DECEMBER, 1953 ig ; December December December December December December December January January January January February February February February February February February February February February February December December January January February February February . February January February February February February Winter Sports Schedule 1953-1954 BASKETBALL §--Bridvewater Collese, p00 ree A Harrisonburg, Virginia §8—Lynchbure College. oc ee ee re Lynchburg, Virginia 10+Roanoke: Colleve. io. coe ee ee Gaus Roanoke, Virginia 12—University of West Virginia................. Fayetteville, West Virginia 15—Hampden-Sydney College................... Lynchburg, Virginia 17—University of Virginia..................005 Lexington, Virginia 19—- Weaké Fotest.cl ooo ee eS Winston-Salem, North Carolina 8—University of Richmond.................... Lexington, Virginia 11—George Washington University.............. Lexington, Virginia 14—Virginia Polytechnic Institute................ Blacksburg, Virginia i6—- Davidson College oo. ei pe a 8 Lexington, Virginia 2—University of North Carolina................ Lynchburg, Virginia 4— University of Maryland.................... Lexington, Virginia 6—Wulliam and Mary... 2. 0... ee ee ee ees Lexington, Virginia 11—University of Maryland.................... College Park, Maryland 12—George Washington University.............. Washington, D. C. 16— University of Vireinia. 2. oo Charlottesville, Virginia 19-—Wuliameand Mary . o.oo Maa oe sk ea Williamsburg, Virginia 20—University of Richmond.................... Richmond, Virginia O3—--Citadel.c2 kos eee Cee a ee Ce a Lexington, Virginia 25—Virginia Polytechnic Institute................ Lexington, Virginia 27—University of West Virginia................ Morgantown, West Virginia WRESTLING 19--Duke : University... oes ee Durham, North Carolina 17—Franklin and Marshall..................... Lexington, Virginia 11—Virginia Polytechnic Institute............... Lexington, Virginia 15—University of North Carolina................ Lexington, Virginia 5—University of Maryland.................... College Park, Maryland 13—University of West Virginia................ Lexington, Virginia 18 —Davidson College oe or ee re a ee Davidson, North Carolina 96—University of Virginia... .... 0.0.0... 0. 008 ae Charlottesville, Virginia SWIMMING 15—Virginia Polytechnic Institue................ Blacksburg, Virginia 5—Catholic: University. 0.2 a Lexington, Virginia 15—Davidson College........... 0.0.0. 00 0000. Lexington, Virginia 20—William and Mary....................0008. Lexington, Virginia 22—Randolph-Macon Ashland, Virginia Appalachian—Waldo G. Miles, ’34, Attorney, Bristol, Virginia Augusta — Rockingham — Ed Moore, ,’25 Waynesboro, Virginia Atlanta—Thomas E. Schneider, ’24, Box 7128, Station C Baltimore—Frank C. Brooks, ’46, 1206 West Lake Avenue Birmingham—Clifford B. Beasley, Jr., ’46, 210-C Foxhall Road eee W. Va.—W. T. Brotherton, ’47, Box 5 Chattanooga—Charles L. Claunch, ’27, 1223 Vol- unteer Building Chicago—W. C. Olendorf, ’46, 1059 Fairoaks, Deerfield, Illinois Cincinnati—Robert B. Shreve, ’40, 576 Howell Avenue Charlotte—Jack Crist, Jr., ’45, Box 1045 Cleveland—Paul L. Ho!den, ’38, Lincoln Elec- tric Co. Danville, Virginia—E. Ballou Bagbey, ’29, First National Bank Florida West Coast—W. E. Tucker, ’48, Sto- vall Professional Building, Tampa Gulf Stream—L. L. Copley, ’25, Security Build- ing, Miami, Florida Houston—Ben Ditto, °43, Norton-Ditto Co. Jacksonville—Rhydon Latham, ’28, Florida National Bank Building Louisville—Ernest Woodward, °40, Kentucky Home Life Building Lynchburg,—J. C. Holloran, Jr., ’46, Peoples National Bank Building Mid-South—S. L. Kopald, ’48, The Humko Co., Memphis, Tennessee New York—Stuard Wurzburger, ’28, 10 East 40th Street New Orleans—William B. Wisdom, ’21, Ameri- can Bank Building New River and Greenbrier—Harry E. Moran, 718, Beckiey, West Virginia Norfolk—Gilbert R. Swink, ’35, National Bank of Commerce Building Northwest Louisiana—T. Haller Jackson, Jr., "48, Commercial Building, Shreveport Peninsula—Thomas P. Duncan, ’24, 601 River- side Drive, Warwick, Virginia Philadelphia—Allen Snyder, °41, 2114 Benezet Road, Abington, Pennsylvania. Piedmont — Stacey Gifford, °’24, Box 2875, Greensboro, North Carolina Pittsburgh—Anthony E. D’Emilio, Jr., ’41, 401 Plaza Building Richmond—Edward S. Boze, Jr. ’36, Hopper Paper Company Roanoke—J. D. Hobbie, III, ’37, 9 West Church Avenue San Antonio—John W. Goode, Jr., 48, 407-09 South Texas Building St. Louis—John L. Patterson, ’21, 4144 Lindell Boulevard Tri-State—H. Preston Henshaw, ’39, Hunting- ton, West Virginia Upper Potomac—William L. Wilson, Jr., ’38, 525 Cumberland Street, Cumberland, Md. Washington, D. C.—Arthur C. Smith, ’41, 13813 You Street, North West North Texas—John M. Stemmons, 31, 401 Re- public Bank Building, Dallas THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Published quarterly by The Washington and Lee University Alumni, Incorporated Drawer 897, Lexington, Virginia Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Lexington, Virginia, September 15, 1924 Printed at the Journalism Laboratory Press of Washington and Lee University Editor..........40. Harry K. (Cy) Youne, 1917 Class Notes Editor.............. Mary BARCLAY Vol. XXIX DECEMBER, 1953 No. 1 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. President... .. Witiuiam L. WEBsTER, 1912 Vice-President. ...Wyarr C. Hepricx, 1910 Secretary...... Harry K. (Cy) Younc, 1917 Treasurer... EMMETT W. PoINDEXTER, 1920 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Pau C. Burorp, 1913 Hucu J. Bonino, 1936 EMMETT W. PoINDEXTER, 1920 WiLuiAM L. WessTER, 1912 J. STEWART Buxton, 1936 Wyatt C. Heprick, 1910 JOHN F. HENDON, 1924 H. L. SHury, 1924 THE COVER In the dormitory quardrangle Fraternities set up for business—Annual Rushing. | Non Incautus Futuri ECORDED on the pages of more than two centuries of Washington and Lee history are countless instances of significant achievement: difficulties overcome, challenges met, opportunities grasped, men moulded in their for- mative years to fill subsequent roles of distinguished service to man- kind. But even as we reflect with justifiable pride on the heritage of strength that is ours, we are not unmindful of the future and our ob- ligations to it. We feel those obligations keenly. We recognize new opportunities, new goals that are all the more at- tainable because the position from which we advance is one of strength. Moreover, we realize that we must advance—that we must be active, not passive, postive, not neg- ative—if we are to assume in full the responsibilities that the future holds for us. To this end the Board of Trus- tees has been looking for several years to the establishment of a new administrative office charged with the important responsibility of ad- ministering a program of long- range planning and fund-raising for the University. That office be- came a reality in September with the arrival on the campus of Don- ald EK. Smith, formerly secretary- treasurer of the Worcester Poly- technic Institute Alumni Associa- tion, to assume the position of Di- rector of University Development. He set to work immediately, es- tablishing his office, acquiring a staff, acquainting himself with Washington and Lee and its peo- ple, and sketching in broad outline the form the Development Program eventually would take. As that out- line has become more definite in the 2 intervening weeks, it has become increasingly clear that intensive work is required in each of three broad areas. The first of these is that of careful study aimed at es- tablishing the University’s needs. The second is concerned with pre- senting and interpreting the Uni- versity, its functions, and its needs to Washington and Lee’s various publics. The third is that of fund- raising. To give initial guidance and impetus to work within each of these areas, a Steering Committee for University Development was established. The committee’s first decision was that the Development Program should determine and if possible satisfy not only the present needs of the University, but also those with which it will be faced during the next ten years. This position decided, seven additional committees were formed to study and to evaluate the relative im- portance of all needs related to the faculty, the students, the curricu- lum, and the physical plant (land, buildings, equipment, and the op- eration and maintenance of each). These committees are currently hard at work. To function within the second area, the Steering Committee es- tablished the Committee on Pub- lications and Publicity. This group is studying the University’s var- ious publics and evaluating the many ways in which those publics are reached or influenced by the University, its publications, per- sonnel, and policy. And this group is giving full attention to ways and means of improving both the effec- tiveness of our public relations pro- gram and the total impression Washington and Lee creates on its various publics. Looking to the eventual organi- zation and operation of various fund-raising programs, the Uni- versity Board of Trustees and the Steering Committee are now giving thought to the establishment of a University Development Council, which will have the dual respon- sibility of recommending fund- raising policy and overseeing the organization and operation of the various fund-raising programs that are inaugurated. This Council will be the University’s counterpart to the Alumni Association’s recently established Alumni Fund Commit- tee, which is charged with direct- ing fund-raising efforts of the Alumni Association. These two or- ganizations will work in closest cooperation to the common end that the University be better served. It would be impossible for me to overestimate the importance of this total development undertaking, for on its success hinge many things: the continuing welfare of our University, the preservation of cherished traditions, the fulfillment of opportunities for greater service and the attendant enhancement of prestige, the growth to fuller sig- nificance of the many values inher- ent in our very independence. To be successful we must rely gener- ously upon the time, the interests, and the energies of all segments of the University family. If they rise to the great challenges of the future as they have to those of the past— and I am confident they will—we can look with assurance to a third century of service that can only add to our usefulness as one of this na- tion’s leading independent institu- tions of higher education. cwcrn fr Momeni THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Buford Wilkinson “Annual giving has assumed in recent years the vital role of mak- ing it possible for Washington and Lee to maintain and improve its standards of education.” The foregoing is the stated con- viction of President Francis P. Gaines. In it the Alumni Board of Trustees takes both encourage- ment and a full measure of pride, for the Board has watched care- fully the Fund’s growth during the past two decades, from its first year of operation in 1933 when 505 Washington and Lee alumni gave a total of $3,724 until last year when 2,105 contributors swelled the University’s income with gifts totaling $44,520. More- over, we expect to see each of these records surpassed this year. Despite these encouraging gains, however, we must face the acknow- ledged fact that there are many University needs as yet unsatisfied. This fact has led us to compare carefully Washington and Lee’s Fund with those of similar high- ranking institutions; and the com- parison has forced us to the con- clusion that many gains are still to be made. These studies, along with our considered judgment of the latent interest of alumni in the Univer- sity, have convinced us that the Fund can be substantially im- proved. To this end, and patterned after the practice of the more suc- cessful Funds at other colleges, the Alumni Board of Trustees, with the endorsement of the University’s Administration, has authorized me as president to appoint an Alumni Rogers Scott Fund Committee to direct the so- licitation and collection of the an- nual Alumni Fund. I have named the following Alumni to this im- portant Committee: Col. Milton B. Rogers, ’?17, chairman, utilities executive, Lexington, Virginia; Paul C. Buford, ’13, vice-chairman, president, Shenandoah Life Insur- ance Company, Roanoke, Virginia; H. Graham Morison, ’30, partner, Morison, Clapp & Abrahams, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth P. Lane, °36, executive, David M. Lea, Inc., Richmond, Virginia; George B. Wilkinson, ’26, south- ern sales manager, Lane Paper Co., Charlotte, North Carolina; and I. M. Scott, ’37, executive, Winner Manufacturing Company, Trenton, _ New Jersey. In addition to the foregoing, the president and secretary of the Alumni Association will serve as ex-officio members. The Alumni Fund Committee held its initial meeting in the Alumni Offices on October 17, Webster Morison Lane March 15, and continue for two months. (The Committee reaf- firmed the long-held belief of the Alumni Association that the Class Agent system has been and will continue to be the core of an ef- fective program.) 3. Beginning about May 15 and continuing through the close of the campaign, personal solicitations will be conducted within selected geographical areas. 4. About two weeks before the close of the campaign, a final gen- eral mailing of the self-mailer type will be sent to all alumni who have not yet contributed. 5. The campaign will close on June 30 in order to make the Fund year coincide more closely with the fiscal year of both the Alumni Association and the University. The Alumni Fund Committee has pledged itself to spare no effort in presenting and interpreting to each alumnus the needs of Wash- ington and Lee and the way in which his participation in the new Acting upon Conviction 1953, and adopted the following Fund program for 1954. 1. The campaign will open with a general mailing to all alumni from the Fund Committee about February 1. 2. The second phase of the Fund program, that of the Class Agents’ letters, will begin about WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY by WiLLiAM L. WeEBsTER, 712 President, Alumni Association Fund program can be of valuable assistance in satisfying those needs. This pledge is based upon the Committee’s deep conviction that there is in the alumni body a great potential for future usefulness that can and will be developed to the everlasting credit of Washington and Lee. The University “... for one more year Washing- ton and Lee has met measurably well its opportunity and has been faithful to the trust.” Such were the encouraging words of President Francis P. Gaines in his annual re- port™ to the Board of Trustees which met on November 14 to transact the University’s business and to discuss the activities and progress of the past year. Dean of the University James G. *For the most part, material in this section is taken, much of it verbatim, from the annual reports made by the President and other administrative officers to the University’s Board of Trustees. 4, Leyburn called it “the first normal year since the depression began in 1929,” but was quick to point out that normality does not imply dull- ness. “Like most institutions,” he said, “the University divides it- self, in both faculty and student body, between those who resist change and those who, in varying degree, welcome it. The issues upon which faculty members and students divide are, of course, not often identical, and there are shift- ing alignments rather than conser- vative and liberal parties. All of this makes for liveliness, sometimes even to the point of acrimony; and it seems to guarantee that normal <@ Members of the Class of ’57 were introduced to the University and to each other during the annual Freshman Camp at Natural Bridge. years will not lead to complacency at the University.” Encouraging also are other evi- dences that serve to guarantee against complancency. TowaArRD GREATER SERVICES. “Thanks to another generous re- sponse,” Dr. Gaines informed the Board, “we seem to have assured for the University the new class- room building, sorely needed for enlarging services. It is my hope that this structure will be in use by the fall of 1954.” If everything goes according to plan, this build- ing will occupy a site (currently being used as a parking lot) at the north end of the back-campus, and will face the McCormick Library, which is at the south end of the mall. The building will contain eight classrooms, eight offices, a small auditorium, and a fine arts wing. ... AND BETTER Spirit. Look- ing to another University need, student leaders during the past year conducted what amounted to a campaign of education, especially in fraternity houses, to show the advantages of a freshman com- mons and upperclass dormitory and to answer objections to it. To fresh- man counselors, O.D.K., and the Christian Council, the opportunities inherent in having freshmen (and others who wish to do so) eat in a common dining hall, would do much to develop friendships within the first-year class that would re- sult in valuable additions both to class and school spirit. These in- terested parties made a strong case, with the result that the Board of Trustees authorized initial pro- cedures looking to the construction of such a building. The first step was to send a committee of the faculty and administration on a summertime study-tour of other institutions where similar buildings are in operation. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE NEEDED: SCHOLARSHIPS. Ac- cording to Dean Leyburn, two of the University’s greatest needs— assuming that those for the provi- sion of more classroom space and a freshman commons and upper- class dormitory are about to be met—concern scholarships and the alumni. “Io my mind,” he said, “our most immediate present need is increased scholarship aid. We have repeated evidence that fine boys from families of moderate means cannot come to Washington and Lee. Our student body begins to show definite signs of losing its widely representative quality: there are fewer students each year from small towns and high schools in the South, and more from Northern cities and preparatory schools; likewise, there are fewer men each year from the families of ministers and others of comparable income levels. This shift may not yet be a trend, but it will become one if we cannot attract outstanding § stu- dents, from whatever schools and towns, from whatever families and parts of the country, by scholar- ship aid. ...I believe it is impera- tive that we establish several scholarships, competitive in nature, each of which would pay from $1,200 to $1,500 a year for four years. Those institutions which have established such scholarships have enormously increased their prestige and academic records.” ALUMNI UNDERSTANDING. “Our next important need,” Dean Leyburn continued, “relates to alumni. ...I believe the majority of our alumni would wholeheart- edly welcome the reiterated state- ment that this University believes itself first and foremost an educa- tional institution, that scholarship is respected and encouraged, that the intellectual triumphs of stu- dents and faculty are more grati- fying to us than victories in sports, and that the University intends to spend much more money in schol- arship aid to students than to ath- letes.” A BaLancep BupcGe_Et. In his annual report Treasurer Earl 5S. Mattingly reported that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, the University had operated with a balanced budget despite expend}- tures totaling more than one million dollars. He also reported assets totaling $9,814,779, an increase of nearly $300,000 over the pre- ceding year. In addition, the Uni- versity’s interest in the principal of two trusts, based on the market value of the assets of those trusts, now amounts to more than one mil- lion dollars. This represents an in- crease of more than $200,000 over the previous year. JoInT COOPERATION. Destined to play an increasingly important role in University finance is the re- cently created Virginia Founda- tion for Independent Colleges, a corporate group founded by twelve Virginia colleges which derive no tax support. The V. F. I. C. was organized (1) to interpret the aims, functions, and needs of the mem- ber colleges with a view to a better understanding of their importance to the state and nation, (2) to so- licit and receive funds for their benefit and use, and (3) to foster and promote their progress and general welfare. “It is our hope,” Dr. Gaines de- clared in his Board report, “that the [Virginia Foundation] may make joint appeal to sources of income which might not be disposed or even able to help any one institu- tion, sources that may, however, support the cause as such, and thus empower the agencies that sustain that cause. Beginnings of this movement are small; attainments as yet are limited; possibilities are creat.” Washington and Lee is well represented in Foundation activi- ties. Dr. Gaines 1s currently serv- ing as president; James R. Caskie, 06, Rector of the University’s board, is a member of the Founda- tion’s Board of Trustees; and Lea WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Booth, ’40, formerly Director of Public Relations at Washington and Lee, serves as executive sec- retary. THE LAW SCHOOL Dean Clayton E. Williams re- ported to the Board with regard to significant activities of the Law School during the past year. In par- ticular he called attention to the inauguration of an active program by the Washington and Lee Stu- dent Bar Association. The Ameri- can Law Student Association was formed in St. Louis in 1949 under the auspices of the American Bar Association. Although the Uni- versity’s Law School was a charter member, the local chapter did not organize until 1951-52, and only the groundwork could be laid dur- ing that year. ‘The Association be- gan its work enthusiastically dur- ing 1952-53 and took over spon- sorship of the Moot Court work. This, together with the opening of the handsome new Moot Court room, greatly increased both the interest in this work and its effec- tiveness. Dean Williams also noted that a special committee of the faculty is now studying the curriculum with a view of making a report dur- ing the coming year as to the advis- ability of any changes that would seem appropriate in order to give our students the best possible in- struction in law. FACULTY SALARIES INCREASED. Dr. Gaines commented on the salary raise of 5 per cent that the Board had voted at its June meeting. It was the seventh raise granted since the close of World War II. “They have been small raises,” he said, “and they have not yet been ade- quate raises. Undoubtedly, how- ever, they bring encouragement and actual help to the competent and faithful men who make up our faculty and staff.” “The fact remains,” added 5 Donald E. Smith His office became a reality (Story on page 2) Dean Leyburn, “that the chief ele- ment of security for a teacher is an adequate salary. As compared with institutions of high academic stand- ing, Washington and Lee ranks... near the median. It should rank near the top.” BENEFITS AppED. There are other compensations allied with University teaching: the security of tenure in the higher ranks, the con- genial environment of a college town, and various group Insurance plans in which faculty members may participate, among them the social security program and a broad group policy for hospital care. An- other aid to faculty members with families was provided when the Board agreed, at the recommenda- tion of the faculty, to share in the Faculty Children’s Tuition Ex- change. Under this plan, sons and daughters of faculty members may attend, without tuition charges, any of sixty-three cooperating colleges. In turn, Washington and Lee agrees to accept, tuition-free, as many faculty children from other colleges in the group as our faculty members send to them. SCHOLARSHIP ENHANCED. In addition to faculty salaries and benefits, faculty accomplishments 6 and the contribution the Univer- sity’s grants-in-aid program has made to them should be empha- sized. In the opinion of many faculty members, this program, initiated in 1951 when the Carne- sie Foundation made the first of three annual gifts of $8,333 each for “the improvement of instruc- tion,” has proved to be one of the most stimulating developments of recent years. It is rarely possible for an instructor to incur the per- sonal expense of research in li- braries outside of Lexington, of secretarial work, of travel, and tui- tion at research universities. Conse- quently, the grants have released the pent-up scholarly investigations of many faculty members. It should be noted that the Board of Trustrees has voted to continue the grants-in-aid program with University funds. The significance of its doing so is indicated by the fact that during the three years the program operated on Carnegie Foundation funds, more than half the eligible members of the faculty applied for and received grants. In all, sixty-three individual awards were made with the result that twenty-two books and_ learned articles have been published or are in preparation. Mrs. Letitia PaTE Evans who died at her home in Hot Springs, Virginia, on November 14, remembered Washington and Lee generously in her will. After the payment of certain cash be- quests, the residue of her estate goes Into a foundation. Of the in- come from this foundation, Wash- ington and Lee is to receive fifteen per cent in perpetuity. Dr. Gaines said, “We shall not know for some time exactly what amount the University is to re- celve from this legacy. I am hope- ful, however, that it will prove to be among the large and important gifts in our institutional history.” There are other ways in which these grants achieve the announced purpose of improving instruction. Instructors are given an opportuni- ty to renew intensive study of their subjects in libraries, in the field, in courses at other universities, and abroad. They have the leisure and means to prepare new courses for the curriculum. The grant makes it possible for a teacher to bring his materials up to date, to learn the latest developments in his subject by study with authorities, to inaug- urate new lines of study that might prove to be contributions to learn- ing. Moreover, the award of a grant is a stimulating evidence that the University and one’s colleagues are interested in the scholarship of faculty members, the advancement of their reputation in the scholarly field, and the publication of their researches. UNDERGRADUATES PotitricAL REForm. “To my mind the spring of 1953 will be remembered gratefully by future students because of two student achievements: a political reform movement, and activity in behalf of a freshman commons [see above] and upperclass dormitory,” wrote Dean Leyburn in his report to the Board. As for political reform, he was referring to the clique system, which has long ruled student poli- tics and which was attacked in the autumn in a manifesto signed by prominent juniors. Their criti- cism resulted in the appointment of a representative committee to study the system and make recom- mendations. After months of con- ference, the committee proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the Student Body, to guarantee wide representation in elective of- fices and to eliminate monopoly control of office by one party. The amendment, though it received a plurality, lacked the necessary ma- jority approval, and so failed. In- deed, many friends of the reform THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE felt that the amendment proposed an artificial and unrealistic system. Discussion of student policies, however, had the practical effect of encouraging political activity, with the result that one fraternity, by shifting its party allegiance, brought the two groups into ap- proximate equality of potential strength. Spring elections resulted in a wider distribution of officers than has occurred in many years. (The faculty notes with approval that the president and vice-presi- dent of the student body are of different parties and are both mem- bers of Phi Beta Kappa.) It re- mains to be seen how permanent is the political change achieved. OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP. Student scholarship came in for its share of attention, too, par- ticularly since seniors set new records for the University in the matter of fellowship awards for graduate study. Three men re- ceived Fulbright Scholarships for a year of study abroad, and a fourth declined his award. (Each year since the scholarships were established the University has had one Fulbright Scholar.) The val- edictorian of the class received a handsome fellowship from the Na- tional Research Council. Other seniors received a Danforth Fel- Joseph L. Lanier lowship and a Rotary Club Fellow- ship (for study in Britain). Two seniors, appointed to fellowships from the General Education Board, declined them, one to go into ser- vice, and the other to accept a dif- ferent award. ABILITY IN Economics. Nor was this all. At the first Forum in Economics, sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange and various banking investment firms, a Washington and Lee _ student made so excellent an impression that the University was asked this summer to name two student rep- J. Stewart Buxton resentatives for the 1953 Forum. This is all the more remarkable since only thirty students are chosen from the whole country. LITERARY DisTINcTION. In the literary field, the student editors of Shenandoah achieved for their pub- lication an enviable position as one of the esteemed critical and literary journals of the country. Proof of this came when it was singled out to receive the $300 Bryher Award for literary distinction. “I know of no other publication in the country under student editor- ship,” Dean Leyburn stated, “that has such a record of achievement— especially without subsidization.” WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY The late Clarence Avery TRUSTEES CLARENCE RENSHAW AVERY, member of the University Board of Trustees since 1941, died Sep- tember 28, 1953, at his home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, follow- ing a lingering illness. For many years he had been one of Chat- tanooga’s most prominent civic, church and industrial leaders. Born in Pensacola, Florida, Oc- tober 25, 1891, Mr. Avery was educated in the Pensacola Classical School, from which he graduated in 1910, and came to Washington and Lee class of 1914. From 1917 to 1919 he was captain in the field artillery, U.S.A. After doing engineering work in Pensacola, Mr. Avery went to the Chattanooga Glass Company, and in 1934 was elected president and general manager of the com- pany, a position he held until his death. He was a director of the American National Bank and Trust Company of Chattanooga; the Cin- cinnati Coca-Cola Bottling Com- pany, and of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers; president of — the ‘Tennessee Association of Man- ufacturers; past president of the Chattanooga Manufacturers Asso- ciation; and a member of the board of the Glass Containers Manufac- turing Institute. Mr. Avery was closely associated with the First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, where he was an elder and for many years served as superintendent of the Sunday School. At the time of his death he was teacher of the Men’s Bible Class. He was a leader in many civic and charitable organizations. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary: Elizabeth Lupton Avery; one son, Lupton, ’41, a daughter, Mrs. Frank F. Duff, and four grand- children, Lupton Avery, Jr., and Clarence R. Avery, II, Frank Duff, Jr., and Clarence Avery Duff. J. STEWART Buxton, B.S. 736, Memphis cotton broker, and JOosEPH LAMAR LANIER, B.S. 727, textile manufacturer from West Point, Georgia, were elected mem- bers of the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees, at its meeting here on November 14. Their elections fill vacancies on the board caused by the deaths of former Virginia Governor George Campbell Peery, ’97, of Tazewell, and Clarence Avery, ’14, of Chat- tanooga, during the past 13 months. Buxton, who was awarded a bachelor of science degree from the School of Commerce in 1936, has taken his oath of office. He was on the campus attending an Alum- ni Board meeting when elected to the university board. Lanier, 4:7, who graduated with the class of 1927, accepted his ap- pointment by telephone. He is pres- ident and director of the West Point Manufacturing Company and Dixie Cotton Mills. He has been connected with the manufacturing company since he completed his college training at Lowell Textile Institute. He is also vice-president and director of the Lanett Bleach- ing and Dye Works, director of the Wehadke Yarn Mills and First National Bank, all of West Point; a trustee of the Institute of Textile Technology, Charlottesville, Vir- ginia, and of the Girls Training 8 School, Birmingham, Alabama. He is the father of three children, Joe, Jr., being in his third year at Washington and Lee. During World War II he served as civilian consultant for the Quartermaster General ETO, in Paris. Buxton, 39, served as director of the Memphis Merchants Ex- change in 1946 and is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. He is connected with the E. E. Buxton and Company cotton firm. The father of two children, he served with the Navy as a lieutenant dur- ing World War II. The Class of 195'7 ee 205th opening of Washing- ton and Lee University found it with the largest freshman camp in the history of the school, 258 students being present. When the freshmen returned from their get acquainted period at Natural Bridge, they found that their class numbered 285. Six transfer students were also on campus. ‘otal enrollment was 1,007. The freshmen could take pride in their acceptance at the Univer- sity. They were picked from 672 who completed applications, a 10 percent increase from last year. Although the 1952 class numbered 300, the 1953 class was deliber- ately made smaller to insure ade- quate room in the dormitory. Enrolled in the law school were 104 students, the exact figure for the same time last year. The freshmen were a cosmopol- itan group, 140 of their number coming from the South and 108 from the North. The remainder came from other sections and for- eign countries. Entering from prep schools were 134 new men while 14.9 came from public high schools. Here the public schools gained 1 percent from last year’s number. Dean of Students Frank Gilliam said the new class made a gratify- ingly good increase in their col- lege board averages, over those registered by the 1952 freshman. These latter in turn averaged higher on the exams than did those entering in 1951. