Volume 5 7 ,Number 1

Table of Contents

2 A Parade of G ifts

4 On the Hill : The Sp i ce of Life

1 1 Faculty Forum

1 3 The Student Eye

1 5 New Trustees Elected

1 6 New London Spec ial : AllAboard

1 9 Letters to the Ed itor

20 Class Notes

3 2 Part ing Shots

Richar d McClintock , Edi tor

J . Sheppard Haw I I I ’

78 ,Assistant Edi tor

The Record is published two times a year byHampden-Sydney College , Hampden-Sydney ,

Virgin ia 2 3 94 3 .

Third class postage paid at

Virgin ia 2 3 90 1 .

Th is issue of the Record is printed on K ingJ am es 80 lb . cover and Warren ’

s Patina 60 lb . text.Printed and bound by Progress Printing Co . , Inc . ,

Lynchburg, Virginia .

Farmvi lle ,

Photo Cred its : David Barrs ’

80 2 top , 8 top ; Dr .Willard Bliss 7 right ; J . S . Haw I I I

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bortom left, 8 bottom ,1 2 top , 1 7 top , 3 2 ; H

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Student Photo Serv ice 4, 5 , 9 right, 1 0 ,

1 4 , 1 6

top , 28 ; HS Museum 2 bottom , 9 left ; BobJones. 3 bottom right ; Jones Rare Book Room1 9 ; Virgin ia Rodes 2 3 bortom ; Ken Woodley

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9 bottom ; Mayport (Fla .) Mirror 24 top ;

Na tion’

5 Bus iness 2 5 ; R oan oke Times World

News—2 3

On the cover . Hampden—Sy dney

’s campusin the summer, unbelievably idy llic ,

languorous , intensely bright and warm

but emp ty . There can be no more bi tter

sweet reminder tha t for all its beauty ,

the heart of this grand old college is

its studen ts , and tha t wi thout themits beauty is only skin

-deep .

Summer-Fall 1 980

Th is issue of The Record has beena hard one to put together . Not becauseof this summer ’s truculence , nor becauseof any lack of news , but because therehas been so much good news that i t hasbeen hard to decide what to shou t themost loudly about and what to trimdown , l imited as we are by the length ofthe magazine , without seeming to sl ightsomething .

For th is has been a fantasti c spring .

Everywhere you turn there has beenprogress , refreshment , support . It is the

kind of Spring that, even in its moreordinary manifestations , makes it a j oy tobe part of Hampden -Sydney . And everypart of it has been so sweet that wethough t , finally

,after agonized

rumination , a broad sampler of whatWilliam Hoffman , accepting his honorarydegree in April , called the ri ch feast” ofHampden-Sydney , would in the long runserve both j ustice and our readers betterthan would large doses of one thing andtoo small tastes of another .

Bon appétz‘

t.

As you are aware,

thispub l ication— true to the ideals ofj o u rnalism~tries to maintain alevel-headed and obj ective outl ook on thetrue state of affairs . We restrain ourselvesand call Hampden-Sydney “ one of thebest small l iberal arts colleges inVirgin ia

,

”or , when we are daring ,

“ in thesouth .

” Understatement,it begins to

appear , is ou r greatest talent .I t is about time , however , that

modesty should make way for truth . Ifwe are a great college

,why then

,by gum ,

we should admit i t . We should mount tothe housetops

,we editors and you

alumni,and cry the glorious news abroad :

Hampden -Sydney , unreservedly ,

withou t qualifiers,is the best l iberal arts

college in the South and,for that matter

,

in much of the north (we must alwaysy iel d equal i ty to Princeton ,

our sisterinsti tution ) .

If you seek a testimonial , l ookabout you .

” There are statisti cs : our

above-average rate for students accep tedto medical schools ; the staggeringpercen tage of students who go on todistinguished careers in graduate schools

(the department of physics alone led thenation for the number of students percap ita wh o went on to get a doctorate inthe fie ld ) . There are the research grantsthat we

,and no other school in Virgin ia ,

have gotten year after year . There are theleaders of society here in Virginia anda r o u n d t h e country : bankers ,congressmen

,artists

,executives

,lawyers ,

museum dire ctors,au thors— every facet of

civi l ized life is touched and pol ished byHampden—Sydney men . (No smallaccompl ishment for a group comprisingonly one fifty-thousandth of the generalpopul at ion . ) And then there are thestudents

,who come here from all over

the country and from six or seven landsaround the globe : bright young men

,

forming themselves and be ing formedinto the leaders of tomorrow , keepingalive the torch of liberal learning in aworld increasingly plunged into thetwil ight gloom of narrow and special izedtraining .

There are,also

,signs of growth , of

making the best better : what confidencein the school is shown by Mr . Fuqua

’

s giftof a new computer

, the'

best the businesshas to offer— a machine whose capacitieswould be wasted at a mediocre school"The budding of a fine arts departmentbroadens our students ’ exposure to man ’sexperience . Two new superlat ive teachershave j oined the economics department— a

department which already had a widereputation for quali ty in preparing mento enter the world of business . And theath leti c center

,now all open for students

to use,sh ines forth as yet another sign of

H am p de n~Sydney ’s dedication tofurn ishing the very best tools for the verybest education that a young man can gettoday .

So let that be our rallying-cry .

Hampden -Sydney is the best . Let there beno more apologies , no more

“Oh , you’ve

probably never even heard of it , whensomeone asks you where you went toschool . (Remember , almost anybody canclaim to have gone to Harvard or

Princeton or Yale , but “

yourHampden -Sydney honors are worn by aselect 5 500 other good men and goodciti zens

,educated in an atmosphere of

sound learn ing . ) Say , therefore , instead ,“Hampden-Sydney

,of course . Best darn

college in the country . And they willsay ,

“E xcept maybe for Princeton . And

you will both be right .

GEORGE S . ARNOLD TRUSTFUNDS SCHOLARSHIPS

Of all the generous benefactors ofthe College

,men who have identified

themselves with the purposes of

Hampden -Sydney , very few have done somuch as Mr . George Arnold . The Collegeis most grateful for the goodness an dgenerosity of his gift . With t hese wordsPresident Bunting accep ted Arnold ’s gi ft

,

a -mill i on trust fund , the largestamoun t ever given the College by a livingperson

,and the se cond largest gift of

_

anykind in Ham pden-Sydney ’s 204-yearh istory . It represents a significantadd ition to the College ’s endowment

,

which has now cl imbed to $ 14 mill ion .

The donor , Mr . George SloanArnold

,travel led from his home in

Romney , West Virgin ia , to ass istPresident Bunting in making theannouncement of his gift to the College .

The announcemen t ceremony was timedto co inc ide with a surp rise birthdaycelebration for the reti red state legislatorand lawy er . On April 9 , Mr . Arnoldturned 9 5 ; his longevity he attributes toh is practice of drink ing a warm glass of

water before meals and eating a lot of i cecream .

The birthday luncheon in HampdenHouse held more surprises th an ab irthday cake and presents for Mr .

Arnold . Presiden t Bunting used theoccasi on to introduce the four recipien tsof the Arnold Scholarsh ips

,newly

establishe d by the College in Mr . Arnold ’shonor . All hail ing from West Virgin ia , thefour s tudents are Ford Fran cis ’

80 andGeorge J enkins

’

83 from Charleston,

David Fletcher ’

8 1 from St . Albans , and

Henry Gilkeson,1 8 72 Robert Gilkeson ’

0 7

George Arnold and Ford Franc is ’

80,

an A rnold Scholar

“Romney was not worth defending .

I ron ically enough , Arnold ’s b irthday,

April 9 , i s the day on which U . S . Gran taccepted Robert E . Lee ’s surrender of theArmy of Northern

'

Virgin ia atAppomattox Court House so many yearsago .

J . B .

-FUQUA GIFT BUYSSTATE-OF—ART COMPUTER

Herb Bennett ’

8 3 from Fayettevill e . Mr .

Arnold expressed great p leasure atmeeting the Arnold Scholars : “ I can ’tremember when I have been so greatlyhonored ; I

’ve never seen anyth ing l ike i t .Mr . Arnold is no stranger to the Hill ; h iswi fe ’s father and b rother wereHampden-Sydney alumni HenryGilkeson of the class of 1 872 an d RobertGilkeson of the class of 1907 . Theyounger G i lkeson died a hero in WorldWar 1, less than ten years out of College .

Mr . Arnol d ’s gift to the College is inhonor of the Gilkesons . Previously he hasgiven the College a house in Chevy Chase

,

Maryland .

Much of the talk at the birthdayluncheon revolved around Mr . Arnold ’sfavori te top i c

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of conversati on the Warof Northern Aggression

,more commonly

known as the Civil War. His parti cularspecial ty is Stonewall Jackson ’s Val leyCampaign of 1 86 1 and 1 862 ,

much ofwhich was fought in West Virginia aroundRomney . Mr . Arnold re cites withagreement General J ackson ’s disgustedrej o inder when J efferson Davis told h im

Bun ting concluded the luncheon bypraising Mr . Arnold ’s l ife-long support ofhigher educati on .

“His generosity and his

dedication to the perpetuati on ofacademic excel lence and opportun ity arequal it ies of his generation wh ich we mustnot allow to fade away and th isendowment gift will , above all else

,

empower us to pass on to the GeorgeArnolds of tomorrow h is admirablegreatness of spi rit .

”

In one gian t step , Hampden-Sydneyhas gone from the dawn of the computerera to the bright shiny presen t . Trustee J .

B. Fuqua has made it all p ossible with agift to the College for the

purchase of a Perkin-Elmer 3242 . Mr .Fuqua , a native of Prin ce EdwardCounty , wanted Hampden-Sydney to

have , in h is words , the finest computerequipmen t of any small col lege in thenation .

”

And a fine mach ine it is: off the

drawing boards for only 7 months , the3 242 is viewed by the experts as beingone of the most highly advan cedmi n i-computers on the market today .

Sim ilar units made by Perk in-Elmer havebeen used wi th success at Louis i ana StateUniversi ty , Tulane Universi ty

,and

Georgia Tech .

“We are , of course , tremendouslygrateful to Mr . Fuqua for his kin d gift ,sai d Presi dent Bunting .

“The College hasneeded a new computer system for quitesome time now, an d be cause of Mr.Fuqua

’

s generosity we are getting the bestthere is.

The computer is expected to beinvolved in over half of

_ the academicprograms at the College , from biology

th rough classics to psy chology . Dr . RayGas kins , Dire ctor of the ComputerCen ter , explained that the computer willalso offer studen ts a chan ce to plancomb ined maj ors l ike computers c i e nce '— economics and computerscience—biology .

“Having a computer l ike this atHampden -Sydney will give our studen tsan advan tage over students at largeuniversi ties l ike U .Va . and Virgin ia Techwhere undergr aduates do not have easyaccess to a terminal ,

” said Gaskins .

“Nostuden t here wil l ever have to stand inl ine to use our computer .

Far from be ing a behemoth , thePerkin -Elmer uni t wi ll actual ly take upless space in the cl imate—control ledoperating room than the average desk

,

smaller even than the present IBM 1 1 30 .

The new machine is one of a newgeneration of supe r min i-computers us ingmin iaturi zed electron ic technology whi chis a by-product of space-age research . The3 24 2 wil l support Fortran 77 ,

Cobol 74 ,

In teractive Basi c , Assembler,and Pas cal

compu ter languages , as well as variousmathematical and statistical softwarepackages for both instructi onal andadminis trative use .

The new computer is a fullyinteractive time-sharing system with realt i m e d a t a c o l l e c t i on a n dmulti-programming capab i l i t ies . A labadj acent to the computer room on thefirs t floor of Bagby Hal l will be equippedwi th a dozen or so hardwired

(permanen tly installed ) termin als for

instructional use . Portab le terminals wil lbe used elsewhere on campus

,giving a

total of 3 2 terminals for research,

instruction , and administrative purposes .

Moving in the Perkin-Elmer 3 2 42

J . B . Fuqua

MRS . JOHN C. METCALFENLARGES MUSIC CENTER

As usage patterns emerge,hardwired

terminals will replace portab le terminalsat the most heavily used sites .

Gaskins explained that theresponsib le studen t wil l have the addedadvan tage of being ab le to check out aportab le termin al and take it back to his

dorm room wi th him . There he will needonly to hook the terminal in to atelephone line to have access to thecomputer . Then the studen t can

,in the

privacy of his own room,work on

programs or p lay computer games li keStar Trek” in to the wee hours of themorning .

Mr . Fuqua,who is board chairman

of the Atl an ta-based Fuqua Industries ,has been gene rous to Hampden -Sydneybefore . As recen tly as last year he put upthe needed capital to refurb ish WWHS ,

the campus radio station . His gift movedthe FM stati on from the crowdedconfines

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of the second fl oor of WinstonHal l to a spacious , two-studio stationlocated in the renovated Carriage House .

[ See Sep tember issue of the GarnetGray (Vol . I I I No . 2 ) for related arti cle . )

When the student government,

WWHS , the yearbook , and the newspapermoved out of the ir cramped headquartersin Win ston Hall last year , they opened upa whole new world of music atHampden -Sydney . Unbeknownst tothem , Professor of Music CardonBurnham had been waiting in the wingsfor quite some time to expand theEdmonia Carrington Lancaster MetcalfMusic Cen ter out of the l ibrary and intothe th ird fl oor of Winston Hall .

And what a center of musi c i t is"with l istening rooms

,recording rooms

,

ensemble rooms , practi ce rooms , and anoffi ce for Maestro Burnham . The workbegan in J anuary of 1 979 and wascompleted the following January at atotal cost of

Responsible for this musical havenis the generous Mrs . Edmonia Metcalf ofCharlottesvil le , who has given of her timeand money over the past years to makethe Music Center what it is today . Shecame for an April vis i t to hear theNoteables perform their Spring concertan d during her short stay she had achance to see the great metamorphosisth at had taken place in her musi c center .The l istening room h as 1 8 lis teningstations using 3 cassette tape decks, 1reel-to-reel tape deck , 3 phonographs , and2 filmstrip p roje ctors . There is also aprocessing and control cen ter for

duplicating tapes and storing records ,filmstrips and tapes . (continuedonpage1 6 )

Me tcalfMusic Cen ter in use

On the Hill

11 6 as t

Wil l iam Hoffman ’

49“An endless boun ty from th is feas t

The College paid tribute to Will iamHoffman

,an old friend , professor , and

alumnus,during Spring Convocati on in

April,awarding him the honorary degree

of Doctor of Letters . A 1 949 graduate ofHampden -Sydney

,Hoffman has had a

varied and interesting career as anewspape r reporter , banker, professor ,and

,most notably

,auth or . He has been

called “ the wri ter of the Virgin iasbecause of his powerful novels abou t thepeople an d th ings of both Virgin ia andWest Virginia .

P r e s i d e n t B u n t i n g praisedHoffman ’s con tributi ons to the Coll egeduring his two peri ods of teaching atHampden-Sydney

, the first from 1 952 to1 95 9 and the second from 1 964 to 1 970 .

Said Bunting ,“He established a

reputation as a master teacher of

freshman composi tion and l i terature , butespe cially of creative wri ting It istestimony to his l ove for the College andto his generosi ty that he retu rned to thecampus for the fall semester of 1 978 ,

giving,while refusing pay , l ong hours as

teacher and wri te r in res idence .

Hoffman,who is now a gentleman

farmer , huntsman , fishe rman , horseman ,and wri ter on his farm near Charlo tteCourt House

,l ooks back on his

experience at Hampden -Sydney as a“golden time in my life . I had friends , Il iked Hampden -Sydney , I was hunting ,fish ing

,play ing tenn is and golf . I wrote ,

not in a state of mind that was tortureand torment , but almost easily .

”

He went on to say that he was bornat Hampden-Sydney humanely ,

Spiri tually , and creative ly . Many times,

”

Hoffman told. the J ohns Auditoriumaudience ,

“ I have supped at theHampden -Sydney table and now I sit hereagain drawing an endless boun ty fromthis fe ast . ”

Styron , Flee t, and SadlerThe degree of our affection

There are some men whosegreates t work is the ir l ife . Although thisquote was applied to the Reverend R .

J ackson Sadler in his honorary degreeci tation , i t could just as eas ily haveappl ied to S . Douglas Fleet and Wil l iam

4

S tyron , the two other honorary degreerecipients at Commencemen t Exercisesthis past May .

Styron , who gave the 1 980

graduating class one of the most movingcommencement addresses ever heard atHampden-Sydney

,is well-known for his

“tensely evocative and haun ting novels of

the South, of the crabbed world of

mil i tary, of Nat Turner ’s revolt of the

European holocaust and Poland whichshow him as

“ a gifted wri ter of lyri calprose , the worthy hei r of Joseph ConradWil l iam Faulkner, and Thomas Wolfe .

Awards were not l ong in coming to

Styron : The Confess ions of Na t Turner

won a Pul itzer Prize ; L ie Down in

Hoffman and family

Darkness received the Prix de Rome ; andmost recen tly , Sophie

’s Choice was votedthe best Ameri can fi ction of the pastyear . He is honored at Hampden-Sydney ,

however , for more than his books :“To

the catalogue of his much-laudedach ievements , Hampden-Sydney wishesparticularly to add Styron ’s persisten tdevoti on to what the Coll ege has alwayschampioned : the right- even the duty—ofthe l onely , of the indivi dualist , of theself-rel ian t man , to speak out fearlesslyfor that in Whi ch he bel ieves , at whateverhazard , risking whatever obloquy maycrouch in the hearts of petty men . Thusfor th irty years now Styron has plied thewri ter ’s craft , has braved its piti lessdrough ts and si len ces , wri ting not for gainor mere tri cious success , consis ten tlyrefusing to allow the si l ly mouthpieces ofa t i til lating commercial ized ‘cul ture ’ touse his growing fame for th eir purposes .

”

S . Douglas Flee t , re tiring chairmanof Hampden-Sydney ’s Board of Trustees ,was honored as a man of many

accomplishments , a man who has“su ccessfully mastered the worlds ofcorporate business , real estate , and thestock market, and has remained a kin dand chari table huma n being .

”His

interests in clude preservation work withthe Histo ri c Richmond Foundation andphilan thro pi c work with Richmondhosp itals and the symphony . I t was,however, p rimari ly for his servi ces to

Hampden-Sydney , a coll ege that headOped late in l ife , that he was given aDoctor of Laws degree . Appointe d to theBoard of Trustees in 1 968 , he was electedits chairman four years later. “Duringthose twelve years , Hampden-Sydney hasexperienced unparal leled growth , much

S ty ron ,Sadler , and Flee t wi th President Bun ting

of wh i ch can be attributed directly to hisresourceful leadership and affecti onateregard for the needs of the College . Mr .Fleet ’s tenure as chairman has seen record

enrollmen ts ; the constru cti on of al ibraryaddition , new dormitories , marrieds tuden t apartmen ts , an d a new athle ti ccen ter ; the renovati on of a Virgi n iaHis tor ic Landmark i n to a spaci ous andwel l-used student center ; and theacquis ition of a computer facili ty whichvaults Hampden -Sydney to the forefrontof colleges its s i ze .

R . J ackson Sadler is the pas tor of

First Presbyteri an Church in Richmond , apos iti on he took in 1 974 after servingparishes in North Carolina an d WestVirgin ia .

“Wherever he has been goodworks have gone with him : Sadler servedon regional hosp ital boards , boards of

orphan s ’ homes,boards of day care

cen ters for the men tal ly han di capped .

”

Curren tly he is chairman of theIn ternational Missi on of the GeneralAssembly Mission Board for the

3 1 1 3 12

Presbyteri an Church , a trustee of MaryBaldwin College , a dire ctor of The

Presby terian Outlook ,and the moderator

of the Hanover Presbyte ry , the foundingbody of Hampden-Sydney . Above all heis “a fai thful pastor , and a man (as one ofh is parishioners said ) without whoseguiding hand widows could not make itthrough bereavement , teenagers mightforsake the Church

, and Christ ’scomforting words migh t perish from theland .

