ON the RUN Alumni and Students Help Others Move Forward

ON THE RUN Alumni and students help others move forward

WASHINGTON SPRING TERM AT 30

A W&L LOVE AFFAIR Winter/Spring 2019

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FEATURES 10 On The Run Alumni and students help others move forward. 14 A Historic Love Affair with W&L Sally Ball Sharp ’96 has a unique perspective on a landmark building. 16 Founding Father Washington Spring Term Program at 30. 22 Ambitious Plans The annual financial report.

DEPARTMENTS 3 Columns 26 Off ice Hours Brian Alexander, assistant professor of politics 28 Lives of Consequence Zabriawn Smith ’14 Krista Camp ’13 32 Alumni 48 Chronicles

Diego Millan, assistant professor of English, teaches class in the ODK Circle. Photo by Kevin Remington

Cover: Members of the Running Club and the Outing Club enjoy an early morning workout. Photo by Shelby Mack SPEAK LEGACY OF SERVICE

I am always proud to see so many mentions of military service (and family connections) Volume 96, Number 1 in the Obits section of the magazine. Classes from the 1930s up through the 1960s and Winter/Spring 2019 beyond list wartime service. My father, Cowl Rider ’37, was in the Navy in World War II, and I served in Vietnam. Whatever the shortcomings of Gens. Washington and Lee, they Louise Uffelman Editor inspired a legacy of unselfish and sacrificial service. BRUCE W. RIDER ’66 Kelly Martone Class Notes Editor Columns Lindsey Nair CELEBRATING TRADITION Director of WHAT’S IN A NAME Content Development How is the cause of liberty and justice for all advanced by renaming On the inside cover of your Shelby Mack buildings, removing paintings and walling off works of art available to the current magazine [Fall 2018] Kevin Remington community? These are acts of Presentism, the unethical practice of there is a wonderful photo of the University imposing today’s cultural norms on the people of prior historical periods. Photographers THOMAS P. RIDEOUT ’63 celebration of the traditional Shabbat dinner at Hillel, Barbara Elliott | Linda Evans, acknowledging the close to I question the wisdom of rewriting (he made a large donation of canal Patricia Lopes Harris ’91, 6,000 years of Jewish tradition. our history. It may make some stock to it), but Robert E. Lee was Rossella Gabriele ’19 | Tom Lovell ’91 | Alicia Hay Matthai people more comfortable for a president of the university for the The award-winning Broadway ’91 | Steve McAllister | time, but ultimately it only deprives last five years of his life. To this day, musical and film “Fiddler on the Amanda Minix | Elizabeth them of the opportunity to his sterling character differentiates Roof” celebrated tradition with Parsons | Joan Tupponce, understand Lee, Jackson and W&L from most other institutions its title song of the same name. Sally Ball Sharp ’96 others connected with Washington of higher learning and gives its Contributors and Lee University and the town of students something unique. Tradition is what gave the Lexington. People are complicated, Certainly, Professor Simpson Jewish people the strength and Rebecca Logan and to deprive students of the deserves all the credit the courage to survive centuries of Design opportunity to understand these university can give her, but we historical figures firsthand is a shouldn’t ignore history because it vitriolic antisemitism and the Mary Woodson shame. George Washington had a makes some people uncomfortable. Holocaust. This enabled the Director of Publications very tangential relation to the That would be a tragedy! founding of the Jewish State of institution that bears his name WOODARD D. OPENO ’65 Published by Washington and Israel. The dichotomy of this, Lee University, Lexington, VA juxtaposed with your article on 24450. All communications and renaming Robinson Hall and the POD forms 3579 should be sent I was sadly interested to scan a recent newspaper article describing the to Washington and Lee current president’s effort to “shift the historical emphasis” of our university. Lee Jackson House smacks at University, Alumni Magazine, I suspect the desecration of Robert Edward’s Tomb, and presumably that one of the most important 7 Courthouse Square, 204 W. of his descendants, will have something of the desired effect, as will memories I took away from W&L Washington St., Lexington VA renaming Robinson Hall, funded almost 200 years ago, but rather shame- 24450-2116. Periodicals postage after graduation. “Tradition.” paid at Roanoke, VA. fully by today’s leftist ideology. RICHARD W. BANK ’55 W&L has survived for well over 250 years, 10 times longer than any UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT current academics’ hysteria to comply with the latest ultra-liberal political philosophy. We can only hope that the university’s heritage and history will Dennis W. Cross eventually reassert itself with minimal damage. Vice President for University Advancement HALCOTT G. HEYWARD ’50 Jessica L. Willett ’95 Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs CORRECTIONS Stay in Touch Waller T. Dudley ’74, ’79L The blurb for Roger Jean’s newest book, “The Letters and Diaries of Letters selected for publication Executive Director of Colonel John Hart Caughey, 1944–1945, with Wedemeyer in World War II should refer to material in the Alumni Affairs China,” had an extra word in the description — “provide.” magazine. They may be edited for © 2019 Washington and length, content and style. Letters The obit for Robert Henderson Rimmer IV ’90 misspelled his last name. He Lee University died on March 9, 2018. Rimmer was the director of finance for First Data reflect the views of their authors, and belonged to Kappa Alpha. Our sincere apologies for the error. not those of the magazine’s The obit for Stephen P. Smith III ’65 (Fall 2018) incorrectly stated that he editors or of the university. served in the Korean War. He was stationed there while serving in the Adjutant General’s Corps.

2 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE ColumnsNOTEWORTHY NEWS AND IDEAS

KEEP ’EM COMING 2W&L was named to the 2018-19 list of the top- producing institutions for the Fulbright Program by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educa- tional and Cultural Affairs.

3. WELCOME Wali Bacdayan ’92, who graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in economics and mathematics, was sworn in as a Trustee Front row, l. to r.: Alex Farley ’19, Allie Rutledge ’19 and Clare Perry ’21; Back row, l. to r.: Professor Melina on Feb. 8. He serves as an Bell, Kushali Kumar ’22, Cat Spencer ’20 and Charles Thomas ’21. investor and a board director of several private companies and nonprofit the final round involved organizations. In 2017, he ETHICALLY whether a women’s shelter worker should, ethically received the university’s SPEAKING speaking, allow a transgender Distinguished Alumnus woman to stay in the shelter for Award. W&L students won the 20th the night. “Judges commented annual Virginia Foundation for that W&L’s ethical arguments Independent Colleges Ethics were crisp and persuasive and 1 Bowl championship in Febru- their delivery polished and ary. The six-member student remarkably well-coordinated,” team successfully devised and said Melina Bell, professor of presented solutions to ethical philosophy and law, who dilemmas. The case study in coached the team.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 3 OUTSTANDING Helen I’Anson, John T. Perry Professor of Biology and Research Science, received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education, the Commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty at Virginia’s public and private colleges and universities. I’Anson focuses her research 4 on the neurobiology of puberty.

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What’s it take to feed a hungry crowd? Sixteen restaurants and 25 soups. More than 600 tasters attended the seventh annual Souper Bowl, which raised $10,000 for Campus Kitchen at W&L. 7. ABS OF STEEL What started out as a friendly plank challenge in a phys ed class became the talk of the Fitness Center. Luke Alli ’22 just wanted to outlast a classmate, but when his competition dropped out after 15 minutes, “I realized that I didn’t feel tired, so 6. A LEGEND I just decided to keep going,” he said. “Coach Brendan O’Brien gave me updates LIVES ON on time. I started asking him what the fourth-place record was, then the third place, and so on. When I got to 38 minutes and beat the record, I decided I was The late Harry Pemberton, going to go on until I had to get to my next class.” He ended up planking for 1:07. professor of philosophy Bystanders offered cheers of support, and Alli listened to the “Essential Hits” emeritus, who died in 2017, Rolling Stones album “so I wouldn’t get bored.” has left W&L a $2.7 million estate gift that will support international study. The Board of Trustees has 8. RUGGERS approved the addition of The rugby team, possibly the longest-existing club sport at W&L (established his name to the Benefactor in 1966), qualified for the National Tournament for small colleges. The Wall in Washington Hall, 30-plus team is made up of all types of students of varying backgrounds and the first faculty member to athletic ability, from both the undergraduate and law schools. receive such recognition. In the last five years W&L Rugby has won the conference five times, played in the regional championship game five times and advanced to the national Final Four twice. The team is ranked 6th nationally.

4 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE OUT OF THE VAULT Location, Location, Location The original 279-year-old Benjamin Borden grant for the land on which W&L now sits has been conserved and is stored in W&L’s Special Collections.

BY TOM CAMDEN ’76, HEAD OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES

Edward Franklin Romig II, another Benjamin Borden descendent, and his wife, Dr. Celeste Romig, made a special trip to campus in fall 2014 to view the document. Romig was clearly moved to see such a precious family piece in person and suggested that he be allowed to pay for the restoration of the work. Unfortunately, he passed away in mid-January 2015 and did not see the beautiful work done by the conservators at Etherington Conservation Services. His widow agreed to underwrite the cost of the restoration in memory of her late husband. An inscription on the inside of the linen box reads: “Thanks to the thoughtfulness of John Bowyer, descended from a long line of Washington and Lee supporters and alumni, and the generosity of Frank Romig, FOR 90 YEARS, the original of one of the early Lexington followed the vicissitudes, the a Benjamin Borden descendent, grant for the land that W&L settlers who built Thorn Hill ups and downs, the rise and fall the original grant, nearly 300 now sits on has resided in the and a direct descendent of of the fate and fortunes of my years old, is safe and secure in Special Collections vault. The Benjamin Borden, deeded the family for nearly two hundred the Special Collections vault grant, a vellum document original skin document to years. Its future preservation and will remain so for genera- issued by George II on Nov. 6, Washington and Lee. In a legal will be more secure in the tions to come.” 1739, deeded more than 92,000 document transferring owner- keeping of some permanent acres of land by the British ship of the original grant to institution than in private Watch the video at go.wlu. Crown to Benjamin Borden. W&L, Bowyer wrote: hands, and believing it should edu/Bordengrant. Issued by William Gooch of the abide henceforth amid the colony of Virginia, it was The original grant from innumerable titles it has formalized seven years before George the Second, King of mothered; I, John Bowyer of the the birth of George Washington Great Britain, France and City of Abilene in Taylor County, and 10 years before the Ireland, dated sixth day of Texas do hereby give and grant founding of what is now W&L. November 1739 covers all the and commit to the keep and The grant of land included all land on which the City of custody of the Washington and of Lexington and a sizable Lexington Virginia and all of its Lee University of the City of section of Rockbridge County. public buildings and institutions Lexington in Rockbridge On Nov. 6, 1928, John Bowyer of learning are located. This County, Virginia, said original of Abilene, Texas, a descendent original instrument has grant which is hereto attached.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 5 NOW HEAR THIS “I DO NOT BELIEVE IN CELEBRATING PROPHETS. I BELIEVE IN JOINING THEM.” The Rev. William J. Barber II, keynote speaker for W&L’s observance of MLK, Jan. 27

“My first piece of advice [for young journalists] is not “I knew that Robert E. Lee advice at all. It’s a plea: God, we need you, right? This was smiling down from country so desperately needs your guts and your passion heaven, looking out for me. and your impatience and your desire to be part of a really proud and important tradition Every day is a Gennie’s in this country of free thought, free inquiry, not Win Day with a General’s bowing down to authority but questioning authority.” David Barstow, New York Times Grilled Cheese.” senior writer, Oct. 31, 2018, David Salchert ’19, Ring-tum Phi, Dec. 3, 2018, on the return of the General’s Grilled interview with Hannah Denham ’20, Cheese to the E. Café Ring-tum Phi

“When you step out of this chapel tonight, you Diverge is a platform to amplify intersectional perspectives on step onto this campus trying to figure out how to Washington and Lee’s campus that reconcile your past and how to keep moving in don’t always have the chance to be the future in the way your motto requires. I hope heard. We strive to begin and maintain a conversation between all you will remember some of what I said to you. members of our community about I hope you will remember to be the leaders that the multifaceted identities on our your decedents will look to. I hope you leave campus. We believe that in order to deciding exactly what kind of ancestor you make a positive change in our community, all members need to be will be.” engaged in this dialogue. Christy Coleman, CEO of the American Civil War Museum, in Richmond, Founders Day keynote address, Jan. 22 Diverge mission statement, divergewlu.com

6 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE IN THE LEAD Passionately Creating Change The president of ODK asks us to channel our collective energies toward a mission of lifelong service to others.

I WAS RAISED TO KNOW of its members feel like they are Initiative and so many other groups leadership as service, that beloved members of this com- too numerous to name. For leadership from ego is frail, that munity? And how can we lift up example, as co-president of our willpower fades when focused on the voices of others around us? Amnesty International chapter, I’ve service to self. But harnessing the The good news: Our community seen how a dedicated group of joys of those we serve makes has evolved leaps and bounds since students raised thousands of dollars leadership a worthy endeavor. my freshman year. As an RA and for refugee and immigrant causes. I challenge the collection of our president of ODK, I’ve seen Dedicating more of our collective campus’ fiercest leaders to leap firsthand how W&L’s most energies toward the mission of outside their usual circles, interest passionate students create change serving and understanding those areas and commitments. What can for others, both in Rockbridge adjacent to our usual communities we do to make our fellow class- County and in our school communi- will invigorate our sleepy campus mates feel more comfortable at ty, through the incredible student and ignite lifelong compassion and Rossella Gabriele ’19 W&L? How are we challenging leadership on FLIP, Campus activism, engaging a holistic view of ourselves to engage with the Kitchen, Rotaract, General’s Unity, the W&L creed. school’s history and, more Questbridge, Campus Unity importantly, ensure that its present actually makes each

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Washington Term program, It was extremely diverse including a memorable July TAKE A CHANCE ON and I really wanted to go, — lots of people I would 4th in Lexington with our so I listed every job I ever never have gotten to know families. As I struggle to ME: BILL CONNELLY had. There were many, if it weren’t for Bill’s make sense of the world starting at age 14. approach, which was to we find ourselves in today, The first time I spoke Plus, W&L had been take those with potential. he is still incredibly one-on-one with Bill amazing to me during my Many were bright and generous with his time. Connelly, it was because I first three years, opening wealthy. Just as many I will forever be grateful. wasn’t doing well in his doors to all sorts of were bright and not so Patricia Lopes course, and it was an Harris ’91 campus opportunities. wealthy. I don’t know if Bill entry-level course, so I When Bill saw my realized what a gift he Patricia Lopes Harris ’91 is ➔ needed to do something. multi-page résumé, he gave us by showing us how communications director I decided to try office knew what it really said much we had in common. for the division of student hours. I was too scared to was that I wanted to do Come to think of it now, affairs at Stanford speak. I didn’t know where something with my life. maybe that’s what Bill saw University. to start. So, I began by Bill Connelly Although I was not the in those of us who came to telling him my story. I smartest or best-prepared him with less than the think maybe Bill realized student by far, he took me optimal level of prepara- that what I really needed to Washington, D.C. Being tion and funds. He knew was help navigating not from Hawai’i, I interned for we would find a way, just just his course but life in World War II veteran Sen. as he seemed to teach general, and he became Daniel Inouye. He was the that the right legislation my mentor. most dignified man I had would find a way to get A few years later, I tried ever met, but what I passed. He believed in us, putting my story down on remember just as well was and he believed in paper in the form of a spending time with the Congress. résumé. Bill was accepting other students in the I have kept in touch with applications for the program. Bill since that time,

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 7 ASK PRESIDENT DUDLEY - The Johnson Program in programs in entrepreneurship and the Q. What has Leadership and Integrity history of science that cultivate students’ is celebrating its 10th intellectual curiosity and tackle topics that anniversary, and it is cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. been the impossible to overstate The Johnson Lecture and Symposia Series its impact on Washing- brings visiting scholars to Lexington ton and Lee. The most prominent whose expertise and perspectives impact of the component of the program is the Johnson stimulate wide-ranging conversations on Scholarship, which brings students of campus. Johnson extraordinary talent and character to W&L The Johnson Presidential Opportunity each year. But the program’s underlying Fund has made the full range of Spring strength is the way that it provides Term options available to all of our Program? opportunities for the entire university students and has also provided seed community. money to create the Advanced Research Johnson Opportunity Grants, for which Cohort summer program for entering all students may apply, make possible an students. amazing variety of life-changing experienc- In its first decade, the Johnson Program es. Students have used this funding to has strengthened the W&L community, shadow surgeons in Thailand, to intern at expanded our educational offerings and the White House Office of Political Affairs, enhanced our reputation as an institution and to volunteer with a lion conservation that prepares students for responsible project in Zimbabwe — just three of leadership. Thanks to the endowment that hundreds of such remarkable projects. created the Johnson Program, these Our two Johnson Professors, Jeff Shay benefits and more will be available to all and Nicolaas Rupke, have developed future students at Washington and Lee.

