eae EIGHT DAYS IN MAY WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNUS VOLUME 45 NUMBER 3 JUNE 1970 CONTENTS 1, Eight Days in May 11. Trustees’ Statement 12. A Free University Forum 13. Commencement: A Reaffirmation 16. Campus News 22. Athletics 24. Estrada’s View from MIT 26. Clarke Heads Alumni 27. Chapter News 28. Class Notes COVER The University’s relative immunity from student unrest ended during the early days of May when the campus became a rallying point for anti-war protests. For a full report on “Eight Days in May,” including a statement from the Board of Trustees, see pages | through 12. EDITOR: William C. Washburn, ’40 MANAGING EDITOR: Romulus T. Weatherman ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER: A. Michael Philipps, ’64 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Mrs. Joyce Carter WASHINGTON AND LEE ALUMNI, INC:: Charles F. Clarke, Jr., 38, President Emil L. Rassman, '41, Vice-President William C. Washburn, ’40, Secretary Richard H. Turrell, 49, Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Upton Beall, ’51; Joe F. Bear, 33; Charles F. Clarke, Jr., 38; T. Hal Clarke, ’38; A. Christian Compton, ’50; William H. Hillier, °38; S. L. Kopald, Jr., 43; Dr. J. Peter Muhlenberg, ’50; Ed- ward H. Ould, ’29; Emil L. Rassman, 741; Beauregard A. Redmond, ’55; Richard H. Turrell, ’49. Published in February, April, June, August, October, and December by Washington and Lee University Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Virginia 24450. All communications and POD Forms 3579 should be sent to bh beae oe Same and Lee University Alumni, Inc., Lexington, Virginia 24450. Second class postage paid at Lexington, Virginia 24450, with additional mailing privileges at Roanoke, Virginia 24001. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP as required by Act of Con- ie of Aug. 24, 1912, as amended by the Acts of March 3, 933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960: The Washington and Lee Alumnus is owned by Washington and Lee University Alumni, Inc., and is entered _as second class matter at the Post Office in Lexington, Virginia 24450, with additional mailing privileges at Roanoke, Virginia 24001. William C. Washburn is editor and business manager. His address is Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450. There are no bond, mortgage, or other security holders. The average num- ber . capiee of each issue during the 12 preceding months was 12, \ Our editorial was excerpted from the report of Fred Bartenstein, Jr., upon his completion on May 9 of a four- year term on the Alumni Board of Directors, two years of which he served as president of the Alumni Association. We look outside and see pressures on all private col- leges increasing. Costs go up and tuition must be raised. Fewer students can afford to attend. Sources of student aid that can maintain diverse student bodies become scarce. State schools, two-year community colleges, and junior colleges improve and grow in popularity. As if that weren’t enough, candidates for college today, nearly all of them, insistently seek a measure of the current in- volvement and style of their contemporaries. Many seek the excitement of urban centers, stimulus of coeducation, and large flexibilities. Some of this is naivete and is tran- sitory, but all of it isn’t. Large elements are maturity. None of it can be wished away. Members of boards, staffs and faculties, alumni—de- dicated, faithful, some of a mind that all else may change but we shall stay the same—aren’t the masters. ‘The mas- ters are the students of the future with their simple votes... . to attend or not attend the University. In this Chapel at this moment, with all these years of tradition behind us, this seems a far cry from General Lee. But it really isn’t. General Lee faced a very new world for him. He walked with dignity into the future here in Lexington. He addressed new student needs. Those needs were no longer merely classical learning. He instituted courses in the applied sciences and initiated the idea of the School of Commerce. He planted the seed for teaching jour- nalism. Everything he did was in tune with accepting new challenges. “Hark back to Lee,’ we may say, thinking of a better day. But whoever or whatever it is we hark back to with that in mind wasn’t really Lee. In facing new needs of students, discerning the real ones from the clamor and demand, and accommodating to them, we are acting in Lee’s tradition. If you keep returning to the campus, as we have, you get the feeling that President Huntley and his faculty and staff are try- ing very hard to make the needed accommodations and retain the essential strength and character of the school. And that they are being backed by the University Board. The underlying question remains nonetheless. In the final analysis, it may be the alumni themselves, their ability to be flexible and open-minded, and their determination that this University shall survive, who de- cide whether the obstacles can be overcome, and that those who have General Lee’s old job can continue to build a great institution here. Between a Rock And a Hard Place-- Eight Days in May What some students refer to as “Eight Days in May’”’ put the University for a time, in President Huntley’s words, ‘between a rock and a hard place.” The “rock” was a student-sponsored request, endorsed overwhelmingly in a student referendum, to close, in ef- fect, the school for the remainder of the year so that stu- dents might be unencumbered to express their concern over the war in Southeast Asia and other problems con- fronting American society. The “hard place” was the challenge that this request presented to the faculty, who recognized the intensity of the students’ concern but had to consider the responsibil- ity of the University to preserve the integrity of its edu- cational mission and avoid any compromise of academic standards. The faculty resolved the dilemma by declining the student request and making concessions to allow stu- dents on an individual basis to participate in anti-war activities and discussions. The faculty action insured that no credit would be awarded for unevaluated work. And classes as well as other University activities continued to the end of the year with a minimum of disruption. Many students initially viewed the faculty’s response to their petition as a betrayal and called for a more di- rect confrontation with University authority. But when it was made clear that the faculty’s action was final, talk of resistance subsided, and there arose a general realiza- tion among students that they were attacking the Univer- sity instead of the problems that gave rise to their con- cern. Thereafter, many students turned their attention and energy to participating in a “free university forum,” a non-credit series of seminars and discussions on the im- plications of the war in Indochina and other national and social issues—a program authorized by the faculty and open to anyone who wished to participate. The “Eight Days in May” that led to the situation sketched above stemmed from an extensive, diverse, and complex background having little direct relation to day- to-day events on the Washington and Lee campus. Most Americans are aware of the student unrest that has be- come almost universal throughout the country. The roots of this unrest have been analyzed and reanalyzed by both public and private agencies and the findings pub- lished and debated. One of the latest studies was con- ducted by the American Council on Education. The find- ings showed the issues to be as complex as ever. “There CAMPUS :1 are no magic wands, no silver bullets, no how-to-do-it kits for halting campus unrest,” the study committee said. “Those who seek simple solutions to these complex prob- lems will be disappointed with this report.” And it has been well reported how the sending of American troops into Cambodia and the deaths of four students at Kent State University gave students on many campuses new catalysts for their protests. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the combination of Cambodia and Kent State resulted in the most wide-spread campus unrest in the history of Ameri- can higher education. Students at more than 400 colleges went on strike, often peacefully but sometimes with vio- lent results. At least 200 institutions were shut down at some point, and several remained closed for the rest of the year. In these circumstances, Washington and Lee students are naturally influenced by campus unrest elsewhere and are affected by the many ingredients contributing to it. President Huntley has pointed out that Washington and Lee is not and cannot be insulated “from the trends of our time’ nor “from the restlessness of the young men “Eight Days” began Tuesday evening, May 5, with a Lee Chapel rally that eventually drew between 400 and 500 students. 2; CAMPUS who come to us as students.” Nevertheless, Washington and Lee has been spared the most ugly manifestations of studnet discontent, and at no time during the events of May did Washington and Lee students resort to violence or other disruptive tactics. There had existed at Washington and Lee for some time groups of students deeply concerned about the war in Southeast Asia and social ills involving poverty, rac- ism, pollution, and the quality of American life, and some of these students might be characterized as being radical in their views. Several of them attended the May Day rally at Yale University, where nationwide campus strikes were advocated. The expansion of the war into Cambodia and the Kent State deaths inspired them to take some action on the Washington and Lee campus. ‘They announced a rally to be held in front of Lee Cha- pel on the evening of Tuesday, May 5. During the day, President Huntley issued a message in which he called for “rational thought and demeanor at a time when it is so easy to yield to irrational attitudes and behavior.” He also said: “The barriers that threaten to divide us as a nation must not find their counterpart in barriers dividing us as a community. I refer to the bar- riers behind which men retreat in intellectual and moral isolation when they have somehow convinced themselves of the infallible correctness of their own views and the base hypocrisy of all others, an isolation which is char- acterized by a fear of sharing one’s deepest convictions with any save those who are known to agree. I know that this kind of isolation already is growing among factions on this campus. I know also that it can become an epi- demic and that disease that accompanies it could be incurable.” The Tuesday evening rally attracted between 400 and 500 students. The assembly was orderly. Several Wash- ington and Lee students spoke, and so did a student from the University of Virginia invited to the rally by W&L students. The speakers called for a strike against class attendance the next morning so that students would be free to attend a rally at the University of Virginia at which Jerry Rubin, a defendant in the “Chicago Seven” trial, and William Kunstler, attorney for the defendants, were to speak. At no point did any of the speakers advo- cate a resort to violence. They explained that the student picket lines to be formed the next morning would be a passive expression of student convictions against the war. President Huntley appeared at the rally and in brief remarks explained that his message to students that morning was not directed against the rally or the partici- pants but toward the growing divergent attitudes within the student community. He urged the group to show moderation, praised the orderliness of the rally and ex- pressed confidence that orderliness would continue to prevail. ‘““My sole function—and the sole one to which I am currently dedicated—is this campus, its effectiveness, its spirit, and its community,” he said. And he added: “I Up to 4o students picketed the Colonnade Wednesday morning, May 6, and no effort was made to block other students from attending classes. call on you, whatever faction of the student body you identify with, to prevent the growth of the kinds of bar- riers I referred to in that message this afternoon. It can be done. It requires a great effort of will to share deep convictions with those who may not share them with you—an effort of will that is indeed the core of what a liberal arts institution is all about. It is a hard concept to articulate. It does not lend itself to sloganeering. It cannot be played on an organ to the response of a crowd. If it were easier to articulate, easier to sloganeer about, you would hear us talk more about it. It is a concern which you must share with us, and I am convinced that you do.” The next morning, Wednesday, May 6, up to 40 stu- dents, carrying crosses and yelling “strike,” picketed along the Colonnade. They made no effort to block stu- dents from attending class, and in fact class attendance as a whole on that morning exceeded the previous day. Many students opposed to the strike responded by wear- ing coats and ties that morning and encouraged others to do the same. The picketing lasted about two hours, and around 10 a.m. the pickets disbanded and went to Charlottes- ville. In all, an estimated 200 Washington and Lee stu- dents attended the rally at the University of Virginia. The extent of the influence of the Charlottesville rally on subsequent events at Washington and Lee is difficult to assess. Ihe consensus was that Jerry Rubin “turned off’ many students while Kunstler won some student respect for his views. At any rate, it is generally conceded that the Charlottesville rally did intensify the concern already ‘“‘smouldering’” in many moderate stu- dents and did influence them to join in some concerned action to express that concern. Late that Wednesday night, Francis M. Lawrence, president-elect of the student body, who had gone to Charlottesville, and Staman Ogilvie, a member of the Student Body Executive Committee, went to see Marvin C. Henberg, president of the student body, and reported that “a lot of people were mad and hopped up.” Hen- berg and Lawrence decided then that something should be done to “channel these energies.” Their decision was to call a student assembly at which several proposals might be discussed by the students. On the morning of ‘Thursday, May 7, several students, including some who had engaged in the picketing and had gone to Charlottesville, met with President Huntley and told him that Washington and Lee’s academic pro- gram held little for them in comparison with national issues. They asked for some special dispensation that would allow them to participate more fully in the na- tional student movement. They told the President there was no organization behind the request and that only about 100 students felt that way. No threats were express- ed or