cultural attache.
He and his family will live in Bad
Godesberg, a suburb of Bonn. Dr.
Myers, professor of philosophy,
spent the school year of 1956-57 in

Germany, working on a special pro-
ject for the Fund of the Advance-
ment of Education. While in Ger-
many, he lectured in German to a
number of German schools and
universities, under the joint aus-
pices of the Office of Public Af-
fairs of the American Embassy at
Bad Godesburg and the colleges
concerned.

m DR. CHARLES TURNER, professor of
history, is conducting a European
tour this summer, of students and
faculty members from Bates Col-
lege, Lewiston, Maine. The group
departed from Quebec, Canada, and
is visiting six countries on the con-
tinent.

= THE  BUSIEST commencement
speaker at the college level in Vir-
ginia this year was Dr. Francis
Gaines, who took the podium at
three schools in June and never got
more than 66 miles away from
home. He gave the graduation ad-
dress at the University of Virginia,
at Roanoke College, and made his
traditional remarks at the com-
mencement exercises at Washington
and Lee.

ms KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, short
story author and essayist, will be-
come “Glasgow Professor for 1959”
at the University, the first person
to hold a special professorship es-
tablished by the late Arthur C.
Glasgow “to promote the art of ex-
pression by pen and tongue.”

Scenes from the 1958 Commencement are
pictured at the right. Top row, Bacca-
laureate speaker Dr. NORMAN VINCENT
PEALE begins the processional to Lee
chapel, accompanied by Dr. GAINES, and
led by Pror. CHarLes Licur. Alumni and
parents enjoy the alumni luncheon on
back campus. Second row, another group
at the luncheon. Graduation exercises on
the lawn beside R. E. Lee Memorial
church. Bottom row, a group eating at the
luncheon. Alumni secretary Cy YOUNG in
conversation with two friends at the an-
nual reception at PRESIDENT GAINES’ home.

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SUMMER 1958

The Glasgow visiting professor-
ship will bring to the campus for
one term every other school year a
man or woman “of acknowledged
distinction” in poetry, fiction, dra-
ma, or expository writing. The
donor was a brother of Ellen Glas-
gow, Virginia novelist, and son of
Francis ‘I. Glasgow, an alumnus of
Washington College in 1849.

Miss Porter will teach a course in
creative writing and give occasional
lectures during the spring semester
next year. She has ben writer-in-
residence and lecturer at Stanford
University, the University of Chi-
cago, and other colleges. Among
her chief works are ‘Flowering
Judas,” Hacienda,” “Noon Wine,”
“The Leaning Tower,” “The Days
Before,” and “Pale Horse, Pale
Rider.”

m THE REVEREND Richard L. Gel-
wick, director of religious activities
and chaplain of the university, has
resigned to become director of re-
ligious activities and YMCA sec-
retary at Oberlin College, Oberlin,
Ohio. He joined the Washington
and Lee staff in 1956.

 

‘m DR. ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE, Washing-

ton and Lee’s scholar-in-residence
during last semester, completed his
fifteenth lecture on May 23, and
shortly after, left on the return
trip to his native England.

In a final press conference on
June 2g, Dr. Toynbee declared he
had enjoyed his stay in the United
States and “loved Lexington and
Washington and Lee.’ He _ said
Washington and Lee today is like
Oxford of 1907-11, when he was a
student there. Since then, a social
revolution has taken place in Eng-
land, and today it is not class, but
ability, that gains one entrance to
the better universities, he declared.

The distinguished historian said
he was not able to make a compara-
tive judgment on the scholarship of
American and British students. He
said his only real contact with
American students has been in
“bull sessions,” which he called
“an excellent way to learn,” and
opined that students seem much
interested in world affairs. On the
whole, however, he said, he did not
feel there is enough emphasis

PRESIDENT FRANCIS P. GatnEs congratulates the 1958 recipients of honorary degrees. They
are, left to right, Dr. ROBERT GLENN CRAIG, ‘17, president of the American College of
Obstetrics and Gynecology; Ross L. MALONE, ’32, president-elect of the American Bar As-
sociation; JOHN HELLUMS TUCKER, ’10, founder of the Louisiania Bar Institute; DR. GAINES;
Dr. JosePH C. Rosert, president of Hampden-Sydney College, Dr. GAINES’ brother-in-law.

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placed on the importance of world
history in the United States.

His fifteen lectures were filmed
and taped by Encyclopaedia Britan-
nica Films, Incorporated, along
with some scenes and data on the
college itself, and will be available
to all future Washington and Lee
students.

In a statement of appreciation to
Dr. Toynbee, President Francis P.
Gaines said, “He has enlarged our
vision, deepened our understand-
ing, and stimulated enormously our
thinking.”

 

SALARY 1n-

ms ANOTHER GENERAL
crease for members of the Univer-
sity faculty and staff was approved
by the board of trustees at its June
meeting.

The raise becomes effective Sep-
tember first, and will be five per
cent more than the individual
1957-58 salaries. Special adyjust-
ments in pay for some employees
will be allowed.

 

m A LARGE NUMBER of graduating
students won fellowships and schol-
arships for advanced study, in na-
tionwide competition with other
college students. At least thirteen
outstanding awards were garnered
by Washington and Lee seniors,
among which were: one Fulbright
scholarship for graduate study
abroad; five Woodrow Wilson Na-
tional Fellowships, valued at more
than $1400 each; five Southern Fel-
lowships, valued at $1000 the first
year of graduate study, $15000 the
second year, and $2000 the third
year, in addition to tuition; an
A.E.C. physics fellowship worth
more than $3,500; and a national
award from Delta Upsilon fraterni-
ty for graduate study.

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m A YOUNG GEOLOGY PROFESSOR and
three of his students are tramping
around in the Montana uplands
this summer, trying to find out how
the Rocky mountains got there. Dr.
Edgar W. Spencer, ’53, assistant
profesor of geology, plans to spend
the next two summers as. well,
seeking the answer in the Madison
Range of southwest Montana, just
north of Yellowstone National
Park, Wyoming. He has received a
$16,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation to conduct the
research project.

Helping him this summer are
three 1958 graduates, who plan to
continue geologic study in graduate
school next year: Andrew W. Mc-
Thenia, Jr., Alderson West Vir-
ginia; Walter E. Henes, Menomi-
nee, Michigan; and Maynard Blair
Ogden, Jr., Buena Vista, Virginia.

Dr. Spencer has worked five sum-
mers in Montana on similar pro-
jects in the nearby Beartooth
Range. He also worked with the
Lamont Geological Observatory in
oceanographic research and ocean-
floor mapping.

# TWO BRITISH EXCHANGE students,
who spent the past year on the
Washington and Lee campus, think
American students have it too easy,
and that American colleges are not
nearly as demanding upon their stu-
dents as British schools.

Alfred Harrison, 20, of Notting-
ham, England, and Leslie Holyoak,
20, of Hertfordshire, defend their
stand on the fact that they will not
become freshmen in British colleges
until next year. Right out of Eng-
lish secondary schools, they took on
sophomore and junior work at
Washington and Lee, and passed it
with better than Dean’s List aver-
ages.

“American students do not have
to really strive,’ Holyoak pointed
out. “The standard required of a
person to stay in school is not high
enough.”

SUMMER 1958

 

JAMES W. WHITEHEAD, new Director of
University Relations, will help direct the
two million dollar capital fund cam-
paign for the University. He came to the
University May 1, after serving as execu-
tive director of the Empire State Founda-
tion of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges.

Harrison recommended that at-
tendance at classes be compulsory,
and that students be required to
audit at least two classes, in addi-
tion to the ones they are taking for
credit. He added, “Students here
seem to go to college for a degree,
while British young men go for an
education.”

The two students, who came to
Lexington on special scholarships
offered in conjunction with the
Jamestown 350th Anniversary cele-
bration, praised Washington and
Lee as having an excellent faculty,
“and the facilities, though often
criticized by the students, are quite
adequate.” Holyoak declared,
“American students tend to grum-
ble just for the sake of grumbling,”
pointing out that British students
are too grateful to get in a college
to do much complaining after
they're there. ‘They have been im-
pressed by the generosity of the
American people and the country’s
high standard of living. They both
say the highlight of their year were
the fifteen lectures by British histor-

ian Arnold J. Toynbee, a man
they probably wouldn’t have been
able to hear even in London.

m SOCIAL EXCESSES by _ fraternities
and students brought forth special
action by the faculty in May, and
President Gaines named a commit-
tee to make recommendations on
problems. ‘The faculty reaffirmed
unanimously its regulatory powers
of off-campus activities, after a two-
year experiment with student con-
trols brought complaints of pro-
longed social gatherings, excessive
noise, and conduct in bad taste,
especially on Sundays. Dr. Gaines
said he planned to write to all par-
ents of students about the problem.

 

commissions

RESERVE OFFICER
were presented to 71 senior stu-
dents on June 6, in ceremonies at
Lee Chapel. Representatives of the
Army, Navy, and Marine Corps
were on hand to make the presenta-

tions.

Sixty-two cadets in Washington
and Lee’s R.O.T.C. groups received
the gold bars of second lieutenants
in the Army; seven men became
Marine second lieutenants; and two
chose commissions as ensigns in the
Naval Reserve.

In May, at the annual Presi-
dent’s Day review, held in honor
of President Gaines, twenty-four
cadets won medals for outstanding
leadership and academic excellence
during the year.

Among the awards were: Depart-
ment of the Army Superior Cadet
Ribbon to George Sage Lyons,
Mobile, Alabama, regimental com-
mander; James M. Crews, Jr., Mem-
phis, ‘Tennessee; Rardon D. Bevill,
III, Winfield, Louisiana; and Ed-
ward A. Corcoran, South Rich-
mond Hill, New York.

 

mH WASHINGTON AND LEE welcomed
back to the campus for Finals a
large number of alumni, many of
whom had come especially to say
good-bye to retiring alumni secre-
tary H. K. Young, °17.

At the general meeting of the
Alumni Association, most of the
time was spent in eulogizing “Cy,”
and in presenting him with several
gifts, including the lifetime income
from a $15,000 fund contributed
by alumni for a scholarship in his
honor.

However, the association did take
time out for several elections. For
three-year terms on the Alumni
Board of Trustees, the group chose
Clark B. Winter, ’37, New York
City; Bernard Levin, ’42, Norfolk,
Virginia; and Paul M. Shuford, ’43,
Richmond, Virginia. For two-year
terms on the University Commit-
tee on Intercollegiate Athletics, the
group elected Preston Brown, °42,
of Lexington, Virginia; and John
L. Crist, Jr. °45, of Charlotte,
North Carolina.

The Alumni Board of ‘Trustees
chose David D. Johnson, ‘21, of
Bridgeport, West Virginia, as pres-
ident for the coming year; Frank C.
Brooks, ’46, Baltimore, Maryland,
vice-president; and Ben Ditto, ’42,
of Houston, ‘Texas, as treasurer.

Mr. Johnson was vice-president the
past year, and Mr. Brooks was
treasurer.

m A SPECIAL TRIBUTE from the Wash-
ington and Lee Alumni Association
to thirty-three members of the fac-
ulty and administration who have
served the University for twenty-
five years or more was presented
at Commencement exercises this
year. |

The handsome scrolls contained
the University seal in blue at the
top, and a message of appreciation
below. The recipients were:

William Gleason Bean, Ollinger
Crenshaw, Lucius Junius Desha,
Robert William Dickey, Boyd Ross
Ewing, Jr., Walter A. Flick, Fitz-
gerald Flournoy, Francis Pendle-
ton Gaines, Frank Johnson Gilliam,
William Miller Hinton, Edwin
Henry Howard, George Junkin
Irwin, Lewis Kerr Johnson, Rupert
Nelson Latture, Charles Harold
Lauck, Charles Porterfield Light,
Jr., Charles Rice McDowell, Earl
Stansbury Mattingly, James Strong
Moffatt, Jr., Allen Wesley Moger,
William Wilson Morton, Earle Kerr
Paxton, the late Merton Ogden
Phillips, Oscar Wetherhold Riegel,
Robert Winter Royston, Henry Vo-
gel Shelley, Richard Andrew Smith,
the late Marcellus Henry Stow,
Robert Henry ‘Tucker, Edwin Park-
er Tombly, Andrew Brockman Var-
ner, Clayton Epes Williams and
Harry Killinger Young.

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Degrees Awarded, 1957-1956

October January
1957

Bachelor of Laws 1
Bachelor of Science (Commerce) 2
Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Arts 4

Totals

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June Total Previous
1958 1958 Year
3 20 24 30
3 28 33 47
21 21 19

6 124 134 119

12 193 212 215

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m ATHLETIC NEWS BROKE fast at the
end of the school year and during
the early summer. Washington and
Lee came up with a series of honors
in lacrosse; the school lost its
basketball coach, appointed an-
other, then lost him, too. But the
event of greatest importance was
the announcement by the univer-
sity on June 13 that it was with-
drawing from the Southern Con-
ference, effective July 1.

Washington and Lee helped
organize the conference back in
1922, and the decision to leave the
fold seemed to many persons un-
fortunate if only for sentimental
reasons. But the University Com-
mittee on Intercollegiate Athletics
in its letter of recommendation to
the Board of ‘Trustees listed a num-
ber of compelling reasons why
Washington and Lee should drop
out. Among them were these:

The rule adopted by the confer-
ence this year which makes fresh-
men eligible for varsity competi-
tion “more than offsets the advant-
ages of conference membership”
for Washington and Lee. The uni-
versity needs freshmen for its var-
sity teams, and the committee reas-
oned that no student should be
denied the opportunity to compete
in intercollegiate sports, no matter
what his class might be.

As an independent, Washington
and Lee “should be in a better po-
sition to promote a new and more
homogeneous alignment if and
when such an opportunity presents
itself.” This means Washington and
Lee may find it advantageous to
join another conference in the fu-
ture, one composed of schools of
similar athletic purpose. But, it was
pointed out in the announcement
to the press, no such alignment is
under consideration at the present
or seems likely in the near future.

