A L U M NI GAZETTE OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY IN VIRGINIA VOL. I. WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934 NUMBER 9 PROGRAM COMPLETED FOR ALUMNI DAY ALUMNI GAZETTE ANCIENT CAMPUS OF W&M STEPS OUT For financial reasons the Alum- AND HUNDREDS EXPECTED JUNE 9TH ni Gazette will not be published AND BLENDS WITH MATOAKA PARK during the months of June and I July of this summer. The next is- Sixteen Class Reunions Will Supt. G. B. Arthur of CCCQ Celebrate Dr. J. A. C. Chand- sue will come to you around the DR. KOONTZ'S ADDRESS first of September just before the FIRST AVIATION SCHOOL Paints Beautiful Picture ofi ler's 15th Anniversary As New Developments at W&M* President. ON CHARTER DAY LAUDS opening of the session of 1934-35. IN ANY AMERICAN COLLEGE The alumni secretary wishes to BIG ASSET TO COLLEGE J MEDALLION AWARD THE SPIRIT OF W. & IB. take this opportunity to thank al FORMED BY DR. CHANDLER of you for your interest in the Lake Matoaka Recommended Responses from Class Presid paper during this past session and for Shell Racing and All In« ents and Others Indicates the Says Purpose of Alumni Asso- Balloon Club Organized Here ciation Is To Foster and Per- to wish you a summer of health land Water Sports. j Largest Attendance in Hist- and much happiness. • In 1786 Backed by President petuate This Spirit. Madison. ory. The Alumni Office will be open About one-third of the living grad-* all summer. uates of William and Mary look back Responses received at the Alumni On this the 241st anniver- The experiments and balloon flights sary of the granting of the of the Montolfier brothers and others to a college having but few buildingsj office so far indicate a large at- on a campus of no pretensions. En* tendance here on Alumni Day, June charter to Their Majesties Royal in Europe toward the end of the 18th century had their echoes here closed snugly between Richmond 9th. In fact, it is very likely to be the College of King William and Queen DEAN THEODORE S. COX at William and Mary. The students Road and Jamestown Road, an un^ the largest gathering of the alumni Mary in Virginia it is my pleasant defined and undeveloped area ex< ever held here. OUTLINES INTERESTING formed a Balloon Club in 1786 and privilege and high honor to address conducted experiments in flight on tended toward a wooded tract in th< The reunions of sixteen classes the alumni of this ancient institu- HISTORY OF LAW AT W& IB the Palace Green. Bishop James Mad- rear, reminiscent of the twenty-thous< here to celebrate the 15th anniver- tion. Undoubtedly I will have other ison, president of the College, was and acre grant from the English! sary of Dr. Chandler's presidency of hearers than the alumni of William very much interested in this new Crown for the establishment of thoj the College assures an unusual at- School of Jurisprudence Empha and Mary. To them it may seem pre- phase of man's activity and encour- school. tendance. Dr. Chandler's class of sizes the Cultural Value of sumptuous that the alumni of any aged the students by his presence at The other two-thirds of the alumni 1892 will hold a reunion and the class the Study of Law. particular college should stage a cele- their tests. left an Alma Mater which had begun of 1909 will celebrate its 25th anni- bration over the radio. But if, after The same note which called Virgin- One hundred and forty three years to grow again under the constructive! versary. Fourteen classes containing a moment's reflection, they will re- later, to be exact, in 1929, students urge of Dr, J. A. C. Chandler. AJ about 2000 graduates and represent- ia to arms in defense of the South- collect the part played by the alum- at William and Mary constructed a new air pervaded the ancient halls, ing 4000 students who entered here ern Confederacy sounded a dirge at ni of this College in the building of glider and flew in it. restored to their accustomed Colonial during Dr. Chandler's administration the College of William and Mary State and Nation, I am sure that this In 1930 the James Riordon School estate. New buildings rose in an orx will hold their reunions on this oc- which was to last for a generation. hour will have at least somewhat of of New York, operating that year on dered plan. Those who graduate this casion. Class officers for the past fif- President, faculty, students,— all left a general appeal. a steamship berthed at historic year will see new ground broken fon teen years have been contacting their the venerable halls for service in the Anyone who attempts an address Jamestown, had