William and Mary News VOLUME VII, NUMBER 8
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Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID at Williamsburg, Va. Permit No. 26 VOLUME VII, NUMBER 8 William and Mary News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1978 $200,000 for Professorship DuPont Gift To Aid Law School In the The College has received $200,000 "Many years ago, Mrs. duPont's Taxation program is recognized as one from the Jessie Ball duPont Religious, generosity enabled William and Mary of the country's finest. Charitable and Educational Fund to to establish its graduate tax program. Mrs. duPont was named a trustee News establish the Ball Professorship of Law This new gift fulfills a hope she emeritus for life by the Endowment in the Marshall-Wythe School of Law. expressed at that time that there could Association in 1969 after serving as one According to Warren Heemann, vice be a Ball Professorship at the of the association's original members. president for development, several Marshall-Wythe School of Law," Spong In 1964, one of the College's largest Pre-registration letters were discovered in the College said. and most modern residence halls was archives while preparing a proposal for Born in 1884 in Northumberland named in her honor. Pre-registration for the spring the foundation in which Mrs. duPont County, Virginia, where the Ball family semester for undergraduates and expressed strong support for the had lived for many years, Mrs. duPont The gift is the second large for graduate students in Arts and nation's oldest law school. In one of made several contributions to the contribution the Jessie Ball duPont Sciences will take place between the letters, she said she "valued College before her death in 1970. In Religious, Charitable and Educational October 19 and 31. Under¬ beyond words" the honorary degree 1941, she established the Thomas Ball Fund has given to William and Mary's graduate students should pick up she received from Marshall-Wythe in Scholarship Fund in memory of her Campaign for the College, which is their materials on October 19 at 1954. "I would rather have the Doctor father, who attended William and Mary now entering its third and final year. Andrews Hall between 8:30 a.m. of Laws Degree from William and Mary in 1855. In 1953, she set up the Jessie Earlier this year, the College received a and 4:30 p.m. Graduate students than from any college in the U.S.A. Ball duPont Special Reserve Fund to $50,000 grant to endowment to support in Arts and Sciences should This College has been dear to my soul inaugurate and to develop the program student scholarships. Other recent contact their advisors between all my life," she wrote to former in law and taxation and to purchase foundation grants have been received October 19 and 31. President Alvin D. Chandler. books for the law library. One of the from the McGregor Fund, the Kresge During her lifetime Mrs. duPont first programs of its kind in the Foundation and the J.S. Mack Win a Birthday Cake expressed a great deal of interest in country, Marshall-Wythe's Law and Foundation. helping Marshall-Wythe "become the There's a coupon in the current greatest law school" in the nation. The issue of Megacycles that is good gift comes at a time when Marshall- for a free birthday cake. Winners Wythe is preparing to move into a new Business Taps Boushall, will be announced over WCWM building, which is currently under three times daily, 10 a.m., 4 p.m. construction on land adjacent to the and 10 p.m. If it is your birthday, headquarters building for the National send in your name or if it's your Center for State Courts. Banker To Get Medallion friend's birthday, send in your "We are pleased by the geneorsity of Thomas C. Boushall, founder of the The faculty of the School of Business own name or the name of friends the Jessie Ball duPont Religious, Bank of Virginia and one of the Administration selected Boushall as but I.D.'s will be checked for Charitable and Educational Fund," said nation's pioneers in the banking field, "an individual whose distinguished non-birthday cakenapers. William B. Spong, Jr., Dean of has been named the 1978 recipient of career as a contributor to the Marshall-Wythe School of Law. "This the Business School Medallion. profession of management represents A Bargain Trip gift to establish a chair of law in the highest standards of profes¬ taxation will strengthen our tax Boushall will receive the Medallion sionalism and integrity." The SA daytrip to Monticello program as we prepare to move into at a special ceremony Saturday and Ash Lawn Sunday, Oct. 22, is our new building." morning, Nov. 4, at Phi Beta Kappa a bargain at $4. It leaves PBK at 8 Memorial Hall. Continued on P. 3 a.m. and returns by 8 p.m. Fee includes transportation and admission to Monticello and Ash Lawn. Bring a William and Mary ID and a bag lunch. Space is