Not included in the letter to the

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

 

Jim Lewis, captain of the Generals’ lacrosse team and a stalwart goalie for four years,
was chosen All-American by the nation’s lacrosse coaches. He also won the Kelly Trophy.

trustees, but a valid reason none-
theless, was one expressed by Dr.
William Hinton, chairman of the
athletic committee. He pointed out
that all other schools in the South-
ern Conference except Washing-
ton and Lee engage in athletic sub-
sidization, making the university
something of an outsider although
a member. “We were operating at
two different levels,’ he said.

In President Gaines’ letter to
conference officials, notifying them
ofhcially of the withdrawal, he said:
“The entire university family re-
grets the necessity for this step. We
have enjoyed through long years
our association with sister colleges
in this conference, and for each
one of them we have high respect.
It has seemed to our authorities,
however, that under our athletic
policy the conference membership
does not help us achieve the pur-
pose.”

SUMMER 1958

In the matter of coaches, Louis F.
“Weenie” Miller resigned as basket-
ball coach to move next door to
Virginia Military Institute in the
same job. In his one year with the
Generals, his basketball team had
a g-16 record and his baseball team
finished 5-9. At VMI, he steps into
a basketball revitalization program
under which a number of athletic
grants-in-aid will be at his disposal.

Named to succeed him in basket-
ball at Washington and Lee was
Gene Corrigan, the popular lacrosse
and soccer coach of the past three
years. But Corrigan’s tenure lasted
little more than a month, for in
July he resigned to accept the job
of head lacrosse coach and assistant
basketball coach at the University
of Virginia.

John Poston, of Laurel, Mary-
land, a graduate of George Wash-

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B ROBERT R. HUNTLEY, a 1957 gradu-
ate of Washington and Lee, will
join the law school faculty in Sep-
tember as an assistant professor of
law. For the past year, he has
worked in Alexandria, Virginia,
with the firm of Boothe, Dudley,
Koontz, and Boothe. He will fill a
vacancy created by the resignation
of Dr. T. A. Smedley.

Mr. Huntley, ’54, was student
editor of the Law Review, vice-pres-
ident of the student body, and
the recipient of the Washington
Award his senior year. He is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and
Omicron Delta Kappa, and_ the
Order of the Coif. He is a native
of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

= DR. THEODORE A. SMEDLEY has
resigned his position at the Wash-
ington and Lee Law School to be-
come professor of law at Vanderbilt
Law School. He will also serve as
director of the Race Relations Law
Reporter, published at Vanderbilt,
Dr. Smedley, a member of the law
faculty here since 1939, was on leave
of absence during the past year to
serve at Vanderbilt. He acted as
faculty editor of the Washington
and Lee Law Review for a number
of years. Professor Wilfred J. Ritz is
now faculty editor of the book.

= PHI ALPHA DELTA fraternity has
elected Charles E. Swope of West
Chester, Pennsylvania, justice for
the next school year.

Other officers are Stephen L.
‘Thomas, Washington, D.C., vice-
justice; Thomas D. Frith, Blacks-
burg, Virginia, clerk; George E.
Anthou, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
and Claude D. Carter, Roanoke,
Virginia, marshal. Robert L. Rhea,
a June graduate from Staunton,
Virginia, was chosen as the out-
standing Staples Chapter member
of the past year.

Il

The Alumni Secretary Tells of

A Quarter Century

in Review

By Harry K. YOUNG, ‘17

N THIS, MY FINAL REPORT aS S€C-
I tary of the Alumni Association,
I should like to review briefly a few
of our major accomplishments of
the last quarter-century. The origi-
~nal purpose of our Alumni Society
was stated as “the promotion of
mutual good feeling among the
alumni, the election of alumni trus-
tees, and the advancement of the
interest of Washington and Lee
University.” I believe we have
gone along with that directive. Cer-
tainly alumni interest in Univer-
sity affairs has notably increased
over the year. This interest shows
itself in the contributions to the
Alumni Fund, attendance at Re-
unions, visits to the campus, letters
to administrative officers and facul-
ty (often with constructive sugges-
tions), and meetings of alumni
groups.

Alumni Chapters

The past year has been a most ac-
tive one, and especially does this
apply to meetings of our local alum-
ni chapters. These groups showed
me many courtesies on this my “last
round-up”; I personally visited
twelve during the year. In my first
year as your secretary there were
seven active alumni chapters
throughout the today
there are thirty-seven.

From the June, 1840, minutes
of an Alumni Association meeting
we learn that alumni clubs are to
be organized as follows: “Where-

country;

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ever there are five or more alumni
residing in the same city or neigh-
borhood, these shall meet and or-
ganize an Alumni Club of Wash-
ington College. ‘These Clubs shall
hold semi-annual meetings, one in
the spring and one in the autumn,
where around the festive board they
may throw off for a time the cares
and toils of active business, and re-
call the bright days and joyous in-
cidents of college life.” So it appears
that times actually change very lht-
tle and yet the alumni chapters of
today seem charged with a far great-
er seriousness of purpose. They have
assumed a vital role in the develop-
ment of our University; they are
particularly helpful in their ap-
praisal of boys who make applica-
tion to Washington and Lee.

The Fund

I am sorry I cannot tell you that
our Alumni Fund is having its
best year. Perhaps we can credit to
the recession the fact that, dollar-
wise, we are dragging a little at this
point. As of today, the record stands
at $90,101.31 received from 2,924
contributors. On the same day last
year we had received $94,209 from
2,978 contributors. I am hopeful
the 25 days yet remaining until we
close our books will remedy this
situation. The first year of our
Fund, 1933, we received a total of
$3,700 from 506 alumni. By 1946
we had brought this up to $23,000
and, a quarter of a century since

the beginning, we have arrived at a
goal of $100,000.

In all, 7,072 alumni have con-
tributed at one time or another to
the Fund.

Reunions

As for other phases of your Asso-
clation’s activities during the 1957-
58 year, I comment on just two.
This group will remember how we
have tried through the years to
establish some sort of definite and
compelling Class Reunion program.
It is finally gaining form. In May
we had our fourth Annual Reunion
of the 25, 40, and 50-year Classes.
The number of alumni in attend-
ance broke all previous records.
Plans are already in the making
for a Reunion of all classes in
June, 1959. This will follow the
pattern of our successful Bicen-
tennial Reunion in 1949, repeated
in 1954, which was voted to become
a five-year occasion.

The Magazine

Following the trend in alumni
publications across the country, we
are trying faithfully to bring our
Alumni more information, through
The Alumni Magazine, about our
present-day University and higher
education in general. By now we
are all aware of the crisis in educa-
tion. Our Winter magazine fea-
tured a lead article on science edu-
cation at Washington and Lee; our
Spring issue, as you doubtless re-
call, is devoted largely to an ar-
ticle entitled, “American Higher
Education in 1958.”

We feel that we are publishing
an improved magazine, and we like
to credit much of this “new look”
to our able managing editor, Mrs.
Robert Jeffrey.

A
é

* * *

Of course I cannot close a report
for the year without commenting
on the improved administrative fa-
cilities in the Alumni Office. Our

THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

President D. D. JOHNSON, ’21

’

so-called ‘““machine room,” contain-
ing addressograph and _ mailing
equipment, plus the vastly improv-
ed file and work space in our gen-
eral office have increased the eflfici-
ency and comfort of us all.

* * *

And now to grow personal for
a moment. The years go fast at
Washington and Lee. It hardly
seems possible that it is now more
than forty-four years, almost half
a century, since I first came to Lex-
ington as a freshman, wearing a
derby hat and a Norfolk jacket. (By
the way, I soon learned that those
two accessories of my very modest
wardrobe were not conventional
dress!) Forty-four years is a long
period in the life of any individual
and, with the exception of short
tours in World Wars I and II and
a brief career in the business world,
I have spent most of that time on
the campus of Washington and Lee.

But there comes a time in every
man’s life when he must consult
the calendar, and that time has ar-
rived for me. As you know, I am
convinced it is time for me to step
down.

I am full of gratitude for all the
help I have received during my

SUMMER 1958

long term of office. I want to thank
the University’s administrative of-
ficers for their wonderful coopera-
tion: Dr. Gaines, Dean Gilliam,
Dean Sensabaugh, Mr. Mattingly,
Dean Williams, Dean Adams, and
Dr. Leyburn. I am under eternal
obligation to the members of the
Faculty-Aumni Committee, the
Aumni Board of ‘Trustees, the
Alumni Fund Council, the Class
Agents, the Regional Agents, and
the local chapter officers. (I am
reminded that since 1933, our first
Fund year, over 800 alumni have
served as Class and _ Regional
Agents). In short, I thank each
and every alumnus for tireless ef-
fort, for generous cooperation, and
for devoted loyalty.

* * *

It has been my privilege to serve
you during a period of the Univer-
sity's greatest development. I be-
lieve I can say our Alumni Asso-
ciation is healthier and stronger in
every way than at any time in its
history. To William Washburn,
who now assumes this office of
Alumni Secretary, I express my con-
gratulations and best wishes. I am
sure he will find in this position
the same satisfaction that comes to
everyone who gives his best ef-

Trustee CLARK B. WINTER, ’37

 

 

Treasurer BEN DitTTo, ’43

forts to Washington and Lee, for I,
myself, can think of nothing finer
than a life-time association with our
school. We may change our resi-
dence, our church, and our clubs.
But nothing will ever change our
status as alumni of Washington and
Lee.

As for my office staff, and there
have been many members on it over
the long years, I can say only that
I feel they are actually a part of
my family. I appreciate their en-
thusiasm and their loyalty and
their help more than I can ever
let them know.. In particular, I
shall always be grateful for the de-
voted service of Miss Mary Barclay,
Mrs. Harold Lauck and Dr. Gaines’
secretary, Miss Albertina Raven-
horst, a former member of our staff.

* * *

In closing, may I add, I am con-
scious that I have made mistakes
along the way but I hope not many
major ones. I have spared no effort,
considered no personal gain or
comfort in the performance of my
duties as I saw them. It is a period
of my life, extended both in time
and labor, that in retrospect will
always be warming and _ thrilling
and mostly because you have helped
make it so.

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The Alumni Association President Gives

A Tribute to the ‘‘Best Alumnus’”’

By Ernest Woopwakrb, II, "40

Y NEXT OFFICIAL duty, as your
President, is to recognize the
retiring Secretary. This is Cy’s last
alumni meeting as your secretary,
and despite the fact that Cy knows
how we feel about him, somebody
has to say it officially.

When I realized that this was in-
cluded in my job, my first thought
was that it wasn’t really fair to Cy.
I thought of the great athletes that
he had coached, of his teammates.
When we think of Cy we immedi-
ately call to mind his 16 varsity let-
ters, his captaincy of all four major
sports, the All-American recogni-
tion that has finally come to him.
We then think of his long years of
turning out outstanding teams and
outstanding athletes.

And yet, as I thought of it, it
seemed perhaps even more appro-
priate for some one like myself to
salute Cy. For we are not now
paying tribute to Cy Young, the
athlete. We appreciate his contri-
bution to W&L as a player, and
later as a coach, of course. But that
we appreciate (although perhaps in
a greater degree) as we do other
players and other coaches. ‘They
come, they play, we cheer, and their
records are neatly put away in the
record books.

So it’s singularly appropriate for
somebody like myself to pay tribute
to Cy: representing as I do the great
bulk of alumni who never made a
letter, who were never outstanding
scholars, who never made any sig-
nificant contributions to Washing-
ton and Lee.

14

But I have one qualification for
this job: I love Washington and
Lee very much. And that’s all Cy
has ever asked. Any person who
loves W&L, who will serve her even
a little, and (if you will) help sup-
port her, can have all of Cy’s time,
energy, and a real friendship. ‘The
lesson I at least have learned from
Cy is that W&L is more than ban-
ners and goal posts, more than
books and laboratories, more even
than students and faculty and alum-
ni: it is Washington and Lee. It’s
a unity: not a lot of little parts.

Last fall, on a cold rainy day, |
went into the Alumni Office to see
Cy. He wasn’t in.

I have received letters by the
dozens and talked with hundreds
of alumni about the University’s
athletic policy. If any man had a
legitimate right to complain, and
experience upon which to base a
complaint, it’s the greatest athlete
the school ever produced, as well as
its finest coach. But where was Cy
on that cold, dreary November
day? He was watching football
practice.

The team wasn’t very good, as
measured by Cy’s All-American
standards, and they didn’t have a
very good record: but they were
the Washington and Lee Generals,
and that was enough for Cy.

But I’m getting off into athletics
again. Cy is enthusiastic about any-
thing that is connected with W&L,
whether it’s debating, art, journal-
ism, or just someone that loves the
University.

Many people do not imagine the
tremendous work load this has put
on Cy nor how many fields it em-
braces. For example, it was Cy who
saw the need for a Director of De-
velopment. It was primarily he who
was able to procure Don Smith for
that job. You may not realize that
Don was then brought in—a non-
alumnus, at considerably more
compensation than Cy was getting.
You would imagine a conflict de-
veloping between the two. But
when Don had to leave to take a
much finer situation, it was his
keen friendship with Cy Young that
made him reluctant to leave. ‘here
could never have been any conflict
between Cy and anyone who would
help W&L—in any respect.

In my three years as a [rustee,
working closely with Cy, I have
been greatly impressed with his
ability and efficiency. Few people
really understand the tremendous
job of running that “business.” For
example, the Alumni Fund collects
over $100,000 a year. The Office
maintains over 13,000  files—and
maintains them, too. In addition
to traveling the banquet circuit,
and other day-by-day routines, there
are such things as Homecomings,
the class reunions, the Board of
Trustees meeting, the alumni
luncheons, smokers, and this an-
nual meeting. In all of these years,
Cy has been “open for business,” 24
hours a day. And, as Cy and all of
us know, he’s been able to do it
only because Ruth also has been a
true and devoted friend of W&L,
putting its welfare above her own.
We'll all miss her, too.

