VOLUME VII OCTOBER, 1939 No. 1 LL.D. to H.R.H. OLAV Crown Prince of Norway
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ALUMNI GAZETTE VOLUME VII OCTOBER, 1939 No. 1 LL.D. to H.R.H. OLAV Crown Prince of Norway J. D. Garneal & Sons n. INCORPORATED \ Carneal Building-12 North 9th Street Richmond, Virginia Phone 2-8354 3 % 7% 4, i Real Estate in All Branches m Colonial Estates Mortgage and Loan Department j Insurance: All Lines WWA :jri#^rj^^ THE ALUMNI GAZETTE ^e (mle/je or cWmun MiaMauj tit ^Vi^cfinm VOLUME VII OCTOBER, 1939 No. 1 1939 SEES SUCCESSFUL FINALS By all odds, the most important feature of 1939 Finals played for the concert in the afternoon and the Alumni and that which received more editorial comment than Dance in the evening. Over 1,450 attended the dances. anything that has happened at the College during the Alumni Day started at eight-thirty in the morning last decade was the alumni oration with registration in the Alumni of Vernon Meredith Geddy, '17, = "" "" = Office. By day's end, only three delivered at the annual Alumni HOMECOMING hundred and nine had registered Luncheon, on June 3rd. Mr. Geddy SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH though many more were in attend- devoted the major portion of his 8:30 A.M. Registration—Alumni Office ance who did not register. The 10:30 A.M. Parade—Duke of Gloucester remarks to a discussion of William Street annual meeting of the Alumni As- and Mary's future and the advis- 1:00 P.M. Luncheon—Matoaka Park sociation was held in Phi Beta 2:30 P.M. Football—(William and Mary ability of continuing under State vs. Washington Kappa Hall at ten-thirty in the ownership and control through and Lee) Stadium morning with somewhat larger at- 6:00 P.M. Buffet Supper—Wren Bldg. State appropriations or mainte- 9:00 P.M. Alumni Dance—Blow Gym- tendance than in recent years. Sid- nance through private ownership nasium ney Bartlett Hall, '20, president, and an adequate endowment. Opening formal dances begin Friday, No- presided and briefly reported on vember 17th. The price per couple will be Throughout his entire treatment two dollars and a half. the work of the Board of Directors of this subject he constantly placed = 1 during the past year. Various com- t J -L M •'Ml the issue squarely before the alum- mittee reports were heard . fol- ni asking them what their choice will be. The full ad- lowed by the annual election of three Directors to suc- dress, along with some editorials appearing in Virginia ceed Robert Perry Wallace, '20, Williamsburg; Jamts newspapers will be found elsewhere in this issue. Malcolm Bridges, '25, Richmond; and Ernest Whitmore For the first time in three years, the June Ball and the Goodrich, '35, Washington, D. C. The nominating Alumni Dance were held in the Sunken Garden. On committee of which Lucy Mason Holt, '24, was chair- Friday night Gene Krupa played from eleven until man, nominated the following members who were three; his first visit to the campus. On Saturday Hal elected unanimously: Bathurst Daingerfield Peachy, Jr., Kemp and his band returned for their second visit and (Continued on page 14) The June Ball in the Sunken Garden [13 ^««««««»«w»«»»««eer3rs^ csts^ss=K^ifcSM£s=sta=B^aats=s^sess=a^it« [2] mam^^^^mm m^H^B^^^^^^H SCHUYLER OTIS BLAND, ex-"92 An Alumnus You Should Know By JOSEPH HEYWOOD BELL, JR., ex-29 Occasional visitors in the Capitol of the United States, not the least of them was making him an early riser-.: as they vacate hard gallery seats, frequently ask how Among his colleagues in Congress Mr. Bland enjoys does the Government hang together, and particularly great respect for his versatile capabilities and a reputa- how do the heads and tails of the legislative process tion of conscientiously serving his nation and his con- ever get together. stituency. How he is regarded among his constituents Indeed, there are times when the tumult on the floors may be concluded from a notable lack of intra-party of Congress is reason enough to perplex one unfamiliar opposition since he was first elected to Congress in 1918. with the political and parliamentary nature of things General election opposition seldom has been of a that go on there. But the exterior confusion sometimes calibre forcing him into the vigorous campaign of which apparent is no indication of the studious industry and he is capable. calm judgment of hard working men of experience who On the floor of the House Mr. Bland holds attendance really do the job of Congress. and attention. He speaks with the authority of intelli- Such a man is Schuyler Otis Bland, Member of Con- gent study, and the knowledge of experience. His ora- gress, Representative