a course in flight the completion of his far-visioned classmates and the response has been field. Among those to go was Charles to, or in behalf of, the alumni of which was opened to students of Wil- plan, and those who come after will very encouraging. Morris, Professor of Law. Sixty-one William and Mary, whether by nat- liam and Mary. Four students took marvel at the unity, the compactness years were to pass before there The majority of those returning ural inclination or otherwise, must the course. Dr. Chandler conceived and the beauty, of the time-honored would be another incumbent of the here on June 9th will be alumni re- perforce do so with a sense of the the idea of establishing aviation at school. | chair of law—second oldest chair of siding in Virginia but there will be a greatest humility. The shades of al- William and Mary and secured a gift It is significant that in the slo^ the Common Law in the world. Dur- large number from other states from umni of the illustrious past, and the from a friend of the College and in development of educational facilities ing the trying days of Reconstruct- which William and Mary has been spirits of those now actively and 1931 the first Department of Aeron- in the American Colonies, fifty-seven ion and economic chaos the school of drawing heavily for a decade or more ably engaged in present day life autics established at an American years passed over the first college, law remained dormant. It remained The first event on the program for work, unite to give him pause. To college was set up at this College. Harvard, before William and Mary, for President Chandler, with the help the day is the annual meeting of the feel that one has at least something This department offered work in was established in 1693. And thai; of Robert M. Hughes and others, to Alumni Association with Dr. Amos in common with such great men as both flight and ground instruction. only eight more years went by beforai revitalize the proud tradition of R. Koontz, '10, presiding. The annual Jefferson, Marshall, the Randolphs, Col. Earl C. Popp from the Riordon Yale came into being, while during Chancellor Wythe and his eminent meeting of the Board of Managers organization, Y. O. Kent and Julian the eighteenth century twenty-onej Monroe and Tyler, to mention only successors. of the Association will be held on the a few of our illustrious dead, is not Chandler, students at William and such institutions were founded, with night of June 8th. to cause one to be puffed up, but to When the Marshall-Wythe School Mary who had completed the Rior- increasing rapidity. But the threei A matter of much interest that will produce in one a sense of the deep- of Government and Citizenship was don course, also became connected first colleges, seated in the vigorous come before the Association meeting est obligation. Even America's Great established in 1922 (no insignificant with the new department. Otto Z. settlements in New England and VhS will be the election of alumni to re- Man ,spelt with a capital G and a achievement itself) Dr. Chandler, as Johnson as chief mechanic joined the ginia, have served peculiar needs, ac< ceive the Alumni Medallion for un- capital M— the immortal Washing- a trained scholar in History and Gov- instruction staff. cording to their several environments* ernment, recognized the necessity usual service to the College. These ton—may very properly be consider- The flight equipment of the new To William and Mary it has fal-« for affording instruction in the fun- medallions will be delivered to the ed one of our band. For did he not department was a Fleet trainer, a len, despite its periods of low active damental principles of English and alumni elected on Homecoming Day receive his surveyor's diploma at Wil- two-piece biplane, a Kitty Hawk and ity and suspension, to courageously American jurisprudence as a comple- next falL liam and Mary before starting his a Curtis Robin. All these ships were devise and employ notable innova-< ment to those fields which we call At 11:30 A. M. >the alumni and survey of the vast and wild estates painted with the colors of the Col- tions in organization and instruction,, the social sciences. The teaching of their friends will gather to hear of Lord Fairfax, and many years af- lege, green, gold, and silver. and from Williamsburg circles ofi law thus was revived in conjunction Ashton Dovell, '08, who will deliver terward, after he had added more The City of Williamsburg took no- widening influence have rippled out with the establishment of the Mar- the alumni address.