We salute Cy Young, then, not
because of his 16 letters, or his fine
teams he has coached, or even his
wonderful shining years as Alum-
ni Secretary. We do pay tribute and
respect to just about the best
alumnus that Washington and Lee
could ever hope to have:

CY YOUNG!

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Cy Young Commended
By Sports Columnist

“In the Katzenjammerish world
of sports, wherein we work, one
counts his blessings rather than the
passing years,” wrote Chauncey
Durden, sports editor of the Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch recently. “So,
it always comes as something of a
shock when old. friends, whom
you'd never thought of as being
subject to ‘Time’s relentless pres-
sure and wear, reach the age of re-
tirement.

...°' The Washington and Lee
alumni heaped their praise and
largess on W&L’s retiring alumni
secretary, Harry K. “Cy” Young.
A Cy Young Scholarship was es-
tablished.... During his lifetime,
Young will receive the income from
the endowment fund. Upon his
death—and The Dark Angel won’t
even be checking Cy as a possibility
for many years to come—the fund
will support a scholarship for a
student whose qualifications will in-
clude ‘particular emphasis on ath-
letic ability.’

“... We've heard that
will become a Floridian, and play
golf 12 months a year, but Cy could
no more stay away from Lexington
and W&L for any length of time
than he could pass up a good cut-
ting up of memories with old
friends. Why—who  knows?—the
time may come again when Cy will
deliver his famed ‘Beat the Wa-
hoos’ oration to a frenzied W&L
student body the night before a
Virginia-W&L game.

Young

“... Young, the greatest athlete
in W&L’s history, still retains much
of the athlete’s appearance. Full of
nervous energy, he can still beat
most go-year-oldsters on the golf
links. He dresses in the fashion of
a conservative undergraduate, and
‘does things’ for a tweed sports
jacket and a pair of grey flannel
slacks....We once heard Cap’n

SUMMER 1958

 

Trustee BERNARD LEVIN, *42

Dick Smith, W&L’s retired athletic
director, say that Young was the
finest college athlete he’d seen, and
by far the ‘most debonair’ athlete
he recalled. Cy remains the debon-
air man.

“... Young professed a_ great
hatred for the University, or ‘Wa-
hooland,’ as he called it. ‘I always
pull the shades down on the train
when I go through Charlottesville,’
Cy bragged, ‘and until they built
that Route 259 bypass round Char-
lottesville, I drove from Lexington

 

Trustee PAUL M. SHUFORD, ’43

to Richmond on Route 60 to avoid
Wahooland.’

“Yet on the night of May 24,
1955, Young was the speaker at Vir-
ginia’s annual sports award ban-
quet.... Dick ‘Turner says Cy
brought a couple of old_ pistols
with him and, upon being intro-
duced as speaker of the evening,
carefully placed the pistols on the
table in front of him. He closed his
speech with excerpts from his ‘Beat
the Wahoos’ exhortation. Turner
says the Wahoos loved it.”

 

Athletic committeeman BROWN, ’42

Athletic committeeman Crist, 45

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The twenty-five year men wait at their registration table to nab other members of the
class of 1933. Left to right, they are Dick EDWARDS, GEORGE JOSEPH, JACK CROWL, BERNARD
“Dusty” Davis, JOHN Ericson, and BILL STONE. They found there were 122 present.

T WAS ALL ouT for a good time

on the weekend of May 9-10,
when 175 alumni and wives de-
scended upon Lexington for the
reunions of law and_ academic
classes of 1908, 1918, and 1933.

Of the three classes, the men of
1g08 made the most impressive at-
tendance record. Out of 58 living
members, twenty-one attended the
reunion, some from as far away as
California and New Mexico. Six-
teen wives attended. ‘There were
sixteen alumni and wives of the
class of 1918, with youngsters of
1933 making up the rest of the
group.

Headquarters for the fiftieth,
fortieth, and twenty-fifth reunion
celebrants were both the Robert E.
Lee and Mayflower Hotels.

Reunion Time Is Fun For All!

 

 

In addition to renewing old acquaintances, checking
hairlines, waistlines, and number of children and grand-
children, the returnees got a comprehensive apprasial
of the “state of the university” from administration,
faculty, and student spokesmen. University Dean L. F.
Sensabaugh, law school Dean Clayton E. Williams, com-
merce school Dean Lewis W. Adams, Dean of Students
Frank J. Gilliam, and student body president J. Arnold
Groobey were among the speakers. These sessions
prompted much inquiry and discussion, and demon-
strated the avid interest of the alumni present.

Individual class banquets were held, and among the
scheduled entertainment was music by the college vocal
eroup, the Sazeracs. They sang college songs, and as a
special feature, included popular tunes of the years 1908,
ig18, and 1933. A jamboree for the combined classes
followed the banquet. Wives went on a tour of Lex-
ington gardens, as alumni visited with former professors.

One of the highlights of the reunion weekend was a
lecture by Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee, visiting scholar in
residence at Washington and Lee, who spoke in Lee
Chapel on “The Rise of Technology and the Flight
from the Land Into the Cities.”

Following Dr. Toynbee’s address, reunion classes
were entertained at a university reception . Dr. Gaines
addressed the final luncheon meeting on Saturday.

Top right, center, and bottom, are scenes from the luncheon meet-
ing at the Mayflower Hotel on Saturday, May ro. Below, CHARLES
SUTER, °33, presents a check to DR. FRANCIS P. GAINEs for a mem-
orial scholarship from his class. Bottom, left, four alumni who
knew each other fifty years ago get together for a chat, ABE SoOM-
MERVILLE, ’08; F. M. DurRANCE, ’08; A. H. CHANDLER, ‘0g; and
CHARLES L. Syron, ’o8. Far left, Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. STYLEs,
"18, on the sofa, talk with Roscor B. STEPHENSON, ’08, standing.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
     

Washington and Lee and
Student Life in the 18g0’s

By “TRUMAN S. VANCE, ‘99

I ENTERED Washington and Lee
in September, 1895. My coming
was partly because of what we may
call an ancestral accident, for my
ereat-grandfather had come _ to
Liberty Hall Academy 103 years
earlier. My oldest brother went to
the University of Virginia for Aca-
dem and Law, but the others of us
were sent to Washington and Lee.
Father almost worshipped General
Lee and Stonewall Jackson. He felt
that boys breathing the atmosphere
of such a shrine would be the bet-
ter for such hallowed surroundings
during their formative college days.
I think he was right.

I boarded with my younger
brother and a ‘Texas boy at Prof.
Humphreys’, then head of the en-
gineering department. Our board
and room was $20 per month. I
came on a Charleston, West Vir-
ginia, Alumni Scholarship, and my
total of other expenses for the year
were $285. Others lived even cheap-
er. At Old Blue, a tavern with
nearly a hundred years even then to
its credit, board and room was $13,
and even cheaper, if four were in
a room.

We had athletics, too, sixty-odd
years ago. We always knew when
the ball season was almost upon us
by some good sports that came
around with papers begging, im-
ploring, even coercing us to sub-
scribe $1.50, if financially able, to
buy baseball or football uniforms,
a bat or two, and some balls. They
had no helmets, a shock of hair and
a tough skull being the only brain
protection against the shock of
head-on collision. A nose protector

18

of rubber, the upper end held by a
strap around the head and the low-
er held firm in the teeth, helped the
player to save his good looks. As
well as I remember, I was able to
give only 50 cents one season, but
IT made it up on the ballfield and
eridiron.

We had a gymnasium, too. It
was down in an unsavory part of
the campus. It was in Egypt, the
name derived from the fact that the
Nile was just at the bottom of the
bluff whereon were perched the
toilets of Washington College days.
‘The gym was a little frame build-
ing big enough for some 15 or 20
of us to trot around in a circle with
Harry Pratt as ringmaster, yelling

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corrections of our carriage and
pace.

Our physical equipment was not
so good by present-day standards,
but in faculty and the excellent
courses they taught, I'll set them
against the world of instructors for
getting math and languages and
literature through some pretty thick
adolescent skulls. We had only
about 225 students in Academ and
Law, classes were small, and_ pro-
fessors took a deep interest in us
all.

Every year since the college has
had boat crews, it has been the am-
bition of each to make the statue
of George Washington wear its
colors, red for the Harry Lees and
blue for the Albert Sidney crew—
and still another coat of white by
the colege authorities to restore
the Father of His Country to his
pristine appearance. I never took
part in but one of these paintings,
but somehow the Albert Sidneys
got wind of the Harry Lees’ inten-
tions and had barricaded them-
selves in the third story of the
building, and with lumps of an-
thracite coal then burned in the
classrooms, gave us quite a fight
before we ousted them, Then two
young daredevils scrambled to the
roof and cupola to give Father
George the works. College legend
says that when the noble image was
at last scraped, 83 successive layers
of red, white, and blue were re-
moved.

To me, Lexington of that day
was socially delightful. And gal-
lant, too. Whenever a lady, be she
16 or 60, entered the room, each
man was expected to rise and stand
beside his seat, as though hoping
the fair female would honor him
by accepting his chair. And smok-
ing in the presence of a lady, even
on the street, was an act so rude
that it was not even entered in the
unwritten rules of that day. Cig-
arettes, smoked by only a few, were
considered too effeminate for a real
grownup man. A pipe was the

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proper thing, and the stronger it
was, the more manly its use.

Although there were only 225
students in all, there were still not
enough girls to go around, and
popular girls especially had a
grand rush. At homes where Sun-
day calls were permitted, the com-
petition was really intense. ‘To pre-
vent crowding, there was a rule
that when new callers came, those
present left. “This was known as
“chasing,” and added much to the
zest of all. Often we would see some
callers enter a house only a few
minutes before ten o’clock, the cur-
few hour, and just a minute before
the town clock struck the hour, we
would march in to chase the luck-
less callers away. This entitled us
to stay, uninterrupted, until halt
past ten, or even at some homes,
‘ul eleven.

At one home with three girls,
there were no Sunday calls allowed,
but we could take the girls to
church. Miss Janet, especially, was
dated ahead for months for her
Sunday night church-going. Mine,
made in October, came due one
lovely moonlight night in April.
Her home was only three blocks
from the church, but by hurrying,
we made it in fifteen minutes.
Coming home, her pace was so very
slow that I could not weigh the
time of each step. I asked, “Don't
you think we could walk around
the block, and go a little faster?”
“Oh, no,” she rephed, “Mother
says that we must come straight
home.”

Strangely enough, it would seem
to you younger men, I do not sad-
den at the thought that, of all the
boys and girls of that happy period,
not a dozen are alive today. I
think happily of the good times
we had together, and look forward
to reminiscing with them again,
with plenty of time to recall many
pleasant hours of our college days
together. May none of them be
missing among the myriads of the
saved, is my final wish and prayer!

SUMMER 1958

Athletics

(Continued from page 11)

ington University and American
University, was named to coach
baseball and soccer, but the la-
crosse and basketball jobs remained
unfilled as this issue went to press.

Although the lacrosse team’s
1958 record was a seemingly un-
impressive 5-6, the season was a
successful one. Captain Jim Lewis,
the General’s veteran goalie, cli-
maxed four years of varsity play by
being named to the first team All-
American squad selected by the
United States Lacrosse Coaches’ As-
sociation. Four other Generals—
midfielders Henry LeBrun and Bill
Caspari and attackmen Dave Nich-
ols and Ned Pendleton—were hon-
orable mention All-American selec-
tions.

Lewis also was honored by the
nine college lacrosse coaches in
Maryland who unanimously voted
him the outstanding goalie to play
on Maryland soil during the 1958
season. He received the Kelly Me-
morial ‘Trophy, symbolic of the
honor, at halftime ceremonies of
the Johns-Hopkins-Mt. Washing-
ton game in Baltimore.

He and LeBrun were named to
the allstar team of the Laurie Cox
“B” Division in college lacrosse.
Lewis became Washington and
Lee’s second first team AH-Ameri-
can. Another goalie, Bill Clements,
won the honor—and the Kelley
trophy in 1950.

The Generals played the tough-

est schedule of any team in the
country. They dropped 9-4 and 14-
11 decisions to Maryland and Johns
Hopkins, and were edged by Mt.
Washington, 8-7, all three teams
among the top four in the nation.
The Generals climaxed the season
by defeating Virginia, 12-5, to end
a 10-year victory drought with the
Cavaliers.

In baseball, the Generals had
rough going most of the way, but
with freshman righthander Roy
Carpenter winning four games,
they managed to finish strong with
victories over Richmond and Vir-
ginia for a season mark of 5-9.

The track team won four, lost
three, and Skip Rohnke, ace jave-
lin man, won the Big Six title. The
tennis squad had a fine year, win-
ning six, losing three and _finish-
ing third in the conference tourna-
ment. The golfers also had a fine
dual match record of 7-3, but they
fared poorly in tournament com-
petition.

More honors continued to come
to Dom Flora, the most prolific
basketball scorer ever to play at
Washington and Lee. He_ was
named to the Helms Athletic
Foundation first team All-American
squad, and he was selected both
basketball player of the year and
athlete of the year by the Southern
Conference Sportswriters Associa-
tion.

Many folks felt if Washington
and Lee had to leave the confer-
ence, it was nice to bow out with
one of the Generals’ finest players
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Alumni Chapter News

WASHINGTON

H. K. “Cy” Young, who retired
June 30 as alumni secretary, was
honored on Saturday, May 17, with
a dinner-dance by the Washington
alumni chapter. The party, pre-
ceded by a cocktail hour, was held
at the Army-Navy Country Club.
Fred Vinson, Jr., ’48, spoke of Cy’s
outstanding service in twenty-nine
years of alumni work at Washing-
ton and Lee. He also described Cy’s
wonderful athletic record, climaxed
by his unequalled feat of captain-
ing all four major sports at the Uni-
versity during his senior year, 1917.
‘The chapter presented Cy with a
handsome portable television set.

