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Volume XXXV December, 1949 Number 4 Dear Alumnae:

I hope that there will be many opportunities to talk to you this year about the college, its activities,

and our plans for the future. Since I cannot hope

to see all of you, I welcomed the invitation of your Alumnae Secretary to send you my greetings and good wishes through the columns of the "Alumnae News."

Elsewhere in this issue you will be told about

changes in the faculty and staff. I shall confine my comments to the loss of our auditorium and dormi- tory, and to our building plans.

On Sunday, March 6, 1949, one of the college maids reporting for work about 6:00 a,m. noticed smoke coming from the roof of the building. The heroic and efficient work of the Farmville Volunteer Fire Department assisted by companies from near-by places confined the loss to the one building with only slight damage to the adjacent buildings.

The night before the fire a report was made that there was the odor of burning rubber in the third floor dormitory. A careful investigation by the business manager, the college electrician, and the night watchman on both the third floor and in the attic revealed noth- ing. Nevertheless, in order to take every precaution, the electric switches were cut off in the area where the odor had been noticed, and the few girls who were on the third floor over the week-end were moved to other buildings. Evidantly, there had been a short circuit be-

tween the ceiling of the third floor and the floor of the attic, and the fire had smouldered until early morning. We shall be eternally grateful that no lives were lost and no one injured

The college dietitian and more than forty girls lost literally all of their personal belong- ings. The response of the people of Farmville and of friends in other communities was superb. More than $8000 was contributed in cash for the relief of these girls. The Farm- ville merchants gave them a 30% discount on all purchases, and clothing was donated.

The insurance on the building was much larger than the original cost in 1905, but it is not sufficient to cover the cost of rebuilding and replacing the equipment. Fortunately,

there was a conditional appropriation for buildings amounting to $ 1 58,000 which the Gov- ernor agreed to release. In addition, the legislature had already made an appropriation of $450,000 for a new auditorium and music building. Plans for the new auditorium have been completed by the architects, and bids will be

called for at an early date. It is hoped that actual construction will begin in November. The auditorium will seat nearly 1300 people, and ample space has been provided for the Jarman Organ. There will be classrooms, practice rooms, and offices for the Music Depart- ment as well as rooms for orchestra and band practice. The building will be located on High Street just west of the library, and we hope to have a great gathering of Alumnae and

friends when it is dedicated in 1951.

The dormitory now known as "The Annex" will be extended across the site of the old auditorium about eighty feet towards the main building and will contain new offices for the registrar, parlors, a recreation room, guest rooms, and accommodations for about fifty stu- dents. The new science hall, now under construction, will house the departments of chem- istry, physics, biology, and general science. There will be a greenhouse at the rear. This

building is located just west of Cunningham Hall and will be ready for use before the end of the current session. Requests to be presented to the legislature of 1950, include the remodeling of the east and west wings of the main building and new furniture for all rooms in the older dormi- tories. When all of these plans have been realized, our alumnae will be proud of the beauti- ful and modern plant that will enable Longwood College to render increasingly fine service to the people of Virginia. Dabney S. Lancaster, President Bulletin of Longwood College FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA ALUMNAE NUMBER

Volume XXXV DECEMBER, 1949 Number 4

Published by TABLE OF CONTENTS LONGWOOD COLLEGE President Lancaster's Message nnd Inside Front C 3ver THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION A Message from Our National President 4 MEMBER OF AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL

Now We Are Longwood Alumnae 5

Editor Ruth Harding Coyner

Calling All "Zero" and "Five Classes . . . « Business Manager MARY WISELY WATKINS

1950 Founders Day Program ... 10 ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD The Alumnae Fund 11

Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster President of Ballot 12 Longwood College, Farmville, Virgini.i

Founder's Day 1949 n

Helen COSTAN 1007 Floyd St., Lynchburg, Virginia From a Freshman's Viewpoint 15

First Vice-Prcs.dent Names for the College Buildings 19 Anne Smith Greene 7105 Chatham Road. Chevy Chase. Maryland Faculty and Administration News 21

Second \'n-e- President Frances Sai F LYLF Forest Hills 77 Danville. Virginia

Five Members of the Faculty and Staff Re- Ex-Prestdent tire ^o Maria Bristow Starke . Rustom. River Road, Richmond. X'irginia V! Directors

Lillian Wahab 1000 Gates .'Kve. Births 34 Norfolk, Virginia Frances HORTON 810 Jamison Ave., S. E.. 35 Roanoke, Virginia Mary Clay HINER Farmville. Virginia Carrie B. Taliaferro Farmville. Virginia Class News Letters 40

Executive Secretary and Treasurer in Memoriam Back C over Ruth Harding Coyner Farmville, Virginia

ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER NOVEMBER 12, 1914, AT THE POST OFFICE AT FAR.MVILLE, VIRGINIA, UNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912 Dear Alumnae:

It is with great pleasure that I send you greet- ings as alumnae of Longwood College. The honor which you have bestowed upon me makes me feel

very humble and proud, too. I shall do my best to serve you and prove worthy of the trust you have placed in me.

As we look at the cover of this bulletin, we real- ize more than ever that another milestone in the

history of our Alma Mater has passed. S. T. C. is gone, except in our memories, and we are Alumnae of Longwood College. Wasn't it exciting when Dr. Lancaster asked for our help in selecting a new

name! I'm sure you waited as anxiously as I for the decision of the Board. The story back of our new

name is in this Bulletin. When you read it, I know you will appreciate the significance of Longwood to the College and feel that the Board

made a wise choice. We can assure Dr. Lancaster that even though our name is changed, our Farmville spirit is that same genuine, wonderful spirit. You have every right to be proud of your Alumnae Association. Did you know that the

Alumnae Association of Longwood College is very active in the National Alumni Council? This Council met in Williamsburg in July, with Mrs. Ruth Harding Coyner, our most ca- pable secretary, doing the honors for our Association and the College. She was hostess for the reception given by the Virginia members at the Williamsburg Inn. Mrs. Coyner led a discussion group on "Alumni Problems in Teachers' Colleges."

I wonder if we are all aware of the expansion of the Association in recent years. Did you know that through the class agent system nearly all of the 7,000 alumnae were personally contacted these past two years? We are a large family and this means of contact has brought

more alumnae closer to our Alma Mater.v News of you is always welcome. Miss Mary Clay Hiner has been invaluable in her work with this plan, and our sincere thanks go to her. and to those of you who have served as class agents.

Three years ago the Alumnae Council was organized. It is composed of representatives of the chapters as well as the executive board. These meetings, which are held in the fall, have been most helpful to the local chapter leaders. If your chapter did not send a repre- sentative, please don't miss sending one next year.

Were you at Founders Day two years ago when we decided to go in business for ourselves? The Snack Bar has been a success both financially (we are not rich yet) for the Alumnae and in service to the College.

Forty years ago the first Alumnae Chapter was organized. Since then about 50 local

chapters have been formed. Their work is of inestimable value to the College, for they are the organized link between the College and its former students. Their scholarships, gifts, contributions, contacts with prospective students, and other services make them a most im- portant part of the Alumnae program. Those of you who are members of a chapter please keep up the good work. We have one request to make; our girls are always doirfg many fine and interesting things. Won't you keep the office informed of these accomplishments? Any new addresses will be most welcome, too. The progress of your Alumnae Association has always been due to your loyalty and sup- port. It offers many opportunities for service, and as long as you avail yourselves of these opportunities, you will continue to have an Association of which you can be quite proud.

With best wishes and hoping to see you on Founders Day, March 25. 1950. I am,

Sincerely yours,

Helen COSTAN, President Alumnae Association — a

NOW WE ARE LONGWOOD ALUMNAE

Mildred Dickinson Davis, '22

The changing of a name, whether of each of them in turn, partial always, our own or that of a loved one, often perhaps, to the name which represented incites pangs of nostalgia for a period. the institution during their two or four

We are prone to introduce an old friend year period of student life, yet accept- by her maiden name: we may even ing with good grace the variations and hesitate to admit that the new name is changes, and even—in time—openly re- a good one. The closer we are, the joicing over the dropping of such words warmer our affection, the more reluc- as "Female" and "Normal". To many tant are we to give up the familiar and graduates of the past and of the future to accept the new. It is with some the school will always be just "Farm- astonishment that we first observe the ville" —a fitting tribute to that "Farm- readiness and alacrity with which out- ville Spirit" which has characterized siders so quickly embrace the new name the "town-and-gown" relationships —almost as if there had never been any throughout the years. other—and we feel a bit hurt that it Prior to the action of the Legislature is so. Then suddenly one day we find in 1938, which permitted the teachers' it slipping smoothly and easily and colleges of Virginia to change their affectionately from our own tongues names, Dr. Jarman—while opposing a a new name, but carrying with it, for change for Farmville—was responsible us, all the old connotations. If this for having included in the act a clause has not been your experience, it will be. which would permit us to follow in

Changing a name is nothing new for the footsteps of the other teachers' our alma mater, as a brief summary of colleges, if and when it seemed advisable, her name-history indicates. The prede- merely by an action of the State Board cessor of our state college, a school of Education, without further legisla- established in 1839 and operated under tive approval. Thus it was that our church and private management, was alma mater willingly remained for called "The Farmville Female Semi- eleven years the only state institution nary". An act of the General Assembly of higher learning which included of 1884 created, as the first teachers within its name the specific profession college in Virginia, "The State Female which most of the graduates of all the Normal School", a name changed in Virginia state colleges for women pur- 1914 to "The State Normal School for sued. It so happened that this was a Women at Farmville", and in 1924 decade when, because of low salaries changed again to "the State Teachers and other reasons, the teaching pro- College at Farmville", and in 1949 to fession was an unpopular choice— "Longwood College". These have been situation now steadily improving. Fur- the official names of our college—names thermore, as President Lancaster has which have graced stationery and campus pointed out, the decision to enter the publications through the years. Stu- field of education is rarely made by dents and graduates have grown fond young people before their graduation

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from high school. Two years ago only made by the State Board of Education seventeen out of five hundred principals after careful study of all the possibilities. of Virginia high schools admitted hav- In selecting "Longwood", the Board ing selected their present profession before chose a name which not only has had the completion of one year of college. a twenty-year association as a part of Consequently, a girl who is uncertain the actual college campus, but a name as to which of several professions to closely and illustriously associated with choose could hardly be expected to the history of Prince Edward County select an institution labeled "teachers and Southside Virginia. With the college". The fact that all four of the Longwood estate are associated the former state teachers' colleges offer names of Johnston and Venable and similar broad curricula and continue to they are names to revere. prepare teachers as well as non-teachers The casual student-guide conducting is overlooked. guests over the campus is apt to point The readers of this magazine are well out the Longwood home as the birth- acquainted with these and other argu- place of General Joseph E. Johnston and ments in favor of changing the name let it go at that. That one of the of our college. They have been re- greatest commanders of the Southern assured by Dr. Lancaster that the college Armies in the War of 1861-65 was will continue to prepare and send into born on the Longwood property is an teaching a high percentage of her grad- established fact, though the present uates. (Once in a teacher-training mansion was constructed by Nathaniel atmosphere those who are only slightly E. Venable in 1815 —four years after interested in the idea of teaching are the general's father sold the property apt to decide in its favor, though no and moved with his four-year-old son pressure be brought to bear upon them. to Abingdon, Virginia. Joseph Eggle- An overwhelming majority of the ston Johnston severed his relations with alumnae, once informed of the facts, the old family homestead at too early an seemed in accord with the idea of re- age to have felt its influence. Further- linquishing the name "State Teachers more, the famous military exploits in College". But what name would take which he engaged do not belong to the its place? Suggestions came from far history of our community. The history and wide and some thirty-five or more of the Longwood property is therefore were published for friends of the college more intimately concerned with his to consider. The actual vote of the forebears. alumnae was scattered throughout the General Johnston was the eighth and long list. Had there been any unanimity last son of Peter Johnston, Jr. and Mary among alumnae or on the college campus Wood. Of his mother, the niece of itself, the decision would have been Patrick Henry, it has been said that she simple, but neither faculty, students, was "so well educated that she could nor graduates presented even a semblance fit her sons for college not only in the of unity, though the names "Jefferson" elements of learning but in the classics and "Farmville" won some slight pref- as well. ' Hers was a highly gifted erence —over the : others. The final family. Peter Johnston was judge of the decision "Longwood College" —was Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court and

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speaker of the Virginia House of Dele- ginia. The family which he sired have gates. At the age of seventeen he had made outstanding contributions to the run away from Hampden-Sydney Col- Commonwealth. The present house, lege on one of- the family riding horses built by his grandson, Nathaniel E. and, with his good friend Clement Car- Venable, presumably on the site of rington, joined the Legion of Light the Johnston dwelling, which was Horse Harry Lee, becoming one of Lee's burned, was the birth place of Lieu- valued officers and a member of his staff tenant-Colonel Charles Scott Venable, until the end of the Revolution. But the a member of General Robert E. Lee's history of the Longwood estate really staff, "a great scholar, a great teacher, begins with the general's grandfather, an author of distinction." The names the first Peter Johnston, who emigrated of these Virginia gentlemen appear on from Scotland to Virginia in 1727, the bronze plaque placed inside the doors settling first at Osborne's Landing on of the Longwood home in 1941 by the the James River and later—in 1765 descendants of Nathanial E. and Mary moving to property acquired near Farm- Embry Scott Venable. ville which he called "Cherry Grove" The remodeling of the house and the —a name he later changed to "Long- replanting of the spacious lawns and wood", perhaps after his ancestral home gardens, heavy with old box and holly in Scotland. The boundaries of this and crepe myrtle, are reminders of the original estate have never been clearly work and enthusiasm of Mrs. Joseph established, though it is known that he L. Jarman, through whose influence the owned land as far south and west as property was finally purchased by the Worsham, the county seat. In 1774 state in 1928 to become part of our Peter Johnston, though himself an college campus.

Episcopalian, being convinced of the "I am glad to say", writes a member importance of Christian education and of the Class of 1900 to her classmates, the need of a college closer than William "that we can adjust ourselves to changes, and Mary, donated a hundred acres of especially good ones like that, which we land to Hanover Presbytery on which would have loved if we had had the was established Prince Edward Acad- beautiful and historic estate of 'Long- emy, now Hampden-Sydney College. wood' when we were in Farmville." He became a trustee of the new college, "What's in a name? That which we and his son was a member of the first call a rose class. By any other name would smell as The second chapter of "Longwood's" sweet; history began in 1811 when its 1,181 So Romeo would, were he not Ro- acres were purchased by Abram Venable meo call'd, of "Slate Hill"—a man considered by Retain that dear perfection which he many to have been the most distin- owes guished citizen ever born and reared in Without that title." Prince Edward County. His record as The essential flavor—"that dear per- United States Senator, farmer, financier fection" —of our alma mater has not is well known. He was organizer and changed with her changing names. The first president of first Vir- the bank of (Continued on page 14)

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CALLING ALL "ZERO" AND "FIVE" CLASSES

They will hold their reunion during the 1950 Founders Day celebration

"Dear Classmates: Did you know urday Night 'sings', after which we

that Founder s Day of March 1950 will peeped to see the dates gather about be the reunion year of all "zero" and Joan of Arc in the Rotunda? Remem- "five" classes of the college? And did ber parading the dormitory halls in our you know that Longwood College pajamas and robes after study period would love to have each and all of you each night to get that candy bar or coke as guests from Friday through Sunday and to visit our neighbors?" All of of that week-end? Well, both are true" this sounds modern and "collegiate",

. . . When Grace Elcan Garnett thus yet we know that members of these and addresses the members of the class of other classes when they arrive for a re- 1900 urging them to come to show the union will bring with them pictures college that "time has not lessened their of husbands and children. Some of

loyalty to her", she is expressing the them will have tales to share of their sentiments of all interested alumnae who own war experiences, of personal find this their reunion year. services or losses during those terrible

Reading a batch of letters from class years. presidents to their classmates—repre- But it's Mabel Edwards Hines' letter senting graduates from 1890-1945- is, to the diploma class of 1925 which perhaps, as good a way as any to catch sounds surprisingly like yesterday when a quick survey of the history of our she describes how they were all "rudely college. Most of them are full of awakened in the early morning hours reminiscences and anecdotes and suggest by all sorts of noises. The school was a flavor of the decades represented. afire!" She recalls "touching services Particularly arresting are those details in chapel that morning" and the "beau- which mark the contrast of the earlier tiful orations" of Dr. Jarman and with the more recent years. Governor Trinkle which "made every- If we begin with the '40 classes—or thing seem like it had happened for the even with the '30's—the contrasts of best, although we wondered where we "then" and "now" are not startling. would eat for the next term." For How modern Jane Powell Johnson several months after the burning of the 1940—sounds when she admonishes her dining room hall the students helped classmates to "Stir your memories with with the dishwashing. The day when thoughts of a sun bath on the dining the new dishwasher arrived was one to room roof, Sunday morning breakfast call for celebration! (May we hope in Cunningham Hall kitchen, or a pic- that Dame History will not see fit to ture of the 'Rec' decorated for Club repeat herself in another twenty-five Manhattan"! And Virginia Cox Pohe years!) — (diploma class of 1930) asks her How different are the reminiscences contemporaries, "Remember those Sat- of a quarter of a century earlier. Madge

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Goode Moore of the class of 1900 re- Brimmer', as she had a tomato named calls the time when the students actually for her by her mother, who was quite a got together a baseball team to while gardener. Mrs. Portia Morrison and away the dull afternoons when the Miss Sarah Spencer were 'Head of the entire student body was quarantined Home', and they were much beloved. because there was a case of smallpox in Each night Mrs. Morrison came around the town of Farmville. (The idea of to see that we were in bed and said girls playing baseball seemed as extra- Good night'. It distresses me that there '13' ordinary as a case of smallpox!) She are just 1 3 left. Here's hoping that

notes also that in those days a Hamp- will be a lucky number, all try to meet den-Sydney boy might hopefully walk at Founder's Day in 1950. Let's get ." the seven miles to town only to be together for a little fun. . . refused a date by the hard-hearted Yes, let's get together for a little fun! "Normalites". All of this was at the Though not all of the letters reaching Farmville Normal—a name which Mrs. your secretary's office are so packed with Moore feels "dates us girls. Longwood recollections of general interest, they are

College fits it just as well, and I think unanimous in their insistance that to get sounds better." together from far and wide would be And so does the president of the "fun"! Victoria Vaiden Worden (di- Class of 1895, E. Linwood Stubbs, ploma class of 1920) reminds her classmates that the restrictions approve of our new name. Her letter on travel during the war made it impossible for is so packed with flavor of the "gay them to have their "silver Jubilee" in nineties" at Farmville that it deserves '45, she urges that celebrate to be quoted at some length. She writes: and they their thirtieth milestone this year. "Greetings Class of 1895. Does it

seem possible that it has been nearly 55 This reminds us that the degree class years since we were graduated from the of the same year, 1920, should certainly

'State Female Normal School' ? How be here en masse! Mary Lancaster Wall

happy I am it is Longwood College! lives in Farmville and Ethel Gildersleeve So much more dignified! Our secretary —the other fifty percent of the class asked for some high lights of that era. should let Mary persuade her to leave

I am afraid this generation will think her position as Dean of Girls, in the we were very prosaic those days. There Newport News high school for a class were no such things as caps and gowns reunion! (Incidentally, though it would at Farmville. Dear Mr. Cunningham said be perfectly fair for them to win the that our class-night dresses could be of Jarman cup for one hundred per cent silk or satin, (perhaps buttons and attendance, it has already been an- bows) but graduating dresses must be nounced that the class with the next of cotton; organdie, mull, flaxen. How highest percentage will share it also.) prices have changed! Naturally we All the way from Tuscumbia, Ala- were quite chagrined by that edict. I bama, Evelyn Noell Wood declares that believe we were the first class to have if she can get back for Founders Day, pins, which we had made at Tiffany's her classmates of 1915 should be able in N. Y. One of our class will be to make it, and we agree! famous in the vegetable world, 'Rose We are sorry not to have had any

December, 1949 communication from the class of 1910: Mary E. Campbell writes from Nova and we were distressed to learn that a Scotia, Canada, that the combination serious illness keeps Edith Dickey Mor- of distance and age"I am nearly an ris, the president of the class of 1905, octogenarian," she says—makes it im- from sending out personal letters to her possible for her to take part. In contrast classmates, though we are assured that Mary Anne Jarratt and Eleanor Wade Claire Woodruff Bugg, of Farmville, Tremblay of the "45 Class" write will be here to greet and to speak for hopefully of taking advantage of being her class in March. the youngest reunion class on the Our oldest and our youngest reunion campus in March—an honor available classes are those of 1890 and 1945. to them only this once.

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1950 FOUNDER'S DAY TENTATIVE PROGRAM

Friday, March 24, 1950

3:30 to 6:00 P. M. Registration for Rooms, Main Building.

7:30 to 10:30 P. M. Informal Class Reunions.

Saturday, March 25, 1950

9:00 to 10:15 A. M, Registration, Main Building.

9:15 A. M. Coffee. Student Building Lounge, Farmville Alumnae Chapter, Hostess.

10:15 A. M. Alumnae Business, Student Building Auditorium.

12:30 P. M. Alumnae Luncheon, College Dining Hall.

1:15 P. M. Alumnae-Student Program.

4:00 to 5:00 P. M. Open House, President's home, Dr, and Mrs. Lancaster.

6:00 P. M. Dinner, College Tea Room.

8:00 P. M. Concert, Longwood College Choir and Hampden-Syd- ney Glee Club, Dr. John Molnar, Director.

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THE ALUMNAE FUND

"Dear to the hearts of many is the $5,000 yet to be raised. Dr. Lancaster, Jarman Organ Fund". So writes our you remember, challenged us to raise president, Helen Costan, in her appeal the organ money by the time he had for the completion of this fund this the auditorium ready for it. The au- year. The organ will cost $25,000. ditorium is already under way, and the "Last year's gifts of more than $5,000 plans include the space for the Jarman brought the total up to $ 1 7.000. This Organ. The committee is working on with about $3,000 from the Unre- faith that we can reach our goal of stricted contributions brings our total $5,000 by June 1950. What greater on hand to $20,000, and leaves us with (Continued on next page)

Founders Day—Homecoming

(Please fill out both sides of this questionnaire and return with your yearly Alumnae contribution to Mrs. M. B. Coyner, Box 123, Farmville, Virginia.) Name Maiden, last name first Married Address Business Home Date of Graduation: JDegree:.

