en Oe a the alumni magazine of washington and lee (USPS 667-040) Volume 59, Number 3, May 1984 Frank A. Parsons, ’54................. Su eee ease Editor Romulus T. Weatherman .............. Managing Editor Jeffery G. Hanna ..................... Associate Editor Robert Fure ..................0085 Contributing Editor Joyce Harris ........ 0... cece eee. Editorial Assistant Arlene Thomas ..................06. Editorial Assistant W. Patrick Hinely, ’73..............00000- Photographer TABLE OF CONTENTS Trustees Receive Coed Reports...........scccccesecceeeeeeeeeees “Without Fear Or Favor’’............ceecccccccccccccccceseeeeeees Surveys On Coeducation.............cceecscecesceseccseeecsensees Mock Convention Picks Mondale...............ssessseeseeeees McDowell on the Parade........... ccc ccccccccccccccccesscccceeees 11 A King of the SkieS..............ccccccccccscecccccccscccessccceoes 12 Chasing a Bright Dream................ssceeececeescceeeeeeeeeees 18 Spring Reumions.............scccscsccsccccccescccecsescceescseeess 20 When W&L Men Gather... .......0000.deccescssscisesneruscseese 22 WEL Gazette. ...........ceccenessseuecevenessen sues oe: meen seman 24 Spring Sports ROUNAuUp.............sceeseeceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 33 Chapter NeWS..........sscssccccsncccsndsusbeseenassccssenstonsncsn 35 Class Notes. .cccccscscsecsscscsetenccesteusse ss 0009 ne teste wiudnecn 39 In Memoriatiie sss vececcoescecuedectrnhncuneecs ee tev ER tenes euvscees 47 And furthermore:..:...:-ceseses00scs@peweieees (000 hast cescsess, 48 Type for this magazine was set by equipment provided to the Univer- sity through the generosity of Mary Moody Northen, Inc., Galveston, Texas. Published in January, March, May, July, September, October, and November by Washington and Lee University Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Virginia 24450. Allcommunications and POD Forms 3579 should be sent to Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Va. 24450. Second class postage paid at Lexington, Va. 24450 and additional offices. Copyright © 1984, Washington and Lee University Officers and Directors Washington and Lee Alumni, Inc. PETER A. AGELASTO III, ’62, Norfolk, Va. President WILLIAM C. NORMAN JR., ’56, Crossett, Ark. Vice President WILLIAM E. LATTURE, ’49, Greensboro, N.C. Treasurer RICHARD B. SEssoMs, Lexington, Va. Director of Alumni Programs and Secretary Leroy C. ATKINS, 68, Lexington, Va. Assistant Secretary C. DuBosE AUSLEY, 59, Tallahassee, Fla. CHARLES R. BEALL, 756, Martinsburg, W.Va. G. EDWARD CALVERT, ’44, Lynchburg, Va. WILLIAM N. CLEMENTS, ’50, Baltimore, Md. OwEN H. Harper, 59, Pasadena, Calif. CHARLES D. Hurt JR., ’59, Atlanta, Ga. SIDMON J. KAPLAN, 756, Cleveland, Ohio J. WILLIAM McCLInTocx III, ’53, Tunica, Miss. OLIVER M. MENDELL, ’50, New York City HENRY NOorTBERG III, ’71, Kansas City, Mo. JOHN Poynor, ’62, Birmingham, Ala. RIcE M. TILLey JR., ’58, Fort Worth, Tex. S. MAYNARD TurK, ’52, Wilmington, Del. STANLEY A. WALTON III, 62, ’65L, Chicago, Ill. CVU ON THE COVER: Has the coeducation debate stirred up enough hot air to inflate a balloon? Actually, the debate had nothing to do with alumnus/aeronaut King Sprott’s balloon flight over the campus this spring. For more on Sprott and his balloon, see page 12. Photographs (front and back) by Charles Mason, ’84 Trustees R eceive Coe Q ucation Reports Special Board Meeting mcneaured for July 13- 14 -Atits spring meeting held in Lexington May 2 24, 25 and _ 26, Washington and Lee’s Board of Trustees received a serie ‘reports from its study of admitting women to the Univer- sity’ 5 undergraduate degree programs. © Those reports, developed by the 25-member Board’s | ned the potential impact of | standing committees, exan coeducation on such areas of the University as academic af- | fairs, s student life, mamas extracurricular activities, and ‘iat ‘d with the traditions of the | slowing : . g the 1 C eeetad oe M. Ballengee, 4sL, of - sathecocd said the Trustees ae | hi 5 tector of he We spent a iiaiori portion of this meet "the coeducation question,” said Ballengee. sions were quite productive, and we are “ole: is thorough manner in which the committees have exan these important issues.” 7 _Ballengee added that the Trustees will use ether rep | I | tees expressed their interest in the subject as the _ result of the action of a special grand jury that probed drug _ trafficking in Rockbridge County. | The ad hoc committee, comprising faculty, ad- ministrators, and students, will be charged with examining _ ways in which the University can best respond to recommen- dations made by the special grand jury. oe | Circuit Judge George E. Honts III released porti ial g ar d Jury’s report, including segments “for both Washington and Lee and Virginie Military Institute to “develop affirmative and effective guidelines for anti- — drug programs, working i in concert with local law enforce- no euthorines:” i ed with the - Co: ofa decision at a ‘a special meeting s scheduled for Sly 13 and - ~ . Aa 7 deal exclusively wi - committees cond ing sessions, the ful SOedHEaHON: andy a of opinion surveys t take cen faculty, and students on the On three occasions dur — Bo coeducation study. On two of thos > occasions the the student t body z nd tl members of the admini: | of Washi sessions a Board met oan. sess ok * * In another matter, the Trustees instructed President John D D. Wilson toa ar point an ad hoc committee on of i its $ final session on May 26 the 7 _ this commu on about the coeducation issue. _ baa -Inarelated ‘to examine - t hat time were the results tt ton and Leealumni, _— sp ing the week ce id meetings the ee ard met as a whole to discuss i issues surrounding the Bo da rd oe : and outgoing presidents of both — : he Alumni Association without any _ tration or rstaff in attendance. One ‘Without Fear or Favor’ What does it mean to be a Trustee of Washington and Lee University? Well, for openers, it means hard work, a commitment of substantial chunks of time, energy, and expense associated with the three regularly scheduled Board meetings each year, the occasional extra meetings of standing or ad hoc committees, and—as is the case this summer—the infrequent but always important special meetings of the full Board. It means, too, that one has accepted the sobering responsibility for assuring the future of an institution that has now ne for 235 years. Webster says a Trustee is “cone to whom something is entrusted.’’ Webster says “‘entrust”’ means to confer a trust on; especially, to deliver something in trust to; to commit to another with confidence. In other words, Washington and Lee’s Trustees are persons on whom all other members of the University family—alumni, benefactors, faculty, students, and staff—can depend for decisions and ~ actions in the best interest of the University and its future. Every Trustee participating in the important decisions of July 13-14 will have taken this oath: “Ido solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office to which I have been appointed by the Trustees of Washington and Lee University, to the best of my skill and judgment, without fear or favor. So help me God. ’”’ In the long history of Washington and Lee University the burden of office has often weighed heavily on the shoulders of those honored by the title, ‘“Trustee.’’ Perhaps never moreso than now. There is no easy choice, for the risks along any chosen path are real, they are serious, and they are complex. No choice in itself assures Washington and Lee’s future. Only the steadfast support of us all for whatever decision the Trustees make can assure that future. Of the 25 selected for the office of Trustee under the Charter and By-Laws of the University, 22 are alumni. The skill and judgment resident in the collective strength of this Board is equal to the challenge its members face. So is their courage, their resolve to act without fear or favor. These are the Trustees upon whom we depend, in whom we do, indeed, trust. JAMES M. BALLENGEE, RECTOR Radnor, Pennsylvania JOHN D. WILSON, PRESIDENT Lexington, Virginia JAMES A. PHILPOTT Lexington, North Carolina H. GORDON LEGGETT, JR. Lynchburg, Virginia EDGAR F. SHANNON, JR. Charlottesville, Virginia THOMAS HAL CLARKE Atlanta, Georgia CALVERT THOMAS Hartford, Connecticut S L KopaLp Memphis, Tennessee A. CHRISTIAN COMPTON Richmond, Virginia F. Fox BENTON, JR. Houston, Texas THOMAS B. BRANCH, III Atlanta, Georgia JERRY G. SOUTH San Francisco, California IsAAC N. SMITH, JR. Charleston, West Virginia CHRISTOPH KELLER, JR. Alexandria, Louisiana Ross R. MILLHISER New York, New York HousTon H. HARTE San Antonio, Texas C. Royce Houay, III Jacksonville, Florida J. THOMAS TOUCHTON Tampa, Florida JOSEPH S. KEELTY Baltimore, Maryland Guy T. STEUART, II Chevy Chase, Maryland FRANK G. YOUNG Fort Worth, Texas JAMES F. GALLIVAN Nashville, Tennessee Mrs. FRANCES A. LEWIS Richmond, Virginia CHARLES S. ROWE Fredericksburg, Virginia THOMAS K. WOLFE New York, New York Whatever the decision of July 13th-14th, Washington and Lee’s Board of Trustees will deserve the admiration, respect, and full support of all those who value the University and its traditions. —E. MARSHALL NUCKOLS, JR., Rector, Emeritus; Trustee, 1969-1981; Rector, 1974-198] The Surveys sess Majority of Alumni, Students Oppose Coeducation; Faculty in Favor oe opinion on nthe many questions associated with the admis- | sion of undergraduate women to Washington and Lee discovered that majorities of the alumni and students favor W&L remaining all-male while a majority of faculty favor coeducation for the University. / oO While the alumni were sur’ through a question-| naire administered by a Richmo rch firm, a W&L fects is d o the surr | sociology class conducted the surveys of thestudentsand - women’. S colleges, s “dieteHioration of fraternity social lite, and faculty as part of a project inresearch methods. . a weakening of the intercollegiate athletic program. i Reports on the three c stionnaires were presented ee wk wm = oard of Trustees during its spring meeting on May : _ FAC JLTY SURVEY: The sociology class distributed 1 ques-- to all mem| The Surveys academically qualified students,’ 72.9 percent of the facul- ty strongly believe it would, 11.9 percent “‘somewhat’”’ believe it would, 11 percent believe there would be no change, 3.4 percent “somewhat” believe it would not, and 0.8 percent strongly believe it would not. The survey asked faculty to list in order of importance both the advantages and disadvantages they think coeduca- tion would have on the University. Faculty cited “better students” as the number one advantage and potential cost as the primary disadvantage. Meantime, 83.3 percent indicated they think the academic environment would be “greatly” or “somewhat” enhanced by coeducation. According to David Novack, associate professor of sociology who directed the project, the faculty is more strongly in favor of coeducation now than it was in 1981 when 76.9 percent favored coeducation in a similar survey. kkk STUDENT SURVEY: Administered during registration for spring term classes, the student survey was completed by 1,297 undergraduates, or 84 percent of the undergraduate student body. In addition a telephone survey of non- respondents was conducted to validate the findings of the broader study. In the student survey, 22.3 percent said they “strongly believe’ W&L should become coeducational with 20.1 per- cent saying they ‘‘somewhat believe it should.’’ There were 4.7 percent with no opinion while 33.9 percent said they “strongly believe W&L should not’? become coeducational and another 19 percent indicating they ‘somewhat believe it should not.”’ Meantime, 62.1 percent of the students said coeduca- tion would be in the University’s best interests with 32.1 percent choosing “‘strongly” and 30 percent choosing “‘“somewhat.’’ There were 13 percent indicating no change, 11.5 percent said they ‘“‘somewhat believe” it would not be in the University’s best interests, and 13.4 “strongly believe” it would not. Asked how they felt coeducation would effect the academic environment at W&L, 56.1 percent of the students indicated that it would be either “‘greatly” or “somewhat” enhanced by coeducation. Students listed “‘loss of tradition’’ most often as the primary disadvantage with ‘‘increased academic standards”’ the primary advantage. More than 80 percent of the students thought coeduca- tion would harm the fraternity system at W&L either great- ly (32.3 percent) or somewhat (49 percent). More than half (50.4 percent) of the students said the presence of women in the classroom would not be a distraction to them while 44.8 4 percent said it would present ‘“‘somewhat” of a distraction. Comparatively, a majority of students (50.2 percent) in a 1980 survey favored coeducation while a majority in the current survey is opposed. Examining the recent survey in light of previous studies of the issues, Novack said one of the most noteworthy trends the sociology students found is that both students and faculty are becoming increasingly concerned about academic standards. “‘That fact becomes apparent when you consider that a majority of both students and faculty perceived coeduca- tion as worth adopting to maintain or improve W&L’s academic standards,’’ said Novack. “‘Also, the primary ad- vantage of coeducation listed by both faculty and students was improved academic quality.’’ Disagreements between students and faculty concern potential problems for the students as a consequence of at- tending an all-male school, noted Novack. “With the changing role and place of women in our society, two-thirds of the faculty believe that our students might experience problems when they encounter women in graduate programs or in the work place while only 18 per- cent of the students share that concern,’’ he said. Charles Mason photo by Jeffery G. Hanna ‘Weekend Democrats’ Name Mondale Mock Delegates Choose Bentsen as Running Mate Mondale delegates to the convention Though the Democratic National Convention was more than two months away and though several states had not yet held their primary elections, Walter Mondale’s future as his party’s presidential candidate was all but assured short- ly after noon on May 12. It was at that moment when Peyton Craighill, co- chairman of the Wisconsin delegation, stepped into the crowded aisle to announce his state’s vote. Shouting into the microphone in order to be heard over the din of the convention hall, Craighill boomed out the news: “Mr. Chairman, Wisconsin, the Dairy State, the state with the best cheese this side of Southern California, casts 19 votes for Walter Mondale and .. .”’ The rest of Craighill’s announcement was inaudible above the boisterous celebration it touched off. Wisconsin’s 19 votes had given the former vice president a total of 657, putting him over the top and giving him the nomination of Washington and Lee’s Mock Democratic Convention. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado finished with 496 votes while Rev. Jesse Jackson was third with 133. Lexington will never be confused with San Francisco. And W&L's traditionally conservative student body will never be confused with the Democratic Party. Yet, given the Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware displays bumper sticker. Scott Ferrell photo Mock Convention’s record for accuracy, Mondale might have been well advised to stop campaigning and save his energy and money for the race to come. Widely acknowledged as the most realistic event of its kind, W&L’s convention has staked its reputation on a record of correctly forecasting the nominee of the party out of the White House 12 times in 17 attempts. More impressive still, the W&L mock pols have erred but once in their last eight conventions. While Mondale’s selection came on the first ballot, the 1,313 delegates had a more difficult time when it came to choosing a running mate for Mondale. On the first of two ballots, the convention was leaning toward Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York, the “‘fox from Flatbush” as one supporter called her. After a spirited floor battle in which state chairmen were constantly retreating to nearby telephones to call to their real-life counterparts for advice, Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen was nominated by a nar- row margin when the Colorado delegation swung its sup- port from favorite son Hart to Bentsen at the end of the se- cond roll call. This was the third time the Mock Convention has nominated a vice presidential candidate. So far, the record 5 A floor demonstration in progress University Theatre presents Reagan Rex. (See story on Page 27.) is only 50 percent—right with Walter Mondale in 1976 and wrong with Howard Baker in 1980. The vice presidential fight provided some of the weekend’s best moments. Not only was there a genuine bat- tle waged on the floor of the convention, but the event’s long-standing reputation for realism was severely tested. As senior Jack Dent, the convention’s political director, observed when Bentsen had finally gained the nomination: “IT was concerned that it was becoming a popularity contest rather than a reflection of reality.’’ The mere possibility that W&L, with its all-male undergraduate school and the current debate over a change to coeducation, would select a woman as a vice presidential nominee made for a novel situation. That was not lost on the delegates, of course. But as more and more state chairmen returned from the phones with up-to-the-minute information from the various state headquarters, reality (at least, reality as it was being perceived by state Democratic leaders around the country) won the day, and Bentsen was nominated. kkk Preparations had been under way for two years. The event itself lasted less than 30 hours. 6 Senior Christopher Lykes mans phones. WPH photo Peter Cronin photo But the result was, as the Washington Post put it, “a two-day political extravaganza, known for its raucous realism—right down to beefy security guards, demonstra- tions and vote trading. . .’’ For long-time observers of Mock Conventions, in- cluding many alumni who had returned for reunion weekend and joined the festivities, the trappings were familiar: the parade down historic Lexington’s Main Street; the platform speeches by nationally-prominent politicians; the colorful bunting and campaign signs that turned Warner Center into a convention hall. Newcomers were impressed by some less obvious elements—chiefly the care with which the delegates went about their principal task. State chairmen could be seen reviewing newspaper: clips about the political climate in the states they represented and could be overheard talking by telephone to political leaders from Santa Fe to Boston. Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin, who delivered the keynote speech at 10 a.m. on Saturday, said afterwards that he was “‘astonished”’ to be speaking to a full convention hall at that hour of the day. “They either take this very seriously,’’ said Proxmire. “Or they never sleep.’’ Student leaders of the convention, which was organized WPH photo Sen. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia under the co-chairmanship of seniors Steve Lewis and Peter Muller, were a bit concerned about the way things started at the first session on Friday since it was clear that the mock delegates, the majority of whom clearly lean toward the Republican side of things, had not stepped into their roles as Democrats. The biggest cheer of the first session came when Lex- ington Mayor Charles Phillips, professor of economics at W&L, greeted them as “fellow Republicans who are weekend Democrats.’’ That prompted Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings of South Carolina, a former presidential candidate who brought greetings from the Democratic Party, to exclaim: ‘“This isn’t a Democratic convention, it’s a Republican ambush.”’ Too, the coeducation controversy, which had been broached by about two dozen of the parade floats bearing anti-coed signs, was a constant undercurrent. During his welcoming remarks W&L President John D. Wilson said: “How kindred you are in spirit to our own shaping per- sonalities, General Washington and General Lee, both great American leaders, both great patriots, both great leaders in the never-ending struggle for the freedom and dignity of the common man and common woman.’’ WPH photo ~ g = Qa, g 5 g é § 5 8 rw Zz A, 2 a Virginia Governor Charles Robb WE&L President John D. Wilson A Gary Hart supporter The reference to “common woman’ elicited a loud chorus of boos from the audience. Convention leaders needn’t have worried, however. It was left to a youthful senator from Delaware to get the delegates back on the track. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., 41, got the audience on his A Robb Endorsement Historically, politicians have taken note of the out- come of Washington and Lee’s Mock Convention because of its record for accuracy. But in his remarks at the convention’s first session, Gov. Charles Robb of Virginia might have overstated the convention’s significance just a tad when he said that there are two requisities for a successful presidential nominee: ““They must survive an interview with Roger Mudd, ’50, and then they must win the nomination at Washington and Lee.”’ On the other hand, who’s to argue with the governor of the Commonwealth? 3 ° = a. — ~ Ry 5 side with humor. Holding up a ‘“‘Nixon Now More Than Ever” bumper sticker that was much in evidence during the convention, Biden told the delegates that “‘it’s good to be here in the 19th century.”’ He then proceeded to draw long and enthusiastic ap- plause when he directed the delegates’ attention away from party politics and toward the future. Said Biden: ‘‘What most troubles me about the present political leaders of the world and of our nation, including their opponents, is that none of them are speaking out with any eloquence about the coming age but are concentrating mainly on the present day or the next election. “President Reagan says very little if anything practical about the computerized world of the future or about how to rescue the old smokestack workers of Pittsburgh, Youngstown, or Detroit or how to educate a rising genera- tion in new skills that they and the nation will need between now and the end of the 20th Century.”’ Biden said he believes the American people will listen to any candidate in any party willing to concentrate on unity, peace, education, and the defense of civilization ‘‘with something in addition to smart bombs and laser beams in outer space.’’ 8 WPH photo The major question, he said, is not whether President Reagan will be reelected but “whether he will think about the future.’’ Arguing eloquently that the nation is not addressing the problems that will confront the student delegates and their children, Biden said the Democratic Party is not doing a very good job of addressing those questions and added, “‘I do not believe we have been getting very much in the way of the future for the past four years.’’ Biden said he was 17 years old when he heard President John F. Kennedy challenge the nation ‘‘to ask what you can do for your country.”’ Asked Biden: “‘What has this country come to, whether you are a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent, when in 24 years we have moved from the standard of ‘Ask not what your country can do for yow’ to the standard that says ‘Are you better off today than you were four years ago?’ “Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican I hope to God the standard you set for America to repair to is not the selfish standard of ‘Am I better off?’ Is America better off? That’s the question.’’ Biden was followed to the podium by 82-year-old Sen. WPH photo WPH photo WPH photo Surfs up! Jennings Randolph of West Virginia who presented the delegates with an old-time stump speech, challenging them to exercise their right and vote. Citing recent elections in which less than 55 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot, Randolph said the delegates “can do what has to be done or we will, eight years from now, elect a president by a minority of the voters rather than a majority of the voters. ‘““We’re approaching a time when it will not be the ma- jority winning over the minority but when it will be a ma- jority of a minority. ”’ He then asked the audience: “‘Are you going to do something about it?”’ When the response came back as a thunderous “YES,’’ Randolph launched into a rhythmic chant of ‘Are you? Are you? Are you?” Soon the students had struck up a chant of their own. ‘‘Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote,’’ they shouted, many standing in their chairs and waving placards. Biden and Randolph delivered a one-two punch that put the delegates in the perfect frame of mind to go about their appointed business. The next morning Proxmire followed with a keynote speech which warned of impending consequences if the Peter Cronin photo Bullish on Mondale New York’s float boasted showsgirls. federal deficit is not reduced. ““There’s no easy way,’’ said Proxmire. ‘‘We have to follow a tough, austere, puritanical path. We have to cut spending right across the board. We have to increase revenues and taxes.”’ Proxmire, who periodically presents his ‘““Golden Fleece” awards for waste and abuse in government spen- ding, called for cuts in defense spending and revenue shar- ing funds the government provides states and localities. He said the B-1 bomber and MX missile programs should be stopped and called for a halt to the building of expensive aircraft carriers. But though his remarks hit heavily on economic changes, Proxmire said the one issue that is of overwhelm- ing importance to Republicans and Democrats alike is “‘how to prevent a nuclear war.’’ He called for a freeze in the nuclear arms race and enhanced efforts to negotiate that freeze. Following Proxmire’s keynote, the convention delegates warmed up for the presidential nomination by concluding work on their platform. Among other things, the platform called for the elimination of the MX missile and B-1 bomber but did not call for the party to continue its sup- Peter Cronin photo WPH photo Arkansas delegates in hog heaven The corner of Bourbon and Washington Streets port for the Equal Rights Amendment. As always, the roll call of the states for the presidential nominee was the highlight as state chairmen mocked their real-life counterparts by bragging (more or less) about their states. North Dakota prided itself on being the home of Lawrence Welk, Angie Dickinson, and the MX missile while two states, California and Oregon, laid claim to being the home of the Grateful Dead (Oregon admitted it was on- ly asummer home for the rock band but insisted it alone is the country’s top breeder of llamas). Maine was home to the world’s biggest preppie store. Minnesota was home to the professional football team that can’t win the big one. Ohio was home of the Toledo Mud Hens. Nebraska was home of the college football team that should have gone for a tie in the Orange Bowl. And on and on. Too, some of the votes strayed from the three nominated candidates. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington received 12 of Illinois’ 65 votes. Hubert Humphrey’s son, Skip, and W&L politics professor Milton Colvin each got two votes while John Glenn and George McGovern got one each. The first ballot victory was only the second in conven- tion history. Ronald Reagan had been nominated on the 10 WPH photo WPH photo Delegates pass the time. first ballot in 1980. When it came to vice presidential nominees, the delegates let their imaginations roam. Tennis star John McEnroe, former auto maker John Z. DeLorean and TV magnate Ted Turner were named on petitions for the post but never had their names placed in nomination. Scattered votes for the vice presidential nominee went to University of Oklahoma basketball star Wayman Tisdale, rock singer Jimmy Buffet, writer Hunter S. Thompson, Gumby, and Larry (Bud) Melman, a frequent guest on the David Letterman television show. Perhaps the biggest disappointment for convention organizers was that they were unable to get a telephone hookup with Mondale for a live acceptance speech. In- stead, Mondale’s director of delegate selection, Tad Devine, addressed the convention by phone from Washington. Said Devine: ‘“‘Today America has everything to build on for the future except the leadership to take us there.’’ Mondale was on the campaign trail in Southern California. He could have relaxed. Considering the W&L Mock Convention’s record, Mondale’s nomination is in the bag. WPH photo by Charles McDowell Anyway, The Parade Matters The following column by Charles McDowell, ’48, ap- peared in the May 13, 1984, editions of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and is reprinted here by permission. WASHINGTON—Friday morning in Lexington, the students of Washington and Lee University staged the parade down Main Street that is the traditional prelude to their mock political convention. It isa mock parade, to tell the truth, and that is its charm. The parade mocks Pasadena and pretentious state pride and themes of college life, and, sometimes, presidential politics. For years now, while the Mock Convention was achiev- ing a national reputation as a political forecaster, I gradually have become more and more a fan of the parade. It, too, gives insights into trends. Although the trends may be parochial, Lexington is my hometown and W&L is my col- lege. Nice, small-scale trends in a familiar, sentimental con- text are good for the perspective of a Washington correspondent. So, some observations on the parade opening W&L's Mock Democratic National Convention of 1984: 1. There are still a lot of tractors and hay wagons in Rockbridge County, and college-farm relations are such that the vehicles are available for floats. 2. There are still at least two donkeys in Rockbridge County. 3. Coors beer is making a major drive against Budweiser. Coors displays were visible on several floats, especially the Colorado float where the beer, not Gary Hart, was the heroic theme. 4. Among these students, the leading issue in the world, whatever the platform committee thinks, is coeducation at W&L. Float after float carried signs opposing the admis- sion of women as undergraduates. (A student’s mother, visiting from New York: “I will never understand Southern gentlemen.’’) 5. These students easily control their enthusiasm for the Democratic candidate for president. Richard Nixon, though parodied, was a subject of more interest. Although I had to leave Lexington before the convention itself began, Dale Eisman of the Times-Dispatch was there, and he caught the tone fast. The mock delegates cheered at odds times. They cheered the name of President Reagan when it was mentioned by Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat who was a non-mock, in-person speaker. They cheered the mayor who forthrightly welcomed the delegates as “fellow Republicans who are weekend Democrats.”’ None of this meant the student-delegates would not argue and vote like Democrats at the convention. The pains they take for authenticity are impressive. State by state, the students are immersed in political reality and often are in touch up to the final vote with party leaders and political seers. Because they are serious about reflecting the real world, the mock delegates were fated to nominate Walter Mondale, and did so narrowly. W&L's record is good. Twelve out of 17 times since the Mock Conventions began early in the century, the students have correctly forecast the nominee of the party out of power. Since 1948, the students are 8 for 9. The problem is—and I am just churlish enough to bring it up—that there is a question about the relevancy of mock conventions at a time when the party conventions themselves are becoming mock. Conventions in recent years have had little to do with nominating presidential can- didates beyond certifying the results of the sequence of primaries and caucuses that goes before. The point is, we have evolved a new system of nominating presidential candidates. It is still possible, of course, that a convention could come down to the old tac- tics of withheld commitments, shifting alliances, and the balancing of interests through negotiation and compromise. Conceivably it could happen at the Democratic conven- tion this year. But since 1952, the outcome of most conven- tions has been clear before they started. Maybe my concern about relevancy is stuffy and misses the point besides. Maybe the value of mock conventions is in what the participants learn of politics and procedure, and in the enthusiasm they seem to develop for it. Or W&L's mis- sion might be to preserve the convention as a fine antique while the real parties abandon it. Anyway, the parade matters. New Jersey: ‘The Toll Booth State.’’ Indiana: “Home of the Baltimore Colts.”’ Virgin Islands: “‘Virgins Against Coeducation.’’ 11 by Jeffery G. Hanna A King of the Skies Record-setting Balloonist Crosses the Andes (and the Colonnade) The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful balloon. It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon. Up-Up and Away As far as he can remember, Kingswood Sprott Jr. had never even seen a photograph of a hot-air balloon, let alone the real thing, until that fateful morning in 1970. A prominent lawyer in Lakeland, Fla., Sprott was thumb- ing through the Sunday paper when he came to Parade magazine and spied a half-dozen hot-air balloons floating majestically on the magazine’s cover. It was an inspiring sight. And Sprott was suitably inspired. “T had thought for some time that there was something I ought to be doing. I just couldn’t put my finger on just what it was,”’ says Sprott. ‘Then I saw those balloons and knew immediately that this was it.’’ 12 Six months later Sprott was the only licensed hot air balloon pilot in the Southeast. By 1975 he had set three world altitude records in balloons. In 1978 he completed the first—and probably last—balloon crossing of the Andes Mountains. Along the way he won world ballooning’s major award and got his name inscribed on the hallowed pages of the Guinness Book of World Records, right there amid cita- tions for underwater violin playing and hammock swim- ming. Clearly, he found what it was he was supposed to be doing. Explains Sprott: “Some people like to fish. Personally, fishing bores me. I like to fly balloons.’’ * * * King Sprott received his bachelor’s degree from W&L with a history major in 1956. He then went on to earn his W&L law degree in 1959. In those seven years, he never seemed destined for a life of high adventure. “Nothing I did at W&L would have suggested that I’d get involved in something like hot-air ballooning,’’ Sprott says. “I did Sigma Nu. And between semesters in my se- cond year of law school I went into the Army paratroopers, which I thought was pretty heroic at the time. But if I had a pioneering spirit, it was undiscovered back then.’’ Then he spied the photo of those hot-air balloons, and things were never the same. His devotion to the practice of law never wavered. (“The law,’’ says Sprott, ‘“‘is a stern taskmaster.’’) But his devotion to his chosen avocation is nearly as strong. That is evident the moment you enter Sprott’s rambling ranch-style house on top of Hunter’s Hill outside Lex- ington. The house is literally filled with balloons. There are paintings of balloons and prints of balloons and sculptures of balloons. There are even balloons on the coffee cups. Outside, a spring thunderstorm is in progress. Not a day for flying balloons. No matter, Sprott simply leans back in his chair, plops his feet on the coffee table, and takes an earthbound visitor on a few memorable trips through the clouds. Like the time he came crashing down on the pitcher’s mound of a Little League baseball diamond in Palmetto, Fla. Or the time the top of his balloon popped halfway out at 5,000 feet. Or the time his balloon was caught in a sud- den wind sheer over the Andes. As he relates these adventures, Sprott punctuates the tales with bursts of hearty laughter. The more harrowing the experience, the heartier the laugh. Then, no doubt noticing a combination of incredulity and terror in his visitor’s eyes, Sprott pauses for a paren- theses: “You understand now that you have to go out of your way to hurt yourself flying a balloon. It really is quite safe. “All you do is inflate the balloon, making sure you don’t set it on fire in the process, hop in the basket, hit a few blasts on the burner, and let the wind take over,’’ he says. ““There is nothing magical about it.”’ That isn’t quite true. Actually, there is something quite magical about standing in a basket and riding the wind. It is manned flight in its purest—and oldest—form. The ex- perience is at once indescribably exhilarating and uncom- monly serene. Not that Sprott would ever describe it that way. His description is far less complicated. “It’s fun,’’ he says. And for him, that’s enough. “If I stopped to analyze why it’s so much fun, it pro- Sprott prepares the balloon. Imeson (left) and Joe Sprott lend King a hand. Firing up the burners 13 King of the Skies bably wouldn’t be as much fun. That would be like going into psychoanalysis to find something that’s wrong with you. This may be something that’s wrong with me that I don’t want to find out.”’ * * * Sprott’s protests to the contrary, there is much to learn about piloting a hot-air balloon. For starters, you must learn how to inflate the balloon, first blowing cold air into the envelope, which consists of about 1,000 square yards of material, by using a gasoline- driven inflator fan. Next you move the basket with propane-fueled burners on top of it into the mouth of the balloon. Once the basket is in position and the burner is turned on, heat from the burner increases the temperature of the.air inside the balloon. (The temperature of the air in- side an ascending balloon is about 200 degrees Farenheit.) Hot air rises. With it, goes balloon, basket, and balloonists. Once airborne, a balloonist’s primary challenge is to fly the balloon level, a talent that comes only with experience. The best way to learn how to fly level is to keep the balloon at treetop height, says Sprott. ‘That way you’re crashing into and out of the tops of trees. You can actually see and feel whether the balloon is level. As the balloon cools, it reaches its equilibrium at a certain temperature and will float along dead level for only a moment or two before it becomes too cool and begins to descend. Then you heat it. It will be at equilibrium for another moment or two. Then it will get a little hotter and begin to rise.”’ Flying a balloon level involves more than mere aesthetics. 14 Sprott sports his famous ‘‘Look of eagles’’ expression at the end of a successful flight. ‘Lots of times you don’t have any options where you’re going to land,’’ Sprott explains. “There are power lines on the ground that cannot be moved for your convenience. When you’re flying with 10,000-volt lines in front of you and you want to fly no higher than five feet above those lines and drop on the far side of them to land, you don’t want to be wondering whether you'll be too low or too high when you cross those lines. That’s when you need to be able to keep the balloon level.’ Though a balloonist can control the ups and downs, the “thither and yon,’’ as Sprott calls it, is another matter. Mostly, you go where the wind wants you to go. Since wind direction varies at different altitudes, an experienced aeronaut (a-high-falutin’ name for a balloon pilot) can alter the balloon’s direction by taking it up or down to find an agreeable wind. *““But you have to resolve yourself to the fact that ballooning is the most intractable form of flight there is. You don’t have a steering wheel you can turn and make a sharp left turn,’’ says Sprott. “That bothers anyone who has flown an airplane and gets in a balloon basket with no controls or switches or dials. I figured everybody flew the way I fly—by standing up in a basket and looking around at the world and not being able to control where you went.”’ * * * One of the first things King Sprott discovered about hot-air ballooning was that you can’t keep your hobby a secret for long. Nobody can ignore the sight of a hot-air balloon overhead. Heads turn. Necks crane. It’s a natural phenomenon. Add to that the fact that when Sprott started Heating up for the takeoff few people in central Florida had ever seen a hot-air balloon in flight. “‘The first two or three years were wild,’’ Sprott recalls. “TI couldn’t take off in my balloon without a parade form- ing behind me. Hundreds of cars would line up on the street and follow me. Kids on bicycles would ride off and never be heard from again. It was worse than the pied piper.’’ And since they are so hard to ignore, hot-air balloons are better than the classifieds when it comes to advertising. Had he so desired, Sprott probably could have quit his law practice and earned a decent living by helping shopping centers open and giving rides at firemen’s bazaars. Truth is, he did use his balloon for one unforgettable advertising jaunt when a friend asked him to buzz the University of Florida’s football stadium one Saturday afternoon. “My friend had a construction business and was a big Florida Gator fan,’’ Sprott says. ““The idea was for me to fly over the field with some banners advertising the con- struction company. ‘‘When the band started the National Anthem, I took off from a parking lot at one end of the field. I flew into the stadium, dipped down to a few feet above the band, dropped a huge banner that read ‘Go Gators,’ and flew up over the scoreboard and out of the stadium. My friend got his money’s worth.’’ And within a matter of days the Federal Aviation Ad- ministration had issued a new rule specifically banning such flights. Sprott says his high-flying adventures had little effect on his law practice. He never saw fit to fly over Lakeland with banners reading: ‘“‘See King Sprott for your legal work.’’ “I did primarily litigation work and mostly represented insurance companies, which didn’t care one whit about what I did,’’ Sprott says. “I was well known because of the ballooning. Every newspaper article would start off, ‘Pro- minent Lakeland attorney . . . today flew across the Andes, today crashed into power lines, today was seen disappear- ing into a lake.’ My fellow attorneys routinely referred to me as ‘prominent Lakeland attorney.’ ”’ Sprott had been piloting hot-air balloons about five years when he started seeing how high he could fly. He set world records in three different categories of balloons. The most publicized of those records was 38,789 feet in an AX-8 balloon, which has a maximum size of 105,000 cubic feet as opposed to the more standard AX-7 balloon with its max- imum size of 77,000 cubic feet. It was that record-setting flight in 1975 that earned Sprott the Montgolfier Diploma from the World Congress of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. That award is the highest honor attainable in world ballooning. It was also that flight that got Sprott in the Guinness Book of World Records for the record altitude in an open basket. That record stood until 1979 when Chauncey Dunn flew 53,000 feet. Dunn’s record had an asterisk in that he wore a pressure suit. Sprott merely took along a tank of oxygen on his flight. “But Chauncey can have the record,’’ Sprott says. “‘It’s safe—from me, at least.’ Bored with seeing how high he could fly without any particular destination in mind, Sprott began looking for new challenges in 1976. He decided to fly a balloon over the Himalayas. That idea was scrubbed when he couldn’t get permission from the Chinese government. Then he decided to fly over Mount McKinley in Alaska but scrubbed that idea when he realized there was no place to fly to. (“You eventually have got to come down, and it’s nice to be near civilization.’’) 15 King of the Skies Eventually he settled on the Andes Mountains. In retrospect, he would probably have done better to scrub the entire project. The adventure began sedately enough in 1976 with let- ters of inquiry to the Argentine and Chile authorities. That was the start of two years of planning which culminated on January 27, 1978, when Sprott and partner Bill Spohrer of Miami launched their specially-made yellow-and-white balloon, Condor, from near Rio Blanco, Chile. Their destination was the Argentinian village of Tupungato 75 miles away. The crossing took three hours. Sprott still remembers them as the longest three hours of his life. From the very moment the balloon lifted off, he knew it was to be a memorable ride. “‘The turbulence going out of the valley was such that it was clear in my mind the balloon would be destroyed at any second,’’ Sprott says, warming to the tale he clearly relishes telling. “It was unbelievable what we went through until we got to the last highest point above the valley where we hit one final wind sheer, which turned the balloon absolutely horizontal. The basket swung out, the burners were on full blast, and the flame shot halfway up the side of the balloon. “I would have given everything I had in the world to have turned around and gone right back down where we came from.”’ No such detour was readily available. And the worst was yet to come. With the balloon at about 22,000 feet—the height of the Andes peak Condor was to cross—the burners stopped abruptly. No heat. No hot air. No more ascent. ‘““We began to lose altitude and were headed straight for one of the most unfriendly looking stone faces you can im- agine,’’ says Sprott. ‘‘I doubt the face of the moon looks as unfriendly as that spot in the Andes looked to us.’’ At about 18,000 feet as the balloon headed toward the rock wall at about 75 miles an hour, Sprott turned the burners all the way off, then back on again. The flame flickered and reappeared as abruptly and mysteriously as it had disap- peared. Later, Sprott realized he had purchased adulterated propane in Chile. Water in the propane had frozen in the valves at the altitude. Turning the burner off and on had Squeezed the ice out of the valve. ‘*The experience proved one thing: it is possible to sweat at 22,000 feet. I had to unzip my jumpsuit I was sweating so much. One other thing this showed me was that nobody in their right mind would try to fly a balloon over the Andes.”’ Though the Andes flight was undoubtedly the most harrowing, Sprott ticks off dozens of less glamorous adven- tures. Getting caught in some power lines in Palmetto, Fla., is one of his favorites. On that occasion, he was trying to 16 Floating toward the Warner Athletic Center extricate the balloon by blasting the burners when suddenly the power line snapped and the balloon shot skyward as if launched by rockets. “T headed straight for Tampa Bay but knew I didn’t have enough fuel on board to cross the Bay and had no in- tention of getting wet,’’ Sprott says. “So I popped the top out of the balloon and went crashing earthward, coming to rest on the pitcher’s mound of a Little League baseball field, which was fortunately not in use. “As I was surveying the situation, a man drove his car onto the field, jumped out and exclaimed, ‘That was the greatest show I’ve ever seen.’ I told him I was glad he’d en- joyed it. Then he went back to his car, reappeared with a jar of Smucker’s preserves, presented the jar to me, and then drove off again. I figured I had earned those preserves.”’ * * * Sprott may not have learned about hot-air ballooning while a W&L student. But his background as a history ma- Peter Cronin photo jor (“Bill Jenks was the reason I majored in history,’’ he says) stood him in good stead as he got more and more in- volved with his avocation. “You can’t get involved in ballooning without becoming very interested in its history. After all, it was the first form of flight man ever practiced,’’ Sprott says. His studies led him to believe that, contrary to the history books, the first hot-air balloon flight did not occur on November 21, 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers launched a balloon over Paris with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in attendance. “‘Hot-air ballooning probably started in South America, perhaps hundreds of years before it was ever known in France,’’ says Sprott. ‘“You can go to Chile and Peru, particularly the latter, and find all kinds of ar- chaeological evidence that makes it clear hot-air balloons were flown there. ‘“‘There is no question that hot-air balloons were demonstrated in the courts of Spain long before 1783 by a Catholic monk, who had been in South America and came back with a hot-air balloon and demonstrated models of it in the Spanish court.”’ By about 1980, 10 years after he’d been inspired by the Parade magazine cover, King Sprott had lost some of his early enthusiasm for ballooning. No doubt that was partly due to how much he had already done. After you’ve ballooned over the Andes, House Mountain can seem pretty tame. Too, the sport had blossomed in the 10 years since he began. Some of the novelty was gone. “One thing that drew me to it was that it was such an uncommon thing,’’ says Sprott. ‘‘I had the only hot-air balloon in the Southeastern United States for about three years and taught most of the balloonists in that area how to fly. ‘There was an intimate cameraderie to the sport since all the balloonists in the country knew each other. Now it’s not so uncommon.”’ Sprott has packed up his balloon for good, however. In 1982 he moved back to Lexington and recently opened a law office. Since his late wife was from Lexington, Sprott had been a frequent visitor to the area and often brought his balloon to give his Lexington friends a ride. One of those friends—W&L chemistry professor and computer center director Tom Imeson—had missed out on all the balloon rides. A city councilman, Imeson had allegedly threatened to ban hot-air balloons over Lexington unless Sprott took him up. So it was that early on a chilly April morning Sprott in- flated his multi-colored balloon with the yellow crown on top (for King, of course) on W&L’s Front Campus. The passengers were Imeson (clearly a political payoff) and Back to earth near Liberty Hall Wrapping things up Mrs. Dorothy Swink (a belated 60th birthday present). In effect, it amounted to a W&L history major return- ing to give a W&L chemistry professor a demonstration in physics. For as they launched the balloon that morning, Sprott turned to the small crowd which had gathered and announced: “I will now show Dr. Imeson that Archimedes’ principle works.’’ With that, the balloon lifted off, glided effortlessly toward the Colonnade, and cleared the top of Newcomb Hall by a few scant feet. “I kept warning King that we were going to hit Newcomb,’’ Imeson insisted later. ““He told me to worry about my computers, that he’d worry about flying the balloon.’’ The short flight ended 45 minutes later near Liberty Hall. The balloon never got higher than 200 feet—more than 38,000 feet lower than Sprott once flew. And clearing Newcomb Hall was not exciting as the Andes. Then again, it met King Sprott’s sole criterion for a suc- cessful balloon ride. It was fun. 17 Peter Cronin photo In a small back room, upstairs from the law office of his friend and partner Tommy Spencer, Don Baker, ’68, contemplates his bright dream. The room is the office of Lime Kiln Arts, Inc. In its cramped space are two desks, littered with drawings, ledger sheets, and correspondence. On the walls, newspaper clippings hang among survey maps of the old lime kiln area just west of Lexington. In a corner of the room sits a plaster-of- Paris model of the Lime Kiln project: miniature dairy cattle graze on the painted hills above an open air theater, whose gaily colored seats fan out from a multi-tiered stage carved from the ancient rock ruin of the old lime kiln. There, under the twig and crepe paper trees, a single tiny plastic figure rehearses, with arms outstretched, his minor soliloquy. It is enough in itself for happy meditation. But Baker is no idle dreamer. The Lime Kiln Theater Project is well on its way toward a full scale realization. The dream is of midsummer nights and theater lights, of a regional theater here in Rockbridge Coun- ty that will draw performers and audiences to Lexington from all parts of the Eastern and Southern United States—from New York City, Appalachia, Baltimore, and Baton Rouge. A dream of Shakespeare under the stars, music, festivals, and tall tales. And it’s coming true. Baker himself wonders why no one has thought of it before. Lexington, he shrugs, is the perfect place—a major cross roads for interstate tourist traffic, an incomparably beautiful area, and a population with a sense of history and an interest in the arts. Baker pushes back from his desk, an un- comfortable place for a man just itching to go out and pace again the rough ground of his future home. “Already we’ve raised 75 percent of our first year’s budget, which we've set at $125,000. Most of it from private donations.’’ Baker is heartened by the response of “the local folks” to Lime Kiln Arts. But he credits much of the project’s fundraising success to his partner, Tommy Spencer, ’69, a scrappy, street-wise Lexington lawyer who’s been hammering away at small obstacles, local resources, and big donors with the cool persistence of a prizefighter. “Without Tommy making things happen,”’ Baker allows in his easy, Wise County Virginia drawl, “this never would have got- ten off the ground.’’ kk In a sense, it all began a long time ago when Baker was a fine arts major at W&L. by Robert Fure Chasing A Bright Dream Don Baker, ’68 In the summer of 1967, Baker spent his vacation in town co-directing and starring in a memorable production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The location was the ruins of the old lime kiln. Tommy Spencer had a small part and handled the lighting. The play was a smash hit, nobody wanted it to end, and neither Spencer nor Baker ever quite got over the magic of the event. The lime kiln itself, with its quaint haunts, was the deepest source of enchantment. During his final year at W&L, Baker won several awards in acting, directing, and set design. But after graduation, he moved abruptly to the more mundane world of educational counseling in Washington, D.C. Two years later, missing the mountains, he went back home to Southwestern Virginia, where he continued his career in education and pursued a new interest in home construction. Baker’s career as a teacher-builder took him occasionally over the mountains into Kentucky. It was in 1973, in Whitesburg, Ky., that Baker discovered Appalshop—or, perhaps, that Appalshop discovered him. Appalshop had begun in 1969 as a non- profit media arts corporation set up by the Office of Economic Opportunity and the American Film Institute to teach young mountain people how to use the media to tell their own stories. Baker was a born storyteller with some valuable dramatic ex- perience and a knack for working with young people. Within Appalshop, Baker became Foun- ding Project Director for Roadside Theater, a traveling repertory theater that he in effect raised by hand. The purpose. of the project was not merely to provide a theater in the mountains but to determine what kind of theater “made sense” for the Southern Ap- palachians. Drawing on the theatrical heritage inherent in Appalachian culture— church services, music, and storytelling— Roadside Theater developed a repertoire based on tales unique to the region. Working first with a group of CETA student volunteers and later with an old W&L chum, Dudley Cocke, 68, Baker researched and co-authored Roadside’s first full-length original stage production, Red Fox/Second Hangin. He then directed and performed in the production, taking the tale of the legendary Doc Taylor (Red Fox) to college campuses, coal camps, mountain towns, state prisons, the Smithsonian Folklife Bicentennial Festival, all the way to off-Broadway in New York. Now PBS wants it for American Playhouse. By 1980, other Roadside productions had followed with tours, workshops, films, record albums, and the inevitable exhaus- tion of life on the road. Wishing to spend more time with his wife and two children, Baker began to look for other projects within Appalshop. Eventually, he found one in a seven part film series on the history of Appalachia. Working first as researcher and scriptwriter, and then as director for the Appalshop project, Baker was on the road again, reading, interviewing, writing, shooting film, and negotiating contracts. To date, one film has been completed, another is in production, and a third has just been written. By popular demand, Baker has continued to go out with Red Fox/Second Hangin, which recently played in Las Vegas. In the meantime, between writing and act- ing, he has overseen Appalshop’s comple- tion of its new million-dollar Media Center. He is not looking for work, but Baker himself is one who makes things happen. Though quiet and unassuming, his presence in Lexington these days is vital to the Lime 18 Proposed Lime Kiln Theater site Kiln Arts Project. His record speaks for itself, but he has to take it up and down the streets of town. KK * Baker leans back in his Naugahyde chair. There’s a certain lanky, Appalachian gauntness to his rugged good looks. His mellow voice winds slowly through his nar- rative, told in such a way that suggests a hankering to be whittling on something. “On one trip through Lexington about three years ago, I got together with Tommy and said, ‘You know, Tommy, we really ought to go ahead and develop that lime kiln theater idea.’ Then a while later Tommy got to talking with Brewster Ford [the late VMI English professor who own- ed the site], and we got permission to use the land. We’ve been working on it ever since.”’ Baker clasps his hands behind his head. “T just know it’s going to work?’ His deep- set blue eyes settle on a level conviction. Then he sidles over to some wishes. Fundamental to his plans for a regional theater would be a rotating, non-equity (non-union) performing company. Regional talent would join nationally prominent per- formers in bringing folklore and flavor of Southern Appalachia to the stage. “Most equity theater today is a funnel to New York. There is a movement toward regional theater these days, but most of the actors and the productions are still trying to get to New York. I’m not much inclined to that. I like my home, and I’m interested in creating a kind of eyeball-to-eyeball theater with ac- tors who know where they are. ““Theater,’’ Baker says, ‘‘always has to come from a local place.’’ His long arms sweep out in a slow, incorporating gesture. “‘The land and the people of a region are deeply woven into its culture, and its drama ought to reflect that. Now theater in New York is great regional theater, but it reflects New York, not the rest of the country. We want to stay at home and do good work so that people will come to discover what’s here. For the actors we want to create a sort of summer camp, a place where people who are doing good work in a lot of other areas can come together and work for new audiences.’’ The word “work” comes to Baker’s lips Nancy Spencer photo easily and often—like he was a coal miner and what else was there? kKK* Lime Kiln Arts’ first production will be Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. The play has a scene that could in fact introduce Don Baker and his ambitious project. Belarius, a British lord banished by King Cymbeline, praises the country life to the captive au- dience of Cymbeline’s sons. But Belarius’ praise is mainly an indictment of the city’s “usuries,’” “‘toil,’’ and “‘censure.’’ What Belarius loves he can hardly articulate. This rock and these demesnes have been my world | Where I have lived at honest freedom, paid More pious debts to Heaven than in all The fore-end of my time. (III, iii, 70-73) The old lime kiln, with its rough-hewn rocks, comes to mind, along with Baker’s attachment to his country origins and the gentle independence of his entrepreneurial mission. But why Cymbeline? Baker rises to the question: “Yes, well, one of the things I love about Shakespeare is that he wrote for the rabble as well as for the Queen. Cymbeline has, you might say, a strong town/country motif, and, it’s a play that Shakespeare put everything into, every trick he knew. And it’s a good tale. “We're going to set it in 1984 just outside Lexington,” he smiles, “even though Shakespeare put it in Britain in the second century. We'll add to and subtract from the text, maybe do about an hour and a half of Shakespeare’s words and forty-five minutes of our own. It’s a lesser known play, so we can fiddle around with it without upsetting too many people. Mainly, we’re going to tell the tale, and try to do it the way Shakespeare would have if he were living to- day in Rockbridge County. “You know, scholars say that one of the few places left in the world where you can still hear Elizabethan dialect and speech patterns is the Southern Appalachians.’’ Baker twists his mouth to demonstrate a few pronunciations. Baker has a cast of 14 set for the late August production. He promises to write the script as soon as he figures out where to find housing for his company. Shakespeare of the Globe Theater had to do the same and stayed up late. Baker stretches and rubs his eyes. A mo- ment later, Tommy Spencer appears, hands in his pockets, jingling his change. The phone rings twice. Baker puts his feet on the floor, and the good day’s work resumes. 19 Spring Reunions Three Receive Distinguished Alumni Awards A free film, an entertaining and in- sightful examination of the current political process, two alumni victories and a tie, a Mock Convention, and gorgeous spring weather were the highlights of the 1984 Spring Alumni Reunions at Washington and Lee. More than 500 alumni and their families returned to Lexington for the three days of activities, which were held concurrently with the 1984 Mock Democratic Convention. In addition to the standard reunion fare, including banquets for 10 reunion classes, the weekend saw special recognition paid to three alumni—Texas District Court Judge Charles Edward Long Jr., ’32, of Dallas, newspaper publisher John Martin Jones III, ’37, of Greeneville, Tenn., and insurance company executive Elbert E. Hall, ’31, of Abilene, Texas—who were recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards. The weekend began with a keynote ad- dress by Richmond Times-Dispatch colum- nist Charles McDowell, ’48, who entertain- ed the full house in Lee Chapel with anec- dotes of his W&L days and provided in- teresting observations on the changing nature of the political process. McDowell, who has covered each na- tional political convention since 1952, told his fellow alumni that television has ushered in a new age of politics in which political parties and conventions have become ob- solete while primaries and political action groups have blossomed. “I don’t believe it’s an overstatement to say that television has become the medium of our politics?’ said McDowell. “‘That’s where politics occurs, where it is played. “It’s deeper changes involve our whole perception of candidates, our perception of what is a candidate, our perception of what is a good candidate, our perception of issues and which issues matter. Indeed, I think the deeper meaning of television is that it has changed the very system by which we select presidents?’ McDowell’s comments set the tone for the weekend during which many alumni took advantage of the timing to attend the convention in Warner Center. While everyone had an opportunity to look in on the convention, one reunion class 20 President Wilson went to the movies—for free. Upon his return to Lexington to his re- union, Hollywood producer Paul Maslan- sky, ’54, discovered that his latest film, Police Academy, was playing at the State Theatre. So on Friday night after the Reunion Ball Maslansky invited the 40 members of his reunion class and their spouses to a special showing of his film. Maslansky and his entourage presented themselves at the State Theatre box office shortly before 11 p.m. After satisfying a skeptical ticket seller by producing an ID to show that he was, indeed, Paul Maslansky, executive producer of the movie, he bought out the theatre for a special, unscheduled screening. And as an added treat, Maslansky bought the popcorn—for everyone! The annual meeting of the W&L Alum- ni Association was held on Saturday. Washington and Lee President John D. Wilson reported on the state of the University. In his remarks Wilson referred to numerous changes at the University, in- cluding a new curriculum which will be in- stituted in the fall, and contemplated changes—a “rethinking” of the University’s Charley McDowell residential housing patterns and plans for a new theatre. Wilson mentioned the Board of Trustee’s current study of coeducation in the undergraduate divisions, noting that “nothing we are likely to contemplate would reach into so many corners of our lives here as would such a change in our admissions policy. The difficult thing is that we cannot see clearly all of those implications. “This means, more than ever, that we must trust each other as best we can to ad- vance the judgment, employ the experience and intelligence available to us to assist the Board of Trustees as they make the decision they believe will serve the University best?’ Added Wilson: “I pledge to you I will follow your own good example to the best of my ability and will speak with candor and listen with patience as together we con- sider what the real content of the Washington and Lee experience is and con- sider, too, how that content can be strengthened and reaffirmed in years ahead?’ Wilson told the alumni gathering that the University’s “heritage of quality” is its most precious possession. “I vow to you and I ask you to vow as well to do everything in our power to secure that reputation in the difficult years ahead?’ he added. The annual Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented at the Saturday meeting to three deserving recipients. Long is a Dallas native who was ap- pointed judge of the 134th District Court in Texas in 1953 and held that position 24 years, the longest tenure of any full-time judge in the Dallas City Courthouse. Jones is president of the Greeneville Publishing Company and publisher of the Greeneville Sun. He is co-owner of the Sun, the Daily Post-Athenian in Athens, Tenn., and six other newspapers. Hall is a partner in the Abilene in- surance firm of Perry-Hunter-Hall. He was elected mayor of Abilene in 1981 and has been named Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Abilene Chamber of Commerce. DStinguished Alumni Awards were presented to (from left) Judge Charles Edward Long Jr. of Dallas, Elbert E. Hall of Abilene, Texas, and John Martin Jones of Greeneville, Tenn. The new officers of the Alumni Board were also announced at the meeting. Charles D. Hurt, ’59, of Atlanta, a partner with the Atlanta law firm of Hurt, Richard- son, Garner, Todd & Cadenhead, was elected president, succeeding Peter A. Agelasto III, ’62, of Norfolk. James W. McClintock III, ’53, of Tunica, Miss., is the vice president while Oliver M. Mendell, ’50, of New York City is treasurer. The W&L Law School Association also held its annual meeting during the weekend and installed new officers. Robert G. McCullough, ’S8L, of the Nashville law firm of Waller, Lansden, Dortch and Davis, is the Law Council president, succeeding Raymond W. Haman, ’52L, of Seattle, Wash. Virginia Supreme Court Justice Alex- ander M. Harman, ’44L, of Pulaski is the new vice president. Three new members were elected to the . ini — Law School Association’s council. They are: | Mary Kay Depoy Harris, ’78, of Chicago; Richard M. Preston, ’76, of Washington, D.C.; and, Judge Norman C. Roettger Jr., ’58, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Just to prove that they were anything but over the hill, several alumni participated in Alumni-Varsity games in lacrosse, baseball, and soccer. More than just participating, the returning grads taught their younger counterparts a thing or two. Led by the outstanding goalkeeping of Jim Lewis, 58, and Bobby Clements, ’74, along with the offensive work of Skip Lichtfuss, ’74, the alumni lacrosse team came from a 10-4 deficit in the second half to score a 11-10 victory. On the baseball diamond, the alumni teamed with graduating seniors to win a lopsided 17-9 victory over the varsity while a , : : : 1 : a hed in a 2-2 . dlock New Law School Association President Robert G. McCullough, ’58L, is flanked by law dean and former le oe a shes ene ° presidents. From left, law school dean Frederic L. Kirgis Jr.; Alexander M. Harman Jr., ’44L; with the current varsity squad. McCullough; Raymond W. Haman, ’52L, immediate past president; and, William F. Ford, ’61L. 21 Soe ee i as gps ae Fe Sos ane PE EEE = — ee fe ee is iy ae oapice Be pe Wi. & Gazette Fatal fire at Phi Gamma Delta A Washington and Lee sophomore, Thomas J. Fellin of Weston, Pa., was killed April 11 in a pre-dawn fire which destroyed the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. The fatal fire occurred during the University’s spring vacation. Fellin was the only occupant of the house at the time. Another student, third-year law student James H. Forte, was sleeping in an annex (formerly the housemother’s quarters) to the three-story stone structure but was unharmed. Law school was not on vacation at the time. On May 15, Lexington Police Chief L. O. Sutton announced that an investigation had determined the fire had been caused by arson. Sutton said the investigation was continuing ‘‘in several directions.’’ Fellin was a member of the varsity baseball team and had remained in Lex- ington over the break since the Generals had several baseball games scheduled for the week. The team had played a game at Virginia Wesleyan on Tuesday, April 10, and had returned to Lexington shortly after midnight. _ Thirteen students had been living in the house when classes were in session. The University assisted fraternity members in finding living quarters when they returned from the spring vacation. The cause of the fire was still under investigation. Lexington Fire Chief Keith Irvine said that the building was “a total loss” and estimated damage at at least $200,000. The fire was discovered at 4:45 a.m. when Michael Allen, a sophomore who lives in the Sigma Phi Epsilon house next door heard crashing noises and went to in- vestigate. He turned in the alarm, which was answered by five fire trucks and about 40 volunteer firefighters, including units from Buena Vista. According to Lewis G. John, dean of students, smoke detectors are required on each floor of all W&L’s fraternity houses. Fraternities must complete monthly inspec- tion sheets of the fire safety equipment. The last completed sheet for Phi Gamma Delta was dated April 2, nine days before the fire. 24 Student Dies in Fire; Davis Foundation Grant Tom Fellin The house was insured for $385,000, ac- cording to Richard B. Sessoms, director of alumni programs at W&L and faculty ad- visor to the fraternity. The University does not own the house or the land. Fellin had planned to major in English. An honor roll student, he was one of the University’s two nominees this year for Truman Scholarships. He had been elected to Phi Eta Sigma, the national fraternity recognizing academic achievement by freshmen. He was co-chairman of the Penn- sylvania delegation for the Mock Convention. The W&L Alpha Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa awarded its Rupert N. Latture Sophomore Award to Fellin posthumously in May. National Endowment for the Humanities. With the addition of the Davis Foundations grant, Washington and Lee has raised $600,000 to meet the NEH challenge and thereby qualify for $200,000 from the NEH. “With this generous gift, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations have enabled us to meet our challenge and to establish a per- manent endowment for one of the most distinctive teaching programs at Washington and Lee,’’ said W&L President John D. Wilson. “Society and the Professions” was established at W&L in 1974. It is designed to integrate more effectively the liberal arts curriculum with specific pre-professional education in business, journalism, law, and medicine by making the pre-professional undergraduates more aware of the humanistic divisions of the professions they seek to enter. The three Arthur Vining Davis Founda- tions were established by the late Arthur Vining Davis, who was chairman c ‘anda major stockholder in Alcoa. Hedi ‘in — 1962. A $100 million grant from his estate established the foundations. The Davis Foundations make gifts in support of private higher education, hospice, medicine, theological seminaries, and national public television programs. The grant from the Davis Foundations enables Washington and Lee to meet its challenge from NEH which was to be com- pleted by May 1, 1984. Miss Ruth Parmly dies WEL receives grant from Davis Foundations Washington and Lee has received a $75,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations of Jacksonville, Fla., to assist in establishing an $800,000 endowment for the University’s program in applied ethics, “Society and the Professions.”’ The $75,000 from the Davis Founda- tions completes a challenge grant from the Miss Ruth Parmly, one of Washington and Lee’s most generous benefactors, died on May 8 in New York City. She was 81. Funeral services were held at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York on May 12. Born in New York City, Miss Parmly had no direct connection with Washington and Lee, but she wished to memoralize her father at a school that possessed the values he exemplified in his life. With that goal in mind, she made gifts totaling $2 million to the University. Those gifts were designed to maintain and strengthen Washington and Lee’s programs in the sciences with special emphasis on physics, physics-engineering, and mathematics. Miss Parmly’s father, Professor Charles Howard Parmly, was a revered teacher of physics and engineering at the College of the City of New York. The gift to the University was recogniz- ed in the naming of the building housing the biology, physics, and physics- engineering departments Parmly Hall. Miss Parmly studied at Vassar College, the Sorbonne in Paris, and Columbia University, where she specialized in 12th- century French literature and received a master’s degree in 1934. Washington and Lee awarded her an honorary doctor of humane letters degree in 1979. Assistant law dean named M. Patricia Walther, currently a staff counsel for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, has been appointed assistant dean of Washington and Lee School of Law. Walther’s appointment was announced by W&L law school dean Frederic L. Kirgis Jr., who also announced that Edward O. Henneman, assistant dean since 1981, will return to full-time teaching in the law school while also occupying a newly-created position of associate dean. According to Kirgis, Walther will con- centrate on admissions and financial aid matters with some responsibility for student counseling in her role as assistant dean. She _ will assume her duties on July 1. In the new position of associate dean, Henneman will deal with student affairs, primarily involving the interpretation and application of academic rules. “IT am delighted that we are making this appointment,’’ Kirgis said. ‘‘Pat Walther distinguished herself as a student here at Washington and Lee, and I am confident she will approach this new assignment with skill and enthusiasm. Her presence will allow Ned Henneman to return his full con- centration to the classroom while also pro- viding valuable assistance to me in other important areas.”’ Walther received the juris doctor degree from W&L in 1983. She is a 1979 graduate of Duke University. While at W&L, Walther was president of the Women Law Students’ Organization and served in the Legal Aid Society. She was on the Washington and Lee Law Review. Miss Ruth Parmly During the summer of 1982, Walther at- tended the Institute on International and Comparative Law at Oxford University. She served as an assistant clerk in the clerk’s of- fice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the sum- mer of 1981. Following her graduation from Duke in 1979, she was a reporter and editor for Commerce Clearing House, Inc., until she enrolled at the W&L law school in 1980. Henneman has been connected with Washington and Lee since 1972 when he joined the University as associate director of development and adjunct professor of law. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale and a law degree from Harvard and was associated with two New York law firms before coming to Lexington. He was named assistant professor of law in 1978 and became assistant dean in 1981. lowa professor named computer science head Theodore J. Sjoerdsma, chairman of the computer science department at the Univer- sity of lowa, has been appointed head of the new computer science department at Washington and Lee, effective September 1. Sjoerdsma, 55, will hold the rank of professor. Washington and Lee decided last fall to establish a department of computer science and to add a major in computer science beginning with the 1984-85 academic year. Computer science becomes the 31st undergraduate major at W&L. “We are quite fortunate that Dr. Sjoerd- sma has accepted this position,’’ said William J. Watt, dean of the College (of arts and sciences) at Washington and Lee. “He is a distinguished computer scientist and educator. We consider him the ideal person to develop this new major in com- puter science.”’ A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., Sjoerdsma received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Calvin College, his master’s degree in mathematics from Michigan State University, and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa. Sjoerdsma, who has been a teacher for 32 years, joined the computer science department at the University of Iowa in 1968. He has been the chairman of that department since January of 1978. Among his special interests at lowa have been the teaching of computer science as a discipline with emphasis in the undergraduate curriculum and the integra- tion of computer usage in other academic disciplines. He has written several papers on topics in computer science, including a 1978 publication entitled ‘A Liberal Arts Com- puter Science Curriculum. ’’ He has served as a consultant to several colleges and universities in the development of computer science programs. New pavilion to be built Construction is expected to begin in early June on a pavilion designed to provide students with an on-campus facility for social and recreational activities. Plans call for the building, which is ex- pected to cost between $582,000 and $677,000, to be constructed on a site in the pine woods north of Lewis Hall, about 500 feet from the Buildings and Grounds’ offices. The pavilion will be available for campus-wide social functions and will have a capacity of between 1,000 and 1,200 peo- ple. The steel-sided structure, featuring a special composition floor able to withstand potential cigarette burns, will also be available to the athletic department primarily for use as a foul-weather practice facility. The structure will be long enough to accomodate an indoor tennis court. But the primary use of the pavilion will be for social functions. The financing plan calls for $25 of the student taxes from each student for the next 25 years to be used as the student contribution to the funding of the building. When completed and available for use 25 de Gazette in the fall, the pavilion will alleviate pro- blems with providing adequate facilities for campus-wide social functions, many of which had been held in Evans Hall. Construction will be by the Bass Con- struction Co. of Richmond, which previously built the University Library and renovated McCormick Hall, Graham-Lees Dormitory, and Evans Hall. Syd Farrar, 80, honored for Grenada role First Lt. Syd Farrar, ’80, who was wounded on the Island of Grenada last Oc- tober, has been awarded The Army Com- mendation Medal for Valor. Currently serving as the aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Richard Scholtes of the Joint Special Operations Command stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., Farrar was tri-captain of Washington and Lee’s football team in 1979 and was president of the Interfraternity Council during his senior year. The citation to Farrar read “For heroism on 25 October 1983 while serving on the Island of Grenada. After securing the university and rescuing 150 American students, Lieutenant Farrar led a patrol to clear the high ground above the university from where the enemy fire was originating. He cleared the enemy’s position with an airstrike and set up an observation position on key terrain along the main road. He gave a timely report of the enemy’s direction of travel which allowed the defensive platoon seconds to prepare for the attack. Lieute- nant Farrar personally led a tank-killer par- ty which resulted in the destruction of three enemy vehicles. Lieutenant Farrar’s heroic actions are in keeping with the finest Judge Walter E. Hoffman, °31L Hudson was injured when the car in which he was riding struck a stalled vehicle. The accident occurred on Thursday, April 12. He was spending the University’s spring vacation in Florida. Hudson was the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Willard M. Hays of Lexington. Mrs. Hays is an assistant pro- fessor and reference and public services librarian at Washington and Lee. A double major in English and history, Hudson was a dean’s list student and was active in the Col- lege Republicans. A memorial service for Hudson and W&L sophomore Thomas J. Fellin was held in Lee Chapel on April 17. Hoffman, ’31L, honored Judge Walter E. Hoffman, ’31L, senior judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, has been named a re- cipient of the prestigious Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. The award is given annually to a federal judge deemed by the award committee to have contributed most to the advancement of the cause of justice. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court was given a special award. Judge Hoffman was recognized for his outstanding work in judicial administrative education and as former director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington. He was appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 and served as chief judge of the district court in the Eastern District of Virginia for 12 years, where he military traditions and reflects great credit instituted many commendable improve- upon him, the Ist Ranger Battalion and the ments. He has long been chairman of the United States Army.’”’ The citation is signed by John O. Marsh, *S1L, who is secretary of the Army. According to correspondence that Far- rar has had with Washington and Lee pro- fessors, his recovery is about 90 percent. He was recently told by a doctor who attended him in Grenada that he stopped breathing twice and that a fourth bullet was found embedded in the belt that he was wearing at the time he was shot. After learning of Farrar’s injury, the W&L football team dedicated its week of practice prior to the Catholic University game to him and later presented him with the game ball from that victory. 26 Judicial Conference Committee on Criminal Rules and has served on other conference committees. He also chairs the Metropolitan Chief Judges Conference and the Judicial Fellows Commission of the U.S. Supreme Court. Student dies in auto accident Ruben R. Hudson Jr., 21, a Washington and Lee junior from South Pittsburg, Tenn., died Saturday, April 14, in Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., as the result of injuries he sustained in an automobile accident. Law Review names editors Meredith Susan Palmer, a second-year law student at Washington and Lee Univer- — sity, has been named editor-in-chief of the Washington and Lee Law Review for the 1984-85 academic year. The Law Review is a legal periodical managed and published by the students under the auspices of the School of Law to provide a medium for scholarly discussion of important legal problems. The student editors are chosen on the basis of scholarship and aptitude for legal research and writing. Palmer is a 1982 graduate of Mary Baldwin College where she majored in political science. She is chairman of the Stu- dent Bar Association’s curriculum commit- tee and a member of Phi Alpha Delta pro- fessional fraternity. The lead articles editors will be Charles A. (Buck) Blanchard of Richmond, a graduate of the University of Colorado, and Seth C. Prager of Rockville, Md., a graduate of Western Maryland. Bradford F. Englander of Los Angeles, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara is the managing editor. Other editors selected for the 1984-85 staff were: Business editor: Anne-Marie Grande of Wethersfield, Conn., and Tufts University; Research editor: James R. Coffey of Tulsa, Okla., and Vanderbilt University; Executive editors: Jeffrey J. Giguere of Cranston, R.I., and Rollins College; Thomas C. Havens of Nesconset, N.Y., and Duke University; Douglas G. Stanford of Slidell, La., and Duke University; and, Mary E. Madigan of Santa Maria, Calif., and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Note and comment editors: Kevin J. Buckley of Camp Hill, Pa., and the Univer- sity of Notre Dame; John T. Murray of Chatham, N.J., and the University of Virginia; Stuart R. Kaplan of Laverock, Pa., and Franklin and Marshall; Bruce M. Hatrak of Arlington, Va., and the College of William and Mary; Samuel P. Thomas Jr. of Upper Marlboro, Md., and Troy State University; Richard B. Earls of Charlot- tesville, Va., and Wake Forest University; Peter B. Lewis of Bloomington, Ind., and Indiana University; Albert F. Sebok of Hudson, Ohio, and Albion College; Peter G. Zemanian of Port Jefferson, N.Y., and Colgate University; and, Jerry E. Farmer of Huntsville, Ala., and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. intriguing. The Mystic Warrior was based, in part, on the best-selling novel, Hanta Yo, by Ruth Beebe Hill. Mrs. Hill is the widow of Washington and Lee alumnus Borroughs Reid Hill, a 1931 W&L graduate who died in 1982. In honor of her husband, Mrs. Hill established the Borroughs Reid Hill Memorial Fund at Washington and Lee. Gifts totaling about $16,000 have been made to that Fund to date. Included in that $16,000 is an unusual and unexpected gift which came to the Fund in February. It was in the form of a bequest from the estate of a fullblood Santee Sioux named Chunksa Yuha who died on February 15 in Warrenton, Va., at the age of 79. As it happens, Chunksa Yuha had been the language collaborator for Hanta Yo. In that capacity, he had spent more than 10 Falwell and Tip Richard Reagan? And all of them singing and dancing? No, it wasn’t a dream. What it was was Reagan Rex, a wild and crazy political satire performed on a parade float parked in front of the W&L Student Center. Written by Washington and Lee drama professor Albert C. Gordon and a product of the University’s spring-term total theatre class, Reagan Rex was presented between the first two sessions of the Mock Democratic Convention. Delegates and convention spectators, alumni and anyone who happened along Washington Street, bellied up to the hand- painted carnival wagon and joined in the fun. From Maureen Reagan’s sensuous rendi- tion of “Let Me Entertain You” (as presented by freshman Greg Lunsford of Brownsburg, Va.) to the splendid imper- sonation of Richard Nixon by sophomore Derrick Freeman (all the more impressive considering Freeman is a black student from Birmingham), Reagan Rex was a delightful spoof on politics and politicians. According to Gordon, the idea was “‘to political satire that and the oral argument portion of the competition which was held Friday (April 13) when the four finalists argued cases before a bench of three distinguished judges. Doane is a 1966 graduate of Lynchburg College where she majored in political science and English. Suter’s brief won the top honors in that category. She graduated from James Madison University in 1982 with a B.A. degree in English. The other finalists in the oral argument part of the Burks Competition were: second place, Eleanor A. Putnam of Fairfax, Va., a graduate of Colby College; third place tie, Jonnie L. Speight of Virginia Beach, a ai & Gazette graduate of Old Dominion, and Michael J. McLaughlin of Upper Darby, Pa., a graduate of St. Joseph’s College. Oral arguments were heard by Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois Supreme Court, current Judge-in-Residence at the W&L Frances Lewis Law Center; Judge Kenneth W. Starr of the District of Colum- bia Circuit Court of Appeals; and, Judge Harry W. Welford of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. The second place finisher in the brief competition was Ken Perdue of Hunting- ton, W.Va., a graduate of Marshall University. The top-ranking participants in the Burks Moot Court Competition are eligible to represent the W&L School of Law on its National Moot Court Team and its Interna- tional Law Moot Court Team. Virginia Hall of Fame Honors Marshall Johnson, ’42 Marshall Johnson, ’42, who retired in December after 35 years with the Richmond bureau of the Associated Press, was the recipient of a special achievement award from the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in April. - The Hall of Fame recognition was the latest in a series of awards presented to Johnson upon his retirement. Earlier he had received plaques of recognition from the Touchdown Club of Richmond and the Virginia High School League. _ Johnson began working for the Associated Press’ Richmond bureau in 1959 and was named Virginia Sports Editor of AP in 1970, a position he held until his retirement. So highly regarded was Johnson in Virginia sports circles that the Virginia High School League voted last March to name the sportsmanship trophy given to six basketball tournament teams, three boys’ teams and three girls’ teams, after him. The Virginia High School Coaches Association already presents an award named after Johnson to the state’s top high school writer. Huntley named president, CEO of Best Products Co., Inc. Robert E. R. Huntley, ’50, ’57L, former president of Washington and Lee, has been named president and chief operating officer of Best Products Co., Inc. 28 i; Robert E. R. Huntley, Huntley had joined Best in January as executive vice president of the company and president of the catalog showroom division. The new appointment is part of a general reorganization which was precipitated by the decision of former W&L Trustee Sydney Lewis, 40, ’43L, to step down as chairman and chief executive of- ficer of the Richmond-based firm. _ Sydney Lewis will be succeeded by his son, Andrew M. Lewis, who will, in turn, be succeeded by Huntley. Current W&L Trustee Frances Lewis, who with her husband, Sydney, founded the catalog showroom firm 27 years ago, will continue as executive vice president. Sydney Lewis will become chairman of the board’s executive committee. Rowes’ newspaper cited In its April 30, 1984, issue, Time magazine presented its choices of the 10 best daily newspapers in the United States. As a companion piece to that rating, Time wrote of several “Big Fish in Small Ponds,”’ smaller dailies and weeklies of note. Includ- ed in that list was the Fredericksburg, Va., Free Lance-Star, published by two Washington and Lee alumni: University Trustee Charles Rowe, ’45, and his brother, Josiah, ’48. As Time, put it: “In Fredericksburg, Brothers Charles and Josiah Rowe let their 33 staffers break free of routine meeting coverage often enough to provide notewor- thy series on local business development and, in 1982, on corporate lobbying efforts to win state approval of a uranium-mining project. The paper has crusaded so long about freedom of information that the city council now routinely provides it with copies of all the paperwork exchanged among council members.”’ Coincidentally, several days before the article appeared the publisher of another of those smaller papers cited in the same breath with the Rowes’, H. Brandt Ayers of the Anniston, Ala., Star, had visited Lex- ington in connection with the efforts of W&L alumnus Don Baker, 68, to establish a new theatre in the city. Archaeologists find 19th-century commuters During the 19th century, numerous set- tlements were established in the hollows of the western Virginia mountains. The popular perception has always held that the residents of those hollows lived a somewhat hermit-like existence in virtual isolation from the rest of society. But data collected and examined as part of a continuing study conducted by Washington and Lee University’s Ar- chaeology Laboratory indicate that the self- sufficiency of those inhabitants and their isolation from the rest of society have been exaggerated. A team of professors and students under the direction of W&L professor John McDaniel has been investigating approx- imately 100 “high hollow” archaeological sites for the past four years. Currently their examinations center on Anderson Hollow in Rockbridge County. The team’s findings include artifacts | that provide irrefutable testimony to a regular and heavy dependence on goods from both local and more distant sources on the part of those 19th-century hollow dwellers. In a paper presented at a session of The Second Symposium on Uplands Ar- cheology in the East in March at James Madison University, McDaniel and W&L junior Randall Ray reported on the degree to which inhabitants of the hollows had been dependent on jobs at the nearby iron mines as well as the spas and resorts in the area. According to McDaniel and Ray, those hollow dwellers commuted daily from their homes to work in the iron mines or at one of the many spas in the area, particularly the spa at Rockbridge Alum Springs. In addition to participating in the area economy by holding jobs at those concerns, the hollow dwellers often would take the goods that they grew or made in the hollows to the nearby iron mines and spas to be sold. McDaniel and Ray have shown that such “homemade” items as pickax handles and such “homegrown” items as fresh vegetables, milk, and beef were taken on a daily basis from the hollows to the mines and spas where these goods were sold to miners and to visitors and workers at the spas. The paper delivered by McDaniel and Ray was one of six papers delivered at a ses- sion of the symposium entitled “Historic Sites Archaeology in the Uplands.’’ That entire session was devoted to work con- ducted by Washington and Lee professors, students, and alumni. e James Adams, W&L survey ar- chaeologist, delivered a paper on the research design for the project. ¢ Michael Gregory, a 1983 W&L graduate and currently a student at Arizona State University, examined a 19th century upland farm. That paper was read by W&L sophomore Ted Goebel. ¢ Kurt Russ, a 1978 W&L graduate and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Ten- nessee, delivered a paper on domestic ceramics. ¢ Parker Potter, a 1981 graduate anda graduate student at Brown University, discussed ways in which archaeology should be presented to the public. _ © Jack Delany, a W&L senior, presented a paper on the use of chemical analysis in the examination of land use and soil deple- tion in the upland sites. International Moot Court Team wins national honor The Jessup International Law Moot Court team from the Washington and Lee University School of Law has won the na- tional award for the best memorial in the American semifinal round of the interna- tional competition. The award, recognizing the best written brief or argument, came during competi- tion in Washington, D.C., among teams representing law schools from throughout the nation. The W&L team’s memorial now will enter international competition featuring law schools throughout the world. Sponsored by the American Society of International Law, the international com- petition involves teams of law students who argue a hypothetical case before the interna- tional court of justice. Both oral and writ- ten arguments are part of the competition. Washington and Lee’s team is composed of second-year students Philip R. Brown of Granville, N-Y., Paul F. Fletcher III of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Ellen H. Gray of Chesapeake, Va., David B. Poole of Hagerstown, Md., and Patricia A. Shean of Arlington, Va. Myra L. Sanderson, a third-year student from Rainsville, Ala., is the team’s coach. Earlier this year W&L’s team won the regional competition for the sixth con- secutive year. Rogers awarded fellowship Minor L. Rogers, associate professor of religion has been awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for Humanities to participate in an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers. The seminar, “Scripture: Its Nature and Evolving Role,’’ will be held at Harvard University from June 25 to August 17 under the direction of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of the comparative history of religion and chairman of Harvard’s pro- gram in religious studies. NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers are intended for teachers in undergraduate colleges who are concerned primarily with improving their knowledge of the subjects they teach. Participants are chosen on the basis of their quality and commitment as college teachers, their qualification to do the work of the seminar and make a contribution to it, and their proposed programs of personal study. The seminar in which Rogers will be Minor L. Rogers participating will inquire into the role that scripture has played in a variety of traditions—Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Graeco-Roman Classical, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian—in an effort to clarify the meaning of “scripture” as a generic term. Rogers will present materials from his research in the Japanese Pure Land Shin Buddhist tradition. A member of the Washington and Lee faculty since 1972, Rogers is preparing a major study of 15th-century Japanese religious leader Rennyo Shonin, who laid the foundations in medieval Japan for the emergence of the Shin Pure Land sect as the most influential religious movement in Japanese history. He has written several articles on the Shin Pure Land sect and last year con- tributed a chapter to a volume on Pure Land Buddhist thought which was publish- ed in Japan. Rogers has previously been a participant in a group research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a three- year project entitled “Buddhism in Japanese Civilization: Humanistic In- quiries.’’ He has received grants for research from the Japan Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rogers received his bachelor’s degree from Virginia Military Institute. He earned the bachelor’s of divinity degree from the Virginia Theological Seminary and the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. He served as director of Washington and Lee’s East Asian Studies Program from 1980 to 1983. ROTC awards Richard B. Jones, a Washington and Lee University senior from Atlanta, has been named the Outstanding Cadet in the University’s Army ROTC corps. Jones received the University sabre from Washington and Lee President John D. Wilson during the annual President’s Day Awards Ceremony on Wednesday (March 21) in Lee Chapel. The Outstanding Cadet Award is determined by a vote of the W&L Corps of Cadets. Eric G. Storey, a senior from West Chester, Pa., received the Major Ronald O. Scharnberg Memorial Award, which recognizes the W&L cadet who most nearly typifies the Washington and Lee tradition of citizen-scholar-soldier. Andrew J. MacLellan, a senior from Flemington, N.J., won the George C. Mar- shall ROTC Award, which is awarded to the 29 de Gazette senior who demonstrates those leadership and scholastic qualities that epitomized the career of General Marshall. Lt. Col. David F. Flower, Jr., professor of military science at Washington and Lee, presided over the ceremony. Col. Fowler will complete his three-year assignment as head of W&L’s corps of cadets in May. Other awards presented during the ceremony were: MILITARY ORDER OF THE WORLD WARS AWARDS: John T. Wiltse, freshman from West Hartford, Conn.; John J. Loughery, sophomore from Huntington, N.Y.; Gregory A. Lukanuski, junior from Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Malcolm C. Kendall, senior from Chapel Hill, N.C. VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE USA AWARDS: Thomas R. Murray Ill, freshman from Princeton, N.J.; Charles A. Pfaff Jr., sophomore from Charleston, S.C.; E. Marshall Bowden, junior from Lyn- chburg, Va.; Paul N. Farquharson, senior from Ft. Meade, Md. THE NATIONAL SOJOURNERS AWARD: Peter J. Ierardi, sophomore from Philadelphia. GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE WAR OF 1812 AWARD: Anthony D. McCann, Huntington, N-Y. AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II AWARD: Scott G. Nagley, sophomore from Martinsburg, W.Va. SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AWARD: John R. Maass, freshman from Fairfield, Va. DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AWARD: James T. Seidule, senior from Mobile, Ala. ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED 30 A potpourri of campus speakers (from left) consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Rev. Jerry Falwell, and former U.S. Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke STATES ARMY ROTC GOLD MEDAL AWARD: David D. Branscomb, junior from Fincastle, Va. ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY ROTC AWARD: Thomas J. Fellin, sophomore from Weston, Pa. AMERICAN LEGION AWARDS: Military excellence—Mark A. Bertolini, sophomore from Bellerose, N.Y.; John D. Cole, senior from Elberton, Ga. Scholastic excellence—David E. McGehee, junior from Brownsboro, Ala.; Donald B. Smith, senior from San Antonio, Texas. DAUGHTERS OF THE FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS AWARD: Ron L. Moody, sophomore from Brewton, Ala. RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES AWARD: Stephen E. Vogt, sophomore from Baltimore; Robert J. Tomaso, junior from Milford, Mass.; Timothy P. Rock, senior from Pittsburgh. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY SUPERIOR CADET DECORATION AWARDS: Thomas J. Boyd, freshman from ~ Winchester, Va.; Arthur A. Kandarian, sophomore from Cumberland, R.I.; Kevin H. Kelley, junior from San Antonio, Texas; Edward J. O’Brien, senior from Norwich, N.Y. Jones wins Fulbright Stephen A. Jones, a Washington and Lee University senior from Wilmington, Del., has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar- ship for graduate study in Germany. Jones will spend 10 months studying at the University of Regensburg in Germany. He plans to study political economy with particular emphasis on the influence of public policy on private enterprise. Jones becomes the 14th Washington and Lee student to receive a Fulbright Scholar- ship in the past seven years. Candidates for a Fulbright must have a high scholastic average and the equivalent of two years of college work in the language of the country where they wish to study. The Fulbright program awards some 500 scholarships annually for graduate study in about 58 foreign countries. A double major in English and German, Jones is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has consistently made the University’s honor roll with a grade-point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. He has served as a Robert E. Lee Scholarship Assistant and was the 1982 win- ner of the Stump Prize in German. He isa member of W&Ls intercollegiate golf team. Cecil awarded Mednick Grant Washington and Lee University history professor Lamar Cecil Jr. has been awarded a research grant from the Maurice L. Med- nick Fund for study this summer in Germany. The Mednick Fund is administered by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (VFIC), a joint fund-raising con- sortium of 14 four-year private colleges in the state, including W&L. Cecil, who is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at W&L, will use the Mednick grant to complete research on the first volume of a two-volume biography of William II, the last German Kaiser. He will conduct research in various ar- chives in both Koblenz and Berlin. Formerly professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecil has written two books on sub- jects of German history —‘Albert Ballin: Business and Politics in Imperial Germany” and “The German Diplomatic Service, 1871-1914.”’ A native of Beaumont, Texas, Cecil received the B.A. degree from Rice Universi- ty and the Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. Cecil joined the faculty at Washington and Lee in 1982 and was named to the Kenan Professorship in 1983. The Mednick Memorial Fund was created in 1967 after the accidental death of a young Norfolk industrialist. His family and business associates established the fund to perpetuate his name and to recognize his own strong interest in higher education. The VFIC administers the fund to en- courage the professional development of college teachers and improve their com- petence through grants for research and ad- vanced study and to assist highly qualified, needy students in the upperclass years in college. Faculty activities e Art history professor Gerard Maurice Doyon gave a slide-lecture at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond in March. Entitled “‘The Influence of the Camera on Nineteenth-Century Art in France and Britain,’’ Doyon’s presentation was part of the Virginia Museum’s annual patron’s dinner. It was the fourth time Doyon has been guest speaker at the event. e Toni M. Massaro, assistant professor of law, is the co-author of an article published in the Winter 1983 edition of the William and Mary Law Review. Massaro and Thomas L. O’Brien, a partner in the Chicago law firm of Vedder, Price, Kauf- man and Kammholz, wrote the article en- titled “Constitutional Limitations on State- _ Imposed Continuing Competency Re- quirements for Licensed Professionals.”’ The article deals with such issues as substantive due process, procedural due process, and equal protection. e An economic loss case spawned by the kepone disaster was the subject of an article by two Washington and Lee law professors published in the November 1983 issue of the Virginia Law Review. Andrew W. McThenia and Joseph E. Ulrich wrote the article en- titled “A Return to Principles of Corrective History professor Lamar Cecil at work on the front campus Justice in Deciding Economic Loss Cases.”’ In their article McThenia and Ulrich conclude that the court’s concern for cor- rective justice—that is, accomplishing justice between individual litigants—was found to be more important than considera- tions of precedential rulemaking and economic efficiency. ¢ Two Washington and Lee drama pro- fessors gave presentations at the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Alex- andria, Va., in March. Staging sword fights in Shakespeare plays was the topic of a lec- ture/demonstration given by assistant drama professor Joseph Martinez who also lectured on ‘An Actor’s Director: Means of Translating Directorial Concept into Dramatic Action.”’ Albert C. Gordon, head of the depart- ment of fine arts and professor of drama, gave a presentation and participated ina discussion on the role of the drama major in a liberal arts university at the same con- ference and presided over the session at which Martinez demonstrated directorial techniques. e A Washington and Lee German pro- fessor has been named alternate for the 1984 Grawemeyer Faculty Award by the University of Louisville. David B. Dickens, associate professor of German at W&L, was selected as alternate in the competition sponsored by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages at the University of Louisville. One Grawemeyer Award is made an- nually to faculty from an eight-state area who compete via the submission of a pro- posal which promotes or provides for the sharing of knowledge between German- speaking Europe and the United States. In naming Dickens as alternate, David Hershberg of the University of Louisville noted that Dickens had ‘“‘achieved signifi- cant distinction through his selection as alternate in this rigorous competition which attracted scores of strong applications. ”’ e Jim Murdock, assistant athletic trainer and head baseball coach, has been appointed to the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification as an examiner. e Two Washington and Lee art pro- fessors presented papers at the Seventh Symposium for Virginia Art Historians in March at Longwood College in Farmville, Va. Gerard Maurice Doyon, professor of art history, delivered a paper entitled “‘E. V. Valentine and Robert E. Lee” as the keynote address for the symposium. I-Hsiung Ju, professor of art and artist-in-residence, gave a paper on “The Fine Arts in Mainland China Today.’’ e Hampden H. Smith III, associate pro- fessor of journalism, participated in two professional conferences in March and April. He was a panelist for a panel discus- sion on media ownership concentration at the Virginia Social Science Association’s 57th annual meeting at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and also moderated the newspaper division papers presentation at the Southeastern regional 31 &h Gazette meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications at Hampton, Va. e Two Washington and Lee professors were seminar leaders for the Richmond Regional Conference of the Investigative Reporters and Editors in Clark the 19th- 1900 to of the century. at the 1936; annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society held in Knoxville, Tenn., in April. e Frederic L. Kirgis Jr., dean of the School of Law, has been elected to the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, the leading interna- tional law journal in the world. A specialist in the field of international law and the author of an important new study in that area, Kirgis will be one of 24 practicing in- ternational lawyers and professors of inter- 32 Ethics University of Virginia, Tom Paulin of Not- tingham University in England, and Lucille Clifton of Baltimore. e The Amadeus Winds, a classical wind ensemble, appeared in March as the final program of the 1983-84 Washington and Lee Concert Guild season. e The University Theatre presented Ten- nessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as its winter term production. Senior drama major Drew Perkins directed the play, which featured W&L senior Bob Ferguson of Katonah, N.Y., and first-year W&L law stu- dent Nan Korns of Brookfield, Wis., in lead > * (center) leads a session of the first annual Business by Mark Mandel Sports Information Director Scholar-Athlete Graves Honored by NCAA, Old Dominion Athletic Conference It is difficult to imagine a person more deserving of the title ‘““Scholar-Athlete” than Washington and Lee senior John Lee Graves. Throughout his four years at W&L he has consistently given the optimum effort and has achieved the highest goals both in the classroom and on the basketball court. Graves has earned a 3.66 cumulative grade-point average in chemistry while leading the basketball team to four con- secutive winning seasons. In 1983-84 he served as captain and led the Generals in every important statistical category. For his efforts on the basketball court, he was rewarded with All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC), All-State, and All-South Atlantic honors. For his achievements in both athletics and academics he earned the ODAC’s highest honor, the Scholar-Athlete Award, and was recognized for his extraordinary ac- complishments by his selection to receive the coveted NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Graves, who will attend the University of Virginia Medical School next fall, is one of along line of W&L athletes to win the prestigious scholarship. He is the second basketball player in two years to be named for the award. Brian Hanson, ’83, was an NCAA scholarship winner last year. Overall, W&L has had 12 student-athletes earn the award, the second highest total among Division III institutions. Graves is one of only four Division II and III student-athletes selected for the honor, which carries a $2,000 stipend. Though he is the eptiome of the term “‘scholar-athlete,’’ Graves is by no means the only Washington and Lee student who genuinely fits that description. For instance, the Generals’ basketball team had nine of 14 players named to the dean’s list for the 1983 winter term. The team had a combined grade-point average of 3.17. “I am extremely proud for John Lee and for our entire basketball program,’’ said Washington and Lee head basketball coach Verne Canfield. “Any W&L student who also competes in intercollegiate athletics has enormous demands on his time and energy. It is a tribute to John Lee that he was able to excel in the important things in his life. John Lee Graves in action “In my 20 years here I have never seen any student accomplish so much in both academics and athletics.’’ Graves will pursue a career in either or- thopedics or sports medicine. He is grateful that Washington and Lee provided him with an opportunity to excel in both academics and athletics. “If you are serious about your goals, W&L will allow you the chance to flourish in any endeavor you choose to follow,’’ said Graves. “Athletically, I can’t say enough about the coaching and guidance I was given by Coach Canfield. He helped me set my priorities by always stressing that academics had to come first. At the same time he was demanding in what we gave to the basketball program in terms of the hours we spent at practice or in a game.” kkk Washington and Lee’s track and field team and its coach, Norris Aldridge, pulled off double victories this year. In the winter the Generals won the ODAC Indoor Cham- pionships and their mentor was named Coach of the Year. This spring, on the strength of its team depth, W&L duplicated its winter effort by again taking home both trophies. Undefeated (7-0) in the regular season, 33 Scholar-Athlete W&L had just five winners in the 17 events at the ODAC meet but came through with three second-place finishes, five thirds, and three fourths en route to the victory. ‘“‘This may not have been my most talented team but it was my best,’’ said Aldridge. ‘“‘Every individual had his role on the team, and everyone pulled his own weight. Track meets are won by everyone giving his best effort, regardless of whether that results in winning.”’ Senior Angus McBryde (Charlotte, N.C.) set an ODAC record in winning the 1,500 meters (3:58.7) and came back with little rest to capture the 5,000 meters (15:24.1). Sophomore Townes Pressler (Houston) won the high jump (6-4) and sophomore Bill Rhinehart (San Fran- cisco) won the triple jump (45-11). The mile relay team was also victorious. The baseball Generals (11-12 overall) started sluggishly but turned into the ODAC’s hottest team down the stretch run toward the conference championship. The Generals, on the strength of some timely hitting and behind the right arm of junior Billy White (Richmond) finished the regular season in fifth place but upset Eastern Men- nonite, 1-0, in 11 innings in the quarterfinals and No. 1 seed Randolph-Macon, 9-7, in the semifinals before losing to Lynchburg, 4-1, in the championship game. White, who finished with a 6-2 record and a 1.50 ERA, pitched 374 innings without allowing an earned run before giv- ing up the losing runs in the final game. Senior shortstop Dave Warrenfeltz (Smithsburg, Md.) led the team in batting with a .361 average and was named to the All-ODAC first team for his efforts. The W&L tennis team (12-7) came up short in its quest to repeat as ODAC cham- pions, finishing second behind Lynchburg. The Generals had four singles players in the finals but just one—freshman Roby Mize (Dallas) —came out a winner. Craig Cannon (Ocala, Fla.) teamed with Mize to win the first-flight doubles championship, and both players represented W&L at the NCAA Division III Tournament as singles players and as a double team. The golf team (4-1-1) could not puts its collective game together and finished in third place in the ODAC Championship 34 Pitcher Billy White Rod Santomassimo prepares to fire home a goal. Tournament. Senior Bruce Blythe (Louisville) and sophomore Turner Fried- man (Charleston, W.Va.) shot 155s and earned All-ODAC status. Blythe played in the NCAA Division III Tournament. The General lacrosse team’s 5-9 record was not what first-year head coach Dennis Daly had hoped for, certainly. But Daly believes a lot was accomplished and that the W&L program has a bright future. ‘Both the players and the coaching staff had a lot to learn about each other ina minimum amount of time;’ said Daly. ““We made some mistakes and maybe lost some games that we should have won. However, we showed some signs of brilliance in some games. If we can become more consistent, I am confident W&L can be a competitive Division I team.”’ The Generals got their scoring punch from the attackmen. Senior Lee Heimert (Towson, Md.) had 30 goals and 13 assists while junior Rod Santomassimo (Stony Brook, N.Y.) contributed 22 goals and 14 assists. Senior defenseman Tim Schurr (Yorktown Heights, N-Y.) was consistently outstanding, picking up 155 ground balls. Chapter News ALBUQUERQUE—An April reception in the home of AAP chairman Ron Randel, ’61, welcomed New Mexico’s new W&L student, Sam Oben- shain, and his parents who are shown with Dr. Harrison Alley, ’60, (left). SOUTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT—Attending the reception at the Poinsett Club in Greenville were (left to right) Harry R. (Steve) Stephen- son Jr, ’40L, Charles P. Didier, ’42, James E. Lipscomb III, ’58, and James F: Gallivan, 751. SOUTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT. The chapter held a cocktail reception on March 5 at the Poinsett Club in Greenville. President Lang Donkle, ’74, was in charge of the affair. University Trustee Jimmy Gallivan, ’51, a native of Greenville, was a special guest and speaker. JACKSONVILLE. The Timuquana Country Club was the gather- ing point for a large crowd of alumni, parents and guests on March 7. Most of the crowd had an opportunity to meet and chat with President John Wilson in small groups during the cocktail hour. The reception concluded with a drawing for the door prize, a Washington and Lee arm chair. Treasurer Jim Overton, ’75, directed the raffle. Chapter President Bill Gatlin, ’71, introduced President Wilson and other special guests who included Buddy Atkins, ’68, and Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, from the University; Royce Hough, ’59, University Trustee, who has recently joined the Jacksonville Chapter; and William Mills, a trustee of the Jessie Ball duPont Trust, and Mrs. Mills. FLORIDA WEST COAST. The chapter was host to 120 alumni, guests and friends who welcomed President John Wilson to the area on March 8. Chapter President Jim Davis, ’79, presided over JACKSONVILLE—Gathered at the Timuquana Country Club were (left to right) Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, Frank Surface, 60, Haywood Ball, ’61, and Bill Morris, ’81. JACKSONVILLE—Others attending the meeting were (left to right) Judge and Mrs. Lamar Winegeart, ’52L, and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Weedon, 70. the meeting at Tampa’s University Club. University Trustee Tom Touchton, ’60, of Tampa, introduced President Wilson who was accompanied on the visit by Buddy Atkins, ’68, assistant secretary of the Alumni Association. RICHMOND. The chapter held a reception March 11 for approx- imately 60 alumni and spouses and a group of about 20 W&L ap- plicants and their parents at the Best Products Co. headquarters building. The 50-member W&L Glee Club and the smaller “Southern Comfort” both performed for the audience, which in- cluded Trustee Frances Lewis and Trustee Emeritus Sydney Lewis, ’40. Chapter President Bill Garrison, ’76, Vice President Bob Priddy, ’67, and AAP Chairman Glenn Moore, ’69, coordinated arrangments, including a tour of the 350-piece art college in the Best Products building. The Glee Club was in Richmond to per- form a concert at the Boulevard United Methodist Church. PALMETTO. The annual chapter meeting was held March 22 at the Palmetto Club in Columbia, S.C. Approximately 24 alumni plus their spouses and dates enjoyed a reception prior to the elec- tion of the following chapter officers: Les Cotter, ’80, president; Will Newton, ’70, vice president; David Fischer, ’82, treasurer; and 35 Chapter News John Hamilton, ’80, secretary. Elected to serve on the chapter board were: Jay Nexsen, ’76, immediate past president; Russell Plowden, ’81; Tom Bryant, ’59, ’61L; Leon Garber, ’44; and Mike Burnette, ’79. CLEVELAND. On March 27 the chapter welcomed President John Wilson to Cleveland with a reception and dinner at the Union Club. The affair was attended by Farris Hotchkiss}58, director of development; Buddy Atkins, ’68, assistant alumni secretary; and Johnnie DeWilde, ’83L, the first W&L alumna to move to Cleveland. Sid Kaplan, ’56, president of the chapter and a member of the W&L Alumni Board, with help from Tom Goss, 80, head of the local alumni admissions program, made the ar- rangements for the evening. Former president of the Alumni Association, Charlie Clarke, ’38, introduced President Wilson. CHICAGO. Tim Haley, ’73, chapter president, arranged a recep- tion and dinner for area alumni to greet President John Wilson at the Chicago Bar Association Building on March 28. President Wilson was accompanied by Farris Hotchkiss, 58, and Buddy Atkins, 68, from the University. After dinner Haley presented several ideas for increased chapter activity and alumni admissions recruitment work and acknowledged the special contributions of past officers such as Paul Rhoads, ’62, and Sandy Walton, ’62, °65L, who is now a member of the Alumni Board of Directors. He then introduced President Wilson for his remarks. LYNCHBURG. Approximately 100 chapter members gathered at the Radisson Hotel on March 29 to honor Dean William J. Watt and to discuss coeducation. Watt, who steps down this June after 13 years as Dean of the College, was presented the 1984 Lynchburg Citation, an award given annually to a person or persons who have made outstanding contributions to the spirit and substance of W&L. Chapter President Mark Schewel, ’69, presented a fram- ed citation to Watt. That presentation followed a panel program on the coeducation issue featuring prepared comments by two students and two alumni. Moderated by Alumni Board member Dr. Ed Calvert, ’44, the panelists supporting the admission of undergraduate women were senior Mike Killea of Freeport, NY., and Fred Rowe, ’44; opposing coeducation were Student Body President Bob Jenevein of Dallas and Ted Craddock, 69. The at- tendance of both Watt and University Trustee Gordon Leggett, 54, aided the discussion on several key points during an ensuing question-and-answer session. In other chapter business, new officers unaminously elected were Lea Booth, ’40, president; Tom Pettyjohn, ’68, vice president; and Stuart Fauber, ’70. SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA. The Chatmoss Country Club between Martinsville and Danville was the site of the chapter’s reception and dinner meeting on March 22. Farris P. Hotchkiss, director of University relations and development, spoke to the nearly 50 alumni, spouses and dates. Chapter President Bob Vaughan, ’79L, led the meeting. Alumni Secretary Dick Sessoms was also in atten- dance. President John Wilson will address the Southside Chapter on November 15. TIDEWATER. The chapter held its annual oyster roast on March 24 at Bayville Farms. Professor Lou Hodges and his wife, Helen, and Dick and Sally Sessoms joined the Tidewater area alumni in devouring the feast. Chapter President Dick Phillips, ’76, John Richard, ’70, and numerous other alumni contributed to the arrangements. | 36 “SS FLORIDA WEST COAST—Among the 120 alumni gathered at Tampa’s University Club were (left to right) Harry George, °36, Jim Davis, ’79, Mrs. Dinkel, and John Dinkel, ’61, ’64L. RICHMOND-—A large portrait of Frances and Sydney Lewis which hangs in the Best Products headquarters provides the backdrop for (left to right) Roger Day, ’85, Jeff Wells, ’84, and Greg Haynes, °84. CLEVELAND-—Sid Kaplan, 56, Bob Silverman, ’73, and Gary Okin, 74, (left to right) chat during the March 27 meeting at the Union Club. CHICAGO—Chapter President Tim Haley, ’73, (right) organized the March 28 reception and dinner which Dave Stone, ’72, (left) and Kenford Marchant, ’62, attended. 