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October 2014 VOLUME 90, NUMBER 1 Angus Kirk McClellan ’05, Editor (434) 223-6397, [email protected] “WHAT WORKS” CONFERENCE: RAISING BOYS, ENGAGING GUYS, EDUCATING MEN Stephen O. Muskie, Art Director (434) 223-6396, [email protected] 2 Forming Good Men: “What Works” Copyright © 2014 by Hampden-Sydney College. Non-profit standard postage paid at Farmville, Virginia 23901, and at additional mailing offices.

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LT. GEN. SAMUEL WILSON SHARES THOUGHTS ON HOMER’S ODYSSEY 14 Sam Wilson and Homer’s Odyssey 22 Discussing the Republic 23 On The Hill News from around campus

ON THE COVER: 27 Athletics By the WWII memorial, ROTC Battalion Commander John Wirges 34 Class Notes (l.) and Company Commander Alumni Profile: Max Zbinden (r.) with three of the five freshmen scholarship recipients Kevin Martingayle, VSB president (l. to r.): Robert Holland; Skyler Robinson; and Nate Horvit. 48 Madison Lives On Forming Good Men REFLECTIONS ON THE “WHAT WORKS” CONFERENCE ON HOW TO RAISE BOYS, ENGAGE GUYS, AND EDUCATE MEN

ANGUS KIRK McCLELLAN ’05

Dr. Thomas Sowell once wrote, “Each generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.” How to guide these uncivilized youths into grade classroom, you have no basis to say that.” becoming good men and good citizens was the Her words echo those of Cicero, Roman theme of the recent “What Works” conference orator, statesman, and philosopher, who wrote on educating young men, held in Crawley in De Republica, “Our people have never wished Forum on July 25, 2014. The conference was to have any system of education for the free- an off-shoot of the What Works book published born youth which is either definitely fixed by this year by the College. Authors, professors, law, or officially established, or uniform in all and others led the discussions with school cases.” For boys to develop their natural and administrators and educators, explaining particular strengths, they need an education realistic guidelines on how best to prepare that fosters those inherent and distinct qualities. young men to lead dutiful, virtuous lives. But what exactly is education? And what Males, the general conclusion was, need an exactly is a good man and good citizen? education tailored to their habits and nature. Philosophers have pondered these questions “Men and women are not the same,” said for thousands of years, and based on the speaker Dr. Abigail Norfleet James, author of discussions of the day, it is safe to say that most Teaching the Male Brain: How Boys Think, Feel of the speakers and audience members would and Learn in School. “People who are opposed agree upon some basic tenets. to single-sex education say that the differences Plato said that education is the pursuit between boys and girls are totally created by of wisdom and virtue. Dr. Russell Kirk society. Until you have spent time in a third- explained in Decadence and Renewal in

2 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 the Higher Learning, on which he spoke at been shown to increase a child’s verbal skills: Hampden-Sydney in 1978, that “wisdom reading to them. Read to them every day.” means apprehension of enduring reality; Boys also need physical education. “Allow virtue means the development of strong moral [them] to take risks. For boys, motivation principles and habits.” That wisdom includes depends on either competition or risk, and if investigations of great literature, languages, neither exists, they are not interested,” she wrote history, government, the arts, and scientific in her essay. Boys need to be free from parental theory, in order to better understand, act, and input and oversight. They need to roughhouse. respond to the world around us. The classical “Everybody sweating. You need to make virtues include prudence, justice, temperance, them sweat,” said retired Brig. Gen. Doyle and courage. One might add modern versions D. “Don” Broome, Jr., president of Hargrave of Roman virtues that T.S. Eliot observed Military Academy. Broome knows that through in Virgil’s poetry: labor, or self-reliance and manual labor and physical exertion, boys ownership through manual work; and pietas, or learn how to coordinate their bodies to gain a duty to self, family, ancestors, country, and the sense of ability and confidence, which leads to Almighty. accomplishment. Boys must learn to gain Overbearing wisdom and exercise virtues “Turn off the TV “helicopter parents,” to resist natural inclinations and the computer.... as Dr. James called toward vice and depravity them, hovering over to become good men. There is only one practice their sons, are toxic to They must bring order to that has been shown to a boy’s development. If their souls to become good increase a child’s verbal they cannot take trivial citizens. It is only then that risks early, to learn and they can free themselves skills: reading to them. understand their limits, from the shackles of bodily Read to them every day.” then they may take appetites to help bring foolish risks as young DR. ABIGAIL NORFLEET JAMES ordered liberty to society as men, at great cost. If a whole. And it is parents, they are sheltered from teachers, peers, and positive male role models the outdoors, if they never get hurt, if they who must perform their own duties to instruct never acquire a sense of self-reliance, then them. “We are not born for ourselves alone,” they will become emasculated, full of fear and said Cicero. Guiding young men along this uncertainty, often looking for an authority path of ethical and intellectual disciplines is figure to solve their problems and make rocky, but boys can find sure footing if their decisions for them. elders clear their ways early to light the path Dr. James lamented the passing of the toward productive and purposeful lives. days before “no-touch” rules on playgrounds; before “zero-tolerance” gun policies resulted RAISING BOYS in boys’ expulsions for bringing certain toys to “Turn off the TV and the computer,” said school; before “safety” became the rallying cry Dr. James. Boys tend to have weak verbal for parents to confine their boys to shadowy skills. The American Academy of Pediatrics basements, staring at the flickering lights of has concluded that boys’ watching television television sets with their eyes wide and their and playing computer games—even so-called jaws agape. educational television and language-based “Parents need to let boys become men,” she computer games—are detrimental to their said. “They’re terrified that they’re going to verbal development, inhibit their ability to let their children get themselves into physical concentrate, and encourage learning disabilities. trouble. Then [the boys are] going off to college Instead, “There is only one practice that has with zero background on how to become men.”

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 3 “Without the experience of strife, pain, or searching for parcels of truth in the vapid and temptation, there can be no advance in poetry of an inebriated Jim Morrison. As Kelly self-knowledge, no development of spiritual and Johnson, editor of A Better Man, wrote in her natural strength,” Dr. Kirk wrote. What Works essay, “And so began the age-old Competing with peers, solving physical and duel between parents and pop culture for the ethical problems on their own, and finding their hearts of young men.” courage in the face of adversity are crucial for “They need someone they can talk to, boys to begin understanding the world around someone to sit down with,” said Gen. Broome. them and to begin distinguishing right from Adolescents who have caught glimpses of wrong—to gain wisdom and to exercise virtue. virtue often have a keen eye for a man who is worth following. “I want to be Pericles,” ENGAGING GUYS President Chris Howard said, referencing In adolescence, boys often seek guides or one student’s aspiration to “bring truth to the mentors. A recurring theme throughout the people.” The student said that at the College’s conference was the importance for young men Sophomore Vocational Reflection Project, a of role models, or heroes, with whom they program to help underclassmen identify their

Professors often engage guys in political and philosophical discussions on campus, guiding and mentoring them. can engage—for example, we need more male passions and determine their career paths. teachers in the classrooms, said Dr. James. They It is part of the “Good Men Plan” at need someone to emulate. Broome stressed the Hampden-Sydney, which Director of Residence need for mentors to instill a sense of “moral Life John Ramsay ’05 discussed during the courage” in young men. Without principled three-man panel “Every Good Man, a Hero,” guides, boys may wander aimlessly through the at the conference. It is a series of discussions and darkness of moral uncertainty. workshops on campus focusing on citizenship, Boys are drawn to strong, upright, manhood, and intellectual enrichment, among courageous, and skilled men who define clear other topics. lines between good and evil. If they find no Dr. James W. Frusetta, associate professor leaders, then too often we see them imitating of history at Hampden-Sydney, also sat on the the impudence of degenerate hip-hop stars, panel. He spoke of a study in which young men

4 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 discussed whom they believed to be the heroes One might notice that instead of protecting in their lives. the weak, we see adolescents beating innocent In the video Dr. Frusetta presented, James bystanders unconscious in the streets. Instead Woodward ’15 told the story of his brother of helping ladies in distress, we see young men pulling a friend, who had split his scalp open, congratulating themselves on the number out of a river by diving into the rapids. “I just of women they’ve conquered. These hollow thought that was so cool, that my brother exhibitions of virility are more akin to those of would just think … ‘I don’t care that there are pack animals than gentlemen. rapids, this is something I’m going to do no Boys must know the qualities that define matter what.’ ” That is courage. men of character. It is not a man’s ability to Boys who are educated and understand dominate others that makes him a good man; courage recognize the virtue in acting on it: it is his ability to control and guide his passions In early July 2014, for example, student and powers, his propriety and restraint, and his Thomas “Worth” Osgood ’16 saw a tractor adherence to an enduring moral code, by which trailer overturn on I-95. Osgood jumped over we can gauge his manhood. When asked by the guard rail and ran over to the cab while fuel a mother how to raise her young son, General poured out around him, the engine still idling. Robert E. Lee told her, “Teach him he must He pulled pieces of the broken windshield away deny himself.” and dragged the driver out to safety. “When someone is in potential peril,” he said, “you have to do something.” Based on the results of a survey Frusetta displayed at the conference, the most common answer for everyday heroes whom boys follow was simple: their fathers. Fathers must be present, “physically,” as Dr. James said, and they must be good men for their sons to continue in their footsteps toward wisdom and virtue. “Wisdom was handed down in a game of catch, a day of fishing, or in long hours working together in the yard. It came in the form of family dinners, neighborhood block parties, and church picnics,” wrote Johnson. It is through good examples that boys learn how to be men. But adolescents sometimes Dr. Michael Kimmel spoke at the conference. are misguided into believing manhood is Gen. Broome repeated the need to lead synonymous with masculinity, said speaker young men by proper example as one of the Dr. Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland, surest ways to prevent them from following a sociological exploration of adolescent the skewed path to a distorted moral structure. development. They mistakenly look to Until they leave home, that primarily is the immature friends for guidance and support. good father’s responsibility. His role is the He wrote in his essay on the confusion between protector and provider for the household, which “timeless virtues and inauthentic performance.” includes providing moral guidance. If there is “You have 18-year-olds trying to prove no father, they need positive, male role models. their manhood to 19-year-olds,” he said. Too Once their sons leave home for higher often in our society we see young men lighting education, parents must largely entrust the themselves on fire or throwing themselves down further development of their young men to the stairwells, confusing reckless buffoonery with professors, administrators, and students at the genuine courage. college of their choosing.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 5 EDUCATING MEN importance of the Honor Code and the student In Book XIX of The City of God, Augustine court system. wrote, “The peace of the irrational soul is the “You are a liar, or you are not. You are a harmonious repose of the appetites, and that of thief, or you are not. You are a cheater, or you the rational soul the harmony of knowledge and are not. You are a Hampden-Sydney man, or action.” you are not,” he emphasized. The sage of Hippo is referring to the need In a republic, the people govern themselves. for men to bring their souls into order. By And so it is through the Student Court and by controlling his appetites, by obedience to the Honor Code that students enforce the law eternal law—and by doing not merely what among each other, training to become good he wants, but what he ought—a man can citizens. obtain peace and certitude within himself. It is Hampden-Sydney men pledge that they through this ordering of the soul that we have will not lie, cheat, or steal, “or tolerate those order in society. The ordering of individuals who do.” After signing their names to the brings order to the whole, as Kirk describes in pledge, “The rule followers are also the rule The Roots of American Order. enforcers,” said Cartwright. If an individual starts to ponder the idea of violating the code, he may look to his left and his right, and see that others are following the rules, and so will refrain from committing his offense. Those other individuals are doing the same. This reciprocal “positive feedback,” as Cartwright said, helps ensure that individuals Speakers (l. to r.) included Dr. Eugene Hickock ’72, Dr. Abigail Norfleet James, retired Brig. Gen. Doyle D. “Don” Broome, Jr., and President Christopher Howard. stay within the norms of “Young men operate best when there are proper behavior. Over clear right and left limits,” said Gen. Broome. time, if they hadn’t already, those parameters He understands that young men often need to become instilled in the individual, and he be trained to recognize that there is an absolute becomes more virtuous through the ordering of right, and there is an absolute wrong. To his soul. become a good citizen, a young man must know When asked by audience members how how to function in a society that has clear-cut to instill a sense of honor in middle- and rules. Part of higher learning is instilling an high-school students, members of the panel understanding of these rules into a young man stressed the need for schools to adopt honor so that they may become part of his character. codes. Students should participate in an official There can be no ambiguity. ceremony to help imprint on their minds the “Let me tell you about the role of relativity importance of their signatures on the pledge. in our honor system,” said Alexander C. Instead of demanding unreachable Cartwright ’13, Ph.D. candidate at George perfection, as Kimmel had suggested, the Mason and panel speaker. “There is none.” Honor Code provides means for redemption. Cartwright was reiterating the words he Young men often fall from moral ideals. spoke to the incoming freshman class when “It allows students to take responsibility for he was the Student Court chairman at H-SC. the mistakes that they make,” said audience Chris Mazzola At the conference, he expounded on the member Mrs. , head of the upper

6 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 school at St. Anne’s Belfield in Charlottesville. They did not worry about keeping their They can accept punishment as a lesson in positions on the board, or ensuring that understanding boundaries, using the experience organization members get enough vacation to better themselves. At H-SC, violations of hours, for example. They wanted children the Honor Code often result in mandatory educated properly. But parents needed suspensions, after which, his debt paid, the boy encouragement. may return to join his classmates on campus. “They didn’t feel like they had any Disregard for enduring moral order chains ownership,” he said. “They felt completely apart a man to his bodily appetites. It is only in an from their school, in many places where they unfettered landscape that a man is free to make need it the most. To know you own your own real accomplishments, to do what he ought, not destiny, to know that this school is your school, merely what he wants. To be great, young men that child is your child—that is the beginning must be educated in the virtues of discipline of being able to shape the school and the child.” and self-restraint. “If you want policy change, you have to get involved,” said Gen. Bloome. CONCLUSION By the end of the conference, the The responsibility to raise boys, engage guys, administrators, teachers, and parents had a and educate men falls largely on parents and better understanding of the concrete steps positive male role models. These individuals they could take to mold boys into good men. must take active roles early in boys’ lives, before No television or computer games—read to pop culture and puerile companions lead them them instead; avoid overbearing supervision by into the depths of moral depravity from which allowing them to take physical risks; encourage they may not emerge. Some parents, however, physical labor and allow roughhousing; educate may feel powerless to change education policy them on moral virtues through discussion and in primary and secondary schools. by example; be a mentor; provide an honor Speaker Dr. Eugene Hickock ’72, code; and get involved in their schools and former U.S. deputy secretary of education, curriculums. was appointed Pennsylvania secretary of These and other steps are needed to repress education in 1995. While in Harrisburg, he the rising tide of moral relativism that pervades spent time with state teachers unions, school our culture, to reverse the damage that pop board members, school administrators— culture and pseudo-education inflict on “stakeholders,” he called them—in meetings, undeveloped minds. The next generation of trying to get input and support for change to boys is growing into men. As it is the parents’ fix broken parts of the Pennsylvania education right to have them educated as they see fit, it system. Little, if any, progress was ever made. is also their duty to see them through. As we Dr. Hickock realized that the true should all strive to be reflections of virtuous stakeholders—taxpayers, parents, teachers, men of the past, we should endeavor to students—are those who usually have the illuminate the proper paths for our sons. All individual students’ best interests in mind. told, it is the man in the mirror who must act.