WHAT’S YOUR W&L IQ?

PERSONS OF INTEREST How well do you know the movers and shakers of W&L? A dive into the archives reveals some interesting individuals who helped build this institution.

1. Several cats took up residence in was a chef at Lupa Osteria Romana 4. He enforced the automatic rule 6. In 1977, he was the first African Lee House during this president’s and now works for the Doula Program (academic probation), which reduced American on the university faculty. tenure, including Stuart, who used to to Accompany and Comfort for the student body from 68 to 28 visit first-floor classes along the terminally ill patients. students. You can also thank him for ANSWERS Colonnade. This president oversaw the the mandatory phys ed requirement 1. John Elrod, president, 1995–2001 growth and diversification of the 3. The author of “Address to the and swim test. 2. Elizabeth M. Formidoni ’96, ’99L faculty, especially the addition of People of West Virginia: Showing the 3. Henry Ruffner (Class of 1813), female students, staff, faculty and [sic] Slavery is Injurious to the Public 5. W&L’s first female valedictorian president, 1836-1848 trustees. Welfare,” instituted the first faculty joined the Air Force after graduation. 4. Henry Louis Smith, president, meetings and suggested merging with She’s now an associate clinical 1912–1929 2. She was E.C. president from VMI. A Presbyterian minister, he saw professor at the Cornell University 5. Teresa L. Southard ’90 1998-1999. After law school she character development as the central College of Veterinary Medicine and 6. Reginald Yancey, instructor of worked as an attorney, graduated from purpose of education. chief of necropsy services and the accounting the Institute of Culinary Education, anatomic pathology section.

8 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE DUBYUHNELL DAY COREY GANT The director of Greek life discusses his own fraternity experience and the evolution of Greek life at W&L.

BY ELIZABETH PARSONS • PHOTO BY KEVIN REMINGTON

impact themselves, their organiza- members about privilege and DAILY ROUTINE tions and their communities. oppression, but also because they W&L’S GREEK CULTURE Two days rarely look the same, However, like any student — or serve as an opportunity for Within the fraternity and sorority which is something I love about human, for that matter — Greek members to be vulnerable with community, students are always working in fraternity and sorority students don’t always make the best one another. Research shows this ready to challenge the status quo. life. Some days I might be in decisions. I don’t think it is fair to can increase students’ sense of They ask hard questions, and I feel back-to-back meetings with assign blame to the Greek system for belonging within Greek organiza- that I grow as a professional fraternity and sorority presidents, all campus or community issues, tions. because of them. I think it’s just as while some days I may be driving though. important to build relationships independent students to a step with independent students in show at James Madison Uni- POSITIVE ROLE MODELS order to hear honest, objective versity. Because of the size and DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION I was very lucky to have a feedback about what could be scope of Greek life at W&L, I get My office is working closely with the welcoming experience as a gay improved about the Greek invited to join a lot of working Office of Inclusion and Engagement man in my fraternity. However, community and how it plays a role groups or meetings. to develop a training program that is not everybody’s experi- in shaping the university as a focused on diversity and inclusion ence. Greek organizations have whole. for our Greek organizations. The the power to model what an STEREOTYPES? program is intended for sophomores inclusive community could look Continue the conversation with Most people would expect me to and will build upon the training like. My hope is that diversity Corey at go.wlu.edu/Q&A_Gant. blindly go to bat for the Greek first-year students receive during training will help Greek students system, but my views are more orientation. We’ve piloted this understand how inclusivity complex than that. When done program with a few fraternities and greatly impacts both the greater right, Greek life teaches students have witnessed productive conversa- organization and the individual how to be strong leaders who tions. These efforts are not only student experience on campus. understand how their decisions important to educate our community

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10 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE Brian Ricketts ’00 is Lot’s of people run for the track and cross country coach at Alamo fun and health. The Heights High School, where he also teaches endorphin kick is like world geography. no other. ON THE RUN But there are those in the W&L community whose running has an extra dimension — service to others.

For them, it’s more than just zipping around the track. It’s about running PHOTO BY JOE SULAK alongside those who have battled addiction, sickness and mental- FORGING health issues. It’s about helping people move FRIENDSHIPS forward one step at a time, at whatever pace ON THE TRAIL that might be. Brian Ricketts ’00 runs with veterans and Gold Star spouses.

BY BARBARA ELLIOTT

BRIAN RICKETTS ’00’S PATH from non-runner to dedicated trail runner began when he found that playing basketball was getting harder to fit into his work schedule. “A friend decided to do a marathon, so I decided to try it. I hired a coach and got hooked up with the right people — or the wrong W people, depending on how you look at it,” he joked. From there, he moved on to ultra-trail running, a more extreme sport he has pursued in many breathtaking locations around the country. San Antonio, itself a beautiful place to run, has a large military presence, and a group of fellow trail runners wanted to find a way for their sport to

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 11 benefit returning service men and women. Activities include trail runs with who are also welcoming. Working with Team Red White and Blue instruction from elite trail runners, “It’s about the conversations on and off they started the Team RWB National Trail covering training, technical trail running, the trail,” Ricketts said. “We’ve had some Running Camp, which is available to hill running, running form, strength campers with some issues from deploy- veterans and Gold Star spouses. training, nutrition, first aid, blister care ment. They said that weekend was the After a few years, the group established and night running. Campfires, storytelling happiest they had been in years. You make Band of Runners, an all-volunteer organ- and fellowship are also included. lifelong friends, but you don’t know ization devoted solely to operating trail Campers are assigned to groups based immediately if you make an impact. We running camps around the country. on experience and paired with mentors are not counselors. We just work on how “Our ultimate goal is that no one will pay who are all experienced trail runners. to keep the momentum going when the anything. We keep it small and want it It can be intimidating to novices, but campers go home.” to be affordable,” Ricketts explained. mentors are knowledgeable runners

member, it was at that person’s pace and preferred distance. “Some people ran a one-, two- or three-mile route or walked it. The rule is that no one runs alone,” she explained. During her internship, Mann focused on the topic of addiction and what it meant for this group. She discovered that members’ descent into addiction and their approach to reclaiming their lives were all different. “Some became alcoholics from drinking one glass of wine or had become addicted to opioids after having surgery. Nobody’s story was the same. Everyone had come from a different place and wanted to go to different places. BoMF was a stop on their journey. It was eye-opening to realize that the pathway that brought them to this point in their lives was not formulaic — it “We meet people where they are,” didn’t happen because they lacked the said Molly Mann ’20 (blue T-shirt). resources during their childhood or were ”The saying around BoMF is, ’We’re exposed to drugs throughout their lives. It into fitness, but we’re not a gym.’ ” was interesting for me to think about it from a public policy perspective and see that one single bill can’t address this one problem of addiction. The underlying issues UP AND RUNNING are too complex.” It takes a lot of dedication to consistently show up for a run when it’s hot or cold Molly Mann ’20 combined fitness and service or dark or raining, but that’s the discipline BoMF members learn to embrace. Mann learning during her Shepherd summer internship. herself was tested at one of the organization’s monthly 5Ks. “It had been pouring BY LOUISE UFFELMAN all day and was freezing cold,” she said. “I spent most of the day hoping the event would be canceled. But it wasn’t, so I A COUPLE TIMES A WEEK THIS PAST through a running-based model of showed up in kind of a bad mood and summer, Molly Mann ’20 set her alarm empowerment. Mann plays varsity thinking I wouldn’t run.” clock for 4:45 a.m. to meet her running basketball for W&L and is also a runner. She ended up running alongside BoMF group. They were mostly 30- to 60-year- “I was excited about the opportunity to member Travis. “He grinned from ear to old homeless men in the Washington, D.C., be active and useful at the same time,” ear the entire race, even though the rain area. “These are the ones,” she said, “who she said. was pelting us in the eyes,” Mann said. “It don’t get as much attention from all the When Mann laced up her running shoes was his first 5K, and he said he didn’t nonprofits set up to deal with underserved for those early morning meet-ups, she know he could be this happy from populations.” didn’t necessarily expect to get an aerobic finishing a race, accomplishing his goals As a Shepherd intern, Mann worked for workout. The monthly orientation sessions and receiving recognition for his hard the D.C. office of Back on My Feet (BoMF), involved a lot of paperwork but no work. It was so worth it to have made a a program that addresses homelessness exercise. The days Mann did run with a direct impact on even one individual.”

12 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE around Town Lake, where they noticed something interesting. A local running SOLE OF store, Run-Tex, set out coolers of water and Powerade along the route. Curious, they checked out the store. THE CITY “There was a great mood there. It was special, people were excited,” Levinson said. After a disastrous Fort Worth Josh Levinson ’93 marathon — “We were malnourished, dehydrated and overheated” — Kara gave has built a running Josh a gift of a Run-Tex training program. Levinson started working at Run-Tex for community in free on Saturdays. The owner hired him, and Levinson learned the business from Josh Levinson ’93 believes that “when Baltimore “Charm” city. working the floor to dealing with vendors. people move, they are better versions of He opened the first Charm City Run themselves: better workers, friends, BY LINDA EVANS store in 2002 in Timonium, Maryland. The partners, brothers, sisters and parents.” company now has seven locations in and PHOTO BY JARED SOARES around Baltimore, and his events company owns 15 races and manages another 120 retail stores isn’t only about catering to FOR JOSH LEVINSON ’93, running is all each year. serious runners. “People are looking for about “inspiration,” which is the first word “Our first goal was to have a successful community. They also want help getting in Charm City Run’s mission: to inspire and store,” said Levinson. “We believed in started or breaking a cycle of obesity,” he move the human spirit one sole at a time. Baltimore, and we believed that if you said. “They often start by walking. We want “It is a lofty goal, but we have a humble care, people come back.” He has tried to to make them proud of themselves.” and perhaps ignorant belief that we can do create the kind of magic he saw at Which brings him full-circle to the this every day,” he said. Run-Tex. “It was so positive. People from business’ mission: to inspire first, to get When he moved to Austin with his wife, all walks of life became friends, and it was people moving and to sell a product that Kara, to earn his M.B.A. at the University just all goodness.” will help them succeed. of Texas at Austin, the couple often ran Levinson realizes that owning specialty

Philip Aiken ’17 goes the distance IN THE LONG RUN to raise money for cancer research. BY JOAN TUPPONCE

Philip Aiken ’17 would like to break the four-hour mark WHEN HE WAS 12, PHILIP AIKEN ’17 his own team, which he did during his in his next marathon. “I’m slow,” he said. “Other was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma and junior year at Memphis University School. than that, I just want to stay healthy enough to received chemotherapy and radiation “We continued the team the following year, be doing this in 20 years.” treatment for a year at St. Jude in Mem- and over the two years we raised roughly phis, Tennessee. “I was very fortunate to $60,000. For me, it was very cool to bring have the best children’s cancer hospital in together two impressive Memphis institu- our city, so we did not have to move or tions, and the result was a huge success.” commute to receive treatment,” he said. Aiken ran the St. Jude Marathon again His family and friends were incredibly last year with his siblings, bringing in a few supportive, “as were the doctors, nurses thousand dollars for the cause. He also and staff at St. Jude,” he added. “Not only joined the St. Jude fundraising team for the did the hospital save my life, but the 2018 Chicago Marathon and will run the doctors and nurses at St. Jude did Berlin Marathon in 2019 for the St. Jude everything they could to relieve any pain, Heroes fundraising team. He’s committed fear or discomfort. Their positive attitudes, to raising $6,000. encouragement and tireless work ethic Running provides some of the best “head were remarkable.” space and alone time” for Aiken. “I’ve also Aiken wanted the opportunity to give found that the discipline of running back, and the year after he finished translates to other areas of my life and treatment his father started a fundraising signing up for longer races gives me team for the St. Jude Marathon, which something to work toward. Most important- raised more money than any other team. ly, almost all races are fundraising opportu- A couple of years after that first nities, and running is a great way to get fundraiser, his father suggested Aiken start excited about giving back.”

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 13 A Deeply Historic Love Affair BY SALLY BALL SHARP ’96

“Professor For me, and I imagine many other graduates, received had many duplicates. That was the Board’s decision to rename campus because the Lee-Jackson House was our house, Simpson’s quiet buildings stirred many emotions: nostalgia for specifically my grandmother’s. Daughter of the past, gratitude of forward vision and W&L Law School Dean W. H. Moreland, my dignity, strength maybe a twinge of sadness. Speaking with my grandmother, Margaret Ann Moreland Ball, father, Haywood Ball ’61, about the changes, I grew up in the Lee-Jackson House. It was from and demand realized I have a unique perspective to offer. this house, beloved to so many, that she walked After graduation, my great-aunt gave me a to and from high school, passing my grand- of excellence treasured family possession, a set of Washing- father’s fraternity house (Jack Ball ’32, ’35L) ton and Lee red Wedgewood plates featuring and catching his eye. developed in me different scenes on campus: Lee By the time they married in core strengths, Chapel, the Colonnade 1936, her family resided and Tucker Hall, to in what is now which prove the name a few. Yet, the Hotchkiss cornerstone to one plate I Alumni my career: fearlessness and total Pcommitment.”

Lee-Jackson Wedgewood plate.