implied. The President called a meeting of the Faculty Execu- tive Committee and conveyed the student request to the members. The committee, after discussing the proposal, decided to call a special faculty meeting for that evening. Meanwhile, between 75 and 100 students gathered in the University Center Cockpit (the tavern) during the afternoon, and again that night, and engaged in pro- longed discussion about the situation in Southeast Asia and the Kent State tragedy. These meetings were infor- mal gatherings known as “rap sessions” and were con- sidered to be preliminary to the official student assembly called by Henberg for Friday, at which it was believed several proposals would be discussed. It was at this point that the course of events became somewhat confused. Henberg said later that “the fact that no one really knows what happened” and that “at least 40 things happened at one time” indicate the frus- tration involved in the events. Henberg, who saw his role as a liaison between the students and the faculty and administration, said ensuing events showed “how things never work out the way you expect them to.” It was his understanding that the ses- CAMPUS 23 sions in the Cockpit, at which students of every shade of thinking were present and could say anything they wish- ed, were to come up with several ideas or proposals that could be talked about at the student assembly. “I never thought that anybody would reach any kind of unanimity on any sort of resolution. I always looked upon it as an exorcising device to give the student body a chance to work out the frustration. Very seldom could I see any coherence to what was going on, but I could see the need to get it out.” Lawrence reported, too, that he expected a variety of ideas to come out of the “rap sessions” that could be presented to the student body. But out of these student discussions came a proposed resolution calling for closing the University as of May 11. This would have involved cancellation of all classes and examinations and the substitution of seminars and discussion groups on a University-wide basis to explore the economic, political, and philosophical ramifications of the Indochina war and other national issues. The student decision was reached while the special faculty meeting was in progress Thursday night. Hen- berg and Lawrence were present at the faculty meeting to present the request of the students wanting to leave the University. ‘They did not have full knowledge, nor did the faculty, of what the 200 to 300 students were doing in the Cockpit and at other gatherings around the campus. In its meeting, the faculty reached agreement on a motion which permitted students to defer regular class work and examinations for the remainder of the current semester and to absent themselves from the campus. The faculty also approved a motion calling for faculty mem- bers to design voluntarily and sponsor on-campus semi- nars and discussion groups dealing with topics of current national interest. This was the genesis of the “free uni- versity forum,” the nature of which is described else- where in this magazine. The text of the motion: The faculty has been made aware that there are stu- dents on our campus who feel strongly that they should not and cannot participate effectively in Washington and Lee’s academic program during the balance of the current sess'on because of the sense of immediate con- cern and fervor they feel about major national issues. Notwithstanding the depth of this feeling of some stu- dents, the faculty does not believe that Washington and Lee’s classes should be suspended or its educational responsibilities abandoned. In response to the requests it has received, the faculty does take the following ac- tion: A student who as a matter of conscience wishes to ab- sent himself from, but remain enrolled in, Washington and Lee must state his intention by letter to the Faculty Executive Committee, at which time he will receive “I” [incomplete] grades in his current courses. If the incom- plete work and examination of the courses are made up 4; CAMPUS hep thse tpapaangh iit SS Student Body President Swede Henberg called assembly on Friday, May 8, to discuss a student resolution for suspending classes. After discussions for and against the proposal, Henberg postponed vote until following Monday. «< ~_ > » Po = ' % = by September 30, 1970, the “I” grade will be changed to the grade earned. If the “I” grade is not removed by September 30, 1970, it will be recorded as an “F.” The next day, Friday, May 8, the student body as- sembly, called by Henberg, was held on the front lawn to present and discuss the student resolution for sus- pending classes. Henberg said later that he felt obligated, since he and Lawrence had decided to have the Cockpit meetings, to present the student resolution that came out. of those meetings. He said, too, looking back on it, that he thinks it was a mistake although “I think it was good that the (Cockpit) meetings were held because it kept things going in constructive channels.” At the student assembly, students spoke both for and against the proposal. There was some sentiment for put- ting the resolution to an immediate vote, but the students decided to delay the vote until the following Monday to allow themselves time to discuss the resolu- tion and its implications. Henberg said later he took on himself the refusal to allow an immediate vote that day. And as discussion continued at the meeting, individuals requested the resolution be amended to provide that stu- dents wishing to do so could continue their current course of study by arrangement with their respective pro- fessors. After the student assembly, many Washington and Lee students—estimates ranged up to 250—journeyed to Washington where they participated in the anti-war demonstrations there over the weekend. During that weekend, alumni were on campus for annual class reunions, and many alumni were present at the student assembly on Friday. Fred Bartenstein, alumni association president, congratulated the students on the responsible manner in which the discussions were being carried out. Throughout the weekend, students and alumni talked informally and extensively at the Alumni House and elsewhere on campus about the student pro- posal and their convictions about the war and other na- tional issues. Saturday, May 9, was normal in nearly all respects. Alumni reunions and Law Day activities proceeded with- out incident. At the annual meeting of the Washington and Lee Alumni Association, President Huntley was given an ovation for his handling of the situation and for his leadership of the University in all respects. Fred Bartenstein, the outgoing alumni president, said: “If you keep returning to the campus as we have been doing, you get the feeling that President Huntley and his faculty and staff are trying very hard to make the needed accommodations and to retain the essential strength and character of the school, and that they are backed by the University Board. The underlying ques- tion remains, nevertheless. In the final analysis, it may be the alumni themselves—their ability to be flexible and open-minded in their determination that this University shall survive—who decide whether the obstacles can be CAMPUS <5 overcome, and that those who have General Lee’s old job can continue to build a great institution here.” Charles F. Clarke, Jr., the incoming alumni president, said: “You know these are times of crises, and I didn’t realize it so much until I came down here . . . I admire brave men, and I admire courageous men who stand up to difficult situations, and one of those men I admire very much is Robert Huntley. He came to our meeting (alumni board) yesterday after 24 hours of sleepless en- deavor in an attempt to bring reason and understanding into a group of college students whom I think later ex. hibited that reason and that understanding . . . I think he is a brave man, and I think he is a good man, and I think we have a duty as alumni to let the rest of the alumni know that we stand behind him.” On the morning of Sunday, May 10, a memorial serv- ice was held in the University Center for the students killed at Kent State. A rally in support of the student resolution was held in the Freshman Dormitory quad- rangle. And students on both sides of the issue of closing the University campaigned for support. Also on May 10, the outgoing and incoming Student Body Executive Committees met in joint session and en- dorsed the student resolution, saying the endorsement was made “with the understanding that explicit in the resolution a respect for those students wishing to con- tinue their course of study is affirmed.” The Executive Committee gave the following reasons for its action: I, It is our belief that the best interests of educa- tion will be served rather than hindered by the can- cellation of normal classes of instruction. The air of great concern which has pervaded this campus for the last several days, regardless of political philosophies, has made concentrated and serious study impossible. 2. It is our feeling that the United States is in a period of extreme difficulty and that our normal activi- ties are no longer adequate to meet the challenges of the times. It is our belief that the restructuring of the University in the final days of the academic year of 1969-70 will offer an Opportunity to all students of Washington and Lee to better approach the problems of our times. On Monday, May 11, the students voted. The text of the proposal as it appeared finally on the ballot was: Whereas: We the students of Washington and Lee desire to express our concern over the present war in Indochina, we intend to join with our fellow students in this country by closing Washington and Lee as of May 11, 1970. Through whatever channels the faculty deems neces- sary and with all possible haste we urge that the follow- ing be implemented: I. Declare all classes cancelled retroactive to May 6, until the fall of 1970 and direct the University to- wards the crisis in this country. BELO ©: CAMPUS 2. As a substitute for classes, students, teachers, and others interested will use the facilities in the Univer- sity to conduct seminars and hold discussions open to everyone on the economic, political, philosophical, socio- logical, etc., ramifications of the Indochina war. In addition, it is hoped that the educational experi- ences can aid in exploring other problems—present and potential—facing our country and our world. ‘Whereas classes will have ended as of May 6, 1970, it will be up to the individual student to arrange for grades on the following basis: A student may opt for (1) continuing his current courses of study by arrange- ment with his respective professors on an individual basis, (2) receiving grades in his present P/F (Pass-Fail) and letter combination, or receiving all P/F (Pass-Fail) on work completed as of May 6, 1970. Graduating seniors will not be deemed to have com- pleted their requirements for graduating until June 5, 1970.” The balloting lasted most of the day. Of 1,367 stu- dents eligible to vote, 1,319 did so. The outcome was 1,065 for the resolution and 254 against. This was certainly an overwhelming vote for some- thing, but few people, not even the students close to the campaign, agreed on just what that something was. Henberg, who voted against the resolution and who had insisted on giving the student body time to deliber- ate the proposal, said he did not foresee the “incredible political push—it was masterful—to get the vote out on that thing . . . it became a propaganda thing. It was pushed for a variety of reasons. So what you came up with was a confused, contradictory resolution—a fact which I was aware of all the time.” Lawrence, who favored the resolution, conceded that the resolution was too loosely worded and subject to a variety of interpretations. Although the resolution was amended so that the University would not be really closed, the word “‘closed’”’ remained in the resolution, he said, and that ‘“‘was a tactical blunder.” Still he felt that this failing was insufficient grounds “to say that the resolution meant nothing.” Henberg’s analysis of the reasons students could find to vote for the resolution seems to be as good as any: Students would have voted for the resolution if they felt that a symbolic gesture of the entire student body was important in the light of widespread concern over the war and other issues. Henberg called this the most noble reason, and one with which he could sympathize. Students were being told to vote for it if they wanted an extension of the pass/fail option. Henberg said he could not sympathize with the pass/fail option unless all work had been completed. Such an option on uncom- pleted work, he said, would ask professors to compromise themselves, ask the University to lie, and amount to a dissolution of academic freedom. Students were being told to vote for the resolution just as an expression of an opinion, along these lines: “You don’t have to worry about it because the faculty is going to decide anyway. It’s in their hands, so just give them an expression of opinion.” Students were also being told, ‘Well, this isn’t say- ing anything politically one way or another. If you’re in favor of the war you can vote in favor of this resolution because that gives you a chance to get out and work; too.” And some students voted for it because they just wanted to get out of the University and perhaps some work. Lawrence, on the other hand, felt that only a few students voted for the resolution because they wanted the University closed in the strongest sense of the word— that the vast majority of “yes” votes were a request to the faculty to do a “‘little more than they had done... to encourage people to find out more about the situation in America.” He said he did not regard the resolution as an affront to the faculty, but another proposal. Henberg, in explaining his negative vote, said he thought what the faculty had already done was a reason- able response to a reasonable request and he was suspici- ous of the reasons being given for voting for the resolu- tion. He said he wanted to minimize the idea of con- frontation and “had an eerie feeling all along” that a large vote for the resolution would be interpreted as a confrontation. “I think what my role should have been was one of communicating in a better way than I did to the student body exactly what was happening,” he said. The majority of students anticipated that the faculty would take notice of what appeared to be an overwhelm- ing student sentiment for closing the normal academic program at Washington and Lee, and most expected the faculty to endorse this expression of student opinion in some manner. So it was that at a second special faculty meeting the night of Monday’s referendum President Huntley, draw- ing on an old south Georgia expression, characterized the University as being “between a rock and a hard place.” Deliberations of the faculty are confidential. But it can be reported that the faculty, after hearing Henberg’s analysis of the vote and President Huntley’s appraisal of the situation and his opinion that the faculty should not feel that it was under any form of threat or intimidation, discussed at length the implications of the student resolu- tion. The consensus was that any attempt to implement it, with all its various options, would result eventually in a substantive closing of the University—a step the faculty felt it could not condone without doing irreparable harm to the institution’s educational integrity. At the same time, the faculty was fully cognizant of student sentiment, and there were many expressions of sympathy for their point of view. There was also senti- ment for entrusting any further decisions on the matter to the President, a responsibility the President said he : CAMPUS <7 a DE ary i | Henberg (left) and Student Body President-elect Fran Lawrence, although voting differently on resolution, were unified in their attempts to lead “Eight Days” in constructive channels. 