Chapter members also had an
Opportunity to meet James W.
Whitehead, new Director of Uni-
versity Relations, and William C.
Washburn, ’40, successor to Cy.

PHILADELPHIA

A luncheon meeting of the Phila-
delphia chapter was held on June
4. The guest speaker was Francis
Ploman, ’24, Swarthmore, Penn-
sylvania, who talked on the subject
of loyalty as it pertains to a Wash-
ington and Lee alumnus. The meet-
ing was well-attended.

AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM

Retiring alumni secretary H. K.
Young was honored May 28, 1958,

20

at the annual meeting of the chap-
ter, held in Staunton, Virginia.
Presiding was R. W. Smith, °41,
president.

Mr. Young told the group that
“it has been my privilege to serve
you in a time that I think to be
a period of the University’s great-
est transition. It has been heart-
warming to have been associated
with the tireless efforts of hundreds
of alumni who have worked dili-
gently and unselfishly so that Wash-
ington and Lee will be prepared
physically and academically to meet
her fair share of the national prob-
lem of higher education. This is
a goal that I am sure we will want
to achieve, not just because of our

pride in the University, but be-
cause we want to provide these fa-
cilities for future generations.”

Introduced were William C.
Washburn, ’40, new alumni secre-
tary, and James Whitehead, di-
rector of University Relations.

‘The presented Mr.
Young with an electric razor as a
parting gift.

New ofhcers elected are: presi-
dent J. B. Stombock, °41, Waynes-
boro; first vice-president, Richard
I. Sloan, ’42, Harrisonburg; second
vice-president, Frank L. Summers,
Jv., 52; Staunton; secretary, Ray-
mond E. Freed, ’48, Waynesboro;
and treasurer, J. Forester ‘Taylor,
49g, Staunton.

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Washington and Lee alumni presented this portable television set to Cy YOUNG at the May
dinner-dance in honor of the retiring alumni secretary. Left to right, Cy, Fred VINSON
JR., °46; ARTHUR C. SMITH, JR, °41; JoHN A. McWouorter, °47; and Louis MartTIN, "47.

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THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

 

 

9 7 Ep WOHLWENDER has been retired

from the practice of law for the past five
years, and now spends his winters in
Florida, summers in Columbus, Georgia.

09 EpwIn E. Brown is still in the in-

surance business.

/ 0 Jupce Harry J. LEMLEY, federal
district judge, was in all the newspapers
recently after he was assigned to hear
all litigation in connection with the Lit-
tle Rock, Arkansas, integration contro-
versy and ruled that integration be de-
layed for a ‘cooling-off’ period of 21% years.
The judge’s avocation now is Confederate
history, since judicial duties and illness
have caused him to give up his exten-
sive archeological work. He is the only
judge in the federal judiciary who is
quoted in journals and books on Ameri-
can archeology, and in 1936, he unearthed
burials of an Indian culture know as Coles
Creek. This discovery, and later excava-
tions which revealed even older remains,
were of prime importance in establishing
an archeological chronology for the Lower
Mississippi Valley.

J. NorMAN Pease received the Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award from Queens Col-
lege in Charlotte, North Carolina, dur-
ing June commencement exercises, for
outstanding service to the community and
to the college. He is president of a large
architectural and engineering firm, and
for the past year, he served as general
chairman of the Queens College Centen-
nial Fund campaign. He is a past presi-
dent of the Charlotte Executives Club
and of the Rotary Club. In 1948, he was
selected as Charlotte’s Man of the Year.
He is an elder of Myers Park Presbyterian
church. He is a director of Union National
Bank, and past president of the North
Carolina Society of Engineers. During

both World Wars, he served as a colonel.

SUMMER 1958

/ 2 THE Rev. SipNEY —TTHOMAS RUCK
retired last year from the active minis-
try of the Episcopal church, after more
than forty years as rector of St. Eustace
parish, Lake Placid, New York. Upon
his retirement, the parish presented the
Rev. and Mrs. Ruck with a purse and a

new car, in appreciation for their serv-
ices. He spends his time gardening, fishing,
and hunting.

RussELL B. WINE has been United States
Attorney for the Western District of
Texas for three and a half years. His
district covers 68 counties, and he has
nine assistant U. S. Attorneys.

WILLIAM W. ACKERLY has a new title now.
He is Rockbridge county judge, and judge
of the juvenile and domestic relations
court, and began his four-year term July
1, 1958. He succeeds JOHN L. CAMPBELL, JR.,
‘42, who entered the insurance business.
Judge Ackerly was formerly a common-
wealth’s attorney here from 1929 until he
entered the service in March, 1942. Dur-
ing World War II, he served as Provost
Marshal of Richmond for two years. He
also served in 1916 on the Mexican
border with the cavalry, and in World
War I, he was captain of a combat com-
pany overseas.

13 WILLIAM A. HYMAN has formed a
law partnership with H. W. Hayman and
Melville Harris, under the firm name of

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OP Bal oli
surance man of Charlotte, North
Carolina, has been elected Modera-
tor of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States. In assuming the top post
in Southern Presbyterianism, he fol-

PHILIP F. HOWERTON,

lows in the footsteps of his father,
the late Dr. James R. Howerton,
who held the same job in 1907-08.

Philip Howerton grew up on the

Washington and Lee campus, for
his father was a professor of Bible
and philosophy here from 1908 un-
til his death in 1924. Mr. Hower-
ton is now general agent for the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company, and a member of the
Million-Dollar Roundtable of Life
Underwriters. As a churchman, he
served as deacon from 1932 until
1940, when he was elected ruling
elder of; the: First :, Presbyterian
church in Charlotte. He has taught
the adult Sunday School class for
the past fifteen years. He is a past
moderator of Mecklenburg Presby-
tery, and is a member of the Gen-
eral Assembly’s Board of Annuities
and Relief, finance committee, and
insurance committee.

He was nominated for the high
church post by the Rev. Dr. Jack
‘Thomas, ’24, a professor at Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond,
and a former classmate of Mr. How-
erton’s at Washington and Lee.

Mr. Howerton is past president of
the Charlotte Kiwanis Club, and
chairman of the Mecklenburg
Board of Public Welfare.

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Hyman, Hayman, and Harris. ‘Their offices
are located at 111 Fulton street, New
York City.

15 Kr WILLIAMS, assistant to the gen-
eral director of the Manufacturing Divi-
sion of duPont’s Textile Fibers depart-
ment, retired at the end of May, after more
than forty years with the company. He
joined duPont as a chemist at the Hope-
well, Virginia, explosive plant in 1915.
Advancing steadily, Ki has served the
company in supervisory capacities at
plants in Old Hickory, ‘Tennessee;
Waynesboro, Virginia; and Wilmington,
Delaware. He was planning manager for
acetate and orlon acrylic fiber from 1947
until 1952. He is a past president of the
Washington and Lee Alumni Association,
and served for several years as a member
of the board of trustees of the association.
In 1941, the University awarded him the
‘Thomas Nelson Page medal for outstand-
ing service to Washington and Lee. He
and Mrs. Williams are now living on a
farm near Waynesboro, Virginia.

N. B. ADAMs was elected president of the
Association of ‘Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese last December in Dallas. He
lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

] 6 MIKE S. CANNON has spent thirty-
eight years in the classroom as a teacher
of math, and twenty-eight of those years
have been spent at Columbia Military
Academy in ‘Tennessee. He says he is still
in vigorous health, and spends his sum-
mers on the road, rounding up new Ca-
dets for the fall term of school.

RussELL S. Ruopes has retired, after thirty-
three years as a Chamber of Commerce
executive. He held the position of execu-
tive vice-president of the Tulsa, Okla-
homa, Chamber of Commerce. His time
now will be devoted to travel and_ less
exacting assignments.

] 7 When Missouri Military Academy
broke ground in March for a _ quarter-
million dollar academic building, two
Washington and Lee alumni had promi-
nent roles. Cot. C. R. STRIBLING, ’17 presi-
dent of the academy, and Roserr M.
WHITE, ’37, of the board of trustees, head-
ed the group which dedicated the three-
story structure.

22

NE OF THE younges men ever to
() serve as president of the
American Bar Association is Ross
L. Malone, °32, an attorney in
Roswell, New Mexico. He takes of-
fice at the close of the annual meet-
ing in Los Angeles this month.

Mr. Malone has been a practicing
attorney for twenty-six years. Since
1937, he has been a member of the
firm of Atwood and Malone. His
practice has twice been interrupted
by public service, the first time from
1942-46, when he served with the
United States Navy, and again in
1952-53 by his appointment as
Deputy Attorney General of the
United States.

In 1956, he received the coveted
Hatton W. Summers Award in rec-
ognition of his contribution to the
improvement of the administration
of justice. He is a Director of the
American Judicature Society, a
member of the American Law Insti-
tute, and a Fellow of the American
Bar Foundation and of the Ameri-
can College of Trial Lawyers.

He has served in a number of
important positions with the Amer-
ican Bar Association, including a
term as member of the Executive

 

and Building Committee, which
had the responsibility for the plan-
ning, fund raising, and construc-
tion of the American Bar Center.

He is the author of a number of
articles in the fields of oil and gas
and public utility law. He is a mem-
ber of the Board of Civilian Ad-
visors of ‘he Judge Advocate Gen-
eral’s School at Charlottesville,
Virginia. Mr. Malone is also a
member of Sigma Nu and Phi Delta
Phi fraternities.

Dr. WittiAM H. F. LAMont, professor of
English at Rutgers University, says he
has made a five-year, worldwide survey
and has come up with specified lists of
the greatest literature ever written. Any
alumnus who wishes these lists may get
them from Dr. Lamont, by writing him
at Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
and enclosing a_ self-addressed, stamped
envelope. Included are: sixty great novels
of all time, from 1013 to 1930; sixty great
American and British novels, 1719-1820;
sixty great contemporary American novels,
1921-1955; sixty great early foreign novels,
1013-1900; sixty great modern foreign
novels, 1901-1925; sixty great contempor-
ary foreign novels, 1926-1955; sixty great
early dramas, 470 B.C.-1900 A.D.; sixty
ereat modern dramas, 1901-1955; fifty
great modern biographical writings, 1899-

1955.

/ So FULTON W. HOobGE is now practicing

law with partners Edward M. Patterson,

and Robert M. Perry, under the firm name
of Hodge, Perry and Patterson. Address:
4648 Melbourne Avenue, Los Angeles 27,
California.

2 ] BENJAMIN W. PARTLOW is associate
professor of chemistry at Madison College,
Virginia, a position he has held for the
past thirteen years. He has two children
who are now students in college.

22 HARRY C. ROBERT, JR., is a sports

editor of ‘Telenews and News of the Day,
newsreel films. Last summer, he turned
out a show called, “The Big Moment,”
which attracted much favorable comment.

23 Frep L. Waite has been in the

small-loan business in Petersburg, Vir-
ginia, since 1932. He was first incorporated
for $2,000, now is incorporated for
5750,000. He is the father of five children.

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24 J. Davis KERR, JR. is president of

the South Carolina Bar Association this
year. He practices law in Spartanburg,
South Carolina.

25 W. CARROLL MEAD and his wife

presented to Washington and Lee two
chairs which were originally in the of-
fice: of General Lee in Lexington. The
General’s daughter, Mary Custis Lee, was
a cousin of Mr. Mead’s mother, and willed
the chairs to her. She, in turn, gave them
to Mr. Mead. The chairs are thought to
have been made between 1865 and 1870,
and are exact duplicates of the chairs in
the Lee Museum.

ZI LeicH D. BULLUCK is executive

vice-president and general sales manager
of Hanes Hosiery, Incorporated, as well as
on its board of. directors. He is also. a
director of the Hanes Hosiery Mills Com-
pany of Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
largest manufacturer of seamless hosiery
in the world. He has been associated with
Hanes for almost 28 years. He is the
father of one daughter, Judy Lee, who
was a freshman at Sweet Briar the past
year. The Bullucks live at 10 West Road,
Short Hills, New Jersey.

Joz W. Prrts has been president and gen-
eral manager of the Brown-Roberts Hard-
ware and Supply Company in Alexandria,
Louisiana, for some time. He is a proud
grandfather now, sporting both a grand-
son and granddaughter.

Joe E. Birnie is still president of the
Bank of Georgia, and lives in Atlanta,
Georgia.

28 Dr. G. WaALpdO DUNNINGTON, a

professor of German for some years, has
recently written an article on Carl Freid-
rich Ganas for the new edition of the
Encyclopedia Britannica.

29 Epwarb H. OuLp, president of the

National Exchange Bank of Roanoke,
Virginia, was speaker at initiation cere-
monies of Beta Gamma Sigma, national
honorary commerce fraternity, at Wash-
ington and Lee during the spring. He
was also initiated into the fraternity,
along with faculty members E. C. Atwood,
Jr., J. D. Cook, Jr. and J. Harvey Wheeler,

Jt.

30 F. L. SHIPMAN, a practicing attor-

ney of Troy, Ohio, is serving on the Board
of Commissioners on Grievances and Dis-
cipline of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the
board consisting of seventeen members,
one from earh district in the state.

SUMMER 1958

37 B. J. LAMBERT, JR. iS now vice-

president of the Arkansas Bankers’ Ass2-
ciation.

32 FauL H. WOoFForRD, JR., vice-presi-

dent and general manager of the Chero-
kee Floor Corporation, has been named
a member of the board of directors of the
Wachovia Bank and Trust company of
Burlington, North Carolina. He is a past
president cf the Chamber of Commerce
there, and of the Rotary Club.

Dr. WILLIAM D. Hoyt, a former member
of the faculty at Loyola College, Balti-
more, Maryland, will serve as associate
professor of history at Merrimack College,
North Andover, Massachusetts, beginning
in September. He is chairman of the Na-
tional Committee for the Collecting and
Editing of the Papers of Archbishop John
Carroll. He has been elected vice-presi-
dent of the Sandy Bay Historical Society,
Rockport, Massachusetts, and is directing
the removal of the organization’s collec-
tions into new headquarters. Address: Box
179, Rockport, Massachusetts.

