THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE Fall 2017

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 1 INAUGURATION DAY Banners representing all the alumni chapters snapped in the breeze during the inauguration of President Will Dudley. 2 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE - IN THIS ISSUE

FEATURES 10 What We Lost Reflecting on the Vietnam War. 16 Celebrating W&L’s 27th President Will Dudley makes it official. 18 What a University Should Do The Commission on Institutional History and Community begins its work. 22 By the Book Blaine Brownell ’65 pens an updated history. 24 Something Old, Something New The Colonnade restoration is complete.

DEPARTMENTS 3 Columns 26 Office Hours Rebecca Benefiel, Associate Professor of Classics 28 Lives of Consequence Kelly Douma ’16 John Maass ’87 32 Alumni 48 Chronicles

PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN REMINGTON MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 1 SPEAK W&L FROM THE EDITOR Volume 94, Number 3 WELCOME TO THE NEW LOOK AND FEEL OF THE MAGAZINE. Fall 2017 You responded to our pre-redesign survey see the info below on how to submit your with comments that were frank and helpful news, and encourage your classmates to Julie A. Campbell Editor (and often witty). You told us what you want: do the same. • More profiles of your fellow alumni. Done. • More letters to the editor. Please see Louise Uffelman • More from and about faculty and students. below for how to send them. (Pro tip: Managing Editor Columns You got it. Brevity is a virtue, as we usually have room Kelly Martone • More about our history. We’re on it. for only one page of letters.) Class Notes Editor • More emphasis on serious campus issues. Thank you for being such Lindsey Nair See p. 18. thoughtful readers. Senior Writer • More class notes. Listen, we want that, too. That section is only as substantial as the JULIE A. CAMPBELL, Editor Patrick Hinely ’73 W&L: The Washington and Lee Magazine Shelby Mack amount of news that we receive. So please Kevin Remington University Photographers REMEMBERING A FRIEND AND MENTOR GOOD NEWS Several members of the Phi Kappa Psi Beta. She truly made the house a home In the 1987–1988 academic Barbara Elliott | Linda Evans fraternity house corporation wrote us away from home. Geri is best year, The New York Times Ron Fuchs | Mason Grist ’18 about Geri Henderson, their former remembered for making the annual published an article about a Drewry Sackett | Adriana Trigiani house director, who died on July 2 (see Parents Weekend Pancake Breakfast Middlebury College program Joan Tupponce | Erica Turman Contributors p. 45): She was a great friend and Fundraiser a great success. She will be bringing Soviet students to the U.S. I mailed the item to mentor, and her service was deeply forever remembered and treasured by Zehno W&L President John Elrod, appreciated by the house corporation those who knew her and by the many Design members and other alumni of Virginia generations to come at Virginia Beta. and lo and behold, W&L became a participant. As Mary Woodson noted in the Winter/Spring Director of Publications 2017 issue of the magazine, Nona Mchedlishvili enrolled at Published by Washington and Stay in Touch W&L. Nona was full of energy Lee University, Lexington, VA Letters selected for publication should refer to and excitement about her stay 24450. All communications and POD forms 3579 should be sent at W&L. We traded correspon- material in the magazine. They may be edited for to Washington and Lee dence after she returned length, content and style. Letters reflect the views University, W&L Magazine, home, but during some civil 7 Courthouse Square, 204 W. of their authors, not necessarily those of the unrest in Georgia and high ten- Washington St., Lexington VA magazine’s editors or of the university. sion with the Soviet Union, I 24450-2116. Periodicals postage decided to stop for fear mail paid at Roanoke, VA. from the U.S. would bring UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT SUBMIT A CLASS NOTE CORRECTION attention to her from the authorities. As I have often Online at Colonnade Connections: In “Step Away from the Dennis W. Cross wondered about Nona, Dr. colonnadeconnections.wlu.edu or Books” (Summer 2017), we Vice President for via email: [email protected] Bidlack’s story was the first said that the school had 400 University Advancement news for me of her since the Use [email protected] for sending: undergraduates in 1972. early 1990s. Good news, Jessica L. Willett ’95 • Wedding and other photos That figure should be indeed. Executive Director of • Changes of address/subscription approximately 1,400. We questions C. HOWARD CAPITO ’68 Communications and • Letters to the editor apologize for the goof, and Public Affairs we thank Maurice Fliess ’66 Call 540-458-8466 for his courteous note Julie A. Campbell (subscription questions only) pointing it out. [See p. 20 for two more letters.] Associate Director of And there’s still good old mail: Communications and W&L Magazine Public Affairs Washington and Lee University 7 Courthouse Square Waller T. Dudley ’74, ’79L ON THE COVER: Courtesy Executive Director of 204 W. Washington St. of Walter Nicklin ’67 Lexington VA 24450-2116 Alumni Affairs

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2 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE ColumnsNOTEWORTHY NEWS AND IDEAS

CHALK ONE UP

2When the members of the Mathematics Department heard a rumor that their favorite brand of chalk was being discontinued, they acted. “This Japanese chalk has been described as the Rolls Royce of chalk,” reports Beedle Hinely, administrative assistant. “I think I have a four- to five-year supply stockpiled in a secure location, and I am always on the lookout for it online. I just bought CHECKING ON some this fall, so it is possible that, STAGHORN like Mark Twain, the rumors of its CORAL demise are greatly exaggerated.” POPULATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN. 3. MOVE OVER,

detailing a new method to date WAFFLE HOUSE TEAM EFFORT corals using genetics. “Looking Berky’s Restaurant at the Off the coast of Belize, below the specifically at somatic mutations Lee-Hi Travel Plaza has been blue, warm waters, are a few allows us to age the coral replaced by IHOP. thriving coral reefs, an anomaly population without drilling a big among the all-too-common core and doing expensive, invasive bleached wastelands — a result of tests,” Greer explained. “This warming waters that have killed technique uses tiny samples.” BEAR IN 1 off 98 percent of Acropora sp. in Many of her co-authors have a the rest of the Atlantic Ocean and connection to W&L: Adele Irwin 4 Caribbean Sea. Lisa Greer, ’15, a biology major, former HHMI MIND professor of geology, has been scholar and now an employee with In late August, a young visitor to studying these populations, trying the National Oceanic and campus — a black bear — checked to tease out the factors contribut- Atmospheric Association; Al out the neighborhood around ing to their success. How long have Curran ’62, professor emeritus at Graham-Lees and Lee House they been there, and what makes Smith College, Greer’s undergradu- during a leisurely stroll. The critter them different from other reefs? ate thesis advisor; Robert Humston, didn’t bother anyone, but it Scientific research is always a associate professor of biology and inspired a blast email from Public collaborative effort, and Greer head of the Environmental Studies Safety, not to mention plenty of pulled in expertise from other Program (and Greer’s husband); postings on social media. (No word disciplines to examine these reefs Paul Cabe, professor of biology; and if it trod the worn place in the from different perspectives. This Iliana Baums, associate professor of steps underneath the Graham- past summer, she and her biology at Penn State, who went to Lees entryway.) colleagues co-authored a poten- graduate school with Greer and tially groundbreaking publication Humston.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 3 OVER AT DOREMUS Jan Hathorn, director of athletics, was inducted into the C-Club Hall of Fame at her alma mater, SUNY Cortland, for her athletic and profes- sional achievements. And Chris McHugh ’09, a four-year letter winner in basketball as a student, returned to the court as the new head A PRIZE FOR men’s basketball coach. ROD SMITH 6 WELCOME TO R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah: The Washington THE COLLEGE and Lee University Review, 7. SUSTAINABLE ACHIEVEMENTS and W&L writer in residence, 8The College welcomed two won the 2017 William Peden W&L received a $21,800 grant from the Jessie Ball new associate deans: Gwyn E. Fiction Prize from The duPont Fund to help fund a new sub-metering project in Campbell, W&L professor of Missouri Review for the best the Village upper-division housing. It will allow students Spanish, and Meredith McCoy, short story published in the to see, track and compare their electricity use through former director of student last year: “The Satans.” an interface they can access on their phones. In related affairs and adjunct professor news, the university increased its sustainability rating for the department of from a bronze to a silver in the Sustainability Tracking, medicine at the David Geffen Assessment & Rating System (STARS). School of Medicine at UCLA. 9. THEIR WORD IS LAW DREAMING _,....;·:.,.,_ Christopher Seaman, AMERICA associate professor of law, is the new director of the Frances Lewis Law Center. And David Thompson ’19L and Michael Stinnett- Kassoff ’19L have been 10 , visiting associate professor of English: “On Tokyo’s Edge: Gaijin Tales Gordon Ball named co-directors for from Postwar Japan” (Red Mountain Press, 2017), 23 short stories set in 1950s Japan law admissions for — where Ball grew up. Service 2 School, a FACULTY BOOKS Joshua A.T. Fairfield, the William Donald Bain Family Professor of Law: “Owned: nonprofit that provides Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom” (Cambridge University Press, 2017) educational guidance examines the intersection of smart technology and the law. If you’ve got a smart- and networking for phone, you’ll want to read this. members and veterans Chris Gavaler, assistant professor of English: “Superhero Comics” (Bloomsbury of the U.S. military. Academic, 2017), a complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre. Gavaler blogs about the multiverse of comics, pop culture and politics at “The Patron Saint of Superheroes.” Seth Michelson, assistant professor of Spanish, editor: “Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention” (Settlement House, 2017), a bilingual collection of prose and poetry gathered and translated by Michelson and some of his students, who visited the facility as part of a course. Barton Myers, associate professor of history, co-editor with Brian D. McKnight: “The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War” (LSU Press, 2017), which gathers the current work of top experts in this area of Civil War studies.

4 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE THE ARTS A Fabulous 50th for the Reeves Center

BY RONALD W. FUCHS II PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE REEVES CENTER

Adapted from Fuchs’ new catalog, students, such as Bruce Perkins “50 Treasures: Celebrating the ’73. The collection has also grown 50th Anniversary of the Reeves through purchases made possible Collection of Ceramics at by two endowments, one formed Washington and Lee University.” by Herbert McKay ’51, and the It is available for $17.50 from the other by W. Groke Mickey, as well University Store (store.wlu.edu) as by an independent entity, the and the Lee Chapel Museum Shop. Buddy Taub Foundation. At first, highlights from the IN 1963, A POSTCARD from collection were displayed around Euchlin Reeves ’27L found its campus, in the Lee Chapel way to James W. Whitehead, then Museum, in Washington Hall, Washington and Lee’s treasurer. and in Lee House. In 1982, it found FROM THE COLLECTION It read, simply, “Someday I may a permanent home in an 1842 Above: Vase, Josiah wish to make a donation of a Greek Revival building on the Wedgwood’s Etruria work of art to the university. Are front campus. The Elisabeth S. Factory, Staffordshire, you interested?” Gottwald Gallery was added to England, about 1790 The work of art in question was house the paintings of Louise Left: Coffee Cup with the Arms of Gough, in fact a collection of over 2,000 Herreshoff Reeves. Jingdezhen, China, ceramics, ranging from Chinese In the 1990s, the Watson about 1710 export porcelain to British Pavilion, named in honor of Below: Dish, Haarlem, earthenwares to European Elizabeth Watson, the wife of the Netherlands, porcelain that Reeves and his wife, William Watson ’29, was built. It 1620–1630­ Louise Herreshoff, had assembled. houses temporary and permanent Sensing its potential as a teaching displays of the collection and the tool, Whitehead built a friendship Japanese Tea Room. In 2002, the with the Reeveses that culminated Reeves acquired the David in the gift of the collection to W&L Sanctuary Howard Collection of in 1967. Chinese Armorial Porcelain Coffee In the 50 years since it arrived Cups, thanks to Beverly M. DuBose on campus, packed in more than III ’62 and Gerry Lenfest ’53, ’55L. 200 barrels, the collection has This year, renovations to the expanded and grown. It now Reeves Center updated the contains over 3,000 objects, with galleries and created a new space the strength of the collection for Japanese export porcelain and consisting of Chinese and a classroom. As the Reeves Japanese export porcelain — of Collection enters its next 50 years, which the Reeves is one of the it will continue to fulfill its mission largest and most significant to advance learning through direct collections in the country — and engagement with collections, British, Continental European, and stimulate appreciation of global American earthenwares, stone- cultures, and inspire leadership in wares and porcelains made the arts and sciences. between 1500 and 1900. The collection has grown by gift and bequest, many made by alumni, some of whom worked with the Reeves Collection as

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 5 NOW HEAR THIS “This is a complicated time in this country. You are at the center of debates . . . about symbols . . . so you are already in a democratic conversation. You are authors, here on this campus, of the community that you are making together.” Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; Convocation Address, “Democracy 101: We Hold These Truths . . .,” Sept. 6, 2017

“ If we analyze what happened at Cheat “ The concept of communication involves the Mountain, if we try to understand why Lee creation of understanding between at least thought his plans failed, it helps fill in some gaps, it gives us some context to two entities, surely the hallmark of understand how Lee will act as a general later in civilization. Nowhere is this more important the war.” than among scientists, and between scientists Kenneth Noe, “A Storm to Destroy My Hopes: and the rest of us, especially in a time of Weather and Robert E. Lee’s Cheat Mountain pervasive misunderstanding such as we have Campaign,” Remember- ing Robert E. Lee now. That’s the way global understanding lecture, Oct. 9, 2017 and civilization advance.”

Lawrence E. Hurd, John T. Herwick, M.D., Professor of Biology; Editor in Chief, Annals of the Entomological Society of America

“Whether one is for the “ THE BEST ANALYSTS I’VE HAD HAVE NOT maintenance of Confederate monuments or for their complete removal from the BEEN MATHEMATICIANS OR PHYSICISTS, public sphere, measured, informed and peaceful THEY HAVE BEEN LIBERAL ARTS MAJORS.” debate is always the most effective way of championing William H. Miller III ’72, investor, founder of Miller Value Partners, speaking on Sept. 15 your position.” about “The Liberal Arts and the Professions” Hayden Daniel ’19, “Sowing the Wind, Reaping the Whirlwind: Charlottesville, Durham, “I LIKED GOING OUT AND PRACTICING WITH THE GUYS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GO PLAY GAMES AS WELL. I and the Left’s Assault on THOUGHT THAT THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE ENOUGH PEOPLE ON CAMPUS THAT WOULD WANT TO TRY IT. Free Speech and Civil Discourse,” The Spectator: ONCE THEY TRY IT, I FEEL LIKE THEY WOULD FALL IN LOVE WITH IT.” A Magazine of Student Thought and Opinion, Juliana Lima ’20, founder of the Women’s Rugby Club, to the Ring-tum Phi, Sept. 22, 2017 Sept. 19, 2017

6 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE IN THE LEAD Living with Integrity Our students embody honesty and civility, writes the current president of the Student Body

ON AN APPALACHIAN TRAIL realizing how easily the young they allow our students to embody Pre-Orientation trip this August, a woman tragically killed there could them here. first-year student made a disturb- have been any of us. Now, more than ever, it is ing comment to me. “I came from We realize that the Honor important that we learn from the a private high school,” she said, System is emboldened by the past, but remain non incautus “and no one respected our honor Speaking Tradition to encourage futuri. We recognize that alumni code.” Her question sparked civil discourse about the most have entrusted us with the future reflection: How does our Honor important issues of our time. The of the institution that we all love System distinguish our students Honor System is the cornerstone so dearly. The Honor System and from those at other institutions? of our community, and we Speaking Tradition serve as guides The inclination to live and speak strengthen our bonds through the to a lifestyle that eludes many in with integrity has been attacked on Speaking Tradition. Our commu- our society today. Students hope a national scale, most ostensibly by nity of trust liberates us to be that four years in an environment Mason Grist ’18 those who descended on our honest in our actions and civil in where this behavior is the rule, neighboring college town of our discourse. These two traits are rather than the exception, will Charlottesville. Our student body hard to find at many college foster a desire to live with integrity has taken these events to heart, campuses, and we are grateful that for a lifetime.

