Section 3

The Board of Visitors 1937-38

James H. Dillard, Rector George W. Mapp, Vice-Rector Homer L. Ferguson Lulu D. Metz Alvan H. Foreman A. Obici Cary T. Grayson Gabriella Page Channing M. Hall John A. Wilson

Sidney B. Hall, State Superintendent Public Instruction Charles J. Duke, Jr., Secretary to the Board of Visitors

The Board of Visitors 1938-39

James H. Dillard, Rector George W. Mapp, Vice-Rector J. Gordon Bohannan Lulu D. Metz Homer L. Ferguson A. Obici Alvan H. Foreman Gabriella Page Channing M. Hall John A. Wilson

Sidney B. Hall, State Superintendent Public Instruction Charles J. Duke, Jr., Secretary to the Board of Visitors

139 ABOVE: William and Mary president John Stewart Bryan was an enthusiastic supporter of Leslie's plans for a fine arts department, which brought to reality Thomas Jefferson's dream of 1779 (Photo: Thomas L. Williams, Williamsburg, Virginia).

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142 BRYAN, John Stewart (23 October 1871- owner and publisher of the Richmond News - October 1944), newspaper publisher and pres- Leader for the rest of his life. In 1915 Bryan ident of the College of William and Mary, was hired Douglas Southall Freeman as editor of the born at Brook Hill in Henrico County, the son of News Leader, and during the following decades Joseph Bryan (1845-1908), a wealthy industri- he supported Freeman's time-consuming histor- alist and newspaper publisher, and Isobel Lamont ical research and writing. Bryan sold the Rich- Stewart Bryan, a noted preservationist. Aided by mond Times-Dispatch in 1914, but in 1940 his the wealth that Joseph Bryan had accumulated, Richmond Newspapers, Inc., bought it back, so the family was one of the most influential in that during most of his adult life, he owned and Richmond during John Stewart Bryan's lifetime. published one or both of the city's major daily The Bryans were well educated and well read, newspapers. They were the two most influential loved to travel and write letters, and acquired papers in Virginia and, with the exception of the notable collections of art, books on Virginia, and Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, probably the best edited. literature in several languages. In 1935 Bryan Bryan was an original member of the reor- published Joseph Bryan: His Times, His Family, ganized Associated Press in 1900 and an active His Friends, a biography of his father that vividly member of the American Newspaper Publishers describes the family's elegant lifestyle and Association, of which he was secretary for fif- expresses a reverence for a romanticized view of teen years and president from 1926 to 1928. In Virginia's history that he and other family mem- 1917 he founded and helped supervise Trench bers labored to preserve. and Camp, the wartime newspaper of the Young Men's Christian Association. Following a visit A childhood accident blinded Bryan in his to England on YMCA business at the end of right eye but did not keep him from leading an World War I, Bryan went to Paris to cover the active life. Educated at Thomas H. Norwood's opening of the peace conference. In 1927 he and private school in Richmond and Episcopal High Samuel Emory Thomason, a Chicago publisher School in Alexandria, he graduated in 1893 from and his predecessor as president of the American the University of Virginia with both B.A. and Newspaper Publishers Association, bought the M.A. degrees. In 1894 Bryan began to study law Tribune of Tampa, Florida. Later that year they at the University of Virginia, but after the death purchased the Record of Greensboro, North Car- of his professor John B. Minor, he transferred to olina, and in 1928 they acquired the Chicago Harvard University, from which he graduated in Daily Journal. They sold the Chicago paper in 1897. Bryan practiced briefly in New York August 1929 and the Greensboro paper the fol- before returning to Richmond to practice with lowing year, but they remained owners and pub- Murray Mason McGuire. In 1898, as a member lishers of the Tampa Tribune until Thomason's of the Virginia State Bar Association's Commit- death in March 1944. tee on Library and Legal Literature, Bryan com- Bryan married Anne Eliza Tennant on 4 June 1903. They had one daughter and two sons, pleted an able essay on early compilations of including David Tennant Bryan, who succeeded Virginia statutes based on personal examination his father as publisher and president of Rich- of a number of rare volumes and a close reading mond Newspapers. Following the deaths of his of the historical scholarship then available. parents, John Stewart Bryan lived at the elegant In 1900 Bryan gave up the law to become a and showy new Laburnum mansion that Joseph reporter for Joseph Bryan's Richmond Dispatch, Bryan had constructed in Henrico County after a and the next year he became vice president of fire destroyed the original in 1906. The family his father's publishing company, which owned made Laburnum a center of Richmond society, the morning Richmond Dispatch and the evening and Bryan became a popular toastmaster and Richmond Leader. In 1903 the Bryans sold the after-dinner speaker. More than six feet, two Leaden acquired the Dispatch's morning com- inches tall, he cut an impressive figure and car- petitor, the Richmond Times, and merged it with ried himself with an easy dignity. Bryan had a the Dispatch to form the Richmond Times- wonderful memory and a copious stock of apt Dispatch. Shortly before Joseph Bryan's death anecdotes, literary and historical allusions, and in 1908, the family acquired the afternoon Rich- poetic references. mond News Leader, of which John Stewart Bryan then became publisher. He remained the

143 Bryan seldom participated directly in poli- tics. His views reflected the conservative, busi- During Bryan's presidency the college ness-oriented opinions of his industrialist father, made significant strides in broadening its cur- but both men disliked the machine politics char- riculum and strengthening its reputation as a lib- acteristic of the leaders of Virginia's Democratic eral arts college. The student body improved in Party, successively Thomas Staples Martin, quality, as did an enlarged faculty. Bryan bol- Claude Augustus Swanson, and Harry Flood stered the college's financial standing, reduced

Byrd (1887-1966). The conservative Bryans its debt, and took responsibility for the beautifi- were occasionally at odds with the party's even cation of the campus and the planting of box- more conservative leaders. Nevertheless, Bryan wood in the sunken garden. The small and was a delegate to the Democratic National Con- underfunded School of Jurisprudence came ventions of 1920, 1924, and 1932, and in 1924 he under criticism, but alumni rallied to the school's accepted the chairmanship of Carter Glass's support, and reorganized as the School of Law, favorite-son presidential campaign. it survived to grow in size and gain in stature Bryan's influence in Richmond and Virginia beginning shortly after Bryan's death. He elim- extended to many fields but focused on the arts inated other schools, including programs in busi- and education. He helped found a short-lived ness administration, economics, education, and symphony orchestra in Richmond during the secretarial science, in order to focus on the lib- 1930s, and he was one of the first vice presidents eral arts. of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Active as Bryan continued to pursue his other varied a lay leader in the Episcopal Church, Bryan often business and professional interests and was thus attended its triennial national councils during the a part-time college president. He used adminis- 1910s and 1920s. He chaired the board of the trative practices similar to those he had followed Richmond Public Library, sat on the boards of a as a newspaper publisher, when he hired the busi- number of charitable organizations, and in 1936 ness managers and editors and gave them the and 1937 was president of the Virginia Histori- freedom to do their jobs. Bryan's habit of inter- cal Society. Bryan also served for many years as viewing candidates for appointment to the fac- president of the local regional council of the Boy ulty caused some deans to worry that this inter- Scouts of America. He supported the Co-Opera- ference with their traditional responsibilties might tive Education Association of Virginia, founded result in a weakening of academic standards. in 1904 to advocate improvement of public edu- Although too much presidential involvement in cation in the state. Bryan sat on the board of vis- some academic affairs rankled, inadequate super- itors of the University of Virginia from 1918 to vision in others may have exacerbated certain 1922 and was rector from 1920 until his term problems. The college's Richmond affiliate, then expired in 1922. From 1937 to 1943 he served known as Richmond Professional Institute (later on the board of overseers of Harvard University. Virginia Commonwealth University), operated In 1926 Bryan became a member of the virtually without supervision. The Norfolk divi- board of visitors of the College of William and sion (later Old Dominion University) was aca- Mary. Early in the 1930s, as vice rector, he shoul- demically inferior to the main campus. In the dered more than his share of the additional spring of 1941 the Norfolk dean was found to burdens faced by board members as a result have altered student transcripts, thus endanger- of the failing health and sometimes erratic ing the academic reputation of the entire institu- behavior of President Julian Alvin Carroll Chan- tion. Bryan and members of the board reluctantly dler. Following Chandler's death, the board bowed to public pressure from leading citizens of named Bryan president of the college on 30 June Norfolk and allowed the dean to remain in the 1934. Bryan's eight-year administration was college administration, although Bryan assigned remarkable for the long list of famous guests the college bursar, Charles J. Duke, to run the who visited him and the college, beginning with Norfolk campus. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who spoke at Bryan's inauguration.

