Alumni News/University of North Carolina at Greensboro

THE ALUMNI NEWS THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO SUMMER 1969

AMEEiCA the Beautiful can become "America the Pollu-
ted." That's the message contained in Dr. Paul Lutz's
article, "Our Hostile Environment," which leads off this
issue of Tlie Alumni News. In recent months pollution
has been in the press almost as much as student riots.
Just last month President Nixon announced new adminis-
trative efforts toward anti-pollution and encouraged news
media to help spread the word.

Pollution itself is not news, but the increasing knowl-
edge of its threat to civilization is cause for alarmed
and immediate action. One encouraging fact: individuals,
informed and aware, can do something about it. Alumni
can learn to recognize the signals which indicate polluted
air and water, impure food and dmgs, then speak out
in protest. The federal government has been "doing some-
thing about it" for a number of years, but "Pollution Is
Everyone's Problem," as Alumna Pam Mars writes in a
report on her management internship in national air
pollution last year.

Conservation, preservation and beautification are chief
means of combating pollution and deterioration. Connie
and Pete W'yrick, both engaged in the preservation of
Virginia's historic past, describe their unique assignment —

and become the first alumni couple to be co-featured in
the magazine.

Anne Cantrell White, one of our most anti-litter-minded
alumni, writes about another anti-litter Crusader, Alma
Rightsell Pinnix, who is in the third year of a heroic fight
to rid Greensboro's streets of unsightly garbage cans.
Gardening Expert Chris Price Florance, who regularly
conducts a "garden tour" of Europe, recalls the tidiness
and conservation evident throughout the "old country"
whose cities were ancient when Columbus discovered
America.

Conservation on another level — in a condemned urban
dwelling — is Alumna Carol)Ti Grouse Russell's story in
which the University was involved with industry and
government in a joint beautification venture.

Summer is always Commencement time, so the facts
of the 77tli annual Commencement are included: Senator
George McGovem's speech, honorary degrees, alumni
service and teaching excellence awards, and reunion re-
ports of a dozen classes. The Alumni Association's new
officers and alumni scholars are featured in Alumni
Business, and there's a new section on chapter activities
which sets forth some of the exciting alumni chapter
programs which took place in the spring.

VOLUME FIFTY-SEVEN

NUMBER FOUR

SUMMER 1969

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO

Cover Note: Betty Jane Gardner Edwards '62 de-
signed the cover which vividly contrasts the
brilliance of a living world with the dullness of
a polluted one.

Editorial Staff

Gertrude Walton Atl<ins MFA '63 Editor

Linda Smigel '71 Student Assistant

Barbara Parrish '48 Alumni Business

Judith A. May Circulation

OUR HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT Dr. Paul E. Lutz 2- 8

AIR POLLUTION IS EVERYONE'S PROBLEM Pam Mars '68 9-10

PRESENT OCCUPATION: TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS . Connie Hooper Wyrick '64 11-12

PeteWyrick'64 11-14

GARBAGE IS HER BATTLE Anne Cantrell White '22 14-15

UNITED STATES/EUROPEAN LANDSCAPES . . Christine Price Florance '32 16-17

UNIVERSITY PROVIDES SHOW-HOW 18-19

COMMENCEMENT:

McGovern Calls for End to War Wilson M. Davis, Jr. 20-21

Alumni Service Awards 22-23

Honorary Degrees 24-25

Teaching Excellence Awards 25

FACULTY EMERITI 26-27

NEWS AND REUNION NOTES 28-44

IN MEMORIAM 4546

ALUMNI BUSINESS 47-48

CHAPTER NEWS 48-Coverni

ALUMNI GIVING INCENTIVE AWARD Back Cover

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Alumni Association Board of Trustees: Ruth Clinard '29, President; Betty Anne Ragland Stanback 46,
First Vice-President; Martha Kirkland Walston '43, Second Vice-President; Mary Spencer Harrmgton
Johnson '45 Recording Secretary; Phyllis Crooks Coltraine '43, Immediate Past President; Betty Griesinger
Aydelette '36 Doris Barnes '68, Martha Smith Ferrell '57, Jean Freeman '33, Linda-Margaret Hunt 69,
Dorothy Davis Moye '63, Irene Parsons '41, Donna Oliver Smith '60, Ann Allmond Smith '57, Grace Albright
Stamey '23; and ex-officio members Mary Cecile Higgins Bridges '40, Chairman of the Alumni Annual
Giving Council, and Barbara Parrish '48, Executive Secretary.

Editorial Board: Margaret Johnson Watson '48, Chairman; Armantine Dunlap Groshong 44, Mary
Frances Bell Hazelman '43, Leiah Nell Masters '38, Betty Anne Ragland Stanback '46, Anne Cantrell White
'22 Louise Dannenbaum Falk '29, and Elizabeth Yates King '36, past chairmen; Mrs. Elizabeth Jerome
Holder faculty representative; Phyllis Coltrane, Barbara Parrish, and Gertrude Atkins, ex officio.

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Our Hostile

Environment

This article might just as appropriately be entitled, "Is There Intelligent Life
on EarthF' or "Can the World be Saved?" or "Is This the Age of Effluence?".
These vivid titles refer to one of the most pressing problems facing our society
in the next fetv decades. This problem is as severe and acute as East-West tensions,
wars, elections, or urban crisis. It concerns man's abuse of his surroundings with
garbage, chemicals, sewage, gases, and other forms of pollution. Other writers
have referred to this vital concern as the ecological crisis, environmental decay,
or man's inhumanity to man.

byDr.PaulE.Lutz

Department of Biology

WITH about 70% of the twentieth century now past,
man is just beginning to discover that he cannot treat
his surroundings with the reckless abandon of a caveman.
For thousands of years, society has treated the environment
as a dumping ground, assuming it had unlimited abilities
to absorb its hostile treatments indefinitely. Only recently
have we become aware of the limitations of nature to
contend with and tolerate man's polluting insults. Now our
environment is rebelling, striking back, and becoming
hostile. This ecological backlash threatens us all.

As the Task Force on Environmental Health and Re-
lated Problems stated so succinctly and clearly:
We cannot keep adding more wastes in the air.
We cannot turn more rivers and streams into open

sewers and lakes into cesspools.
We cannot befoul the land with the discards of

abundance.
In short, we cannot engage in biological and chemical
warfare against ourselves. Our health and well-
being — and those of future generations — are at
stake.
There is rising and spreading fiiistration over the na-
tion's increasingly dirty air, littered highways, filthy streets,
and malodorous rivers. Is this a fit conclusion to America,
the Beautiful, our beloved virgin continent? The pollution
problem is acute, but it reflects something even worse: a
dangerous illusion that our technology can construct bigger
and more complex industrial societies with no considera-
tion for the immutable laws of nature.

Problems of pollution are not confined to the United
States. The entire industrial world is becoming polluted.
The fantastic effluence of affluence is far outstripping the
rate of natural decay. Huge quantities of diverse and novel
materials are now being added to the air we breathe, to
the water we drink, and to the land we inhabit. These
pollutants are either unwanted by-products of our technol-
ogy or spent substances that have served their intended
purpose. These extraneous substances impair our economy
and our quality of life. They tlu-eaten the health, longevity,
livelihood, recreation, cleanliness, and happiness of the
citizens who cannot escape their influence.

Man has tended to ignore the fact that he is utterly
dependent upon an exceedingly complex web of processes
and organisms. Tliis intricate web involves the photo-
synthetic activity of green plants as they manufacture
organic foods. This food is passed along to various types
of animals by a process of eating and being eaten. Food
chains and other activities are but a part of the living
environment that is held in precise balance chiefly by
intrinsic regulatory mechanisms. For example, for millions
of years the atmospheric content of oxygen was increased
by the photosynthetic activity of innumerable terrestrial
and aquatic plants. However, for the last half -billion years,
a delicate balance of atmospheric gases ( o.xygen, nitrogen,
carbon dioxide, water vapor, etc. ) has been maintained by
plants, animals, and bacteria that used and returned the
gases at equal rates. Such a precise gaseous mix has en-
abled man to be nurtured on the earth's surface for the
last two million years. But a relatively sudden change in

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"Unless we learn more about the dynamics of
the green earth, we may not he here to look at a
galaxy or visit the moon. We may go down in
history as an elegant technological society which
undenvent biological distintegration through
lack of ecological understanding."

— Dr. Daved M. Gates

atmospheric composition, or a sudden change in the bal-
ance of plants and animals on earth could be catastrophic.

To early man, nature was harsh and hostile and some-
thing he deeply respected and worshiped. His technology
was unable to harm the environment. The technology of

modern man, how-
ever, is capable of
destroying the en-
vironment. Yet, be-
cause he is so aware
of his technological
strength, he is almost
oblivious to the limita-
tions of the environ-
ment. In the last few
decades man has put
undue pressures on
the environment to
absorb his insults; now
it is striking back and
becoming hostile.
Many scholars of ecology are fearful that human pollution
may trigger some ecological disaster that would rudely
upset the delicate balance of nature. This undoubtedly
would lead to the elimination of most life on this planet.
From the standpoint of pollution, man is one of the
dirtiest animals in existence. We must learn that we can
no longer afiFord to vent smoke into the sky or sewage into
rivers as we did in bygone days when vast reserves of
pure air and water facilitated the dilution of pollutants.
As more people occupy this planet and as they each have
increasing amounts to dispose, the waste-disposal system
of this closed system, earth, will reach its limits. These
limits have been approached in many areas already.

One economically-important factor is that the United
States consumer actually consumes very little outside of
his food. He uses many things and though he bums, buries,
grinds, or flushes his wastes, the materials survive in some
form. The ubiquitous tin can of twenty or thirty years
ago used to rust away in a year or two, but some years
ago the aluminum can was introduced, and now it prom-
ises to be almost immortal, probably outlasting the pyra-
mids. According to Time magazine, the United States
produces 48 billion cans plus 28 billion long-lived bottles

and jars each year. With the advent of durable plastics,
polyethylenes, and new synthetic materials, the average
American's annual output of wastes and garbage is 1,600
pounds, much of which lasts indefinitely. And this output
is rising at a rate of more than four per cent per year.

THE problem of pollution is most acute in urban areas
since about seventy per cent of all Americans live
on only ten per cent of the land area. It is estimated that
by the year 2,000, more than ninety percent of all Amer-
icans will live in urban areas. The sheer bulk of big cities
with their skyscrapers and paved areas markedly impedes
the flow of cleansing winds. Rising city heat can create
a trapping effect by layering warm air above the cold.
This inversion causes the air pollutants of the cities to be
trapped and held for days producing haze or smog.

Let's explore the item of air pollution briefly. About
the close of the Nineteenth century, Sir Edwin Chadwick
of London proposed a project "to draw down air, by
machinery, from the upper . . . strata of air and distribute
it through great cities. . . ." He was prompted to suggest
this ambitious project after having repeatedly seen a great
blanket of fog spreading over London. He further pro-
posed the establishment of the Pure Air Company to draw
the air from a suitable height and distribute it into houses
at a very low rate and to do it with a profit.

The Pure Air Company, obviously, never was formed,
and London continues to struggle with the fog and its
sometimes critical consequences. The smogs of southern
California and temperature inversions of our own areas
clearly point out that the concerns of pure air are not
restricted to London. There is ample justification now to
support the statement that the air we breathe is polluted
with a variety of extraneous substances. Air pollution has
grown steadily worse through the years. In the great
London fog of December, 1952, there were 4,000 fatalities
attributed to smog. A similar meterological event in New
York in 1963 killed more than 400 residents. At Donora,
Pennsylvania, in October, 1948, more than 40% of the
entire population suffered adverse effects of the smog.

The principal cause of air pollution is the combustion
of fossil fuels for heating, petroleum by-products from
internal combustion engines, and, surprisingly enough,
cigarette smoke. It has been estimated that 100,000 tons

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of sulfur dioxide are released from chimneys in this
country every day. Ninety million automobiles daily add

a quarter of a million
tons of carbon monox-
ide (fifty per cent of
smog) into the atmo-
sphere. Another air
pollutant issuing from
automobiles is nitro-
gen dioxide, an acute-
ly irritating gas that
gives rise to nitrate, a
potential mutagenic
agent. Combustion of
gasoline forms a num-
ber of lethal gases that
are converted into
ozone and nitrates.
These kill some plants and stunt the growth of others.
Tetraethyl lead in auto exhausts affects human nerves that
significantly decrease normal brain function. (Like any
of the metal poisons, lead is fatal if ingested. Since the
invention of the automobile in the late 1800's, the lead
content of the average American has increased 125-fold
to a level approaching tlie maximum tolerance levels. )
Cigarette smoke contains nitrogen dioxide, carbon monox-
ide, and other air pollutants including the very lethal
hydrogen cyanide. Long-term exposures to hydrogen
cyanide above 10 parts per million is known to be danger-
ous. The reported concentration of this gas in cigarette
smoke is about 1,600 ppm.

Another gas emitted in increasing quantities is the
familiar carbon dioxide, chiefly from organic respiration
and from combustion. Build-up of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere results in the "green-house" effect. Over a long
period, the increased amount of carbon dioxide results
in the earth's heat being trapped, thus raising the ambient
temperatures. Once started, there is no way to arrest this
process. An immediate effect of raising surface tempera-
ture would be the melting of polar icecaps which would
raise the level of the oceans an estimated twenty-three feet
over present levels. Imagine the seriousness of this prospect
to the inhabitants of coastal cities. The "green-house" effect
has the potential of literally roasting all of life. This some-
what fatalistic prediction is one to ponder seriously and
conscientiously.

The prestigious Environmental Pollution Panel of the
President's Science Advisory Committee reported the fol-
lowing: "Pollutants have altered on a global scale the
carbon dioxide content of the air and the lead concentration

in ocean waters and in human populations. Pollutants have
reduced the productivity of some of our finest agricultural
soils and have impaired the quality and the safety of
crops raised on other lands. Pollutants have produced
massive mortalities of fishes in rivers, lakes and estuaries
and have damaged or destroyed commercial shellfish and
shrimp fisheries. Pollutants have reduced valuable pop-
ulations of pollinating and predatory insects, and have
appeared in alarming amounts in migratory birds. Pol-
lutants threaten the estuarine breeding grounds of valu-
able ocean fishes; even Antartic penguins and Artie snowy
owls carry pesticides in their bodies."

So much for the generalities of pollution. Let's explore
more deeply one facet of our environment and see how
pollution is markedly affecting it. Let's consider water and
the streams, lakes and ponds that contain this common
compound. About seventy-three per cent of the surface of
this planet is covered with water, the most massive quantity
of liquid on earth, occupying some 336 million cubic miles.
Approximately ninety-eight per cent of this water is in
the oceans and seas, and most of the rest is locked up in
ice at the polar regions. Of the ninety-eight per cent less
than one per cent is in fresh water rivers, lakes, streams,
and in ground water.