8 CAMPUS was willing to assume. But the view prevailed that the decision should remain in faculty hands. The upshot was that the faculty, after prolonged dis- cussion, approved the following motion, the intent of which was to supplement its previous action of May 7: The faculty of Washington and Lee University rec- ognizes the referendum of the student body as a signi- ficant and sincere expression of concern about major national issues. In response to that referendum and in keeping with our commitment to utilize the educational resources of the University for the benefit of all its stu- dents the following action will be taken: 1. In addition to holding regularly scheduled classes and examinations, the University will utilize all avail- able resources to conduct seminars and hold discussions “open to everyone on the economic, political, philoso- phical, and sociological ramifications of the Indochina war” and “other problems—present and potential—facing our society and our world.” 2. All members of the University community are encouraged to participate in these additional programs. A student who wishes to discontinue class attendance for the purpose of more complete involvement in such educational experiences may: A. Accept an “I” grade now in any or all of his current courses with the possibility of removing the grade when work in courses has been completed, Sep- tember 30, 1970, being the final deadline. A student who wishes to take the “I” option in any course is asked to submit an appropriate letter to the Faculty Execu- tive Committee and notify the professors concerned of his plans this week. He must give notification of his in- tentions no later than Thursday, May 21, 1970. B. Attend classes at his own discretion, i.e., all ab- sence regulations are suspended from May 6 until the beginning of the examination period. The motion passed without a dissenting vote. President Huntley announced after the faculty vote that he would call a University student assembly at noon the next day to inform students of the faculty's motion and its significance in terms of the options it afforded. The faculty’s decision was unpopular with many stu- dents, and some took it as an insult. A large number of students had gathered in Evans Dining Hall while the faculty was meeting and heard versions of the faculty's actions. In the words of one faculty member, it was “at this point that the fat got as close to the fire as it ever did in Lexington during this period.” A few faculty mem- bers did go to the dining hall and try to explain the ac- tions, and they were sometimes shouted at. Fran Law- rence reported that “the taking over of Washington Hall or something along that line” was averted only by an- other plan which involved the boycott of classes and an effort to submit another proposal to the faculty. It was decided to hold another student-sponsored assembly on the front lawn the next morning. This student assembly convened at 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, May 12. “Strike” signs and banners had proli- ferated on the campus overnight, and the general mood of the students was one of defiance. A student spokesman read a_ statement which had been drawn up the night before by the Student Body Executive Committee—a meeting which Henberg said was not official because he was not present, but was rather an informal gathering. Henberg said that by that time many students and members of the EC felt “some- how I had betrayed representing the student body.” The statement read: The faculty decision of May 11, 1970, rejecting the student proposal is in the mind of the Executive Com- mitee of Washington and Lee University an act of grave irresponsibility. It is in the strongest terms pos- sible that this body condemns the faculty decision to- night. And we call for reconsideration of what we believe to be an ill-advised and disrespectful action. We further urge all concerned students to resist the decision of the faculty resolution in the following ways: 1. The boycott of regular classes. . Attendance of all newly scheduled seminars. . Active participation in war concern activities. . Non-payment of registration fees. . Non-registration for next year’s classes. It is our greatest desire that the student body react to the faculty decision with the same rationality and constructive action which has typified the events of the last several days. Gr Oo DO Various student speakers supported this response and urged students to talk individually with faculty members in an effort to bring about a reconsideration of the stu- dent proposal. Students were also urged to give President Huntley a fair hearing at the noon University assembly. Prior to that assembly, President Huntley issued the following statement, making it clear that it was not the text of the remarks he would make at noon: I do not believe it can be said the faculty “rejected” Monday’s student resolution. The faculty clearly wished to express affirmatively that it shares the deep concern of students on national issues and wishes to underscore the importance of that concern in every way which is consistent with their responsibility. The faculty intended to accept—and I believe it is perfectly clear from the wording the faculty used that the faculty did in fact accept—every premise which the student resolution con- tained in support of its position. It can hardly be said that the faculty made no sub- stantial changes in the policy it had adopted only last week—a policy, incidentally, which only four days ago was all that the students asked for. It can hardly be said that the faculty has merely ‘re- affirmed’ its action of Thursday. Last night’s resolution represents a significant extension of that action in an important respect. Of the requests contained in the stu- dent resolution, explicit or interpreted by students as ? CAMPUS being implied in it, the faculty turned down just one. That one would have cancelled all academic work out- right for anybody for any reason. I believe that imple- menting that action would be tantamount to closing Washington and Lee University, and closing the Univer- sity, or taking any action which would lead to a de facto closing of the University, would in my view and in the view of the faculty be unfair and unwise. I remain impressed with the reasonable and thought- ful attitude being taken by the great majority of Wash- ington and Lee students, who understand the substan- tial new options given them by the faculty and who I hope now wish to get down to the business of exer- cising them. At the noon assembly, President Huntley encountered the same spirit of hostility that characterized the morn- ing student-sponsored gathering. He met this animosity with great personal restraint as he responded to ques- tions and comments. He expiained again the additional concessions the faculty vad authorized by providing for “I” grades in selected courses. He also made it clear that he regarded the faculty’s action as final for this year, explaining that final decisions had to be made so that the institution can operate in a framework that is not constantly shift- ing. “If a sense of betrayal has been created in you, it was unintentional—a matter of the head and not of the heart,’ he said. “My call of last week which you heeded so well for rational discussion, for unity of view, for des- troying barriers that divide us was not intended, nor should such a call ever be intended, to imply that such discussion can always—or indeed should always—lead to final agreement on all points. That’s not the purpose of rational discussion. It is probably never its result. If I misled you by stating that to you publicly and in private conversation with you, as I say, it was a mistake of the head and not the heart. I am sure this is true also of other faculty members who talked with you in the last few days and of student body leaders who have talked with you in the last few days. “I wished very much—and I must say I believe you have succeeded in bringing this student body into a sense of community, a sense of willingness to talk, a sense of willingness to share deep conviction, a sense of dedication to something higher than self—I wished very much for that to occur; it seems to me it has occurred. If it is to be sustained, if it is to be something from which real value for you as individuals, for you as a group, and for this University—something of real and lasting value—it must be demonstrated that it is not that transitory and illu- sory kind of unity which falls apart as soon as respon- sible decision has to be made.” In answer to a student’s question of why the faculty rejected the “Pass-Fail” proposal, the President said that neither the institution nor the students had any way of Instructor in English Henry Sloss responds to student requests . . . . (o hear a faculty member’s viewpoint. assessing the significance of taking such an option and 10: CAMPUS besides such an option would be “tantamount to closing the institution.” One student drew cheers when he said that what the students “had put together in five days as reasonable men the faculty had thrown aside in one evening.” He also asked why Washington and Lee could not do what some of the best universities in the country were doing. The President replied that faculty members had also been here during the five days mentioned and were deep- ly involved in the campus discussions. He also noted that “perhaps in this time of pressure it is a healthy thing that universities do not copy each other.” The assembly ended in the nature of a stalemate, with many students seemingly dissatisfied with the explana- tions and desiring some reconsideration of their position by the faculty. But during the afternoon student leaders and spokes- men for various student groups reassessed the situation. That whole day of Tuesday, May 12, was characterized by Lawrence as “one of the most fascinating days in the history of the school.” It started on a defiant note and ended with students resigning themselves to the situa- tion and redirecting their energy. Lawrence said two things happened: The student leadership was tired and came to the realization that they were attacking Washington and Lee. “We all didn't want to go on with it—those of us who care about it— and we saw that we couldn’t keep the same group of people who voted for the resolution together. The only leadership that could have been given to it would have been more demonstrative . . . and we felt that we did start this because of Cambodia, because of the domestic American situation, and that was what is really im- portant.” Henberg said the leadership felt that it was being forced into a more radical position than it really was, that things had gone as far as they could go, that the Stu- dent Executive Committee in pushing expectations any further was being irresponsible. “So it was just a realization by members that repre- sentation did not mean going along with a transitory emotional bent,” he said. “At some time you have to take a stand on principle. I decided that I would take, in some hazy sense, as my principle that of protecting the professor’s right—and I think it is a necessary right—to run his class the way he wants to run it. So the Executive Committee knew it had to come back, and we voted on Tuesday to have Phil Thompson [vice-president elect of the student body] tell the students what the real situa- tion was.” Another student-sponsored assembly was held ‘Tues- day on the lawn at 5 p.m. And at that time Thompson told the students that to press the issue further would be irresponsible and jeopardize the University. “No more will be derived from attempts to reach modification,” he said. ‘““The faculty can go no further in keeping with their responsibility to the University. We urge that no acts of ultimate irresponsibility result from this.” Another student said: “Forget power politics and get to the real issues that started this.” Other speakers urged students to take advantage of the options and opportunities afforded them by the fac- ulty’s actions of May 7 and May 11, particularly full par- ticipation in the programs of the “‘free university forum.” With that the campus returned to normal insofar as the conditions created by the “Eight Days in May’ per- mitted. A student-prepared letter, dated May 14, which was mailed to parents summed up the situation this way: “In the remaining days student activity and interest will be channeled into the free seminars offered in the evenings. Many students have accepted the faculty offer to take ‘“Incompletes” in their courses so that they may act more directly in the resolution of today’s problems ... It is our firm conviction that violence and coercive action exacerbate a situation and tend only to obliterate the real issues. Therefore, it has been our desire to main- tain the atmosphere of concern coupled with rational dialogue and responsible action.” Spring registration for the 1970-71 academic year pro- ceeded on schedule, and 82 per cent of the students regi- stered, only slightly below the percentage of previous years. Those who did not register this spring may regi- ster next fall without penalty. With the passage of the deadline on May 21 for exercising the “I” option, 609 students had chosen to take incompletes in all or some courses. Among these were 545 undergraduates who took “I’s” in about 1,300 courses. But interestingly, many of these students continued to attend class and many took their examinations. At the end of the school year, 396 students still had 887 “I's” un- resolved. About 