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Dean Gilliam said the increase in scores has been substantiated in academic progress. Two years ago there were four advanced freshman English classes, as com- pared to eight sections of compo- sition. This year the situation is reversed, eight advanced sections and four of composition. Last year 122 freshmen made 211 U’s (indic- ative of unsatisfactory work in a course) in the October report of the faculty. This year only 100 freshmen received a comparatively meager 164 “unsatisfactories.” A further gratifying fact was the large number of entering stu- dents who chose Washington and Lee in preference to some of the strongest colleges in the country, at which they had also been ac- cepted. However, Dean Gilliam added that we must face the fact that though our enrollment figures are increasingly encouraging, Wash- ington and Lee’s weakest point is her increased tuition. This, he said, makes it more difficult to obtain students from Southern high schools. “Many of these students are cer- tainly the type which we would like to have in our student body. The alumni could help us here by bringing Washington and Lee to the attention of those students, and the students to our attention.” In the resident classification of students Washington and Lee can still lay claim to being one of the most cosmopolitan universities in the country. Among her 1,007 stu- dents are young men from 36 states the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Bermuda, and 15 foreign countries. Leading the list is Virginia with 207 favored sons on campus. Mary- land follows with 82, New York’s 77 1s a close third, while West Virginia closes out the top five with 57. Other states and their totals: Al- abama-23; Arkansas-11; Cali- fornia-4; Colorado -3; Connecticut- Sentiments were expressive 22; Delaware-6; Florida-38; Geor- gia-18; — [Ilinois-21; Indiana-6; Iowa-2; Kentucky-32; Louisiana- 16; Maine-4; Massachusetts-1; Michigan-8; Mississippi-11; Mis- sourl-17; New Jersey-55; New Mexico-2; and North Carolina 14. Also, Ohio-54; Oklahoma-7; South Carolina-14; Tennessee-30; Texas-27; District of Columbia-35; Arizona, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming with one each. From foreign points, England and Bermuda each have two rep- resentatives at Washington and Lee. Sending one student are Aus- WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY tria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Bel- gian Congo, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Hawaii, Hol- land, Jordan, Mexico, Puerto Ri- co, Sweden and Uruguay. The beginning of school also found 232 men pledging frater- nities. Delta Tau Delta led with 22 new pledges. Phi Delta Theta pledged 19 while the Delta Upsi- lon’s garnered 18 new freshmen. While the percentage of the freshmen “going fraternity” was less than previous years (81 per cent this year), many of the re- maining freshmen are now join- ing during deferred rushing. The Fall Sports Season had A Happy Ending It was a football season that opened with a rush, seemed to stretch on endlessly in the middle and ended all too soon. Undefeated in November! That’s the fond memory the 1953 Gen- erals left behind. Victories in suc- cession over Davidson, Virginia and William and Mary. And all by convincing scores. The happy ending to the season actually started November 7 in Winston-Salem where the Gen- erals, losers of six straight, met Davidson, also loser of six in a 10 row. The convincing 34-7 victory set the Generals rolling until the season’s final whistle blew on No- vember 21 in Williamsburg. Sandwiched between the Wins- ton-Salem and Williamsburg wins was the Homecoming victory against the University of Virginia. This was most-wanted and most- enjoyed. It made the Homecom- ing celebration complete. Advance ticket sales to alumni for the Virginia game were the heaviest in the 32-year career of Athletic Director Cap’n Dick Bolt hits pay dirt against Virginia Smith. This despite the two teams’ records up to that time. Lexington eagerly awaited the invasion of the Wahoos and student enthusiasm was boiling over. Fraternity houses, cleverly decorated and planning for their own parties, had made banner preparations. The Alumni Association welcomed a_record- sized gathering at its luncheon two hours before the kickoff. The entire set of plans threat- ened to collapse 18 seconds after the game started. In that brief period a Virginia back, Henry Strempek, had run back the open- ing kickoff 93 yards for a touch- down. The plans surely sagged moments after that crushing start when the Generals fumbled on their first play from scrimmage. That fumble, as things turned out, gave the Wahoos their last chance to cheer. The Generals re- fused to crack, held for downs and promptly marched 64 yards for a touchdown behind the superb quarterbacking of Joe Lindsey and the flashy running of Halfback THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Carl Bolt. Big Harold Brooks kick- ed the extra point to put the Gen- erals ahead to stay. Before the quarter had ended the Generals had another score, moving 24 yards in six plays for the touchdown. Two more followed in the second quarter, the first on an 84-yard drive and the second on a march of 56 yards. It mat- tered little that Virginia managed one score in the middle of all the WA&L parades. The second half was tame by comparison. The Generals con- tinued to march but penalties and a fumble or two held them score- less. Virginia could make no ser- ious threats. The victory by the 27-13 score set off a celebration second only to the one that followed the 42-14 victory over the Wahoos in 1951. Coach Carl Wise, who had died a thousand times during the long Oc- tober stretch, was carried from the field on the shoulders of the Gen- erals. To make the day a clean sweep for Washington and Lee, Coach Dick Miller’s varsity and fresh- man cross-country teams scored wins over the Virginia harriers. Captain Walter Diggs, the newly- crowned cross-country champion of the Big Six, led the way for the varsity. Before the shouting had sub- sided and before the decorations had been ripped down by cele- brants, the Alumni Association’s awards for the best decorated houses went to: (1) Sigma Nu (2) Sigma Chi (3) Zeta Beta Tau (4) Sigma Alpha Epsilon. What happened the following week at Williamsburg was almost as much fun; there just wasn’t the Homecoming crowd around to en- joy it. William and Mary had an im- posing record. The Indians’ had blanked Richmond, 21-0, the week before and were favored to gain at least a tie for the State title by defeating the Generals. But the November Generals had tasted two victories and were hun- ery for a third. They dominated early play and moved 70 yards in 12 plays during the second quar- ter to lead, 7-0. W&M tied it up on the passing of Charlie Sumner in the third period—but the tie lasted for only a few seconds. Carl Bolt dashed 90 yards on the kickoff following the Indian’s score and this brilliant run ended the contest, for all intents. The Gener- als bagged three more scores 1n the final period, Bolt getting two of them and Tackle Jay Heckmann earning the other by blocking a punt. The final score: Washington and Lee 33, W&M 7. For Seniors Bill McHenry, the fine All-State center; Quarterback Joe Lindsey, the leading gainer in the Southern Conference; Guard Tom Fieldson, a three-year regular; Tackle Jay Heckmann, Fullback Ciro Barcellona and Halfback War- ren Moody the victory was the fi- nal one of their careers at Wash- ington and Lee. To celebrate the victory the alumni, friends and team were guests of the Peninsula and Rich- mond Alumni Chapters at a cock- tail party in the Game Room of the Williamsburg Inn. The sea- son ended on the happiest possible note. A resume of the season follows: Shepherd College, of West Vir- ginia, a newcomer to the W&L schedule, provided little opposition in the opening game. The Generals, their regulars playing about half the time, rolled for more than 600 yards to a 47-0 victory. Coach Wise had scheduled the Rams late in the Spring to give the team a game under its collective belts be- fore tangling with Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. _ The Generals moved to College Park and the following Saturday the results failed to provide a sur- prise. For nearly a quarter, how- ever, W&L had the upper hand, moving deep into Terp territory on a drive. Captain McHenry was taken from the field with a shoul- der injury that was to keep him out of play until October 17 and, moments later, Halfback Eddie Landis, who had sparked the drive, had to be benched with a charley horse. The Terps began to move, scoring late in the first period and going on from there to win, 53 to O. Hopes were still high that the Generals might surprise George And bad news it was! Minks 27, Wahoos 13 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY 1] Barclay’s North Carolina team at Chapel Hill the following week. The Tar Heels never did stop Lind- sey, Barcellona, Sargent et al but fumbles did. Eight of them ruined drive after drive. It mattered lit- tle that the Generals outgained the Tar Heels, 308 yards to 272. The final score told only that North Carolina won, 39 to O. The long trip to Morgantown for the West Virginia contest was made longer with the knowledge that Captain McHenry, End Buck Pratt and three other squad mem- bers would be unable to play. Still, the Generals made a ball game of it for 55 minutes against a mas- sive Mountaineer team that scored seven straight victories before losing. With five minutes to go the Generals trailed, 27-14, and were on the march. That old bugaboo, a fumble, cropped up again, West Virginia capitalized on it to score and W&L hopes died. An inter- cepted W&L pass gave the Moun- taineers another late score in the 40-14 defeat for the Big Blue. ~ Returning to their own class and bolstered by the return of Captain McHenry, the Generals welcomed the invasion of Richmond’s im- proved Spiders on October 17, Lindsey, Carl Bolt, Don Weaver and the other ball-carriers rolled at will during the first half to post a 19-7 lead. The game changed 12 its complexion completely with the beginning of the third period. The Spiders took command but could not score until the opening of the fourth quarter. The exhausted Generals—it was an _ unusually warm day for October—fought back but the manpower just wasn’t there. Richmond, blessed with 48 players, alternated teams during the second half and went on to win, 27-19. It was a bitter pill to swal- low. For the first time in 20 years, the Generals traveled to Blacks- burg for VPI’s homecoming where a crowd of 11,000 hoped to see the Gobblers score their first win over WA&L since 1947. Taking advan- tage of a brisk wind and capitaliz- ing on early W&L miscues, VPI scored twice in the opening quar- ter and once in the second. The Generals rallied in the final two periods to play the Techs to a standstill but the early lead could not be overcome. Tech won, 32-12. Under-rated George Washing- ton, gaining momentum as the sea- son progressed, rubbed salt in the W&L wounds the following Sat- urday by utilizing superior forces. The Generals’ attack bogged down for the first time. Still, the home team managed a 7-6 third quarter lead before its battered and bruised players succumbed to constant pressure of playing against fresh men. The Colonials won, 25-7. Davidson, like W&L had lost six in a row when the two old rivals met at neutral Wiainston- Salem. It was supposed to be a close ball game but the Generals, off to a fast start, rolled to a 34-7 win and used the first-stringers sparingly. The momentum from that game carried over to the home- coming contest with Virginia. Cross-Country Captain Walt Diggs breezed home ahead of the pack in the Big Six meet to give W&L the indi- vidual winner.» The team finished second behind VMI. Coach Dick Miller’s team finished fourth a couple of weeks later in the South- ern Conference meet. In all, W&L showed steady improvement in compiling a 4-4 dual meet record and can be expected to continue to move upward next year with the addition of several fine frosh run- ners. The record (low score wins): W&L 15, Hampden-Sydney 48; W&L 35, W&M 77 and Bridge- water 27; W&L 43, Lynchburg 17; W&L 59%, Davidson 63/2, and VMI 18; W&L 30, Roanoke 25; W&L 22, Virginia 33. Gen- erals finished second in the Big Six meet and fourth in Southern Con- ference meet. Soccer Coach Norm Lord’s soccer team, the only one in the Southern Con- ference, was handicapped by a lack of scoring punch and inexperienced personnel. The Generals lost eight contests. Co-Captain Jim Lewis was voted the most valuable player and Carl Bailey was the most im- proved. Next year the squad will be bolstered by Bill Boyle and Beldon Butterfield, up from the freshman squad, and should be much im- proved. The season’s record: W&L O, Virginia 5; W&L 3, Roanoke 6; W&L 1, Duke 4; W&L 1, North Carolina 4; W&L 0, State 6; W&L O, Roanoke 3; W&L 1, Virginia 6; W&L 0, Maryland 3. Lindsey THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OMETIMES overlooked in the accounts of Chief Jus- tice Vinson’s carer as a prominent figure in Government for 30 years is the view of him as a home-loving, warm-hearted man who preferred bridge and baseball to Washing- ton social life. I roomed with the Chief Jus- tice’s son, Fred, Jr., at Washing- ton and Lee University and played on the baseball team with him from 1947 to 1949. During those years and since then, I have known the Chief Justice as a bridge partner or opponent. I have also known him as a dignified, but friendly man who loved to talk baseball and other sports by the hour. Sunday night was. bridge night at the Vinson apartment in the Sheraton Park Hotel. Every week, “The Judge,” as he preferred to be called, Fred, South Trimble, III, and I played six rubbers while Mrs. Vinson watched television. Jimmy Vinson, now in the Army, played when he was at home. Ev, the Vinsons’ housekeeper since be- fore young Fred was born, served a light snack around 11. Often Mrs. Vinson would make fudge or Ice cream. The judge looked forward to these informal sessions, turning down numerous invitations so he could keep Sunday night free. He played a good game with little or no conversation, erring if at all on the optimistic rather than con- servative side in the bidding. A friend of both former Pres- ident ‘Truman and President Ejisen- hower, the Judge played cards with both frequently. He had poker sessions with President Truman aboard the yacht Williamsburg, at Shangri-La and Key West. He played bridge with President Eisen- hower at the White House. But according to Mrs. Vinson he was never so happy as when he was playing bridge or talking with friends of Fred or Jimmy. He was The Judge and Fred, Jr., at Commencement, 1948 Vinson Vignette By Brian BELL, JR., 749% interested in his sons’ activities and athletics. In September, 1948, Fred, Jr., returned from vacationing in Washington to play third base for Big Island, Virginia, a semi-pro team, in the league championship games. The Judge decided he would like to watch the games. I was returning to W&L for football practice and went with them. The three of us drove to Lexington, then over to Big Island—just a wide spot in the road but swollen that weekend for the big games. The Judge and I took seats near the home team bench. With Big Island trailing, 2-3, in the last of the eighth inning, Fred beat out a bunt. He was still on first with two out. The Big Island manager was a local man who *This story by Mr. Bell appeared in the Washington Evening Star, Septem- ber 9, 1953. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY knew little about baseball so the Judge decided to help him. First he asked me if Fred was as fast as ever. I said, yes, and the Judge signaled the manager over. “Send him down,” he whispered. The manager gave the sign and Fred stole second. The next man singled and Fred came in to tie the score. In the tenth inning the first Big Island batter got on first. Again the Judge called the manager over. “Put him down,” he said. The bat- ter sacrificed the runner to second, and the next hitter won the game with a base hit. In later years the Judge loved to hear Fred or me tell how he managed Big Island to victory in the playoffs. The Judge was sleeping on the lower bunk of Fred’s double-decker bed in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house at W&L and that Sunday night he called for a bridge game. 13 We obtained a fourth and sat down for “a couple of rubbers” since I had to get up early the next day for football practice. Fred and I played the Judge and his partner a set game and at mid- night I tried to leave. The Judge asked what the score was and finding they were behind called for another rubber. At 1:30 [ at- temped to end the game again. The Judge was still behind and authori- tatively called for “one more rub- ber,” explaining to me there would be little practice that day he was sure. At 3 a.m. the rubber was completed and the Judge asked the score. He and his partner were fin- ally ahead. “Well, it’s very late,” he said with a smile, “I guess we all ought to go to bed.” The next day after having told the coach previously that I was in perfect shape, I became sick in the middle of practice. The Judge always maintained it was my poor condition, not the late bridge game that caused the illness. The Vinsons were frequent visi- tors to Washington and Lee when Fred and later, Jimmy were there. Once the Judge came down during rush week when the fraternities were vieing for the best freshmen. The Judge was a Phi Delta Theta but Fred had promised that his father would be at the Beta house for dinner. Dinner arrived but the Chief Justice did not. The Judge finally came to the Beta house at 10:30 when all rush parties were over for the night. To our horror he had been at the Phi Delta house for five hours. “No one asked me to the Beta house,” he laughed, “and the Phi Deltas did.” : Fred was not popular with the Betas for a while. Recently, the Vinsons became grandparents. They made a special trip to Kentucky to see Jimmy’s son and brought back glowing ac- counts of the baby. The Judge was 14 a proud grandfather, complete with photographs of his new-born grand- son, when he returned to Wash- ington. The Vinsons entertained hard- ly at all. However, they were hosts to friends of Fred and Jimmy fre- quently for dinner. Until a few years ago they gave a big Christ- mas eve party for their sons’ friends every year. At the annual Army-Navy foot- ball game, again the Judge thought first of his sons’ friends. The Chief Justice and Mrs. Vinson were often the guests of the President, but the Chief Justice’s box was always filled with young people. And it was with young people the Judge always looked to talk. He would tell stories of his college days as a shortshop for Centre College and semipro teams in Ken- tucky. He liked to boast a little about the time he raced from his Three Ed's with shortstop position to the left field boxes at Griffith Stadium to catch a foul ball in a congressional base- ball game. He discussed all sports with an expert’s opinion. The Judge was a frequent visi- tor to Griffith Stadium to watch the Nats or Redskins play. He sel- dom missed a sporting event on television. It is no surprise that the night before he died the Judge and Fred had been watching a football game on television. This is the Chief Justice I knew. To me he was not only a personal friend but more like a second father whose advice was always sound. He will be remembered by those who knew him intimately, not only as a great government servant, but as a warm, bushy-browed man with a twinkle in his eye who loved his home with its bridge, television and conversation more than the po- litical arena. The United Press The three Washington and Lee “Fid’s,” whose pictures appear opposite, are handling top coverage for the United Press Association in some of the world’s most strate- sic positions. Robert Edward Jackson, A.B. 4.5, has been named chief corres- pondent and manager of the United Press in Italy. Edward M. Korry, B.A. ’42, has been chief corres- pondent and manager for France since 1951, with headquarters in Paris. C. Edmonds Allen, B.A. ’32, is director of United Press special services, with headquarters in New York. RoBERT Epwarp JACKSON. Since the United Press assigned him to London in 1949, Robert Edward Jackson has been known as a specialist in reporting Euro- pean reaction to events in Korea and the Far East. His work in the British capital has in the main been concerned with political and diplomatic af- fairs, such as the general elections, Downing Street, the Foreign Office and the House of Commons. But he has covered as well stories of wide general interest: the sinking of the Flying Enterprise, Elizabeth Taylor’s marriage to Michael Wild- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE ing, the death of King George. Jackson joined the United Press in New York in 1947. His first story there was the leap to freedom, in 1948, of the Russian school- teacher, Mrs. Oksana Kansenkina. The late World War interrupted Jackson’s attendance of Wash- ington and Lee University, from which he was finally graduated in 194.7, cum laude. His service was in the Pacific where for a year and a half he was communications and deck officer, with the rank of leu- tenant junior grade, aboard the U. S. attack transport Cleburne. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, North Caro- lina. There he had his first news- paper experience, reporting for the Times and News, and serving as a sports correspondent for the Winston-Salem Journal Sentinel. He was married to the former Christina Margaret Reid in 1949 and they have two sons, both born in London, Roger Reid, and Blair Britton. He is a member of Phi Kappa Sigma social fraternity. Epwarp M. Korry was night manager of the United Press bu- reau in Berlin and the news ser- vice’s chief Balkan correspondent before his appointment in 1951 as manager for France. His coverage for the United Press of Hungary’s trial of Cardi- Ed Jackson nal Mindszenty first made Korry’s by-line known the world over. He was the only press service staff correspondent able to get to Buda- pest for the trial. To be a newspaper man, Korry sacrificed a ready-made future as a doctor. His father and others in his family were physicians. They prevailed upon him to take a pre- medical course at Washington and Lee. But while at college he worked part time for the Richmond Times- Dispatch, the Roanoke Times and a news agency. When he received his degree in 1942 he got himself a job in the NBC newsroom in New York. Ed Allen Korry joined the United Press in New York later the same year. He became radio editor, and later radio bureau manager, before go- ing to London in 1947. He inter- rupted his foreign assignment in April of the following year to cover, for several months, the United Nations meeting at Lake Success. He was born in New York in 1922, was married to Marian Pa- tricia McCarthy July 7, 1950. He is a member of Zeta Beta Tau so- cial fraternity. C. EpmMonps ALLEN was grad- uated from Washington and Lee, Class of 1932, cum laude. In 1933 he worked on the now defunct edi- WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Ed Korry tion of the Chicago Tribune. Spent two years on the St. Louis Post Dis- patch, starting in 1934. He joined the United Press in 1936, and has been through prac- tically the entire organization, handling editorial and administra- tive assignments coast to coast. The various assignments have in- cluded: covering the Louisiana election in 1940 when Sam Jones gave the Long machine its first de- feat in a decade by defeating Earl Long in the gubernatorial primary; attending the national political conventions in 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952 for the United Press; also the United Nations Confer- ence in San Francisco in 1945. His present job is Director of Special Services for the United Press. This division handles news services for the radio and television networks, commentators, maga- zines, special information wires and the collection of major features for the Continental, British and Oriental newspapers. This year he spent a month in London and Paris, establishing a new foreign features service for the United Press. He was married to Helen Mc- Creery in 1940 and they have three children, a daughter, Alice, son, Claxton Edmonds, III, and Mollie. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. 15 RESIDENT GAINES left the campus on October 15, for an extended trip, visiting local alumni chapters in the South and South- west: Birmingham, Alabama, on October 16; Northwest Louisiana (Shreveport), October 19; Houston, Texas, October 20; San Antonio, Texas, October 21; North Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth), October 23; and Mid-South (Memphis), Oc- tober 26. At each of these meet- ings Dr. Gaines was the principal speaker. | BIRMINGHAM Birmingham alumni held a din- ner meeting at the Downtown Club on October 16 with twenty-four alumni present. Due to the fact that the meeting was held on the week- end of the Alabama-Tennessee football game, played in Birming- ham, which is a big event locally, the attendance at the meeting was not as great as expected. Many alumni having out-of-town guests or previous commitments, were un- able to attend. The Birmingham chapter is planning a big meeting for all the alumni in that area early next spring for the purpose of organiz- ing a strong, active chapter. NORTHWEST LOUISIANA Dr. Gaines arrived in Shreve- port on Sunday, October 18; was met at the station by a group of alumni, and entertained informally throughout the evening and the following morning by friends. A 16 One hundred Mid-South alumni honor Dr. Gaines With the Local Chapters banquet was held on the evening of the 19th in the Garden Room of the Captain Shreve Hotel, which was attended by sixty alumni, par- ents of boys now in school and friends of the University. Among the guests were several prospec- tive students who had expressed interest in entering Washington and Lee next session. James W. Hammett, ’41, president of the chapter, presided. In the course of the business ses- sion the following officers were elected: T. Haller Jackson, Jr., 4.8, President; Richard C. Eglin, "44, Vice-President, and J. Luther Jordan, Jr., ’42, Secretary-Treas- urer. HOUSTON While in Houston Dr. Gaines was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. John Wall. The dinner meeting was held at the River Oakes Coun- try Club, preceded by a social hour. Rev. John McCormick, 743, gave the invocation. There were seventy-one alumni and guests in attendance, including several from surrounding territory. Three of the guests were parents of Houston boys who are now students at the University. Ben Ditto, ’43, presi- dent of the chapter and Milton Morrison, ’°38, were in charge of preparations for the meeting. SAN ANTONIO When Dr. Gaines arrived in San Antonio on October 21, he was presented with an official proclamation of welcome from the Mayor and also with a souvenir La Villita plate, which is San Antonio’s version of the traditional key to the city. The dinner meeting was held in the Tapestry Room of the St. An- thony Hotel, with 35 persons pres- ent including six prospective Wash- ington and Lee students. Bob Witt, 13, presided at the meeting and THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Bill Fowlkes, 35, introduced Dr. Gaines. The morning after the meeting Dr. Gaines made a brief address at Texas Military Institute, where he received an enthusiastic reception. Arrangements for the meeting were made by John Goode, Jr., 4.3, president of the chapter. NORTH TEXAS The North Texas Chapter (Dal- las-Forth Worth) held a dinner meeting at the Downtown Club in Dallas on October 23, with 64 guests present, alumni and their wives, parents of students, friends of the University and five senior high school students (each express- ing interest in attending Washing- ton and Lee). “Dr. Gaines gave an inspirational message about ac- tivities of the University. He even included a bit of humor and finally reached down inside and touched something, to bring forth a feel- ing of participation with him in the dedication which he gives to the great work which he has done.” Business of the meeting included the election of John Stemmons, ’31, president of the Dallas chapter. Harry C. Rand, ’27, will continue in that capacity for Fort Worth until they have a separate meeting and election there. MID SOUTH The Mid-South Chapter includ- ing West Tennessee, Eastern Ar- kansas and North Mississippi, held its annual meeting at the Univer- sity Club in Memphis on October 26, with alumni from all this area present,—approximately 100 strong. William B. Morgan, ’41, president of the chapter was in charge of making the extensive preparations for the meeting, which was outstandingly successful. New officers elected to serve for the en- suing year were S. L. Kopald, Jr., "43, president, Harry W. Well- ford, ’47, vice-president, and Nor- fleet Turner, ’24, secretary treas- urer. APPALACHIAN The Appalachian Chapter held a dinner meeting at the Country Club in Kingsport, ‘Tennessee, on October 23, with sixty alumni and guests present. Jerry F. Stone, ’26, president of the chapter, presided, and Dr. Marcellus Stow repre- sented the University and was the principal speaker for the occasion. Officers of the chapter elected to serve for the ensuing year were Waldo G. Miles, °34, president, and Homer A. Jones, ’42, secre- tary-treasurer, both of Bristol, Vir- oinla. RICHMOND Alumni of Richmond, Virginia, met October 21 for a smoker at the William Byrd Hotel, which was well attended. The primary business was planning a bus trip of Washington and Lee Alumni to Williamsburg for the game with William and Mary on November 21. The composite movie of W. and L. 1952 games was shown. Officers elected to serve for the ensuing year were: Edward S. Boze, ’36, president; Paul M. Shu- ford, ’43, vice-president; L. Gordon Miller, Jr., 45, secretary; and Gar- land M. Harwood, Jr., ’47, treas- urer. UPPER POTOMAC The Upper Potomac Association of Washington and Lee Alumni held its summer meeting at the social rooms of The Queen City Brewing Company, Cumberland, Maryland, on Friday, August 7, with 15 members present. After a general business meet- ing the following officers were elected for the coming year: J. Goodloe Jackson, president; Paul D. Pickens, vice-president; and William L. Wilson, secretary- treasurer. ROANOKE The annual fall meeting of the Roanoke, Virginia, chapter of Washington and Lee alumni was WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY held at the Roanoke Country Club on October 4, 1953, with some 70 local alumni and their wives pres- ent. Dr. Francis P. Gaines was the principal speaker, bringing the group up to date on University af- fairs, and stating that college stu- dents of the past decade had faced tensions unknown to past genera- tions. Don Smith, director of Univer- sity Development, spoke briefly on the work of his office. | J. D. Hobbie, III, ’37, was elect- ed president of the Roanoke alumni to succeed Barton Morris, Jr., '43. Other new officers are Beverly Fitz- patrick, °43, vice-president and William B. Hopkins, °42, Secre- tary. VIRGINIA PENINSULA Dr. Robert H. Tucker, former Dean of the University, was an in- spiring speaker at the first ladies night meeting of the Virginia Pen- insula Alumni Chapter on Sep- tember 11. The meeting was held at the James River Country Club, at Newport News, with approx- imately 30 alumni and guests present. In his talk, Dr. Tucker paid special tribute to the high calibre of Washington and Lee’s_ student body and its sense of honor and responsibility. He emphasized the fact that the University first grew up in a frontier region and asserted that through the years it had main- tained some of the fresh, eager enterprise of the West as well as the suavity of the Eastern seaboard states. Emphasizing this point, he pointed to early work which Washington and Lee did in educa- tion for business and public ser- vice, especially in the contribution of Robert E. Lee and in its early course in public administration. Now special consultant to the State Department of Highways, Dr. Tucker was for many years (Continued on page 22) 17 95.... Dr. Charles J. Boppell, after serving as a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in Africa, and as minister in churches in this country, is now retired and devotes his time to the writing and distribution of tracts on “Bible Mastery,’ which are distributed in ev- ery state and several foreign countries. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Whitworth College. Spo- kane, Washington, in July 1952. Ad- dress: 2666 37th Avenue, S. W., Seattle 6, Washington. O2.... J. P. Wall, after an illness which in- capacitated him for some time, is now in excellent health and has resumed his law practice. Address: 9101 View Avenue, Seattle, Washington. O7 «2 David H. Hill writes that he is just about retiring after thirty-five and one- half years with Merritt, Chapman & Scott, construction corporation. For the past two years he has been on construc- tion jobs for his company, nine months in Jacksonville, Florida; then in Canada for a new plant Ford was building at Oakville, Ontario; then in Bermuda for additions the company is building for U. S. Kindley Air Base there. He is now back at his home, 310 Edgewood Avenue, Westfield, New Jersey. Dr. A. R. Larrick is Executive Secre- tary of Home Missions of St. John’s Presbytery, Plant City, Florida, which position he has held for the past eight years. Before that -he was twenty-six years as Stated Supply at the Plant City Presbyterian Church and ran the home missions in the Presbytery in his spare time. Dr. Frank McCutchan, after receiv- ing his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Wash- ington and Lee, went to the University of Virginia Medical School where he 18 graduated in 1920 with the M.D. degree. He has specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases in Salisbury, North Car- olina, since 1927. Address: 420 Wallace Building, Salisbury, North Carolina. Rev. I. L. Llewellyn spent fourteen years in the teaching profession, and since that time has been a Methodist minister, serving churches in Georgia and in Virginia. Address: Monroe, Vir- ginia. O8.... Hunter J. Phlegar is still practicing law in Christiansburg, Virginia, hand- ling civil work and that of the United States Commissioner. He is president of the Bank of Christiansburg, the oldest bank in the county. His father was pres- ident of the bank from the time of or- ganization until he died 24 years later. Judge William Gilmer Long lives in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, County Seat of Garvin County. It is a little city of about 8,000 people and one of the best farming sections of Oklahoma and also one of the leading counties in oil production. His son, W. G., Jr., is practicing law with him. Address: 321 West Rennie, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. Alonzo B. McMullen, senior member of the law firm of A. B. and E. J. Mc- Mullen, 308 Tampa Street Building, Tampa 1, Florida, has had many out- side engagements in addition to prac- ticing law and raising citrus fruit. He has served seven years as Chairman of the Court House Committee in Tam- pa in planning and financing, and build- ing the new Court House; also served seven years as Chairman of the Hills- borough County Soil Conservation Dis- trict; and four years as Director of Florida Citrus Mutual. O9.... Amos L. Herold has recently retired as head of the English Department of Arkansas College, Batesville, Arkansas, where he has been serving for the past five years. Address: 1209 W. Eighth Street, Austin, Texas. EO... The Reverend and Mrs. James N. Montgomery have returned to their mission field in Formosa after a fur- lough spent at Mission Haven, off the campus of Columbia Theological Sem- inary, Decatur, Georgia. At Mission Haven they have three of their children with, or near them, and three grand- children. A missionary furlough is not ,exactly a vacation, for the Montgom- erys were constantly on the go visiting churches all over the Southern Presby- terian area. After serving for many years in the China Mission field, they were transferred to Formosa. Address: 105 (2) North Chung Shan Road, Tai- pei, Formosa. Mail will always reach them addressed to P. O. Box 332, Nash- ville, Tennessee. Elton Watkins, after graduation here, received the LL.B. degree from Georgetown University and _ entered upon the practice of law in Portland, Oregon. He volunteered for duty in World War I and was assigned to FBI duties, and when the armistice was de- clared, resumed the practice of law. In 1919 he was elected U. S. Attorney for the District of Oregon. In 1922 he was elected to the 68th Congress. His prac- tice has been general with litigation in all courts, Federal and State, from the Supreme Court of the United States and of the State of Oregon to all lesser courts. Mr. Watkins was married in 1918 and he and his wife have two chil- dren and two grandsons. 11.... O. H. Breidenbach served as a Fellow for the Teachers Visiting Program of the American Association of University Teachers of Insurance with the Shen- andoah Life Insurance Company at Roanoke, Virginia, from August 7 to September 4, 1953. Paul C. Buford, 713, is president of this company. Mr. Breid- enbach is assistant professor of insur- ance and business administrator in the College of Commerce at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louis- lana. Dr. Samuel O. Pruitt has had four sons at Washington and Lee, 8S. O. Pruitt, Jr., °41; James Kennedy Pruitt, °50; Richard Taylor Pruitt, 51; and William Burton Pruitt, *50. Three of them were in school at the same time. His home is at 715 Greenville Street, Anderson, South Carolina. W. A. Reid, after leaving Washington and Lee was principal of high schools in Botetourt County for seven years, but for the past 33 years he has been with the First National Bank, Troutville, Virginia, of which he is now vice- president and cashier. Judge Harry J. Lemley, United States district judge of the eastern and western districts of the state of Ar- THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE kansas, aside from his professional in- terests, is an archeologist of note, with professional standing. There isn’t an important anthropologist in Amer- ica who hasn’t heard of him and his museum. In the garden at his farm home just outside of the small city of Hope, Arkansas, is a fireproof building housing the largest private museum de- voted exclusively to Indian archeology in the United States. Lewis G. Cooper, after leaving Wash- ington and Lee, attended Trinity Col- lege (now Duke University) complet- ing the law course there in 1913, moved to Greenville, North Carolina, and has been practicing law there, with the exception of time spent in service in 1917-1918. He was married in 1919 and has two daughters, now both married and raising families of their own. Edward E. Brown continues to serve as general agent for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company in Chatta- nooga, Tennessee. He has seven chil- dren, two girls and five boys, and on June 17, he served as best man for his fifth son, who graduated this year from North Carolina, making five successive weddings he has served as best man for his own boys. Michael Brown has been in the tim- ber and lumber business since leaving school in 1911 and has operated in the South from Brunswick, Georgia, until 1926. Since that time he has operated the M. Brown Timber Company in Matawan, New Jersey. John S. Mullings is in the general contracting business, specializing in building construction, under the firm name of Dye & Mullings, Inc., Colum- bia, Mississippi. His firm operates in Mississippi and Louisiana. | re Wayne Ely announces the removal of the offices of Ely & Ely, attorneys at law, from the Commerce Building to Suite 2150, Railway Exchange Build- ing, 611° Olive Street, St. Louis, Mis- souri. Arlos J. Harbert has been Judge of the Criminal Court of Harrison County, Clarksburg, West Virginia, for over two decades, having been elected to this of- fice last fall for the sixth time. There- fore, he has been elected to five terms of four years each. Last fall he was elected to an eight year term owing to the fact that the Legislature in the meantime has lengthened the term. The Rev. Sidney Thomas Ruck has been Rector of St. Eustace Church, Lake Placid, New York, since 1916. He has been Arch Deacon—then Dean for several years, on the Diocesan Board of Missions and Council of the Diocese of Albany. In addition to his regular Par- ish he has three Mission churches in the Adirondacks. _ Ezra F. Ripy is President of Hoff- man Distilling Co., Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. He has a son practicing medicine in Lexington, Kentucky, and a daughter who graduated from Ran- dolph Macon, and is now teaching at the University of Kentucky. He has three grandchildren. 13.... H. M. Woodward is a member of the recently formed partnership for the practice of law under the firm name of Woodward, Agelasto, Ward, and Jarvis, with offices at 502 Citizens Bank Build- ing, Norfolk, Virginia. PD 2s Carl C. Wurzbach was recently ap- pointed a Corporation Court Judge. Address: 513 West Summit, San An- tonio, Texas. W. Earl Crank has been practicing law in Louisa, Virginia, since 1915, with the exception of approximately two years when in service during World War I; and has been Commonwealth’s Attorney there for the past thirty years and engaged in general law prac- tice. He was married in 1926, and has two daughters, both of whom are graduates of Vanderbilt University. SAMUEL G. KELLER, ’15, started out with the Socony-Vacuum Oil Com- pany in 1922 as a chemist. He is now General Manager of the Manufacturing Division of the company, Trenton, Michigan. He has received recognition from the National Petroleum Institute, the Western Refiners Association, and the National Chamber of Commerce, and has been active in a number of the civic, fraternal and religious organiza- tions of his community. Residence ad- dress: 827 South Highland, Dearborn, Michigan. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY 18.... E. V. Bowyer, since military service in World War I, has been in the pub- lic utility business, with the exception of four years with the United States Shipping Board. For the last 15 years, he has been Sales Manager of the Roa- noke Gas Company, Roanoke, Virginia. He has one son who is a medical stu- dent at the University of Virginia. C. F. Blackwell has been practicing law in Kenbridge, Virginia, since his discharge from the Army after World War I. He was Mayor of the Town of Kenbridge from 1924 to 1950, and served in the General Assembly o Virginia, 1938-1950. | 20.... John W. Drye, Jr., has been elected a director of the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. Mr. Drye is a member of the law firm of Kelley, Drye, Newhall & Maginnes of New York. He is also a director of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, and the Virginia Railway Com- pany. Address /0 Broadway, New York, New York. 2A ge ons R. Blair Price has lived in Swarth- more, a surburb of Philadelphia, for the past twenty-one years; is an insurance broker, with his office in Philadelphia. Address: Inquirer Building, 400 North Broad Street, Philadelphia 30, Pa. Charles Higby Smith, formerly spe- cial assistant to the U. S. Attorney General and trial attorney in the U. D. Department of Justice in Washington, D. C., has opened his office for the gen- eral practice of law in Waverly, Ohio. DD ss a's Wilfred Webb has finished 30 years of teaching, all within a radius of 10 miles. In 1923 he was principal of Mt. Sidney High School; 1924-1943, Augusta Mil- itary Academy; and since that time, Staunton Military Academy. Address: Fort Defiance, Virginia. A. J. (Abe) Lubliner is still practic- ing law in the same office in which he started in 1922, in Law and Commerce Building, Bluefield, West Virginia. He is married and has a son eight years old. Dewey A. Reynolds has been with the United States Bureau of Mines for the past 30 years. Address: 2638 Voel- kel Avenue, South Hills Station, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. — 23D 062s O. Forrest McGill is now General Manager of The Prudential Life In- 19 surance Company, Jacksonville, Florida. Address: 1335 Palmer Terrace, Jack- sonville, Florida. Mr. McGill has had over 20 years of Prudential Mortgage Loan experience both in the Field and Home Office, which makes him well qualified to head up the South-Central Investment organization. 24.... John Guerrant is still vice-president of the Virginia Paper Company, Rich- mond, Virginia. He married Virginia Paxton of Roanoke in 1927 and they have one daughter who graduated from Sweet Briar in June. C. Fred Carlson is president of Mon- arch Elevator and Machine Company. While he traveled considerably in far off places during the 1920’s and 1930's, he is now finding time for business travel within the United States. Since 1934 he has been living in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was married in 1934 to Katherine Wharton of Greens- boro and they have two. children, Robert, a senior in North Carolina State College, and Ann, a senior in the local high school. Address: 1006 Carolina Street, Greensboro, North Carolina. ; Henry W. Jones is vice-pesident and treasurer of Cathey-Williford-Jones & Co., P. O. Box 671, Memphis, Tennes- see. They are manufacturers, operat- ing two band mills in Mississippi, cut- ting hardwood principally. His son, Henry W. Jones, Jr., graduated from Washington and Lee in 1952, with the B. S. degree, and is now serving as an Ensign in the Navy. The younger son, Terrell, is 12 years old. Albert M. Pickus has been living in Stratford, Connecticut, for the past 27 years and operating the Stratford Theatre for that time—also in the real estate business on the side. He married Lelia Elliott of Salem, Indiana, and they have a son, Ross, 18, who will enter Washington and Lee in 1954, two daughters, Reyna Sue, 22, who gradu- ated from Averett College in Danville, Virginia, two years ago and received her B.S. degree from American Univer- sity in Washington this June. Their pride and joy is little Addie Lee who was 2 years old in May. Address: Strat- ford Theatre, Inc., 2424 Main Street, Stratford, Connecticut. Barrett C. Shelton, Sr., is publisher of the Decatur Daily, Decatur, Ala- bama. His son, Barrett C. Sheldon, Jr., graduates at the University of Alabama next February, and his daughter, Su- zanne entered the University of Ala- bama in September. John T. Collins is practicing optom- etry in Lewisburg, West Virginia, with offices at 305 East Washington Street. Jim Riley is in the real estate develop- 20 THOMAS MorreELL WabDE, JR., has been elected vice-president of manufacturing of Brown & Wil- liamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky, effective August 1, 1953. After graduat- ing from Washington and Lee with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923 and in 1924 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, he entered the employ of Belle Alkali Company in Charleston, West Virginia, as a Chemical Engineer, where he remained until late 1927, when he went into the tobacco business as a Chemist in Peters- burg, Virginia. In 1930, Mr. Wade went to Louisville as a Chemist for Brown and William- son Tobacco Corporation. His du- ties eventually led him into manu- facturing and in October 1932 he became superintendent of the Lou- isville factory. In 1937 he was pro- moted to branch manager at Louis- ville, and on January 1, 1951, he became Operations Assistant to Mr. W. M. Edens, who at that time was elected vice-president of manufacturing. Mr. Wade was elected to the Board of Directors of Brown & Williamson, on April 22, 1952, and since that time has served as a Director of Manu- facturing. In 1933 he married Beverly Os- borne of Louisville and they have one son, Thomas Morrell, III, a sophomore at Washington and Lee, and two daughters, Mary Beverly and Cynthia Fontaine. Their home is at 3309 Oriole Drive. ment business in Palm Beach, Florida, as manager of Bessemer Properties, Inc. Address: 242 Plaza Circle, Palm Beach, Florida. W. K. Manning has been engaged in the securities business in Dallas, Texas, and is now manager of the local office for Wood, Struthers & Company, 1109 Fidelity Union Life Building, Dallas 1, Texas. E. A]Jmer Ames, Jr., has been practic- ing law continuously in Onancock, Virginia, since finishing Law School in 1925. He was married in 1936 to Elizabeth J. Nelson and they have one son, Edward A. Ames, III, age 14, who is very much interested in Wash- ington and Lee and hopes to be a stu- dent here in a few years. Goodridge Sale is a member of the law firm of Jackson, Kelly, Morrison & Moxley, 1601 Kanawha Valley Building, Charleston 22, West Virginia. His wife and six children keep him very busy practicing law. Johnny Mor- rison, ’25, is one of his partners, and Homer A. (Rocky) Holt, 718, wis also a member of the firm until he went to New York with the Union Carbide permanently as general counsel in 1947. The Sales’ oldest daughter, after two years at Randolph Macon, gradu- ated in 1952 at the University of Chi- cago, Phi Beta Kappa, after being married the previous Christmas. The second daughter is a junior at Duke. Frank M. Cole was married to Eliz- abeth Ussery of Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1928. Their only child, Ann, was born in 1938. She is now finishing her freshman year in high school. For 24 years Frank was with Magruder, Inc., retail fancy goods in Washington. He was General Manager of the firm when he resigned in 1948 to return to his Sunnyslope Farm, Purcellville, Vir- ginia. 2D 6 058s Henry K. Hill is still with the Mas- sachusetts Mutual Life: Insurance Com- pany, 654 Starks Building, Louisville, Kentucky. His son, Henry K. Hill, Jr., graduated here in 1951 with the B.A. degree. Wilson Roach moved to Charlotte, THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Af ty re North Carolina, two years ago from Washington, D. C., and reports his fam- ily is happy there “beyond all expecta- tions.” He is a Special Agent of the Massachusetts Protective Association, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, with offices at 903 Liberty Life Build- ing, Charlotte, North Carolina. He and his wife, Katherine, have one _ son, David Christopher, age 4. Thomas R. (Cap) Nelson is still practicing law in Staunton and is pres- ident and attorney for Community Building & Loan Association of Staun- ton. His daughters are now 15 and 12 respectively and the oldest is attending Stuart Hall in Staunton. John 8. Strahorn, Jr., has been pro- fessor of law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, since 1931. He has one daughter, Janet, who will enter Wilson College at Chambers- burg, Pennsylvania, in the fall. John T. McVay is sales manager of the Mootz Sunbeam Bakery, Inc., 1945 Fifth Avenue, Huntington, West Vir- ginia, which is the largest wholesale bakery on the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Dr. M. Curtis Langhorne has been on the faculty of Emory University, Geor- gia, since 1926, and has been chair- man of the psychology department since 1940. He has written widely in academic journals on his psychological research. 