3 ; GEORGE A. PRUNER is practicing law

in Lebanon, Virginia, specializing in
probate matters. He was recently admitted
to the approved list of Lawyers Title In-
surance Corporation. He is the father of
three sons and one daughter.

6é

THomMAs D. ANDERSON says he’s an ‘“ex-
lawyer” now, having been in first trust
banking, and now mutual fund business
for the past eleven years. He lives in
Houston, Texas.

MANNING H. WILLIAMS and his wife were
visitors to the campus May 16 and 17, and
attended Dr. Arnold Toynbee’s lecture on
May 16. Mr. Williams is with the National
Security Council in Washington, D.C., and
lives at 3318 Reservoir Road, N.W.

SAM M. ENGELHARDT, JR. was named the
“Man of the Year,” and was one of the
speakers at the Founders’ Day banquet
of the University of Alabama chapter of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which was held on
March 8, 1958 in ‘Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

3 5 JOHN BAKER AUSTIN is employed in

New York as a film technician. He is a
bachelor and lives with his widowed
mother in a large Victorian house at 523
Church street, Bound Brook, New Jersey.

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® WILLIAM WALLACE BARRON, ’34, 1S
now Attorney General of the state
of West Virginia. He took office in
January, 1957.

A practicing attorney since his
graduation from the West Virginia
University College of Law, he has
served the state in several capacities.
He was elected to the House of Del-

egates in 1950 and 1952, and served
as chairman and member of the
West Virginia Liquor Control Com-
mission for two years. In addition,
he has been mayor of Elkins; Depu-
ty Land Commissioner; Commis-
sioner of Accounts, and Commis-
sioner in Chancery of Randolph
county; and a commander of the
H. W. Daniels Post 29 of the Amer-
ican Legion.

Bill is a member of the Randolph
County Bar Association, West Vir-
ginia Bar Association, American
Bar Association, and American Ju-
dicature Society. He is also a mem-
ber of Phi Kappa Sigma social fra-
ternity, Civitans, Shrine, Masons,
Elks, Moose, and I.0.0O.F.

He is married to the former Opal
B. Wilcox, and they ‘have three
daughters. At the tender age of 47,
Bill has become a grandfather—
his daughter, Mrs. John Morgan,
became the mother of a son on April
15, 1958. And to grandpop’s ex-
treme pleasure, the baby was named
William Wallace Morgan.

 

His hobbies include reading English peri-
odicals, and attending the theater.

36 Charles A. Sweet is president of

the North Side Bank and ‘Trust Company
in Bristol, Connecticut. He is also serving
as a member of the local Board of Edu-
cation. ‘The Sweets live at 24 Oakwood
Circle, Bristol.

WILLIAM W. GERBER has been promoted to
Central Division Sales Manager for the
National Gypsum company, with the
districts of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, with head-
quarters in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been
with the firm for the past twenty-two
years. Address: 18151 Clifton Road, Lake-
wood 7, Ohio.

THe Rev. J. W. VINSON is now pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church, Benton-
ville, Arkansas. His family consists of his
wife, and three children, John, Edward,
and Jacquelyn.

WALTER T. LAwtTon is the new branch
manager of the White Plains (New York)
agency of Home Life Insurance Company

E. MARSHALL NUCKOLS, JR., °35, has been
promoted recenily to vice-president and
secretary of the Campbell Soup Company.
He has been with the company since
1942, and lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

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WILLIAM ‘T. OWEN, ’28, is treasurer of the
New York Telephone Company. He has
been with the firm for the past thirty
years, and is widely known in banking
circles throughout the state. He is a past
vice-president of the New York alumni
chapter. He and his family live at 48 Con-
dit Road, Mountain Lake, New Jersey.

of New York. He has been with the
company for two years, having been pre-
viously associated with another company
as divisional sales manager. He has a
graduate degree from Columbia Univer-
sity in the field of Personnel Administra-
tion. He and his wife and son live in
Valhalla, New York.

3, Dr. A. ERSKINE SPROUL is a promi-

nent obstretician in Staunton, Virginia.
He is the father of four boys.

The Winner Manufacturing Company of
Trenton, New Jersey, headed by _ presi-
dent I. M. Scott, was written up in the
New York Times on May g, 1958. The
feature article told of Winner’s tests of
its 1959 line of pleasure boats, running
from twelve feet to nineteen feet over-
all, in the experimental towing tank
operated by the Stevens Institute of ‘Tech-
nology at Hoboken. The tests are made
of design models in small sizes, so that
imperfections in design can be corrected
before the manufacturer makes a full-size
boat for a normal size body of water. The
scale model goes into a tank and some
ninety engineers, naval architects, and
others associated with the program put
the model through its paces. Winner is
one of the oldest manufacturers of rein-
forced plastics.

38 C. PAUL REED is assistant treasurer

of Meredith Village Savings Bank, Mere-

dith, New Hampshire. He and Mrs. Reed
have two children, Paul, Jr. 10 years old,
and Pamela, eight years old. Paul says
they have bought an old country farm-
house with gobs of room, and would love
to have classmates drop by. He thinks
Meredith is truly God’s Country—that is,
outside of the Shenandoah Valley.

WILLIAM H. DANIELS is in commercial real
estate in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He _ has
branched out by developing the Osage
Spring Trout and Minnow Farm near
Rogers, Arkansas, where his spare time is
spent with his family, his wife, Louise,
and two daughters, Nancy, 14, and Vir-
ginia, seven.

ALFRED G. HorGANn, JR. is new director of
sales of the Cooney Weiss Fabric Corpora-
tion, as of May 1, 1958, and lives at 16
Kenilworth Circle, Wellesley, Massachus-
etts.

39 JouN H. SHERRILL, JR., reports he is

raising children, cattle, potatoes, corn, and
beans on a ranch in Florida. The children
are Jean, 15; Rita, 10; Susan, 6; and
John III, 3.

Dr. JOHN MARVINE MOooRE was promoted
to chief surgeon of the Nevada Mines
division of Kennecott Copper Corpora-
tion on June 1.

Ross P. SCHLABACH is now executive of-
ficer, department of journalism, George
Washington University, in Washington
D.C.

Archer and Woodbury, an advertising and
public relations agency in Memphis, ‘Ten-

 

EDWIN J. FOLTz, °40, is new vice presi-
dent for personnel of the Campbell Soup
Company. Before his recent promotion,
he was director in personnel administra-
tion. He and his family live in Gladwyn,
a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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nessee, has been elected to membership
in the American Association of Adver-
tising Agencies. The company was es-
tablished in 1952 by A. WARD ARCHER, ’39,
and his partner, Harry Woodbury.

CHARLES G. GILMORE was elected vice-
president of Marsh-McLennan at the first
of the year.

A. A. RUCKER is now serving as common-
wealth’s attorney for Bedford county,
Virginia. He has held the job since 1952.

WILLIAM H. HESKETH, a refinery engineer
with extensive international experience,
has been elected first president of the
Standard-Vacuum Refining Corporation
in the Philippine Islands. He recently
completed an assignment as acting man-
ager of the Stanvac refinery in Bombay,
and is now chief officer for a $33,500,000
refinery being built on the Bataan penin-
sular, the largest single private investment
project in the Philippines. Mr. Hesketh
has been with the Stanvac company for
four years. He was formerly operations
superintendent of a refinery in Colombia.

40 JAck WARNER is president of the
Gulf States Paper Corporation in Tusca-
loosa, Alabama. The corporation, a man-
ufacturer of kraft grocery bags and wrap-
ping papers, has recently expanded its
operations with the construction of a
modern bleached kraft market pulp mill
in Demopolis, Alabama. Jack and his wife,
the former Elizabeth Butler of Jackson-
ville, Florida, have two sons, Jon, aged
13, and David, aged nine.

O. B. McEwan assumed office on May 16,
1958, as president. of the Florida Bar As-
sociation for the next year. He and his
family live at 108 East Central Avenue,
Orlando.

4] RICHARD W. SMITH was returned
to office as a city councilman in Staunton,
Virginia, in the June city elections. He
led the ticket, with a total of 1589 votes
from a total of 2358.

T. W. BROCKENBROUGH has two new activ-
ities: chief Freshman advisor to the Engi-
neering School; and head of the Civil De-
fense at the University of Delaware. As a
result of his efforts, the University has
initiated the first graduate and under-
graduate college courses in civil defense.

42 Joun L. CAMPBELL, JR., county

judge of Rockbridge for the past seven
years, resigned to accept a position with
the United Insurance Company of Amer-
ica. He was succeeded by another Wash-
ington and Lee graduate, WILLIAM W.
ACKERLY, 712, John will continue to make
his home near Lexington.

SUMMER 1958

CHARLTON ‘THOMAS FULLER was elected
chairman of the board of the Allentown
(Pennsylvania) Portland Cement Company
recently.

CARLTON ‘THOMAS FULLER was elected
chairman of the board o fthe Allentown
(Pennsylvania) Portland Cement Com-
pany recently.

RAY WHITAKER has been county attorney

in Casper, Wyoming, for the past eight
years, and is now running on the Demo-
cratic ticket for a seat in Congress. He is
a former state Democratic chairman for
Wyoming, and a former municipal judge
in Casper. He is married, and is the
father of four children.

43 EDWARD EARL ALVERSON iS. vVice-

president in charge of sales at South-

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Dr. RopertT L. PINcK, ’42, left, head of the X-ray department of Long Island College
Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, explains the new Cobalt Therapy unit, which develops
the equivalent of 3,000,000 volts, to the hospital’s president, Edward M. Fuller.

m A FORMER STAR ATHLETE in New
Jersey is now head of one of the
most modern X-Ray departments
in any hospital in the East. He is
Dr. Robert L. Pinck, ’42, who came
to Long Island College Hospital
just two years ago from Roosevelt
Hospital.

Dr. Pinck made two trips to
Stockholm, Sweden, to study the
latest x-ray equipment before as-
sisting in completing plans for a
brand new, $450,000 x-ray depart-
ment at the hospital. Only twenty
years ago, the hospital opened what
was then the most modern x-ray
department in the borough of
Brooklyn, but that equipment has
now become obsolete. Not a single
piece of the 1938 equipment could

be used efficiently in the new unit.
The new department occupies
5,500 square feet of floor space.
Among its special features are a Co-
balt ‘Therapy room; an “automater”’
x-ray processing system which deliv-
ers top quality radiographs in six
minutes; and a rapid bi-plane film
changer which allows two_ tubes
simultaneously to take up to twelve
films per second in two directions.
‘There are also conventional thera-
py units for superficial and deep
therapy. The department has seven
diagnostic rooms, three with a com-
bination of radiographic and fluor-
oscopic facilities, one with special
facilities for doing magnification
work, two. straight radio-graphic
rooms, and two cytoscopic units.

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eastern Metals
Alabama.

Company, Birmingham,

THEODORE R. CIESLA is engaged in the
private practice of law in New Jersey.
For the past four years, he has served as
city counsel for the city of Garfield, New
Jersey. He is the father of two children,
Suellen, six, and Douglas Theodore, three.

Fred ‘T. MILLER has been regional sales
manager of Western Hydraulics, Ltd., a
subsidiary of the Borg-Warner Corpora-
tion of Hollywood, since March 1, 1957.
His company designs, develops and manu-
factures precision hydraulic and pneu-
matic equipment for the aircraft and
missile industry.

WILLIAM G. SIZEMORE has been elected
assistant cashier and assistant secretary
of the Burlington, North Carolina, branch
of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Com-
pany. He joined the bank two years ago,
after leaving the automobile business in
Clarksville, Virginia. He is a_ former
mayor of Clarksville, having served for
two terms.

RicHArD E. Basit is resident manager of
the American Management Association’s
office in Saranac Lake, New York.

A. H. LANE is now associated in the gen-
eral practice of law with C. A. Boswell,
and their law firm is located at 263 East
Main Street, Bartow, Florida.

Dr. JAMES S. PARSONS is One of the senior
research chemists with American Cyanamid
Company. He is a member of the Amer-
ican Chemical Society and the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence, and is program chairman of the
analytical group of the New Jersey Chap-
ter of the American Chemical Society.
He has been with American Cyanamid
since 1956.

45 CHARLES R. MARTIN is still engaged
in the private practice of law, and is city
attorney for the cities of San Marino,
Monterey Park, and Sierra Madre, Cali-
fornia.

4 6 DONALD STUART  HILLMAN _ has

joined the Emil Mogul Company adver-
tising agency, aS an executive radio-T'V
producer. He won the 1952 Sylvania

award for outstanding creative technique

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in television. For the past few years, he
has served as producer for television pro-
grams for several advertising agencies, and
also for National Broadcasting Company.
For the past five years, he has been a
lecturer on television at Columbia, New
York, and Bridgeport Universities. He
has helped author two books on televi-
sion, “How to Direct for Television,’ and
“Television Manual.”

T.. RYLAND Dopson is now practicing law
for himself, after dissolving the eight-
year partnership of Fowler and Dodson in
Ringgold, Virginia. He was honored re-
cently by being chosen the outstanding
young citizen for 1957.

ty) WILLIAM DOSWELL is now staff as-

sistant with the Virginia Manufacturers
Association. He is a former managing edi-
tor of the Portsmouth (Virginia) Times,
and a former reporter and copy editor for
the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

 

GEORGE ‘TT. Woop, °44, is new manager

of lighting sales for Smithcraft Lighting

Company, one of the nation’s largest

makers of fluorescent lighting. He was

formerly sales manager for two divisions
of the Lewyt Corporation.

Dr. WILLIAM H. PIFER is practicing oto-
larnygology with plastic surgery in Win-
chester, Virginia. He is the father of two
potential Generals, aged seven and four
years. His address is 306 West Cork Street,
Winchester.