80 students took “I’s’” in all courses, and 30 of these students still have all ‘‘I’s”’ which must be made up by September go or be recorded as “F's.” On May 14, signs appeared in the University Center proclaiming that Washington and Lee had been desig- nated “Southern Regional Strike Headquarters” by the “National Strike Headquarters” at Brandeis University. A group of Washington and Lee students, composed largely of those who organized the first rally on May 5, accepted an invitation from their counterparts at Bran- deis to set up in Lexington a regional headquarters to collect information on anti-war activities on campuses throughout the South. The group sought and received recognition by the Student Body Executive Committee as a bona fide student body activity, and as such was eligible for assignment of student office space in the University Center. At the same time, the Student Body Executive Com- mittee was giving financial support from the Student Body Fund to the “free university forum” and a campus newsletter to promote it. There was a period of confusion Following Tuesday, May 12, noon assembly, President Huntley continued answering student questions on faculty position. during which the newsletter appeared to be a project of the “strike committee.” “The matter was cleared up when the Executive Committee announced that no student body funds were being used in support of the regional “strike” headquarters. With the end of the school year and the closing down of the University Center, the Southern Regional Strike Headquarters was moved to an apartment near the camp- us. Except for its recognition by the Student Body Execu- tive Committee as a student activity, the “strike center” received no University sanction. After the student acceptance of the faculty’s action on May 12, the traditional year-end events on campus, in- cluding the senior banquet and the sports awards barbe- que, proceeded in the normal way. The “free university forum” proved to be popular. At this point, it is difficult for anyone to assess ac- curately the long-range, or even the short-range, implica- tions of the “Eight Days in May” for the future of the University. There are nearly as many opinions and judgments on that subject as there are people associated with the University. Most judgments tend to be hopeful —that out of what threatened to become a confrontation between students and faculty and a temporary break- down in dialogue has come a new and more meaningful communication within the Washington and Lee com- munity. CAMPUS.11 A Statement By The Board of Trustees The Board of ‘Trustees of Washington and Lee University commends the ad- ministration and faculty of the Univer- sity for the wise, firm, and courageous manner in which they dealt with the situation on our campus during the period of unrest following the sending of United States troops into Cambodia. We take pride in the fact that Wash- ington and Lee continued its educa- tional program without interruption and without reducing course require- ments while at the same time making possible the postponement of the com- pletion of course work for those students who, in a time of extreme tension on many campuses, felt bound by con- science to express their concern in ways involving absence from classes. The Board further commends the student body for its adherence to orderly procedures, in contrast with the co- ercion and even disorder on many campuses, and expresses its gratification that students, although differing with the considered judgment of the faculty and administration, accepted such judg- ment in good spirit and in a manner consistent with the best traditions of Washington and Lee. We believe that the entire University community both demonstrated its in- tegrity as a seat of higher learning and showed its sensitivity to the realities of a critical national situation. T2;CAMPUS The Free University Forum: It Had ‘Some Good Learning’ On Highly Personal Subjects BY ROBERT S. KEEFE Director of Public Information ? What do people learn at a “free university,’ anyway? Actually, just about anything. Approached properly, a “free university” kind of program can supplement the formal curriculum, add to it in fields of thought which perhaps don’t lend themselves to neat incorporation into an academic department, pro- pose valid theories and bring out legitimate points of view that perhaps ought not to be part of the regular, “traditional” pattern of college education. “Free universities” avoid imposing a higher degree of structure than is essential — and “essential” structure means simply having a discussion leader and a place, nothing more. There are no “requirements,” none at all. There are no speeches, and nobody proclaims himself a renowned authority (like some travelling lecturers whose ideas “are right because they are mine’). Where more properly than at this dry sort of cocktail party with a serious theme might you hear, and partici- pate in, an intellectual analysis of (for instance) “Theo- ries of Language and Social Problems’? Or ‘““The Music of Commitment’? Or “Polarization as a Political ‘Tech- nique’? These are highly personal and subjective topics, ones which surely have no place in the academic curriculum. But they are topics which just as surely must not be banned in the educational community. How about “The Impact of the Indochina War on the Ecology of Vietnam’? Dr. ‘Thomas Nye, assistant pro- fessor of biology and a specialist on the environment, would have some pretty significant thoughts on that. ‘The “free university forum” is where he expressed them. Likewise “Strategy and Tactics for Campaign Work.” Dr. S. Todd Lowry, associate professor of economics, and Henry Sloss, instructor in English, discussed their ideas with students who want to work effectively and ef- ficiently within “‘the system.’’ Another “free university” session with a similar theme, “How Students Can Work Within the Party Apparatus,’ was conducted by Dr. John Winfrey, associate professor of economics, and Col. B. McCluer Gilliam, professor of government at VMI. There was a session on the formidable question ‘“Must Uptopia Change?” jointly led by a professor, an associ- ate professor and an assistant professor, all from the bio- logy department, Drs. Cleveland Hickman, Randall Em- mons and Thomas Nye. The “free university’ provided an occasion for a Roa- noke television reporter to talk with students about the place of the media in political affairs, for a law professor to lead an “anti-crime seminar,’ for researchers to ex- amine the relationship between “hard” science and politics. ‘There was one on “Pacifism, the Crusades and the Just War,” led by the Rev. Charles Swezey, Presbyterian chaplain to W&L students and a Woodrow Wilson Scholar. ‘There were several panels examining who ought to be elected to Congress this autumn, and how to go about it. Several on the draft and alternatives to conscription (with an emphasis on working within the legal frame- work of Selective Service laws, incidentally). ‘There was a session on using “Universities as Poli- tical Sanctuaries,” facing one of the thorniest problems in the activist-type approach to problem-solving in the academic environment. Though it seems safe to say the “free university for- um” was originated as a response to student distress over the course of American policies in Vietnam and (more particularly) Cambodia, “free university’’ events were hardly restricted to ideas of the political Left. The entire broad spectrum of opinion was represented, with one well-attended session led by two student leaders of the John Birch Society, whose topic was “The ‘Truth About Vietnam.” The “free university” was not single-mindedly politi- cal, either, although the most attention was of course given to matters of national policy. ‘There were readings from works of literature, poems that celebrate the good- ness of life, even a couple of combo parties of a mini- Woodstock type. And although set up quickly, almost overnight — some might say even hastily — Washington and Lee’s “free university forum” turned out to be so worthwhile an extracurricular undertaking that most faculty and ad- ministrators, as well as students, seem to hope the idea hasn’t died with the close of the late academic year. For instance, one student leader said, “I feel that the “free university forum’ was a necessary and important thing. It was a creative, positive, transforming experience because it provided an opportunity for emotions to be worked out in constructive paths. It was a kind of exor- cising device. “You know, I like that metaphor. It’s my favorite. You've got a devil in you—you exorcise it. And that’s ex- actly what the “free university” did. And I would say that’s what the University has to find. It has to find positive approaches to the kinds of problems that arose in May, and I think it can be done.” A faculty member, a leader in the “free university”’ exercise, put it this way: “Students came, faculty mem- bers came, and some good learning took place on some important topics.” L a Pie pee < a Ag aes Se, SS OEE eee eee ‘ ‘ mes ‘ CAMPUS -13 Educational Vitality Reaffirmed, Huntley Tells 307 Graduates Commencement at Washington and Lee this June was a ceremony of reassurance and reaffirmation. ‘The sun shone jewelly throughout the ceremonies, although rain had been forecast. Just as always, parents began taking pictures even before the academic procession left Wash- ington Hall and, just as always, they didn’t stop snapping until the President declared, ‘““This assembly is adjourn- ed.” Just as always, the gamut of emotions was there, from relief mixed sadness to nostalgia mixed with joy. President Huntley added to the mood of reassurance when he told the 301 graduating students and their fami- lies, “I tell you that my faith in the vitality [of the pur- poses of liberal education] is not shaken,” but is strength- ened by what has occurred at Washington and Lee since his inauguration 21 months ago. BACCALAUREATE SERVICE Other speakers joined President Huntley in sounding a reassuring note. The Rev. John Newton ‘Thomas (W&L, ’24), reminded his audience at the Baccalaureate service the morning before graduation that men who have committed themselves rationally to modifying exist- ing institutions for the better will find God to be neither an enemy nor an irrelevance—rather, he said, they will find God to be their chief ally. Dr. Thomas, professor of systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond and the senior member of Washington and Lee’s Board of ‘Trustees, urged seniors to test every supposed truth, every proposi- tion, every principle, by applying processes of critical thought, experimentation and the use of reason. He pointed to the Apostle Paul’s own commitment to “choose the good — and stay with it.” “The luxury of non-involvement,” Dr. ‘Thomas stat- ed, ‘is neither admirable nor, perhaps, even possible.” To arrive at a reasoned course of action, he said, “we must go beyond the available evidence. We must act on faith — for we are not God. “Let us not identify God too closely with organized religion, with the ‘Ecclesiastical Establishment, ” Dr. Thomas cautioned listeners who, he said, might think — wrongly — that God blindly supports the status quo. But when God bypasses existing institutions, when He smashes the Establishment, Dr. Thomas added, it is “‘only to fulfill His responsible commitment to that which 1s 2ood — good for society and good for the individual. “If we are for the kind of change which modifies for the better,’ he said, ‘“‘“God is not our enemy. He is not irrelevant. He is our chief ally.” COMMISSIONING CEREMONIES Reserve Officers Training Corps commissioning cere- monies took place early in the morning on Commence- ment Day, as always. Brig. Gen. Herbert McChrystal commissioned 44 graduating seniors, including his son Scott, as second lieutenants. (Among the new lieutenants were some of the students who had been most active in the spring’s events at W&L — and two of those received Distinguished Military Awards from Gen. McChrystal.) VALEDICTORY ADDRESS “We do have a timeless ideal,” Anthony M. Coyne of Decatur, Ga., one of two graduates who earned two bachelor’s degrees this year, said in the traditional vale- dictory address. ““And so long as we remain willing to adapt our actions [to] this ideal, we remain willing to It is for this effort, in his time, that General Lee can con- tinue to show us the way.” Coyne interpreted campus unrest across the nation this spring as part of a search by students for new tradi- tions to replace outmoded habits carried over from past eras. He said the “progressive inquiry” being undertaken by the student generation parallels General Lee’s own search 105 years ago at Washington College for a new life style to replace an old one which had become no longer useful. DEGREES AND HONOREES With the traditional preface, “by virtue of the au- thority vested in me by the Commonwealth of Virginia,” President Huntley conferred the new Juris Doctor degree on 37 men, the Bachelor of Science degree on 41, the special Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry on one man, the Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce on 44, the Bachelor of Arts degree on 146, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics or Politics on 34. And similarly did he pronounce three eminent Vir- ginians to be honorary alumni of Washington and Lee, men of singular accomplishment in the judicial, aca- demic and political worlds—Chief Judge Walter E. Hoff- man of U.S. District Court in Norfolk (W&L, ’31), Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, the biographer of Gen. George C. Marshall and director of the Marshall Research Library on the campus of VMI, and former Gov. Mills E. God- win, described by Dean William W. Pusey as a “master persuader” whose mission in office was to help Virginia “achieve the fullness of its promise . . . while cherishing its traditional glory.” Judge Hoffman was described as a man who has shown “judicial discernment in his decisions” even from boyhood, beginning with his decision to leave New Jer- sey and Pennsylvania in favor of a Washington and Lee law education and law practice afterwards in Norfolk. The distinguished jurist — who was mentioned as a likely candidate for a Supreme Court nomination last 14;CAMPUS winter and spring — is characterized by “‘distinction of mind and... great force and courage,’ Dean Pusey said. Dr. Pogue, “a friend and neighbor as well as a re- markable historian,’ was honored as a scholar who is “perceptive and acute, indefatigable in his research, gift- 9? ed in his literary style, inventive in his methods... . President Huntley with honorary alumni (l. to r.) Dr. Forrest Pogue, Judge Walter Hoffman, and former Gov. Mills Godwin. Earlier, some 