144 Partly as a result of that episode, the Com- office. Within two months the Association of mittee on Classification of Universities and Col- American Universities restored William and leges of the Association of American Univer- Mary's accreditation. The board of visitors sities suspended William and Mary from its revived the ceremonial office of chancellor of the approved list on 30 October 1941. The AAU had college for Bryan, and he was formally vested at been reviewing its accreditation of the institu- Pomfret's inauguration on 8 February 1943. tion since 1937, largely because of complaints As a result of his careers in journalism and about the Norfolk division. Despite many education, Bryan received honorary degrees from improvements made during Bryan's presidency, Washington and Lee University (1911), the Uni- the committee in its suspension cited a high rate versity of Richmond (1920), Ohio University of student failures, low faculty salaries, inade- (1928), the College of Charleston (1935), Dart- quate library and laboratory facilities, misman- mouth College (1936), the University of Penn- agement of the Norfolk division, and inefficient sylvania (1940), Syracuse University (1941), and administrative procedures made worse by the the College of William and Mary (1942). After schedule of the president, who had too many he retired from William and Mary, he continued other demands on his time to give proper atten- to run his newspapers and engage in other busi- tion to the administration of the college. William ness and civic pursuits, but his health rapidly and Mary continued making administrative deteriorated. John Stewart Bryan died of a changes to meet some of the committee's objec- cerebral hemorrhage at the Medical College of tions, and Bryan submitted his resignation on Virginia Hospital in Richmond on 16 October 11 April 1942, citing poor health and the need for 1944 and was buried in Henrico County at new leadership during World War II. He relin- Emmanuel Episcopal Church, to which he had quished his position on 15 September 1942, the belonged all his life. day his successor, John Edwin Pomfret, took

Douglas Southall Freeman, "John Stewart Bryan, a Biogra- phy" (1947 typescript), VHS; Richmond Times-Dispatch anniversary edition supplement, 15 Oct. 2000; BVS Birth Register, Henrico Co.; Richmond Times-Dispatch, 5 June 1903; Bryan Family Papers, LVA; Bryan Family Papers and John Stewart Bryan Papers (including diary, 1899— 1900, and scrapbooks, 1903-1942), VHS; W&M Archives; Bryan, "Report of Committee on Library and Legal Litera- ture," Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1898): 55-70; Earle Dunford, Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Story of a Newspaper (1995), 3-5,9-12,40,310; Susan H. God- son et al., The College of William and Mary: A History (1993), 2:637-692; James R. Sweeney, Old Dominion Uni- versity: A Half Century of Service (1980), 23-31; obituaries in New York Times, Richmond News Leader, and Richmond Times-Dispatch (por.), all 17 Oct. 1944, and Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, 20 Oct. 1944; editorial tributes in Richmond News Leader and Richmond Times-Dispatch, both 17 Oct. 1944, and VMHB 53 (1945): 57-63. Bryan BRENT TARTER

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146 CHEEK, Leslie, Jr., mus. dir. ret.; b. Nash- ville, Oct. 28, 1908; s. Leslie and Mable (Wood) C.; S.B., Harvard, 1931; B.F.A., Yale, 1935; D.F.A. (hon.), U. Richmond, 1955; D.F.A., Coll. William and Mary, 1967; m. Mary Tyler Free- man, June 3, 1939; children—Leslie III, Doug- las Freeman (dec.), Richard Warfield, Elizabeth Tyler. Naval sci. instr., Culver Mil. Acad., sum- mer, 1929; stage designer Univ. Players, Cape Cod, summer, 1930; instr. art history, Lake For- est Acad. Architecture and Landscape Architec- ture, summer, 1931; instr. architecture Coll. William and Mary, 1935-36, asst. prof., 1936- 37, head dept. fine arts, 1937-38, dir. Baltimore Mus. Art, 1939-42; asso. editor Archtl. Forum Mag., 1945-47, editor (archtl.) House Beauti- ful mag., 1947-48; dir. Va. Mus. Fine Arts, Richmond 1948-68; dir. Emeritus 1968- ; advisor Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C., sum- mer 1940. Director Central Virginia Educational Television Corp. Chmn. arts corn. President's People-to-People Program; art adv. com. U.S. Commn. Brussels Worlds Fair, 1958; mem. fine arts adv. corn. USAF Acad., 1959-65. Mem. U.S. nat. commn. for UNESCO, 1959-62; lectr. Voice of Am. forum series USIA, 1960. Served as maj., C.E., AUS, 1942-45. Asso. trustee U. Pa., 1959--; mem. bd. fine arts U. Pa., 1959- ---mem. U. Council, Yale, 1948-54, asso. fel- low Timothy Dwight Coll. Recipient Jefferson Pub. Service award, 1966. Mem. Soc. Archtl. Historians, Coll. Art Assn. Am. (dir. 1962-66), Am. Fedn. Arts (trustee 1940-42, 49--), League N.Y., Am. Inst. Decorators (hon.), Assn.

Art Mus. Dirs. , Newcomen Soc. N. Am., Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: .14 West Hamilton Street (Balt.); Century (N.Y.C.); Yale (N.Y.C. and Va.); Ro- tunda, Forum (Richmond); Golden Horseshoes (Williamsburg, Va.); Harvard of Va. (pres. 1961- 63), Ivy League of Va. (co-pres. 1960-63); Cos- mos (Washington); Country of Va. Co-author: Ten Talents in the Am. Theatre, pub. 1957. Contbr. to the Magazine of Art, Architectural Record, New York Times Magazine, Craft Hori- zons, Architectural Forum, House Beautiful, Town and Country, Theatre Arts. Home: 4703 Poca- hontas Av., Richmond 23226. Office: Va. Mus., Grove and Blvd., Richmond, Va. 23221.

147 MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005

Longtime city civic activist dies at 87 She expressed herself through work with several social agencies, some of which she helped establish. In 1981, she founded the Rich- mond Urban Forum, an organiza- tion that brought together white and black community leaders. "Once you see with a clearer perspective, it's ridiculous to move in a society that does not accept the obvious fact that we are all equal in the sight of God," she said in a 1986 news item. The Richmond Urban Forum has been inactive since 2001, when leaders decided it had achieved many of the articulated Mary Tyler McClenahan, by Mrs. McClenahan. Though not a founding mem- raised in privilege, felt ber, Mrs. McClenahan got in on the ground floor when commu- a personal responsibility nity leaders started to build the foundation for a similar group, BY ELLEN ROBERTSON 1999, TIMES-DISPATCH Richmond Renaissance Inc., in AND JULIAN WALKER Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek 1982, said former director Clar- TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS McClenahan felt a responsibility ence L. Townes Jr. to work toward a better future for "She was a leading catalyst for The list of Richmond's great ar- Richmond and all its residents. that organization and various chitects surely holds a place for others organizations in the city Marynahan. Tyler Freeman Cheek McCle- The daughter of the late Dr. that she had influence in start- Douglas Southall Freeman — long- ing," Townes said yesterday. "It She built bridges between the time editor of The Richmond News is a blow to know that her dy- races and between the city's past Leader and a Pulitzer Prize-winning namic personality and her effec- and its future. She helped construct biographer of Robert E. Lee and tive leadership is gone from us." affordable housing and helped re- George Washington — she was also Growing up in Richmond, store historic treasures. the widow of Leslie Cheek Jr., a leg- Mrs. McClenahan graduated Mrs. McClenahan, whose life endary director of the Virginia Mu- from St. Catherine's School. In helped shape the city's landscape seum of Fine Arts. Mrs. McClena- 1937, she completed a degree and its heart, died Sunday morning han continued the legacies of both from Vassar College and then at her home in Westmoreland Place. men, in addition to building her own worked briefly for Planned Par- She was 87. progressive and graceful path, ever enthood. Whether the issue was race rela- honest about her convictions. She would later serve as presi- tions, urban development, education, Mrs. McClenahan often, spoke of dent of the Virginia League for family planning, history or the arts, what she felt was a personal respon- Planned Parenthood, as well as Mrs. McClenahan was a leader who sibility to the community. She un- president of the Richmond chap- insisted that all of her efforts cen- derstood that she was raised in priv- ter, once describing that advo- tered around a better future for "my ilege and once called civic work the cacy work as necessary because city" and those who will inherit it. means by which the fortunate "an unwanted child has the cards should "express their gratitude." stacked against him." 148 Throughout life, she also She also played an active role est legacy, said Mrs. Bryan, "may played a large role in the city's in state and local politics. be the changed lives of the peo- redevelopment as a member of Though a product of the con- ple who did not know her person- the Main-to-the-James Commit- servative Richmond tradition, ally but were touched by her pas- tee. Mrs. McClenahan's personal poli- sion and vision." She devoted the later years of tics were progressive. She openly Lee Switz, former chairman of her life to urban development, supported Democratic candi- the Richmond Urban Forum, said co-founding the Richmond Better dates for state office — perhaps, Mrs. McClenahan "wanted to Housing Coalition in 1988. The most notably, her 1985 endorse- bring together people who ordi- coalition raises funds to rede- ment of Mary Sue Terry, the first narily would not be together to velop low-income housing, woman to be elected attorney enjoy each other's company." among other functions. general in Virginia. Added fellow crusader Carter "When we started Better Hous- Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine McDowell — who recently col- ing," she said in a 1999 Times-Dis- called her "one of the most gra- laborated with Mrs. McClenahan patch interview, "we were told cious, dedicated, charitable peo- on "Southern Civility: Recollec- there was no deterioration. Busi- ple I've ever met." tions of My Early Life," a book ness at that time was centered on Mrs. McClenahan held hon- about Mrs. McClenahan's forma- Main Street, and most of the orary degrees from Washington tive years — said, "She really CEOs went to work on the RMA and Lee University, Saint Paul's could connect with anybody." [the Downtown Expressway]. College, Hollins College and Vir- In a 1987 interview, Mrs. They didn't travel around the city. ginia Commonwealth University, McClenahan spoke of the plans They didn't see it." had positions of importance lo- she had made for her death. Mrs. McClenahan had no cally and received plenty of "I want a service at my be- blinders, said Better Housing Co- awards in her lifetime. loved St. Paul's. And then there alition executive director T.K. Those who knew Mrs. McCle- should be a luncheon with cham- Somanath. nahan recalled a diminutive pagne and music. I want every- "Her vision was to provide woman, always immaculately one to drink a toast to a person good quality housing for many dressed and with a friendly soul, who has enjoyed life." Richmonders who couldn't afford a welcoming smile, a patrician to live in decent places," he said. A public memorial service is accent, an overriding sense of planned for Thursday at 11 a.m. "She made a commitment to up- fairness and a station wagon that at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, lift the spirit of our neighbor- bore her initials and a pineapple hoods and the metro area." 815 E. Grace St. silhouette painted on its door. A private burial is planned. A child-care center bears her They also recalled the name at Winchester Greens, a firmness of her convictions. Mrs. McClenahan's survivors project of the Better Housing Co- J. Stewart Bryan III, chairman include her second husband, Dr. alition that replaced the Park Lee of Media General, the parent John Lorimer McClenahan of Apartments in Chesterfield company of the Richmond Richmond; two sons, Leslie County. Times-Dispatch, said, "Mary Tyl- Cheek III of Warrenton and Rich- Mrs. McClenahan also had an er's interests encompassed a ard W. Cheek of Belmont, Mass.; avid interest in history — partic- a daughter, Elizabeth C. Morgan wide variety of institutions, of Great Barrington, Mass.; two ularly Civil War history — that causes and issues. Their contro- was imparted by her father. versial nature never fazed her. stepchildren, John S. McClena- "I remember touring the Vir- The energy that fired her good han of Las Vegas and Susan M. Stockdale of St. John, U.S. Virgin ginia battlefields with my father works has been the impetus for as guide," she said in a 1977 in- Islands; seven grandchildren and improved lives for many individ- six great-grandchildren. terview. "His interest in history uals, families and institutions, was so profound that all of his Memorial contributions can be and her example will serve to in- made to the Better Housing Coa- family absorbed it." spire future generations." She was a 36-year board mem- lition, St. Paul's Episcopal Bryan's wife, Lissy Bryan, who Church, the Robert E. Lee Me- ber of the Robert E. Lee Memo- five years ago succeeded Mrs. rial Association, which preserves morial Association, Virginia His- and administers Lee's birthplace, McClenahan as chairman of the torical Society, Virginia Museum Stratford Hall Plantation in Better Housing Coalition, said for the Fine Arts or the Virginia Mrs. McClenahan "left an indeli- League for Planned Parenthood. Westmoreland County. ble mark" on the city. Her great- Former Times-Dispatch staff writer Jenifer V. Buckman contributed to this obituary.

