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Baker SCHOLARSHIPS October 1959 | = | | WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, INCORPORATED | OPERATING STATEMENT | | | For the Year Ended June 30, 1959 OPERATING INCOME: University Development Program allocation ........ccccccccccccccccccccecsssssssseeecceteceeeececceess $ 80,000.00 | y P g | l DESIGNATED INCOME: | | Endowment Funds: | | General icc cceccccecccecceeccsesesuesceeseeaeseusssaeeeseeeneeees $ 60.00 Scholarships 0... ee cece eeeee eres eenreeeeeteeeaeee 1,096.41 $ 1,156.41 : Religion and Bible Department PYiZe€.........0.c cece cette eeeeeeees 200.00 | University departmental operating INCOME.............:cc eee ete eeeeees 165.00 1,521.41 | | Total IMCOme......ccccccceeccesceeseeseeeseeneceseceneteeceeeeesesssesaeeseesneceaeccsececsaesteseesaeeeeeeeeeaes $ 81,521.41 | | | OPERATING EXPENSES: ° | POP OB (oh EEE EES E ESSE O TEESE OSES SSSOSSSSOSOOOSSSSSSOOSOSOOSSS $ 18,857.05 Alumni Magazine....ccccccccccceccscceeceeceeeseeseeeeeseeseessecesesieessessseesesaeeneesseeees 7,810.44 | Bulletin ooo eccecccecccceecceccuecacccecccceceeceeceuseetectecseesseescesctseseeeaseeeeneses 1,400.00 | | Class LCUNIONS ......... ccc cecccceccceecccuscccucccuecenuecececececeeseeeeuccseecsaeseseeeseeceugeeenees 1,888.60 FROMECOMING 0... eee eeceeeeeeesneeeeneeeeeeeeceneeeeneeeeeeeeceneeeesaeeeesseecssseseneeeeneeeeenieens 532.60 | | Traveling oo... eee ccceesseeceseeesesneeeseneeessneeesenneeseeceeseeeeeensseeseseeeeseneeeegs 1,400.69 EMtertaining oo. eee cee eeeseeecseneeeseneeeseeneeeesieeeeesneeeeecensesesseesesseeennaaeey 885.52 Office SUPPHES........ eee eee cee cee e cere eeeeee sees neteessesseeeeseesenecneeseeeenseeegs 971.61 POSTAGE ....ceeeccccesscsecessnscecnsouscneesocnsnneneonsaseceecosseaeeeserersunsareetsensentensensenrensasentens 1,176.63 ! 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Published quarterly by Alumni, Incorporated CHAPTER CORRESPONDENTS e Washington and Lee University ad Lexington, Virginia Appalachian—Perry D. Hunter, '25, 511 Hamil- e ton National Bank Bldg., Johnson City, Tenn. * Augusta-Rockingham—J. B. Stombock, Box 594, . Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office Waynesboro, Virginia e at Lexington, Virginia, September 15, 1924 Atlanta—Richard A. Denny, Jr., °52, 434 Trust e Company of Georgia Building e ee eed Head oe, ase Seite hae oa an Ridge- ® Printed at the Journalism Laboratory Press woo oa altimore arylan ° ; . : of Washington and Lee University Birmingham—John yee ee et ore ere . under the supervision of C. Harold Lauck Charleston, West Virginia—Ruge P. DeVan, Jr., * °34, United Carbon Building * Chattanooga—-Gerry U. Stephens, °50, 2721 Foltz > rive di Chicago—Charles A. Strahorn, ’28, Winnetka Trust e Editor and Savings Bank, Winnetka, Illinois = WILLIAM C. WASHBURN, 1940 See hee L. 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Pullen, Jr., ’36, 203 Southeastern Building, Greensboro, North Carolina Pittsburgh—Anthony E, D’Emilio, Jr., ’41, 702 Frick Building Harp, III, ’54, 4912 Richmond, Virginia—Reno S. West Cary St., Richmond Roanoke—William R. Holland, ’50, Liberty Trust '43, 407-09 Building San Antonio—John W. Goode, Jr., South Texas Building °37, 50 Picardy Lane, Louis—Andrew H. Baur, 440-12th Avenue, St. Clayton 24, Missouri J. Mayo, ‘31, "38, 525 Tri-State—T. Huntington, West Virginia Upper Potomac—William L. Wilson, Jr., Cumberland Street, Cumberland, Maryland Washington, D. C.—Arthur Clarendon Smith, Jr., 1313 You Street, N.W. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES RODNEY M. Cook, 1946 BEN W. DITTO, 1943 Davin D. JOHNSON, 1921, €x officio BERNARD LEVIN, 1942 AMES B. MARTIN, 1931 PAUL M. SHUFORD, 1943 PEYTON B. WINFREE, 1935, President CLARK B. WINTER, 1937 Seg Se6@ °° SP eeceee,, "41, The George F. Baker Scholarships NE OF THE MOST significant de- O velopments in recent years at the University has been the an- nouncement that Washington and Lee will be one of twelve liberal arts colleges in the country to share in the scholarship program of the George F. Baker Trust of New York. An initial grant of $50,000 has been received from the Trust to establish George F. Baker Schol- arships for freshmen entering in 1960, 1961, and 1962. Three or four scholarships will be awarded each year, to be held by the recipients over their entire four-year college course. The purpose of the George F. Baker Scholarships is to provide opportunity for young men of the highest overall promise in charac- ter, leadership and _ intellectual capacity to obtain a high quality education regardless of their eco- nomic circumstances. The size of the stipend will be gauged by the candidate’s economic need and may run as high as $2000 a year. The scholarship is intended to cover all college expenses that lie beyond a candidate’s own resources. The Baker Scholaships at Wash- ington and Lee are open to all en- tering students. The donors have expressed the hope that a substan- tial number of scholarship holders will seek careers in constructive business activity, for the awards were made possible by the work of men who devoted their lives to business, and the present ability of the Trust to maintain scholarships 2 depends directly upon business ac- tivity. Nevertheless, the donors be- lieve that leadership of first quality is needed in every field of human activity, and they would lke to have students of ability, whatever their plans for the future, encour- aged to apply for the Baker Schol- arships. No geographical restrictions for criteria: I. GHARACTER IV. NEED for a scholarship. QUALIFICATIONS Applicants will be considered on the basis of the following The recipient shall have an outstanding character as demon- strated by adherence to the highest possible standards of per- sonal conduct and influence; by a sense of responsibility in his life’s purpose; and by a spirit of unselfishness. Il. INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY The recipient’s total academic record in secondary school should indicate both superior ability and achievement. ‘There should be especial emphasis on steady, independent habits of work, showing performance regularly consistent with capacity. Ill. MoOrrvATION AND LEADERSHIP The recipient shall present evidence of leadership as shown by a high degree of acceptance by his contemporaries; and by a strong quality of effective participation in some extracurricular activities of worthwhile purpose. Recipients will be selected on their relative rating under the preceding heads, but the amount granted will be graduated accord- ing to the actual financial need of the recipient. Candidates who can well afford to finance their college education should not apply THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE at Washington and Lee University selection of candidates are imposed but the George F. Baker Trust has suggested that Washington and Lee seek applicants from the South and border states as the area from Washington and Lee now draws around seventy per cent of its stu- dent body. The Trust has requested that members of the institution’s Board of ‘Trustees play an important part in the selection of candidates. The University Scholarship Committee will review the records of all candi- dates, screen them, and present a limited group who will come to the campus as the guests of the Univer- sity. From this number, the trustees will select the successful winners. The University trustees who will serve are Huston St. Clair, Taze- well, Virginia; Joseph Lamar Lan- ier, West Point, Georgia; and the Rev. John Newton Thomas, of Richmond, Virginia. Successful administration of the initial grant of $50,000 will make Washington and Lee eligible for additional George F. Baker Funds. * * * The George F. Baker Trust was established by the will of George F. Baker, Jr., who died in 1937. Trus- tees include members of his imme- diate family and close business as- sociates. Both Mr. Baker and his father before him had been, over a period of many years, generous supporters of a number of hospitals, educa- OCTOBER 1959 tional institutions, and private or- ganizations interested in social wel- fare. The Trustees undertook to continue the support of these nu- merous and excellent organizations. Mr. Baker and his father had demonstrated by