20... Edwin Graves Hundley has been elected a vice-president of the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Com- pany of Baltimore. He practiced law in Huntington, West Virginia, for a short time before accepting a position with his present company. He served as a major during World War II with an army legal department in San Fran- cisco, California. Emmett W. MacCorkle has been transferred from his position as man- ager of Portland District of the Air Re- duction Sales Co., to vice-president of the Air Reduction Pacific’s operations in Southern California. Last year he was back at Harvard Business School where he participated in the Advanced Management Program for 13 weeks, and found going to college again after a lapse of 25 years, was pretty strenuous. Address: 2423 East 58th Street, Los Angeles 58, California. George L. Hill has rambled consid- erably since leaving Lexington. He was with the National City Bank of New York for about fourteen years during which time he managed to catch a glimpse of London, Singapore, Hong- kong, Peiping, Manila, and a second look at Singapore just before the out- break of World War II. He and his wife, who was Nell Greenway of Roa- noke, Virginia, were on home leave in the United States on December 7, 1941, consequently did not return to the Orient. During the war years they lived in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Toronto, Canada, and Long Island, New York, as he was associated with Lockheed Aircraft Corp., of Burbank California, during that time. Since Sep- tember 1948, he has been with the Bank of America, Tokyo, Japan. Zia sh George W. Summerson, manager of Hotel General Shelby, Bristol, Virginia- Tennessee, was elected Mayor of Bris- tol, Virginia, on September 1, 1953. Robert Thomas Foree, Jr., is in the real estate business with Bruce Hob- litzell Co., 416 West Liberty Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Edward Stonestreet Lamar is a Civil Service Employee of the United States Navy, as a consulting physicist, Depart- ment of Operations and Evaluations, etc. He attended George Washing- ton University, taught for a time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as at Princeton University, from which he graduated with the Ph.D. degree. He is married and lives with his wife and one child at 3630 Curtis Street, San Diego 6, California. 28 .... A. W. Pierpont is a member of the Business Administration faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina this year. Address: Box 1138, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. BOM es Frank O. Evans has been appointed United States District Attorney for the Middle Georgia District. Address: Kidd Building, Milledgeville, Georgia. Herbert Jahncke, vice-president of Jahncke Services, New Orleans, is serv- ing this year as president of the Na- tional Ready Mixed Concrete Asso- ciation, and as such has to do a lot of traveling. 31.... Fred M. Barron is now operating a real estate business, trading as Mc- Curdy & Barron, 2213 North Charles Street, Baltimore 18, Maryland. He has a daughter 11 years old, now in Junior High School in Baltimore. Home ad- dress: 1853 Kingsway Road, Baltimore 18, Maryland. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Insurance Agency, Inc., 92 oe Dr. R. T. Shields, Jr., is practicing surgery in Staunton, Virginia. M. William Adelson is practicing law at 1816 Mathieson Building, Baltimore, Maryland. He found himself more and more drawn into politics and finds it ex- citing at the top level, but interferes with practicing law. L. C. Harrell, since his release from service in the Navy, has been practic- ing law in Emporia, Virginia. He is married and has three children; L. C., Jr., sixteen years of age, Martha Francis, eleven, and Elizabeth, four. Dr. Frank Bell Lewis has resigned the presidency of Mary Baldwin Col- lege, Staunton, Virginia, to become pro- fessor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He will take a year’s leave of absence, before beginning his work in Richmond, to brush up on his subject at Yale and at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is now liv- ing at 877 East Broadway, Milford, Connecticut. Albert G. Peery is practicing law in Tazewell, Virginia, and serving as Trial Justice of his county. Three years ago he built a home in Tazewell. He and Mrs. Peery have four children, a daughter and three sons. DS sce Robert A. Morris is beginning his second year as Athletic Director at Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia. Address: 455 Seventh Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia. Loring M. Garrison joined the Home of Easley, South Carolina, in June 1952. He mar- ried Grace Donnald in 1945, and they have a son, Loring M., Jr., now eight years old. Address: 305 North B Street, Easley, South Carolina. 34.... Holmes M. Dyer is sales representa- tive, Acushnet Process Company of New Bedford, Massachussets. His ter- ritory is New York City, State of New Jersey and a few eastern counties of Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, soliciting custom molded rubber pro- ducts. Address: Shrewsbury Drive, Rumson, New Jersey. . Ruge P. DeVan, Jr., is president of DeVan & Company, general insurance, United Carbon Building, Charleston, West Virginia. His boys are eleven and one-half and nine and one-half, the oldest holding down second base for the third year on the DeVan Insurance Little League baseball team, and also playing football and basketball. 21 Norwood E. Band is now Head- master, The Bayside School, Bayside, West Atlantic City, New Jersey. W. W. (Bill) Barron has recently been appointed chairman of the West Virginia Liquor Control Commission, with offices in The State House, Char- leston. He has served as Mayor of Elkins, and has had several terms in the State Legislature. He is married to the former Miss Opal Wilcox, of El- kins, and they have three daughters. Residence address: 4301 Virginia Av- enue, S. E., Charleston, West Virginia. Meriwether L. Anderson has been in charge of the family business, August Barth Leather Company of New AI- bany, Indiana, tanning leather that is used in the strap and luggage trade, for the past three years. Residence address: 1902 Ekin Avenue, New Albany, In- diana. Joel Snyder is bond manager with W. J. Perry Corporation, General Agents, Staunton, Virginia, supervising West Virginia and Western half of Virginia. They are general agents for the Maryland Casualty Co. He is mar- ried and has a son, Joel, III, four and one-half years old. Frank L. Patton is now in the whole- sale business of distributing frozen foods and dairy products with the Loudon Distributing Company, Lees- burg, Virginia. He married Louise Har- rison in 1936 and they have three chil- dren, a daughter 14, and two sons, 13 and 3 years old. Address: 104 A. South King Street, Leesburg, Virginia. 35.2... Fred Strong is still hard at work as Controller of Pepperell Manufacturing Company, 160 State Street, Boston 2, Massachusetts. The Strongs have three fine children and live in a big old ramb- ling farmhouse out in the country but still only 12 miles from Boston. Bill Schuhle is still teaching social sciences at Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan. The Schuhles have a son, Billy, 6, and a daughter, Barbara, 3. 37 weg Duane Berry, who is with The Crown Cork and Seal Company of Houston, Texas, has been living in San Antonio for a little over three years, and has gone completely overboard for Texas. About a year ago he and his family moved into a home which they had built, which is particularly suited to the Texas climate, being all glass and brick. Incidentally, this house won the American Institute of Architects Award as the House of the Year in Texas. Ad- dress: 101 Nadine Road, San Antonio 9, Texas. 22 38.... Dr. Victor H. Witten transferred from Washington and Lee to Tulane where he completed his academic train- ing and finished medical school. He is practicing his profession with offices at 999 Fifth Avenue, New York 26, New York. Charlie Skinner has been with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft for the past twelve years. He has been doing pur- chasing work since arriving, and is now in charge of buying all raw materials for production. He married Cynthia Pike and they have three children; Bar- bara, age 10; Peggy, age 6; and Chuck, age 5. Address: 10 Brighton Road, West Hartford 7, Connecticut. LCDR. W. B. Bagbey is now located in Norfolk on the Staff of the Com- mander Operational Development Force. He was married to Lelia Smith Cocke in 1948 and they have two sons, Francis Cocke, and William Boyle. Ad- dress: 7804 Ruthven Road, Norfolk 5, Virginia. Calvert Thomas is still on the Legal Staff of General Motors Corporation, located in the central office in Detroit. For some 10 years he has been special- izing in taxation. He was married to Margaret Somervell Berry in 1943, and they have three children: Calvert Bowie, age 6; Carolyn Brooke, age 4; and Douglas, age 1. Address: 222 Fern- cliff Avenue, Royal Oak, Michigan. Samuel P. McChesney, Jr., advertis- ing executive, heads a group which has purchased Kelly Co., 765 Carnegie Av- enue, Cleveland, Ohio, nationally known producer and seller of nuts and candy products. McChesney, who has been di- rector of advertising and sales pro- motion for White Sewing Machine Corporation for the past three years, became president and treasurer of the company. William H. Hudgins, after serving as Aide to the Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, with headquarters in London for a year and then as Senior Aide to the NATO Commander-in- Chief Allied Forces in Naples, Italy, for two years, is now stationed in Wash- ington as Personal Aide to the new Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney. Address: Com- mander William H. Hudgins, U.S.N., Headquarters Society of the Cincinnati, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., Washington 8, D. C. Ernest Williams has been elected vice-president of Hugh H. Long Com- pany. He will represent the New York mutual fund concern in Virginia and five other mid-South states. Mr. Wil- liams is secretary-treasurer of the Durham and South Carolina Railroad Company and has been manager of the mutual funds department of Scott, Horner and Mason. He will continue to live in Lynchburg, Virginia. With Local Chapters (Continued from page 17) Dean of the University and profes- sor of economics and business ad- ministration. Following his retire- ment from the deanship, he re- mained at Washington and Lee for several years as lecturer in economics. He is now a resident of Richmond. The alumni chapter discussed plans for a bus trip for members and their wives or lady guests to the Washington and Lee-William and Mary game in Williamsburg on November 21, and considered the possibility of a meeting in con- nection with the game. Thomas Watkins, ’4.8, vice-pres- ident of the group, presided. in the absence of Thomas P. Duncan, ’24, president, who was unable to be present. Other officers elected at the meeting were Parke Rouse, Jr., 37, secretary, and Richard Mc- Murran, ’51, treasurer. The alumni group includes members from Newport News, Hampton, Warwick, Williams- burg, Yorktown, and Lee Hall, as well as from nearby military in- stallations. | CHICAGO Some thirty-five alumni and their wives met at The University Club in Chicago on October 23. W. C. Olendorf, president of the local chapter, was in charge of arrange- ments for the party and presided at the meeting. The Robert E. Lee film was shown, and it was re- ported that there are now approxi- mately fifty Washington and Lee alumni members of the Chicago Alumni Chapter. The party was a friendly, informal gathering, and the group is planning another af- fair about mid-January. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE 59 as The Reverend Howard McKay Hickey was ordained Priest on August 6, 1953, in St. George’s Episcopal Church, West Asheville, North Caro- lina. Address: 24 Vermont Court, Ashe- ville, North Carolina. Edward T. Whitehead is Assistant Counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, located in Washing- ton, D.C. He is married, has two daughters, ages 8 and 11, and his home is at Route 3, Box 246, Fairfax, Vir- ginia. A. A. Rucker is practicing law at his home, Bedford, Virginia. He was in a law firm for five years, and now is practicing alone. This is his second year as Commonwealth’s Attorney for Bed- ford County. His practice consists of the general practice of law, with the bulk of his time being devoted to the duties of representing the Common- wealth in various matters. He is mar- ried and has three boys and one girl. Address: Bedford County Court House, Bedford, Virginia. Edgar L. Smith, after serving for thirty-eight months overseas with the CIC and OSS in the Middle East and Turkey, began private practice in Lewisburg, West Virginia, in Decem- ber 1945; was appointed Prosecuting Attorney in 1950, and ran for the office unopposed in the primary in 1950, and was elected, starting this year on a four- year term. He was married to Nadine Livesay in 1946 and they have two daughters. 40. oes Edwin J. Foltz was appointed As- sistant Director of Personnel Admin- istration (Labor Relations) of the Campbell Soup Company on April 1, 1953. Mr. Foltz joined the company in January, 1953, as assistant to the Di- rector of Personnel Administration. Prior to joining the company he was associated with the Pesco Division of Borg-Warner in Cleveland as Director of Industrial Public Relations. He was also with the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. Address: 917 Blackrock Road, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. W. L. Burner, Jr., is now Secretary of the Bureau of Information of the Southeastern Railways, 706 Investment Building, Washington 5, D.C. Dick Boisseau is now _ operating James A. Rosenstock, Inc., Men’s Wear, Petersburg, Virginia. He is also working for the local banks and Uncle Sam. He is married and has two daugh- ters, 9 and 6 years of age. Ed Blair is with the Armco Steel Corporation as a salesman, working out of the Cleveland District Sales Of- fice. He is married and has two sons, 11 and 9 years of age and a daughter five years old. Address: 3675 Traynham Road, Shaker Heights 22,.Ohio. Uriah F. Coulbourn has been elected president of the Windsor Rotary Club and is also serving as vice-president of the Windsor Chamber of Commerce. He is operating a saw mill as well as a building supply company in Windsor, North Carolina. Col. Frank A. Nichols is now at Otis Air Base on Cape Cod, commanding the 532 Tactical Central Group, with a strength of 1800 officers and airmen. re Ted Bruinsma was detached from ac- tive duty as Contracting Officer, Navy Purchasing Office, New York, New York, about a year ago. He and his wife and four children are living in a new home at 56 Hillside Avenue, Glen Rock, New Jersey. Ted is presently employed by New York Life Insurance Co., in a semi-law-semi-business ca- pacity. Lupton Avery has been elected vice- president and general manager of Chat- tanooga Glass Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. He has been assistant to his father, Clarence R. Avery, ’14, who died September 28, 1953, president of the company since 1934. Robert Edward Steele, III, was re- called to the Navy in 1951, went to New York City where he was in the third Naval District public information of- fice until January, 1952. Thence to the Far East where he was Public Informa- tion Officer for the Seventh Fleet off Korea. Released in April, he is now Public Relations Manager for the Elec- tric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation. Address: 38 Briggs Street, New London, Connecticut. William Buchanan, Assistant Profes- sor of Government and a member of the staff of The Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State, is co-author of How Nations See Each Other, with Hadley Cantril, director of The Office of Public Opinion Research at Prince- ton. This book is being published by The University of Illinois Press. Ad- dress: 613 College Drive, Starkville, Mississippi. Ralph E. Lehr continues in business with his brother, Walter G., ’37, under the firm name of Lehr Brothers, real estate—mortgage loans, Alamo, Nation- al Bank Building, San Antonio, Texas. They find themselves drifting more into the commercial real estate as well as complete mortgage loan field. Ae 6's Raymond R. Russell, Jr., secretary and treasurer of Phoenix Refining Com- pany, San