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Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Silvestri to lead Times-Dispatch He will succeed Bryan as Richmond company that owns The Silvestri, born in Yonkers, N.Y., Times-Dispatch. joined The Times-Dispatch as a copy publisher and August as "The time has come to make a change editor in 1982 and had a 16-year career and give The Times-Dispatch a full-time as an editor at The T-D and the former president of the newspaper publisher," said Bryan, who will con- Richmond News Leader. He was deputy tinue to serve as chairman and chief ex- managing editor of The T-D in 1998 BY BOB RAYNER ecutive of Media General. when he became director of news syn- TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Bryan has served as publisher of the ergy for Media General, working to newspaper since 1978 and CEO of its build greater cooperation among the A 117-year streak — spanning four parent company since 1990. newsrooms of the company's papers. generations — is about to end. Silvestri, 49, will become president Since 2000, he has been an executive When J. Stewart Bryan III steps down and publisher of The Times-Dispatch, with Media General's community news- as publisher of the Richmond Times-Dis- filling Bryan's shoes and those of Albert papers and was named president of the patch on Jan. 1, it will mark the first T. "Tappy" August III, who will retire at group in 2002. time since 1887 that a member of his the end of this year after a decade as "This is a perfect fit," said Graham family has not served as publisher of one president and general manager and four Woodlief, president of the company's of Richmond's major daily newspapers. decades working at the paper. publishing division. "One thing about Bryan, 66, will be succeeded by "Tom Silvestri earned the respect of Tom, he's a strong leader." Thomas A. Silvestri, a veteran of The the newsroom when he was part of it, Silvestri, who keeps an ancient Un- Times-Dispatch newsroom who super- and I think he has earned the respect of derwood manual typewriter in his office, vises 20 daily newspapers and about 25 the publishers in Media General on the weeklies for Media General Inc., the business side," Bryan said.

P.A. GORMUS JR./TIMES-DISPATCH Thomas A. Silvestri (left) has been named president and publisher of The Times-Dispatch, effective Jan. 1. Silvestri will succeed 1. Stewart Bryan III (center) as publisher, and Albert T. "Tappy" August III (right) as president. 152 not far from his black Louisville native of Richmond." Slugger baseball bat, is a gradu- Stewart Bryan's great-grand- ate of Pace University and father, Joseph Bryan, became holds a master's degree in busi- publisher of a predecessor of ness administration from Vir- The Times-Dispatch in 1887. ginia Commonwealth Univer- His grandfather, John Stewart sity. Bryan, and father, D. Tennant "My first instinct is to stick Bryan, each served as publisher close to the people — the peo- of The Times-Dispatch and The ple who come in every day and News Leader. work to put that newspaper out Stepping down, he said, was and the people who read the pa- the right move, but not neces- per every day," Silvestri said. sarily an easy one. Bryan said He said he is happy about re- he would have liked to maintain turning to The Times-Dispatch. the family tradition, but the op- "It's the boomerang theory: I portunity did not present itself. left, I learned a lot, now I'm "My two daughters are doing coming back." other things. It would be a long Bill Millsaps, the executive wait for my grandsons to come editor, announced Silvestri's ap- along. The oldest is 7." pointment yesterday morning August, 64, worked in adver- to the newsroom staff, which tising and circulation before be- erupted in applause. ing named president and gen- "Few things in my time as eral manager of The Times-Dis- executive editor have pleased patch in 1994. me as much as this announce- "Tappy did a wonderful job ment," he said. for 40 years for this news- Betty Booker, a veteran re- paper," Woodlief said. porter and columnist, echoed "A newspaper's most valu- the sentiment in an impromptu able resource is its people," Au- speech. "Tom Silvestri is one of gust said. "I've been lucky to the finest human beings I've work with some of the finest ever met," she said. talent around. The people I Silvestri, whose late father worked with — makes you was a suburban New York po- really want to come to work." lice sergeant, will be the first In addition to The Times- publisher of The. Times-Dis- Dispatch, Media General owns patch who is not a member of 24 other daily newspapers, 26 the Bryan family since they network-affiliated television sta- bought control of the paper — tions and part of a newsprint for the second time — in 1940. business. Most of its properties Silvestri, who still sports a are in the Southeast. New York accent but has devel- oped an ear for Southern sensi- • Contact Bob Rayner at (804) 649.6073 bilities, noted that "I've lived in or [email protected] • Staff researchers Larry Hall and Jennifer Virginia now longer than I lived Perilli contributed to this report. in New York. And my wife is a

153 tween the white and Negro races. the Negro; above all, to his power to Dr. J. H. Dillard Resigning his positions of professor charm away distrust and draw men of Latin and Dean of the Academic together in good. will and accord." OCTOR Dillard of the Jeanes Colleges at Tulane University in 1907 Dr. Dillard was appointed a mem- Fund," is the title of a book he. became president of the Jeanes ber of the Board of Visitors of the D by Benjamin Brawley, concern- Foundation, the purpose of which is College' of William and Mary, Wil-

ing the life and work of Dr. John to promote the work of Negro rural liamsburg, Virginia, in 1918 by Hardy Dillard, an eminent American schools. In 1910 he also became a Governor Westmoreland Davis. He and "citizen of the world." director and in 1917 president of the John F. Slater Fund for the promo- was elected rector of the board that tion of the welfare of Negroes. His year, which position he still holds. work was still further broadened when Largely through his efforts and those he became a member in 1917 of the General Education Board. These are of Dr. J. A. C. Chandler this institution of learning with all its but some of the important positions he traditions of a historic past was holds. literally pulled from the embrace of Even before he became officially con- decay and placed on a high plane in nected with the work of these boards the modern educational world, to move and foundations he was active in pro- forward for present and future moting better interracial relations. generations.' To them also must be Brawley pays a great and deserved given credit, in large measure, for the tribute to him when he says: great - restoration work" now being "A gentleman of the old school, carried on at Williamsburg through reared in the finest classical tradition the generosity of John D. Rocke- of the South, he has brought to the feller, Jr. gravest of social problems a spirit "The message of this man for his of the highest humanism. A distin- country and his age may now be only guished scholar and teacher, at home suggested; time will fully reveal it. in a refined and aristocratic environ- In a day of every charlatanry and ment, he left all .to give the light of haste, he speaks the simple word for learning to those who dwelt in the honest endeavor. In a generation dark places of the land. A seer and that would discard the experience of prophet, he has gone in, a moment the past, he reminds us anew of our from the councils of the mighty to priceless heritage, when faith is the place where life was hard and shaken and men are spiritually drift- stern. Statesmen and wise men have ing, once more he proclaims the waited upon his wisdom, and the eternal verities. Thus it is that he has humblest teacher has found in him a striven to follow the greatest Teacher friend. Working for both races in of all, who came not to be ministered the South, in an unusual degree he unto, but to minister, and who said, has won from both esteem and con- These thinks I command you, that ye fidence." love one another." Dr. J. H. Dillard. During a serious illness in 1928 A friend of the whites and the "there came to him testimonials of blacks, a creator of interracial good He shuns publicity and, therefore, affection and esteem such as rarely will, a lover of humanity, a builder of his great influence for good is not are given to a man in this world. a better rural civilization, a student fully appreciated by the majority of From every direction came tributes to of the world, Dr. Dillard continues to people. A Virginian by birth, he has his great heart, his spirit of fair perform a great service for mankind. steadily advanced in the world of play, and his wisdom; to his success education and the humanities. No in holding the confidence of the black Editor's Note-- The book, "Doctor cne has done more to create good people at the same time that he won Dillard of the Jeanes Fund," is pub- will- and better understanding be- the members of his own race to a lished by Fleming H. Revell Company, generous attitude in matters affecting New York City, and it sells for $1.75. April 7, 1931