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House. Following a ceremony at R.E. Lee marked 10 years of Washington and Lee I am humbled by the history and legacy of Memorial Episcopal Church (now Grace co-education. And it was a remarkable time this moment. Though letting go of the past Episcopal Church), guests walked across with much transition, being 60 percent male bears pause, for me, this naming also weaves campus to her parent’s home for their during my stint. Just 10 years later, W&L together an honor truly befitting our reception. would see equal male and female matricula- tradition. I’m proud to celebrate Pam In 2000, my now-husband Michael and I tion. Sometimes though, I can admit, I felt Simpson’s contribution to W&L, and I believe asked W&L if we could recreate my grand - like a pioneer. all of the past residents of what is now the parents’ wedding, using the Alumni House To the credit of two exceptional women Simpson House would concur. for our reception. With a little trepidation on leaders and professors* on campus, my W&L the school’s side and a hard sell from my experience was filled with a great purpose. I * Professor Kathleen Olson-Janjic, the Pamela parents, the university granted our wish, am honored that one of them, my own H. Simpson Professor of Art, is the other W&L which was the first private event hosted there. mentor and advisor Professor Pam Simpson, woman who broke down walls, opened my So on a magical night in June 2001, we, has been named to the house that means so potential and poured herself into my educa- too, crossed the Colonnade on our way to a much to me. tion. I am forever grateful for these two leaders most enchanting reception. It was as Professor Simpson’s quiet dignity, strength and for the high academic standards that W&L gorgeous a setting as it was meaningful to my and demand of excellence developed in me brought to the Art Department. Thanks to the family. The campus sparkled with darting core strengths, which prove the cornerstone mentorship of Olson-Janjic, I attended Parsons fireflies. Live bluegrass music prompted to my career: fearlessness and total commit- School of Design, rounding out my painting spirited dancing and revelry on the porch. ment. She was patient and fair, but she education with graphic design and illustration. Even Southern Living published the event in expected more from me than the sorority girl Today, I am a licensed illustrator/commercial an issue of its “Weddings” magazine. she saw my freshman year — and she got it. artist. Mine is a deeply historic W&L love affair. Pulling me aside at the end of my senior As I am the fourth generation of my family thesis studio art show, she told me in earnest 1. Law Dean W. H. Moreland, Sally’s rooted at W&L, I was also notably our first that she was proud of what I had done with great-grandfather. female alum. At age 8, my father brought me my opportunity. Her words still ring as one 2. Margaret Ann Moreland Ball, the grand- to campus for the first time. I was so of my most cherished accolades. My self- mother of Sally Ball Sharp ’96, grew up in determined to attend that I declared my discovery in art, as in life at W&L, was not Lee-Jackson House. intention to become an attorney, as the Law easily won, but earned and honorable. I had 3. Margaret Ann Moreland Ball on her School was then the only means for a female come to understand the significance of wedding day. to attend W&L. Luckily for me, that barrier opportunity she forged for me, and for all was knocked down. My graduating class women at W&L. 4. Sally Ball Sharp ’96 and her husband, Michael.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 15 FOUNDING FATHER Washington Spring Term Program at 30 BY LOUISE UFFELMAN • ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN COLE ’80

W&L’s course catalogue offers the following description of the Washington Spring Term program, taught these last 30 years by Bill Connelly, John K. Boardman Jr. Professor of Politics:

, I {f, The Washington Term Program aims t? to enlarge students’ understanding of national politics and governance. Combining academic study with practical experience in the setting of a government office, think tank or other Ai organization in Washington, it affords deeper insight into the processes and problems of government at the national level...

16 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE ...Pretty dry, huh? But every year, students practically elbow each other aside to get into the class. When you step back to let Bill do the talking, you’ll understand why.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 17 ORIGINS be academically rigorous. The students I came from Capitol Hill, where I’d had to earn their credits, not by hours worked as a legislative assistant for in an office but through academic Sen. Richard Lugar and then-Con- work. gressman Dick Cheney, and was surprised that a university of this SWEET 16 caliber didn’t have a D.C. Spring Term I like having just 16 students for the program given its proximity to Wash- class. They can’t hide in the back of ington. As a Congress scholar I also the classroom — they must learn from wanted to get back to the Hill on a one another. I’ve always tried to create regular basis for research purposes. a microcosm of Capitol Hill, a balance I asked my dean, Larry Peppers, if of Democrats, Republicans, liberals, he’d like me to create such a program, conservatives, independents, libertari- and without skipping a beat he said, ans, what have you. I always explain to “Great, how much money do you Washington Term students that they need?” Within 30 minutes, we had a are meant to be objective political decision to go ahead. Larry insisted scientists. Yet they go native the first from the beginning that this program week of their internships. The advan-

I was surprisedO and pleased when I was asked to draft a recommendation memo to Sen. Lugar about whether Indianapolis should pursue a Major League Baseball team. It was an invigorating assign- ;; n~.,,.- __.... ment that drew on analytical ,r,,.;,.~ ....,,.c A"~ .. rr~~ /$'~#1~ ~,r ( and writing skills that I had Rob Berger ’93 with Rep. Henry Hyde in 1991. been developing at W&L. Jeff Willis ’92 with Sen. John McCain in 1991. Ultimately, Sen. Lugar decided to go in a different direction, but it was clear that the recommendation memo had helped sharpen the question and the issues for his consideration. –Jim Sloat ’89

18 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE tage, however, is just how energized complain how bitterly polarized, these students are in the classroom. dysfunctional and partisan politics has Class deliberations are active and become. Year after year, like clock- enlightening. work, one of the international students Some of Professor will respond: “You Americans don’t Connelly’s favorite THE TOCQUEVILLIAN PERSPECTIVE know how lucky you are. All this Alexis de Tocqueville wrote the chaos, cacophony and contentiousness mantras have stuck with second-most important book on doesn’t exist in my country. Do you me: “The personal is the American politics, “Democracy in know why? Because you have more America” (Madison’s “The Federalist freedom that we do.” political,” and “Where Papers” is first, of course). As an you sit influences where international observer, Tocqueville saw HONOR SYSTEM and understood things we Americans All the students must maintain the you stand.” I am a more don’t, because he brought a fresh confidentiality of all the other stu- perspective to American politics and dents. Whether they are working on informed citizen for culture. Having international students the Hill, in the White House, for a having taken this course. in the classroom is like having Tocque- think tank, lobby shop, media organi- ville among us. Americans love to zation or wherever, the Honor System –Noelle Camp ’17

The 2006 class with Vice President Dick Cheney. The 2011 class takes in a Washington Nationals’ baseball game.

Brett Kirwin ’02 with Sen. Mike DeWine in 2002.

“I met some of the most influential people in politics at the time: Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, Rush Limbaugh, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Vin Weber and Bill Kristol.” –Jennifer Stec ’96

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 19 made for a much better learning the Meridian at Pentagon City. We environment because the students can have a classroom on the 18th floor be frank in sharing their experiences with a beautiful view of the D.C. with one another while trusting one skyline. I hold office hours in the another not to make partisan use of evening in the same beautiful location. trusted insights. SHAKESPEARE AND BASEBALL FROM CHURCH BASEMENT TO PENTAGON CITY Over the years, we have often taken in Thirty years ago, students lived in a a baseball game at Camden Yards or variety of housing spread across D.C. the National’s stadium. Baseball is a But two decades ago we started slow, deliberate game, thus allowing us renting four apartments in the same a good opportunity to sit and discuss complex so students could live politics. We also commonly take in a together and share their insights and Shakespeare play. For example, last experiences with one another after year we attended the Royal Shake- hours. I knew from the beginning that speare Theater “Hamlet” production at they would learn more from one the Kennedy Center. You cannot another than they would learn from understand American politics without me. In recent years, we’ve rented from understanding drama. That’s why

“My Wash Term classmates were passionate but patient, respectful of other viewpoints and in pursuit of an objective truth that, while informed by their own moral values, was not so rigid or partisan that they were disrespectful or Kevin Ortiz ’16 with Rep. Bob dismissive of counterarguments. Goodlatte ’77L in 2014. In contrast, my experience with professionals on the Hill was more The 2016 class with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. like a sports rivalry. People had their teams, their factions, and it was about winning. For Democrats, every Republican was treated like an evil corporate shill in the pocket of big oil or a wild religious zealot. To Republicans, “The academic approach that every Democrat was assumed to supplemented the internships be a naive socialist and a pacifist allowed us to coolly analyze who would surely lead us to issues instead of becoming destruction and damnation.” insufferable mini-activists.” –Aaron Toomey ’09 - –Capt. Thadeous Larkin ’08

20 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE C-SPAN is my favorite channel. Sure, Term Endowment — means I can pay you can be angry and upset because lecture honoraria, buy Shakespeare they are haranguing one another on tickets and sponsor various events. There was a lot of exciting the House floor, but at least they aren’t Many alumni over the past 30 years survey work to be done for killing each other as in Macbeth. The have worked their connections to riveting RSC performance of “Coriola- secure guest speakers. Tom Greenwood the approaching November nus” one year literally brought tears to ’77 got the class into the Obama White elections. I was able to assist on the eyes of my students as we sat House Situation Room, as well as a many polls for Congressional perched on the balcony front row. meeting with active members of the That’s politics. Armed Forces at MCB Quantico. We’ve races across the country, been fortunate to have outstanding especially in North Carolina. ALUMNI SUPPORT speakers over the years: E.J. Dionne, I also worked on a project Washington Term would never have David Brooks, Elaine Karmarck, George succeeded without the unstinting Will, The Hon. Richard Leon, Rep. John on the growth of the Hispanic support of alumni, hosting interns, Lewis and others. Vice President Dick electorate, tracking the sponsoring events, speaking to my Cheney met with the class a number of opinions of Hispanic voters classes and more. For years, we ran the times, including once in the Roosevelt program on a shoestring, but now the Room next to the Oval Office. and the impact this might have new endowment — The Washington on the 2012 election cycle. –Victoria Waddail ’14

Joëlle Simeu ’20 at the leadership Skyler T. Zunk ’19 interned with House Majority conference on Civil and Human Rights. In the White House. From l. to r.: Morgan Maloney ’19, Whip Steve Scalise during Washington Spring Lorena Hernandez ’19, Rossella Gabriele ’19 and Term and then spent Summer 2017 in the White Julie Ruth Malone ’18. House Office of Political Affairs.

ROLL CALL: INTERNSHIPS ON THE HILL • Sen. Alan Simpson • U.S. Treasury Dept. • Zimmer Inc. • Sen. Mark Warner • Sen. John • Empower America • Sen. Don Nichols • Sen. Cornyn • David Ali Group • National Community (a small sample) Chuck Robb • Rep. Scott McInnis • Republican Action Foundation • The Hill • The McManus Rep. Bob Livingston • Sen. Fritz Hollings • Sen. National Committee • Overseas Private Group • House Budget Committee • Public Bill Bradley • American Enterprise Institute Investment Corp. • Sen. John Warner ’49 Opinion Strategies • American Red Cross • AFL-CIO Civil Rights Office • Child Welfare • George C. Marshall Institute • Kemper • Politico • Sen. Charles Schumer • Bipartisan League of America • American Conservative Insurance • Rep. Dennis Hastert • U.S. Policy Center • Sen. Tim Kaine • Van Scoyoc Union • Rep. Shelley Moore Capito • White House Department of Education • Sagamore Assoc. Assoc. • U.S.-Japan Council • National Low Office of Strategic Initiatives • National Taxpayer • People for the American Way • Rep. John Income Housing Coalition • Rep. Steve Stivers Union Foundation • National Assoc. of Realtors Sullivan • Sen. Joe Lieberman • Rep. Johnny • Ogilvy Government Relations • Sen. Kirsten • Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions Isakson • John Kerry for President • Peace Gillibrand • Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Committee • U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Corps • Rep. Nancy Pelosi • Sen. David Vitter Service • The Washington Times • Department Committee • Sen. Kay Hagan • CBS News • The Wilderness Society • Eisenhower Institute of Defense • Becket Fund for Religious Liberty • The Congressional Research Service • Sen. • Heritage Foundation • Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. • American Society of Anesthesiologists • The Paul Trible • White House Office of Communica- • Rep. Adam Smith • Rep. Marsha Blackburn American Liberty Fund • Habitat for Humanity tions • Sen. Daniel Inouye • White House Office • Center for National Policy • The Weekly International • National Community Action of Presidential Advance • Sen. Connie Mack Standard • Congressional Quarterly Foundation • Department of Education

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 21 OVERVIEW THANKS TO YOU $10.85 MILLION 50% Annual Fund donations Of undergraduate TOP 25 reached a record high alumni donated In endowment per student among all U.S. universities $1.6 BILLION Our endowment’s high-water mark

2.8% Year-on-year increase in total assets

FOR W&L STUDENTS 4.5% Year-on-year increase in net tuition revenues $63,386 $26,970 Instructional and Average tuition and fees student-services cost paid by families after per student financial aid 39% Portion of W&L operating expenses covered by endowment distributions

#1 For lowest percentage of expenditures that go toward $53.37 administration, including fundraising, among the nation’s MILLION top 25 liberal arts institutions. STUDENT FINANCIAL AID AWARDED

22 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE 2018 FINANCIAL REPORT AMBITIOUS PLANS

he 2017-18 year was a year of our revenue mix over the last decade. This Our strong planning, as the university fiscal year showed net tuition revenues community coalesced in accounting for 37 percent of all revenues and financial base is developing a new strategic plan philanthropic sources at 50 percent. This critical in helping T (go.wlu.edu/2018strategicplan). revenue diversity benefits the university in Adopted by the Board of Trustees in May 2018, ways beyond just the financial. The additions faculty and staff the strategic plan is centered around commu- made to endowments have increased the nity, curriculum, citizenship and campus. number of students we can reach with deliver a high- Several main objectives include offering financial aid, not to mention the additional financial aid to qualified students regardless of curricular and co-curricular programming we quality education need; expanding access to curricular and can offer them. A solid endowment also co-curricular opportunities without regard for provides additional opportunities for faculty, and student economic status; expanding the faculty to grow including research support, grants and and enhance academic offerings; recruiting a sabbaticals. experience. director of Institutional History and building an Institutional History Museum, as well as ASSETS BY STEVE MCALLISTER expanding Huntley Hall and the Science Our total assets grew by 2.8 percent, from Center; and creating a new Admissions and $2.019 billion to $2.075 billion. Over the last Financial Aid home. The plan is ambitious but decade, assets have increased by $593 million. attainable. This strong financial base is critical in helping With this strategic plan, we can proceed faculty and staff deliver a high-quality within the comfort of a strong financial base education and student experience. that has the underpinnings in an endowment The endowment, which represents over that ranks in the top 25 on a per student basis three-quarters of the assets, is comprised of among all U.S. colleges and universities. Our two elements: gifts to the university held in the philanthropic support has substantially altered investment pool and trusts held by others.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 23 ENDOWMENT ASSETS ENDOWMENT VALUE ($MILLIONS) LIABILITIES $263.7 MILLION $2.075 BILLION JUNE 30 71% Debt 77% Endowment 12% Annuity obligations 16% Plant, net of depreciation 1,800 8% Post-retirement benefits 3% Other investments 9% Other 2% Contributions receivable 2% Other 1,000

We experienced UNIVERSITY a 2.8 percent OPERATING increase in total REVENUES 0 assets over the 2008 2012 2018 $169.8 MILLION past year, from 39% Endowment allocation and •Internally • Trusts held distributions from trusts $2.0195 billion to controlled by others $2.075 billion. endowment 36% Net tuition 12% Gifts and grants 12% Auxiliary enterprises The aggregate endowment 1% other grew to a new high-water mark of $1.603 billion.

ENDOWMENT ALLOCATION 2% 70,000 45% UNIVERSITY OPERATING 9% EXPENSES 12% $166.6 MILLION

40,000 46% Instruction 46% 16% Auxiliary enterprises 13% 20% 13% Institutional support 12% Academic support 9% Student services 16% 2% Other

0 0% 2007-08 2017-18 • Endowment • % of revenues allocation

Endowment distributions accounted for 38.6 percent of the operating revenues. All figures as of June 30, 2018, for the 2017–2018 fiscal year.