their own gifts great interest in the field of educa- tion. The buildings of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Ad- ministration, the Library at Dart- mouth, the Chemistry Laboratory of Cornell University, the Baker Field for Columbia University in New York City were among their interests. The Trustees of the Bak- er ‘Trust in 1946 undertook the sup- port of scholarships for young men of outstanding over-all promise at a number of small, privately en- dowed liberal arts colleges, geo- graphically spread across the coun- try. Since that time, funds for this purpose have been placed at twen- ty different educational institu- tions, and some five hundred young men have been directly aided in the securing of their higher educa- tion. About two hundred holders of the George F. Baker Scholarships are now in residence at the different colleges. Around fifty enter the vari- ous colleges each fall, and an equal number are graduated each spring. * * * Colleges where Baker Scholar- ships are being awarded in 1960-61 are as follows: Grinnell College, Hamilton College, Knox College, Pomona College, Reed College. Southwestern at Memphis, Stan- ford University, The College of Wooster, ‘Trinity College, Wabash College, Washington and Lee Uni- versity, and Wesleyan University. WAYS IN WHICH A LOYAL ALUMNUS CAN HELP: 1. Read over the information and conditions in this issue in connec- tion with the Baker Scholarships. 2. Endeavor to locate one or more outstanding preparatory or high school seniors who would, in your judgment, be highly qualified for con- sideration for a Baker award. Sources of information on candidates would be consultation with school heads, guidance officials, and teachers; sons of your friends; acquaintances of your own children. 3. Talk to the candidate about Washington and Lee and the Baker Scholarships. It he is interested, have him make personal application for admission and scholarship consideration, and you, yourself, write a letter to the Committee on Scholarships endorsing him for consideration on the basis of qualifications on page 2, not later than February 15. GEORGE F. BAKER, JR. (1878-1937) George F. Baker, Jr., founder of the George F. Baker ‘Trust, was born in New York City, where his father was president of The First National Bank of New York City. The lives of both the father and son were closely intertwined with the history and development of that great financial institution. ‘The bank was deeply influential in the building of both the American rail- road empire and large industrial corporations. George F. Baker, Jr. attended Hotchkiss, and was graduated from Harvard in 1899. He first worked at the office of J. P. Morgan and Company as a messenger. He re- mained with the firm until May, 1901, when he was offered the post of assistant cashier at the First Na- tional Bank, New York. From then on, his business career was with that bank. He remained assistant cashier until early in 1906 when he became vice-president. Later that same year he was elected to the Board of Directors. In July, 1918, Mr. Baker undertook a mission to Italy on behalf of the American Red Cross. On his return in Sep- tember he enlisted as a private in the United States Army and was sent to Camp Zachary ‘Taylor, Ken- tucky. Returning to the bank after the war, he became vice-chairman of the Board in 1922, and, after his father’s death in 1931, chairman. His business career brought him directorates in a number of leading business corporations including American ‘Telephone and ‘Tele- graph Company, General Motors Corporation, General Electric Company, United States Steel Cor- poration, and the New York Cen- tral Railroad. Mr. Baker was always exceeding- ly close to his father, joining in and backing up his father’s numerous business and philanthropic under- takings. He was a man of broad outlook and the highest standards. 4 GEORGE F. BAKER, JR. His last years were marked by ill- ness, and while visiting Honolulu, he died in 1937. One of Mr. Baker’s close business associates has written of him: “The clear and penetrating mind for affairs, coupled with a stand- ard of business honor and almost unique in its severity, and appli- cable always and_ rigorously against himself; the conscien- tious devotion to any task be- gun, or responsibility assumed; the patriot’s love of country; the sailor’s courage; generosity that sought to make substantial gifts unnoticed, and yet given with such tact and skill as to warm the soul of the beneficiary; can- dor, simplicity, modesty, innate consideration for others, and the kindest heart we have ever known.” Season Tickets Available for Home Sports Events m FOR THE FIRST time, the Athletic department at Washington and Lee is offering a season ticket to all home sports contests. The ticket sells for ten dollars, and will ad- mit the bearer and companion to the eighteen home contests in foot- ball, basketball, and wrestling. Four Lexington games are sche- duled in football this fall, against Centre College, Dickinson, Ran- dolph-Macon, and Carnegie Tech. Home basketball games feature as opponents: Bridgewater, Emory and Henry, Richmond, Randolph- Macon, Catholic University, Hamp- den-Sydney, Washington College, Lynchburg, and Roanoke College. Wrestling opponents at Doremus gymnasium are North Carolina, Franklin and Marshall, Gallaudet, New York University, and West Virginia University. Alumni who wish to purchase tickets may get them from _ the Athletic Association. October 16-17 October 17 October 30-31 November 7 November 10-13 November 17-19 November 25-29 December 10 December 17 December 19 to January 4 CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Randolph-Macon vs. Washington and Lee University Religious Conference Openings Dances Wilson Field Parents’ Weekend Homecoming ‘Troubadour Theater ‘Thanksgiving Holidays Omicron Delta Kappa Service Candlelight Service Christmas Vacation THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE SCHOLARSHIPS (In addition to Baker Scholarships) Open to Freshmen Entering in 1960—For details, see catalogue Number of Scholarships Name Annual Value Preferred Residence 5 Robert E. Lee $1000 to $1600 Va., N.C., S.C., Ky., Tenn., Ga., or Ala. 2 Letitia P. Evans $1250 Southern States 6 University $1750 Unrestricted 5 Letitia P. Evans $650 Southern States 3 du Pont-Gaines $600 Southern States 1 Elizabeth C. Drye $550 ‘Texas 2 Mary M. Laughlin $500 West Virginia or Shenandoah 1 Wm. A. Glasgow $500 Unrestricted 2 Cary T. Grayson $450 Virginia 1 Julian L. Dart $450 Florida 1 Lees-Eastwick $450 Unrestricted 1 Charlotte Memorial $4.20 Charlotte, North Carolina 1 Georgia Memorial $4.00 Georgia 1 Henry P. Johnston $400 Alabama 1 Philip W. Murray, Jr. $400 Virginia or Oklahoma 1 Dick Mayo Lykes $400 Texas or Florida 1 Robert Smitherman $400 Unrestricted 1 Carter Glass $380 Unrestricted 1 James R. Caskie $320 Lynchburg, Virginia 1 Emmett W. Barger, Jr. $300 Unrestricted All scholarships are awarded on the basis of character, academic record, clear demonstration of financial need, and promise of leadership and future usefulness. Scholarship applications should be filed as promptly as possible, certainly not later than February 15. Schol- arship candidates should take the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board not later than the January 9, 1960, test date and must submit the Parents’ Confidential Statement to the College Schol- arship Service. OCTOBER 1959 cr New President Dr. Fred Carrington Cole, right, is welcomed to the campus by Dean of Students Frank J. Gilliam and Dean of the University Leon F. Sensabaugh on Sept. 2. University News NEW PRESIDENT, the largest freshman class in its history, and the opening of the new $1,500,000 dining hall-dormitory project highlighted the beginning of Washington and Lee’s two hun- dred and eleventh academic year in mid-September. Dr. Fred Carrington Cole, named last June to succeed retiring Presi- dent Francis P. Gaines, took over the school’s administration on Sep- tember 2. He is the fourteenth man to assume the presidency. A freshman class of 328 students registered on September 14, slight- ly more than last year’s total of 313. In addition, 682 upperclassmen reg- istered, plus 116 in the School of Law for a total of 1126 students this year. President Cole greeted the student body for the first time on September 16, when he spoke at the opening University assembly in Doremus Gymnasium. 