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154 Deaths East African Commission financed by the Phelps Stokes Fund to study the Negro in Africa. Dr. James Hardy Dillard, distinguished rector of the Appointed to the Board of Visitors of the College Board of Visitors of the College and a nationally known of William and Mary by Governor Westmoreland educator, died at his home in Charlottesville, August Davis in 1918, he was immediately elected rector. In 2nd, at the age of 84. paying tribute to his services on the board, President Dr. Dillard had been noted for more than sixty years John Stewart Bryan said, "Under his leadership, Dr. for his work in behalf of the Negro and had been J. A. C. Chandler was elected president and William honored by a number of universities for his great work and Mary began its conspicuous developments in enroll- in this particular, not the ment, teaching and buildings. A recognized and revered least of which was the nam- leader in education, in religion and in the gracious art ing of a university in his of gentle behavior, Dr. Dillard made a contribution to honor, Dillard University William and Mary that cannot be computed except by for Negroes in New Or- observing the widening fields from which students are leans. As late as 1937 the drawn, the elevation of spirit and the intensified search Roosevelt Memorial Asso- for learning on the part alike of the student body and ciation which annually se- lects an individual outstand- of the faculty." ing in the fields associated Dr. Dillard was born in Nansemond County and was with the life of Theodore educated at Washington and Lee University and in Roosevelt, awarded Dr. Dil- later life received honorary degrees from Washington lard a medal for "Sixty and Lee, Tulane, the University of the South, and Har- years of wise and devoted vard. work in behalf of the American Negro." The Harmon The Newport News Daily Press in an editorial "Here Foundation of New York also awarded him a gold was a humanitarian," stated: medal and $500 in 1928 for the promotion of good "All the South mourns Dr. James Hardy Dillard. ... And this section feels an especially poignant sorrow in relations between the races and for boosting Negro that it had counted him one of its own leaders for years educational facilities in the South. during his constructive service as rector of the Board of Among other positions which he held was the presi- Visitors of the College of William and Mary. Nor does dency of the Jeanes Foundation for the improvement the sorrow at his passing know creed or class. Dr. Dil- of Negro education from 1907 to 1931 and also a di- lard was a humanitarian, one of the foremost of his rector from 1910 to 1917 and president from 1917 to generation and of other generations here in the United 1931 of the John F. Slater funds, now known as the States. Where there were people needing the ministra- Southern Educational Foundation. He also was a founder tions of his broad and understanding sympathy, there of the Southern University Race Commission which as- Dr. Dillard wrought nobly to advance their station and sisted many Negroes in obtaining higher educations. inspire them to new endeavor." In 1914 he was the representative of America on the

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155 "Having, served with Mr. Mapp Dr. John E. Mann, the father, On Tuesday on the college board and as presi- was for many years a widely Mapp Rites dent I am profoundly shocked at known physician in Accomac the loss of this devoted alumnus County, where he was also for and active supporter of the nearly twenty years superintend- college. ent of the public schools of the "To this I must add my own county. sense of deep personal sorrow at George Walter Mapp passed his Fisheries Commissioner his untimely death." early years at "Woodland," the Governor Price, recalling Mr. home of his parents, and later en- Succumbs at 67 Mapp's distinguished services to tered the College of William and his native State, said: Mary, where he was graduated in 1891 at the age of 18 with the de- Funeral services for George "The death of Senator Mapp re- gree of licentiate instructor. After Walter Mapp, 67, rector of the moves one of the best equipped serving briefly as the principal of board of visitors of the College of and one of the most faithful men the public schools, near Kellar, he William and Mary chairman of in public life in Virginia. His returned to the college, where in the Virginia commission of Fish- services to Virginia, through the 1894 he was awarded the degree eries and long an outstanding fig- years which began with his mem- of B. A. Meanwhile he had served ure in public life in this State, bership in the General Assembly, at his alma mater as an Assistant who died late yesterday after a have been outstanding. Professor of English and History brief illness of influenza at the He was a man of the highest for two years. Northampton - Accomack Memo- character and ideals and his many At William and Mary he was lovable qualities endeared him to captain of the football team and For Editorial Comment, See p. 10 thousands of our Virginia people also a member of the wrestling team. rial Hospital, will be held at 2 P. to whom the news of his passing M. on Tuesday at the Drummond- will bring a sense of keen per- His scholarship record at college sonal loss." also won for him election to the town Methodist Church, Acco- honorary fraternity of Phi Beta mack, with the Rev. Kenneth Had- Twice Was Candidate Kappa. dock officiating. For Governor Formed Law Partnership President Bryan of W. & M. Mr. Mapp represented Ac- comack County in the State Sen- After Teaching Notes College's Loss ate from 1911 to 1923. He was For three years after leaving Mr. Mapp was appointed a mem- twice a candidate for the office college Mr. Mapp_was a member ber of the board of visitors of the of Governor of Virginia—first in of the faculty of Hoggsett Mili- College of William and Mary in 1925, when the nomination was tary Academy; Danville, Ky. 1922 by Governor E. Lee Trinkle. won by Harry F. Byrd, now United During this period he studied He became vice rector in 1924, States Senator, and again in 1929, law at Center College, Danville, and in 1940 was made rector, as when Dr. John Garland Pollard Ky., and graduated with the de- successor to the late Dr. J. H. was the successful nominee of the gree of B. L. in 1897. In the fall Dillard, of Charlottesville. Democratic party and became of 1897 he was: admitted to the The death of the former State Governor. Virginia Bar and began the prac- Senator, which followed so brief He had been since March 19, tice of his profession at Accomac an illness, was a distinct shock to 1938, Commissioner of Fisheries— Courthouse. his former associates and friends an office to which he was appoint- On Sept. 1, 1898, he formed a here. ed by Governor Price: partnership with his kinsman, Paying a notable tribute to Mr. Mapp was also widely Otho F. Mears, of Northampton Senator Mapp as an alumnus and known as a reader in the temper- County, the firm being designated friend of the College of William ance movement, and' as the spon- "Mears and Mapp," and having a and Mary President John Stewart sor of much of the temperance large practice on the Eastern Bryan said: legislation enacted by the General Shore of Virginia. "Entering William and Mary at Assembly during his own period In 1908, the original firm having an early age Senator Mapp grad- of service in the State Senate. been dissolved, Mr. Mapp formed uated with distinction and later a partnership with his brother, J. taught in Kentucky. Always de- He was a joint patron , of the voted to his alma mater Senator "Enabling Act," which became Brooks Mann. Mapp gave to William and Mary law in 1914, and which made pro- In 1905 Mr. Mapp was elected unflagging service and the con- vision for a referendum in this chairman of the Accomac County stant aid of his wide experience State on local option. Democratic Committee and held and of his intimate knowledge of The State-wide "dry law" en- that office for a number of years. the background not only of the acted by the General Assembly In 1918 he was a candidate for college but of its student body. in 1916, pursuant to the mandate the seat in the United States Con- "He saw the restoration ef- of the. voters in 1914, was very gress that had been formerly held fected by Dr. Chandler, the old generally cited as the "Mapp Act." by William A. Jones, but was de- buildings restored by Mr. Rocke- Although aligned with the "dry feated by S. Otis Bland, of New- feller, the increase in the student force," Mr. Mapp declined to join port News. body and the steady elevation of the anti-Smith movement in the He was first elected to the State educational standards at William 1928 Federal election and in that Senate in 1911, representing in and Mary. election was a supporter of Alfred that body the Thirty-seventh Dis- "Through it all he kept in mind E. Smith. trict, which includes the Counties his ideals for William and Mary Family Traced Descent of Accomac, Northampton and as an instrumentality for service From English Princess Anne. In addition to his work as tem- to Virginia. He was born May 25, 1873, near perance leader, he also led the "In accordance with this, as Wachapreague, Accomac County, fight in Virginia for woman suf- chairman of the Board of Fish- and was a son of Dr. John E. Mapp and Margaret Benson Le Cato. frage and for child-welfare legis- eries, Mr. Mapp inaugurated for lation. that board close co-operation be- The Mapp family is one of Eng- retirement from the tween the College of William and lish lineage, tracing its descent in Upon his Mary and the Board of Fisheries Virginia from John Mapp, who State Senate he announced his for the study of the protection was residing in Northampton candidacy for the office of Gover- and use of the vast fish, oyster County as early as 1634. nor, subject to the Democratic and crab industries of this State.

156 primary election of 1925. It was in this- election that his opponent was Harry Flood Byrd, the suc- cessful candidate. Again in 1929 Mr. Mapp sought the Guberna- torial nomination in a three-cor- nered race, in which his opponents were Dr. John Garland Pollard and Rosewell Page. As a result of the election, Dr. Pollard was nominated for Governor and duly elected in the general election that followed. Mr. Mapp was long a leader in religious activities in Accomack 'County being a former steward and trustee of the Accomack Methodist. Church and the teacher of a men's Bible class. He was a Mason, an Odd Fel- low, and also a member of the TheRichmond,FEB News 3 1947 LeaderVa. Junior Order United American Mechanics. On Nov. 27, 1900, Mr. Mapp married Miss Georgia R. Quinby, whose death occurred July 31, 1901. His second wife, who survives her-husband, is the former Miss Mildred Townsend Aydelotte. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mildred Aydelotte Mapp; two sons, George W. Mapp, Jr., a law partner of his father, and John Mapp, of Richmond; one brother, J. Brooks Mapp, of Keller, and four sisters, 'Mrs. Madeline Bar- row, of Keller; Mrs. Zilla Winn, of Washington, .D. C.; Mrs. Ada Guerrant and Mrs. Rooker J. White, of Keller. Date