"

Farrell , Shear, and Marti nTeach ing Skill Rewarded

Each spring it is customary that onefaculty member receive the Cabell Awardfor di stingui shed teaching at Commen cement Exercises . This year , however , twomore awards were added to honorprofessors who had selflessly con tributedthe ir talents to the Hampden-Sydneycommunity . One award was given to thefacul ty member who had best se rved thestuden t body . Decided on by a sen iorvote and appropriate ly n amed theS tuden t Government Award

,this award

went to assoc iate p rofessor of ModernLanguages Alan F . Farrel l . Farrell , who iswell-l iked for h is humorous yet straigh tforward method of teaching French

,was

visib ly touched by the announcement,

tucking his head , scratch ing his chin , andflashing an “ aw , shucks , i t was nothing ,fell as grin to his fellow faculty members .

The Other new award,the J ohn

Pete r Mettauer Award , was given to Dr .Will iam A . She ar , as soc iate professor ofbiology . The award is given to a facul tymember who has demonstrated discove ryand cu riosity in research that exemplifiesin sp iri t the pioneering work of Dr .

Met tauer (Clas s of 1 8 1 1 ) in the field ofmed icine .

Receiving the cove ted Cabel l Awardwas Dr. Lawrence H . Martin , associateprofessor of Engl ish . The award , createdby the Robert G . Cabell I I I and MaudeMorgan Cabell Foundation , re cognizes“ ou ts tanding classroom contri buti on tothe education of Christian young men .

”

Martin is emi nen tly qualified for thehonor, being a gifted le cturer , a man whomakes all subj ects in teresting , and a manwhose in terpre tations of li terature aresuccin ct , natural , and essen tial .

Tiger Tak es Firs t P lace

The Tiger, Hampden -Sydney ’sstuden t newspaper , is carry ing on theb lue-ribbon habi ts of former ed itors ,b ringing home a first-place certificatefrom the prestigi ous Columbia Scholas ticPress Assoc iation ’s 5 6 th annual news

paper cri tique . Doug Lawler ’

8 1 , nextyear ’s Tiger editor , said ,

“This year ’sTiger has certain ly set us a challengingstandard ; but wi th concentration

,the

right staff, and the same kind of

community encouragement the paper gotthis year , I don

’t see any reason we can’t

do i t again .

J ames Thomas“Noth in ’ Else to Do

On a cool March even ing the bluescame to Hampden -Sydney . I t crept acrossthe damp lawn of Venable , attractingStudents who

,with books in hand , were

making their way to the library or thequiet confines of a classroom in BagbyHall . It turned heads of p assers-by onColl ege Road and Via Sacra . And itcaptured the attenti on of first-year menwho were spend ing the early even inghours in their Venab le dorm rooms . TheThomas sings the blues

blues that earthy , lyri cal , mysticalsound permeated the ai r

,attracting a

standing-room-o nly crowd to Paren ts andFriends Lounge , where J ames “

Son

Thomas was ply ing his craft .Perched upon the cen tral landing in

Parents and Friends , the thin bl ack manfrom the Mississippi Delta gave hisappreciat ive audience what they wan tedto hear the blues as i t is really played

.

Thomas has been playing the blues for 40years now , ever since his uncle boughth im a Gene Autry model guitar fromSears Roebuck . In that time he hasplayed with such greats as Sonny Boy

”

Watson ,

“Poppa J azz” Brown ,

and LittleSon ” J efferson .

“ I used to play with my uncle onSaturday nights , said Thomas with asmile .

“We ’d make two doll ars a night,

and he ’d give me a dollar most of thetimes . If I looked at h im too hard tho ’

,he

wouldn ’t give me that . ”

Thomas is as amiable andunassuming a fellow as you would wantto meet . He charmed eve ryone he metduring his visit as a musician-in—res iden ceat Hampden -Sydney .

“This man is the real th ing,said

English Professor Ben Alexander , whobrough t Thomas to campus to help teachthe blues in a class on Afro-Americanl i te ratu re .

“What we are doing here is not

done at too many other places in thecountry , Alexander explained . Somany people disregard the blues whenteaching American lite rature by blackartists . I am try ing to corre ct th is bymak ing Hampden-Sydney Studen ts awareof the importance of the oral traditi on ofblues in Ameri can l iterature .

As part of the l i te rature Studied ,the class examined the musi c and thepoe try of the b lues for two weeks duringthei r course . During that time they readpassages from Eri c Sackheim ’

s The BluesL ine,

W . C . Handy ’s autobiographyFather of the Blues , and LouisArmstrong ’s A Self Portrait. The classalso studied Scott Joplin ’s remarkableopera , Treemonisha .

“Blues is a Special part of the

human experience,sai d Alexander .

“ Itdefies reductionis t schemes that try toreduce tragic experience to formula Itsorigins as l iterature are inherently tied tothe rural and peasant country . Thesecharacteristi cs confound the poli ti calideologist who looks at th is most humanexperi ence as an abstraction ,

” concludedAlexander .

In Thomas ’ own words , you can ’ts ing no blues unless you ’ve had a hardtime .

” Thomas went on to explai n thatall blues came from the country wherepeople work hard . First you getlonesome

,he sai d , then you get broke”

and “ l ose your wife . In a cond ition l ikethat there Was nothing else to do but“ s ing de blues .

Melinda SmithNew S igh ts , New Records

In an age when women ’s l iberati onhas broken down most barri ers already ,

women have to try a li ttle harder to finda challenge. For Mel inda Smi th ,

daughterof Hampden -Sydney chemistry professorHomer Smi th , that meant tak ing Latincou rses at the Col lege whi le sti ll in h ighschool taking them so su ccessfully thatshe was offered admiss i on to Eta SigmaPhi , the cl assi cs honorary society . Thesociety ’s ranks had been breached bywomen before Mrs . Graves Thompsonis an honorary member and severalLongwood studen ts , among them ElsaHarvey Parsons , wi fe of Brad Parsons

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are ele cted members but never by anon-college s tu den t .

There is no rule agai nst high schoolmembers , Sin ce the only qual ifi cati ons aregood character , devoti on to the clas si cs ,and grades of 13+ or better in 3 semestersof work i n classi cs . The challenge comesin being the only one of the sevenin iti ates th is year who wasn ’t aHampden -Sydney studen t at all .

En tering Freshmen

A S ix-Year Profile

19 75 1 9 76 1 9 77 1 9 78 19 79 1980

Admissions Hi t New HighRecord Enrollmen t S tre tches Dorms

Responding to the need to findhousing for the largest entering freshmenclass ever at Hampden-Sydney

,Dean of

Students Lewis Drew has become anarchite ct of sorts . I t was the end of Maywhen Dire ctor of Admiss ions J ohn Waterstol d h im th at the class of 1 984 wouldinclude 247 studen ts , and since that timeDrew has worked dil igently to review thecampus housing Si tuation .

According to Drew, there are on lyenough rooms for 2 30 freshmen ,

whicheas i ly took care of last year ’s first—yearclass of 2 1 3 . This year the Col lege wil lhouse freshmen in former facul tyresiden ces , College—owned apartmen ts

,

and converted offi ce space .

1 Why the influx of first—year men tothe Hill? J ohn Waters says that an

increased effort on the part of his off i ceto en courage vis i ts to th e campus byprospective students may be responsiblefor the higher rate of acceptan ces .

With Waters ’ j ob complete , Drewtook up the challenge of iron ing out theproblems of freshman housing aprospect the Dean woul d much ratherface than the possib ili ty of having too

few s tuden ts to fil l the freshmendormitories .

Chalgrove Lake YieldsThe One that Didn ’t Get Away

J erry Rub inActivi sm as Small Busin ess

We had more high s chool studen tsvisit the campus th is year than everbefore , sai d Waters .

“ I t seems that on cea studen t visi ts the campus

,meets the

s tuden ts and faculty , and si ts in on acouple of clas ses , he is more incl ined tochoose Hampden-Sydney as h is fi rstchoice .

The in creas e in Size from las t year ’sfirst year clas s to th is year

’s is a healthy1 2 per cent . In addit ion to that there is agr eater geographi c distributi on of

studen ts in the class of 1 984 as comparedwi th past years . Waters attr ibutes thisdivers ity to expan ded efforts

_by the

admiss i ons staff to vis it more high Schoolsin areas l ike New England and theSouthwest .

Another innovation which hasencouraged confirmations is the in creasedpersonal attenti on given to eachappl i cant . Mi chael Ward , las t year ’sass is tant d irector of admiss ions , explain edthat the prospective studen t received nofewer than three personal le tters fromone of the five admi ssi ons offi cers . “Thisrequires a lot of ove rt ime work on our

part , but it’

s worth the extra effort , saidWard

The Wreath of IndustrySpring Dean ’s List An nounced

Dean of the Faculty Dan iel P .

Poteet I I an nounced that 98 men werenamed to the Dean ’s List for the SpringSemester 1 979-80 .

Freshmen named are : S . C .

Bunting, W . R . Gladin , R . A . Glover I I , C .

F . Hollan d , M . T . Hollan d , L . A . J ackson ,J . M . J ordan , Jr . , T . G . McGarry , J . M .

Nottingham , W . D . Setzer , J . M . Stedfast ,J . E . Sweet , M . C . Tomkies , M . C . Wilson ,

S . S . Young .

Sophomores on the li st are : T . E .

Adkins , J r . , S . B . Berry , W . J . Berry I I , W .

S . Cai n , W . K . Cannady , T . P . Chambers ,A . M . Clarke , Jr. , H . P . Cook I I I , J . E .

Crews , H . C . Cunn ingham , M . A . Deaton ,

D . W . Donovan , W . E . G reen , J r . , P . E .

Gresham , W . C . Harris , F . C . Hudson , B .

G . Kirkpatrick , T . J . Lass , W . H .

LeCompte, R . P . Leggett , B . C . McGann ,

C . V . McPhillips, T . H . Miller , R . A .

Morrisett , K . A . Norris , J . K . Park , F . M .

Rob inson , R . P . Ruffin , G . D . Waters , G .

A . Wertz , L . G . Western , J . A . Will iford ,R . J . Wilson .

Jun iors honored are : B . W .

Boucher , G . E . Burks lI I , J . B . Coleman ,

M . C . D’

Agata, D . S . Denham , R . M . Fay,

T. M . Fitzp atr i ck , D . H . Fletcher,P . S .

Fox, W . A . J ervey , W . A . Karo , J . C .

Keesl ing, D . R . Lawler I I , M . K . Leach , R .

K . Mahoney , A . J . Pol lock , P . R .

Ran dolph , J . R . Schoonover , L . R . SneadI I I , S . C . Vranian , D . M . Webb , M . S .

Wells , D . J . West .

Sen iors who earned the necessaryaverage are : M . F . Ackermann , P . V .

Anderson , R . C . Barnhil l , R . Batl iner , J r. ,

D . M . Crow , R . L . Fischer , Jr . , R . FFrancis , F . B . Godbold I I I , R . F . Keefer,J . E . Laux , W . C . Leach , T. S . Maxa , W . S .

Miles , M . M . J . Morr i s , J . G . Ove rton , W .

J . Pantele , S . M . She rro d, J . C. Sparrow ,

M . A. Thornton , K. R . Tign or , R . G .

Tin dal l , M . W . Trainum , J . W . Utt , Jr. , E .

D . Warinner, Jr . , J . A . Whitehead , Jr . , B.

K. .W itt , D . R . Wyatt .

Some lakes may be dead or dying,but not Hampden-Sydney ’s own . Despitethe fact that i t is drai ned eve ry summerfor th e bi ology course fauna census

,

Chalgr ove Lake seems ab le to grow ’embig . Proof? Russ Norment , son of rel igi onprofess or Owen Norment , caught a1 5 -pound , 28-in ch carp in Chalgr ove thissummer , and has th is pi cture to prove it .

Sixties ’ activists don ’t fade away ,

they just go on speaki ng tours gett ingpai d for their ou tspokenness , ins tead of

being thrown in to j ai l . J erry Rub in is no

excep tion . Speaking at Hampden -SydneyCol lege on Twenty Years of Ch ange :60

’

s Activi sm 7o’

s Awareness , Rubinsai d ,

“There is no shame in my touringthe country as a small bus inessman . Ibel ieve in smal l business , but it must be ahumanisti c bus iness th at is , businessthat serves peop le ’s needs .”

According to Rubin ,his way of

serving people ’s needs is to buil d newideas and bring out creative thought . Heaccompl ishes th is by reflecting on his

involvement in the an ti-Vietnam protests ,which he took from a handful of studentsat Berkeley , Cal iforn ia , to a nati onalmovemen t which plunged colleges anduniversi ties across the Uni ted States in toturmoil .

“Our attack on the Vietnam warwas so successful ,

” said Rubin , that

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people of the 7o’

s have a feel ing ofhelplessness against the powerfulbureaucracy of the Federal Government .They don ’t bel ieve they could recreatewhat we did .

” Rubin continued,

“Neveragain wil l th is country enter a warwithout people questi on ing the UnitedStates ’ involvement . We changed theconsciousness of th is coun try , creating anew awareness for America .

Rub in has answers for almosteve rything . Just ask him . The draft?“Sure we should have it it wakespeople up . Everyone should have themisery of being drafted .

” The Carteradministration ? J immy is too busytrying to protect his cred ib il i ty , ratherthan deal ing with the prob lems athan d . Nuclear arms con trol ? “Only foolsare saying that a nuclear war is

un th inkable . The Irani an si tuation?“Give us back the 50 hostages and we

’llgive you Ayatollah Nixon , Ayatoll ahDavid Rockefel ler , an d Ayatoll ahKissinger . After all , they were the onesthat caused this whole th ing anyway .

Enough? Well , don’t look now , but

Rubin has more . Asked whom he wouldl ike to see run for pres ident , Rub inanswered ,

Ralph Nader . “Since Naderisn ’ t a candidate , I

’m supporting Kennedybecause he is the only one raising anyissues .

” Would he cons ider supporting aRepub l i can can didate ? “Absolutely not"”

Asked why he considers himself anauthority on so many subj e cts , Rub ingrinned

,s cratched his beard , and

resp onded,

“ I ’m not an authority . Mypurpose is to get you to think . Anyauth ority that I have comes from what Isay

, no t who I am . I ’m not always rightI ’ve been wrong many times . Forexample

,I never thought the Chinese

would be come cap ital is ts,but there they

are se lling Coke on every street corner .And there is Je rry Rub in , sel l ing h imselfand his i deas to yet another generati on ofcoll ege stu dents .

My e rs

A Death in the FamilyCoach Howdy Myers Dies

Howard (Howdy ) Myers , 69 , headfootball coach at the J ohn Hopkins

i ts immediacy : the strangl ingprolife rat ion of regulations written byfederal agen cies as the “fine print” of

l aws passed by the Congress . The troubleis , Hart told his audience

,who were

alternate ly amused and chilled by theanecdotes he related , that whereas thelaws are passed by Congress

,the

regulat ions become as good as lawwithout benefit of popular orrepresentative approval ; they often gobeyond the force of the original law

,

especially in terms of complications dearto the minds of bureaucrats

,su ch as

documentation and penalties fornon-compliance . He cited , among other

Hart ’

4 9 and his w ife Dabney on an

expedi tion to Peru

Universi ty and one of th e top lacrossecoaches in the nati on , died Feb ruary 1 2 ,

1 980 ,of heart fai lure following cancer

surgery in Baltimore .

At Hampden-Sydney , as around thecountry , Howdy Myers was better knownas a lacrosse coach . Coming to the Hil l in1 97 5 , after a 2 5 -year tenure at Hofstra ,where his lacrosse teams won sevendivi sional championsh ips and competedin four NCAA Divisi on I post-seasontournaments , he took a nascent lacrosseprogram and turned it in three years in toa first-class varsi ty team , which p iled upmore respectable records than football inrecen t years .

Extremely personable , Myers mademany friends at Hampden-Sydney .

“They[Myers and his wife J an ] were State ly ,

civi l ized people ,” a former studen t said .

“They lived well , loved life , and itshowed , j ust as it Showed that what heloved more than anyth ing exceptmaybe his players was coaching .

Mrs . Myers , a son Howard I I I , and adaughter Dorsey survive .

Hart and Schaeffer HonoredAs Phi Be ta Kappa Induc ts Thirteen

The electors of Phi Beta Kappainitiated eleven senio rs and two alumniinto the prestigious honorary so cie ty inthe course of the sp ring . Welcomed in tothe Eta of Virgin ia chapter at the springmeeting in April were seniors CharlesMiller Dietz

, J r . , of Richmond (son of

Charles Die tz Ronald Luis Fischerof Richmond

,Will iam Chalmers Leach of

Leesburg (son of Hunter LeachMark Menelaos J ohn Morris of

Ri chmond ,Wil l iam James Pantele , J r .

,of

Richmond,Michael Alexander Thornton

of Lynchburg, Edward Gordon Whealtonof Virginia Beach ,

and Mark Edwin Yatesof Halifax . At the same meeting , C .

Wil lard Hart , J r .’

49 was inducted as analumnus member . On May 1 1 , three moreseniors were in itiated : Phillip VerneAnderson of Chatham

,Douglas Sumter

Price , Jr . ,of Gretna

,and Stanley Marc

Sherrod of San ford , North Carol ina . Theeleven seniors j oin T imothy Scott Maxaand Russell Glenn Tindall

,who had been

elected last year as juniors .Mr . Hart , who is the curator of the

department of invertebrate zoology at theNational Museum of Natural S cien ce , abranch of the Sm ithonsian Insti tution inWashington

, D C , was the speaker at thein itiation banquet in April . Asserting ,probab ly to the rel ief even of men whoseinterests touch many subj ects , that hewas going to forego the Opportun ity to

discourse on his specialty , invertebrategastropods of marine and freshwaterestuaries

,Hart talked instead on a subject

less dear to his heart but as compell ing in

tragi-comic scenarios,the researcher at

the Smithsonian to whom someone ,without h is knowledge , sent a specimenof a turtle which was on the EndangeredSpecies l ist . The researcher found himselfinformed by the Customs Office that he ,as addressee of the package , was liab le toa fine for importing an

embargoed animal and that , irony ofironies

,the specimen had become forfeit

to the Smithsonian Institution"Elected earl ier in the spring but not

initi ated until May 30 ,because he had to

fly in from Switzerland to receive thehonor

,was Dr . Francis A. Schaeffer ’

3 5 ,

named to Phi Beta Kappa as an alumnusmember on the strength of his

contributions to human knowledge .

These cons ist of 2 1 books and two seriesof fi lms

,in whi ch , as the leading

evangel ical Christi an apologist of the age ,he has exemplified the Hampden-Sydneyspiri t of devoti on to the logical pursuit of

truth by insisting , with Plato , that“the

only viab le approach to an honestexpression of faith is the well-examinedone

,as Presiden t Bunting remarked in

introducing Schaeffer and his wifeEdith—ah authoress in her own right— to

the Board_

of Trustees of the College .

Schaeffer has ach ieved world-wide

prominence for his rigorous argumentsthat belief in the infall ib il i ty of the Bib leas the Word of God is rati onally credibleand defens ib le

,requiring no existential

“ leap of faith .

His home , L’

Abri , near Geneva , hasbecome the hub of intern ationaldiscussions about the intel lec tual defenseof Christianity

,and Schaeffer ’s arguments

have rece ived global attenti on through h isbooks and his filmed treatments of theroots of modern despair and the originsof our atti tudes toward abortion and thevalue of l ife .

Dr . Graves H . Thompson ’

27,who

served as acting president of the Phi BetaKappa meeting at whi ch Schaeffer wasini tiated on May 30 in the J ones RareBook Room , del ivered this charge to thenew member : “Dr . Schaeffer , any chargeon my part would be superfluous ; youhave already received your charge from ahigher source . Suffi ce it to say that as anundergraduate at Hampden -SydneyCol lege you would have become amember of Phi Beta Kappa on the basisOf your scholasti c record

,if the College

had had a chapter at that time . Yourpromise then has been borne out sin ce byyour many scholarly achievements .Electi on to Phi Beta Kappa is generallyconsidered an honor ; may I say , however ,that in accept ing our invitation tomembership , you also do us honor .

The studen ts , who represen t thecream of the crop at Hampden-Sydney

,

were chosen on the basis of the iracademic achievement

,moral character

,

responsible ci ti zensh ip,

and broadintel lectual curios ity . The new membershave earned grade point averages of atleast having d istinguished themselvesin courses ranging from Engl ish andhistory to organi c chemistry and cal culus .

