<Uke, Cdmfe^^lmlimicmdJi^ Chancellor John Stewart Bryan Twentieth President of the College 1934-1942 VOLUME X OCTOBER, 1942 8ininc=c=csESE3fca=a3£a£3£3£3fcifcS3e3rio&^ ^^^s^ri^is^s=K^s^^s^s^^s=^&^^s^^s^s^^s^s^i^s^s^^ ALUMNI ALWAYS THE WELCOME WlLLIAMSBURG * THEATRE SHOWS 3:30—7:00—9:00 DAILY WlLLIAMSBURG LODGE (SUNDAYS AT 2:00—4:00 ONLY!) CHOWNING'S TAVERN THE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER OF WlLLIAMSBURG * OPERATED BY ENJOY THE BEST IN MOTION WlLLIAMSBURG RESTORATION, INC. PICTURES. THEY ALL PLAY HERE! GREETINGS The FROM Mr. PEANUT! WlLLIAMSBURG DRUG COMPANY Welcomes the Alumni 1M Send your student sons and daughters to us for dependable pharmacy service. We will be glad to supply them with school supplies, stationery and accessories. — DELICIOUSLY FRESH — *M PLANTERS Sandwiches 1 Tobaccos / Fountain Service (SALTED) PEANUTS 8^3^»-=»=0=&3»Mra»P5M«H3^^ THE ALUMNI GAZETTE ^Jm College d(iMuam twaJiaMf inH^ima VOLUME X OCTOBER, 1942 No. 1 JOHN STEWART BRYAN RESIGNS Eight Successful Years in Review On April 11, 1942, at a meeting of the Board of Visitors, John Stewart Bryan, twentieth president of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, tendered his resignation to become effective January 1, 1943 or upon the selection of his successor. Mr. Bryan has been president of the College since the summer of 1934 when he was elected to succeed the late Dr. Julian Alvin Car- roll Chandler. He was inaugurated on October 20, 1934, in the presence of a distinguished gathering of national and state officials including the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Governor of Virginia, George Campbell Peery, both of whom received honorary degrees. Mr. Bryan was born October 23, 1871 at "Brook Hill" in Henrico County, the ancestral home of his ma- ternal grandparents, the son of Joseph Bryan and Isobel Lamont Stewart (Bryan). He was educated at The President Bryan receives LL.D degree from Rector Episcopal High School, the University of Virginia, and Bobannan. received his law degree from Harvard University. In 1903 he married Anne Eliza Tennant. Entering the William and Mary must endeavor, as in the earlier newspaper business which his father had established, days, so to inspire her students that whatever their he succeeded him as publisher of The Richmond News chosen field they will restore informed good citizen- Leader and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Many years ship to its proper place as the chief avocation of before coming to William and Mary, he became a na- gentlemen. But patriotism is not enough. And it is tional figure in the newspaper world, ultimately being to the imperishable glory of William and Mary that elected president of the American Newspaper Publish- her sons to patriotism added scholarship. ..." ers Association. Becoming president, as he did, at the end of one of While not a professional educator, Mr. Bryan was the greatest financial depressions the country had ever not without interesting educational experience before known, Mr. Bryan immediately set in to invigorate the becoming president. From 1920 to 1922 he was rector College in many ways and to expand the program which of the Board of the University of Virginia. Immediately Dr. Chandler had so ably commenced. Mr. Bryan had upon his appointment to the William and Mary Board, four major objectives: he was elected vice rector, a position which he held until 1. To obtain a highly educated and enthusiastic he became president. faculty. At the outset of his administration, Mr. Bryant was 2. To depend upon a carefully selected and capable inspired with a vision for the future of the College student body. which would not only parallel but excell its glorious 3. To maintain a physical plant adequate for the well past. In the keynote of his inaugural address, he pro- being and instruction of both the faculty and stu- jected this vision when he said: dents. "... the qualified children of her alumni will not To institute a sound and progressive financial knock in vain at her doors for a course in the liberal structure without which his other objectives could arts if funds can be had for their instruction But not be fulfilled. (Continued on page 24) ISSWMM£=lt3eSMSSeSMrieSMESi=SE=£^^ K0MMTi&3fc=Qri£SM£3=ifciMMS^^ The Richmond Sand & Ike Gravel Corporation WILLIAMSBURG c+o RESTAURANT Concrete and Building Supplies On The College Corner under the Washed Sand and Gravel management of STEVE SACALIS c+^> For dignified service of the foods for Phone 3-8317 which Williamsburg has long been RICHMOND VIRGINIA famous 8 :a^MF3«»5=53=35=S«rt»5=^^ CASEY'S, Inc. The Peninsula Shopping Center Since 1870 WEST END MARKET CASEY'S, Williamsburg's largest and most modern department store extend their welcome to the Alumni, students, and friends of William and Mary. Make this store your headquarters. Offers . A modern department store in a colonial setting. 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Many of them have already found it possible to become full-time students, for which the College is most happy; but before and above all, the purpose and the importance of this undertaking lie in the fact that in time of war, William and Mary has showed itself able to create a new approach by which youth can serve the Government most effectively with- out thereby destroying a young man's chance to main- For two hundred and fifty years the College of Wil- tain his position in the field of education. liam and Mary has met and dealt with world changes. This is only another evidence of the truth that life At the beginning changes came to this Peninsula; to- is fundamentally a problem of adjustment, and Wil- day, William and Mary has gone out to the far corners liam and Mary has adjusted its activities to the war- of the earth to cope with the old forces of greed and time needs of this community and, I think that we may barbarism from Dutch Harbor to Solomon Islands, and say, has adjusted them satisfactorily and helpfully. from the Suez Canal to Iceland. On every front and Doubtless this example will have the effect of lead- on every ocean this desperate battle of life and death ing many other colleges to apply the same general prin- is being waged, but wherever our flag flies, William and ciple to the essential and specific objective of winning Mary will be represented. We have sent our professors this war without losing the Democratic nature of our and our students to all arms of the Government by land institutions or lessening our appreciation of the essen- and sea and air. On the playing fields where soldiers tiality of education. are trained, in the Government offices where policies Of course, the final development of the War Work are made, in shops and shipyards where supplies are Plan and its larger implications cannot be set down in fabricated, and in the line of battle where the final black and white at this time, but we can point out some- decision must be waged, William and Mary is taking thing else that has happened of immense benefit and its part gladly and forcefully. significance to William and Mary, namely, the election So are other colleges, and so are the other men who as President of this College of John Edwin Pomfret, went to college. Every energy with which this all-out Dean of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University. fight is being conducted gives final assurance that this Dean Pomfret has taught at the University of South all-out fight will be won. Carolina, at Princeton University, where he was Profes- The Alumni will be glad to know that in addition to sor of History and Assistant Dean of Men, and more enlistment in the armed forces and in civil service, Wil- recently at Vanderbilt. He has made a high and dis- liam and Mary has developed a new and a very helpful tinguished place for himself in the field of education service for the Government. A War Work Plan has been in America; his friendliness, his understanding, his past inaugurated here by which students can work three days success make it as certain as anything can be that his a week at William and Mary, and three days a week coming to William and Mary is an event of the utmost in the production of war materials. This will enable significance for the well-being of this College. the student to get eleven academic hours credit a week, May I say for myself that ever since coming to Wil- and will practically make it possible to pay his way liam and Mary as President, the controlling thought in through college by the skill and strength of his own my mind has been what could be done to insure the hands.