SALUTE

student at Washington they “suffered sec- educated in the city THE BOY FROM and Lee, he served on a ond-class status as a schools, once segregated, submarine in the Navy in result of the color of their now integrated, mandated BIG STONE GAP: World War II and graduat- skin,” as he wrote in his by the governor’s own ed from Harvard Law memoir, “Opportunity moral conviction, crushing LINWOOD School. Wise in matters of Time.” The disparity Massive Resistance. It was the heart, he married formed his personal and stunning to witness a PHOTO BY TIM STEPHENSON TIM STEPHENSON BY PHOTO Adriana Trigiani HOLTON ’44 Virginia “Jinks” Rogers, a political philosophy. When politician live by his beautiful, intelligent Linwood was elected promise. When Linwood Holton was woman from Roanoke with governor of Virginia in They don’t make them young, his lifelong friend a passion for community 1970, he blew the doors of like Governor Holton and mentor John Cloud service (who would serve the commonwealth open anymore. He remains my helped him get into the on W&L’s Board of for business. He embraced favorite American chicken business, then Trustees from 1986 to the daring entrepreneur, statesman because he Linwood Holton ’44 into growing sweet corn, 1995). but also the ambitious would rather lose an worthy enterprises for an People plain-old-fash- worker, making fairness election than his soul. If Appalachian boy during ioned liked Linwood — he the cornerstone of we can’t come close to the Great Depression. was a good listener, and progress in his inaugural emulating this great man, Cloud, an African-Ameri- he understood their address: “Let our goal in we owe it to one another can, worked successfully problems. He was a lot of Virginia be an aristocracy to try. as a manservant, but his fun, but there was more to of ability, regardless of BY ADRIANA TRIGIANI opportunities were limited him than charm. He was race, color or creed.” made of something. His When the time came, he by his color. Linwood Holton, the governor of moral compass had been walked the walk, with his believed this unjust, so he Virginia from 1970 to 1974, went about his life to set by his precise father daughter Tayloe, into an PHOTO BY PATRICK HINELY ’73 ’73 HINELY PATRICK BY PHOTO and Trigiani, the New York and sensible mother, but all-black public high change things. Times-bestselling author, his drive came from school in Richmond. She, Linwood appeared share a hometown: Big observing how people sister Anne, and brothers destined for political Stone Gap, Virginia. success; a tenacious were treated, and how Woody and Dwight were

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 7 ASK PRESIDENT DUDLEY

- I love teaching. My own college profes- - sors inspired me to become a teacher. Q. You are co-teaching a They made such an impact on me, and I A. could tell they enjoyed what they were first-year seminar, doing. It’s a pleasure to introduce curious young people to new ideas, to encourage their questions, Philosophy of Education, and to push them to improve their thinking. Students bring an infectious energy to everything they do, which with Bob Strong, the William keeps us young. So, the main reason I’m in the class- room is because it’s my favorite place to be. Lyne Wilson Professor of As the president, I want to know our students. Teaching lets me hear what’s on their minds, learn about Politics. What compels you their lives, and understand their hopes and concerns. That helps me do my job, which is to improve every to keep one foot in the aspect of the university to the greatest possible extent. I also want the students to know that teaching is the core classroom? of our mission. Very few university presidents teach, but it’s a priority for me. In the course I’m doing with Professor Strong, we’re exploring the purposes of a liberal arts education, how a university can provide an outstanding one, and how students can try to make the most of their opportunities at Washington and Lee. It’s a great topic for a university president and 12 first-years, and I’m having a lot of fun!

WHAT’S YOUR W&L IQ? Q BUTTERFLIES AND HIDDEN PAINTINGS To further mark the 50th anniversary of the Reeves Collection (see p. 5), test your knowledge of the stories behind the treasures.

1. The collection of Euchlin 2. In the mid-1970s, W&L ANSWERS: Reeves ’27L and his wife, Louise licensed a design from the 1. (C) The paintings were so grimy that Herreshoff Reeves, contained not collection — “Blue Porcelain people noticed only the frames. In only Chinese export porcelain but Butterfly” — for what purpose? Lexington, a gentle cleaning of the first painting “quite accidentally loosed an also paintings by Louise. How did A. T-shirts for the students explosion of color,” Whitehead wrote. He the paintings make their way to who worked with the Reeves and Marion Junkin ’27, then head of the W&L? Collection Fine Arts Department, discovered that the A. Crated by professional art B. Sheets and pillowcases talented Louise Herreshoff Reeves had left movers and insured for $1 million behind an astounding body of work. C. Wallpaper for the Woods 2. (B) Wamsutta produced bed linens; the B. Wrapped in blankets in the Creek apartments trunk of the car of Jim Whitehead, license brought the university substantial royalties, and the Reeves Center has a set the center’s founding director 3. Which of these alumni in its collection. C. A last-minute addition to the served as directors of the 3. (A and B) Following the retirement of moving van bringing the porcelain Reeves Center? founding director Whitehead in 1992, to Lexington A. Thomas V. Litzenburg Jr. ’57 Litzenburg took the post, followed by Grover in 2003. As a student, Perkins B. Peter D. Grover ’73 helped to unpack and catalog the collection, C. Bruce Perkins ’73 which inspired his own passion for art. Ann T. “Holly” Bailey served as associate director from 2002 to 2006. Ronald W. Fuchs II is now the curator.

8 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE DUBYUHNELL DAY

VIRGINIA KETTLES ’19 The Novelist, Tour Guide and Actress Takes a Bow BY ERICA TURMAN PHOTO BY KEVIN REMINGTON KEVIN BY PHOTO

1. STORYTELLER 2. ON STAGE 3. TOUR GUIDE 4. FAVORITE CLASS: Kettles, who is majoring in Kettles has acted in three W&L A PEOPLE PERSON strategic communications with a productions: “Love’s Labour’s EXTRAORDINAIRE minor in creative writing, says, “I Lost” (Sir Nathaniel), “Legally Kettles, who hails from Los Kettles is really enjoying her usually have multiple narratives Blonde: The Musical” (Chutney), Angeles, California, works as a Social Psychology class. “The going at once and learned to love and “Sense and Sensibility” tour guide in Lee Chapel. “I enjoy way people affect and influence writing at an early age. Giving a (Fanny and Lucy). (The villain’s the performance of giving tours, others fascinates me the most,” voice to marginalized people in role seems to be a theme for her, and meeting people is my she says, “and the class really particular is very important to as Chutney, Fanny and Lucy all favorite aspect of the job. I’ve delves into that topic.” Learning me.” She is writing a novel, “The might fit that description.) “I see greeted visitors from all over the about such things as self- Habitat,” which “touches on teen acting as a great tool for writing, country. Visiting the chapel and presentation and confirmation drug use through a diverse set of in that it’s an avenue for me to the museum is a great way for biases has “helped me create characters.” She even took the delve into the minds of my people to learn more about the more realistic characters from bold step of contacting renowned characters and see through their university’s history.” Her family learning about the way people author Tom Wolfe ’51. “He replied eyes, feel their emotions, think has its own history at W&L: her think and act in social settings.” with some writing advice about their thoughts,” she says. “Acting parents, Lorena Manriquez ’88 how society influences characters,” involves a great deal of empathy, and Gregg Kettles ’88, met said Kettles. “I’ve taken that in and to be able to improve that during their student days here. mind as I’ve continued drafting aspect of myself has been hugely Her younger sister, Carolina, is a my novel.” beneficial for my storytelling.” senior at the United World College in New Mexico.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 9 Walter “Buddy” Nicklin ’67, who served as a chaplain’s assistant in Europe, recalled how the war changed his viewpoint. “When I was at W&L, I was more interested in poetry and personal experiences and beautiful sunsets, not really politics…But the Vietnam War and being drafted made me understand that politics is always what society is all about.”

10 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE W&L ALUMNI LOOK BACK AT THE VIETNAM WAR AND HOW IT CHANGED THEM. BY LINDSEY NAIR

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 11 WHAT THE HELL WAS HAPPENING in Vietnam were drafted, and that included In the mid-1960s, the conflict in Vietnam was a some W&L alumni. One of those men was topic on the nightly news and in classrooms at Walter “Buddy” Nicklin ’67, who considers W&L, but not at parties or in the locker room. himself fortunate because he was sent to As Mac Holladay ’67 put it, “I think people were Europe to work as a chaplain’s assistant and aware. The build-up had started, but it had not never made it to Vietnam. On the occasion of reached a fever pitch yet. We just didn’t know his 50th W&L reunion, he wrote an essay for very much about it because we were all the May 5, 2017, edition of The New York concentrating on our studies and going on Times, recounting the personal anxiety and about the future.” moral questioning created by the draft. There were a few exceptions: In the basement Barry Crosby, the young man who sat in the of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house every glow of that fraternity house TV with Jones as night, Alex Jones ’68 and Barry Crosby ’68 they watched the news, was not so fortunate. watched Walter Cronkite deliver the “CBS Jones was on a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf of Evening News.” “Barry and I shared something Tonkin when he found out that Crosby had that not many other people in my fraternity at been killed. He was one of 18 W&L alumni who the time seemed to,” Jones said, “which was a died in Vietnam (see p. 14 for their names). concern and interest in what the hell was “Whenever I go anywhere near the Vietnam happening in Vietnam.” Monument in Washington, I always visit his As the situation escalated, however, plenty of name,” Jones said. “It was a personal loss that, students began to feel anxious. Many had I think, a lot of the people who knew Barry felt already planned to attend graduate school, get very powerfully.” married, or both, which could result in a temporary deferment prior to the draft lottery CULTURAL DIVIDE of 1969; those who hadn’t considered those The Vietnam War was a frustrating and Three dozen members of the Class of 1967 options began to regard them with greater difficult one to fight, in an inhospitable climate crowded the stage in Stackhouse Theater on interest. Still others had medical deferments, with unfamiliar terrain. The cultural divide Alumni Weekend this past April. As the and there were a few conscientious objectors. between Americans and Vietnamese made it audience looked on, retired Navy SEAL Bill A percentage of each class joined the ROTC harder to distinguish friend from foe. Guerrilla Wildrick ’67 thanked each man on stage for his at W&L, including Oram, who followed the warfare made for a particularly deadly and service, presented him with a black-and-gold advice his father gave him as they drove to dirty fight. pin, and gave him a crisp salute. Lexington for his freshman year. Participating Washington and Lee alumni were among the The occasion commemorated much more in ROTC allowed Oram to be commissioned as a men who put their lives in danger for a war than a 50th class reunion for these alumni — it second lieutenant after graduation, but that was that sometimes felt pointless. They went on marked a half-century since they were forced to still no guarantee of safety during Vietnam. He intelligence-gathering missions, set up face a future they could not have anticipated as ended up as an Army Ranger commanding a ambushes, marched through jungles pocked happy-go-lucky teenagers. company in the 101st Airborne Division, with punji pits, and watched comrades “I went to Vietnam as a 22-year-old boy,” said otherwise known as the Screaming Eagles. impaled on sharpened, feces-covered stakes. Jim Oram ’67, “and came home as a 24-year-old In another effort to prevent being drafted They dodged bullets, rescued airmen from man. I was a completely different person.” and sent straight to the rice paddies as downed planes, and had their Jeeps blown up The United States’ official commemoration of infantrymen, some students applied for officer by kids with C-4 explosive. the 50th anniversary of Vietnam stretches from training programs. Jones, Holladay and That’s merely a sampling of the tales they 2012 to 2025. Although W&L does not have Wildrick were accepted to Navy Officer tell, which are usually short on the most detailed records of the number of alumni who Candidate School, after which Jones became a troubling details. Of course, it does not begin served, many classes that have already naval officer, and Holladay became a search- to encompass the memories that will stay celebrated a 50th reunion, and some that have and-rescue pilot. Wildrick, who stood out as a buried in gray matter for the rest of their lives. yet to reach that mark, are likely to include swimmer and runner at W&L, became a Sea Air Oram starkly summed up the reason so Vietnam veterans. Land commando before most people had ever many veterans have kept mum about their Dr. William Sledge ’67, a psychiatrist who heard of a Navy SEAL. (He retired in 2005 as service: “There are some things that are too studied the effects of imprisonment on Air the last active-duty SEAL platoon officer who scary to even recall and try to talk about. Some Force POWs during and after Vietnam, took served in Vietnam.) of us might have done stuff we’re not very part in a panel discussion with other veterans Bruce Rider ’66 went through Air Force proud of. When you are secretly scared to that preceded the pinning ceremony at W&L in Officer Training School (OTS), but not before death and you are a ranger commando, you April. Later, he noted that while some veterans facing a dilemma: He had already started aren’t going to tell anybody.” still prefer to leave their stories untold, many classes at Princeton Theological Seminary when When these soldiers came home, it was not have grown increasingly comfortable reminisc- he got the call about his application to OTS. to the victory parades and hero worship with ing as the decades have passed, particularly Most of his fellow students at Princeton wanted which World War II veterans were met — it with their families and one another. to stay safely ensconced there, but every was to a country that was deeply divided over “I think that when you get older, it doesn’t generation of Rider’s family, dating back to the the war, and that offered few support systems. matter whether you have been in a war or not, Revolutionary War, had joined the military. Veterans were alternately spit upon, goaded you start thinking about your life in a different “I felt an obligation to be part of the family into fistfights, and ignored. way,” he said. “You particularly want to tell your tradition to serve in the military,” he said. “I did “Vietnam was full of ambiguity and family about it, you want to revisit it ... so you not want to start a career in the ministry just to misunderstanding, and a lot of conflict in the remember stuff, and you value the opportunity avoid service.” general culture about whether we should be to let people listen to it.” It is estimated that 25 percent of the forces fighting this kind of war,” said Sledge, the T12 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE 1 2

More Memories

1. MAC HOLLADAY ’67 ON THE DANGERS OF WAR: “I had all kinds of experiences. I tied my seaplane up to a palm tree, rescued people from a downed aircraft on two B52 crashes off Guam, which was tragic. I had a fire in my H34 — a crewman we affectionately called Pineap- ple put it out at great risk to himself. Once, I was trying to rescue a man in a typhoon, and the helicopter turned virtually upside-down. I got shot at a few times. But I certainly was not in harm’s way like [Jim] Oram and the guys on the ground were.”

2. DR. WILLIAM SLEDGE ’67 ON THE PRISONERS OF WAR HE MET THROUGH HIS RESEARCH: “First, I was enormously touched by the humanity of these people and was very 3 4 proud to be associated with them. Before them, I didn’t think they were anything special, just people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. But these were everyday folks who discovered what they were made of and were proud of it, and I was enormously impressed by them.”

3. JIM ORAM ’67 ON FEAR OF DYING: “It never occurred to me that I could be killed. That wasn’t on my radar until I got over there, then it got on my radar pretty quickly. I even said to my wife, ‘You don’t have to worry about me. I’m not going to be killed.’ But once I got there, I didn’t have a fear of dying so much as a fear of letting my soldiers down. And I can’t lie, there was also an element of excitement after every incident. It’s like jumping out of an airplane.”

4. BILL WILDRICK ’67 ON HIS CHILDREN AND THE MILITARY: “The kids don’t really ask about Vietnam. They used to love to wear the T-shirts and paraphernalia. I didn’t get any one of them to go into the military. The closest 5 thing was that my daughter was in the Girl 6 Scouts. I talked to her about maybe being an intelligence officer, and she finally said, ‘Look, Dad, I’ve heard your spiel, and I appreciate what you did, and I support you 100 percent, but if I develop an interest, I’ll let you know.’”

5. BRUCE RIDER ’66 ON WAR: “Anybody who is in favor of war has really not been in one. I think we have a responsibility to build peace in our lives where we are. You try to live a better life as a result of warfare and you tend to have fewer strongly held views … most rigid people just don’t have the experience or the appreciation or the empathy that war survivors should have.”