6 Dr. Cole told the group, “To be associated with Washington and Lee, as a student, a faculty member, or an administrative officer, is a privilege and a distinction.” “In pursuit of a degree, however, it is important that you get the sub- stance of an education and not merely the form. “Wisdom” Dr. Cole said, “is the possession of the educated man— not the man with 123 semesters of knowledge, but the man who un- derstands what he knows, who con- tinues to learn, and who makes ob- jective judgment. The acquisition of wisdom should be your objective here. How well you attain that ob- jective will determine how well you will be prepared to succeed in your personal lives and careers, to bring credit to your university, and to give your country the enlightened leadership which it expects and desperately needs from you.” This school year will be signifi- cant in other ways. It will mark the probable completion of a two- million dollar capital fund cam- paign, to provide funds for new sci- ence and journalism facilities. Since the University Development Program began last November, well over a million dollars has already been pledged or contributed. For students, the new year will bring the twelfth renewal of the famed Mock Convention, at which they will seek to nominate a presi- dential candidate for the Democrat- ic party. The convention will be held in early May. SIX NEW TEACHERS joined the fac- ulty in September. ‘They were: Dr. Leonard E. Jarrard, assistant pro- fesor of psychology; Robert D. Whitaker, °55, assistant professor of chemistry; Charles F. Phillips, Jr., assistant professor of economics; Dr. Earl L. Crum, visiting professor of ancient languages; William F. St. Clair, assistant professor of physics; and John K. Jennings, ’56, instruc- tor in journalism and communica- tions. Jennings achieved nationwide recognition as a student fon his radio coverage of the death of Sen- ator Alben W. Barkley while ad- dressing the 1956 Democratic Mock Convention here. His tape record- ing of Barkley’s final speech and his eye-witness description of the sen- ator’s collapse were used on net- work broadcasts by the Columbia Broadcasting System. m DR. CHARLES W. WILLIAMS, aSsOCl- ate profesor of math, participated in an eight-week summer institute at the University of California at Los Angeles, July 6-August 28. Sponsored by the National Sci- ence Foundation and UCLA, the institute conducted special courses in numerical analysis for fifty col- lege professors. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE # PROMOTIONS HAVE been announc- ed for two faculty members. Dr. A. Ross Borden was promoted to pro- fessor of English, and Dr. Edward C. Atwood, Jr. to associate profes- sor of economics. m TRUSTEES HAVE approved a plan whereby the University will con- tribute up to $2,800 for the college education of children of faculty and staff members. The new plan will permit Wash- ington and Lee’s withdrawal from a cumbersome tuition exchange program carried out among 245 colleges. The plan provides for an- nual maximum grants of $700 for four years of undergraduate edu- cation for sons and daughters of fulltime faculty and staff members of two years standing or more. Some seventeen young people are shortly expected to be eligible for benefits under this plan. # THE MEMORIES of twenty-nine years as president of Washington and Lee are hard to capsule into the thoughts of a single hour. But recalling years of achieve- ment which made him one of the nation’s foremost educators, Dr. Francis P. Gaines said, “No man could ask for a finer privilege. I go out of office without a single dis- appointment, except in my own performance. I have only happy and grateful feelings for all those who have supported me—the trus- tees, faculty, my staff and the stu- dents, and the many other good friends of this university.” The personal shortcoming which grieved him most, he declared, was the unavoidable shrinking of his intimate contacts with the student body. “The apparent and growing op- portunities for service away from the campus have denied to me the opportunity to be a part of student life,” he said, as he began his re- tirement on September 1. “When I came to this office, I wanted to be a students’ president.” And for many OCTOBER 1959 years, he was very close to his stu- dents. But gradually, the president’s broadening responsibilities took him more and more away from the everyday business of running the college. “I think the president’s duties changed when the college recognized its need for varied and generous cooperation from those other than its immediate family,” he said. “It became necessary to take the college to the supporting © publics, not wait for them to come to it.” How well he measured up to this role can be gauged by Washington and Lee’s steady march of progress during his administration. Dr. Gaines says he commends new President Fred C. Cole to the University family “with confidence and joy” as aman of “uncommon- ly fine qualifications and influential leadership.” He has pledged Dr. Cole his full services for consultation and _ ad- vice, but says he is anxious to give the new president a clear field to form his own opinions and set his own course. As for Dr. Gaines’ immediate fu- ture, he is continuing to serve as an active worker in the $2,000,000 fund drive. Within the next few months, he will address alumni groups in about twenty cities in support of the campaign. With this activity behind him, he will perhaps turn to writing. He would like to do a book of remin- iscences, and perhaps some creative writing. He hopes the long period of literary inactivity he has under- gone will not prove a handicap to resuming the work he enjoys. He also plans to engage in occasional lecturing at other colleges, and would like to visit Europe once more. He and Mrs. Gaines are complet- ing a new home at the corner of Estill and Washington streets, ad- Jacent to six fraternity houses. So he can look forward to continuing close relations with the Washington and Lee students, and he will be a welcome neighbor to them. For in fact, he has been more of a ‘students’ president” than he perhaps realizes. 7 A STATEMENT OF APPRECIATION “Since the announcement of his retirement, Dr. Gaines has been widely acclaimed for his eminence in the field of education, with es- pecial reference to his 29-year ten- ure as president of Washington and Lee University. As President of the Alumni Association during his last year in office, I welcome this oppor- tunity in behalf of the alumni to express their appreciation of his magnificent service to their alma mater. “Washington and Lee has gained ever-increasing prestige under his administration. Moreover, as Past President of the Association of American Colleges and winner of a score or more of earned and hon- orary degrees, awards and decora- tions, in peace and war, at home and abroad, he has demonstrated a remarkable aptitude for public ser- vice. “The magic of his words and presence has served to remind a thousand audiences that private in- stitutions of higher learning are in- dispensable to the preservation of the freedoms we are taught to ven- erate. “For the superior qualities of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual leadership in all phases of his chos- en profession and the powerful and eloquent voice with which he has long served his country and its in- stitutions, he has earned, not a page, but a long and_ brilliant chapter in the history of Washing- ton and Lee.” Davin D. JOHNSON, ’23 7 m DR. BRANTSON BEESON HOLDER, asso- ciate professor of commerce and economics, retired in June. Dr. Holder, seventy, joined the faculty in 1941. In his eighteen years at Washington and Lee, his booming voice echoing from New- comb Hall became a familiar sound in the warm months when class- room windows were open. He has taught courses in transportation, public utilities, governmental con- trol of business, and business law. He was born near Winston- Salem, North Carolina, and won his bachelor of arts, master of arts, and doctor of philosophy degrees from the University of North Caro- lina. He also read law, and got a license to practice in North