5 CHICAGO— Others gathered at the Chicago Bar Association Building were (left to right) Scott McLam, ’80, Bill Cranshaw, ’78, and Jim Lan- caster, ’79. LYNCHBURG—Dean William J. Watt (left) receives the 1984 Lynchburg Citation from Chapter President Marc Schewel, ’69. LYNCHBURG—Ted Craddock, ’68, agrees “the chapter president’s hat isn’t big enough” for Lea Booth, *40. CHARLESTON, W.VA. Rector James M. Ballengee, ’48L, of Philadelphia addressed a combined meeting of the Charleston and Tri-State (based in Huntington) alumni chapters on April 6. Approximately 100 persons gathered at the Edgewood Country Club for the reception and dinner arranged by Charleston chapter officers Ben Bailey, ’75, president; Henry Jernigan, ’72, ’75L, vice president; and, Fred Belden, ’60, secretary-treasurer. Bailey in- troduced Farris Hotchkiss, Bill Washburn, and Dick Sessoms, who represented the University and then called on Trustee Ike Smith, ’57, ’60L, of Charleston to introduce Rector Ballengee, who is a native of Charleston. Ballengee discussed the Trustees’ coeducation study and participated in a candid question-and- answer session afterwards. WESTCHESTER/FAIRFIELD. The chapter entertained Presi- dent John Wilson and incoming freshmen from the area with their SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA—Shown at the Chatmoss Country Club are Louis McFadden, ’76, ’79L, and Wanda and Bob Vaughan, ’79L, chapter president. CHARLESTON, W.VA.—Enjoying the reception were Kemp Morton, ’59, *64L, Ben Bailey, ’75, Betty Belden, and Amanda Cox. CHARLESTON, W.VA.—Fred Belden, ’60, (center) renews acquaintances with Thornton Berry, ’34, (left) and Holmes Morrison, ’63, ’67L, at the April 6 meeting. parents at a reception and dinner on April 12 at the Indian Har- bor Yacht Club in Greenwich, Conn. After dinner Chris Burnham, ’80, chapter president, made some brief remarks and then introduced President Wilson. Buddy Atkins, ’68, assistant alumni secretary, also attended the meeting. ARKANSAS. More than 80 alumni gathered at the Little Rock Country Club on April 25 to meet President John Wilson. The event was organized by chapter President Lee Thalheimer, ’73, and Chapter Treasurer Roddy McCaskill, ’75, along with Bill Ber- rington, 60, who is manager of the Little Rock Country Club. Others in attendance were Bill Norman, ’56, an Alumni Board member; former national Alumni Association President Everett Tucker, ’34; and, Warren Stephens, ’79, the Alumni-Admissions Program chairman for the area. President Wilson provided a com- prehensive report of campus activities to the chapter. Also 37 Chapter News WESTCHESTER/FAIRFIELD—Dick Warren, ’53, (left) and Don Far- riss, 57, (center) listen intently to Chet Smith, °53. WESTCHESTER/FAIRFIELD—Gathered at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club were Mrs. Castle, Gray Castle, ’53, ?55L, and Chris Burnham, ’80. representing the University were Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, and Dick Sessoms. NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. A good turnout of 60 alumni and friends welcomed President John Wilson to Northwest Louisiana on April 24. Chapter President Archer Frierson, ’73, presided over the reception and dinner meeting at the Shreveport Country Club. Frierson paid tribute to the student recruiting efforts of AAP chairman Haller Jackson III, ’73, before introducing President Wilson for a wide-ranging report on the University. NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. Alumni from the Northern New Jersey area gathered at Baltusrol Golf Club on April 13 for a meeting with President John Wilson. Chapter President Russ Hewit, ’74, ’77L made arrangements and directed the program, which included a report on the Alumni-Admissions Program from AAP chairman Kirk Kirkpatrick, ’41. Hewit introduced President Wilson for remarks on the state of the University. PHILADELPHIA. Washington and Lee alumni of the Philadelphia area held their annual reception for W&L-accepted high school seniors and their parents on April 11 at the Free Quaker Meeting House. Alumni were on hand to answer ques- tions about the University and to encourage the young men pres- ent to enroll. JACKSONVILLE. Washington and Lee alumni from the Jacksonville area joined their fellow alumni from Carolina and Virginia for the annual joint cocktail party for the three groups. The event took place on April 27 at The Seminole Club in downtown Jacksonville. 38 vi ARKANSA S—A mong those welcoming President Wilson to “Razorback Country” were Clair Norman, Bill Norman, ’56, and Everett Tucker, ’34. NORTHWEST LOUISIANA—G. Archer Frierson, ’73, chapter president, and his wife greet President Wilson. NORTHERN NEW JERSE Y—Chapter President Russ Hewit, 74, °77L (center) confers with AAP chairman Kirk Kirkpatrick, °41 (right) and Bob Chiaviello, ’77. NORTHERN NEW JERSEY—Attending the meeting at the Baltusrol Golf Club were Slade Carter, ’55, and Jim Dawson, ’68. Class Notes WASHINGTON AND LEE ARM CHAIRS AND ROCKERS With Crest in Five Colors The chairs are made of birch and rock maple, hand-rubbed in black lacquer (also available by special order in dark pine stain; see note below). They are attractive and sturdy pieces of furniture and are welcome gifts for all occasions—Christmas, birthdays, graduation, anniversaries, or weddings. All profit from sales of the chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, 714. ARM CHAIR BOSTON ROCKER Black lacquer with cherry arms _ All black lacquer $145.00 f.0.b. Lexington, Va. $140.00 f.o.b. Lexington, Va. By Special Order Only: The Arm Chair and Boston Rocker are also available by special order in natural dark pine stain, with crest in five colors, at the same price as the black arm chair and rocker. Allow at least 12 weeks for delivery. Mail your order to WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Lexington, Virginia 24450 Shipment from available stock will be made upon receipt of your check. Freight charges and delivery delays can often be minimized by having the shipment made to an office or business address. Please include your name, address, and telephone number, and a telephone number, if known, for the delivery location. 1922 W. HENRY TROTTER was named “Man of the Year”’ by the Kiwanis Club of Chattanooga. He retired in 1963 from the insurance agency he helped found there. Trotter has been a volunteer worker for the United Way every year since 1926, a trustee and chairman of the board of the Girl’s Preparatory School and an active member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the Rotary Club, the Red Cross and the Moccasin Bend Girl Scout Council. As president and treasurer since 1965 with no paid staff, he still serves the Dora Maclellan Brown Charitable Trust five mornings per week. The Trust supports Christian evangelism at more than 75 schools, colleges and universities. Trotter and his wife of 57 years, Charlotte, live in Chattanooga. 1926 DicBy C. WEST retired Feb. 23, 1984, as chairman of the board of First National Bank of Berryville, Ark., after 58 years of service. He began working at the bank in the summer of 1919 and continued to work summers while he attended Columbia Military Academy and Washington and Lee. He began work- ing full time in 1926. West was vice president of the bank during the Depression. He has held many civic posts including membership in the Berryville City Council, the School Board and the Board of Trustees of Arkansas State Teachers College, now the Univer- sity of Central Arkansas. West has also served as president of the Arkansas Bankers Association as well an many state committees among which are the Comptroller of Currency’s Advisory Committee, the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, the State Banking Board, and the State Chamber of Commerce. In 1930, West tried his hand at raising turkeys and modernized the system by using in- cubators and broiler houses. Carroll County later became known as the “Turkey Captial of Arkansas.’’ 1927 ZED C. Layson has been retired ten years from the tobacco business. He continues to supervise his farms in Millersburg, Ky. THE REv. R. WILBURN SIMMONS, after performing the service of marriage for two of his grandchildren, took a cruise with his wife to the eastern Caribbean. 1929 BENJAMIN P. KNIGHT JR. is retired from the C&O Railroad. He resides at his Mountain View Farm near Lexington. Since retiring from Norfolk and Western Railroad, WILLIAM W. PACE has been serving ten years as a volunteer in the Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library. 1930 THE REV. LEON R. ROBISON JR. is minister emeritus of the Second Baptist Church in St. Louis, Mo. 39 Class Notes N. BAUMANN STULTs was honored on April 14 in Tallahassee when Florida State University official- ly dedicated the Bim Stults Aquatic Center. Stults, a member of the FSU Athletic Hall of Fame, began his teaching and coaching career in his native Ohio directly following graduation from W&L. He pro- duced five state championship swimming teams at Ross High School in Fremont, Ohio, then became an assistant coach at Ohio State University prior to World War II service as a Naval officer. After resum- ing his post at OSU for two years, Stults joined the Florida State staff in 1948 and began a coaching career there that ultimately saw him develop many excellent teams and All-American swimmers. He is now retired as a professor emeritus of FSU. 1933 THOMAS O. MURPHEY is the president of M&B Invest- ment Co., Inc., a family owned real estate holdings firm in Arizona, Texas, and Wyoming. 1934 IsADORE E. DATTEL is acurrent member of the board of directors of the Bank of Ruleville, Miss. He is a past president of the Rotary Club and of the Mississippi Retail Merchants Association. Dattel also is a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award from the Delta Council of the Boy Scouts of America. 1935 Don R. WALLis of Madison, Wis., is slowly retiring from the newspaper business. He is chairman emeritus of the board of the local bank and plays golf twice a week. 1936 WALTER B. EAGER is enjoying the “good life” in Vero Beach, Fla. Having retired in 1979, he fishes regular- ly, custom builds fishing rods and writes a fishing column for the Vero Beach Press-Journal. He also enjoys photographing wildlife, swimming, and traveling. WALTER T. LAWTON JR., of Teaneck, N.J., continues as minister of the Westchester Ethical Humanist Society of White Plains, N-Y. Healso has a part-time practice as a psychotherapist under supervision at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy. 1938 JOHN H. SHoar is the only official trade represen- tative for the province of New Brunswick, Canada, to the United States. He has spent the past 35 years promoting and engaging in trade development in Central America, the Caribbean and Atlantic Canada. Over the years, Shoaf has provided his ex- pertise in trade development around the globe. He worked for the U.S. Commerce Department in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico; marketed trade shows in Brazil, Mexico and Belgium; and organiz- ed trade seminars in the Middle East, Southeast 40 J. P. Ryan, °53 Asia, Japan and Venezuela. He is also the honorary consul of the Republic of Guatemala, where he worked in the American Embassy for several years. He was recently the subject of an article in The Courier of Montgomery County, Texas. Shoaf lives in The Woodlands. 1939 CHARLES H. SEMPLE JR., after 43 years of service, retired in March 1982 from the Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Co. of Louisville, Ky. 1940 WILLIAM M. READ retired in August 1983 as senior vice president of Atlantic Richfield after 40 years of service. 1942 GusTAVE A. Essic retired in December 1982 after 37 years with Monsanto Co. 1943 JEFFERSON W. Hupson of Cincinnati has retired from Eagle-Picker Industries, Inc. He expects to spend considerable time on Florida’s Gulf Coast. DONALD L. RICHARDSON, an investment broker in Troy, Mich., has been elected vice president, direc- tor, and chairman of the investment committee of South Oakland County Methodist Credit Union. 1944 EDMUND A. DonNAN JR. retired three years ago and now divides his time between Greenwich, Conn., and Jackson Hole, Wyo. He remains active by helping non-profit organizations, and recently did a stint with the National Executives Service Corp. in New York. 1945 ERwIN D. LATIMER is executive vice president of Shoney’s South, Inc., in Memphis, Tenn. He is also president of their restaurant operations and oversees the fast growing food service company in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. Latimer and his family live in Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 1946 SHEPPARD W. ZINovoy has been named executive vice president of Puritan Fashion Corp. in New York. He is a member of its board of directors. 1949 Harry H. Hitt Jr. has retired after 35 years with C.B. Fleet Co., Inc., of Lynchburg. Since 1965 he served as vice president of sales and consumer accounts. C. A. Stallworth, ’53 1951 UPTON BEALV’s recent visit to England included a side trip to Althorp, estate of the Earl of Spencer, father of Princess Diana. Invited to lunch, Beall and his wife arrived to find the Earl hosting friends to a pheasant hunt on the estate. Not known for his bird hunting back in East Texas, Beall nevertheless shouldered a 16-gauge shotgun and downed a phea- sant on his second try. “Lord Spencer missed his first shot, too,’’ claimed Beall. 1952 Horace W. DIETRICH was named director of pro- perty management at the Naiman Co., a San Diego- based development company. A. Dow Owens has been appointed to an eight-year term as a judge of the 27th Judicial Circuit in Virginia. 1953 THOMAS LEWIs MAKER is vice president and sales manager, Fairfield Processing Corp., a Connecticut textile manufacturer. He and his wife, Joan, have four daughters and live in Bridgewater, Conn. Hayes C. MCCLERKIN was recently selected as an “Outstanding Alumnus” of the University of Arkansas School of Law. McClerkin is a partner in the law firm of Smith, Stroud, McClerkin, Dunn & Nutter in Texarkana, Ark. GEORGE F, MayNnarD is a partner in the newly form- ed law firm of Maynard, Cooper, Frierson & Gale in Birmingham, Ala. JOHN P. RYAN, mortgage banking and life insurance executive of Arlington, Texas, has been elected to the 36-member board of trustees of Trinity University in San Antonio. Ryan serves as chairman of the board of Ryan Mortgage Co. and First Life In- surance Co., and is a partner in the insurance agency of Thomas M. Ryan & Co. CLAYTON A. STALLWoRTH has been elected to the board of directors of Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. He currently serves as executive vice president, responsible for both the loan and trust divisions. He has held various positions within the bank. Stallworth and his wife, Diane, live with their fami- ly in Charleston, WVa. 1954 CHARLES F. GAMBILL has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the Illinois Masonic Medical Center (IMMC). He will continue to serve as the board’s second vice presi- dent. Gambill has been board secretary and chair- man of its Barr Pavilion committee, a member of the steering committee, and chairman of the founda- tions division of the medical center’s fund raising campaign. He is president and owner of Gambill Development Corp., which engages in oil and gas exploration. 1958 ROBERT A. RICHARDS, president of Frederick Richards, Inc., a customs brokerage firm, in Charleston, S.C., was elected director of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, Inc. at the organization’s annual meeting on March 5, 1984. 1959 EpwarbD D. (Corky) BRISCOE, staying in shape as always, averaged seven-and-a-half minutes per mile recently in Louisville’s 9.3 mile Run for the Arts. More than 4,200 runners participated with Briscoe. CHARLES W. COLE Jr. is expected to assume the duties as chief executive officer of First Maryland Bancorp in June 1984. First Maryland is the parent company of the First National Bank of Maryland, the state’s second largest bank. Cole has been with the bank for 22 years and has been president of the bank in the holding company since 1977. He will be taking over the day-to-day management of the Bank. EvAN J. Kemp JR., executive director of the Disability Right Center, was featured three times between November and February in separate articles by prominent columnists for the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer and New York Times. Kemp, who teaches disability law at Catholic University and is part owner of a wheelchair manufacturing com- pany, continues as a leading disability rights ad- vocate to “change the public attitude toward people who are different.’’ JOHN W. WoRSHAM JR. is retiring from academic life after 16 years of college teaching and medical school teaching. Most recently he has been the director of clinical training and of graduate studies in psychology at Trinity University. He will continue a private practice in clinical psychology in San Antonio. 1960 WILLIAM J. GrBBs has been promoted to senior vice president in the Charleston office for First National Bank of South Carolina. He has been with the bank since 1981 and is officer in charge of the Charleston region and is the Charleston city executive. Gibbs participated in the 1982 membership drive of the Tri- dent Chamber of Commerce and is a member of St. Phillips Episcopal Church. JOHN S. HOPEWELL received a study grant as a secon- dary school teacher from the National Endowment for the Humanities last summer. He participated in the “Classics in the Frontier Experience” seminar at the University of California/Davis. Dr. W.E. KNICKERBOCKER, professor of church history at Memphis Theological Seminary, con- ducted the Bowen Lectures at the seminary in March. W. G. Loeffler, °60 W. J. Gibbs, °60 Knickerbocker has been a member of the faculty since 1973. He is a priest in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of West Tennessee. Knickerbocker and his wife, Sandra, have two children. The Bowen Lectures were extablished by the board of trustees of the seminary to provide an opportunity for faculty members to present the findings of research and study to the community of scholars in the region served by the seminary. THE REv. PETER J. LEE was elected bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, the third largest in the 2.8 million member denomination. He will succeed the present bishop upon his retirement in two years. He was rector of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C. Before entering the Virginia Theological Seminary where he graduated in 1967, Lee was a law student at Duke University, an Army intelligence officer and a newspaper reporter and former copy editor for the Richmond Times- Dispatch. WILLIAM G. LOEFFLER, president of Loeffler Marley Mountjoy, an advertising, marketing and public rela- tions firm in North Carolina, has been awarded the Charlotte Ad Club Silver Medal Award for 1984. The medal, the most prestigious award offered by the club, is awarded annually for contributions to the community, creative ability, contributions to the re- cipient’s company and efforts in furthering the stan- dards of the advertising industry. 1961 DWIGHT R. CHAMBERLAIN recently attended the seventh annual Indiana chapter of the Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. meeting at Jasper, Ind. He judged the turkey and owl “hooting” contests and delivered a short seminar before the evening awards banquet on the vocalizations and behavior of common crows and owl species that inhabit southern Indiana. NORBERT W. IRVINE began a two-year term as vice president of the National Art Education Association for the southeastern region in April. He lives in Wilson, N.C. Douctas J. LEwis has opened a firm under the name of Lewis Financial Management, specializing in asset management, personal financial planning and tax sheltered investments. Lewis and his wife, Lin- da, and three children live in Raleigh, N.C. 1962 L. Davip Cattaway III, after eight years abroad with Citicorp in Hong Kong, London, and Zurich, has been transferred back to New York where he is responsible for international loan syndication and debt restructuring for Latin America. Working with the external debt problems of Mexico, Brazil, Argen- tina, and Peru is included among his duties. 1963 GEORGE AUSTEN III has returned from California after one year with Atari to be senior vice president account director at J. Walter Thompson Co. in New York. Rurus K. BARTON III recently formed Amfuels Corp., which invests in oil and gas royalty interests in Michigan. Amfuels offers limited partnerships on a private placement basis. Barton serves as executive vice president. J. HOLMES Morrison (See 1967.) 1964 MIcHAEL H. Bricut, professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, is the author of Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival, published by the Ohio State University Press. The book is a study explaining why Gothic architecture satisfied Victorian tastes in art. Dr. HARRY L. PARLETTE III has moved from Tidewater, Va., to Rockville, Md., where he isa cap- tain in the Navy Medical Corps. He is also chairman of the dermatology department and director of the Dermatology Residency Training Program at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. SPENCER R. STOUFFER’S company, Miller & Smith Homes, won a national award for their Whisper- wood Community in Reston, Va., from Professional Builder magazine. Stouffer serves as the marketing partner of Miller & Smith. The firm is currently developing a planned community of 4,700 homes in Alexandria, Va. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Fairfax. S. GWATHMEY TYLER III is a partner in the newly merged property and casualty insurance brokerage firm of Reager Harris, Inc. It is the largest indepen- dent general agency in Louisville, Ky. 1965 BIRTH: Mr. AND MRs. STEPHEN L. WILLSON, a daughter, Romney Lee, on May 19, 1983, in Roanoke. 1965 BIRTH: Dr. AND Mrs. PHILLIP D. MOLLERE, a son, Oliver Sosthene Beacham, on Jan. 27, 1984, in New Orleans. He joins an older sister and brother. 1966 JOHN L. BABER III is executive vice president for Moudy Corp., a real estate development company in Houston. He and his wife, Sandy, have two sons, Jack IV, age 2, and William Carter, six months. H. WILLIAM MAN LEY is the vice president and trust manager of the Sylvania Savings Bank Co., in Sylvania, Ohio. 1967 J. HOLMES Morrison has been elected to the board of trustees of the University of Charleston and to the 41 Class Notes board of directors of the Citizens National Bank in Martinsburg, W.Va., an affiliate bank in One Valley Bancorp, and its lead bank, Kanawha Valley. RICHARD B. WALTERS has joined Ernst & Whinney in Houston, Texas, as a tax manager. 