6. THE COMMEMORATIVE PIN: Class veterans of 1967 were honored at a pinning ceremony during their 50th reunion.

Military photos, including cover MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU shot, 13 courtesy of W&L alumni. only ones who don’t feel guilty are the ones certainly changed my outlook on diversity and who got killed, and that’s just because they the world.” W&L LIVES LOST can’t.” “I think the war was a good experience in William Michael Akers ’58 terms of exposing me to things I otherwise A DESIRE TO SERVE wouldn’t be exposed to, and it also politicized Charles Christopher Bonnet ’65 No matter their military branch, service me,” Nicklin said. “When I was at W&L, I was William Caspari III ’58 experience, or political leaning, most of the more interested in poetry and personal Robert Barry Crosby ’68 alumni veterans interviewed for this article experiences and beautiful sunsets, not really Jon Price Evans ’37 said that the war, as difficult as it was, spit politics. I thought politics was kind of a waste Robert Morrow Fortune ’67 them out as better people than they had been of time and for silly people, but the Vietnam when they went in. They seem to share a Henry Poellnitz Johnston Jr. ’70 War and being drafted made me understand lifelong desire to serve their communities and that politics is always what society is all about.” Leo John Kelly Jr. ’66 their country. Washington and Lee has worked with John Peter Luzis Jr. ’70 Holladay, haunted by an image of naked, alumni to create opportunities for Vietnam-era James Howard Monroe ’66 hungry children picking over a garbage dump graduates to return to campus and reconnect Thomas Alexander Nalle Jr. ’54 in Indonesia, remembers thinking, “If I can get over their shared experiences. In 2009, the Ronald Oliver Scharnberg ’63 home safely, I want to try and make sure university held a well-attended Alumni College nobody in my hometown of Memphis is ever program titled “Vietnam: A Retrospective.” Louis Otey Smith ’58 looking for something to eat.” He devoted his This year’s Alumni Weekend panel discussion, Jay Webster Stull ’60 entire career to community and economic which featured Holladay, Sledge and Oram, Frederick Nicholas Suttle Jr. ’67 development not only in Memphis, but also along with historian and author George Walter Ludman Toy ’63 across the nation. Herring, brought veterans together to Scott Mitchell Verner ’65 Sledge continued his research with POWs reminisce about both the war years and their James Schenler Wood ’63 and became one of the first psychiatrists to W&L careers. publish on what is now known as post-trau- “I thought one of the things that was matic growth. Rider is involved in multiple wonderful about our seminar was the psychiatrist. “We didn’t win it, we lost it. And a civic activities, including veterans’ organiza- opportunity to hear different perspectives and lot of people lost their lives. There is a bitter tions, fraternal groups, the historical society, see the interest that we all have in those sense of loss and ineptitude on our part and on the part of politicians.” As a result of his experience as an Air Force intelligence officer, Rider went legally blind within a year of coming home. Other fallout “I relied on people of all colors and shapes from the war included a lost job and a failed marriage, and he remembers feeling incredibly and attitudes during my five years of service, alone. and it certainly changed my outlook on “This is hard to conceptualize, but some- thing died inside of me,” he said. Although he diversity and the world.” was proud of his service, he said, “There was this part that was just dark and angry and –Mac Holladay ’67 resentful.” Most veterans had to come to terms with the U.S. government’s handling of the war, and solidify their own opinions about it, which and his local library. Jones is a Pulitzer different perspectives of all the people who sometimes changed drastically after they came Prize-winning journalist. Wildrick became an served,” Holladay said. “It was personal for home. Holladay, who now suffers from instructor who helped to set up reserve SEAL each one of us.” peripheral neuropathy and COPD as a result of support commands on the East and West his exposure to Agent Orange, decided within coasts, providing the closest link between The magazine welcomes additional memories the last decade to read everything he could find active and reserve forces in the 30-year history from W&L alumni about the Vietnam War about the war. “I have learned a lot, and I of the Naval Special Warfare Reserve. era, and may publish some of those comments certainly understand that we were misled and Oram has served on the board of directors in a future issue or on the website. Whether lied to, and that if there was a way to win, we for the child services organization that you went to Vietnam or not — and for any did not do that,” he said. “We didn’t try to do arranged his own adoption when he was a reason — we are interested in hearing that, I don’t believe.” baby. He is also an elected supervisor in his about your experience. Please email us at Some vets also harbor feelings of guilt for township, and is involved in the local veterans’ [email protected]. reasons they may or may not be able to organization and other nonprofits. “I realize articulate. “I can tell you that goes all the way even more, now that I’ve started talking about up to guys who won the Medal of Honor but Vietnam, that my whole life has been building feel guilty because they survived and the other toward this crescendo of service,” he said. guys didn’t,” Oram said. “Others feel guilty Some of these veterans recognize that if it because they didn’t get into combat. I’m in the had not been for the war, they may never have middle: I did what I did and I survived, and I been exposed to different races or cultures. feel guilty that I couldn’t do more. “We are all created equal,” Holladay said. “I “That is a common thread that goes all the relied on people of all colors and shapes and way back to the beginning of mankind. The attitudes during my five years of service, and it

14 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE EIGHT DAYS IN MAY During the Vietnam era, college campuses became hot spots of political unrest. W&L’s campus remained relatively quiet — until May 1970. On May 4, Ohio National Guard members shot four unarmed students during a war protest at Kent State. At W&L, the shootings sparked a week of rallies, meetings and debates now remembered as “Eight Days in May.”

TUESDAY, MAY 5: Some FRIDAY, MAY 8: About 900 body votes to cancel 400 to 500 students students meet in front of classes, retroactive to May stage a rally on the Front Lee Chapel, where 6 and through Fall Term. Lawn. Some suggest Executive Committee Faculty gather, and some boycotting classes or President Marvin Henberg support closure, but closing the university in ’70 presents the resolu- Huntley refuses, citing light of national events. tion and invites discus- obligations to the trustees President Robert E.R. sion. The vote is post- and the university charter Huntley ’50, ’57L leaves poned until Monday. to keep the school open. his Law School class to Instead, faculty reiterate warn the crowd against that students who wish to SATURDAY, MAY 9: Reunion violence and to encourage take incomplete grades Weekend (and the annual civil exchange of opinions. may inform them in Alumni Association He gets a standing writing by May 21. Upset meeting) takes place. ovation. students boycott classes. Many students travel to Washington for large WEDNESDAY, MAY 6: About demonstrations, while TUESDAY, MAY 12: Students 30 to 40 students picket others, half-dressed and hold an assembly on the on the Colonnade; about unshaven, hang around in Front Lawn and read a 200 travel to a Charlot- tents they’ve pitched on statement condemning the tesville rally. campus. Students and faculty motion. Huntley alumni have constructive calls a student meeting, discussions about the war, assuring them that “lack THURSDAY, MAY 7: Some of agreement” from the students meet with and alumni praise Huntley for his leadership. faculty and administration Huntley to request relief does not equal a lack of from classes to partici- concern. “I must say I pate in the student SUNDAY, MAY 10: Students believe you have movement. About 100 hold a memorial service in succeeded in bringing this gather in the Cockpit the University Center student body into a sense (University Center tavern) (now Evans Hall) for the of community, a sense of for an open forum, Kent State victims. The willingness to talk, a sense resulting in a resolution to SEC endorses the of willingness to share close the university for resolution to close W&L deep conviction, a sense the year. The faculty but wants students to be of dedication to something declines to cancel classes able to continue classes if higher than self,” he tells but allows students to they wish. Debate them. receive an incomplete continues into the grade until Sept. 30, when evening. Source: “Washington and the “I” will be replaced by Lee University, 1930-2000: an “F” if work is not MONDAY, MAY 11: Some 78 Tradition and Transforma- completed. percent of the student tion” by Blaine A. Brownell ’65 (see p. 22)

TOP: Students picket along the Colonnade in May 1970 during “Eight Days in May.” CENTER: President Robert Huntley ’50, ’57L looks on from the Colonnade as students stage a protest. BOTTOM: Students gather on the Front Lawn to hear Marvin C. “Swede” Henberg ’70, president of the Executive Committee of the Student Body.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 15 PRESIDENT DUDLEY TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE FROM RECTOR DON CHILDRESS ’70.

AN INAUGURATION TRADITION: ALL THE LIVING PRESIDENTS, PAST AND CURRENT. FROM LEFT: LARRY BOETSCH ’69, TOM BURISH, WILL DUDLEY, KEN RUSCIO ’76, HARLAN BECKLEY.

16 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE CELEBRATING W&L’S  27TH PRESIDENT “What we do here is a sheer joy,” said President Dudley. “Time on a college campus is a gift. Let us not forget to celebrate.”

BY DREWRY SACKETT PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEVIN REMINGTON

ON SEPT. 16, W&L INAUGURATED WILLIAM C. DUDLEY as the greetings from alumni; and Lexington City Council member Marylin E. university’s 27th president in a ceremony on the Front Lawn. Alexander welcomed Dudley on behalf of the community. “Although liberal arts education is the antithesis of job training, it Also lending their presence to the inauguration were Larry Boetsch also happens to be the best form of professional preparation,” he told the ’69, acting president, 2001–2002; Thomas G. Burish, president, 2002– audience. “It expands our horizons, develops our capacities, and 2005; Harlan R. Beckley, acting president, 2005–2006; and Ken Ruscio increases our flexibility. Nothing could be more valuable than that in the ’76, president, 2006–2016. 21st century. The liberal arts are not soft and weak, but, like the martial In addition, students, alumni, faculty and staff, and delegates arts, devastatingly powerful. represented 65 universities and colleges and five learned societies and “The problem we face is not that liberal arts education is insuffi- educational organizations. ciently valuable. The problem is that the highest quality liberal arts Following introductions by Gregory M. Avis, former chair of the education is so valuable that there’s a moral, social and political Williams College board of trustees, and Steven G. Poskanzer, president of imperative to make it more widely available and affordable. This is a Carleton College, Dudley addressed the crowd. challenge of scale that no single institution can solve, but to which He built on the foundation laid by the previous day’s panelists in Washington and Lee does and must contribute.” stressing the importance of the liberal arts in today’s world. Dudley also Inauguration activities kicked off the previous afternoon, Sept. 15, reiterated the importance of continuing to work on achieving greater with a panel discussion, “Liberal Arts and the Professions.” Suzanne racial and social diversity on Washington and Lee’s campus, and set a Keen, dean of the College and Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English, goal of raising resources to become “one of fewer than 40 schools in the moderated it. Panelists were Kelly Evans Chemi ’07, representing entire country that practice need-blind admission, while continuing to journalism; William H. Miller III ’72, representing finance; Dr. Harold E. meet 100 percent of the demonstrated financial need for every student.” Varmus, representing medicine; and the Hon. Gregory H. Woods, In addition, he cited the university’s role in making an important representing law. The panelists, all of whom received undergraduate contribution to the current debates about the ways that the histories of degrees from liberal arts institutions, discussed the benefits of a liberal slavery, the Civil War and segregation are told and memorialized. arts education, and the resulting influence on their varied careers. “The histories of our namesakes and of our institution and of our The Sept. 16 inauguration ceremony began with a performance of nation are delightfully deep and multi-dimensional,” said Dudley. “It is a “America Singing,” an original composition by Shane Lynch, associate pleasure, as well as a necessity, to read them slowly, with open minds and professor of music, and commissioned to celebrate the inauguration. The an appreciation of nuance, with humility that mitigates against easy piece was performed by the University Singers, accompanied by Bethany judgment, never forgetting that disagreement is compatible with mutual Reitsma ’20 and Tiffany Ko ’20 on the violin, Allie Jue ’20 on the viola, affection, and that respectful conversation facilitates communal cohesion and Emma Rabuse ’20 on the cello. rather than corrosion.” Ted DeLaney ’85, associate professor of history, and Joan In closing, Dudley offered a reminder of the enjoyment associated Shaughnessy, the Roger D. Groot Professor of Law, offered greetings on with teaching and learning. “What we do here is also a sheer joy. . . . behalf of the faculty. Mary Woodson, assistant director of Time on a college campus is a gift. Let us not forget to celebrate.” Communications and Public Affairs, spoke for the staff; Mason Grist ’18, president of the student body, represented the students; Michael R. Read the full text of Dudley’s remarks: go.wlu.edu/inauguration-text McGarry, ’87, president of the Alumni Board of Directors, offered Watch the entire ceremony: go.wlu.edu/inauguration-livestream

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 17 What a University Should Do

PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRICK HINELY ’73 AND KEVIN REMINGTON

A new commission promotes Dudley acknowledged that W&L and Lexington Lee will set a national example for how this have “a complex history with regard to the work should be done, and that our own deeper understanding of the Confederate symbols and figures around which community will be better and stronger for many facets of W&L’s rich, these hateful groups are rallying.” He asserted having done it.” that “W&L’s institutional values are antitheti- Dudley also emphasized the importance of complex history. cal to the vile ideologies that we saw on full studying the issues from an academic display in Charlottesville . . ., and they call us perspective. In that vein, the Office of the to speak out in opposition when confronted Provost developed a year-long academic series n the wake of the racial violence with such detestable behavior.” entitled “Washington and Lee: Education and in Charlottesville in August, Dudley subsequently empaneled the History,” which features a variety of lectures Washington and Lee was again Commission on Institutional History and and other opportunities for conversation. A I thrust into the middle of the Community. His goal, described in an Aug. 24 schedule of those events is in the sidebar on national conversation about message to the community, is for the commis- p. 20; many are available to watch online. white supremacy and Confederate memory sion to “lead us in an examination of how our On Aug. 31, the president named the — especially when that conversation turned to history — and the ways we teach, discuss and 12-member commission, comprising faculty, Robert E. Lee, the former Confederate general represent it — shapes our community.” staff, students and alumni (see FAQ, opposite). who served as president of this institution from The commission’s work, he continued, will Brian Murchison, the Charles S. Rowe 1865 to 1870. include “studying how our physical campus, a Professor of Law and a 35-year veteran of the In the immediate aftermath, President Will significant portion of which is a National faculty, serves as chair. Dudley praised the Dudley, who was born in Charlottesville, wrote Historic Landmark, can be presented in ways members’ willingness to participate in what is to the community a day after sending a that take full advantage of its educational certain to be a difficult, time-consuming message of support and solidarity to Teresa potential and are consistent with our core process. “I made 12 phone calls and got 12 Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia. values. I am confident that Washington and affirmative responses,” he said. “I wanted to