60 graduates wore suits, directing cap and gown rental money to scholarship fund. SOME DIFFERENCES Thre were differences — but differences in form, not in substance. Sixty graduates did not wear the traditional caps and gowns, abandoning them not for the sake of “protest’’ (more “protestors’’ wore academic garb than not), and not out of disrespect either for the ceremony or for the University. Rather, they chose to exercise an option offer- ed by the President, after consultation with the Faculty Executive Committee, to put the cap-and-gown rental money into the Student War Memorial Scholarship Fund instead. Almost half the graduates chose not to attend Bac- calaureate the previous morning, after the Faculty Exe- cutive Committee acted on a proposal that had been brought up in each of several years to make Baccoloure- ate an optional exercise — it is, after all, essentially a religious program, and compulsion seemed not tu ve ine best way to generate attendance at this sort of service. There were eight students who might have graduated but who chose not to in June, taking advantage of the “T” option in one or more of their second-semester senior courses. These eight will take their final exams during the summer or in September, and will be graduated in October. PRESIDENT’S REMARKS At Washington and Lee, in the nation, in the world, there is much “we could mourn or decry or denounce,” President Huntley said in his Commencement remarks. “But I am not much inclined to take this occasion for mourning or denunciation or recrimination. On the con- trary: I am somewhat inclined to smile. This is... a day of joy — and it is appropriate that it should be.” And so on June 5, W&L people gathered, as Presi- dent Huntley said, “to symbolize our respect for each other and our dedication to the essential dignity of man — and to pay tribute to the good things of the past and to our hopes for the future.” The text of the President’s address appears below. I would point out to the graduates and their families that by custom at Washington and Lee, the only remarks to which this assembly is subjected are those of the Presi- dent of the University, and that those remarks are usually — and will be today — characterized at least by brevity. Two years ago this Commencement Day coincided with a time of mourning for a national leader whose death by assassination had occurred a short time before. Today, Commencement comes at a time when there is much for which we could mourn. At Washington and Lee there have been two deaths in our student body dur- ing the course of the academic year. Death came to two of our most beloved professors, men whose lives brought (ees ~ ¥ = ais ) b v % scene Ate, eee eek non 4 a = } to us qualities of service which we shall never quite find again. Across the breadth of our nation and abroad have oc- curred tragic deaths, the causes of which we might well pause to mourn and perhaps to denounce. And surely we could mourn and decry the bitterness which pervades the soul of our nation — the bitterness which increasingly supplants reason and which at times seems to be spiral- ling man downward in a kind of counter-evolution to- ward the animal state from which we are told he came. We could decry the moral isolation which seems to surround us and which causes us to grasp fleetingly and desperately at any passing cause which offers a tempor- ary illusion of unity or a short-term replacement for the roots we have lost and for the creeds we have abandoned. On the campus scene we could decry those pressures which seem to push us ever closer to a situation in which we might spend most of our time in reconciling power centers in our midst, a situation in which the quest for noble ideals could be supplanted by the struggle of op- posing wills. All these things, and more, we could mourn or decry or denounce. Readily — and with some justification, mixed perhaps with a kind of perverted glee — we could proclaim that things really are in a mess. My secretary has many good traits, one of which is the posting around my office of little sayings which I suspect are in part designed to keep my ego within toler- able limits. One of these sayings reads as follows: “Show me a man who smiles when everything goes wrong, and I’ll show you an idiot.” At the risk of justifying the applicability of that say- ing, I will tell you that I am not much inclined to take this occasion for mourning or denunciation or recrimi- nation. On the contrary: I am somewhat inclined to smile, and I hope that inclination on my part is not merely because we are almost at the end of an academic year which for some of us has been longer than for others. As I did on that day of mourning two years ago, I state now that this is also a day of joy — and that it is appropriate that it should be. It is a day on which we gather with our graduating seniors for a last time, to sym- bolize our respect for each other and our dedication to the essential dignity of man, and to pay tribute to the good things of the past and to our hopes for the future. What I wish to do is to make two simple assertions of re-affirmation and hope — and then send you on your way. I have often been asked: ‘‘What is Washington and Lee’s purpose? Where is it going?” In recent months and weeks that question has come to me in one form or an- other with increasing frequency, from all of this Univer- sity’s many constituencies and from persons of varying political and ideological persuasions. The question al- ways makes me vaguely uneasy, even sometimes a bit irate. The question seems to imply that in the temper CAMPUS -115 and turmoil of these times, the traditional purpose of this institution is a luxury we can no longer afford, that it must somehow redirect its energy to a more immediate and tangible cause, preferably one which is subject to being captured in a single short slogan; that it must choose a side in our increasingly two-sided society and go down to the wire with it. In my inaugural remarks I attempted to sketch in a few words my personal ideal for Washington and Lee — its image and its purpose. Last night I re-read that state- ment and now I want to quote it. I don’t know what Washington and Lee’s image is for you, but I can, I think, suggest to you in a very few words what its image is for me. It is the image of an institution which unashamedly proclaims that there is no higher goal to which a scholar can aspire than to be a vital teacher of young men, an institution which confidently entrusts the largest pos- sible measure of choice and freedom to its students and faculty, requiring conformity of no one, prizing an en- vironment in which tolerance, integrity and respect for others tend to prevent misidentifying independence of thought with lack of discipline or humorless contempt It is the image of an institution which does not wish to cater to any particular ethnic or economic group, but which seeks a student body and faculty where members may share in common only the ability and the convic- tion to learn from each other. It is the image of an institution which takes seri- ously the injunctions which are engraved in its official crest, adapted, as you know, from the family coats of arms of the two great men after whom the school is named: “Be not unmindful of the future.” “Question all things.” It is not the image of an institution which serves as a marshalling point or strategy center from which young men are sent forth daily to confront the sources of evil the campus strategists identify. Rather, it is the image of an institution which sees no priority as higher than the search for truth and understanding from which eventually may grow the kind of wisdom that brings fullness to life. What of this image? Is this where the action is? Or, in the strangely contemptuous tone of the more recent idiom—is it relevant? The only answer I know is this: If it is relevant to lead forth the mind from the dark corners in which it feeds on its own prejudice and arrogance and self- righteousness — if, in short, it is relevant for there to be truly educated men — then this image 7s relevant. This is the re-affrmation, and I tell you that my faith in the vitality of such a purpose is not shaken, but is strengthened, by the events that have intervened. I hope you share that faith. Congratulations to each of you, and may God bless you. nnn EERE SSSR ee sk cha eibasdestnieentnnn nt ooh - 16: CAMPUS Freshman Class Increases A record freshman class of 390 men will enter Washington and Lee in Sep- tember, with one-quarter of the class shar- ing in more than $200,000 in financial aid, also a record figure. The number of applications for ad- mission was up eight per cent, to 1,250, from a year ago, according to James D. Farrar, director of admissions. The University offered admission to 756 of the applicants, he said. More than half—52 per cent—accepted the offer, up from 47 per cent last year. In 1969, Washington and Lee en- rolled 364 freshmen from a field of 770 who had been offered admission. This year, the University was able to be more selective, offering admission to a smaller number from a larger group of appli- cants, with a larger proportion of offers being accepted than a year ago, Farrar said. Altogether, the University will provide $200,380 to freshmen next year through a wide range of scholarship, direct grant, work-study, loan, and combination pro- grams, according to Dean John Mehl, director of financial aid programs. More than three-quarters of that total, $150,935, will be in the form of direct University grants. Federal Office of Eco- nomic Opportunity grants will total $12,- 700, he said. Freshmen will receive more than $32,000 in loans next year, $18,635 in federally sponsored National Defense Student Loans and $13,385 in University loans, Dean Mehl said. Of the 390 members of the freshmen class next fall, 101 will receive financial assistance under one or more of the pro- grams, he said. The entering class will include 17 Negroes, Farrar said. Altogether, 42 ap- plications were submitted by black stu- dents, and 29 were offered admission, he said. The 17 will receive financial assis- tance and will participate fully in the various aid programs. Applications were received from 40 states, the District of Columbia, and a number of foreign countries, Farrar said. More than 20 per cent of the students who applied were from Virginia, 284 of the total 1,250. Large numbers of appli- cations were also received from Mary- land (126), Pennsylvania (90), New Jer- sey (88), New York (76), Texas (48), Florida (46), and North Carolina (44). Dean Farrar said he was pleased with the admissions picture. The eight per cent increase in the number of applications received and the five per cent increase in the number of students who accepted offers of admissions are ‘‘very healthy signs,” he said. The costs associated with a_ private college as opposed to public colleges have generated concern for the future of the small, independent institution, and “the figures on next fall’s entering class sug- gest that Washington and Lee is meeting those challenges with remarkable success,” he said. Included in the 1970 freshman class will be 47 sons of alumni, Farrar said, the largest number since 1967 when 50 sons of alumni enrolled. Eleven Rockbridge County area stu- dents are included in the 1970 entering class, and they will live at home. Fresh- man dormitory rooms will be provided for 360 of the 379 resident students, and the remaining freshmen will be accommo- dated in other University housing. Dean Farrar said it has been custo- mary for a small number of prospective freshmen to change their minds about at- tending W&L during the summer before they enter college after originally accept- ing offers of admission. In recent years, that number has generally been between 12 and 15. If that were to occur again this year, fewer freshmen would have to be housed apart from the freshman dormitories, Farrar said. The 17 Negroes who plan to enroll at W&L this fall represent the largest group of blacks admitted to the University in any single year. Dean Farrar said the increase in the number of applications this year resulted partly from greater recruiting efforts by the entire admissions staff, other admini- strative personnel, members of the fac- ulty, and a number of students. The University’s ability to offer sub- stantial financial aid to students who could otherwise not attend W&L was another major factor in the increase, Far- rar said. Turner Elected by VAS Edward F. Turner, Jr., professor of physics and head of the department at Washington and Lee, has been chosen president-elect of the Virginia Academy of Science. Dr. Turner’s election came at the as- sociation’s 48th annual meeting in Rich- mond in May. As president-elect of the VAS, he will succeed Maurice B. Rowe, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agricul- ture and Commerce, when Rowe’s term expires next spring. Dr. D. Rae Carpenter, head of the physics department at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute, was Rowe’s predecessor as president of the VAS. Dr. Turner has served two one-year terms as secretary of the Academy. He is succeeded in that capacity by Dr. Frank- lin F. Flint of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. A member of the faculty since 1957, Dr. ‘Turner received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia after earning his master’s degree from the’ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two bache- lor’s degrees from Washington and Lee. In 1969, he completed a detailed study of the impact of modern technology on small-college libraries, under a grant from the Department of Health, Educa- tion, and Welfare. He is a member of several profes- sional scholarly organizations, and will take a sabbatical leave of absence next year under a Sloan Foundation grant to study astronomy at the University of Virginia. New Press Manager Robert H. Yevich, who graduated in June from the University, has been nam- ed manager of the Journalism Laboratory Press. The announcement was made by Pro- fessor Paxton Davis, head of the depart- ment of journalism and communications. The JLP is a division of that department. Yevich has served as managing editor and editor-in-chief of the Ring-tum Phi, W&L’s student newspaper. He will suc- ceed Howard Eanes, superintendent of the JLP since July, 1969. Eanes will return to the Roanoke Times as assistant managing editor, the post he held before coming to Washing- ton and Lee a year ago. Yevich will supervise a six-man staff in filling almost all the University’s printing needs, from stationery and pos- ters to the weekly student newspaper, the 13,000 circulation alumni magazine, the quarterly journal Shenandoah, and a num- ber of other magazines and pamphlets, The JLP is fully