Fred Reed ’

68 on J ournalism“I t

’

s less exciting than you ’d th ink

Y o u n g j o u r n a l i s t s a tHampden -Sydney gor a view of the realworld of newsp apers th rough the eyes ofFred Reed , class of 1 968 ,

when he spoketo the Coll egi ate J ournal is t Society th ispas t April . The society annually invites a

distinguished person from the media tospeak at their Spring ini ti ation dinner

.

Reed , who frequen tly writes for theWa shington Post

,the R ichmond

Times -Dispa tch , and Federal Times ,shared some of his more unpleasan texperiences in j ournal ism with h isinterested listeners .

With tongue only partly in cheek,

Reed worked ove r the newspaper worldfrom top to bottom . In stark contras t to

Dr. Thompson welcomes Dr . Schaefferto the ranks of Ph i Beta Kappa

9 ) CG

Roy Cabell thanks the College for nam ingCabell House for h is ancestor

h im , Reed responded with a posi ti veyes . He was a science maj or wh ile hewas here , and encourages thorough studyin a scien ce curri culum . He has b lendedhis maj or in computer s cien ce with atalen t for writi ng to become one of

Washington ’s premier te chnologi calj ournal ists .

the glamorized auto-hagiographical image

wi th wh ich profess ion al j ourn al ism isusually presen te d

,Reed flung about

words like “un excit ing,

semi- l i terate ,“pressure ,aspi ri ng j ou rnal ists to wri te wi th grace ,clari ty

,and brevity— “

thereby buckingthe tepid flood of most j ournal is ti cprose —he also urged them to resist b iasas well : “Learn to wri te with anindependence of th ough t ; don ’t beinfluenced by O thers . Avoi d apply ingmoral standards (that

’s editoriali zing) butmai ntain a moral courage in yourwri ting .

”

Reed , who is the Washingtoncorrespondent for Next magazine

,warned

that mos t j ourn alism j obs are wi th smallweekli es or trade j ournals , and when andif you make it to the b ig time

,the

pressure of the work is_l iable to give you

a coronary . He added that the cynicismmany reporters exhib it often comes fromtoo much associati on with schemingpol i ti cians .

The one-time Vie tn am warcorresp ondent con clu ded that h is

preference was magazine j ournal ismbecause the arti cles tend to be moreintelle ctual and are tail ored to a certai naudience . You also aren ’t bothered withsuch cut and dried deadl ines as you are innewspaper reporting ,

” Reed Stated .

Wh e n a sked whe ther his

Hampden-Sydney educati on has helped

and cyn icism .

” Encouraging,

S tuden ts in Humane Competiti onRaise Funds for Needy Peoples

During April , two studen t groupsorgani zed fund-raising proj ects to helpbenefi t underprivileged people in the

Thi rd World Nations . The proj e ct,Spon

sore d by the Student Governmen t Associati on and the Inter-Varsity Chris tianFel lowsh ip , cons iste d of a one

-dayschool-wi de fast and a week-l ong threeway fund-rais ing competi tion betweenthe faculty , the fratern ities , and the

nonfraternity members .

The fast worked l ike th is : a studentwho would normally eat 3 meals a day inthe din ing hall pledged himself to eatingnone ; the ARA Food Servi ce th endonate d the money that meal woul d havecost to Worl d Vis ion In ternati onal, whod istributed the money towardsCambodian rel ief efforts .

$5 50 was rai sed to benefi t the

Cambodians , $ 340 of which came fromthe sch ool-wide fas t . The fraterni t ies wonthe fund-rai sing competion with a figureof $95 . Because of th eir efforts , th eywere awarded theSGA- IVCF Ph il anth rop icP laque , a newly establ ishe d award wh i chis given annually to the group thatprovides the largest donati on

,bas ed on

percen tage , to the humani tari an cause ofthat year .

“None of us cause d the worldhunger c risi s ,

” sai d Studen t Body Presiden t Vance Hul l ;

“ as human beingsblessed with wealth and in tel l igence

,we

have the respons ibl i ty to commit ourselves to making a posi t ive differen ce tothose suffering in the world .

Developmen t Building Named for Cabell“No one will ever know the ti me I give ”

With somewhat belated recognitionof a j ob well done , the College on May30 , 1 980 , named the Devel opmen t Offi cebui l d ing “Cabel l House ” in honor of Col .Wil l iam Cabell, a founding trustee of

Hampden -Sydney and one of its fi rstfun d-rai se rs .

“ I t gi ves you a sense of

con ti nuity ,

” remarked Director ofAnnual Giving Mike Pace ’

79 .

Cabel l , who signed al l the su rvivingti ckets for the state-endorsed lo ttery heldby the Col lege to raise funds in 1 777 ,

wrote in his d iary,

“No one wi ll everknow how much time I gi ve to

Hampden-Sydney .

”His nephew, Willi am

H . Cabell , came to Hampden-Sydney (helater was elected Governor of Virgin ia)and many of his relatives were studen ts

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here after that . In fact there has not beeno ne of the 20 5 years of

Hampden-Sydney ’s existen ce w i thout aCabell or a close relative on the Board ofTruste es or the facul ty or in the studentbody . Cabell ’s di rect des cendan t , RoyalE . Cabell ’

4 3 , is a cu rrent Trustee , and acousin

, W il l iam Cabell , is a sophomore atthe College today .

Before a crowd of Cabells andCabell k in among them physicsp rofessor Tom Mayo , Dr . Thomas Gilmer’

2 3 ,Mr . an d Mrs . W il l iam G . Bottimore ,

an d Roy Cabell ’s chil dren w a history ofthe Cabells and their conne cti on withHampden -Sydney was read and the CabellHouse S ign was unveiled . Roy Cabell ,moved by the tribute , said in conclusion ,

“The Cabells may have done a IO t for theColl e

ge,but Hampden-Sydney has done

so much for the Cabells that whateverthey could do in re turn would never beenough .

William Cabell the elder sign ed many of theticke ts in the College '

s 1 777 lo ttery .

I7 I

8 13 "h i l l en ti tl e the O wn ert ) finch ,

P r’z e a s "h all o r

i rawn a gai s ft i t in th: H zmplenSid/re)

“

L O 1’

[ ER ( 77 7 .

Uni on-Ph ilan throp ic“Build ing on tradi ti on

The oldest debat ing society in thecountry (Prin ceton

’s Whig-Cliosophiconly excepted ) is back in business wi thgus to . This spring three Hampden -Sydneysophomores , Paul Gresham , J oel Sweet ,a n d Sean Wallace , took the

Uni on-Philanth rop ic Literary Society intothe in tercol legiate debat ing s cene again ,as they took on the Jefferson Socie ty of

the Univers ity Of Virgi nia in th eirred-b ri ck

,Windsor-chai red hall at

Charlo ttesvi l le . The topic of thedebate— decided on the spot—was Carter ’sforeign poli cy . The audi ence , l ike perhapsa maj ority of Americans , were againstHampden-Sydney in th is case , s ince theUnion-Ph il an th ropi c l os t the toss and hadto defend Carter . Desp ite odds thatforeboded a unanimous win for the Jeffs ,the UPLS team did so well that theygarnered a th ird of the vote . The Socie tyhas been in vi ted back to Char lottesvillefor an annua l seri es of debates .

On an o t h e r f r o n t , t heUnion-Phi lan th rop ic wa s represented atthe na t i onal conferen ce of the

Moyers In terviews Bun ting

Cameraman directs Bun ting and Moy ers

besi de a roaring fire , they shared thoughtsabout Vietnam . Both served in offi cialpos i ti ons during the war , Bunting as an

assistant chief of staff wi th the rank ofmaj or , and Moyers as p ress secretary tothe war-p lagued J ohnson Admin istration

.

Moyers’ proj ect is a te-in terpre ta

tion of the Vie tnam war through thefilms , the art, and the l iterature that hascome out of the period . Through hisconversation wi th directors , art ists , andwri ters Of works about Vie tnam

,Moyers

hopes to capture the essen ce of whatcombat troops fel t there .

The L ionheads is one of the bestl iterary works to come out of theVietnam era ,

” Moyers explained later . “ Ihave been meaning to talk with Buntingabout i t for a number of years , but justhadn

’

t gotten around to it . When Idecided to do this segment on Vietnam

,

Bunting was a natural choice .

”

Admiral Stockdale

Admir al J ames B . S tockdale“We needed our educati on ”

Some times a man has to face thefact that l ife isn ’t always fair ,

” said ViceAdmiral J ames B. Stockdale , and that ’sthe time he needs his educati on themost . ” Speaking as a Hampden Fellow inJanuary , the former P .O .W . told how hiseducation helped get h im through sevenand a half years of sol i tary confinementand torture at the hands of theVietnamese . Our civi l ization— cap turedin our heads—was our most preciouspossession . Without i t we would havebecome an imals .

”

As the highes t-ranking naval officerto be captured du ring the war , Stockdalewas subjected to intense in terrogation bythe North Vietn amese . His resistan ceearned him twenty -five decorati ons ,including four S ilver S tars , two Purp leHearts

,and the Congressional Medal of

Honor .“The in tens ity of those years was

enough for an en ti re l ifetime , recalledStockdale .

“The prisoner of war campmade a good backdrop for leadership .

Men ’s character coul d be tested inmonths

,and you had to find out fas t who

Associati on of American Collegi ateLite rary Societies in Athens , Georgia , asthe guests of the Demosthen ian Socie tyof the Universi ty of Georgia . DelegatesRick Harris ’

8 2 and Kevin Norris ’

82

admitted that they felt sl igh tlyoverwhelmed by other societies ’ claims tohall owed meeting halls , portraits offounders , l arge numbe rs of supportersgreat funds , and flawless debates . “

But ,

sai d Harr is ,“ it gives us someth ing to look

forward to,some th ing to build on the

foundation of traditi on . Our society ,at

leas t , had its age to brag abou t— and in acrowd l ike that

,age coun ted for

something .

AS part of the con tinuing effort tobuild up interest and membe rship rolls

,

the Un ion-Philanthropic plans seminars inpub l i c Speaking , field trips to hearprominen t speakers , and in cooperationwith the Dean of Students , a specialhouse where Socie ty members can roomtogether .

Okay , th is is take three . Hit i t .Whirr the mechani

cal sounds of 1 6-mm movie cameras areall that b roke the mid—morning Februaryair as two camera crews focused in on arunning Si Bun ting making his way upCol lege Road in a red warmup su i t.

That ’s a take ,” sai d the bearded

director . Let ’s move the gear to.Bun ting ’s home .

Later that day Si Bunting and Bi llMoyers would si t and discuss the Vie tnamwar before cameras and mikes in thel iving room of Middlecourt for a segmentof

“Bi l l Moye rs

’ J ourn al , a nationallytelevised PBS news magazine , aired onMarch 20 .

Bunting ’s beSt-sel l ing novel aboutthe Vie tnam war, The Lionheads , broughtMoyers and his five-man film crew to

Hampden-Sydney for the February 29

in te rview . Though the two men experi

enced the war half a world apart 1 2 yearsago , an immediate rapport was establ ished between Bunting and Moyers . Si tt ing

Please Pass the Memories .

Fried apples a t M iss Sally Paulette’

s and

custard a t the Gro ttoes : food has alway s

occup ied a place a t the forefront of theHampden

—Sy dney exp erience.

Now y ou can share y our memories

of food on the H ill. The College is

collecting anecdotes, recollections,recipes , and photographs of eating

connec ted with the College, with a view

to putting out a Hampden-Sy dney

Cookbook and Culinary H istory ._

So think back, conjure up all thosememories—good or bad— and send them to

us , in care of The Record .

Candidates must demonstrate leadershipin two areas of campus l ife and must haveparticipated in three areas . The societyconsiders candidates ’ pe rformance inscholarsh ip

,ath le ti cs , soci al se rvi ce ,

rel igious act ivi ties ,_ campus government ,

j ournal ism,speech

,and mass media , and

creative and performing arts .

The Lambda Circle , estab l ished atHampden -Sydney on April 1 2 ,

1 924 , isthe eleven th Ol dest of the more than onehundred circles of Omicron Delta Kappa .

Spring Sports RoundupTenn is Leads the Fiel d

The Tiger netters comp iled thew i n n i n g e s t percentage of anyHampden -Sydney athleti c squad th isyear

,fin ishing the regular season with a

9-5 mark and going on to second place inthe ODAC Tournament . The tournament ,held in Lynchburg

,featured solid

p erformances by singles players LouB ib os ’

82 , who won the number 3

position , and Scott Goodman ’

82 andJ immy Cain ’

82 ,who were runnersup in

the number 1 an d number 4 positi onsrespective ly . Hampden -Sydn ey p layersdomin ated the doubles competit ion withthe duo of Angus Macauley ’

8 1 and Bl itzJ ames ’

82 captur i ng th e number 3

doubles final , and the teams of WorthRemick ’

82 and Goodman and Dibos and

Cain,reaching the finals in the number 1

and 2 doubl es spots .The young lacrosse team Continues

to blossom at Hampden -Sydney,firmly

estab li sh ing i tself as a team to bereckoned wi th in Division I I I lacrosse .

Registering impress ive wins over Georgia,

Georgia Tech , and Georgetown ,and

losing only to maj or college te ams l ikeYale and Will iam an d Mary inclosely -fough t contests , the stickmen

finished their 1 980 campaign with a 4and 8 record .

Stan douts on the Bil l -Reid-coachedteam include attackmen J ohn Gibson ’

82

an d'

Rob Bonaventura’

8 3 , who led allscorers with 36 and 34 goals respective ly ;George Gleusner ’

8 3 , who had 1 83 savesas goalie ; and defense Special is t TedChambers ’

82 . Next year the T igers wil lp lay in a newly -organ ize d ODAC lacrosseleague which wil l send its winner on to

the Divisi on I I I playoffs .

Coach Gus Franke, who led his

golfers to second place in the 1 975

NCAA Divis ion I I I Golf Championsh ipand was host for the NCAA Tournamentlast year

,retired th is p as t se as on after

coaching golf for 1 4 years . His team had a7 and 6 season , fin ish ing fifth in the

ODAC Tournament . The Tiger l inksmenwere more fortunate in the StateTournament , played on the LowerCascades course at Hot Springs

“

,where

they were th ird in the collegi ate divisi on .

J on Pace’

82 won the “MostDedicated award , while Matt Gormley’

81 an d Stewart S igler ’

80 won the“Sportsman ship ” and “Student-ath le te”

awards resp ective ly . Basketbal l coachDon Thompson will take over as golfcoach , while Franke wi l l devote himselfto his mathemati cs and . computer scienceteach ing .

The Tiger nine had a series of ups

and downs this year as they battled theirway to a third-place fin ish in the ODACwith a 5 and 5 conferen ce mark . Leadingthe team was centerfielder Tim Maxa

’

80 ,

who walked away with the two baseballhonors : the Dunnington DedicationAward and the Moore Most ValuablePlayer Award . Co-captain Maxa also won

an NCAA Pos t-Graduate Scholarship (seepage 14 for

“

related arti cle ) and was theonly Hampden -Sydney man to be namedto the all-conferen ce team .

One of the brightest Spots of thesquad was the number of players whowere Dean ’s List Scholars . Among themwere Maxa

,first basemen Kevin Mahoney

’

8 1 and Tom Wilcox ’

8 1 ; th ird baseman

Tim Lass ’

82 ; shortstop Jeff Thomas’

82 ;

and p i tchers Mark Yates ’

80 ,Pres ton Fox

’

8 1 , an d Keith Batts’

8 3 .

3 1 1 3 12

Fa culty ForuBen Alexander Leaves for Pres idency

Assistant Professor of Rhetori cBenjamin B . Alexander has left tobecome presiden t of the Society for thePreservati on of the Book of CommonPrayer . Alexan der , who came to the Hil llas t summer to as sume the teaching dutiesof an Engl ish p rofessor on sabbati cal ,brough t new life to the English department as h is you th and civil ized , assertivemanner quickly made him a popularfigure am ong the s tudents . During theyear he conducted karate ins tructi onsessions , invited studen ts to h is apartmentfor music li stening , brought bluesguitaris t J ames Thomas to campus , andplayed drums for the Spring comedyrevue , Parting Shots .

Alexander’s new posi ti on is one

that will require all of his many talen ts .The Socie ty is the loyal movement wi th inthe Episcopal Church to preserve the1928 prayer book . Alexander stated thathis organ izati on will push very hard for aprayer book that is acceptable to thesol id maj ori ty Of Episcopal ians in th iscountry . Working out of the Society ’sheadquar ters in Louisvi lle , Alexan der wil ltravel throughout the country speaking atconferences and seminars on both thesemin ary and parish level . His goal is thepermanen t con tinuati on of the use of the

importan t for Ham pden-Sydney men ,

wi th graduates going on to work in banks ,corporati ons , an d small businessess .

Times were when all a bus iness careerrequired was a general bachelor ’s degreeand a good sense of how to conduct

_

oneself during a job in te rvi ew . Thoughtimes have ch anged , Hampden-Sydn eymen are still findi ng thei r way in tobus inesses , though most are going via theeconomics maj or , wi th some followingthat with a mas ter ’s degree in businessadmin is trati on . (Approximately fortypercen t of las t year ’s graduating classhave obtained positi ons in the bus inessworld or are pursu ing an M .B .A . degr ee . )

Dr . Will i am Hendley , chairman Ofthe economics departm ent, says thatalmost every studen t at Hampden-Sydneyenrolls in at l eas t one bas i c econom icscourse . In some economics classes one

thi rd or even one-half of those enrol led arenon-majors . It is apparent that today

’sStuden t recogn izes the importan ce of at

leas t a bas i c knowledge of economics ,regardless of his career plan or major . ’

Students majoring in economi cshave three optionsa 1 ) a strai ght econom

book , which will be decided at the 1 982General Conven ti on in New Orleans .

Smi th A lexander

Publica ti ons and Research

Dr . Willard F . Bl iss , SquiresProfessor of History

,is curren tly

researching the atti tudes of WoodrowWilson ’s administrat ion toward b l acks .

According to Bl iss , th ere was considerablesegregation going on unti l Pres identWilson was informed about it at whi chtime he called a halt to the practi ces .Uncovering the information fromWilson ’s personal papers

, Bl iss plans touse the new material in his classroomteaching this fall .

Science Professors Dr . Thomas T.

Mayo IV , Dr . Homer A. Smith,Dr . Tully

Hendley a t work

H . Turney , and Dr . L . Neely Beard, J r .

attended the Virginia Academy ofScience meeting that was held inCharlottesvi lle this past May .

Professor of Chemistry HomerSmi th is presently completing work on aproj ect he began two years ago while onsabbati cal at Ind iana Universi ty . Thework , which was funded in part by aNational Service Foundation Facul tyFellowship , involves study in thepreparati on of new medicinals . Part ofth is research is be ing submitted forpub l i cati on late th is summer . Otherrecent research that Smith has doneincludes a project wi th Dr . D . Caine of

Georgia Tech which resulted in thepubli cati on of a paper in Organic

Sy ntheses . He is also helping in twoservice proj ects , working as a volun teerregional troub leshooter for the VirginiaDevelopmental Disab ili ties Protection andAdvocacy Office , in which he assistsdisabled persons to assert their rights insuch matters as employment andeducation , and le cturing in h igh schoolscience classes in Amherst and FairfaxCounties .

Dr . William W .

professor of chemistry, is

Porterfield ,

presen tly

Rejuvena ted Economics Depa rtment Thr ives

ics maj or , 2 ) a spl i t economics/mathemati cs maj or , or 3 ) a doub le maj orOf economics and another discipl ine . Thenumber of those maj oring in the subj ecthas in creased dramatical ly over the p astfew years . Five years ago only 1 9 sen iorswere graduated as economics maj ors ,while the class of 1 980 had 4 1 stu den tsrece ivi ng a bachelor ’s degree in econom

ics . One of those studen ts , Rusty Tin dall ,a double maj or in economics and

mathemati cs , graduated at the head of hisclass .

The department , which is made upof four faculty members , offers 24

courses , wi th an emphasis on eithertheoretical economics or managerial economics . Since the four-man departmentcannot hope to cover every special ty , the

Col lege cooperates with Randolph-MaconWoman ’s College in Lynchburg in afaculty exchange program . ThoseHampden-Sydney in structors who haveareas of expertise lacking at RMWC areexchanged wi th ins tructors from thel atter campus whose speciali ties complemen t Hampden-Sydney ’s offerings .