Do you expect to attend Founder's Day celebration, March 25, IPSO?

Do you wish a room reserved in the college dormitory? When will

you arrive?

Roommate preferred:

A registration fee of $1.00 will be charged. This covers the cost of all meals and entertainment.

Will you attend on Saturday:

The Alumnae Luncheon? (yes or no)

The tea in the President's home? (yes or no)

The College dining room dinner.'

(yes or no I

The Musical Concert at 8:00 P. M.?_ (yes or no)

Have you contributed to the Alumnae Fund this year? . . (This in- cludes the Jarman Organ Fund. Please read the article of the Alumnae Fund. News of you, and other Alumnae friends:

December, 1949 11 tribute could we pay our beloved Dr. nae Chapters and the 600 Class Agents Jarman!" who have given generously and unself- Again the Honor Roll for the year ishly of their time and money to make speaks for itself; again almost one- the memorial organ possible. fourth of the Alumnae contributed. Even if you do not hear from your Many have made gifts each year since class representative this year, you will the fund was started four years ago. remember that your Alumnae Associa- Our College has reason to be proud of tion needs your annual contribution. her Alumnae,—proud and grateful. For your convenience a card and blank Your committee especially appreciates IS attached. Use it to-day! the loyal and fine workers of the Alum-

BALLOT Report- of the Nominating Committee Our constitution, as revised at the annual meeting in June, calls for only one nomination for each office; other (Be sure to vote!) nominations may be made by Alumnae at large, provided

each nomination is endorsed by ten Alumnae in good standing. All nominations must be in the Alumnae office

by Nov. 1. The election is held at the annual business meeting on Founders Day.

Vote for one; Vote for three;

First Vice-President Nominating Committee n Sara Button Rex, '39, Charlottesville D Helen Draper, Farmville ^"^^ °"^"^' Hampden-Sydney Second Vice-President ° HUTCHINSON WAT- D EMMA MEBANE HUNT MaRTENSEN, •19,n ^'^^^^'^^ „, , .,, KINS, Farmville Wytheville

Director

Ethel Gildersleeve, '20, Hampton

(For your Alumnae Record)

Have you done graduate work? How much?__

Degree? College or colleges;

Former positions: JPresent occupation:.

Contribution to public and community service:

12 Alumnae Magazine FOUNDERS DAY, 1949

Fire postpones but doesn't dim celebration held in June

The stage was set and everything pointed to a most enjoyable Founders Day on March 12, 1949, when the awful fire came just one week before- hand. The programs were printed; Miss Wheeler had her Dramatic Club girls and Jongleur Hampden-Sydney boys in h:r usual state of perfection for "Lady Windemere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde, when everything—their lovely costumes, stage properties, lighting, etc. went in the flames. up The adjust- Class of 1894 ments were too great to be made in a week so it was postponed until the June Preston as their leader were the lucky Commencement. and proud winners this year. Brownie The June 4th event was such a happy Taliaferro wrote the following descrip- one that many Alumnae favored chang- tion of their reunion: "If you wish to ing the annual homecoming permanently have a good time, don't 'jine the Cal- to this time. The day started with a vary,' as the old song has it, but go to coffee hour in the Student Building Farmville for your Golden Jubilee lounge given by the Farmville Alumnae reunion." That is what two-thirds of Chapter. Informal greetings were so the Feb. '99 class did, assisted by three enjoyable that it was hard to get the members of the June '99 class. All Alumnae in the small auditorium for were there for the class dinner in the the program meeting, when each re- Snack Bar Friday evening. June 3, given union class representative had a chance by the president, Nelly Preston. Guests to speak briefly about our College in were Miss Rice, Miss Coulling and Gen- their day. evieve Venable Holladay. That was The Harris twin presidents responded the time for reminiscing and bringing for the famous class of 1894. They personal histories up to date. The had five of their number present after coffee hour Saturday morning found fifty-five years! They came near win- many friends from town and state ning for the third time the Jarman Cup present; the business meeting gave Nelly for the largest percentage of attendance. Preston the opportunity to express for However the class of 1899 with Nelly the class sentiments of pleasure and

December, 1949 13 appreciation of the hospitality of Alma Mary Dupuy, June 1909: Minnie Mater: the luncheon hour was a high Blanton Button, Feb. 1909: Maria point of the day for the table held for Bristow Starke, 1914: Shannon Mor- each person the gift from the Alumnae ton, 1919: Virginia Wall, 1924: Ruth Association, of a Farmville Memorial Winer Brown, for the diploma class of Wedgwood dinner plate, and the class 1924: and Sarah Button Rex, 1939. was awarded by Dr. Lancaster the Jar- At the business session following the man Silver Cup for the largest percentage luncheon in the College dining room the of attendance. The rest of the day nominating committee announced the was spent in visiting familiar scenes and election of Helen Costan of Lynchburg, old friends, and participating in the president, and Frances Horton of Roa- Founders Day events. The February noke, as director. people attending were Nelly Preston, At the senior class exercises in the Lily Carter Vaughan, Sallie Michie Bay- afternoon, our president, Maria Bris- ley, Brownie Taliaferro, Julia Vaughan tow Starke, welcomed the newest Alum- Lunsford and Lucy Wright James. nae into our great fellowship in her Florence Frank, Ella Godwin Ridout, usual gracious manner.

and Matilda Jones Plumley represented At 5 : 30 P. M. the seniors were guests the June class. of the Alumnae at a picnic supper on Nine members of the 1904 class the beautiful lawn at "Longwood". answered to the roll call when their The senior-parent-faculty-Alumnae re- representative, Bessie Carter Taylor ception in the lovely garden of Dr. and called for them, and the following made Mrs. Lancaster was the happy ending responses for their respective classes: of a perfect day.

NOW WE ARE LONGWOOD ALUMNAE

(Continued from page 7) intangible and precious Farmville spirit teachers for the Commonwealth—is seems self-perpetuating, whether we bear still the chief concern of the adminis- one name or another. The friendliness tration. As another class president of our campus is still something fresh- assures us, no change— —certainly not the men write home about: and the primary change of a name "can keep this from purpose of our college—to educate being our Alma Mater."

14 Alumnae Magazine FROM A FRESHMAN'S VIEWPOINT

News of campus activities during the 1948-49 session as reported by a member of the freshman class

Maria Jackson, '52

Hello, all you Green n' White and girls whose mothers and grandmothers Red n' White Alumnae! Here are the roamed the Farmville halls before them high spots that shone in the 1948-49 joined the Granddaughter's Club. The Longwood limelight. Although I'm aspirants to a career on Broadway for writing to you as a sophcmore, last a bit part in Miss Wheeler's fall play i year's happening are still as vivid in my flecked to enter the Dramatic Club. mind as yesterday's because, as you al- Those of us who could carry a tune ready know, a "Farmville Girl" never without dropping it tried out for the forgets her experiences here. I miss college choir, and a lucky few were the novelty and excitement of being a asked to join Madrigals, an a capella freshman so much that sometimes it's group with its own student conductor. fun to open my scrap-book and, look- We who were linguistically-minded be- ing over the head-lines and clippings came members of the Spanish or French that bring back cherished memories, to Clubs. The stronger girls tried out for become a freshman again. positions on the staffs of the "Rotunda", Think back with me to 1939. '29, our weekly newspaper, the "Virginian", '19 (and maybe 1889!) or whenever our annual, or the "Colonnade", our it was that you first entered this college. literary magazine. Some of the very Do you remember the headlines that hardiest "frosh" were invited to become came out in the Rotunda in October? members of Orchesis, our modern -dance "Frosh Bow to Sophs on Annual Rat- group. Almost everybody "got into

Day! " Do you remember the week de act" when these organizations spon- before of wondering and fearing and sored numerous campus activities. getting together paraphernalia and the The "Granddaughters" had a won- awful day itself of bowing and scraping derful time acting hostesses on the week- and "Missing" every sophomore you end of the October meeting when the saw? Do you remember the week after Alumnae Council met on our campus. of complete exhaustion and of some- In November, the Dramatic Club and thing else—a realization that somehow, the Hampden-Sydney Jongluers pre- within twelve hours, you had ceased to sented "The Admirable Crichton ' in be merely one of seven hundred girls a manner that was truly admirable from and had become an integral active part all angles. They worked days and hours of Farmville's tradition and spirit? on end to make an even greater success

Yes. sir, we frosh had the spirit as of their spring production, "Lady we began to make the headlines our- Windemere's Fan", only to see their selves. Just how many activities can labors go up in the smoke of the tragic one college have.-'! Over one hundred March fire.

December. 1949 15 —

The College Choir entertained us the literary magazine toe the high stand-

occasionally during assembly periods ard mark and made it really an outlet through the year, but in December, with for student talent by sponsoring the the Madrigals and the Hampden-Sydney short-story and poetry contests. One of Glee Club, they really out-did them- our Juniors, Barbara Anderson, had her selves by presenting to us a gift of winning poem, "A Truth", published inspiring Christmas music, tied and de- in the Annual Anthology of College livered by their conductor, Mr. Ralph Poetry.

Wakefield. The French and Spanish Lastly, let's give a cheer for Betty Clubs "put on the dog" during the Spindler of Hampden-Sydney, Editor- Yuletide season at their Christmas in-Chief of the Rotunda, and her crew "Fiesta". You've heard of the pro- of workers who made the headlines verbial "wolf in sheep's clothing", but possible. did you ever see a girl in a bull costume? Those headlines certainly carried a Everything goes at a fiesta, they say, variety of news, some good, and some, everything from a bull-fight complete well, not so pleasant. On the sunny with mantillas to French carols complete side, the Rotunda announced the annual with accent! birthday dinner of the college president In January, the headlines read "Or- soon after the opening of the fall term. chesis Recital to Be Different" and it Dr. Lancaster's birthday was celebrated certainly was. For the first time, for in the time-honored way. Everyone most of us, we saw what had been going dressed in her Sunday best, entered a on down in the gym behind our backs. candle-lit dining hall and sat down to

The dance-pictures given to us were so a turkey dinner that was fit for a king! vivid that the whole audience caught the What a pity that we have only one rhythm. We grieved with the homesick president with only one birthday. When "mountain gal", swayed with a group Christmas rolled around, we had two of Pilgrims, and tapped our feet with things to look forward to besides Santa the Negro cotton-pickers. After the Claus and vacation! The first was the recital was all over, one girl was heard ceremony of the "Hanging of the to say, (above the admiring chatter) Greens" when we hung running cedar "Well, with Mrs. Landrum and her around the Rotunda. The second tra- modern dance, Farmville's got every- dition that Christmas brought was that thing!" We think she's one hundred of caroling in the Rotunda before meals. per cent right! In March, Mrs. Land- When we all gathered on the steps, rum took a few chosen girls to the Arts around the railings or down by our tree, Forum in Greensboro, North Carolina. there was a special feeling of togetherness Getting back, we can't forget the and pride in our college that you must wonderful job that Editor-in-Chief Ann have felt yourselves as you sang the East of South Boston, did on the Vir- Christmas season in beneath the greens. ginian. The 1949 edition was dedicated The holidays were over all too soon, to Mr. Samuel L. Graham, Business but we hardly had time to be homesick. Manager of the College. Ann Lanbein, Exams were upon us, and a headline who took over for Mary Rattray, as appeared in the paper in January that Editor-in-Chief of the Colonnade made struck new terror to our already quak-

16 Alumnae Magazine ing hearts. "Dean Savage Announces presentation of "Hamlet" and we were Adoption of Plan for Three-Hour proud to have Mrs. Phyllis Taunton Exams This Semester." "Oh, for Wood, recognized English lyric poet Heaven's sake," one prospective cram- and artist in our own auditorium in mer wailed, "I don't even know enough January. It was our privilege to act to write for ten minutes, much less one as hostesses to the Harvard Glee Club hundred and eighty!" To hear us talk who sang Easter selections and joined you would have thought that the sky the College Choir in three numbers at had fallen. Fortunately, we all pulled our final lyceum of the year. Those through, and the next headlines were Harvard men set many an STC heart a triumph for the eighty-four who made aflutter with their spirited renditions first semester's Dean's List. of the traditional Harvard songs and Close on the heels of exams puffed charm! sorority rushing, and S.T.C. played the The French Institute was opened on proud role of "Mama" to two of her our campus by Dr. H. Carrington Lan- daughters, Zeta Tau Alpha and Kappa caster, professor of French literature at Delta sororities. On January 20th, Johns Hopkifts University, a figure in exercises re-establishing the two sorori- Who's Who in America, and the brother ties on our campus were held in the of our own beloved Dr. Lancaster.

auditorium. Miss Elizabeth W. Lanier, Notwithstanding all the other events national president of Kappa Delta, and that took place at "Farmville" last year,

Miss Wanda Garver, field secretary of there is one that stands uppermost in Zeta Tau Alpha being present. Excite- my mind for various reasons. The event ment ran high on February 25th and itself lasted only a few hours, but we 26th when Mu Omega became the Alpha as students, the faculty and administra- Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha and on April tion, the townspeople, and the entire

8th and 9th when Gamma Theta became state are still being affected. On March Kappa Delta's Alpha Chapter. We were 6th, 1949, defective wiring in White honored to have our alumnae from all House started the blaze that resulted in over the country return to be reactivated a loss amounting to $300,000. The with us. Last spring many Phi Zeta townspeople and alumnae rallied to the Sigma Alumnae also returned to be cause in a way which we can never initiated into Delta Sigma Epsilon forget. Those of you who were here national sorority, when Mrs. Edward at college when the dining hall-dormi- A. Beidler, their national secretary of tory burned in 1923 remember the Columbus, Ohio, was here to install confusion and heart-break and tears them as their Alpha Psi Chapter. sometimes over seemingly the most The Rotunda carried the names of unimportant possessions. While the many other nationally and internation- rest of us were thanking Providence ally known figures who made our that our life was still intact, one of lyceums and assemblies "the talk of the the girls shed many "bitter ones" over town". We applauded Miss Hen- the loss of her newly acquired frater- rietta Schumann, pianist of world- nity-pin. Still another, forgetting that

wide fame at our first lyceum of the her two fur coats were reduced to ashes year. We thrilled to the Barter Theater refused to be consoled because "Jim's

December, 1949 17 picture" had been lost. "It's easy to foundations when we read "Board forget one's own feeble strength at Names College Longwood." For the seven o'clock in the morning", said a sixth time in one hundred and fourteen Junior. She carried the grandfather's years, our college had changed names, clock from the Rotunda under one arm, and as all the changes before had marked but it took two strong men to restore progress, so we of Longwood, new in it to place at eleven o'clock when we name, but old in tradition shall strive were finally assured that Main Building under the motto:

safe. I could go for pages was on "Present Patience about the funny-tragic incidents that Noble Name occurred during and after the fire, but Eager Effort to the significant result was me most Future Fame" this: That indefinable "Farmville spirit" showed itself as it never had Suddenly, it was spring at Long- before. Classes and activities went on, wood. The screens were put in, the girls lived three and four in a room and radiators turned off, the painters were laughed long and hard at discomforts here again, and the roofs were cluttered and inconveniences. After the name of with sun-bathers and their "creden- the college was changed to Longwood, tials". we all joked that our school was named New cotton dresses and May Day

Longwood before the fire, but now it costumes hung in every closet as the was just "Short Sticks" or "Charred Rotunda reported "River Legend to Splinters". The girls who had lived Open May Day Festivities". On the on White House invited their friends big day, a crowd of spectators were in to "open house" in their old rooms. forced to retreat to their cars as a down- In the days that followed that dread- pour of rain dampened more than our ful March morning, laughter covered spirits and postponed the pageant for many a tear until, indeed, a disaster was nearly an hour. Then came the silver turned into a triumph. lining. The sun shone; Ruthellen Mears, The second best-remembered event senior from Cape Charles, reigned over her court of beauties; and of my freshman year will always be, dancers told the legend of the James I think, the change of the name of the River, its course and its influence on the college. It was not, like the fire, some- people of the thing that caught us napping. (Pardon Commonwealth. The dance that night was one of the loveliest the pun!) We had had the list of names of the before us for months, and arguments six given during the year, as court princesses for the one name or for the other ran led the figure beneath a circle of blue and streamers. the gamut among the students. On pink March 30th, we crowded into the din- News makers on the campus during the year were the nine girls chosen to ing-hall, each wanting to be the first to represent Longwood in the fifteenth catch a glmpse of the Rotunda headlines edition of Who's Who Among Students that were scooping every other news- in American Colleges and Universities. paper in the state as to the announcement They were Laura Jean Comerford, of the chosen name. The walls of the president of the Y.W.C.A.; Ann East; dining-hall must have their shaken to (Continued on page 20)

\\ Alumnae Magazine — — —

OUR LIBRARY NAMES FOR THE

ACKNOWLEDGES . . . COLLEGE BUILDINGS

Many and varied are the interests of Interest has developed in naming our alumnae, and we are always eager the different building on the College to receive the publications of those who grounds. For the respective buildings, write. Within the past year, several of names that have been suggested are our authors have sent copies of their listed below. As you will recognize, books which we are pleased to acknowl- the names are of people who have been edge. closely associated with the College or Martha Lee Doughty has again been with this geographical area. You are writing verse about her beloved Eastern asked to vote your preference on these

Shore of Virginia. This time it is a names: or, if you wish, suggest other collection with the pleasing title, Be- names. yond the Mist. One criticism that has been made of

Another acquisition to our poetry the names as a whole is that there are shelf is a small collection of lyric verse almost no teachers included. by Ann Snyder. Send your vote or suggestion to the

A third collection of poetry is writ- Alumnae Office as soon as possible. A ten by Ada Edmunds Mapp Guerrant. committee will tabulate all votes and From this volume, A Little Book of suggestions for use of the State Board Rhythm and Rhyme, we share with you of Education which will officially name one of the poems: the buildings.

Auditorium Joseph Leonard Jar- Long, Long After — man Auditorium No spring poem has the power New science building Edith Stevens Of an April Flower; — Hall, Peter Mettaeur Hall, Mat- After a wild bird sings, thew Fontaine Maury Hall Words are such futile things. Main building William Henry The old earth is aware Ruffner Hall Of young spring laughter. Senior dormitory Cunningham Hall And poets would follow her — Junior dormitory—Frazer Hall Long, long after. Sophomore dormitory (Old Annex") Cribble's, the story of a beloved —Portia Lee Morrison Hall, Mary penny shop, by Julia Johnson Davis, White Cox Hall is charmingly told with that lightness West Wing (Old Library) —Jennie of touch so characteristic of Julia's Masters Tabb Hall, work. Library—J. L. M. Curry Library, Last year Elizabeth Jarratt was busy Judith Randolph Library, The autographing at Miller and Rhoads in Library, Jefferson Library Richmond her most recent story. Smart Longwood—Longwood House. Mr. Tim. This appealing dog story, "Longwood ". Johnston-Venablc illustrated by Nell Stolp Smock and Hall, Johnston Hall published by the Abingdon-Cokesbury Student Building—Remains the same Old science building (Continued on page 20)

December, 1949 19 FROM A FRESHMAN'S VIEWPOINT

(Continued from page 18)

Jane Fox, vice-president of the Student White's ribbons hang on the cup until Government Association; Martha Gil- next year!! !um, president of the House Council: Incredibly it was May. We were Marjorie Miller, president of the Student packing our drapes and bedspreads, Association: Government Jesse Lee cramming for exams, and paying last- Pickett, president of the Athletic As- minute library fines. Tearful seniors sociation: Violet Ritchie, president of attended baccalaureate services. Dr. John the senior class and president of Alpha A. Redhead, Jr., of Greensboro First Kappa Gamma: Betty Spindle, nnd Presbyterian church speaking. Then Jane Taylor, Chairman of Student finally on June 6th, graduation exer- Standards and president of Pan-Hellenic cises were held in the dining hall with Association. When it was apple-blos- Dr. John Newton Thomas, professor som time in Winchester, Janie Fox also of Systematic Theology at the Union college represented our as one of the Theological Seminary in Richmond, as princesses at Apple-Blossom Festival. guest speaker. With the year almost over, all eyes And my first year at Longwood were on the tennis playoffs which would College was over. Everything I'd ever determine the colors to be tied on the dreamed of and hoped for in college color-cup. The frosh and juniors my pulled hard against the sophs and life came true here. My college has seniors, but it seemed that we Red n' everything, and someday I'll be as Whites hadn't kept up with our Wheat- proud as I know you all are to call ies training program because Green and Longwood College my Alma Mater.

OUR LIBRARY ACKNOWLEDGES

(Continued from page 19)

Press, bids fair to take a permanent place surveys that have revealed the ignorance in the affections of dog-lovers, young of our youth of their country's history, and old alike. it is gratifying to know that one of our A valuable study, called In and graduates has just brought out another Around Hampton, has been produced historical study. In The Story of Vir- by Margaret Munford Sinclair. This ginia, our own Carrie Hunter Willis is refreshing to the patriotism of every has collaborated with Lucy S. Saunders. thorough-going American interested in This volume, published by Newson and America's oldest continuous English- Company of New York, and splendidly speaking town. illustrated, should provide grade school Now that thoughtful Americans are children valuable reading about Vir- becoming alarmed over the results of ginia, "the Mother of States".

20 Alumnae Magazine FACULTY AND Education; a member of the Virginia Advisory Committee on Schools and ADMINISTRATION Colleges: of the Virginia Legislative Committee on School Districts; and of NEWS the educational committee of the Gov- ernor's Council on the Virginia Econ-

omy. His counsel is relied upon in

other fields than education, as he is on the Executive Board of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Southern Vir-

ginia. He is also Vice-Presdent of the Board of Directors of Sweet Briar Col- lege and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal High School at Alexandria, Va. Since his early child- hood Dr. Lancaster has had a home in

Bath County. It was fitting that he should be asked to review the new book "The Valley Road" by Fay Ingalls both for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Tuckahoe Woman's Club of Miss Fern E. Staggs Richmond. Mr. Ingalls is President of the Virginia Hot Springs Company lo- cated in Bath County.

There are seven new faculty members and five new administration members for the 1949- 1950 college year. Dr. John W.