equipped for both letterpress and offset printing, and serves as a laboratory for students in W&L’s journalism curriculum. Edward F. Backus will continue to serve as production manager for the JLP, Prof. Davis said. In addition to serving as editor-in- chief of the student newspaper, Yevich has been a member of Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism society, since his junior year. He was secretary of the University’s Publications Board and has been a Dean’s List student. Cole CONTACT Chairman Madison F. Cole, a rising senior from Newnan, Ga., has been named chairman of next year’s CONTACT symposium at the University. The changing role of higher education and the challenge it faces will be the theme of the symposium, scheduled for March 8-12, Cole said. The week’s program will be divided into five major categories: the role of gov- ernment in education, the relationships between business and academic communi- ties, the place of humanities and science in education, the value of the small col- lege, and the challenges ahead for col- lege-level education, in general. Cole said he has already begun sche- duling speakers to participate in CON- TACT, among them a former Cabinet member, presidents and ex-presidents of highly-respected universities, and eminent scholars and writers. Cole has named a seven-man steering committee to assist in planning the week’s events. They will include Robert A. Carrere, a rising junior from New Orleans, La.; Stephen R. Haughney, a rising senior from University Heights, Ohio; ‘Thomas G. Keefe, a rising junior from Milford, Conn.; John Robinson, a rising junior from Atlanta, Ga.; Emil John Sadloch, Jr., a rising senior from Garfield, N.J.; Roger Munsick, a rising junior from Summit, N.J.; and Norwood Ernest Pau- kert, Jr., a rising sophomore from Atlanta. CONTACT is co-sponsored by the In- terfraternity Council, which bears the major share of the $6,000-$8,000 annual cost, and Washington and Lee’s student government, which in the past has levied a small assessment against each student to finance part of the program. This past spring, CONTACT brought to the campus former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, National Review publisher William Rusher, and Esquire editor Har- old Hayes, as well as more than 100 girls from nearby women’s colleges for a week- long experiment in coeducation. Colvin For Senator Professor of politics Dr. Milton Col- vin, at one time out of the race for fin- ancial reasons, is back in again and run- ning hard for the Virginia Democratic nomination that he hopes eventually will lead to a seat in the U.S. Senate. An expert in foreign policy, national security, and strategic intelligence mat- ters, Colvin changed his mind when in- cumbent Sen. Harry Byrd, Jr., dropped out of the Democratic Party this spring to seek re-election as an independent. Candidate Dr. Colvin Colvin, who calls himself a “common sense moderate,’ will face George C. Rawlings, Jr., of Fredericksburg and state delegate Clive Duval of Fairfax in the July 14 primary. Colvin both Rawlings and Duval liberals. “I am to the left of Byrd,” says Col- vin, “but to the right of Rawlings and Duval.” If Colvin wins the primary test, he will then meet Sen. Byrd and the Republican Party nominee, as yet unknown, in the November general election. Colvin originally announced his can- didacy last October, but then withdrew in January, fearing the $50,000 he felt terms CAMPUS <7 was a prerequisite for the campaign would not be enough for a_ six-month primary fight, particularly with Byrd in the race. “I did not want followers going down a road with me, only to find the bridge was out,” Colvin said when he dropped out of the campaign. But when Byrd resigned from the Democratic Party, Colvin resumed the fight, feeling at the time that $50,000 would be enough for a shorter campaign against Rawlings and Duval. Colvin is making the Indochina war a favorite political issue. In his first major address on foreign policy—ironcially oc- curring May 12, the last day of student unrest at the University—Colvin sharply criticized President Nixon’s use of troops in Cambodia, and he called for a com- plete withdrawal of all American forces from South Vietnam in 18 months. (This story was prepared for publica- tion in June. An unavoidable delay in production outdated it.) Lawrence Will Head EC Francis M. Lawrence, a rising senior philosophy major from Lakeland, Fla., has been elected president of the Univer- sity’s student government for the 1970-71 academic year. Washington and Lee students also elected Philip Thompson of Short Hills, N.J., vice president of the student body, and Richard J. Murray of Valatie, N.Y., secretary. Thompson will be a_ third- year law student, and Murray will be a rising senior. | The three top student body officers will serve as the leaders of Washington and Lee’s Executive Committee, the stu- dent policy-making and judicial body. Lawrence won the presidency in a special runoff election. Previously, he had placed first in a three-way preliminary election, but did not receive the neces- sary majority then. Murray also won in a runoff. ROTC Scholarships Three Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets, all rising juniors, have been nam- ed recipients of full ROTC scholarships for their junior and senior years at the University. Marc Small of Novato, Calif., Stephen W. Robinson of Alexandria, Va., and Michael Unti of Tantallon, Md., will re- 18) CAMPUS ceive full tuition grants, money for text- books, and a $50 monthly living allow- ance under the Army’s ROTC scholar- ship program. The announcement of the scholar- ships was made by Lt. Col. Jack W. Mor- ris, commanding officer of Washington and Lee’s ROTC program and professor of military science. YR’s Vote Down Girls Washington and Lee University will be deprived of “much of its distinctive- ness” if it becomes coeducational, Young Republicans on the campus have declar- ed in a resolution. The YR’s voted to urge the admini- stration and Board of Trustees at the 221-year-old men’s school “to maintain an all-male student body.” The resolution, introduced by Bruce MacQueen, a senior commerce major and last year’s president of the Young Republicans, stated that the men-only standard “is a dominant characteristic of the University as we know it.” A special faculty committee is cur- rently studying the coeducational ques- tion. When it completes its analysis—the educational, administrative, and economic factors involved—it will make a recom- mendation to the trustees. Washington and Lee is now the oldest college exclusively for men in the nation. Absolute Penalty Remains Students at Washington and Lee, dur- ing April student elections, refused to approve a proposal that would have eliminated the traditional ‘‘absolute penalty” for convicted violators of the Honor System, in favor of a lesser pun- ishment. The proposed change fell 226 votes short of passage. With a majority vote by the entire student body — this year, 688 of 1,374 enrolled students — required to amend the student constitution, only 461 votes were cast in favor of softening the penalty. The 461 “yes” votes represented one- third of the total student body. Only 343 votes were recorded speci- fically against the proposed amendment. Some 570 students did not vote one way or the other. The absolute penalty is automatic, immediate expulsion from the University with no chance ever to return. The de- feated amendment would have changed the penalty to an automatic one-year sus- pension. Washington and Lee’s 12-man Execu- tive Committee passes judgment on stu- dents accused of violating the Honor System by lying, cheating, or stealing. If a student is convicted by the Execu- tive Committee, he has two options—he can accept the guilty verdict and the absolute penalty that automatically ac- companies it, or he can appeal the case to the entire student body. If he appeals, a jury of 12 students who are not members of the Executive Committee is chosen by lot, and an open trial is conducted. If the student is judged guilty again, the absolute penalty auto- matically applies. All 12 members of the Executive Com- mittee are elected annually by students. Periodically, referendums are held to determine whether students want to change the absolute penalty provision. In recent years, the vote in favor of modify- ing the penalty has consistently been in the 30 to 40 per cent range. Student votes are final at Washington and Lee, with the faculty and aministra- tion having no voice in its structure or operation. Three other proposed amendments to the student constitution were also on the ballot. Two of the three, dealing with procedural matters, were approved with about 700 votes each. The effect of one will be to combine the freshman orientation and the student center committees. The second provides for a chain of succession in the event members of the Executive Committee leave campus for independent study dur- ing the six-week “short term’ under the University’s mew academic calendar, which goes into effect next year. A fourth proposed amendment, which would have disassociated the student newspaper, the Ring-tum Phi, from the student government, was narrowly de- feated, receiving 654 “‘yes” votes, 34 short of passage. Scott Award to Jernigan William Henry Jernigan, Jr., a rising junior from Cincinnati, Ohio, has been named to receive the 1970 Scott Paper Co. Foundation Award for Leadership. The award provides grants of $1,500 for each of Jernigan’s junior and senior years at the University. He also will be offered summer employment by the Scott Paper Co. A Dean’s List and Honor Roll stu- dent, Jernigan is a business administra- tion major. He is an active member of the Young Republicans, and is president of his social fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha. The announcement of his selection was made by Dr. Edward C. Atwood, dean of Washington and Lee’s School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, and chairman of a special faculty-student committee which nominated Jernigan for the award. The Scott Paper Co. Foundation Award was established at Washington and Lee in 1965, and is made each year to an outstanding sophomore who in- tends to pursue a career in industry or commerce. An unrestricted foundation grant of $1,000 is also made to the University. Similar awards are made by the founda- tion annually at 26 other colleges and universities across the country. Honig Wins Gilliam Award Lawrence E. Honig, a senior from Houston, Tex., has been named recipi- ent of the 1970 Frank J. Gilliam Award as the student whose contributions to the University have been most outstanding and enduring. The presentation was made by Presi- dent Robert Huntley during the annual senior banquet. Gilliam award winner Honig Honig, who received two bachelor’s degrees—a B.A. in American history and a B.S. in commerce—has been editor-in- ¥ > — chief of the student newspaper, the Ring- tum Phi; president of the Publications Board; president of Kappa Alpha, his social fraternity; and chairman of CON- TACT, the educational symposium. The award is named for Dean Emeri- tus Frank Gilliam, who served as dean of students and dean of admissions for three decades and who was described by President Huntley during the award cere- money as “the personification of Wash- ington and Lee’s spirit.” Dean Gilliam is now a special advisor to President Huntley. Independent Exam System Students will plan their final examina- tion schedules individually beginning next year, the University’s faculty has de- cided. Under the new independent exam system, each student will be required to notify the registrar, one week in advance, of the hour during which he plans to take each of his final exams. When the independent scheduling system goes into effect next fall, students will have nine three-hour exam periods to choose among. Most students will be tak- ing four exams. The fall exam period will begin Sat- urday, Dec. 12, at 9 a.m. and will con- tinue through the following Thursday, Dec. 17. On Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, exams will be admini- stered between 9 a.m. and noon and be- tween 2 and 5 p.m. Only a morning exam will be given on Thursday, the last day of examinations. Students will pick up their exams from the appropriate department at the beginning of each exam period. In courses requiring special physical arrangements for the final examination — such as fine arts courses in which slides to be identified are shown as part of the final — the department will schedule that portion of the exam at a specific hour and students will be required to attend at that time. They otherwise will be entirely free to register to take their examinations during any exam period. Previously, exams at Washington and Lee were administered according to the so-called “block system,’ under which every student in a particular class or course had to take the final examination at the same time as every other student in the same class or course. The day and hour for each exam were determined under an arbitrary pattern which rotated from semester to semester. Under the new system, once the stu- dent draws up his exam schedule and registers his choices with the registrar, the schedule is binding on the student, subject to alteration only with the appro- val of the faculty’s executive committee. Professors will be free to change their exam questions from one period to the next, or to keep the questions constant throughout the exam week. In the latter case, students will be pledged under the University’s Honor System to keep both the substance and the general nature of the particular exam in strict confidence. The independent exam-scheduling sys- tem was voted by the faculty after exten- sive investigation of its merits, as well as the merits of alternative systems proposed by the faculty executive committee. Washington and Lee’s student govern- ment had endorsed a similar independent scheduling system earlier this year, and student body president Marvin C. Hen- berg attended part of the faculty’s delib- erations to explain the student position. New Admissions Aide James O. Mathews, Jr., who was gradu- ated from the University in June, will join the school’s administration as assis- tant director of admissions and assistant dean of students. A philosophy major from Owensboro, Ky., Mathews’ primary responsibilities will be in assisting admissions director James D. Farrar in all phases of work in that office, including visits to secondary schools, interviews on campus with pro- spective applicants for admission to W&L, and evaluation of applications both as a member of the admissions staff and as a member of the faculty committee on ad- missions. His appointment continues a_ policy established in 1969 at Washington and Lee