The department includes chairmanHendley , who was oh

- sabbati cal at U.Va .

las t year doing post-doctoral work in thelegal aspects of eeonOmics ; David Gibson ,

a spec ialist in appl ie d economi c theory ;J ames Angresano , whose major in terest isthe h istory of

'

economic - though t ; andKenneth Townsend ,

"who has also special

i z ed in economi c history . Both Angresanoand Townsend , new to Hampden-S ydney ,

are expected to provide a n imp ortantexpans ion . of -the department

’s‘

courseofferi ngs . fl

4

1 1

Ma rine biology studen ts ready the ir fish .

constru cted a mi cro computer fromscratch

,designing and e tching their own

circuit boards . The machine is used fordata acqu isi ti on and is in terfaced with alarger computer . During the summermonths Beard has been engaged inresearch on the subje ct of breath con trolof win d instruments .

Although Dr . Alan F . Farrel l isprimarily a professor of modernl anguages , he spent p art of this pastspring dabb l ing in televis i on . His GreenBere t Special Forces Team , Operational

Detachment A-2 1 1 , was part Of the May9th Washington area edi ti on of ABC ’

s PM

Magazine . According to Farrell ,“ I was

the one with the green face . Farre ll , whorece ived the Student Governmen t Awardat Commencement , presented a paperentitled “ Frénés ie et disj ointure enl ittéra ture moderne ” at the Fore ignLanguage Associati on of Virgin i a ’scomparative l iterature conference at MaryWashington College . He is also study ingthe language and rhythm in certainmodern novels , specifi cally Dos Passos ,Cel ine

,an d Claude Simon .

I n preparing for the arr ival of theCol lege ’s new Perk in-Elmer 3 242 ,

Programmer-Analyst J ames G . Gambleattended a number of seminars in May tolearn about the new computer ’s rel i an cecon trol system .

With Robert Hogan an d RichardBurnham , Dean of the Faculty Dan iel P .

Poteet I I has co-authored the fourthvolume in TheModern Irish Drama series ,enti tled The A bbey Thea tre: The Rise ofthe Realists . Prin ted in Ireland by theDolman Press Limi te d , the book describesand documen ts the ferment in I rishtheatri cal activity from 1 9 1 1 through1 9 1 5 .

Shear Beard

Head Librari an J ohn Ryland h asattended a number of professi onalconferen ces th is year . They are : the

Ameri can Library Associ at i on Conferencein Dallas ; the Conferen ce on

Retrospective Collecti on Development‘ in

B inghamton , where he presen ted a talkon “The Fugitive Book ; the meeting of

the Am eri can Library Associati onSubcommittee on Regional Collecti onDevelopment Workshops an d theAm eri can Library Associ ation Midwin terMeeting , both hel d in Ch icago ; and theLib rary Resources for College ScholarsConferen ce at Wash ington LeeUnivers i ty , where he was a panelis td is cussing Research and the CollegeCollecti on . He is curren tly doingresearch on collect i on development insmall col lege l ibraries .

Dr . Alan Zoellner , referencel ibrari an , was elected secretary of thepub l i c documents forum of the VirginiaLibrary Associati on at its annual meeting .

He is doing research in b ibl i ographicins tructi on programs for academicl ibrari es .

And then th is past semester , Dr.Stanley R . Gemborys foun d a way to usethe new athleti c center pool in the

l aboratory ass ignments of his marinebiol ogy clas s . With Gemborys oversee ingthe Operati on , h is studen ts pulled fishmodels made of modelling clay across thep ool with an electri c motor , on which ameter measured the amoun t of forcere quired to drag the vari ously streamlinedshapes through the water. The point Ofthe expe rimen t was to determine themost effi cien t Shape a fish could have , interms of min imi zing fri cti on wi th its

medium .

The studen ts researched thei r fishshapes much as they would have done ifthey were design ing the hull of a boat .

Construction involved design ing two

different models , one Streamli ned an done asymmetrical , each of which had adisp lacement of 2 50 cubic cen ti meters sothat they would be neutral ly buoyant ;they were then modelled of clay over anarmatu re an d fas tened to a wire pul leyfor their trip through the pool .

To in terpret the data, Gemboryshad his students use gr aphs plotti ng therelati ve amounts of current requi red to

pul l the models ; the more curren t themodel requi red

,the less efficien t was its

design . Although the results vari ed a bit,the lab orato ry proje ct was a success inthat i t allowed Studen ts a chan ce toexp lore b i o logical and ocean ographicreal iti es wi th thei r han ds as wel l as withthe ir min ds.

3 1 1 3 12

The Studen t Eye

Oh Nu th in’

Much ;

An Overv iew of Summ er VacationsBy Rick Ha rris

’

82

He really th inks he ’

s smart. Everyyear, he tr ies to ge t me with his notorioussti ckler . His face changes , but I know thatunderneath he

’

s the same , a wolf insheep ’s cloth ing , a cater-cousin of theSpanish Pretender , a Simon Legree . Shh .

Here he comes .“Well , Rick , what did you do th is

summer? ”

Those pernicious words are put inthe mou ths of a thousand differentpeople in a thousand different places , andI ’m always there to re ce ive them' The Willis , She rrod ,

and friend on a glac ie r

Qui z z ler. He begui les wi th his somewhere in Wy oming.

unpreten tious techn ique (merely asking asimple questi on and getting a S implean swer ) ; he can bring a

“nuthin muchout of the highest lowb row and thekeenest ill i terate . He is the masterconversati on stopper—and he ge ts meevery time . Ah . This time I shall not givein . I won ’t . I can ’t . I wil l .

“Oh , nuth in much .

I did it agai n . How could I ?In a flash , I know what I have to

do . I must rehearse and rehearse andrehear se . Only then might I have a chan ceagainst the invincible au tomaton .

Well, Rick, what did you do thissummer? ”

“Are you sure you want to know?I ask h im .

“Yes, of course .

I was a Pest Management Scoutfor the Entomology Department at OhioState Universi ty in coordin ati on with theCooperative Extensi on Service of theUn i t e d S t a t es Department of

Agri cul ture . I smile to myself because Iknow that final ly I have defeated him .

“What ?” the poor fellow asks .I coun ted bugs . Then , with a

snicker, I quiz him ,

“By the way ,

whatdid you do l as t summer?

So dumbfounded by th e utterrid i cu l ousness of my answer andquestion , he is unable to say an otherword and runs off. The Quiz z ler is

s tumped by his own questi on .

I now become the Prote ctor of the

Question. Unl ike my prede cessor, I abhort h e “ n u th i n m u c h ” an d the

I w o rke d threeweeksatmydaddy’

sbank

and the "Iwasacheckoutbagcarryingca

shbury ingerrandboyforbigbeast . For thepas t several weeks , I have exploredHampden- Sydney in quest of In teresting

Summers , and I’ve found qui te a few .

To eas e the risk of offending somequerul ous comrade of mine and to lessenthe chance of be ing called “a common

,

no-good quidnunc ” by some pedantic,

summer volun teer at th e Bucyrus PublicLibrary , I plead gui lty before I expose my

discove ries . I d iscriminated . I was

prej udiced .

You see , while I was meti culouslycounting insects in central Ohio

,some of

my fellow Hampden-Sydney studentswere discovering the beauties of Europe

,

experien cing the diffi cul ties an d pleasuresof camp counseling in America , and

Pra tt Cook '

s w inn ing smile

easing the plight of the unfortunate inAsia. And for others , the summer wasspen t organi zing conven tions an d sell ingcurious collector ’s i tems and standingatop buil dings .

For example , sophomore PrattCook , a Dean ’s Lis t s tuden t fromRichmond , Spent his summer organizingthe Mid-Southern Regional Conferen cefor the Children of the Ameri canRevolu tion . As one of n ine National VicePresidents of the patrioti c serviceorgani zat ion , Pratt presided over theconference held in Lexington

,Kentucky

,

and planned activities for the more thanone hundred delegates . “The CAR

,

” saysPratt, is a national organizati ondedicated to the trai n ing of young peoplein true patri otism and love of coun try .

For senior Tim Maxa,bed bugs

mi te have caused him a li ttle troubleup in the moun tains

,but his campers

didn ’t bug him a bi t . T im served as theRecreation Dire ctor and ActivitiesCoordinator at a Boy ’s Home inCovington . Run by a Hampden-Sydneyalumnus , Travis Tysinger ’

66 ,the home

takes boys from “all over and mostlyfrom b roken homes. ”

In the United States , we name ourd e s t r u c t i ve bugs after fore ignregions—J apanese Beetles , Mexican

Beetl es , European Corn Borer . Chris Yim ,

a Freshman from Annandale , could findonly German Beetles (with sunroofs ) andcould hear on ly Bri tish Beatles (and acri cket or two) during his two-week tourin Europe with the All-American Chorale ,to which he had won admittan ce afterseveral audi ti ons . Chris and his fellowserenaders “sang for meals with “arepertoire of typically Ameri can tunes .

”

Twinkl ing brigh tly as a campcounselor in the Lone Star State wassenior Al lan Scholar Bil l Leach . Bil l Spen this summer working with youngsters atthe sports and Christian fel lowship CampGrady Spruce located near Dallas , Texas .With an emphas is on parti cipati on of all

kinds , the camp sponsors a novel“Rag

Program” where pieces of cloth are given

as awards for involvement.

I t is known as the las t of the b igtime splendors ,

” an d Marc She rrod was

there . The senior Human ities maj ormigrated out west where he lived andworked with people in Helena , Montana.

“The purpose (of the trip ) was to meet

people in a different part of the countryand find out how they approacheddifferent issues , states Marc , who found

that “southern hospi tal i ty” was not

l imited to people in states below the

Mason-Dixon line .

Like southern hosp ital i ty , somethings pay no atten ti on to the

Mason—Dixon line . Conan the Barbarian is

as popular up north as it is down south ;that is , of course , if you are a comic bookcollector and en thusiast . Ron Batl iner , asenior from Virginia Beach , is one of

those fell ows . “Last summer I bought ,sold

,and trade d comic books , reveals

FOR THE RHODES NOT TAKEN,

NCAA OPENS A BETTER DOOR

by Marc Sherrod’

80

The letter from the NCAAScholarsh ip Office came at an opportune

t ime in sen ior Tim Maxa ’s l ife ,announcing as it did th at he had beensele cted for one of the prestigious awardswh ich re cogn ize d istinguished service tointercollegiate sports both on the ath leticfield and in the classroom .

“It made me

pretty happy to get the scholarsh ip ,especial ly sin ce on ly a week before I hadbeen turned down for a Rhodessch olarsh ip . [Maxa had been , however,one of the h ighest-rank ing can didates inthe Virginia Rhodes competition . ] Iwasn ’

t too keen on going to Englandthis NCAA scholarship can

be used wherever I want to go .

”

Along wi th only 5 other stu dentsfrom Division 111 colleges across the

nation and 27 Division I an d I I students ,Maxa will re ce ive $2000 for each of threeyears at the graduate school of his choice .

Maxa wi l l use the gran t to help defray thecost of sem inary , probably at Prin cetonUniversity of Union Theologi calSem inary in Ri chmond .

An athlet i c and academic standoutat Hampden-Sydney , Maxa ranks secondin his class , with a GPA j ust a fracti onunder a perfe ct As a three-yearlett erman and an al l-conferen cecornerback for the past two years , thisyear be tied two H-S football re cords ,most intercept i ons in a season (7 ) andcareer which , in his words , musthave helped me get the scholarship .

” Heis also a catcher an d outfiel der on the

Maxa

baseball team and serves as co-captain this

year

smile .

Ron as he te lls of his desire for anAmazing Fantasy No. 1 5 (the firstappearan ce of Sp iderman ) . Old horrorcomics got eve ryone in an uproar,because comics were destroy ing themoral s of the country ,

” says thededicated dealer of divertissement .

Few comic books (but quite a fewinsects ) en tered the l ife of one

Hampden-Sydney student last summer .Sen ior pre-medi cal student Edd ieWhealton spent ten weeks in India as partof the summer Studen t Train ing inMissions Program (STIM) sponsored by

the Inter-Varsity Christian Fel lowsh ip (ani n t e r n a t i o n a l C h r i s t i an studentorgan izati on ) . While in the diverse southAsi an nation , Eddie observed and workedwi th Indian doctors in the Christi anFell owsh ip Hosp ital in Oddanchatran.

“We couldn ’

t communi cate with anyone .

Desp ite his creden tials , Maxa thinkshe could never have gotten the

scholarsh ip without a l ittle help from his

friends . “Coach Fulton an d Dr .Porterfiel d [professor of chemistry andchairman of the Facul ty comm ittee on

Ath le tics ] did just about all thepaperwork , so I

’ll give them most of thecredit,

” he declares .It is no su rprise that Maxa considers

seminary a vi able option for his future.

The son of a.

Charlottesvi l le Presbyterianmin ister and

_a deep ly re l igi ous person

himself, Maxa is quietly but

unhesitatingly and profoundly sincereabout his Christ i an faith , and readi lypoints out that his rel igious faith is anintegral part of his athleti c an d academicexperien ce .

“Also , c ontinued Maxa , the

other p layers really respect my bel iefs .Our team often seemed to have the senseof togetherness that I ’ve found in some of

The villagers were uneducated , and didn’

t

speak Engl ish . At the hospital the doctorsspoke Engl ish , but the accents were so

different that it took us two weeks tounderstand the language .

” So it went forthe Overcash Award winner last summerswelte ring heat , language barriers , and noair condition ing un its"

But I guess that ’s not so bad ; I havelanguage problems whenever I starthearing youuuall.

” Freshman TommyVarner , who hails from a Georgia where“

youuualls”

outnumber nouns , was awelder this past summer. Pretty mundan e , I suppose? Well , not exactly .

Tommy __

was welding girders five storiesup .

“What was i t l ike working way upthere? ” I ask h im sincerely

oh , nuthin much , he says with a

the Christian fell owships on campus , l ikeInter-Varsity or the Canterbury group . Ith ink my Christian faith has been a realasset to the team .

”

According to Maxa, he was

attracted to Hampden-Sydney by its

small size,the chance to play two vars i ty

sports, and Coach Fulton ’s atti tudetoward the primacy of academ ic concernsover sports . “Here the coaches work

practi ces aroun d lab schedules , not vice

versa as at oth er colleges . General lyspeaking

, the faculty is very supportive ofthe athle tic program here , provided thestuden t keeps the two in proper

perspe ctive .

B e f o r e m at r i cu l a t i n g at

H am p d e n - S y d n e y,

Maxa wasn’

tnecessari ly enthusiastic about a liberalarts educati on .

“ I thought i t was si l ly to

take courses l ike Greek , WesternCivil izati on

, or English Literature . Now ,

as far as I ’m concerned , they ’re great"The qual ity of professors here is high , andI feel confident I ’m getting the besteducation possible . I doubt that friends

of mine at large univers ities are beingchallenged as I am .

”

The blending of mind , sp iri t , andbody in to one is an ide al sought byancien t phiIOSphers l ike Plato as well as

by many modern thinkers . If an aim of al iberal arts edu cati on is chal lengingstudents to seek and reali ze this ideal intheir own l ife , then a classi c example of

the su ccess of th is aim is Tim Maxa— a

diligent and dedicated scholar , agentlemanly and hard-working athlete , anuncompromising and act ive Christian .

Plato (were he only a Chris tian ) wouldhave been proud .

3 1 1 3 12

The new Chairman of the Board ofTrustees is .Will iam Sydnor Settle ’

5 5 , aVirgin ia native and Wall Street lawyer .

Settle , who was born in Lawrenceville ,went to Hampden -Sydney and then tothe Law School of the Universi ty of

Virgin ia,where he graduated in 1 95 7 .

Immediately thereafter he was offered aposi ti on with Simpson , Thacher , andBartlett in New York ; he is now a sen iorpartner in that firm .

“The election of Mr . Settle as ourChairman of the Board , remarkedPres ident J osiah Bunting , marks aturning point in the history ofHam pden -Sydney . No t only is he one of

the outstanding attorneys in the UnitedStates and a senior partner of one of thecountry ’s great law fi rms , but he is as wella ded icated , energeti c , and enthusias ti calumnus

,determined to carry on the

traditi on of able and useful leadersh ipshown by his predecessors LewisChewn ing and Doug Fleet .” Settl e hasbeen a member of the Board since 1 972 ;he was appointed vice-chai rman last year .

A residen t of New Vernon , NewJersey , he i s a member of the AmericanBar Association

,the New York Bar

Associati on , and the Morris Coun tyTransportation Board . He serves as adirector of the In ternational SilverCompany and the SEN Gas Company . Heis the author of an article on taxati on of

United States investments by Arabs ,pub l ished in the Arab ian businessmagazine Al—Idari .

New Orleans lawyer J ames J .

Coleman,who had been serving out the

term of a retired trus tee , has been electedto a full term , which like those of theother new trustees will end in 1 985 .

During his firs t year as a Board member ,Coleman was chairman of the FriendsFund , which rai sed a record-breakingamount for Hampden -Sydney .

Coleman earned his undergraduatedegree from Princeton , s tudie d at Oxfordfor two years , and returned to NewOrlean s to study law at Tul ane . He is nowa partner in the law firm of Coleman

,

Dutrey , Thomson , Meyer , and Jurisick .

He is also active in the New Orleansbusiness world as chairman of the boardsof In ternati onal Tank Terminals

,Ltd . ,

acompany engaged in handl ing , storing ,a n d t r a n s h i p p i ng bulk l iquidcommodities , and of Down town Parking ,Inc . , which owns and Operates severalparking complexes in the business d is tri ctof New Orleans . He is in additi onpresident of Coleman DevelopmentCompany , which has built su ch projectsas the New Orleans Hilton , the downtownHoward Johnson ’s Motel , the Exxon

New Ch a irm an ,

Sev en Tru stees

Nam ed to Board

Buil ding, the Gulf Build ing , and acondominum complex on the Mississippi .An active civic worker , Coleman has beenon the board of directors of the LouisianaCouncil for Musi c and Performing Artsand serves as vice-pres iden t of the NewOrleans Museum of Art and chai rman ofits Accessions Committee , secre tary andtreasurer of the New OrleansPhilharmonic Orchestra Society

,and

treasurer of the Audubon ParkCommission .

Coming on the board for his fi rstterm is The Honorable Ernest P . Gates’

47 ,senior j udge of the Twelfth Judicial

Circui t of Virgin ia . A graduate of theWashington and Lee Law School , Gatesserved in the Navy during World War I I ,retiring with the rank of l ieutenant in

Se ttle'

5 5

Cabell ’

43Gates ’

4 7

Guthridge '

68 Coleman

1 946 , as a result of physical d isab il itycaused by combat wounds . After severalyears in private practice

,he became

C omm o nwe a l th ’ s A t t o rney forChesterfie ld County , and later forColonial Heights as well . In 1 966 he wasappoin ted associate judge of theChesterfield County and Colonial HeightsCircuit Courts .

A past president of the Associationof Commonwealth ’s Attorneys of

Virgin ia , he is a member of the Ameri canand Virginia Bar Associ ations and sat onboth the Council of the Virgin ia State Barand i ts Executive Committee ; he iscurrently vi ce-chai rman of the Council onCriminal J ustice of the Commonwealth ofVirgin ia , where he represents the Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia .

Gates is a trus tee of St . J ohn ’s Ep iscopalChurch in Chester

,a former member and

vice-rector of the board of visi tors ofLongwood College , and the father ofWill iam M . Gates ’

74, Ernest P . Gates , J r .

’

76, and David H . Gates ’

78 .

Royal E . Cabell, J r .

’

4 3 , whoreturns to the board after a year ’s leave

,is

senior partner in the Richmond law fi rmof Cabell , Moncure , and Carneal . Agraduate of the Universi ty of Virgin iaLaw School

,he sits on the boards of the

C . F . Sauer Company ; Owens , Minor , andBodecker , Inc . ; Dominion Leaf TobaccoCompany , Inc . ; Brownson EquipmentCompany

,Inc . ; the Sarawak Company , a

Malaysian corporation , where he alsoserves as presiden t ; and P . T . Wiralanao ,

Ltd . ,an Indonesian corporation

,where

he serves as executive vice presiden t . Anactive civi c leader , Cabell serves assecre tary of the Ri chmond Friends ofOpera and as director of the RichmondCerebral Palsy Center .