Molnar is head of the music department. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in music and science from the Cincinnati Conservatory of the Univer- sity of Cincinnati, and obtained his doc- torate in Education from the same uni- versity. Last year he was head of the department of teacher training and public school music at the University of Cincinnati, also director of the Glee Club

Dr. John W. Molnar and Oratoric Society of the same insti- tuition. Previously, he also served on the

Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster is much faculty of the Cincinnati Conservatory more than president of Longwood Col- of Music as instructor in methods and lege. He is one of the six members of conducting. In Hughes High School the accrediting committee of the Amer- he directed a choir of 125 voices and ican Association of Colleges for Teacher an orchestra.

December, 1949 21 Miss Fern E. Staggs is the new head University of Oregon; her Master's by of the Department of Home Economics. Columbia University.

She is a graduate of Baker University Miss Dorothy A. Daniel, B.S., Long- at Baldwin, Kansas. She holds a Mas- wood College, 1949, is one of the first

ter's degree from the University of Mis- grade teachers in the Campus School. souri and is working on her doctorate Miss Irving Armstrong, an alumna at Iowa State College. She has been of Longwood College and former as- head of the home economics department sistant librarian, has returned after an at Lindenwood College, St. Charles, interim spent as librarian at John Mar- Missouri, and has taught at Missouri shall High School and in studying at University. North Carolina Library School of which

Mr. Thomas A. Malloy, Jr., social she is now a graduate. She has charge studies instructor, received his M.A. of the library public services.

from Colgate University at Hamilton, Miss Mildred K. Neale is the head New York. His undergraduate work nurse of the College Infirmary. She at- was done at Washington and Lee Uni- tended Madison College and the Uni- versity and at the University of Vir- versity of Virginia. ginia. Miss Gwendolyn Cress succeeds Mrs. Mile. Suzanne Girard will be part- Elizabeth Vassar Pickett as assistant

time French and Latin instructor. A to the Dean of Women. She is a grad- native of Lyon, France, she holds the uate of the class of June, 1949. Mrs. degree Licence es Lettres in history and Pickett is assistant in the Business Of-

the history of art. Last year she was fice this year. employed as a secretary with the Public Mrs. Grace G. Slayton is College Information Department of the United hostess in Student Building. Nations Secretariat, dividing her time be- Mrs. P. B. Woodward, of Powhatan, tween the Lake Success headquarters and replaces Mrs. Mary M. Province as as General Assembly and Security Council sistant dietitian in the dining hall. sessions at Flushing Meadows. Miss Emily Barksdale spent part of Miss Betty Spindler, member of the her vacation studying at the School of 1949 graduating class of Longwood Spanish, Middlebury, Vermont. Other College, returns to fill the position of members of the faculty similarly engaged assistant in the audio-visual department. were Miss Vera F. Baron, at the Moun-

Mr. Robert C. Vickers is assistant tain Lake Biological Laboratory of the

professor of art. He is a graduate of University of Virginia: Miss Emily Geneseo State Teachers College, N. Y., Clark and Mrs. Mary W. Watkins, at and has a M.A. degree from Columbia Columbia University. University. He has also studied art at Miss Alice Carter, ten years ago, Fontainebleau, France. prepared a Virginia Supplement to one

Miss Catherine J. Osborne, assistant of the State adopted geography texts, professor of physical and health educa- Ginn ^ Co. publishers. During the past

tion, is from Portland, Oregon. Her year she revised this work, bringing it bachelor's degree was conferred by the up to date.

22 Alumnae Magazine Mrs. Kathleen G. Cover, Regional workshop was held at Longwood Col- Supervisor of Guidance, and Mrs. Jessie lege.

S. Grigg, associate professor of home Dr. George W. Jeffers taught at economics, attended the Southern re- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in the gional conference on Home Economics summer.

Education which was sponsored by the Miss Frances Waters is spending this Division of Vocational Education, Office winter at her home in Tennessee on of Education, Washington, D. C. Mrs. leave of absence. Miss Lucille Jennings

Cover served as special advisor in guid- was granted leave of absence for the first ance during work shops of the confer- semester because of illness. Miss Annie ence week. Mrs. Grigg served as a mem- Laurie Stone and Mrs. Mabel Jones ber of the child development committee. McCoy also are on leave of absence for

Miss Helen Draper and Mr. J. M. a year because of ill health. Grainger were advisors to the French Mrs. Emily Kauzlarich Landrum, as- Circle and Beorc Eh Thorn, English sistant professor of physical education, literary society, which sponsored the had an article entitled "Who Should institute on French culture held at Long- Teach Dance?" in the Dance Observer, wood College in March. Important the official national publication on dance

features were addresses by eminent schol- professionally in the college field. It is ars from Johns Hopkins University, the a protest against dance as a mere art form University of Virginia, and Sweet Briar in favor of dance for the average in- College, discussions, and exhibits on dif- dividual. A second article, "Bringing

ferent phases of French life, literature Modern Dance to Secondary Schools" and language, and contributions to mod- was published in the June issue of the ern Western civilization. Journal of the American Association for Miss Grace B. Moran, associate pro- Health, Physical Education and Recrea- fessor of history and social sciences has tion. As usual, the May Day Festival, been writing a geography for elementary "River Legend", directed by Mrs. Lan- pupils, the Virginia supplement to the drum, presented scenes of interest, imag- state adopted text published by Rand ination and beauty. McNally ^ Co. It has passed the trial Dr. Merle L. Landrum, head of the

test in the fifth grade and is being pre- Department of Business Education, re- pared for publication. ceived his doctorate from the School of Miss Mary B. Barlow who retired in Education, Indiana University, in June.

June is enjoying New York this winter, The title of his thesis is "Business Edu-

while her niece, Elizabeth, is completing cation in Virginia", a comprehensive work at Columbia University for her study of teaching and teacher training.

Master's degree. He is listed in Who's Who in American Miss Olive T. Iler succeeded Miss Bar- Education and Leaders in American

low as head of the Department of Phys- Education, is a member of state and na- ical Education. Miss Iler conducted a tional organizations in his field, holding workshop in physical education, under the offices of Virginia State Director of the auspices of the State Health De- the Southern Business Education Asso- partment, from June 20 to July 2. The ciation, and State Director and Chair-

December. 1949 23 man of Membership Committee of the of Contemporary Painters in Delano, United States Business Education Asso- California, winning an Honorable men- ciation. He is contributor to educa- tion in the latter place. In Richmond, tion publications. in 1949, her New England Church, an oil painting, was accepted for display Mrs. Mory W. Wotkins, executive in the Biannual Competitive Exhibition secretary of the College, received the of Virginia Artists. M.A. degree from Columbia University last summer. Dr. Beverley Ruffin in January at- tended the meeting of the American Li- Miss Elizabeth Burger, assistant pro- brary Association held in Chicago. Her fessor of science is chairman of the com- chief interest was in the discussion of mittee for scheduling student activities. making a film to teach freshmen how to She is captain of the United States use their college libraries since that pro- Hockey Team, which won a 3-2 victory cedure was already in practice at Long- over the U. S. Reserves in an exhibition wood College. game in Philadelphia in September. She was chosen to the national team after a Dean William W. Savage has pre- series of regional and national contests sented some new college publications of in which she was captain for her teams. interest to high school seniors and pros-

pective students. The first is "So Dr. Edgar M. Johnson has his usual You're a Senior" for distribution to extension classes. As an "extra-cur- high schools. In December, 1948, "Will ricula activity" he is president of the College Prepare You for a Career?", Farmers Cooperative, Inc., a flourishing appeared. It is an illustrated booklet organization. He is a member of the pointing out the advantages of a college Executive Committee of the State Com- education, explaining the opportunities mittee on Radio in Education, an ad- and training in each major field of study visory committee to the State Depart- offered here. It is particularly useful to ment of Education. guidance workers in high schools. In Mrs. Janice Lemen holds the newly May he was called to Washington for created State office of Regional Super- a conference with the Occupational Out- visor Art, with headquarters at Long- of look Division of the U. S. Department is resource person wood College. She a of Labor. He described the student per- with supervision duties in counties and sonnel program in force here and how with part-time teaching at Longwood. occupational information is utilized, Mrs. Lemen has delighted the public especially in freshman classes. with exhibits of her paintings on va- Mrs. Celeste Richardson Blantcn and rious occasions. December, 1948, her Miss Lillian Seaberg have resigned their oil paintings were shown in the Brows- positions in the library. The latter is ing Room, and in the fall of 1947 she now at the University of Florida. Mrs. had an all watercolor exhibit in Farm- Anne Meredith Jeffers is on full-time ville. Some have traveled to distant library service in 1949-1950. places, to the competitive Virginia and North Carolina Annual Art Exhibit in Dr. Marvin W. Schlegel, associate Norfolk, and to the Invitational Exhibit professor of history and social science.

24 Alumnae Magazine is the author of bulletins and articles tural Society of England and the vice- prepared for the American Association president of the American Delphinium for State and Local History, the Albe- Society. Mrs. Crafts was Worthy John- marle County Historical Society, Penn- son, head of Department of Home Eco- sylvania History, The War Records Col- nomics at Longwood. lector, and other historical periodicals. Miss Fronde Kennedy, formerly ninth Recent ones are entitled, "Writing Your grade supervisor at Farmville Training

", Community's War History "Writing School, is head of the English Depart-

Local History Articles ', and "Virginia ment and teaches philosophy at Mon-

on Guard". treal College, Montreat, N. C. She is Dr. Francis B. Simkins, was granted the author of a book, "A History of a year's leave of absence for 1948-49 Spartanburg County", American Guide to be visiting professor at Louisiana Series, Illustrated, sponsored by the State University. He has now resigned Spartanburg Branch of the South Caro- his position here as professor of history lina Branch of American Association of and social sciences to become a permanent University Women.

faculty member of L. S. U. Dr. J. P. Wynne, director of teacher

Mr. Ralph Wakefield left the Depart- education and head of the Department ment of Music in the fall to study at the of Education and Philosophy, has been Baltimore Conservatory of Music. Mrs. honored by election to honorary mem-

Wakefield is teaching music in two bership in the International Mark schools in Towson, Maryland. Twain Society, an organization devoted Three Algernon-Sydney Sullivan to the stimulation of interest in litera- ture Medallions were presented at Hampden- throughout the world. The award Sydney Commencement. Dr. Ray A. was made in recognition of his contribu- Moore, college physician, was one of the tion to literature in his latest book, recipients. They are awarded in recog- "Philosophies of Education", published nition of work done "to encourage and in 1947. He is chairman of the Philos- Society for the dis- preserve a high standard of morals and ophy of Education covering Virginia, Tennessee, for their generous service to their fel- trict low men." North Carolina and the city of Wash- ington. Miss Martha W. Coulling, who was replaces Mrs. for fifty-six years head of the art de- Mrs. Katherine Tabb Eva H. Warren as hostess of Cunning- partment in Farmville, is now living Hall, Mrs. Louise Dugger is in Richmond at the Methodist Home for ham and the Aged. in charge of the Tea Room.

Last year the Ohio papers paid tribute Caroline Eason, Assistant Dean at to Mrs. Earl Crafts, regional director the College in 1948-49, was married in of the Ohio Association of Garden April to the Reverend Phillip A. Rob- Clubs, for her success in securing a roster erts. They are making their home in of outstanding speakers for the annual Fredericksburg, Va. meeting, among whom was Arthur Dr. Bessie Carter Randolph, associ- Brooks, fellow of the Royal Horticul- ate professor of history at Longwood

December. 1949 25 from 1916 to 1920, addressed the local 1949, an institute to foster interest in branch of the AAUW at an open meet- medieval culture was established in her ing in May. Her topic was "The North honor at Wellesley, a recognition of

Atlantic Security Pact". She is a polit- "the high distinction of her scholastic ical science specialist, a member of Phi attainments ". Beta Kappa, she holds a bachelor's de- Miss Helen Blackiston and Mrs. gree from Hollins College, and a mas- Eloise Harrison Edmunds, were Farm- ter's and doctorate from Radcliffe Col- ville visitors in 1949. Miss Blackiston lege. A Carnegie Fellowship in Inter- taught nature study and geography from national Law gave her two years inten- 1902 to 1915, and is now at Alabama sive study abroad in her special field. College for Women, Montevallo, Ala- She will retire from the presidency of bama. Mrs. Edmunds was a member Hollins, in June 1950, a post which of the Mathematics Department from she assumed in 1933. She is national 1904 to 1913. chairman of the Legislative Committee Miss Sarah B. Tucker died last Sep- of AAUW. tember in St. Matthews, S. C, at the age Dr. Warren D. Bowman became presi- of 71, after an extended illness. Miss dent of Bridgewater College, his Alma Tucker taught history in our College

Mater, July 1, 1949. He has a M.A. for twenty-four years, until her retire- and Ph.D. from the University of Chi- ment in 1944. cago. From 1923 until 1930 he was Miss Mary B. Haynes died at her associate professor of education and home in Shelbyville, Tenn., in Decem- principal of the training school at Long- ber, 1948, following a period of failing wood. From here he went to Juniata health. She was a supervisor in the College, Huntingdon, Pa., then became primary grades of our College Training pastor of Washington City of Church School from 1917 until her retirement the Brethren, in 1937. Dr. Bowman is in June, 1947. An appreciation of her the author of numerous pamphlets, thirty years of service appeared in the magazine articles, and a on mar- book 1948 Alumnae Bulletin. riage and home making. Mrs. Bowman, Miss Grace E. Mix died in Farmville, the former Miss Olive M. Smith is a Saturday, October 29, 1949, after an graduate of Longwood College. illness of several weeks. She had been Dr. Edna Virginia Moffett was from associated with Longwood College since 1897 to 1899, head of the History De- 1912 when she was supervisor of the partment at Farmville State Female Kindergarten in the Farmville Elemen- Normal School. She took her under- tary School. For a short time she taught graduate degree at Vassar and her doc- in the kindergarten of the Horace Mann torate at Cornell. For several years she School. Teachers College. She retired studied abroad. She is considered an from the Longwood College faculty in authority on English constitutional his- June, 1939. In the next issue of the tory. In 1903 she joined the history Bulletin we hope to have an appreciation

department at Wellesley College and re- of her long and valuable service to our mained there many years. In November, college, her church and community.

26 Alumnae Magazine ALUMNAE CHAPTER ACTIVITIES

The girls whose pictures appear at old "Only" on Onancock Creek. They the bottom of this page are the for- joined with the Northampton Chapter tunate freshmen who have won scholar- for a luncheon in May at which time ships to Longwood College from three Maria Bristow Starke was the speaker. of our loyal Alumnae Chapters. They She was accompanied by Myrtle Dunton were selected for sound scholarship, good Curtis, a former Eastern Shore girl. citizenship, and a definite interest in Ruth Winer Brown and Mabel Cathey teaching. We are proud of these girls Walter represented the Northampton and of the fine Chapters who serve Chapter on Founders Day. their Alma Mater and their state in this Under the fine leadership of last year's most effective way. president, Lottie West McAnally, the Martinsville started the year with a Richmond Chapter had a most success- fine organization meeting in the home ful year. They have a membership of of Elizabeth Kelly Kearfott. The fol- 610 strong! They contributed liberally lowing officers were elected: Frances to the Jarman Organ Fund, and pre- Collie Milton, president; Elizabeth sented Virginia McLean with their one- Kelly Kearfott, vice-president: Ada hundred dollar scholarship. They co- Cunningham Pettus, secretary: Martha operated in visiting the high schools to Anthony, treasurer: Bonnie McCoy and acquaint prospective students with our Cassie DuVal Easley, co-historians. College—as a result twelve fine Rich- Ruth Coyner and Virginia Wall rep- mond students entered Longwood Col- resented 'Tarmville" at this meeting. lege last fall. Their grand finale was Dr. Lancaster spoke at their spring in the form of a picnic at "Rustom", luncheon meeting. They had a large the lovely James River home of our subscription bridge party for their former national president, Maria Bris- money-making project. tow Starke. Evelyn Dinwiddle Bass is The Accomoc Chapter started their the new president. year with a Halloween bridge party at The highlight of the year for the

Grace Booker Frances Andrews Virginia McLean Farmville Norfolk Richmond

December, 1949 27 —

Washington, D. C. Chapter was a tea McCorkle Anderson as co-chairmen. in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Dabney The Winchester Chapter, with Jarman, son of our beloved former Nancy Harrell Butler as president, president. Dr. and Mrs. Lancaster, worked hard on revising their member-

Ruth Coyner, Carrie Sutherlin and Kate ship list. This Valley of Virginia town Trent were entertained for lunch by sends us some fine students each year. Ann Smith Greene before the tea. This Helen Cover Lineweaver, president Chapter has done a fine job under the of another Valley City Chapter Staun- retiring president, Jessie Brett Kennedy, ton, sent greetings and a contribution and it has started off 1949-1950 with to the Jarman Organ on Founders Day, a monthly "DropTn" luncheon at with regrets that they were not rep-

Woodward and Lothrop Tea Ro;m un- resented in person. Their fall dinner der the leadership of Emily Johnson. was well attended, and they assisted

Norfolk is still going strong with Ruth Coyner when she met with a their monthly luncheon meetings. Ruth group of high school students there. Coyner and Virginia Wall attended their Dr. and Mrs. Lancaster visited in first fall meeting at The Essex House in the home of Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Pullen Virginia Beach. Miss Leola Wheeler when they attended the fall luncheon read the play, "January Thaw" at their last year of the Baltimore Chapter. Dr. spring meeting. Kitty Morgan Hogg en- Pullen is State Superintendent of Pub- tertained with a Christmas tea for the lic Instruction for Maryland, and Mrs.

Longwood College students who were Pullen is one of our girls, the former at their Norfolk homes for the Christ- Louise Rowe. Louise Gary Alkire is the mas vacation. Their scholarship this alert new president of the Baltimore year went to an outstanding freshman, Chapter. Frances Andrews. Five Farmville guests. Misses Alice Orchids always go to the Lynchburg Carter, Bessie Jeter, and Brownie Talia- Chapter. Dr. Lancaster and Dean Ruth ferro, and Mr. and Mrs. Coyner, at- Cleaves spoke at their annual fall dinner. tended the reorganization meeting of

Their loan fund without interest is the Appomattox Alumnae Chapter last available each year to a Lynchburg girl. February. Flora Belle Williams served After the Dramatic Club lost everything as temporary chairman, and Florence in the fire last year, the chapter replaced Gregory Trent was elected the new their sewing machine with a new electric president. An enjoyable social hour fol- model. They contributed liberally to lowed the business meeting. the Jarman Organ and made personal The Peninsula Chapter was active last contacts with high school seniors, in- year in raising funds for their loan fund teresting them in choosing Longwood with a subscription bridge party and as their College. several social meetings. The highlight The Lexington Chapter gave financial of the year was a luncheon at the Cham- assistance to their Rockbridge County berlin Hotel when they entertained girls who lost everything in the fire. prospective students also. Dr. Lancas- They have an active chapter now with ter, Dean Gleaves, Ruth Coyner and Lois Alphin Dunlap and Mary Moore Marjorie Miller, president of the Long-

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wood College student body, attended. Interesting reports of the foUowmg Eunice Bassett Leyland acted as chair- chapter meetings have been received man of the occasion. Helen Shawen Bristol, Va.-Tenn.; Charlotte, N. C. Hardaway was elected the new president. Culpeper: Hampton; Blacksburg: Ports- The Roanoke Chapter invited Salem mouth; and Gloucester. Harriet Purdy and Vinton Alumnae to join them at Blackwell of Charleston, W. Va., Mary their annual dinner meeting in the Com- Perkins Fletcher of Warrenton. and munity Center House in Vinton last Kitty Whyte of Petersburg, sent greet May. Leona Moomaw presided over the ings from their respective chapters on business meeting, and then she intro- Founders Day. duced the following Farmville guests Our newest Chapter was organized

who spoke briefly: Dr. Gordon Moss, in Raleigh, N. C , on May 15th. Nena Dr. and Mrs. Robert Brumfield, Dean Lochridge Sexton and Claire Eastman Ruth Cleaves and Ruth Coyner. About Nichels were largely responsible for this eighty Alumnae attended this enthusi- valuable addition to our "organized astic meeting. Charlotte Greely is the Alumnae", for they found a large group new president. of Farmville girls in their city who Dr. Lancaster spoke to the Danville wanted to keep in closer touch with their Alumnae at a dinner meeting in the Dan- Alma Mater. Ruth Coyner and Vir- ville Hotel last February. He was in- ginia Wall attended the organization tea troduced by Agnes Stokes, now Mrs when Lucy Manson Sharpe was elected Irvin Raine Richardson, Jr. Frances president.

Sale Lyie served as chairman of ar- We salute our Almunae Chapters I rangements, but was unable to attend. They are doing a fine job of promoting The Fairfax Alumnae had a success- the best interests of the College and ful subscription bridge party in the fostering among themselves a spirit of home of Sara Mapp Messick last year. fellowship and service. They are a A Wedgwood "Rotunda" dinner plate most important part of Longwood Col- was the high score prize. lege.

A small shipment of Longwood College Wedgwood China has been received.

We hope for a large shipment soon. You may order the following now ; Plates 10J4 inch size. Rotunda of "Longwood" in blue or mulberry, $2.00 each.

December, 1949 29 FIVE MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY AND STAFF RETIRE

Miss Peck, Miss Wheeler, and Miss Barlow leave the faculty; Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Province retire from administrative staff.