Biologically, water is a vital element. We respire, digest,
absorb, reproduce, and undertake all metabolic activities
in an aqueous medium. Water is the most abundant com-
pound in living systems comprising from sixty-five to
ninety-five per cent of their weight.

Along with o.xygen, carbon dioxide, and minerals,
water is one of our "renewable" resources. Water constantly
moves in a global cycle while being used over and over
again. The water molecules you imbibed today have been
in contact with innumerable organisms in the recent and
geological past. Countless organisms have drunk, absorbed,
or swam in the water you used today. Energy from solar
radiation evaporates water into the atmosphere from the
hydrosphere (water in oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.). Subse-
quent cooling and condensation of water vajx)r produces
clouds. Precipitation as rain or snow returns the water to
the hydrosphere. Organisms utilize water principally from
the hydrosphere and release it to the atmosphere or return
it to the hydrosphere at death. Thus, life is critically de-
pendent upon the cycling of usable, clean water.

The familiar adage, "Water, water everywhere, and not
a drop to drink" generally conjures a picture of a ship-
wrecked man on a life raft far asea, slowly dying of thirst.
But it has almost as much relevance to an individual in the

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Dr. Lutz, an associate professor of biology, received the
Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 1966 and was a Danforth
Associate in 1966-68. He currently is engaged in research on the
dragonfly under a National Science Foundation grant. He earned
his A.B. degree at Lenoir Rhyne College, his MS at the Univer-
sity of Miami and his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.

1960's, lounging beside the once-beautiful Potomac River,
meandering through our nation's capital or near the once —
picturesque Lake Erie. Naturally-occurring water is not
chemically pure. Rain, as it falls, gathers minute impurities
from the atmosphere. Even in the clearest mountain
streams, water contains myriads of microscopic organisms,
dissolved gases, and salts and minerals picked up from
the soil over which it runs. Yet, organisms thrive on small
amounts of the natural impurities. Organisms are remark-
ably resilient and can even tolerate considerable amounts
of impurities. But now many waterways have enough im-
purities so that the tolerance limits of organisms have
been reached.

The rivers and streams of America are sick. President
Johnson in his State of the Union Message in 1965 re-
ported that every major river system in this country is

polluted. Tliis is in-
deed tragic for the
richest, most prosper-
ous, most advance na-
tion in the world.
What has happened to
turn most of the rivers
and waterways in this
nation into extensive
sewage systems? It
seems that prosperity
has come at an ex-
tremely high price.
Twentieth-century af-
fluence has brought
20th century effluence.
Water quality appears to decline as our economy and
technology advance.

Many rivers and lakes are filled with municipal wastes
from factories, meat processors, assembly plants and
breweries and from barges that use them. In Maine, rivers
such as the Androscoggin, the Penobscot, and the Kennebec
are full of tan, foamy pulp from the bustling paper mills.
The Delaware River has industrial complexes that run
from Trenton, New Jersey, to below Wilmington, Dela-
ware. Many beaches have been closed because of pollution
and the resulting high bacterial count. Every day New
York City dumps 200 million gallons of raw sewage into
the Hudson River.

Lake Erie is almost a dead lake. Fish can hardly exist
at all. Beaches are closed to swimming, and boating has
declined. Tapwater has an unpleasant taste, odor, and ap-
pearance. Three years ago a number of industries were

told to do something about their polluting activities, and
only half have taken remedial measures of any sort. Lake
Michigan is almost as bad as Lake Erie. It has acquired
the name of "Killer Lake" because thousands of waterfowl
have died mysteriously on its shores. Steel mills pour metal-
lic acids and oil wastes into Lake Michigan while, at the
same time, Chicago draws most of its drinking water from
the same lake.

The Ohio River flows through much of the populated,
industrial portion of the United States. Cities and indus-
tries draw water supplies from the Ohio and return wastes
and domestic sewage. Water is used and reused many
times over. Meat packers in St. Joseph, Omaha, Kansas
City, and Sioux City dump animal tissue, grease and scum,
pieces of animal intestines, lungs, and paunch manure
directly into the Missouri River without treatment.

In areas of West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Penn-
sylvania, each year SVz million tons of acids seep from
mines (both active and abandoned) into the nation's
streams. Because of this, thousands of miles of flowing
water have been made sterile. In the Mississippi River
alone since 1958, an estimated fifty million fish have been
killed. The U. S. Public Health Service announced in 1964
that the fish kill was caused by two known pesticides,
endrin and dieldrin. A company located in Memphis had
been discharging endrin for years into the Mississippi
River. The chemical had soaked into the mud and had ac-
cumulated to a lethal dose. In North Carolina in 1968, an
oil company in Duplin County was found guilty of allow-
ing endrin to flow into the Cape Fear River resulting in
over 7,000 pounds of fish killed.

Pollution of water comes about in essentially four ways:
1) erosion, 2) industrial operations, 3) heat exchange
operations, and 4) domestic sewage.

Erosion

One of the chief avenues of pollution is by the in-
troduction of erosional products like silt and clay through
improper control of soil in mining, lumbering, and agricul-
tural activities. Turbidity and silt content in streams are
just as much poflutants as sewage. Erosion is a natyiral
process that has been going on since the beginning of time.
But through greed, carelessness, or simple ignorance, our
mechanized society has increased the natural rate of erosion
beyond comprehension or calculation. Each year millions
of tons of topsoil are lost from the land in this way, and
thousands of miles of once-clean waterways have become

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"Even if we avoid the risk of blotoing up the planet,
we may, by changing its face, unwittinghj be parties to a
process with the same fatal outcome." I

SvERKEB AsTROM, Swedish Ambassador

rivers of mud. It has been estimated that in the last 100
years, the entire Mississippi River drainage basin (from

the Appalachians to
the Rocky Mountains )
was lowered, on an
average, one foot.
What results is not just
a murky, muddy river.
The increased turbid-
ity greatly impairs the
penetration of sunlight
into the water and
thus greatly inhibits
the process of photo-
synthesis upon which
all life is based. The
increased turbidity
also diminishes the
precious amounts of oxygen available. The choking load
of silt may also directly affect fishes, mussels, and other
animals by clogging or injuring their gills so that they
literally suffocate. Almost everyone has seen examples of
this type of pollution; all one has to do is to look down-
stream from mining operations, housing developments,
road-building operations, some farm lands, or lumbering
activities. Soil and water conservation do go hand-in-hand.

Industrial Operations

Industrial operations add a diversity of poisons to water
or otherwise make it an uninhabitable environment. Pol-
luting effects from industrial plants are highly varied and
may affect aquatic organisms in many different ways. One
category of substances includes those that impart dis-
agreeable odors or tastes to the water which impairs the
human esthetic values of the water and the surrounding
areas. A second group of substances includes chemicals
such as lead, phenol and sulfur compounds, and many
others that could be directly toxic to all organisms. Chem-
ical effluents may also act to make the environment un-
inhabitable by changing the density or chemistry of the
water. Brine from oil fields or from phosphate mines ( like
in eastern North Carolina ) cause streams to become highly
saline, thus altering radically the fauna and flora occurring
there. Many effluents dumped indiscriminately into streams
significantly change the pH (the degree of alkalinity or
acidity) of the water. In addition, very little is known
about the effects of radioactive materials or slag from
uranium mining washed into nearby streams.

Industrial substances also include a heterogeneous
group of organic substances which through rapid decom-
position utilize great quantities of oxygen or through slow

biochemical digestion form flocculent masses which in-
crease turbidity and suffocate organisms. Included here
are fats and coal-tar derivaties common to a large number
of manufacturing processes and cellulose carbohydrates
of paper industry.

Heat Exchange Operations

Many industrial uses of water involve cooling processes
that, when dumped back into the stream, kill much of the
life by "thermal pollution." The water is just as pure as
when it was pumped from the river since nothing is added
to the water. But the temperature tolerances of many
organisms are narrow enough so that thermal pollution is
lethal to them. By raising the temperature of water, it
raises the rates of biological processes that, in turn, require
oxygen at a higher rate. Also, as the temperature of water
is elevated, it holds lesser amounts of oxygen. Because of
these two facts, thermal pollution results in oxygen starv-
ation (suffocation) thus killing large numbers of organ-
isms. A rise of 10° may cut in half the survival time
of a given organism.

Domestic Sewage

One of the chief sources of pollution is the dumping
of domestic sewage that enters into biological processes in
the environment. The dumping of domestic sewage and
organic substances often exerts great effects on stream
communities, primarily through chemically binding up all
of the available oxygen. In situations where dissolved
oxygen has been depleted, aerobic bacteria cannot function
in decomposition. This process is continued, however, by
anaerobic forms. This results in the production of such
undesirable gases as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and
methane that further deplete plant and animal life present,
and which themselves contribute to the pollution concen-
tration.

Yet, miracidously enough, streams are capable of clean-
sing themselves of organic wastes provided they are given
the necessary time and space for this process to operate
efficiently. If a stream is dosed with a large amount of
sewage, there is a population explosion of bacteria. This
results in the dissolved oxygen being totally depleted. Just
downstream from the source of pollution, the water may
may be milky white with accumulated organic matter and
it reeks with foul odors. The most common type of organ-
ism is the sewage fungus that often coats the bottom with
dense felt-like mats of grayish filaments. Only a few other
foiTTis of life can possible live here. Within a few hundred
yards downstream, conditions progessively improve as the

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"Pollution of the air by jet aircraft could affect the
radiation balance of the earth and later world climate.'

The New York Times, December 8, 1968

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sewage becomes more diluted with water. A greater di-
versity of plants and animals occur here with the former
group providing more oxygen for the stream's inhabitants.
Further downstream, the recovery process continues.
The water becomes cleaner, clearer, thus allowing sun-
light to penetrate deeper. This in turn, permits a greater
diversity of plants and animals to occur. Finally, further
downstream, the zone of clean water is attained.

In the past two or three decades, at least two new
kinds of pollutants have begun to choke our waterways.
These are household detergents and various pesticides.
Detergents are both a nuisance and a harmful pollutant.
They usually are not broken down by usual treatments
so they remain in water indefinitely. Frequently billowing
clouds of soap form were seen in many streams. In some
localities, this form may dramatically appear as suds in

a glass of tap water. In
recent years, however,
most soap manufac-
turers have introduced
degradeable deter-
gents to replace the
former non- degrade-
able ones.

Pesticides pose a
more serious threat.
Many of these syn-
thetic poisons, prin-
cipally insecticides
like DDT, have been
developed in recent
years. They generally
are poisons, quite efficient as killers. Unfortvmately, they
kill not only pests but a host of other organisms as well.
The chief culprits are the chlorinated hydrocarbons and
the phosphorous-containing pesticides.

The death of fishes and other forms of aquatic life
from acute exposure to unusually high concentrations of
pesticides is obviously undesirable. Occurrences of this
type generally are local, readily apparent, and sporadic
with partial or total repopulation quickly occurring. These
are generally associated with massive nmofi^ from the
adjacent land, careless use of pesticides, accidental dis-
charges of industrial wastes, or other accidents.

WIDESPREAD, long-term contamination of the environ-
ment is much more difficult to evaluate and is a
matter of great public concern. From a biological stand-
point, pollution of water by pesticides in any form is un-
desirable. The most feared consequences in long-term
pollution are the ecological effects so complex that it is

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almost impossible to relate cause and effect. Take, for ex-
ample, the insecticide DDT. We do not know what
amounts are harmful or harmless. We cannot explain now
how DDT became so universally distributed in a few
short years. Probably, DDT reached the oceans via runoff
from the land by way of the rivers. But consider the tre-
mendous dilution that must have occurred as relatively
small amounts reached such a large volume as the oceans.
Yet marine animals contain rather large quantities of DDT.

The expression "biological magnification" has been used
to explain this massive accumulation and concentration
of a very dilute chemical by marine organisms. This chem-
ical may be absorbed directly or be ingested with the food.
Almost all the DDT is then stored rather than being ex-
creted or metabolized. It then may be passed on to sec-
ondary consumers and passed along the food chain until
it reaches higher forms of life. Many biologists fear that
somewhere along the food chain, unrecognized damage is
being done that may upset the ecological balance.

There are many, many questions regarding pollution
that beg for answers. Where do we go from here? Can
the world be saved? What will be our strategy for a liv-
able environment? Can we find effective antidotes for our
ecological illnesses? Is our environment destined to be-
come even more hostile? The simplest solution is to stop
pollution or, better yet, to revert to a romanticized past
that is totally free of pollution. The latter is, of course,
impossible. The past is gone with the wind; we live in
today's world that is industrialized, overpopulated, motor-
ized, and partially polluted. We cannot take nature back
to its pristine purity. We must deal with the problems
within OUT current perspectives.

From a governmental standpoint, a number of federal
agencies have been recently established to help solve some
of these problems of wastes. The Water Quality Act of 1965
is a landmark anti-pollution measure. As a result of this
legislation, the Federal Water Pollution Control Admini-
stration has been established. Just recently formed was a
presidential Council of Ecological Advisors to provide an
overview of advisement to the government regarding en-
vironmental risks and pollutants. Most federal departments
or agencies (Agriculture; Public Health; Aviation; Housing
and Urban Development; Army Corps of Engineers;
Health, Education and Welfare; National Science Founda-
tion; etc.) have been urgently requested to give top
priority to matters pertaining to various aspects of pollu-
tion. Pending is a very important recommendation from
the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that an
Environmental Protection System be set up. Tliis would
involve a nationwide surveillance network to identify pol-
lutants and to devise ways to eradicate them or to modify
those processes that produce them.

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In North Carolina, we have a Board of Water and Air
Resources that oversees matters of this kind. It was this
Board that was authorized to collect almost $16,000 from
an oil company in Duplin County to compensate for the
recent large fish kill in the Cape Fear River. Other state
and regional agencies have been established to help in the
problem of pollution.

But the real success of any war on pollution rests
ultimately with individuals who are concerned citizens.
This is not a problem only for ecologists or biologists. The
problem of pollution involves us all whether teacher, econ-
omist, minister, sociologist, historian, administrator, re-
searcher, or housewife. I have no unique, earth-shaking
suggestions or recommendations that would rid our en-
vironment of all extraneous materials, but we do have a
future if we take our citizenship seriously and responsibly.
As influential residents of the United States, each of us
ought to:

1. Insist to the proper authorities that any causes of pol-
lution be eliminated or modified.

2. Be willing to support increased taxation to remedy our
natural resources already polluted.

3. Demand that political candidates di-cuss their positions
on environmental decay and their plans for the elim-
ination of pollution.

4. Contact our governmental representatives and agencies
and interested ccmmunity leaders for more information
about pollution.