Charles Guthridge ’

68 is alsoreturn ing after a year ’s leave . He ischairman and ch ief executive offi cer ofCol -Dra Corporation in Richmond and anactive alumnus : he sat as vice-chairman ofthe Hampden-Sydney Bi centennial Commission and has se rved as presi dent bothof the general Hampden-Sydney AlumniAssociati on and of the Richmond AreaChapter . His civi c activi ties include theCentral Richmond Association , theUnited Givers Fund

,the Richmond

YMCA , and St . Paul’s Episcopal Church .

Also elected in May were W . KempNorman

,a retired businessman from

Yamassee,South Carolina , and father of

W . Kemp Norman I I I ’

82 ; and Rodney B .

Mitchell,president of Tallasi Management

Company in New York . Biographies andp ictures were not available for these twoas The Record went to press , but theywill be featured in a forthcoming issue .

1 5

PARADE OF G I FTS

(continued from page 3 ) The two

acoust ically-tun ed practi ce rooms eachprotect a piano while the ensemble roomhas both a p iano and audio equipment for

recording and playback . The practi cerooms are open twenty -four hours a dayand see a great deal of use .

An addi tion to the musi c cen ter

that Dr . Burnham has found especi allyhelpful is a group of small e lectron icp ianos equip ped with headphones for usein musi c courses of harmony—theory .

These p ianos allow students to practicekeyboard dri l l , theory study , and scorestudy . Sometimes in the near future ,Burnham hopes to add a cassette videorecorder to use for PBS broadcasts ofoperas , ballets , con certs , an d plays .

CLASS OF’

29

OUTFITS ALUMNI LOUNGE

In September 1 978 , prompted

The ultimate tai lgate party . As only

The Class of’

2 9 a t their Fiftie th

largely by the efforts of Class Presi den tMaxcy Smith

,the Clas s of 1 929 decided

to present a gift to the College upon theoccas i on of their 5oth reunion in May ,

1 979 . After d iscuss ing the proj ect withfell ow classmates and consu lting withCollege offi c ials

,Maxcy set two goals :

110 11 11

Hampden- Sydney could do it . Posh accommo

dations on a specially-reserved Amtrak car .

Rooms'

in one of New York ’

s finest hotels ,with two even ings free to savor concerts

,

clubs , operas , or museums . A private motorcoach to New London . And reserved ti cketsto see the Hampden

- Sydney Tigers play the

Coast Guard Academy in our first game northof the Mason -Dixon Line in yearsYou wi ll agr ee that Stokeley Fulton

and his T iger footbal l team should not

travel into host i le territory alone . Theirefforts should not go uncheered

,nor their

Victory unapplauded . So now if ever is thet ime— espec ially if you l ive too far away

firs t,the class of ’

2 9 would , th rough acombin at ion of p ledges and gifts

,

contribute to the College inadditi on to their normal (or modestlyincreased ) annual contributions to theAlumn i Fun d ; an d , sec on d , they would

.

"p resent this gift to Presi dent Bunti ng and

‘

the Trustees on the day of the ir reuni on ,

Starting wel l ahead’

of the reuni ondate—some 1 8 mon ths , to be e xact— inorder to give class members plenty oftime to contribute , Smith sent a letter toclassmates outl in ing the plan “

for thesurviving class members to show ourappreci at ion of what this i l lus tri ousCol lege has meant to us .

“The response from the class wasove rwhelmi ngly en thusi asti c , sai d Smith ,“wh ich reassured me somewhat .

Although I fe lt the class wouldwholehearte dly support such , a p roj ect , Ihad some minor misgivings . To beginwith , the goal I h ad tentatively set

was fa ir ly amb it ious even inthese inflation ary t imes— espec ially inl ight of the caveat that these gifts should

to get back to Death Valley—to come out and

show the team how much you support it . And

now if ever is the t ime to renew old fri end

ships , and make new ones , among the umbeatable Hampden-Sydney family ,

in an un

mistakab ly Hampden-Sydney atmosphere .

When is it ? ‘

The train leaves

Ri chmond on Friday ,November 7 , 1 980 ,

and

returns on Sunday,November 9 . There are

two overn ight stays in New York .

Who can go ? Alumn i , parents , fri ends ,kids— anyone who loves Hampden

-Sydney foot

ball and l ives w ithin reach of Amtrak ’

s

Eastern Corridor . You can board the NewLondon Special in R i chmond , Washington ,

Baltimore , Wi lmington , or Philadelphia ,

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leadersh ip d isp layed by Maxcy . We— andby that I mean the facul ty , students , andall of Hampden-Sydney

’

s alumni— aredeeply grateful for this magnifi cent

gesture .

MORGAN TRUST’S CHALLENGE

HELPED RAISE

The Marie tta McNeill Morgan and

Samuel Tate Morgan , Jr . Foundati onawarded Hampden-Sydney a gran t of

in Jan uary , to be matched 3 for

1 with funds contributed for theconstructi on of the new athleti c center .

The grant required that the Col lege raisenew money total ing as a di rectresult of the Morgan Challenge grant—a

condit i on that has now been met .

The Morgan Foundati on , which isadmin istered by the trust department ofFirst 8: Merchan ts Bank , commonly gi vesmoney to organizations whi ch willp romote the cause of the Church ,fostering Chris ti an edu cat i on , especial lyh igher education . The terms of the grantsrequire that they be used for capi talpurposes only .

“We at Hampden-Sydney areextremely touched by the continuedgenerosity of the Morgan Trust and theirapparent confiden ce in the future of theCol lege

,sai d Pres ident Bunting .

“ In thiscase as in the pas t their grant went a l ongway toward creating significan t incentivefor raising indepen dent matching funds .

”

Hampden-Sydney received Morgangrants of in 1 969 for the

construct ion of G i lmer Scien ce Center ,for the l ibrary addition in 1 974 ,

and to help renovate GrahamHal l in to a studen t center . The l atte r wasa successful 3 for I challenge to the

parents ’ fund-raising campaign .

ANONYMOUS MUSIC-LOVERDONATES STEINWAY PIANO

Musici ans at the College are eagerlyawaiting the arrival of a new Ste inway DModel Concert Grand Piano , . gi ven toHampden-Sydney by a . distingu ishedVirgin ia phil anthrop ist . The generousbenefactor , who

.

is a close friend of Dr . T .

Election Year 1 980

Will all alumni who hold , or are running

for, poli tical offi ce please send a

photograph and a brief biography and

other pertinent deta ils to Mrs . P . T.

Atkinson a t the Museum? She would like

to set up an exhibit of Hampden-Sydney

men in politics this fall.

Even a crane had trouble lifting stonesfrom historic Halifax mill

Recollec tions , Plea se

There seems to be no record of what the

gymnasium in Cashing Hall looked like

before it was converted into dorm roomsin 1 92 8 . If y ou remember or

,better y et,

if y ou know of a picture of it, please letus know .

Edward Crawley ’

46 ,donated to

purchase the Ste inway because theCollege has for too l ong been denied thebenefi ts of a superior piano .

“We will n ow have one first-ratep iano an d two other good ones , said Dr .Crawley .

“They will be lo cate d in J ohnsAuditorium , Paren ts 8: Friends Lounge ,and College Church , thus el imin ating theproblem of transferring p ianos from p laceto place on campus .

Three representatives from theCol lege wil l go to New York tohand-sele ct the n ine-foot gran d p iano .

The delegati on wil l be made up of Dr .

Crawley , Dr. Amos Lee Laine , andPresiden t Bunting . Dr . Crawley explainedthat th ree people are use d in the sele cti onprocess so that wh i le one plays the p ianothe other two can l isten one from upclose and one from afar .

Crawley noted that it was thedesperate s tate of the pian os on campusthat got his fri end in terested in donatinga new one . In 1 946 , when Crawley tookover the Glee Club , the College own edtwo old upright p ian os . A request to Dr .Edgar Graham Gammon in 1 948 brough tCrawley $400 , which purchased the old

Ste if in the audi torium . The budget forJ ohns Aud itorium , completed in 1 950 ,

included funds for a Baldwin Gran d .

A'

few years later , in 1 9 5 5 , Dr .

Frank J ohns ’ secre tary in Richmondinheri ted a Ste inway , which the Col legepurchased for Anothersecond-hand S teinway was acqui red froma retired Randolph-Macon Woman ’sCol lege p rofessor when the renovati on ofWinston Hal l , complete d in 1 96 1 , gavethe G lee Club a practi ce room .

Dr . Saul Joftes donated a Baldwingrand , now in Middlecourt , thepres ident ’s home . In additi on

,the College

owns two extremely valuable antiqueVictorian square pianos , both of whichwor l d be playab l e if restored but whichcould not be used for concerts ; one of

these , now in ' the Parents and Friends

Lounge , is the gift of Willi am C . Gibson ,

J r .’

4 1 , an d the other , in HampdenHouse , was the gift of the late Dr . HenryWiseman ’

4 1 .

SHELTON SHORT I I I G IVESMILLSTONES AND BOXWOODS

Determined to preserve usefullywhat would , left to i tse lf, de teri oratebeyon d usefulness , Dr . Shelton H . ShortI I I ’

48 donated to Hampden-Sydney thisspring e ight m illstones from an histori cHalifax

_County mill , eighty -two

full-gr own boxwoods from his ancestralestate , a boat , and a portrait of himself asa ch ild .

The portrai t , pain ted in 1 9 3 3 byfamous Virgi n ia artist Lou ise SeawellYoung , shows Short in a sai l or su it ,play ing with two rabb i ts in a woodedsett ing . A charming conversation piece , i thas now been ful ly restored by an expertcon servati on ist in Richmond and hangs inHampden House , much to the delight ofvisi tors .

The boxwoods , several of which are

as much as a hundred years old , weretransplan ted to the campus in March . Thebushes origi nal ly grew in the gardens ofWheatland” in Charl otte County , amansi on bu il t in the early n ineteen thcen tury by Paul C . Venable , M.D . , amember of the class of 1 81 1 atHampden -Sydney an d a descendant of

several Hampden-Sydney founders .The e ight millstones , as i de from

thei r aestheti c value , represent as ign ifican t landmark in the history of themil ling in dustry in the Colonies . They areof the Fren ch buhr type , introduced in

the 1 840’

s, wh ich by their sharpness anddurabi l ity revolutionize d the efficien cywith which varied products—flour, cornmeal , grits

, or hominy— could bemanufactured from the raw grains . Thesil i ca-impregnated l imestone from whichthe stones are made was at first importedfrom Fran ce , unti l n ative suppl ies of thestone were d iscove red late in the cen tury .

They h ave been set up around the campusas seats (see the p ic ture above ) in shadyspots

,adding greatly to the natural charm

of the Hil l .

I have just read with a great deal ofinterest the winter 1 980 issue of The

Record and congratulate y ou on th isattractive issue and on the results of theeighth annual Alumni Tele thon . I wasinterested in the letters of George L .

Walker , Jr . , and Mrs . GravesThompson—both of whom I know quitewel l— concerning the late George LutherWalker

,whom I knew quite well al so .

However there were two glaring mistakesin the issue which you may havediscovered already .

At fi rs t sight the picture at thebottom of page 24 l ooked qui te familiar ;closer scrut iny , however , revealed theabsence of a good many faces I wouldhave expected to be there— in cluding myown . Upon looking in my 1 92 1

Kaleidoscope I discovered this was the“ Sophomore Class” instead of theStudent Body . The studen t body wassmal l enough that year—abou t 1 37 if Ihave counted correctly— but certain lylarger than the 36 in the pi cture .

The other mis take was aboutRobert Burwell Lacy [ i n whose obituary ]you indi cated that he was a resident ofCharlotte . As far as I know , he never l ivedin Charlo tte

,ce rtainly n ot in recen t years

j ust before h is death .

W . Norman Cook ’

22

Ri chmond , Virginia

Ano ther correction to the lastissue : Charles Chris topher MarshallBunting .

(in tha t order) was born on

Augus t 28 , 1 9 79 .

Just finished a thorough read ing ofthe Win ter 1 980 issue excellentproduct"Since southwest Oklahoma is ab i t farther than a comfortable weekenddrive from Ham pden-Sydney , I don

’t getback to the campus much these days . SoThe Reco rd is doubly welcome : i t keepsme up to date on developments at school

,

and it allows me to fol low what myclassmates have generally been up to sin cethat memorable day in J une whenGovernor Godwin en deared h imself to ahot audien ce wi th his five-minute

graduation speech .

And the photos , of course , evokememories of my own days as a student . Ialso read with approval that ProfessorBrinkley wi l l be carrying on the work ofthe late Mr . Bradshaw in committing thehistory of Hampden-Sydney to paper . Mr .Brinkley ’s penetrating (if somewhat

_acerb ic ) treatment of history was a treatfor me at Hampden-Sydney

,an d I look

forward to the completi on of the H istoryofHampden -Sy dney College.

Thank you for taking the effort toput th is fine magazine together .

C . Michael J ohnson BA ’

7 3

Lawton,Oklahoma

The en trance to Fra tern ity Row ,now A tkinson Avenue , in the twenties .

This is to express my sincere thanksto The Record for prodding fondmemories as well as providing interestingupdates regarding Hampden-Sydney (andthe USA for that

Recen tly , you see , I received a copyof the winter 1 980 Record (forwardedfrom home ) . At home , The Record is

in te resting to read and is attractive uponthe coffee table for guests to see (

“Oh,

did you go to H Fine .

But when you are out of contactwith those four excellen t years

,and out

of con tact wi th the whole country as Iam (I am presently attempting to teachsecondary school science , social studies ,and human b iology as a Peace Corpsvolun teer in Western Samoa in thePacific ) , rece iving The Record is morethan that , especially in the absence of alocal grapevine . I would l ike to informfel low readers th at The Record is aninformative

,enlighten ing p iece of

l i te rature . I relished it from Table ofConten ts to Parting Shots"I even foundout

,th is way and no other , that two

col legiate comrades had succumbed toacts of marriage (congrat

’s , D . Shiflettand J .

I can only hope that other alumniappreciate this impressive publication aswel l . I t is importan t to us all .

Michael C . Baughan ’

77

Faga , Savaii , Western Samoa

Includ ing news received by J une 1 5 ,1980 .

The Reverend HARRY H. BRYANcelebrated the fift ieth ann iversary of h isord ination on October 1 0

,1 979 . The

service in praise of God ’s faithfulness alsomarked the fift ieth anniversary of Bryan ’smarriage to the former MargaretHoll ingsworth Lancaster . Bryan , whoserved several churches in North andSou th Carol ina , Georgia , Connecticut

,

Alabama , and West Virgin ia, was a

missionary to Japan for ten years j ustbefore World War I I . He now l ives inMontreat , North Carol ina , where he has a“ministry -ar-large to churches in theeast , with an emphasis on sp i ri tualrenewal .

THOMAS C . HIX , a farmer inProspe ct , re ceived the 1 979 Conservati onFarmer Award from the Piedmont Soiland Wate r Conservati on Distri ct . Hix wascommended for his outstanding work indrawing up an d implementing a six-yearplan to conse rve and prote ct naturalresources on his 790-acre farm .

FRANK E . KINZER , the seniorinsu ran ce agent in the Greater AlleghanyHighlands , retired in J anuary 1 980 after5 1 years i n bus iness in Covington . Kinzer ,who taught in the Alleghany Coun tySchool system the year after graduati onfrom Hampden—Sydney

, was talked in tosell ing insurance by his father-in-l aw

, who

saw more of a future in that l ine ofwork than in teaching or in his own j obat a mill . Leaving behind theresponsib i l ities of what had become oneof the largest agencies in Covington

,and

of numerous business and civi c boards,

apparently leaves Ki nzer at no loss forthings to do : he is taking a course atDabney Lancaster College and plans

,“when the weather gets better

,

”to take

up golf again .

MAXCY SMITH ’

29 writes to set

the Record straight : in a back issue wemistaken ly attributed the n ickname“Spritter to J . EARL ADKINS ’

27 ; infact the name belonged to the lateALFRED ASHTON ADKINS ’

27 .

DUDLEY A. RAINE , SR. ,has

reti red from the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture , after 39 yearsof servi ce , to a farm near Amherst ,Virginia .

1 9 3 6

1 93 7

The Reverend KIRK HAMMOND,

who had been as sociate pastor of Trin ityChurch

Soy ars’

40

in Clearwater , Florida,

Seay’

5 8

has

become in terim pastor at F irstPresbyterian Church in Dunedin

,Florida .

4OTH REUNION,

November 1 5

BENJAMIN A . SOYARS has beenpromoted to the presiden cy of the newTobacco Technology Group of Phil ipMorris In corporate d . He had been sen iorvice presi den t of manufacturing for Phil ipMorris the corporati on ’s tobaccodivision .

1 94 1

The Reverend BYRON L . MILTONhas been transferre d from the FirstPresbyterian Church of Tifton , Georgia ,to serve churches in Pelham andThomasville , Georgia .

1 942

Dr . CHARLES R . CREWS,a

den tis t in Radford,has been elected

president of the Radford UniversityFoundati on . A past presi den t of theVirgin ia Dental Associati on , Crews is

active in several other civic andprofessi on al organ i zations , an d has se rvedon the Radford School Board .

Dr . JAMES THOMAS WOMACK ,

former executive dire ctor of the office ofreview an d evaluati on of the PresbyterianChurch in the US , based in Atlan ta , hasbecome director for special resources atUni on Theologi cal Sem inary inRichmond .

HENRY REED , former p resi dentof the First National Bank in Martinsvi lle ,decided not to while away his re ti rementin idleness . As a result

,he ran for

Martinsvi l le Ci ty Council, to serve the

city that had been so good to him formore than fifty years—only to

_win d uphis first poli ti cal campaign with arecord—break ing victory

,in which he

pull ed in the highest number of votes evercas t for a Ci ty Council cand idate inMartinsvil le history .

“ I would be in aposit ion to give somebody some real goodadvi ce if I knew the reasons for i t

,

commented Reed after the electi on , in aMartin sville Bulletin interview

,

“but Idon ’

t know . Fellow businessmen,

however , attributed the success to thefact that Reed had been such a sol id andpopular c iti zen . Said one

,

“ I can ’t thinkof any voter in his righ t mind who couldvote against Henry .

”

-C. DANIEL SHELBURNE has

reti red from his posi tion with WachoviaBank an d Trust Company in Rale igh andhas been ele cte d sen ior vi ce p resi dent ofNorth Carol ina Savings GuarantyCorporation in Rale igh . Shelburne is aTrustee of the College .

W . CARRINGTON THOMPSON(LL .D .

’

79) was sworn in as a J ustice ofthe Virginia Supreme Court on February1 9 , 1980 . He had been J udge of the 30thJudicial Court sin ce 1 97 3 . Thompson

,

one of n ine nominees for the post,was

selected by the Democratic Caucus “ inrecord time on the third bal lot in theHouse and the secon d in the Senate as

the General Assemb ly ’s first appointee tothe Supreme Court in over half a centu ry .

The vote on J anuary 28 th at actuallyelected h im to the bench was unan imousin both houses .

R . K . ROBINSON write s fromKorea , where he is with the Presby terianMissi on in Taej on , that the recen tupheaval s in th at country seem destinedto affect in many ways the progress ,material and Sp iri tual , that the pastdecades

’

have seen ; he and h is wife cove tthe prayers of Ameri cans for the Koreansand for the church which Christ hasplanted there , that i t may be the witnessneeded in th is time of crisis .

THOMAS E . G ILMER , JR. , looksat the sun and sees more than l ight : hesees power . Enough power , in fact , that ifonly 1 0 per cent of the sunl ight that fallson the s tate of Virgin ia were converte dinto electri city ,

i t would satisfy the wholecountry ’s need for curren t . Gilmer iswork ing on a way to make such a dreameconomi cally viable , by refin ing thes ili con ph otovoltai c cel l—whi ch , althoughsil icon is the most abundant material on

3 1 1 3 12

earth , is s til l an expensive way to produceelectri city .

“To get a high amount ofeffi ciency when converting sunlight toelectri ci ty , you must use very pures il icon ,

” says Gilmer , and refininganyth ing—as gasol ine users havediscovered— rai ses i ts price enormously .

So G i lmer is looking for ways to usel ower-grade sili con without decreasing thecell ’s effi ciency .