Miss Mary E. Peck, an Associate Professor College. For several years she was adviser for of History in our College, retired in June, 1949, Alpha Phi Sigma, the Freshman Honor Society and is living at her home in Fincastle, Va. Miss and was also a member of many College com- Peck received her diploma in the class of 1903 mittees. She was a most efficient aid in the and in 19 24 her B. S. degree. Her M. S. degree Alumnae Association with an ability not only to was awarded by the University of Virginia. plan but to carry out plans effectively. These She began her teaching in Farmville as super- abilities were especially shown when for two visor of the seventh grade of the campus Train- years she served as the National President. ing School. For many years she has been a Contacts with Miss Peck were always stim- valued Professor in the History Department. ulating both in and out of the classroom. Her A summer of travel in Europe and several ses- keen sense of humor and her appreciation of her sions of graduate work at the University of friends made her, as one fellow faculty member Chicago and at Duke University added much said, "an incomparable companion". Her vital to her value as a teacher. personality and her many ways of service to the As a teacher of history. Miss Peck has always College will be constantly missed by both the held her students up to high standards. One of students and the faculty. her freshmen students said of her, "She has Miss Leola Wheeler, Professor of Speech at given me the greatest gift of all. the power to Longwood College, who also retired in June.

think things out for myself." She made the 1949, will travel for some months but it is study, not just an accumulation of facts, but a hoped that she will sometime return to make her vivid, stirring drama in the history of civiliza- home in Farmville. She came to Farmville in tion. 1911, having received her A. B. degree from She was deeply interested in the life of the Smith College and taken a course in speech and

Miss Mary E. Peck Miss Leola Wheeler

30 Alumnae Magazine in Boston. Later she drama was awarded her Miss Mary Barlow served for thirty years as M. A. by Columbia University. She left Farm- head of the Department of Physical and Health ville several times for special services in other Education. When she first came to Farmville, countries. In the first World War she was she was the only instructor in her department in France with the Red Cross. In 1921 she went to which had been added before her retirement to China with the Y.W.C.A. There she studied three other instructors. In one way or another the Chinese language and did effective work in practically all students of the College came under teaching social and recreational work. her instruction or guidance during these thirty All students who have worked with Miss years. Wheeler in the class room or in the Dramatic Miss Barlow is a graduate of Emerson College Club know that she is "tops" as a teacher and of Oratory and taught dramatics in Colorado director. Her students were required to work and Oklahoma before becoming interested in the hard but her high scholastic standards, her teaching of physical and health education. She abounding energy and sincerity exerted a wide was granted a B. S. degree and a diploma m and lasting influence on her students and friends. health education in 1924 and a M. A. degree in Her extra curricula duties were many. She 1929 by Teachers College, Columbia University. served on various faculty and student committees, She is a graduate of Posse School of Physical was adviser for Mu Omega Sorority and aided Education and has done graduate study in Co- in its transfer to Zeta Tau Alpha. National So- lumbia University, in New York University, and cial Sorority. in the Institute of Gymnastics in Denmark. The state and the community will miss Miss Coming to Longwood soon after the Wheeler's varied activities. She was State Chair- passage of the "famed" West law which requires man of the Literature Department of the a course in health education of all teachers V.F.W.C. for several years. She was also Lit- in 'Virginia, she spent much time and thought on the erature Chairman of the Farmville Woman's Club devel- opment of such a course. Through cooperation for twenty-five years and was influential in es- with members of the State Department of tablishing the Womans' Club Library which has Edu- cation and others, she exerted much influence on had a surprising growth under her direction. the health instruction in the schools of the State. She helped to start a recreational csnter at Camp Her services to the State were recognized at a Pickett and often took the College girls there dinner given in her honor by the Supervisor of for dances and impromptu shows. Both the Health and Physical Education of the State De- College and the town have lost in Miss Wheeler's partment of Instruction and his staff last May. retirement a teacher, a leader and a friend. Her students and associates know her best for her devotion to her work, and therefore were

not surprised to hear that this year she is study- ing at Teachers College. Columbia University,

where her niece, Elizabeth Barlow is completing work on her M. A. degree.

Eva Heterick Warren retired at the end of the summer term after serving twenty-five years on the staff of the College. She was reared in traditional 'Virginia style at Little Washington in Rappahannock County behind the walnut doors of the ancestral dwelling of the Hetericks. She graduated in 1904 from Farmville. During

her marriage to J. E. Warren, a prominent mer-

chant and Methodist layman, she maintained a gracious home at Smithfield. On Mr. Warren's

death in 1924 she returned here as a College Hostess. Personally she was an ornament to the Longwood halls—an example to young women of how charming a woman can be after growing older. She transformed Cunningham Hall from

a box-like structure into a place of ivy-covered walls, tulips, forsythia and other shrubs. It was

Miss Mary Barlow (Continued on page 3'^)

December, 1949 31 '49 Frieda Dansberger, ; Mrs. Moorman S. Baker. Lucille '44 MARRIAGES Beckwith Davidson, E ; Mrs. Thomas Archer Saunders, Richmond, Va.

Mildred Courtland Davis, '48 ; Mrs. Cecil Burton '45 Virginia Lee Abernathy, ; Mrs. James Carlton Dixon. Courter, Jr. Sue Duval Davis, '48 ; Mrs. Ralph P. Breeding, Jr., '36 Jeanne Holmes Allen, E ; Mrs. Harry Claytor Richmond, Va. Padgett, Farmville, Va. *43 Anne Marie Dickinson, E ; Mrs. Carl Ivan Carl- '47 ; Mrs. William Deuel Mary atoner Allen, E son, Greensboro. N. C. Hailes. Jr. '44 Susan Look Dickinson, E ; Mrs. Werter Hobson '46 Carolyn Teaford Alphin, ; Mrs. Robert Kent Brent, Hurt, Culpeper, Va. Jr., Richmond, Va. '46 Helen Lee Dortch, E ; Mrs. Samuel Bugg. '43 Mary Elizabeth Alphin, E ; Mrs. Henry Brecken- Phyllis Anne Doss. E '47 ; Mrs. Cecil Grey Yeatte, ridge Vance, Lexington, Va. Crewe, Va. DoriB Alvis, '43 : Mrs. Thomas E. Stone, West Point, Mabel Perkins Dudley, '48 ; Mrs. Morris Gilbert Va. Smith, Blacksburg. Va. '38 Mary Ames, ; Mrs. Walter E. Thompson, Arling- '44 Nancy Duncan, E ; Mrs. William C. Keetz, Jr. ton, Va. Caroline '42 Rennie Eason, ; Mrs. Phili- A. Roberts, '44 Dorothy Anderson, E ; Mrs. Jesse Haywood Fredericksburg, Va.

Councilman, Jr. ; Ashboro, N. C. Sarah Lee East, '45 ; Mrs. Robert Jackson Turner, '44 Mrs. Jean Arington Jessee, ; Mrs. E. Garrison Martinsville, Va. Wood. '42 Mrs. Mary Hunter Edmonds Gourdon, : Mrs. Wil- '44 Virginia Elaine Atkinson, E : Mrs. Linwood Odell liam Bessent Gunn, Harrisonburg. Va. Smith. '45 Jeanne Ann Ellett, E ; Mrs. Robert O. Guza. '47 Phyllis Hope Austin, E ; Mrs. William Wesley '49 Katy Steed Ellis, ; Mrs. Charles Allie Reid, Farm- Burch. ville. Va. '44 Mary Fulner Baker. E ; Mrs. Collis James Castle- Louise Camper Ewell ; Mrs. Olin Sharpe Pugh, Co- berry, New Smyrna Beach, Fla. lumbia, S. C. '27 Margaret Sidney Ballard, ; Mrs. Owen Paul Brown. '43 Eleanor Virginia Feagans, ; Mrs. Lewis H. Curd, Washington, D. C. Washington, D, C. '39 Frances Haskens Barnes, ; Mrs. Clinton Whitley, Nancv Carlisle Foscue, '48 ; Mrs. Harold Douglas Norfolk, Va. Hammer, Jr. '43 Margaret Roberta Belcher, E ; Mrs. Samuel Mor- Julia Agnes Foster, '47 ; Mrs. John Callaway Brown, ton Addleman. III, Bedford, Va. '45 Marilyn Beatrice Bell, ; Mrs, George Kinsey Roper, '45 Leddie Leone Foster, E ; Mrs. Oscar Wicker Mc- Richnaond, Va. intosh, Charlottesville, Va. '48 Dorothy Lillian Bevard, ; Mrs. William A. Owen, '49 Dorothy Anne Freeman, ; Mrs. James Allen Syd- Jr., Newport News. Va. nor, Mannboro, Va. '45 Betty Marie Blackwell, ; Mrs. Donald P. Nof- Ella Frances Fulcher, E '47; Mrs. Wilbur N. Wood, ainger, Roanoke, Va. Richmond, Va. Beverly Wade Bohon, E '43; Mrs. John J. Collins, '48 Dorothy Ann Fulgham, ; Mrs. Jack M. Gale, Jr. Jr., Roanoke. Va. '44 Jeane Ganzert, E : Mrs. Joseph Lewis Hall, Jr. '46 Katherine Anne Booker, E ; Mrs. Edmund Wilson '39 Alpha Lee Garnett, ; Mrs. Lewis Frank Smith, Womack, Farmville, Va. Jr., Culpeper, Va. Ophelia Booker, '34 • Mrs. Howard B. Barnes. Law- Elizabeth Chappell Gates, '44 ; Mrs. Charles William ton, Okla. Hill, Richmond, Va. '43 Margaret Bowling. ; Mrs. J. E. Bowden. Roanoke, Maude Glenn, '21 & '38 : Mrs. Robert Bullington Wil- Va. son. Jr., Green Bay, Va. '49 Anna Griswold Boxley, ; Mrs. W. Irvin Cousins, Mary Virginia Goff. '48 ; Mrs. William Wirt Wad- Baltimore, Md. dell, III. Arlington, Va. '41 Elaine Bray. E ; Mrs. Judson Morgan Gardner, '44 Mary Lucile Graham, E ; Mrs. Page, Beckley, W. Charlottesville, Va. Va. '37 Sara Elizabeth Buchanan, ; Mrs. Herbert Ralston Martha Ann Grainger, '38 ; Mrs. Stephen Thomas Silvers. New York, N. Y. Morgan. Lynchburg, Va. '44 Holland, Mary St. Clair Bugg. ; Mrs. James Elam '44 Mary Elizabeth Grizzard, ; Mrs. Irving Everette Christiansburg, Va. Darby, Jr., Richmond. Va. '21 Anne Armistead Bullock, & '28 ; Mrs. Walter Caroline Temple Gwathmey, '39 : Mrs. John Francis Clay Davis, Richmond, Ind. Jones. '41 Bernice Lee Callis, ; Mrs. Melvin Greely Hudson, '43 Nina Lee Hall, ; Mrs. William O. Mapp, Jr., Norfolk. Va. Wachapreague, Va. '45 Mary William Calvert, ; Mrs. Bushrod Unger '47 Corinne Gay Hamilton, E ; Mrs. Richard H. Moore, Hohannes, Winchester, Va. Prospect, Va. '46 Baltz. Lucy Taylor Capel, E ; Mrs. Louis William '44 Christine Elpe Hamlett. E ; Mrs. Raymond Lewis '41 Ethel McAlister Carr, ; Mrs. Arthur Cherry Ma- Bailey. honey. '36 Marion W. Hansbrough, & '47 ; Mrs. Elliot R. '47 Louis- Elizabeth Lee Carter, ; Mrs. Bert Wilson, Hoit. ville. Ky. Louise Van Patten Harrell. '47 ; Mrs. George Harold '47 Mary Nellwyn Chick, E ; Mrs. James R. Vaughan, Clark. Newport News, Va. Jacksonville. Fla. Mrs. Martha Harding Harrell, E '37 ; Mrs. Samuel Barbara Ann Ciucci. E '46; Mrs. E\:gene Rowland Owen, Jarratt. Va. Boyd. Richmond, Va. Ethel Squire Harrison, '48 ; Mrs. Ronald Baldwin '41 ; Edward Earl Holland, Alice Goode Cohoon, Mrs. Hughes, Havre de Grace, Md. Williamsburg, Va. '47 Mary Elizabeth Harrison, ; Mrs. Edward Daniel '49; Mrs. Stephen Howard Iris Walker Coleman, Slate. Farmville. Va. Ferguson, Jr.. Farmville, Va. Hilda Elizabeth Harvey, '36 ; Mrs. William Sclater Connelly, '47 ; Mrs. Guy Hart- Laura Margarette E Sadler. Charlottesville, Va. well Watkins. HI. '45 Shirley Ann Hawks, E ; Mrs. Luther Abbitt Jones, '31 • Myra A. Costen, Mrs. Kibler ; Shreveport, La. Richmond, Va. '44 Mai-y Cowherd, E ; Mrs. Kenneth Minter. '41 Nell Carolyn Hayslett. E ; Mrs. Claude C. Pullen, Hethie '33 : Mrs. Robert Taliferro Cox, Cameron Jr. Sweeney. Anna Stuart Headlee, *47 ; Mrs. Charles Arthur Mrs. Ruth Creecy Loyd, *25 ; Mrs. Burnett Miller, Lambdin. Jr., Culpeper, Va. Betsy Higginbotham. E '45 ; Mrs. Robert Archer El- Barbara Ellen Crowther, E '44 ; Mrs. Charles Edward Stuart, Jr.. Montross. Va. liot, Jr., Baltimore.

Shirley Hillstead, '46 ; Irma Ruth Cummins, E '43 ; Mrs. Alvin Levog Rob- Irene E Mrs. Charles Kemper ertson. Lorraine.

Gwendoline L. Daniel, *32 ; Mrs. Henry Sebastian Roberta Day Hodgkin, '24 ; Mrs. John Vernon Gas- Odbert. Falls Church. Va. teen, Portsmouth, Va.

32 Alumnae Magazine '46 Dorothy Renee Horton, E ; Mrs. William Allen Betty Burks Perrow, E '43 ; Mrs. Willie Thomas Steinbach. Barnett, Jr. '48 Charlotte Stannard Hutter, ; Mrs. Robert White- Evelyn Marie Pierce, '46 ; Mrs. Joe Lewis Maddox.

field Gale. Ida Paulett Pifer, '49 ; Mrs. Horace Godwin Ash- '42 Anne Nottingham Jacob, E ; Mrs. William Edmond burn, Jr., Blacksburg, Va.

Dunton, Exmore. Va. Bessie Irene Pomeroy, '46 ; Mrs. Cornelius James Elizabeth Grey Jeffreys, '48 ; Mrs. William Stebbins Starkey. Jr.. Toledo. Ohio.

Hubard. Florence Margaret Porter. E '41 ; Mrs. Joseph M. '44 Sara Copeland Jeffr-^'-s, ; Mrs. Theophilus Field Cattrell, Toano. Va. Gilliam. Mildred St. Claire Potter, '34 ; Mrs. Thomas Carl *48 Carol Belle Jenkins, ; Mrs. Elmer Farrett Michael, Andrews, Suffolk, Va. Blacksburg, Va. Virginia Louise Price, '38; Mrs. Charles Curtis Waller. '43 Myrtle Frances Jenkins, ; Mrs. John G. Stewart, Henderson. N. C.

Culpeper, Va. Hannah Louise Prosise, E '41 ; Mrs. Frederick Ran- *49 Nancy Ellen Jessee, ; Mrs. Harry Manning Wood- dolph Moody. Burlington, Vt.

ward- Jr. Laura Louise Prosise, '34 ; Mrs. John Ward Jones. *47 Vivian Earl Jessee. E ; Mrs. Herbert Franklin Anne Randolph, '43 ; Mrs. William Hampton Crom, Bullock, Lynchburg, Va. Jr.. New York. N. Y. '45 Audrey Marshall Johnston, E ; Mrs. Douglas Elizabeth D. Rawlings, '39; Mrs. C. V. Wilkinson, Carwell Horsley. Norfolk. Va.

Margaret Louise Jones, '4S ; Mrs. Frank Thomas Ruth Haywood Read. *39 ; Mi-s. Raymond Scrivener Dresser. Blackman, Charlottesville, Va.

Mary Annette Jones, E '46 ; Mrs. Thomas Henry Cora Lee Redd. E '43; Mrs. Roy H. Hoopes. Jr. '42 Birdsong, III. Helen Ann Reese, E ; Mrs. Bernard Borland Fer-

Kathryn Grace Kappes, '48 ; Mrs. Curtis Vance Bishop, guson, Jr.

Jr. Helen Reiff, '40 ; Mrs. David Alexander Scott, New- '43 Katherine Kearsley, E ; Mrs. Jesse Lee Williams, port, Del.

Jr.. Durham. N. C. Rebecca Jacqueline Reynolds, E '45 ; Mrs. John H.

Laura Imogene Kelly. E '45 : Mrs. Clifton K. Med- Power. '48 ders. Wilmington, Del. Kathryn Marie Rhodes. E ; Mrs. William Edward

Earline Hawbert Kimmerling, '46 ; Mrs. Posie Lee Wills.

Starkey, Yokohama, Japan. Cholena Richards. E '43 ; Mrs. William G. Brooks. '23 Goldie King. E ; Mrs. Adolphus Lee Morris. Blacksburg. Va.

Laura Libby Lane, E '45 ; Mrs. Buford Mallory Berkeley Davis Richardson, E '44 ; Mrs. Charles Little, Jr. Weston Smith. '45 Doris May Lanier, E ; Mrs. Paul Edmund Cocke. Jacqueline Lee Ritchie, '46 ; Mrs. Henry Vandalia '44 Gladys Virginia Lankford, E ; Mrs, Weslev Frank- Perry.

lin Wills. Jacqueline Irene Roberts. E '48 ; Mrs. John Roop Margaret Winston Lawrence, E '47; Mrs. William S. Clement.

Roudabush, Jr. Jane Louise Rosenberger. '40 ; Mrs. Arthur Francis

Margaret Anna Lett. E '47 : Mrs. Gerald Parker Dralle. Lanai. Hawaii. '43 Estes. South Hill. Virginia. Jane Willis Rowe. E ; Mrs. E. S. List. Jr.

Nancy Jane Lite, '48 ; Mrs. Richard Cleveland Bra- Ann Whitfield St. John, 46 ;' Mrs. James Henry ford. Ward. '46 '36 Mary Anne Loving, ; Mrs. Paul E. Arbo. Ada Woodriff Sanford, E ; Mrs. Henry Card De-

Carmen Maxey Low, '47 ; Mrs. William Alexander Jarnette. Orange. Va. '43 Glover. Jr., Rorr-^, Ga. Jane Cabell Sanford. ; Mrs. Frederick Walker Hall. '42 Jeanne Gilbert MacChreits. E : Mrs. Henry Mar- Fort Monmouth, N. J.

tin Snead, Jr. Helena Patterson Saunders. '47 ; Mrs. William Dallas

Susan Mildred McCorkle, '47 ; Mrs. Joseph Anderson Shumate. Jr.

Kincaid. Mary Virginia Seward. '44 ; Mrs. Hugh S. Harris. '46 '47 Katherine Anderson Maddox, ; Mrs. Charles Roach Rebecca Anne Seward, E ; Mrs. Melvin Davis Cox.

Thomas. Jr. Martha Beverley Sexton. '39 ; Mrs. Charles Lupton '43 Elizabeth Bagby Mathews, E ; Mrs. Louis Trap- Hathaway. Laramie. Wyoming. '46 man Hanckel, III, Keene. Va. Alice Virginia Shackelford. ; Mrs. George Archi-

Elizabeth Clarke Meeks, E '43 ; Mrs. Victor Horton bald Mclntyre. Jr. "43 Hanger, Fairfax. Margaret Byrd Sheffield, E ; Mrs. Hiram Otis Lorena E. Miles, '25 ; Mrs. L. L. Porter. Newsoms, Ward. Va. Dorothy Sue Simmons. '44 ; Mrs. Henry W. Kessler, Mary Agnes Millner, '47; Mrs. Orrin Felton Hari'ell. Jr.. Fincastle. Va. Ahoskie. N. C. Margaret Alsen Skelton, '47; Mrs. William Ford '48 Evelyn Maude Moore, ; Mrs. Anderson Davis Cole- Andrews '44 man, Prospect, Va. Elsie B. Smith. ; Mrs. William H. Casterline, '45 Mary Ellen Moore, E ; Mrs. Sanford Philip Allen, Waco. Texas.

Farmville, Va. Mary Carolyn Smith. '46 : Mrs. Edmund Wilcox '45 Mary Virginia Morris, E ; Mrs. Issac Hundley Hubard. Jr.. Farmville. Va. '44 Yeatts. Nancy June Snead, E ; Mrs. Rosser B. West, Jr., Virginia Louise Mottley. E '38; Mrs. Travis Wilson Martinsville. Va.

Hughes. Farmville. Va. Norma Louise Soyars, '48 ; Mrs. William Forbes '46 Emma Elizabeth Mountcastle, ; Mrs. John Faris Watkins. Jr.. Charlottesville. Va.

Lyle. Keysville. Mildred Ann Spain. E '45 : Mrs. Remmie LeRoy '39 Ernestine Winston Noel, ; Mrs. Beverly Vernon Arnold.

Timberlake, Farmville, Va. Gertrude Ruth Stables, '49 : Mrs. Aubrey Tucker

Elizabeth Jane Nuttal, E '46 ; Mrs. Hunter Baldwin Pennington. Blackstone, Va.

Stewart, Durham, N. C. OUie Jean Stembridge, E '47 : Mrs. Linwood A. '40 Judith Virginia Oakes. ; Mrs. Robert Francis Lewis. '46 Trainer, Alexandria, Va. Agnes Bagby Stokes. ; Mrs. Irvin Raine Richard-

Dorothy Mae Overton. E '44 ; Mrs. Mark Ligon son, Jr., Danville, Va.

Hankins, Jr. Harriet Elizabeth Sutherlin, '48 ; Mrs. Jesse Robert

Jane Helen Page, '46 ; Mrs. David Martin Rothwell. Overstreet. '47 Forbes Taylor. ; Mrs. James Fwlton Burnam. Beatrice Marie Pairet, '49 ; Mrs. William Abner Ann Watson. Ill, Christiansburg, Va. Elizabeth Virginia Terry. E '43 : Mrs. Herman C. Wingfield, Richmond. Va. Mrs. Ruth Parker Brooks, E '41 ; Mrs. J. W. Spear, Jr. Mildred Lorene Thomas. '46; Mrs. Elbert Russell Clarke, Farmville. Va. Marian Peake, "49 ; Mrs. Robert L. Slate, Max Mea-

dows, Va. Jean Thomasson. '49 ; Mrs. Harry Randolph Holmes.

Mary Constance Pemberton. E '44 ; Mrs. Lawson Joyce Townsend. E '45; Mrs. Henley Cuetis Hoge, Thomas Pearson, Jr. III.

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Virginia Eubank Treakle, '46 ; Mrs. Ear] Woodrow Jean Graham Watts. '49; Mrs. William Michaux Syd- Marshburn, Rhoadsville, Va. nor, Lynchburg, Va. '17 Mrs. Annie Ford Turpin Revercomb, : Mrs. Roscoe Evelyn Irene White. E '46 ; Mrs. Richard Albert Bolar Stephenson. Covington, Va. Crittenden.