5. Create a sense of awareness in those with whom we
come in contact about our increasingly hostile environ-
ment.

6. Demonstrate renewed responsibilit}' by our discriminate
use of pesticides, anti-littering behavior, and by being
good consei-vationists with all of life. While each of us
lives downstream from someone else, many others live
downstream from us; we would do well to practice the
ecological Golden Rule.

There is no reason to assume that just as technology
and affluence have polluted this country, they can also
remedy this problem. The basic question is whether enough

citizens will demand
action. The biggest
need is for ordinary
people to leam some-
thing about ecology
and about their en-
vironment. This is a
fascinating, yet humb-
ling way of viewing
reality and ought to
get far more attention
in schools and univers-
ities. Perhaps modern
man could use some of
the humility toward
animals that St.
Francis of Assisi had as he tried to modify Christianity.
The false assumption that nature exists only to serve man
is at the root of an ecological crisis that ranees from
the lowly litterbug to the kmacy of nuclear proliferation.
At this point in history, man cannot conquer nature; his
only choice, and hope, is to live in harmony with it.

SELECTED READING LIST

The following list contains a few articles, pamplilets, and
books which may be useful in pursuing a study of the deteri-
oration of our environment.

John R. Clark, "Thermal Pollution and Aquatic Life." Scien-
tific American, 1969, volume 220: pp. 18-27.

LaMont C. Cole, "Can the World be Saved?" The New York
Times Magazine, March 31, 1968; also in Bioscience, vol-
ume 18: pp. 679-684, 1968.

Rene Dtnaos, "The Crisis of Man in His Environment." AAUW
Journal, May, 1969, volume 62, no. 4, pp. 164-167.

Rolf Eliassen, "Stream Pollution." Scientific American,
March, 1952, pp. 17-21.

Howard Ennes, "People Problem — People Solution." AAUW
Jourml, May, 1969, volume 62: pp. 167-169.

Arthur D. Hasler, "Cultural Eutrophication is Reversible."
Bioscience, June, 1969, volume 19: 425-431.

H. B. N. Hynes, The Biolofnj of Polluted Waters; Liverpool,
England: Liverpool Uni\ersity Press, 1962.

Charles C. Johnson, Jr., "The Unplowed Field." AAUW
Journal, May, 1969, volume 62: pp. 162-164.

Wolfgang Langeweesche, "The Great American River Clean-
up." Reader's Digest, May, 1969, pp. 213-220.

Ron M. Linton, A Strategy for a Livable Environment, by
the Task Force on Environmental Health and Related Prob-
lems, 1967.

Hlirlon C. Ray, Report of the Committee on Water Quality
Criteria by the National Technical Ad\'isory Committee, to
the Secretary of the Interior, 1968.

John W. Tukey, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment;
report of the Enviromiiental Pollution Panel, President's
Science Advisory Committee, 1965.

A. M. Zarem and W. E. Rand, "Smog." Scientific American,
May, 1952, pp. 15-19.

The UNivERSiTi' of North Carolina at Greensboro

Air Pollution Is
Everyone's Problem

by Pam Mars '68

Have yovi taken a deep breath
lately? Perhaps the last time you did,
you noticed that the air does not smell
as sweet and fresh as it used to. You
were precisely correct — because our
air today is not as clean at it once was.
And the reason for this is air pollution.
Every day oiu- cars and our industry

are clumping thousands of tons of garbage into our air.

None of us would ever consider throwing our garbage

out into the middle of our front yards; yet this is exactly

what we are doing to our air.

As a management intern (executive trainee) for the
Depaitment of Health, Education, and Welfare, I spent
my first nine months in HEW in the field of air pollution/
control, working for the National Air Pollution Control

Administration (NAPCA). (Yes, Big Brother is interested
in air pollution, too! ) I was in the public affairs end of
the operation. My job entailed working primarily with
community groups, the press, and state and local officials.
Since air pollution has no boundaries, I found that my
job took me all over the United States. Under the Air
Quality Act, passed by Congress in 1967, the National
Air Pollution Control Administration is designating air
quality control regions in the major metropolitan areas
across the country. I handled the press affairs at a number
of consultations on the designation of these regions. Often
I met with citizens groups and other voluntary organ-
izations, giving speeches, helping them plan briefing ses-
sions and conferences, and discussing with them what
role private citizens and organizations can play in deter-
mining the quality of the air they breathe.

Pam Maks, a Management
Intern with the Depart-
ment of Health, Education
and Welfare, is part of a
three-year executive
training program with four
nijie-month rotations in
different federal depart-
ments. The article on this
page is based on her
experience with the
National Air PoUution
Control Administration
to which she was assigned
until recently.

The Alumni News: Summer 1969

My travels took me to such diverse places as Los
Angeles with its renowned smog, Ironton (Ohio), New
York, San Francisco, St. Louis, Jacksonville (Florida),
Chicago, Denver and, in North Carolina, Durham where
NAPCA has an office. At one point, I found myself flying
to a conference in Waterville, Maine, on an 18-passenger
chartered plane with Senator Edmund Muslde, one of
the chief architects of the Air Quality Act. In all of my
excursions, I discovered that people from coast to coast
are becoming more and more concerned about air pol-
lution and about what they can do to help in the fight
for clean air.

THIS year some very critical decisions must be made
about air quality in this country. The Air Quality
Act sets forth specific provisions for the public to par-
ticipate in these decisions. If we do not participate in them,
we will nevertheless be influenced by them for we will
continue to breathe the air as it comes to us, polluted
or not.

The federal government has the responsibihty for
putting the machinery of the act in motion. It is to issue
to each state criteria of the effects of various air pollutants
on health and property and offer information on the most
effective and economical methods for controlling the
sources of those pollutants. This has already been done
for two major pollutants — sulfur oxides and particulate
matter. Once the states receive this information, they are
expected to set air quality standards and develop plans
for achieving them in air quality regions whose boundaries
have been drawn by the federal government. Air quality
control regions have already been estabhshed in a number
of major metropolitan areas across the U.S., and several
others are in the process of being designated. The Queen
City of Charlotte is high on the list of those soon to come.

In the months ahead Governor Scott will join the gov-
ernors of other states in the task of hammering out de-
cisions which will determine the quaUty of the air which
the millions of people living in air quality control regions
will be breathing for years to come. We are entering,
therefore, a crucial phase in the implementation of the
Air Quality Act. The act requires states to hold pubUc
hearings in each air quality control region before final
decisions are reached on the standards to be set and on
tlie methods of enforcing them. These hearings can and
should provide a means by which all segments of the
community can participate in a really meaningful way
in determining air quality goals and in deciding on the
methods and timing of programs for reaching these goals.

Senator Muskie expressed it in the following manner
at the New England Conference on Air Pollution:

The Air Quality Act represents something new in the develop-
ment and implementation of national policy because in this
legislation, as in the legislation dealing with water pollution,
we have laid dowTi national policy, but we have placed tlie
first responsibility for dealing with it at the State and local
level, both governmental and non-govemmental. . . .

We (must) undertake in ways suggested by the Air Quality
Act to revitalize the policy-making processes of our country
at the state and local level and revitalize the idea that public
policy is not only the product of public agencies, but of the
private sector and of individual citizens, not only on elec-
tion day, but on a day by day, week by week, month by
month basis, as citizens gather, as leaders in the private sector
meet to consider what they wdll or will not do to promote the
public welfare. . . . Only participatory policy-making can most
effectively take into account the differences which apply from
conmiunity to community, from state to state, from area to
area. . . . What it really means, I think, is real democracy . . .
as originally envisioned by the founders of our system of
government. J

Senator Muskie's comments bring to fight the im-
portance of broad participation in the public hearings
on air quality standards and implementation plans that
will be held in North Carolina and the other states where
air quality regions will be established. Those segments
of industry which will be directly affected by require-
ments for the prevention and control of air pollution wiU
surely make themselves heard, and they have a right to
do so. But so do scientists, physicians, public health and
conservation groups, individual citizens, and all others
who have an interest in the quality of the environment.
Not only are they entitled to participate, they are also
entided to have sufficient information to make their in-
volvement truly meaningful. State governments, which
are responsible for holding these hearings, have an obliga-
tion to encourage all interested groups and individuals
to express their views at the hearings. Moreover, they
have an obligation to take these views into consideration,
along with the air quality criteria and reports on control
techniques issued by the federal government, in setting
air quality standards and developing plans for imple-
menting and enforcing the standards.

There will be some time before public hearings are
held in air quality control regions designated in North
Carolina, but it is by no means too early to begin pre-
paring the groundwork for these hearings. There will be
no time at the hearings themselves to prepare arguments
and work out strategies to insure the drawing up of
effective standards and plans for their achievement. The
hearings should be an anticlimax to the efforts which
can be launched now.

It is time now to undertake a continuing dialogue with
the public officials who will be responsible, ultimately, for
the decisions that are made — whether those officials are
to be foimd in the Legislature, in departments of the
State government, or in City Hall. It is time now for the
public to learn tlie technical language of air pollution
control ff they are to participate in a meaningful way in
the framing of standards and implementation plans. And
it is time to begin making your own decisions about the
quality of the air you want to live with, and what kind
of regulations you want drawn up to insure tliat this
quality is not only acliieved in a reasonable period of
time but also maintained throughout future community
growth and development. Ill

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The Unr^ersify of North Carolina at Greensboro

Present Occupation:

Telling It
Like It Was

Alumni Couple Has Unique Assignment-
Helping to Preserve Virginia's Past.

m

by Connie Hooper Wyrick '64

EING Research Scholar for the Robert E. Lee Me-
Imorial Foundation might be considered an unusual
occupation. If "unusual" means uncommon and not
ordinary, I am one of undoubtedly few urbanites who
commutes from the city to the country for my livelihood.
If "unusual" means rare, choice, and infrequent, these ad-
jectives describe the object of my study ( i.e., occupation )
— Stratford, the home of the noted American family, the
Lees of Virginia.

My official title, Research Scholar, is misleading and
says very little about my responsibilities. I do not pretend
to be a Scholar, and I am not officially concerned with a
study of the life of General Lee. I am engaged in a study
of the life of the Lee family at Stratford from 1730, the
approximate date of construction, to 1810. Stratford is
owned by the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, a
private, non-profit organization founded in 1929 for the
purpose of preserving and maintaining the Lee family
home in honor of General Lee who was bom at Stratford
in 1807. This 18th century plantation, located in Westmore-
land County, Virginia, on the Potomac River, has been re-
stored to represent the period of almost one hundred years
of Lee occupancy.

Most people wonder what can possibly be left to dis-
cover about the Lees, that is, why do I have a job? Such
a noted family should have been thorouglily examined and
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Jamestown Church Tow^r, Jamestown, Virginia.
by Charles L. Wyrick, Jr., MFA '64

^W^HIS age of specialization often produces strange
II alHances, much in the manner that "politics makes
^■i^strange bedfellows." When people ask me how or
why I became the Executive Director of the Association
for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities ". . . or whatever
that organization is with the long name," I reply "Well, I
came to it in a rather roundabout fashion."

About this time five years ago I had just completed by
coiurse work for the Master of Fine Arts degree at UNC-G
and was about to begin a teaching job at Stephens College
in Columbia, Missomi. I was to teach four sections of fresh-
man English and one section of creative writing. Connie
and I had just been married, and we packed a U-Haul
trailer and left for Missouri. We moved into a faculty
apartment just off campus, and I began seemingly endless
sessions of preparing lectures and grading papers. Connie
went to work in the archives of the Missouri Historical
Society on the nearby University of Missouri campus.

Two years later ( or, I should say, thousands of themes,
term papers, and painfully autobiographical short stories
and poems later), we were on our way to Richmond,
Virginia. We left behind a few good friends, two harsh
mid-western winters, an unfinished doctoral degree, and a
house in which we had lived for one month. I took with
me the realization that the present system of American
graduate education does not encourage the young scholar
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Connie Wyrick served as Assistant Archivist
for the State Historical Society of
Missouri and Virginia State Archives before
becoming a Research Scholar for the
Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation. Last
summer she and Pete spent two
months in Europe, chiefly in England,
on research projects.

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dissected by now, but there are several answers to this
question. First, it is important to remember that with the
exception of one minor character, who is affectionately
known as "Black-Horse Harry" Lee (oldest son of "Light-
Horse Harry" Lee), individual members of the Lee family
made significant contributions to every period of American
history. Tlie roll call of the men who were bom and reared
at Stratford is an index to colonial and early American
history. It is exhausting to recount the official positions the
Lees held, and it is extremely difficult to give "equal time"
to individual members of the successive generations of tliis
illustrious family. Although we are rich in the knowledge
of their official and public actions, we find gaps in our
knowledge of their personal lives, the domestic culture of
eighteenth century Virginia, and the ordinary things that
serve to humanize history.

Perhaps it is their own fame that makes it difficult to
reweave the story of tlieir personal lives at Stratford. The
name "Lee" is so well known and admired that their per-
sonal furniture, decorative items, costumes and memor-
abilia have been widely scattered. Manuscripts bearing
this magic signature are sold regularly at public auctions
for prohibitive prices — and at the larger cost of dispersing
and entire collection of papers that might have cast an

Stratford, home of the Lcc familtj.

authentic spotlight on the Lee family. Moreover, the name
"Lee" has become a symbol for specific ideals in southern
history, and around that symbol and image many myths
and partial truths have arisen. Tlierefore, the research pro-
gram at Stratford was initiated by the Foundation for sev-
eral puqDoses.

Tlie first purpose is to search for documentary evidence
which previously has been unknown. The topics of this
research, detennined by die needs of the interpretative
program and the continued restoration and development

of the property, range from the importance of the export
of tobacco in the Chesapeake economy to the more homely
problem of the description and location of chamber pots.
Along with this research is the continuing reexamination of
earlier interpretations of Lee family history in an attempt
to distinguish myth and tradition from historical truth. The
second purpose of the research program is to search for
the physical evidence (i.e., furniture and related items) of
life at Stratford during the 18th century.

One of the most significant changes in recent years in
the philosophy of preservation has been the realization that
historic properties must serve an educational function
rather than as a back-drop for a handsome collection of
Chippendale furniture and fine damask. Some properties
have been "restored" to such a perfect decorative state
that they are unrealistic and serve to make us discontented
with the world in which we live. Historic properties should
not be used to create a temporary retreat from this world.
These properties are only important and necessary if they
serve as a means to understanding the past.

When I began my work at Stratford two years ago, it
was immediately apparent that Stiatford was not merely
a shrine. Although located in the remoteness of the north-
ern neck of Virginia, an area so divorced from megalopolis
that trees and wildlife are plentiful and the river is not
polluted, the only thing that is bucolic about Stratford is
the setting. The Foundation has successfully recreated a
working plantation, similar in feeling to the multi-faceted
operation that existed two hundred years ago. The at-
mosphere that has been created is one of a busy, seff-
sufficient farm. And in the true tradition of the Virginia
gentry, Stratford is a good public servant through its
educational and conservation programs.