18 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE make sure that we had people absolutely conversation facilitates communal cohesion devoted to W&L and to what’s best for W&L. rather than corrosion.” COMMISSION FAQ They are all thoughtful, open-minded, Who is on the commission, and deliberate and respected.” THE ROAD AHEAD how were they chosen? The 12 members of the commission met in President Dudley nominated September and then held a two-day, on-campus A RENEWED SPOTLIGHT members with relevant professional In the days following the events in retreat in October. They created several task expertise and a range of roles in the Charlottesville, where the debate over Lee’s forces and began planning opportunities to university community. The commis- statue had been a backdrop for the protests, gather feedback from the community in the sion is composed of 12 thoughtful, local TV stations trained their cameras on Lee coming months. highly respected individuals, Chapel and asked students to share their Murchison praised the seriousness of representing faculty, staff, students views, and national media included the purpose with which the members have and alumni. Half are W&L alumni, and university in the unfolding story. Barton Myers, approached the task. “From our first meeting I one third are African-American. They W&L associate professor of history, who could see that this group had the gift of being are: Brian Murchison (School of Law), researches the Civil War, addressed the able to work together. The chemistry was chair; Ted DeLaney ’85 (History), similarities and differences between Lee and there,” he said. “In October, when we met Melissa Kerin (Art History), Thomas George Washington, the university’s other together over two days to hear each other’s Camden ’76 (Special Collections), namesake, in a wide-ranging interview with stories and to establish a bond, we discovered Elizabeth Mugo ’19, Heeth Varnadoe the Los Angeles Times. Former W&L President that we could be frank and challenging and ’19, Daniele San Roman ’19L, Mary Kenneth P. Ruscio ’76 appeared on CNN to still united on the goal that the president had Main (Human Resources), Trenya discuss the university’s 2014 decision to set out for us.” Mason ’05L (Law Student Affairs), remove replica Confederate flags from around During the October retreat, the commission Cynthia Cheatham ’07, Mike the “Recumbent Lee” statue in the chapel. The toured the campus to begin the exploration of McGarry ’87 and Phil Norwood ’69. Washington Post interviewed President Dudley, the physical spaces to which President Dudley along with several students and alumni, for a had referred in his charge (see photos on p. 21). What is on the commission’s story that examined not only W&L but also Murchison described that experience as both reading list? VMI and the city of Lexington. moving and instructive. Altogether, the 12 Part of the work of the commission In the meantime, lively, often passionate members have spent more than 275 years on involves delving into the university’s debates occurred on social media, while the the campus and in the community, ranging history and endeavoring to distin- Offices of the President and Alumni Affairs from Ted DeLaney ’85, associate professor of guish facts from myths. To this end, received several hundred emails. history, who was born and raised in Lexington, the members have been reading The postings and the stream of messages to Mary Main, executive director of human extensively, including relevant books, revealed that not only were opinions varied on resources, who arrived in 2016. articles and academic papers. A how the university could or should respond, “We had people who had seen the campus short bibliography that the members but also that there were clearly both misunder- develop over many years or who had been here selected and committed to read as standings and disagreements about W&L’s only a few years,” said Murchison. “As we initial sources of inquiry and study is institutional history and the ways it has been, walked past the newly created marker that available on the commission’s and should be, presented. records names of the enslaved men and women website (see below for URL). As these events unfolded, the campus was once owned by Washington College, the springing back to life for the Fall Term. Once Robinson obelisk on the Front Campus, and What power does the commission the students had returned, more than 400 of then into Lee Chapel, we all tried to see the have to enact change on campus? The commission is empowered to them signed a resolution affirming their campus through the lens of a visitor or a study and discuss the institution’s commitment to free speech, nonviolent civil first-year student. We were asking ourselves history, facilitate conversations discourse, mutual respect, improved diversity how the images would resonate and how we within the community, and make and inclusivity, and a condemnation of racist can tell the story of W&L to a new generation recommendations to the president. and extremist ideologies. W&L’s chapter of while remaining true to its history and Their goal is to deliver a report to Amnesty International collected more than traditions.” President Dudley by the end of this 1,000 names in solidarity against white The commission has developed a reading list academic year. supremacy, turning those names into a paper for its members, and a preliminary version chain that symbolized a unified stand. appears on its website, which is also where How can I learn about or contribute Three weeks after he empaneled the individuals are invited to interact through an to the commission’s work? commission, President Dudley stood in front online comment form: go.wlu.edu/ Community outreach will include of Lee Chapel at his inauguration. He referred history-commission. topical conference calls and webinars to the challenges ahead, stating his belief “I think that I can speak for all the commis- this fall and winter, where members that Washington and Lee is “unusually well- sion members when I say that we recognize the will discuss their work and the positioned” to make an important contribution importance of our work and that there is a feedback they have received, and to the national debate: “The histories of our great sense of wanting to carry that work out take questions from participants. namesakes, of our institution, and of our properly and carefully and with respect for nation are delightfully deep and multi-dimen- everybody who’s ever called this place their Look for updates sional. It is a pleasure, as well as a necessity, to home,” Murchison said. “The members want to • Emails from read them slowly, with open minds and an get this right, and that’s very inspiring.” [email protected] appreciation of nuance, with humility that • Generally Speaking email mitigates against easy judgment, never newsletter (monthly) forgetting that disagreement is compatible • Updates at go.wlu.edu/history- with mutual affection, and that respectful commission

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

While letters to the editor “The Lee I learned to venerate was a man who, usually appear in the as he said, made a decision to join the Confederacy for the sake of his family and his “Speak” section on p. 2, birth state. . . . Call me naive. I never stopped to wonder what his personal thoughts were on we opted to present here slavery. Okay, fool me once. So when the recent excerpts from these two, “We must confront, as a university uproar against the Confederate monuments in named in part after Robert E. Lee, the general spiked, I still didn’t think Lee was both sent in late August. true history of his role in the Civil War. guilty of anything more than choosing heritage While the commission and Lee violated his oath to the Constitu- over country, and that even seemed noble. So tion. He served at the head of an army when he became the symbol of the the Offices of the President at war against our country. He fought to Confederacy and the statue no one wanted as and Alumni Affairs have perpetuate the enslavement of our yard art in any public space, I didn’t defend fellow Americans. This enslavement was him, but I did wonder whether the treatment received hundreds of letters one of the greatest sins perpetrated in he was receiving was fair. Something didn’t the history of our country. . . . Following seem right. Fool me twice, that’s not cricket. expressing a wide variety the war, Lee was not repentant for his Now I know more about his evident racism support of this sin. He spoke against from his own letters and other writings. . . . of viewpoints, these are the vote for African-Americans. He Now, when I look at my carefully framed allowed students to engage in racist the only letters on this diploma and my carefully framed portrait of attacks on the local Freedmen’s School. General Lee, I am of two minds. It seems topic that the magazine These actions stand in contrast to his ridiculous now to display them, but painful to admirable work rebuilding the institu- had received as we went think I shouldn’t. The very name of the tion. . . . We can recognize Lee’s efforts university is entangled with Lee’s slave-owning. to press. to shore up Washington College. We cannot ignore the rest of Lee’s I am not ashamed to have gone to school there. behavior.” Instead, I feel like a certain gray wool was pulled over our eyes for generations.” JASON HAHN ’99 JAMES RICKS CARSON ’69

ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES

Washington and Lee: 2017 Nov. 2 Sept. 6 Blaine Brownell ’65 (author of “Washington Education and History Convocation Address: Danielle Allen (profes- and Lee University, 1930-2000: Tradition and sor, Harvard University), “Democracy 101: We Transformation”), “Race, Civil Rights, and W&L This yearlong series brings intellectuals, Hold These Truths…” in the 1960s” (see p. 22) scholars and writers to campus to contribute to the study of W&L’s history and culture. While Sept. 17 2018 many of the events had been on the schedule Constitution Day Lecture: Col. Ty Seidule ’84 Jan. 15 prior to the start of the academic year, others (history department chair, U.S. Military Martin Luther King Jr. Day Address: Bernice were added and will continue to be added. Academy at West Point), “Robert E. Lee and King (daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Me: Reflections on Confederate Memory by a Jr., CEO of the King Center) “These programs are meant to continue and W&L Graduate, Soldier and Scholar” complement our constant self-examination Jan. 18 — to deepen our understanding of ourselves and Sept. 29 Founders Day Address: Charles Dew (professor, the challenge of who we are and what we do as Alfred Brophy (professor, University of Williams College, and author of “The Making, a university in 21st-century America.” Alabama), “Debating Slavery and Freedom at and Unmaking, of a Racist: A Southerner – Provost Marc Conner Washington College, 1831-1861” Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade”) Watch these talks online: go.wlu.edu/ Oct. 18 education-and-history Jonathan Rauch (Brookings Institution), March 18-24 “Unpresidented: Governing in the Age of Allen Guelzo (director of Civil War Era Studies, Chaos” Gettysburg College), lecture and discussion

20 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE MARY CUSTIS LEE 1 DIED NOVEMBER 22 ,1918. 2 3

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JOHN CHAVIS

John Chavis (1763·18381, a free-born African­ American veteran of the American Revolution wu " n&the or Granvllle County, North Carolina. He was also one of the first college-educated men of color In the United States, Chavis studied &t the College of New Jersey by 1796. The Lexington Presbytery llcensed him to preach In 1800, Chavl• returned to North Carolin& where he t&ught free blacks In the evenings &nd white students by day. One of the latter was Willie P. Mangum who bec&me a U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

THE STORY OF CAMPUS EXPLORING OUR PHYSICAL SPACES

1. Lee Chapel interior. “The Recumbent Lee” Lee Chapel, on ground level. The Lee Chapel 5. McCormick statue. This is not a statue of statue occupies the chamber at the rear of Museum and gift shop are on this level as well. Robert E. Lee, as many mistakenly believe. It Lee Chapel. It is not Robert E. Lee’s tomb- depicts Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884), a 3. Robinson obelisk. The obelisk on the stone; he is buried in the mausoleum native of Rockbridge County, who invented front campus commemorates “Jockey” underneath the building. In 2014, the the mechanical grain reaper and founded the John Robinson. In 1826, under the terms university removed replica Confederate battle business that would become the International of his will, Washington College inherited his flags from the chamber. On the left side of Harvester Co. McCormick was a trustee and entire estate, including 73 enslaved African- the stage hangs “George Washington as benefactor of the university; from 1941 to American women, men and children. In the Colonel in the Virginia Regiment,” a 2007 1979, the W&L library was called the McCor- background is the 19th-century Robinson Hall, copy by Bradley Stevens after the 1772 mick Library. The statue arrived in 1931 during named for this benefactor. On the building’s original portrait by Charles Willson Peale. On the centennial commemoration of the reaper. the right side of the stage is “Robert E. Lee,” east side is the historical marker a 2007 copy by Bradley Stevens after a 1904 remembering those enslaved people. 6. Chavis marker. A state historical marker, installed in 2008 outside Evans Hall, portrait by Theodore Pine, painted after an 4. Historical marker. The university added commemorates John Chavis (1763-1838), the 1864 photograph by Julian Vannerson. W&L this historical marker in 2016 on the east side African-American man who graduated from commissioned the copies when it loaned the of Robinson Hall. It displays reproductions of W&L’s predecessor, Liberty Hall Academy, in original Peale for an exhibition. documents from 1826 and 1834 that list the the late 1790s. 2. Mausoleum. The remains of the Lee family enslaved persons whom Washington College are interred in the mausoleum at the rear of inherited from “Jockey” John Robinson, hired out and sold.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 21 BROWNELL’S BOOK COVERS A CHALLENGING PERIOD FOR AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCA- TION, AS IT INCLUDES THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WORLD WAR II, SHIFTING PATTERNS OF FUNDING, THE VIETNAM WAR, AND SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS.

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BookBY LINDSEY NAIR PHOTOGRAPH BY SHELBY MACK Blaine Brownell earned a degree in history from Washington and Lee in 1965, so he must have experienced a sense of déjà vu when, decades later, he found himself hunched over books and papers in the school library. This time, however, the circumstances had changed. For one thing, the university was paying him, not the other way around.

n 2010, W&L commissioned who served between 1930 and 1995: Francis P. It was a no-brainer to include the word Brownell, a notable historian, Gaines, Fred C. Cole, Robert E.R. Huntley ’50, “tradition” in the title of any book about W&L, professor and college administra- ’57L, and John Wilson. (John Elrod’s presidency but it became just as important to draw out the tor, who served as the 12th extended beyond 2000, so his term awaits a stories of transformation, he said. If the I president of Ball State University, future historian.) In addition to presidents, university had not adapted to the changing to write a history that picked up where Ollinger Brownell strove to include as many influential world, it could never have sustained its Crenshaw’s 1969 work, “General Lee’s College: players as possible, whether they were trustees, traditions. The Rise and Growth of Washington and Lee administrators, coaches, alumni, professors, “Frank Gilliam used to say to alumni who University,” left off. The result is “Washington student leaders or donors. were distressed with almost any change they and Lee University, 1930–2000: Tradition and Brownell, who lives near Charlottesville, saw on campus, that if this university had not Transformation.” found most of the primary source materials for changed since you had been here, you wouldn’t The 70-year slice of W&L’s 268-year history is his book in W&L’s Special Collections & be proud of it,” he said, referring to the late available in hardcover at online and brick-and- Archives, where he grew so close to the staff that dean of students. mortar retailers, including the University he refers to them as “extended family.” His wife, By the time Brownell embarked on the book Bookstore. It was published by LSU Press, and Mardi, was his research assistant and copier- project, he had spent 45 years away from funded by a generous gift from the W&L Class of in-chief. Washington and Lee, earning an M.A. and a 1966 on the occasion of their 50th reunion. “When I started, I didn’t know what was Ph.D from the University of North Carolina at Brownell’s book covers a challenging period there or how much,” he said. “If I was teaching Chapel Hill, then serving as professor, senior for American higher education, as it includes [at W&L] now, I would have a whole slew of administrator and academic consultant at a the Great Depression, World War II, shifting projects that I could recommend to students number of universities. Having completed the patterns of funding, the Vietnam War, and because of things I know that I just didn’t have W&L history, he said he feels closer to his alma social and cultural revolutions. Washington a chance to follow up on.” mater than ever before. and Lee also weathered its own storms For example, he said, he didn’t have time to “I certainly have a much more in-depth between 1930 and 2000, such as the athletic chase down details about important national appreciation for the university and the cheating scandal of 1954 and the debate over documents that were hidden at W&L during challenges it has faced.” coeducation in the 1980s. WWII to keep them safe. He also would have Brownell decided to approach the history enjoyed fleshing out the history of the Law Go online: To watch videos of Blaine Brownell from the perspective of the institution’s School, spending more time on the work of discussing his new book and the process of presidents because the university is “embraced individual faculty members, and telling researching and writing it, please go to in their perspective.” He focused on the four stories about noteworthy people who visited go.wlu.edu/Brownell “very well-qualified, very engaged” presidents the university.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 23 - Something Old, Something New

After more than 10 years and $50 million, the restoration and renovation of Washington and Lee’s hallowed Colonnade is complete.

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STUDENTS WEREN’T THE ONLY members of the Washington and Glavé & Holmes of Richmond served as architects throughout the Lee community who moved into new digs on campus for Fall Term. At project, and Kjellstrom + Lee of Staunton as construction managers. the end of August, 30 faculty and staff unpacked boxes and settled into O’Byrne Contracting Inc., owned by Elizabeth O’Byrne King ’00, did offices in a beautifully renovated Tucker Hall. custom millwork, and many other local craftspeople were also involved. The completion of Tucker Hall marked the end of the extensive All of the work aligned with the secretary of the interior’s Standards for restoration and renovation of the entire Colonnade, a project that took the Treatment of Historic Properties, and historic tax credits yielded more than 10 years and $50 million. The undertaking was the center- more than $7 million that went back into the project. Every building piece of W&L’s most recent capital campaign. submitted for certification through the Leadership in Energy and “It’s a great feeling after many years in the Baker Hall swing space to Environmental Design (LEED) program achieved a silver rating. come back to the Colonnade — and to come, for the first time, to Tucker Kalasky said just about every building offered a neat surprise in the Hall,” said Alex Brown, Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Religion. form of a hidden architectural feature or quirky find. The team worked “How nice to come to spaces that seem, figuratively speaking, to have with Alison Bell ’91, associate professor of anthropology, to assess been expecting us.” potentially important discoveries along the way. Outside Robinson Hall, Prior to the renovation, the five buildings that make up the National Bell and her team uncovered thousands of artifacts from the early 1800s, Historic Landmark — Newcomb, Payne, Washington, Robinson and including a penknife, medicine vials and pieces of pottery. All are Tucker halls — were not up to modern standards for safety and fire believed to have come from Graham Hall, a classroom and dormitory protection, or for contemporary learning and teaching. They had not built in 1804 and demolished in 1835. been updated since 1936, around the time Tucker Hall was rebuilt after Ultimately, the Colonnade job took much longer than the original the original structure burned down. estimate of five years, in part because Facilities Management had to set In addition, decades of structural changes, such as the 1980s insertion up swing space for faculty and staff to use while buildings were under of a mezzanine in the two-story former law library at the rear of Tucker construction. In addition, W&L undertook other large capital projects, Hall, had covered up original features. “A lot of our work was just taking including the Ruscio Center for Global Learning, upper-division housing, off all the things that had been melted onto the buildings over the years Stemmons Plaza and the new natatorium, during the same time frame. and restoring them to their simple elegance,” said Tom Kalasky, director The result of all that hard work on the Colonnade is a perfect marriage of capital projects. of state-of-the-art, 21st-century functionality and freshly maintained The restoration involved updating electrical and fire protection 19th-century beauty. systems, replacing window air conditioning and radiator heat with “To be involved in a project like this, and to work with a project team modern mechanical systems, adding restrooms to the upper floors, of that caliber, was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity, so it has been very improving handicapped accessibility, creating more office space, and fulfilling,” Kalasky said. upgrading technology — all in a way that was environmentally friendly and sustainable. To view a slideshow of the Colonnade restoration with more project highlights, see go.wlu.edu/colonnade-slideshow.

24 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE REMOVING THE 1980S MEZZANINE THAT BLOCKED THE LARGE WINDOWS BRIGHTENS UP THIS SPACE IN TUCKER HALL.

THE TWO-STORY SPACE WAS RESTORED TO CREATE THE LEMON READING ROOM, COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL PLASTER CEILING AND CORNICE WORK.