24 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE Endowment distributions accounted for 38.6 student services. The stated tuition and of Trustees and Alumni report entitled “How percent of the operating revenues, at $65.6 mandatory fees rate was $50,170, and the Much is Too Much? Controlling Administrative million. This source has grown in importance average tuition and fees paid by families after Costs through Effective Oversight.” For fiscal as a portion of the revenue stream. As a result, financial aid was just $26,970. Every student year 2017, W&L posted a ratio of 0.209, the diligent management of the underlying assets received a subsidy of at least $13,216. For lowest among the top 25 liberal arts institu- and considerations of payout allocation models one-half of the population, the subsidy was tions, where the mean of the group was 0.327. are increasingly important. The university expanded through financial aid. This is the Compared to the top 25 liberal arts colleges, followed its normal spending formula of financial value proposition of a W&L education W&L consistently spends a higher percentage increasing endowment spending by inflation and has been and will continue to be an area of its budget for educational expenses than the plus one percent. This yielded a payout rate of of focus as the university works to expand peer average (59.5 percent versus 51.5 percent). 4.69 percent. Law School endowments retained accessibility to all qualified applicants without However, the aggregate expenses per student the supplemental increased payout adopted by regard to socio-economic status. fall below the average expense per student of the Board of Trustees for a third year, but Net tuition revenues increased by 4.5 the peers by $8,500. payouts were reduced from 7.5 percent to 6 percent to $62.1 million, as total enrollment percent. grew by 4.8 percent. The Law School’s IN SUMMARY Current gifts and grants play a significant enrollment increased by nearly 20 percent, This past year was one in which we were able role in providing a robust and vibrant educa- accompanied by improvements in its ranking. to enjoy the fruits from the success of the last tional program. W&L received $20.1 million in Within revenues, a line item for financial aid strategic plan, while simultaneously working expendable contributions and grants to is defined as a reduction of tuition ($46.20 on a new strategic plan that is grounded underwrite operations. If we had to rely on million); this is also the case with auxiliary within the culture of financial discipline and is endowment to generate the same level of enterprise revenues which reflect an aid built on the financial strength of the university. contribution, we would need an additional discount of $3.08 million. Within expenses, a Strong enrollments, favorable investment $428 million. Endowment and Giving highlights: • The Annual Fund reached a new high for funds raised, $10.85 million, with undergrad- Current gifts and grants play a significant uate alumni participation at 50 percent. • Endowment per student (including funds role in providing a robust and vibrant held in trust by others) increased to $722,992. At June 30, 2008, this value was educational program. W&L received $470,918. We captured this increase in value of 55 percent over the past decade, even as $20.1 million in expendable contributions the endowment has distributed between 4 and grants to underwrite operations. percent and 5 percent of its value annually. • We received new gifts and pledges of $46.3 million, with $18.8 million of the total toward endowments and $13.4 million to line financial aid ($4.10 million) represents returns and continued philanthropic support capital projects. awards that exceed tuition, room and board. of alumni, parents and friends yielded positive Combined, student financial aid awarded was financial outcomes and allowed the university LIABILITIES $53.37 million, reaching 50 percent of the to invest in its core mission. In short, it was a The university has liabilities totaling $259.8 undergraduate student population and 90 year that continued to bolster our ability to million. Three types of liabilities comprise 91 percent of law students. navigate through the ebbs and flows of the percent of this total: debt, future annuity Highlights in this area: industry. payments and postretirement benefits. • We offered 154 summer Lenfest Grants and As we execute the next strategic plan, we do Total debt is $186.3 million and is composed of six full-year Lenfest Sabbaticals. so while being mindful of what has worked so six different instruments, all being tax-exempt • We offered students 101 Johnson well over the years: investing meaningfully in issues through either the Virginia College Opportunity or Enhancement grants and well the future of our faculty and students. Building Authority or the Lexington City over 200 additional grants to students for Industrial Development Authority. Of the summer experiential, research or internship outstanding debt, 85 percent is fixed rate and endeavors. Note: This article is adapted from the financial 15 percent is variable rate debt. Maturities • We awarded grants and scholarships to 50.4 report prepared for 2017-18 by Steve McAllister, extend to 2043, with interest rates ranging for percent of the undergraduates. In 2009, the vice president and treasurer, which you may fixed rate debt from 2.25 percent to 5.75 corresponding figures were 45.8 percent. read at go.wlu.edu/financials-1718. Unless percent. The 1998 and 2001 VCBA Notes, otherwise noted, beginning and ending dates totaling $90.2 million, are non-callable. In OPERATING EXPENSES mentioned throughout are June 30, 2017 and August 2018, the University issued additional We use these resources to fulfill our core June 30, 2018. debt in two series. Series A included $22.5 mission — education. Instruction and million of debt to fund the renovations to academic support (libraries, information Woods Creek Apartments and partially fund technology services, etc.) comprise nearly 60 the Duchossois Athletic and Recreation Center. percent of total expenses. Only 13 percent of expenditures go toward OPERATING RESULTS administration, including fundraising. This In 2017-18, W&L incurred a cost on average of latter figure was affirmed by following the $63,386 per student for educational and methodology outlined by the American Council

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 25 26 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE OFFICE HOURS - Brian Alexander The assistant professor of politics is researching Thomas Jefferson’s “Manual of Parliamentary Practice,” teaching courses on U.S. government and international relations and taking charge of the Washington Spring Term Program.

BY LOUISE UFFELMAN • PHOTO BY KEVIN REMINGTON

provided a good blend Such behavior is not OTHER INTERESTS? between high-minded, exclusively because of W&L’s Special Collections OUTSIDE THE intellectual leadership and formal rules — it is because at Leyburn Library has a real-world problem of norms. But when norms rare copy of Thomas CLASSROOM solving. On the best days, change, as may be Jefferson’s “Manual of MAIN JOY despite all the cynicism, currently happening, the Parliamentary Practice” Spending time with my politics is thrilling because way the institution (1801), with extensive wife, Caroline, and our it brings together the functions — the way our hand-written annotations two daughters, Kitty, 10, brightest people who are democracy works — also by Jefferson during his and Phoebe, 8. trying to solve the biggest changes. first term as president. I problems. Sure, sometimes have built a new argument MARTIAL ARTS WHAT EXCITES YOU MOST it’s messy, but it can be PREVIOUS JOB? about Jefferson’s scholar- I have a black belt in wonderful. Over the last 20 years in ship and leadership on Taekwondo, and I trained ABOUT WASHINGTON TERM? in Muay Thai and Brazilian It’s a dream assignment, D.C., I had the privilege of parliamentary law, which MAIN RESEARCH PROJECT? working for some great he took great care to Jiu-Jitsu for a couple really. It’s an opportunity of years. to cultivate ambitious, My main research is on public policy non-profits promote in the U.S. and talented, young people legislative norms in the and Democratic political abroad. Jefferson’s into thoughtful, well- U.S. Congress — that is, campaigns. I was a “Manual” is the early FAVORITE POLITICIAN Václav Havel, a prominent rounded, and capable the informal, unwritten management consultant standard-bearer of the Czech dissident, human public policy professionals rules of the game that with Booz Allen Hamilton rules of the U.S. Congress, rights activist, playwright and citizens. I approach shape member behavior and other firms, and I state legislatures, and for and political prisoner, is Washington Term with the and help the institution worked for federal other governments around among my intellectual and idea of what would I want function, or not. My book agencies, such as the the world. project, “A Social Theory of Department of Defense political heroes. He future political leaders to teaches us that you can be know so they can do the Congress: Legislative and Homeland Security. Norms in the Twenty-First My last position was as an an artist, an idealist and a most public good? Then, I successful politician. try to teach the students Century,” examines American Political Science that. politicians’ ideas about Association Congressional what it is to be a member Fellow (2015-2016) in the of Congress and what is office of a man of true WHY POLITICS? believed to be appropriate integrity, U.S. Sen. Jack I remember in my first behavior. We take for Reed (D-RI). year of college surfing granted that members are between MTV and a expected to behave with comedy channel when I courtesy toward one happened upon C-SPAN, another or that coopera- and I was hooked. I’ve also tion is thought of as an known that I’ve wanted to important part of the job. be a college professor since high school. Politics

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 27 LIVES OF CONSEQUENCE -

Zabriawn Smith ’14 (left) with Montez Jones.

If I Had a Hammer Zabriawn Smith ’14 is driven by civic engagement.

BY AMANDA MINIX

28 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE within the students, will fulfill his passion to “No matter where you go, but also facilitate those serve his community, MORE ABOUT changes through the work while growing profession- team building is the differ- I contributed as part of ally. ZABRIAWN ence between failure and the front office team,” he At W&L, Smith learned said. “On the surface, it the value of having the MAJOR success in this climate of may seem like a work- courage to speak up Politics force development during classroom changing demographics.” program, but it is more discussions. “My educa- KNOWLEDGE IS POWER of an establishment tion prepared me to be As vice president of a new promoting healthy bolder in my actions and nonprofit, Realty Thinking, well-being.” to never remove myself he hopes to educate from conversations, residents of marginalized HOMETOWN SERVICE because in them, we are areas on financial literacy, afforded an opportunity bring wealth into their Smith grew up in communities and connect to integrate theories in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, them with the resources to hopes to implement more located on the western do so. WHEN ZABRIAWN edge of Pittsburgh, and reasonable practices in our society,” he said. SMITH ’14 talks about his was happy to serve his FOLLOW THE MUSIC work as an AmeriCorps home community. He Zabriawn is involved with ally, there is no mistaking even knew some of the TEACHER & MENTOR 1Hood Media, a collective his passion or drive to students with whom he At the Trade Institute, of socially conscious help the people he served. worked. Montez Jones, Smith employed many artists and activists who He just finished a a soon-to-be-graduate, skills, including critical utilize art as a means of 10-month internship with grew up with Smith. “My thinking, which he honed raising awareness about the Trade Institute of mother was his teacher from spending time in his social justice matters Pittsburgh, which trains in elementary school,” W&L classes with those affecting people around skilled tradespeople — he said. who had different the world. specifically targeting those Following graduation opinions. Learning how to with a carceral history — from W&L, Smith was an listen to people, appreci- in the areas of general elementary school teacher ate their perspectives and laboring, brick and block in Kentucky, where he be able to voice his own masonry, carpentry, gained experience in opinion to encourage stonework and welding. creating a curriculum, discussion has been an The benefits are building relationships invaluable tool. “No two-fold — the institute with students and matter where you go, helps meet rising demands participating in commu- team building is the for tradespeople, while nity-outreach programs. difference between assisting students in He decided to return to failure and success in regaining a focus on their Pittsburgh because he this climate of changing future. Smith’s role was to wanted to make a demographics,” he said. cultivate an alumni significant impact in “Learning what motivates network that assists his hometown. others as well as yourself graduates in gaining As a young alumnus, he is your best way to ensure access to career opportu- has tried to find the right not only that you are an nities within the commu- balance between trying effective member of a nity, as well as partner new positions to gain team, but it also puts you with organizations to experience and adhering in the best position to be develop programs that too firmly to a set career a leader.” enrich the current student path. Now, he believes he experience. has learned how to “My favorite part of my determine if a position position was that I was able to come in and not only witness true change

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Find Me Shelter Krista Camp ’13 is on the front lines of one of America’s most contentious issue — immigration.

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30 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE specialist at CWS and will asylum process and “I came to realize that the focus on identifying the instructed on the location MORE ABOUT unmet needs of the and date of their first world would be a better place refugee and immigrant immigration court KRISTA if we were all a bit kinder to communities that were appearance. affected by Hurricane She said, “I met some one another.” Florence in North of the strongest people I MAJOR Carolina. have ever known during Psychology and politics those 10 weeks, and it is SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT frankly quite disturbing CASA Last summer, Camp what they go through. During her junior year, traveled to the Arizona Many are separated from Camp served as a border for a 10-week their husbands or adult court-appointed special BY THE TIME KRISTA have seen each other in assignment working with sons without a chance to advocate, as part of her CAMP ’13 graduated, she years. “I remember one asylum seekers recently say goodbye, not knowing philanthropic contribu- had only been outside the case involving a 93-year- released from detention when they are going to tion as a member of U.S twice — to Costa Rica. old woman from Burma to a United Methodist see one another again. Kappa Alpha Theta. “I wanted to experience whose daughter, grand- Committee on Relief Despite all this, they other cultures, but I daughter and great-grand- shelter, an experience she remain kind and grateful STATS wanted to do it in a way son all came to the airport described as “heartbreak- and ultimately are just CWS Durham has that was more impactful to pick her up. I was not ing and hard, but also looking for a better life historically resettled than simply traveling expecting the emotional rewarding.” for themselves and their about 200 refugees across the globe,” said reaction I had when I saw The majority of asylum children. I fear for those every year, but numbers Camp. “I wanted a very them all together. You seekers come from who must spend this can vary depending on integrated experience in don’t realize how easy you Honduras, El Salvador, entire process within the the nationwide cap — the which I could hopefully have it until you are faced Guatemala or Mexico, walls of a detention refugee ceiling — deter- give something back to with the struggles that usually by foot. Most center, isolated from their mined annually by the the community I was in.” most of our clients see claimants are shuttled to families and without any President. Between 2016 She spent two years daily.” a detention center closest understanding of the and 2019 the ceiling was with the Peace Corps in Since 2016, the refugee to their point of entry to complex immigration reduced from 85,000 Tisaleo, Ecuador, working resettlement program has be processed by immigra- system. These people and refugees to 30,000. for a foundation serving seen a lot of ups and tion and to begin the this experience taught me children with special downs. When she joined, asylum process. Those a lot, but more than MOTTO needs. In 2016, she joined Camp was one of five case lucky enough to be anything, I came to “Love all, serve all and a satellite office of Church managers. Now there are released to a shelter will realize that the world create no sorrow.” World Service (CWS) in two. With the current eventually be reunited would be a better place if Durham, North Carolina, political climate, volun- with family in the U.S. we were all a bit kinder to ADVICE one another.” a faith-based international teer interest and dona- They will stay with those Do not fear the unknown, aid organization that tions have increased, “but family members until embrace it. You and the addresses hunger, poverty, the majority of the their first court date. world will be better displacement and government funding has Those who arrived at because of it. disasters, both at home been completely slashed Camp’s shelter were and abroad. It is also one due to the low presiden- provided with beds, food, of nine national refugee tial determination on clothing, showers. They resettlement organizations refugee admissions,” she were prepped on the funded by the Department said. “We never really of State. know what’s going to happen, things change ORIENTATION hour to hour.” At CWS, refugees receive In January, Camp was help with job placement promoted to disaster and housing, cultural and preparation and response community orientation and English classes. Camp also helped reunite families who might not

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32 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE CHUCK CAHN ’70 AND BURT STANIAR ’64 have As he was eying retirement as chair of Knoll a lot in common. They are both retired, live Inc., Staniar became involved with NYC Outward adjacent to Central Park in New York City (Cahn Bound Schools. “I had the great privilege of on the west side, Staniar on the east), have MBAs serving on the W&L Board of Trustees for 10 from Columbia University, and believe that years, where I saw excellence in action. However, schools in large, urban cities can be successful I wasn’t seeing excellence in the high school — with a little outside help. graduates we hired into our factories.” So, they each stepped up to support schools in After researching NYC Outward Bound, the NYC area. attending some classes and witnessing the In 2002, Cahn founded the Cahn Fellows impressive results, Staniar said he was “blown Program at Columbia University’s Teachers away” by the nonprofit’s approach to College to provide advanced leadership-skills transforming public schools and joined its board training to school principals. He developed the and executive committee. The organization idea while researching options for his employer at combines demanding and engaging learning with the time, Stanford C. Bernstein & Co., which an emphasis on community and character. “The wanted to give away the corpus of its foundation’s program is young and wildly successful,” Staniar capital before the company underwent a merger. said. “It fulfills a great need.” What started out as a New York City program, The results are impressive. Schools in the CHUCK CAHN ’70 funded the first couple of years by Cahn and his network have a high school graduation rate of 88 family in partnership with Columbia University percent, versus 74 percent for other NYC schools. BURT STANIAR ’64 Teachers College, has expanded to six cities. Ninety-eight percent of the graduates have been The program’s success — measured through accepted into college. With its To and Through better reading and math results — attracted a program, NYC Outward Bound continues to wide variety of funders. As it has grown, it has support students while they are in college, many Back to collaborated with philanthropically funded of whom are first-generation college students. regional foundations, institutions and individuals Both W&L graduates believe that big-city to support principals selected to participate. schools don’t have to fail. “They can succeed,” said School “Each district is thrilled. We are accomplishing Staniar. Cahn noted it is incredibly gratifying to things school districts can’t do on their own,” said have a role in helping students obtain a better BY LINDA EVANS Cahn. “They are desperate not to lose the leader- education, along with all the other positive ship they have, and the fellowship program helps outcomes: better jobs, fewer teen pregnancies, ensure that the best leaders are retained as lower incarceration rates, involved citizens. principals or promoted to district-level positions. “These results make up for the articles that don’t We are getting three applications for every spot in get written about programs like ours,” he said. the program,” he said.