Every occupation has its own drudgery, and historical
research is no exception. There is nothing exciting about
sitting before a microfilm reader for hours trying to read
script faded by time and abuse. Often, hours of research
produce only fragments of documentary evidence or merely
introduce new problems and new questions. If there is an
occupational hazard, it is the tendency to clutter the mind
with mundane, irrelevant details which had no more sig-
nificance yesterday than today.

But the rewards of this work are too numerous to list.
Study, speaking engagements, and conferences have en-
abled Pete and me to travel in this coimtry and abroad.
The final reward is that my occupation is a learning pro-
cess. I am paid to learn. In a more philosophical vein, I
must agree with an IStli century malcontent, young Patrick
Henry, who declared in 1775: "I know no way of judging
of the future but by the past." D

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The Unr'ersity of North Carolina at Gpieensboro

Pete Wyrick received his AB from
Davidson College in 1961 and served two
years with Army Intelligence before
enrolling in the MFA program at UNC-G.
Now Executive Director of the Association
for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities,
he and Connie live in Richmond where
they are rehabilitating an old Fan
District town house.

(Continued from Page 11)

to continue to broaden his frame of reference; his progress
towards the coveted Ph.D. leads him down an ever
narrowing path, and only the most brilliant can navigate
successfully this route and also encompass the host of
other possibly inter-related subjects.

Thus at a time when my interests were expanding, my
academic path was growing more narrow; I was well on
the way toward becoming a "specialist." To one who has
an old-fashioned belief in the concept of the "Renaissance
Man," that prospect became increasingly abhorrent. In
looking for an alternative, I was led from teaching to
museum work to historic preservation.

^In Richmond I accepted a position in the programs
^21 division of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. For two
years I planned and supervised the development of several
state-wide art services, including the unique "galleries-on-
wheels" or Artmobiles. I also had an opportvmity to develop
a number of special exhibits, including "Art of the
Ancient World," "The Human Figure in Art," "A Wyeth
Portrait," "Light As a Creative Medium," and "American
Folk Art: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection."
Museum work was interesting and diversified, and we
found Richmond to our liking.

Now I find myself in a more demanding administrative
position, supervising the operations of a non-profit associ-
ation in the field of historic preservation, with some 6,000
members and approximately 30 historic sites or structures
in our custodianshin. In reviewing the steps which
have, over the past five years, brought me to my present
state, I can see that I haven't gone quite so far afield from
my original ambitions. I am still engaged — at least to
some extent — in educational endeavors, and I am still
doing some writing. But the writer/professor idea seems to
have gone the way of the five-cent cup of cofi^ee. I like to
blame it on specialization.

My present employer, the Association for the Preserva-
tion of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), was founded in 1889
by a group of dedicated women who were concerned and
disturljed by the neglect and desecration of many of
Virginia's important historic sites and structures. The first
property acquired by the newly formed association was
the Powder Magazine in Williamsburg which was restored
and later leased to Colonial Williamsburg, the now famous
and well-established restoration project which came into
being some thirty years later.

In 1892, APVA received a gift of 22V2 acres on James-
town Island, including the site of the landing of the first
permanent English settlement in America in 1607 and the

tower and remains of the 16.39 church and graveyard.
Through the years this historic site was to claim the major
attention of APVA as its members directed their attention
and that of the local, state, and federal governments in a
successful efliort to save the island from the relentless en-
croachment of the James River. Today Jamestown is a Na-
tional Historic Shrine, jointly administered by the APVA
and the National Park Service.

ANOTHER important acquisition during these early years,
one which was to help shape the future development
of both APVA and the WiUiamsburg restoration, was the
site of the colonial capital in Williamsburg. APVA held
this property for many years until it was persuaded by
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to exchange it for the Smith's Fort
site of 1609, across the James River, which included the
Warren House, a seventeenth century house standing on
land which had belonged originally to Thomas Rolfe, son
of John Rolfe and Pocohontas. The Warren House was re-
stored and is one of a dozen APVA properties which are
regularly open to the public. The colonial capital was re-
constructed on its former site and became a focal point in
Rockefeller's plan for the development of Colonial Wil-
liamsburg.

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Rolfe-Waeren House: Warren House built in the IGOffs,
stands on land which at one time belonged to Thomas
Rolfe, son of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.

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13

The Way It Was (continued)

Pete Wyrick —

(Contintied from Page 13)

Since those earlier years, APVA has extended its preser-
vation eflForts across Virginia, and it now counts twenty-five
branches. In addition to the Powder Magazine, Jamestown
and the Rolfe- Warren House, it owns or maintains such
sites as the John Marshall House ( 1790), Old Stone House
(1686), Ellen Glasgow House (1841), Adam Craig House
(1784), Ann Carrington House (1814), and Hilary Baker
House (1814), all in Richmond; Mary Washington House
( 1772 ) and Rising Sun Tavern ( 1760 ) in Fredericksburg;
Old Farmers Bank ( 1817 ) in Petersburg; "Scotchtown" in
Hanover County; Old Court House (1750) in Smithfield;
Colonial Storehouse (1776) in Urbanna; Walter Reed's
Birthplace in Gloucester County; Old Cape Henry Light-
house ( 1791 ) at Virginia Beach; "Prestwould" at Clarks-
ville; and the Smithfield Plantation at Blacksburg.

Many of these structures are "house museums," mir-
roring certain eras or styles of architecture and furnishings
or honoring noted individuals such as John Marshall, Mary
Washington, Patrick Henry and Walter Reed. Other struc-
tures serve "adaptive uses" such as libraries, offices, and
private residences. The new keystone in historic preserva-
tion is adaptive use whereby a historic structiu-e is utilized
in a manner which makes it a contributing "member" of
the community. Museums are fine for the purposes they
serve, but many fine old structures fall to the wrecking
ball because the few people who are interested in saving
them base their appeal upon sentimentality or cannot see
beyond a limited use for the structure as some type of
museum. Find a new use for an old building, and it can
often be saved. With the rapid increase in costs and
financing of new buildings, the renovation or rehabilitation
of older structures becomes increasingly important.

Historic preservation is gaining an importance and
support throughout the country. It is also rapidly becom-
ing a profession; archeologists, historians, architects, archi-
tectural historians, lawyers, city planners, contractors, engi-
neers, conservationists, businessmen, bankers, politicians,
and yes, even 'little old ladies in tennis shoes" are getting
in the act.

At a time when younger generations are reminding
everyone to "tell it like it is," we go about the business of
historic preservation, attempting to "tell it like it was." D

Pete Wyrick has many talents. His poems have appeared
in several magazines, and his paintings and prints have
been exhibited in area shows in Missouri, North Carolina,
and Virginia and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Wash-
ington. In 1963 he received an award from the Poetry
Society of North Carolina and in 1965 the Kansas City
Star Award.

Crusading Alumna

Garbage

by Anne Cantrell White '22

SHE is dedicated to the beautification of Greensboro,
and her fighting word is "garbage." If you think that
sounds contradictory, you just don't know.
When the Greensboro Council of Garden Clubs was
organized almost forty years ago, it's objective was to
make Greensboro a more beautiful city. Mrs. Hugh PinnLx,
affiliated with the council through her own garden club,
Dogwood, has worked with the council for thirty years
or more in agitating for off-street garbage collection. For
the past three years she has been chairman of an off-street
garbage committee under the Greensboro Beautiful Com-
mittee, a group sponsored jointly by the City of Greens-
boro, the Chamber of Commerce, the Garden Council and
Sears, Roebuck and Company.

Some progress has been made, but it's an unsightly
fact that in garden club circles throughout the state
Greensboro, which set as its goal "The Dogwood City,"
is called "The Garbage City." "No matter what day I
come to Greensboro, I find the streets lined with garbage
cans," said Mrs. W. C. Landolina of Winston-Salem, a
vice president of the Governor's Committee on Beautifica-
tion. The occasion was her visit to Greensboro in May to
dedicate a community rose garden in Friendly Shopping
Center.

Greensboro, Burlington and Wilmington are the only
cities in North Carolina with on-street garbage collections,
says Alma Rightsell Pinnix, Class of 1919, but she isn't
quitting. In late May she and Mrs. Hubert Seymour,
Creensboro City Council member and immediate past
president of the Greensboro Council of Garden Clubs,
conferred with John Turner, city manager. They handed
him a notebook with findings on garbage collections, the
result of a two-year (1963-1964) study of the Bonne Terre
Garden Club. Also, they verbally brought him up to date
on developments in other cities. (Former City Manager
George Aull had studied the findings of the Bonne Terre,
even sent a committee to Winston-Salem to explore its
collections system which Alma and her co-workers recom-
mended as the cheapest and most feasible).

"If I could get you as interested in church as in beauti-
fying Greensboro, what a church we'd have." Alma's pastor.
Dr. Claud B. Bowen of First Baptist Church once told
her. But she doesn't neglect her church. When the Baptists
started a mission chapel at the comer of Fulton and More-
head streets in Greensboro, Alma planted the grounds and
a garden as a memorial to her sister, Ruth Rightsell Nether-
land. Every year the women's class from the little church
holds its Easter Simday meeting in Alma's garden, recog-

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Is Her Battle

Alma Rightsell Pinnix, garden club and civic leader
for many decades, has put historic effort into her latest
battle: to remove garbage cans from Greensboro streets.

nized as one of the finest in Greensboro.

She is generous in offering the use of her garden at 905
Sunset Drive which attests to her abihty as an expert
horticulturist as well as a devotee of hard physical labor
— she does every lick of work herself. She agrees readily
when asked to put the garden on tour to benefit the
Garden Council, Greensboro Beautiful and other causes.

Her prowess extends to garden design as well. She
designed the Memorial Garden behind the Alumnae House,
flanking the Chancellor's office, which the Class of 1919
presented to the University as a memorial to their class-
mates. Grounds Superintendent Charles O. Bell and his
staff carried out the Pinnix design which is at its most
luxuriant during the early spring when few of the class
members can visit the campus. During the Golden Reunion
of her class May 30-31, Alma passed around color photo-
graphs of the garden at the peak of its peak season, and
many of the members begged for prints.

But back to garbage.

When Alma went before the City Council and boldly
stated, "I can save the city $140,000," many thought she
was a crank sounding oflF, but Alma Pinnix isn't one to
sound off without facts and figures to back her up. The
savings, she said, would be possible if the city cut back
garbage collection from three times weekly to twice every
eight days. This, the Winston-Salem plan, also would take
care of backdoor collection.

The council authorized a committee to go to Winston-
Salem and to make a survey. The report was handed to
Thomas Osborne of the City Department of Public Works

Anne Cantrell White '22, former executive Woman's
Editor of the "Greensboro News-Record", who has "retired"
to writing a thrice -weekly

newspaper column and to
traveling as often as she can,
has been a member of the
Governor's Committee on
Beatitification since its in-
ception in 1966. Taking over
from Governor Dan Moore,
Governor Robert Scott has
enlarged the committee's
responsibility in a continu-
ing effort to make — and
keep — North Carolina
beautiful.

which operates the sanitation department — and garbage
collection. He expressed doubt that so large a sum could
be saved, but into effect with slight alteration went the
suggestion that collection be cut. A twice-a-week schedule
was set up. The saving wasn't $140,000, but it was $87,000
— and would have been greater if the twice-every-eight
days pick-up had been instituted. But there was still no
off-street collection.

Mrs. Pinnix readily recognizes the problems of money
and labor facing a city. It is a fact that labor is short. In
the fall of 1967 Greensboro gave off-street garbage pick-up
a three-month trial run, but Mrs. Pinnix calls it an abortive
effort, designed to fail. Some citizens, among them former
mayor David Schenck, pay the city $24 a year to have
garbage collected at the rear of their homes. "We could
get lots of people to do that," says Mrs. Pinnix, "but that
wouldn't improve our whole city."

Most recent development was a conference with City
Manager Turner on May 26 in the hope of getting an al-
location in the new budget for off-street collection. "If we
could just get Mr. Turner to go to Winston-Salem and see
for himself how it operates there," Alma says.

The city manager wasn't unreceptive. "You've been
instructive," he said, praising the committee's suggestion
of an incentive plan for sanitation employees which had
been put into effect. He pointed out progress in regulations
to keep cans on the street a minimum of time and noted
that the city is working on extra collection for trash in fall
and spring. The immediate past mayor, Carson Bain, fav-
ored the off-street system, and hopes are that the new
mayor. Tack Elam, husband of alumna Mary Glendinning
'48x, will push it.

Mrs. Pinnix knows her dream is one shared by most
Greensburghers. Men's clubs as well as women's organ-
izations want to know how they can help. Individuals call
to ask how the campaign is going, can they do anything.

In the three years she has headed the committee, its
personnel has changed several times. A great loss was
David Thomas with whom she flew to Charlotte to explore
firsthand the Queen City's off-street collection just two
weeks before his death in a plane crash ( she has helped to
launch an education fund campaign for his three small
children ) . Present members of her committee include the
husbands of two alumnae, Helen Howerton Lineberry '40
and Joanne Brantley Craft '50.

But Alma Pinnix has not given up. "I'm going to keep
on working because we'll never have a truly beautiful
Greensboro until we get the garbage off the streets." D

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15

United States/ Europeani
Contrasted by Alumna

Chris Florance, who lorites a tveekhj garden column
for the "Greensboro Daily News," is author of a book,
"Tar Heel Gardener Abroad." She wrote the accompamj-
ing article just prior to her departure for Europe June 20
with tweiUy-one travelers on another of her popular garden
tours of Europe.

by Cliristine Price Florance '32

CHARLES Darwin once said, "A traveler should be a
botanist, for in all views, plants form tlie chief
embellisliment."

I couldn't agree more, but for most travelers it is a
bit late for botany, and for many, even too late for garden-
ing. But never fret, if you cannot be one, you will probably
see one; for there have been gardeners among the passen-
gers on evei-y tour I have made. And, I am told by Euro-
peans in the travel business, this is generally true of
American tour groups from whatever part of our country
they may come.

For example, there was Sam Tolinsky from South River,
N. J. Sam and his wife Elinor were among the passengers
bound \\'ith me to Spain last September. Sam was born
and bred a "big city" boy, but he learned to know and
like plants as a produce-buyer for a chain of grocery stores.
For two weeks of travel through Spain and Portugal, we
discussed every aspect of the fanns and gardens we saw
from our bus windows. You wouldn't believe how much
we learned. I can't speak for Sam, but I had a ball.