FREE WHAT WORKS BOOK More topics on raising boys, engaging guys, and educating men are available in the What Works book released in conjunction with the conference. Speakers who attended the conference wrote some of the featured essays. Articles include: “What Can Parents Do to Encourage Boys to Learn?”; “What Skills Do Boys Need to Excel in School?”; and “Why Do Young Men Still Want to Learn to Be Good Fathers?” For your free copy of the What Works book, please search online for “Hampden-Sydney What Works” or visit: http://urls.hsc.edu/ whatworksbook

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 7 Follow Me: The Rise of ROTC

ANGUS KIRK McCLELLAN ’05

In the summer of 1776, sixty-five Hampden-Sydney students joined the president and faculty to form a militia company to fight for Virginia’s independence from Great Britain. Since then, the military and the College have through the Wilson Center for Leadership. That regularly crossed paths in times of both war momentum has carried with it scholarships and peace. From the War Between the States and leadership roles for students who want to to 21st-century fights against Islamic radicals, augment their development into good men and Hampden-Sydney boys have repeatedly stood good citizens with the discipline, skills, and up to defend their homes and liberty. Today, values offered through the Spider Battalion. students are carrying on that tradition in great That battalion is the six-school cadet unit based out of the University of Richmond and is drawn from about 36,000 total undergraduates. It is composed of cadets from the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Randolph-Macon College, Longwood University, Virginia Union University, and Hampden-Sydney. This year’s cadet enrollment is expected to be about 120 students from those schools, with H-SC students constituting about 25% of the battalion. Hampden-Sydney members of the Student Army Training Corps (SATC), Hampden-Sydney is a precursor to ROTC, sit on the steps of Cushing Hall in 1918. attracting this comparatively numbers through the Army Reserve Officers’ high percentage of ROTC cadets in large Training Corps (ROTC). part through the Wilson Center programs. In Ten years ago, however, there were only three addition to ROTC, the Wilson Center offers or four students enrolled in the ROTC program The Freshman Leadership Program, The James at the College. Back then there were few ROTC- Madison Public Service Certificate Program, related activities on campus, few scholarships and The Military Leadership and National awarded, and aspiring soldiers had to commute Security Studies Program. Students can minor to Longwood University for the required in Public Service and National Security Studies. military science classes, company meetings, and Cadets are strongly encouraged to participate almost all physical training (PT) exercises. in all of these courses. Not all cadets are in Since 1982, H-SC has commissioned 56 the programs, but those who are have the officers. This year 28 cadets are enrolled at the opportunity to apply those theories they’ve College, and many of the ROTC activities have learned in class to their ROTC positions to shifted from Longwood to Hampden-Sydney build and hone their leadership skills.

8 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 Less than half of one percent of all ROTC training and H-SC’s role in preparing undergraduates in the six participating colleges them for their futures beyond The Hill. joins the Spider Battalion—and yet the percentage of H-SC students that joins ROTC TRAINING LEADERS AND is about eight times greater. “There is something OPENING DOORS in the water here,” said retired Lt. Col. Rucker Wirges was appointed to the highest position Snead, director of the Wilson Center. in the Spider Battalion at the beginning of the About 60% of H-SC cadets’ PT is now held 2014-15 school year. His primary duty is to on campus. Some military science classes are properly manage his staff, which is responsible now available at the Wilson Center. And most for personnel accountability, training, and importantly, cadets have access to an unusually other aspects of running the battalion. As experienced group of leadership mentors: retired S-1 staff member, Gaskill is responsible for Lt. Col. Snead, Army ROTC advisor; Dr. David personnel accountability—knowing where all Marion, director of the public service program; 120 cadets are located, their physical and mental retired Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, conditions, how to contact them, as well as other Wheat professor of leadership studies and former responsibilities. deputy undersecretary of defense of intelligence; Their training began in their freshmen Dr. John Eastby, assistant director of the public year: “In terms of everyday challenges, your service program; Dr. James Y. Simms, director freshman year is really tough,” said Wirges. of military leadership and national security “Time management is really one of the biggest studies program; and Dr. Curtis J. Smith, things that ROTC helped us with. You learn director of the freshman leadership program time-management skills that far surpass those of and former director of the Federal Executive your peers. I know by the end of freshmen year, Institute in Charlottesville. Cadets also have we were able to complete our workloads, get access to retired Lt. Gen. Samuel V. Wilson. good grades, be involved in organizations, and This year there were 11 scholarships available be up at 5 a.m. every morning. That’s not easy for the entire Spider Battalion, and Hampden- here, but you’re not going to be successful if you Sydney freshmen received five of them—almost won’t do it.” half. In the past 10 years, H-SC has produced Gaskill agreed. “It’s not easy for any college five cadet battalion commanders, and more than student to get up at 5 a.m. to do what he needs, $3 million from ROTC scholarships have gone to sacrifice weekends for FTXs [field training toward Hampden-Sydney tuition. exercises]. It’s a huge commitment, and you have Good men and good citizens typically to work on your own to stay in shape, because have an especially clear understanding of their the PT isn’t enough. Everything you do on duties to their people. One need only look at campus, all your grades, it all goes toward your the percentage of H-SC students enrolled as order of merit list in ROTC—your rank in cadets. After graduating, this next generation ROTC. The more involved you are, the better will assume leadership roles in the military, grades you have, and the more likely you are to in business, and in politics, much like their get the job you want.” forefathers and to the betterment of their Being a cadet in ROTC and participating families and communities. Indeed, as Cicero in Wilson Center programs gives these students said, “A certain place in heaven is assigned to skills often necessary for managing other clubs all who have preserved, or assisted, or improved and organizations. Gaskill was president of their country.” Theta Chi fraternity, where he learned how to This author had a chance to sit down with “work a budget, how to delegate authority, how friends and roommates Jonathan Wirges ’15 to herd cats.” and Joshua Gaskill ’15 of the Spider Battalion. Wirges is on the Student Court and is a The new cadet battalion commander and the member of the Garnet and Grey Society and the battalion S-1 officer provided more insight into Society of ’91, which is run out of the Office of

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 9 Student Affairs. He is the general manager of decision-making is what gets people killed. You the on-campus radio station and is secretary of can course-correct a bad decision; you can’t Chi Phi fraternity. Like Gaskill, he is a member course-correct no decision. That’s ROTC in a of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national honor nutshell.” society for recognizing and encouraging superior In their new leadership roles, senior H-SC scholarship and leadership. cadets have set a high standard for performance “ROTC really has taught me how leaders, both on-campus and throughout the battalion. in both a military and a civilian sense, should As Wirges said, “One of the biggest challenges is interact with people when they are in positions to ensure there is tough and realistic training for of authority,” said Wirges. “Too often you see all the cadets in the battalion. I can’t see what people who are smart and well-meaning, but the University of Richmond is doing, but I need they don’t know how to interact with people. to be able to ensure that they’re doing the same And ROTC really has taught me how to do tough, realistic training that we’re going to be that. It’s a no-excuses game. So it does get to a doing here in Farmville. And I can guarantee it’s point, especially in your junior year, that you going to be done here in Farmville.” either do the work or you leave. That kind of For those who make the cut, who have the inherent abilities to make decisions, to lead by example, and to adapt to the training, ROTC becomes the door to a room full of possibilities. “Not only will you become an officer once you commission and graduate,” said Gaskill, “but even since we’ve been Seniors (right, l. to r.) Kolin Atkinson, Josh Gaskill, Max Zbinden, and John here, we’ve been able to go Wirges will train these four freshmen scholarship recipients (l.) and other cadets. to UVA to study Swahili. mentality is beneficial, no matter where you go.” We went to Kenya [in the For their latest training, Wirges, Gaskill, summer of 2013], and that wouldn’t have been and other H-SC cadets recently returned from possible without ROTC. You can go study law the Leadership Development and Assessment afterward—paid for—and even get the Army Course (LDAC) at Fort Knox, Kentucky. There to pay for medical school. There’s a lot of cool they were constantly rotated in and out of things you can do in ROTC. And you can go leadership positions during simulated combat to airborne or air assault school if you’re high missions, obstacle courses, land navigation enough on the order of merit list.” courses, and other field training. Contracted Both Gaskill and Wirges have requested ROTC cadets must attend the camp between assignments in the infantry, one of the most their junior and senior years. demanding occupational specialties in the Army. “The whole point is to give you a position With their educations at Hampden-Sydney and that is almost not winnable—they’re not going their military training in ROTC, however, we to give you a cakewalk, as if everything is going can expect they will rise to that challenge. to go as planned,” said Wirges. “The cadre and As Wirges said, “This is such an important senior leadership are very good at what they do: aspect of this school. There are few of us, this throwing roadblocks in your way to see how you is true, but ROTC and H-SC go together. react. It’s not so important that you make the H-SC makes good leaders—and it makes Army perfectly correct decision, but rather that you’re officers better.” able to adapt and make a decision. The lack of

10 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 The Guns of August

ANGUS KIRK McCLELLAN ’05

“The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime,” said Sir Edward Grey in 1914. Some lights reignited after The Great War, but in many ways, the glory of Europe was extinguished forever.

This year marks the 100th and world war. Alliances held anniversary of the outbreak of by Serbia and Austria entangled a war that mushroomed from a dozens of other countries, binary dispute in Southeastern many of which were defending Europe to a near suicide of the themselves, protecting trade West, setting the stage for world routes, or preventing the rise of developments that shaped the new superpowers. To achieve civilizations we know today. On those ends, Europe nearly August 28, 2014, The Wilson annihilated itself in a few short Center held a panel discussion years. Resultant power vacuums on the political, economic, and Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik and revolutionary ideologies social movements surrounding the First World led to World War II and the deaths of tens of War and how they influenced some of today’s millions more people. Simms touched on the current events. Dr. James Simms moderated parallels between those times and today. the evening’s panelists: Drs. Ralph Hattox, One result of the war was France’s Roger Barrus, and James Frusetta of H-SC. assumption as the dominant superpower in The program was based on a similar discussion the West. Her military had suffered a 75% during the Summer College program in June. casualty rate, however, and so she was reluctant What started as a local war between Austria to confront Hitler militarily during his rise to and Serbia, said Simms, grew into a European power. Her hesitance, among other reasons,

British BL Mk II 8-inch howitzers pound German lines on the Western Front.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 11 facilitated Germany’s aggression in the 1930s. how to govern themselves.” But the plan failed In parallel, the United States is still the to materialize at Versailles and in the United dominant superpower in the Western world, States. “The moment of opportunity 90 years despite having fought two wars in Iraq and ago had come and gone,” lamented Hattox. The Afghanistan. “When you are the dominant possibility of a strong, blossoming, Western-led, superpower, you have a responsibility,” said peaceful Syrian state had withered on the vine Simms. He mentioned the current rise of the before having a chance to come to fruition. Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and America’s Meanwhile in Russia, the Bolsheviks were obligation to confront the Islamic threat more overthrowing the provisional government and effectively to avoid a stronger and more effective murdering the imperial family. The war had future enemy. provided an opportunity for Vladimir Lenin But perhaps the “sorry state of affairs we see and his band of Marxist followers to wrangle today,” as Hattox described the Middle East, control of the emerging Soviet Union. They might never have developed had the Allied applied their revolutionary tactics to politics and powers acted differently toward the Ottoman the economy in their new positions of power. Barrus provided insight during the discussion. “The lesson that the Bolsheviks took away from the war was the crucial significance of centralization of power, discipline, and organization. That’s how they took power, and as they settled in, that’s how they ruled. … This centralization was not just political and military, it was also economic.” “And you have to give the devil his due,” said Barrus. That The last Austro-Hungarian ruler Charles I (l.) walks with Ottoman Sultan centralization of power was key Mehmed V. His brother, Mehmed VI (far r.), would be the last sultan. in the Soviet’s victory over Nazi Empire at the close of the war. He spoke at Germany. By government direction, entire length on the final gasp of the Sick Man of towns and factories were physically uprooted Europe. and shipped east during the German invasion, The Ottomans joined the Germans and creating space and providing time for Stalin Austrians in 1914, contrary to British interests. to rebuild the Red Army. But after World Britain needed to protect the Suez Canal to War II, in peacetime, Soviet central economic secure her trade with India. During the war, planning ultimately failed, as proved in after a failed attempt to bombard Istanbul widespread famines, mass executions, waste and directly from the sea, the British were forced mismanagement, and finally the collapse of the to “slug their way up through Syria” by land to Soviet Union in 1991. confront the Turks. And yet Bolshevism influenced progressives They befriended tribes of nationalist Arabs in the United States, where central economic along the way, whom they promised a free and planning and nationalization materialized first independent Arab state after the defeat of the in wartime mobilization and again in Franklin Ottomans. At the Syrians’ request, it would have Roosevelt’s New Deal policies of the 1930s. been a unified, constitutional monarchy, and “I think the key to understanding our if needed, they would have had “tutors from own politics now is we are revisiting that the United States [or Great Britain] teach them question of organization, centralization, and

12 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 mass mobilization versus the old ideas of Germany that we saw justification for the Third individualism and classical liberalism. And our Reich’s annexation of Germanic territory in the politics show that divide…. Under Clinton and 1930s. This and other aggressions led directly to certainly Obama, [we are] in a certain sense World War II, the results of which have shaped pushing the limits of the old progressive model. the modern world. And we’re seeing a reaction in the form of the During the question-and-answer portion Tea Party,” said Barrus. of the discussion, Barrus noted the similarities Yet despite the fundamental differences between mid-20th century Soviet expansion between Marxists and classical liberals, they and Vladimir Putin’s current expansion into the both “really like rationalism. They share a Ukraine—both of which are based on common belief in reason,” said Frusetta. He spoke on the ethnic identities. At Simms’s prodding, Barrus emergence of fascist movements in Europe after hinted that, based on Putin’s philosophy, the World War I. Enlightenment ideas such as “the Baltic States may be Putin’s next objectives. focus on reason, the material universe, natural “Putin’s approach to the near abroad—that rights, positivism—fascists hate all of this. … anywhere there are Russian speakers Russia has Fascists primarily believe that the modern world a right to intervene, to protect those Russian is flawed.” speakers—that sounds like a modern, updated Frusetta pointed out that toward the end of version of Pan-Slavism,” said Barrus. “Pan- the 19th century, cracks in Slavism then and Putin now Enlightenment rationalism are basically a justification for and materialist thinking were intervention anywhere and widening. The revolutionary everywhere, regardless of the doctrines of the French had threat there is of major war. caused mass executions and Putin is taking advantage of gross injustices, a military Europe’s weakness, and there dictatorship, and war. needs to be a push-back.” Philosophers, psychologists, In comparing Hitler and and others were arguing Putin, Simms said, “Putin has that capitalism and Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler limited aims. He’s not going industrialization were separating people from to go after Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.… their land and neighbors. After the horrors of I understand [Putin’s philosophy]. But he’s smart World War I, “people began questioning the enough to know when to stop. With Hitler, you rational order of the universe.” were never going to appease him.” “Liberalism failed. Communism, not so The discussion could have continued but nice. Fascism promises a revolution against for lack of time. It was largely agreed, however, communism, against democracy, against that the results of World War I spawned high finance, against capitalism, all of which the rise of fascism, communism, and so the are undermining fascist national identity, deaths of millions of people. Stronger central emotion, and living standards. Fascists are governments, heavily regulated economies, revolutionaries.” Russian expansion into Ukraine, and the rise of In Germany, for example, the old radical Muslim movements in Syria and Iraq all conservative order was dissolved, the idea of have their roots in the war to end all wars. nobility was dismissed, and fascists wanted Could Europe have prevented the Great national unity based on blood. All people are War? Probably not. “It was almost inevitable,” equal, the Marxists may argue, but for German according to Simms. But could we still have fascists, “all Germans are equal,” said Frusetta. avoided so many of the problems we face today, The disillusionment caused by World War despite the war’s transpiration? Perhaps. I provided the catalyst for fascist ideas to take “It would have been better if Germany had hold. It was through the rise of fascism in won,” Simms concluded.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 13 14 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 A Conversation with General Samuel V. Wilson ON HOMER‘S ODYSSEY AND COMING HOME FROM WAR