of bringing one or more new gradu- ates into the administration each year. The appointments are usually for one year. Mathews will replace John E. Passa- vant, III, who served as assistant admis- sions director and assistant dean of stu- dents for almost a year following his graduation from the University a year ago. While a student at Washington and Lee, Mathews was active in the Interfra- CAMPUS 19 ternity Council, and was elected president of his social fraternity during his senior year. He also edited the University’s Stu- dent Handbook, served as a member of the University Center Committee, and was a member of both the varsity swim- ming team and the Glee Club. Schildt Gets New Duties William McC. Schildt, a member of Washington and Lee University’s admini- stration since 1968, will become associate dean of students and coordinator of the freshman year, President Huntley has an- nounced. In the newly created freshman coordi- nation post, Schildt will have primary responsibility for planning and admini-’ stering programs for entering students, President Huntley said. Among Schildt’s new duties will be supervision of freshman orientation and the faculty adviser program, as well as coordination of the upperclass counselor system in the freshmen dormitories. With the revised curriculum and cal- endar allowing substantially increased flexibility in the freshman year, Presi- dently Huntley said, it was decided to designate a single administration member to assist incoming students in taking the best advantage of the new programs. Schildt, 27, earned the LL.B. degree summa cum laude in 1968 at W&L. He received a B.A. degree at the University four years earlier, majoring in economics. He was named an instructor in the School of Law in February, 1968, and in September of that year he was appointed assistant director of admissions and as- sistant dean of students. Where the freshman academic pro- gram in past years was largely pre-deter- mined, entering students beginning next fall will have greatly increased options and few specifically required courses. They will choose from among a wide range of courses offered in four broad categories: foreign languages and English; the “hard” sciences and mathematics; his- tory, philosophical subjects, and the arts; and the social sciences. Schildt will also have primary respon- sibility for administering several new freshman regulations which go into effect this fall, including delayed fraternity pledging. A new faculty adviser system will be established with the curriculum changes, g his graduation. a "in April and May li Se So SS Uni- The — be about $ debate with the aim of thrashing out an overall view of the topic, taking advant- age of special perspectives and knowledge from all eight academic areas. Interdepartmental cooperation, _ re- quiring the full time of both students and teachers, was simply not practical in the past when students had to divide their efforts among five courses, and pro- fessors, their time among three or four classes. Plenty of the usual kind of courses will be offered during the spring term, too, for students who need them. The CAMPUS -21 tradi- tional system of education at Washing- ton and Lee. mini-semester won't replace the Instead, by offering a new approach made possible through unprecedented flexibility, it will add a new dimension to it. , » | ie ff | ~ | > a2, B P » ah } ays iq Hh oS - 1 » - - Vi» ni | ww, > - he > \. oe Pe, . ie | a. i 40 ; bs : Pal ‘ie ae f | 1 ‘a mA teed Se ee New short term, a mini-semester of six weeks at the end of the school year, will allow students and faculty to study away from . campus, as Dr. Edgar Spencer of the geology department does above in a mountain range. enerals’ Best > W.Va., University’s Jay Meriwe jump, and won numerous awards and honors both in Virginia and out of the state. I'wo summers ago, he was the Na- tional Junior AAU high jump champion, and since then he has done well at the Martin Luther King Games, the Colonial Relays, and other meets. 15 Athletes Honored Fifteen Washington and Lee students have been selected for the 1970 volume of Outstanding College Athletes of America. The 15, nominated earlier by the Uni- versity, were selected for their all-around abilities and for distinguishing themselves in sports. Included are three All-Americas —high jumper Mike Neer, swimmer Bill Brumback, and lacrosse defenseman Ned Coslett. Many of the group have been out- standing in more than one sport. Tom McJunkin captains both the football and tennis squads; Neer is an All-State and All-Conference basketball player as well as an All-America in track; Brumback is an outstanding lacrosse player and an All- America in swimming for two years; and Jack Baizley and John Nolan both are standouts in baseball and football. Chuck Kuhn and Steve Mahaffey won All-State honors in football. ‘The team captains include McJunkin in football and tennis, Neer in track, Nolan and Scott McChrystal in_base- ball, Carl Hyatt in soccer, Dean Kum- puris in football, Rick Armstrong in ten- nis, Norwood Morrison in_ basketball, and Coslett and Jay Meriwether in la- crosse. In addition, Staman Ogilvie is the 1970 football captain-elect, and Brum- back will captain next year’s swimming squad. Outstanding College Athletes of America, an annual awards volume recog- nizing the accomplishments of approxi- mately 5,000 athletes, will be published next month. Basketball Schedule Given A 25-game 1970-71 season basketball schedule, including major college oppon- ents Virginia and Navy, has been an- nounced by the University’s athletic de- partment. The Generals, who posted their fourth consecutive winning season last year (17- 8), will meet Virginia’s Cavaliers Feb. 2 in the Coliseum at Charlottesville. Wash- ington and Lee will face Navy’s basket- ball team Jan. 13 in the Naval Academy Field House, where the Generals have de- feated the Middies for the past two years. Newcomers to the schedule, besides Virginia, include Johns Hopkins, Balti- more Loyola, and Dickinson. The Gen- erals will play 12 games against eight Virginia schools, including small college powers Old Dominion and Randolph- Macon. Washington and Lee will participate in two tournaments, one in St. Petersburg, Fla., hosted by Florida Presbyterian Col- lege, and the other the College Athletic Conference tourney in Danville, Ky. The Generals are defending CAC champions, and have won three of the last four con- ference tournaments. The schedule for the 1970-71 season will include: Randolph-Macon Dec. 1. Bridgewater in Lexington on Dec. 3. Old Dominion at Norfolk on Dec. 5. Lynchburg in Lexington on Dec. 7. Hampden-Sydney at Hampden-Sydney on Dec. 9. Emory & Henry in Lexington on Jan. 6. Florida Presbyterian tournament at St. Petersburg on Jan. 8-9. Participants will include Florida Presbyterian, Au- rora College, King College, and Wash- ington and Lee. Navy at Annapolis on Jan. 13. St. Paul’s in Lexington on Jan. 15. Bryant (R.I.) in Lexington on Jan. 16. Johns Hopkins at Baltimore on Jan. 19. Davis & Elkins at Elkins, W.Va., on Jan. 22. Pembroke in Lexington on Jan. 27. Virginia at Charlottesville on Feb. 2. Hampden-Sydney in Lexington on Feb. 3. Emory & Henry at Emory on Feb. 6. Lynchburg at Lynchburg on Feb. 9. Baltimore Loyola in Lexington on Feb. 12. Bridgewater at Bridgewater on Feb. 16. Dickinson in Lexington on Feb. 18. Fairleigh-Dickinson at Rutherford, N.J. on Feb. 20. UNC-Wilmington in Lexington on Feb. 23. College Athletic Conference tourna- ment at Danville, Ky. on Feb. 26-27. Participants will include Centre, Se- wanee, Southwestern, Washington, and Washington and Lee. in Lexington on ATRILETICS 323 Tom Jones—Trainer Thomas H. Jones, a North Dakota na- tive with degrees from three Virginia col- leges, has returned to the Old Dominion as head trainer and instructor in physical education at the University. Jones received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1960 from Hampden-Sydney College, a B.S. in physical therapy from the Medical College of Virginia in 1966, and a Master of Education degree from the University of Virginia in 1968. Jones came to Washington and Lee from the University of Georgia, where he has been serving as assistant trainer since the summer of 1968. He served as super- visor of therapy at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Fishersville while attending the University of Vir- ginia. He is a native of Bismarck, N.D. Team Captains Named Washington and Lee’s department of athletics has announced team captains for 12 intercollegiate sports for the 1970-71 session: They include: @ Rising senior outfielder Ray Coates of Berlin, Md., (baseball). @ Rising junior forward Mike Daniel of Cincinnati, Ohio (basketball). @ Rising seniors Paul Wilber of Salis- bury, Md., and Bill Wilkinson of Ft. Eustis, Va., (cross-country). @ Rising senior linebacker Drew Kumpuris of Little Rock, Ark.,; and ris- ing senior offensive guard Staman Ogilvie of Shreveport, La., (football). @ Rising senior Ken Carter of New Orleans, La., (golf). @ Rising senior midfielder Whit Mor- rill of Monkton, Md., and rising junior attackman Scott Neese of Rochester, N.Y., (lacrosse). @ Rising senior Mike Jenkins of Fairfax, Va., (rifle). @ Rising seniors Carl Hyatt of Hunt- ington, N.Y., and Mark Sayers of New York, N.Y., (soccer). @ Rising senior Bill Brumback of Baltimore, Md., (swimming). @ Rising senior Bill Gatlin of Jack- sonville, Fla., (tennis). @ Rising seniors Mike Carrere of New Orleans, La., and Bill Kahn of Mem- phis, Tenn., (track). @ Rising senior Dee Copenhaver of Roanoke, Va., and rising junior Bruce Hankins of Bridgeton, N.J., (wrestling). a . Be | | follow was my meetil Inn. “How is | a | a a ee e point I want Bee iefly about the de- Oo OO IT took all my science OB = en 7 > a et > “ ee The department offers courses in nearly every major branch of geology (mineralogy, crystallography, petro- logy, paleontology, oceanography, geomorphology, and economic, field, and structural geology), and subjects not listed in the catalogue probably can be picked up in a seminar designed to fit one’s particular interests. The atmosphere in the geology department is one of professionalism and togetherness. It is a big, happy fam- ily (enough so that all the majors knew the wives of the professors to be excellent cooks.) Once a week, the Wash- ington and Lee Geological Society brings all the majors together with the teachers to listen to a lecture by one of the members of the society, or by a distinguished speaker from another university, or from some other geological organization. Field trips, many lasting sev- eral days, are organized at various times of the year, and they are quite an experience if you do not mind walking (I preferred the laboratory myself). You might say that I am a little prejudiced in favor of the geology department, but I don’t think you will say that when I talk about the department of physics. Perhaps, I should be a little resentful about physics be- cause the only course I ever flunked was in that depart- ment. (That shameful incident, however, was due to my laziness—unconsciously lying in the back of my Latin American mind—and to nothing else.) In fact, I could say the same about physics that I said about geology, and I think one of my fellow graduate students (in physics) at MI'T'—Stephen Fulghum, W&L, ’69—will back me up. If you are interested in electronics or in astronomy, you will find an excellently equipped laboratory and observatory. Courses in modern and atomic physics, theo- rectical physics, quantum mechanics, and seminars de- signed to fit the needs of physics majors are offered by the department’s excellent staff of four. The department also has distinguished lecturers in a joint seminar held weekly in cooperation with neighboring Virginia Mili- tary Institute. The department of chemistry is definitely one of the very best in the school. It has a faculty of eight, and the department offers courses in most branches of chemistry. Offhand, I remember qualitative and quantitative ana- lysis, instrumental analysis, physical, organic, and inor- ganic chemistry, and many advanced courses in the same subjects. The chemistry seminars are notable at the University for their large attendance and the caliber of their speakers—and for the colorful and varied designs that announce them on the bulletin board of Howe Hall every week. There are other things that I must mention. The science departments are housed in the most modern buildings on campus. Each department has its own, very complete, library, where one can keep up with the most recent developments. I also want to point out that the science departments have as their heads very dynamic, hard working, and extremely intelligent men who are FEATURE 225 always available to the student for counseling and for discussing ideas of one kind or another. The faculty of the science departments is a very specially chosen one, made up of men who are very competent in their respec- tive fields. One of the assets of a science education at W&L is the incredible amount of research that the student has the opportunity to perform. The Robert E. Lee Undergradu- ate Research Program gives most science majors a chance to broaden their educational experience by getting deep- ly into one of the real purposes of science education—the ability to do original work. These research projects are closely supervised by faculty members and contribute a great deal to one’s ability to succeed in graduate school, where the key is to contribute, in some form, original work in one’s field. Some of my projects had such im- pressive titles as “Quantitative Analysis of Drainage Basins,” “Interpretation of Seismograms,” ‘Quantitative Analysis of Igneous Rocks Using Brannock’s and Shap- iro’s Rapid Analysis Method,” “Some Experiments in Rock Deformations,” and “Study of X-Ray Diffraction Patterns.” This type of work gives the student a sense of involvement and accomplishment which one needs to keep on working in a given field. I am sure that I could go on and never quite finish what should be said, but I hope that I have made my point clear—Washington and Lee University does offer an excellent program in the natural sciences. In addi- tion, one has a chance to obtain a very good liberal edu- cation, which I consider to be extremely important. That is not the case in some of the more technical schools in the country. These schools quite often create the ma- chine-man, which I consider detrimental to modern society. After all, it has been what Gene Marine calls the “engineering mentality” (devoid of social conscience or ecological sense) which has ruined a great part of our environment. I believe that Washington and Lee Uni- versity does a very good job of preparing the scientist and the engineer of the future for more advanced work. The science