Behavior Institute at participated in the Ride to Columbia University since End Polio, part of a 2012. Both Institutes are worldwide initiative by engaged with finding Rotary to eradicate polio 60s cures for Alzheimer’s, once and for all. Monies 80s autism, bipolar disorders, raised were matched by 1966 schizophrenia, Parkinson’s the Bill and Melinda Gates 1981 and dementia. Foundation. Dr. Charles Stewart R. Parke Ellis was David D. Redmond (’69L) retired after 40 years of 1974 inducted into the The was nominated by St. orthopedic practice in Insurance Business of Joseph Villa for the Boca Raton, Florida. He America’s 2018 Hall of Association of Fundraising looks forward to spending Chris Formant published Fame, and his daughter Chris Formant ’74 Professionals Central time with his three “Saving Washington: The Betsy Ellis Clement ’09 SAVING WASHINGTON: Virginia Chapter Volunteer grandchildren and Forgotten Story of the was named to the THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF Impact Award. traveling. Maryland 400 and the organization’s 2018 Young THE MARYLAND 400 AND Battle of Brooklyn” Guns list. THE BATTLE OF BROOKLYN 1969 (Permuted Press), which follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood 1983 Robert M. Buxton has friend Ben Wright, a freed served on the leadership black man, who enlist in 70s the Revolutionary War. John W. Perkinson Jr. board at the McGovern received the 2018 Max Institute for Brain 1973 Research at MIT since Steinbock award from The 2007. He has also served International Labor on the brain trust at the Hatton Smith ’73 and Rob Communications Zuckerman Mind Brain Couch ’78, ’82L Association for his article,

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 33 REFLECTING FORWARD W&L’s Special Sauce ALICIA HAY MATTHAI ’91 PRESIDENT, ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Washington and Lee alumni are enthusiastic! With over 27,000 of us, It is essential that alumni be active partners with the administra- we are the largest constituency of the university, and we care a great tion, faculty and trustees, channeling our devotion to help make W&L deal about its past, present and future. the very best it can be. Thirty are trustees, and 24 are on the Alumni Recently, I was at a college night for my son and several people Board. We serve on other leadership boards and councils, run our said that it doesn’t matter where you go to college. As a proud local chapters, promote the brand where we live, and support faculty alumna, I disagreed. W&L provides a top-tier education and produces and student activities. Alumni can and should help the university alumni who are passionate, impactful, honorable and loyal to our achieve the balance inherent in our motto. We need to move forward school and to each other. As someone recently described it, this as W&L always has, and we need to be distinctive among private “special sauce” makes us unique. liberal arts institutions. With gratitude to all of you, alumni play the defining role in When prospective students ask me what are the best parts of W&L, sustaining W&L. Spanning multiple generations, our sustained I mention my professors, the Honor System and the Speaking support has made it possible for the university to be strong. We Tradition. I also mention my friendship with an alumnus who endow scholarships, professorships and buildings; we encourage graduated 50 years before me. We talked often about how our students and each other in careers; we walk together through major experiences on campus and in Lexington shaped our lives. Otherwise life milestones. I join my eight closest W&L friends for annual separated by age, gender and technology, our education, our gatherings. In the early years, it was to compare notes on dating, later memories and our shared affection for W&L put us on the same page. it was our children, and more recently a spouse’s death, the loss of a It has been a great pleasure to serve as the Alumni Association parent and divorce. We may not see each other often, but the president. Come back to campus whenever you can and remember foundations are strong, and when life calls, we answer. that our collective voice is an integral part of W&L’s special sauce.

“Flying Heroes: ALPA where he recruits top law was “a very enjoyable Reserve with a Legion of Pilots Deliver Aid to 1986 firm partners. He and his time which must not Merit Award. He also Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto wife and two children, occur again.” received a Humanitarian Rico.” It is the organiza- Colette and Max, live in Service Medal for service Andrew A. St. John won tion’s highest honor for Cold Spring Harbor, New as the Staff Judge election to the city council journalistic excellence. The York. 1989 Advocate for the 1st of Brunswick, Maryland, in story appeared in the Mission Support Command August 2018. Michael F. Wacht was November 2017 issue of during relief efforts accepted into the online Wm. Weston J. Newton Air Line Pilot magazine. J. Greg Wheeler ’86 following Hurricanes Irma M.S. in communication received the inaugural relocated from Chicago to and Maria in Puerto Rico. program at Purdue Carl Levin Award for Birmingham, Alabama, as University’s Brian Lamb Effective Oversight from 1985 general manager, Blazer, School of Communication. The Levin Center at IMG sports marketing, at 1993 Wayne State University Kevin J. McClatchy was the University of Alabama Law School. promoted to associate at Birmingham athletics 1988 Curtis R. Joseph Jr. professor in the Depart- department. He’s enjoyed (’96L) is president of the ment of Theatre at The reconnecting with class- Shreveport Bar Ohio State University. He mates William King and Floyd M. Wiley III was Association. is the head of acting and Lee Hollis and working named to Forbes’ directing, as well as the with Hatton Smith ’73 to America’s Top Wealth director of The Shake- promote the Blazers, Advisors list. Wiley serves 90s 1994 speare and Autism Project which had its best year as a private wealth at OSU. He appeared in ever with an 11-3 record, advisor and managing 1992 “The Old Man and the Conference USA director in the private Daniel G. Katzenbach was Gun,” starring Robert Championship and Bowl banking and investment listed in Business North Redford, Sissy Spacek and Game win. group at Merrill Lynch in Col. Toby D. McCoy (’95L) Carolina magazine’s Legal Casey Affleck. He also has Atlanta. retired from the Army Elite. roles in the upcoming films Reserve. After nearly 30 Edward J. Willard had a “Extremely Wicked, 1987 years of military service, great lunch reconnecting Shockingly Evil and Vile” including four years of 1996 with SigEp fraternity (premiering at Sundance) ROTC at W&L and 26 Peter E. Van Son is a brother Jeffrey Britton and “Heartland,” and the years commissioned director at Major, Lindsey ’86, whom he hadn’t seen Robert J. Ross received upcoming NBC Universal service, McCoy was & Africa in New York City, since his graduation. It the OKCITYAN of the Year series “Gone.” recognized by the Army

34 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE IN THE TRADITION OF HER NOMADIC written exam for employment at the State ancestors, Roshni Nirody ’00 has been following a Department, she took the test herself and passed. life and career that is taking her around the She went on to take the oral exam and was world. offered a job. “I thought I’d last a year. It has been “It intrigued me how generations of my father’s amazing,” she said of her nearly 16 years with the family lived with no written records. How did department. they stay in constant motion and survive?” Her In Japan, she met the new ambassador, great-grandfather, born in central Asia, her Caroline Kennedy, on an elevator. It wasn’t long grandfather, born in Burma, and her father, born before Kennedy asked her to become her special in India, seem to have passed on to Nirody an advisor. Kennedy, she said, was “curious, athletic innate curiosity to keep moving and see what is and understood how policy issues manifested in out there beyond the next river, ocean or people’s lives.” The two rode bicycles along the mountain. coast of northern Japan to view damage from the Since 2006, she has worked for the U.S. Depart- tsunami, and Nirody was by her side while she ment of State, and she is currently stationed as gave speeches in 42 of the 47 prefectures in the political chief at the embassy in Lisbon, Portugal. country. And while she has moved around with State — As a diplomat, Nirody says she has a three-part ROSHNI NIRODY ’00 from India to Iraq and Japan — Nirody had an role: following guidance from Washington, such itch for travel even earlier in her life. as relaying important messages; negotiating to A Thomas J. Watson Foundation fellowship solve problems while not threatening bilateral allowed her to study the nomadic tribes in relationships; and providing support to visitors, A General Mexico, Thailand, India, Burma, China and especially congressional delegations, to the Ireland. She biked from the U.S.-Mexico border to embassy. For the latter role, she received the Guatemala, conducting research and helping William R. Rivkin Award for Constructive Dissent design small-scale economic development from the American Foreign Service Association. Abroad projects along the way. The organization cited her ideas for strategically While earning a master’s degree at Cornell taking advantage of congressional visits to engage BY LINDA EVANS University, Nirody traveled to Brazil on a graduate with Congress, shape the visits and leave a lasting research fellowship. There, she worked on efforts impression. to improve an education development project, Nirody and her family will be uprooted again “Goat to School,” aimed at eliminating soon, as she has received a one-year assignment malnutrition and raising literacy rates among in Washington, D.C., and will then become the child workers in rural areas of the country. political-economic chief at the U.S. embassy in After accompanying a friend who was taking a Indonesia.

Award and was featured in York and at numerous All Women Who Lead.” publication of E&E News, the Jan. 11 edition of the CASE and AFP The book has 70 United which covers energy, Oklahoma paper OKC. conferences in the U.S. Methodist young environment and natural and Europe. Upon arriving clergywomen (under 40) resource news. home, he, his wife, contributing to a book of 1998 Antoinette, and “Irish 100 devotions and 1 twins,” James, 2 /2, and additional prayers for 2005 Catherine, 1, moved to different occasions that Patrick O’Connell Bronxville, New York. arise in women’s lives. presented on Suzanne LaFleur “International Trends in Lauren Paxton Roberts published “Counting to Higher Education (’05L), an attorney with Perfect” (Wendy Lamb Philanthropy” at the Stites & Harbison, was Books), her sixth Emily A. Peck-McClain ’02 Universitad Catholica del named to the 2018 edition children’s book. Her co-edited WE PRAY WITH Chile during the 2018 of Mid-South SuperLawyers. protagonist, Cassie, is a HER: ENCOURAGEMENT FOR Summit Internacional 00s rising seventh grader and ALL WOMEN WHO LEAD Educación. Aside from a competitive swimmer academic pursuits, he was 2001 2003 who plans to spend her all too happy to consume summer at the pool. an unreasonable amount Lindsey Doran Sberna Maria Trimble Holvick of ceviche and a bit of Michael T. Pidgeon (’04L) (’06L) joined Steward (’08L) was promoted to Chilean wine while visiting was promoted to Health Care as deputy labor and employment Santiago. As a member of shareholder at Eastburn general counsel. chair for Gordan and Ree’s the Columbia University and Gray P.C. national retail and faculty, O’Connell has hospitality practice group. lectured on issues of 2002 2004 higher education Laura Westerman Tanner philanthropy at the was promoted to partner University of Oxford, the Katie Howell Beckman at Burr & Forman L.L.P. Emily A. Peck-McClain Suzanne LaFleur ’05 University of Bologna, has been named editor of co-edited “We Pray With COUNTING TO PERFECT International House New Her: Encouragement for Greenwire, the flagship

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 35 MAX ADLER ’04 NEVER WOULD HAVE drawing, noting, “Here was golf and art guessed that his love of golf and a studio art colliding in this amazing way. It definitely degree from Washington and Lee would one caught my attention.” day play a role in the release of an innocent From there, Adler visited Dixon and man from prison. began uncovering several holes in Dixon’s Adler, the editorial director at Golf Digest, case — including conflicting testimony from launched a lengthy investigation that recently witnesses and no trace of physical evidence led to the release of Valentino Dixon, a man linking Dixon to the murder. Then, in 2012, who had spent 27 years at a maximum-secu- Adler published a story in Golf Digest rity prison for a murder he didn’t commit. making the case for Dixon’s innocence, Dixon was suspected of fatally shooting which generated some interest from the Torriano Jackson in 1991 during a party that Golf Channel, NBC News and other media turned violent. Even though someone else outlets, but was not enough to completely confessed to the killing, Dixon was already on tip the scale in Dixon’s favor. MAX ADLER ’04 law enforcement’s radar for drug dealing. In 2018, Georgetown University’s Prisons In 2011, Adler was a staff writer at Golf and Justice Initiative heard of Dixon’s story Digest when he received a letter postmarked and filmed a documentary that uncovered from Attica Correctional Facility in upstate vital new evidence in the case. In September, The Art of New York. Along with a letter from Dixon was a new district attorney in Erie County, New a small drawing of a golf course rendered in York, agreed to vacate Dixon’s murder colored pencil. Although Dixon had never conviction, making him a free man. played a game of golf in his life, he began Adler is amazed by Dixon’s mental the Second drawing pictures of golf courses while in fortitude which enabled him to survive prison that were based on copies of Golf nearly 30 grueling years in one of the Digest. Inside the magazine, Dixon had found nation’s most dangerous prisons. But his a series of columns written by Adler under release was bittersweet. “It’s still wrong that Shot the title, “Golf Saved My Life.” he was in prison for so long and had the Adler, who played on the golf team at W&L, prime of his life taken from him.” BY ANNA AKINS ’17 was especially drawn to the beauty of Dixon’s

CAPTAIN’S LOG Wildlife Safari in Tanzania: Oct. 31-Nov. 11, 2018

W&L Alumni trips are known for the camaraderie they generate and for their intellectually stimulating adventures around the globe. A recent trip to Tanzania was no different, but this group asked an important question: “How can we give back to the community we’re visiting?” Rob Fure, director of Lifelong Learning, said, “I can still recall our visit to the Imani Orphanage Center during that heavy thunderstorm. It was Saturday morning, Nov. 3. We had barely escaped the onset of the rain and, after touring the shadowy interior of the orphanage, stood for several minutes on the front porch of the center watching the rainwater cascade from the roof just inches from a large black tank onto the red mud below. There was no money, the diminutive housemother explained, to connect the water catchment to the cistern — and, beyond that, nothing to install a spigot at the bottom of the tank.” The group’s tour guide, Robert Marks, explained that children collected water from the river, a few miles from the center. Several alumni suggested that something could be done about that. “And so we did,” said Fure. Alumni contributed enough funds to install appropriate water catchment from the roof to a standing cistern and various plumbing to enable residents to draw water from the cistern. There was also sufficient money to connect the orphanage to the local water service, as well. Marks, who oversaw the installation of these improvements, wrote, “We look Drake Leddy ’71 getting to know some of the children at the forward to hosting you when you return so that you can personally inspect these orphanage. developments. ‘Asante sana’ (thank you very much).”