DR. JAMES A. ARIETI, THOMPSON PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS

In the spring of 2006, Dr. James A. Arieti was teaching Homer’s Odyssey in an advanced class in ancient Greek and in “Humanism in Antiquity,” an intellectual history of the classical world. He invited Hampden-Sydney President Emeritus and retired Lt. Gen. Samuel V. Wilson to talk to a combined session of these classes on Homer’s subject— the challenges to a soldier returning home from a foreign war—drawing on his own experiences as a veteran of three wars and on the experiences of others. The script recently surfaced thanks to Arieti, who was able to transcribe and refine the material from a poor- quality recording. What follows is the first of a two-part series of those discussions. INTRODUCTION One of the advantages of small liberal arts colleges such as Hampden-Sydney is that professors are not sequestered with members of their own departments in separate buildings, but are sometimes all mixed together, with the natural result that their education in an array of subjects continues throughout their working careers. Proximity fosters a creative interaction of persons from different academic fields. I am housed in Maples—a small brick Victorian building, once the home of a private family—just east of the Walter M. Bortz Library. In 2006, Maples accommodated the offices of about twelve members of the faculty from an array of departments: classics, political science (now called “government and foreign affairs”), history, English, and religion. After General Samuel V. Wilson retired from his presidency of the College in 2000, his office was just a couple of doors down the hall from mine. Maples lacked the proverbial “office cooler” of commercial businesses; nevertheless, its coziness encouraged many office cooler conversations. Wilson’s visit to my classes to talk about the Odyssey was the result of one such discussion. Homer’s Iliad tells a particular story from the Trojan War—the cause and consequences of the anger of one man, Achilles; the Odyssey treats the return of one soldier, Odysseus, from that war. Yet these poems encapsulate the experience of soldiers in all wars, depicting the emotional damage caused by combat, by the exhilaration of vanquishing an enemy and the anguish of watching friends die in harrowing pain; they are about the longing for home and the tribulations of families and cities left behind; and they are about the mourning for loved ones who have died, whether their deaths were heroic or entirely devoid of redemptive worth. For all their depiction of martial valor, courage, endurance, self-sacrifice, brutality, and ruthlessness, the Homeric epics neither glorify nor disdain war, treating it as a fact of human life. They do not look forward to a messianic age in which enemies lie

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 15 down together, nor do they depict a world since his valiant part in World War II, he has totally without the interchange of pacts and reflected on his experiences every day. This truces between the combatants. Conditions like transcript offers a sample. “post traumatic stress syndrome” and “survivor guilt,” which acquired official names only in THE DISCUSSION the twentieth century, are abundantly evident SVW: Coming home, for the soldier, is an in the poems now that we know what to look intensely emotional experience. But you have to for and can label the symptoms and observe the be careful how you generalize that experience. effects with modern-day tools of interpretation. I’ve gone through your questions, and my first response would be— with some care—to generalize the answers. You only have to break them down because it is a complex subject. I’ll tell you why I said “complex.” This overall phenomenon of homecoming from war is influenced greatly by the kind of war the soldier is coming home from and the attitude of the people at home toward the war. For example, World War II was a popular war. It was one that was visited upon us by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. So the public in general was very much behind this effort, as we had been attacked savagely, and we were defending ourselves. So when the war was successfully concluded, a little less than four years later, the people coming home were welcomed, generally, as conquering Homer heroes. There were In what follows, Wilson tackles many of these parades and celebrations. I remember it all well issues, abstractly and in the context of his own as a veteran of World War II. experiences. Soldiers who came home from the Korean Everyone who knows Wilson knows what a experience found that the public was a bit deeply moral, thoughtful, compassionate, and divided in its attitude toward that war, its sensitive person he is. They also know that he necessity and how it turned out, and the fact is a first-class raconteur. In the seven decades that it was not concluded with a decisive victory,

16 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 but how it ended at a draw at Panmunjom, roles, which means that few of them will come on the thirty-eighth parallel. So soldiers came back with combat decorations and purple hearts home quietly from the war to a welcome mostly for wounds and so on. from their families. There were few parades. The third category we front-liners call Homecoming was not the event that it was somewhat pejoratively the “rear echelon coming home from World War II. commando.” These are the individuals The Vietnam War, on the other hand, back around rear command posts and base was a very controversial and unpopular war, headquarters who work where supplies are and it became increasingly unpopular as it coming in, in hospitals and offices, and so on, went on. Soldiers did not go there and come who are so far away from the war they don’t back in units. For the most part, they went as hear its sounds, they seldom see the planes, and individual replacements. so on. They are in the quiet Soldiers returning from area deep in the rear. That Vietnam and getting man, when he comes home, off the plane in San “It is one of the most is carrying a different Francisco, Washington, Los set of feelings than the Angeles, would encounter realistic movies about man who’s been out there demonstrators screaming at war that has ever been actually under fire. That them and shouting epithets made. That first 23 man from the rear area, at them, calling them incidentally, is the most baby-killers and literally minutes has everything likely to tell you the wild spitting in their faces—an in it that is battle except tales: “And there I was, entirely different kind of and this is what happened homecoming. one thing—the smell. It to me.” Sometimes you The other thing that is the most foul smell of find that individual feels complicates commenting broken human bodies...” the need to prove that he on how people feel about was over there, and when LT. GEN. SAM WILSON coming home from war— he comes home he doesn’t how they received the have much in the ways attitudes, the overall mix of of ribbons, and he needs emotional responses—is influenced by the kind to prove that in fact he was in a great deal of of role the warrior played in that war. I’ll break danger, that he killed a lot of the enemy, that it down into three categories: he’s really a hero but never got credit for it— The front line soldier, the man who sees the that kind of thing. What I’m trying to say is, enemy over his rifle sights—the man who looks as you raise a question, recognize that I’ve just into the mouth of the bear. He’s one individual touched on some of the influencing factors that who returns with a certain set of emotional deserve consideration when I respond to your factors in his make-up. questions. Then there is what we call the combat I don’t think I’ll talk any longer, Jim, but I’ll support soldier, the artilleryman, the try to respond to your questions. quartermaster, the signal corps, the others, who JAA: I should say that concerning some of are immediately behind the front line but who these matters the Trojan War doesn’t fit into the provide vital services at some risk to themselves category of World War II. The Trojan War was in order that that combat rifleman or machine probably a very unpopular war. The soldiers, gunner out front can be successful and be even in battle, asked themselves, ‘Why are we sustained. They may go through their part fighting this war? Just to get Helen back for of the war and only hear the sounds of battle somebody else? This must be one of the most and only see the evidence of its immediate worthless wars in the history of warfare!” aftermath. Nonetheless, they fill supporting SVW: Absolutely! Absolutely!

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 17 JAA: And so worthless was it that there were theater up, broke the chairs, threw things at the stories floating around in ancient Greece that screen, and ripped it down. Here was a story in “well, Helen wasn’t around in Troy; really, she true Hollywood style, where a swashbuckling, must have been in Egypt, because they wouldn’t celluloid hero, Errol Flynn, won the war in have been so stupid as to fight a war over her. Burma with a tiny handful of Americans. The The other thing I would say is that Homer Brits, who had borne the brunt of the war in talks only about the warriors, and warriors Burma, resented it. They resented it bitterly. in Homeric times are all upper class knights, They reacted to it. And even back in England and so we don’t hear about any of the second and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, they two layers of people, the people in the back, resented it as well. And the Americans who had or the rear echelon people. So perhaps we’ll fought in Southeast Asia, in the China-India- start with the questions. In Homer’s Odyssey Burma theater, simply laughed at it, poking fun we see Odysseus sometimes listening to bards at it because it didn’t make a great deal of sense, telling stories about the the way it was laid Trojan War. Others out. So on occasion a who are present regard veteran will look at a these stories as mere film that he regards entertainment. But as not portraying an for Odysseus, who has actual, accurate story suffered the agonies of what a battle is like, of battle, these stories and will look at it as are reminders of what hokum; he will either he has suffered and respond to it in amused seen. What is the derision or sometimes response of veterans outright hostility. to stories of battles That’s one reaction you in which they have get from that fictional fought when they are account of film. sitting in an audience On the other hand, of people interested how many of you saw only in entertainment? the movie “Saving Do the veterans think Private Ryan”? It is one that their suffering is of the most realistic diminished or stripped movies about war that of meaning? And, of has ever been made. course I mentioned Odysseus That first twenty-three to the students that you were in Merrill’s minutes has everything in it that is battle except Marauders, and so it applies even more to you one thing—the smell. It is the most foul smell than it would to most people. of broken human bodies, of human offal and SV W: To begin, the answer has to be cordite that you don’t get. You don’t get that, broken down. When the Warner Brothers but the rest of it is there. And veterans who production “Objective, Burma!” starring Errol watched it, who had been in battle, sat there Flynn was shown in Calcutta in late 1944 or in and trembled because to them it was re-living early 1945, the British veterans in the theater the experience again. That’s how tremendously audience—who had been members of the 14th well Spielberg portrayed it. So it depends to a British Indian Army and had gone through a degree on the kind of movie and its reality; and lot of savage combat and great suffering while a movie which has elements of reality in it will coming down from the far north of Burma bring flashbacks, will bring bad dreams. to Rangoon—went on a rampage, tore the I had bad dreams for a week after seeing

18 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 “Saving Private Ryan.” I have seen some other that they were going to get some leave and wartime movies that are laughed at, and I don’t a chance to socialize, get drunk and chase want to think about them. women and so on. They went immediately, JAA: Any other questions about that? Okay. instead, through Bombay to a training area out We’ll move to the next question. Immediately in central India, and proceeded to arduously upon leaving the Trojan War, Odysseus and train—the most difficult training they had ever his men engage in what can best be referred undergone—and then were told that they were to as a thrill-seeking raid on the Kikonians, going to go behind the Japanese lines in North whom they kill and plunder. Homer seems to Burma, and that “many of you will not return. be suggesting that the transition from warrior This is a very dangerous and hazardous mission. to civilian is not automatic or easy, that in fact That’s why we ask for volunteers only.” Well, there is an enormous psychic gulf that needs when Christmastime came in 1943, a number to be crossed. Is Homer right? What is the of these men who were just getting ready to be transition like to coming home? committed to combat in northern Burma—this SVW: He is essentially right in my view. In was the last recess, so to speak—a number of battle, you have the license these men, right around to take another person’s Christmastime, went life, and you are expected about five miles from to exercise that license “In battle, you have the our encampment on the whether he has attacked license to take another Betwa River across from you first, or whether you the Province of Gwalior, seek him first and can person’s life, and you and hijacked a train. get him before he can get are expected to exercise They took that train his hands on his ammo. that license whether he to Calcutta, hundreds, That license to kill when hundreds of miles away, exercised over a period has attacked you first, and left strewn a trail of months cuts a groove or whether you seek him of wreckage behind in a man’s mind and his first and can get him them there that we had emotions, and so there is difficulty recovering a decompression that has before he can get his from. We got most of to take place. There is a hands on his ammo.’” them back, and they went re-socializing process that is docilely, over-belatedly, LT. GEN SAM WILSON necessary, more so in some back over that same instances than in others, railroad and back into both for men individually, combat. But they had all for soldiers individually, as well as for a group. of that pent-up emotion that they had to get rid When they come back from the front to the of. rear area, they are full of repressed emotions, Now, if we had formed athletic teams—we and you have to find some way to externalize were beside a beautiful river, it was wonderful these inner tensions. And if the leader, the for swimming—and [if we had had] swimming commander, at the lower level down next to meets and we had had USO shows and if we the troops, doesn’t recognize this and doesn’t had given them a rum ration and a double take steps to help them release these emotions, ration for Christmas and so on, and then they’ll find ways to release it. worked very, very hard at doing things that were My organization was composed of three fun, that were relaxing, that would have allowed thousand volunteers, one-third of whom came them to get some of this poison out of their from foxholes in New Georgia, Guadalcanal, system, I doubt that the hijacking would have New Guinea, and New Britain, and they had happened. Leadership makes the difference. been at war for many months. They thought You’re familiar with Lieutenant Calley, in

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 19 North Vietnam, in the village of Mi Lai. Here hostess—she happens to be Helen—introduces was an outfit that had been in combat for a drug into her guests’ wine to induce a some time under weak leadership. They went forgetting of comrades who were lost. How berserk and started killing men and women common a phenomenon is the use of anodynes and children. None of these individuals on of some sort? their own would have done so. But they became SVW: Too common. It depends mostly on a motley mob, and they were simply killing availability. It was not really a problem in World people. So there’s a lot of inner tension and War II, not to any major degree. It was a serious group tension that a leader has to be aware of, problem at one point in Vietnam, because we and he has to make sure that he gets it either were in the land of opium dens, where drugs released or turned to positive purposes, or you were used commonly and were easily available. get this kind of situation that Homer describes. Also, it was an unpopular war. Morale was JAA: When the soldiers come home, do they lower than in World War II and Korea, and seek out the company of other soldiers, with somehow leadership began to break down. We whom to find some release? had fragging incidents in which men would roll SVW: Speaking of a grenade into their platoon Americans, not necessarily. leader’s tent. Under those When soldiers come home, “So there’s a lot of circumstances, with morale the people they want most low and drugs available, to be with are the family inner tension and group you found that soldiers members, their wives, tension that a leader has were really going for drugs. their sweethearts, their to be aware of, and he So this is something brothers, their sisters, their that every commander, mothers, their fathers. has to make sure that every military leader has to That’s what they’ve been he gets it either released be concerned with; he must thinking about more than ensure that there’s no easily anything else all the time or turned to positive available supply of such they were gone. That’s purposes, or you get this things because a soldier in where they want to be. And kind of situation that this heightened emotional that’s where they kind of state, after a battle or what glom onto the affection Homer describes.” have you, will easily reach that they find and the LT. GEN. SAM WILSON for something like that if it feeling of security that is available, because it gives they find in both physical him some sense of release: and emotional ways in the family circle. And the guns quit going off in his head. So it is a frequently a soldier will bring a buddy with problem, one that has to be dealt with. It has him who either doesn’t have a family or can’t troubled us in just about every war we have ever get with it. He likes to share that with other fought, but it was probably worse in Vietnam soldiers, but he wouldn’t leave that family to go than in any other. down to bar somewhere, just seeking soldiers to JAA: For a total of eight of his ten years be with. No, for the most part, he’s had enough returning home from battle, Odysseus is of being with soldiers for a while. involved in meaningless sexual activity with JAA: On their way home, Odysseus’ men Calypso and Circe. Homer seems to be stop in the land of the Lotus Eaters, where suggesting that women may be dangerous to anyone who eats the lotus plant can’t get returning veterans; first they can trick you, enough of it and loses all interest in going betray you, turn you into pigs—literally in the home. Homer seems to be suggesting that case of Circe, figuratively in the case of many there is a danger to veterans of a chemically others—castrate you and fill you with such induced forgetting of pain. In another story, the obsession that you starve to death. Second, that