LEE SILVERSTEIN has been appointed assist-
ant professor of law at the University of
Pennsylvania for the coming year. He is
living at 1519 Shady Avenue, Pittsburgh.

48 WALTER B. POTTER is now the presi-

dent of the Culpeper, Virginia, Chamber of

Commerce. He is also vice-president of the
Virginia Press Association, and chairman
of the board of the Culpeper Methodist
church.

FRANKLIN PIERCE PULLEY, III, is living in
Waverly, Virginia, where he is associated
in the practice of law with his uncle, Frank
P. Pulley, Jr.

WILLIAM M. HARRELSON now has two boys
and two girls. His youngest, a son, Robert,
is now a year old.

Lewis C. WILLIAMSON and his wife, Peggy,
live in Mason, Tennessee, where Lewis is
engaged in farming and is also a cotton
buyer. They have one son, aged two years.

49 G. Bruce WEsT has opened his own
advertising agency in Bethesda, Maryland,
He was formerly with the William S. Bell
agency in Washington, D.C., and Pan-
American World Airways in Washington,
New York City, and Toronto. He and his
wife, Joyce, live at 6105 Welborn Drive,
Wood Acres, Maryland, with their son,
Gibby, almost two years old.

RICHARD S. COOLEY was awarded his mas-
ter’s degree in education this year from
Rutgers University.

CARLTON H. KIsER was promoted on Jan-
uary 1 of this year to assistant manager
of the Bond Claim Department, Federal
Insurance Company, New York City.

5 0 LAWRENCE V. WHEATER is teaching
French and history at the Bunillville,
Rhode Island, High School. He has also
taught at Douglas, Massachusetts. He is
the father of a daughter, Kathleen Ann,
now one year old.

Davip A. WoUTERS is now in the marketing
training program with Cities Service Oil
Company. He was discharged last year
from the Army as a first lieutenant, serv-
ing last in Paris, France.

WILLIAM H. Harris is now living in Mem-
phis, ‘Tennessee, where he is associated
with the sales department of Kittle-Caskey
Pontiac company. He and his wife, Janice,
have two sons, Lyn seven, and Stephen,
five.

RicHARD H. Boccs is now executive staff
assistant for the International ‘Telephone
and Telegraph Corporation of New York
City. He was formerly sales manager,
Chemicals International Division, Heyden
Newport Chemical Corporation.

Robert Newton Mackey has been in
Puerto Rico for the past two years, as
assistant manager of the Lykes Lines
Agency, Inc. He is married and has one
son, Bobby. His address is 658 Central,
Miramar, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

WALLACE WING, JR. iS associated with the

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Wisconsin Steel Works, as superintendent
of a rolling mill.

Howarp L. STEELE is associate professor
of agricultural economics and _ associate
agricultural economist at Clemson Col-
lege, South Carolina. He has been work-
ing toward his doctorate, and will take
a leave of absence from Clemson this
year. He is the father of three children.

Dr. JOHN S. CHAPMAN finished his resi-
dency training program in internal medi-
cine at the end of June, and entered
practice in July in Dubuque, Iowa. He
is specializing in internal medicine, in
association with Dr. Eugene Coffman.

Dr. HERBERT A. Luss, JR. has been taking
his first-year residency at Grace-New
Haven Hospital, in Connecticut. The Lubs
have two daughters, Jennifer, three, and
Cynthia, one year old.

5, / OLIVER T. CARTER is District Plant
Supervisor with the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac ‘Telephone company in Norfolk,
Virginia. He is the father of three daugh-
ters and one son.

52 James W. H. STEWART, associate

professor of Law at Washington and Lee,
and his wife are spending this summer
in Europe, visiting Italy, Switzerland,
France, Holland, and the Brussels World’s
Fair. ‘They were accompanied by Mrs.
Andrew B. Varner, secretary at the School
of Commerce and Administration, and
wife of the University’s assistant treasurer.
The Stewarts are well-seasoned travelers,
having spent the school year of 1955-56
in London, where he studied at the
London School of Economics on a Ful-
bright grant, and she taught at the
Church of England school. Mr. Stewart
has studied abroad on two other occasions,
at the Institute of International Law at
The Hague, and last summer in London,
on a scholarship from the American Phil-
osophical Society.

EMMETT E. Tucker, JR. is practicing law
in Washington, D.C. He is a partner in
the firm of Elisha Hanson.

JAMEs P. MOREFIELD is executive vice-
president of Security ‘Title company,
Houston, ‘Texas.

HAROLD N. HILL, JR. is associated with the
law firm of Gambrell, Harlan, Russell,
Moye and Richardson in Atlanta, Geor-
gia. He and Mrs. Hill are the parents of
two sons, Ward, four, and Douglas, one.

RANDOLPH G. WHITTLE, JR. is city man-
ager of Bluefield, West Virginia. Since
graduating from college, he has served
with the U.S. Navy, served as adminis-
trative assistant to the city manager of
Charlotte, North Carolina, and attended

SUMMER 1958

the Wharton Graduate School, University
of Pennsylvania.

J. BARRYE WALL, JR. was elected in March
as a member of the board of directors of
the First National Bank of Farmville,
Virginia. He is also president of the
Prince Edward County Community Chest,
vice-president of the Prince Edward Edu-
cational Corporation, and_ served as
chairman of the Prince Edward Bi-Cen-
tennial Committee in 1954. He is the
father of two children.

THE Rev. Lestie T. WEsrT, JR. is the sum-
mer supply minister for Romney, West
Virginia, Presbyterian church. He will do
eraduate work at the University of Edin-
burgh in Scotland next year.

Jor: B. Cooper is an attorney in the
office of the Chief Counsel, Internal Rev-
enue Service, New York City. In June, he
was awarded the degree of Master of
Law in taxation by the law school of
New York University. He plans to prac-
tice law in Norfolk, Virginia, in two years,
when his present employment commit-
ment expires. Address: Beaux Arts Hotel,
310 East 44th Street, New York.

J. GLENWoopD STRICKLER is the father of
two children, John Glenwood, Jr., and
William Reid. Address: 1711 Wilbur
Road, S.W., Roanoke, Virginia.

Lr. RospertT F. CONNALLY, USN, is now
serving aboard the heavy cruiser, Bremer-
ton. He recently finished the General
Line Course at the U.S. Naval Post-
graduate School in Monterey, California.
His address is USS Bremerton (CA 1930),
care Fleet Post Office, San Francisco,
California.

HENRY W. WILLIAMSON and his wife, Jean,
live in Memphis, ‘Tennessee, where he is
associated with the Seabrook Paint and
Wallpaper company. They are the parents
of two children, aged four and two. Ad-
dress: 1269 Dogwood Drive, Memphis.

Dr. ROBERT MASLANSKY is resident in in-
ternal medicine at the Minneapolis Gen-
eral Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He and his wife, Carolyn, are the parents
of two children, Stephanie and Jonathan.

53 JOHN ImRIE BOWMAN, JR. was

graduated from the Medical College of
Virginia in June.

DavipD ‘TERRENCE WHITMAN has been asso-
ciated with the sales and production de-
partments of Michaels-Stern Company of
Rochester, New York, a clothing manu-
facurer. Previously, he had served with
the U.S. Marine Corps.

5 4G THE ReEv. RICHARD T. HARBISON, a

June graduate of Union Theological Sem-
inary, in Richmond, Virginia, is now pas-

tor of the First Presbyterian church in
Canton, Mississippi. At the seminary, he
won the Alsop Fellowship for graduate
study, but plans to serve as a minister for
two years before taking his graduate work.

JAmes ‘T. Berry received his law degree
from Southern Methodist University and
was admitted to the Texas bar last year.
He is now associated in the practice of
law with the firm of Storey, Armstrong,
and Steger in Dallas. He is married to
the former Rosemary Mancill, who at-
tended Sweet Briar.

RocER J. Perry has recently opened a
law office in Charles Town, West Virginia,
after completing three years of service
with the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant
in Judge Advocate General Corps.

SAMUEL L. Davipson is engaged in the
practice of patent law, and is an associate
in the firm of Coshman, Darby, and Cosh-
man, 730 15th Street, N.W., Washington,
D.C. He makes his home at 4701 Bradley
Boulevard, Chevy Chase, Maryland.

THe Rev. WALTER EVANS SMITH was or-
dained a priest in the Episcopal church
at St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal church,
Gulf Breeze, Florida, on April 10, 1958.
The Bishop of Florida, the Right Rev-
erend Edward Hamilton West, presided.

WALTER W. Diccs is assistant chief of
the Personnel-Records division, U.S. Naval
Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts. He re-
ceived his masters degree in Hospital
Administration from the University of
Minnesota in 1956, after serving a year’s
residency at Stormont-Vail hospital, To-
peka, Kansas.

Harry F. MALzeke received his law degree
from George Washington University on
June 4.

55 F..M, P. PEARSE, III, received his

bachelor of divinity degree on June 6,
1958, from Virginia Theological Semi-
nary at Alexandria. He was ordained
June 14 at the Washington cathedral. On
July 15, he became assistant to the rec-
tor of Christ Episcopal church, Cincinnati,
Ohio. He and his wife, the former Dede
Crater, are the parents of a son.

CHARLES H. NOwLin is working on_ his
doctorate at Harvard, and does part time
work for the government. He is doing
basic research on ferrites in the Applied
Physics Department.

RONNIE R. Ray has been studying medi-
cine at Baylor school of medicine, Hous-
ton, Texas. He is planning to do gradu-
ate work in opthalmology at the New
York Ear and Eye Infirmary.

WILLIAM H. Bartscu began a nine-months
orientation and language training course
at the Foreign Service Institute on May
1, 1958, as a beginning for a career in

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the United States Foreign Service. He and
two other foreign service officers have
rented a large house in Georgetown. Bill
studied at the University of Virginia dur-
ing the past year, working toward a Master
of Arts degree in Foreign Affairs. Address:
1505 26th Street, N.W., Washington 7,
D. C.

JAmMrEs M. GABLER is practicing law with
the Baltimore firm of Clark, Smith, and
Prendergast, specializing in negligence
trial work.

Jos—epH K. BANKS was a visitor to the
campus on May 5, 1958. He lives at Vir-
ginia Beach, Virginia, and serves with the
Fifth Coast Guard District in Norfolk.

RICHARD W. HUDSINS is an associate with
the law firm of Ferguson, Yates and Ste-
phens, Newport News, Virginia. Address:
803 Riverside Drive, Warwick, Virginia.

JAy W. JAcKson was discharged in No-
vember, 1957, as a first lieutenant, after
serving for two years in France. He was
admitted to the Connecticut bar in Feb-
ruary of this year.

56 Rupert F. CHIsoLmM, JR. is serving

his six months with the Army at Fort
Knox, Kentucky. He completed work on
his master’s degree in industrial relations
in February, 1958, at Cornell University.

CLAY BRYAN Carr, JR. has been attend-
ing the Virginia ‘Theological Seminary in
Alexandria, and will complete his studies
there next year.

JAMEs B. LUNGER taught science last year
at Clifton Forge High School, Virginia,
and hopes to start work on his master’s
degree during the next school year.

Davip F. GutTurie has been appointed
Police Court Judge by the town council
of Halifax, Virginia. He has been prac-
ticing law there since 1956. David’s hob-
by is playing tenor saxophone with a
four-piece dance combo.

PHiLip H. BRASFIELD, JR. is an ensign in
the Navy stationed at the Naval Air Sta-
tion, Barbers Point, Hawaii, attached to
Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four-
teen. He is tlying the Pacific barrier from
Midway to Alaska, and says he is:still
single and reasonably happy!

LAuRIER T. RAYMOND, JR. is a partner in
the law firm of Marshall and Raymond

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at 33 Court street, Auburn, Maine. He
passed the Maine Bar with the top grade
in the state. He is the father of one
daughter, Susan, now 18 months old, and
lives at 44 Central Avenue, Lewiston,
Maine.

LIEUTENANT DAvip K. WILLARD is com-
manding officer of the 42nd Ordinance
Detachment, Explosive Ordnance Disposal,
Delaware Storage Activity, at Pedricktown,
New Jersey. He left Washington and Lee
in June, 1956, and returned to his home
town in Jacksonville, Florida, to form
a dance band. Uncle Sam called him up,
however, and sent him to Aberdeen Prov-
ing Ground to attend the basic ordnance
officer course, from which he graduated in
June, 1957. Since then, he has taught
demolition procedure at the ordnance
school, until he received his present as-
signment. He is married to the former
Erin F. Ketcham.

 

LEE MARSHALL, °57, co-captain of Wash-
ington and Lee’s winningest basketball
team last year, was commissioned a Mar-
ine second lieutenant on March 22, 1958.
He is now stationed at Quantico, Virginia.

5 JEB ROSEBROOK is assistant to the

advertising director of Diamond’s depart-
ment store in Phoenix, Arizona. His ad-
dress is 840 East ‘Turney Avenue, Phoenix.

RICHARD JOSEPH MAUTER is a lieutenant
with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
in Straubing, Germany. Among. other
things, he is assistant adjutant, public in-
formation officer, courts and_ boards,
claims officer, and re-enlistment officer.

CHARLES B. RICHARDSON was commissioned
a Navy Ensign on March 18, 1958 in Pen-
sacola, Florida, after sixteen weeks as an
aviation officer candidate in pre-flight
school. He is now in basic flight training

at the Saufley Field Naval Auxiliary Air
Station at Pensacola.

Lucio G. ALLiotrr is in Naval Officers’
training school at Newport, Rhode Island.
At the conclusion of his course, he will
leave on three years of active duty as an
ensign.

Lr. GrEorGE S. GEE, JR. has completed the
airborne course at the Infantry School,
Fort Benning, Georgia. He received his
parachutist wings, after having made five
training jumps from a_ plane.

WILLIAM LEE KAUFFMAN is working in the
Southern division office of James Lees and
Sons Company in Atlanta, Georgia, as a
sales trainee. He lives at 3430 Durden
Drive, Atlanta.