Elizabeth Lee Tyree. '39 ; Mrs. Louis Joseph Bal- Nellie Carroll White. '29 ; Mrs. Anthony Gene Mon- boni, Honolulu, Hawaii. dello. Philadelphia, Pa. '47 Mary Frances Vaugrhan, ; Mrs. William Ollinger, Ivie Lee Wilderson, E '46 ; Mrs. Wallace Charles Richmond, Va. Johnson, Richmond. Va. '43 Anne Elizabeth Walker, ; Mrs. George William Eloise Frances Williams, '39 ; Mrs. Oliver Wendell Bailey, Charlottesville, Va. Draine, Jr.

Mary Virginia Walker, '46 : Mrs. Lloyd Charles Helen Reeves Williams. *48 ; Mrs. Harold Randolph March. Jr.. Suffolk. Va. Wbite, Jr.

Jeanne Boisseau Warwick. E '39 ; Mrs. Benjamin Nellie Williamson, '39 ; Mrs. Vernon Gordon, Nelson, Rudolph Eggeman. Jr. Va.

Mary Ella Watkins, '45 ; Mrs. Frederick Albert Mor- Mary Lou Wilson, E '46 ; Mrs. Louis Llewellyn gan. Natchez. Miss. McGee.

Lois Crenshaw Jones Millar, a son, Richard Mel- bourne. BIRTHS Martha Ann Laing Pearson, a daughter, Ann Marie. Edith W. Lovins Anderson, a daughter, Edith Lovins. Martha Bailey Slacum, a daughter, Margaret Newman. Betty Lucy Young, a daughter, Barbara Allen. Mai'garet Bavks Simmons, a son, Arthur Walker, IH, Catherine Lynch Bowen, a daughter. Alice Lee Barham Sions. a son, Phillip. Josephine Lyne Dennis, a son, John, Jr. Margaret Barksdale Woltz, a son, Robert Wingfield, Louise McCorkle Laughlin, a daughter, Margaret Jr. Jean. Lucille Bell Barnes, a son. Madge McFall Wiseman, a daughter, Madge McFall. Carolyn Bohbitt Jones, a son. James De Calb, Jr. Emily Mahood Barfield, a daughter, Romine Conway. Lucy Bowliyig Potts, a son. Frances Mallory Miller, a daughter. Sue. Carmen Booth Bass, a son, Robert Stokes (Robin). Jean Martin Watts, a son, Martin. Mary Fiances Bowles Van Norton, a son Richard Margaret Mish Timberlake, a son, Stephen Davis, V. Harold. Jr. Martha Moore Howe, a son, Frank, IIL Margaret Boivl'mq Bowden. a son. James Lee. Susie Moore Cieszko. a son. Martin. Frances E. Bradshaw Bruce, a son, Franklin E.. Jr. Mai-y Ann Morris Slaughter, a son. Ann Brooks Givens, a son. Caralie NelsoJi Brown, a daughter, Bonnie Nancye. Frances Burger Booher, a daughter, Betty Blayne. Alice Nichols Proterra, a son. Joseph Thomas. Irma Carpenter Krafts, a daugther, SaUie. Marjorie Nimmo Kiser. a son, Virginia Carroll Worsley, a daughter, Diana. Clara Nottingham Baldwin, a son, Thomas Kyle, Jr. Dorothy Childress Hill, a son. Rowland F., IIL Dorothy Overstreet De Shazo, a daughter, Dianne Katherine Chih-s Veague, a dau2;hter. Leigh. Imogen Claytor Withers, a daughter, Emily Banks. Lee Palmer Miller, a son, Thomas Oliver, Jr. Sarah Cliiw Dabney, a daughter, Sarah Catherine Louise ParceU Watts, a son, George Douglas. (Cathay). Elizabeth Ann Parker Stokes, a son. Pa-ker Rea. Frances Collie Milton, a daughter, Susan Donaldson. Jacqueline Parsons Bynum, a daughter. Martha Bald- Maxine Compto^i Fuller, a daughter. Patricia. win. Helen Cover Lineweaver, a daughter, Anna Cover. Kitty Patrick Cassidy, a son, Roger Bruce. Elizabeth Cralle Carter, a son. Earl, Jr. Evelyn Pearsall Le Grande, a daughter. Renee Carr. Eleano** Dods&ti Nottingham, a son, Seth Fentress. Mildred Peck Dickerson, a daughter, Nancy Ellen. Marv Katherine Dod.son Plyler, a son. Conrad Nor- Catherine Phillips Coener, a daughter, Martha Mat- fleet. Jr. tingly. Nancy Ducr Earnest, a son. Charles, III. Isabel Plummer Kay, twins: Girl, Isabel Tanna-

Ann Dugger Mcintosh, a daughter. hill ; Boy, William Richard. Jr. Nancy Duncan Keetz, a daughter. Shirley Pierce Phlegar, a son, James Pierson. Nancy Dupuy Wilson, a daughter. Nancy Pitts Jones, a son. Thomas Varner. Martha East Miller, a son. Wentz J.. Jr. Annie Pollard Southworth. Twins, Brenda Ann and Ellen Ebel Durfee. a daughte'-. Linda Clyde. Vera Eb^l Elmore, a son. Robert. Jane Powell Johnson, a son, Powell. Vickie Edmunds Scott, a son. Frances Quillen, Reid, a son. Charles Michael. Lillian Elliott Bondurant, a son. Elizabeth Roberts McCann. a daughter. Dearing Fauntlerou Ladd, a daughter, Juliet. Dixie Roundy Cheatham, a son. Randolph Gray.

Vi^-ginia Firesheets DuPriest, a daugther, Susan Nell Scott Cornwall, twins : Boy. Marion Scott Flynn. Girl. Catherine Nell. Frances Fleming Southerland, a daughter. Frances Betty Scroggins Nichols, a son. Bidp-ood. Marj' Seward Horner, a son. Jane Ford Phillips, a son, Thomas Lane. Elizabeth Shiplett Jones, a son, Marcus Cleveland, Jr. Fay Fuller Cridlin. a son. George Fuller. Lorraine Smith Chapman, a son. Frances Godwin Robbins, a daughter, Thelma Marie. Micon Sneed Savage, a son. Mary Graham Page, a daughter. Louise Snow Mann, a son, Edward Arthur. Rosalie Greear Hamlin, a son. Wilbur Gordon, Jr. Margaret Stallard Woolling, a daughter. Jo Stallard. Marian Hahn Sledd, a son. Olivia Stephenson Lennon, a son. John Larry. Ijouise Hall Zirkle, a daughter. Joyce Ann. Mary Louise Sterrett Campbell, a daughter. Rebecca Marian Lee Hardett Park, a son. George Charles. Jr. Louise. Frances Harvey McConaghy. a son. John M. David Terry Cave, a daughter, Cynthia Ann. Margaret Hiner Bobbitt, a son, Edwin Douglas Hay- Florence Thierry Leake, a daughter. men. Margaret Thomas Basilone, a son. Lelia HoVaway Davis, a daughter. Joyce Weeks. Mary Jo Tucker Keetz. a daughter. Lenoir Hubbard Coleman, a daughter, Anee Gail. Eleanor Wade Tremblay. a son. Manly Wade. Davis, a son, Clyde Calvin. Katherine Hundley Greer, a daughter. Elizabeth WaUs Mary Stuart Wamsley Hinson, a daughter. Linda Lee. Novella Sue Hunt Moore, triplets. Margaret Whittle Atkinson, a son. Paul Tulane, III. Beth Johnson Wright, a daughter. Ann Argyle. Caroline Willis Weiler, a daughter. Susan. Dot Johnson Watson, a daughter. Bette Wood Potts, a son. Allan, III. Geraldine Joyner West, a daughter. Donna Page. Norma Wood Tragle, a daughter.

34 Alumnae Magazine ALUMNAE NEWS High School Band to the top rank in Virginia. Alice Evelyn Davis taught in the public schools 1884-1899 of Newport News until ill-health forced her into out-door part-time work, Birdie Mae Baugh has spent a full life in spite Hallie Chrisman exemplified the "Farmville of physical frailty which often limited her ac- Spirit" by many years of devoted and efficient tivities to her home environment, Birdland Farm, service. The last twenty-five were spent in Powhatan County. Her chief interest is in her Richmond schools. She died at her ho.-ne in bird friends, and as a bird lover of repute she is White Post a few months after retiring. a member of the State Society of Ornithology Carrie Bliss is a busy person, taking sunshine and an associate of the American Ornithologists Union, corresponding with bird lovers the coun- and cheer to the young and old who need the ministration of the Prince wel- try over, and contributing stories of birds to Edward County fare workers. Mason Bliss, her nephew, is worth state papers. She is postmistress at Belona, knowing those series for correspondent for the Farmville Herald, active in by who plan lyc:um their communities. church work, and has written one novel. He started as booker for the Rose Brimmer's memory has been honored by Barter Theater, and now has his own business. House of Bliss, in Richmond, rendering three having her portrait by a Danville artist hung in The one of the Schoolfield schools. For many years types of service, theater, lecture and concert. Packer) the she was head of the Schoolfield school system. Sophie Booker (Mrs. A. D. had the bi-annual Loretta Hickman, R. N., who died on Thanks- honor of acting as hostess at 28th Delta Sorority held in giving morning at her home in Rockbridge convention of Kappa July. Julia Chilton (Mrs. County, taught for several years in the county Duluth, Minn, in her teacher husband re- public schools, then entered Bethesda Hospital, Clarence Dunaway) and tired are living on a farm in Lancaster Co. St. Louis, Mo, for training as a nurse, Helen and Her husband's forty-six years as a principal were Jones (Mrs, Llewellyn G. Hoxton ) had the en- feature article in the viable experience of witnessing as part of the praised in a Richmond Times-Dispatch last May. Mary Clark, wife Commencement exercises at the University of the Reverend Royall Claiborne, was living in Virginia the presentation of a portrait of her hus- of Farmville when her son, Randolph Royall. was band who retired after forty-two years as a She in 1949, the rare happiness of faculty member in the department of physics. bom. had his election to the office of Suffragan Bishop of His note-worthy career was fittingly praised by the Diocese of Alabama, Dr. Chas. R. Larkin, professor of physics at Johns-Hopkins University. Mary Lawson (Mrs. Sally Guy Davis, after thirty years connection

Ashby Jones) is the efficient and friendly head with the Virginia Agricultural Extension Serv- of the Snyder House division of the Methodist ice, retired Jan. 1, 1949, as agent for Central Home for the aged in Richmond, Emma Ma- Virginia district, comprising thirty counties. gruder (Mrs. E. H, Cook), who was with the Miss Maude E. Wallace, assistant director of the A E F in World War L is living in Prairie Service, said, "In her key position as guide and

Grove, Arkansas. Her son is doing post-gradu- advisor to home demonstration agents during these ate work at the University of Arkansas, her years she has done much to develop the philos- daughter and family are living in Fayetteville, ophy and shape the program of home demon-

Arkansas. She writes, "I am still teaching, and stration work in Virginia, We shall continue I'oving it." Janie Staples and her husband, Wil- to seek her guidance and rely on her good judg- liam Edward Chappell. celebrated their fiftieth ment and keen insight." wedding anniversary in Richmond April 18. Henrietta Dunlap was signally honored at the Five of their seven children were present with annual banquet of the Rockbridge Educational their families. The two who were absent live Association by the presentation of a silver pitcher, in California and the Belgian Congo. Mary C. "in appreciation of her loyalty and service to the Wilkie resigned as principal of Beaverdam High teaching profession." She has taught in Lex- School after many years' service. ington forty-three years, and is now principal of the Ruffner School. Mary P. Dupuy was elected 1900-1909 second vice-president of the Virginia organiza-

Hattie Bugg (Mrs. W. Clyde Duvall, Sr, ) has tion of the American Association of University a large class of music pupils at her home and is Women at the annual convention held in April. organist at Johns Memorial Church, in Farm- Georgie Gravely was the ideal teacher in the ville. Her son, Clyde. Jr.. has inherited his opinion of George R. Humrickhouse, United mother's talent, and by his musical skill and States District attorney of Eastern Virginia. She strong direction he has brought the Norview is now is charge of a home for the aged in Peters-

DECEMBER, 1949 35 —

Class of 1899 Class of 1904

burg, and loves the work. Natalie Hardy (Mrs. Commerce in June for their long service records, Sam Graham) is proud of her son. Lyle. who over forty years in Danville. They were pre- in February, 1949, was named "Hero of the sented with suitable gifts. Sylvia Slocomb has Month" by the Disabled American Veterans na- spent thirty-six years in Home Demonstration tional officers. The selection is part of a national work in Virginia, and its evolution from im- program to honor each month a seriously dis- proving canning methods to improving homes

abled veteran who has successfully rehabilitated and rural communities is largely due to her himself. Lyle lost an arm in the crash of a vision and leadership. Too energetic and inter-

bomber in 1944, so his career as a professional ested to really retire, she is still a "volunteer football player was ended, but he holds a better worker" at home and abroad. She remodeled position as personnel manager for Philip Morris her home, Green-Acre-on-the-James, so success- Co., Ltd. in its Louisville. Ky.. Plant. Mayo fully that the Progressive Farmer wrote it up and Letha Jerdone are sisters who have ended with a picture of the living room on the front thirty years of successful teaching in Beaverdam cover. Bertha Starritt has been a school prin- schools and are living in Orange, Va. cipal for 2 5 years. Josephine Johnson continues her habit of winning prizes with her poems—the latest was 1910-1919 $50 awarded by the Poetry Society of Virginia " in May. Dalia Lam (Mrs. Ruff) retired in June Sue Ayres writes; I have been supervisor of from the position of foods purchaser and assis- elementary schools in Prince William County for tant dietitian at Mary Washington College which the past fifteen years. Isn't that an awfully long

she had held for a long time. Jemima C. Hurt time to stay in one place, but I love my work ended in June thirty-two years of service as the teachers and children are very dear to me." principal of Jamison School in Roanoke and was Others say Sue is one of the best in the state. rewarded with a $100 bond, presented by the Elizabeth Baird (Mrs. Brooke) gave a backward president of Jamison P. T. A. She has seen the look to her Normal School days when her nine- school grow from 5 55 pupils to more than teen-year-old son graduated from Hampden- 1300, and through the years always "a teacher's Sydney in June. He is engaged now in Grad- purpose was to provide a mental, moral, and uate work in German. Florence Boston (Mrs. spiritual growth in her students." Jemima has Henry W. Decker) was the speaker at the May lived up to her standards. Ilia Miller (Mrs. A. meeting of the Richmond Altrusa Club, on the J. Eaton) for a number of years has been assis- twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption by In- tant principal of the high school in Bristol, Vir- ternational Altrusa of Vocational Guidance and ginia. Mattic Spencer Willis has had two hymns Counseling as the main plank of its program.

"Eventide" and "When Day is Done", words This is a matter of prime interest to Florence and music, accepted by Stamps-Raxter Publish- among a multitude of welfare movements in ing House in Dallas, Texas. In 1948 the same which she has had a leading part. She has publishing company (among the largest in the dipped into politics, also, using the radio to sup- South) published two other hymns. "My Times port the candidacy of "Edwards for Governor." Are in Thy Hands" and "The Sabbath". Ruth Barrow and her husband. Mr. O. H. Louise Semones was one of two Danville Whitten. were hosts in the spring at their formal teachers honored by the city Junior Chamber of garden "Rosentcr" to the Richmond Rose So-

36 Alumnae Magazine cicty and guests from a number of garden dubs. and service, freely sharing her lovely voice and The Whitten garden was near its peak of per- many talents with those around her. She spent fection with hundreds of roses of all varieties in nearly twenty years in China with her mission-

full bloom. Mr. Whitten is considered the fore- ary husband and had lived in Glandale, Calif., most authority in the State on amateur rose cul- for the last eight years. She left five children. ture. Susan Brewbaker (Mrs. Harold W. Mil- Frances Idear Goldman for years has been one ler) died in March in Cora Miller Memorial Hos- of Richmond's outstanding teachers. She main- pital, which she and her husband had operated tains contact with her Alma Mater through the since 193 8. She was a registered nurse, a grad- Goldman Memorial Fund which she established uate of the Medical College of Virginia and in memory of her father and mother. Rabbi and served as assistant dean of the nursing school. Mrs. Benjamin Goldman. Sophie Harris (Mrs.

Frances Marrow Davis (Mrs. John Addison G. T. Bryson) is teaching at St. Catherine's Tumblin) went as a bride in 1 922 to the foreign School in Richmond. Elizabeth Jarman (Mrs. mission field. She and Mr. Tumblin are now T. G. Hardy) will soon be a doctor's mother as stationed at Natal, Brazil, and employed by the well as wife and sister. Thomas Jr., is in his Southern Baptist convention. They are in Vir- senior year of medicine at Johns Hopkins in ginia for their year's furlough. Thev have two Baltimore. During the summer he spent some children at Wake Forest College, John, Jr., and time in London, and in Groining, Holland, ob- Alice Ann. serving in the hospitals in those countries. May

Sarah A. Davis found that her training for Minor (Mrs. Nuckols) a teacher in the William teaching developed qualities also necessary in the Fox School, Richmond, is the author of an in- suggestive article in the Virginia vocation of nursing. Her training for this work teresting and Journal of Education, May. 1949, entitled "A was at Elizabeth Buxton Hospital, Newport Purposeful Activity," Lela O'Neal News, with graduate studies at Boston Flo.nting Learning Scott) of Amelia, was one of the host- Hospital and Children's Hospital in New York (Mrs. esses at the reception and dinner at the Williams- City. A charter member of District No. 10, burg Lodge the Virginia Republicans held American Nurses Association, she served as when their annual Lincoln dinner in Williams- treasurer of that group, and was chairman of the Day burg in February, 1949. Selma Owen (Mrs. service fund of the Graduate Nurses Association wife of the mayor of of Virginia. She had been medical and surgical Jerome V. Morrison) Lynchburg, was invited by the operations man- supervisor of nurses at Buxton Hospital since American Airlines to christen the new 1942. Her life of consecration and ministry to ager of Lynchburg, at ceremonies suffering humanity won evidences of love and Convair flagship, H. Reynolds (Mrs. W. esteem while she was alive and editorial tributes December 27. Mary W. Barksdale) has been, for many years the principal in local papers at the time of her death. Bertha of the school at Paces, Va. Dolan (Mrs. Cox) writes a classmate of her family—four sons and a daughter. One son is Anne Richardson (Mrs. R. H. Sclater) is a graduate in medicine from the University of active in D A. R. in Roanoke. Her son Has- Pennsylvania; the second finished at Annapolis: kins. Jr., who practices law there, played a major

the third is in his third year at Yale, and the role in a campaign that brought to the Romoke

fourth, an eleven-year old, is in grammar school Junior Chamber of Commerce top honors for at home, Ocean City, N. J. The daughter was club civic projects of groups in cities in Virginia graduated from college in June and married the of over 20.000 population. F. Margaret Shaw following September. Lee Drumeller (Mrs. G. (Mrs. Royall) lives at Daytona Beach, Florida. G. Vought) since the death of her husband, has She is a widow and has one child, Margaret moved with her son from Nyack, N. Y., to her Stevens Royall. who is very gifted in dramatics, old home in Farmville. Vallie Fugleman (Mrs. and has appeared in some well-known summer (Mrs. Fitzpatrick) is active in church and civic groups theater productions. Josephine Wayts Fairfax in Lexington, Va. Her son, after two and a John W. Howdershell) principal of half years in the Army, came home with a Elementary School, Fairfax, was elected presi- French bride, and later graduated at V. M. 1. dent of the Virginia Council of Administrative Katherine Field (Mrs. J. Blake Campbell) has Women in Education. She is a former presi- Association of a fine husband and two sons, Blake, Jr,, is pre- dent of the Elementary Teachers paring to go into hydraulic mining engineering, Virginia. Bertie R. Yates, Charlotte County schedules his father's profession. Jimmie is a pre-minis- Home Demonstration Agent, arranges releases to newpapers terial student at Davidson College. They live of meetings for clubs, and in Philadelphia. M. Louise Garrett (Mrs. and programs timely and important information Johnston (Mrs. E. James R. Graham) lived a rich life, full of love for club activities. Sally

December, 1949 37 F. Eldred) has been the capable president of the August. Earlier in the year she received the Parkview Garden Club in Staunton in addition honor of being elected to membership in Delta to all her other civic activities. Kappa Gamma. This winter she has a position in Farmington State Teachers College, Maine. Billy HoUaday made a trip around the 1920-1929 world on the S. S. President Monroe, from July 9 to

Margaret Hubbard (IMrs. W. J. Seely ) and September 27. She has returned to Honolulu to children will soon join Ma^or Seely in Yoko- resume her teaching position. Louise Clayton hama. Japan, where he on a tour of du:y with and Eva McKenney Guynn. teachers in Ports- the army of occupation. Bcrnice Johnson (Mrs. mouth and Norfolk, attended the Classroom H. Bascom Sykes) is living in W.U amshurg, Teachers Conference at Lakeland, Florida. Helen whsre she has a position in th; Co!l:g' of Wil- Dudley (Mrs. J. W. Seabrooke) taught at her liam and Mary. Willis and Gladys Lack:y are old home, Hickory, Va., until three years ago teaching in Florida and attending summer school when she married and moved to Fitzgerald, at Longwood College. Mary Riv s Richardson Georgia, She has two sons. Mildred May (Mrs. E. P. Lancaster) is serving as regent of HoUemen (Mrs. Robert Blanton) died in 1945. the Judith Randolph Chapter. D. A. R., wh ch She was then living in Richmond. Juliet Jones received second honorable mention at the state was the representative of occupied Japan at an convention on its radio work. Martha Wells international conference held in Berne. Switzer- Catlin op.ned the 1949-50 scries of programs land, in the spring of 1949. Helen Hall (Mrs. tor the Literature Department of the Farm.v'.lle H. A. Pickford) and her family are living in Woman's Club with a delightful review of Edna Griffin. Ga. They have three sons and a daugh- St. Vincent Millay's poems. All of us remem- ter. ber Martha's love of poetry and her ability to read and interpret it for our enjoyment. Etta 1930-1937 Sawyer (Mrs. Willard Hart) is a prominent Gwendolyn L. Daniel (Mrs. Henry S. Od- member of the Lo. gwood Garden Club. She bert) for the past three years has been stationed her husband have a beautiful rose garden and with the Navy Department, Washington, D, C,, is to at and Etta often asked judge neighboring in the Office of Naval Research, as a lieutenant flower shows. Frances Thornton (Mrs. Mini- in the Waves, Dr. Odbert is on leave of ab.sence tree Folkes) was State Chairman of the League from Dartmouth College, where he is professor Virginia of Women Voters of at their May of psychology, to serve as panel director of the in meeting Richmond. Hilda Cabaniss, formerly Committee on Human Resources in the Research public health nurse of Stafford County, now and Development Board of the National Military holds a similar position in Nottoway County. Establishment. They are residing in Falls Merle Davis, member of State Department of Church. Va. in the posi- Education, was promoted June from Hattie Gilliam (Mrs. Oscar Bates) is visiting assistant supervisor of elementary educa- tion of teacher in Wise County. Frances R. Horton is tion to the position of supervisor. Maude Glenn teaching in Stonewall Jackson Junior High Jr.) clerk (Mrs. Robert B. Wilson, was deputy School in Roanoke. Also she is an officer in of Prince Edward County for several years be- Girl Scout Council, Roanoke City Classroom fore her marriage October 23, 1949. Margaret Teachers Association, member of Eta Chapter Goode Finch resigned her position as supervising Delta Kappa Gamma, and was Dean of Women teacher in the Farmville Elementary School in Methodist Youth Assemblies at R. M. W. C, (better known as the Training School) to com- Lynchburg, in the summers of 1946-1948. She plete for at work her Masters Degree Duke Uni- was recently elected a member of Longwood Col- versity. This year she is teaching a first grade lege Alumnae Association Executive Board. in a school in Chesterfield County. group new Frances Crawford is president of Staunton Ed- Nancy Lyne received her Master's Degree from ucation Association and a member of the Ex- Duke University with a major in science in the ecutive Committee of the P. T. A. Jen Wade summer of 1949. She has returned to her Heffelfinger, Elizabeth Ward. Fannie Sterret position in the Beard School, Orange, N. J., Buchanan, and Eleanor Wade Marchant are where she teaches science and is supervisor of the charter members of Wednesday Club in Browns-

Middle School. Pearl Matthews is principal of burg. The club was organized in 1947. M.