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36 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE YOU MIGHT SAY THAT CHRISTINA CHEADLE and foster a better sense of community. “It ’16 is in charge of organizing the organizers. means a lot to them to see a member of Cheadle is community and events manager for KonMari Media and know they are supported,” KonMari Media Inc., the company founded by she said. tidying expert and Netflix star Marie Kondo with Interest has skyrocketed since the premiere a mission to “organize the world.” Her role is to of the Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie coordinate events for an international team of Kondo.” She already has 100 people signed up consultants who are trained in the KonMari for the next seminar in New York, and there method of helping clients identify items in their are 500 on the waiting list. Although she was homes that bring them joy and let go of those not directly involved with the series, Cheadle that don’t. did help organize consultants who worked It’s the perfect job for Cheadle. It’s part time, with six of the eight families on the show. so she is able to pursue a doctorate in Cheadle readily admits that she would not be a anthropology at University College London. And good consultant herself. “You need patience. it fits into her research on why it’s hard for People go on and on about their stuff,” she people to let go of their stuff. laughed. “I’ve steered clear of the hoarder topic A summa laude graduate in sociology and because I didn’t want to fight that label that anthropology and art history, Cheadle noted CHRISTINA CHEADLE ’16 suggests a mental illness,” she explained. “I want that other aspects of her time at W&L helped to study the average person and learn about why her land the KonMari job. The first was her we keep the things we do.” interest in Japanese, which led her take From her base in London, Cheadle makes courses from Janet Ikeda and attend the Organizing introductory calls and arranges workshops and Japan-America Student Conference. The networking events for some 240 certified second was her work as events coordinator consultants around the world. She plans an for her sorority. annual retreat for consultants and two or three “It is ironic that two random things I the World large seminars a year for people interested in did at W&L led me to this amazing job,” becoming consultants. She also produces she marveled. BY BARBARA ELLIOTT monthly webinars to help them stay connected

for an NBC digital project Amy Conant Hoang (’13L) 2008 she co-produced titled, was honored by Tahirih 2015 2017 “Battling Dementia: A Justice Center for her pro Mother and Son’s Incred- bono work for immigrant William B. Larson Jr. ible Journey.” The short women and girls. David J. Thomas was Alexandra J. Seymour (’11L) rejoined his prior film won in the category elected county auditor for received a yearlong Public Collin S. Peck (’10) joined law firm MG+M The Law outstanding feature story Ashtabula County, Ohio. Policy Fellowship with The the law firm of Milbank, Firm in the Wilmington, in a news magazine. Bratu Fund for American Studies. Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Delaware, office after two is a social media producer L.L.P. in its New York years of public service as for NBC Left Field. senior assistant city office as an associate in solicitor for the city of the real estate group. He CELEBRATING A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER Wilmington. He focuses on spent the previous three toxic tort litigation, years as an associate at All revenues from the University Store support W&L general litigation, and the New York office of the law firm Greenberg Traurig local government matters. YETI Insulated L.L.P. He is also vice chair of the 10s Wine Rambler $34.99 litigation section of the Delaware State Bar 2010 YETI Rambler 2012 Bottle $59.99 Association. J. Edward McAuliffe III Catherine M. Carlock has YETI Insulated left his position as an been named a Boston Aria Vainstein Allan Rambler Mug $34.99 assistant district attorney Power Woman by Bisnow, (’16L) joined Balch & for Orleans Parish, joining a commercial real estate Bingham L.L.P. as an the firm of Mouledoux, news and events company. attorney. Bland, Legrand & Brackett Carlock has been real in New Orleans. estate editor at the Boston Business Journal since 2014. 2009 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY STORE Alexandra V. Eichenbaum VIEW OUR ONLINE CATALOGUE AT GO.WLU.EDU/STORE (’16L) joined Georgia CONTACT US AT 540-458-8633 Rebecca R. Bratu won a Legal Services Program as

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1. Rian Lewis ’05 to office, and Andrew is a are Lat Purser ’73, Nan Mark Rentschler ’82, 5. Thomas Frith ’10, ’15L Andrew Perry on Nov. 17, middle school physics Clarke ’76L and Hal Clarke Lauren Travis Everett ’08, to Krista Consiglio ’15L on 2018 (the original wedding teacher. ’73, ’76L. The couple live in Peter Jones ’06, Whitney Oct. 20, 2018, in Roanoke. date was postponed due to 2. Sarah Helms ’07 to Charlotte, North Carolina. Duffey Jones ’08, Lyndsay The wedding party Hurricane Florence) in John Floyd on June 9, 3. Nelson O. Bunn Jr. ’08 Polloway ’06. Not pictured: included Meg Sawyer ’15L, Cape Charles, Virginia. 2018, in Charlotte, North to Trevor Pearson, at the Seth Feibelman ’08. Julie Mayer ’15L and Members of the bridal Carolina. Fellow Generals in Willard Hotel in downtown 4. Coleman Nalley ’09 to Hannah Shtein ’15L. In party included Kelly Jo attendance were Phifer Washington, D.C., on Nov. 3, Carson Raymond on April attendance were many Larsen ’05 and Allen Barry Helms ’74 (father of the 2018. They reside in the 7, 2018. The wedding and W&L alumni, including ’05. Alumni in attendance bride), Ginny Helms Warlick North Michigan Park reception were held on Claire Leonard ’16L, included Dustin Jacobson ’05 and Caroline Helms ’11 neighborhood in Washing- Saint Simons Island, Richard Doelling ’15L, Matt ’05, Calvin Awkward ’06, (sisters of the bride and ton, D.C. Attendees Georgia. From l. to r.: Jim Winer ’15L, Stevi Frost ’15L, ’09L, Bernie Lewis ’74 matron & maid of honor), included: Madeline Gent Thomas, Katherine Thomas Adam Wendel ’15L, Zach (bride’s father), and Mark Anne Wiltshire Henry ’07 ’08, Mike Fahey ’08, Jacques ’05, Lane Nalley Agge ’15L, Cristina Agee Schmidtke ’81L (maid of and Huntley Rodes ’07 Whitney Rothstein Fleschler ’74 (father of the bride), ’15L, Scott Burton ’16L, honor’s father). The couple (bridesmaids), Kelly Price ’08, Megan Nelson Ratwani Kara McElroy Hagerty ’09 Joey Connor ’15L, Julian reside in Newport News, Rivera ’07, Amy Volkmann ’08, Adam Hoehn ’08, (matron of honor), Laura Harf ’16L, Meghan Flinn Virginia, with their two Roberts ’07, Sarah Otey Trevor Pearson, Anne Sanders Boles ’09 ’14L, Austin Lomax ’15L, dogs. Rian is a supervising ’07, Neil and Susan Hassell Hoehn ’08, Nelson (bridesmaid), Baker Boles Wes Smith ’15L, Davis Frith attorney at the Newport Cunningham and Mike Bunn ’08, Alex Csordas ’09 and Mary Catherine ’13, Will Hoing ’15L and News Public Defender McGarry ’87. Not pictured ’08, Stevenson Bunn ’11, Burdine ’08 (bridesmaid). John Ditore ’10.

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Megan Fink Brevard ’00 Amanda Lueders Heitz Lisa M. Martinez ’08 and her husband, Dale, a ’05 and her husband, and her husband, Adam son, Theodore, on Nov. 1, Stephen, a son, Gabriel Banks, a daughter, Sophia, 2018. The couple reside in Endeavour, in July 2018. on Jan. 24. Matthews, North Carolina. Amanda is a senior counsel in Bowman and Edward McAuliffe III ’08 Courtenay Fisher Clark Brooke’s Phoenix office, and Laura Denny ’02, ’09L and Chris Clark where she has a trial and McAuliffe ’08, a son, John ’02, a daughter, Lucy appellate practice. Edward IV, on Aug. 3, 2018. Baylor Clark, on May 11, Stephen is the chief He joins sisters, Cecilia, 4 2018. She joins sister innovation officer for and Margaret, 2. 11 Piper Lee Clark. The family Lavidge, a Phoenix-based live in Charlotte, North advertising agency. Gus Cavanaugh ’10 Carolina. and Katharine Scott George D. Johnson III ’05 Cavanaugh ’09, a son, Tracy Johnson McKinney and his wife, Carter, a son, Liam Gustaf, on ’02 and her husband, George “Dean” IV, on Nov. Sept. 7, 2018. Scott, a son, Tyler James 7, 2018. The family reside on Dec. 4, 2018. He joins in Spartanburg, South Diana Burgreen Martinez Clayton, 5, and Katie Paige, Carolina. ’09 and Peter Martinez 3. Tracy is enjoying her ’09, a daughter, Victoria extended maternity leave Mary Hammon Lee Quinn Anne, on Oct. 11, 2018. from American Express, ’06 and her husband, She joins brother Michael. where she has worked for Jacob, a son, Peter, on They live in Houston. 12 seven years. The family Aug. 21, 2018. He joins reside in Houston. brother, Seamus, 2, and Taylor E. Mitchell ’09 the family live in Houston. and his wife, Heloise, David W. Skeen Jr. ’02 a daughter, Catharine and his wife, Mackenzie, a Charles R. Yates III ’06, “Kavanaugh,” on son, Tully, on Aug. 7, 2018. ’10L and his wife, Lane, a April 24, 2018. Elizabeth Steitz, Bryan Not Shown: son, Charlie Yates IV, on Mullady, Julia Martin, Dr. Charles E. Stewart Gavin Dean ’00 and Oct. 16, 2018. His Heather Jordan Teass ’09 Stephen Sims, Lizzie ’69 to Margaret Lafley Emma Thomas Dean ’03, grandfather is Charlie and her husband, Tyler, a Weston, Max Krauss, on Oct 6, 2018, in a daughter, Megan Harriet Yates Jr. ’70. daughter, Ellis Mae, on Margaret Tolmie, Charlotte Naples, Florida. Scott Dean, on Sept. 24, 2018. May 11, 2018. She joins Collins, Libby Cloos, Lilie Fechnay ’69 and Miles,7, Wills, 5, and Clayton T. Edwards Jr. brother Avett Lee. They Jane Hudson, Ellie Fossier, Randolph Brinton ’68 Jonathan, 3, are enjoying ’07 and his wife, Emily, a live in Charlottesville. Sarah Jessee and Chandler attended the wedding being big brothers. daughter, Elizabeth Black, and Turner Allison celebration. “Lanier” on Dec. 14, 2018. Skip Wood ’11 and Anne ’15 and Bill Metzger ’85. John K. Weedon ’03 and She joins sister Amelia. Collier Reid Wood ’11, a 12. Tyler Anderson ’15 to Alexandra Foley ’06 to his wife, Brooke, a daughter, Mary Marshall, Blake Spencer ’15 on Sept. Chris Arntz on Feb. 3 in daughter, Liza Dailey on Elizabeth Brandler on Oct. 3, 2018. The family 22, 2018, in Raleigh, North Healdsburg, California. June 13, 2018. She joins Danowski ’08 and Sean reside in Atlanta. Carolina. brothers Jake and Beau, Danowski ’07, a son, Rory, Amanda Tholke ’08 to grandfather Jerry Weedon on Dec. 5, 2018. He joins Kyle Hollenkamp on ’70 and aunt Lauren sister Emma. Lil took a Sept. 14, 2018. The Weedon Hopkins ’99. The full-time role with Snag as ceremony was officiated family live in Jacksonville, a senior revenue by Will Waller ’08, with Florida. operations specialist, and Allison Hamil ’06, Sean is training to Emilee Johnson ’06, Stacy Sweet Patlovich become a financial Jenna Walls ’09 and ’04 and her husband, Eric, advisor with Edward Stephanie Hardiman a son, Andrew Frederick, Jones. They live in Simon ’10 in attendance. on Feb. 1, 2018. He joins Richmond. brother Whit. The family live in Washington, D.C.

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1. Maj. Kim Stenson ’75 2. In mid-October, several 3. At the Montpelier Hunt 5. The brothers of Phi 6. Members of the Class of (left) met with Congress- members of the Class of Races in Orange, Virginia, Gamma Delta had their 1993 had a mini-reunion in man Joe Wilson ’69 at the ’78 and their wives held November 2018. Front row, annual gathering in Pittsburgh. From l. to r.: State Emergency what is becoming an l. to r.: George Lupton III Annapolis, Maryland in Stephanie Sauers Operations Center in annual reunion at ’84, Jim Higgason ’84 and early September to enjoy McCaffrey, Cara Snyder, South Carolina in the Pawleys Island, South David Perdue ’85. Back some steamed crabs and Kimberly Marcott aftermath of Hurricane Carolina, where we row, l. to r.: Steve Bend- Natty Boh’s. Pictured: Weinberg, Jennifer Florence and during reveled in the memory of heim ’85, Ben Hale ’85, Keith Boyd ’89, Tony Zambone, and Teresa preparations for Hurri- graduating from an William Cocke ’82 and Jay Waskewicz ’89, James Williams Pope. Over the cane Michael. Kim serves honorable and unique Josey ’86. Cotter ’88, Gary Appel long weekend the dear as the director, South institution. L. to r.: John ’87, Mitchell Schmale ’91, friends caught up and rem- Carolina Emergency Hill, Mike Cleary, Mark 4. The Phi Delta Theta Joe Zamorano ’89, Jason inisced while taking in a Management Division, and Putney, Mark Hampton, Class of ’84 reunion at Sea Russo ’89, Rob McPher- Pirates game, visiting the Congressman Wilson Rob Sult, Tommy Tift, Island, Georgia. Front row, son ’89, Rich Montague Warhol Museum, paying stopped by several times Travis Bass and John l. to r.: John Cleghorn, ’90, Tony Demartino ’89 homage to Fred Rogers at for updates on emergency Martin. Edwin Bell, Bubba Shaffer, and Andrew Hermer ’89. the Heinz History Center operations. Charlie Alcorn, Eddie and shopping at the Strip. Curran and Parker They are already planning Schenecker. Back row, l. to to get together again for a r.: Louis Jehl, Peter Collins, certain milestone birthday Jimmy Fay, Chip Skinner, they will all have in a few Tommy Pritchard, Emery years! Ellinger and Jeff Maddox.