Lr. DONALD F. STINE is a platoon leader of
the Seventh Infantry Division Honor
Guard in Korea, and says he has decided
to make the Army his career. He is mar-
ried and has two children.

 

1946

SipNeEY M. B. Couiiinc, HI, and Mary
Price Sterling were married June 28, 1958,
at New Monmouth Presbyterian church
near Lexington, Virginia. Sid is associate
professor of English at Washington and
Lee, and Mary is with the University De-
velopment office.

1952

Dr. MiILton D. CHALKLEY, JR., and Nancy
Jane Mohler were married March 4, 1958.
Dr. Chalkley is resident at Norfolk (Vir-
ginia) General Hospital, and Mrs. Chalk-
ley is a registered nurse.

WALTER R. RANDALL and Alison Vir-
ginia Hegarty were married May 27, 1957,
and are now making their home at 2703
Edmond Street, St. Joseph, Missouri.

LESTER E. ZITTRAIN and Ruth Ann Cohen
were married August 20, 1957. Lester is
in the United States Navy, stationed at
the Naval Air Station, Willow Grove,
Pennsylvania. Address: 7205 Sommers
Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Don K. WitiramMs and Nancy Scott were
married November 30, 1957. He is em-
ployed as sales representative with Meri-
den Aircraft Corporation, Meriden, Con-
necticut, the state dealer for Cessna _ air-
craft.

Boyp LryBuRN and Diane Dewey of Palm
Beach, Florida, were married on February

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15, 1958, and are now living at 212 Val-
lette Way, West Palm Beach.

FRANK L. SuMMERS, JR. and Nancy Eliza-
beth Via were married June 21, 1958, at
the First Baptist church, Delaware, Ohio.
They are making their home in Staun-
ton, Virginia, where Frank is practicing
law.

1953

CHESTER T. SMITH, Jr., and Elizabeth
Shelton Oehler were married April 27,
1957. They make their home at 2 Grace
Court, Apartment 30, Brooklyn Heights,
New York, and Mr. Smith works for the
Hanover Bank in New York City.

Jos—EpH WILLIAM ScHER and Edith Bar-
ton were married on October 21, 1957.
They live at 331-21 Academy ‘Terrace,
Linden, New Jersey, and he is a television
copywriter with McCann-Erickson com-
pany in New York City.

1954

J. Roperrt Cross was married to Linda G.
Campbell at the First Baptist church,
Richmond, Virginia, on February 8, 1958.
Best man was Howarp V. SANDEN, ’54,
and ushers were HENRY I. WILLETT, JR.,
52, and LoweLL D. HaAmric, ‘55.

KENNETH I. VAN COLT, JR., and Margery
Ann Werner were married December 28,
1957, and are making their home at 164
Chapin Street, Binghamton, New York.

CRESWELL G. BLAKENEY, JR., and ‘Thelma
Graham of London, England, were mar-
ried June 22, 1957, and now live at 796
Bronx Road, Bronxville, New York. He is
working for Haskins and Sells, certified
public accountants, in New York City.

Evias RicHaArps, III, and Ann Christine
Verbeke were married on June 21, 1958,
at Graham ‘Taylor Chapel, Chicago, IIli-
nois.

ROBERT M. ANDREWS and Charlene Parr
were married on May 24, 1958, and are
making their home at 3025 Monument
Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. Bob is re-
porter with the Richmond Times-Dis-
patch, and City Hall is his beat.

JuLius PEEK GARLINGTON, JR., was mar-
ried to Susanna Mary Sheridan on March
14, 1958, in Philadelphia. They make
their home at 47 Twenty-eighth Street,
NW, Atlanta, Georgia.

Henry AsHBy TURNER was married to
Jane Lucille Swanger on June 14, 1958,
at Christ Lutheran Church, Bethesda,
Maryland.

1955

Larry LeEviITAN and Barbara Ellen Levin
were married on June 23, 1957. Larry
graduated from George Washington Uni-
versity Law School in June, 1958.

Lr. SIDNEY S. NEGUS, JR., was married to
Lucy Newton Boswell on December 23,

SUMMER 1958

1957. He is now serving in southwestern
Germany with the U.S. Army, but says
he will be back in Richmond in Decem-
ber of 1960.

Lr. Witt1AM BEVERLY PorF and Magda-
len Barbara Andrews were married in
March, 1958. He is on the staff of the
U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s
School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

JosEpH HarLAn McMurray and Sue Law
Berry were married June 28, 1958, at Reid
Memorial Presbyterian church, Augusta,
Georgia.

Epwarp MorToN VOKE was married to
Frances Seiberling Sturdevant March 21,
1958. He is attending Ohio University
Medical School.

1956

Epcar L. Grove was married to Josephine
Volkening on June 29, 1957. They live at
the Barkwood Apartments, Walcott
Avenue, Middletown, Rhode Island. Mr.
Grove is still serving as assistant public
information officer for Commander De-
stroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, in
Newport, Rhode Island, and is managing
editor of “Destroyerman,” a monthly
paper which goes to 51,000 men of the
destroyer force of the Navy.

1957

THOMAS V. LITZENBURG, JR., and Deborah
Ann Quillman were married on April
26, 1958, at the Church of the Redeemer,
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

1958

WILLIAM Puitip LAUGHLIN and Judith
Bertels Woodruff were married June 14,
1958, in Vance Memorial Presbyterian
church, Wheeling, West Virginia.

 

1927

Mr. and Mrs. GrorGE Burks are the
proud parents of a son, David Benfield,
born October 25, 1957. The Burks also
have a daughter who is a student at Ran-
dolph-Macon Woman’s College.

1932

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN FREDERICK LADD are
the parents of a son, John Frederick, Jr.,
born March 22, 1958.

1933

Mr. and Mrs. HOMER GENE Ray are the
parents of a son, Markham Leslie, born

June 13, 1957.

1937

Mr. and Mrs. HOweLL W. ROBERTS, JR.,
are the parents of a daughter, Mary How-
ell, born May 24, 1958.

1938

Mr. and Mrs. Greorce F. BAvuER are the
parents of a son, George Brian, born
March 1, 1958.

1939

Mr. and Mrs. JoHN J. Davis, JR. are the
parents of a son, Tyler Doniphan, born
September 29, 1957. They live at 513 Club
Lane, Louisville, Kentucky.

1940

Mr. and Mrs. DONALD ‘THOMAS BURTON
are the parents of a son, Donald Thomas,
Jr., born May 1, 1958. Address: 1070 NW
184th Drive, North Miami, Florida.

1941

Mr. and Mrs. ALLEN 'T. SNYDER are the
parents of a baby girl, Barrie Munro,
born March 10, 1958. ‘They live in Ab-
ington, Pennsylvania.

1942

Mr. and Mrs. Gravy H. ForGy, JRr., are
the parents of a son, Grady Henry, III,
born February 24, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. PAUL CAMPBELL ‘THOMAS,
Jr., are the parents of a baby girl, Caryle
Beth, born April 16, 1958. ‘They also have
three boys, Paul, III, 14; Stephen, 10; and
Bruce, 7.

1943

Mr. and Mrs. DONALD E. GARRETSON are
the parents of a son, Peter, born last Oc-
tober, 1957. The tally now is three future
Generals and one girl.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McCAausiLanp are the
parents of a daughter, Mary Glenn, born
January 1, 1958.

1944

Mr. and Mrs. Epwarp C. WADDINGTON, JR.
are the parents of a daughter, Beth Allen,
born last June in West Grove, Pennsy]l-
vania.

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES WITHERS DAVIs, JR.
are the parents of a daughter, Alice
Ross, born May 24, 1958. They live at
1570 Gilmer Avenue, Montgomery, Ala-
bama.

1945

Mr. and Mrs. RAYMOND NORMAN are the

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parents of a son, Scott, born in December,
1957. They live in Danville, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. O. THOMAS KAYLOR, JR., are
the parents of a son, Mark Johnston, born
November 5, 1957.

1948

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse W. ‘TURNER are the
parents of a daughter, Beverly Susan,
born November 3, 1957.

1949

Mr. and Mrs. CHAMPE RAFTERY are the
parents of a son, Thomas Champe, born
January 28, 1958. Address: 805 Luhrs
‘Tower, Phoenix, Arizona.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN H. REED, Jr., are the
parents of a son, Ellis Miller, born August
29, 1957. Daddy took office May 1, 1958,
as municipal judge of South Charleston,
Virginia, for a four-year term.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. BARKER are the
parents of a baby girl, Mary Neviles, born
April 5, 1958, in Memphis, Tennessee.
They have two other children, Margaret,
five years, and Henry, Jr., four. Proud
grandfather is HENRy N. BARKER, ’14, of
Bristol, ‘Tennessee.

Mr. and Mrs. JoHN W. McCoy are the
parents of a daughter, Cheryl Anne, born
March 3, 1958. Address: 704 Manor Road,
Apartment 201, Alexandria, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. LATrure of Oneonta,
Alabama, are the parents of a baby son,
Richard Garland, born April 8, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN S. R. SCHOENFELD are
the parents of a second son, Richard
Holleman, born February 19, 1958, in
Washington, D.C.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN CALVIN GREEN, JR.
are the parents of a second daughter,
Lisa Calvin, born December 12, 195%.
Sister Linda Lee, is seven years old now.

Mr. and Mrs. JAMEs LeEsLiIE Dow are
the parents of a daughter, Carol Marshall,
born January 22, 1958. Les and Jo have
two sons, Mark, seven, and James Leslie,
II, almost four years old.

Mr. and Mrs. MATTHEW W. PAXTON, Jr.,
are the parents of a second son, William
Winfree, born May 2, 1958. Matt is edi-
tor of the Rockbridge County News in
Lexington, and is a deacon in Lexington
Presbyterian church.

CapTaAIn and Mrs. MICHAEL J. BARRETT,
JR., are the parents of a daughter, Valarie
Lynn, born January 10, 1958. He is sta-
tioned at Andrews Air Force Base, Wash-
ington, D.C.

Mr. and Mrs. Geratp MICHAEL MALMO,
JR. are the parents of a daughter, Sallie
Lee, born May 24, 1958. They also have a
son, Gerald Michael, ITI.

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Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES H. LAucK, JR. have
adopted a daughter, Carol Lee, 18 months
old. Charles is teaching at the James Blair
High School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Dr. and Mrs. E. L. TAy tor, Jr. are the
parents of a daughter, Mary Carol, born
May 28, 1958. They live in Sparta, North
Carolina.

1950

Dr. and Mrs. JoHN R. CoLe of 33 Lilac
Drive, Rochester, New York, are now the
parents of a son, John Russell, Jr., born
January 13, 1958. ©

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES P. SUNDERLAND are
the parents of a son, Kenton White, born
May 21, 1958. Their other son, Charles, is
two years old.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN F. WILHELM are the
parents of their third daughter, Eliza-
beth Maddox, born January 26, 1958.
They live at 841 Woodrow Avenue,
Waynesboro, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES ‘TRUNDLE are the par-
ents of a daughter, Carolyn Carpenter,
born May 27, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Latta are the parents
of a son, Clifford B. III, born February 6,

1958.

Mr. and Mrs. LEE F. RoBerts are the par-
ents of a daughter, Sandra Diane, born
July 8, 1957. They live at 4502 Edgefield
Road, Kensington, Maryland.

Mr. and Mrs. ArweL_L DuccER are the
parents of a son, William Atwell, born
June 20, 1957. They live at Route 1, Box
202, Auburn, Alabama.

Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Wornom, Jr. are the
parents of a second son, ‘Thomas A., born
January 25, 1958. Their first son, Leake,
III, is almost three years old.

Mr. and Mrs. W. HALE BARRETT are the
parents of a son, George Barnes, born
February 17, 1958. They live at 2644
Henry Street, Augusta, Georgia.

The Rev. and Mrs. FRANK M. SCARLETT,
JR. announce the adoption of a daughter,
Katherine ‘Tredway, on February 4, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR A. BIRNEY are the
parents of a second son, Rodney Stuart,
born May 24, 1958.

1951

Mr. and Mrs. J. ALAN Cross, JR., are the
parents of a daughter, Rebecca Ann, born
May 1, 1957. Alan is an agent for State
Farm Insurance, and has completed his
C.P.A. examination. On June 12, he re-
ceived his master’s degree in business ad-
ministration from the University of
Miami.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Co.ttins, III, are
the parents of twin girls, Margaret Pres-
ton and Cary Fielding, born March a1,

1958. Lewis is now in law practice in Mar-
ion, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD ErpES MCMuRRAN
are the parents of a son, Epes, born No-
vember 2, 1957.

Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS O. BAGLEY are the
the parents of a son, Thomas, Jr., born
June 28, 1957.

Mr. and Mrs. FONTAINE J. GILLIAM are
the parents of a daughter, Ann Fontaine,
born May 5, 1958. They live at 161 Vir-
ginia Avenue, Danville, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. Davip E. Ryer are the par-
ents of a son, Michael Chipley (“Chip”),
born December 11, 1957, in Baltimore,
Maryland.

Dr. and Mrs. THomas A. WAsH are the
parents of a son, Scott, born October 7,
1957. hey live at 261 Yorkshire Drive,
Biloxi, Mississippi.

Mr. and Mrs. JAck E. Grier are the par-
ents of a son, David Armistead, born No-
vember 29, 1957.

1952

Mr. and Mrs. WAYNE D. McGrew, Jr., are
are the parents of a second son, Wayne
Dale, II, born February 5, 1958. Mr.
McGrew is an account executive with
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith
in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD DENNY are the
parents of a son, Richard Alden, III, on

June 3, 1957.

Mr. and Mrs. Davip E. ConstTINE, JR., are
the parents of a son, David, III, born
February 25, 1958. They live at 5206
Wythe Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, and
daddy is in real estate business with the
Morton G. Thalhimer company.

Mr. and Mrs. FLETCHER T. MCCLINTOCK
are the parents of a baby boy, William
Fletcher, born December 31, 1957.