157 J. GORDON BOHANNAN Bohannan

Rector of W-M Named by Board To Succeed Mapp

TheRichmond,Date News FEB Leader7 Va. 1947

WILLIAMSBURG, Feb. 7, --J. Gordon Bohannan, Petersburg attorney, was unanimously elected rector of the College of William and Mary today at a meeting of the board of visitors. He succeeds the late G. Walter Mapp. HeInMrMr. 1905 hasBohannan Bohannan served he was was asis admitted Mayora bornformer in ofto member Surry Petersburg,the bar, County, ofand the on a Oct.State yearthe Hampton 22, laterBoard 1880, was of RoadschosenandEducation. attended Port Commonwealth's Commission He public was schoolsappointed and Attorney beforeas tochairman the forentering board Surry of here theWilliam County. Stateby Governor andHePort servedMary, Authority. Price whereas Democratic in He 1938.hs wasreceived He president elector is aan Bachelor alumnus in of the the the ofState of firstArts William Bar electiondegree Association and in of Mary, 1902. Woodrow for class the of Wilson.year 1902 1929-30. and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia. 158 JAMES GORDON BOHANNAN, Petersburg attorney, former mayor of that city who has served his community and state ably in various positions, was born in Surry County, Virginia, son of Aurelius P. Bohannan, a native of Portsmouth, grandson of George William Bohannan, a native of Matthews County. George William Bohannan was a son of John Gordon Bohannan, grandson of William Bohannan, and great-grandson of Ambrose Bohannan, all of whom were probably lifelong residents of Mat- thews County. George William Bohannan was a civil engineer and surveyor in Matthews County. He married Lucy Deal, daughter of Jarvis and Joicy (Hundley.) Deal. Aurelius P. Bohannan left school to enter the Confederate army in Com- pany D, Tenth Virginia Battalion, later was commissioned a lieutenant, and at the battle of Sailors Creek was captured and was a prisoner on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie until paroled after the final surrender. He was a merchant in Surry County and later elected county treasurer, an office he held until his death in 1905. He married Anna V. Deal, who was born in Isle of Wight County, daughter of James Hundley and Eliza Ann (Wilson) Deal, and granddaughter of Jarvis and Joicy (Hundley) Deal. Eliza Ann Wilson was a daughter of William and Sarah (Delk) Wilson, granddaughter of Willis and Sarah (Blunt) Wilson, Willis Wilson being a son of Sampson and Sarah Wilson. Mrs. Aurelius Bohannan died in 1908, mother of three children, Aurelius Wilson, James Gordon and Anna Eloise, who married Henry Galusha. James Gordon Bohannan attended public schools in Surry County, graduated from W illiam and Mary College with the degrees of Licentiate of Instruction and B. A., and after two years in the University of Virginia graduated with the degree Bachelor of Laws. He taught two years in Surry County, was instructor in the Model and Practice School Department of Wil- liam and Mary College one year, and also taught a year in Smith- field. He was admitted to practice law in 1905 and began his professional career in Surry County, being elected and serving as commonwealth attorney until 1912. Since that year his home has been at Petersburg. He served as chairman of the Demo- cratic County Committee of Surry County, has been a member of the Petersburg City Council, was elected mayor in 1926, and for several years was a member of the Hampton Roads Port Commission and later chairman of the State Port Authority. He has also served as president of the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, was one of the presidential electors of 1912, voting for Woodrow Wilson, is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Masonic fraternity. He married in 1909 Elizabeth Lamb, who was born in James City County, daughter of William Beverly and Katherine Stanard (Branch) Lamb. She died in 1924. Mr. Bohannan is a member of the vestry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Peters- burg and is a director in the National Bank of Petersburg.

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160 BOHANNAN, James Gordon (22 October who often involved himself in public affairs 1880-19 November 1947), attorney and civic Bohannan held only local elective office. Early leader, was born at Claremont in Surry County, in 1926 he was named to fill a vacancy on the son of Aurelius Powhatan Bohannan and the Petersburg city council, and on 1 September Anna Victoria Deal Bohannan. He grew up in 1926 the other council members elected him Surry, where his father served as county trea- mayor of the city for a two-year term. Under surer, and then attended the College of William Petersburg's city manager form of government and Mary from 1895 to 1898. Bohannan taught the office of mayor was largely ceremonial, school in Surry County but returned to William and the mayor's most important responsibility and Mary, from which he earned a B.A. in 1901. was presiding over the five-member council. During the 1902-1903 school year he taught at Bohannan was appointed city attorney for Smithfield Male and Female Institute in Smith- Petersburg in 1936 and held the post for the field. Bohannan entered the law school of the remainder of his life. From 1938 until 1946 he University of Virginia in 1903 and graduated in sat on the board of 1905. visitors of the College of William and Mary, serving from 1941 until 1946 J. Gordon Bohannan returned to Surry to as the college's rector and becoming intimately practice law and served the county from 1905 to 1911 as commonwealth's attorney. In 1912 involved in efforts to restore the college's he moved to Petersburg and became a partner accreditation after a committee of the Associa- in a law firm with Charles Evans Plummer until tion of American Universities issued a report Plummer's death in 1942, after which he pram criticizing the administrative structure and man- ticed with his nephew Willis Wilson Bohannan. agement of the college and its Norfolk and Rich- Bohannan also invested in local businesses and mond branches. sat on numerous boards of directors. He was On 2 June 1909 Bohannan married Eliza- president of the Petersburg Chamber of Com- beth Edloe Lamb. who died on 2 October 1924, merce during the mid-1920s, sat on the board and on 29 October 1937 he married Elizabeth of Petersburg's Central State Hospital from 1905 Randolph Macon Tilley, who died two years until 1923, was a member of the Virginia State later. He had no children from either marriage. Port Authority from 1926 until 1933, the last James Gordon Bohannan died of heart disease at three years as chairman, and served from 1934 the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in to 1938 on-the State Board of Education. Richmond on 19 November 1947 and was Early in 1929 Bohannan was elected pres- ident of the five-year-old Virginia State Cham- buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg. ber of Commerce. In June of the following year he led a twelve-member delegation of Virginia business leaders to Great Britain. Bohannan FeaturePetersburg,Miscellaneous26Proceedings(1930):RichmondVirginia(1948): 11920 Sept.(1930) Nov. 341-374;144-146article 1926;State 1947,1947; andTimes-Dispatch Progress-Index Bar29inDocumentsMarriage andmemorial (por.).Bohannan's(1931), Association Register, and in correspondencein Proceedings his Williamsburg, presidential and address 1909, will in and to presidential the Alexandria Virginia papers StateCity, ofBar1937; John Association, Bohannan Stewart Bryan setprinted out and his in John itseconomic, E. Pomfret, political, College legal Archives, philosophies W&M; in annual obituaries reports in as president of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, published as its also served as president of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1929-1930. His presidential address on 6 August 1930 on "The Demand for Certainty and Stability in the Law—The Neces- sity for Change" called for the freeing of law- yers and judges from legislated restraints so that they could adapt rules of law and procedure to the new economic conditions and institutions of the twentieth century. Bohannan presented a businessman's and corporate lawyer's perspe ctive, and as a businessman, lawyer, and con servative member of the Democratic Party, he BRENT TARTER opposed programs to intervene in the economy during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although he was a man of strong opinions J. GORDON BOHANNON HE LAY LOW HECOME VOTE TIME TO NO!VOTE

161 Homer L. Ferguson, 80,

Shipyardutive, Dies Exec Mar 15, 1953

1,040-foot Forrestal, first of a new UnderFuneralTheWARWICK, death Ferguson's rites of willAmericanVA., beleadership, March held ship-builders, at 14--(AP)--Homer 11 the A. shipyard M., andMonday onebecame Lenoir of at theSt. known Ferguson, nation'sAndrews as theleading 80,Episcopal top chariman producer industrialists, Church, of of the aircraft Warwick, board died incarriers.of his the con-ducted sleep. Newport The The by News manBurial the whoRt.Shipbuilding will Rev. served be William in asGreenlawn and president AmbroseDrydock Cemetery, of theCompany,Brown, State's Newport retired largestdied Bishopearly News. privately-owned this of morningthe Southern atindustry his Diocese home for at moreof Warwick. Virginia; than 30 the years Rev. until M. hisColgateA retirementnative Daughtrey, a Waynesville, in 1947 retired, was N. active of C., Newport Ferguson, until the News, last. who and Hewas wasthe later Rev. in to his buildPaul shipyard H.many Kratzig, office of the rectorFriday. Navy's of fightingSt. Andrews. ships, startedJoined his career in the Navy. He graduated from the Naval Acad-emy at Annopolis at the head of his class in 1982.In 1905, Then, he joinedafter studying the Newport naval News acrhitecture Shipbuilding at Glasgow and Dry University Dock Company for four years,as superintendent he became aof Navy hull construction.constructor.In 48 years He since made Ferguson rapid prog-ress first joined up the laddershipyard, of command.it has turned In out 1912, over Ferguson 400 ships. was Foremost appointed among general the manager passenger of vesselsthe year. bear-ing Two years the Newport later he wasNews promoted trademark to vice-presidentare the S. S. America and general and the man-ager, S. S. United and on States. July 22, The 1915, latter he ship, became completed president last ofyear, the brokefirm. the transatlantic crossing speed record on its first try. Firm in 1905 series of super flattops, is now under construction at Newport Senator Robertson (D-Va.) called Ferguson "one of the ablest businessmen in Virginia" and "one of the most public spirited," in voicing his regrest. News. The shipyard built a num- ber of Essex-type carriers start- ing in the 1930's and then de- signed and built the first of the Representative Robeson, of Midway-class carriers, currently Warwick (D-Va.), former vice- the largest flattops afloat. president of the Newport News shipyard, echoed Robertson. He The yard has also built 14 bat- recognized Ferguson's "excep- tleships and other Navy vessels. tional abilities and talents," but In the civilian line, it has pro- called special attention to his duced a large number of assorted "warm heart (that) gave him cargo carriers and tankers. real concern for the welfare of Ferguson served as chairman of his shipyard associates and their the board of the North Carolina fellow citizens." Shipbuilding Company at Wil- mington, N. C., which came into Fair Treatment being during World War II and L. W. Gauley, president of the later closed down. Peninsula Shipbuilders Associa- The Newport News Apprentice tion, independent union of ship- School was organized under Fergu- yard workers, said of Ferguson, son's direction in 1919 and now "Fair treatment to each and gives out junior college certifi- every employee and their personal cates. welfare was uppermost in his The shipbuilder took a keen in- mind and in his passing we know terest in the Mariners' Museum at that has left behind him the Newport News and had been presi- kind of love and charity that all dent and chairman of the board of time can not erase." for many years at his death. Under Ferguson's administra- Ferguson was elected president tion, the shipyard never had a of the United States Chamber of strike. When the depression forced Commerce in 1919. He was also a the company to lay off employees member of the Academy of Po- during the 1930's, a program , was litical Science, the Society of Na- set up to help workers get other val Architects and Marine Engi- jobs and to lend them money when neers and the National Council of they needed it. American Shipbuilders. He served The shipyard now employs as president of the latter two about 17,700 men. groups. Survivors include Ferguson's On Many State Boards wife, Mrs. Elize Skinner Ferguson; three sons, Homer L. Ferguson, He was at-one time a member Jr., a Richmond broker; Charles of the board of visitors of VPI, Anderson Ferguson, former presi- a director of the State-Planters dent of Noland Company, Newport Bank and Trust Company, Rich- News, and William Ferguson; mond; president of the First Na- former member of the Virginia tional Bank of Newport News, House of Delegates and member and was a director of the Chesa- of a Newport News-Hampton law peake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia and the firm, and two daughters, Mrs. Engineers' Public Service Cor- Lyman S. Ayres, of Indianapolis, . Ind., and Mrs. Storer P. Ware, of poration of New York. Roanoke; 11 grandchildren and Expressions of regret at Fer- three great-grandchildren. guson's passing, mixed with high Other survivor are a brother; praise of his talents, came from General Harley B. Ferguson, USA, Governor Battle, Congressmen, retired, who headed the Hampton business leaders and union offi- Roads Port of Embarkation during cials. World War I, and three sisters, Battle said the shipbuilder Mrs. John C. Orr, of Bristol and would be "greatly missed as a Orlando, Fla. Mrs. Magie Blay- businessman, civic leader and lock, of Orlando, and Mrs. Eli loyal citizen." Watson, of Hickory, N. C.

