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Dedication, October 20, 1951 (page 13) Bulletin of ibruary 1952 LONGWOOD COLLEGE ie XXXVIII umber 1 ALUMNAE NEWS Bulletin of Longwood College FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA ALUMNAE NUMBER VOLUiME XXXVIII February, 1952 Number l TABLE OF CONTENTS Published by LONGWOOD COLLEGE Homecoming and Dedication 3 and THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Leonard Jarman 7 Joseph Member of American Alumni Council Edith Stevens 11 Editors Ruth Harding Coyner William W. Savage Jennie Masters Tabb 14 Business Manager . .MARY WISELY WATKINS Excerpts from the Address of Dr. John R. Hutchcson 16 ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD Presentation 1' Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster .... President of Longwood College, Farmvillc. Virginia The Alumnae House 19 President Longwood's Collection of Virginia Art 21 Helen COSTAN 1007 Floyd Street. Lynchburg, Virginia Longwoods Way 23 fiVsf Vice-President SARAH Button Rex . 1505 Greenleaf Lane, Faculty and Administration News 26 Charlottesville. Virginia Second Vice-President Miss Ottie Craddock Retires 29 Mebane Hunt Martensen 404 Albemarle Street. Blucfield, West Virginia Class Reunions 30 Ex-President Expressions of Sympathy 31 Maria BRISTOW Starke. Rustom, River Road. Richmond. Virginia Granddaughters Club 3? Direcrors Ethel GiLDERSLEEVE 44 Hollywood Avenue, Alumnae News 33 Hampton, Virginia Pat Cowherd adkins , .603 EdgehiU Road, Marriages 56 Richmond. Virginia Mary Clay HiNER .... Farmville, Virginia Births 59 Carrie B. Taliaferro . Farmville, Virginia Executive Secretary and Treasurer In Memoriam Back Cover Ruth Harding Coyner Farmville. Virginii Entered as second-class matter November 12, 1&14, at the post office at Farmville, Virginia, under the act of August 24, 1912. HOMECOMING AND DEDICATION October 20, 1951 was an important date in Longwood's history What a beautiful, happy day Oc- came to pay homage to their alma mater tober twentieth was at Longwood Col- and to relive their college days, recently lege! October's bright blue weather or long since past. There were those with its crisp autumn freshness and color who had not returned for many years lent a note of exhilaration to the home- and those who were reunited with coming of approximately six hundred friends and roommates after years of alumnae. From every section of Vir- separation. Groups of sisters came to- ginia as well as from Louisiana, South gether—the four Barnes girls, the three Carolina, Kentucky, New York, North Cunningham sisters, the three Watkinses, Carolina, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsyl- and three Harrises, the three Hardys, vania, Maryland, Massachusetts, and the three Miners, besides many mother- West Virginia, the college daughters daughter combinations. The girls from Dr. Edgar Mrs. Winston Cobb Weaver, '33; Dr. John R. Hutcheson, Chancellor of V.P.I. ; and G. Gammon, member of the State Board of Education and President of Hampden-Sydney Col- lege, chat in front of Jarman Hall after the dedication exercises. February, 1952 the gay nineties, twenty odd, greeted the five years. The large number present four alert representatives of the class of the class of 1911 made a close second of 1901 — Hessie Chernault Yelton, in the contest. Maude Foster Gill, Sarah Hogg Dunn, The day started with the colorful and Bessie Palmer Saunders. The ear- academic procession including Governor liest class represented was that of 1888 Battle, State Board members, visiting by Susie Campbell Hundley. speakers, administrative officers, active The sixtieth and the fiftieth reunion and retired faculty members, and the classes received Longwood plates as gifts senior class of 1952. As the procession from the Alumnae Association. The moved from the Student Building to class of 1926, whose co-sponsors were Jarman Hall, students and guests lined Miss Jennie Masters Tabb and Miss the street and filled the hall. The col- Mary Clay Hiner, won the loving cup lege granddaughters were guides and for having the largest percentage of class ushers. members to return. The president of Dr. Edgar Graham Gammon, presi- the class of 1926, Ann Smith Green, dent of Hampden-Sydney College and gave her classmates a breakfast at Long- member of the State Board of Educa- wood, similar to the breakfast that she tion, made the invocation. Dr. Dab- had given at the time of their gradua- ney Stewart Lancaster introduced the tion twenty-five years ago. At the Honorable John Stewart Battle who Longwood breakfast, the returning made the presentation of the buildings classmates presented Ann with a beau- to be dedicated. Governor