Antonio, Texas, was recently WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY elected San Antonio City Councilman. Address: Box 1358, San Antonio, Texas. James A. Pine is head of The Balti- more County Law Department serving a county of 50,000 people. He has been practicing law for the past ten years. Address: Offutt Building, Towson 4, Maryland. eerer Dr. Morrison Hutcheson, Jr., writing from the University of Texas, Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, expected to go to Boston in July for one more year of residency training in Internal Medi- cine, and then back to Richmond, Vir- ginia, to practice. Denald L. Richardson is with Nau- man, McFawn & Company, investment securities, Ford Building, Detroit 26, Michigan. He was married in 1946 to a San Francisco girl and they have two children, Patrick and Donna, aged 5 and 6. Bob Mehorter, after living in Mem- phis for several years, went into the insurance business with his father in New York City, specializing in marine and fire insurance. He and his family live at 24 John Street, Chatham, New Jersey. Ben Ditto now heads the recently formed Washington and Lee Alumni Association of Houston, Texas. He is a member of the firm of Norton-Ditto Co., men’s furnishing company, in the Esperson Building, Houston 2, Texas. J. Tyler Bowie is associated with his uncle, G. Calvert Bowie in the real estate and mortgage business at Suite 925, Washington Building, 15th Street and New York Avenue, Washington 5, D.C. He married the former Dottie Warner, Randolph Macon, ’42, and they have three children. Dr. Robert F. Johnson is now asso- ciate professor of Old Testament at The College of the Bible, Lexington, Ken- tucky. Dr. Johnson received his Bach- elor of Divinity degree in 1946 and his doctorate this spring, from Union Sem- inary. He was awarded the Travelling Fellowship for the 1946 graduating class, and spent a year in Switzerland studying at the University of Basel. Address: 214 Jesselin Road, Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Haven W. Mankin has been in Dillingen, Germany, with the Army, for a year and a half. His wife, Mary Lou, and two sons, Haven, Jr., and Reed Winslow were with him. He expected to return home in September and go back to the Mayo Clinic for another two years. Home address: 1004 Forty- first Street, N.W., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 23 44.... Clarence Johnson, Jr., is now with the Marbeth Carpet Mills, Incorpo- rated, Dalton, Georgia. His family now consists of his wife and three children, and they have recently bought a new home at 408 North Thornton Avenue, Dalton, Georgia. John George Fox is Attorney Gen- eral of West Virginia, State Capitol Building, Charleston, West Virginia. Frederick B. Rowe was released from his second active duty tour with the Marine Corps on August 8. On August 10, he began his new employment at the Perry Point Veterans Hospital as a counseling psychologist trainee or interne. He resumed his interrupted Ph.D. studies on a half-time basis at the fall term of the University of Mary- land. Address: Box 486, Perry Point. Maryland. Richard Rockwell completed his work at Yale Law School, and is now practicing in Manchester, Connecticut, a town of 33,000 population, 10 miles East of Hartford, with a big Hartford trial firm. Address: 201 Fern Street, West Hartford 7, Connecticut. William B. Guthrie, after three years at the University of Virginia, finally completed the course work required for a doctorate in English. This summer he was boning on German and French for eight weeks, trying to get the lan- guage requirements out of the way; and from September through August of 1954 he will be working on his dissertation. Address: 80 Copeley Hill, Charlottes- ville, Virginia. Cullen Wimmer is now selling for Reynolds Sales Company, General Of- fices, Richmond, Virginia. Address: 2657 South Walter Reed Drive, Ar- lington 6, Virginia. Charles B. Jackson is now vice-presi- dent and assistant superintendent of Western Military Academy, Alton, II- linois. Robert Ewing is practicing law in Hartford, Connecticut, with the firm of Shipman & Goodwin, 15 Lewis Street, Hartford, Connecticut. Ewing S. Humphreys, Jr., is still with the F.B.I., and still on the move. The Humphreys now have two sons, David, age 3, and Ewing, III, age 5 months. Address: 2736 Seventy-Third Place, Kent Village, Hyattsville, Mary- land. Ed Waddington is still with the Sea- brook Farming Corporation as Soil Conservationist. Address: R. D. No. 1, Salem, New Jersey. 45... Don M. Casto is in the real estate business, specializing in the construc- 24, HarRISON KINNEY, B.A. 747, has written the text of a remark- able book, published in October by Coward-McCann, telling the story of a $75,000 full-size reproduc- tion of Leonardo da Vinci’s relig- ious masterpiece, “The Last Sup- per,” now on display in a Miami, Florida, museum, because Alfred EK. Holton, real estate man there, had a dream about the original. He had read a pictorial essay in a weekly magazine, that had told the story of how Leonardo da Vinci’s celebrated painting, The Last Sup- per, was rapidly decaying on its wall in the old monastery dining room, now a museum in Milan. Mr. Holton was so impressed by his dream that he decided he would be troubled the rest of his life if he didn’t find some artist who would duplicate the picture for him. He did not want just another copy, but a replica, the same size and, as nearly as possible, the same picture that da Vinci first painted. Mr. Holton went to New York and secured the services of Lumen Martin Winter, a student of the da Vinci works and a well-known painter of murals, who consented to undertake the commission, al- though he considered it something of a heady brew. Mr. Winter went to Europe and made an intensive study of all available da Vinci material, mak- ing innumerable notes and sketches. As it stands, the original is two-thirds gone and has been restored six times by painters who had very different ideas as to how to touch it up. He said, “It was like painting the ghost of a ghost.” Mr. Winter brought the material he had collected back to his New York studio where the painting was completed. It was exhibited there and then claimed by Mr. Holton and hung in the Holton Museum on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, the building he had built expressly for housing the re- production, and the gallery where it is now on exhibition is dimen- sionally the same as the Milan re- rectory, home of the original. As a reporter for the New York- er Magazine, covering the story of Lumen Martin Winter’s recreation of The Last Supper, Harrison Kin- ney first visited Winter’s studio when the replica was about half completed. When Kinney met Winter again at the press showing of the finished painting, Coward- McCann had interested itself in the book possibilities behind Winter’s achievement and Winter offered the task of writing it to Kinney. Kinney’s first visit to “Leonardo Country” in Italy was sponsored by the American Army during World War II with which he served for three and a half years. He is now on the staff of the New Yorker. His short stories have ap- peared in such magazines as Col- lier’s and the Saturday Evening Post, and he has written non-fic- tion pieces for a half dozen other publications. He married Doris Getsinger, a former Life magazine reporter, and they have a daughter, Susan Barbara. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE tion, developing, and ownership of large regional drive-in Shopping Centers, in Columbus, Dayton, and Pittsburgh. He and his wife returned in May 1953, from a six weeks tour of Europe. Address: 42 South Fourth Street, Columbus 15, Ohio. William B. Geise, Jr., who has been with the Firth Carpet Company in In- diana, has been transferred and will travel for the company in Western Vermont and Western Massachusetts, and all of New York State, exclusive of the Metropolitan area. Address: 331 West Fayette Street, Syracuse, New York. Joseph E. Blackburn is now a mem- ber of the law firm, formerly Williams, Robertson and Sackett, now Williams, Robertson, Sackett and Blackburn, with offices at 709 Krise Building, Lynch- burg, Virginia. 405. . William Robert Gaines has accepted a position as Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Charleston, South Carolina. Home address: 2600 Cameron Road, Isle of Palms, South Carolina. AS 6-0 ove James O. Porter is a member of the law firm of Baker, Scheifly, (LL.B. 48), and Porter with offices in the Biern Building, Huntington, West Vir- ginia. Address: 1658 Upland Road, Huntington, West Virginia. Johnson McRee, Jr., got out of the Army in September 1951, and after sev- eral changes, went with Baker, Brydon, Reynolds & Whitt, C.P.A.’s in Rich- mond, Virginia. Address: 2022 Park Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. John W. Warner, Jr., during the past summer was promoted to Captain, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, and was appointed Law Clerk to the Honorable E. Barrett Prettyman, Cir- cuit Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- peals for the District of Columbia. AQ wee. John S. R. Schoenfeld has been with Ferris and Company, investment bank- ers, since January 1, 1952. Address: 3301 Thirty-sixth Street, N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. DO o 0 es Francis Muir Scarlett, Jr., was or- dained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church, U. S., on June 7, 1953, and on July 19, he was installed as pastor of the Itta Bena Presbyterian Church, Itta Bena, Mississippi. He attended Wash- ington and Lee, 1946-1947, and received his A.B. degree from the University of Georgia in 1950, and the B.D. degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in May, 1953. Address: Itta Bena, Mis- SiSSIppl. J. F. Hankins, formerly located in Augusta, Georgia, has opened an office as a Certified Public Accountant, for the practice of general accounting and tax law at 23 W. Main Street, Martins- ville, Virginia. Paxton Moore was beginning to think he was a dry land sailor but after shuttling across the Pacific three times in the past year he hopes to settle down after a fourth trip back to San Diego until his release from the service next June. George Whitehurst is now Assistant Professor in the History Department of the Norfolk Division of William and Mary. He will be in charge of the orien- tation program there this fall. Address: 5429 Argall Crescent, Norfolk 8, Vir- ginia. William Paul Walther, and his wife, Joann, have both taken degrees in pharmacy at the University of Pitts- burgh, and were waiting for the re- sults of their State Board examinations. They had a daughter born in June. Address: Main Street, Eldred, Penn- sylvania. Samuel Shaffer Odom was ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons on St. Peter’s Day, Monday, June 26, 1953, in Christ Episcopal Church, Pearisburg, Virginia. OE eis Upton Beall, Class Agent for 1951, formerly of Helena, Arkansas, is now with State-Planters Bank and Trust Company, Richmond, Virginia. Resi- dence address: care of Mrs. A. L,. Herring, 4 Oak Lane, Richmond, Vir- ginia. Norman Lemcke, Jr., was a visitor to the campus during the opening of school. He has been with the summer circuit at Scarsdale Lake, New York, and will return to Yale for his last year in the Yale Drama School, De- partment of Fine Arts, graduating in June 1954. Home address: 93 Collin- wood Road, South, Maplewood, New Jersey. Thomas P. Winborne, writing in May, was stationed in Salzburg, Aus- tria. He had been there only a month and a half, and under present policy, will probably stay there for the re- mainder of his time in the Army, August, 1954. Address: Pvt. Thomas P. Winborne, R.A. 14461477, 7620 HDQS Co. TAC-CMD, APO 541, care of P. M., New York, New York. Donald Ferguson is with Sanders Brothers Co., Richmond 5, Virginia. He and his wife, Mary Louise, have moved into a new home at 1300 Bobbie Dell Lane, Richmond 26, Virginia. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Bob Knudsen is_ working with Du Pont Photo Products, Santa Mon- ica Boulevard, Hollywood, in their sales division. He married Mary Jane Bradley and they have a young daugh- ter, Joyce Lee. Address: 1600-C West Commonwealth Avenue, Alhambra, California. T. K. Wolfe, Jr., has finished his second year at the Yale Graduate School in the Department of American Studies, and will return there this fall to take his oral examination for the Ph.D. degree, and to get underway on his dissertation. Address: 3307 Glou- cester Road, Richmond 27, Virginia. Lester A. Levine completed his sec- ond year of law at the New York Uni- versity Law School in May. He plans to complete his work toward a law de- gree next winter. Address: 225-14 One Hundred Thirty-eighth Avenue, Laurel- ton, New York. Bill Sacra was recalled to active duty by the Air Force in February 1951, and put in two years at Waco, Texas, where he served as Staff Engineer in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff Installa- tions at Headquarters, Flying Train- ing Air Force. He was relieved from active duty in February 1953, with the grade of First Lieutenant, but is still in the reserve. He has been working in the engineering department of the American Chain & Cable Co., at York, Pennsylvania, Address: 241 South Pine Street, York Pennsylvania. Lt. William P. (Pierre) Robert, Jr., spent about six months in Korea (July-December) flying fighter bomber F-84’s. In January, he was pulled out and transferred to the Japanese Air De- fense Force station at Komaki Air Base in Nagoya, Japan, still flying the F-84. Sam E. Miles was called into the Navy and assigned to the Officer Per- sonnel Office in Norfolk at Atlantic Fleet Air Force Headquarters. He hopes to be released from the service by the first of November, or possibly, October. Home address: 1806 Auburn- dale Avenue., Chattanooga. Tennessee. Ferdinand (Phil) Phillips has been in Korea for four months with the 5th Regimental Combat Team. Home ad- dress: 1611 Hampton Boulevard, Nor- folk, Virginia. ; William Pendleton (Bill) Rose was discharged from the Marine Corps with the Second Marine Air Wing last Oc- tober. He was married to Helen Ogden in 1950, and they have a small daugh- ter, Deborah, now about a year old. Bill is with the Mountain State Telephone and Telegraph Co. (Bell System) in the Commercial Department. Address: 2526 North 32nd Street, Phoenix, Arizona. Ben White, Jr., since graduation, has been in the Traffic Department with the 25 Southern Bell Telephone Co., working mostly in Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, he prefers keeping his address at P. O. Box 424, Princeton, West Virginia, since he is subject to transfer, and will always receive mail from there. Richard P. Cancelmo began his third year in the University of Pennsylva- nia Medical School this fall. Home ad- dress: 201 Clwyd Road, Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. He and Jerry Donovan were planning a trip to Europe this summer, when his class letter was writ- ten in June. Vance Rucker is now assistant office manager, Cascade Rayon Plant, in Mooresville, North Carolina, one of the larger plants of Burlington Mills. Address: 503 Sycamore Lane, Moores- ville, North Carolina. Ted Lonergan got out of the Marines in January, after having spent ten months with the First Marine Air Wing in Korea. He is working with Lennen & Newell, Inc., Advertising Agency, in New York, as well as run- ning a weekly newspaper near Flush- ing, New York, as managing editor and advertising manager. He was mar- ried in April, and he and his wife are living at 144-44 Forty-first Avenue, Flushing 55, New York. Ed Bassett expected to return to Ann Arbor this fall and pursue the master’s degree a little further. Home address: 7 Powers Lane Place, Decatur, Illi- nois. R. E. Whitson, Jr., is a geologist for the Atomic Energy Commission, work- ing in the Black Hills and throughout Colorado and Utah. Address: Philips Apartments, Hot Springs, South Da- kota. John R. Baldwin is home office rep- resentative with Washington National Insurance Company, working in Tren- ton, New Jersey, with the New Jersey Education Association’s Group Insur- ance plan. Business address: 30 West Lafayette Street, Trenton, New Jersey. Edmund C. Robbins is with Island News Service, overnight reports of Long Island Construction Activity, 303 Brook Avenue, Bay Shore, New York. He married Elizabeth Mohler and they have a daughter Gail Elaine, born January 1, 1952. Fred Uhlman is working with his father’s firm, Uhlman Grain Company, 1480 Board of Trade Building, Chi- cago 4, Illinois. He married Virginia Lee Strauss in 1951 and they have a son, who was 10 months old when his letter was written in May. John A. H. (Jack) Hall, Jr., is still working toward his degree in the Har- vard Law School. Address: 65 Langdon Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. 