162 A.H.Foreman Reappointed By Governor Norfolk Educator Con- tinues on William-Mary-

Board of Visitors A. H. Foreman, who for many years has taken a leading part in education in Norfolk and Virginia, yesterday was reappointed to the board of visitors for the College of William and Mary by Governor Darden. His name, with'. those of four other appointees, was sent to the Virginia Senate by the Governor for confirmation. The others are George S. Shackleford, of Roanoke. State Senator Robert C. Vaden, of Gretna, Oscar L. Shewmake, of Richmond, and Mrs. N. T. McMan- away, of Manassas. Foreman has been a member of. the board for 22 years, having been first appointed by the late Governor SERVES AGAIN.—A. H. Fore- E. Lee Trinkle, and holds the man, reappointed yesterday to the unique record of having attended College of William & Mary board every meeting of the board during of visitors.. that time. He is a former member of the Norfolk school board, having served VIRGINIAN PILOT as its chairman for nearly 14 years. Paper He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Univer- NORFOLK, VA. sity of Virginia: and has been a leading figure in the establishment and development of the Norfolk MAR 11 1944 Division of the College of William Date and Mary-V. P. I.

80,Alvin Norfolk Foreman, Attorney, Dies was named for him. His career in education began as principal of public schools in Norfolk county in 1900. He SurvivingHeInlater 1929 was thehe are wasson his ofawarded wife, Edmond Mrs. the Orlando AlgernonGrace Carrington and Sydney Anna Foreman,LukeSullivan Foreman. medallion of Norfolk; by a the daughter, College Mrs. of William Alexander and S.Mary. Margroves He was Jr. selected of Portsmouth as Norfolk's and a first sister, citizen Mrs. in Grace 1935. Foreman Wiggs of southattended Norfolk. the University of Virginia Law School. He was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1907.

NORFOLK, March 24--(AP)-- Alvin Herbert Foreman, 80, Norfolk attorney and a leader in educational affairs, died last night in a Norfolk hospital. A funeral service will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Larehmont Methodist Church. Burial will be in Riverside Memorial Park. Mar 24, 1956 Foreman was rector of the College of William and Mary in 1946. Foreman Field, the football stadium at the College of William and Mary in Norfolk,

163 Foreman, Alvan Herbert 95-96-97-98-99 (In college at William and Mary) Board of Visitors: March 15, 1924-March 7, 1952 Offices: Vice Rector, Oct. 4, 1940-May 31, 1946, and June 12, 1949-Mar.7, 1952 Rector, June 1, 1946-June 11, 1949

Committees: Special Committee on plans for Phi Beta Kappa Building, 1924 (Chm) Executive, 1924-28 (28-32??) 1932-37, 1949-1952 (Chm 1949-52) Curriculum, 1924-26 Investments, 1924-28 Spec. Com. creating position of Dean of Women, 1924 Spec. Com. to draft resolutions forming rules and regulations of the College governing the student body, 1924 (Chm) Revive Chancellorship, 1926-28 (Chm) Spec. Com. on Fraternity and Sorority buildings, 1926 (Chm) College Bookstore, 1926 Days of Commencement, 1926-28 (Chm) Honorary Degrees, 1926-28 Spec. Com. on question of a full Law School, 1927 Draw up and pass on all legal documents in transaction of Dr. Goodwin in relation to the Williamsburg School Board and the College, 1928 Advertise for and receive bids for the annex to the Library, 1928 Wren Building (also called Restoration of the Main College Building) 1928 Organization of Norfolk Branch, 1930 (Chm) Restoration of front campus, 1931 Rules governing the care and preservation of the restored buildings and grounds, 1932 Student discipline, 1932 (Set up Faculty Com. on Discipline) Revise rules of the College, 1933 Honor Council, 1933 Expand Norfolk Division by building Leoture Hall, Gym & Stadium, and Amphitheater. (To request $240,000 thru PWA; granted $100,000 and no Stadium), 1933 (Chm) Building, 1934-?? (Chm) 1936-37 (Chm) Endowment of the College, 1934 Visit of Pres. F.D. Roosevelt, 1934 Finance, 1935-46 (Chm 1937-46) Grounds & Buildings, 1937-46 Extension Divisions of the College, 1938 (Chm) Sub-Cam. on plane for oonstruction of a faculty apartment house, 1938 (Chm) Purchasing Brown Hall, 1938 (also worked on buying property near Brawn Hall) Developing College as national art center, 1938 Purchasing George Small home, 1939 Agreement between College and Williamsburg for operation of Matthew Whaley School, 1939 (ohm) Spec. Com. to study and determine the advisability of participating in the training of pilots, 1940 (Chm) Additional funds for scholarship aid, 1940 By-laws of the Board, 1941 Spec. Com. on the advisability of severing relations with Norfolk Division, 1941 Divisions, 1942 Relationship between College & Williamsburg regarding Matthew-Whaley, 1943 (Chm) Disposition of Lord Botetourt statue, 1945 Athletics, 1946

164 page 2 Foreman, Alvin Herbert - continued

Other: Resolution to borrow $650,000 from FEA of PW for construction of Taliaferro, Marshall-Whythe, Women's Activities Building, Amphitheater, 1933. Approved 1934. Motion to use $5,000 per year for scholarship aid, 1937 Motion to request an appropriation of $200,000 from Assembly for buildings at Norfolk Motion to purchase Bright property, 1946

Miscellaneous: Foreman Field at Norfolk Division named in his honor for his work in developing Norfolk Division and especially the Stadium Resigned Rectorship June 12, 1949 as he felt the office should be held by other members of the Board who had also served many years Resolution of the Board honoring Foreman: "WHEREAS, A. Herbert Foreman has been a loyal, energetic and distinguished alumnus of the College of William and Mary, serving his alma mater in unnumbered ways, among them being a member of the Board of Visitors of the College continuously for more than 26 years; and WHEREAS, during that time he has been in attendance at every meeting of the College Board; and WHEREAS ... Oct. 15, 1949, p. 130-40

165 Channing M. Hall, 63, Dies; Prominent in Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG, June 1--(AP)--Channing Moore Hall, 63, prominent attorney here, died unexpectedly at his home here late yesterday.

A native of Williamsburg, he had served for various periods in the past 25 years as a member of the City Council and was Mayor of the city from 1934 to 1947, when he retired because of ill health.

His resignation followed nearly 30 years of almost continuous service to the city as a member of the city Council. He served from 1919 to Sept. 1, 1928, as a member of the City Council under the old Mayor-Council form of government, serving from 1920-28 as president of the Council under the former charter. He did not seek re-election in 1928, but two years later was named to fill the unexpired term of Robert P. Wallace, who resigned. Mr.Again Hall's in 1932, survivors Mayo include Hall did his not widow; seek re-electiona son, C.M. but Hall, the Jr.,following of Williamsburg; year was named a daughter, to fill Mrs.the unexpired William H. term Godsey, of A. W.of Teheran;Hitchens, a whosister, resigned. Miss Emily Hall, of Williamsburg, and two brothers, Joseph Farland Hall, president of Lawyers' Title Insurance Corporation, of Richmond, and Vice-Admiral Lesslie Hall, Jr., who recently retired from the United States Navy, and is living in Williamsburg. Funeral services will be held at 3 P. M. Tuesday at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church. The Rev. F. H. Craighill, Jr., rector, will officiate. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery here.