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26 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE OFFICE HOURS - Rebecca R. Benefiel The associate professor of classics recently won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the digitization of Pompeian epigraphy, along with Sara Sprenkle, associate professor of computer science.

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WHAT DREW YOU TO THE We move forward more changed it to “citizens.” He with author Toni Morrison productively when we are had lived his entire life and even actor Tom OUTSIDE THE STUDY OF CLASSICS? working together. under a monarchy. How Hiddleston — what do they I began studying Latin and The growth of digital did he have to shift his way have in common? They all CLASSROOM enjoyed learning about humanities has benefited of thinking to reconceive of studied classics. another culture. Then I the liberal arts broadly by a citizen body? How do you Classics majors have ON WEEKENDS: I go for a run, started reading more providing access to create a democracy? Both among the highest LSAT have a leisurely breakfast, and don’t check email. I broadly — about Roman material. Inscriptions in the “digital” and the scores of any major and try to focus on being religion, ancient history, Pompeii, the papers of “humanities” are important. the best admittance rates present with the people politics and government. Thomas Jefferson, marriage for medical school. But the around me. I’m often In college, I took classics records of churches in skills acquired are useful traveling to be with my courses in ancient law, 16th-century England WHAT DO YOU FIND MOST for many professions: close family (husband and archaeology, philosophy — more material can now reading, analysis, under- REWARDING ABOUT daughter), and a change and city planning. With be studied from anywhere standing patterns and TEACHING AT W&L? of scenery helps. each perspective, I couldn’t in the world because it has language structure, Smart, respectful students; help but reflect on where been digitized. Digital synthesizing information, good colleagues; an MY STUDENTS MIGHT BE we’ve been and where we humanities also provides communicating clearly. administration that are today. There is a reason tools. So, we can use a Classics students learn SURPRISED TO KNOW: I danced supports us in our teaching why classics provided an computational imaging how information fits with the New York City and our research, and in entire college education for technique (RTI) to reveal together and acquire a Ballet at the Kennedy whom we have confidence. our founding fathers. inscriptions that are greater awareness of the Center. And I’ve been a That combination makes a invisible to the naked eye, world. Classicists were Navy spouse for 15 years. great university. Plus, my or X-ray fluorescence to even selected to be colleagues in Leyburn TELL US ABOUT DIGITAL read through a charred code-breakers during Library are amazing. HUMANITIES AND CLASSICS. scroll burned in a volcanic World War II. Classics was employing eruption. How we use those Just a look at our recent digital humanities decades tools, and the questions WHAT WOULD YOU TELL A majors illustrates what a ago, and my specific field of we ask of what we find strong W&L education can research, epigraphy (the — these are still the most STUDENT THINKING ABOUT do. They have gone on to study of inscriptions), was a important steps. STUDYING CLASSICS? major law firms, to leader within classics, so For example, hyperspec- Classics creates skilled consulting firms, to I’ve grown up with it. tral imaging saw through thinkers and analysts. The medical school, to Studying the ancient world, a blot on a draft of the governor of California teaching, to the Federal we need systems to make Declaration of Indepen- (Jerry Brown), the last Aviation Administration, to sense of it all, as well as dence. It revealed that mayor of London (Boris the Peace Corps, to a tools to communicate with Jefferson had written Johnson), the founder of Rhodes scholarship. Our scholars in other countries. “subjects” and then CNN (Ted Turner), along students can do anything!

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 27 28 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE LIVES OF CONSEQUENCE - Kelly Douma ’16 On track to complete her doctorate in 2021, this alumna says her ultimate goal is to find a teaching position, preferably at a small liberal arts school — W&L being her first choice, naturally.

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DOUBLE THAT MAJOR countless hours there, not A FATEFUL FLYER academically. Not many OUTSIDE THE As a graduate student at only in class, but also as a It was at that point that people go straight into Penn State, Kelly Douma work-study student and the fateful Career Services doctoral programs. The CLASSROOM ’16 is pursuing a doctorate liaison to the German Club. flier came into play. The small classes made a big in early modern German Her adviser, department message was provocative difference. I remember a JOB: Graduate student, history and women’s head Paul Youngman ’87, — “Don’t become a lawyer class with Professor T.J. Penn State University studies. She found the path became a mentor, friend by default.” Tallie in which there were to her true calling through and advocate for her “That sign changed my only four students. It was GOAL: A doctorate in early serendipitous events, academic career. mind, and probably others like a graduate seminar. It modern German history including a wise tip from a too,” she said. “I walked by taught me how to speak and women’s studies W&L alum, inspiration MERGING INTERESTS it 10 to 15 times a day, and and think critically. You MAJOR/MINOR AT W&L: Double from her mentors in the Douma’s language and it finally sunk in. I told also develop close major in history and German and History history interests merged in Professor Youngman that I relationships with faculty German; minor in Departments, and a her junior year as she didn’t want to be a lawyer, members on a personal women’s, gender and remarkably effective flier began taking classes in and he said he knew I level, and you find you sexuality studies posted by the Office of women’s, gender and didn’t because he had seen can hold your own with Career Services. sexuality studies. At the my writing and my passion them. You go to their HOME: State College, “I came in knowing I same time, she became for research.” offices and talk out your Pennsylvania wanted to be a history intrigued by the research She went on to write an future with them. They major (with an eye to of her history adviser, honors thesis on female are so encouraging, and attending law school). Michelle Brock, assistant sexuality in the early there is such a sense of That’s unusual. Not many professor of British history. modern period that won community, even after go in with that in mind; it’s “She works on demonol- accolades. That research graduation,” she said. just where they wind up,” ogy and witch hunts. Going is now providing the foun- she noted. She decided to off of that, I found my own ­dation for her master’s pursue a double major in niche — childbirth and thesis. history and German after a midwifery in the 16th conversation with an alum, century. They are all ON A PERSONAL LEVEL who expressed regret that connected. You can’t As a graduate teaching he did not become fluent separate religion out in the assistant at a large in another language. 16th century. I started university, Douma has an Douma enjoyed her looking at issues such as even greater appreciation German studies because abortion, infanticide and for small classes and close the department was small, abandonment,” she said. relationships. “I think with only three faculty without W&L, I wouldn’t members. She spent be where I am today

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 29 30 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE LIVES OF CONSEQUENCE - John Maass ’87 The historian, author and museum professional swears by the value of tramping the terrain where history happened.

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TRAVEL EVERY ROAD Charlottesville to the were interested in history.” new National Museum of OUTSIDE THE John R. Maass ’87 doesn’t Potomac. You have to do Maass went on to earn the U.S. Army, at Fort just read about history; he that to get a sense of what an M.A. in history from the Belvoir, in northern CLASSROOM walks the same ground the events were,” he says. University of North Virginia, projected to open “You have to combine the Carolina-Greensboro. He in the latter part of 2019. and visits the same places JOB: Historian, National was in his late 30s, as the people he writes actual sites with your In his new position, he’ll Museum of the U.S. about. You can’t get a real reading.” however, when he decided be working with exhibits, Army sense of history, he feels, to quit his job in insurance and writing text, exhibit unless you see and to pursue a Ph.D. in early panels and item descrip- MAJOR: History major, experience it. NO MAJOR BUT HISTORY American history at the tions as well as guides and with 15 credits in That has especially held He became enthralled with Ohio State University. The narratives. He’ll also work German decision was risky based with programs and true for his last three history at the age of 11, FAVORITE TEACHER: J. Holt on the employment market books on military history when his family moved education for the state-of- Merchant Jr. ’61, for his field, but it paid off — “The French & Indian from Long Island, New the-art museum. Professor of History War in North Carolina: York, to the rural country- when he landed a job as a “This has been in the Emeritus The Spreading Flames of side of Rockbridge County. historian for the U.S. Army works for 20 years, and War” (2013), “The Road to “I plopped down in the Center of Military History, now we have a lot to do in MOST MEMORABLE CLASS: Yorktown: Jefferson, middle of Civil War at Fort Lesley J. McNair, in two years,” he says. “It’s Holt Merchant’s Civil Lafayette and the British country,” he says. “All I Washington, D.C. the most dynamic, exciting War class and energizing project Invasion of Virginia” read from ages 13 to 30 HOME: Mount Vernon area going on in Army history (2015), and “George was history. I never of Fairfax, Virginia Washington’s Virginia” considered any other A NEW CHALLENGE right now. It will be (2017). He just started on majors but history.” Writing has always been an amazing.” FAMILY: Wife, Molly, with his latest, about the Battle History and an Army important part of his work, two kids, Eileen and of Guilford Courthouse, ROTC scholarship led him both personally and Charlie, in high school which took place during to W&L. “Anytime I go professionally. He enjoys FAVORITE HISTORICAL SUBJECT: the Revolutionary War, anywhere now and get a the craftsmanship, figuring Anything to do with the out how to put everything in 1781. whiff of English boxwood, I American Revolution During the writing instantly think of together to include all the process, he visited all the Washington and Lee,” he facts, but to also add sites he mentions in the says. His professors personality and flair to his books. “I traveled every emphasized “teaching as writing. road that Lafayette and opposed to advancing their Looking for a new Cornwallis traveled during own credentials and challenge after 10 years at the Virginia Campaign, publications. They were Fort McNair, Maass from Williamsburg to supportive of kids who recently transferred to the

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CLASS UPDATES AND SUCCESS STORIES - EVENTS ALUMNI WEEKEND APRIL 26-29, 2018 Graduated 11 to 50 years ago? You are cordially invited. Celebrating your 50th, 45th, 40th, 35th, 30th, 25th, 20th or 15th reunion? You’ll enjoy additional class-only events. It’s been 50 or 25 years, you say? Friday night fun in Claremont. From left: Jay Dorman ’70, Coach Scott Abell, Paul Giordani ’52 (a member of C’mon to Lexington! the W&L football team that competed in the 1951 Gator Bowl), Tom Lovell ’91, Danielle McCaffery P’16, P’19, Shana Levine ’01, John McCaffery ’86, Lauren Rudolph ’08 and Hal Hundley ’14 SEND US UPDATES Use [email protected] to send: CHAPTER CORNER • Wedding and other photos • Changes of address/ GO WEST, GENERALS subscription questions BY TOM LOVELL ’91 • Letters to the editor

More than 200 alumni, parents and friends traveled to Claremont, California, Call 540-458-8466 for a weekend of football and friendship. It was the first time since 1992 that (subscription questions only) the football team had traveled by air, let alone across the country. Their aim: to W&L Magazine avenge their last-minute loss last year to the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags. Washington and Lee University Friday, the Blue and White enjoyed a welcome reception that featured 7 Courthouse Square remarks from Tom Lovell ’91, senior associate director of Alumni Affairs; Sally 204 W. Washington St. Stone Richmond, vice president for admissions and financial aid; and Scott Lexington VA 24450-2116 Abell, head football coach. Saturday, the W&L faithful gathered for a full-on Virginia BBQ tailgate. STAY IN TOUCH Andy McEnroe ’08 and Neil Sheaffer ’08 broadcast the game for WLUR-FM, Submit a class note: and Paul Giordani ’52, a member of the football team that competed in the 1951 >>colonnadeconnections. wlu.edu or Gator Bowl (the only time W&L has played in a post-season bowl game), made >>[email protected] a guest appearance. The Generals led the entire way and won, 24–14.

32 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE KAELA HARMON’S PASSION for airports goes five to manage the airport’s social media well beyond being fascinated with planes and accounts. travel. “An airport has its own dynamic flow,” “The work is very dynamic. It’s a perfect she said. blend of analytics and creativity,” she said. Although she’s still new to a job as public In her hometown of Columbia, Harmon was information specialist senior for the Austin- public relations and government affairs Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, manager for the Columbia Municipal Airport, Texas, Kaela Harmon ’05 has spent the last five before being recruited by Sixel Consulting years working with airports and the communi- Group, where she worked for almost a year ties they serve. helping local airports make their cases for In that time, she has learned that airport increased air services. She then did freelance advocates work to represent their host consulting until taking the job in Austin in communities to the airlines. Routes, departure June 2017. and arrival times, and connections are While helping with one of Columbia’s important to people who rely on airports for programs — Wings for Autism — Harmon business and leisure travel. In Austin, as in her realized she could take her passion for airports previous job with the Columbia, South to another level. The program is a national Carolina, airport, she enjoys analyzing data and effort for individuals with autism spectrum KAELA HARMON ’05 using it to craft creative messages. “We’re disorders or intellectual or developmental always working with the community so they disabilities. Families practice the entire process understand our role. We’re marketing the of moving through the airport and boarding a airport to the community.” plane, which helps relieve stress when they Taking She notes that an airplane is “a mobile make a real trip. asset.” Airlines can make decisions at any time The experience inspired Harmon to write about where to move and house their planes, and self-publish “Zoey’s First Plane Ride” for what routes to add or drop, and where children. While other books focus on airplanes, Flight important connections will be made. That Harmon wanted to “pass along my enthusiasm makes it incumbent on communities and for airports.” She walks the reader through BY LINDA EVANS airport officials to make a strong case for their every step — checking in at the kiosk, checking air-transportation needs. luggage and explaining where it goes on the In Austin, Harmon is responsible for media conveyor belt, walking the concourse, under- and public relations, and she serves as a liaison standing airport signage, boarding the plane for the airport and the airlines. On a typical — all the way through to baggage claim. day, she could be writing a press release about “Airports can be overwhelming to children,” a new service, such as a recent announcement Harmon said, noting that the book has been of a new nonstop flight between Austin and well received. Some airports have picked it up London, or planning and hosting an event. She to sell, and the airport in Roanoke, Virginia, also crafts talking points related to the airport’s purchased 100 copies to give to schoolchildren public announcements and serves on a team of who toured the airport.

teen-aged boys, one Diego Business Journal. Retiring Albright College Bl'hel. white, one black, and the This marks the second president Lex O. McMillan ur mgton unusual agreement that time he has been III has been named _Agreement shapes their lives. Mann recognized in the privately president emeritus, and 60s and his wife, Lorrie, live held, medium-size the college’s campus near the Blue Ridge company category. center has been renamed 1965 Parkway, with their in his honor. German shepherd, Ned Moore received the F. Anderson Stone is Rommell. 1972 president of the Kiwanis Distinguished Service Award from the Council of Club of Roanoke. He is Frank Bazzel, recently Independent Colleges for following in the footsteps retired from Morris, his effective service as of his grandfather, Charles Manning and Martin, executive director of state S. McNulty Sr. 1902, received the Daily council programs and as 1904L. 70s Report’s Lifetime M. Douglas Mann ’66 vice president of CIC. THE BURLINGTON 1971 Achievement award. He joined the Atlanta office of John Graham Tucker AGREEMENT, 1966 Sealy & Co., a fully presented the Books for CreateSpace, 2017 John D. Klinedinst integrated commercial Kids Foundation’s annual M. Douglas Mann (‘69L) (’78L), founder and CEO of real estate investment and John Graham Tucker published “The Burlington Klinedinst PC, was named operating company. Leadership Award to Agreement” (CreateSpace, one of the 2017 Most Justin and Lauran Tuck. 2017), the story of two Admired CEOs by the San (cont.)

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 33 Reflecting Forward BY BEAU DUDLEY ’74, ’79L EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS

FELLOW ALUMNI: We are not without our issues, but over the will consider the different views of trustees, alumni, students, faculty generations W&L has been accustomed to stability, strength, civility, and staff. The Alumni Association Board of Directors is proud to respect, honor, excellence and forward progress. By any measure, the have two members on the 12-person committee: President Mike fabric of many local and collegiate communities is under stress as McGarry ’87 and Diversity and Inclusion Chair Cynthia Cheatham ’07. conversations and disagreements take place over issues of violence, I have worked closely with them. They will be thoughtful and strong protests, race relations, freedom of speech, monuments and contributors, as will their fellow committee members who also are American history. alumni: Tom Camden ’76, head of W&L’s Special Collections & The campus has heard from alumni concerned about W&L. To be Archives; Ted DeLaney ’85, W&L associate professor of history; sure, there have been some very pointed communications. We have Trenya Mason ’05L, assistant dean for student affairs at the W&L alumni who think W&L was nearly perfect in their time and do not Law School; and Phil Norwood ’69, rector emeritus of W&L. want any material change. We have alumni who are willing to accept Alumni pride and affection have played a critical role at W&L for some change, without going what they would feel to be too far, and over 250 years. Passion for this place is a very good thing, and all some alumni urge that W&L should embrace material changes. alumni are encouraged to express their opinions. Please keep your President Will Dudley’s communications to the community this oar on the W&L boat, even if the water seems stormy at times. August struck many alumni as being on target and establishing the Check with one of us on campus before assuming that something right path for us. He has called on all of us to “be W&L” by having you have heard is true. Please be a voice for civility and reason. Let civil and productive conversations as we look to our future. The us trust President Dudley, the commission, and the Board of W&L community should welcome these conversations, even if they Trustees to lead and to make decisions based ultimately on what is cause discomfort at times. best for W&L. If the past is prologue, that will happen, and we will No issues have been pre-judged. The Commission on Institutional see continuing stability, strength, civility, respect, honor, excellence History and Community, which President Dudley has established, and forward progress.