Caro- lina in 1921. He and Mrs. Holder retired to their 180-acre farm in Lenore county, North Carolina. m THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL office was moved this fall from its old lo- cation at 214 West Washington street to the ground floor of the new Davis Dormitory. The old quarters were remodeled during the summer and converted into an annex of the freshman dormitory, in order to handle the large number of new matriculates. Miss Fannie Page Allen, nurse in the medical office for the past six- teen years, has retired. Replacing her is Mrs. R. Reid Agnor, Jr., wife of Reid Agnor, ‘46. LAST SPRING, ten colleges in Amer- ica featured on film the 1958 ‘Toyn- bee lectures at Washington and Lee. Encyclopedia — Britannica Films, Inc. photographed the lec- tures, with the help of a grant from the Fund for the Advance- ment of Education. : The series of fifteen two-hour lectures were used at five Illinois and five Virginia colleges, as a pilot study of techniques by which Amer- ican students can be exposed to the great men, great ideas, and great issues of contemporary society. Participating were Blackburn College; Illinois College; MacMur- ray College; Illinois Wesleyan; and Millikin University in Illinois; and in Virginia, Randolph-Macon; Randolph-Macon Woman’s_ Col- lege; and Virginia State and Vir- ginia Union Universities. # OIL PAINTINGS of General Robert E. Lee as a second lieutenant, Mrs. Lee as a young woman, and_ her father; George Washington Parke Custis, have been received by Washington and Lee from the estate of Robert E. Lee, III. The Lee portraits are in the Lee Museum of Lee Chapel, and the Custis portrait hangs in the lobby of Washington Hall. The paint- ings are said to be “quite valuable,” although the exact value is un- known. The University has insur- ed them for $5,000 each. The portrait of Lee shows him as a clean-shaven young man in the uniform of a second lieutenant. It is believed to have been painted in 1831, shortly after his marriage, by an artist known only as West. The portrait of Mrs. Lee, great- granddaughter of Martha Washing- ton, was also painted by West. It shows her as Mary Randolph Cus- tis, the portrait used for the jacket design on the book, “The Lady of Arlington,” by Harnett T. Kane. The Custis portrait bears the date 1848 and is by an artist known as Stearns. The paintings were bequeathed to Washington and Lee by “Cap- tain Bob’ Lee upon his death on September 7, 1922. ‘The University assumed ownership after the recent death of Mrs. Lee. “Captain Bob” received his law degree in 1892 and served as a trustee from 1915 until he died. This large delegation of freshmen who gathered at Freshman Camp are all sons of alumni. They are pictured at the Natural Bridge camp site. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE A RECORD number of 269 fresh- men pledged fraternities this year. Phi Gamma Delta and Kappa Sig- ma led Rush Week with 27 and 24 new men, respectively. Sigma Phi Epsilon, a new fraternity and the University’s eighteenth, won twelve men. Box score on others: Phi Kappa Sigma, 22; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 20; Delta Upsilon, 19; Delta Tau Delta, 17; ZBT, 16; Sigma Nu, 16; Sigma Chi, 15; Phi Kappa Psi, 14; Beta Theta Pi, 13; Pi Kappa Phi, 12; Pi Kappa Alpha, 11; Phi Del- ta Theta, 11; Lambda Chi Alpha, 11; Kappa Alpha, 7; Phi Epsilon Pi, 2. Fifty-eight men in the class are non-fraternity, but will be eligible for deferred rushing this month. OCTOBER 1959 Top: This is the interior of the new Letitia Pate Evans dining hall, described as “one of the most beautiful in the nation.” This picture was made on its first day of operation. as freshmen and their parents and families gathered in the dining hall for lunch. Bot- tom: A student in the modern new dormitory for undergraduates, Baker Hall. 9 # WILLIAM E. (BILL) SMITH, JR., from Birmingham, Alabama, was award- ed a Washington and Lee blanket by the Alumni Association for win- ning the name contest at Freshman Camp. Bill correctly identified 87 out of 311 freshmen. This award is made annually to symbolize the in- terest of Washington and Lee and its alumni in maintaining one of the University’s finest traditions— that of speaking cordially to every- one. Tucker Lectures speaker. m ROSS L. MALONE, ’32, immediate past president of the American Bar Association, will be speaker next April for the Tucker Law Lectures. Mr. Malone, who lives in Ros- well, New Mexico, has visited the campus several times in recent months. He gave the ODK address last December here. He was also awarded an honorary degree during Commencement of 1958. Dean Clayton E. Williams has announced that Law Day will also be observed next spring in the Law School. 10 1958-59 University Development Program—Alumni Fund S OF JUNE 30, 1959, the University Development Program had been car- A ried to seventeen out of forty-four areas, all of which had not com- pleted their efforts. The total pledge of alumni, parents, and friends as of this date was $1,182,839.90 Of this amount, alumni, thus far contacted, have pledged $495,286.48. Because of the area type organization, it is obvious not all the alumni members of any one class have been contacted. These alumni in the areas not yet covered are encouraged to wait until the program is conducted in your area before making a contribution. The following table is merely to depict the record by classes as of June 30 and is not intended to be conclusive. Class No. Amount Class No. Amount Class No. Amount "93-05 32 $ 10,965.63 '25L 3 600.00 "44 41 8,735.00 ‘06 9 12,327.00 "260A 29 8,512.13 "45 31 4,860.00 ‘07 6 695.00 °26L q 3,429.00 "46 25 7,680.00 ‘O08A 9 4,015.00 "27A 29 21,400.00 "47 15 6,700.00 ‘o8L 1 300.00 '27L 4 3,120.00 "48A 16 2,142.00 ‘09 A 12 12,070.00 "28A 31 15,803.13 "48L 12 1,805.00 ‘o9L 2 890.82 '28L 6 4,100.00 "490A 44 6,260.00 "10A 14 8,701.22 "290A 28 7,182.75 ‘40L 12 1,655.00 “10L 3 225.00 '29L 4 600.00 50A 65 11,039.00 41A 9 1,265.00 "380A 27 5,880.96 ‘50L 10 1,25 5-00 ‘iL 8 3,055.00 ’30L 8 2,022.50 ‘5IA 47 15,425.00 "12A 9 1,940.00 "31A 39 23,173.19 BIL 7 585-00 ‘12L 5 1,740.00 91L 2 1,150.00 "B2A 51 6,305.00 "13A 15 3,3'75-00 "32A 31 9,055.00 '52L 16 1,995.00 '13L t 805.00 *32L 6 2,085.00 "593A 28 2555-00 "14A 15 2,741.00 933A 35 11,575.00 '53L 5 580.00 14L 7 3,200.00 *93L 4 1,310.00 "B4A 45 4,170.00 "15A 16 5,625.00 "94A 25 8,309.00 54L 11 1,005.00 15L 5 2,560.00 9341, 4 2,280.00 'rRA 33 3,836.25 "16A 8 2,175.00 "95A 28 5355-00 55 L 2 300.00 16L 10 1,350.00 °95L 3 525-00 '56A 28 2 739.00 "17A 14 4,890.00 296A 27 5135-00 '56L 3 250.00 ‘17L 4 1,325.00 °96L 8 275.00 BVA 21 1,597.50 48 16 5,110.00 "o7A 31 6,000.00 57L 6 600.00 "19 25 7,496.62 3715 5 1,780.00 ‘5SA 14 1,430.00 200A 14 1,240.00 "938A 30 6,060.00 5 8L 2 240.00 "20L 9 7,175.00 °98L 3 675.00 "59 2 525-00 '21A 13 11,865.00 "390A 41 7,660.45 ‘60 1 150.00 ‘21L 7 1,375.00 *39L 12 2,930.00 —— ————— —— "22A 17 21,425.00 "40A 39 6,560.00 Total 1,688 $495,286.48 "221, 1 150.00 "40L 5 2,365.00 2k 18 2,740.00 "A1A 39 11,761.30 Honorary ‘23L 4 525-00 ‘41L 8 2,390.00 Alumni 1 10.00 "24A 21 18,217.00 "442A 39 8,855.00 Friends 3 225.00 24L 5 1,250.00 "42L 8 11,438.94 —— "265A 40 16,560.00 "43 44 6,145.00 Total 1,692 $495,521.48 PRESENT STATUS OF OUR CAMPAIGN The capital fund drive for $2,000,000 for needed classroom facilities is currently con- ducting area drives in these cities: Staunton-Waynesboro, Virginia; Danville, Virginia; Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Bluefield, West Virginia; ‘Tampa, Florida; Memphis, ‘Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Greensboro, North Carolina. During November and December, the campaign will be taken to New York City; Long Island; West Chester, Connecticut; Northern New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio: Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Hunting- ton, West Virginia. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE This beaming group of former residents of the Lexington area was photographed in the office of New Orlean’s Mayor DFLEssEPps S. MORRISON, as he issued the proclamation de- claring “Old Dominion Day” there. Left to right, are: HERBERT JAHNCKE, ‘30, chapter president in New Orleans; W. C. Mitts and J. H. Avpripce, former VMI cadets, MRs. C. J. Brauner, Jr., alumnus of Randolph-Macon Woman's College; Mr. BRAUNER, VMI chapter president; Mrs. S. B. JEFFERSON, Randolph-Macon; and the Mayor. “Old Domin- ion Day” will be an annual affair in New Orleans from now on, Chapter Meetings ATLANTA The Atlanta chapter gave a most successful luncheon on September 1 for Atlanta students presently at- tending Washington and Lee, and for freshmen from Georgia who are enrolled this year. The luncheon was attended by twenty-three alum- ni, four students, and nine enter- ing freshmen. Prospective freshmen from the whole state were invited, and those who attended came from Augusta, Clayton, ‘Tallapoosa, Rome, Griffin, and Atlanta. Rodney Cook, *46, newly elected member of the Alumni Associa- tion’s Board of Trustees, addressed the group and welcomed the fresh- men. He reported to alumni on re- cent changes at the school in both the physical plant and the faculty and administration. Tentative meetings are sched- uled as follows: a cocktail party in OCTOBER 1959 the fall; a dinner meeting in Feb- ruary, with a speaker from the University; and a business meeting in the spring. It is hoped to invite prospective students for 1960-61 to the February meeting. WHEN THE AMERICAN Bar Associa- tion held its annual meeting in Mi- ami in August, Washington and Lee alumni met together at the Kenilworth hotel for a luncheon on August 26. John W. Ball, ’32, chair- man, presided, and alumni had such a good time that they have planned a repeat affair at the ABA meeting next August in Washing- ton, D. C. Among the invited guests was H. K. “Cy” Young, °17, former alumni secretary who now resides in Fort Lauderdale. He was asked to name everybody and did so with- out mistake, and in addition, gave the class of each alumnus with only slight prompting. Following his remarkable exhibition of memory, the group was welcomed by O. B. McEwan, ’40, president of the Florida Bar. Ross L. Malone, ’32, outgoing president of the ABA, spoke briefly, and James R. Caskie, ’06, rector of the board of trustees of Washington and Lee, made a few remarks. Present were: James W. Ballen- gee, 48; Amos A. Bolen, ’34; John G. Fox, 49; Harold J. Sullivan, ’32; William L. Wilson, 35; Charles E. Long, Jr.,//92: J.-A. Drabek, 53: Bryce Rea, Jr., ‘41; Hugh L. Glick- stein, 53; G. A. Speer, ’32; Carleton E. Jewett, ’21; Fielden Woodward, ’°39; Robert P. Hobson, °17; Ber- nard R. Kennedy, ’23; Baynard L. Malone;: Jri,, 24; James. P. Hill, °20; John Bell Towill, ’29; Gavin K. Letts, 58; Norman C. Roettger, 58; Lynn F. Lummus, ‘58; Clark W. Toole, Jr., 48; John B. Russell, '49; Lewis F. Powell, Jr., °31; Gib- son Witherspoon, ’27; Judge George T. Clark, ’25; Judge W. F. Blanton, ’11; R. Carleton Sharretts, Jr., '38; Martin P. Burks, III, ’32; Thornton G. Berry, fr... °34;° Mr. McEwan, Mr. Ball, Mr. Young, and Mr. Malone. ® DEADLINE FOR FILING 1960-61 ap- plications for some goo Fulbright Scholarships is November 1, 1959. Recipients of the awards will study in Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific area, receiving tuition, maintenance and round-trip travel. Preference is given to applicants under 35 years of age who have not previously studied abroad. Appli- cants will be required to submit a plan of proposed study that can be profitably carried out abroad. Information may be obtained from: Information and Counsel ing Division, Institute of Interna- tional Education, 1 East 67th street, New York 21, New York. 11 04 WILLARD NEAL GRUBB is a patient at Catawba hospital, Catawba, Virginia, and would be glad to have any alumni in the area as visitors. He has devoted his life to teaching Latin and Greek, and stu- dents in many walks of life are indebted to him for his years of instruction. He is now in his late seventies and his sight is poor, but he has a splendid memory, par- tarticularly about Washington and Lee and its personalities at the turn of the century. He is a loyal alumnus and _ has exemplified the highest ideals of Washing- ton and Lee for more than half a cen- tury. 12 Dr. and Mrs. GordON L. GROOVER both retired from government service on June 30, 1959. He put in thirty years, and she forty years. Dr. Groover was with the Veterans’ Administration, after coming to Washington from private practice in Savannah, Georgia. Mrs. Groover, known professionally as Mary-Agnes Brown, was a lawyer with the Board of Veteran Ap- peals. During World War II, she was dep- uty to the Director of the WACs, later was with General MacArthur as the WAC staff director of the Southwest Pacific area. The Groovers plan to enjoy their re- tirement, with travel taking the number one priority. They hope to visit South America, Mexico, Europe, and to take a trailer-camp trip to all the national parks. Dr. and Mrs. Groover attended the General Reunion last June, and they say they hope to come back next year for more of the same. 13 Dr. P. D. CONveRSE has had an interesting time since his retirement in 1957 as professor of Marketing at the Uni- versity of Illinois. He taught at San Jose State College in the summer of 1958, and at the University of Texas during the second semester of 1958-59. He is now in Europe, lecturing at various universities on marketing, under the sponsorship of the European Productivity Agency. Dur- ing the fall term, he is in charge of the 12 course on marketing in the new Euro- pean graduate schooi of bur!ness admin- istration, Institute European d’Adminis- tration Les Affaires, at Fontainebleau. This is Dr. Converse’s forty-seventh year of teaching. The Texas Bureau of Busi- ness Research recently published two monographs by Dr. Converse: ‘“The Be- ginning of Marketing Thought in the United States” and “Fifty Years of Market- ing in Retrospect.” PauL C. Burorp is again president of Shenandoah Life Insurance Company. He had resigned the post about four years ago because of ill health. He served as pres- ident of the company from i938 until 1956, when he became chairman of the board. Headquarters are in Roanoke, Vir- ginia. / 6 E. B. SwHuttz, after more than twenty-five years of service with the Ten- nessee Valley Authority, is retiring on November 1, to be on the faculty of New York State School of Industrial and La- bor relations of Cornell University. He will engage in a study of retirement poli- cy and practices, made possible by a Ford Foundation grant. He will be co-director of the study, along with John McConnell, dean of the school. Mr. Schultz has been chief of the Labor Relations branch of TVA for twenty-two years, and for the past five years has been directing a study of the retirement system. 25 Dick BEARD was one of twenty-nine Alabama farm leaders who toured Euro- pean farms during the summer. The trip lasted three weeks and even extended into Russia. Dick said, in his opinion, Russian agriculture is far inferior to that of our country, but if they had mechanization equal to ours, the Soviets could out-pro- duce us in five to ten years. The most impressive factor he noted in his tour was the vast amount of manpower work- ing on farms. In some countries, he said he saw thirty-five workers doing the job done by two men on larger Alabama farms. Holland had the most diversified farming, he pointed out. Dick’s 250-acre Glen Dale Farms near Trussville is con- sidered one of the best organized and managed in the United States. He raises some of the best bee® in the world. 26 Dr. RoBert C. YATES, head of the mathematics department at the College of William and Mary, was a speaker at the eight-week “Summer Science Insti- tute” last July at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. He addressed seventy- three high school science teachers from twelve Southern states and the District of Columbia. 2/ THE Rev. R. WitBur SIMMONS is minister of the First Congregational Church in Sacramento, California, with 1400 members. For the past year, he has been chaplain of the California Legisla- ture, and the Assembly had _ his prayers printed in book form this fall. Last sum- mer, he was exchange minister in Hast- ings, England. He has been asked to lead a group next spring to the Holy Land and Middle East, as part of the Inter-Cul- tural Exchange. In addition to his busy church life, he serves as a Family Service Agency Director in Sacramento; president of the City Council of Churches; director for the Y. M. C. A.; member of the Com- munity Welfare Council; and teacher of classes on inter-faith marriages at the three colleges in Sacramento. Dr. FRANK D. CHARLTON has been ap- pointed Superintendent of the Austin, ‘Texas, District of the Methodist church. He overseas fifty-two churches of that de- nomination in the Austin area. Address: 4012 Crescent Drive, Austin 2, Texas. 