20 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 loveless sex, like that Odysseus has for seven to one of your next questions—when he returns years with the beautiful but shallow nymph home, one of his first concerns is with that Calypso, does not obviate the desire for a girlfriend. Has she been true to him? Or if he’s meaningful relationship. The question: while married, with his wife. Has she been true to we all have heard that soldiers pine for home him? There’s a double standard here. It clearly and the girls they have left behind, does the is there; it exists; I’m not the only person who experience of war alter in some important ways would describe it this way to you. But there is the attitudes they feel toward women and, then, this double standard. Some men are tortured by when they have returned, the relationship with it, sensitive men; a majority are not, who take it the women they have left behind? as the way life is. For men by their very nature SVW: That’s a good question. When are polygamous, but they want the members of soldiers have enough to eat—so that they are the feminine sex to be monogamous. not hungry, when they are not under fire—so JAA: Do any of the returning veterans that they feel relatively themselves, in your secure, the main experience or among thing they talk about those you’ve heard among themselves is about, become “sex- sex. They are young aholics”—they just men. They have been can’t get enough of highly trained; they meaningless sex as a are physically fit; their way of coping with the hormones are raging; trauma they may have and they are sex- experienced in battle? hungry. Consequently, SVW: I’ve known many of them—I don’t of instances. It is know whether I would not common and say the majority— widespread. But it many of them, given does occur. And it the opportunity, will normally involves not seek a prostitute if he only becoming a sex- goes on a brief furlough aholic, but becoming to some town or city in an alcoholic, simply the rear area, will seek running wild, running relief in the lap of a out of control, until prostitute. somehow they hit a Odysseus At the same time, wall and the wall will he may have a girlfriend at home to whom he be an accident or when someone beats the hell is not only betrothed but for whom he has the out of them or what have you. And then most deepest feelings of emotion. And he puts that of them wake up and come back to themselves in a different category. He does not necessarily and straighten out. feel that he is betraying her, or, if he is betraying End of Part I her, he’s doing it for a reason, and he’ll tell her he’s sorry if he ever tells her about it, and it shouldn’t affect their relationship, that it was under extraordinary circumstances, extreme circumstances, that he did what he did. I’ve known some good men who have followed this route. In that connection—and this may be getting

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 21 Discussing the Republic

DR. DAVID MARION, ELLIOT PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT

Every American should feel the emotional tug of Montpelier, the lifelong home of James Madison. The Father of the Constitution and the Bill problems that historically had resulted in of Rights, Madison envisioned a republic democracies being short-lived and poor that would be equal to the great aims of guarantors of safety and happiness. Madison the Declaration of Independence, that is, a was confident that the American people were up nation based on the consent of the people and to the job of vindicating the democratic model committed to protecting their fundamental of government. liberties. The debt that we owe To say that my audience Madison is best appreciated kept me on my toes is an by a study of American understatement. I was peppered constitutional history, and with questions not only about what better place to engage in how American-style federalism that study than Montpelier? and the system of checks and It was with considerable balances were intended to work pleasure, therefore, that in theory, but about whether I accepted an invitation they have measured up to to discuss the origins and the expectations of leading operations of our constitutional founders such as Madison. One republic, as well as the James Madison participant wondered whether challenges that we face today at all levels of our large deficits and national debt are evidence government—local, regional and national— of a systemic failure, while another asked if with a distinguished group of international the problems that plague cities like Detroit leaders who gathered in May at Montpelier as suggest a deficiency with the American model guests of the U.S. State Department. of democracy. Although my specific charge was to discuss I responded with the observation that American-style federalism and the manner Madison never underestimated the challenge in which powers are separated and divided that we faced in fashioning a decent and within our governments, I began with a review competent rights-oriented republic, and he of Madison’s mission: how best to establish a well understood the challenges we would face decent and competent democracy that could in trying to preserve such a republic over an offer the American people security, prosperity extended period of time. I added that Madison and freedom. Madison was well aware of likely would be pleased with what we have the unhappy history of democracies and accomplished and hopeful that we were up confederacies, both ancient and modern, before to the task of maintaining the vitality and he immersed himself in his labors as a delegate integrity of the constitutional order that he to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. His labored so hard to establish. With any luck, the vision of an extended or national republic that international leaders who attended the session divided powers both vertically (federalism) and on May 12 left Montpelier with a heightened horizontally (separation of powers or an internal appreciation not only of the governmental side system of checks and balances) was carefully of the American constitutional system, but of its designed to resolve the seemingly intractable cultural side as well.

22 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 On the Hill campus notes

EXPLORING ARCHITECTURE near-original condition. It is overseen by H-SC graduate Dr. Carter Hudgins ’00. AND ITS HISTORY There is no architecture major available at AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY the College. Many former society members, however, have careers in architecture, historic Walking up the topmost flight of steps in preservation, and urban planning. To pursue an Cushing Hall, a handful of students has the advanced degree in architecture, Prevo suggests privilege of peering into the dusty attic of the a student should have an understanding of oldest continuously used four-story dormitory in calculus, history, art and architectural history, the country for a firsthand view of the College’s photography, drawing, and other topics—he history. Inside lie thousand-pound, 40-ft. ceiling should have a well-rounded education, which joists cut from local trees during construction in H-SC provides. A major in history with a minor 1822-1824. Ashes from early fireplaces are found in visual arts, for example, will help a student under the floorboards. Upon closer inspection of prepare for historic preservation. If a student the rafters, students and visitors read the initials wants to pursue architecture, H-SC provides and inscriptions of occupants long passed. detailed course planning through the H-SC It is one of the on-campus tours led by Career Tiger Track program. Professor Mary Prevo, who with Dr. Richard This year’s club activities will include McClintock advises the Architectural Society “deconstructs of the campus one building at a through the Department of Fine Arts. Founded time,” during which students will explore the in 2003, the society holds regular meetings, during which they examine old blueprints and drawings, discuss architectural history, and plan for future events. The society sponsors speakers, talks with builders and contractors, and builds architectural models. Some speakers are H-SC graduates who return to describe their career paths toward architecture; Student members of the Architectural Society explore the attic of Cushing Hall. some were fine arts majors, others history basements, attics, and other areas of buildings majors, and some were economics majors. normally closed to the public. They will examine Student members also have travelled to historical brickwork and woodwork, architecture styles, buildings as far away as Charleston, South blueprints, and buildings’ structural integrity. Carolina, to the Drayton Hall plantation house, There will also be more speakers, excursions— the oldest example of Georgian-Palladian and perhaps some long evenings discussing architecture in the United States and one of history through the eyes of the men who built only a few pre-Revolutionary homes still in the College.

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ORIENTATION AND C DAY III The beginning of the 2014-15 school year started with freshmen matriculation in the Walter M. Bortz III Library. Shuffling through the lobby in single file, the Class of 2018 picked up their campus directories, registered their bicycles and cars, met with financial aid representatives, and officially enrolled at their new home on The Hill. The next few days of orientation, culminating in the third annual C Day on August 26, 2014, prepared them and the returning students for a new semester of moral and intellectual development.

FRESHMEN ORIENTATION that evening met in Johns Auditorium for the Honor Convocation. It was there that the The new Class of 2018 is “the most selective Class of 2018 signed the pledge, being formally class we have ever had at Hampden-Sydney,” said Dean of Admissions Anita Garland during her address on the front lawn of Venable. The new class numbered 322 freshmen, arriving from twenty-one states, as well as the countries and territories of Angola, Bermuda, Brazil, Columbia, Italy, Mexico, and Sweden. Most are from Virginia, however. Sixteen are legacy students, having fathers who are Hampden-Sydney alumni. Seven have grandfathers who attended. Twelve have brothers who have attended or are attending Dr. James Arieti attaches lapel pins to sophomores. the College, thirty-six have at least one other close relative who has attended, and 253 are welcomed into the Hampden-Sydney College beginning their family’s legacy at Hampden- Brotherhood of Men. Sydney. A weekend of games, competitions, Discussions on personal health, wellness, cookouts, and other activities provided and safety, as well as meetings with academic platforms for students to meet their new advisors and an introduction to The Good classmates. Church services were available Men Plan filled the rest of the afternoon. Sunday morning. After midday all freshmen Freshmen bade farewell to their parents and were ushered into Gilmer Hall to take the

24 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 ceremonies. The freshmen were introduced to The Good Men Plan, which helps them focus on citizenship, service, professional development, and other topics. They heard from Tim Fitzpatrick ’81 on “You Will Find a Way or You Will Make One.” Sophomores heard from Andy Freitas ’92 during their pinning ceremony, in which each received his interlocking H and S lapel pin, and juniors listened to Tulane Patterson ’78 during their ring and coin ceremony. Seniors listened to the discussion on “Marketing Myself When the Product is Me,” led by Thad Shelly ’75 in Crawley Forum. The annual Pig on the Point dinner Family and friends helped freshmen move into their new dorm rooms at Cushing Hall. followed on Chalgrove Point. Music, barbeque, and representatives from a number of clubs, rhetoric editing and essay tests, upon which organizations, and fraternities displayed students’ placements in rhetoric classes are information for interested students. based. Soon after, the other returning students Other events during orientation and C Day began moving into dorms and preparing for the included the Tiger Fair, in which students could third annual C Day celebrations. learn about other activities and organizations C DAY on campus; the Majors Exploration Fair, in which faculty representing various departments Convocation, class identity, and community discussed their disciplines for students; and the were the themes outlining C Day activities. Career Fair, with businesses and corporations It started at the annual Opening Convocation at Everett Stadium, with faculty, staff, and students attending. Many students and faculty were recognized for their academic achievements and contributions to education. Students, staff, and faculty spoke to the crowd. Aaron Gilani ’15, student body president, reflected on how “we have seen the greatest change not in our surroundings, but within ourselves.” Those changes stemmed from the Honor Code, he stressed, and the integrity it instills in the student body. Students met with company representatives on C Day. Rev. Henry “Chip” Edens III ’92 setting up tables and displays for students emphasized the importance of being members thinking about their future employment. of a community on campus and how that Overall, the orientation and C Day supportive atmosphere is often needed during introduced new and returning students to life trying times. He praised H-SC and its faculty at Hampden-Sydney for the 2014-15 school for remaining focused on its job of forming year. The week was filled with inspirational good men and citizens within the community. words, on-campus activities, and community The four classes were then led to separate fellowship that set the tone for another buildings for class identity discussions and successful year on The Hill.

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H-SC AND WAKE FOREST Brown serves on the board’s Executive GRAD PROGRAM Committee, the Asset Forfeiture Committee, and the Nomination Committee. He also PARTNERSHIP serves as the chairman of the Committee on Hampden-Sydney College and the Wake Training (COT), which is responsible for Forest University School of Business have the development of criminal justice training entered into a partnership whereby Hampden- standards in the Commonwealth in police and Sydney students and alumni receive preferred corrections academy training. application status to the Master of Arts in Brown’s position allows him “to network Management Program. This agreement is the with many criminal justice professionals who fourth of its kind for Hampden-Sydney. The have significant service-oriented values and other three arrangements are with The Darden who are supportive of Hampden-Sydney School of Business at UVA, The Fuqua School College,” he said. “Support, such as in training of Business at Duke, and the Mason School of opportunities, research assistance, and federal Business at William & Mary. The Wake Forest and state regulation compliance” derived from agreements provide Hampden-Sydney men Brown’s participation have already benefitted with preferred admission, consisting of abridged the College. admissions criteria, a streamlined application process, and guaranteed scholarship minima. LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR This summer Hampden-Sydney and Wake Dear Alumni, Forest representatives gathered to recognize the It is my pleasure to introduce Angus K. agreement concluded earlier in the year. McClellan ’05 as the new college editor with responsibility for The Record. You may have BROWN REPRESENTS H-SC noticed Angus’s name in the July issue of The ON POLICE BOARD Record, which he completed as former editor Governor Terry John Dudley ’95 transitioned to his new McAuliffe recently responsibilities as director of college social reappointed Jeffrey media. We are all grateful for John’s 10 years of Brown, director of service on The Record. public safety and Angus is a 2006 graduate of Hampden- chief of police at Sydney, where he majored in political science. Hampden-Sydney, As a corporal in Farmville’s B Btry., 2-111th to the Criminal Field Artillery unit of the Virginia Army Justice Services Board National Guard, he deployed to Iraq in for a second term, Operation Iraqi Freedom III in 2005. He which expires in 2018. Former Governor Bob worked previously as the assistant editor at the McDonnell first appointed Brown in 2010. Of National Rifle Association’s magazine American the 29 members of the board, he is the only Rifleman, where he wrote feature articles, member representing campus police, and so he product reviews, and book reviews. He received has an unusual amount of access and insight the magazine’s Outstanding Editorial Writing into a “broader view of criminal justice issues in Award in 2009. the Commonwealth, [exposing him] to a wide We welcome Angus to his new position. range of progressive solutions for those issues,” as he said. Much of the knowledge Brown Sincerely, gains can be useful for on-campus service and Thomas H. Shomo security at H-SC. Director of Marketing & Communications

26 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 Sports News DAVIS YAKE ’08, ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR FOR TIGER SCHEDULES AND THE LATEST NEWS, VISIT WWW.HSCATHLETICS.COM

Robert Bareford Takes Over player of the year, and all-metro. He has an extensive seven-plus year Men’s Tennis Post background in individual and group instruction Director of Athletics Richard Epperson has and training with youths and adults. Bareford named Robert Bareford as the head tennis was the director of Junior Tennis at Midlothian coach. He takes over for Murrie Bates, who Athletic Club from May 2011 to October 2012, retired in May. a tennis instructor at Midlothian Tennis Club “I’m very excited from November 2008 to October 2011, a tennis and eager to start instructor in the Virginia Tech Sports Recreation working with the Department from September 2008 to 2009, and team,” said Bareford. a tennis assistant for Salisbury Country Club in “The College, Mr. Midlothian from May 2006 to August 2008. Epperson, and I Bareford will be moving to Hampden- are committed to Sydney, where he will reside with his wife transforming Tiger Ammara and their one-year-old son, Camden. tennis into a yearly ODAC contender and Basketball Announces nationally recognized Exciting Schedule for 2014-15 program.” Hampden-Sydney head basketball coach Dee “We welcome Vick has announced an exciting and challenging Robert Bareford to schedule for the 2014-15 Tigers. Included in the Hampden-Sydney College as our new head 25-game schedule are a trip to Puerto Rico, two tennis coach,” said Epperson. “Robert brings Classics, one tournament, and one Division I strong recruiting connections to our program, opponent. and I am confident our team will reach new The Tigers open up the year on November heights under his leadership.” 14, facing the Coast Guard Academy on ESPN3 Bareford played two years of collegiate in the Armed Forces Classic, taking place at tennis at University of Virginia’s College at Wise the United States Coast Guard Air Station before transferring to Virginia Tech, where he Borinquen in Puerto Rico. graduated in May 2011 with a history degree. Later in December, the Tigers will play in As a Hokie, he led the Virginia Tech Club team the D3hoops.com Classic in Las Vegas, facing to a 2009 Mid-Atlantic Championship title. He Wartburg and Husson on December 28 and has a United States Tennis Association (USTA) 29. Following those games, Hampden-Sydney rating of 5.0 and is a certified tennis instructor continues west to face Division I UC Irvine, under the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR). coached by the 2014 Big West Conference He comes to Hampden-Sydney from Estes Coach of the Year and Hampden-Sydney Hall of Express Lines, where he most recently worked Famer Russell Turner ’92, on December 31. in Inside Sales as an account manager. Bareford’s “Being invited to compete in these last head coaching position was from February prestigious events is an honor and will gain 2012 to June 2012, when he was the head boys national exposure,” noted Vick. “This coupled tennis coach at his alma mater, Monacan High with playing Division I opponent UC Irvine School, in Chesterfield County. As a student- is invaluable to the continued growth of our athlete at Monacan, he was a district champion, program and our college.”