Battle in pre- tiful silver bonbon dish in appreciation senting the three beautiful buildings, of her active interest throughout twenty- Jarman Memorial Hall, the Edith Stevens Hall Alumnae Magazine Jarman Hall Stevens Science Hall, and Tabb Hall, After selections by the Longwood reminded those who administer and College Choir, the principal address was who use these buildings "of the heavy made by Dr. John R. Hutcheson, chan- responsibility in preparing young men cellor of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. and women for the roles of teachers, In his introduction Dr. Hutcheson said, parents, and civic leaders." Governor "It was in this college that my life-long Battle emphasized the fact that "these companion received the training that has halls stand as high tribute to the able enabled her to be my strong right arm individuals who devoted their thoughts for more than a third of a century." and abilities to the education of young His wife was "Little Polly" Parrott, women in Virginia." (1914). We are proud that Dr. Hutch- In receiving the buildings, the Hon- eson sent his daughter here for her train- orable Blake Tyler Newton, president ing, too—Eleanor Hutcheson Catlett of the State Board of Education, paid (1940). tribute to the role of Longwood Col- Dr. Hutcheson pointed out that for lege in the education of young people fifty years Longwood College, formerly for service to the Commonwealth. State Teachers College, has trained With a sincere and heart-warming more teachers for service in Virginia memorial tribute, the Honorable Wil- schools than any other college. He said, liam N. Neff brought back happy mem- "We spend too much time trying to ories of our beloved Dr. Jarman. Mrs. teach young people how to make a liv- Philip Weaver (Winston Cobb, 1933) ing and too little time teaching them spoke as a student of her revered pro- to live. must educate the mass fessor, Dr. Edith Stevens, and Mrs. how We William Cabell Flournoy (Mary Boyd, of our citizens to replace fear with faith 1893) paid tribute to her classmate. and really to believe that the smart thing Miss Jennie Masters Tabb. to do is the right thing always." February, 1952 The members of Dr. Jarman's fam- a poll of alumnae opinion concerning ily and the friends and relatives of Dr. the project. Stevens and of Miss Jennie Tabb oc- With deep reverence and sincere ap- cupied seats of honor in the beautiful preciation of Dr. Jarman's contribution Jarman Hall. On the organ stood a to the spiritual and cultural life of the large basket of red roses, an appropriate college, Mrs. Maria Bristow Starke ded- gift from the Jarman family. icated and presented, in the name of After about seven hundred guests the alumnae, the beautiful four-manual were served a buffet luncheon, there was Jarman Memorial organ. The organ, an unusually large business meeting of with sufficient Baroque stops for classi- the Alumnae Association. The rolls of cal and pre-Bach works, rests on an ele- the reunion of one and six-year classes vated platform which may be raised were called and other class members as from the pit to stage level. Mrs. Ruth Harding Coyner recognized As the organ was raised to stage level, them. Miss Helen Costan, president of the beautiful red roses brought the spirit the association, presided when a discus- of Dr. Jarman, the Longwood spirit, sion of the alumnae project, an alumnae into the hearts and souls of all. Dr. house, was held. All alumnae are asked Lancaster accepted the gift from the to return the ballot in this bulletin for (Continued on page 28) Tabb Hall Alumnae Magazine JOSEPH LEONARD JARMAN Remarks by the Honorable William N. Neff, member of fhe State Board of Education, at the dedicatory exercises on October 20, 1951. We are today dedicating to the mem- ory of Dr. Joseph Leonard Jarman this new and beautiful building in which we Dr. Jarman are assembled. It is particularly appro- priate that this building should bear his name containing as it does this audi- September, 1886 and continued his torium and the department of music. studies there until June, 1889, after The memory of his meetings with his which he taught one half session at the student body and of his love of music Miller School and then in January 1890 will be preserved and enshrined in this he went to Emory and Henry College. building which will henceforth be He served in that College as Professor known as Jarman Hall. of Natural Sciences for twelve years. In We cannot encompass in any words January, 1902 he was elected President spoken here, or in any written volume, of this College, then the State Female the story of his service to this College, Normal School at Farmville.