A L U M NI GAZETTE OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY IN VIRGINIA VOLUME IV WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1936 NUMBER 1 MARTINSVILLE MEETING ALUMNI DAY AND FINALS HOMECOMING DAY TWO HUNDRED FORTY-FOURTH SESSION HAD GOOD ATTENDANCE LAST JUNE GALA EVENTS This annual event at William and Mary has been set for Satur- The William and Mary alumni of WILL OPEN ON SEPTEMBER FOURTEENTH Finals for the 243rd session at day, November 7th, when the In- Halifax, Pittsylvania, Franklin, Henry William and Mary starting with dians play V.M.I, in football. De- and Patrick counties held their an- Larger and Better Qualified Alumni Day, June 6th, and conclud- tails of the program for the day INDIANS GATHER FOR Freshman Class Expected. nual meeting at Martinsville on May ing on the night of June 8th with will appear in the September and 8th. Ashton Dovell, '08, and Chas. the Final Ball, proved to be one of October Alumni Gazettes. FALL PRACTICE SEPT. 8 NEW DEPARTMENT OPENS- A. Taylor, Jr., '09, alumni secretary, the most interesting and brilliant attended the meeting, Dovell being commencements ever held at the Col- The William and Mary football President John Stewart Bryan the chief speaker of the evening. Mr. lege. C0LJ0HNW.WRIGHT/95, squad for 1936 will report here on Explains Background of Fine Dovell made an interesting and force- Several hundred alumni from many September 8th for practice and on Arts School. ful address. He was introduced by and distant parts of the country came LOCATED IN PORTO RICO hand to greet the squad will be the J. Murray Hooker, '93, chairman of in for the alumni program and quite greatest array of coaching talent ever Prospects for a banner year in Wil- the Democratic party of Virginia, as a few stayed over the rest of the Col. John W. Wright, '95, who has assembled at the College. Led by liam and Mary's history loomed a3 "one of the most distinguished alumni Finals. been in charge of National Guard af- Athletic Director, Billy Gooch, start- the College prepared to open on Sep- of William and Mary and one of Vir- An early arrival for the day was fairs at Baltimore for the past two ing his 9th year at William and tember 14th for its 244th year. New ginia's most capable and patriotic William H. "Flit" Neblett, '12, law years, has been transferred to Puerto Mary, the squad will find Branch Bo- courses, a record enrollment of new sons." partner of Wm. G. McAdoo, accom- Rico and sailed for that island last cock, "Honest" John Kellison, Tommy students, and a bright football hori- The meeting was well attended, es- panied by Mrs. Neblett. The Nebletts June. In Puerto Rico he will com- Dowler, Bill Scott and Otis Douglas, zon all point toward a most success- pecially by the younger alumni and flew in their private plane from Los mand the Sixty-fifth U. S. Infantry, awaiting them. Bocock is head coach, ful year. back after an absence of five years. alumnae. Some of the older group Angeles to. attend the finals. Both two regiments of the National Guard With the selective system, formu- present were: J. Murray Hooker, '93, expressed great pleasure at seeing and will supervise the R.O.T.C. work He coached football here in 1928, '29, and '30, and his teams gave mighty lated by the late Dr. J. A. C. Chand- T. H. Self., '91, G. L. H. Johnson, '08, William and Mary again and spent at the University of Puerto Rico. ler and inaugurated by President John superintendent of schools at Danville, much time in calling on Mr. Neblett's He and Mrs. Wright will live in good accounts of themselves. It is a foregone conclusion that Bocock will Stewart Bryan in full effect this year, and E. E. Givens, '14, superintendent old friends among the residents of Casa Blanca castle, built 400 years an advance enrollment of over a one Williamsburg. Mr. Neblett flies east use the combined brains of this large of the Martinsville schools. ago by Ponce de Leon as a fortress. hundred per cent increase above last many times during the year and re- coaching staff and that the squad will John Swanson, '30, president of the It was taken over 200 years later by year's figures caused enrollment of lated his experience on one of these receive the most intensive training organization, presided. He has done Spain as a residence for its military women students to be curtailed late trips when he landed his plane in a ever received by any squad at the a good job as executive officer for governors of the island. in July and at present a waiting list cornfield in Lunenburg County which College. the past two years and turned over a The castle, an imposing stone struc- of