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 27 Before the D3hoops.com Classic, H-SC travels Bridgewater, and run a stretch of three straight to Shenandoah to face North Carolina Wesleyan on the road with Lynchburg (1/21), Shenandoah and Mary Washington in the South Region (1/24), and Washington & Lee (1/28). Classic on November 21 and 22. February sees the team at home for three The Tigers then play three of their next four games with Guilford (2/4), Bridgewater (2/7), in the friendly confines of S. Douglas Fleet and Shenandoah (2/21). In between Bridgewater Gymnasium, opening up against ODAC-foe and the regular season finale with Shenandoah, Roanoke on December 3. After a road game the Tigers hit the road for a tough three game against Emory & Henry on December 6, the road stint playing against rival team Randolph- team returns home to host the Luck Stone Macon (2/11), Roanoke (2/14), and Virginia Holiday Classic on December 18 and 19. The Wesleyan (2/18). tournament will include Kean, Sewanee, and Hampden-Sydney finished the 2013- Keystone. 14 season at 16-13 overall while making an The new year brings William Peace (1/4), appearance in the ODAC Championship game. Randolph (1/7), arch-rival Randolph-Macon The Tigers have an ODAC-record ten ODAC (1/14), Eastern Mennonite (1/17), and Emory Championships and 14 NCAA appearances, & Henry (1/31) to the Tiger Den in January. with two appearances in the Final Four. The Tigers hit the road on January 10 to face

Leon Hargrove ’15 maneuvers around a Randolph-Macon opponent.

28 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 Gentlemen’s Classic on the ensuing drive, but four plays later, In a much anticipated season opener between Ethan Buresh picked off Nance and returned two Top-25 teams, it was 16th-ranked Wabash the turnover 41 yards for the game-tying that protected its home turf, defeating #21 touchdown. Hampden-Sydney 34-21 in the inaugural Wabash’s defense used its momentum to “Gentlemen’s Classic.” force a punt from the Tigers on the next drive, The Tigers (0-1, 0-0 ODAC), who averaged which was downed at the Wabash 49-yard line. just shy of 450 yards-per-game last season, were Wabash found itself in the red zone, but the held to just 242 yards of offense in the effort. Tiger defense stood strong and forced a 39-yard Wabash’s (1-0, 0-0 NCAC) offense produced field goal fromAndrew Tutsie to give the Little 321 yards, while its defense forced three Giants their first lead, 17-14, with just over five turnovers—one for a score. minutes remaining in the half. Hampden-Sydney hit the scoreboard first, The Little Giants controlled the third using a 60-yard strike from Nash Nance ’15 to quarter, scoring ten points while possessing the Holton Walker ’15 to go up 7-0 on its second ball for just over 13 minutes. possession. The Tigers, behind Freddie Potter ’15, got The Little Giants fired right back, using 11 a big fourth-and-one stop on Wabash’s first drive, but the Little Giants notched a touchdown on its second drive – a 26-yard touchdown pass from Michael Putko to Houston Hodges. Hampden- Sydney fumbled on its next drive, and Wabash capitalized with a 29-yard field goal from Tutsie. Wabash tacked on one more score on its first drive of the fourth quarter, going up 34-14 while driving 68 yards in 11 plays and 4:31 minutes. Two drives later, H-SC quarterback Nash Nance ’15 was under pressure during the Wabash game in the Tigers found the Crawfordsville, Indiana. He ended the game with 247 passing yards. end zone again, with plays and 5:19 to drive 69 yards, capped off by a Walker catching his second touchdown of the Tyler Holmes four-yard run, to tie the game. day, this time from 34 yards out. After traded punts, Hampden-Sydney took Brady Macko ’15 led the Tiger rushing its fourth drive into the second quarter, and attack with 45 yards on nine carries, averaging finished off a six-play drive with Nance finding 5.0 yards-per-carry. pay dirt on a goal line push. Nance on the day was 24-of-37 for 247 The Tiger defense forced a three-and-out yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 29 Walker had game-highs of ten catches, 168 Michael Putko (18 car.; 59 yds.), and Mason yards, and two scores. Fuller Clark ’15 caught Zurek (13 car.; 45 yds) leading the way. Putko four passes, and Owen Costello ’16, Craige was 15-of-22 passing for 134 yards and a Sprouse ’15, Joey Kernan ’14, and Joey Druhan touchdown. Only three receivers caught passes ’15 all had two catches. for Wabash, with Hodges having a team-high Defensively, the Tigers were led by Robert nine catches for 78 yards and a touchdown. Stack ’14 who tallied 14 tackles and two sacks Defensively, Austin Brown led the way with for a loss of 15 yards. Larry Haskins ’15 and ten tackles and two tackles-for-loss. Preseason Josh Doggett ’15 recorded 11 and 10 tackles, All-American Cody Buresh notched six stops, respectively. three for loss, two sacks, while forcing and The Little Giants had a balanced running recovering one fumble. attack, with Tyler Holmes (21 car.; 60 yds.),

RAISING EXPECTATIONS FOR YOUNG MEN By Dr. Gregory B. Hess, president, Wabash College, and Dr. Christopher B. Howard, president, Hampden-Sydney College When the football teams from Hampden-Sydney College and Wabash College met to open the season on September 6, it was more than a clash of nationally ranked NCAA Division III programs. It marked the first time the two institutions had met on the gridiron despite long, proud football traditions. While critically important to the 250 or so student-athletes who toiled throughout the summer to prepare for the coming season, the game was important for other reasons: It brought to light the important work these colleges are doing to educate men of character and Adam Stockton ’99 (l.), Dr. Howard, Dr. Hess, Adam’s brother substance. Hampden-Sydney’s Matthew of Wabash, and NCAA President Mark Emmert. mission to “form good men and citizens” is remarkably similar to Wabash’s call for its students to act “as gentlemen and responsible citizens.” If the teams had met 50 years ago, hardly anyone would have noticed that two men’s colleges were playing a Saturday afternoon football game. But today, Hampden-Sydney, founded in 1775 in Farmville, Virginia, and Wabash, founded in 1832 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, are two of just four all-male colleges remaining in the United States. We both believe that men’s education allows for rare and good things to occur in the lives of our students. It is important to understand why this is so and why it matters. Young men in America today are in a quiet crisis. In his powerful book Guyland, sociologist Dr. Michael Kimmel says that young men exist in “a stage of development poised between adolescence and adulthood, a world in which we

30 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 postpone entering into adulthood until our late 20s, moving back home after college, drifting through relationships and career paths.” According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, men are falling behind in college. Men represent just 43.2 percent of the students enrolled in colleges and universities today, and the male graduation rate has fallen to just 56.8 percent. There are reasons for this. Our economy no longer provides coherent career paths the way it did a generation ago. Young males are slow to adjust to the long-overdue new roles that women are assuming in society. They receive negative, destructive, models of “hyper-masculinity” from our culture’s movies, video games, and music. They are asking: “What does it mean to be a good man?” Hampden-Sydney and Wabash are institutions focused on providing answers to that question and contributing to a growing national conversation about young males in America. Our colleges pull reluctant students away from self-indulgence and passivity and out into an environment of high expectations, engagement, and accountability. On our two all-male campuses, men participate in community service, the arts, theater, and music in high percentages. People notice when a student misses a class or rehearsal. The brotherhood unites students on our campuses, encourages competition without malice, and instills a high level of accountability to one another and oneself. One of the foundational principles at Wabash College echoes the importance of what psychologist and author Dr. Michael Thompson refers to as “a meaningful goal.” Thompson writes in What Works, a collection of articles and essays published by Hampden-Sydney, that boys can and do change behaviors. Notoriously poor collaborators compared to females, they will pull together when they see what he calls “a meaningful goal.” Wabash refers to this as “seriousness of purpose.” Similarly, Hampden-Sydney challenges its young men to engage in “vocational reflection,” whereby each student is asked from his first day on campus to think about his purpose, passion, and calling in life and what it means to be “good men.” And therein lies a key to unlocking the potential of young men today: helping to guide each of them to discover his own “meaningful goal,” his own “seriousness of purpose,” in order to avoid the pitfalls of hyper-masculine behavior far too prevalent these days. Former Baltimore Colts defensive lineman Joe Ehrmann, now a minister and motivational speaker, makes the point in What Works that young men need to see role models on and off the athletic field. “The challenge,” he writes, “is to create a clear and compelling definition of healthy masculinity that will help guide every young man to understand the truth about what it means to ‘Be a Man.’ ” It is a complex question, one that each young man must answer for himself. It is also a call for all of us—parents, teachers, counselors, and coaches—to help him find the answer to that question. Since America’s earliest years, these two men’s colleges have been working to answer that call and to produce good men. This is a complex, dangerous, demanding world. We will need those good men.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 31 Alumni News

H. STETSON TINKHAM ’67 AND DAVID HASTINGS, JR. ’70

At small colleges, the alumni section of newsletters often features just a half-dozen faces of graduates under a pennant with only their single class year number. It is tough to break that practice and update that of a reunion, not of a single class, but of a decade model to attract more alumni. But the Epsilon of brothers of the Chi Phi fraternity, emerged Chapter of Chi Phi fraternity at Hampden- through telephone calls and e-mails over several Sydney College came up with a highly successful months. Could the prospect of such a gathering answer: the Block (of time) Party. The goal of generate enough interest to find brothers who would put together a slate of activities that would draw more than the usual handful of attendees? The small circle of dinner guests morphed into a committee. The committee generated a database and then an online blog: specifically, a dropbox folder in “the cloud,” where biographies, pictures, and tall tales began to accumulate. Using the Alumni (l. to r.) Edward Johnston ’65, Dr. Ted Smith ’65, and Robert Roper ’68. Chi Phi directory and this reunion was to assemble as many of the through hundreds of e-mails and dozens of brothers as possible who were members of the telephone calls, the list of brothers who were chapter at some time during the 1960s. reconnecting with each other grew. Looking It all started in the winter of 2013, as a few a full year ahead, the committee coordinated brothers and their wives, huddled around the a date with the current brothers of the newly table at dinner in a restaurant in Charleston, re-chartered Epsilon Chapter of Chi Phi and South Carolina, turned nostalgic and realized through liaison with the College administration. that they had attended Hampden-Sydney They negotiated group rates with local College during a unusual block of time— innkeepers and made food service arrangements. the 1960s. It was a Dickensian moment of A calendar of events began to take shape. realization: the best of times, the worst of times. At last, on March 20, 2014, fifty-eight It was the time of Vietnam and the British (pop brothers of the ’60s, along with wives, music) Invasion. It was a time when staying companions, children, friends, and invited off the draft board list was just as important as guests showed up, put on nametags, and donned being on the dean’s list, and when the pursuit of commemorative ball caps. The weekend took off, a degree was essentially a matter of survival to an accompanied by the sound of the ancient (and extent not seen since World War II. The concept original) house band, The Sherwoods. Although

32 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 there was a tendency to clump into class groups Brothers of the ’60s” dinner was another initially, the camaraderie of the decade quickly highlight of the weekend. The large group reestablished itself, and the spirit of the Block in attendance dined on a varied menu of Party rekindled friendships and bonds of outstanding and beautifully presented dishes. brotherhood from college days of long ago. Following the meal, a candle was lighted for The retrospective reflections of the each brother who had gone from this life, and participants were not all centered on Vietnam then the microphone was made available to any and Selective Service. The centerpiece of the brother brave enough to share a story or make a weekend took shape in the form of a tribute philosophical pronouncement … both occurred. to Lancaster P. Brown, the caretaker at Chi Back at Chi Phi’s Party Bunker, after a few Phi for more than fifty years. The brothers had more hours of reminiscing to the music of The never exhibited a shortage of appreciation for Sherwoods, the event came to a soulful end as Lank or his wife, Victoria, while they were alive. the band struggled to remember the words to But they took advantage of this opportunity to “Louie Louie.” Adjournment was at a much thank them for their years of service. more respectable hour than it would have been at 1960s parties. Throughout the reunion, the brothers—perhaps because of their wives—were shockingly well-behaved. The Sherwoods donated funds for a dinner at the outstanding Fishin’ Pig restaurant to the 2014 Chi Phi pledge class, with any remaining funds to be forwarded to the Mercy Seat Baptist Church. Plans for an encore of this event are already underway, and the brothers are determined keep the spirit of their fraternity alive. The initial concept of a Block Party that included all the brothers of the ’60s turned out to be a Alumni from the 1960s in Snyder Hall, formerly Gammon Gymnasium. brilliant idea. The group’s e-mail “Lank’s World” was a presentation address list is approaching 200 names. Legends, conducted at Mercy Seat Baptist Church on the now re-explored, and stories, now retold, reveal life and times of the Brown family. The entire that in some cases, truth exceeds tall tale. Long weekend gathering attended the presentation, lost but not forgotten friendships interrupted which included an address by College President by the events of the 1960s have been renewed. Dr. Christopher B. Howard. The brothers That love of life at Hampden-Sydney and of the decided to reach out to the community through Chi Phi brotherhood has been revived. In the both a charitable trust and by establishing a months following the reunion, many mini- scholarship fund in honor of Brown. For these reunions took place among friends who found several hours, the reunion became a very solemn the March event too short, wanting to continue and respectful affair. Through it, the brothers unfinished conversations begun on campus. formally articulated their appreciation for Lank That all these things came to pass is and his family. His friendship and his counsel a testimony not only to the power of old remain today a strong force in the bond among friendships, good wine, and an expensive dinner Epsilon Brothers. in Charleston, South Carolina, but also to That evening, in the old gym, an “Epsilon thinking “outside the Block.”