of the First Virginia District for torical qualities and debating ability sustain interest. the 21 difficult years since 1918. Speaking and debating may have been inherited, but If it were not for characteristic modesty, Congress- he has not left the inheritance uncultivated. This year, man Bland himself might best describe his own dili- as the nation observed the 150th anniversary of the first gence and industry by telling how he moved his abode Congress under the Constitution, Mr. Bland was hon- to the building in Newport News which housed his law ored as a collateral relative of a member of the original offices so as a young man he might live more economical- Congress, the Honorable Theodoric Bland. His grand- ly and devote more time to the study and practice of his father was the Reverend Archer Bland, a King and profession. Queen County, Virginia planter and a Methodist He does not now live in the Office Building of the preacher. As a 16-year-old student at the College of House of Representatives in Washington, but it would William and Mary Undergraduate Bland found within be safe to wager that Mrs. Bland would say he spends himself a keen interest in speaking and debating. He too much time about the business of his office. They assisted in reorganizing the Phoenix Literary Society live unpretentiously in an uptown apartment, and he and then, realizing need for competing societies, he left complains that it is too far from Capitol Hill. the Phoenix and helped reorganize the Philomathean A caller at his office having the opportunity to ob- Society. He won his way to commencement finals be- serve its routine could understand his complaint and tween these societies in each of his college years, thrice realize the fullest of long days are necessary for perform- as a debater and once as final orator. He won both the ance of duties as representative of his district, as chair- debater's medal and the orator's medal. He will say man of the important House Committee on Merchant now that he "learned as much or more from those so- Marine and Fisheries; as dean of the Virginia delega- cieties as from any other source." tion in the House; as a seasoned legislator who, out- The years beginning in 1888 in which Mr. Bland ranked in service by only eight of the 435 members of matriculated at William and Mary were in one of the the House, is constantly called upon for advice and most trying periods of the College's long history. Re- counsel. covery from the War between the States was far from His district runs more than 100 miles along the Vir- complete. The son of President John Tyler, Dr. Lyoin ginia coast embracing some of the state's largest indus- G. Tyler was president of the College after having been tries, some of its most fertile farm lands, some of its instrumental in securing for it a state appropriation. most productive and useful tidal waters, some of the A tribute to the:faculty prefaces the Congressman's country's most vital national defenses, and some of the recollections of William and Mary student days. "Too nation's most hallowed shrines. He represents more much cannot be said," in his opinoin, ''of faculty mem- than 325,000 citizens who live on the Eastern Shore and bers in those days. They were enthusiastic, patient, the mainland in the area between Fredericksburg at devoted to their students, learned in their subjects, un- the north, scarcely 50 miles from his office door, and tiring in their work, zealous, true men. who laid firm Newport News, his residence, at the southern extremity, foundations for the new institution they were building whence there is a night Chesapeake Bay boat which from ruins of the old." docks at Washington each day by 6 A.M. Boyhood on He mentions with pride that during his last year there a farm served Congressman Bland well in many ways; «•-,;■■ (Continued, on pa&e 17) C 3] it was the largest graduating class to leave William and Mary since 1693. Two hundred thirty-six received The Alumni Gazette degrees in June and thirty-six in August. of the College of William and Mary in Virginia Established June 10, 1933 ■f i -t And now a new class is entering—one whose gradua- Published by the Alumni Association of the College of William tion four years hence will have more than usual signifi- and Mary in Virginia, Incorporated, Box 154, Williamsburg, cance and enough fan-fare to make up for any that has Virginia, on the first day of October, December, March, and May. been lost before them. This class is to be the Quarter- Millenium class of the College and will doubtless have Subscription rate $3.00 a year. a prominent part in the 250th anniversary celebration to be held in that year.