Capron Elementary School. Sammy A. Scott is Adele Hutchinson (Mrs. J. M. Watkins") has a real student and progressive teacher, and her a nursery and play school for three-and-four- goal of M. S. degree was reached at Duke Uni- year-old children, appropriately named the Little versity last summer. Martina Willis received a School. Her own two little girls are too small M. Ed. degree from the University of Maine in to be regularly enrolled, but doubtless will be

38 Alumnae Magazine present frequently. Katherinc Jones (Mrs. Rob- is living in Burruss Apartments. V. P. I. Cam- ert G. Atkins) has her M. A. degree from George pus. Her husband is professor in Agricultural Washington University. Bonnie Lane (Mrs. Engineering Department and Experiment Station. W. L. Hilton) has traveled extensively in the Evelyn C. Simpson was featured in six pictures United States and Europe. She is in Idaho. in a half page advertisement of Thalhimers store where her husband is engineer with the Uni- in the Richmond Times Dispatch of February versity of Idaho. Margaret Kent (Mrs, Thomas 28. We quote: "To see how much a teacher William Zink) and her husband operate the can accomplish at Thalhimers in the time be- Beverley Studio of Photography in Staunton. tween closing up her desk work and an 8:30

Catherine McAllister (Mrs. C. H. Wayland) is meeting, we photographed two popular members an R. C. field director at Mt. Home. Tenn. She of the Richmond City school system last Monday

writes. "I stay so busy, training Red Cross Gray night. One is Miss Evelyn Simpson, supervisor Ladies, helping plan parties and programs, etc. of Home Economics." Sarah Pittman (Mrs.

for the men here at this huge V. A. center, but J. C. Ellis) is living in Virginia now. She has

I love it," Alice Lee Schenk (Mrs. \J. F. Earp) two children. Virginia and Johnny.

I Continued from page 31) She now lives in Urbanna. Virginia, near her she who had so much to do with creating at married daughter. She served the College in- Longwood both the appearance and the reality terests faithfully during her years of work here. of a homelike atmosphere. She had a pleasant, friendly personality and was Mrs. Mary Morgan Province, assistant to the well liked by those who had the opportunity to College Dietitian retired in August. 1949. Mrs. know her. She was a loyal member of the Meth- Province came to this College in 1925 and served odist Church and helped in the church work with three College Dietitians successively: Mrs. when time permitted. She will be missed in the Jameson, Mrs. Shelton, and Mrs. Hammond. College and by her friends in the community.

A History of Longwood College

The Alumnae Council voted in 1947 to have a history of our College written, hoping that It might be completed before we celebrate our 75th anniversary. A considerable amount of historic data has been discovered, but we need much more to tempt a historian to start the job. Old let-

ters, pictures, annuals, memory books, reports, catalogs, etc. are very valuable as source material. Please look through your "valuables" and send something. If the history of your Alma Mater catches that "Farmville Spirit" we need your account of social and academic life here in your day.

So if you have no "valuables" to send, won't you write about some of the outstanding events you remember?

DECEMBER, 1949 39 CLASS NEWS LETTERS

In 1938 we began electing an Alumnae Sec- moved from V. P. I. to Ft. Meade. Lib's second

retary from each graduating class. The secretary baby girl is just seven months old. Grace Con-

is responsible for collecting news and writing it yers Ridout has bought a home near Chester. for the Alumnae Bulletin. She may choose a Grace teaches in Chester and must be mighty guest writer at any time. Eventually we hope to busy with two children. have all classes from 1886 responsible for their Meriel McAllister Carriker chose a Christmas news letters. This year we are publishing the card that showed her family of "Scottie", Mel, ones received as follows: the two children, Rickey and Bruce deeply in- terested in a picture book. Scottie taught in 1938 Oakland, Calif., while her husband was in the Class Secretary and President: Madeleine Mc- Navy. Now he is assistant professor in zoology Glothlin (Mrs. O. B. Watson, Jr.), Front at Rutgers University. Betty Bracey is a social Royal, Va. worker with the welfare department in Prince I look at the Class roster and then at When Edward County. She was one of 800 delegates the few girls of whom I have news, I wonder attending the May meeting of the Virginia Con- where all the rest of you arc, what you're doing, ference of Social Work in Roanoke. and how I can get in touch. Anyhow about some there are bits of news. Up here in Front 1939 Royal Louise Bordon Saunders is starting the Vera Ebel (Mrs. Robert B. Elmore) teaching year. At bridge the other day someone 5013 West Seminary Avenue told me that Lib Harris Miller and Morton Richmond. Virginia have moved to Lib's home town of South Bos- Class Secretary and President: Vera Ebel (Mrs. ton from Fredericksburg. R. B. Elmore), 5013 Seminary Ave., Rich- A fine long letter from Nan Seward Brown mond, Va. in Petersburg contains most of the news I have What an exciting time I have been having

gleaned. Nan is engaged quite happily in build- gathering news. Let me relay what I know about ing a new house. Lucky! It seems that Jennie you Thirty-Niners. Belle Cilliam Powell and Eugenia Jolly Woody Kit Pitcher Stanton and her husband, who is have hunting and fishing enthusiasts for hus- a chemical engineer with Pan-American Refinery, bands while Jennie Belle goes in for the garden have lived in La Marque in the heart of Texas club and Eugenia for golf. Mary Joyner Cox for three years. Lib Wilson Steidtmann with

Beck, like Eugenia and Jennie Belle, is active in her two children is living in Quantico. Bob is

church work. She has a lovely home and garden in the Marines. Mable Burton Marks is busy in which she entertains wonderfully. Our ex- raising cocker spaniel pups at Markswood near

May Queen is queening it in another way now, Danville. She is teaching for her husband who for Isabel Plummer Kay of Richmond now has is principal of the High School. Frankie Bryan twins to go with the other little Kay. Carter Finch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has two chil-

Belle Munt Clopton, Austin, Texas, is so far dren. Jenny Carrol Worsley is living in Alex-

away! I understand that little Randy is a pre- andria and working for the government. She cious girl. Maybe Ruth Montgomery Peters will and Tom have a young daughter. Diana. Fair- get to sec Isabel some now that Ruth with her banks, Alaska, is where I found Caroline Willis pilot husband and two children has come to Weiler. Her husband, Fred, is with the De- Richmond, from Teaneck, N. J. Dudley Allen partment of Interior. They have two sons. I Barnes lives at Hebron but teaches at Midway gathered this bit of news from a most interesting where she does outstanding work with dramatics article about Caroline's mother in the News and basketball. Annie Watson Holden McKean Leader. and Kathleen McCann Honowalt both live up Another Newspaper clipping I have tells of north. Annie Watson in Flushing. N. Y. and Elsie Dodd Sindles' trip to the Pi Kappa Sigma Kathleen in Belleville, Penn. national convention at Bright Angel Lodge,

We certainly have lots of doctors' wives in Grand Canyon, Arizona. She is living in De- the class! Mary Harrison Vaughan down in troit where Hal is with American Airlines. They South Boston married Dr. Wm. Driscoll. Won- flew to Mexico last summer and are planning a der if she is still doing radio script work. It trip now to California. Dibbe Cralle Carter of sounded like interesting work and Mary H. Farmville has a son Earl Junior. Elizabeth probably put lots of life in the lines. Lt. Col. Burke teaches in Richmond at Patrick Henry and Mrs. McCann (Libby Roberts) have been School. She attended Columbia University the

40 Alumnae Magazine last two summers. Carolyn Cwathney Jones is Selma West Moore is living in Paxton, Illinois. living in State College, Pennsylvania. David Billy stayed in the Army Air Force after the

Terry Cave and Dr. Cave are busy planning a war. I hear they have two darling little boys. new home in Luray. They have two children. Will and Phillip.

Virginia Yager Tompkins with husband, son, As for yours truly, I have two children Ann and daughter lives in Milwaukee, Wis. Sarah and Bobby. Bob is planning to do graduate Button Rex has moved to Charlottesville from work at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. Culpeper where she was very active in civic life. So we are gathering up all of the family and Sarah was one of the few from our class back moving to Philadelphia this September. for Founders Day. Maybe some of the rest of Class of 1940 News Letter you were busy like I was raising a family. We'll Class Secretary and President: Jane Powell have to make a better showing in 1954. But to (Mrs. R. E. Johnson), Wytheville, Va. get back to Sarah. She has two daughters, Laura Nell Crawley (Mrs. John Birkland) of Betty Ann and Carol. George sells life insurance Thurmont, Maryland, happened to be visiting representing the Equitable Life of New York. at Hampden-Sydney. She promptly did some Lenoir and T. C. Coleman are living in Farm- telephoning and sent the following bits of news ville with their daughter, Ann Gail. Army of girls living in Farmville: Martha McMorkle Butterworth Lewis has two children. Richard (Mrs. B. T. Taylor, Jr.) lives on First Avenue and Judy. Dick is a lawyer working in Din- with her two daughters, Martha Sherwood and widdie. Lucy Baskerville Lewis is living in Elizabeth Bennett. She is president of the Garden Petersburg. She and Jack have a little boy. Study Club. Kathryn Newman (Mrs. Gran- Johnny. Margaret Brittairj Guerrina and her ville Bageant) also has two children, George two sons were in Germany for a while. Now Granville. 5V2 years, and Sherry Kay, 2 years. they are living in San Angelo, Texas, where Al Kathryn is active in Girl Scout work, being is a major in the regular Army. Kingstree, South leader of the "Weyanoke Troop." She and her Carolina, was the postmark on Ann Dagger family live in a new home they recently built Mcintosh's letter. My aren't we scattered? — on Third Avenue. Mary Geyer (Mrs. W. W. Ann has three children, two boys and a girl. Watson) has lived at Hampden-Sydney for the She saw Clara Nottingham and Kyle Baldwin's past four years where her husband is manager new son on a recent visit to Farmville. Virginia of the College Shop. Their son is Robert Kent, Epes Irby Smith with her little girl. Kit. lives 2% years old. Margaret Dowdy (Mrs. Daniel in Charlottesville. L. Locklair) has moved to Farmville from Olai- The Richmond girls I contacted by phone and the. Kansas. They have one son. Daniel, Jr. had long chats with each one. Virginia Winston Estelle Mann's husband, Calvin Mitchell. Jr., is Smith Daniel has a new son. Robie. Margaret a Junior Engineer with the Southern Railway, Motley Adams of Charlottesville has a five-year- They have one son, Calvin. IIL and live in Char- old daughter. Mary Jackson Early has a new- lotte, N. C. Mildred Harry (Mrs. Willard son too, Arthur Jackson. Dibbs Tyree Balboni Dodge) lives in Laceyville, Pa., in an attractive was one of the chosen few to be in the regular home made by remodeling an old place in the WAVES. She is now living in Honolulu. Ha- country. She has three children. Landsbale waii. Doris Adkins Pritchard lives in Richmond Leigh. Courtney Bruce and Willard Davis. with her two children, a boy and girl who are Martha Meade Hardaway (Mrs. Perkins both in school now, believe it or not. Dot Ad- Agnew) of Burkeville was as modest as ever and kins Young is living in Roanoke. She has a wrote not a word of news about herself. But little boy. Theresa Graff and Anson Jamison she sent the following items. Jane Roscnberger, dropped in to see me on their way to the beach who has been teaching in Hawaii, came home last this summer. They have a year-old son and a Christmas and was married to Arthur Dralle, new home. Ruth Hayward Read (Mrs. Ray- also of Hawaii. They returned there to live in mond S. Blackman) for two years has been adult Lanai City, Lanae, T. H. Helen Reiff was mar- education teacher at the Blue Ridge Sanatorium ried in June to David Alexander Scott and now where Dr. Blackman is staff physician. Fanny lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Jane Baldwin Putney Boykins is living in Richmond. Guess (Mrs. Earl Hurt) stopped by to see me last you have all heard that Nancy Cray Perdue has winter when she was in Wytheville visiting her twins. Byrd Vaughan Schmiercr lives in Ash- sister. She looked like a Vogue model rather land. She and Joe have one child and are build- than the mother of a 7-year old son, Kennie, ing a new home. Sarah Hayes Armistead with and a 4-year old daughter. Martha Jane. They Bob and daugther, Sallie Lee are living in Wil- have built an attractive new home in Cedar liamsburg in the new home they have just built. Bluff. She had news of the following two girls.

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Irma Carpenter (Mrs. Bill Krafts) has one is living in Richmond where her husband, Lind- daughter, Sallie, and is living in Saltville. Mary ley, is still manufacturing peanut candy. Rosa

Page Huff is married and now lives in Florida. writes that her husband's product agrees with

1 recently had a telephone conversation with her for she doesn't weigh the 114 pounds she Sara Keesee (Mrs. F. L. Hiltzhimer, Jr.) in Pu- did when she was president of our A. A, Reba laski. She said her two boys Fitzie and Johnny, 'Woodbridge teaches home economics at Mount had at last reached the stage where she was able Vernon High School. Alexandria, Va., and for to leave them for a bridge game or choir rehearsal. the past three summers she has traveled through- Cou Snead (Mrs. Thomas Savage), her husband out the United States and Canada. Since grad- and young son have moved from Roanoke to uation she has done graduate work at George WilHamsburg. Lula Windham (Mrs. George Washington University and at the University of S. Hannaway) has one son. She and her family Tennessee. Since January, 1948, Rachel De- live in New York City. Helen Hoyer (Mrs. Berry Warren has been Head Teacher of South Ralph Tucker) was recently elected president of Rodman School, Alexander Park, in Norfolk the Hampton Chapter of the Association of County. Catherine Phillips Coenen and her Alumnae of Longwood College. Jeanette Fer- husband. Jon, left Louisiana in 1946 to make guson Albert lives in Pulaski—she has one son their home in Virginia. Jon accepted a position and one daughter. Also in Pulaski is Virginia with the very new Hampton Roads Sanitation

Wallner Rice (Mrs. Paul Rice). Her husband is District Commission. Martha Mattingly was President of Virginia Maid and Associated Hosiery born in 1947. In May of that same year they Mills—They have three daughters. Caroline Far:s bought a pretty little home on the water. Jon Euler lives in Charlottesville, has one child Douglas, Jr. was born last May. "Kay" writes Her husband is an architect. Upon joining the Red that by fall they hope to be the proud owners Cross in 1945, Bernice Copley was sent to Italy, of a Luscombe Cabin plane on floats which they later to Korea, and this year she has been trans- will park in their front yard. It surely sounds ferred to Japan. As army hostess, she is respon- exciting sible for the recreation program for occupation Ethel Carr wrote me the wonderful news that personnel in that area. Marjorie Nimmo, (Mrs. she was married February 26, 1949, to Arthur Brooks Kiser) has a second son, born in May Cherry Mahoney of Richmond, in which city they 1949. Her husband is in charge of the news- are living at the present time. Mary Sue Ed- paper in Ahoskie, N. C. Eleanor Hutcheson, monson McGhee said she had no news of herself (Mrs. Charles Catlett) had a third child. Charles but passed on this information that Nan Daer Hutcheson Catlett, in July 1949. Johnny Ly- Earnest, her husband and 28-months old Charles brook, (Mrs. Charles Mothershead) now lives III have moved to Richmond from Kansas City, in Columbia, S. C. Helen Jeffries, (Mrs. Hugh Missouri. She also said that Betty Shumate Miles) insisted that there was no news of her Graham and her husband. Bob, have moved from family, but I call building a new home big news, Farmville to Richmond. To think of one Hall and that is what she and her V. P. I. Professor twin is to remember the other one immediately husband have done just outside of Blacksburg even though they do have different names now. this year. Since March, 1949, Nell, her husband and their I have enjoyed Junior Womans Club work for two daughters, Susan and Martha, have been liv- the past few years, but a second addition to our ing in Crewe where Harvey is Shop Inspector for family has increased my home activities. Our the N. and W. Railway. Louise Hall Zirkle wrote two sons, Rob, years, and Powell, born 3% May me that her doctor husband is in his last year 10, are vigorous fill 1949, two youngsters who of specializing in Pediatrics at Duke Hospital. their mother's every hour, leave little and time Later, Louise hopes that George will "hang out for extra-curricula activities. his shingle" somewhere in Virginia. Louise has in fall and 1941 a son, Andy, who will be three the a baby, Joyce Ann. In her newsy letter, Louise Class Secretary: CaraHe Nelson (Mrs. Ray Bryan said that Frances Pritchett (she didn't give her Brown), 301 South Bayly Street, Louisville married name) is still in Boston where Sam is 6, Kentucky. specializing at Lahey Clinic in Radiology. Class President: Ruth Lee Purdum (Mrs. J. teacher in J. Davies, Jr.), Culpeper, Va. M. Lucille Royster is kindergarten in She In the midst of collecting a layette, deciding Stonewall Jackson School Richmond. on a name, and waiting for the arrival of our writes that no children are as sweet as the little ones. Some of us former high school teachers first Brownie in a few days. I shall pass on to you news of some of our classmates, who have might disagree but the moms and moms-to-be written to me this summer. Rosa Courfer Smith will give hearty assent, I'm sure. Although

42 Alumnae Magazine Helen Seward Dallen and her husband have Baptist missionaries and the usual coolie boys. bought a home in Maumee. Ohio, they are con- "Little people hauling big loads of almost every- vinced after another summer vacation in Virginia thing thronged the streets, and there seemed to be

that there is no place quite like the home state. hundreds of people hawking their wares all at the

John is an engineer with Standard Oil of Ohio. same time." After her arrival in Canton, Frances Jane is six and will start to school this year but began to study the language in preparation for Johnny, who is three, is still a "stay-at-home." her work in China. Apparently she has now

Roberta Wheeler Adams is teaching the second learned to use the Cantonese dialect, for she has grade at Biggers School in Lynchburg. Martha written of helping in a Vacation Bible School Welchel Plummet, her husband and two daugh- this summer.

ters, ages 5% and 2%, had a grand "over-the- Carol Averitr Fuller, after graduation from fourth" week-end with Norma Pamplin Taylor, S. T. C took social work at R. P. I. She taught Leigh, and their two darling children. Martha for four years in the Appalachia High School. at writes that the Taylors are living Woodrow She, with her husband and little daughter, Mar- Wilson Educational Center where Leigh directs garet Wyatt, live in Appalachia. Her husband for west- the Vocational Guidance program the is State Inspector in the Department of Labor ern part of the state. Martha got a lot of in- and Industry. Edith Nunnaly Hall and her hus- she.' formation on a postcard, didn't For she band. Ned, who is with the Virginia Department also passed along the information that Porter of Highways as an Engineer, are living in Ar- Shepherd Lowe, who is in Japan now, says lington, Virginia. Edith says she plans to send she'll take the U. S. any day in spite of having Martha, her two-year-old daughter, to Long- "a raft of servants" over there. wood College when she becomes of age and in Madge McFall Wiseman writes from Danville, the meantime she is teaching her nursery rhymes. that the four in her family spent most of their Jean Moyer Scorgie lives just as busy a life as time at the pool during the unusually hot sum- she did when she roomed on Annex at S. T. C. mer of 1949. Her first child. Nora Downs is With the care of Linda, and keeping house, she three while the second daughter. Madge McFall has still managed to acquire eighteen credits on

will be one February 21. Libby West is teach- her master's degree. Now she has only six rrore ing in Norfolk County but declares that "noth- to go plus the thesis. She has recently taken a ing newsworthy" has happened to her in the course in military government in Japan and Ger- last year. She did say she was godmother to many which proved to be very interesting. Her

Boo Barharn Sion's son, Philip. Speaking of husband, Don, is a student, too. despite his full- Boo, let me tell you about my long letter from time position. He recently completed work for her. Since she and Jim were married over two the M. A. degree and will begin work on his years ago. they have moved nine times. Just Ph.D. this fall. While Jean was visiting in imagine! Now they are settled in Belton. Texas, Portsmouth this summer, Libby West gave a

where Jim is in the process of building thirty- dinner for her, Elizabeth Anne Parker Stokes six eight family apartments at Camp Hood. f'42), Miriam Hanvey Smith ('42), and Mary Texas. He was prepared for this work by his Owens West Smith ('42). Miriam's husband

degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Tech. is in the Army and Mary Owen's is in the Navy. Boo says, as all you mothers have, that her son, Ruth Lea Purdurn Davies writes that her ac-