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1960 RAYMOND B. “RAY” WALLACE, JR., recently completed his memoir Essex Memories & Beyond. The eBook version is available on Amazon.com. 1963 W. GREYSON QUARLES joined the investor team and board of directors of Help Get Sponsors, a full-service sponsorship sales and management team that helps event owners find sponsors. He is a former executive of the SAS Institute, a business analytics company. 1970 JOHN “JOHNNY” ELLIS was inducted into the second class of the Commonwealth of Virginia Rugby Union Hall of Fame in December 2013. He was recognized for his 48 years of playing, coaching, and being a continuing, true ambassador to the Robert Maxwell ’65 met musician Joan Jett at the Newark Liberty Airport. sport. Ellis and PAUL REIBER ’70 She and “the Blackhearts” are famous for songs such as “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.” helped start rugby at H-SC in 1968. BRUCE B. HOPKINS is of Virginia Board of Visitors by the incoming chairman of Arts Governor Terry McAuliffe. Memphis, a local community fund that provides millions in funding, 1977 mentoring, and advocacy on behalf GENE M. GALLIVAN was recently of arts, music, dance, and theater elected vice president of the Graduate programs in Memphis, Tennessee. School Alliance for Education of Coaches, an alliance of graduate 1975 schools focused on coaching- Dr. WILLIAM RAYBURN has education programs. been promoted WALTER M. JONES III was to the rank of among 5% of attorneys in all of distinguished West Virginia to be selected to the professor of 2014 West Virginia Super Lawyers medicine at the list. University of Harry “Rob” King ’72 (top, l.), his New Mexico. 1979 wife, Laura, and friends attended It’s the highest ROBERT R. “RAN” HENRY IV the 2014 Kentucky Derby on May 3. honor of scholarship the university recently finished his book Spurrier: WILLIAM W. “BILL” MUSE gives to members of its faculty. How the Ball Coach Taught the South retired from state service as chairman to Play Football, which chronicles of the Virginia Parole Board, a 1976 Steve Spurrier’s shift from 1966 position to which he was appointed RICHARD D. “RICK” Heisman Trophy winner and by Governor Bob McDonnell in HOLCOMB is stepping in as a NFL quarterback to a coach who February 2011. temporary replacement for W. instituted game-changing strategies at Curtis Coleburn III ’72 (see above) three universities across the South. It 1972 as the chief operating officer of is available on Amazon.com. W. CURTIS COLEBURN III is the Virginia ABC. He is currently retiring as the chief operating officer the commissioner at the Virginia 1980 of the Virginia Department of Department of Motor Vehicles. HERBERT H. “BERT” Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) JOHN G. MACFARLANE BATEMAN, JR., was promoted after more than 30 years of service. III was appointed to the University to executive vice president of

34 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 TowneBank, a local banking company primarily in the Tidewater area. Bateman has worked for the bank for 10 years and has more than 30 years of banking experience. He is also the vice mayor of Newport News and a commissioner with the Peninsula Airport Commission. 1981 JOHN BUNYAN BULLARD III was recently recognized for playing with “Banjo Masters,” part of the Guitar & Other Strings Series hosted at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts by Virginia Commonwealth University. For years Bullard has taken the banjo and Dwayne Bowyer ’92 was promoted to colonel. He is assigned to the Colonels adapted it to classical music. Management Office, serving as the human resources manager for all of the Air JOSEPH D. TAYLOR II, Defense Artillery, Public Affairs, and Information Operations colonels in the U.S. president and CEO of Taylor’s J. CHARLES COLLIE joined Do-it Centers, was named one 1983 Peacock as of three “Top Guns” in the JOHN C. “J.D.” DICKINSON director of independent hardware industry by and his wife, Wendy, recently joined business the North American Retail Hardware the Parent and Family Council at development Association. He was featured in the the College of William & Mary, and senior May issue of Hardware Retailing where their two daughters, Hillary consultant. Magazine for overall success through and Anne Marie, are students. J.D. Peacock works leadership, innovation, and vision. is a partner with Harold Williams with healthcare, 1982 at Dickinson Williams & Co. in insurance, and investment firms to Richmond. improve their data operations, saving MARK R. CRUISE was recently them up to 80% versus traditional appointed 1986 solutions. executive director WILLIAM L. “BILL” BALL was of the Florida named one of TRIAD’s financial Association of Free executives of the year. He is CFO and Charitable of Frank L. Blum Construction in Clinics. Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

MAURICE JONES, Virginia secretary of commerce and trade, and Joe Hines, Timmons Group and friend of the College, recently attended the Farnborough International Airshow in the United Kingdom. Governor Terry McAuliffe hosted a reception at the Institute of Directors in downtown London for international aerospace companies working in Virginia. JOHN R. McGHEE, JR., was elected vice president of the West Virginia State Bar. His son Rob will graduate from H-SC next year. 1987 Samuel L. Hughes ’79 (r.) won the Central Virginia Invitational Tennis PEYTON W. ARTZ was named Tournament on June 8, 2014, at Oakwood Country Club in Lynchburg. He is in assistant vice president for corporate the top five men’s 55 singles in the U.S. Tennis Association’s Mid-Atlantic region. claims at Selective Insurance Group.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 35 CLARK M. BAROUSSE was 1989 Kilimanjaro with his son and other appointed senior vice president team members to raise more than for worldwide sales and account READ F. GOODE, JR., was named $125,000, the majority of which is management at Biolase, a leading managing broker of the Richmond going to The Institute for Global manufacturer and distributor of office of Divaris Real Estate, Inc. Health and Infectious Disease. dental lasers out of Irvine, California. MATTHEW C. SUNDERLIN WILLIAM T. “TRIPP” was elected as BUTLER III spoke at a meeting 1988 the 2014-15 of the Lead Culpeper group, which GRAHAM T. “HAM” DOZIER president of the provides citizens with access to local has completed his book A Gunner in Harrisonburg- business, government, and education Lee’s Army: The Civil War Letters of Rockingham leaders. He spoke on the importance Thomas Henry Carter. Bar Association. of serving on local boards and BRAD NEWPOFF was named He is the commissions. partner with TalentRISE in Chicago. managing KARL SCHNEIDER joined The Chicago-based management partner of Clark & Bradshaw, P.C., a the staff of YMCA of the Pikes consulting company focuses on Harrisonburg law firm. Since 1999 he Peak Region on June 2, 2014, after recruitment for its corporate clients, has concentrated his practice in the 22 years on active duty in the U.S. and Brad will specialize in executive- area of Elder Law, which includes Army. As vice president of Center talent acquisitions. estate planning, estate and trust Operations, he leads the charitable HUGO F. RODRIGUEZ, administration, fiduciary services, organization’s day-to-day operations, JR., was recently appointed financial and long-term care which serves more than 125,000 consul general of Mexico City. He planning, and conservatorships and constituents. has worked as an overseas U.S. guardianships. 1992 diplomat for the State Department, 1991 having spent time in Mexico, Peru, FLOYD “TEE” FALLEN joined The Italy, Iraq, and India. ANDREW G. “ANDY” BALLOU Provident Group, a leading manu- recently climbed Tanzania’s Mount

Kurt Wootton ’87 (above, r.) of Ken Fulk, Inc., a designed in the old warehouse space, to the Bulleit design think-tank company, with owner and partner Manhattans and other yummy cocktails, to the Ken Fulk (above, l.), held a West Coast Alumni raw bar with West Coast oysters and crab, and a Dinner on April 16, 2013. President Christopher delicious dinner with wine and dessert. And, did I Howard, Mrs. Barbara Howard (above), and mention the view of the city and the bay? The most others flew to California to enjoy a meal with delightful part of the evening, though, was the Hampden-Sydney alumni who moved to the West opportunity to meet so many of our alumni and Coast after graduation. Much of the evening’s their spouses, all of whom love Hampden-Sydney discussions centered on the company’s multi-faceted and want to see their alma mater prosper. I must say design work, which “extends far beyond residential that Southern hospitality has found its rival on the and commercial buildings, with a scope that West Coast.” encompasses special events, architecture, branding, A bold statement indeed, and despite the party and graphic design,” according to the website. occurring early last year, it was such a special event Claire Deal, Elliot professor of rhetoric, attended that Dr. Howard wanted to ensure that we shared the party and found that “the San Francisco shindig the far-off celebration on these pages with our was a blast, between the gorgeous setting that Ken alumni closer to home.

36 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 Andrew Ballou ’91 and his son climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease. facturer and distributor of doctor Jared “J.D.” Jurentkuff ’00 (l.) was a creative director for Apple’s commercial blades, end seals, and innovative “Misunderstood,” winner of the primetime commercial Emmy Award in August. solutions for the printing industry, as real estate, business transactions, based law firm Graybill, Lansche & a technical sales representative. economic development, and local Vinzani, LLC, to develop their office RUSSELL D. TURNER, head government law. in Richmond. men’s basketball coach at University MICHAEL RYAN “MIKE” RANDOLPH “RANDY” of California, Irvine, was named 2014 FITZSIMMONS, Delivery WILLIAMS, JR., left North Carolina Big West Conference Coach of the Agent’s founder and CEO, recently Wesleyan College and moved to Elon Year and NABC District 9 Coach of acquired Musictoday, a Crozet-based University as the presidential fellow the Year after leading the Anteaters to direct-to-fan music merchandise and special assistant to the dean of their first league regular-season title and marketing company. Delivery multicultural affairs. in 12 years and second consecutive Agent, an interactive entertainment- 20-win season. commerce firm, has 375 employees 1997 in its San Francisco headquarters S. TAYLOR SMACK, head 1993 and offices in Denver, New York, brewmaster and co-founder of TED EDWIN JONES was and London, and it will keep the Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, promoted to lieutenant in the 150 employees in the new Crozet announced the company’s purchase Bureau of Field Operations at the location. of Charlottesville’s oldest brewing administrative headquarters of the establishment, South Street Brewery. Virginia State Police. 1996 The brewery restaurant opened mid- JONATHAN A. MACKLER BENJAMIN HESTER “BEN” September 2014 under the South was named MDC Partners’ KBS’s BEAIRD joined HFF as a director Street Brewery name. Smack worked co-chief creative officer. in its Dallas office. HFF is a leading at the Brewery for five years, having provider of commercial real estate come “full circle,” as he said, in now 1994 and capital markets services to the being able to purchase the property. PAUL JOSEPH LANDAICHE U.S. commercial real estate industry. Dr. STEPHEN SAUNDERS coached and assembled the lacrosse JOHN MARTIN earned was appointed team On The Hop Nation/ Master’s Level principal of Lacrossewear, which recently of production Baker-Butler won the Men’s Elite Vail Lacrosse in 2013 with Elementary Championship 2014, in Vail, Long & Foster School in Colorado. The team has won three of Real Estate by Charlottesville the past six championships. selling more He was than previously an 1995 $22,000,000 in assistant principal in Albemarle. ADAM ROBERT ARTIGLIERE the Williamsburg and Richmond was named special counsel at McNair markets. He is the managing broker 1998 Law Firm, P.A., based out of South at the Strawberry Street sales office in JONATHAN VAUGHN is the chief Carolina. He earned his J.D. from Richmond and associate broker in of staff at the Advanced Science the University of Florida, Levin the Williamsburg office. Research Center at City University of College of Law, with his practice WALTER WILHELM “WILL” New York. focusing primarily on commercial RABKE joined the South Carolina-

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 37 Kevin Martingayle ’88, president of the Virginia State Bar “It does not take talent to and advancement of the legal tice, he knew that “of course, hustle and be on time.” Those profession within the state. To that’s what lawyers do. But simple words are found on practice law in Virginia, one you don’t realize how intense a cheap sign hanging in the must be in good standing with it is until you’re doing it. This boys’ locker room at Frank W. the VSB. is serious, this is different; Cox High School in Virginia Martingayle grew up in it’s professional. It’s fast, and Beach. But they hold some the capital near the University it’s somewhat vicious. It’s no truth for attorney Kevin of Richmond. With 20 hours longer hypothetical; you’re not Martingayle ’88 of Bischoff of college credit already on kicking around ideas in a class- Martingayle PC, a law firm his record, and by stacking room. You’re doing something based in the coastal city. See- his workload, he was able that matters. To a client, there’s ing that sign where his son to graduate from H-SC in no such thing as a small case or was attending a club wrestling only three years. From there problem. You need to appreci- practice, he reflects on the idea he went to the University ate that in order to go solve that if a young man “simply of Virginia School of Law, that problem.” graduating in 1991. But his And that’s exactly what greatest challenges were still he loves about practicing law: ahead, and some of them he solving problems for clients. found surprising. But his other passion lies in ad- Once he entered the law vancing the law in a direction practice, he discovered a he believes is right and good. frenzy of activity that he had “My favorite cases are argu- to organize and guide—and he ing in favor of fundamental, was “dealing with adversaries constitutional rights cases: free who were engaged specifically speech, due process, and equal in resisting what [his] clients protection.” wanted.” His only previous Two cases have stood out jobs had been lifeguarding as especially satisfying. In the and running a landscaping first, police were using a local business, occupations largely noise ordinance at Virginia requiring friendly customer Beach to write tickets to small service. Debating in school and dining and drinking estab- using the English language lishments along the beach. does what he’s supposed to do,” for argument and ideas had Nobody was complaining he can succeed. It’s one of the long been his natural talents, about excessive noise, but maxims he’s learned along his and they were key tools in the the police were constantly road to success. courtroom. But he wasn’t used writing these tickets and even Taking that path led to to an office environment in threatened to arrest people Martingayle’s recent election to which his main priority was to for excessive music volume. a one-year term as president of manage conflict, chaos, and When the city sponsored loud the Virginia State Bar (VSB). deadlines. concerts or other events in the The VSB is the Common- “It gets a lot more serious same area, however, no tickets wealth’s mandatory state bar, when you take people’s money were issued. It was blatant which oversees 47,000 attor- and are giving representation government discrimination neys from the Kentucky border on legal issues that are impor- against small-business owners. to the Potomac River and tant to [clients]. The pressure The case went to the Virginia beyond. It is responsible for can be enormous.” Supreme Court, and the court 38 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • JUNE 2013 the regulation, improvement, Before he entered the prac- agreed that the ordinance was