This year’s award honors & Caldwell PLLC and will places as the Anadarko School of Business and the work their foundation, focus on his music Basin in western the School of Engineering Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy business, Doug McNeel Oklahoma; Sichuan at Quinnipiac University. (Read, Understand, and the Sons of Maverick. Province, China; and Succeed, Hope), has Colombia. Michael lives accomplished in building with his wife, Judy, in children’s libraries in rural 1977 Charlottesville and areas of Tucker’s home Oklahoma City. state of Alabama. Michael J. Hightower is 80s John L. Jackley received an independent historian his FAA remote pilot 1984 and biographer. In certificate with an sUAS 1973 addition to a novel, “The rating. His companies, Pattersons” (2 Cities Scott Mason published Advanced Technology Greg Buch, of Press, 2012), and two “Faith and Air: The Miracle Communications and Philadelphia, retired after corporate histories, he List” (Light Messages Scott Mason ’84 Chiriquí Holdings 40-plus years in various has written two books on Publishing). This FAITH AND AIR: THE International S.A., fly theatrical-production the history of banking in collection offers an MIRACLE LIST drones and design positions. He served as Oklahoma, both published intriguing mix of fact, faith Light Messages Publishing systems in West Africa, president of the Philly by OU Press (2013 and and humor, even as Mason, Brazil, Panama and the Alumni Chapter and has 2014). Current projects a journalist for over 30 Pacific Northwest, where become a director on the include “1889: The Early years, struggles with his 1985 he lives in Portland, with Alumni Board. History of Central own faith. Visit offices in Panama City, Oklahoma” (OU Press, TheTarHeelTraveler.com Wesley R. Payne IV, a Panamá, and Accra, 2018) and a biography of for more information. partner in Philadelphia’s Ghana. 1974 one of America’s most White and Williams LLP prominent explorationists, Robert D. Rathbun office, will begin a Douglas V. McNeel (’78L) who pioneered deep gas became senior director of three-year term as a zone retired from Barton, East drilling in such diverse development for the governor on the

34 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE Pennsylvania Bar Association board of 1996 1998 FLASHBACK 1993 governors. > The first episode of William Polaski has Edward J. Dougherty “The X-Files” airs. 90s joined the Pittsburgh returned to New York City 1988 office of Rawle & after four years in Sao > Intel introduces 25th Reunion Henderson LLP Paulo, Brazil. He wants to the Pentium Thomas J. McBride, as a partner. He focuses thank all of his classmates microprocessor. managing director at on product liability, for their visits during the April 26-29, 2018 > Bill Clinton takes Merrill Lynch Wealth commercial litigation, time he was living so far the oath as president. Management, was named insurance coverage, and away, particularly Jason one of the Top 400 1993 environmental, mass and Myers ’98, who normally > “The Foreign Financial Advisors on the toxic torts. never bothers to do such Student,” a movie annual Financial Times things. Thanks, Jason! based on the novel Jennifer Gladwell list. He was also honored by Philippe Labro Wakeman accepted a Will Hershey was on Barron’s Magazine’s 1997 ’58, films on campus, position as executive named CFO of Davenport 2017 America’s Top 1,200 with speaking roles director for DRIVE, an & Co., a broker dealer Advisors: State-by-State Dr. Keith Howell was for several students. economic development headquartered in list. He has received the promoted to associate council of government Richmond. He and his wife, Barron’s recognition every professor in the > Fancy Dress serving two counties in Jean, and children, year since its inception. department of features the Fabulous central Pennsylvania. William, 11, Eliza, 9, and He and his wife, Laura, live anesthesiology, School of Thunderbirds, with Anna, 3, are all doing well. in Dallas with their three Medicine MCV Campus of opening act the Dave children. Matthews Band. 1994 VCU Health System. He and his wife, Elizabeth, 1998 > MTV withdraws its live in Richmond with their sponsorship of the 1989 Dan Katzenbach was children, Alice, 5, and featured in the latest Jill Jamieson Misener Students Against Glenn, 3. Multiple Sclerosis L. Johnson Sarber III edition of Best Lawyers in joined Blank Rome LLP (SAMS) Rock-a-Like (’93L) joined Carr Allison America 2018. David N. Seidel joined in the firm’s tax, benefits lip-sync contest, as a shareholder, focusing WVTF Radio IQ in May as and private client group in Alegra O’Hare was named which W&L students on civil trial defense for news director. WVTF is the New York. one of the 35 most had won twice. W&L commercial motor vehicle public radio station powerful women in sports Dr. Matthew S. Partrick regroups, with its transportation law. He will serving southwest and by Adweek. was promoted to chair of first annual SAMS/ also represent clients on central Virginia. David and the department of Rockbridge Area premises liability, his family live in Roanoke. emergency medicine at Relief Association municipal liability, bad Lower Keys Medical Center lip-sync contest. faith and products liability. in Key West, Florida. He and his wife, Kim, have

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MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 35 WHILE INVESTMENT BANKING HAS ITS “The F-16 was designed as a multi-role RISKS, Clay Shaner walked away from it to take fighter, but its two primary functions on on even greater risks as a fighter pilot for the today’s global chessboard are providing U.S. Air Force. The captain recently returned precision close-air support and air interdic- stateside from several months flying F-16s on tion,” said Shaner. “That involves supporting missions over Syria and Iraq. He is now the movement of friendly forces on the transitioning from the Vermont Air National ground and destroying an enemy’s means of Guard’s 134th Fighter Squadron to begin operation, such as communications, com- training at Eglin Air Force Base, in Florida. His mand and control, weapons and militants.” new assignment is the F-35, the Air Force’s Shaner has accumulated more than 900 fifth-generation, joint-strike fighter plane. hours flying the F-16, including several dozen “Flying fighter jets is a visceral experience,” combat missions. Typical missions entailed said Shaner, “but operating an aircraft as a more than eight hours in the cockpit, weapon system is both art and science. You get including multiple aerial refueling events to harness some of the greatest technology ever between various dynamic tasks. His most made to accomplish dynamic missions alongside recent deployment was in support of some very talented people.” He said his job is Operation Inherent Resolve. the most challenging he has ever had and will Shaner volunteered for the F-35 assign- CAPT. CLAY SHANER ’04 be even more so as he spends the next several ment and is enthusiastic. “It’s a stealth years flying the new F-35 weapons system and airplane. It can do several types of missions instructing the next generation of fighter pilots. but excels in suppression of enemy air After graduation, Shaner began a promising defenses.” His job is to become an expert on Banking career in investment banking with Morgan the plane and help the Air Force refine its Stanley. After nearly five years, however, he role and tactics for future deployments. couldn’t suppress the underlying urge to pursue With his new assignment, Shaner will his dream, even taking flying lessons prior to transition back to active duty after nearly on the Air committing to the career change “to verify I’d five years as a Vermont guardsman. “The love it as much as I expected. I did.” lines between active and reserve are more Military service exists on both sides of blurred now — a reflection of the USAF Total Force Shaner’s family, but he is the first pilot. He Force initiative,” said Shaner. He plans to joined the Air Force in 2009, and spent three remain on active duty for the next five years, BY LINDA EVANS years becoming a combat-qualified fighter and then might return to reserve status to pilot, followed by the last five years of allow more time with his wife, Lee ’02, and operational duty. son, Steele, 1.

worked there for the past litigation, with a focus on first birthday in April. four years since moving aviation law, health care They reside in Midlothian, from Philadelphia. Their and professional liability Virginia, where Sean is a two sons, Quinn and defense, and maritime law. senior manager of Ronan, are 3 and 2, and accounting at Genworth 00s Dr. Cameron Wick 10s they try to spend as much Financial, and Lil is a completed a neurotology time out on the water as contractor with Snagajob. 2003 fellowship at the University 2012 possible. Partrick also is They were looking forward of Texas Southwestern Med- now one of the ABEM oral to introducing Emma John Weedon was ical Center. He and his wife, James K. Pickle (’15L) board examiners, so is (Class of ’38) to Lex Vegas promoted to partner at Elizabeth, have moved to joined Maynard Cooper & looking forward to at Sean’s 10-year reunion Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP St. Louis, where Cameron Gale P.C. as an associate sadistically raining down this fall. in the firm’s Jacksonville, will serve as assistant and a member of the passive-aggressive terror Florida, office. He is a professor of otology/ William B. Larson Jr. firm’s corporate securities on incoming acolytes, litigator within the firm’s neurotology in the otolaryn- (’11L) was appointed and tax practice group. continuing a professional personal injury and gology—head and neck assistant city solicitor for tradition that has endured property damage practice surgery department, Wilmington, Delaware, by through the ages. group. Washington University Mayor Michael Purzycki. 2017 School of Medicine. He advises the mayor and city departments on legal Laney Fay joined 2006 strategy and policy Sheridan Public Relations 2008 matters. He also serves as as a staff associate. Timothy A. a prosecutor and chair of Heisterhagen has Elizabeth Brandler the city’s zoning board of become a partner at Danowski ’08 and her adjustment. Armbrecht Jackson LLP. husband, Sean Danowski He practices primarily in ’07, celebrated their the area of general civil daughter Emma Elizabeth’s

36 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE IF YOU HAVE EVER READ Good enjoyable because the magazines are “loved by Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Elle, House consumers.” Working with such leading brands Beautiful, O, the Oprah Magazine or Esquire, as L’Oréal, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & you’ve seen the work of Jeff Hamill ’81. Johnson, GM, Toyota and Kraft, Hamill and his Jeff Hamill has worked for Hearst Magazines teams create custom content and marketing for since 1982 and now serves as executive vice them. president for advertising sales and marketing Hamill is involved in contract negotiations for the company’s 21 domestic and 300 global and helping sales teams craft proposals, and he magazine titles. As the senior sales officer of often meets with senior-level clients and their the largest publisher of monthly magazines in agencies around the country. Attaining this the world, he oversees sales teams based in level of responsibility was a process that took New York, London, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, him from a management-training program in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. 1982 to such positions as managing the “I have always enjoyed selling advertising to Redbook office in Chicago for two years, clients. I love the process. At its base it’s directing ad sales for Cosmopolitan during the JEFF HAMILL ’81 storytelling — a way to provide a rationale for last years of Helen Gurley Brown’s tenure as them spending dollars with us,” he said. Even editor in chief, and helping invigorate the Good in today’s instant, all-access digital market, Housekeeping Seal of Approval — the strongest Hamill said, it still comes down to creating symbol of product quality — as the magazine’s Magazine compelling stories that consumers relate to. associate publisher. While his division’s core business is still monthly print magazines, all of the titles have large websites and social media channels. Maven Hamill’s group sells ads for all titles and platforms, offering integrated marketing BY LINDA EVANS solutions for clients. His work is more

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MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 37 ALUMNI NEWS

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1. The French government 2. Hal Wellford ’76 and 3. Much to the chagrin of 5. W&L grads attended 6. From l. to r.: Anna has promoted John C. Tom Peters ’87 at the a couple of 6x6 bulls, Chris Swann ’92’s book Lowden Averyt ’99, Beth O’Neal ’72 to the rank of Under Armour All three old Betas, Boyd launch of “Shadow of the Gray Averyt ’03 and commandeur in the Ordre American Lacrosse Game Martin ’77, Jeff Fletcher Lions” (Algonquin Diane Averyt Escher ’03 des Palmes Académiques in Baltimore this past ’79 and Jim Frantz ’79, Books of Chapel Hill, are hoping to expand the (the Order of the French summer with their sons took to the Wyoming high 2017), his debut novel, W&L family tradition. Academic Palms), the (Hall and Harry), both of country for a week-long about a mysterious highest rank in this order, whom are UVA commits. horseback elk hunt in the disappearance at a boys’ founded by Napoleon I in Tom’s and Hal’s daughters Bridger Teton National boarding school in 1808. O’Neal was first (Cordelia ’19 and Rebecca Forest. It was a grand Virginia. L. to r.: Allison named a chevalier (or ’19) are best friends at adventure, but they’re Bales Martin ’93, Liz knight) in 1998, then W&L and play on the wom- sure the horses were glad Miller Boose ’93, Elaine promoted to officier in en’s lacrosse team which, to see them leave! Harris ’92, Kathy 2007. The ceremony took for the first time, reached 4. Four Sigma Nu Ferrell-Swann ’93, Jill place on Sept. 1, 2016, at the Final Four last year. fraternity brothers Jacques ’94, David the Résidence de France, returned to campus for Swann ’63, Felicia in Beverly Hills, California, the Bike Virginia tour. L. to Middleton Skoglund the home of the French r.: Dave Knack ’76, ’94, Perry Skoglund consul general in Los Robert Jones ’77, Jim ’92 and Lee Corbin ’92. Angeles. Gould ’76 and Derek Hamilton ’77.

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7. From l. to r.: Aditya 9. These friends enjoyed 10. Nineteen Pi Kappa 11. In August, Robin 12. Caroline Amport Chandraghatgi ’03, a gathering at Litchfield Alpha alumni brothers Morgan, Bill Peak and Piper ’98 and her Raphael Penteado ’03, Beach, South Carolina, in gathered at the vacation Bartow Willingham, all boat-builder husband, Kanishka Thakur ’03 April 2016. L. to r.: Gary home of Doug ’75 and members of the Class of Nate Piper, have launched with daughter Annika, Herman ’70, Henry Margaret Hunt in Sea 1973, held a mini-reunion two new businesses. They Meghana Gadgil, Rikisha Fleishman ’70, Walter Island, Georgia, in May for at Bartow’s house in have partnered with Parekh and Ibraiz Sales ’70, Bill Jacobs a long weekend of golfing, Melbourne, Florida. Strawbery Banke Museum Imani ’03. ’71, Scot Brower ’70, fishing, dining and Highlights included in Portsmouth, New 8. Delta Upsilon brothers Scott Apter ’69, camaraderie. They made kayaking with manatees, Hampshire, to build and from the Class of 1958 Charles Cahn ’70, time for a photo in front of a visit to the Kennedy operate the Boatshop at had a mini-reunion in Stuart Porter ’70, Mud Cat Charlie’s Space Center, a bird- Strawbery Banke, which Cincinnati in May. From l. Steve Sandler ’70, Paul Restaurant on the watching expedition that offers maritime-related to r.: Mike Barry, Tom Sugar ’70, Ron Sklar Altamaha River in produced three life birds programs, including the O’Brien, Lew John and ’70 and Art Furhman Brunswick. Kneeling: Bill for Peak (limpkin, Hands On Boats program. Max Caskie. ’72. Not pictured: Kenny Pifer ’76. Front row, l. to black-bellied whistling In addition, they have Murov ’72 and Robert r.: Dick Marsh ’73, Mick duck, sora) and cocktails revived the MerryMac Silverman ’73. Davis ’73, Bill Moomaw around the Willingham sailboat design, a great ’76, Neil Lutins ’74, pool. Bartow’s wife, Sheri, family boat that’s ideal for Lang Craighill ’76, Cary deserves high praise for recreation or racing on Patrick ’76 and Gary all the tall tales she so ponds, lakes and tidal Poliakoff ’73. Back row, graciously endured. From inlets. Curious alums can l. to r.: Tom Faulkner ’74, l. to r: Peak, Morgan, find out more at www. Mike Kurilecz ’75, Scott Willingham and the Space piperboatworks.com. McLaughlin ’75, Rick Launch System. Jones ’74, Al Bettis ’75, Doug Hunt ’75, Bill Biesel ’75, Paul Stillwagon ’76 and John Russell ’74.