Neither a degree in Botany nor a blue ribbon for flower
show exhibits are pre-requisites for enjoying the beauties
of Europe and learning valuable lessons therefrom. Tliere
is tlie opportimity, as your bus cruises along at a com-
forable speed made mandatory by narrow roads and slow
traffic, to reflect on the ties that bind Americans and
Europeans and to imagine the feelings of our ancestors
on dieir arrival to America.

What a mixture of awe, wonder and fear must have
been theirs to behold such vast reaches of wilderness,
untilled rich soils and a seemingly inexhaustible supply
of game and wild life. No wonder they thought these
benisons would have no end.

I recall several times a Heeting feeling of the wry irony
of it all. Here was I, a descendant of those early immi-
grants, come back to "Tlie Old Place" to see how my

cousins were managing with die same meager resources
that had sent my forefathers to a world as strange and
alien as the moon, looking for better opportunities. Perhaps
a look at how those who stayed behind had coped with
these old problems of limited spaces, over-population and
few natural resources would shed some light on how to
deal with these same problems now facing us at home.

From all appearances, they seem to be managing well
indeed. If I had to select the one thing which impressed
me most with Europe, I would say it is their use of their
space. It seemed to me that not one inch is wasted. Since
there is so little to start with, there is an urgency to make
each square foot as productive as possible.

In Holland, for example, we saw acres and acres of
high-yield vegetable crops being grown in plastic-covered
greenhouses on land reclaimed and held from the sea at
the cost of eternal vigilance. Throughout Holland and
other countries we were intrigued by the sight of numerous
"allottment gardens" where large plots of ground had been
sub-divided into small individual plots that were the size
of a large room. Each little plot had its own small tool
house with small curtained windows and flower-filled
window boxes.

Men, women and children from the city could be seen
working contentedly in these plots. Our Tour Guide, who
was Dutch himself, said that families from the cities spent
the day at their small plots, bringing along picnic-baskets
and making a holiday of it.

In the mountainous parts of central Europe, years of
labor have gone into the collecting of rocks and building
of retaining walls to provide a few feet of planting space
on tlie resulting terraced levels rising in tiers up die steep
slopes. Grapevines flourish in these spots. Niches and plant-
ing recesses too small for grapevines hold the iris, sedums
and flowers so dear to Europeans.

Much fruit is grown in Italy and to save space, entire

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The UNis'ERsi-n' of North Caholina at Greensboro

Landscapes
Gardener

Stratford -ON -Avon: Land is scarce in
Europe, but windowboxes such as these at
Shakespeare's homeplace, help to solve the
problem.

orchards are espaliered to produce more cherries, apricots,
peaches and pears. It was also a common sight to see
these fruit trees pnmed high off the ground with a grape-
vine planted at the base of each one.

In the very hot and dry countries of Spain and Por-
tugal, a frequent note of the picturesque appeared in
the form of grapevines heavy with gold and purple fruits,
growing on a trellis at the entrance to the home. They
have learned to have their shade and drink it as well.

On an early May trip to Eiu-ope I was intrigued by
the kind of pruning I noted in use on many trees in
England and on the Continent. Very old trees with enor-
mous trunks had their limbs cut so short that they looked
ludicrous and out-of-proportion. I learned that this is
a form of priming called "pollarding" and that, as usual,
there were two reasons for doing it this way. One is to
keep the tree within certain space confines and the second,
to get the use of the summer growth of young twigs and
branches. These twigs, or wattles, are woven into loose
fences, mats to control erosion, baskets, chair-bottoms and
other household uses. (I remember my father used to make
baskets and chaii--seats of this material when I was a child.)

You must not conclude that since land is in short
supply in Europe, there is little space for flowers. It is
true that except on large estates and in public parks, the
flower-growing space is small. With groimd so dear, the
only place I saw where the front yard was not used for
flowers was in Portugal. I saw several huts in that country
with a kale or collard patch growing by the front door.
After you see how poor they are, you understand why.

Europe is the greatest flower garden in the world.
There are flowers everywhere. They grow in neat parterres
of great formal gardens, in pocket-handkerchief private
yards, and consort comfortably with leeks and chard
wherever necessary. Flowers are grown in every sort of
container, both large and small in city parks, country

squares and country homes along the ways. Cascades of
color spill through wrought-iron balconies, over stone
walls and boxes by the stable doors.

Observing the famous flower auctions at Aalsmeer in
Holland I asked if this huge market supplied most of
the needs of Europe. "Oh, no," I was assured. "Most of
these flowers are bought by Dutch housewives who buy
a small bunch of flowers with each loaf of bread." The
expression "food for the soul" must have come from
Holland.

Recalling along the way the long and bitter fight of
North Carolina garden clubbers to achieve legislative ac-
tion on the control of billboards, a fellow-tourist pointed
out the absence of unsightly roadside advertising in Eng-
land and much of Europe.

And how refreshing it was to realize that utility wires
and poles were conspicuous for their absence; I wonder
how, with their ancient cities, they had managed this better
than we.

A passenger remarked at the end of the trip that she
hadn't seen a single car graveyard. Another commented
that perhaps the reason was that all the cars were still on
the road.

In general, the countryside and cities of Europe are
neater and cleaner than our own. Each foot of space is
in use for vegetables, flowers and other vital uses. None
is wasted with trash or pennitted to be idle while weeds
grow and multiply.

Their gardens are better than ours. You can give credit,
if you like, to better growing conditions, cheaper labor,
more experience, or whatever.

I think they have made the best possible use of the
resources they have. What they have accomplished with
their limitations is a lesson we can afl use. When we
want to, we will do so. I hope we will want to before
it is too late. D

The Ahjmni News: Sxjmmer 1969

17

University Provides Show-How
for Low-Income Decor

A joint venture with government
and industry.

THE TIDY six-room house is painted soft yellow in strik-
ing contrast to the other houses in Spring Valley in
the heart of High Point's urban renewal district. A
year ago it was a sagging worn duplex, condemned as
imfit for human habitation. Sometimes as many as 21
black people lived within its weatherbeaten walls.

The miraculous change was wrought by a university
(the University at Greensboro), a furniture association
(Southern Furniture Manufacturers' Association) and a
government agency (the High Point Redevelopment Com-
mission) who together converted the derelict residence
into a "fumitm-e industry showcase", showing low-income
families how to furnish a home attractively on a limited
budget.

The Way It Was

The High Point Redevelopment Commission provided
the house, investing $6,056 in its rehabilitation. Renovation
included the "works": new roof, modem plumbing, elec-
trical wiring, cabinet work, flooring, carpentry, painting
interior and exterior, concrete front porch, grading and
landscaping, and cost of material and labor. (The trans-
formation is even more remarkable when a comparison is
made with the building next door, now in the midst of a
similar face-lifting. One of the workers remarked, as he
chiseled ancient paint from a windowsill, ". . . . but this
one is in good condition compared to what that one was,"
and he pointed to the demonstration house.)

While renovation was taking place, the Commission
approached the SFMA, many of whose member companies
feature a substantial choice of well-constructed furniture
which families with a limited income might afford. The
Association's representative contacted the School of Home
Economics with whom he had worked on other projects —
all vasdy different from low-cost furnishings. Dean Naomi
Albanese and Dr. Savannah Day were interested and
thought they had just the alumna for the job: Carolyn
Crouse Russell, a district home economics agent with tlie
N. C. Agricultural Extension Service, who was on leave
to study for her masters.

Carolyn liked the idea. She had worked with low-
income families many times. Following her graduation in
1955, she spent four years in extension work in Guilford
County and eight years as extension agent in Forsyth
County, prior to joining the state extension service in
Raleigh in 1967. Also, she felt the project would provide
the perfect subject for her thesis.

With the blessing of the Agricidtural Extension Di-

rector and her University graduate committee, Carolyn
undertook the job of coordinating and fuumishing, working
under the supervision of Dr. Savannah Day '53 and Mrs.
Nancy Hefner Holmes '62, both members of the faculty.

A House For Six

Carolyn decided that the six-room house (living room,
dining room-den, kitchen, three bedroom and two baths)
should be furnished for a hypothetical family of six on a
budget not to exceed $2,000. This figure, based on the
neighborhood's average annual income of $4,500, repre-
sents five per cent over a ten-year period.

With these facts established, Carolyn's work had just
begun. First of all, she needed to know the neighbor-
hood, what kind of life the residents lived, what magazines
they read, what kind of home best suited their ideal of
living.

She called the Redevelopment Commission to ask if
the neighborhood women had an organization whose meet-
ing she might attend. They did, a Wednesday morning
Coffee Klatsch, and she was invited to be hostess the
following Wednesday. They met in Neighborhood House,
a room in the commission's project office. Skepticism
melted with Carolyn's first words: "I need your help."

She told them about her project, then sat back to
listen as they discussed their ideas. Other sessions fol-
lowed, and the women learned as Carolyn learned. They
began to visit the Demonstration house, sometimes to
look, sometimes to get an idea which they might adapt
to their own home.

One of the most interested homemakers was Asalee
Mclnnis who lives three blocks away with her husband
and four children. They rent a substandard dwelling which
is scheduled for demolition by urban renewal as soon as
the family can be relocated at a price they can afford.
Asalee was so excited about many of the ideas offered in
the demonstration house that she brought her husband,
Huster, to view the finished home. Both are hard workers.
Huster, a plasterer, does extra work at the furniture
market during off season, and Asalee works five after-
noons a week as a domestic, using tlie morning hours for
her own housekeeping.

"It would be so easy to keep this house pretty," she
said. She noted the painted brick used for bookends; the
red tape applied to a fifty-cent shower cm-tain for a
colorful border; the fern stand made from a culled wood
turning and painted black; the clever use of wall cover-

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Cabolyn Russell, left, and

Dr. Savannah Day, shoivn in

the master bedroom of the

redevelopment house, might

be smiling at the observation of

one visitor who remarked as

he viewed the black and white

wallpaper and matching

bedspread, "Boy, I sure cotdd

rest easy in this room."

Opening of the house was

reported in "The Netv York

Times", the "Christian Science

Monitor, and other

national media.

ings and the homemade storage trays in the children's
closets.

Her own home has a broken water pipe and she spends
much time fighting rats and feeding wood to her kitchen
range. "I have a nice refrigerator, but I don't want to
buy a stove because the house has no electric lines. It
wouldn't pay to install them since we're moving."

A Joint Effort

When Carolyn's budget ran thin toward the end of the
project and the house lacked accessories, Asalee and the
ladies of the coflfee klatsch came to the rescue. They
fashioned decorative paper flowers, covered cans with
Contact paper to serve as kitchen cannisters, sewed dime
store braid on cheap curtains to achieve a custom-made
look. Some of their children furnished paintings, drawings
and sculpture they had made in school to brighten the
walls and tables. The women were impressed with what
had been accomplished because the house is light, bright
and "pretty," singing with pattern and color.

When the formal opening was held on Saturday after-
noon during the spring furniture market, Carolyn had
"spent" $1,988. This total expenditure included a range,
refrigerator, washing machine and a small television set,
all brand new. The Southern Furniture Manufacturers had
donated the furnishings, but Carolyn kept a careful ac-
counting of every cent, listing the cost of each item on a
sheet posted in every room.

In a telegram to Dean Naomi Albanese, President
Nixon sent his "warmest good wishes to all who had a
part in the successful completion of this project. It is a
foremost goal to bring dignity and decency into the hves
of all Americans. It is heartening to know that our com-
mitment to this goal is backed by such enthusiastic volun-
tary efforts as your own. Please accept all our congratida-
tions on this new milestone in our efforts to achieve the
kind of society that is worthy of our nation and heritage."

Demonstration House is open by appointment, made
through the Redevelopment Commission office or the
SFMA, both in High Point. Every time the doors open,
the people of the neighborhood still flock in to reflect
proudly on what they have helped to create.

Douglas Kerr, SFMA's Public Relations Director with
whom Carolyn worked closely, is a High Point native who
remembers what 1012 Pearson Place — and all of Spring
Valley — looked like BEFORE. The broad paved street
with neat curbstones was a great improvement over the
narrow rutted road of last year, but the residents' incentive
to improve needed direction, a show-how which the
Demonstration House provided.

Because housing for the under-privileged is a major
problem of society, the SFMA hopes the project will serve
as a model to be repeated by furniture retailers and other
trade groups, by schools and agencies in other urban
renewal areas across the country. The School of Home
Economics is proud of its part in providing the guidelines
for selection to make a "house a home" for every level
of society. D

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19

Commencement Dignitaries: Chancellor James Ferguson (left). Senator George McGovern, Governor Robert Scott,
and President William Friday.

Senator McGovern Calls for
End to War in Vietnam

by Wilson W. Davis, Jr.

ISIews Bureau Director

SENATOR GEORGE S. McGOVERN sounded anew
his call for an end to the war in South Vietnam at
the 77th Commencement exercises of the University
and said he does not foresee an end to campus unrest and
concern until the United States is willing to address itself
to "the major problems of our day."

"In the developing discontent of our young people, no
factor has been more important than the war in Vietnam,"
he stated. "It is not coincidence that the age group that has
been resisting this war with the greatest intensity is also
the age group that is paying the heaviest price of that war."
The tanned, balding senator spoke before a crowd of
appro.ximately 6,.5C)0 persons in hot, humid weather on
Sunday morning, June 1, at Grimsley High School stadium.
During the ceremonies degrees were awarded to 1,024
students including 784 undergraduate, 2.34 graduate and
six doctoral degrees.

In his address. Sen. McGovem outlined a program for
action. In addition to calling for an end to the war in
South Vietnam, he said:

"We must end the military draft and return to our time-
honored American tradition of voluntarism.

"We must revitalize our political parties and our polit-
ical process by opening them up to the individual citizens
— young and old alike — including the right to vote at
age 18.

"We must tend quickly to the sickness of our cities, the
decline of our rural areas and the polluting of our en-
vironment.

"We must above all learn to love one another — black
and white — rather than condescending reluctantly to
tolerate the presence of the other.

"We must end our blind plunge toward catastrophe.

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The UmvERsrri' of North Cabolina at Greensboro

and the constant swelling of military budgets of a time
when other areas of our national life are starved."

Returning to the subject of the Vietnam war, Sen. Mc-
Govern pointed out that more than 36,000 young Amer-
icans have died in South Vietnam and added that 200,000
more have been wounded. "Five hundred thousand more
are still fighting and dying . . . and another 10 million
youths are wondering what the future holds for them."

Unfortunately, said Sen. McGovern, the violence on
campuses — and particularly the display of firearms — has
given society an excuse to write off the validity of the
anxiety and protests about the war taking place in uni-
versity circles today.

"Unfortunately, too, it is the naive presumption of some
young radicals that a violent confrontation with authority
will somehow destroy authority. And, of course, it does just
the opposite. As the news photos and TV shots have gone
out in recent weeks from Cornell, Greensboro and else-
where, the very authority that radicals had hoped to de-
stroy hardens in the process — and the day of thoughtful
re-examination and reform is delayed."