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 41 Jared A. Close ’45, of Carolina, died on Nov. 10, James T. Hedrick ’50, of He served in the Navy OBITS Fairfield, Virginia, died on 2018. He served in the Durham, North Carolina, during World War II. He Jan. 16, 2018. He served cavalry and infantry died on Oct. 24, 2018. He worked for GE and 1940s in the Air Force during during World War II. He served in the Army. He belonged to Beta Theta Pi. World War II. He retired as fought in the Battle of the was a lawyer and The Rev. Thomas C. Davis vice president of public Bulge. He worked in the president of the Durham Jr. ’51, of Clemson, South James P. Fristoe ’40, of affairs for Sunnyside securities industry and County Bar Assoc. He Carolina, died on Jan. 13, Lady Lake, Florida, died Presbyterian Home. He was a principal with V.M. belonged to Beta Theta 2018. He served in the on Jan. 19. He served in belonged to Delta Upsilon. Manning & Co. He Pi. Army during the Vietnam the Navy and belonged to belonged to Phi Delta Robert A. Warms ’47, of John J. Macheras ’50, of War. He retired as rector Lambda Chi Alpha. Theta. Melrose Park, Pennsylvan- Melbourne, Florida, died of Holy Trinity Episcopal James A. Russell Jr. ’41 ia, died on July 23, 2018. Kenneth H. Wacker ’49, of on Oct. 3, 2018. He served Church in Clemson. of Clarksdale, Mississippi, He worked in advertising. Hobe Sound, Florida, died in the Army and worked in Robert E. Glenn ’51, ’53L, died on Jan. 30, 2017. He on April 21, 2018. He education. Josiah P. Rowe III ’48, of of Roanoke, died on Oct. served in the Army during belonged to Sigma Nu. Fredericksburg, Virginia, Augustine J. Signaigo 18, 2018. He served in the World War II and Korea. died on Nov. 3, 2018. He ’50, of Welch, West Air Force and practiced He received numerous served in the Army, was Virginia, died on Dec. 18, law in Roanoke with Glenn, medals while serving in 1950s the mayor of Fredericks- 2018. He retired as Feldmann, Darby and the military. He belonged burg and was the general president of The Bank of Goodlatte. He was father to Sigma Alpha Epsilon. manager and publisher of James Q. Agnew ’50, of Iaeger. He belonged to Pi to Bob Glenn Jr. ’86 and Samuel B. Read ’42L, of The Free Lance-Star, Irvington, Virginia, died on Kappa Alpha. grandfather to Robert Manassas, Virginia, died whose companies included Nov. 16. He served in the O’Brien ’16. He belonged Gerry U. Stephens ’50, of on Jan. 25. WFLS, WYSK, WWUZ, Army during the Korean to Pi Kappa Phi. Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, fredericksburg.com and War. He was father-in-law Donald E. Garretson ’43, died on Dec. 20, 2018. He John A. F. Hall Jr. ’51, of Print Innovators. He was to Alexis LaMotte ’78 and of Saint Paul, Minnesota, served in the Army during Fairfield, Pennsylvania, grandfather to Katherine great-uncle to Sarah died on Jan. 26. He World War II. He worked at died on Oct. 30, 2018. He Roberts Sackman ’12, Agnew ’16. He belonged to served in the Navy during American National and belonged to Phi Kappa uncle to John Rowe ’87, Sigma Nu. World War II. His 35-year was great uncle to Sigma. great-uncle to Scott Gould career with 3M included Allen W. Faris ’50, of Elizabeth ’21 and Harper ’15 and cousin to Ariel Peyton S. Kulman ’51, of serving as the company’s Powhatan, Virginia, died Lanier ’21L. He belonged Rowe ’60. He belonged to Boca Raton, Florida, died CFO and as president of on Feb. 9, 2017. He was to Beta Theta Pi. Delta Tau Delta. on March 29, 2017. He was the 3M Foundation. He uncle to Douglas Faris ’76 Chester A. Williams Jr. an investment counselor belonged to Delta Tau John C. Dillon ’49, of and belonged to Phi ’50, of Statesville, North with Eckhouse, Kulman & Delta. Woodstock, Connecticut, Gamma Delta. Carolina, died on Oct. 4. Co. died on Sept. 14, 2018. He Bryant W. Gillespie III served in the Navy during ’44, of Lombard, Illinois, World War II. He was the died on Aug. 1, 2018. He owner of The Russian HENRY SHARP JR., PROFESSOR OF served in the Army during Bear Inn in Thompson, World War II. He produced MATHEMATICS EMERITUS and he also authored two his own daily radio books, “Blasted Apes” and programs under the Henry Sharp Jr., Rupert and Lillian Radford “Rhyme and Reason.” pseudonym of Gil Bryan; Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, died Sept. “A Time To Remember” Dewey L. Mitchell ’49, of 23, 2018, in Lexington. He was 94. and “A Thought For Roanoke, died on Aug. 23, Today,” were broadcast in 2017. He served in the Before joining the W&L faculty as head of the 39 states and Canada. He Army during World War II. Mathematics Department in 1983, he taught at was vice president of Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory Leonard Curly A. Nixon broadcasting at ’49, of Knoxville, University. Sharp retired from W&L in 1991. Nightingale Conant Corp. Tennessee, died on Sept. Sharp’s research interests included graph in Chicago. He belonged 5, 2018. He served in the to Phi Gamma Delta. theory and combinatorial mathematics, and he Navy during World War II. received an NSF grant and an NSF science faculty fellowship to study these Dr. Lloyd H. Holly Smith He owned and operated a topics. He published numerous papers for professional journals and wrote Jr. ’44, of Kentfield, heavy equipment business California, died on June in Knoxville, as well as four pre-calculus textbooks. 18, 2018. He helped Southeastern Machinery After retirement, Sharp volunteered as a mentor/tutor in the Lexington transform UC San and Roadtec. He was and Rockbridge County public schools, where he earned the esteem of Francisco into a grandfather to Christina many young students, parents and teachers. He joined the board for the world-renowned health Nixon Bone ’12 and Kendal at Lexington Retirement Community, and he and his wife were sciences university. He Caroline Nixon ’15. He was uncle to Lloyd Sams belonged to Phi Gamma among the earliest residents there. He continued his lifelong interest in ’78 and belonged to Delta Delta. education by offering a number of short courses in mathematics for fellow Tau Delta. William K. Stephenson Kendal residents. ’49, of Greenville, South Read the full obit at go.wlu.edu/sharp_obit.

42 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE Richard H. Sherrill ’54, of Pensacola, Florida, died on DAVID B. DICKENS, Jan. 17, 2018. He served in the Navy. He founded PROFESSOR OF GERMAN EMERITUS Sherrill Realty and Sherrill Appraisal Co. He was David B. Dickens, professor of German emeritus, died on Jan. 9, 2019. He brother to Charlie Sherrill was 85. ’60 and uncle to Charlie As well as teaching all levels of conversational German, he taught Sherrill Jr. ’84, Phil Sherrill ’90 and Richard German literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, German cultural history, Sherrill ’94. He belonged and literature of the fantastic. His research interests included Kurt to Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Kusenberg, whom Dickens described as “the 20th-century German Donald E. West ’54, of existentialist with a sense of humor”; Clemens Brentano, a key figure of Burlington, North Carolina, German Romanticism; and vampires. died on Jan. 5. He served On the occasion of his retirement in 2007, his colleagues noted in a tribute written by Roger in the Army and worked Crockett, professor of German, that many of W&L’s “successful German majors started their careers for New York Telephone, with the Dickens Breakfast Club. The A-hour Dickens section of Elementary German began officially at AT&T and American Bell 7:55 a.m., right at the conclusion of the 7 a.m. office hour. Stragglers who arrived at 8 a.m. found their International. He belonged classmates already hard at work. It was not an environment for fraternity revelers, especially on to Delta Upsilon. Thursday morning when there was reliably a quiz, but it was a locus amoenus for the serious language Thomas E. Lohrey Jr. ’55, learner.” ’57L, of Port Ludlow, Dickens published “Negative Spring: Crisis Imagery in the Works of Brentano, Lenau, Rilke, and T.S. Washington, died on Feb. 11, 2018. He belonged to Eliot,” as well as numerous articles and translations of German short stories, poems and articles. Delta Tau Delta. In the ’70s, as Spring Term became part of the curriculum, he created one of W&L’s first total-immer- sion language programs using contacts throughout southern Germany, especially at the University of Dr. Charles E. Dobbs ’56, Bayreuth. Dickens was also W&L’s resident vexillologist and was instrumental in helping W&L when of Louisville, Kentucky, died on Dec. 16, 2018. He the university began displaying flags to honor international graduates in 1995, lending many from his served in the Navy. He personal collection. Flag Day was celebrated in style at the Dickens residence (a.k.a. the Blue House), practiced medicine for 38 which hosted numerous students over the years and where only German was spoken. years in Louisville. He In Lexington, Dickens was a founding member of the Friends and Relatives of Gilbert and Sullivan, belonged to Phi Kappa Psi. on the board of directors for the Rockbridge Concert-Theater Series, a member of the Lexington Flower Col. Carl P. Flanagan Jr. Committee and served on the advisory board for the Lexington City Schools Gifted and Talented ’56, of Fayetteville, North Program. He also designed the official cachet for the first-day cover of the 20¢ George C. Marshall Carolina, died on Sept. 14, stamp for the George C. Marshall Research Library and Museum. He enjoyed carpentry, reading, 2018. He served in the philately, cooking, traveling and creating block-cut Christmas cards. Army and worked in the Cumberland County tax Read the full obit at go.wlu.edu/dickens_obit. office. He was father to Carl Flanagan III ’75 and Norwood A. McDaniel ’51, Eugene M. Anderson Jr. May 15, 2017. He served in to Gary Pouch III ’78. He belonged to Delta Tau of Punta Gorda, Florida, ’52, ’54L, of Davidson, the Navy and belonged to belonged to Sigma Alpha Delta. died on Sept. 29, 2017. He North Carolina, died on Lambda Chi Alpha. Epsilon. Philip D. Monger ’56, of was an insurance broker, Jan. 16. He served in the Stuart J. Bracken ’54, of Charles F. Gambill ’54, of Miami, Florida, died on businessman and Air Force and retired from Hyannis, Massachusetts, Batavia, Illinois, died on July 31, 2017. He belonged philanthropist. Barclays Bank. He died on Sept. 9, 2018. He Jan. 16, 2018. He served to Delta Upsilon. belonged to Pi Kappa Phi. James H. Patten IV ’51, of served in the Army. He in the Army and founded Jeb J. Rosebrook ’57, of Birmingham, Alabama, Richard Q. Calvelli ’52, of worked for Merrill Lynch. Gambill Development Scottsdale, Arizona, died died on Oct. 9, 2108. He Vero Beach, Florida, died He was father to Geoffrey Corp. He belonged to Phi on Aug. 31, 2018. He was a served in the Navy and on May 16, 2018. He Bracken ’84L and Kappa Sigma. screenwriter and novelist. worked for J.C. Bradford & belonged to Lambda Chi great-uncle to John William R. Carrington He belonged to Delta Co. He was uncle to Ed Alpha. Warner III ’20. He Jones ’54, of Memphis, Upsilon. Christian ’91 and belonged belonged to Sigma Alpha Otis W. Howe Jr. ’52, of Tennessee, died on Jan. to Beta Theta Pi. Epsilon. Thomas L. Gates ’58, of Little Rock, Arkansas, died 13. He worked in real Midlothian, Virginia, died Irving M. Shlesinger ’51, of on Jan. 3. He owned Howe Ralph R. Burchenal ’54, estate at Carrington on Sept. 23, 2018. He Atlanta, died on Nov. 22, Insurance. He was brother of Glendale, Ohio, died on Jones Co. and belonged to worked as a systems 2018. He served in the to Jim Howe ’56 and Sept. 10, 2018. He served Sigma Alpha Epsilon. engineer and in Army during the Korean belonged to Sigma Chi. in the Army, was executive Henry C. Murfey Jr. ’54, management for IBM, War. He was senior vice president of the Robert C. Louthian Jr. of Plantation, Florida, died Control Data and the executive and co-owner of Central Trust Bank and ’52L, of Ashburn, Virginia, on Oct. 8, 2018. He served American Horticulture Dittler Brothers. He owned First Mason Bank. died on March 5, 2017. in the Army and was a Society. He belonged to belonged to Zeta Beta Tau. He was father to James financial consultant. Delta Upsilon. Charles H. Tyldsley ’53, Burchenal ’83 and uncle of San Francisco, died on

MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 43 Gary D. McPherson ’58, of Morgantown, West Virginia, MARIO PELLICCIARO, died on Dec. 5, 2018. He was head coach of the VMI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS EMERITUS basketball team and an assistant coach for at West Mario Nicholas Pellicciaro, associate professor of classics emeritus, died on Virginia University. He later Nov. 8, 2018. He was 89. worked for the Mountaineer Pellicciaro joined the W&L faculty in 1966 and retired in 1999. “As a Athletic Club. He belonged to Phi Kappa Psi. teacher, he was one who left a deep impression on a select few of the studentry,” said Lash LaRue ’59, W&L professor of law emeritus, on the Frederick H. Tarr III ’58, occasion of Pellicciaro’s retirement. “There are not many students who of Rockport, Massachu- setts, died on Sept. 25, wander into Greek, and the intense intellectualism and rigorous theorizing 2018. He served in the that he brought to the subject was not what many of those expected, or Army and belonged to Pi wanted, in an introductory language course, since he never drilled them on Kappa Phi. the forms but instead gave them the deep theory that generated the forms. He taught them to think Richard F. Cummins ’59, seriously about thinking. And he taught them how to tell when it was important to know whether a of Nashville, Tennessee, Greek verb was in the middle voice of the optative mood, instead of the passive voice of the subjunctive died on Jan. 5. He served mood; he taught them to know how major issues of Platonic scholarship could turn on such a nuance.” in the Army. He was president of the Cumber- Pellicciaro taught ancient Greek, Greek and Latin literature in translation, structural linguistics, Greek land Oil Co. and Cumber- art, philosophy and Italian. For many years he organized and conducted the university’s travel study land Terminals and general program in Greece. He served as a member of W&L’s Glasgow Endowment Committee and on the partner of Fenner-Spel- editorial board of the university’s literary magazine, Shenandoah. man. He was father to He and his wife, Barbara, were founding members of the Lime Kiln Arts board of directors. He was Elizabeth Cummins ’89 and Richard Cummins Jr. responsible for the calligraphy design and spelling of the names of ancient Greek artists for his friend ’95 and grandfather to Cy Twombly ’53’s ceiling design in the Salle des Bronzes, Louvre, Paris. His love for classics included Fenner Pollock ’22. He continually translating text in one of the eight different languages he could read. He was always belonged to Sigma Alpha improving translations of text: biblical, classical, old English, French. His love for all things Italian Epsilon. included cooking Italian as his mother taught him, and this was almost always for a large group of his Peter P. Griffin ’59L, of friends and students. He was always willing to teach friends and students a cooking secret or skill. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, Read the full obit at go.wlu.edu/Pellicciaro _obit. died on Nov. 16, 2018. He served in the Army. He was in private practice. 2018. He served in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Agents Assoc. He was Maryland and rector of St. Army. He was a family father to Cynthia Walton John’s Mt. Washington. John K. McClung Jr. ’63, physician. He was cousin Frazier ’90 and Layton 1960s of Rockbridge Baths, A. Thomas Brisendine Jr. to Robert Kell ’64. Walton Prochazka ’93. He Virginia, died on Sept. 14, ’68L, of Woodbridge, belonged to Phi Delta Daniel F. Chitwood Jr. 2018. He worked for a Virginia, died on March 7, Albin T. Chalk II ’60, of Theta. ’62, of Louisville, nonprofit agency and was 2015. He served in the Silver City, New Mexico, Kentucky, died on Nov. 7, a real estate agent. He Thomas A. Baither ’65, of Army Judge Advocate died on March 12, 2018. He 2017. He served in the was brother to Bill Toledo, Ohio, died on Dec. General’s Corps. He was a belonged to Lambda Chi Army. He was a developer McClung ’66, ’69L. 20, 2018. He served in the director at Deloitte & Alpha. and an accountant with Army. He was a partner in Touche. He was father to James L. McKenna Jr. H. Gerald Shields ’60, of the Kentucky Transporta- Touchtone Wealth Part- Scott Brisendine ’90. ’63, of Webster, Texas, Newport News, Virginia, tion Cabinet. He belonged ners with UBS Financial died on Jan. 26. He taught James D. Settle ’68, of died on Oct. 16, 2018. He to Sigma Nu. Services. He was brother- at San Jacinto Forest, Virginia, died on was owner of Saraville Bed in-law to John Walbridge Benjamin P. Michel ’62, Community College and Nov. 12, 2018. He served in and Breakfast in Alma, ’55 and belonged to Phi ’64L, of Basking Ridge, belonged to Lambda Chi the Army and retired from Michigan, and had taught Delta Theta. New Jersey, died on Jan. Alpha. the United Way of at and directed many 2. He served in the Army. Col. Robert R. Baldwin America. schools in the U.S. and Arthur H. Portnoy ’63, of He was a senior partner ’66L, of Randolph, New abroad. Middlebury, Connecticut, Theodore J. Duncan III at the law firm Riker Jersey, died on Jan. 11, died on May 22, 2018. He ’69, of Houston, died on Aubrey B. Calvin ’62, of Danzig. He belonged to 2018. He served in the belonged to Zeta Beta Tau. Dec. 31, 2018. He served in Houston, died on Jan 22. Delta Upsilon. Army. He was a tax the Navy. He was a finan- He served in the Air Force. Augustus B. Walton Jr. attorney with Metropol- Richard T. Mosby ’62, of cial advisor at Merrill He worked in various ’64, of Little Rock, itan Life Insurance Co. Lynchburg, Virginia, died Lynch. He belonged to Houston law firms before Arkansas, died on Dec. 27, on March 30, 2018. He The Rev. Lance A.B. Sigma Chi. founding his own firm. 2018. He served in the worked for Coleman Gifford ’66, of Baltimore, Marines. He was president David H. Stovall Jr. ’69, of Dr. Robert P. Carroll Jr. Adams. He was brother-in- Maryland, died on Nov. 20, of World Wide Travel and Charlotte, North Carolina, ’62, of Nacogdoches, law to Starke Mundy III 2018. He was an Episcopal of The Arkansas Travel died on Aug. 23, 2018. He Texas, died on Dec. 24, ’68L and belonged to priest in the Diocese of was CEO of Stein Mart. He