Mr. and Mrs. PAUL WEILL are the par-
ents of a daughter, Gail Carole, born
February 7, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Dow Owens are the par-
ents of a son, Andrew Dow, Jr., born July

4, 1957-

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES CLINTON TURK are
the parents of a second son, Robert Mal-
colm Duncan, born November 16, 1957,
They have two boys and one girl now,
and live in Radford, Virginia, where dad-
dy is associated with the law firm of
Dalton, Poff, and Turk.

Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McGrew, Jr. are the
parents of a son Wayne Dale, III, born
February 5, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. JosepH B. YANITY, JR. are
the parents of a second son, John Mor-
gan, born February 20, 1958. They have a
boy, Joseph, II, aged two and a half.
Daddy was appointed prosecuting at-

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torney of Athens county, Ohio, on March
1, for a term running until January, 1961.

1953

Mr. and Mrs. ALDEN M. PiTarD are the
parents of a daughter, Anne, born June
29, 1957. They have been living at 4207
Sunnyside Avenue, Seattle, Washington,
where he is doing graduate work in geol-
ogy at the University of Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. R. M. JAMEs RUSCICK are
the parents of a daughter, Carolus Anne,
born January 29, 1958. They are making
their home at Manor Park, Grand Avenue,
Englewood, New Jersey, and Mr. Rus-
cick has opened his own law office at the
Dispatch Building in Union City, New
Jersey.

Mr. and Mrs. Hucu S. GLICKSTEIN are the
parents of a son, Gregg Harrison, born
March 19, 1958. Address: 707 North Fed-
eral Highway, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Fottz, III, are
the parents of a son, born January 18,
1958. Daddy is stationed at the Pentagon
in Washington, in the office of the Judge
Advocate General of the Navy.

Lr. and Mrs. Harry LEE BREWER are the
parents of a daughter, Lisa Elaine, born
March 11, 1958, in Weisbaden, Germany.
The proud father is now a member of the
regular Air Force.

LIEUTENANT and Mrs. JOHN A. WILLIAM-
son, II, are the parents of a son, Lee Farr,
born March 19, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brock, III, are the
parents of a son, William Emerson, IV,
born October 25, 1957. Address: 233 Fleet-
wood Drive, Lookout Mountain, Tennes-
see.

Mr. and Mrs. LEONARD CARTER DILL are
the parents of a son, Jeffrey Carter, born
March 18, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. Rosert I. GOODMAN are
the parents of a daughter, Jill, born Oc-
tober 25, 1957. They reside at 182 Davis
Avenue, Albany 3, New York.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN DAvip MAGUIRE are
the parents of a daughter, Kelly Cons-
tance, born November 28, 1957. ‘They live
at 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Con-
necticut.

1954

Mr. and Mrs. Ropert W. DICKEy, JR., of
Alexandria, Virginia, are the parents
of a daughter, Elizabeth Mayhew, born
May 3, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. JoHN E. McDONALD are the
parents of a son, born November 10, 1957,
and christened John, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES RANDOLPH ‘THOMAS,
Jr., are the parents of a second son, Rich-
ard Frederick, born November 11, 1957.

SUMMER 1958

Their first son, James Hampton, is two
years old.

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT RHEA KANE, III, are
the parents of a daughter, Caroline, born
December 29, 1957. ‘They live in Indepen-
dence, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM T. CLEM are the
parents of a daughter, Sharon Leigh,
born December 17, 1957.

Mr. and Mrs. KIMBER L. WHITE are the
parents of a son, Millard C., born August

24, 1957-

ME and Mes. C. R. Mu, Jr. are the
parents of a son, John William, born De-
cember 2, 1957: livey live: at Oak: Hill,
West Virginia.

1955

Mr. and Mrs. Guy DARBY DRAKE have a
baby daughter, Pamela Ruth, born May
8, 1958, in Short Hills, New Jersey.

Mr. and Mrs. FReDERIC MONTAGU P.
Pearse, III, are the parents of a son, Paul
Grover, born May 21, 1958. They live in
Alexandria, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR BARRETT, JR., are
the parents of a son, Arthur Kendall, born
October 19, 1957, in Dallas, ‘Texas.

Mr. and Mrs. JupDSON Howard RODMAN
are the parents of a son, Judson Howard,
Jr., born March 18, 1958.

Mr. and Mrs. E. PETER ELSAEssor are the
parents of a daughter, Laura Elizabeth,
born September 1, 1957.

1956

Mr. and Mrs. WiLLtiAM A. HENLEY are
the parents of a daughter, their second,
born January 13, 1958, and named Amy
Armstrong.

Mr. and Mrs. JAMEs L. PULLEN are the
parents of a son, James Robert, born
March 25. ‘They live at 146 Groveland
Place, San Antonio, Texas.

Mr. and Mrs. Ratpu A. Cusick are the
parents of a son, Ralph A., III, born
March 16, 1958. He is the grandson of
James C. Ambler, 18, who says the boy
will be ready for Washington and Lee
in 1976.

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES LEE RICE are the
parents of a daughter, born August 2,
1957. They tye at: yo, Kendall Drive,
Nashville, ‘Tennessee.

Mr. and Mrs. RIcHARD E. JOHNSON are the
parents of a son, Richard E. Jr., born
March 14, 1958. Address: 5 Meadowbrook
Village, Plainfield, New Jersey.

1957

Mr. and Mrs. DONALD LurRIA are the par-
ents of a daughter, Deborah Ann, born
March 5, 1958. They live at 1420-G Cata-
sauqua Road, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Mr. and Mrs. KENDALL CLARK JONES are
the parents of a son, Kendall C., Jr., born
July 17, 1957. They live at 4975 Suburban
Avenue, Richmond 28, Virginia.

 

1878

JAMEs Epwarp ALLEN, one of the oldest
graduates of Washington and Lee, died
April 10, 1958, after a brief illness. He was
gg years old, and was the oldest resident
of Virginia Beach, Virginia. For many
years he conducted a wholesale grocery
business established in Norfolk by his
father. He was among the founders of the
old Norfolk Civic Orchestra, and was one
of the earliest members of the Norfolk
German Club.

1887

THE Rev. Epwarp R. LeyBuRN died March
27, 1958, in Montgomery, Alabama, while
visiting a son. He was 93 years old, and
remembered seeing General Robert E.
Lee riding on his horse, .lraveller.. Dr.
Leyburn was the recipient of an honorary
Doctor of Divinity degree from Washing-
ton and Lee in 1913. One of his sons is
Dr. James Graham Leyburn, professor of
sociology at Washington and Lee, and a
former dean of the faculty.

1894

CuHarLes E. Davis, well-known lawyer of
Madison, Florida, died March 5, 1958, of
a heart attack. He practiced law for more
than fifty years. He had served in the
Florida House of Representatives, and
two terms in the Senate. In 1915, he was
President of the Senate. Later he was a
Supreme Court commissioner at ‘Talla-
hassee. He had been retired for the past
two years.

1898

MiitBy Porter died January 18, 1958 of
lung cancer. He was a member of the
Golden Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. He
was a veteran of the Spanish-American
War, and was a former captain of the
Houston Light Guard in Texas. He was
one of the founders of the Houston Coun-
try Club and was an enthusiastic golfer
for many years.

Dr. RANDOLPH ‘TUCKER SHIELDS died June
g, 1958, of a heart attack. He was for years

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a medical missionary to China. He re-
turned about fifteen years ago, when he
was forced out of China by the Japanese
at the beginning of World War II. He
was first associated with the Union Medi-
cal College at Nanking, and later was a
member of the faculty of the consolidated
medical school at ChiLoo University. One
of his greatest services was the composi-
tion of a Chinese medical dictionary, and
the translation into Chinese of Gray’s
Anatomy and Lewis’ Gistology. After
settling in America, at Winchester, Vir-
ginia, he was associated with the Win-
chester hospital’s pathology department.
He is survived by his wife, daughter and
son, Dr. RANDOLPH 'T. SHIELDS, JR., 32.

1904

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN McCwure died
March 29, 1958, in Roswell, New Mexico.
He had been connected with the New
Mexico Military Institute for over forty
years.

DEWITT Everett Tucker died May 1,
1958. He operated a family plantation
at Tucker, Arkansas, a town named for
his father. He was a former member of
the Arkansas Legislature.

1906

BRENT ELMER CLARK, a former state high-
way commissioner for the state of Okla-
homa, died April 8, 1958, after an illness
of about three months. He represented
the Portland Cement association for a
number of years, but had been retired
for the past ten years.

1909

SamM M. ENGELHARDT died December 16,
1957, after a long illness. He had served
as purchasing agent for the city of Mont-
gomery, Alabama, and for the past thir-
teen years, he was city treasurer. His son
is State Senator SAM M. ENGELHARDT, JR.,

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1911

HENRY HUNTER Roserts died January 31,
1958. He had made his home in Miami,
Florida.

RICHARD PEYTON BELL died December 29,
1957, Of a heart attack, while on a visit
to his son in Logan, West Virginia.

1912
HARRY BAUMGARDNER died at his home in
Arlington, Virginia, on February 13, 1958.
1914

Locke V. Simmons died June 6, 1958. He
made his home in Allendale, South Caro-
lina.

1915

Louis RANDOLPH LEDBETTER died May 11,

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1958, in Anderson, South Carolina. He
had been in declining health for several
months. He had been a salesman _ for
Brown and Bigelow company, and was
formerly a junior partner in the firm of
Ligon and Ledbetter.

1916

WILLIAM CLIFFORD RAUGHLEY died De-
cember 16, 1957. He lived in Harrington,
Delaware.

1917

CoL. WILLIAM BuRBRIDGE YANCy died April
30, 1958, at his home in Harrisonburg,
Virginia. He served for thirty-four years
in the army and saw overseas service dur-
ing both World Wars. Survivors include
his widow and four children, and a
brother, ROBERT G. YANCY, ’22.

1918

JOHN Morton EcGGLEston died February
13, 1958.

1923

FREDERICK LYLE SATTEs died October 18,
1957. He and Mrs. Sattes had just return-
ed from a Presbyterian’s Men’s conven-
tion in Miami, Florida, when Mr. Sattes
developed a severe case of bronchitis,
which ended in death. He was in the
sand and real estate development busi-
ness in Charleston, West Virginia, and
was active in church work.

1924

BENJAMIN DART MEEKER, JR., died May 4,
1958, in Miami, Florida. He was with the
Miami Beach Sun.

WALTER ASHTON DRUMMOND died May 14,
1958, of cancer. He was a real estate title
abstractor for thirty years in Miami,
Florida.

1925

JOHN FRANcIs REcToR died September 13,
1957-

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ALEXANDER NATH-
AN CHAFFIN died in April, 1958. He was
serving with the Navy in Washington,
D.C.

SAM BucHOLtz died May 1, 1957. He lived
in Jacksonville, Florida.

1930

GeEoRGE Lrwis HESTER died February 5,
1958. He leaves his wife, a son, aged six-
teen, and triplets, aged twelve.

1931

Dr. JOHN OsBorNE MCNEEL died recently.

He made his home in St. Louis, Missouri,
where he practiced medicine.

1932

Russ A. PRITCHARD, real estate investor of
Memphis, ‘Tennessee, died May, 20, 1958.
He served as a lieutenant in the U.S.
Navy commandos during World War II,
and was aboard the first invasion barge
to hit North Africa. He also served with
distinction at Lingayen Gulf, Subic Bay,
and Leyte, in the South Pacific campaign,
and won a Presidential citation. He was
the youngest president of the Memphis
Cotton Carnival, serving in 1939, at the
age of 29 years. He was a deacon in Idle-
wild Presbyterian church.

1933

EDWARD JUNKIN WILSON, president of the
Liberty National Bank and Trust com-
pany of Savannah, Georgia, died May 14,
1958, of a heart attack. He had been with
the bank since 1947, when he_ was
elected vice-president and cashier. Since
February, 1956, he had been president.
He was also a member of the board of
trustees of Memorial Hospital, and had
served as treasurer last year. He was a
a member of the board of Savannah
District Authority, and a director of
Semmes Hardware company. During
World War II, he served in the Navy,
and was released as a lieutenant com-
mander.

THOMAS J. CONNER, JR. died suddenly
March 2, 1958, at his home in Prairie
du Rocher, Illinois.

JAMES RAYBORN Moore died June 4, 1958.
He lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

1940

RoBERT W. Powers and ERVIN 'T. POWERS,
brothers of Bennettsville, South Caro-
lina, were killed March 28, 1958, when
their private plane crashed into a moun-
tainside near Asheville, North Carolina,
only a few miles from their destination.
The plane was piloted by Ervin, a form-
er Delta Air Lines pilot with more than
3500 air hours. The two were on their
way to Asheville to sign contracts they
had been awarded for a housing project.
Both men were connected with their
father’s firm, one of the largest mechani-
cal contracting firms in the Southeast.
Ervin was a deacon, and Sunday School
superintendent at Thomas Memorial Bap-
tist church. He is survived by his widow
and three children. Robert, immediate
past mayor of Bennettsville, was also a
deacon at ‘Thomas Memorial Baptist
church, and chairman of the building
committee. He was a director of the
South Carolina Heating and Air Con-
ditioning Contractors. Surviving him are
his widow and five children. Other sur-
vivors of the two are Ervin’s twin brother,
Edgar, their parents, two sisters, and an-
other brother.

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The Generals’
1958

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

 

October 4—Centre College* Danville, Ky.
October 11—Franklin and Marshall College. Lexington
October 18—Randolph-Macon College. Lexington
October 25—Washington University St. Louis, Mo.
November  1—Southern Illinois University Carbondale, II.
November 8—Sewanee (U. of South) —. Lexington
November 15—Hampden-Sydney College. Lexington
Novemeber 22—Wittenburg College Springfield, Ohio

*Night Game

Come Back to Homecoming November 8!

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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: $27.00, f.o.b. Gardner, Mass.—Delivery within three weeks