Not only is reform delayed through such tactics, but
the use of violence by students is seized upon as a justi-
fication for counter-violence and together it diverts na-
tional attention to violence rather than the causes of dis-
content, he said, adding that it makes little sense for uni-
versity students to condemn armed violence in Asia while
precipitating violence on the campuses.

"I doubt if there is a young person in this graduating
class who has carried any greater burden of anguish over
this war in Vietnam than I have these last four years,"
he said. "There has scarcely been a day in recent years that
this tragic war and the young men we have fighting out
there . . . have not been on my heart and mind. And I
weep for this great country of ours which is wasting its
blood and its substance, however good our purposes, try-
ing to save a political system abroad when our own society
experiences the increasing pangs of neglect and disorder."

Yet, he said, it makes no sense for those who have
diagnosed an illness to prescribe death as its cure. "Those
who call for the destruction of our society seem to have
forgotten the experience in the 1920's and 1930's of Ger-
many when left-wing militants made the assumption that
anything at all was better than the Weimar Republic. They
helped bring it down only to discover ... it was not they
who took over but the militant, brutal storm troopers of
Adolph Hitler. And let me say today that students who
shout down speakers whose views are disagreeable should
remember that thev are setting a pattern that may one day
deny their own right to be heard."

Speaking of today's youth once again Sen. McGovern
commented: "I think the new generation above everything
else is characterized by a scorn for hypocrisy and sham,
for the gap which sometimes exists between the ideals we
have taught and the practices we follow. This generation

insists that the promises of America be fulfilled, not just
for some of us, but for all of us."

Governor Robert Scott, UNC President William Friday
and UNC-G Chancellor James S. Ferguson also spoke to
the graduates. "Let me say that North Carolina needs you,"
Governor Scott told the students. He outlined briefly his
administration's proposals in the problem areas of malnu-
trition, inadequate housing and under-employment and
urged the students to help the state meet the challenges
in these areas of need.

President Friday noted that one of the unfair things
being written about the present generation of youth is that
the unlawful action of the few represents the attitude of
all of today's youth. "This is not so," he stated. He called
the graduating seniors the best-informed, most widely ex-
perienced, and most committed generation he has known
at UNC-G.

Chancellor Ferguson told the audience: "Those who
have been favored by the opportunity for higher education
carry a special burden of stewardship, and in the long run
our hopes for a just and enduring society ride on a con-
scientious acceptance of that burden by the skilled and
enlightened." He challenged the graduates to make their
lives relevant to the times but warned them not to default
on their broad obligations to fight prejudice and curb it
within their own being. D

Special guests during reunion weekend were three
members of the class of 1899: (left to right), Jessie Whitaker
Ricks of Winston-Salem, Emma Parker Maddry of Mont-
gomery, Alabama, and Carey Ogburn Jones of High Point.
When Emma Maddry began making plans to come to com-
mencement this year, she wrote the seven members of her
class to ask them to make a special effort to attend as well.
Jessie Ricks and Carey Jones responded. Other reunion
news is included in Alumni Business and under classes in
the News Notes section.

The Alumni News: Summer 1969

21

Frances Fowler Monds

The people who know her under-
stand and acknowledge the impact
she has made on the schools of this
state in the leadership she has given
the PTA and the United Forces for
Education. Throughout her life Fran-
ces Monds has demonstrated love for
family, concern for her community,
and a responsibility for all the chil-
dren of this state. Her life has been
a response to the needs of others.

A vision of what PTA could mean
and a long and impressive list of PTA
accomplishments in demonstrating its
real potential made her a natural
choice to serve the North Carolina
State Congress of Parents and Teach-
ers as President in 1966. Her two-year
term of office saw a revitalized PTA
looking hard at the responsibilities
and qualifications of school boards
across the state, and her forthright
recognition of the needs of education
in the state, from kindergartens to
higher teacher salaries, made her the
logical choice for chairman of the in-
fluential United Forces for Education
in 1968.

She has served with distinction in
these positions of statewide import-
ance as she had served before in
many ways in her native Perquimans
County. She has served as attendance
counselor for the county schools, was
one of the leaders in the passage of
the first school tax in her county's
history, and established and served
as director of the county's first Head
Start program.

She is one of these articulate "do-
ers" in this tvorJd, and for her efforts
and service to education, the Ahimni
Association is pleased to present its
Ahimni Service Aicard to Frances
Fowler Monds.

lola Parker

Teaching 139 classrooms across the
state via television prompted the
Raleigh News and Observer to write
in 1967 that lola Parker was probably
the best known North Carolinian on
television next to Andy Griffith.

After teaching in our public schools
for 37 years, her ability, skills, inge-
nuity, and high standards in educa-
tion were recognized when she was
appointed television teacher of Uni-
ted States History in 1960 and were
further demonstrated during the next
seven years as television teacher.
Through the years she has been a
vital part of varied civic, professional
and social groups. The love and re-
spect her community feels for her
was vividly shown several years ago
as she recuperated in the hospital for
about six weeks: flowers, gifts and
visitors were so numerous that the
hospital literally had to have an at-
tendant to control the attention she
received.

Her interest and influence on yoimg
people and education have not been
confined to the public schools. She
has been a loyal supporter of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at Greens-
boro ever since her years on the
campus when she served as vice-
president of the Student Government
Association and was an outstanding
member of the dramatics group.

For her work and leadership in
the service of education, the Ahimni
Association is pleased to present its
Alumni Service Award to lola Parker.

Lucy Cherry Crisp

A successful fight against invalid-
ism three years after her graduation
in the class of 1919 was a preview of
the determination Lucy Cherry Crisp
would direct to many and varied pur-
suits in the years to come. While her
accomplishments, from the publica-
tion of two books of verse to the
teaching of subjects ranging from
music to biology, cover a wide range
of interest, she is recognized today
for her contributions in the field of
art.

In 1947 she became associated with
what is now the North Carolina Mu-
seum of Art in Raleigh as Director of
the North Carolina State Art Gallery
and Executive Secretary of the North
Carolina State Art Society. She has
worked to popularize the apprecia-
tion and support of art in the state
by organizing the annual exhibition
of paintings and sculpture by North
Carolina artists, by her editing of the
magazine. Art News, and by writing
articles for the state press. Her resig-
nation as director of the State Art
Gallery after the organization of
the North Carolina Museum of Art
prompted its board to say that hers
was "a lasting contribution to the
development and appreciation of Art

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The Unu'eesfty of North Carolina at Greensboro

Alumni Service Awards

Five alumni are recognized for service
to University, community and state.

in North Carolina. Her influence will
be enduring. . . ."

Lucy Crisp was Director of Reli-
gious Activities on this campus dur-
ing the depression years of 1932-1936.
It is significant that it was recorded
that she organized the st^idents to
"beat the depression on its own
grounds" by presenting a series of
programs, parties, and story hours in
Greensboro which were "designed to
take the mind off unpleasant things."

For her dedication to art and
beauty and the people of this state,
the Alumni Association is pleased to
present Lucy Cheiry Crisp its Alumni
Service Award.

Elizabeth Hinton Kittrell

From the Pitt County Alumni
Chapter to the University of North
Carolina Board of Trustees, Elizabeth
Hinton Kittrell has rendered service
to the University in general and the
University at Greensboro in partic-
ular.

Few alumni have had the close
association with their alma mater she
has had since her own college days.
Through her two daughters, Frances
Kittrell Fritchman '46 and Elizabeth

Kittrell Proctor '48, and her daughter-
in-law, Betty Gaines Kittrell '46, she
influenced another generation of loyal
alumni and endeared herself to their
friends. Having known so long and
so well the advantages of a good all-
girls school, she was among the alum-
nae who "raised their voices" in con-
cern over the conversion of the Uni-
versity to a co-educational institution.
She may feel differently now, but her
willingness and ability to speak out on
issues she has given her careful and
considered judgment have made her
a valuable member of the alumni
association, the Board of the Con-
solidated University and of her home-
town.

Through the years she has pio-
neered in community organization.
Greenville, North Carolina, is richer
for her work with the Girl Scouts, the
Greenville Library Commission, the
Red Cross, the Greenville Service
League and many other groups. She
has the distinction of being the only
woman member of the official board
of her church and has served as
President of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service.

Elizabeth Hinton Kittrell has
shared her energy, her training, her
insight and her concern unselfishly.
For her service to the University, the
Alumni Association presents her its
Alumni Service Award.

Iris Holt McEwen

Alamance County called her its
Woman of the Year in 1962 in recog-
nition of her many community activi-
ties. From the class of 1914 comes an
energetic lady who has given of her
talents, time and means unstintingly.

A member of one of the pioneer
families of her city and county, she
is a charter member, chief instigator,
leader and staunch supporter of num-
erous civic organizations. She was the
first woman in Burlington to go to an

out-of-town training session for Girl
Scouts. She came home and organized
the Burlington Girl Scout Council.
She organized and taught a class of
young people in her Sunday School
that became known a long time ago
as the Iris McEwen Class. She has
served as president of the Women
of the Church and on many other
committees and boards, both in the
local church and at conference and
convention levels. She has been an
active member of the Board of Trus-
tees of Elon College, the Board of
the Christian Home for Children at
the college and the A. L. Brooks
Scholarship Fund Committee. An
official publication of the Elon Home
for Children in a tribute to Mrs. Mc-
Ewen and her family cited her history
of service as possibly the longest in
continuous years that can be found
in the nation.

She has served her alma mater well.
As president of the Student Govern-
ment Association her senior year, she
was elected Everlasting Class Presi-
dent. She has been a loyal member
of her local alumni chapter and was
a member of the Alumni Board of
Trustees.

Iris Holt McEwen inherited a tra-
dition of duty and responsibility for
her family, her church, her commu-
nity and her college. She bequeaths a
rich world for the concern and effort
she has given its many needs. For
her community leadership, the Alum-
ni Association is proud to present
to her its Alumni Service Award.

The Alumni News: Stjmmek 1969

23

Honorary Degrees . . .

Campbell

Persia Campbell -scholar,

teacher and pioneer in bringing the
voice of the consumer into govern-
ment.

Australian by birth and an Amer-
ican citizen by choice, she is one of
our foremost authorities on economic
welfare. As an advisor to the Mayor
of New York City, to the governors
of New York and California and to
presidents Kennedy and Johnson, she
has participated in the development
of programs for consumer represen-
tation. On the international scene,
she has been associated with agencies
of the United Nations from its begin-
ning. Upon retiring from the chair-
manship of the Department of Eco-
nomics at Queens College of the City
University of New York, she was for
one year Kathleen Price Bryan Lec-
turer at the University of North Caro-
lina at Greenbsoro, where she stimu-
lated marked interest in her field of
specialization.

Mrs. Campbell, for your tireless
service to the people of many nations
and for your contribution as a scholar
and teacher at this University and
elsewhere, I confer upon you the
honorary degree of Doctor of Humane
Letters with all its rights and
privileges.

Howard Holderness _

b I

executive and concerned citizen, com-
mitted to the balanced growth of this
state and this region.

Holderness

In insurance, communications and
industry, his capacity for organization
and administration has been recog-
nized at local, state and national
levels. His leadership of the Cliil-
dren's Home Society, Brotherhood
Week, United Community Services,
the University of North Carolina
Medical Foundation, the Excellence
Fund of this University, and the City
of Greensboro is evidence of the
breadth of his interests and the depth
of his commitment. A loyal alumnus
of the University at Chapel Hill, he
has contributed to the development
of other units of the University and
of private institutions as well.

Mr. Holderness, for your produc-
tive participation in promoting the
health, education and welfare of the
people of North Carolina, I confer
upon you the honorary degree of Doc-
tor of Laws with all its rights and
privileges.

Willa Player _ educator and
promotor of religious and racial un-
derstanding and tolerance.

During more than 30 years at Ben-
nett College, where she rose from in-
structor to president, she prepared her
students by precept and example for
individual fulfillment and community
leadership. She traveled to Africa and
to Japan with planning missions to
open new vistas for women in educa-
tion. Honored by her church and her
race for her achievements, she is now
serving her government as director of

Player

Storrs

programs for strengthening develop-
ing institutions of higher learning.

Miss Player, for your vision of
spiritual, social and intellectual
growth in each man and good wiU
among all men, and for your stead-
fast devotion to the realization of that
vision, I confer upon you the honorary
degree of Doctor of Humane Letters
with all its rights and privileges.

Thomas Storrs— executive, pub-
lic servant, teacher, scholar — is a
prototype of those businessmen who
cause the American economy ever to
move toivard the goals of affluence
with equity, dynamism with human-
ity, and efficiency with enlightenment.

Now President of North Carolina
National Bank Corporation, Mr. Storrs
achieved academic distinction at the
University of Virginia and at Harvard
University. He served the nation well
in the United States Navy and as a
high official of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond. Sustained activity
in civic as well as business affairs has
earned for him a place among North
Carolina's most respected citizens. As
a faculty member and Chairman of
the Board of Regents of the Stonier
Graduate School of Banking at Rut-
gers University and in schools of
banking on other campuses, he has
made a notable contribution to pro-
fessional education.

Mr. Storrs, for these accomplish-
ments and for your continuing service

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The UNR'EEsiTi' of North Carolina at Greensboro

Tate

to this institution, this state, this na-
tion and all of mankind, I confer upon
you the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws with all its rights and
privileges.

Allen Tate — critic, bivgrapher,
novelist, poet, and complete man of
letters — has attained a high place in
the literary history of the United
States.

A Kentuckian by birth, a Fugitive
and Agrarian in youth, he has pub-
lished sixteen books of rare distinc-
tion, has lectured at great universities
in this country and abroad, has held
the Chair of Poetry at the Library of
Congress, and is today receiving his
sixth honorary degree. It is partic-
ularly fitting that he should do so here,
for this University has twice been
privileged to count him among its
faculty. Though perfectly at home
in Oxford common rooms or Roman
salons, he remains very much a South-
erner, and he has always taught that
wisdom must begin with the specific
case, the concrete image, the defined
tradition, and that only then can it
turn towards vmiversality.

Mr. Tate, for your generous pa-
tronage of young writers, for your
demonstration of the Fugitive virtues,
for the brilliance of your conversation,
for the rigor of your mind, for your
poems, for the high example of your
life, I now confer upon you the honor-
ary degree of Doctor of Letters, with
all its rights and privileges.

Teaching Excellence . . .

Wright

McCrady

Dr. Lenoir Wright, left, professor in the Department of History and Political
Science, and Dr. Edward McCrady III, assistant professor in the Department
of Biology, were recognized as winners of the 1969 Alumni Teaching Excellence
Awards during the Alumni Association's annual meeting May 31 in Elliott Hall.