1968 MARRIAGE: Makk T. BoypD and Nancy Lomneth in Seattle, Wash. Boyd completed his M.A. degree in marriage and family therapy and is now in private practice there. A. BRUCE CLEVERLY has been promoted to marketing manager for disposable razors and lighters for the safety razor division of Gillette North America. In his new position he will manage the development and implementation of marketing strategy for the division’s disposable products. Cleverly lives in Hingham, Mass., with his wife, Jac- quelyn, and their two children. JOHN R. NAZZARO is the executive director for agency relations with the United Way of South Hampton Roads. He was a leader in the merging of the Ports- mouth and Norfolk, Va., campaigns of the United Way. STEVEN R. SAUNDERS resigned as assistant U.S. Trade representative in the Reagan adminstration in 1982 to set up his own consulting business. He now represents and advises foreign governments and corporations, specializing in East and South Asia. DALE E. WILLIAMS was recently awarded tenure by the department of history at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he is an associate professor. He is also pursuing a law degree and writing in the area of legal history. Williams will be on sabbatical leave in 1985-86. 1970 Davip M. BETHEA, assistant professor of Slavic languages at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of a book, Khodasevich: His Life and Art, published by the Princeton University Press. The April 6 issue of TLS contains a very favorable review of the book. Vladislav Khodasevich is an im- portant twentieth-century writer once described by Nabokov as the “greatest Russian poet of our time.”’ T. KENNETH CRIBB JR. was recently featured in an article in the Spring 1984 issue of The Scroll, the magazine of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Cribb is assistant counselor to President Reagan. Davip R. Katz wrote a paper entitled “Bela Balazs and the Tradition of Realism’ which was selected for delivery at the Society for Cinema Studies annual conference in March. RICHARD T. ScruGGs Jr. has returned to Birm- ingham after spending 10 years in Houston. He is employed as an executive vice president by 42 A. B. Cleverly, 68 Haymaker Corp., an electrical contracting firm with projects throughout the Southeast. STEPHEN L. TABAKIN is a partner in the CPA firm of Hall, Cotman, Garrison & Roseberry in Newport News, Va. He and his wife, Claudette, live in Williamsburg, Va. Pup J. Tissue is a partner in the firm of Hamilton and Mooney, in Oak Hill, W-Va. He lives with his wife, Nancy, and children, John and Kathryn, in Fayetteville, W.Va. 1971 Craic S. Bow is a geologist with Anaconda Minerals Co. in Denver, Colo. He received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Oregon. E. WrENN Hupains has a private practice in pyschology in Seattle, Wash. He and his wife, Leigh, have two sons, ages | and 3. Epwarp F. Jupr received the M.B.A. degree in November 1983 from Edinburg University in Scotland. 1972 MARRIAGE: Dr. FREDERICK H. SAnps and Sally Sefton on Dec. 17, 1983, in Maui, Hawaii. His brothers, David Sands, ’74, and Bill Sands, ’78, were in the wedding. Sands practices general internal medicine in Kula, Hawaii. BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. GLENN M. AZUMA, a son, Pierce Christopher, on Feb. 9, 1984. Azuma has recently been named a partner with the law firm of Reuben and Proctor in Chicago. BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. MERYL D. MOORE, a daughter, Ashley Elaine, on Oct. 24, 1983, in Newport News, Va. BIRTH: Dr. AND Mrs. W. WADE PEERY, ason, Wade Hampton, on Nov. 23, 1983, in Columbus, Ga. BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. MarK E. SKOGGARD, a daughter, Dorothy Marguerite, on March 17, 1984, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Davip M. BERNARD and his wife, Heidi, with their two daughters, Catherine and Elizabeth, operate a farm near Sweet Springs, W.Va. He is president of the Paint Bank, Va., volunteer fire department and rescue squad. ROBERT D. LARUE has been promoted to senior vice president in the real estate department of Allied Bank of Texas in Houston. WILLIAM J. MoDICcA is an associate broker with Moore & Co. in Roanoke, He is a past member of the neighborhood revitalization committee of the Roanoke Valley Board of Realtors and has been in- volved in several rehabilitation projects in Old Southwest. He is a member of the Commercial Multiple Listing Service and president of both the Roanoke Valley and the Virginia Solar Energy Association, of which he is also chairman of the board. Modica is also owner of Total Energy Management Services, an energy consulting firm, and real estate advisor to Blue Ridge Solar Homes. J. EVERETT NEWMAN III has been appointed deputy prosecuting attorney for Noble County, Ind. He lives in Cromwell. 1973 MARRIAGE: RICHARD C. CRITTENDEN and Babs Buchanan in Birmingham, Ala. Crittenden is an in- tern in internal medicine in Savannah. MARRIAGE: J. JASON MATTHEWS and Suzanne Moran, on May 13, 1983, in Alexandria. Alumni in attendance were William H. Sanders Jr., ’74, Stephen L. Corbin, ’73, and Rev. Richard H. Graham, ’73. Matthews left his post in Spain during April and will be assigned to the European desk of the Department of State in Washington for the next two years. BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. DouGcLas A. FORSYTH, a son, Douglas Arthur Jr., on Jan. 2, 1984, in St. Louis, Mo. Forsyth is an attorney specializing in railroad litiga- tion with the St. Louis firm of Coburn, Croft & Putzell. BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. Conway W. HUNTER III, a daughter, Bonnie Kathryn, on March 26, 1984, in New Orleans, La. Hunter is engaged in restoration of historic commercial and residential properties. E. PATRICK BuRKE earned the status of Diplomate of the Court Practice Institute at the conclusion of the National Trial Advocacy Seminar in Ft. Lauder- dale, Fla., during the week of March 3-10, 1984. Burke practices law in Rutland, Vt. MICHAEL CAMPILONGO has been elected president of the Alexandria, Va., Bar Association. C. CHRISTOPHER GIRAGOSIAN has been promoted to senior corporate counsel at Bank of Virginia in Rich- mond. He joined the bank in 1976 and was elevated to corporate counsel in 1980. JAMES S. MAHAN III is vice chairman and chief operating officer of Citizens Union National Bank & Trust Co. in Lexington, Ky. He and his wife, Marguerite, have a son, Jimmy, 8, and a daughter, Katherine, 5. GEORGE W. QUARM, of Cary, Miss., was featured in an article in the Deer Creek Pilot for his heroism in rescuing a 12-year-old girl from a frozen lake. Quarm was driving past a lake near Rolling Fork, Miss., on Christmas morning when he noticed a young girl had walked onto the ice that had formed over part of the lake and had fallen into the freezing water when the ice gave way. By swimming and breaking the ice, Quarm reached the girl and succeeded in pulling her to a tree in the lake where they were later rescued by boat. On July 1, Dr. ROBERT A. SILVERMAN will be ap- pointed assistant professor of dermatology and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He will practice with University Der- matologists, Inc., with a special interest in pediatric dermatology. J. BARTOW WILLINGHAM JR. is currently involved with the design of communications equipment to track the launching of deep space probes from the space shuttle. He is lead engineer with Harris Corp., the government communications systems division in Melbourne, Fla. 1974 BIRTH: Mr. AND MRs. KEVIN J. COPPERSMITH, a son, Ryan Thomas, on Feb. 1, 1984, in Walnut Creek, Calif. BIRTH: Mr. AND MRs. WILLIAM P. WALLACE JR., a son, Matthew Harrison, on Jan. 2, 1984. Wallace is practicing law with the firm of Woods, Rogers, Muse, Walker & Thornton in Roanoke. THOMAS K. ANGELILLO has been named vice president and general manager of Oxmoor House, Inc., the book publishing division of Southern Progress Corp. in Birmingham, Ala. The company also publishes Southern Living, Progressive Farmer and Decorating & Craft Ideas magazines. Angelillo and family live in Tinson, Ala. LioyD E. EAGAN Jr. is employed by Oliver H. Van Horn Co. as a marketing manager. He and his wife live in New Orleans with their four daughters. 1975 BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. ROBERT S. BONNEY JR., a daughter, Jessica Ann, on Aug. 5, 1983. Bonney is a partner in the law firm of Evans, Koelzer, Osborne and Kreizman in Red Bank, N.J. BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. Davip H. SLATER, a daughter, Melanie Hart, on Oct. 19, 1983, in Metairie, La. Slater is employed by Mobil Oil as a staff geologist in New Orleans. BIRTH: Mr. AND MRs. FRANK L. WALTERS JR., a son, Frank Landon III, on May 20, 1983, in Ather- ton, Calif. T. BARRY Davis, has been promoted to senior ac- count manager in charge of national sales for the Magazine Networks/3M Company in Bethesda, Md. Davis has taken national sales honors for the se- cond time in four years for his company and was number one in the nation in sales for 1983. He pro- duced more than $1.2 million in local advertising for publications such as Time, Dun’s, Money, Business Week, Better Homes & Gardens, and Inc. W. H. Ogburn, ’76 R. S. Dickson III, ’76 CHARLES A.STEIN has completed his pediatric residency at East Carolina University and has started a private practice in Culpeper, Va. CHANNING J. MARTIN (See 1979.) 1976 BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. L. LANGHORNE CRAIGHILL Jr., ason, Christopher Langhorne, on Feb.21, 1984, in Plainsboro, N.J. BIRTH: Mr. AND Mrs. ROBERT F. LINDSEY, a daughter, Ardith Valentine, on June 13, 1983, in Rux- ton, Md. She joins an older brother, Robert Francis Jr. PETER H. ADLER was honored in September at the 55th annual meeting of the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America in Providence, R.I. Adler received the John H. Comstock Award for outstanding research as a graduate student. He received his Ph.D. in entomology from Pennsylvania State University in 1983. DaviD R. BRAUN was promoted to manager of the financial services division of the Travelers Insurance Co. He heads up the Minneapolis field office. RusHS. Dickson III has been promoted to vice presi- dent and general manager of Harris-Ieeter Super Markets, Inc., a grocery chain of over 70 stores, head- quartered in Charlotte, N.C. Dickson joined Harris- Teeter in 1978. WILLIAM H. OGBURN JR. has been promoted to vice president of the U.S. Division of NCNB National Bank in Charlotte, N.C. He joined NCNB in 1979 as a corporate planning analyst. JAMES D. PEARSON was one of the 48 grand finalists from across the country competing for top honors at the Insilco National B/C/D Squash Tournament at the Squash Club International in Los Angeles. He won the C division of the Northern New Jersey regional at the Chatham Squash Club in January to earn the all-expense paid trip to the grand finals. The tournament is the largest in the world with over 6,500 amateur entrants from 250 clubs in the competition. Some of STEVEN K. RoBErTs’ silkscreen prints were shown in the April 1984 American Printmakers in Moscow show sponsored by the American Embassy in Moscow. His studio is in Washington. 1977 MARRIAGE: BENJAMIN M. LOweE and Debra Harner on Oct. 15, 1983, at Fort Belvoir, Va. Lowe was vice consul in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and, in March, became vice consul in Cape Town, South Africa. MARRIAGE: VAUGHAN M. PULTz and Janet Blohm, on July 30, 1983. Pultz received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Minnesota 77 J. D. Gottwald, in December. He is employed by Rohm & Haas Co. as a research chemist in Spring House, Pa. BIRTH: RoBErtT W. AND MARYELLEN F. GOODLATTE, a daughter, Jennifer Flaherty, on Aug. 28, 1983, in Roanoke. He is now chairman of Virginia’s 6th Con- gressional District Republican Committee. ROBERT R. CAMPBELL JR. was recently promoted to community banking officer in the corporate bank- ing division at Union Trust Bank in Baltimore. Campbell joined the bank in 1982 as a commercial bank trainee and later became a corporate banking representative. Wayne G. Epwarps became a partner in the Union- dale, N-Y., law firm of Margiotta and Ricigliano on April 1, 1983. JoHN D. GorTWALD has assumed responsibility for the oil and gas operations for the Ethyl Corp. in ad- dition to his duties as executive vice president and general manager of the Elk Horn Coal Corp., an Ethyl subsidiary. In his new role, Gottwald is general manager of the newly formed energy division. He is a director of the National Council of Coal Lessors. Louis B. HACKERMAN is a Systems analyst for Floating Point Systems, Inc. in their Rockville, Md., sales office. It performs technical sales support functions. Dr. E. CLAIBORNE IRBy is currently serving his residency in orthopedic surgery in Charlotte, N.C. JOHN A. MAGEE V received the M.B.A. degree from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business in May 1983. He is employed with the First Union Na- tional Bank in Charlotte, N.C. THEODORE L. UHLMAN JR. isa systems analyst with Burroughs Corp. in Radnor, Pa. For the past seven years, he worked with International Paper Co. in Philadelphia. WILLIAM P. WALLACE JR. (See 1974.) 1978 MARRIAGE: RicuHarop S. CLEARY and Helen Bragg Curtin in Bethesda, Md., on June 4, 1983. Members of the wedding party included Robert J. Marvin Jr., °78; John D. Klinedinst, ’71, ’78L; and Stephen P. Marzo, ’78. Other alumni in attendance were Patrick F. Dennis, ’78; Robert P. Forlenza, ’78; Michael J. Knapp, ’77; Robert L. Clarkson, ’78; Duncan S. Klinedinst, ’74; and Guy T. Steuart, ’53. While honeymooning in Bermuda, the couple saw J. Kevin Rhoads, ’78, and Harry T. Jones III, ’78. Cleary practices labor law with Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald in Louisville, Ky. MARRIAGE: Rosert N. Muccio1a and Margaret B. Steffen on Aug. 6, 1983, in Norfolk. They reside in El Paso, Texas, where Mucciola is serving his residency in obstetrics and gynecology. 43 several reconnaissance ce I an instructor at NA S Pe nsa cola, Fle r by ‘Winthrop Labs, a division of err territory includes Atlanta, Ga., nd nd J la., with special emphasis on na- 1minority leader, theHon. tional accounts. He live in Roswell, Ga. ‘the New York State of oaks ane — in mths He specializes inthe secur mies secon: of the e firm. | 1980. MARRIAGE: EDWARD C. Monnison and Rosalyn "MARRIAGE: RE. Lee Davies and Karen F Aug. 20, 1983, in | Knoxville, Tenn. A cial =s sroor men | M John Robert I anna , in Fr. Worth. ssident of Wynne Petroleum Co., which Ir unications officer ferson (SSN 618). The editionary medal ile waters for a five- terranean Sea. _ BIRTH: Mr. aN Mas. Cc CHANNI xo J MAK mond? Va. Martin is an attorney with Villiams, | Mullen & Christian. oe : Court. Heis serving as alaw | NC. Nix Jr., chief Justice daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on 1 March 2B, 1984, in Bluefield, Wa. 7 ) ALDI N Hannuncrow I works for + Computer Corp. in Dahlgren, Va. He lives | in 1 King ) Chevr vron’s produc- ice division as a well log analyst. His cur- ignment is in Houston. He helps manage G eservoirs and will be Davip D. My.n has been promoted in the US. Air Force ams Ai rank of captain. Hei isa Tes piloté at Davip DT. r Trice isa a sscondjeatt resident ‘in internal medicine at ‘the Medical University of South the basic Spanish and the jumpmaster courses, CAPT. WELLINGTON GODDIN JR. is serving temporary duty in the Republic of El Salvador. His permanent station is Ft. Gulick, Panama. HoMER D. GRAHAM III will graduate from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine on May 19, 1984. In July, he will begin a residency in general surgery at the Ochsner Foundation Medical Center. LAWRENCE K. GUMPRICH is a CPA for the firm of McGladrey, Hendrickson & Pullen in Richmond, Va. R. MARK LEwIs is manager of a residence facility for chronic psychiatric patients. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. JOHN W. MCALISTER is working at the Department of Transportation in Washington as a special assist- ant to the assistant secretary for public affairs. McAlister lives in Alexandria. WILLIAM H. MATTHAI JR. will graduate from medical school at Vanderbilt University and start an internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in July. RUSSELL B. PARMELE JR. is the sales representative for the Mikasa Co., a dealer in china, crystal and gifts, for Tennessee, Alabama and Florida. Parmele lives in Nashville. SAMUEL L. PERKINS is now practicing law in the field of health care antitrust with the firm of Kent Master- son Brown in Lexington, Ky. He and his wife have three children. DIANNE GIBSON RINGER was promoted to deputy commonwealth’s attorney in Portsmouth, Va. C. HUNT SHUFORD JR. received his M.B.A. degree from Columbia University last May. He is currently employed in the New York institutional sales office of Interstate Securities, a regional brokerage firm based in Charlotte, N.C. 1981 MARRIAGE: RICHARD H. DRENNEN and Helen Anne Mélyveire, on Oct. 1, 1983, in Birmingham, Ala. The couple lives in Nashville, Tenn., where Drennen is associated with Freeman Webb Co. Realtors. MARRIAGE: MaAtinpDA E. DUNN and Capt. Richard Hinojosa on October 22, 1983. Pat Goding Davis, ’81L, and Jan Benedetti, ’81L, were among the bridesmaids. Dunn, a captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, is a Multinational Force and Observers Judge Advocate in the Sinai Peninsula. MARRIAGE: Wiu1AM J. RoBEeRTs and Mary Ann Jenkins on Oct. 8, 1983, in Crewe, Va. Clark King Jr., 85, was in the wedding party. MARRIAGE: RICHARD P. RopGcERsS and Anne Gilman Brown on Aug. 6, 1983, in Washington. They live in Lusaka, Zambia, where Rodgers heads the consular section of the American Embassy. BIRTH: Mr. AND MRS. JOHN W. B. NORTHINGTON, a daughter, Patricia Knowles, on Sept. 17, 1983 in Midland, Texas. GEOFFREY H. BRENT is an investment executive for Baker, Watts & Co. Investment Bankers, in Baltimore. He is also president of the Chesapeake Lacrosse Club. Pup D. CALDERONE is the in-house counsel for the New York Institute of Technology. He lives in Massapequa, N.Y. PETER D. ELIADES will graduate this month from T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Rich- mond. After the bar exam, he will be employed by Eliades, Robertson and Eakin in Hopewell, Va. R. CHRISTOPHER GAMMON is an international bank- ing officer for Wachovia Bank in Charlotte, N.C. He has business development responsibilities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ROBERT P. GORDON III is a staff accountant on the audit staff of Arthur Andersen in the Chicago office. BEN W. KEESEE has been promoted from general assignment reporter to the investigative reporting team at WREG-IV in Memphis, Tenn. Keesee’s 19-part expose of slack supervision in the state’s prisoner release program prompted a public hearing and the proposal of new legislation to tighten regula- tions and enforcement. His series on health care costs and the politics of regulating free-stand emergency centers won the Tennessee Hospital Association Community Service Award. His report on the death of liver transplant patient Brandon Hall was entered in the Congressional Record by Rep. Albert Gore (D-Ienn.) as a testament to the plight transplant patients face. Several of Keesee’s feature reports have appeared on the CBS Morning News program. In addition to his duties as reporter, Keesee attends evening classes at Memphis State University School of Law. FRANK B. B. KNOWLTON graduated from the Univer- sity of South Carolina School of Law and is an associate with the firm of Robinson, McFadden, Moore, Pope, Williams, Taylor & Brailsford in Columbia. GORDON J. LEwiIs is an intelligence research analyst with the Department of Defense at Fort Meade, Md. THOMAS E. MARTIN was appointed executive direc- tor of the Rhode Island Council for Community Services, a private research and planning agency that serves the state of Rhode Island’s social and human service agencies. JAMES H. NEALE is associated with the firm of Butler, Fitzgerald and Potter in New York. ROBERT S. PALMER is working for the First National Bank of Maryland. 1982 MARRIAGE: Lt. Douctas R. LINTON III and Lt. Debra Ellen Baldwin on Nov. 19, 1983. Linton is sta- tioned at Fort Hood. 2ND LT. MICHAEL J. COLLIER is an aviation section leader with the 172nd Infantry Brigade assigned to duty at Ft. Richardson, Alaska. J. PRESTON COVINGTON III is employed by Bankers Trust of South Carolina in Columbia. He is an ac- count executive in the money management division and consults with individuals on investments and financial planning. JouN T. DANIEL completed the capital markets train- ing program with the investment banking firm of Wertheim and Co. in New York and has entered the firm’s private investor group. Don J. DUDLEY has graduated from the U.S. Army Aviation Training Center in Ft. Rucker, Ala. Heisa helicopter pilot stationed at Ft. Carson, Colo. JAMES B. Haynes III is working for a year in the Everglades National Park. He plans to enroll ina graduate engineering program. Ist Lt. ANTHONY R. IERADTI is the executive officer of C troop, Ist Squadron 10th U.S. Cavalry at Fort Carson, Colo. His unit is part of the Fourth Infantry Division. On March 2, ENSIGN BRUCE C. JONES graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Officer Candidate School in Yorktown, Va. He is currently undergoing flight training at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola. JAMES S. KAPLAN is a trader on the money desk in the funds management division of First Union National Bank in Charlotte, N.C. JOHN W. MaRrtTIN is pursuing an M.B.A. degree at Virginia Commonwealth University and is working part time in the marketing department of Siddall, Matus and Coughter, a Richmond based advertis- ing agency. NELSON E. OuLtp has been transferred to Greensboro, N.C., by Wachovia Bank as assistant corporate loan administration manager for the region. 2ND LT. HOLLIS W. PLIMPTON III is in the U.S. Marine Corps. He graduated from basic training in April and has been sent to Camp Lejeune for further training. J. BURRUSS RIIs is in his second year of law school at the University of Alabama. 45 ‘Service in New York, 7 : National Bank i in Columbia, SC. of Coopers & Lybrand i in Palo Alto, Calif. In Memoriam Arlington, Va. He is onsidering ga teaching career in biology and chemistry. a fanty office e basic course at the US. “Infante JOHN T. WARMATH III works for Moody’s Investors Benning,Ga. © a is firm in Washington. WINDSOR III is a property manager/leasing trainee with the Fults Management a in Dallas. Samuet L. PERKINS (See 1980.) 1984 | PERRY L. Goopsar is convention service 2 manager for The ae in Hot Springs, Va. Tenn. ‘He recently completed no aa e aminati ion and isin the process of nercial ion, past chairman of the | pheals County emocratic Com mittee, , and past member and at- torey for the Virginia Daihen Bank. | 1917 [BLING Ir., Mexico, Mo., c leader “and. i president, superintendent and chairman of the board of Missouri Military Academy, died Dec. 5, 1983. Col. Stribling was president of the Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the United States. He was also the president of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and headed its education committee; a 40-year director for Commerce active member and deacon at the First Presbyterian Church of Mexico. Stribling was designated “Man | of the Year’” by, the Mexico | Chambe | at the University of Virginia st year med Medicine. . a former administrator of Audrain Medica | Center, where he was on mee poe of directors CAROL Hoswaut has been promoted to lieutenant in the US. Navy JAG Corps i in Charleston, S Co GREGORY E. JoHNSoN is employed by the CPA firm “1919 B. LEIGH KAPLAN isa biochemical l lab technician in Josera BUNGER Livesay, retired Presbyterian listed in Who’s Who in America. He was a past | - Bank of Mexico; and an > Mid-Missouri ’ Regional Arthritis Center. -_ was minister of 38 years, died June 9, 1981, in , Va. He was a past member of the 90ro Chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Community Concert Association and the Blue ¢ Ridge Chapter of AARP. — 1920 ROBERT BURNS GRUBB died July 21, 1983, in Lewistown, Pa. 1923 GARLAND MCCLUNG (DICK) FEAMSTER died Nov. 19, 1983. Following an early teaching career, he had interests in natural gas and coal development for more than 40 years. Feamster was an owner | of apartment housing in Alderson, W.Va. _ CHARLES HAMILTON Ross, an attorney in private practice, push il, 1979. He my heirs m ember | fe Lodge 25 6 F&AM, ‘a lif nber of tysburg. Elks, the American Legion Post 168 in Thurmont, Md., the Get- tysburg Eagles and the —a Moose. 