HEADED BAR GROUP serving -from 1920-28 as *sident of the Connoil'Under.the coner charter. lie did . not Seek aieleetion in 1928, but two years - r Was named to fill - the - Mit; L P: Wat- . 0:cpired term of Robert lagfe, Who resigiieed. Wgain in 1932'; Mayer -Hall' did. pOt seek re-electron; but the f61- ioPing. year was nartied to fill the ilObctirbd.Viti-lit -A. Mc, Ifitehen4. w116. l'esigned. .3dr. Hall's .survivors include. hit ,Williamsburg; 14 daughteri, -, 'Mrs. Williia.rn H. GodSey, of . teheran; P. iister, Misi Emily Hal.k. of liamsburg. and two brOpiers; Jo- A vice-president of the Peninsula Bank and Trust Company, of Williamsburg, and former president of the Williamsburg Bar Association, Mr. Hall was the son of the late Professor John Lesslie Hall and Margaret Farland Hall. He was educated at the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia. At one time he was a member of the board of visitors of William and Mary. teph Farland Hall; preSident of AssociationMayorOn Oct. Hall, 11, 1947,Mr.in writing Hall Mr. was Hallto membersthe resigned son of as the Mayor City ofCouncil, Williamsburg. stated he Hewas was following elected thein 1934"repeated as the advice first to of serve my doctor under thatthe cityfor reasonsmanager of form health of Igovernment. should reduce the duties which I undertake and should resign from the City Council." i,awyers' Title Indira*. •CorpO- tation, of Richmond;:, itnid Vice- (1..dmiral Lesslie- Hall; .Jr41'Avho re- tently retired from • ilit:',-.01ited litates Navy, and is living:1* -4V.11- liamsburg.

He served on the board of vis- itors of the College of William memberand of the board of managers of the alumni society, 1923-25. For his services to the college, he received the alumni medallion in 1935. Mary from 1937-46, was a C.M. Hall, the Rev. F. H. Craighill, rector. Burial will be in Williamsburg's Cedar Grove Cemetery. HeServedAMr. veteran was Hall, first 63,of elected awas quarter-century's victim to the of Williamsburg a heart service attack. on Council the City in Council,1913 and he served was first upon Mayor it intermittently of WilliamsburgEducated until athis under William retirement the andcity becauseMary, manager class of form ill of health 1908,of government in and 1947, the Universityaccumulating and servced of Virginia,a13 total years of inhe25 that taughtyears capacity. as briefly a Councilman. 1934-47.at Toano HighA native School of the before town, entering he was law son practice.of Dr. John During Lesslie World Hall, War a professor I he served at William in the field and artillery.Mary, and Mrs. Margaret Farland Hall. in World War I Attorney, SurvivingAHe member was a member are of Brutonhis wife, of theParish Mrs. board ChurchNona of directors S. and Hall; former aof son, the vestryman, ChanningChamber ofMr.M. Commerce, Hall, Hall Jr.,was of a the memberWilliamsburg; board ofof Phithe aBetaJamestown daughter, Kappa, Mrs.Corporation the WilliamAmerican and Godson, Legion vice-president ofand Tehran, Delta and Kappa.Iran; past a presidentsister, Miss of Emilythe Peninsula Hall, of BankWilliamsburg; and Trust andCompany. two brothers, Joseph F. Hall, of Richmond, and Vice-Admiral J. Lesslie Hall, Jr. (Ret.), of Williamsburg. Succumbs JUN 2 -1953 Rites to Be Today At Williamsburg

By Times-Dispatch Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, June 1--(AP)--Channing M. Hall, attorney, former Mayor of Williamsburg, and former member of the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary, died Sunday at his residence here. A funeral service will be conducted at 3 P. M. Tuesday at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church by

166 SYDNEY B. HALL, principal of the Danville High School, is one of the young leaders, high minded, well qualified and scholarly, who are bearing the burdens of educational leadership in the state today. He was born at Great Bridge, Virginia, February 5, 1895, son of Martin W. and Laura (Curling) Hall. His parents are still living at Great Bridge, where his father is a planter. Sydney B. Hall acquired a good education, spending seven years in the elementary schools, four years in the high school at Great Bridge, and then followed his course in William and Mary College, where he was graduated in 1919. Since then he has taken three summers of work at the University of Virginia, leading to his Master's degree, which he will receive in the summer of 1924. After graduating Mr. Hall taught a one-room school in Norfolk County, was assistant principal of the high school at Big Stone Gap in Wise County two years, was supervising principal of elementary schools at Portsmouth, and in 1921 came to Danville as prin- cipal of the high school. The high school at Danville was built in 1915, containing twenty-one class rooms, and since then four others have been added, but the building already is inadequate to handle the greatly increased enrollment. In 1919 the Danville High School had only 250 pupils. At the present time there are 600 enrolled, while the accommodations are really only for 400. Mr. Hall has the supervision of a staff of twenty-three teachers. The Danville High School offers a broader curriculum of studios than many of the smaller colleges did some years ago. Mr. Hall married Miss Stella S. Reynolds, of Craig County. They have one daughter, Stella Louise. Mr. Hall is a deacon of the Christian Church, super- intendent of the Sunday school at Danville and is a member of one or two college fraternities, the Pi Kappa Alpha at William and Mary, and the Phi Delta Kappa at the University of Virginia.

167 Home offices of the company are here. ofThe visitors family of includes the College Frank of Obici, William a brother, and Mary, of Wilkes-Barre; where he established and Mrs. a Mariochair in Peruzzi, Italian literature.a sister, also of Wilkes-Barre, who is the wife of the vice-president and treasurer of Planters. Planters Nut MuchObici wasof his exalted contributions ruler of forthe charitableElks in 1918. purposes went in recent years to the Louise Obici Memorial Hospital Corporation, formed for a projected medication institution to be dedicated to his wife, Louise Musante Obici, whom he married in 1916 and who died in 1938. PeanutTheMAYSUFFOLK,HisObici'sSeveralHarryMuch will,will,net J.of home trustincome Pettit, hisadmitteddated May contributions fundsat Obici's Oct.fromnear-by 27--(AP)--Peanut to were 5, probate250 secretary1946, Baycreated sharesfor Pointlistedtoday charitable atandof Suffolk,Farm lifeinstockKing will the insurance purposes was AmedeobeofNansemond wastheadministered left Plantersbequeathed toamounting wentObici Mario County in Nutleft at recentPeruzzi; $7,500 Wilkes-Barre.antoand clerk's $300,000;estate yearsChocolate propertyand office,in to Obici'sVirginia the money, Company specifiedinLouise Wilkes-Barre,cook, valued $200,000; Obici Jamesthatwas at $50,000Memorialleft$1,625,000. Perry,stock Pa., to Ostedale went inwasbe Hospitalthe used leftto Planters MaryTivili towarda gold Corporation, MusantePompino, company,watch construction and Santucci of whose$700,000; chain. Oderzo. of treasuryaand hospital otherreal containsestate securities,in Suffolk at severalOderzo, $250,000;on the hundred Italy, condition real was thousand estate, bequeathed that it$60,000, dollars.be erected to Gigina andThe not lots corporation Obici,later in Virginia, than of Oderzo. threewas $40,000. formed years after for a Obici's projected death, medical which institution occurred tolast be week. dedicated The hospital,to his wife, which Louise would Musante be a memorial Obici whom to his he wife, married would May be 12, known 1916, as and the whoLouise died Obici in 1938. Memorial Hospital. 27,King 1947 Leaves Estate Of $1,625,000 President, Obici, Dies WILKES-BARRER, Pa., May 22. --(AP)--Amedeo Obici, founder and president of the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company, of Suffolk, Va., and known in the industry as the "Peanut King," is dead at 69. For a year he lived with an uncle and worked in a cigar factory. Later he came to Wilkes-Barre, where he did odd jobs FORMERuntil he started his stand. He later became a naturalized citizen. EXALTED RULER BeginningHeObici, entered who withthecame peanut-producing a tosmall the Unitedfactor site, States field at theat with the monthly hisage future of rental 11, brother-in-law, conducted of $25, Planters a small Mario hasfruit Peruzzi,mushroomed and peanut in 1906 stand into and threein popularized Wilkes-Barre factories, theemploying before blanched establishingObici several or wasskinless thousand a theformer peanut Planters persons,owner in Company.preference of in the Suffok, Suffolk to theSan News-Herald small Francisco, Spanish and and variety Toronto, a stockholder with Canada. the redand skin.Adirector subsidiary, of the the Elliot National Hotel Peanutin Suffolk, Corporation, whereELDEST he has had 70 resided retail onoutlets. a 300-acre farm. He died last night at Mercy Hospital here, where he had been a patient since March 26. He was stricken with a kidney ailmentFuneral whileservices in Florida.tentatively have been set for Monday at the residence on Bay Point farm, near Suffolk. Burial will be inSurvivors the Cedar include Hill Cemetery, a brother, Suffolk,Frank, and with two Masonic sisters, rites.Mrs. Angelin Sanguiliano and Mrs. Elizabeth Peruzzi, all of Wilkes-Barre.Obici, the eldest of four children, came to America in 1889 alone from his native Italy. He traveled to Scranton, Pa., arriving there with 75 cents in his pocket and unable to speak English. OF FOUR

Peanut Firm Founder Dies At Age of 69 MAY 22 1947

WILKES-BARRE, PA., May 21--(AP)--Amedeo Obici, founder and president of the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company, of Suffolk, Va., died tonight in Mercy Hospital after a long illness. He was 69.