29 Lewis F. POWELL, Richmond attor- ney, was named by the Virginia State Bar Association to a joint committee in co- Operation with the Virginia State Bax to establsh a program for continuing le- gal education. 3 / ARTHUR W. PHELPS, professor of Jurisprudence at William and Mary, was named by the Virginia State Bar Asso- ciation to a joint committee in cooper- ation with the Virginia State Bar to es- tablish a program for continuing legal education. 32 Dr. FRANK CUNNINGHAM has _ re- ceived the degree of Doctor of English Literature from Dr. F. Amoroso D’Ara- gona, president, Phoenix University, Bari, Italy. Dr. Cunningham, formerly vice- president of Fremont College and Sequoia THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE University, has numerous other advanced degrees and honors. 35 LeRoy Hopces, JR. has resigned as vice-president of Maury Leaf ‘Tobacco Company to join the United States De- partment of Agriculture. He is marketing specialist with the tobacco division of the department’s foreign agricultural services. 3, S. TILFORD PAYNE, JR., an attor- ney in Louisville, Kentucky, is Jefferson County chairman for the G.O.P. campaign this year. He is also treasurer of the Louis- ville Bar Association, and a member of its executive committee. He is a deacon of Highland Presbyterian church, and a member of the Pendennis Club and Filson Club. He is the father of two daughters. COMMANDER STEPHEN B. LEE, USN, is com- manding officer of the Submarine Supply office of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His office last year installed a Burroughs 205 electronic data processing system, which is expected to support more effectively submarines and nuclear-powered vessels of the U.S. Navy, and to achieve econo- mies and increased efficiency in the pro- cess. 3 & ERNEsT B. WALKER, JR. says his his lithograph, letterhead, and engraving © business has done well in Louisville, Ken- tucky, and has moved to new and larger quarters at 841 South Sixth Street. New lithographic equipment has also been pur- chased. Ernest says he was glad to see the old bunch again at the fund drive dinner in Louisville, and that Dr. Gaines gave an excellent talk. WILLIAM W. Davis, JR. has been released from Naval duty, and now lives at 1320 Prather Road, Lexington, Kentucky. 3 9 ALAN BuxToON Hopspes has_ been promoted by the Federal Trade Commis- sion to the post of assistant general coun- sel for appeals. He joined the Commission in 1948 and was first assigned to the Ap- pellate Division, where he traveled exten- sively in arguing appeals for Trade Com- mission orders. For the past four years, he has served as Legal Assistant to Commis- sioner W. C. Kern. He is married to the former Ann Katalinich of Gilbert, Min- nesota, and they have two children. Puitip R. Brooks has been promoted to district sales manager for Southern Ma- terials Company. His area will include plants in Richmond, Lynchburg, Ash- land, Hopewell, and Petersburg, Virginia. 40 Dr. Rospert S. HUTCHESON, JR., a practicing physician of Roanoke, Virginia, OCTOBER 1959 was named Roanoke’s “Father of the Year in Religious Activities” during the Father’s Day observance last June. He is clerk of the session of the Second Pres- byterian church, and has served as pres- ident of the men’s Sunday School class. He and his wife and six children attend Sunday School regularly. Dr. Hutcheson has also found time to serve on the board of the Roanoke Family Service Associa- tion, and as director of the YMCA. 4] Tom BisHop, JR. has recently been named vice-president of the Monarch Equipment company, Louisville, Ken- tucky. He joined the tractor-distributing firm in 1952 and had been general sales manager since 1954. RicHARD W. SMITH has been elected vice- president of the Virginia Bar Association, representing the Staunton area. He is also mayor of Staunton. q 2 CHARLES P. DIDIER says he ran into “Dutch” Hogan, ’40, recently, piloting a TWA flight from Toledo to St. Louis. The Hogans visited the Didiers in August in Maumee, Ohio, along with two sons, aged m ROBERT M. WHITE, I, ’39, widely- known small town Missouri editor and publisher, took over on August 3, 1959, as president and editor of one of New York’s largest news- papers, The Herald Tribune. Bob White is a third-generation newspaper man. His grandfather and father before him_ published and edited the Mexico Ledger in Mexico, Missouri. After graduation from Washington and Lee, Bob joined the Kansas City staff of United Press. During World War Il, he was a member of the armed forces, and was released as a lieu- tenant colonel in public informa- tion in 1945. He has been co-editor and publisher of his family’s news- paper since. From 1956-58 he was special consultant to Marshall Field, editor and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times. Bob’s editorials won him the Sig- ma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award in 1952. In 1958, he was named ‘Missouri's outstanding young newspaper man.” He is a member of the board of directors of the American Newspaper Pub- lishers Association and of its Re- search Institute, and is chairman of the Associated Press nominating committee. His Missouri newspaper has a circulation of 8,828 and thirty-four fulltime employees. His New York paper has a daily circulation of 355,466 and 527,000 on Sundays, plus two thousand employees. But as White sees it, a good small-town newspaper editor should be a good big-town editor as well. “I don’t have any qualms, but I do have an abiding respect for the size of the job,” Bob said. John Hay Whitney, principal owner of the paper, and U.S. Am- bassador to England, declared, “‘I believe we have found the man with the dynamic ideas and sound newspaper background we _ have been looking for. Bob White has been editor of one of the finest small daily newspapers in the na- tion. I know that he will bring vig- orous new leadership to The Herald Tribune.” Bob is married and the father of three daughters, 10, g, and 4. 13 thirteen and nine. Dutch and Charlie en- joyed talking about the Automobile Club of America at the Phi Delt house, era of 1939-42. The Didiers have recently ac- quired a 12-year-old home at 205 West Broadway, Maumee. FRANK LAMOTTE has been promoted by the Gulf States Paper Corporation to the position of sales director for pulp and board. He has been with the firm since 1954 as personnel assistant, personnel re- lations director, and as salesman. He and his wife, the former Isabel Garcia-Benito of Paris, France, are the parents of three children, Matthew, Nicole Antonia, and Alexis. 45 MatcoLtm M. Hirsx has bought an entire town! The place is his home town of Bacova, Virginia, in the Bath county hills, and he purchased the entire area of forty-three houses, a church, general store, post office, school, and modern water and sewage systems. The town was built by the Tidewater Oil Company in the 1920’s as a thriving industrial village making barrel staves for wooden oil barrel. Later, when oil was placed in metal drums, Bacova’s star waned. However, Malcolm hopes to change that by attracting an industry which might revitalize the local economic life. He grew up two miles from Bacova on his father’s Meadow Lane Farm, where thoroughbred horses were raised. 46 Dr. RoBpERT HILL LYNN is associate professor of English at Marshall College. 48 WALTER B. PoTTEeR has been elect- ed president of the Virginia Press Asso- ciation. He is publisher of the Culpeper Star-Ex ponent. 