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1. Lewis R. Windham II during Alumni Weekend. row, l. to r.: Eleanor 5. J. Clinton Irvin ’06 to Cincinnati in its primary ’77 to John Bluiett, on 3. Megan Fink ’00 to Hohnstein ’05, Lindsey Shanda Lee Lorenz, on care division. Nov. 7, 2016, at their home Dale Brevard, at Richards ’05, Elizabeth April 29, in North Beach, 7. Jessica Simmons ’08 in Springville, Alabama. Burntshirt Vineyards in Hall ’05, Marion Kacos San Francisco. to Michael Flynn, on June 2. George D. King III ’98 Hendersonville, North ’05, the groom, the bride, 6. Emily Sberna ’07 to 3, in Memphis, Tennessee. to Lauren Kondor, on June Carolina, on June 10. Kelly Ken Ruscio ’76 (uncle of Jason Uebel, on June 2, in Jessica is the president of 10, in Walland, Tennesse. Stewart Nichols ’00 was the bride, and then W&L the bride’s hometown, at the Mid-South Alumni Classmates attending in the wedding party. Also president), Sean Cronin the Cincinnati Nature Chapter in Memphis. Back included Eric Ridler, in attendance were Jason ’01 (brother of the bride), Center. Alumni in row, l. to r.: Madeline Stephen Satter, Andrew Nichols ’00, Kristi Slafka Kim Ruscio (aunt of the attendance included Mayer ’08 (bridesmaid), Curry, and J.D. Kritser, as Brannan ’00, Ken Fink ’68 bride), James Ballengee Lindsey Duran ’08, ’11L, Caroline Mann ’08, Collins well as Professor Lyn and Bob Wein ’68. ’72, Emily Renwick ’05, Nicholas Sberna ’07, Kim Rainey ’04, Lessie Wheeler. The couple reside 4. Cara Cronin ’05 to Austin Bader ’05. Second Babbitt ’07, Chris Lalli ’07, Calhoun Rainey ’04, the in New York City, but hope Lance Lubin, on May 13, at row, l. to r.: Matthew Abby Weichel ’07 and bride, the groom, Alison to return to the South one Meadow Brook Club, Renwick ’05, Andrew Brian Fishero ’06. Emily is Simmons Boyd ’97 (maid day. They look forward to Jericho, New York, with Richards ’06, Ashley Trice excited to begin a new job of honor and sister), the 20th reunion several alumni and W&L ’05, Lora Farris ’05 and as a registered dietitian Kristen Krouchick celebration next year friends attending. Front Courtney Berry ’05. with the University of Mallinson ’08

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(bridesmaid). Front row: Oyan ’11, Noah Walters father of the groom, Monacelli ’10 and were Reagan Barnes ’10, Christina Bortner Perry ’09, Kelley Zwart Melvin Malcolm “Mac” Mitchell Stephanie Marks ’10. The Kate Becker ’10, Caroline ’08 and Lisa Leonard ’08 ’08, Emily Wolff Waller ’73, and the sister of the couple live in Philadelphia, Head ’10, Elizabeth Malmo (bridesmaid). Photo by ’08, Sarah Tilbor ’08, groom, Meredith Mitchell where Whitney is complet- ’10, Julie Sanders ’10, Whit Photography. Mallory Lobisser ’07, ’12. Nick Fox ’09 was best ing her final year of Maureen Sitterson ’10 and 8. Andrew E. McEnroe Happy Carlock ’15, Maggie man. Sam Wilmoth ’09, obstetrics and gynecology Mary Weatherly Smyth ’10. ’08 to Devon Davidson, Fiskow Walters ’10, Andrew Clarke ’08 and residency at the Hospital Groomsmen were Frank on June 10, in Rehoboth Rachael Phillips ’10 and Mike Cattaneo ’09 were of the University of Dale ’10, Eric Jaschke ’10, Beach, Delaware. Alumni Anne Hassell Hoehn ’08. among the groomsmen. Pennsylvania. Brad is a Will Lewis ’10, Connor Long in attendance included W&L’s Kevin Remington The Mitchells live in hospitalist at Kennedy ’10 and Ryan Welsh ’10. Warren Berenis ’15, Will was the photographer. The Arlington, Virginia. Healthy System in New 12. Elizabeth King ’12 to Waller ’08, Kendall Korte couple reside in Arlington, 10. Whitney Burns ’10 to Jersey. Will Dent on April 29, in Dickenson ’08, Jeremy Virginia. Bradley Bender ’09 at 11. Katie Bouret ’10 to Savannah, Georgia. The Franklin ’04, Jim Plantholt 9. Taylor E. Mitchell ’09 Irvine Estate in Lexington, Tucker Laurens ’10, on wedding party included ’10, Dan Harris ’08, Neil to Heloise McKee, on Oct. on May 6. Generals in Aug. 27, 2016, in Emily Harlan ’12, Kelli Sheaffer ’08, Adam Hoehn 15, 2016, in Memphis, attendance included Peter Woodside, California. The Jarrell ’12 and Katherine ’08, Amanda Kane ’08, Tennessee. Alumni at the Kyle ’09, Lauren Cook groom is the son of Chip Jaworski ’11. Other James Madden ’08, Eric wedding included the Hummel ’09, Ashton Laurens ’73. Bridesmaids Generals there included

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15. Sarah Sorenson ’13 Shane Lynch. Zach’s Natalie is an associate to Robert Foster ’13 in pledge class from Sigma with DRA Advisors, a real San Antonio, Texas on Nu also attended. The estate investment firm, Oct. 15, 2016. The wedding reception was held at Big and Michael works in party included Sohil Spring Farm in Lexington, investments at Eldridge Aggarwal ’13, Liza with music by Graham Industries. Boldrick ’15, Tilden Spice. George Stephenson ’11 to Bowditch ’13, Kate Cole 19. Danielle J. Cardone Kate Robertson, in ’13, Johnny Gragg ’13, ’08 to Matthew E. Richmond, on June 24. Katy Stewart Gragg ’13, Moutinho, on Nov. 4, 2016, The groom’s brother, Cameron Hill ’13, Danny in New Jersey. Harry Stephenson ’14, was Jasper ’13, Becky Mickel Bridesmaids included 19 his best man, and the ’13, Ally Plump ’13, Rebecca Timmis Russell wedding party included Katharine Price ’08 and Colette Moryan Allen Frierson ’11, Drew Rutherford ’13, Sarah Finnerty ’08. Alumni in Koeneman ’11, Drew Strunk ’14 and Emma Von attendance included Mancini ’11, Ted Moore ’11, Maur ’13. Many other W&L Elizabeth (Libby) Moore Carter Pope ’11 and Wit classmates also attended. Beerman ’08, Katherine Robertson ’11. The bride’s 16. Noel Price ’13 to Eric Lowe Riche ’08, Andrea father is Greg Robertson Perkins ’13, on June 10, Deoudes ’08, Maureen ’73. The couple live in in Nashville, Tennessee. Grant Toppin ’08, Matthew Richmond. The wedding party Danner ’08, Jack Palmer included classmates Meg ’08 and Ian Handerhan Collin S. Peck ’10 to Ellis, Gage Smith, Camie ’08. The bride is an Derin Solu, on Oct. 29, Carlock, Ellen Stauffer, attorney with Schepisi & 2016, in Jamaica. Stephen 20 Spencer Duran, J.P Luster, McLaughlin P.A., and the Diverio ’10, Tanner Moussa Alex Maragos, Burke groom is a manager, U.S. ’10 and Andrew Payne ’10 Anderson and Will Salley. field marketing, at Stryker served as groomsmen. Noel and Eric are heading Orthopaedics. Alumni attending included to graduate school this 20. First Lt. Lee S. Michael Bender ’10, Denis Ryan Starks ’14L, Katie Alumni in attendance fall, to pursue a master’s Brett ’13 to Jamie Davis O’ Leary ’10 and Jarrell ’14, Katie Franke ’11, included Warren Stephens of education and MBA, ’14, in Lexington, on June Christopher Wells ’11. The Greg Franke ’11, Jenece ’79, Heartsill Ragon ’78, respectively. 17. They are living near couple reside in New York Upton ’12, Maggie Anthony Kirby ’10, Robert 1 7. Alexis Blight ’14 to Camp Pendleton, City, where Collin is an Weatherly ’15, Emily Allan ’12, Caleb Russell Isaac Jorgensen, on California, until Lee associate with the law firm Morrison ’12, Taylor ’14, Patrick Sieg ’76, Matt March 25, at their high transitions out of the of Greenberg Traurig LLP, Cottingham ’14, Keith Krafft ’75 (father of the school alma mater, Marine Corps in March and Derin is a director Jaworski ’11, ’14L, Caroline groom), Addison Sanford McDonogh School, in 2018. with FTI Consulting. Hardin ’15, McCauley ’09, Stuart Nibley ’75, Baltimore, Maryland. The Eliza van Beuren ’10 to ’79L, Diandra Spicak ’12, couple reside in Massie ’15, Anderson Natalie Murphy ’08 to Charles Wood on Oct. 22, Laura Stephens ’12, Aria Richmond. Alexis is in her Wasden ’13, Grier Gardner Michael Biondi Jr. on May 2016, at the Homestead in Vainstein Allan ’12, ’16L third year of medical ’09 and Chuck Sipple ’78. 21 at the Brooklyn Botanic Warm Springs, Virginia. and Alicia Amling ’11. school at Virginia The couple live in Washing- Garden. Her sister, Hannah Julia Gotwald ’10, 14. Chloe Bellomy ’12 to Commonwealth ton, D.C., where Elizabeth Murphy ’10, served as the Katherine Feeney ’10, Mathew O’Sullivan ’12, University, while Isaac works for the House maid of honor. Alumni Jennifer Wright ’10 and on June 10. The wedding continues to teach high Appropriations attending included Betsy Lyndsey Johnansson ’10 party included Katie school and coach football. Committee, and Will is Matthews Rhodes ’08, served as bridesmaids. Michelini ’12, Sarah Offutt 18. Olivia Shaves ’17 to health-care advisor for Lauren Morea ’08, Lauren Kevin Feeney ’10 served as ’12, Ian Dexter ’12, Dev Zachary Arnold ’15, in Sen. Johnny Isakson. Cook Hummel ’08, Morgan a groomsman. The couple Kori ’12, Greg Ussery ’12 Lexington on May 7. 13. Gillian Sacks ’12 to Hill ’07, Emily Grimball reside in Washington, D.C., and Robert Warne- Bridesmaids included Matthew “Skip” Krafft ’08, Amanda Askew ’08, where Eliza is a manager ford-Thomson ’12. Chloe Aalekhya Tanali ’17 and ’09, on April 22, in Roland, Brett Kearney ’08, Emily at Cambridge Associates and Mathew are moving Morgan Luttig ’14. Arkansas. The wedding Whipple Nadeau ’10, LLC and is pursuing her from D.C. to New Groomsmen included Ryan party included Anne Grayson Wallace ’08, Blair MBA at UVA-Darden Hampshire, where Mathew Scott ’15, Tommy Joe Vesoulis Wilkes ’12, ’15L, Brzeski ’10, Farrell Ulrich School of Business. will attend the Tuck Bednar ’15 and Tim Courtney Perkins ’12, Hanifin ’10, Vivian Charles is a master’s School of Business at Paulsen ’15. Twenty-five Claire Moryan ’12, Lida Schreeder ’10 and student at American Dartmouth, while Chloe members of the University Steves ’13, Emerson Bluhm Alexandra Utsey Jones University’s School of continues her work as a Singers performed at the ’09, Matt Amling ’09, Zach ’09. The couple reside in International Service. director with the wedding ceremony, Wilkes ’12, ’15L and New York City, where Andrew Meriwether ’09. Education Advisory Board. conducted by Professor

42 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE Elizabeth is the associate Amelia Waring Walker Catherine Swan Feazell Australia. Emma has been BIRTHS & athletics director at W&L, ’04 and her husband, ’07 and her husband, living in Perth since 2010 ADOPTIONS while Garrett is an Will, a son, William Paul Christian, a son, James following two years assistant football coach Walker IV on Jan. Canon, on June 2. The teaching English in France Alvin M. Townley III ’97 for the Generals. They family reside in Olive after graduation. She is in Esta Acree Busby ’05 and his wife, Suzanne, a love living in Lexington Branch, Mississippi. her second year of a and Ricky Busby ’05, a daughter, Kensington and working for the physiotherapy degree at son, Richard Matthew Avery Lovejoy Garland Harper, Feb. 8. university. Curtin University in Perth. Busby III, on May 25. He ’07 and Richard Garland Carling L. Dinkler IV ’02 Coleman A. Gutshall ’04 joins sisters Florence, ’07, a son, Parker Kelley, Jamie Ferrell Bailey ’08 and his wife, Ayame, a girl, and his wife, Tiffany, a Anne Harrell and Eliza. on July 3. Parker was and her husband, Carter Ansley Yoshiye, on July 5. daughter, Madeline The Busbys live in excitedly met by brothers Bailey, a girl, Claire Jane Ledlie Batcheller Ellenborough, on May 1. Avondale Estates, Georgia. J.R., 4, and Cooper, 3. The Morgan, on Feb. 25. The ’03, ’08L and Brooks The family live in Hickory, Ricky works in brand family reside in Fort Baileys reside in Dallas. North Carolina, where management at Worth, Texas. Batcheller ’04, a Dr. Katelyn Huffman Coleman is director of Georgia-Pacific, and Esta daughter, Elizabeth “Liza” Charlie McCombs ’07 Carroll ’08 and her global strategy for the works in marketing for Churchill, on July 3. Liza and Devon Morten husband, Caleb, a furniture brand Bernhardt Chick-fil-A Inc. joins brother William, 2, McCombs ’07, a son, daughter, Allegheny Sol Design. and the family reside in Rory Dowling ’05 and Charles Anderson, on July Carroll, in March. Katie Atlanta, where Jane is Dr. Paul A. Sibley ’04 Erin Teichgraeber 11. The family reside in works for Chevron in senior counsel at and Dr. Mary Aldrich Dowling ’06, a boy, New York City. Houston. WestRock Co., and Brooks Sibley ’05, a son, Colin Hayden Flynn Dowling, on J. Fielding Troutman III Jackie Coleman ’08 and is the associate dean of Anderson, on Sept 10, June 28. He joins sister ’07 and his wife, Kelly, a John Coleman ’06, a students at The 2016. He joins his sisters, Parker Anne. daughter, Ada Reid, on daughter, Julianne, in Westminster Schools. Helen, 5, and Lily, 3. They Hartley Meric Crunk ’07 June 23. February. Jackie was live in Allentown, Elizabeth Igo LeRose and Blair Crunk ’07, a promoted to director of Pennsylvania, where Paul Emma Axt ’08 and her ’03 and Garrett LeRose daughter, Elsie Rita, on product at Eved, an event is a hand and upper husband, Matthew, a son, ’07, a son, Holden William, March 23, 2016. They live tech startup she’s been extremity surgeon, and Rory, on May 22. The on May 25. He joins in New Orleans. helping to build since Mary is an emergency family reside in Matthew’s brother Hudson, 3. 2012. She is a Crain’s 40 medicine physician. hometown of Perth,

CAPTAIN’S LOG The Ireland of Song and Legend: June 11-20, 2018 W&L’S LATEST TOUR OF IRELAND will focus on legend and literature. We’ll begin in Dublin, where we’ll devote a few days to exploring several of the haunts of Ireland’s beloved writers, including a performance at the Abbey Theatre, as well as visits to the institutional treasures of the nation’s most important city. Thereafter, we’ll take a leisurely drive to the west, the tradi- tional heartland of authentic Ireland, to Galway. In addition to many sites in and about Galway, we’ll visit the house owned by Nora Barnacle, James Joyce’s wife, and two sites associated with the great poet W.B. Yeats, Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee. On our way from County Galway to County Sligo, we’ll travel through County Leitrim. Here, we’ll savor rugged mountain ranges and the west’s rolling green countryside, visiting several sites of history and legend along the way. In Sligo, the spiritual home of W.B. Yeats, we’ll enjoy a boat tour on Lough Gill, a tour of Parke’s Castle, and a visit to Drumcliffe Church and Cemetery, where Yeats is buried. The magnificent Lissadell House and estate will be the highlight of our penultimate day before we return to our final night, in Dublin. This tour will be led by Provost Marc Conner, the Jo and James Ballengee Professor of English and a scholar of modern Irish literature, along with select guest speakers.