38 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 “unduly vague, lacked articu- and creating a healthier court ploma in hand.” And he wants lable standards, and violated system within the Common- to move the bar in a positive due process.” wealth. The general assembly direction by maintaining good A second case dealt with decided to refrain from traditions, modernizing tech- the Department of ABC’s appointing new judges to nology, and looking for ways to powers to take alcohol licenses vacant positions to save money; help attorneys be the problem from establishments for allow- and the former governor pro- solvers they’re supposed to ing lewd, noisy, or disorderly posed to reallocate VSB funds be. There are great tasks at conduct on their premises. to the Virginia general fund— hand, but Martingayle is ready But the law was too vague, even though that money came to work toward those goals, potentially resulting in confis- from membership dues, not and not without some of the cations of licenses on arbitrary taxes. tools that Hampden-Sydney grounds. Martingayle turned “We of course objected provided to him twenty-five to the judge, who was a former mightily, because it was our years ago. chairman of a local political money, not tax money. The “In general, it was excellent party, and said to him, “If you reason we built up a reserve education instruction from have a political rally—which is fund is because we are not the professors [that prepared core-protected speech—in an allowed to incur debt. We me for law school]. Having establishment, and someone have to save up money first, a chance to compare them has the opinion that it is too and then buy things, such as to those I had in law school, disorderly, then they can take improvements in technology.” H-SC professors take a back away its ABC license. And After the ensuing battle seat to no one.” that, of course, is ridiculous.” between the government and He recalls professor Ken- The judge agreed, and the law the bar, the money was left neth Townsend in particular. was changed. alone and the vacancy problem “He was pleasant, brilliant, “In both of those cases,” was largely solved. But it was and I learned a lot of econom- said Martingayle, “I’ve taken also a learning experience for ics from him. I also learned personal pride in moving the Martingayle, who gained a how to be a good and decent law in a healthy direction: new perspective before he person. But I tell you, I never in the direction of greater assumed his role as president. took a class in which I thought freedom, greater liberty, and “Those two problems I had a bad professor.” greater precision. And maybe taught me that being president His formula for success— the law would have done that is not just ceremonial. You act and his advice for current without me—but I was the as a diplomat, but the state bar students—is no abstract guy who did it.” president must also be like a philosophy or vain appeal to About seven years ago, fire extinguisher behind glass. self-esteem. Indeed, as he said, Martingayle got involved with In an emergency, you need to “There is no magic formula.” the Virginia State Bar Council, be available and effective.” Rather it is a simple, prag- which is the body that creates As president, Martingayle matic, and indisputable recipe rules and governs the state hopes to continue solving the for achievement, and yet it still bar. He saw an opportunity to judicial vacancy problem and often escapes students who are get involved with the Execu- to work with the general as- distracted or lazy: “Go to class tive Committee, a more select sembly to avoid future crises. every day. Pay attention. Turn group within that council, and He wants to strengthen ties in everything on time. Study he was picked to serve. with circuit court clerks. He for quizzes and tests. Commu- There were two primary wants to work with law schools nicate with your professors. If issues facing the bar at that to make improvements to legal you follow those simple rules, time, both of which Martin- education, to make graduates you’re already going to be near gayle recognized as necessary “more practice-ready when the top of your class.” to securing the bar’s finances they step out of the door, di-

THETHE RECORD RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEYOF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE COLLEGE• OCTOBER • OCTOBER 2014 39 2014 39 Companies, a full-service real-estate firm with headquarters in Durham, North Carolina. E. BRYAN HORNER IV and his family have relocated to Virginia Beach, where he has joined Scott & Stringfellow as a financial advisor. 2005 WILLIAM “WILL” POWERS IV completed his general surgery residency at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, in June 2014. He moved to Charlotte to complete a surgical critical care fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center starting in July. (See births) Jonathan Vordermark recently flew to Greece for the first time. He majored in Greek and Humanities. Jon is a management and IT consultant with NTT DATA, Inc. 2006 He lives with his wife Anna in Charlotte, North Carolina. J. PHILIP LAND has left his employment with U.S. Senator Partners as an associate advisor, 1999 Lindsey Graham to practice investment specialist. In this role, economic development and corporate BRAXTON G. NAFF was appointed Ashby will develop and lead the law with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, to the board of directors of the firm’s investment and portfolio PA in Greenville, South Carolina. Economic Development Authority management strategies, as well for the City of Roanoke. as provide independent financial 2007 guidance to individuals, businesses, 2000 JUSTIN PHILIP WISZ was recently and institutions. NATHAN “NATE” DaPORE featured in The Ten to Watch released his book PeopleMatter: Driv- 2002 2015 among emerging leaders at WealthManagement.com. He is the ing Productivity, Efficiency and Profits M. KEVIN DEAVER, with his father co-founder and CEO of Vestorly. Through Happier Team Members. and brother, opened their fifth ACE The Vestorly platform is information- Confronting business obstacles such Hardware store in November 2013. sharing software used by wealth as high turnover and slim margins, The father-and-sons partnership management advisors to target clients Nate explains through inspiring sto- owns two stores in Williamsburg, two and potential clients based on their ries how the people of one’s business stores in Hampton, and one store in interests. Advisory firms such as hold the key to greater profits and Newport News. Sizemore Capital Management, RCS better customer service. ROBERT E. “ROB” LIGHT Capital, and United Capital currently was recently recognized for his use the platform. work and contributions to the tennis program at Fredericksburg 2008 Country Club in the Free Lance-Star WILLIAM PRICE GUTSHALL newspaper. has joined Cushman & Wakefield/ JOSEPH K. PIERCE is now Thalhimer, a commercial real estate the northeast regional manager for firm in Glen Allen, as a sales and Speakman Company, a manufacturer leasing associate. of faucets, shower heads, and JOSEPH T. “TREY” KEELER emergency equipment. He is III joined Riot Games as a marketing responsible for the company’s sales associate in Los Angeles. efforts from West Virginia to Maine. TYLER BOSTON MURRAY JASON RITCHIE, lieutenant was named assistant men’s basketball commander U.S. Navy, and his wife, coach at Charleston Southern GRANT D. LAVEZZOLI Christina, transferred to United University in Charleston, South worked with Stephen Colbert States Sixth Fleet in Naples, Italy, Carolina. ’86 as a writer, creating a series in February 2014 after Ritchie of commercials for Wonderful completed a two-year tour of duty 2009 Pistachios, including a Super Bowl at the Kennedy Irregular Warfare J. A. RIVERS EVANS and his friend commercial. Center in Washington, D.C. Edward Thompson have started 2001 2003 InciComm, a start-up company that is using technology to help firemen ASHBY W. PRICE joined JOHN F. MACDONELL was manage emergency scenes. The Richmond-based Capstone Financial named asset manager at The Dilweg software is tailored to individual fire

40 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 departments, incorporating a city’s dispatch system, map details, and locations of fire hydrants, among other features. WILLIAM MICHAEL “WILL” HAMMER is running as the Libertarian candidate against Bob Goodlatte in Virginia’s 6th Congressional District this year. His website is wmhammer.com. SCOTT C. MATTHEW, advertising representative for the Courier- Record newspaper in Blackstone, was named the 2013 Matthew A. Jones ’11, son of Rev. Jeffrey W. Jones ’85 (above, l.), graduated with a Outstanding Master of Divinity degree from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh. Young Sales Professional of the Year by the Virginia Press Association. 2010 COOPER ANDERSON was recently featured in Austin Woman Magazine for his role as head winemaker at The Austin Winery in Austin, Texas. MATTHEW HUDGINS is working for the Republican Party of Arkansas as their regional field director for Northeast Arkansas. Assistant Dean of Students Richard Pantele ’13 on a deep sea fishing trip off It is one the Republican National the Eastern Shore. Seen here are (l. to r.) Deron Siddons, Richard Pantele ’13, Committee’s main focus areas for the Bill Pantele ’80, Mike Pantele, Jake Viverette, and Lanny Junes ’74. U.S. Senate races. KYLE A. MARTIN joined Willcox Savage as an attorney in Virginia Beach. He is a former law clerk for U.S. Judge Robert G. Doumar and is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. JOSEPH STILES was recently hired as general counsel for ParkLand Ventures in Richmond. The company specializes in acquiring and operating manufactured housing communities across the United States. 2012 GREGORY “SCOTT” HENSHAW graduated from the Virginia State Police Academy in June as president of the class. He was placed in Appomattox and Prince Edward County, patrolling mostly in Prince Edward. 2013 SAMUEL BIBEE is a customer support representative for Interactive Achievement in Roanoke. J. DRAKE BISHOP earned the Showing off their catch from a fishing trip aboard the Run-Off from 2014 Dorothy Middleton Memorial Morehead City, N.C., (top, l. to r.) Burke Steele ’13, Drew Gorham ’16, Rob Scholarship to attend Eastern Steele ’15, Robbie Wilson ’14, (bottom) Travis Luck ’14, and Rob McGhee ’15.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 41 Virginia Medical School. It is a full, four-year scholarship. He was a biology major and summa cum laude graduate with departmental honors at H-SC, receiving the Samuel S. Jones Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Research for his senior honors project on melanoma-associated suppression of dendritic cells. Advanced Studies 1984 GARRETT CHAPMAN JETER is currently in a doctoral program for English literature, with an expressed interest in Gothic narrative and the Gothic novel. He will be teaching David Michael Jones ’00 graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University composition as a teaching assistant with a doctor of education degree in leadership. this fall. He has presented at two conferences: one on Edmund Burke, and one on a connection between Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. 2002 WILLIAM O. CIUCCI graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a master’s degree in international public policy in May 2014. 2004 J. BAXTER STEGALL left his job as a police officer in Crewe and is pursuing his J.D. from Liberty University School of Law. 2005 Hillman Terzian ’08, Lee Warren III ’10, and Rhorie Kerr ’10 graduated NATHANIEL ARNATT is from Eastern Virginia Medical School on May 14, 2014. pursuing his master’s degree in nursing from George Washington University. He and his wife recently welcomed a baby boy (See births). 2008 CASEY MORRIS ARIAIL earned his J.D. from the University of Richmond Law School. DASHLE G. KELLEY earned his Ph.D. in economics from West Virginia University in December 2013. J. PARKER TIMS earned his master’s degree in clinical sports performance psychology from the University of Denver. HILLMAN TERZIAN Brandon Newcomb ’10, Kris Norbo ’09, John Owen ’07, Andy Coalter ’02, graduated from Eastern Virginia and Chris Collie ’10 graduated from the VCU School of Dentistry in May.

42 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 Medical School. He is specializing ROBERT B. THOMPSON III in general surgery at St. Luke’s earned his J.D. from the University University Health Network in of Virginia School of Law in May Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 2014. Before graduation, Thompson accepted a position as in-house 2009 counsel at J.P. Morgan in New York. JOHN CAMPBELL recently CURTIS W. TOMLIN earned earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from his J.D. from the University of Washington University in St. Louis. Richmond School of Law. Campbell graduated from H-SC summa cum laude with honors in chemistry. His dissertation was titled, “Anodic Olefin Coupling Weddings Reactions: Experimental and Computational Methods for 1998 Investigating the Intramolecular Cyclization Reactions of JASON FERGUSON and MARY Electrooxidatively Generated QUINN MARTIN were married Radicals and Radical Cations.” May 18, 2014, at the Watkins Bell E. BRANDON FERRELL Tower at Hampden-Sydney. The earned his J.D. from the University bride is a behavioral consultant for of Richmond Law School. Piedmont Psychological Services At the wedding of Ryan Patterson and JAMES “ANDY” SURFACE in Farmville, and the groom is the Lauren Thomas on October 17, 2013. earned his Ph.D. in chemistry director of admissions at Hampden- Sydney. private ceremony on the beach in from Washington University in St. Mexico. The bride is a graduate of Louis in August 2013. He joined 2002 Roanoke College and is a marketing Albemarle Corporation as a senior ALEXANDER AYERS and ERIN manager for Verian. The groom is analytical chemist in Baton Rouge, an assistant vice president at PNC Louisiana. LYNNE SWANN were married on March 22, 2014, in Heathsville. Bank. They live in Charlotte, North 2010 The wedding reception was held at Carolina. RHORIE KERR graduated from Bearcroft Farms, the bride’s family 2006 farm. In attendance were Randy Eastern Virginia Medical School. DAVID S. DEELEY and He is specializing in otolaryngology Ashton ’01, W. Chris Hight III ’96, Roger Dael ’02, R. Christian Rickers MARGARET KELLY EASON at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation were married on May 4, 2013, in the in Ohio. ’99, J. Harrison Stuart ’02, Briggs Casteel ’02, Matthew Burlee ’02, Wren Chapel on the campus of the MICHAEL A. “MIKE” College of William and Mary, the LITTLE is pursuing a master’s John Morgan III ’02, Barrett Peters ’02, Jeremy Bull ’05, Stuart Winston bride’s alma mater. In attendance degree in trust and wealth were Matthew Brady ’05, J. Hunter management at Campbell University ’03, John Neal, Robert Tuebner ’03, Charles Brown, Wilson MacIlwaine Pickels ’05, Monti Mercer ’06, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bryan Grinnan III ’57 ’03, Nathan Tuebner ’06, and Major , and The Dr. BRANDON W. Carl Edward “Ward” Jones ’03. Honorable NEWCOMB earned his DDS from Eason, Jr., ’76, the father of the Virginia Commonwealth University 2003 bride. The couple met while students School of Dentistry in May 2014. at Eastern Virginia Medical School, He joined the practice of Dr. Walter RYAN McKINLEY PATTERSON and LAUREN THOMAS were where they earned their doctorates in Saxon, DDS, in Dillwyn. medicine. They live in Chesapeake. LEE WARREN graduated from married on October 17, 2013, in a Eastern Virginia Medical School. He is in general surgery-preliminary at the University of Virginia. 2 011 JOHN R. MOHRMANN earned his J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law. SUMNER R. PUGH IV graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in May 2014. He is starting his legal career as an associate attorney at Maynard, Cooper, and Gale, in Birmingham, Alabama. At the wedding of David Deeley and Margaret Eason on May 4, 2013.

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At the wedding of Justin Wisman and Lee Ann Spurzem on May 17, 2014. To MICHAEL and KIM McKITTRICK, a daughter, Kinsey Ann McKittrick, on August 26, 2011. They live in Deltaville. 1996 To JOHN LEE and COURTNEY REYNOLDS, a daughter, Margaret “Meg” Lee Reynolds, on June 8, 2014. Meg Lee joins her 3-year-old sister, Rachel. 1999 To STANFORD and KRISTEN GARNETT, a son, Patrick Daly Garnett, on November 18, 2013. He joins his brother Davis, 4, at their home in Charlotte, North Carolina. At the wedding of Andrew Dalton and Hope Mason on August 9, 2014. 2001 BENJAMIN AARON DULL MarkWest Energy Partners, and the and ASHLEIGH TRENT bride is a school counselor. They live CURRIN were married on May 11, in Charleston, West Virginia. 2013, at The Water’s Edge Country Club in Penhook. Wes Hall ’06 was 2009 a groomsman. The bride is a graduate ANDREW “A.J.” DALTON and of Radford University. HOPE MASON were married August 9, 2014, in Cold Spring 2008 Harbor, New York. The bride is a JUSTIN CLARK WISMAN graduate of Longwood University and LEE ANN SPURZEM were and is a special education teacher married on May 17, 2014, at the for Fairfax County Public Schools. Tuckahoe Plantation in Richmond. The groom is a grant program In attendance were Michael Booher coordinator for the National Rifle ’08, Blaine Harvey ’08, Billy Association in Fairfax. They live in To JOHN and JEANNE DANIEL, Gresham ’08, John McLamb ’08, Herndon. In attendance were Scott Brian McDougald ’08, Josh Roller Benner ’09, Alex Divers ’10, Drew a daughter, Emily Grace Daniel, ’08, Justin Odanga ’10, Chris Tatom ’09, Eric Roeske ’09, Mark on September 16, 2013. They live in Colgate ’08, Scott St. Clair ’10, Matt Powell ’10, Tyler Holbrooks ’10, Richmond. GREG CHRISTINE Moore ’08, John Hollingsworth Joe Lannetti ’11, Jimi Fattorini ’10, To and YUSI, a son, Oliver Yung Yusi, on ’08, Greg Howard ’09, and Charles William Pace ’10, Ned Horton ’12, April 18, 2013. They live in San Lockhart ’08. Lee Ann is a graduate Josh Hatchell ’08, Malik Springer Diego, California. of Longwood University. The groom ’10, Taylor Welsh ’10, Chris Finton is an environmental coordinator at ’10, and Damian Booker ’12.