limited. Sign up at the SA Office by 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 20. Special Interest House Proposals Proposals for new special interest houses are being accepted in the Office of Residence Hall Life until November 1, 1978. Details on proposal requirements may be picked up in James Blair 206-B. United W^y 1978 Goal Kathy Lawlor from Paoli, Pa., is crowned Homecoming Queen by President Craves at halt-time ceremonies Saturday afternoon at the football game. This is the second Lawlor to wear the crown, Kathy's sister Maureen was homecoming $170,590 queen two years ago. Photo by Tom Williams. Page 2 William and Mary News Newsmakers Charles T. Cullen, editor of the Franz Cross, professor of physics, Judith Ewell, associate professor of Anthropology professor Mario D. Papers of John Marshall, attended a attended the 8th International Con¬ history, attended a meeting at State Zamora was recently appointed Conference on Literary and Histori¬ ference on Few Body Systems and College, Pennsylvania Oct. 6-7 to External Examiner for the Ph.D. Degree cal Editing at the University of Kansas Nuclear Forces which was held in explore with other specialists in Latin in Anthropology by Ranchi University, on Sept. 25-27, where he presented a Graz, Austria from August 24-30. He American history the feasibility of Bihar, India. Zamora's review of "The paper on the principles of annotating presented a paper entitled "Unity of organizing a Middle-Atlantic Council of Anthropology of Power" edited by historical documents. Approximately 35 Relativistic Corrections and Meson Latin American Studies. The Council Fogelson and Adams was published in literary and historical editors attended Exchange Currents," which has since would seek to promote multidis- the latest issue of the Indian Journal of the meeting. appeared in Vol. 1 of the Proceedings, ciplinary studies of Latin American Public Administration, Indian Institute Number 82 in the series "Lecture society and history. Participation will of Public Administration, New Delhi, Notes in Physics" published by be sought in the region including Va., India. His review of Donn V. Hart's Springer-Verlag, p. 46. W.Va., Md., Del., Penn., N.J., and the "Compadrinazgo: Ritual Kinship in the On September 30 Ludwell Johnson, Washington, D.C. area. At the Philippines" will appear in Asian professor of history, addressed the above-mentioned meeting, Prof. Ewell Affairs, Royal Institute of Asian Affairs Larry Liddte of the biology National Congress of Civil War Round was named to an interim executive of Great Britain and Ireland, London, department at Southampton College, Tables, meeting in Richmond, on council to draw up a constitution, England. Long Island, N.Y. spent two months "Jefferson Davis, President of the nominate officers, and draw up this last summer doing research in the presentations promoting the new Confederacy." On October 3 he spoke The faculty of the school of business electron microscope facility in the association at the national meeting of to the Friends of the Library, Williams¬ administration at its September regular College biology department. Liddle the Latin American Studies Association burg, on the "War of Northern meeting elected Charles R. Toomajian, was examining the development and in Pittsburgh in April. Aggression." Jr. a "Member of the Faculty" pursuant differentiation of nuclei in a giant Dale Hoak, associate professor of to its newly amended By-Laws. unicellular marine, green alga from history, has published an article, 'Re¬ Toomajian is Director of Registration Florida. Liddle, Dr. Joseph Scott, writing the History of Tudor Politics and Student Records. Kathleen Schornstein and Jewel and Government: The Regimes of An article by Joe Hoyle, assistant Thomas (electron microscope tech¬ Somerset and Northumberland," in Alan E. Fuchs, professor of professor of business administration, nicians), attended the annual meeting The Journal of the Rutgers University philosophy, delivered a paper entitled entitled "Mandatory Auditor Rotation: of the American Institute of Biological Libraries, vol. XL, no. 1 (June 1978), pp. "Contractarianism and Rational The Arguments and An Alternative" has Sciences in August at the University of 4-13. been chosen for translation and Georgia, Athens. Scott presented a Methods for Establishing Values" at the recent meetings of the American publication in the Danish periodical paper which was co-authored by Dawn Warren Heeman, vice president for Political Science Association in New Revision & Regnskabsvaesen. This Sigfred of VIMS entitled, "Compara¬ College Development, has been named York. Fuchs, who is spending the year article originally appeared in the May tive ultrastructural studies of male editor of the spring issue of the Jossey as Visiting Associate Professor of issue of The Journal of Accountancy. reproductive differentiation in the - Bass, Inc.