Dr. Wright, who has been a member of the faculty since 195.3, specializes
in Asian studies with particular interest in Japan, a country he has visited on
several occasions. This spring he served as committee chairman of the Harriet
Elliott Lecture which featured Dr. Edwin Reischauer, former U. S. Ambassador
to Japan. He spent about tliree years in various parts of Asia, including two
trips to India. On one of his trips to India, he spent a summer at Mysore Univers-
ity under a Fulbright program. Also knowledgeable about the Middle East,
he was a lecturer in political science at the College of Arts and Science at
Baghdad, Iraq in 1956-57.

The Phi Beta Kappa scholar is a native of Charlotte, and received his un-
dergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also
has a BA and an MA from Oxford University in England. He obtained his law
degree from Harvard University in 1938 and practiced law in Charlotte prior
to World War II. He served four years in the Navy, then returned to school at
Columbia University, where he received an MA and Ph.D.

Author of many scholarly book reviews and articles for various publications,
he has completed a book entitled U. S.-Egijptian Relations. He has served in a
number of important capacities such as chairman of the International Studies
Committee, chairman of the faculty government committee, chairman of the
O. Max Gardner Award Committee and president of the UNC-G Phi Beta
Kappa Chapter. He also served as president of the Greensboro Chapter of the
Archeological Institute of America and has been active in the Greensboro
Arts Council.

Dr. Edward McCrady III has been a member of the faculty since 1964.
He received his BS degree from the University of the South, and his MA and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia. A native of Trenton, N. J., he is
a member of the Phi Sigma Society, Society of Sigma XI, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Biological Sciences
and the American Society of Zoologists, and is listed in American Men of Science.

In 1966 Dr. McCrady received a grant from the North Carolina Board of
Science and Technology to support research and experiments in the normal
growiih of cells. He has a particular scientific interest in the embryology of
insects and developmental genetics.

He has held graduate assistantships at Yale University in 1958-59, and at the
University of Virginia from 1960-63. In addition, he served two years in the U. S.
Air Force's Strategic Air Command. D

The Alximni News: SxnsiMER 1969

25

Helen Thrush

Professor of Art

by

Ann Carter Pollard '52, M.F.A. '54

Though nineteen years have gone by since
I enrolled in the first class under Miss
Thrush, I continue to remember and be
affected by her teaching. The first class
was drawing, then followed woodcut and
etching. Later, as a graduate student, I
again studied woodcut and etching under
her direction.

Today I read that students in the fifties
were apatlietic to the world around them,
that nothing happened to us. We lacked
curiosity and commitment. We ventured not
at all. Of students in Miss Thrush's classes,
this was not so. She was vitally interested
and concerned with the world around us
and the world within us, and these concerns
she conveyed. Her classes were animated
with the energy of explorers. There was
no idea, no experience that could not be
brought in and related to the subject taught.
If we were dull, she insisted that we be-
come aware. We were hourly confronted
with ideas and imagery. She always brought
to class mountains of books. We must have
been exposed to every graphic work ever
reproduced. We looked. We began to see.
We were given the significance of historical
progression, imagery through time, defining,
e,xpressing, qualifying man's experience.

We learned basic techniques which Miss
Thrush said could be mastered within a
reasonable time. To join the creative vision
to technique required a hfetime and a gift.

I don't think we were ever made to feel
that we were artists. Certainly we were
encouraged when our efforts were success-
ful, but we always knew that we were stu-
dents and that it is a long journey to fulfill
promise.

I think Miss Thrush imparted to us a
humility that is genuine, one that is natural
to her own personal life.

Her classes were structured. Within a
semester we had to travel from one point
to another. Chaos was not one of the ele-
ments. The method was disciplined, slow,
often tedious, but we learned to make wood-
cuts, etchings, and drawings. There was
joy in the achievement.

In writing down these recollections of
Miss Thrush as a teacher, I am remembering
for all of the Five Winston-Salem Print-
makers whom she taught and encouraged:
Mary Goslen, '64x, Virginia Ingram, '50
'65 MFA, Sue Moore '63 MFA, Anne Shields
Kesler '59 MFA and myself.

We are grateful for the opportunity at
the time of her retirement to acknowledge
our appreciation for her many years of dedi-
cation and creativeness in teaching.

I always have remembered something she
said in class. She had seen an exhibition of
small prints and paintings. This even in the
fifties was unusual. Abstract expressionism
was in full flower, all the way dovm to
the University art department.

This rare little exhibition obviously had
been moving to Miss Thrush. At a time
when small things were not "in," she sug-
gested to us, ". . . you don't have to shout
from the walls to be heard. A small painting
can be as large as a big one."

In our visually loud world, I want to
hope so.

We must have looked at all of William
Blake's work in our etching classes. He was
a favorite. He stood out as a strongly in-
dividual spirit. Miss Thrush, I believe, is a
person in the tradition and spirit of Blake
who could see the world in a grain of sand,
and who found all life to be holy.

Dr. Elizabeth Duffy

Professor of Psychology

by

Dr. Frances Yeager Dunham

Assistant Professor of Psychology

It seems appropriate to write a tribute
to Elizabeth — better known as Polly - Duffy
according to the dimensions which she has
maintained to be the organizing principles of
all behavior: direction and intensity. No stu-
dent of hers will soon forget those terms.

From her colleagues' point of view, the
most important direction which she has pur-
sued is her attempt to systematize knowl-
edge in the area of emotion (a term which
she vigorously rejects) and motivation. While
specific elements of her theorizing are now
controversial, her emphasis on the pervasive
influence and generality of the intensity di-
mension, or activation, will remain a histori-
cal contribution to psychology.

Joining the
EMERITI

One can trace her growing interest in
theory from her own writings. In Coraddi
in 1925, when she was a college senior, she
said, "We do not deny the existence of laws
which are not yet demonstrable. . . . We
hold, however, that until more is discovered,
we must base our belief on that which is
known and hypothesize cautiously about the
vmknown." In her book on Activation in
1962, she took a much stronger position:
"We must not shrink from theoretical ven-
tures, for if we do so we shall be handi-
capped in the assimilation and interpretation
of empirical data." Some of her students
have been so captivated by the excitement
of theory building that they have decided
immediately to become theoretical phycho-
logists, a position which one must ordinarily
achieve after an expenditure of other kinds
of efforts.

Another direction which Polly Duffy's in-
terests have taken is involvement in the
civic affairs of groups to which she has be-
longed. She was active in student govern-
ment as an undergraduate. Recognition of
her efforts is demonstrated in three honors
which she received: she was chosen as a
sophomore to help launch a new literary
society, Aletheian; she received the senior
superlative. Wisdom; and she was named
everlasting president of her class. In her
adult years she has held oflice in psycho-
logical and scientific organizations. She was
vice-chairman of the Greensboro Redevelop-
ment Commission. She has been active in
political affairs.

It seems safe to say that many of her
civic activities and viewpoints have excited
as much controversy as have her theoretical
views in psychology. Among her editorials
during her college years were a satire of
U. S. colonialism, a questioning of the value
of prayer and a strong objection to the policy
of the pubhc school system's policy of hir-
ing "orjy Protestants, regular in church at-
tendance and of Nordic ancestry." Of the
latter, she cautioned, "When all our teachers
are of selected type, and our thought runs
in selected grooves, we shall have very
effectively safeguarded ourselves from the
forces of progress."

Her strong feminist views have similarly
struck a responsive chord in some and alien-
ated others. Retaining her maiden name in
her professional life after her marriage to
John E. Bridgers, Jr., in 1938, and after the
birth of their daughter Betsy, created some
raised eyebrows in the southern college com-
munity to which she had returned in 1937.
Apparently, it also led to some amusing
social situations.

North Carolina psychologists in the years
to come will remember a decade of opposi-
tion to a licensing bill for psychologists
which was led by the "Fearsome Three-
some," Dorothy Adkins, Thelma Thurstone
and Polly Duffy, all past presidents of North

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The Universiti' of North Carolina at Greensboro

Carolina Psychological Association. The suc-
cessful legislative bill of 1967 incorporated
compromises which made its provisions ac-
ceptable to Polly.

Of all of her activities, Polly Duffy's
greatest energy has been devoted to her
insistence on the place of psychology as a
science and to the importance of theory
in that growing science. It is clear that she
will be remembered for tlie intensity of her
behavior in this direction by bodi colleagues
and students.

Charles Marshall Adams

Professor, Librarian, Archivist

by

Elizabeth Jerome Holder

Head Reference Librarian

Charles Marshall Adams came as librarian
to the Woman's College of the University
of North Carolina in 1945 from Columbia
University where he was Assistant to the
Director of Libraries. In the years since
his arrival, he has seen the book collection
of the Walter Chnton Jackson library grow
from 114,185 to over 400,000 books and
microtexts, the periodical collection increase
from 686 titles to over 3,000 periodicals and
serials. Under his direction the library has
added over 6,000 phonograph records and
a rental collection of over two hundred
framed pictures. His staff, 13 in 1945, now
numbers thirty-six. As he leaves Greensboro
in August, 1969, taking an early retirement
in order to accept a position as librarian
for the undergraduate library and professor
of library science at the University of Ha-
waii, he also leaves behind one building
for which he was largely responsible and
a set of plans for a large addition to that
building which will be constructed as soon
as funds are available.

One of the most important tasks faced
by Mr. Adams in his first years on this
campus was getting a new building under-
way. Although the new library had long
been needed and preliminary plans had
been drawn. World War II had delayed
construction. Mr. Adams and his staflF met
many extra hours, examining blueprints and
working with the architects in designing as
functional a building as possible. The Wal-
ter Clinton Jackson Library has many fea-
tures that reflect Mr. Adams' knowledge of

library organization and his foresight in in-
sisting on flexibility in interior arrangements.
Outwardly the building conforms to the
style of architecture prevailing on the
campus in 1950, but the inside was for that
time quite modem in concept. Blueprints
for the building have been exhibited na-
tionally, and Mr. Adams has served as
library building consultant for a number of
other libraries. His advice has been sought
by many librarians confronted by a set of
plans — tributes to the esteem in which he
has been held by members of the profession.
The numerous offices and positions on
key committees in national, regional and
local library organizations to which Mr.
Adams has been elected or appointed are
far too many to list here.

Mr. Adams' activities on the Greensboro
campus have been equally numerous and
varied. For many years he took an almost
annual part in Playhker productions, ap-
pearing in such plays as The Apple Cart,
Murder in the Cathedral, and The Three
Sisters. Who can forget his portrayal of the
blind Teiresias in the Classical Club's pro-
duction of Sophocles' Antigone, performed
on the steps of the library, or his role of
Paidagogos in Sophocles' Electro? He has
served on the college Lecture-Entertain-
ment, radio, audio-visual, buildings and
grounds committees and as secretary of the
Research Council. His staff long ago be-
came accustomed to seeing him juggle of-
fice furniture around trying to make some
new member of die faculty comfortable in a
makeshift office, or tackling an unwieldy
book shelf or desk with his own set of
tools. He has indeed been known to frame
some of the rental pictures himself, devise
a protecting portfolio for a rare book, and
in at least one instance consult witli a mem-
ber of the staff about a set of house plans
which turned out to be for a doll house
he was building for the staff member's small
daughter. He has spent hours patiently and
skillfully mending a fragile volume, mean-
while teaching a member of the staff how
to do it next time.

Mr. Adams' interest in outdoor activities
has frequently astonished those who know
him only as a man of letters. How many
times has he rushed away after working
hours for a game or two of tennis with
friends, frequendy the late Randall Jarrell
or Malcolm Hooke! His enthusiasm for hik-
ing and mountain climbing has made him
many friends among the students and towns-
people. He was the first sponsor of die
campus Outing Club and has been a loyal
and faithful member of the Piedmont Ap-
palachian Trail Hikers, Carolina Mountain
Club, Appalachian Trail Ways, and Alpine
Club of Canada.

He and Mrs. Adams have supported the
musical organizations of Greensboro, serv-
ing on boards and committees and contrib-
uting three musically talented children as
performers in many concerts. Mr. Adams
himself plays the recorder in informal
groups. He has been active in his support
of Weatherspoon Gallery and of the pro-
gram in art on this campus, buying many
original paintings for the library's collection.
He also has spent many hours in his position
as chairman of the campus committee on
church relations of the Presbyterian Church
of the Covenant, and he and Mrs. Adams
have made a real effort to provide a wel-
come in their home for many of the foreign
students in Greensboro.

It is as a bibliographer and lover of fine
books and printing that Mr. Adams has
made a great contribution to the university.
With his own printing press he has operated
the Chapman Press at home and has issued
an assortment of original Christmas cards,
mementoes for the Friends of the Library,
even wedding invitations, each with a
colophon of Bobby, the Adams' family pet,
and each carefully and skillfully designed.
His knowledge of bibliography constandy
amazes his staff. Stumped oftentimes in
their search for answers to questions, mem-
bers of the staff have frequently turned to
Mr. Adams for help, and, likely as not,
have been sent to the right book for the elu-
sive fact. (Or even more hkely, led to it, for
Mr. Adams has taken delight in finding
things for himself, and he has rarely been
too busy to stop whatever he was doing
to help either his staff or a library patron
who approached him.) The special collec-
tions added to die library in the past 24
years are their own testaments of his inter-
ests and knowledge. The rare books he has
bought with special funds, the manuscripts
and first editions of the Southern writers
since 1920, the Luiga Silva collection on
the viiloncello, the strong holdings in art,
dance, physical education, books reladng to
women's interests, the books, manuscripts,
and original illustrations that belong to the
children's books collection, all have, as
Chancellor Ferguson said in paying tribute
to Mr. Adams at the Friends of the Library
dinner in April, reflected Mr. Adams' "un-
canny knowledge and vision with respect to
putting our scarce funds into the right kind
of acquisitions." Already the holdings by
and about Randall Jarrell attract scholars
from other institutions, and Mr. Adams' bib-
liography on Randall Jarrell has brought
him and the library recognition ever since
its pubhcation.

The dictionary says that the Hawaiian
word "Aloha" means "love," "affection,"
"farewell," and we use it in these senses
to bid good-bye to Mr. and Mrs. Adams.
But the dictionary also says "Aloha" means
"greetings," and we hope that in the not
too-distant future, we can say it as a wel-
come back from a wonderful, but not perma-
nent, stay in Hawaii.

Alumni Recognize Six
Retiring Counselors

Six counselors who retired in June with
an accumulation of 72 years of service to
the University at Greensboro were recog-
nized at the Alumni Association aimual
meeting Saturday, May 31, in Cone Ball-
room.

Miss Lillian Cunningham, a native of
Greensboro who joined the staff in Septem-
ber, 1963, has served as Residence Hall
Counselor for over a quarter of a century.
Others retiring and years of service are:

Mrs. Mary G. Duff of Franklin, Vir-
ginia — nine years.