26 Phil Friedlander, writing in May, was in Berlin at that time, assigned as Feature Editor for the Berlin Observer, a weekly publication of the TI&E Sec- tion of the Berlin Command. He states that the Berlin Observer is the only Berlin newspaper written in English, which is published behind the Iron Curtain. Home address: 2120 Sixteenth Street, N.W., No. 715, Washington, D.C. 52.... Second Lt. James G. Luttrell was awarded “Wings of Gold” of a Naval Aviator on September 25, 1953. He will go to Corpus Christi, Texas, for fur- ther training before reporting for duty at the Marine Corps Air Station, Mi- ami, Florida. Home address: 108 St. Dunstans Road, Baltimore, Maryland. Maryland. Richard S. Wallerstein has returned home to Richmond, Virginia, after two years of service with the Navy. He is now associated in the real estate busi- ness with Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., and is continuing his education at the University of Richmond’s Evening School of Business Administration. Gideon N. Stieff, after a period of training at Aberdeen Proving Ground, is now on duty in Korea with the 37th Field Artillery Battalion of the Sec- ond Infantry Division. This division, covering a portion of the central sector of the Korean battle line, has been JACK E. KANNAPELL, JR., ’51, has been appointed assistant advertising manager for Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky. He joined Brown-Forman in 1951 as a trainee in the company’s management staff training program. After working in each department of the distillery and numerous field trips, he was assigned to the advertising department as a staff assistant. active in the area of Old Baldy, T-Bone Hill and Heartbreak Ridge. John D. Trimble, Jr., graduated this spring from the University of Arkansas Law School. Returning home to El Dorado, Arkansas, he is now actively engaged in the management of his father’s estate. His father, John D. Trimble, long a loyal alumnus of the Law Class of 1915, died early this year. A. Parker Neff is selling real estate and insurance in Norfolk, Virginia, with Stephenson and Cooke, Realtors. Otis W. Howe, Jr., graduated this year from Memphis State College. He is now in the farming business with his father, Otis W. Howe, ’24, in Wabash, Arkansas. Donald Kingsley Williams is with the 5th Armored Division, stationed at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. He was one of a group selected from his division to participate in the atomic tests held last spring at Desert Rock, Nevada. Robert E. Lapsley received his master’s degree in May from the Uni- versity of Texas School of Architecture. He is now at home in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Paul Davis Weill, after attending Columbia University’s summer session, entered the Marine Corps, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in December, 1952. Since then, he has been undergoing further intensive train- ing at the Marine base at Quantico. Virginia. Henry W. Jones received his En- sign’s commission from the Navy last fall. This spring he was married in Memphis to the former Miss Carol Lewis. At the present time, he is sta- tioned in Philadelphia, awaiting fur- ther orders (from the Navy, to be sure!) Wilbur C. (Bill) Pickett, Jr., entered the University of Maryland Medical School last fall. Soon thereafter, he was elected President of his freshman class, and this spring he was elected President of the school’s student gov- ernment organization, a position he will fill after one year’s apprenticeship as class representative to that body. Dur- ing the summer, he is working a day shift at a steel mill and externing at Maryland’s University Hospital where he is subject to call every other night by the Department of Radiology. Thomas R. Warfield has completed his first year at Harvard’s Graduate Business School. David Clark graduated from the Uni- versity of Virginia in June. This sum- mer he entered the Navy, and is now at the Officers Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE In Memoriam 1887 Dr. Brown Craig Patterson died Sep- tember 18, 1953. Dr. Patterson and his wife served as missionaries of the Pres- byterian Church in China for over 50 years and since their retirement in 1941, have been living in the Tinkling Spring community of Augusta County, Route 2, Staunton, Virginia. Two of their sons are graduates of Washington and Lee, C. Houston Patterson, 719, and William B. Patterson, ’21. 1891 Walter C. Bruce, of Berry Hill, South Boston, Virginia, died July 4, 1953. 1895 Dr. Cyrus Strickler, Sr., distinguished Atlanta, Georgia, physician and _ sur- geon, died July 21, 1953. He was the son of Dr. Cyrus Strickler who for many years was Rector of the Board of Washington and Lee, and the brother of Mrs. George H. Denny. 1898 Charles James Faulkner died Sep- tember 3, 1953, at his ancestral home, “Boydville,” in Martinsburg, West Vir- ginia. Mr. Faulkner went to Chicago soon after graduation from Washington and Lee and joined the legal department of Armour and Company. He became general counsel of the company in 1917. retiring in 1946 to his home town. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D. here in 1941. He was the son of United States Senator Charles James Faulkner. Joseph Samuel Slicer, prominent At- lanta attorney, died November 24, 1953, after a prolonged illness. Mr. Slicer had practiced law in Atlanta since gradua- tion here. He was an ardent horseman and a member of the Shakerag Hounds Hunt Club. Two years ago, at 7l, he rode his favorite mount Vanity in the hunters’ class jumping exhibition at the Shriners’ Horse Show. He was a native of Bedford City, Virginia. 1899 The Hon. Scott M. Loftin, former United States Senator, died of a heart attack on September 22, 1953, in High- lands, North Carolina, where he was spending a vacation. At the time of his death, he was general counsel and a trustee of the Florida East Coast Rail- way Company. Mr. Loftin has also headed the legal departments of various interests of the late Henry M. Flagler. His home was in Jacksonville, Florida. William Emrys Davis died November 2, 1953. His home was in Lexington, Kentucky. 1905 Richard Craille Stokes died August 8, 1953. His home was in Covington, Vir- ginia. Robert LeWright Browning died March 23, 1953. His home was in Ash- land, Kentucky. Judge Walter G. Riddick, Federal Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, died July 31, 1953. He re- ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from Washington and Lee in 1944 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1946. His home was in Little Rock, Arkansas. 1909 John H. Lyle died November 13, 1953. His home was in Rockbridge County. 1910 Dr. Albert S. McCown, Richmond, Virginia, Director of the Virginia Health Department Bureau of Com- municable Diseases, who has been miss- ing for two months, was declared dead by Chancery Court Judge Brocken- brough Lamb on October 28, 1953. The order came exactly two months after Dr. McCown’s abandoned car was found on a dead-end street in Virginia Beach. He was last seen at his office in Richmond on August 15. He had re- turned there early in August after a four-month stay at Johns Hopkins Hos- pital in Baltimore. A.B. ’10, Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, 49, Washington and Lee; M.D., Johns Hopkins, ’18; Dr. McCown had held many important po- sitions in his profession in both World War I and II and in this country. He was a member of the American Medi- cal Association and American Public Health Association. 1911 Dr. Harold Burrows Henderson died September 23, 1953. His home was in Denver, Colorado. 1912 William Hodges Mann, Jr., died June 22, 1953. He served as a member of the City Council and as Mayor of Petersburg, Virginia, from 1946 until 1950. Charles L. Cranford died November 3, 1953. His home was in Jacksonville, Florida. 1913 William Oren Trenor died October 19, 1953. He had practiced law in Roa- noke, Virginia, for forty years. 1915 Edwin G. Adair died November 15, 1953, in the Jackson Memorial Hos- pital after a series of heart attacks. With the exception of a few years spent in the consular service under the State Department, his whole business career had been devoted to the Rockbridge National Bank of Lexington, Virginia, of which he was cashier at the time of his death. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY 1917 Dr. Robert Dennis Caldwell died August 18, 1953, at his home in Lynch- burg, Virginia, after an extended illness. 1923 Thomas Carr Piatt, prominent Fayette County, Kentucky, horseman, businessman and landowner, was killed in an automobile accident on Novem- ber 13, 1953. The accident occurred near his home, Crestwood Farm, on the Spurr road, near Lexington, Kentucky. 1924 Thomas C. Cover died June 11, 1953. His home was in Covington, Virginia. John Elgin Leake died July 11, 1953. His home was in Memphis, Tennessee. 1928 Orton B. Motter died August 5, 1953. He was former vice-president of the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation. His home was RFD No. 1, Stamford, Connecticut. 1929 P. C. (Bunny) Whitlock died Oc- tober 4, 1953, at Duke University Hos- pital after a prolonged illness. Until his health failed more than a year ago he was a department head at the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company plant in Covington, Virginia. He was active in Boy Scout work and at Boys’ Home, of which he was treasurer, a former vestryman of Emanuel Epis- copal Church and a former member of the Washington and Lee Alumni Board of Trustees. 1931 Thomas Day Sugg, Jr., died October 8, 1953. His home was in Fayetteville, Tennessee. 1933 Donald Kent Crawford died Septem- ber 14, 1953, following a heart attack. After graduation here with the LL.B. degree, Mr. Crawford began the prac- tice of law with D. Hill Arnold, ’01, the senior member of the present firm of Arnold, Crawford and Hyer, an as- sociation that was to continue without interruption until his death, with the exception of the years in which he wore the uniform of the U. S. Army in World War II. As a practitioner before the state and federal courts, Mr. Crawford won wide respect as an able lawyer, adhering always to the highest ethical standards of the profession. His home was in Elkins, West Virginia. 1938 John Carlisle Arnold, Jr., died August 24, 1953. His home was in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. 1939 Richard Fairchild Holden died No- vember 15, 1953. After graduation from Washington and Lee, he attended Har- vard University Graduate School, and had been a research chemist for Mellon 27 Institute since 1941. Interment was in Charleston, West Virginia. 1943 William Curtis Soule, 33-year-old professor in the Wake Forest School of Law, Wake Forest, North Caro- lina, died July 26, 1953, after an illness of several days. Graduating here in 1941 with the B.S. degree, and the LL.B. degree in 1943, he became one of the youngest law professors in the country when he joined the Washing- ton and Lee law faculty for a year in 1942 at the age of 22. Professor Soule had been on the Wake Forest Law School faculty for six years. Marriages 1942 William E. Graybeal was married to Margaret Alice Moore on July 18, 1953, in Buena Vista, Virginia. 1944 Leon Harris, Jr., was married to Vir- ginia Walker on Friday, October 13, 1953. Stanley E. Sacks was married to Carole Ruth Freed=-n on July 23, 1953. Bernard Levin, ’42, served as best man. 1948 Roy Jefferson Grimley, Jr., was mar- ried to Harriet Ruth Tanner on August 1, 1953, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Captain David Brooks Cofer, Jr., who served on an Army detail in Berlin, Germany, from June 1951 to September 1953, was married on July 3, 1953, in Berlin to Anneliese Tietze of that city. “Dave” is now a staff member at Texas A. and M. College. 1949 Sam Silverstein was married to Sara Rice, of Baltimore, on October 1, 1953. Home address: 1570 Kanawha Boule- vard, Charleston, West Virginia. 1950 Robert Arthur Williams was mar- ried to Anne Purcell on September 19, 1953. Curtis Carlyle Humphris, Jr., was married to Carolyn Duke Wiley on September 23, 1953. __William Arthur Gregory was married to Mary Evelyn Kent on October 31, 1953. James T. Trundle was married to Martha Ann Riker on October 3, 1953. Neal Edward McNeill, Jr., was mar- ried to Elizabeth Janey Porter on April 25, 1953, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Washing- ton and Lee alumni “members of the wedding” were, Fred M. Vinson, 748, Brian Bell, ’49, and Herbert Hunt, ’51. 28 John MacGregor McKelway was married to Katherine Elizabeth Ber- thier on March 15, 1953, San Antonio, Texas. Donald Anthony Malmo was married to Elma Kirkpatrick on September 18, 1953, in Memphis, Tennessee. Asbury Christian Compton was mar- ried to Betty Leith Stephenson on No- vember 17, 1953, in Ashland, Virginia. 1951 James Jones White was married to Eugenia Heath Nisbet on November 20, 1953, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Thomas Talbott Bond was married to Ann Rice on November 28, 1953, in Towson, Maryland. 1952 Joseph John Hisler, Ensign, United States Naval Reserve, was married to Katherine Joyce Hamilton on Septem- ber 26, 1953, in Lexington, Virginia. Henry Gordon Edmonds, Jr., was married to Barbara Frances Purro, Wellesley College, 55, on June 9, 1953, in Albany, New York. He is in Frank- furt, Germany, where his bride will join him in September. 1953 John David Maguire was married to Tallian Louise Parrish on August 29, 1953, in Smithfield, North Carolina. George Fleming Maynard, III, was married to Isabel Barksdale on August 8, 1953, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. John Leighton Stewart Northrop was married to Katherine Rose McCutchan on November 17, 1953. 1956 Spencer McGaughey Clarke was mar- ried to Sarah Cornelia Farnsworth on October 2, 1953, in Atlanta, Georgia. Births 1937 Dr. and Mrs. Souther Fulton Tomp- kins are the parents of a son, Paul Souther Tompkins, born July 30, 1953. 1938 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hillier are the parents of a son, Robert Wynne, born June 22, 1953. 1941 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harrison Trice, Jr., are the parents of a son, William E. Trice, born September 12, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hobson are the parents of a daughter, Alice Wilson, born November 26, 1952. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Douglas Brown are the parents of a son, Douglas Regan Brown, born November 2, 1953. 1943 Mr. and Mrs. I. V. Runyan are the parents of a daughter, Diana, born on August 15, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Fitzpatrick are the parents of a third son, Eric Estes Fitzpatrick, born July 20, 1953. 1944 Mr. and Mrs. Norvelle W. Moses are the parents of a son, John Kinkler Moses, born October 3, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rowe are the par- ents of a son, Eric Christopher, born September 15, 1953. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Becker are the parents of a son, James ‘Thompson Becker, born July 8, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Seal an- nounce the adoption of a daughter, Martha Lewis Seal, born August 21, 1953. 1946 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwin Belcher are the parents of a daughter, Jane Preston Belcher, born January 14, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Dan C. Pinck are the parents of a son, Anthony, born Octo- ber 20, 1953. 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Phil Braunschweig are the parents of a daughter, Carol Louise, born August 12, 1953. 1948 Mr. and Mrs. Francis Asbury Davis are the parents of a daughter, Louise Carter Davis, born August 27, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spears Glas- gow, Jr., are the parents of a daughter, Martha Blair Glasgow, born October 23, 1953. 1949 Rev. and Mrs. B. R. Lawton are the parents of a daughter, Elene Lucille Lawson, born August 31, 1953, in Rivoli (Torino), Italy, where Mr. Lawton is President of Istituto Filadelfia Scuola Biblica. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ronald Fein- man are the parents of a son, Edward Ronald, Jr., July 2, 1953. 1951 Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Treiber Carter are the parents of a son, Oliver Trei- ber, Jr., born November 1, 1953. | 1950: : Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Ives Lewis are the parents of a son, Mitchell Ives, Jr., born August 20, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. John P. French are the parents of a second daughter, Martha Malone French, born June 30, 1953. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE The first entry for your 1954 DESK CALENDAR: . fie 10, 11, 12 Pa <> General Alumni Reunion of All Classes ta o~," > You will receive full information later SOMETHING NEW! A Washington and Lee Chair (with Crest in five colors) This Chair made from Northern Birch and Rock Maple—Finished in Black with Gold trim (arms finished in Cherry.) A perfect Gift for an Alumnus for Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary or Wedding. A beautiful addition to any room in your home. All profit from the sale of this chair goes to the scholarship fund in memory of John Graham, ’14. Mail your order to: WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC. Box 897, Lexington, Virginia Price: $25.00, f.o.b. Gardner, Mass.—Delivery within three weeks