substantial size has been made ne- Both Bocock and Kellison are here well organized group of workers to he had worked as a boy. The field ture surrounded by gardens of rare cessary. appeared smaller than it had seemed tropical plants, is the same in appear- for only the football season. Dowler his successor, E. E. Givens, '14, elect- On August 8th, Miss Kathleen Al- to him as a youth and in order to ance as it was 400 years ago. Dur- will coach basketball this winter; Bill ed president for the coming year. sop, Registrar, said, "The large num- take off when he left he had to draw ing its use by the American Army Scott and Otis Douglas will coach This club is organized after the plan ber of advance enrollments is dis- a hundred gallons of gasoline from officials, modern sanitary arrange- Freshman football and Scott will han- of the general Alumni Association and tinctly encouraging, not only because his plane. ments have been installed, but they dle varsity baseball next spring with has a Board of Managers similar to of its size as affecting both men and Other alumni from a distance were have been concealed, so that the cas- Dowler taking care of Freshman the parent organization. It has sev- women new students, but also as to J. H. Berwind, '09, Philadelphia; J. A. tle retains its colonial appearance in baseball. Otis Douglas will also teach eral vice-presidents, each one selected the distinctly desirable type of candi- Whitman, '91, Wytheville, Va.; H. H. every way. ' classes in Physical Education. from a certain section of the terri- dates applying for admission. While Fletcher, 11, and Ann Pharr, '34, Col. Wright, a member of Kappa The older men who are expected to tory covered, and responsible for the we already have a waiting list of Charleston, West Va.; Rev. W. F. Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa, is a na- j return for this season are: Backs— Club's activities in his or her section. women applicants, there is also every Venables, '92, Newark, N. J.; Geo. B. tive of Kirkwood, Missouri, and a son : Otis Bunch, a runner and forward The organization met at Danville reason to believe that facilities for Cranston, '32, Darby, Penn.; Cather- of Brigadier General Marcus J. I passer of unusual ability; Arthur last year and at the Martinsville men students will very soon be com- ine T. Dennis, '21, Raleigh, N. C; Wright of the Confederates States Woodward, fullback; Johnny True- meeting an invitation was received ipletely filled." Mrs. Elizabeth Erwin Higbee, '31, Army, and a grandson of Capt. Ben- heart, quarteback; Ed Motley, Ever- from Sen. Wm. M. Tuck, '17, of South Philadelphia; J. D. Peebles, '04, West jamin Wright of the Revolution. ett Blake, Lawrence Oliver, Fred An analysis of the applications re- Boston, to hold the next meeting Palm Beach, Fla.; Harold G. Ashby, Before going to Baltimore he serv- Scruggs and Frank Livesay, a fleet ceived showed that the number of ap- there. '30, East Orange, N. J.; Mrs. Harriett ed several years as professor of track man, who has also played guard plications received in the office of the Harkrader London, '31, Johnson City, military science at the University of and end. Linemen expected back are: Registrar during July were the high- Tenn.; Evangeline Klug, '35, Ridge- Missouri and previous to that he com- Joe Marino, Guard and Captain; Ben- est recorded in any month of the Col- HUTCHESONS AT W. & V. wood, N. J.; Ruth West, '35, Harris- manded the Fifth U. S. Infantry at edetto, Guard; Hadtke, Guard; Wm. lege's history, not even exceeded dur- burg, Penn.; Roger McDermott, '32, Portland, Maine, a regiment his Davies, Guard; Dan Edmondson, ing the months preceeding the peak The Caduceus, magazine of Kappa New Haven, Conn.; Joseph N. Crid- grandfather had served in during the Guard; McGowan, Pye and Bruno, enrollments of 1930 and 1931. Sigma fraternity, carried a very in- line, '35, Jonesville, Va.; Mrs. Mary Revolutionary War. Centers; Zable, DeGutis, Coiner and New students will arrive here on teresting story on the Hutcheson Virginia Craig Wornom, '26, Glen Col. Wright's military experience Geo. Bunch, Ends; Wayne Harper, the 14th for a three-day Orientation brothers of Boydton, Va., in its May Ridge, N. J.; Larry C. Green, '25, began in 1898 when he served as a Zanghi and Russell Haynie, Tackles. program, consisting of lectures on the 1936 issue. There are seven of these Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Elizabeth Captain of Volunteers in the Spanish- From the Freshman squad of last use of the Library, the Honor Sys- brothers, five of whom came to Wil- Young Stevens, '34, Elkhorn, West American War.