49 Dr. HucH Moomaw, professor of history at Randolph-Macon College, Ash- land, Virginia, was awarded a post-doctor- al Fulbright fellowship. He will use the grant to continue a biographical study of Captain A. S. Hamond, British naval of- ficer and political figure during the Rev- olutionary War. His search for material will take him to England to the British Museum. He is on leave of absence this year from his college post. 50 The REVEREND SAMUEL S. ODOM, formerly rector of Hungars Parish on 14 EVERETT EASTER, *49, has been appointed promotion director of Living For Young Homemakers. Before assuming his job on that magazine, he served for two years as assistant to the president of Reddy Kilo- watt, Inc. in New York, handling adver- ising, public relations and promotion. the Eastern shore of Virginia, is now asso- ciate rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, a su- burb of Pittsburgh. Sam and his wife, Polly, have two daughters, Marguerite, age five, and Mary Ann, age one year. Dr.- RoBerT V. JOEL received his medi- ‘TOWNSEND OaAs?T, °51, has been elected irust officer of the Mount Vernon Bank and Trust Company, Fairfax, Virginia. He was a former bank official in Warrenton, Virginia. He and his wife and their young daughter, Ellen, now reside at 3334 Guns- ton Road, Alexandria, Virginia cal degree from the Chicago Medical School, and interned at Duval Medical Center, Jacksonville, Florida. He then completed two years of a residency in pathology at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville. Since July 1, 1959, he has been with the pathology department at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York City, located at 444 East 68th Street, New York, 21. OLIVER C. DAWKINS, III, is staff supervisor for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Louisville, Kentucky. He as- sists in recruiting and training of new per- sonnel. He has been in the life insurance field since 1952, and is a member of the National Association of Life Underwrit- ers of the Bluegrass Investment Club. He and his wife and three children live at 3122 Rosedale Boulevard, Louisville. 51 FRANK S. DAVIDSON is with the the International Business Machine Company in Johnson City, New York. 53 Hueu S. GLicksreEin has opened his law offices at suite 304-306 Atlantic Fed- eral Building, 1750 East Sunrise Boule- vard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Another important event in his life was the birth of a second son, Cary Douglas, on June 6, 1959. LEONARD C. DILL is now with the credit department of Container Corporation of America, at 5000 Flat Rock Road, Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. He was formerly with the Philadelphia National Bank there. Dr. EnGar W. Spencer, head of Washing- ton and Lee’s geology department, was on hand August 17 when the great Montana earthquake took place. He had been con- ducting a study of the Madison range of the Rocky Mountains in southwest Mon- tana, and he and his two student col- leagues had been conducting mapping in the Hebgen Lake are several days before the quake. He was about thirty miles away at the time of the disaster, and was able to render valuable technical assist- ance in news coverage of the event. Edgar has spent the past six summers in and around southwestern Montana, first study- ing the structural geology of the Bear- tooth Mountains, and now on a National Science Foundation grant to conduct re- search on the formation of the 70,000,000- year-old Madison range. 54 ‘Tom McNemMar, who. has. been teaching for the past two years in West Hartford, Connecticut, is working toward his Ph.D. degree in Great Britain, at St. Andrew’s and Oxford. He received his master’s degree from the University of Washington. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE GoRDON LEE GANO, JR. has become an associate of the law firm of Bonney and Wade in Dallas. Address: 1133 Fidelity Union Life Building, Dallas, Texas. HENry Murrey, Jr. has joined the home office staff of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. 55 LARRY LEvVITAN has become associ- ated in the general practice of law with the firm of Miller, Brown, and Gilder- horn, specializing in tax matters. His ad- dress is: Investment Building, 1511 K Street, N.W., Washington 5. D.C. 56 RAFA’AT Att ABOU-EL-HAJ was awarded his master of arts degree in Europe and Near Eastern History by the Princeton Graduate School on June 16, 1059- ARNOLD MICHAEL APPLEFIELD was gradu- ated from Harvard Law School last June. 57 James W. Marvin, Jr. is doing his duty with the army, and is serving in Germany until this time next year. He studied German at the Army Language School of Monterey, California, and_ is now in Bad Kissingen, at Von Hessing Strasse 3. This is thirty-five miles north of Wurzburg, he says, and if any alumni are in the area, he’d like to see them. His ad- dress is Hg. Region XI, USAEUR Ln Gp (3842), APO 800, New York City, New York. James R. CREEL, ’57, received the wings of a Naval aviator on July 29, 1959, upon completion of advanced flight training at Pensacola, Florida. He is presently a sec- ond lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. OCTOBER 1959 HAROLD ALFRED 'TARRANT, JR. was awarded his master’s degree in political science last June from the University of Delaware. Dr. HEINZ ORTNER is living in Graz, Aus- tria, and wants all visitors to the country to look him up at Kaiser Franz Josef Kai 2 in Graz. He received his doctor of law degree in 1957, and since that time has worked in court as a “Richteramtsanwaer- ter,” a term meaning he must practice in court for three years before being admit- ted as a lawyer. Heinz spent several win- ters as a ski instructor in St. Anton on Arlberg, Europe’s largest ski school. He always had some Americans in his Classes, he said, but never any Washington and Lee men. However, about a dozen friends from the University have been to visit him. Some spent Christmas with his fam- Dr. HEINZ ORTNER ily. Most were students attending Euro- pean universities on fellowships. Heinz says his bride-to-be is an American, pres- ently working with the International Atomic Agency in Vienna. Jor KNAKAL is stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, with the Army. During the sum- C. P. LEININGER, °57, was promoted io First Lieutenant in June, 1959. He is serv- ing in Germany, as train commander for U.S. military trains entering and leaving the Western sector of Berlin. mer months, after his graduation from law school, he worked for radio station WREL, Lexington. WittiaM M. A. ROMANS has opened an office for the general practice of law in Lexington. He is also superintendent of public welfare for Rockbridge county, having held this position since February, 1958. Bill is married and the father of a two-year-old daughter. 58 WILLIAM R. GOODMAN, JB. is a stu- dent this year at Union ‘Theological Sem- inary in Richmond, Virginia. He return- ed in August from Scotland, where he spent the past year studying at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh as a Fulbright Schol- ar. Billy and his wife, the former Martha Kessler of Rockbridge county, found other Washington and Lee friends in Edin- burgh. Also there for study were Robert Miller, 57, accompanied by his wife; and Lew John, ’58. ‘hey were among seventy- DON’T FORGET Homecoming Is November 7! Generals vs. Carnegie ‘Tech , five Americans who actually outnumbered the native Scots attending New College of the University of Edinburgh. 59 GERALD DENNINGER spent the sum- mer portraying Thomas Jefferson in the thirteenth annual production of “The Common Glory” at Williamsburg, Vir- ginia, 1952 DAviID ‘TERRENCE WHITMAN was married to Dorothy Gail Leggett on May 23, 1959, in Macon, Georgia. They now reside at 311 Peachtree Hills Avenue, N.E., Atlanta. 1953 IsHAM MALLE SHEFFIELD, III, and Carol Jeanne Kingman were married on Sep- tember 11, 1959 in Christ Episcopal Church, Macon, Georgia. 1954 FRED LACKMANN, JR. and Jeanne Wolf were married August 1, 1959, in Universi- ty Methodist Church, Seattle, Washing- ton. They are making their home in Se- attle, where Fred is a graduate student at University of Washington. JAMES CLEMENTS CONNER was married to Valerie Johnson on June 27, 1959 in the Bethlehem Chapel in Washington, D. C. Raymond Stults, ‘56, and James R. ‘Trimm, ’54, were ushers. 1956 LAWRENCE K. ANTHONY, JR. and Mary Elizabeth Birchmore were married on July 3, 1959, at Emmanuel Episcopal church, Athens, Georgia. ‘They will travel abroad this year. RonaALD W. Fast and Janet Joyce Abbott were married on June 19, 1959, in Ascen- sion Episcopal church, Hinton, West Virg- ginia. He is studying for his doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Vir- ginia. DupLEY DEAN FLANDERS and Mary Brews- ter were married on August 29, 1959. He practices law in New Orleans, Louisiana. 