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168 Miss Page Dies Here; Rites To Be Sunday Notable FigureFEB In City Life 19 Is Dead 1949 TheAMiss committal family Gabriella home service Page, during will long herbe a notableheldyounger at 3:30figure womanhood P.M. in the Sunday social was at theand the old cultural grave residence in life Hollywood ofwhich Richmond, formerly Cemetery died stood Fridayand at will Grace evening, be conductedand MissfollowingFifth Page Streetsby the awas heart Rev.and president whichattack, W. Leigh later atof herthe Ribble, was, homeAssociation for rector 2705 some Parkof foryears, Grace Preservation Ave. the and home Holy of Trinity theVirginia later Episcopal Mr.Antiquities and Church.Mrs. and Beverley the officers Bland and Munford. membersThe death of the of boardMiss Page of that is theorganization occasion forwill sadness attend theamong services a large at Hollywood,circle of friends it was in announcedthis city who today. knew andBORN esteemed IN RICHMONDher as a woman of intellectual gifts and of a rare charm and distinction of manner. She was born in Richmond and was a daughter of the late Major Legh R. Page, CSA, and Louise Page Waller.Har father, who died June 8, 1983, had served in the Confederate Army as a member of the staff of GeneralBefore Winder the and War later Between a adjutant-general the States Major on the Legh staff R.of PageGeneral had Richard lived in S. Kentucky Ewell. Major and in Page, Missippi; who andwas aftera native theMrs. closeof AmherstLouise of the Page County,war Wallerhe established was Page, a son the ofhis motherthe residence Rev. of Charles Miss in Richmond, Gabriella H. Page, wherePage, who hadishe recalled becamebeen a herechaplain a leading as a inwoman member the old of Armyof unusual the ofbar. thebeautyMiss United Gabriella who, States. at the Page time was of educatedher death at many the private years ago, schools had oflong an beenolder widely day here known and at and St. beloved Timothy's in Richmond.School, Catonsville, Md.

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$100,000 Left To Association By Miss Page FirstPersonalMissAFEB $100,000 andPage, 24 property Merchants1949 who bequest was is Nationalvaluedand72 when a Park at Bankshe$313,000, Avenue died of Richmond February residence and real 18, qualifiedestate have left been isa valued$350,000 as left executor toat the$37,000,estate. andAssociation trustee according of for the theto estate. thePreservation probate papers. of Virginia Antiquities in the will of Miss Gabriella Page, probated today in Chancery Court by Clerk Albert T. August. $350,000 Estate Will Is Probated Here TRUST FUND FOR NEWPHEW A $100,000 trust fund is set up in the will for her nephew, Lee Page, to be paid him duringUpon his lifetime. his death the corpus of the fund is to be paid over to his issue, and in default of suchMiss issue, Page's to charities: residence the at Virginia 2705 Park Home Ave., for withIncurables, all of its the furnishings Sheltering and Arms the Hospital vacant lot and adjoining theOnly Crippled theit on net theChidren's income west, arefromHospital, left the to $100,000theall inAPVA Richmond. bequest with the is hopeto be thatpaid it to be the used association. as the association's CHARITIESheadquarters and WOULD as a small BENEFIT museum for Virginiana not appropriate to the John Marshall House.If the association should be dissolved or be unwilling to maintain the Page residence, the entireOther bequestbequests is include: to become Society part offor the the residuary Prevention estate of Cruelty and to be to equallyAnimals, divided $1,000; among Calvin the Green,Twenty-five three hercharities. butler, friends $300; are leftAnnie cash Lawry, bequests, of Bedford, jewelry aor friend, other personal$15,000. gifts. A godson, JohnThe D. Munford, remainder is of left the $2,000 estate andis divided jewelry. among the three Richmond charities named. 169 APVA's Gabriella Page House Furnished Fit for a Museum FEB 28, 1949 MissTheNOVBy Gabriella Page, who Page was House, president which of the has APVA been opened for years, to members left her of the Association for the Preservation for Virginia Antiquities on Wednesday afternoons through part of October and November will hold its last open house of the season on next Wednesday. MARIA 19 1949W. SHEERIN Miss Page's Gift Miss GABRIELLA PAGE, who was president of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities at the time of her death has bequeathed to the association a $100,000 fund and her Park Avenue residence as a permanent expression of her deep interest in the association's work. WhileShe expressed it is not theknown hope what that actionthe APVA the association's would use her directors home--and will takea handsome with respect home to it Miss is--as Page's its headquarters bequest, her and generosity, as a small and museum the spirit for andtypes interest of Virginiana which prompted which do it, not are fit most into gratifying.the John Marshall Those whoHouse. are Thefamiliar latter with is now the APVA'sa shrine tosplendid the great accomplishments Chief Justice, as in well preserving as APVA the headquarters. evidences of Virginia's past will apllaud Miss Page's throughtful gift, and hope that it fits in usefully with the organization's programs and plans.

house to the association with the expressed hope that it might be useful as a small museum for types of Virginiana which did not fit into the John Marshall House. What she has left is a house furnished with pieces worthy of a museum.

The house itself is a new one, but when planning the building of it, Miss Page searched the town for woodwork both appropriate and old. She was rewarded in her search, by mantels, arches and moldings and doorways which had been put into a house on Ballard.

MissTheMrs.AServiceMAR memorial memorial GranvillePage 15 1949 had service program,longValentine, Today beenfor theas outstanding first announced,late vice-president Miss Pays Gabriella in included Richmond's and Page,Tribute an acting opening socialformer president and prayerpresident civic ofbyTo intereststhe theof organization,the Rev.Miss Association and Clayton her deathwas PageTorrence, for to was the preside Preservationdeeply secretary at regrettedthe ofservice of the Virginia inVirginia to Richmond, which Antiquities, Historical members her Societywho residing died and inhere Richmonda member on February ofand the also18 advisory at in her other home, board section was of the ofto thebeAPVA, heldState atand had 3 P.the been M. presentation todayinvited. at the of John resolutions Marshall by House. Mrs. J. Stuart Reynolds, corresponding secretary of the organization. The committee by which the resolutions were prepared includes Mrs. Tazewell M. Carrington, Jr., chairman, and also Mrs. Brockenbrough Lamb and Miss Anna Purcell. The service was to be concluded with the benediction by the Rev. Mr. Torrence.

Street by John Rutherfoord in 1817.

The Rutherfoord house was bought by Raleigh T. Daniel, and Mr. Daniel was followed by Edward McAdams, who lived in it until 1850. As the years passed, Ballard Street became Mayo Street, and the neighborhood did not improve. Bronze Tablet Installed On Page House OtherTheCHINAWhen handkerchief RichmondMiss FOR Page WALLERS houses discoveredtables inwhich the the front are house, the hall, property it thewas Chippendale vacant of the and APVA deterioratingdining are roomthe John andcharis, Marshall the whichwood House, carvingshave the the distinctionwere Craig hidden House, of by five the coats laddersPulliam of paint in House, their and backs,dirt,the Old but the Stonewith two the HepplewhiteHouse instinct (Poe of Shrine), sideboards,a connoisseur, the Anne and she the Carrington recognized Lowestsoft House, the china value and which ofthe it, Ellenwas and brought incorporatedGlasgow from House. Chinathe Rutherfoord Each in a oneClipper represents woodwork ship for a thedistinct in herWaller new phase family, house of Richmond onof ParkWilliamsburg, Avenue. life and architecture.each in itself Theis worthy most recentof a visit gift, to thethe Gabriellahouse. Page House, represents the way of life of one Virginia lady and one with a feeling for the best of the past.

OCT 12 1950 A bronze tablet which bears the inscription: "Gabriella Page House, Built 1930, Property of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities," has been placed on the house which Miss Page, at the time of her death president of the APVA, bequeathed with its furnisihings to the association. FurnishedThe house bystanding Miss Page at 2705 with Park family Avenue, heirlooms was built supplemented of the materials by careully that once chosen composed period pieces,the house the of house Thomas is open Rutherfoord on special which occasion was tobuilt the in membership 1817, and stoodof the on APVA Ballad and Street, on other Church Hill. Brick that formed the four-foot-thick walls of the Rutherfoord House, are now in the Page House, as well as the woodwork, carved by hand in the style of the Adam brothers. Mantels, arches, doors and window trim and bookcases were all fitted into the Page House.

170 171 WILLIAM & MARY THE CANDID CAMERA AT

THE 1940 COMMENCEMENT 1-1940 Medallionists, Professors R. G. Robb & T. J. Stubbs, Jr. 2—Dr. Claude C. Coleman listening to Glenn Miller concert. 3—W. F. C. Ferguson, Fred Hynson, Ferdinand Chandler, Vernon Geddy. Pro- fessor Richard L. Morton. 4—John P. Wager, Judge Frank Armistead, Alvin Paul Hines. 5—George F. Wilkins, Professors Tucker Jones and Theodore Cox. 6—Blake T. Newton, Ashton Dovell, Robert M. Newton, Edward R. Willcox, G. Walter Mapp, unidentified, and Sidney B. Hall. 7—Vernon M. Geddy, Harvey Page Williams, Sidney B. Hall. 8— Herbert Vaiden, Dudley R. Cowles. 9—Attending Memorial Service for William & Mary dead are: G. Walter Mapp, J. A. Salle, Rev. Carter Henry Harri- son, Alumni Secretary McCurdy, Professor T. J. Stubbs, Jr., Board of Visitors' Lulu Metz, and former 1 72 ALA Hitchcock

On a number of occasions Jack Garrett inquired why I thought the college failed to show interest in the Law School story. He will quickly attest to the fact that my response was the Administration feared such action would be offensive to the Bryan family and cause a loss of substantial financial support. We did not know many of the facts reported herein until we began our research several years ago. Thus enter our final character to this story who simply had to be seated in that Director's Chair preparing his audience for a climax that no one among them would perceive of or dream of. I refer to none other than Alfred Hitchcock, the renowned Hollywood director and master of mystery and intrigue. Characteristic of his talent, he had to be around at some time for the conclusion of this story on our William and Mary Law School.

In 1980 there was created, by the Bryan family, the John Stewart Bryan Professorship of Jurisprudence at William and Mary. It is now held by the College President Timothy Sullivan who will retire at the end of the current session in 2005. The initial gift was $100,000 with Tennant Bryan representing and acting for the family. The Endowment Association Resolution establishing this professorship states it was created "for the purpose of attracting and retaining eminent scholars to the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in honor of John Stewart Bryan, twentieth President of the College of William and Mary . . . . from his mother he inherited a deep regard for the history of Virginia and in numerous ways gave support to the study of colonial history. This history has led members of the family to give expression to their regard for him through the establishment of a Professorship of Law in his name."

Nuff said!!

Harold M. Gouldman, Jr.

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