“What we are hopingfor , he con tinued ,

“ is to fin d a way toreduce the pri ce of si l icon-producedelec tri city enough that in a few years— 20or 3 0 , say— i ts pri ce wil l have come downand the demand for ele ctri ci ty wil l haverisen so that the two meet on aneconomical level . Then does he pl an topave Virgin ia wi th photovoltai c cells ofhis own invention ? No

,he repl ies ; only

1 0 per cent of i t .Dr . SHELTON H . SHORT I I I of

Chase City has been named a member ofLouisiana-Pacific Corporation ’s Landowner Advisory Committee

,which will

assist in the development and implementation of a new Forest ImprovementProgram sponsored by Louis iana-Pacifi c .

Short , who runs a successful private treefarm in Mecklenburg Coun ty , wi ll aid thecommittee in giving te chn ical ass istan ceand financial advi ce to private timberowners in regi ons where Louis iana-Pacifichas mills .

WALTER V. HALL has beenappoin ted to a three-year term asCounselor for Narcotics Affairs wi th theUni ted States Missi on to InternationalOrgan i zati ons , a bran ch of the US .

Department of State . Hall will beresponsib le for l iais on between theDepartment of State and the threeanti-narcotics agencies of the UnitedNations .

1 95 2

CLAIBORNE (Buck) MORTON,

who runs an offi ce-supply store,

“TheSecretary

’s Friend , in McLean , was thesubj ect of a re cen t art i cle in aWashington-area newspaper. Both thefriendl iness of the management and theinexhaustible resources of the stock wereci ted as outstanding quali ties . Morton ’stalent at designing space-saving andeffi cien t offices was credited to his

precise research into the activi ties,

functi ons , and bui lding features of eachoperation .

RAMSEY RICHARDSON , priest atC h r i s t E p i s c o p al C h u r c h inCharlo ttesvi l le , was the subj ect of aprofile in the Da ily Progress . Richardson ,

who tries to be “at home ” wherever he is,

admitted that the j ob of a priest in thesedays is formidable : There is no p ie inthe sky . My job is to interpret the Gospelin terms of 1 979 ,

and it ’

s not alwayseasy . But I try . Trying for Richardsonmeans making church not

,only

Hugh Downs (left) d iscusses the shoo ting of a

television documen ta ry on the life of GeneralGeorge C. Marshall w ith Roy s ter Ly le

’

5 6 and

his wife Ka tie and the ir daugh ter j enn ie.

meaningful but fun , with such festivals asCowboy Sunday , azalea plan tings , andcarved Halloween tu rnips .

WILLIAM R . SHANDS, JR . ,

hasbeen elected seni or vi ce pres iden t for lawand pub l i c affairs with Continen talF i nancial Services Company inRichmond . He had been employed assen ior vi ce president and general counselfor The Life Insurance Company ofVirgin ia . Shan ds was named generalcounsel in 1 97 1 .

1 95 3

Lt . Col. EDWARD.J . (J erry ) PAGE

(US . Army , re t . ) recen tly moved fromPetersburg to Virgin ia Beach , where he isemployed as a logis ti cs managementSpecial ist at Fort Monroe . J erry servedtwenty years at Fort Lee and Fort Braggwith overseas tours in Germany

,Korea

,

Okinawa , and Vietn am . His awards anddecorations in clude the Meri tori ousServi ce Medal , Bronze Star , Purp le Heart ,Army Commendation Medal CombatInfantryman Badge , and Mas terParachutis t Badge . Upon his re ti rement in’

72, J erry taught jun ior ROTC at Atkins

HS , Winston-Salem , N C . for three years .He was employed by the US ArmyLogistics Center at Fort Lee pri or to h isrecen t transfer to Fort Monroe .

1 9 54

2 5TH REUNION,

November 1 5

STUART SORG has been namedpresident of the Coconut Grove (Florida)Chamber of Commerce and has beenappoin ted to the Miami WaterfrontBoard .

1 9 5 5

WILLIAM C . BO INEST has beenelected chairman of the Board and ch iefexecutive offi cer of Craigie , Inc . ,

aRichmond investment company

,where

he had been presiden t an d chief executiveoffi cer .

DILWORTH S . COOK , JR . , hasj oined Southern States Cooperative as

claims manage r in the insuran cedepartment . He had been with MarylandCasualty Company .

DONALD R . PERRITT has beenpromoted to vi ce pres iden t andinvestment officer wi th Anderson andStrudwick , Inc . , brokers , in Richmond .

ROYSTER LYLE, JR . , associate

director of the Marshall Foundation inLexington , has been named one of twoVirgin ians who will represen t the State onthe advisory board of the National Trustfor H is tori c Preservation . Ly le , whoseterm will extend to 1 98 3 , has written thedefin i tive book about the historicarchitecture of Lexington and has servedon the boards of the Virgin ia CitizensPlanning Association , the Association forthe Preservation of Virgin ia Antiquiti es ,and the Virgin ia Conservati on Council

.

He is currently the Lexington arear e p re s e n t a tive for the NatureConservancy and is wri ting a book on thehistori c buildings of the RockbridgeValley , under a gran t from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities .

G . OTIS MEAD II I,a Lexington

real tor , was recently elected a di rector ofthe National Association of Realtors attheir 72nd conven ti on in New Orleans .

BOB BARKE R,

Na t i o n a lFederation and Conservati on Director ofthe Bass Anglers Sportsman Socie ty

has found that there is more tofish ing than si tting on the bank . As theleader of the society “dedi cated to thereal isti c conservation of [ the nati on

’s ]water resou rces ,

”Barker has become

involved in national and in ternationalpol i tics—nationally , with helping SenatorsJ enn ings Randolph (D-WVa) and RussellLong (D-La) and Congressman JohnBreaux (D-La) , co-Sponsors of parallelbil ls to in crease revenue for waterresource conservation

,and internationally

wi th the Worldwide Bass FishingChampionsh ip in Canada . TheFederation in Rhodesia

,which had

planned to send a team to thetournament , was refused travel visas bythe U .S . State Department , on thegrounds that their visi t would violate thespiri t of trade sanctions against Rhodesia .

Barker and are working ongetting permissi on for the Rhodesians tocome for the 1 980 tournamen t. “Fishingshould be allowed to transcend poli tics ,sai d Barker , who cited the 1400 affi liated

federati ons across the countryand around the world .

The Rev . J . RENWICK KENNEDY ,

JR. ,former pastor of the Buena Vista

Presbyterian Church in Buena Vista, hasassumed the duties of pastor of the Fi rs tPresbyterian Church of Sylacauga,Alabama .

Dr. PETER ROSANELLI , JR . , hasbeen elected to a two-year term as Chiefof the obstetri cs and gynecologydepartment of St . Mary ’s Hospital inRichmond .

Lt. Col. HERB SEAY ,

has been awarded the J oint ServiceCommendati on Medal for MeritoriousAch ievement for his part in planning and

ALUMNI PROFILE

At the risk of sounding facetious ,we have a confessi on to make . As proudas we are at Hampden-Sydney of thesuccess of our alumni in the worl d , thecreative writer in us l ongs , duringmoments of weakness , for someth ingmore Striking than in-house promoti onsand well-deserved civi c awards .

Then the j oy of work ing at such aplace as Hampden-Sydney comes out infull , because the very nature of theedu cati on that Hampden-Sydney gi ves ,an d of the men who wen t here , almostguaran tees that such an i tem is not far toseek . The same men who are advan cingtheir careers and receiving the notice ofthei r grateful communiti es are also probasketball s couts and bass-fish inglobbyis ts ; there are ballet dan cers , menwho butcher elephants with stone-ageaxes of thei r own manufacture , or whorestore whole vi l l ages of immigrantScan dinavian arch i te cture , or who stu dysolar effi cien cy of old houses or

iron-abso rpti on in the gut .

All of which is by way of preface .

The matter at hand is a noti ce , much l ikeothers we receive , that Will i am H .

Flannagan , pres ident of RoanokeMemorial Hosp i tals , has been installed as

chairman of the Sou theastern Hospi talConferen ce at its 43 rd Annual Assemb lyin Atlanta . The Conferen ce is a non-profi tfederation of eleven state hospi talassociations in the sou theast , representingover hosp itals an d a large numberof nursing homes . Flannagan has the

honor of being the only person ever tohave served as chai rman of thesoutheas tern conferen ce as well as of theCarolinas-Virgin ias Hospital Assoc i at ion .

Then came another noti ce .

Flannagan had been named one of threemen recogn ized by the Roanoke Vall eyChap ter of the Nation al Conferen ce ofChrist i ans and Jews for “ l ifetimedevoti on to the Brotherh ood of manunder the Fatherhood of God : devotionand se rvice to one ’s own rel igi ous groupand concerned community servi ce an dleadership .

” Flannagan rece ive d aNat i onal Brotherhood Award , based on

his work with the hosp ital and thehosp ital associat ions and on his civi ccontribution : he has been involved duringhis years in Roanoke with Such publ i cservi ce groups as the YMCA , Uni te dFund , Roanoke Civic Cen ter , an d theChamber of Commerce . He is a Masonand a member of the Lions Club and the

With th is came a vita refle cting hisranging interests in health care p ol i cy : heserves on the b oard of numerous hosp i talassociations in addi tion to the ones we

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Flannagan ’

40 and his wife a t the moment of triumph.

h ave already mentioned (he is a fellow,

for example , of the Royal Society of

Health in Great Britai n ) ; he s its on the

Govern or ’s Commission of VirginiaHealth Services Cost Review , and was

vi ce-chai rman of the Governor’s Medi cal

Fac il ities Commissi on an d a past memberof the Governor ’s Advisory Hosp italCommiss i on . He also has sat on the boardof two banks and the YMCA. He has beenelected an h on orary alumnus of Virgin iaCommonwealth Univers ity , Medi calSch ool of Hospi tal Admin istration , andone of the ten most p romi nen t men inRoanoke in 1 977 .

So far the i deal Hampden-Sydneyman . But the crowning glory came inMay , with a flu rry of newspaper clipp ingsabout his newest achievemen t—an d ourheart l eap t . Ham Flannagan had won thefirs t pri ze in Virgin ia

’s first Chil iChampionsh ip , an d would b e travel ingth is fal l to the intern ational Chil i SocietyCookoff at Trop i ca Gold Mine inCaliforn ia ’s Moj ave Dese rt .

And Yes , it’

s a long story .

Flannagan was in Texas , in the Army ,

during Worl d War I I , was l ook ing for acold beer in a very h ot Texas countywhere beer was i l legal , an d foun d some ,finally , at a l i ttle ch il i stand ou tsi deAbi lene . There he sl aked his th irst an dhad his first taste of chil i . He has beenrefin ing h is own re cipe ever sin ce . His

wife says i t’s too hot , but Flannaganre to rts that “

women have no businessjudging chil i anyway— and he stuck to

this assertion even though three of the

j udges at the Roanoke contest werewomen . For the men in the crowd then ,here is Ham Flannagan

’

s winn ing rec ipe inthe Virgin i a Championsh ip Chil i Co

8 lbs. sirl oin , di ced in - in ch cubes5 -6 Jalapei

'

i o peppers , ch oppe5 -6 garl i c cloves , crushed (to taste )2 l arge on ions , diced10 green on ions , dicedOil “ I use e ither ol ive or peanut ,depen ding on the weather.

Oregan o A little .

Cumin “A li ttle .

”

5-6 oz . ch ili powder5 smal l cans Rotell tomatoes2 cans of home-canned tomatoes

-4 ‘/z cups of water (Add as

needed,never measure . Keep

heat down . )oz . cayenne pepper

5 doll ops sherry-l/a cup blacks trap molasses5 -6 oz . masaSalt an d pep per to taste1 -2 dashes Worcestersh ire sauce , totaste

To cook ,sauté vegetables and garl ic

in oil unt i l on ions translucent . Add butterwhen sauteing s irl oin and vegetables whennecessary . In large skille t , combine sp ices ,meat chunks

,etc . , an d brown . Add

vegetable mixture , tomatoes an d chil i .Add water as needed . Bring to rapid boil ,while constan tly Sti rring . Reduce heat tovery low , sti r and taste frequently . Addmasa to th i cken . Use only woodenutensi ls . Makes two gallons .

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dire cting Exercise GRISEK-79 , in whi chUni ted States and Spanish troopspracticed defense readiness together inSpain . Seay is ass igned to Headquarters ,US European Command , in Stuttgart ,Germany , where he playe r—coached theS tuttgart volleyball team to a 2 5 -0

seas on,winn ing the US Army VII Corps

Championsh ip .

ALEXANDER F. DILLARD , JR. ,

has been chosen chairman of the EssexCounty Board of Supervisors .

TYLER WHITLEY , the primarypol i ti cal re porter for the RichmondNews-Leader, was put in charge of thatnewspaper ’s team of four reporters whocovered the 1 980 Virginia GeneralAssembly . Whitley , who used to be abus iness editor of the paper , has workedfor the News -Leader sin ce 1 960 .

The Reverend F . HUBERTMORRIS (DD .

’

60) has reti red as pas torof Covenan t Church in Petersburg .

The Reverend E . DOUGLASVAUGHAN , JR . , pastor of St . G i lesPresby terian Church in Rale igh , has beenelected to the board of dire ctors of theAcademy of Par ish Clergy ; he was alsonamed presiden t-e lect of the Academy , anati onwi de , self-governing , in ter-faithprofessional group promoting con tinuedgrowth an d excellence in the practi ce ofparish min istry .

JOHN W . BALLARD has j oinedScott and Stringfellow in Richmond as

vice president an d controller . He hadbeen audit manager for the accountingfirm of Peat , Marwick, Mitchel l , andCompany in Norfolk .

DENNIS B . DILLS has beenpromoted to vi ce pres iden t and managerof the trust operati ons functi ons ofWachovia Bank and Trust Company inWinston-Salem . Dills had been theregi onal admin istrati on manager for thecentral regi on of Wachovia in Raleigh .

WILLIAM W . TENNENT has beenpromoted to a senior vi ce p resi dency wi thSouthern Ban k in Richmond . He hadbeen vice presi den t an d sen iorcommercial lending officer .

L . PHILIP BAILEY , JR .,has been

elected an assi stan t systems offi cer wi thDomin ion Bankshares in Roanoke . He isalso a director of the Roanoke Chap ter ofthe Systems Management Associati on .

MICHAEL D . CAVER has j oinedthe international executive search firm ,

Heidri ck an d Struggles , as an associatewith the Chicago office . Before going to

Heidri ck an d Struggles , Caver had workedfor Travenol Internati onal Services andfor Procter and Gamble , where he waspersonnel servi ces manager of theinternational divis i ons .

DAVID C . FULLER , sen ior vicepres ident of the United Virginia/SeaboardNational Bank ,

has been named to theBoard of Trustees of Virgin ia StageCompany of Norfolk , America

’s newestand southeas tern Virgin ia ’s firstresiden t professional theatre . Virgin iaStage Company is supported in part bygran ts from the Virgin i a Commission forthe Arts and the Norfolk Commissi on of

the Arts and Humanities . Fuller is also a

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66 a t his one-man show a t

New York'

s Caravan House Gallery

dire ctor of th e Norfolk Chamber ofCommerce

,publ i c re lati ons chairman of

the Four Cit ies Uni ted Way , and a formerdire ctor of the Kiwan is Club of Norfolk .

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TOM CONNELLY , JR . , is Dean ofthe School of Nursing and HealthSciences at Western Carolina Universi ty inCull owhee , North Carol ina .

c ivi l , and criminal cases annual ly inAlbemarle and Orange Counties .

WILLIAM F. LOWRY, JR .

,is

asso ciated with the newly-formedinsurance and bonding firm of CameronM . Harris and Company in Charlotte

,

North Carolina .

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LOUIS BRIEL held a successfulshowing of his paintings at the CaravanHouse Gallery in New York City inFebruary . He rece ived good reviews an dsold many pain tings . Briel has re tuned toRichmond

,where he is preparing for

some one-man shows th is fal l .STEPHEN H . HELVIN , former

Albemarle County assistan t prose cutor ,was sworn in in May as the county

’s fi rstful l-time general district court j udge . Hewithdrew .from the Charl ottesville l awfirm of Haugh , Helvin , and Treakle to

take the positi on as“ one of the

youngest” full- time j udges in the state .

His court handles about traffi c ,

ARTHUR L. COX is the regionalsupervisor in charge of Aetna Casual tyand Surety Company ’s Delawareoperati ons . He spe cial izes in medicalmalpracti ce investigation .

PERRY (Pete) MOWBRAY , JR. , anorthodontist from Marion , helped lastsummer with the Rotary Club ’s “Reachout to Hait i proje ct by giving den taltreatment and collec ting food and othernecess ities for distribution in theCul-de-Sac area near St-Marc , Hai ti .

J EFFRESS s. DORTCH in hasbeen named a vice presi den t of First andMerchants Nati onal Bank in Ri chmond .

CORBIN M. WILKES has returnedto Arl ington after a two-year stay inBrussels , where he worked with ArthurAndersen and Company . Wilkes nowmanages their Washington offi ce .

EDWARD ZIMMERMAN , di rectorof musi c and organist at the FirstPresbyterian Church in Waynesboro , gavea concert tour of Europe earlier this year.Among his appearances was a reci tal inthe open ing concert of the two-week“ In ternati onal Festival for the Music of J .

S . Bach ,

” in St-Donat , France , to whichZimmerman had been invi ted by theworld-renowned organ ist an d festivaldi rector Marie-Claire Alain . He was theonly representative of the Uni ted Statesamong organists chosen from aroun d theworld . Later , in leper, Belgium ,

Zimmerman re ceived a standing ovati onat St . Martin ’s cathedral , where hepresented a lecture on Romantic organmusic. In St-Omer , Fran ce , he was invitedto play for two High Masses on the greatCavail le-Coll organ in the cathedral .

JAMES M . JORDAN IV has boughtCommonwealth magazine , formerly thepub li cation of the Virgin ia State Chamberof Commerce

,and plans to publish

.

i t as ageneral- in terest statewi de magazine .

“ I t ’sn ot an ego trip

,says J ordan ;

“we havenot bought Commonwealth to make atremendous amount of money in i t . It ’ssometh ing we all wanted to do .

” J ordanwith his brother Frederi c runs J ordan andCompany in Virginia Beach , whichpublishes pictorial books , mainly aboutpro football teams . The firm began bypub l ishing a pictorial history of VirginiaBeach while J ordan was sti ll working forVirginia National Bank . Commonwealth,they hope

, wi l l turn out to be the statemagazine of Virgin ia, address ing such

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CLYDE F . BOWIE , JR . , has j oinedthe financial planning group of Bran chCabell and Company in R ichmond .

CARL FLETCHER is practicinglaw with the firm of Spilman ThomasBattle and Klostermeyer in Charleston ,

West Virgin ia,fo ll owing his graduation

from the Wes t Virgin i a Universi ty LawSchool .

DOUGLAS B . LEE has been nameda sales executive of the Sea Pines HiltonHead Isl and Real Estate Company . Hewil l be responsib le for sales of

VillaShares , Sea Pines ’ timesharingownership program .

NEIL P . FARMER has j oined thestaff of Hickerson Realtors in Richmond .

MICHAEL S . FEINMAN has beenmade a co-manager of 84 LumberCompany in Richmond , following two

years as a management trainee with thecompany in Manassas .

STEVE G . GREEN is a businessanalyst wi th Dun and Bradstreet inRichmond .

ROBERT M . WI LSON is a salesrepresentative for Amstar Corporation inDes P l aines , I llinois .

JOHN EAGAN is now a personalbanker with Wachovia Bank an d Trust inDurham , North Carolina .

CARTER W . HOTCHKISS has

j oined the Petersburg offi ce of Wheat,

Firs t Securities , Inc . , as a registere drepresentative .

JOE PATTERSON has been nameda chemis t in the sales se rvice group ofHercules , Inc .

,in Hopewell .

CECIL T . TALLEY , JR . ,has j oined

Burlington Industr ies in Hal ifax as amanufacturing trainee .

Here is a quick checklist (comp iled frominformati on given to the Cen ter forCounseling and Career Planning) of whatthe members of the Class of 1 980 plan to

be doing in their first y ear out of school.If y ou can tell us about someone not

listed here,let us know; then we can

publish the news in the next set of ClassNotes .

JAMES M . ALEXANDER I I I :Hampden—Sydney College Admissions Offi ce .

ALAN P . ATHA: Arch ite c ture ,University of Kansas .