44 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 2002 Powers, on December 7, 2013. They died on April 28, 2014. He was live in Wilmington, North Carolina. distinguished professor emeritus of Bible Exposition at Dallas 2006 Theological Seminary, where he To OTTO and DANA KONOPA, taught for 58 years. He was a long- a son, Otto Cassius “Cash” Konopa, time supporter of Luke’s Closet and on June 7, 2014. Cash joins older the author of 21 books, including sisters Addison, 5, and Blair, 2. They Things to Come. live in Prairie Village, Kansas. 1938 2010 RICHARD A. “DICK” BURRELL To TYLER B. and JESSICA of Farmville died on August 22, NAPIER, a son, Tucker Rhett 2014. He was a chief specialist in Napier, on July 9, 2014. They live in the U.S. Coast Guard during World Providence Forge. War II. He taught and coached at a number of high schools in Virginia before returning to Hampden- To BENJAMIN C. and ANNE Sydney as athletic director and sports FARMER, a son, Roddy Charles information director. He was a Farmer, on July 2, 2014. They live in member of the H-SC Athletic Hall Richmond. of Fame. He served in his church To JASON and ANNE as a deacon, Sunday school teacher, PRUDEN, a daughter, Reese and choir member. He was interred Virginia Pruden, on February 25, at College Church Cemetery at 2014. Reese joins her big sister, Hampden-Sydney. Reagan. 1942 2005 Dr. EDGAR FORREST JESSEE of To NATHANIEL and DIANE Richmond died on May 10, 2014. He ARNATT, a boy, Asher William To J. GRAHAM and LESLIE TATE, a daughter, Mary Hunter earned his doctorate of dental surgery Arnatt, on June 4, 2014. They live in from the Medical College of Virginia Locust Grove. Tate, on February 12, 2014. They live in Staunton. in 1945, practicing in Richmond and retiring in 1986. While serving his country during the Korean War, he received five medals of distinction. Deaths He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Kappa Alpha. At H-SC he was captain of the football 1934 team, later being invited to try out PHILIP TRAMMELL SEIBERT for the Philadelphia Eagles. He was of Martinsburg, active in a number of groups and West Virginia, associations, including the Second died on July 16, Baptist Church, the Virginia Dental 2014. He Association, the Richmond Dental attended Society, Cavalier Sporting Clays, and Hampden- the Country Club of Virginia. Sydney and was To CURTIS “C.W.” and a member of 1945 SASHA CLEMMONS, a son, the Sigma Chi fraternity. After Dr. WILBUR FRANKLIN William Anderson Clemmons, on graduation he was an insurance agent AMONETTE III of Radford died March 20, 2014. They live in Burke. at the Lincoln National Life on May 2, 2014. He was a veteran To HUNTER DALTON and Insurance Company for 72 years. of the U.S. Navy’s V-12 program at SARA BRITT GREIN, a son, Phil’s community service included Hampden-Sydney. He earned his Pleasant Hunter Dalton Grein, on sitting on the Gas Rationing Appeal medical degreee from the Medical January 3, 2014. They live in High Board, being active with the Boy College of Virginia. In 1949, he Point, North Carolina. Scouts of America, and serving as the enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and To BRADLEY and department director of Berkeley was stationed at Billing Air Force STEPHANIE JOYNER, a daughter, County Civil Defense in 1950. Base in Washington until his dis- Sara Kate Lane Joyner, on May Seibert served as director for Old charge in 1951. Dr. Amonette worked 30, 2014. Sara Kate joins her older National Bank starting in 1952. in private practice in Radford and sister Emma Grace, 4. They live in started the Radford Community Richmond. 1937 Hospital Emergency Room. He also To WILL and BRANDY The Rev. Dr. J. DWIGHT worked for the Virginia Department POWERS, a son, Cooper Brayden PENTECOST of Dallas, Texas, of Corrections.

THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 45 CARY LEE MEREDITH, JR., from Hampden-Sydney, and earned a nuclear materials for deployment in of Arnold, Maryland, died on August Ph.D. in physics at the University of nuclear weapons. He retired in 1985. 8, 2014. He attended Hampden- North Carolina. He joined the U.S. Pat was a member of Southern Cross Sydney but left in 1943 to enter the Army and deployed to the European Sertoma Club and Aiken Business- U.S. Navy Air Corps, in which he theater during World War II. Tom men’s Club. Pat enjoyed playing golf, flew turboprop aircraft, training was employed at the Kentucky fishing, crabbing, and hunting, and when WWII ended. He started Military Institute, later returning to he continued to be an avid reader. Meredith Melvin & Lynch Insurance Virginia Tech as a professor of physics and Real Estate Brokers in the 1950s, and eventually becoming head of 1953 later working for Basil-Voges of the department. He was dean of the Dr. JOHN WEBB SIMMONS III Annapolis as an insurance broker. College of the Arts & Sciences. of Decatur, Georgia, died on July 28, JOHN WESLEY PRICE, JR., 2014. He attended medical school of Daytona Beach died on July 26, 1949 at the Medical College of Virginia. 2014. He attended Hampden-Sydney CHARLES KEMPER LORRAINE He served in the military during College from 1941 to 1942. died on July 28, the Korean War at Scott Air Force 2014. He Base, later returning to complete 1946 matriculated at his pediatric residency. He moved RONALD COCKE “RON” H-SC, joined to Georgia in 1962, working at The SHIFLETT of Richmond died on the U.S. Navy, Decatur Pediatric Group for many May 5, 2014. His education at H-SC and then years. His hobbies included fishing, was interrupted by World War II, returned to tennis, gardening, and golf. during which he served as navigator campus to on a Naval Air Corps troop transport graduate in 1949. He was owner of 1956 and attained the rank of lieutenant. A.L. Lorraine Hardware in Carytown Dr. WILLIAM P. EDMONDSON, He began his career with Esso, which of Richmond, retiring in 1996 to JR., died on was largely rebranded as “Exxon” in southwest Florida. In later life, he July 12, 2014. In the United States, retiring in 1986. spent time furthering educational 1960 he He was a member of the Second opportunities for H-SC students graduated from Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, through the Alfred Lorraine the University was an avid golfer and tennis player, Scholarship. of Virginia and was a former president of the School of Roanoke Country Club. 1950 Medicine, later LEWIS B. GOODE, JR., of Virginia serving his residency at Yale 1947 Beach died on University. He joined the Epidemic WILLIAM NEWMAN GILMER, August 14, Intelligence Service, United States of Wytheville, 2014. He served Public Health Service, CDC, at died on June in the U.S. Air Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, as a 27, 2014. His Force, Strategic lieutenant commander during 1963- father was Air Command, 65. He was an original founder of the Thomas during the Norfolk Diagnostic Clinic in 1970, Edward Gilmer Korean War. He practicing internal medicine in the ’23, chair of the was chairman of the Peoples Bank Tidewater area for forty years. His physics and Trust Company in Chase City, late father started a scholarship for department and later president of and later served as president of students in 1996, which Edmondson Hampden-Sydney College. He served Fidelity American Bank in continued. in the U.S. Navy, graduated with his Lynchburg and Central Fidelity B.S. from MIT and a M.S. from Banks in Richmond. He played 1957 Drexel University. He was a tennis and enjoyed hunting quail and JOSEPH BADGER SHELOR of mechanical engineer for duck, among other hobbies. Patrick Henry County died on May Westinghouse Electric Corp., WYNDHAM PATTERSON 28, 2014. He went to Princeton Experiment Inc., and Texaco. He was “PAT” University, later graduating from active with his local churches and WALKE, JR., the University of Virginia with a taught Sunday school for many years. died on July 5, Master of Arts in 1981. He served as After retiring, he and his wife became 2014. He a lieutenant (junior grade) aboard the antique dealers and owned Castle graduated from U.S.S. Platte. He spent much of his Hill Antiques for many years. Hampden- career teaching and coaching at The Sydney with Episcopal High School in Alexandria. 1948 dual degrees in Dr. THOMAS EDWARD English and chemistry. He was 1964 GILMER, JR., of Blacksburg, drafted into the U.S. Army during SAMUEL HARDY DUERSON, namesake of the late H-SC president the Korean War and was stationed in JR., of Raleigh, North Carolina, and William’s brother (above), died Nevada. He worked for E.I. DuPont died on June 24, 2014. He attended on July 22, 2014. He joined the corps at the Savannah River Site, which Hampden-Sydney and graduated of cadets at Virginia Tech, graduated was built during the 1950s to refine from Virginia Polytechnic Institute

46 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • OCTOBER 2014 with a bachelor’s degree and a Master 1977 1968 he taught history at Hampden- of Engineering. He later earned an Sydney, later earning tenure at The MBA from Lynchburg College. As a MICHAEL CRAIG RADY of College of William and Mary. His graduate engineer he worked with the Jacksonville, Florida, died on May research and writings included engineering team that assessed the 30, 2014. He earned two master’s numerous papers submitted to the accident damage at the Three Mile degrees from the University of Southern Historical Society. He Island nuclear plant. North Florida. For much of his enjoyed gardening, playing piano, career, he worked in Duval County and he was an avid reader of 1969 as a guidance counselor at Mayport periodicals. Dr. HENRY CARMICHAEL Coastal Sciences Middle School in EUGENE BROOKS HARDIN, ROWE of Gloucester died on August Atlantic Beach, Florida. JR., of Raleigh, North Carolina, 11, 2014. He worked in Newport 1978 died on May 9, 2014. He attended News and Gloucester for 39 years the University of North Carolina as a medical examiner and medical BRIAN MILBANK THURSTON at Chapel Hill, where he earned his director. His contributions provided of Denver, Colorado, died on March degree in business administration. The Longwood Center for the Visual 10, 2011. He earned his Certified He later served in the Air Force. Arts with the Rowe Collection of Public Planner and Certified Trust Working for Wachovia Bank, Hardin Chinese Art. and Financial Advisor certifications was appointed office executive for after moving to Denver in 1991. Raleigh, later becoming the regional 1970 1979 vice president in 1979. He served on DOUGLAS DEAN DEFFEN- the boards of trustees for Hampden- BAUGH died GREGORY FISHER BURNETTE Sydney and St. Mary’s College, on July 13, died on August 6, 2014. He worked served as director of the Rex Hospital 2014. He for Verizon for 30 years, mostly in Foundation, and was an active graduated from the facilities management group. He member of Christ Church Raleigh. Augusta was a strong and long-time supporter WILLIAM G. “BILL” Military of the Special Olympics. PANNILL of Palm Beach, Florida, Academy, later 1985 died on June 10, 2014. He attended serving in the Virginia Military Institute, the U.S. Air Force as a sergeant from CHARLES RAYMOND University of Virginia, and North 1970 until 1974. He was the owner COCHRAN Carolina State School of Textiles. and operator of Captain Sam’s died on July 24, A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Landing in Waynesboro from 1978 2014. He was fraternity and the Raven society at until 2013. Doug was an avid antique the vice UVA, he later served three years in collector and fisherman. He con- president of U.S. Army in Germany soon after tributed to charities such as Relay for Cochran World War II. He started his career Life and Special Needs Children. Construction at Pannill Knitting Company in Company, the 1959 and became president in 1966. 1974 family business. His hobbies included He sat on the boards of Hampden- Lt. Col. RUSSELL B. TURPIN of hunting, fishing, playing guitar, and Sydney, Mary Baldwin College, Goode died on August 19, 2014. He following the Washington Redskins. and the Jeffersonian Restoration was an officer in the U.S. Marine Dr. WILLIAM H. FARTHING, Advisory Board at UVA, among Corps for 26 years. He served as JR., died on July 31, 2014. He others. He had myriad interests, commanding officer of the 4th was a pathologist in Hopkinsville, hobbies, and affiliations with clubs, Combat Engineer Battalion in Kentucky. associations, and organizations. An Baltimore, Maryland, later teaching 1997 avid horticulturalist, he was a global history and government in high authority on daffodil flowers, having school. He was a member of Oakland MICHAEL C. MELVIN died on hybridized, named, and registered United Methodist Church and June 3, 2014. He was a graduate of more than 210 varieties. The Pannill worked with the Boy Scouts. He Charlotte Catholic High School, Commons on campus is named after was a lifelong farmer on his ancestral where he held the all-time career him. His son William L. Pannill land. scoring record in high school soccer. ’77 and grandsons Kenneth Stuart FRIENDS ’08 and William G. Pannill II ’08 1975 graduated from Hampden-Sydney. Dr. JOHN ALLEN JENNETTE Dr. MARTIN BOYD COYNER, of Eden, North Carolina, died on JR., died on May 29, 2014. He graduated from July 5, 2014. He the Medical College of Virginia grew up in in 1979, serving his residency Farmville, in anesthesiology while in the receiving his U.S. Navy. He reached the rank master’s degree of lieutenant commander in the and Ph.D. in Medical Corps. history from the University of Virginia. From 1958 to

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ANGUS KIRK McCLELLAN ’05

BEFORE

Through the generosity of alumni donors, the College recently had a AFTER George Catlin portrait of James Madison restored. The painting on white poplar panel is among other deteriorations. Conservators at valued in the tens of thousands of dollars and the Richmond Conservation Studio examined is considered one of the College’s most valuable the Madison portrait to assess the damage pieces. It currently hangs in the Madison Music and aging. Infrared photos revealed where Room at Middlecourt. Catlin spread the original paint, providing an Catlin is known primarily through his outline or map for conservators, and ultraviolet portraits and scenes of American Indians from light exposed undesirable paint added in later the mid-19th century. He travelled throughout restoration attempts. the Old West, painting tribesmen such as After analyzing the painting they dusted Chief White Cloud, of the Iowa, and Chief the paint surface, cleaned it with acetone, Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, of the Blood Tribe. applied a toluene rinse, and removed varnish He toured the United States and Europe with and the added paint. A synthetic resin was then his Indian Gallery, which numbered more applied. Losses in the grain were filled with a than 500 paintings, the collection eventually fine-textured, water-soluble putty, and then becoming housed at the Smithsonian American inpainted to bring out the original image. Art Museum in Washington, D.C. He was less Many of the College’s artwork and artifacts prolific with portraits of European Americans, rely on restoration and maintenance for their but the 30"x24" Madison oil painting is one of preservations, a regular process within the at least three copies, this one made circa 1830. collection. Thanks to donations from alumni The painting suffered from tenting, or raised and friends, this valuable piece of historical paint layers, often caused by shrinking surfaces; artwork will grace the walls of the College for cloudy imagery caused by old varnish; flaking; years to come. and damages around the edges of the panel,

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