Philip Montgomery, age fifteen months, really tivities in addition to caring for Jack. Ill, are keeps her busy. She still wants to teach, though, "keeping house, playing bridge, and taking an but will postpone that until Philip is older. active part in the Longwood Alumnae Chapter For two years after graduation, Jean Martin of Culpeper." Last April she returned to Farm- Delta Sorority, taught school in Boonsboro. but now she is Mrs. ville to be initiated into Kappa of the Gordon Watts with a four-year-old daughter. since Gamma Theta became a member Dudley Brooks Mary Beth, and a four-months-old son, Martin. national organization. Frances the occasion. After she arrived in Canton last year, Frances of our class was also there for Inchelium, Wash- Hudgins wrote me a three-and-a-half-page type- Florence Lee Putnam's life in fascinating and excit- written letter, describing her ocean crossing and ington, always sounds so she was writing me her first impressions of China. I wish all of you ing from her letters. While get the gun be- could have read this interesting letter about her her husband, Carl, dashed in to Flossie says that visit to the Dole Pineapple Cannery in Hawaii, cause he had seen bear tracks. veni- about the orchids growing in profusion, of her bear meat is really good, better to her than stone impressions of Manila with the ravages of war son. She and Carl continue to build their ranch. She still apparent, about her trip up the river to Can- house from materials on their own for the winter ton, and of the reception at the boat given her by will can about 500 jars of food

December. 1949 43 which, by the way, was extremely bad last year. Hanvey Smith is still keeping up with the reg- The temperature went to 20 degrees below one ular army. They have just moved from Okla- day but she admits this summer has been the homa to El Paso, Texa». She saw Cottie Rad- hottest ever. Nellie Williamson was married spinner Snow in Oklahoma. Cottie has two on July 2, 1949 to Vernon Gordon. She plans boys. Lillian German Rowlett has two boys to continue to teach for a while until they build also and is living in Ohio, where Russell is as- a home of their own. sistant editor of a chemical magazine. "Buff" Perhaps you are wondering what I'm doing Gunter's husband completed his dental training in Louisville in addition to waiting for the ar- in June and there's talk they may settle in Bra- rival of our "Little Colonel ". Well. Ray and zil. Libby Carter's doctor husband has a resi-

I moved here from New Haven, Connecticut, dency in Massachusetts this fall. They have a last September, and he has been attending the beautiful daughter. Lane. Libby and Ellen Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He Royall Story had such fun together. Ora Earn- hopes to receive his doctor's degree in theology est Ship%vorth and husband plan to settle in in May, 1950. but there's so much work to be Richmond, as soon as they are successful in find- done between now and then that he may not ing a home. Mary Martha Peery is now Mrs. make the deadline. I worked in the Circulation E. R. Gillespie. She met her husband while Department of the University of Louisville Li- serving with the Red Cross overseas. Harriet brary until the end of March, and since that Walker has probably had the most varied and time have just been keeping our two-room apart- interesting career of any one since she left school. ment and typing for my husband and a few First, she taught for Arthur Murray, then other Seminary students. I regret that I don't worked in the Library of Congress. The art have information from all our classmates, but staff at Thalhimer's claimed her for a while, and either my cards asking for news went astray Harriet took advantage of every minute, attend- because of incorrect addresses or else the girls were ing night classes in art school at R. P. L She

too busy to answer. .Remember to write me is now teaching art in Connecticut or New Jer- about what you are doing. News doesn't consist sey. just in a wedding, a birth or graduate work. My husband's work with the Wurlitzer Organ What's routine to you will be "news" to the has brought us back to Norfolk, but he's still rest of us as long as it's about you!! operating his chicken farm and we're holding P. S. Bonnie Nancye Browne arrived August on to our home in Gatesville. Lillian Wahab 26, 1949, weighing six pounds eleven ounces. has been representing Compton's Encyclopedia My one regret is that she is not a native Vir- for the past two summers and teaching at the ginian. new Granby Elementary school during the win- Class of 1942 ter. Lillian and I attended Harriet Scott's wed- Class Secretary and President: Mary Katherine ding to Gordon Frazier last September in Orange. They are now living in California but plan to Dodson (Mrs. C. N. Plylcr) , 517 Maryland Ave.. Norfolk. Va. make their home in Buenos Aires, where his family resides. Nancy Dupuy married Dr. John How I wish it were possible to see each mem- in July. is practicing ber of the Class of '42 and have a good old K. Wilson 1948. He pediatrics S. T. C. "bull-session". At least once a year, in Greensboro. North Carolina. Mar- garet Wright visited Norfolk last spring from I go through the Annual, seeing each of you as you were our senior year and wondering what her teaching position in Silver Springs, Mary- land. Nell Hurt is teaching near Washiagton, each is doing and how each of you looks after little Bobbie seven full and exciting years. Words and mes- D. C. Sara Cline Dabney. Bob. sages come from many, but some have not been and Cathy were in Norfolk this summer for Naval Reserve duty. She heard from for a long time. We are all so in- Bob's two weeks hasn't changed a bit and makes a perfect mother. terested in your activities—won't you let us know the news of you and your families? Sadie says the Roanoke girls are having such a time together: Johnson. Jane I talked with Elizabeth Anne Parker Stokes, good May Winn Engleby Haynie, Anne Ayers Butler, and many who is living in Portsmouth, where her husband, others other classes. All of the above- Ralph, is a practicing Osteopath. She told me from named have sons, so it seems Longwood will lots of news I didn't know, so I'm passing it on to You. have to continue its co-educational set-up. Caro- line Eason, who was assistant to the dean last Mary Owens West Smith is living in Ports- year, was married April 23 rd to the Reverend mouth and working at the Henry Walke Co. in Norfolk. Her husband. Emory, returned to the Mr. Roberts, pastor of the Farmville Presby-

Navy and is in and out of Portsmouth. Miriam terian Church. Martha Roberts wed Austin

44 Alumnae Magazine Edwards September 3rd in Norton. They will own home after years of apartment dwelling. live in Louisville, Kentucky. Marty received She worked for the War Department in Wash- an M. S. in bacteriology along with her M. R. ington and also taught in the Arlington Coun- S. this summer. ty Schools. Thomas E. Marshall was born in June 1947. Alice Siebert Godwin has a daugh- 1943 ter, Anne. Class Secretary and President: Betty Boutchacd I had such a nice letter from Frances Matlory

(Mrs. S. C. Mclntyre, III) , Villa Rico, Geor- Miller who has a new daughter, Sue . . . Skipper gia. is three years old now. Their cottage on the Class Representative: Sara Wade Owen, 113 lake was to be finished the middle of August. Harbor Drive, Hampton, Virginia. Violet Woodall Elliot spends lots of time just news of '43 will probably be as con- The trying to keep up with their son, Alan. Violet fused as I am. We have just moved from Au- is very active in church work in Norfolk. Irma burn, to Villa Rico, Georgia. The Alabama, Page Anderson, her husband, and three-year-old cards came pouring in to Sara Wade and me. daughter, Peggy, are living in Silver Springs, and there's more news than room. Md. She's met other Farmville girls through We're really scattered around the country. Alumnae groups, but no one from our class. Sara Wade teaches in Newport News. Anne Bayliss Kunz is teaching is Lynchburg and is also Rogers Hark was back in Newport News after studying voice. Eveline Looney Douglas is a living in Shelby, N. C. Estelle Smith is Shaw laboratory technician at Park View Hospital in in Austin, Texas, where her husband teaches Rocky Mount. N. C. engineering at the U. When I heard from Jane Winifred Wright Heron and Dave are living Lee Sink, she was vacationing at Ocean Grove, in Santa Monica, Calif. While home in the N. J., after driving to Los Angeles in June. summer, she expected to see Agnes Patterson Jane's teaching in Washington and working on Kelly. Jo Brumfield and Jane Sanford Hall. Jane her A. at George Washington University. M. has arrived from England with her new Army Belle Walker is teaching home economics Annie husband, Captain Fred Hall. Anne Lyons and at Clarksville. For the past years Opal Nel- 4% Helen Wilson ('45) have just returned from a son has been working for a loan company in trip to Florida. Anne teaches in the Junior Bluefield. Lm tempted to join her. When the H. S. in Petersburg. Also in Petersburg is Mar- temperature reaches 90 degrees, the Chamber of garet Lovins, who is the Executive Secretary of Commerce serves free lemonade. They've been the Travelers Aid Society. She is president of treated 3 times this summer. Jane Scott Webb District Ten of the Virginia Conference of So- is living in Bloomington, Illinois, where her cial Work. At Westhampton Jr. H. S. is Elsie husband is manager of a hybrid corn plant. In Stossel. She has her M. A. from Columbia. Wisconsin for the past four years has been Rosa- Elsie also finds time to be organist at Forest Hill lie Rogers Tolbert, where she is a graduate stu- Presbyterian Church. dent as well as teacher assistant. Rosalie enjoys Bee Reid Paradis wrote that she and Don living in Madison but she is eager to get back really have guardian angels. A friend offered South. Maggie Kitchin Gilliam moved to War- them the entire top floor of his home—in this rcnton, N. C. in February where Charlie is As- age of the housing shortage, too. Don is in the sistant Superintendent in the mill there. Maggie law school at Harvard and Bee works in the has seen lots of Farmville girls at the beach. registrar's office. She and Don have become rabid Anne Moore Agricola, Joice Stoakes Duffy. mountain climbers—have scaled five of the high- Margaret Finney Powell and Elizabeth Walls est peaks in the White Mountains. They were Davis were planning a get-together at Joice's. in Canada in August and next summer they hope Susie Moore Ciesziko is living in Franklin. to tour Europe. Bee's turning out to be the Louise Parcell Watts and family moved into Globe-Trotter of '43. their new home in June—it's a modern ranch Allen says that after spending the sum- house. This year, lots of girl's big news is that Nancy the "big farm" in Hebron she will re- they are finally settled in their new homes. Ara mer on this fall to the Warren County High School Clarke Davis has a ranch style home, too, just turn in Royal where she is teaching English ten miles from Richmond. Billy, Jr., age 3 and Front and history. Doris Alvis Stone has a new hus- Martha, who is 2% months, make up the Davis band and a new home. She and her sister Mar- family. Warwick Mitchell Garfield is perma- garet (Class of '45) had a church wedding with nently settled in Van Nuys. Calif. They have a double ceremony in June of 1948. Her hus- a five-year old son and Warwick expects to re- the Chesapeake ceive her M. A. from the U. of Calif. Carroll band is an electrical engineer for Pugh Marshall is happy that they're in their Corporation of Virginia. Martha Anderson

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Gwaltney has been living in Smithfield and has Since September Jean has been working in the been teaching English and Latin in the Smith- office of Dr. T. L. Grove in Saluda, 'Virginia. Elva field High School since our graduation. I know that a dairy farm is a perfect place Andrews Jones has married a teacher. While for Dot Childress Hill to raise her two sons, her husband attended N. C. State, Elva worked Billy and Rowland I'V, Dot says that "cow" with the Soil Conservation Service. They will was among Billy's first words. She also says go to Greensboro, N. C. in the fall, where her that Nancy Sale Garrett lives nearby and that husband will teach Industrial Arts and Diversified they enjoy getting together so much. Imogene Occupations in the Greensboro Senior High Claytor Withers and her husband and daughter. School. Alice Belote Curling says that her two- Emily Banks, have just moved into their new year-old daughter Sharon Anne manages to take home in Winston-Salem, N, C. Imogene's hus- up almost all of her spare time. Alice taught band, Lawson Withers, is with the Wachovia in Norfolk County for 3% years before her mar- Bank in Winston-Salem. Ellen "Ebo" Ebel riage. Brookie Benton says that her life since Durfee is back in Virginia from Massachusetts our graduation has been very uneventful as far with her husband, a two-year old boy and a five- as doing many things and going many places is month old girl. Her husband was graduated concerned. This past March Brookie was elected from Brown in June and "Ebo" and her family President of the Junior Woman's Club in Staun- are planning to live in Altavista where her hus- ton. Miggie Mish Timberlake and Inez Jones band is working for Stone ti Webster. Anne ofiicers Wilson are also charter members and in Ellett Hardy is living at Amelia Court House this Club. and teaching 2nd grade there. This will be After being in Connecticut and New York her fifth year in this school. Teaching biology, State for 4% years Mary Frances Bowles Van general science, and freshman civics, doing a Norten came to Roanoke and worked at the little guidance work and helping to manage the Children's Clinic as a lab technician. She, her school cafeteria for four years should make Vir- husband, and new son are living in Roanoke ginia Firesheets DuPriest quite an experienced teacher. now. . . .So also are Margaret Bowling Bowden Now Virginia has a new daughter, and family. Susan Flynn, and a new home in Crewe, which will probably occupy of her time. Eleanor Ann Brooks Givens lives in Blacksburg where most Folk Canter is living at Camp Lee where her Ann's husband is working with the United States Department of Agriculture on Apple Research. husband is in the army and at the head of the X-ray department there. Nellie M. Brown completed work at Teacher's Catherine Gosney College, Columbia University, for her masters writes that each morning last winter found her degree this summer. She has been supervising hopping a bus in Danville so that she might ex- principal of the Consolidated Hamilton Elemen- plain the mysteries of mathematics to some of the students of Gretna School. fall tary School at Cartersville. Anna Bugg has cer- High This Catherine plans to be in the again— tainly managed to have variety in her life since classroom but as a student! graduation. She acted as teacher and librarian Ann Page Francis Hickman with her three-year-old daughter, Carlisle, with the Department of Justice at the Federal Nancy and husband Reformatory in Petersburg. Later she completed are moving from Albany, Indiana, to Indianapolis where her husband works. Writ- a nurses' course at Leigh Memorial Hospital, ing from Hungry she va- Norfolk. Apparently Anna likes teaching better Mother Park where Charlotte Greely said she than nursing since she plans to be working with cationed last summer has been teaching at Monroe Junior High School, a fourth grade at Ivor in Southampton County Roanoke's recently completed school. this fall. 'Virginia (Campy) CampHeld Hay hasn't had too much time to get homesick for Nina Lee Hall Mapp has taught at New Farmville (Longwood, that is!!) Her husband, Church, Va. and Princess Anne, Md. This fall who opened his law office in Farmville last fall, Nina Lee will be teaching commercial at Parksley is helping coach football at Hampden-Sydney High School, Parksley, Va. The French and and has taught a night class at S. T. C. Campy English students at the Blackstone High School

is living with her family in Dr. Jeffer's house have had Martha Hammock for their teacher for

on H, S. road. With two boys and a girl I can the past six years. Betty Page Harper Wyatt has imagine how she spends most of her time! Jean a three-year-old daughter, Betty Wade. Harpoo Carr seems to have found something more in- and her family live at a mighty pretty spot right teresting than teaching or physical education on Hampton Roads in Hampton. Twas nice to since for the past four years she's been working hear from our Athletic Association president,

as an X-ray technician in Williamson Memorial Hallie Hillsman Fleetwood, and find that she is

Hospital, Williamson, W. 'Va. f Jean's home). still living in Farmville, has a two-year-old son.

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Jamie, and that she and her husband have just school at the Medical College: Sara Jeffreys Gil- moved into a new home next door to Hallie's liam is in Martinsville: Frances Craddock Hardy, home. Myrtle Jenkins Stewart has for the past in Amelia. Dorothy Sue Summons Kessler in two years taught at Highland Manor School. Fincastle. Katherine Chiles Veague. '46. was W. Long Branch, N. J. where she met her hus- married in the Little Church around the Corner band who teaches there also. Her husband is in New York in September. 1944. She lived a native of Austria, received his early education in Cambridge. Massachusetts until last fall. Now in Switzerland and Austria, attended the Col- she's at Natural Bridge Station. Virginia. lege of the Pacific in California and received his Jane Ford Phillips has been living in Martins-

M. A. from Columbia University. I really en- ville. She's just moved to one of the southern joyed hearing from Ella Hutchinson, who works states. Margaret Thomas Basilone is at Hamp- for the welfare department of three counties in den-Sydney where her husband is completing his North Carolina under the Commission for the college work. Nancy Watts Hanbury has been

Blind. Ella writes so interestingly of her seeing living at V, P. L Frances Strohecker is per- eye dog, Mitzi, who has been her guide for four sonnel director at Millner's in Lynchburg, Vir- years. She says she owns her car and does her ginia. Margaret Lawrence Grayson lives in work by car but that Mitzi cannot drive it! Blacksburg. Her husband teaches at V. P. L Maxine Cowpton Fuller was Office Manager Mary Moore McCorkle Anderson teaches in the for Goodyear Service in Bessemer, Alabama, be- William H. Ruffner Elementary School. She fore her marriage. She was transferred there and Lois Alphin Dunlap are co-chairmen of the

from Richmond. Since her marriage she is kept Lexington Alumnae Chapter. Betsy Owen Kel- on her toes by two young daughters. Davine. liher. Boston. Massachusetts, has two attractive and Patricia. She also helps her husband in their children. Gertrude \Ve//s Snyder is the secretary grocery store but says she prefers being strictly of the Lexington Alumnae Chapter. Louise a housewife and mother to any career she ever Bell Lyons is a Methodist Minister's wife. She

had. is in Atlanta. Georgia, where Bill is studying Anne Randolph and William Hampton Crom. at Emory University. Mary St. Clair Bugg was Jr., were married May 23 in Immanual-on-the- married to James Elam Holland on August 2 7. Hill Episcopal Church, Seminary Hill. Alex- 1949. in Johns Memorial Episcopal Church. andria. Following a three months' wedding Farmville. They will make their home in trip to Europe Mr. and Mrs. Crom are making Christiansburg, Va. their home in New York. Anne is a member of 1945 the junior committee of the New York Phil- Class Secretary: Mary Anne Jarratt. Jarratt. Va. harmonic Symphony Society. Class President: Eleanor Wade (Mrs. E. G.

Class of 1944 Tremblay ) University Circle, Charlottesville, Class Secretary; Mary Moore McCorkle (Mrs. Va. Milton Anderson). 401 Jackson Ave., Lex- Dear "Forty-Fivers", ington, Virginia. Almost five years have gone— I know not Class President; Fay Nimmo (Mrs. J. W. where—since we were together at S. T. C.

Webb) 5 Stone Apt., Bluefield, W. Va. (pardon me—Longwood) . We have been

TTie news that I have been able to collect from scattered from Alaska (Marian Orange) to the

the Class of '44 is sketchy indeed. Mildred Droste Dutch West Indies (Alice Nichols Proterra) is assistant professor of physical education at September finds many of us school-marms go- Mary Baldwin College. She has taken summer ing back to school—Virginia Parson to Frank- work at the University of North Carolina and lin. Helen Wilson, Petersburg, and Lorraine Rai- obtained her master's degree from the University tord Sheffield, Waverly. Mary Lou Dondley of New Hampshire in June. She has had three is working as an artist at the Transportation years teaching experience at Virginia Intermont School, Fort Eustice, Virginia. As for me, Lm College. Lois Alphin Dunlap lives in Lexing- still in the first grade here at home. Many class- ton, Virginia, and teaches home economics in mates are off at school with their husbands the Buena Vista High School. Ella Banks Elizabeth McLean Nanney is living in Blacks- Weathers Boyle, Bill, and their two sons have burg. where he is at V. P. L, and Jo Shaffner been living in West Jefferson, North Carolina, Anderson is in Lafayette, Indiana, while Meile where Bill has been preaching. Now they have gets his masters at Purdue. Mary Jane Richards gone to Japan to serve as missionaries. Louise took her M. A. in Distributive Education at

McCorkle Laughlin is now living in a lovely R. P. I. in 1948. and is now Personnel Director new home in New Jersey: Lucille Lewis Arm- at the G. C. Murphy Company in Richmond. strong in Richmond where Tom is going to Mary Watkms Morgan and her husband have

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moved from Natchez. Miss., to their new home Virginia Craig Farrier and Mary Lee Farrier. in Jarratt. Elaine Bray Gardner and husband Naturally, we are always delighted when our will live in Charlottesville, while he is at the classmates can go on to do graduate work. Betty University. Spottswood Honeycutt worked this Adam's card stated that she will leave the Old summer for the Restoration in Williamsburg. Dominion this fall to go to the Tarheel State and Carol Diggs Gentry has moved to Alexandria, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Va. while her husband. Lt. Gerry Gentry is with Hill to begin work on her masters degree in social the Intelligence Division. U. S. A. in the Pen- work. Agnes Mitchell also has done graduate tagon Building. work at William and Mary; however, she will

Fay Byrd Johnson's friends of the Class of return to the city of Harrisonburg again this fall 1945, wished to preserve in the College the to teach. memory of her charming personality and skill- Speaking of teaching school—many of our full participation in worthwhile activities many girls are still holding true to the ideals of their of the student body, and to this end they es- Alma Mater and are pursuing the career as tablished a Fayc Byrd Johnson Memorial Fund "School-Ma'am ". Ellen Bailey teaches in Brook- for the purchase of books in the Longwood Li- neal. Our friend from Florida, Barbara Cosey, brary. teaches art in Orlando. Following her gradua-

tion from S, C. (Longwood) , she attended 1946 T, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida. Mary Class Secretary: Virginia Treakle, (Mrs. E. W. Ellen Petty Chapman lives in Farmville and Marshburn), Rhoadsville, Va. teaches at the John Randolph School in Cum- Class President; Eleanor Bisese (Mrs. Robert berland. Page Cook teaches at James Hurst Johnson) 4915 Gosnold Ave.. Norfolk, Va. Elementary School in Craddock (Portsmouth) What a pleasant surprise I had when I returned Rebecca Norflcet will return to Amelia for her from a week's vacation and found my post of- fourth year as a teacher of high school math. fice box just filled with cards and letters from the An interesting card from Lois Lloyd Sheppard members of the Class of '46. It seems that the Lewis tells us that she now has approximately news of our class this time includes everything ninety African Violet plants! Lois Lloyd is from a trip to California, to marriages, to births, still living at Star Route, Salem. Oh. yes, she to an African violet collection ! said that if any of the classmates have a similar One unusually interesting letter reached me hobby, how about exchanging notes, leaves, etc.? from Pasadena, California, saying that our Dot Overstreet DeShazo lives in Christiansburg. friend, Dorothy Cummings. left Charlottesville Also Martha Watkins Merglcr lives in Blacks- on August 1 in her 1948 Crosley for life in the burg where Don is enrolled as a Civil and Min- exciting West. Upon her arrival in Pasadena, ing Engineer. Last year Martha taught physical she located an apartment and a school. Her education and coached the girls' basketball team address is Apt. No. 2, 155 S. Oak Knoll Avenue, at Christiansburg High School. About her team Pasadena, she writes. "My team was undefeated until the A long letter from Esther Shevick the other final game in the tournament when we lost to day revealed that she will return to Curtis Bay Radford!" Again this fall she teaches and School No. 208 in Baltimore. Naturally, we coaches at the same school. She and Don live remember Esther as a songbird! Well, she men- in the V. P. I. Trailer Court No. 3, just three tioned that she teaches the music in that school; doors from Jackie and Kilby. Can't you imagine that is right up her alley! She wrote that Nancy the good times that Martha and Jackie have in Robbins is in the WAVES: that Nancy Blair discussing the good ole days in Farmville. I Minor has a darling little boy, and that Connie heard by the way of the grapevine that Carolyn Ozlin is working in Tennessee now. No wonder Bobbitt Jones and Cab have built a new home in Connie didn't get my card, as I sent it to New South Hill. Congratulations, Carolyn! Caro- York. Esther has also received recently a note lyn Booth Saunders is now living in Crozet from Mary Ellen Hoge Sale, and it seems that where her husband is the pastor of the Baptist her daughter is quite a young lady now. Church. Katherine Burford is working in one of the Ruth Brooks Soyars is living in Richmond labs of the Medical College of Virginia Hospital,