JAMES V . BABASHAK I I : Herece ived a fe llowsh ip to pursue a Ph .D . inImmunochemistry , Georgetown Univermy .

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BRIAN M . CANN : ManagementTrainee in Metropol itan Divisi on ofChemi cal Bank ,

New York .

RICHARD E . CASH : Produ cti onSuperv is or , Phi l ip Morris , Richmond .

D . WAYNE CLAYBROOK : MBA ,

Will iam 8c Mary .

ROBERT Y . COX : Den tal School ,MCV.

CHARLES M . DIETZ , JR . : USMC.

RALPH W . DODD : Farming , J . G .

Black ,Seaview

,Virgin ia .

JAMES M . FACE : Sales Managemen t Trainee , Virgi n ia Pape r Company ,

Ri chmond .

FITZ F ICKLEN Emergency room ,

New Hanover Memorial Hosp i tal,

Wilmington , North Carolin a ; startingJ anuary 1 98 1 on extended trip throughEurope .

R . FORD FRANCIS : Law School ,West Virgini a Univers i ty .

FRANK B . GODBOLD I I I :School , Wake Forest .

THOMAS P . GRAY , JR . : Producti on Supe rvisor

,Reynolds Meta ls

,Chica

go , I ll ino is .

WILLIAM E . HARDY : Management Supervision , H . C . GundlachCompany , Richmond .

R . BRYANT HARESchool , Wake Forest University .

STEWART R . HARGROVE : Insurance Agent Trainee , Relian ce Insuran ceCompany , Atlan ta , Georgia .

J . SELDEN HARRIS , JR . : UnionTheol ogical Seminary , Richmond .

W . VANCE HULL : Import TrafficDivision wi th Steamship Agency

,T .

Parker Host , Inc . , Newport News .

ALBERT M . HUNT , JR . : USMC .

WADE H . O . KIRBY : Businessass istan t to J ames L . Kirby , Claremontand New York ; also acting withsemi-profess i on al theater .

J EROME E . LAUX: GraduateSchool in B i ochemistry on fe llowsh ip

,

Universi ty of Virgin ia .

Law

IV: Law

RUSTIN G . TINDALL : MBA ,

Universi ty of North Carolina .

MICHAEL W . TRAINUM : Medi calDivision , Gordon-Conwell Theologi calSem inary .

WARING TRIBLE , JR . : MedicalSchool , MCV .

EDWIN D . WARINNER ,

MBA , Will i am 8: Mary .

DAVID P . WATSON : AssociateEngineer in Aerospace Software Divisi on ,

Westinghouse Ele ctron i c Corporation ,Bal timore , Maryland .

EDWARD G . WHEALTON, JREas tern Virgin ia Medical School , Norfolk ,

on Navy Scholarsh ip .

JAMES A. WHITEHEAD , JRWachovia Bank ,

Will iamston , North Carol in a.

BRIAN K .. WITT : Financial Coun

selor,Lynchburg General-M arshall Lodge

Hosp ital.

DAVID R. WYATT :

Mary , MBA .

MARK E . YATES :Will iam Mary ,

MBA .

JOSEPH M . ZIGLAR , JR . : Chesapeake Masonry Corporation , Hampton .

JR

Willi am 8:

PHILIP B . BAKER : Law School ,Wake Fores t Univers i ty .

DAVID E . BARRS : Marketi ng ,Richmond .

RONALD BATLINER , JR . : LawSchool , Will i am and Mary .

M . BRYAN BEECROFT 111: Racecar driver .

M . JAMES BEST, JR . : Producti onManagement Trainee , Best Dis tr ibut ing inGoldsboro

,North Carol ina .

PHILIP D . BRILLIANT : Hospi talAdmin istration

,Trinity Univers i ty in San

Anton io .

GEORGE C . BUCHANAN : Business Admin istration at Vanderbi lt , OwenSchool of Business .

F . TUCKER BURGE : Law School ,Cumberland School of Law (at SamfordUniversi ty , Alabama)

JAMES D . BURKE : Life Insuran ceSalesman ,

Provident Mutual in Richmond

WILLIAM C . LEACH : Law School,

Univers ity of Virgin ia .

CHRI STOPHER S . LONG : Management Trainee , United Virgini a Bank ,

Richmond .

TIMOTHY S . MAXA : PrincetonTheol ogical Seminary .

D . C .

_

McELWEE : Law School,West

Virgin ia Uni versuy .

CHARLES F . MOORE I I I : Managment Trainee in audi t dep artment,Wachovia Bank , Greenvi l le , North Carolina .

WILLIAM J . PANTELE : LawSchool , University of Virgin ia.

WILLIAM G . PLUNKETT : MedicalSch ool , Eas tern Virgin ia .

GEORGE R . PREAS , JR . : Hotelmanagement and inves tment , George R .

Pre as (in-

Roanoke and Blacksburg) .DOUGLAS S . PRICE , JR . : Dental

School , MCV .

O . L . SCHRUM lll : NALCO ,

Chi cago , Ill inois , then Albany , Georgia .

S . MARC SHERROD : VISTA Volunteer in Kansas City .

J . CALLEN SPARROW : LawSchool , Cumberland School of Law , atSamford Universi ty

,Alabama .

J . RANDOLPH STOKES :_Organ

izing refores tation proj ect ; sell ing pulpwood , etc . , with J ohn Randolph Stokes

,

Mt . Vern on Springs , North Carol ina .

JOHN C. TERRY : Part-t ime em

ployee as Assis tan t Man ager , E . 1. TerryCompany , Peterstown , West Virgin ia .

VINCENT G . THOMAS : Train ee ,Security Sales , Wheat , First Securi ties ,Richmond .

MICHAEL A . THORNTON : Management Trainee , Progress Printing Company , Lynchburg .

KEITH R . TIGNOR : Entomology ,

Adva nced Stud ies,

Honors, 6}

Publica tions

CHAPMAN HUNTER BINFORD ,

M .D . ,was awarded an honorary degree by

Virgin ia Commonweal th Unive rs i ty inMay 1 979 . The award recognizedBinford

’s dis tincti on as “health sc ienceseducator

,bedsi de physi cian , and

biomedical researcher on the 5oth

an nivers ary of his graduation from theMed ical College of Virginia .

Dr . ELAM C. TOONE waspresen ted the Distinguished Service toMed icine Award at the May 1 980

Commencement ce remonies of theMed ical College of Virgin ia .

ROBERT RANDOLPH HENRY ,

JR. ,of Bluefield , West Virgin ia , will

publish a novel th is summer en titl ed

j effersonville. I t contains a chapter aboutl ife in Fourth Passage Cushing in 1 92 7 .

Dr . FRANCI S A . SCHAEFFER wasi ni tiated into the Eta of Virgin ia chap terof Phi Beta Kappa at Hampden-Sydneyon May 30 , 1 980 (see On the

WI LLIAM H . ARMSTRONG washonored in November for his outstandingcon tributi ons to l i terature in Virgin ia bya Governor ’s Arts Award . His novelSounder, which won the covetedNewbery Medal in 1 969 , and two of hischildren ’s books , The MacLeon Pla ce andThe M ills of God

,are set in the

Shenandoah Valley .

JAMES B. PRICE has completedthe requ irements for the Master ofS cience degree in Internati onalCommerce at the Ge orge WashingtonUniversi ty . He had already earned aMaster of Arts degree in Economics fromAmeri can Universi ty , in 1 9 5 1 .

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Dr . VI RG I L MAY presi ded over theprogram committee preparing for the

Feb ruary 1 980 meeting of the AmericanAcademy -

of Orthopedi c Surgeons inAtlan ta . Over fifteen thousand surgeonsfrom around the world attended thesix-day meeting .

J . MILES SHARPLEY has retiredfrom his Sharpley Laboratories following

a se ries of hear t attacks . He is occupyinghimself with consulting and travel ing .

WILLIAM B . SPONG , JR. , dean ofthe Marsh all-Wythe School of Law at theCol lege of Wil l iam and Mary , has beennamed the 1 980 re cipien t of the Col lege ’sThomas J efferson Award for hiscon tributions , through the field of law , tothe people of Virgin ia and the nation , andfor his leadership of the nation ’s oldestlaw school . Spong was ci ted by EdwardBri ckell , rector of the Col lege

’s Board ofVisi tors , for being “a leader wi thoutpretension , an ideal ist withou t i l lusi on .

”

The tribute continued : “Few Virginiansof h is generati on more truly deserve theunparalleled honor impli c it in receivingan award given in memory of ThomasJ efferson . Spong is a former Trustee ofHampden -Sydney College .

Schaeffer'

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J . RICHARD SENTMAN was giventhe Dis tinguished Science Teacher Awardby the Western New York section of theAmeri can Chemical Socie ty . Sentman ,

who teaches at Claren ce Central HighSchool in Tonawanda , New York ,rece ived a s croll

,an honorarium , and a

bound volume of congratulatory le ttersfrom friends and colleagues . Sentman

remarked that “his in terest in scien ce

teaching came from such ou tstanding

Hampden -Sydney professorsThomas G i lmerOvercash .

Dr . SHELTON H . SHORT I I I haspublished two articles

,one in the

Transactions of the Hugueno t Society ofSouth Carolina [84 ( 1 979 ) 80-82 ] on thevari ous Huguenot descendants involved inthe founding of Hampden-Sydney ch iefamong them Patrick Henry ; and the otherin the Univers ity of Edinburgh j ournal

-1 20 ] on his recollecti onsfrom his days as a studen t there .

as Dr .and Dr . H . B.

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J ohn Wilson , son of Dr . THOMASC . WILSON of Beckley , West Virgin ia,was chosen as one of the 1 000 finalists inthe 1980 Pres iden tial Scholars Program

,

which annually identifies the mostdistingu ished and accomplished highschool seniors in the nation .

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JOHN R . FI SHER I I of Winchesterhas been named the Outstand ingMember , ” during the 1 978-79 fiscal year ,by the Virginia Socie ty of CertifiedPublic Accountan ts . Fisher , pastpresident of the Society , has been amember sin ce 1 95 6 . He is managingpartner of Yount

,Hyde , Co . , in

Win ches ter .

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Dr . JOHN BAILEY , associateprofessor of history at Carthage Collegein Kenosha

,Wisconsin , has publ ished his

first book,Pac ify ing the Pla ins : General

Alfred Terry and the Decline of the

S ioux,1 866 -1 890 . Terry

,the general

whose orders George Armstrong Custerd isregarded when he led his menprematurely against the Sioux at the

Dr . JOHN A . OWENS , professor ofinternal medic ine at the Universi ty ofVirgin ia School of Medicine , hascompleted his five-year term as presiden tof the Unite d States PharmacopeialConventi on one of the proudestaccomplishments of h is tenure was thepub l i cati on this year of a maj or referen cework for physi cians and pharmacis ts , the“United States Pharmacopeia DispensingInformation . Designed to provide a“reasonable and viable al te rnative to anexpensive federal program ” of label ing ondrugs , the new book describes drugs andthei r use , si de effects , and specialprecau tions in language geared to bothconsumers and health profess ionals .

Dr . E . RANDOLPH TRICE is theauthor of a ser ies of biograph ies of

Revolu ti onary War doctors from Virgin ia .

The first article , published in the VirginiaMedical Magazine, tel ls the story of

Arthur Lee . Trice practi ces dermatologyin Richmond .

C. WILLARD HART, JR . , Curator

of the department of invertebratezoology at the National Museum ofNatural History in Washington

,has

pub l ished a book , Pollution Ecology ofEstuarine Invertebra tes

,a compan ion

volume to the 1 974 publi cation,

Pollution Ecology of Freshwa terInvertebra tes . Hart was also honored thisspring as an alumnus member elected toPhi Beta Kappa at Hampden-Sydney

,in

recogni tion of his con tributions to

scien ce

NATHANIEL P . NEBLETT has setup practice as an histori cal archi te ct ,Special izing in restorati on , preservati on ,rehab i l itation

,remodeling

,and adaptive

use . His office is in Alexandria . Nebl etthas publ ished a bookle t , Energy

Conserva tion in Historic Homes,analyzing the ene rgy-saving features of

the older house— often more effi cientthan those of a modern house— and howto improve on the ways our ancestorscoped with n atural energy transfer.

Battle of the Littl e Big Horn , fough t theIndians but also advocate d humanetreatmen t of the natives . Bail ey , whore ceive d his Ph .D. from Marque tteUniversity , is now working on a bookabout Charles Ki ng , an other Army manwho helped to tame the West .

TYLER WHITLEY has won asecond place award in general newswriti ng for his review in the Richmond

News Leader of the twenty-fifthann iversary of the U .S . Supreme Courtdec isi on abou t desegregation . Whitley ’sanalys is of the impact of desegregati on on

education an d society in Virgin ia earnedthe award from the Virgin ia Pre ssAssoci ati on , in i ts annual wri ting andphotography competit ion . [See alsounder Cla ss Notes ]

ERRETT CALLAHAN dire cted anInte rn ati onal Seminar on Lith i cT e c h n o l o g y a t t h e L ej r eHistorical-Archeol ogi cal Research Cen terin Denmark for two months las tSeptember and October . He is moving toDenmark th is August to conduct furth erinternational seminars on experimen talarcheology and to se rve as consultant onl ith i c te chnology for expe rimen talrese arch cente rs th roughou t Europe ,under the ausp i ces of the Lej re Resear chCen ter and the Council of Europe .

Callah an also took part in theI n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e o nExperimental Archeology Sponsored bythe Preh is toric Socie ty at the Univers i tyof London in March 1 980.

FRANK M. BOOTH has publ ishedan art i cle in The Class ical Outlook [ 57

( 1 980 ) 84 -8 5 ] defending the teach ing of

Latin in secondary an d h igher schools . Heteaches at Athens Academy in Athens

,

Georgia .

W. H . BRYSON , associate p rofess orof l aw at the Universi ty of Richmon d

, has

re ce ived a fell owsh ip from the Ameri canCouncil of Learne d Soc ieties to continuehis study of the histo ry and developmentof equ i ty .

JOHN C. PARROTT I I has j oinedWheat , First Secu ri ties , Inc . , as a registerdrepresen tative . A past member of theNational Association of CollegeAdmissions Counselors

,Parrott had been

dire ctor of the Upper Sch ool of theForsyth Count ry Day School inWinston-Salem , North Carolina, beforemoving to Wheat ’s Roanoke offi ce .

RUSSELL V. PALMORE , JR . ,

formerly an as soc iate of Mays , Valen tine ,

Class of 1 930 Marks 50thReunion at Commencement

Returning to the Hillfor the gala reun ion

d i n n e r a n d r e c ogn i ti o n a t

Commencement were William Dickinson ,

J r.,Gordon Friedrich , William C. I rvine,

William J ohns, Robert Lawson, J . Gray

McAllister, Campbell Pan cake, J r. ,

Hughes Reveley ,Gilman Z . S imms, J .

Adger Smy th, Harry S tone, J r.,Leonard

Topp ing, and Ralph F . Willis (p ic tured

above) . Members of earlier classes who

a ttended the reunion were William

Adkisson, J r.

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2 9 ,Paul Shiflett

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29 ,

Bernard Bain’

2 8,Frank Kin zer

’

2 7,

Thoma s Gilmer’

2 3 ,Jack Spessard

’

19 ,

and J . Barry e Wall’

1 9 .

Davenport Moore in Ri chmond , hasbecome a member of the

'

firm .

BO PRITCHARD won th ird placein the 1 980 Virgin ia Press Associati onwriting and photography competiti on , for

a se ries of stories in The Farmville Herald,

which is edite d by J . B . WALL ’

1 9 an d W .

BIDGOOD WALL, JR .

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76 .

RANDY HALLMAN , sports wri terfor th e Richmond News Leader, tooksecond place in sports writing , in th isyear ’s Virgin ia Press Associat ion writ ingand photography competi tion . Hallman

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s

prize-winning story was about KylePetty ’s vi ctory at D aytona Beach in hisfirst-ever Stock car race (Kyle is the sonof champ ion driver Richard Petty ) .

1 97 1

Dr . LARRY PIERCE BELOTEgraduated from the Medi cal College of

Virgi ni a in May 1 980 with the degree ofDoctor of Medicine . He will go to theFai rfax Hosp ital in Fai rfax .

HARRY LEE PERKINS was

granted a Ph .D. in Near Eastern languagesa t H a rv a r d U n iversi ty ’s 1 980

Commen cemen t .DALE W . PITTMAN publ ishe d an

art icle ,“The Need for Gre ater Private Bar

Involvement with Virgin i a ’s Legal Aid

Dr . RODGER W . KLEISCH

receive d the D.V.M . degree in June 1 979from the Univers ity of Georgi a Coll ege ofVeterinary Medicine and has re turned toVirgi n ia to j oin a group veterinaryp ractice in Vin ton .

WI LLIAM J . RUE , JR . , earned hisMas ter of Scien ce degree in Mar in eBiol ogy from Texas A&M Universi ty inMay 1 979 . He is now employed as an

associate scienti s t wi th EnvironmentalAnaly s ts , In c . , in Towson , Maryland . [S eealso “

Marriages .

GEORGE P . PIROS gr aduated thisMay from th e Medi cal Col lege of Virgin iawi th the degree of Doctor of Medic ine .

Piros will go to the Universi ty of Virgin iaMedical Center in Charlo ttesville .

1 976

Societi es , in the June 1 979 issue ofVirgin ia Bar News .

Dr . WILLIAM RAYBURN, a fell owin maternal-fetal medi cine in Oh io StateUniversity ’s departm en t of obstetri cs andgynecology , was one of two doctorsselecte d to receive the Searle-Donald F .

Richar ds on Award , presente d annually bythe Ameri can College of Obstetri ciansa n d G y n e c o logiSts an d SearleLaboratories .

The award recogn ize d the

di st inc ti on of Rayburn ’s paper on

Matern al Perception of Fetal Movementan d Perinatal Outcome , which sh owedthat more active fetuses ten d to behealth ier babies .

Dr . CHIP CARMINES has

complete d the requirements for the Ph .D.

in pharmacology at the Med ical Col legeof Virgin i a.

RICHARD BLAND LEE CARTERwil l at ten d the Colgate W . Darden Schoolof Business Adminis tration of the

Universi ty of Virgin ia th is fal l . He hasbeen Ass oci ate Dire ctor of Admiss ionsand Finan cial Aid at the College .

NATHANIEL MACON COLLIERI I I and JOHN WALTON FERRELLpas sed the Virgin ia State Bar exam inOctober .

JAMES B. O 'HARA , spor ts wri terfor The Farmville Herald,

pul led down ase cond pl ace in the Group I I Weeklyd ivision of the Virgin ia PressAssociati on ’s wr i ting and photographycompeti ti on .

JAMES WILLIAM WATSON has

become as soc iated with James E .

Edmunds in the general practi ce of l aw inHalifax . He graduated in May 1 980 fromthe Marshall-Wythe School of Law , wherehe had been a member of the Studen tDivisi on of the Ameri can Trial LawyersAssoci ati on an d Phi Del ta Phi LegalFratern ity and a partic ipant in the

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Marshall-Wythe Moot Court Competition .

He also won th e Ameri can J urispruden ceBook Award in Evidence .

RU S S E L L LE E HANDY ,

WILLI AM LYNWOOD MONTAGUE ,

JR . ,GEORGE EDGAR RICE , and

MARK EDWARD VAN WORMERgraduated from the Medi cal College ofVirgin i a this May with the degree of

Doctor of Medicine . Rice also was electedto Alpha Omega Alpha honoraryfratern i ty . Handy has been assigned tothe Univers ity of Louisville Hospi tal inKen tucky ; Montague to th e GeorgiaBap ti st Hosp ital in Atlanta ; Rice to theNorth Caro lina Memorial Hospi tal inChapel H ill ; and Van Wormer to YorkHosp ital in York , Pennsylvania .

J . ROY MANN , formerly assistan tman ager of the Crystal City offi ce ofVirgin ia Nati onal Bank , has beenpromoted to cash fl ow se rvices officer ,market ing . Mann had been assistan tmanager s ince 1 978 .

GEORGE EDWARD G IMPELSON

is working on his doctorate insemiconductor physi cs at the School ofElec tri cal Engi nee ring of the Univers i tyof Virgin ia.