16 1958 HOWARD CARROLL PACKETT and Jane Witt Hogan were married August 15 in West Lynchburg Baptist church, Lynchburg, Virginia. He is a reporter for the Roa- noke Times, Roanoke, and they are living in Salem, Virginia. RALPH WILLARD BAUcoM, JR. and Marilynn Elizabeth Watkins were married June 10, 1959, at St. John Berchman’s Catholic church, Shreveport, Louisiana. They are making their home in New Orleans. 1959 C. Royce Houeu, III, and Harriet King Houston were married September 2, 1959, at Calvary Episcopal church, Memphis, ‘Tennessee. MAX DANIEL MILLER, III, and Phoebe Wil- ingham Taylor were married August 29, 1959, in St. Johns Episcopal church, Mem- phis, ‘Tennessee. David MICHAEL BAKER and Martha Eliza- beth Barger were married June 13, 1959, in Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City. He is a medical student this year at Temple University. Martha was form- erly employed in the ROTC office at Washington and Lee. WILLIAM SANFORD HARRISON and Marcia M. Spence were married on July 4, 1959. Bill is atending Medical College of Vir- ginia. RICHARD POWELL CARTER, JR. and Sally Head were married August 26, 1959 in the First Methodist Church, Coral Gables, Florida. He is attending Carnegie Insti- tute of Technology to work on his doc- torate. DaAvip WALTER FLEGAL and Carol Caroth- ers were married September 5, 1959. JOHN G. RUSSELL, JR. was married to Don- na Miller on June 13, 1959. ROBERT SHEDDEN GRADY and Linda Sims were married on June 19, 1959 and are living at 599 Dan Lane, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia. ROBERT GARRETT JACOB and Sally Ann Kirk were married on June 20, 1959, in Christ Episcopal church, Pelham Manor, New York. She is a 1959 graduate of Hol- lins. Owen A. NEFF and Gertrude Wright Wells were married on July 11, 1959, at the bride’s home in Lexington. They are making their home in Silver Spring, Mary- land, and Owen is with the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice. Gertrude was formerly employed in the Alumni office at Wash- ington and Lee. 1960 CHARLES SHANNON Butts and Rebecca Ann Raver were married September 5, 1959 in Bethesda Methodist church, Bethesda, Maryland. He is now studying at George- town University School of Dentistry. 1961 WILLIAM BRADSHAW BEVERLY was married to Diane Diedrick on: September 5, 1959, in the Presbyterian Church of Rye, New York. She has completed two years at Hollins, and both are studying this year at the University of Richmond. 1939 Mr. and Mrs. JOHN D. Goopin are the parents of a daughter, Dorothy Dee, born August 16, 1959. 1945 Mr. and Mrs. WALTER FRYE are the par- ents of a son, Walter Gregory, born Aug- ust 21, 1959. Address: 427 Corona del Mar, Santa Barbara, California. 1946 Dr. and Mrs. SipNEY M. B. COULLING are the parents of a daughter, Margaret Howard, born July 28, 1959. 1949 Mr. and Mrs. Dick WHITEMAN are the parents of a daughter, Dorian Ann, born June 15, 1959. They live at 4048 Leigh Street, Riverside, California. 1951 Mr. and Mrs. JAmMeEs J. WuiTEe are the parents of a daughter, Henrietta Tucker, born in July, 1959. Address: 3020 Country Club Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina. 1952 Mr. and Mrs. JAMES WILLIAM H. STEWART are the parents of a son, James William H., Jr., born August 3, 1959. Mr. and Mrs ‘Tep Hunt are the parents of a son, Clifton Tredway, III, born on April 1, 1959. They also have two daugh- ters. Address: 4535 Bradbury Drive, Char- lotte, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. PAu D. WIELL are the par- ents of a son, Gary Paul, born August 9, 1959. Paul is now associated with the Aetna Life Insurance Company in Mineo- la, Long Island. 1953 Mr. and Mrs. RoBerT E. JOHNSON, JR. are the parents of a son, Joseph Courtland, THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE born July 3, 1959. They live at 790 Hil- deen Drive, Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Harry MARTIN LAWRENCE, Jr. are the parents of a son, Robert Mar- tin born July 12, 1959. Father, after grad- uating from the University of ‘Tennessee Medical School in 1956, and interning in Memphis, Tennessee, is presently serv- ing as a flight surgeon at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D.C. Address: 1310 N. Oak Street, Apartment 407, Arlington Virginia. 1954 Mr. and Mrs. RoBert DICKEy, JR. are the parents of a second daughter, Karen, born August 5, 1959. Mr. and Mrs. DANIEL J. HARTSHORN are the parents of a daughter, Tandy Jay, born July 29, 1959. Address: 1232 Lake Falls Road, Baltimore 10, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. FRANK L. SUMMERS, JR. are the parents of a son, Frank, III, born May 12, 1959. Daddy is an attorney with the firm of Thomas R. Nelson, in Staunton, Virginia. Address: 708 Reid Street, Staun- ton. 1957 Mr. and Mrs. HuGH MorreELt are the par- ents of a daughter, Pamela Doane, born June 9, 1959. 1902 Dr. WILLIAM STERLING ROBERTSON died June 13, 1959, after a year’s illness. He had retired in 1952 from a medical prac- tice which spanned forty-five years in Charleston, West Virginia. He was a specialist in urology and skin diseases. 1905 Jupce A. STEELE Hays died June 7, 1959, at his home in Russellville, Arkansas, after a long illness. He was for many years a Congressman from Arkansas, and was the father of former Congressman Brooks Hays, immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Convention. 1911 OmER THOMAS KAyYLor died at his home in Hagerstown, Maryland, on August 27, 1959. His distinction of influence and no- bility of character gave him the privilege of high leadership. OCTOBER 1959 HENRY CLAPHAM McGAvack died Septem- ber 12, 1959 in New York City. After his graduation from Washington and Lee, he entered the banking business with his uncle in Washington, D.C. Later, after World War I, he was employed by the United States Lines in New York City. He retired in 1953. He had been class agent for the University for the past four years. 1914 ‘THOMAS CRANE MCCALLIE died of a heart attack July 25, 1959. He was a manufac- turer’s agent, and had served as an elder in Central Presbyterian church and teach- er of the Woods Fellowship class. He was among the first group of students to en- roll in McCallie School, and graduated there in 1910. He was a member of the board of trustees of McCallie School, a trustee and treasurer of Bachman Chil- dren’s Home, and director of the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Wichita, Kan- Sas. 1917 RoreRt WILLIAM WYLIE died August 21, 1958. He made his home in Woodstock, Virginia. 1924 PAGE GRAY WILSON died August 22, 1959. He was president of the Industrial Loan Corporation of Staunton, Virginia. He had served as secretary of the church school of Trinity Episcopal church, and was former vestryman and treasurer. 1925 LinpsAy R. HENry died June 16, 1959. At the time of his death, he was district at- torney of Suffolk County, New York. He had served as assistant United States At- torney in Brooklyn from 1928 to 1931, and as Chief Assistant until 1933. He retired from the Navy in 1946 with the rank of captain. 1928 HARVEY BAKER HENLINE died February 5, 1959. He was an independent oil pro- ducer, and was very active in trapshoot- ing, especially throughout the Finger Lakes region. Dr. FRANCIS B. ZIMMERMAN, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist, died Septem- ber 13, 1959 at his home in Louisville, Kentucky, after a long illness. He was a past president of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Section of the Kentucky State Medical Association, and a member of St. Andrew Episcopal church. 1932 BARNET BENJAMIN GARBER died September 9g, 1959. He was a plant and industrial en- gineer for the Continental Can Company. His home was at Corey Lake, ‘Three Riv- ers, Michigan. 1942 ApRIAH L. BENDHEIM, JR. was struck and killed by lightning July 25, 1959, while fishing at Virginia Beach. He was a form- er president of the Richmond alumni chapter. 1957 NICHOLAS JOHN SEIBEL was killed in an automobile accident on June 20, 1959. His home was in Clayton, Missouri. 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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 Orders for Christmas delivery must be received prior to November 27