44 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE was father to Courtney Stovall Gentzel ’99 and 1980s TOM WILLIAMS, Nathan Stovall ’03. He belonged to Pi Kappa EDWIN A. MORRIS PROFESSOR OF Alpha. Kelly M. Hollins ’80, of Decatur, Georgia, died on PHYSICS EMERITUS Paul N. Wojcik ’69, of Jan. 28, 2018. He was an McLean, Virginia, died on independent stock Harry Thomas “Tom” Williams Jr., Edwin A. Morris Oct. 24, 2018. He was investor. chair and CEO of Professor of Physics Emeritus, died Feb. 1, 2019. He Bloomberg BNA Inc. Matthew B. Dennen ’82, was 77. of Garden City, New York, Williams joined the W&L faculty in 1974 and died on Oct. 3, 2018. He retired from W&L in 2011. 1970s belonged to Sigma Nu. As well as teaching intro to physics, he also Thomas C. Havens ’85L, taught quantum mechanics, his favorite class. “It is the last class physics of Port Washington, New Clifford H. Jones ’71, of majors take and the one they are least likely to understand,” he said. “It’s York, died on Aug. 27, Leland, North Carolina, tough to sell a bill of goods that no one understands.” His research interests died on Nov. 7, 2018. 2018. He was a partner in the law firm of Loeb & included quantum information theory and non-equilibrium statistical Richard W. Regan ’71, of Loeb. He was brother to mechanics involving both analytical approaches and computer simulations Paradise Valley, Arizona, Karen Havens Leone ’90L. to address system behavior in one and more dimensions. died on Sept. 24, 2018. He “Tom Williams loved physics,” said Ron Reese, professor of physics worked in banking in emeritus. “He was the benevolent, humble and soft-spoken lion of the Atlanta and Denver. He 1990s belonged to Delta Upsilon. department. An eloquent lecturer and extemporaneous speaker, Tom could find the kernel of any topic and wax eloquently (and briefly!) about it. We’ve Dr. Michael W. McCall ’72, Thomas I. Hayes III ’90, lost a great and wonderful colleague. I can hear him now chatting with the of Louisville, Kentucky, of Atlanta, died on Nov. 17, Almighty, smiling and saying, ‘So that’s how quantum mechanics and died on Oct. 29, 2018. He 2018. He was an was a clinical professor at investment banker and general relativity are compatible. Elegant!’ ” the University of private wealth manager. Williams twice served as head of the Physics Department, as well as Louisville, where he He belonged to Pi Kappa associate dean of the College from 1986-89, as acting dean from 2002-03, founded the Mohs Alpha. and as provost from 2003-07 before returning to teaching. During his time Micrographic Surgery in Washington Hall, Williams oversaw the now thriving Campus Kitchen Fellowship. He belonged Giles G. Perkins ’92L, of project, as well as the Science, Society and the Arts conference. He also to Phi Gamma Delta. Birmingham, Alabama, died on Dec. 2, 2018. He helped secure the $33 million Lenfest endowment to supplement faculty Roy L. Rike ’73, of was an attorney and salaries. Brunswick, Maine, died on former Alabama He published more than 30 articles on atomic and particle physics, many Oct. 19, 2018. He worked Democratic Party co-authored with colleagues in the physics and mathematics departments for the Maine Department executive director. He was of Environmental husband to Hillery Head and with W&L students. In 2016, he published “Discrete Quantum Protection. Perkins ’92L, brother to Mechanics.” Thomas G. Van Amburgh Drew Perkins Jr. ’84 and Irina Mazilu, professor of physics, said, “If you wanted to learn about the ’73, of Dallas, died on Dec. brother-in-law to Ellen soul of W&L, you took a leisurely walk around campus with Tom. Past the 15, 2018. He practiced Green Perkins ’90. Leyburn and Science libraries, he would have told you about how proud he general civil law. He was was of the expansive book collections, his love of literature and writing, brother to Steve Van Retirees and about Jorge Luis Borges and Flannery O’Connor. And if you wanted to hear Amburgh ’75 and Mike Tom brag, you would have come to Howe (and Why) Hall. He would have Van Amburgh ’80. He Other Friends enthusiastically told you about his wonderful colleagues — ‘good, smart belonged to Sigma Alpha Boyd Horne Jr., former people’ — and their accomplishments, and his great students. And if you Epsilon. custodian in the Athletics Department, died on Dec. were lucky, maybe you would have caught a glimpse of Tom in front of the Paul R. Holland III ’74, of white board, writing his beloved equations in happy shades of red and Herndon, Virginia, died on 11, 2018. He was 75. Boyd Nov. 3, 2018. He served in joined W&L in 1988 and green. To use the physicist Richard Feynman’s words, ‘the pleasure of the Army. He worked for retired in 2007. finding things out’ was at the very core of Tom’s life.” BDM, Logicon and John E. Stuckey, former Read the full obit at go.wlu.edu/Williams_obit. Northrop Grumman as a director of University government contractor. Computing (now ITS), died He belonged to Phi Kappa Nov. 3, 2018. He was 76. of the central servers and Psi. Stuckey joined W&L in systems offering data file This issue contains notices Questions? storage, administrative Douglas V. McNeel 1991. During his 15-year about deaths that we Please email us at applications and campus ’74,’78L, of Helotes, career at W&L he was received before our deadline, [email protected]. networking, linking PCs to Texas, died on Oct. 5, instrumental in moving the which is about three months each other, to printers and 2018. 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MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 45 JOHN OTHO MARSH JR., JOHN W. POYNOR ’62 FORMER SECRETARY John Poynor ’62, of Birmingham, Alabama, died OF THE ARMY Oct. 6, 2018. As a student, Poynor was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and the Concert Guild and John Otho Marsh Jr., a member of the School of worked on the Calyx and Ring-tum Phi. He Law Class of 1951 who served as Secretary of the attended the University of Alabama School of Army in the 1980s, died on Feb. 4 at an assisted Medicine, served in the Air Force for two years living facility in Raphine, Virginia. He was 92. then practiced at St. Vincent’s Hospital for 47 years. A native of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Marsh He was a dedicated volunteer for W&L, serving enlisted in the Army out of high school and as a reunion class committee member, a board served as a lieutenant with American member of the George Washington Society, occupation forces in postwar Germany. director of the Alumni Board and president of He entered W&L as an undergraduate in September 1947 with transfer credits the Birmingham Alumni chapter. In 2017, W&L from Madison College (now James Madison University). He took undergraduate awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Award. classes through 1947-1948, including the summer and fall of 1948. In the spring of 1949, he was admitted to the School of Law as a second-year, or intermediate, student. He completed the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and graduated in August JOHN MCGUIRE ’53 1959. While at W&L, Marsh was active in numerous campus activities. He was a John D. Maguire ’53, a member of Phi Kappa Psi, served on the Assimilation Committee, ran track and colleague of Martin cross country, and was a member of the Cotillion Club and Fancy Dress. Luther King Jr., an After being admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1952, Marsh practiced law in original Freedom Rider Strasburg, serving as town judge. From 1954 to 1962, he was the town attorney and former president of in New Market. Marsh won election to the U.S. House of Representative as a SUNY Old Westbury Democrat from Virginia (1963-71). While serving as in the House in 1966, he and Claremont volunteered for a month-long stint in the Vietnam War as part of his National Graduate University, Guard duty without ever telling his fellow soldiers that he was a congressman. died Oct. 26, 2018. He In 1973, Marsh was appointed U.S. Secretary of Defense and, in January 1974, was 86. as National Security Advisor for Vice President Gerald Ford. He was considered Maguire graduated from W&L with a degree in one of Ford’s top aides. Among other duties, Ford appointed Marsh to an philosophy. He was a Fulbright fellow in investigative committee that studied CIA abuses, including illegal domestic Scotland and a Fulbright scholar at the spying. University of Tübingen in Germany. He went on to complete both his bachelor of divinity and Marsh switched political parties in about 1980 and served two terms as doctorate in theology and psychiatry from Yale Secretary of the Army under Reagan, which made him what the Washington Divinity School. In 2009, he received the Post described as “the longest-serving civilian administrative leader in modern Fulbright Achievement Medal from Edinburgh times.” University, Scotland. Marsh helped deploy Pershing II missiles to Western Europe, increased the Throughout his life, Maguire spearheaded Army’s budget, and was credited with maintaining several crucial elements that ground-breaking initiatives on race and were instrumental in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden. democracy and sought to combat institutional- From 1989 to 1994, Marsh served as chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy ized racism and find solutions to race-based Board and was also chairman and interim CEO of Novavax, a pharmaceutical disparities in education, healthcare, economic company. development and criminal justice. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Marsh and former As well as serving in numerous leadership Secretary of the Army Togo West to an independent review panel to investigate positions in professional and civic organizations, medical and leadership failures at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Maguire was a board member of the NAACP He was six times the recipient of the Department of Defense Public Service Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. and Award. He also earned the Presidential Citizens Medal and was decorated by was founding member of the King Center for the governments of France and Brazil. Other honors include Virginian of the Social Change. He was also a charter trustee for Year (as awarded by the Virginia Press Association), the George Catlett Marshall Keck Institute. He received honorary degrees Medal for Public Service, and the Harry F. Byrd Jr. Public Service Award. The from Transylvania University in 1990 and W&L National Guard Armory in Strasburg also was named in his honor. in 1979. Marsh will be interred in the Hall of Valor in New Market.

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Who did we roll out the red carpet for? The Five-Stars were in town for their festival, as well as honorary ODK initiates and guests for Black Alumni Weekend.

1. Unrelenting rain pushed most of the Five-Star festivities indoors, including 1 the traditional group shot, taken this time in Lee Chapel. But there was plenty to do indoors, with remarks by Presi- dent Will Dudley, a panel discussion on the mid-term elections and a lecture by David Cox, author of “Lee Chapel at 150.” Enjoying each other’s company are (l. to r.) Dave Noble ’58, Bill Towler ’58 and Uncas McThenia ’58, ’63L, professor of law emeritus.

2. W&L tapped six ODK honorary initiates during the 2019 Founders Day celebration. The leadership organization presented the James G. Leyburn Award to Srimayi “Tinni” B. Sen, associate professor of economics at VMI. Front row, l. to r. Tinni Sen, Mohamed Kamara, associate professor of French and head of the Africana Studies Program. Second row, l. to r.: Wil- liam C. “Bill” Shelton ’76, former director of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development in Chester- field, Virginia; Alfonzo M. “Bucky” Miller 2 Jr., retired deputy chief of the Lexington Police Department; Mark H. Eastham ’84, head of school at Stuart Hall School, in Staunton; and Lex O. McMillan III ’72, president emeritus of Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. Back row: Brant J. Hellwig, professor of law and dean of the School of Law. Read the full story at go.wlu.edu/2019ODK.

3. Highlights from Black Alumni Weekend included the keynote address by Dean Lena Hill, an update from MaKayla Lorick ’19 on her oral history project, “Pathway to Diversity: Uncovering Our Collections,” and the Black Ball in Evans Dining Hall. Here’s a group shot of attendees from the Saturday morning session and later that day dining at Hotchkiss House. 3

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s a youngster, Bill Life on campus was great, until Alumni Office) about inducting You’ve Got Fitzgerald ’56 was he failed French 102. “I received a Secretariat and his owner an avid stamp letter from the Selective Service Christopher Cherney, Class of collector. He vividly Agency, so I straightened up my act 1909, into W&L’s Athletic Hall of Mail A remembers a stamp fast,” he said. He majored in history Fame. Another longterm pen pal that changed his life — the 1949 and spent two years in the Army has been Bob Paxton ’54. Letters BY LOUISE UFFELMAN first-day cover celebrating the before spending his career in he especially cherishes are the ones university’s 200 birthday. financial planning. congratulating his son, Lt. Col. Bill “I’d never heard of W&L,” said Over the years, Fitzgerald has Fitzgerald IV ’91, on receiving the Fitzgerald, who grew up in kept in touch with members of the Bronze Star for his service in Towanda, Pennsylvania. It was W&L community. He has Afghanistan. “the image of the Front Lawn and corresponded with Ollie Crenshaw, In 2015, Fitzgerald decided to Colonnade that appealed to me.” Class of 1925, ’26, author of send his treasured 1949 first-day Most people from his hometown “General Lee’s College,” and with cover to Tom Camden ’76, head of went to college nearby, either Bill Latture ’49 and his father, Special Collections. “Washington Mansfield State College or Penn Rupert Latture (Class of 1915, ’16), and Lee is ‘Plus ça change, plus State. He decided to venture a member of the administration c’est la meme chose,’ ” he said. further afield. “In those days,” he and founder of ODK. He also wrote Looks like some of that French said, “the trip to Lexington took to Robert Mish ’76 and Jim Farrar stuck with him. me a day and a half.” ’74 (when they worked in the

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1. Laura Calhoun ’20 is tapped 3. Marisa Charley, assistant 5. David Harbor, professor of 6 Over Feb Break, Lindsey Hewitt into ODK. director of the Shepherd geology, works with Katherine ‘21 (left) and Darcy Olmstead ‘21 Program, teaches class outside Cheng ’19 to find ENV capstone (center) performed fiber optic 2. Actor Julian Sands teaches a on a beautiful fall afternoon. data in the Center for Global reflectance spectroscopy on master class to a group of theater Learning. historical textiles at Winterthur students in the Johnson Theatre. 4. Ben Fleenor ’19 reads a book Museum. on the Front Lawn.

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