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MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 43 Under 40 nominee for daughter, Kennedy Marie, War II. He belonged to Pi William F. Clayton ’44, of belonged to Phi Gamma 2017. John is entering his on Dec. 5, 2016. She joins Kappa Phi. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Delta. second year as an sister Reagan. They live in died on April 20. He served Richard A. Brunn ’42, of Abram D. Jones Jr. ’51, attending physician in Miami, Florida. in the Air Force during Upper Saddle River, New of Greensboro, North child and adolescent World War II. Jersey, died on Aug. 7. He Carolina, died on May 14. psychiatry at Hartgrove OBITS served in the Army during Dr. Theodore B. Martin Behavioral Health System J. Edward Moyler Jr. ’51, World War II. He belonged ’46, of Dayton, Ohio, died after finishing his ’55L, of Franklin, Virginia, to Pi Kappa Alpha. on June 29. He served in residency and fellowship died on June 3. He served 1930s the Marines during the at UIC. The family, Ralph P. Carter ’42, of in the U.S. Coast Guard. He Korean War. He was the including their Seattle, Washington, died practiced law in Franklin Charles P. Blackledge, father of Ted Martin Jr. ’80 2.5-year-old son, Alden, on May 7. for 55 years. He was the ’38, of Williamsburg, and grandfather of Ford have put down roots in father of James Moyler III Virginia, died on May 22. Lee D. Parker ’42, of Martin III ’16. He belonged the Logan Square ’79 and belonged to Phi He served in the Navy Hampton, Virginia, died on to Sigma Chi. neighborhood of Chicago. Kappa Sigma. during World War II. He June 22. He belonged to Spencer W. Morten Jr. ’49, Justin McKeen ’09 and belonged to Sigma Phi Sigma Nu. S. Maynard Turk ’52L, of of Bassett, Virginia, died Sara Foster-Reeves Epsilon. Greenville, South Carolina, Louis S. Rehr ’42, of on May 11. He served McKeen ’09, a daughter, died on July 29. He served Waianae, Hawaii, died on during World War II and Mollie Suzanne, on April 2. in the Army during World Oct. 20, 2011. He was a received a Bronze Star. He The family reside in Silver 1940s War II and the Korean War. decorated World War II was the father of Spencer Spring, Maryland. He served on the W&L pilot. He belonged to Phi Morten III ’76 and John Dr. Jerome A. Sacks Alumni Board of Directors. Heather Jordan Teass Kappa Psi. Morten ’80 and ’40, of Boynton Beach, He was the father of Dr. ’09 and her husband, grandfather of Mary Florida, died on March 13. Floyd C. Dixon Jr. ’43, Tom Turk ’84 and Tyler, a son, Avett Lee, on Spencer Morten ’13, He belonged to Zeta Beta of Richmond, died on belonged to Pi Kappa Phi. Nov. 18, 2016. The family Elizabeth Morten ’09, Tau. April 17. live in Charlottesville, Devon Morten McCombs Joseph B. Yanity Jr. Virginia. John C. Fix ’41, of James S. Parsons ’43, ’07 and Courtenay Fisher ’52L, of Bradenton, Cincinnati, Ohio, died on of Lexington, died on Clark ’02, ’09L. He Florida, died on July 5. He Lynn Bazzel Wilmoth ’10 May 31. He served in the July 17. belonged to Phi Kappa Psi. served in the Army during and Sam Wilmoth ’09, a Navy during WWII. World War II. He belonged son, Samuel Thomas, on Charles “Bee” Smith Jr. The Hon. Kermit L. Racey to Sigma Nu. Feb. 4. The family live in Walter D. Harrod ’41, ’43, of Middleburg, ’49, ’51L, of Woodstock, Atlanta. ’47L, of Valley Stream, Virginia, died on July 24. Virginia, died on May 13. He David C. Henke ’53, of New York, died on Aug. 5. He served in the Army Air served in the Army and Wilmington, Delaware, Dr. Michael T. Kuntz ’11 He served during World Corps during World War II. received the Bronze Star. died on Jan. 28, 2016. He and his wife, Lindsay, a He belonged to Sigma Nu. served in the Army during Richard M. Yankee Jr. ’49, the Korean War. He of Signal Mountain, belonged to Pi Kappa Phi. Tennessee, died on April 1. He belonged to Beta Daniel D. Dickenson ’54, LACEY E. PUTNEY ’50, ’57L, Theta Pi. of Virginia Beach, Virginia, DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS died on June 10. He was the father of Thomas The Honorable Lacey E. Putney ’50, ’57L, of Goode, Virginia, the longest-serving 1950s Dickenson ’86L and the legislator in Virginia history, died on Aug. 26, 2017. He was 89. He received brother of John Dickenson W&L’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2010, and was an honorary member of Dr. John P. Brown Jr. ’50, ’57. He belonged to Phi Omicron Delta Kappa. of Lake Toxaway, North Kappa Sigma. Carolina, died on June 11. He was born and grew up in Big Island, Virginia. W&L recruited him to play F. Eric Nelson ’54L, of He belonged to Pi Kappa on the baseball team. He belonged to Sigma Nu. After graduating with a B.A., he Charleston, West Virginia, Alpha. spent four years in the Air Force. Following his graduation from the W&L Law died on April 16. He served School, he began a 55-plus-year law practice in Bedford, Virginia. The Rev. Carl H. Douglass in the Army during the Putney won his first election to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1961; he Jr. ’50, of Moneta, Virginia, Korean War. He was the retired in 2013 after 52 years. He spent 46 of those years as an independent after died on Aug. 22, 2015. He father of Fredrik Nelson leaving the Democratic Party; he caucused with the Republicans. He chaired the belonged to Sigma Alpha Jr. ’83 and belonged to House Appropriations Committee, the Privileges and Elections Committee, and Epsilon. Phi Kappa Psi. the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, and was acting speaker of the House in 2003. W. DeLaney Way ’50, of I. Thomas “Tommy” Baker ’55, of Lexington, In 2012, when Putney celebrated his 51st year in the General Assembly, former Winter Park, Florida, died Virginia, died on Aug. 15. U.S. Senator John W. Warner ’49 joined the festivities. The two had been friends on Nov. 29, 2016. He He belonged to Sigma since their undergraduate years. served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He Alpha Epsilon. He was the Putney received a rare tribute from the commonwealth on Sept. 6, 2017, when belonged to Sigma Nu. father of Scott Baker ’81. his body lay in state in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol, with flags at half-mast. John E. Hamrick ’51, of Among Putney’s survivors are his brother, Macon Putney ’62L, with whom he Old Lyme, Connecticut, William “Jack” Cornelius practiced law; his cousin, Mark Putney ’78; and his granddaughter, Liz Powers ’01. died on March 24. He ’55, of Blountsville, Alabama, died on Feb. 23.

44 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE July 26. He was the Gregory W. Hair ’85, of brother of William Washington, D.C., died on DR. ROBERT MASLANSKY ’52, Pardington ’64 and July 6. He was the brother belonged to Sigma Phi of Brad Hair ’88 and DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS Epsilon. belonged to Pi Kappa Alpha. Dr. Robert Abraham Maslansky ’52, a groundbreaking physician in the fields of Peter T. Straub ’61, methadone maintenance and substance abuse, died on June 1, 2017. He was 86. ’64L, of Springfield, Lamont Carr ’86L, of He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from W&L in 2007, and was Virginia, died on July 27. Hawthorne, California, inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa in 2004. He belonged to Sigma Nu. died on July 5. Maslansky earned a B.A. from W&L, and an M.D. (1956) from Columbia Jerry R. Mace ’63, of Russell S. Peck ’87, of University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He did his residency at the Fairfield, Virginia, died on Moorestown, New Jersey, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis General Hospital. From 1960 to 1962, May 28. died on May 18. He he served in the Army’s Medical Corps. belonged to Sigma Phi C. Tracy Harrington ’65, He began a private practice in internal medicine in Minneapolis before Epsilon. moving into addiction medicine. In 1968, he started Minnesota’s first metha- of Bainbridge, Georgia, done maintenance clinic, at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He went on to serve as died on April 22. He was David M. Bloodsworth chairman of medical education at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and for the father of Matthew Jr. ’89, of Lewes, 30 years as the medical director of the substance abuse program at the Bellevue Harrington ’88 and Delaware, died on July 8. Hospital Center at New York University. He was also chief consultant for belonged to Pi Kappa He belonged to Sigma Nu. medicine at the Federal Correctional Service of New York. Alpha. In 1964, he congratulated W&L on its “noble decision to integrate. As a loyal Retirees and John P. McLeod ’67, of Other Friends alumnus . . . I have long looked forward to this decision with best wishes for a Santa Fe, New Mexico, bright and illustrious future totally cognizant of the 20th century and its drift.” died on May 18. He Geraldine “Geri” He belonged to Zeta Beta Tau. He supported W&L Hillel and the Shepherd belonged to Kappa Sigma. Henderson, house Program, with Shepherd students serving as interns in the Bellevue addiction director of Phi Kappa Psi Donald R. Ellis Jr. ’68, program. in 2002 and from 2004 to of Louisville, Mississippi, Among his survivors are his brother, Paul Maslansky ’54, and his cousins, 2009, died on July 2. See died on May 22. Sandy Maslansky ’56, Harris Maslansky ’66 and Steven Maslansky ’70. p. 2 for a tribute to her. Louis K. Coleman ’69, of Thomas M. Sloan Jr., Baltimore, Maryland, died who worked as a on July 5. He belonged to custodian for 35 years Roland Davies Jr. ’55, of assistant professor of law Forest, Maryland, died on Delta Upsilon. until his retirement in Sherwood Forest, at W&L. April 18. He was the father 2011, died on Aug. 1. Maryland, died on Aug. 9. of Dr. Hugh House ’91, John S. Stump III ’57L, He served in the Navy. He father-in-law of Scott 1970s Joyce Smith, who retired of Ashburn, Virginia, died belonged to Delta Tau Graham ’80, and uncle of in 2004 after 15 years as on Aug. 11. He served in Delta. Carl Smith Jr. ’88. He a cook at GHQ and Café the Navy. He was the Donald E. Earls ’71L, of belonged to Sigma Chi. 77, and in catering, died James C. Lindsay ’55, of father of John Stump IV Norton, Virginia, died on on July 31. Baltimore, Maryland, died ’91. David B. Root ’59, of June 20. He served in the on June 26. He belonged Erie, Pennsylvania, died on Air Force. John H. Croker Jr. ’58, to Kappa Sigma. Aug. 3. He was the father W. Kenyon Bush ’72, of of La Quinta, California, This list contains notices of Brad Root ’88 and uncle New Bern, North Carolina, John M. Ellis ’56, of New died on April 8. He served about deaths that we of Paul Root III ’75 and Jim died on Dec. 10, 2015. He York City, died on May 19. in the Army. He belonged received before our Root ’77. He belonged to Pi served in Vietnam. He He belonged to Delta Tau to Beta Theta Pi. deadline, which is about Kappa Alpha. belonged to Phi Gamma Delta. three months before an Thomas D. Wilkerson Delta. issue lands in your mailbox. Capt. Charles D. ’58L, of Charleston, West If you have any questions Hawkins Jr. ’56, of Virginia, died on May 2. He 1960s Dr. Richard A. Jenkins about our revised format Madison, Virginia, died on belonged to Lambda Chi ’73, of Holmes Beach, Florida, died on May 22. for obituaries, please email June 6. He served in the Alpha. Paul R. Plawin ’60, of He belonged to Lambda us at [email protected]. Navy during the Vietnam Fairfax, Virginia, died on Clinton M. Early ’59, of Chi Alpha. War and received a April 15. He belonged to Pi Memphis, Tennessee, died number of decorations Kappa Phi. Sean P. M. Gilronan on Aug. 6. He served in In the next issue, we will and medals, including the ’74L, of Portland, Oregon, the Army. He belonged to Stephen P. Degenhardt run full obituaries of Purple Heart. He belonged died on March 20, 2016. Pi Kappa Alpha. ’61, of Noblesville, Indiana, to Phi Kappa Psi. Jefferson Davis Futch III, died on April 8. He Anthony J. Frank ’59, of professor of history Charles F. Davis Jr. ’57, belonged to Delta Upsilon. Richmond, died on May 12. 1980s emeritus; H. Robert ’59L, of Pittsboro, North Huntley, professor of He served in the Army. He John G. Guthrie ’61, of Carolina, died on Aug. 10. English emeritus and was the father of Dr. Harwood, Maryland, died Robert J. Mullican ’81, He belonged to Phi Kappa former dean of freshmen; Anthony Frank Jr. ’90 and on June 19. He belonged of Fairhope, Alabama, died Sigma. and Lewis G. John ’58, Jonathan Frank ’92. He to Kappa Sigma. on June 2. He belonged to Lewis S. Minter Jr. ’57L, belonged to Zeta Beta Tau. professor of politics The Rev. Palmer Lambda Chi Alpha. of Richmond, died on emeritus and former dean Dr. Homer “Butch” Pardington III ’61, of August 1. He had been an of students. House ’59, of Sherwood Portland, Oregon, died on

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 45 Young Alumni 1 Weekend September 15-16, 2017 As if seeing old friends, checking in with favorite professors, and visiting campus haunts weren’t enough, attendees also had a presidential inauguration to enjoy.

1. No one had a better time than this jolly group of reunionists. 2. Cynthia Cheatham ’07 and her fellow alumni chatted up current students and each other. 3. Congrats to the deserving recipients of the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. From left: Robert Rain ‘07, Kaylee Hartung ‘07 and John Bovay ‘07. 4. Nighttime festivities with friends. 5. Alumni songsters joined the current members of the University Singers to close the presidential inauguration ceremony with perennial favorite “Shenandoah.” 3 6. A sunny day for Young Alumni Weekend. 2 7. Current and alumni members of the soccer team. 8. Current and alumni members of the baseball team. 9. President Dudley and Carola Tanna (right) got to know alumni at the Multicultural Cocktail Party.

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THE DASHING ROCKWELL BROTHERS, Paul (the Daniel Day-Lewis lookalike, with the mustache) and Kiffin.

his year marks the In 1914, after WWI had begun in unit documentarian, lifelong unit WWI Flying 100th anniversary Europe, the Rockwell brothers historian, and preserver of his of the entry of the enlisted in the French Foreign brother’s compelling story secured U.S. into World War Legion. Kiffin was wounded in 1915 his place in the unit’s history,” Aces: The T I. For one pair of during infantry combat. After he according to Seth McCormick- alumni brothers, however, their recovered, he transferred to the Goodhart, senior assistant in Rockwell wartime experiences began three French air force. In April 1916, he Special Collections & Archives at years earlier, in 1914, as members and other pilots founded the W&L’s Leyburn Library, which Brothers of the French Foreign Legion. Lafayette Escadrille, made up houses the Paul Rockwell collection. Paul Rockwell (Class of 1912) entirely of Americans. Shortly McCormick-Goodhart said it BY JULIE CAMPBELL and Kiffin Rockwell (Class of 1913) thereafter, he was reportedly the “has no equal worldwide for its grew up in North Carolina. Kiffin first American pilot to take down photographic holdings which studied first at the Virginia an enemy plane. Just four months document, both candidly and Military Institute for a few months later — on Sept. 23, 1916 — Kiffin posed, the original unit members in early 1909. He entered W&L in himself was shot down in combat, and their experiences. The the fall of that year, studying the first W&L alumnus to give his majority of the photographs were alongside Paul, but they left before life in World War I. taken by Paul Rockwell himself in graduating. As for Paul, his “role as wartime the field with the escadrille.”

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