LAWRENCE K . HILL, JR . , havi ngpassed the National Board of MedicalExaminers

, Par t I , is i n h is junior yearc lin ical rotations at the Unive rs i ty of

Sou th Carol ina School of Medicine .

GARY LEE LUMSDEN passed theVirgin ia State Bar exam in October 1 979 .

DAVID LEE TASHIJ IAN will beattending the Colgate W . Darden Schoolof Business Adminis trati on at theUnivers ity of Virgin ia th is fal l . He hasbeen with R . J . Reynolds .

MICHAE L D . WARD , formerly anadmiss ions counse lor at the Coll ege , willbe attending T . C . Wil l iams Law Schoolthis fal l .

1 979

STEPHEN CHU is working un der aresearch gran t in chemi cal engineering atthe Univers ity of Virgi ni a , where h is wifeAnne is in the nursing program .

JOSEPH A . C. WADSWORTH IV ,

who is S tu dy ing for the min istry atAndover-Newton Seminary outsideBos ton ,

Mas sachusetts , served hisapprenti cesh ip at an Amer ican Baptis tchurch in P lai nfiel d , New Hampshire . Theparsonage

,buil t in 1 7 1 5 , had only wood

heat ( the oil stove broke in the ’

3o’

s andno one has fixed it yet) . Wadsworth wil lse rve h is summer internship as chaplain of

a hosp ital in Tewksbury , Massachusetts .KEN WOODLEY has won a first

place award for feature wri ting in theGroup I I Weekly divis ion of the Virgi n iaP r ess Associ ation ’s wr i ti ng andphotography competition . Woodleyworks for The Farmville Herald.

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WALTER MANGER of Alexandria ,a rising senior at Hampden-Sydney , hasbeen awarded an Undergraduate ResearchFel lowsh ip at the Medical Universi ty ofSou th Carolina for summer study . Theobj ect of this award is to en able thewell-qual ified s tuden t to undertake aresearch proj ect in a biomedical fieldunder the supervision of a trained medicalscientis t in a laboratory with ongoingresearch .

Dr . and Mrs . HARRY H . BRYANcelebrated their 5oth wedding ann iversaryon October 1 0 , 1 979 , in Mon treat , NorthCarol ina .

Dr. and Mrs . B ry an'

2 5

1 97 3

JOHN E . GENET married Coll ierYoung of Palm Beach in March 1 980 , inwhat was b i l led by the New York P ost as“ th e wedding of the season .

”

1 974

CHR I STO PHE R S CANNELLGALLO married Cynthia Lee Mills ofVirgi n ia Beach on June 14 , 1 980 .

WILLIAM J . RUE , JR . ,married

Rosemarie Valigra of Be thlehem ,

Pennsylvan ia , in June 1 979 . Rue is theson of WILLIAM J . RUE ’

3 6 .

DAVID LYSLE BOWLES marriedLori Dale Coridge of Santa Barbara ,Cal ifornia, on April 1 9 , 1 980 . The couplewil l reside in Port Hueneme

,California .

D r . WI L LI AM AL L I SONBLACKMON married Robin GraySimpson in Charlottesville on May 24 ,

1 980 .

WI LLIAM R . HILL married SherryK . Lehmann on April 5 , 1 980 .

MICHAEL THEODORE KOTELECmarried El izabeth Beveridge Mudd inTowson

,Mary lan d , on December 22 ,

1 979.

ROBERT LEE SAMUEL, J R.

married Julie Ali ce Carson in Annandaleon June 1 6 , 1 979.

CHARLES DANIEL SUMMIT , JR . ,

married Marie Louise Buffington in NewOrlean s in September . Summi tt recen tlyearned a M .B .A . at Tulane Universi ty .

1 977

BRYAN H . CONRAD marriedTamson Walcott Stone on April 1 9 , 1 980 .

FRANK M . GARNETT ofRichmond married El len McDan iel

(Longwood’

77 ) in December 1 979.

THOMAS CHARLES REPENNINGmarried Julie Ann Allinson at the J ohnsHopkins Club in Baltimore on December1 5 ,

1 979. He is Office Operati onsSupervisor for the Bureau of the Censusin J ohnson Ci ty , Tennessee .

1 97 9

CECIL T. TALLEY marriedEli zabeth

-

Marshall Guthrie on October1 2

,1 979 . They resi de in Sou th Boston .

Dr . WILLIAM BRYAN CRAWLEYmarried Theres a Young of Virgin ia Beachon May 26 , 1 979 . In the wedding partywere DWIGHT L . ANDREWS

’

66 ofCharl otte

,North Carolina , and JACK I .

HAYES , JR .

’

66 .

DANIEL D . CHILES married CyndiEvanson on September 8 , 1 979 . They l ivein San Fran cisco where he works withWell s Fargo .

JAMES T . ALEXANDER marriedMarty Branch , sis ter of DAVID BRANCH’

72 , on October 1 2 , 1 979 . Alumni inattendance (from left to right in the

p icture above) were , in the front row ,

TAYLOR TUCKER '

76 , EV HELMUTH'

76 , BOOMER DecONTI’

76 , CARTERSINCLAIR ’

76 , MAC COLLIER’

76 , LEECARTER '

76 , BURWELL RIDDICK'

76 ,

DONNIE COURNOW’

76 and,in the

back row , LEWIS BOSHER’

77 , DAVIDBRANCH ’

72 , JOHN LACY’

7 5 , FRANKMALBON ’

76 , ROY MANN ’

76 ,

EASLEY JOHNSON ’

77 , and DAVECLOUGH ’

77 .

To Mr . and Mrs. W . R . CLARK,

thei r third ch i l d an d first son, Ri chardWil l iam Clark , on Mothers

’ Day , May 1 3 ,1 97 9, in Lake Forest , Ill in o is .

1 967

To Dr . and Mrs. E . BLACKFORDNOLAND , the ir fourth ch ild and thi rdson , Phil ip Cooke Noland , on April 1 7 ,1 979 , in Salem , where Noland is apractic ing in ternis t .

1 970

To Mr . an d Mrs. OLINMELCHIONNA ,

a daughter , Eli zabe thMarie Melchionna , on March 1 5 , 1 980 .

To Mr. an d_

Mrs . DAVID A.

BALDINI , a daugh ter , their se con d,

Kathryn Ann Baldin i , on May 24 , 1 979 ,

in Parma Heigh ts, Ohio .

To Dr. an d Mrs. E . FORRESTJ ESSEE , JR . , a daughter , the ir se condchil d , Rebecca Lindsay J essee , on June27 , 1 979 .

To Dr . and Mrs . WILLIAM I . LEE ,

a daughter , J ennifer Erin Lee , on March2 , 1 979 .

To Mr . and Mrs . CAUSEY DAVI S ,JR ., a son , Edward Causey Davis I I I , onDecember 1 2 , 1 979 .

To Mr . and Mrs . J . MICHAELROSE , a son , the ir secon d , J oseph BryanRose , on July 22 ,

1 979 ,in Richmond .

To Mr . an d Mrs. PHILIPCOULTER , a son Christopher Cutch inCoulter , in 1 979 . Coulter is practi cing lawwith the Roan oke firm Dodson , Pence ,Viar , Young , and Woodrum .

To Mr . and Mrs . CHARLES L. CA

BELL, twin daugh ters , i n January 1 980 .

To Mr . and Mrs . WILLIAMDICKSON PENHALE I I I , of J ol ie t,I ll inois , a son , Will i am Drew Penhale , onJ anuary 1 5 , 1 980 .

To Mr . and Mrs. JOSEPH DENNYTHROCKMORTON , a son, J oseph AaronThrockmorton , on October 5 , 1 979 , in

Janelow , West Virgini a.

To Dr . and Mrs. R . PATRI CKYEATTS , a son , J ohn Patri ck Yeatts , onOctober 1 1 979 ,

in Rochester,

Minnesota .

To Mr . and Mrs. ROBERTSTUCKEY , a daughter , Kristen Michel leStuckey , on December 1 1 , 1 979 , inPlan o , Texas .

To Mr . and Mrs . RICHARD L .

TRUMBO , a daughter, their se cond

,

J essica Lee , on May 20 , 1 980 ,in Rale igh

,

30

North Carolin a .

1 977

To Mr . and Mrs . GENE MILLSGALLIVAN of Anderson , Sou thCarolina , a son and first ch il d , Archibal dThomson Gall ivan , on March 3 , 1 980 .

1 979

To Mr . and Mrs . PRENTISS L.

GEORGE I I , a daughter and first ch ild ,

Anna Elaine George , on Mar ch 28 , 1 980 .

George works for the L incoln Times inLin coln ton , North Carol ina .

To Mr . and Mrs. PHILANDERKELSEY of Nas hvil le , Tennessee , a son ,

Eric Simpson Kelsey , on March 1 3 , 1 980 .

1 9 1 5

TUCKER CARRINGTON , of

Richmond , die d on April 1 , 1 980 .

J . CLAUDE LEE , of Stanover

Court House , died of lung cancer inAugus t 1 979 .

1 922

North Carol ina .

GORDON W . KENT, JR. , 7 5 , of

Naruna d ied on Feb ruary 1, 1 980 ,

frominju ries sustai ned in an automobileacc i dent . Kent was a reti red . bu ild ingCODtractor .

The Reveren d THOMAS C .

BRYAN , a retired P resbyterian m in ister ,died on December 2 7 ,

1 979 . Aftergraduating from Hampden-Sydney

, Bryanattended Columbia Seminary and servedthe Presbyterian Church as min is ter inMull in s an d Whitm i re , Sou th Carol ina ; inB a l t i m o r e , Ma ry land ; and inWin ston-Salem , Lexington , and Charl otte ,North Carolina . After his re tirement hesu p p l i e d Mecklenburg Presby teryChurches unti l December. He is su rvivedby his wife , the former Mel i ta Floyd, towhom he h ad been marrie d 5 1 years ; afoster daughter and two foster son s ; an dhis two bro the rs Dr . JOHN E . BRYAN’

1 5 of Bi rmingham , Alabama, and Dr .HARRY H . BRYAN ’

2 5 of Montreat ,

CHARLES C. LORRAINE ofJ acksonvil le , Florida , died on February1 9 , 1 980 .

R. WHITFI ELD ROBERTS , 7 3 , ofGl ou cester d ied on March 1 1

, 1 980 ,after

a lengthy il lness . He was a former partn erand se curities broker for Anderson an dStrudwick , Inc . , of Richmond , havingj oin ed th is fi rm in 1 962 . Roberts was anative of Richmond , where he hadworked for th e former CrawfordManufacturing Company as sales managerand vi ce presi den t before j oin ingAnderson and Strudwi ck. Roberts was amember of First Presbyterian Church inGloucester , the Commonwealth Club , andthe Country Club of Virg in i a inRi chmon d .

ROBINET W. TREDWAY , 7 3 , of

Richmond died of cancer on April 6 ,

1 980 . Tredway cam e to Richmond in1 93 9 , where he j oined Sou thern Stampand Stati onery Company as a clerk. By1 960 he had risen to become vi cepres ident an d general sales man ager. Hereti red from th is job in 1 972 but workedpart time for At lan tic Office Supply ,

In c . ,

until his death . The Richmond Stati onersAssoci ation voted him retai l salesman ofthe year in 1 977 . Tredway was a memberof Ginter Park Presbyteri an Church ,where he was an elder and former SundaySchool superintenden t.

Col. CHARLES E . TURLEY , 7 3 , of

Lewisburg , West Virgin ia , died on J an uary2 9 , 1 980 .

“Tite Turley graduated fromGreenbrie r Mi l i tary School in 1 92 5

before attending Hampden-Sydney. Amember of Pi Kappa Alpha fratern ity atHam pden-Sy dney , he was a campusleader an d an outs tan ding football p layer.Turley l ater returned to GreenbrierMi l i tary School as an ass istant footballcoach . He became the head coach there ,and se rved in this posi t ion for 20 years .Turley also taugh t B ible at the Mil i tarySch ool for 4 5 ye ars and was theComman dan t from 1 94 1 to 1 970 . WhenLewisburg, West Virgin ia, was nominatedas a Histori cal Distr i ct for the Nat ionalRegis ter, Turley did all the research andwas one of the origi nal members of thePlanning and Zoning Committee there .

He also researched places in five countiesin the easte rn part of West Virgin ia forthe National Register . He was a memberof the Old Stone P resbyteri an Church ,where he had served as elder, clerk of thesess i on , and Sun day S chool teacher for4 5 years .

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1 9 30

Dr . RAY DAVID WILLIAMS , 72 ,

of St . Lou is , Missou ri , died of heartdisease on October 2 1 , 1 979 . Will iamspracti ced in ternal medicine in St . Louisfor 3 7 years . He was a sen ior consultantin the St . Louis Medical Clin i c , was on

the staff of the Washington Univers i tyMedical School , and stil l made house callsin h is p rivate practice .

During h is long career, he was ch iefo f the medical staff at St . Luke

’s Hospi talEast and at Missouri Baptist Hospital . Healso did investigative work with theNati onal Research Council and waschairman of a spec ial commi ttee on thenutri ti onal aspects of aging .

A summa cum laude graduate ofHampden -Sydney , Will i ams earned amaster of sci ence degree from EmoryUniversi ty and did two years of graduatework in biochemistry at WashingtonUniversi ty , from whose medical school heearned the MD . degree in 1 93 7 . He was aSpecial Fellow in in ternal medicine at theMayo Foundati on in Rochester

,

Minnesota, from 1 93 9 to 1 942 .

The author of many scien tificarti cles , a fellow of the American Col legeof Physi cians , and a special is t onnutri ti on wi th the American Board of

Nutrit ion , Will iams was best known forhis original inquiries in to psychol ogywhile a studen t at Hampden-Sydney , forexample , he became the first personknown to have converted the sl eepingstate into genuine hypnosis .

ROBERT FRY, 7 1 , died in

Birmingham , Alabama on March 1 9 ,

1 980 . He i s survived by his wife , son ,daugh ter , two grandchildren , and brotherJOHN DOUGLAS FRY ’

28 . A ve teran ofWorld War I I

,Fry was a much-decorated

flyer.

FRANK THOMAS HANCOCK , 6 7 ,

of Bluefield , West Virgin ia, died April 30 ,

1 980 . He was the retired sen ior vicepresident and general manager ofBluefield Supply Company ,

for whom hehad worked sin ce his graduati on fromHampden-Sydney . Hancock worked his

way up from truckdriver to vice presiden twi th a five-year in te rmission to serve hiscountry in the U .S . Army during WorldWar I I . During the Battle of the Bulge ,Hancock won a battlefield p romotion tomaj or for heroism wi th the 82nd Ai rborneDivis i on along the Rhine River .

Hancock was a former p residen t ofthe Bluefiel d Sales Execu tive Club andthe Kiwanis Club , a former Salvati onArmy Boar d chairman , p as t vi ce pres identof the Chamber of Commerce , and pas tchai rman of the Heart Association . Heattended Firs t Presbyterian Church

,

where he served as deacon an d elder . Hewas a director of the Davis Stuart S choolat Lewisburg and on the boards ofBluefield Supply an d Appalachian

Electron ics , In c . , at Lewisburg . He was amember of Fincas tle Country Club

,the

Universi ty Club , and is a past presiden t ofthe Lewisburg area Hampden -SydneyAlumni Club .

1 93 6

FRANK G . BALDWIN , JR . , 6 5 , ofRocky Mount , North Carol ina , died June1 , 1 980 . He was the presiden t of theEas tern North Carol ina d ivision ofBaldwin Stores . Baldwin moved to NorthCarolina in 1 949 , where he multipl ie d theBaldwin Stores from one , in RockyMount , to six in the Eas tern NorthCarolina d ivis ion of the chain . Hereceived a master ’s degree in businessadmin istrati on from the Wharton Schoolof Business at the University ofPennsylvania , before serving in the U .S .

Navy during Wonld War I I . The ci ty ofRocky Mount honored Baldwin in 1 974by setting as ide a Spe cial day in tribute tohis many civic con tributions to RockyMount and Nash County . He was pastp resident of the Kiwan is Club , pastd irector of the Chamber of Commerce , adirector of the Peoples Bank and TrustCompany

,as we ll as of the Citizens

Savings and Loan Association .

He sat on the coun ty welfare boardand was ele cted to the CountyCommissi on of Nash Coun ty , and servedas i ts chairman . He was chairman of theNas h County Industrial Committee , and

HOMECOM ING 1980:

NOVEMBER 1 5

Whenever a perverse fa te makesthe name of old Randy -Mac pop into

y our mind and the veins on y our

forehead pop out in moral outrage

and d isgust , remember: vengeance is

ours on November 1 5 ,during

Homecoming Weekend . Picture it, a

day no t to be missed: la te autumn

sunshine,friends crowding the

stands, Tigers in un iform ,

sparklingand clattering,

impa tient to strike ;and the va inglorious strutting of thecock -sure Yellow Jackets awaking in

y our breast a flood tide of righteous

indigna tion—a flood ,

rising in y oursand in a thousand o ther

Hampden-Sy dney hearts , which w ill

sweep the forces of evil ineluctablyfrom the field . November 1 5 ,

1 980—a day tha t will live in the

annals of infamy at Ashland and in

the book of glorious deedsthroughout the civilized world"No toften in the life of a man comes a

moral victory as“

great as this , becauseHomecoming is only once a y ear .

You owe it to the College ; y ou

owe it to y our friends ; y ou owe it to

y ourself; be there .

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JAMES H . MOSELEY of

Richmond died September 2 3 , 1 979 .

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FRANK M . SMITH of Mullica Hil l ,New Jersey , died ofFeb ruary 1 8 , 1 980 .

leukemia on

was a founding member of the board of

the Nash Techn ical Insti tuti on .

Baldwin was an active member ofthe Episcopal Church of the GoodShepherd , where he served as sen iorwarden , vestryman , and teacher of theconfirmation classes .

He leaves his wife Mary ; a son ; twodaughters ; one sister ; and tw o brothers ,T . KYLE BALDWIN ’

3 9 and ROBERTA . BALDWIN ’

52 .

JOHN A . TIGMO , SR. , 4 5 , ofChesapeake , died of a heart attack on

March 26 ,1 980 . An enormously popular

figu re , he was the vars i ty swimming coachand j unior varsi ty football coach atNorv iew High School in Chesapeake .

Tigmo took on the football posi tion in1 95 9 and the swimming position in 1 962 .

The worst record his football team madein 1 2 years was 4-1 -1 and his swimmingteam won the Eas tern Districtchampionship in 1979 .

“He was a greatcoach , said Norview football coach BobTata .

“But more than that he con tributed

so much to all the Students he taugh t andcoached . Teach ing was his l ife . He tookan active interest in his Studen ts aspeople . He could fin d good in everyoneand every situation . He had a positiveeffect on more young people inTidewater than any other coach in thearea

,

” Tata continued ; wherever you godown here , people knew him .

” “CoachTigmo ,

” con cluded a studen t “was more

than a coach , he was a friend .

Condolences

Robert Barclay , long-time friend ofDr . WILLIAM BARGER ’

2 5 andhonorary member of the Flori da GoldCoast Chapter of the Hampden-SydneyAlumni Associati on

,died on March 1 1 ,

1 980 ,in Fort Lauderdale . A graduate of

the Juil l iard School of Music in NewYork City

, Barclay was a noted composerof clas s ical music and gues t conductor formany orchestras Harp musi c was hisspecial ty ; his Symphony in OneMovemen t has enj oyed repeated live andconcert performance in Europe . Barclaywas a partner wi th Barger in a musi caland educational publ ishing company .

Eli zabeth Brittain , wife of RUFUSBRITTAIN ’

2 3 , died on May 1 5 , 1 979 , inan automob ile acciden t near Onancock ,on Virgin ia

’s Eastern Shore . She was asister of the late WHITFIELD ROBERTS’

28 .

After a summer ’s worth of painting ,pan eling , and parti tioning (top ) , thecomputer center was final ly ready for itsnew occupant— the Perkin-Elmer 3 242 ,

del ivered on June 24 , after some de lays atthe plant . The l ong-awai ted van pulled inand crowds began to gather , l ooking atthe mountain of boxes wi th the gleefulgrins of kids at Chris tmas . And boxeswere dutifully opened , some for themundane purpose of checking on thecon dition of the shipment , Others for thesheer del igh t of discovering what a“CRT —or the wire—Spangled inn ards ofthe computer i tself— looked like .

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