; Hill Grizzard Perhaps you knew that she entered MCVa and now Rosa Yonce and Evelyn Graybeal are still living in Hopewell, and Betty completed the technician's course after she was graduated from Farmville. Martha Lee has been Woodward in Williamsburg; Kitty Wright in Bowling Green: Jean Parry Whitaker in New- working at the Shenandoah Life Insurance Com- pany in Roanoke since her college days. She has port News, and Lillian Elliot Bondurant in an apartment with two other Farmville girls. Richmond. One card came from Stamford,

48 Alumnae Magazine Conn., and from none other than Luverta Joy- After Mary Harrison's lovely marriage to Ed ncr Gumkowski. Her husband is completing Slate in August, they returned to Farmville to his three-year course at a trade school under the live. Lee Carter's year at the Training School GI Bill of Rights, and Luverta is thinking of of the Louisville Baptist Seminary was profitable teaching Night School this winter along with in more than one way. On August 2, 19-49, she her duties as housewife and mother. As most became the wife of the Reverend Bert Wilson. of us know Cay Lynch Bowen's husband is a Best wishes, Lee. Soon I'll be in the same boat young lawyer and mayor of Tazewell. They with you cause I'm engaged to the sweetest red- completed and moved into their new home one head Episcopal minister in the world! Some week before Christmas last year! Margaret more wedding news—In June Anna Headlee be- Beryl Brannon Pennington is living at Edom came Mrs. Charles Arthur Lambdin. Last No- and is keeping busy as a housewife. Vickie Ed- vember it was a pleasant surprise to see Charlotte munds Scott, Reggie, and the son are living in West "honeymooning" in Roanoke with W. R. Norfolk where Reggie is an engineer. Nell Scott Yates, who works with the Department of Jus- CornwcU, Pint, and the twins were doing fine tice. Margaret Skelton became Mrs. William F. the last we heard. They will probably be in Andrews in April. Imogene Moore Ramey and Clemson. S. C again this winter where Pint Evelyn Goodman represented Farmville as at- will continue his education. Virginia Lee Price tendants in the lovely wedding of Louise Harrell

Perrow is living in Roanoke now and is plan- and George Harold Clark in June. ning to teach home economics this fall. Edith Among the more seemingly ambitious ones of Bryant is following her career thus far as a home us who thought four years at Longwood just economics teacher in BranchviUe. Jackie Ritchie weren't sufficient are: Alma Crawley who com- Perry lives in West Point, and teaches at New pleted her laboratory technician's course at the Kent. Florence Godwin Robbins has a little University of Virginia in December, 1948, and girl, Thelma Marie, twenty-one months old. is now chief technician at Southside Community Wedding bells are continuing to ring for other Hospital, Farmville. By way of the grapevine, class, too: See the list of mar- members of our I heard that Jean Pritchett and Anne Willis at- riages for: Jean Kent, Carolyn Alphin. Lorene tended summer school at the University of Vir- Thomas, Virginia Shackelford, Maggie Mcln- ginia. Sutton Bland took art courses at R. P. I. tyre, Kitty Maddox, Jean Anderson, and Agnes before returning to Culpeper where she and Stew- Stokes. Speaking of weddings, your alumnae art Buford share an apartment while teaching. secretary decided to change her name, too. On Patsy Dale outsmarted many competing science April 9 she became the bride of the Rev. Earl teachers and was chosen as one of fifty science W. Marshbum. teachers from 12 northeastern states for a Gen- Elizabeth Mountcastle, Mrs. John Ferris Lylc, eral Electric Fellowship in chemistry for six continues to teach in Randolph-Henry High weeks at Union College in Schenectady, N. Y., School, in Charlotte County. Katharine Allen last summer with all expenses paid. Guess she'll Spencer is teaching again at the Buckingham be trying to teach her first-year students the Elementary School. Ruth Whitten is making theory of Van der Wall's equation in Newport her home in Richmond this winter and is teach- News High School. Congratulations, Patsy, and ing at the William Fox Elementary School. to you others also! Lucille Bell Barnes and family live in Ports- Among those still loyal to the teaching pro- Lucy Bowling Potts tells us that she mouth. fession are: "Ducky" Anderson and Catherine enjoying "keeping house" and living in Pur- is Varner at Montvale: Elizabeth Maxey Hunter at cellvillc. She wrote, also, that Jane Anderson Windsor; Irma Lassister at Portsmouth: Chris- as Director of Religious Education at is serving tine Shiflctt Maxey at Newport while her hus- Presbyterian Church in Rocky Mount, N. C. a band, Herbert, completes his senior year at Va. enjoying her work. and is Tech: Audrey Hudson at Turbeville after an York City this past sum- Class of 1947 exciting trip to New mer: and Evelyn Goodman at Roanoke after Class Secretary: Rachel Brugh, 206 Cumberland returning from a stay in Miami, Florida, with St., Roanoke. Virginia. Dorothy Bennett Sierveld, who was with our Class President: Margaret Ellctt, Jennings Or- class for the first two years. dinary, Virginia. no doubt, along with her Two big events in the life of one of our class Jeanne Sauerwein, will be teaching horse- beauties, Katherine Hundley Greer—the first, a academic math courses, Surratsville High daughter, Katherine Walker Greer. Then her manship on the sideline at six miles husband, James Willard, finished Law School School which is conveniently located in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. at Washington and Lee in June, 1949. from her home

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Eloise Stancell should be able to do enough read- Charlottesville. Martha Morrison took quite an ing for all of us while she serves as librarian for extended trip through the West last summer. Greensville County. Ann Hauser Elmore re- She got home just in time to be a bridesmaid ports that "Snowball" — the only addition to her in "Gussie " Hargan and Ben Taylor's wedding family—a black cocker spaniel, demands as much July 3 1. Mary Helmer was a bridesmaid, too. time as any baby could! Wonder if Lee Palmer and Ben had Ned Crawley as his best man. Miller will bring up that young son, Thomas Mary began work on her masters degree at Wil- Oliver Miller, Jr., to become another professional liam and Mary last summer. Ann Fulgham has golfer like his pa? Mary Goode has been serv- announced her engagement to Jack Gale of ing as a home economist at Fieldale for the Ap- Smithfield. Wilda Hunt and Dan Leach have palachian Electric Power Company, Nola Bri- announced their engagement, and from Tazewell sentine is a home economics instructor at Elicott comes news that June Cregar is engaged to Davie City High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Also Webb. June teaches in Roanoke, and the wed- among the eager beavers we find "Bobby" Gra- ding is set for December. Though they didn't ham serving a year's internship in medical tech- finish with us you might be interested to know nology at Watts Hospital Lab at Durham. We're that Berkeley Richardson is engaged to Charles proud of you, "Bobby". Kathryn Kennedy Smith of Richmond and plans a winter wedding.

Carpenter is finding farm life most agreeable on Mary Jo Tucker Lawson has two little girls. a 300-acre farm about 20 miles from Richmond Mary Graham has a daughter. Also married are at Tunstall. Nancy Duncan and Helen Fifield, Helen to J. A, And I've come to the amazing conclusion that Allen. The Aliens have a little girl. Gertrude

"Bankers' hours " aren't what I once thought Driver is married and teaches in Franklin. An- they were! However, my association with The other of our recent brides who plans to continue

First National Exchange Bank of Roanoke has teaching is Ethel Harrison, who lives in Havre been the very finest possible, and if it weren't de Grace. Maryland. "Jackie" Hancock John- that ril be taking on the role of a minister's son teaches at Boykins. Another of our girls wife soon, Ld say, "This is for me." who is combining marriage with a teaching career

is Tharon Holmes Nimmo. Note Marriage List 1948 in this magazine for: Norma Soyars, Dot Be- Class Secretary: Hilda Abcrnathy. Blackstone vard. La Vergne Tuck. Harriette Sutherlin. Dot Va. Tuck, Mary Frances Squire, Eleanor Putney, President: Louise Brooks, 5 Park Class 708 Lois Anderson, Charlotte Hutter, Elizabeth Ave., Richmond. Va. Scott. "Millie" McWilliams, and Thelma South- Just a year ago wc were realizing that the all. Joyce Hill Goodloe lived in Farmville last time had to start life on our come own. 'Twas year while Jack attended Hampden-Sydney. Dor- September and mighty hard to believe that we ris Ballance Hopkins is living in Richmond. weren't going back to Farmville. It's another Mary Baglcy Pickhardt is living in Farmville September, and many changes have taken place while "Pic" is attending Hampden-Sydney. Sue in the lives of our Red n' Whites Davis and Helen Williams are married wc hear, Most of our girls have chosen teaching or but we don't know their married names. matrimony or both. Suitemates Alice Aber- nathy, Julia Booher, and Elizabeth Harrell were Lucie Addleman. Frances Livesay, and Betty are teaching Lakeside School, all three married last summer and live in Galax. Renn together at Henrico distinction Julia and Bob have a baby girl. As always June County, which has won by was a popular month for weddings. Sec the achieving 100% membership in its Parent-

" This has been accom- marriage list for: Grace Kappes. "Beanie Dud- Teacher Association. ley. Mildred Davis, Nancye Litz, "'Vi" Turner. plished only once before in Virginia schools. "Libba" Jeffreys, Carol Jenkins, Mary Gin Goff, "Gee Gee" Yonce is teaching in Martinsville Thelma Davis, and Nancy Foscue. From our again: George Ann Lewis in her hometown. Sarah Squires at Virginia Beach: brides of last summer there's much to tell. Petersburg: Roommates Betty Scroggins Nichols, and ""Mit- June Poole near home: Hessie Sharp in Albe- ty '" Hahn Sledd are proud mothers of bouncing marle, N. C "Binkie" Motley and Nancy Squire boys. Frances Fears Williams and Virginia again at Aberdeen. Others of us in the teach- Marshall Walker live in Richmond: Estaline ing profession are scattered through the states. Anderson McCraw in Farmville: and Mary Ann Ann Homes in Richmond: Nancy Hughes in Morris Slaughter in Knoxvillc, Tennessee, Peggy Baileysville. W. Va.: Jeane Bentley and Betty Cabiness Andrews taught in Blacksburg last Jean Snapp are both in Winchester; Jean Babb winter while Earl finished at Tech. Margaret in Waynesboro: "Gin" Tindall in Arlington: Jones Dresser and Frank have a new home in "Gin" Bailey in Suffolk. With "Gin" Bailey

50 Alumnae Magazine in Suffolk are Audrey and "Connie" Newman. derful position as a home economist with Appa- "Peg" Moore and Edith Duffy both teach at lachian Electric 1i Power Company at Roanoke. home in Norfolk. Others who write that they're Evelyn Moore Coleman just couldn't leave teaching are Tucker Winn at Fieldale: Eleanor Farmville. She is secretary to Dean Savage at Overbey at Glen Allen: Neva Brankley at Ax- the college. Azeele Hutt has given up teaching ton; Frances Blanton at Newsoms; Jane Man- to do secretarial work. Nancy "Hoot" Cham- tiply at Morrison; Martha Stringfield at Drewry- bers gave up her job at the chemical plant at Elk- ville; and Catherine Bicklc at Staunton. Martha ton and the last we heard was touring the country

Anderson says her plans for another year are still and living a life of leisure. indefinite. "Sis" Parris and Anne Motley both I wish I had news of all of you for this letter.

' are again at Schoolfield. "Addic Dodd is teach- Write me any time in Blackstone. I am leach- ing at Averett Junior College. Martha Jean ing there again. Let's keep in touch! Leavitt at Ft. Lauderdale again. She's not so 1949 eager to leave that deep Southland. Frances Class Secretary: Dot Daniel. Longwood Col- Goodwin Smith is teaching in Louisa; Ann Sear- lege, Farmville, Virginia. son is on her fourth year at Edom ; Frances Bell Class President: Violet Ritchie. Gressitt. Vir- Pritchett has returned to Petersburg after being ginia. in Charlottesville while her husband attended U. point with pride our class Va. Charlotte Grizzard returns to Petersburg We to those of who are "helping to promote better education in to teach after a seven weeks summer school ses- Virginia. " Fifty-seven of our members are sion at Columbia. Barbara Jean Wiley goes teaching in the schools of the state! Grace Mal- back to Emporia. Jacqueline Seymour teaches lory teaches in Lawrenceville. Ponce, Puerto at Alberta, and Betty Minton in Roanoke. Also the second largest city, is where Dalila returning to their schools are Harriet PurccU to Rico, is teaching English in one of the high Charlotte Courthouse and Class President "Peep- Agostini schools. Ada Robles is at home but hopes to sie" Brooks to Richmond. Some who taught begin teaching soon. Betty Jordan is teaching last year but have not written us of any plans in Portsmouth: Esther Goffigan in Emporia; for this session are Katie Lawrence at Smithfield: Dot Braswell in Brosville High School: Lois Nancy G. Taylor at Pungoteague; and Nancy M. Callahan in Dan River High; Ann Verser in Taylor at Gladys; Christine Bunch at Gretna; Leesburg. Gwen Cress is back at Longwood be- "BeBe" Geyer and Elizabeth Ogburn in Mary- ing an assistant to Miss Cleaves. Gwen and Dot land: Lila Bouldin at Remo: and Catherine Daniel live together in the dormitory. Dot is Hogge at Bristol. Virginia. teaching the first grade in the Elementary School. Jean Edgerton should probably be considered Nell Foster teaches in Courtland. Betty Spindler our real career woman. She received her Masters is assisting in the audio-visual department of the Degree in Childhood Education from Columbia college. Art in several elementary schools of University August 12. and has accepted a posi- Norfolk is taught by Eula Ayres, Lou Bergman tion teaching kindergarten in the public schools and Wilma Allen are teaching at Appomattox of Portland, Oregon. Annette Grainger after High; Betty Atkinson, Nancy Rushing. Ann two years at Longwood College went to Univer- Snead. and Jackie Watson, in Suffolk: Mildred sity of Virginia for her degr-c. She is teaching Williams Keith at Short Pump School. Martha in Hopewell School, was elected chemistry High Gillium is teaching in Charlottesville; Mary president of Hopewell Teachers' Association and Frances Hundley in Franklin along with Mary was sent to Boston in July as dclgate to N. E. Davis and Sara Rawles: Betty Tilson Walker in the delegate A. convention, probably youngest the Richmond schools: Rives Edwards in Mar- there. " Peterson is working at "Pete N. A. C. tinsville: Mary Cooper Whiteside is teaching art given A. at Langley Field. Dot Bradley has up in the eighth grade at Broad Creek Village School a secretarial in Rich- teaching to accept position of which Sylvia HoUingsworth's father is prin- mond. Anna Ruth Blair has a secretarial position cipal. Ann Robinson and Joan Hahn will be also, with Allied Chemical H Dye Corporation teaching in Norfolk: Alfreda Lewis in Ports- in Charlotte, N. C. As for Jeanne ToUey. she's mouth: Marcella Mandell in Norfolk. Ruth working in the lab of the plastics department at Tillett in Berry ville: Jesse Pickett in Madison Sylvania Division of American Viscose Corpora- County High School: Phyllis Bagby in Roanoke. tion in Fredericksburg. She seems to have an Margaret Wall. Jennie Sue Webb. Pete Patterson, ideal situation and loves it. She says she wishes Marjorie Miller are living together in Arlington she could sit down for a long "shop" talk with and teaching; Ann Galloway in North Carolina: Mr. "Mac". I'm sure that would be way up on Jean Thomasson Holmes in South Hill: Lou- a lot of lists, Jeanne. Hope Frank has a won- anne Mears in Princess Anne County. Also in

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Princess Anne are Joanne Sterling, Connie Lov- in Christiansburg. while her husband goes to ing. Frances Farley and Harriett Steel. Alene Tech. Edna Earle Waters became Mrs. Joseph Pattcson and Shirley Irving are teaching in the Mitchel Mizelle in the Port Norfolk Baptist Bedford Elementary School: Iris Coleman Fer- Church of Portsmouth. Ruth Rodogna was geson at Prospect; "DeeDee" Sledd in Ports- maid of honor and Betty Tilson. Ann Barksdale, mouth: "Peaches" McAllister at her home, Salt- and Connie Loving were bridesmaids. Joanne ville; Mary Ellen Temple in Norfolk. Ann Sterling sang the nuptial music. Ruth Stables

Orgain is teaching art in Richmond. Violet had a lovely church wedding.

Richie is teaching in Norfolk; Mary Parham in Betty Tipton attended Madison this summer Halifax; Mary Evelyn Miles in Denton, Mary- and expected to go to graduate school in Feb- land: Jane Taylor in Portsmouth. Jackie Bob- ruary. Katy Ellis Reid lives in Farmville; Eliza- bitt flew to Honolulu, Hawaii, to see Johnny for beth Nuttall Steward, in Richmond. Betty five weeks. They are to be married next sum- Romeo will be working with five-year-olds in mer. This winter Jackie will teach in Culpeper. a nursery school in the morning and going to Janie Fox spent the summer traveling around. Columbia to work on her Master's in the after- She attended Jean Watt's wedding, went to Char- noons. Jean Cake is secretary and assistant to lotte and Asheville, N. C. Ruth Eggleston Dr. Paul K. Buckles, pastor of the First Presby- visited at Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin, this terian Church, Newport News. Ethel Shockley

summer. Freida Baker and her husband are liv- Southall is working in the First National Bank

ing in Blacksburg. He is attending Tech. Betty of Farmville. Jackie Burkholder has a position Pairet became Mrs. William Watson last August with the American Viscose Corporation in Roa- (in a formal wedding at her home). Gwen noke. Betty Jefferson is private secretary to the Smith was her maid of honor; Betty will teach mayor of Danville.

The Unwilling Gypsy

The wide green earth is mine in which to wander;

Each path that beckons I may follow free,

Sea to grey sea. But oh, that one walled garden, small and sheltered. Belonged to me!

High on the mountain top I watch the sunset;

Its splendid fires flare upward and burn low. Ah, once to know Down in the twilight lowlands dim and tender My own hearth-glow!

Night falls. A thou.sand stars look down upon me, But though from inland plain to ocean's foam My steps may roam,

One clear fixed star forever is denied me The light of home! Josephine Johnson—'H

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3n ifflemoriam

Mrs. Pearl Agee Hanifan, '08* Miss Roberta Waller Anderson, '12 Mrs. Amy Barber Stuart '84* Mrs. Tellie Blankinshin Sutton. '06* Mrs. Nellie Boatwright Scott, '09 Mrs. Sally Bocock Bondurant, '87* Mrs. Mary Boisseau Brown, '02* Mrs. Mae Welch Boney, '29 & '36 Mrs. Carrie G. Bragg, '.32 Mrs. Susan Brewbaker Miller, '18* Mrs. Bessie Carper Shelby, '01 Mrs. Ada Carter Hanes, *88* Miss Hallie Bryarly Chrisman, '09 Mrs. Norma Clements Spencer, '00 Miss Bettie V. CorIo, '07* Miss Sarah A. Davis. '16 Mrs. Anne Doughty Baylor, '03 Mi-s. Martha Earp Hatcher, '31 Miss Ethel M. Edmonds. '32 Mrs. Martha Etter Harris. '39* Mrs. Eva Edwards Williams, '10* Mrs. Kate Fletcher Bralley. '96 Mrs. Isabelle C. Flournoy West, '09 Mrs. Louise Garrett Graham, '19 Miss Elizabeth Bowis Goddin, '44* Mrs. Nannie Harwood Disharoon, '94 Mrs. Elizabeth Hatcher Sadler, '96 Miss Lorette Hickman, '94* Miss Kitty Hope, '95 Mrs. Laura Hope Parker, '89 Mrs. May Horton Smith, '19 Mrs. Nellie Jordan Wooling, '99 Mrs. Mary Julia McChesney Shackelton. '04 Mrs. Mary Irene Marston Stoddard, '90* Mrs. Sallie Massey Insley, '33 Mrs. Mildred May Holleman, '28 Mrs. Flora Meadows Thornton. '87* Miss Edith Wyland Nolley. '26* Miss Natalie Nottingham, '14* Miss Clara O'Brien. '95 Miss Mary Sue Palmer, '27 Mrs. Mary Peck Ryan, '28 Mrs. Gladys Poe Harmon, '26; '41 Mrs. Aurelia Powers Ahern, '91 Miss Ruth E. Rucker. '34 Mrs. Mabel Shewey Warren. '11 Mrs. Elva Thompson Walker, '92 Mrs. Laura Twitty White. '10 Mrs. Cora LTrquhart Olingrer. '26 Mrs. Ellen Vaughan Friend, '15 Mrs. Frances Volk McKenney, '29 Miss Florence Williamson. '13 Mrs. Sallie Woodson Smith. '90*

Miss Grace E. Mix. former faculty member Miss Mary Burns Haynes. former faculty member Miss Sarah Boyd Tucker, former faculty member

*With the numeral show's the date of entrance for non-graduates.