major at W&L today is not usually a pro- spective major until he has been in the given science de- partment taking what was a requirement to round out his liberal education. W&L must endeavor to correct this by making it known, through whatever advertising methods it uses, that there is a place—a very good place— for future scientists on its campus. From my own experience, I must say that if I lack some background for taking some of the more advanced courses at MIT, it was not because W&L did not offer such background, but because, due to my “‘bacchanalian life,” I did not take full advantage of the many oppor- tunities. Of course, it was all part of an education, and in retrospect, I believe I enjoyed every minute of my four-year stay in Lexington (even the day I got com- pletely smashed after finding out that I had flunked electronics.) ERLE TEED! Fille 26: ALUMNI Clarke Is Elected President of the Alumni Board of Directors Charles F. Clarke, Jr., ’38, of Cleve- land, Ohio, a lawyer, was elected presi- dent of the Alumni Board of Directors at its meeting during Alumni Reunion Weekend on May 8 and 9. He succeeded Fred Bartenstein, Jr., 41, of Rahway, N.J., vice president of Merck & Co., Inc., who had served two years as president. Emil C. Rassman, ’41, of Midland, Texas, an attorney, was named vice presi- dent, succeeding John M. Jones, III, ’37, a newspaper publisher from Greeneville, Tenn.; and Richard H. Turrell, ’49, a New York banker, was named treasurer, succeeding Clarke. At the Alumni Association’s annual meeting on May 9 in Lee Chapel, the following were named to four-year terms on the Board of Directors: ‘T. Hal Clarke, 38, of Washington, D.C., William H. Hillier, 38, of Chicago, and Dr. J. Peter G. Muhlenberg, ’50, of Wyomissing, Pa. The retiring members of the board were Bartenstein, Jones, and Warren H. Ed- wards, ’39, a judge in Orlando, Fla. Named as the alumni representative on the University Committee on Inter- collegiate Athletics was Gilbert S$. Meem, °38, of Bluefield, W.Va. He succeeded Ruge P. DeVan, Jr., ’34, of Charleston, W.Va. Members of the nominating commit- tee were Michael P. Crocker, ’40, chair- man, of Bel Air, Md., W. Temple Web- ber, Jr., 54, of Houston, Texas, and A. H. Hamel, ’50, of Clayton, Mo. The weekend brought the reunions of the academic and law classes of 1920, 1930, 1945, 1955, and 1960, and the Old Guard, those who were at Washington and Lee more than 50 years ago. These classes participated in a full round of banquets, campus tours, cocktail parties, and attended a lacrosse game on Satur- day. The reunions coincinded with Law Day activities, including the John Ran- dolph Tucker Lecture delivered by Hunt- ington Cairns, general counsel of the National Gallery of Art and an outstand- ing legal scholar. The activities of students concerned about the extention of the war into Cam- bodia and the deaths of four Kent State students also coincinded with the week- ends, and alumni and students had an opportunity to exchange views on these and other subjects at length in informal conversations. Bartenstein reviewed in his report to the annual meeting the major events of his two years in office, citing the inaugu- ration of a procedure under which alumni now participate in the selection of a por- tion of the University trustees and the holding of special alumni conferences at which alumni leaders return to campus and receive a first-hand briefing on the status and plans of the University. Clarke, in presenting a plaque to Bartenstein in recognition of his leader- ship, paid tribute to him in these words: “I have known him since he was an undergraduate—since he worked his way retiring President Fred Bartenstein. Incoming Alumni President Charles Clarke (1) talks outside Lee Chapel with through this University. He has, as John Jones said so well, a kind of aura of quiet confidence. He is very able; he always has been. But he is more than that because beneath this quiet confidence there is a burning idealism that one does not en- counter every day. He is a quiet, confident man, with an idealism that is centered among other things on Washington and Lee. And it is an extraordinary thing to me how in this world in which we live today there still are idealists, there still are brave men, there still are men of character, there still are men who are willing to devote themselves to that which they believe in. And Fred is one of those men, and I am just damn glad to know As aA, ¥ « Ia A NORTH TEXAS Director of development Farris Hotch- kiss reported to the chapter at a dinner on April 15 at the City Club in Dallas, commenting on the University’s plans for the near future. A _ brief business meeting was called to re-elect chapter president Richard D. Haynes, 58, and to elect vice presidents Rice M. Tilley, Jr., 58, and David D. Carothers, ’61, and sec- retary-treasurer David B. Long, ’68. A tribute was paid to the late L. Storey Stemmons, ’27. Haynes offered a special welcome to parents and new students, and to Mr. and Mrs. Upton Beall, ’58. Beall is a member of the alumni board of directors. Other guests of the chapter were Mrs. Hotchkiss and Bill Washburn, executive secretary of the alumni associa- tion. WEST ‘TEXAS Mrs. Harry M. Nielsen, Robert G. Brown, 49, Lynn D. Durham and Emil Rassman, "41, were hosts at a formal dinner meet- ing for alumni and parents of present students on the evening of April 17. The dinner was held at the Midland Petrol- eum Club and included cocktails and dancing. The event was in honor of President and Mrs. Robert Huntley, Mr. and Mrs. Farris Hotchkiss, director of development, and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Washburn, alumni secretary. Following a report by President Huntley on Wash- ington and Lee, expressions of apprecia- tion were made to Mr. and Mrs. Rass- man, Mr. and Mrs. James Boldrick and others for the arrangements. The guests from Washington and Lee were in Mid- ie BEES Alumni fathers of 1970 graduates seated (l. to r.) are Harry H. Hill, Jr., J. T. Lykes, Jr., ’41; E. A. Powell, ’36; A. T. Fleishman, ’41; C. T. Garten, ’ CHAPTER NEWS land the following day and, after visiting some of the oil and other industrial com- plexes of Midland, were entertained at a dinner party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Durham that evening. This meeting marked the first visit by President Hunt- ley to the West Texas Chapter. OTHER MEETINGS Other alumni chapters which have met recently include the Tidewater Chapter in Norfolk on May 12, Appalachian Chap- ter in Johnson City, Tenn., on May 20, South Carolina Piedmont Chapter on May 26 in Greenville, S.C., and the Char- lotte, N.C., Chapter on June 17. Reports on these meetings and others occurring during the summer will appear in a later issue of the magazine. ALUMNI 227 North Texas officers are seated (Il. to r.) Rice M. Tilley, Jr., ’58, vice president; Richard D. Haynes, ’58, president; and standing David B. Long, ’68, secretary- treasurer; David D. Carothers, ’61, vice president. Shown at the West Texas Chapter meeting are (l. to r.) Mrs. Rassman, President Huntley, Emil Rassman, III, Mrs. Huntley, Lynn Durham, and Mrs. Durham. 49; W. G. Wiglesworth, Jr.,’35; T. O. Fleming, ’42; 2; S. C. Higgins, Jr., °37; R. W. Root, ’42; H. P. Johnston, ’29; D. B. Startsman, ’34; W. A. Wilson, ’35; R. S. Taggart, ’43; O. K. Hickman, ’31; E. 8. Roby, Jr.,’40; U. H. Richards, ’40; W. F. Stone, ’33; H. W. Kelly, Jr., ’45. Sons standing are F. Miles Little (father deceased); Harry H. Hill, III; W. G. Wiglesworth, III; T. O. Fleming, Jr.; Joseph T. Lykes, III; Edward A. Powell, Jr.; Henry A. Fleishman; C. T. Garten, Jr.; David K. Higgins; R. W. Root, Jr.; Henry P. Johnston, Jr.; D. B. Startsman, Jr.; W. A. Wilson, Jr.; R. 8S. Taggart, Jr.; Kenneth L. Hickman; E. S. Roby, II; U. H. Richards, Jr.; Charles M. Stone and William F.Stone, Jr. (brothers); H. W. Kelley, III. Graduating sons of alumni not pictured were W. P. McKelway, Jr., (W. P. McKelway,’43) and W. P. Wiseman, Jr., (W. P. Wiseman, ’37). - o - a a ta BRAWNER has relinquished administrative duties, and devotes full time to teaching and research. 1925 ALLAN P. SLOAN will retire in September, 1970 from Daniel Construction Co. of Green- ville, S.C., but will remain active as a consultant. 1926 After 43 years of service, HENRY M. WILSON has retired from the Bell Telephone System, and resides in Owensboro, Ky. 1927 Norton L. WispoM, Sr., has retired as special assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana, completing 33 years of governmental service as attorney for the lands division of the Department of Justice, specializing in the field of eminent domain. GEoRGE T. ELLIs retired from the First Na- tional Exchange Bank of Virginia and the parent association, Dominion Bankshares Corp., on Feb. 26. Ellis joined the First National Exchange Bank in 1927 and was elected trust officer in 1940, senior trust officer in January, 1956, and in October of that year became head of the trust division. He was named vice president and trust officer in 1958, and senior vice president and trust officer in 1960. Ellis is a past president of the Roanoke Estate Planning Council and of the Roanoke Rotary Club. He is a past chairman of the trust committee of the Vir- ginia Bankers Association. Ellis is vice presi- dent and director of the Evergreen Develop- ment Corp., treasurer and _ director of Surgical Care, Inc., and director of Ideal Laundry & Dry Cleaners, Inc. 1928 WILLIAM C. NORMAN has retired from the Georgia-Pacific Co. He maintains an office at the First National Bank of Crossett, Ark., and is a delegate to the Arkansas Constitu- tional Convention. A Martinsville, Va., attorney, WARREN M. SHAW, has been named ‘“Boss-of-the-Year’’ by the Martinsville Charter Chamber of the Amervican Businesswomen’s Association. Shaw was selected from a number of re- sumés submitted to the ABWA members on their respective bosses. Shaw has been prac- ticing law in Martinsville since 1946, and has been commissioner of accounts for 21 | 1929 GRAHAM N. Lowpon continues as manager of personnel and industrial relations for the film department of DuPont Co. in Green- ville, Del. 193] In 1966, HERMAN LITTMAN retired from the Washington, D.C. school system. This month he will retire from the Montgomery County (Md.) school system. 1952 The Rev. WILLIAM L. WoopDALL is minister . a DONALD BRUCE HOUGHTON, ’39 at the Leetonia, Ohio, Presbyterian Church. He is the author of three devotional books for children. DONALD S. HOSTETTER has resigned as chair- man of the State Liquor Authority for the state of New York. He has held the position for seven years. Prior to his appointment by Governor Rockefeller, Hostetter was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly go years. 1933 After 23 years in the advertising business, THEODORE M. Curtis has resigned as vice president and general manager of Liller, Neal, Battle, & Lindsey in Richmond, Va. He has formed a real estate investment and management business—Delta Land Co. 1934 Cornell University has announced the found- ing of a new endowed chair, the James J. Colt Professorship of Urology in Surgery, and has named its first holder, Dr. Vicror F. MARSHALL. Marshall, who is currently professor of surgery (urology) and surgeon in charge of the James Buchanan Brady Urological Foundation at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, will as- sume his new title July 1. The late Mr. Colt was a leading industrialist, and the first president of the Children’s Blood Founda- tion at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medi- cal Center. Marshall has been at the Cornell Medical Center since 1938 and is well known throughout the medical community. He is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the American Urologi- cal Association, the American College of Surgeons, the Society of Pelvic Surgeons, the Mexican College of Surgeons, the Canadian Urologcial Association, and others. For the past 24 years, A. READ SAUNDERS has been structural engineer and architect with the technical support division at Eglin Air CLASS NOTES :29 Force Base in Florida. He has been with the U.S. government as an engineer for 32 ae 1935 In November, 1969, FREDERICK D. STRONG re- signed as treasurer of McCall Corp., and joined Trinity School, a private school for boys in New York City, as its treasurer. 1936 E. ANGus POWELL, president of Lea Industries, Inc. since 1951, has been named chairman of the board. The Richmond (Va.) furniture manufacturing firm recently merged with Sperry & Hutchinson Co. GRAHAM F., PAINTER is a management analyst with the West Virginia Department of Em- ployment Security. 1937 C. ARNOLD MATTHEWS continues to serve as chairman of the department of finance and insurance in the College of Business Ad- ministration at the University of Florida. He is also educational director for the Flori- da Bankers Association. In private practice as an orthopedic sur- geon, Dr. S. FuLton Tompkins is also a part-time teacher at the University of Okla- homa School of Medicine. The Rev. Horace L. BACHELDER has been elected president of the Clackamas County Historical Society. He has published a book: The Liberal Church at the End of the Oregon Trail. WILLIAM H. Rosinson has been elected presi- dent and chief administrative officer of the Monongahela Publishing Co., publisher of three dailies and ong weekly newspaper in western Pennsylvania. 1938 POWELL GLAss, JR., became general manager of the Lynchburg (Va.) newspapers March 1, succeeding Carter Glass, III, ’42. Prior to his moving back to Virginia, Glass had been liv- ing in Bay St. Louis, Miss., where he lost his home as a result of Hurricane Camille. Dr. Harry M. Puitpott, president of Au- burn University, was named ‘“Educator-of- the-Year” by Kappa Phi Kappa educational fraternity. The award was made for his contributions to the betterment of educa- tion in Alabama and for his work as chair- man of the Alabama Education Study Com- mission. Cyrus V. ANDERSON, associate general coun- sel for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries, Inc., has been reappointed by the president of the American Bar Association to serve as co- chairman of the ABA special committee on complex and multi-district litigation. 1939 DONALD BRUCE HOUGHTON has been appoint- ed vice president of equipment and com- munications services in the newly-formed Westinghouse Tele-Computer Systems Corp., a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Corp. - - . ! . x - a ¢ ae OS Oo a | 7 a . oe 7 - | : Ls 7 / - - - ; : ; : ( I Al LES CL. fort, Ky., - ‘ : , JR, USN - t awards: - WASHINGTON & LEE ALUMNUS WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY i ee ie LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA 24450 “THE MCCORMICK LIBRARY WASHINGTON & LEE UNIV LEXINGTON VA 24450