1926 HARRY PFEFFER, an attorney in private practice a more tan 55 pears, led Jan. 21, 1984, in Woc : n - Associa tion and the New York State ; | enforcement attorney for ction in New York; presi- lety y at Temple Beth El; and ER STONE, former vice president of ors Service, Inc., a securities rating 1 June 6, 1981. He was a CPA, a comp- e Tennessee Valley Authority and past f Moore & Walker Mortgage Co. q EDWARD (TEx) Tison, star athlete and - t W&L football coach, died March 3, 1984, ing open-heart surgery. Tilson was a Southern Conference champion in boxing and wrestling and captain of the football team while ne at ¥ t W&L. » He was also student body presid sident. g from W&L Tilson spent four assistant football coach and head coach xing ‘and wrestling at Duke. Tilson moved back to Lexington in 1931 to take over as head football coach at W&L. One of his teams was the first Virginia team to win the Southern Conference football championship. When World War II ended football at W&L for a few years, Tilson went in- to business and in 1948 started selling real estate. He served on the Virginia Real Estate Commis- sion and was a co-founder of the Rockbridge Fox Hunt. He spent his years after 1948 as a cattle farmer and real estate agent. Tilson was active in W&L alumni affairs and had served as president of the Alumni Association. 1927 Dr. WILLIAM THOMAS BLACK Jr. died April 9, 1984, in Memphis, Tenn. While maintaining his private practice, he was also an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences. He was a staff member at Baptist, Methodist, and St. Joseph hospitals, a member of several medical organizations, and was a past president of the Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Society. Black was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis Country Club, and the Rotary Club. 1928 JOHN GIDDENS LAYTHAM died Sept. 21, 1983, in Woodstown, N.J. He had served as production superintendent for 39 years for E. I. duPont de Nemours prior to his retirement. JOHN MAHER, past president of the Reed Roller Bit Co. in Houston died Jan. 31, 1984. He was formerly head of the Oil Center Tool Co. GILES EDWARD WRIGHT, a newspaper reporter and news editor for more than 40 years, died Feb. 24, 1984. Following his retirement from the newspaper business in 1967, he edited Thoroughbred of California, the official publication of the Califor- nia Thoroughbred Breeders Association. He published fiction short stories and numerous ar- ticles on thoroughbreds and related fields. 1930 JOHN V. BOWSER died at his home in Belleair, Fla., on Feb. 3, 1984. A native of Newcastle, Pa., Bowser moved to Florida in 1973. He was an at- torney and a member of the Pittsburgh, Alleghany County and Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. At one time Bowser was vice president and controller of Westinghouse Air Brake Co. and of several Westinghouse subsidiaries. ERNEST MERTON Woop Jr., retired Abbott, Proc- tor & Paine stockbroker, died Jan. 29, 1984, in Lynchburg. He was a member and former vestryman of St. John’s Episcopal Church and was captain of the famed ‘‘Point-a-Minute’’ Generals—the 1929-30 basketball team which averaged 40 points per game and defeated the likes of Duke, Virginia, UNC, N.C. State, and Maryland enroute to a 16-4 record. 193] FREDERICK MINTO BARRON, former owner of the Fred M. Barron & Co. Real Estate in Baltimore, died Sept. 30, 1983. He was active as a member of the board of governors of the Real Estate Board of Greater Baltimore and was chairman for one term of the multiple listing bureau. In 1968 he retired to Pompano Beach, Fla., where he was an elder of the First United Presbyterian Church. ANDREW JENNINGS CAMPBELL JR., president and general manager of Jan Campbell Music Co. in Beckley, W.Va., died in November 1981. He toured the country for many years as a professional musician and director of his own dance band, which was featured on major radio networks, and played at most of the major colleges and univer- sities. He returned to his native Beckley to open his retail music business in 1951. MARVIN NELSON PILLEy died March 16, 1984, in Memphis, Tenn. He was in the retail foods business all of his professional life. 1932 LEwiIs HAMPTON SHUMATE JR., retired president of the Empire Furniture Corp., died Oct. 1, 1983, in Johnson City, Tenn. He was also president of Grassdale Farms in Chilhowie, Va. He served on the board of directors of Johnson City Memorial Hospital; the board of directors of Hamilton Bank and the East Tennessee Chair Co., Inc.; and the board of trustees of Washington College Academy. He was a member of the Selective Draft Board of Johnson City and served as an elder of Watauga Avenue Presbyterian Church. 1933 MARSHALL STOKES BLACK, past editor and publisher for 34 years of the Marion County AIG 0h on Ye “Vip ARYA Yr 1) YL UN \ Ned Pht LEE” ANS (We {II ry \\! AW Tata Mi tS M4 U wi eT Patriot and the Upson County News, died July 2, 1980, in Georgia. He was a past member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. 1934 THOMASSON MICHAEL BOLAND, a retired laboratory foreman with DuPont Co., died on March 20, 1984, in Village Mills, Texas. He worked for Du- Pont for 40 years. Boland was active in the Wildwood Volunteer Fire Department, the Wildwood Civic Club and the local branch of the American Association of Retired People, which he served as president. BELVARD RUCKER PRICHARD, former president and chairman of the loan board of the Wayne Coun- ty Bank, died May 29, 1983. He was a member and president of the Wayne County Commission, treasurer of the Wayne Chamber of Commerce, past secretary for the Southern West Virginia Oil & Gas Corp. and past secretary-treasurer for the Lions Club. 1938 HENRY MYERS DRAKE, retired agency manager for the Southern Farm Bureau Insurance Co., died Feb. 8, 1984, in Port Gibson, Miss. He was the fifth generation of his family to be associated with W&L. Drake was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church and a member of the board of directors for the Mosswood Country Club. 1939 EVERETT ORME AMIS, longtime employee of The Memphis Commercial Appeal and writer of a weekly food column entitled ‘‘Man in the Kit- chen,’’ died Nov. 8, 1981. Amis held various posi- tions at the newspaper, the last of which were Sun- day editor and food editor. He retired to Lighthouse Point, Fla., in 1973, where he continued to write food reviews and columns until his death. Dr. JOHN M. Moore died March 20, 1984, in Vic- toria, Texas. He retired from private surgical prac- tice in 1983, but remained on the honorary staff of El Campo Memorial Hospital. He also con- tinued serving as the Wharton County Health Of- ficer, a position he had held since being appointed in 1967. He was a charter member of the medical staff of El Campo Memorial Hospital and served as chief-of-staff in 1980-81. 1948 ANDREW JACKSON PowER JR., practicing attorney for Terrell Petroleum Co., died March 20, 1984. He was a life-time resident of Ft. Worth and a member of the Broadway Baptist Church. 1985 BERNARD JAMES REILLY died in August 1982 in Wallingford, Pa., of leukemia. 47 / And furthermore. . . Letters to the Editor Mostly About Coeducation ON TRAD ITION : Editor: I want to address myself to two issues caus- ing some consternation on W&L’s campus and in the minds of many alumni around the coun- try. They: are not both of equal present import, but the implications mavt be oo sienna the "Assimilation Committee went out of business. Though I didn’t personally dislike wearing a tie and jacket to class, I was against the idea of calling the convention a “tradi- tion’--which, by definition, is not enforced by sanctions—when, in fact, it wasa regulation. It was obvious from the protest a ue earlier classrootn’ participation represented by the way they dress. In fe don’t wear a tie to class—nor doar any of my structors in the doctoral classes I'm t the teaching—or the learning. ‘Wearing a tie does not make someone eae either. no one : remember what it was ike? It was a “assimilatec ” anonymously for appearing in the dining hall without a tie. There \ several students who took | yt te nti orec 1 refined, polite, etc.” , Is that really how v we e want ourselves to be seen—affected and Pretentious? Lee would spininhis grave! Now, the other matter—coeducation. Much has already been said, and much more will surely follow, but I want to voice my feel- ings, too. When I sent in my completed ques- tionnaire, I indicated that tradition fori its own sake should» never be a criterion yn tion should bev whether 0 or not t coeducation \ will affect scholarly pursuits and intellectual ex- ploration. I cannot conceive of a circumstance in which admitting women to WE&L would have a damaging effect on these. On the con-- trary, with women finally taking their rightful places in the academic and professional osphere of the school. 2 ng gso o serves the higher goals versity. A tradition should not be maintained fori its own sake, but only if itcon-- tinues to serve its society. Blind obedience to useless traditions will eventually destroy any on. Think about it—how many say | W&L must go coed or die— urd. But I do say, accept or reject | coeducation on rational criteria alone, not emotional ones. What, after all, is the Univer- sity there for—to perpetuate : a status quo, or create educated people to go out and make a better world? Scholarship knows no gender distinctions. | E. KRAMER, 69 New York, N.Y. ngs Igained from W&L is the awareness that learning is a lifelong process. __ Thus, I believe that I can use the nearly two decades since my graduation (as amember of the Class of 1965), with experience as an M.A. student at Oberlin College and a Ph.D. (in pro- gress) student at the University of Michigan, to bring some objectivity to bear on the issue Washington and Lee’s two outstanding characteristics, in my view, are the Honor System and the fact that it is a men’s college. Of the value of te Hongnsiaem! there can be nen’s college t as certain. In a 1960s in tions which exc Jud outdated and should be opened to both sexes or abolished. Having had the opportunity to consider this idea over the years (along with the inevitable process of growing older and the common one of establishing ties in the com- munity through various organizations), many Americans, including myself, have come to the conclusion that there is a place in our society for institutions which are exclusively male or female. This stems from the feeling that men and women are emotionally different (wouldn’t life be dull, otherwise!) and that men should sometimes have the opportunity to associate exclusively with men and women with women. While this need is best met later in life by joining the appropriate clubs, as a young man, it is met by attending a men’s college or, perhaps, by serving in the military. In my ex- perience, the situation of Washington and Lee in the Valley of Virginia was more or less ideal, in that respect. The women’s colleges of the Valley complemented W&L socially and in- tellectually; we were something special to them and they to us. At the same time, I believe that the reason W&L men feel such a strong bond to their University is its identification with their development as young men. This is something which, obviously, a coed institution cannot provide. Moreover, the fact of W&Ls being a men’s college does not preclude it from sharing in the intellectual richness and diver- sity provided by the women’s colleges in the area; in fact, I gather from reading the Alum- ni Magazine that the sharing of courses and programs is flourishing to a degree unknown 20 years ago. In light of this activity, it would hardly be possible for a W&L man to graduate without developing an awareness of women as colleagues and intellectual equals in the world. In terms of the intellectual excellence of Washington and Lee as a men’s or a coeduca- tion institution, I do not believe there would be any significant difference over the long run. To be sure, I was initially attracted by the argu- ment that coeducation would broaden the pool of candidates for admission to W&L ina time of declining college enrollments. However, upon reflection, I believe that ultimately W&L would have an advantage in this respect in remaining one of the few alter- natives to coeducation at the college level in the United States. It already has an excellent academic reputation in its region, as attested by the recent article in US. News and World Report; coeducation is unlikely to improve that and, in fact, could weaken the Universi- ty’s appeal by diminishing its individuality in comparison with other area colleges. Finally, I am glad that Iam an alumnus of Washington and Lee University. If I had it to do over again, I would certainly choose W&L. It has provided me with an intellectual and spritual reservoir from which I continue to draw strength, and shall do so throughout my life. W&L was a fine university when I was a student there; it is even better today. I am con- fident that preserving its identity as a men’s college will prove to have been the right course. Deferral of this change is always possible, whereas reversal is not. (As my field is the ar- chitectural preservation of historic buildings, it is appropriate at this point to remark that its cardinal principle is: Never make any change to a building which is irreversible.) Let us re- main faithful to our heritage and keep Washington and Lee the unique and wonder- ful institution which it is—a men’s college! WOODARD D. OPENO, 65 Portsmouth, N.H. Editor: Discussions about coeducation with alum- ni during the recent reunion prompt me to write this letter. Iam disturbed by some of the rumors that are being circulated about the faculty and the administration, and I am con- cerned by the bitterness that sometimes shows in the debate. As an alumnus and a member of the faculty my views are a blend of both groups, and though I am not a spokesman for either group, I would like to share some per- sonal opinions about the coeducation debate. There is something unusual about the ex- perience of being an undergraduate at W&L. It is hard to know what the critical ingredient is. Perhaps it is the ambiance of this place, the beauty of the campus and the valley, the small size and close contacts we have with fellow students and faculty, the rich experience of meeting students from others parts of the country for the first time, the intellectual challenge of new ideas, being part of a com- munity of people active in scholarly work, the challenge of working with smart and motivated fellow students. Some think it lies significantly in the maleness of the school. Whatever it is, most of us who spent a part of our lives at W&L do not want to see those aspects of the Washington and Lee experience, which we value so greatly, changed and perhaps lost. But other factors force themselves upon us. The nature of our society and especially the role of women in it has changed. The size of the college age population is dropping rapidly. The sons of many of our alumni as well as other potential applicants reject the idea of at- tending an all-male institution. The SAT scores and class standing of both our applicants and those admitted is slowly declining in the face of an increasing effort on the part of our ad- missions office to enlarge our applicant pool. The quality of this institution is clearly threatened. These are the factors that prompt about 80 percent of our faculty to favor coeducation. (The allegation that the faculty voted in favor of coeducation in order to ap- pease President Wilson is simply untrue. Mutual respect and freedom for independence of opinion have characterized administration- faculty relationships throughout the ad- ministrations I have known—those of Gaines, Pusey, Cole, Huntley, and Wilson. Ours is a record that would be envied by many other institutions.) Our Board of Trustees will make the final decision on coeducation. Based on their past performance and on my knowledge of in- dividuals on the Board, I feel that this difficult decision could not be in the hands of a group more dedicated to the future welfare of Washington and Lee. The execution of the decision will be in the hands of President Wilson, a man who enjoys the support and ad- miration of an overwhelming majority of the faculty. Regardless of the Board’s decision, some alumni, some students, and some faculty members are going to disagree, perhaps vehemently. Ultimately, the reaction of both the alumni and the faculty to the decision may be as important as the decision itself. Whatever that decision is, it will bring new challenges for all of us. Let us resolve now to meet those challenges, to work together to make this a bet- ter University, to reject divisiveness, and to recognize that those with opposing opinions share our central concern for the future of Washington and Lee. EDGAR SPENCER, ’53 Lexington, Va. (A member of the Washington and Lee facul- ty since 1957, Dr. Spencer is head of the depart- ment of geology.) 49 would be appropriate’ indeed € crucial—for the Trustees to contemplate the question of | Fe eres but not par- 1e state and feder: aul a re BS | Kenner D. SMITH, 79 —— oe _ Danville, Va. ° ng, = in irorot 3 fairly straightfor- to social life: bring ’em in for the weekend; load "em up with screwdrivers; and try to get ’em in- to bed. I see nothing wrong with booze and sex, both of which I consider among life’s great pleasures. But ‘“‘real life’ is populated with women all day, everyday and a structure which squeezes most relations with the opposite sex artificially into weekends, makes for no real relationships. I suspect one reason for the fre- quency of divorce among many of my classmates who married their college loves upon graduation was they really didn’t know each other. If you see young ladies in the morning at breakfast or debate issues from a course both of you are taking over a beer and a hamburger or run five miles through the autumn with one of them, you get a whole different, fuller perspective than if the near totality of your social contact consists of shouting at each other over the noise of some rock combo ina frat house cellar. 3) Maybe all of that has changed and Iam out of touch but, as a relatively senior officer of a major New York bank, I do know something about the contemporary affect of women in business. When I started here near- ly 25 years ago, the only women in the place sat behind typewriters and adding machines. Now, they are all over at all levels and they are good. We even have a female senior vice presi- dent. Okay, only one, but it’s a start. I wondered how we could have been so dumb as to arbitrarily exclude from considera- tion for management jobs over half the population for so long. But we did. Needless to say, it has not been easy for the ladies and though I think I am liberal on these issues, even I needed to be educated. It could not have been more than a dozen years ago, I was carefully explaining to a young lady that women certain- ly couldn’t go on business trips with men because sex might rear its head. She quite pro- perly shot back, “That’s your problem!” It is still an uphill fight for women in bank- ing and I guess it has forced them to be better than “we” are to get near equal treatment. Sad- ly, the status of women in business is still not unlike the standing of blacks in America. However, in both situations things continue to change for the better. A better example: although at present only two percent of our lawyers are women, 35 percent of all lawyers 27 and under are women. The best of these women will be earning a great deal of money and giving some of it to good universities which nurtured them. They will also be directing bright young people of both sexes to good universities. RAYMOND D. SMITH, JR., ’55 Pound Ridge, N.Y. Editor: I am the son of an alumnus, I have served as Washington, D.C., Alumni Chapter presi- dent, I have organized a yearly scholarship grant, I have served as an alumni admissions representative, I have guest lectured in the Journalism School, and I have contributed regularly to the annual fund. Although I have a definite opinion on coeducation, I have not written specifically to give that opinion. The primary purpose of this letter is to express my concern over the way the coeducation choice is being approached. Us- ing the decline in the college age population as justification to push the adoption of a coeducation plan ignores the real problem fac- ed by the admissions office. I find it most curious that coeducation is being approached from a demographic stand- point rather than a philosophical one. The philosophy of all-male education at Washington and Lee University is not at issue, but rather the need to institute coeducation is based on demographic proof. I submit that the Board of Trustees is being made a victim of Scare tactics used by those who would manipulate numbers to their own advantage. As amarketing executive, I am all too familiar with the ways demographics can be used as justification for any purpose the user wishes. The real problem is one of modern marketing. Washington and Lee is behind the times in this area, relying on reputation and visits of admissions officers to do the job. To- day’s competitive marketplace demands that Washington and Lee enter the race with modern thinking. To this point the Board of Trustees have been less than responsive. The admissions department is not given the modern marketing support that today’s market demands to properly represent the University, hindering the admissions officers from accomplishing their goals. The demographic trends are being used by the Board as an excuse to institute coeducation, not as a reason. The quality of education of- fered by Washington and Lee, the reputation and visibility of the University’s numerous famous graduates, and the vast number of eligible potential applicants from across the country should insure that the University has the best of the best to choose from. However, this is not the case. The reality is that Washington and Lee is already beginning to settle for accepting some applicants who are not up to the University’s standards. Why? Because the Board of Trustees has not seen where the real need is. They want to use coeducation as a bandage that will repair the damage done by a Board who is satisfied with marketing techniques that are amatuerish, dated, and provincial. Admissions officers need the advantages of professional marketing support; the same tools used by universities who have much more of an eye on the future. Coeducation without a change in attitude toward the total marketing of the University is only a temporary solution. What, may I ask, happens should the quality of applicants still _ decline after a coeducational program is in place? Is it only then that the Board of Trustees will wake up to the real problem? If the Board of Trustees is really interested in guaranteeing the high standards of the stu- dent population and the continued success of its educational goals, they should table the issue of coeducation until they can focus their attention on a permanent solution to the real problem Washington and Lee faces. Retain the services of a top public relations and publicity firm that will work with Washington and Lee to develop and carry out a strategy designed to make the ideals, advan- tages, and realities of life at Washington and Lee known to the American public. A con- certed effort in this area would surely satisfy the long term needs of the University by enhancing the school’s image and desirability at a lower financial cost than the alternative imposition of coeducation. At the same time, it would not alienate a majority of the alumni and student communities. I suggest that this tactic be used for a two year period within which you can easily judge the results. Should this effort alone not be fruitful, then, and only then take up coeduca- tion as an additional solution. I submit the above observations in the hope that you will see that you are focusing on a sup- posed solution that does not cure the problem. Coeducation should only be addressed as an 51 uggestion of Shenandoah THE WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY REVIEW Shenandoah Girt cards will be sent, on re- quest, to those for whom you wish to purchase subscriptions for Christmas or other special times. Si oties and poems from Shenan- doah are chosen regularly for in- clusion in the O. 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