Mrs. Lowell Estes of Greensboro — ten
years.

Mrs. Ruth B. Johnson of Raleigh — ten
years.

Mrs. Nancy Melvin of Franklin, Vir-
ginia — twelve years.

Mrs. Lucy T. White of Louisburg —
fourteen years.

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Reunion Notes {Anna Doggett Doggett
'16 reporting). Alumnae from thirteen classes
covering a period of seventy years — 1899
to 1969 — met in Sharpe Lounge in Elliott
Hall for an interesting and happy reunion
on May 31. Three members of the first Red
and White class (1899) were especially
honored: Carey Ogburn Jones, Emma Park-
er Maddr>', and Jessie Whitaker Ricks.

Annie Beam Funderburk '16, this year's
President, presided over the meeting and
welcomed thirty members and two guests.
In addition to those pictured, the following
signed-in on the Vanguard roster: Rosa
Blakeney Parker '16, Lucy Hatch Brooks
'16, Mary Moyle Montgomery '18, and
Thelma Mallard '18.

Claire Henley Atkisson '16, chairman of
the Organ Fund, gave a full report on this
special project of the Vanguard. A total of
$18,162 of die $100,000 needed for a new
and larger organ for Aycock Auditorium
has been donated. A letter from University
Chancellor Ferguson, approving a change
in the naming of the organ, was read. (The
original plan was to name the organ in
memory of Dr. Wade R. Brown. After
George W. Thompson passed away in No-
vember, 1968, it was decided that the organ
should be named in his memory since there
are already three memorials to Dr. Brown.)

George Hamer, Director of Development,
was introduced. He welcomed the Vanguard
and congratulated them for undertaking this
project of raising $100,000 for a much
needed organ for Aycock Auditorium, say-
ing that to University visitors "Aycock Audi-
torium is UNC-G."

The minutes of the June, 1968, meeting
were read. Members were asked to intro-

duce themselves and to report on anything
of interest during their time at UNC-G.

Ethel Lewis Harris Kirby '05 told of
teaching the Old English ballads used in
the pageants in 1912 and 1916. (The Van-
guard tried to sing "Sumer is a cumin in"
but only squeaked through two lines.) Em-
ma Parker Maddry '99 stated that the mem-
bers of her class, the first Red and White
class to be graduated, presented a U. S.
flag to "the College" at the time of their
graduation.

Carrie Perkins Davis '14x said that she
married instead of finishing with her class
but that she had sent four daughters to
"the College" during the years since and
that all of them had been graduated. Clara
Byrd '13 called attention to the alumnae
present who had served the University so
faithfully for so many years: May Lovelace
Tomlinson '07, Claire Henley Atkisson,
Ethel Lewis Harris Kirby, Mary Tennent
'13, Ruth Gunter '14, Clora McNeill Foust
'06C, Jane Summerell '10, and Annie Beam
Funderburk. Clara Byrd's name must be
added to that list, also.

The report of die Nominating Committee
was read by Ruth Gunter since the chair-
man, Mame Boren Spence '12x, was unable
to be present. Frances Morris Haworth '17
was nominated for President, and Anna
Doggett Doggett '16 was nominated for
Recording Secretary. These officers were
elected.

The Vanguard. Front row (top to bottom): Lillian Morris '17, Iris
Holt McEwen 14, Emma Parker Maddry '99, Virgie Jenkins 'llx,
Jessie Whitaker Ricks '99, Alberta Monroe '16, Frances Moms
Hayworth '17, Mary Exum '07, Carey Ogbum Jones '99. Back row:
May Lovelace Tomlinson '07, Anna Doggett Doggett '16, Jane

Summerell '10, Lucy Hamilton Little '12, May Meador '17, (face
hidden) Mary Tennent '13, Annie Beam Funderburk '16, (dark hat)
Mary Elizabeth JefFress Whaley 'llx, Virginia Brovm Douglas '02,
Clora McNeill Foust '06c, Carrie Perkins Davis '14x, Ethel Lewis
Harris Kirby '05, Emma Sharpe Avery 05, Ruth Gunter '14.

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Greetings were received from Emma
Lewis Speight Morris '00. Mary Jeffress
Whaley 'llx asked the secretary to send
a note of greetings to Emma Lewis.

Clora McNeill Foust urged all members
to help with the Organ Fund, noting that
no amount is too small to be appreciated.

Annie Beam Funderburk, retiring presi-
dent, introduced Frances Monis Haworth,
new President, who also urged all mem-
bers of the Vanguard to make a special
effort to raise the $100,000 needed for the
Organ Fund. All donations should be sent
to Mr. Hamer's office. The meeting was ad-
journed, and the Vanguard joined the other
groups having reunions for lunch in Elliott
Hall Balhoom.

Sallie Hyman Leggett '06, is living at 207
S. Library St., Greenville. Bertha Daniel
Cloyd '11, has a new address: 307 Wood-
bum Rd., Raleigh, and so does Amy Joseph
Tuttle '16 who now lives at 550 Straw-
bridge Ave., Apt. 807, Melbourne, Fla.

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Reunion Notes (Edith Haight reporting.)
The Class of 1915 wants to have a big re-
union on campus in 1970 to celebrate our
Fifty-Fifth Anniversary. In anticipation of
this, those of us who could returned to
"the CoUege" this year on May 30-31 to
make plans as well as to continue the policy
of an Annual Get-Together.

Vonnie McLean Hipps and Edith Haight
came from the western part of the state.
They were joined by Ethel Thomas Aber-
nathy in Winston-Salem where they spent
Thursday night with Lena Glenn Pratt.

Julia Bryan Futrell and Hildah Mann
Jones came to Greensboro by bus from the
Norfolk, Va., area on Thursday and with
Cora Belle Sloan Caldwell and Gay Holman
Spivey drove over to Winston-Salem the
next morning to join the other four in a
tour of Old Salem. The many interesting
things to see and the stimulation of keeping
up with each other made us all forget that
feet sometimes get tired of being used.
Luncheon in the Old Tavern was a delight-
ful and restful experience.

All eight of us were at the Alumnae
House in Greensboro, ready to register, be-
fore "the desk" was officially opened on
Friday afternoon — even if Cora Belle and
Gay think "the longest way is the sweetest
way." During Daisies' Dinner on Friday
evening and afterwards in a cool, shady
spot near the pool on the Elliott Hall patio
we talked and talked, passed pictures
around, and enjoyed being together.

Bessie Wright Ragland and X-15'er Kath-
leen Hall joined us Saturday morning for
the class meeting and luncheon. Absent
members of the class will be hearing soon
about the plans made and should begin now
setting their sights for the big gathering of
1915'ers on the campus next spring. If you
absentees could have seen those three
charming ladies who were celebrating their
SEVENTIETH Anniversary of graduation
take a bow at the luncheon, you would know
that you are still young enough to let
nothing stand in your way for getting to
the campus next spring to celebrate our
FIFTY-FIFTHI

Class of 1915. Front row (left to right): Vonnie McLean Hipps, Edith C. Haight, Lena
Glenn Pratt, Gay Holman Spivey. Back row: Kathleen Hall (x), Hildah Mann Jones, Cora
Belle Sloan Caldwell, Bessie Wright Ragland, Ethel Thomas Abemethy, Julia Bryan FutreU.

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Reunion Notes (Compiled by Barbara
Parrish.) In beginning, a note to the Ladies
of the Class of 1919 who were here for
THE reunion: As the deadline for filing
"reunion notes" approached, I realized that
in all my confusion and "muddleness" I
must have neglected to remind you to des-
ignate one of your number as Reunion Re-
porter. Time (before our publication dead-
line) did not permit my getting in touch
with any one of you, and so I, "an outsider,"
will do my best to pull together what indi-
viduals among you told me about "your
proceedings." If during the remainder of
the summer any one of you (or ALL of you)
feels inclined to write down some of your
impressions of the occasion, please send
tliem to us for publication in the fall issue
of the magazine. It won't be too late.

Thirty-two members of the Class of 1919
(out of the original 81) returned to the
University at Greensboro during the last
weekend in May to celebrate the 50th an-
niversary of their graduation. (Counting will
reveal that thirty were present at picture
taking time. The missing two are Martha
Speas Phillips and Evelyn Shipley Righter.)

Distance proved no obstacle for seven
of the group. Belle Mitchell Brown and her
husband came across the country from Col-
lege Station, Texas. Three journeyed nortli-
ward from the south: Adelaide VanNoppen
Howard from Alabama, EUsabeth Thames
Gamble from Mississippi, and Eoline Everett
May from South Carolina. And three jour-
neyed southward from the north: Margaret
Hayes from New York, and Mary D. John-
son and Alma Winslow West from Virginia.
The North Carolinians' travel patterns criss-
crossed the entire state.

A majority of the group came on Friday
in time for Daisies' Dinner and a chance
to see the lovely 1919 Memorial Garden
which Alma Rightsell Pinnix had designed,
planted, and nurtured since tlie last reun-
ion. They spent Friday night in the still-
familiar Spencer Hall. How much sleeping
(as opposed to late-night-visiting) they did
was not admitted. They were, however,

more bright-eyed on Saturday morning than
their counterparts in the 25, 10, and 5-year
classes!

Saturday morning's class meeting in the
Alumnae House Library combined exciting
business with "show (pictures) and tell
(news)." Adelaide Howard was elected Ever-
lasting President of the class. The group
decided that the class, as a class, would
have a 51st reunion next year. Frances
Vaughn Wilson, who lives in Greensboro,
is Vice-President, and she will coordinate
plans for the 1970 reunion.

The "warmth" of the Alumnae House's
hospitality prompted some real action. At
Treasurer Alma Pinnix's instigation, the class
initiated on "air-condition the Alumnae
House" project. The plan was kept secret
until Adelaide Howard rose during the
Annual Meeting of die Alumni Association
which followed the Reunion Luncheon to
make public the project and to wave aloft
the $105 which tlie members of the class
had contributed as "a starter." That the
project proved instantly to be very popular
is substantiated by the fact that before the
Annual Meeting's end the amount in the
project-fund had grown to $223.56. Alma
Pinnix and Frances Wilson promised their
classmates that they would continue to work
toward completion of the project.

The focal point of the aforementioned
Reunion Luncheon was the entry of the
Class of 1919 into the Elliott Hall Ball-
room with their banner ("concocted" by
Elizabeth Hinton Kittrell's daughter, Eliza-
beth Proctor) unfurled and widi Dr. Nancy
White as faculty escort. Awaiting the class
members at the table was their special guest,
Mr. A. C. Hall, University professor emeri-
tus of English. One of the focal points of
the Alumni Meeting was the presentation
of five Alumni Service Awards, and the
Class of 1919 figured prominently in the pre-
sentation: two '19ers, Lucy Cherry Crisp
and Elizabeth Kittrell, were among the re-
cipients.

The notes which we have received in
the Alumni Office since reunion weekend
indicate diat the '19ers had a good time.
There is one sure thing: the other classes
which were here for reunions had a better
time because the Class of 1919 was here.
You were the life of the party! And we
are dehghted that you'll be back ne-xt year!

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Class of 1919. Row 1 (left to right) Elisabeth Thames Gamble, Annie
Lowrie Bonney Wilson, Agnes Williams Covington, Ruby Sisk
Gouge, lone Mebane Mann, Blanche Wilhelm Hunter, Connor Jones,
Alma Rightsell Pinnix. (2) Mary Parks Grey Romefelt, Elizabeth
Hinton Kittrell, Margaret Hayes, Mary D. Johnson, Eoline Everett
May, Belle Mitchell Brown, Millie Pearson. (3) (skip in) Flora Britt

Holbrook, Ida Gordner, Janet Harris Goldiere. (4) Hilda Loftin
Hudson, Frances Vaughn Wilson, Alma Winslow West, Aline Reed
Cooper, Amette Hathaway Avery, Catherine Phillips Weeks. (5)
Sara AU Abemethy, Lucy Cherry Crisp, Adelaide VanNoppen
Howard, Katherine Wilson White, Pearl Batts Johnson, Anne
Banks Cridlebaugh.

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Lela Wade Philhps' son, Charles, Jr., was
elected to the Greensboro City Council in
the May 6 election. He is the husband of
Barbara Cornelius PhiUips '54.

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Anne Cantrell White left June 7 for a
three-week tour of Austria, Yugoslavia,
Greece and Italy with her niece, Anne
Rankin of Gastonia, as her travleing guest.
Flying to Vienna, the two Annes spent most
of the time in Yugoslavia and Greece, re-
turning to the States from Rome. Anne
Rankin, a rising junior at UNC-G, is the
daughter of Jean Cantrell White ('35x) who
left the Greensboro campus her junior year
for Chapel Hill and graduation.

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Miriam Goodwin, retired because of ad-
vanced arthritis, is living in a nursing home
on Route 2, Box 844, Morganton. . . . Ann
Little Masemore of Wadesboro, who has
conducted a number of Moore Tours in past
years, turned the tables and took a tour
herself in March ... a Moore tour of
the Old South.

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New Address
Ruth Vick O'Brien, The Savoy, 1101 New
Hampshire Ave., N. W., Washington, D. G.

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Addie Rhem Banks Morris of Salisbury
addressed two AAUW workshops on "Lead-
ership Training for Community Action" in
Mooresville April 26 and at Elon College
May 3. Her experience as Chairman of
Volunteer Services of the Salisbury-Rowan
Community Service CouncU qualified her
to represent North Carolina at an AAUW-
sponsored leadership workshop in Wash-
ington last October when leadership in-
struction was offered.

New Address
Sudie Mitchell Bailey, 640 Americana
Dr., Apt. 101, Aimapolis, Md.

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New Address

Dr. Loma Thigpen, 312 S. Rountree St.,
Wilson.

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Mary Polk Gordon, who has made
mathematics palatable to her morn-
ing classes on educational television,
retired at the end of the spring
school term after a dozen years be-
fore the camera. In an interview in
the Greensboro News, she admitted she
would miss coming to work every morning,
miss the directors and cameramen, the thrill
of being on the air, and probably most
of all, the daily letters from children. From
15 schools when she started in 1957, she
now reaches between 200 and 380 schools.
She's concerned about the futvue of the
program after she retires, yet it always has
been held back for lack of money for films,
for skits, for research, for httle things that
would have added so much, she says. She
comes by teaching naturally; her mother and
all of her sisters are teachers. "This has
been a wonderful experience which I'll miss,
but my husband is already retired, and we
want to do some traveling," then adds, "Still
this is something you don't give up easily."

New Address
Ellen Baldwin Heydock, Box 117, Bat
Cove.

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New Addresses
Virginia Cameron Graham, 3 Buckhom
Ave., Broadway; Elizabeth Hall Kendall,
5300 Westbard Ave., Bethesda, Md.

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After teaching for 31 years, seven of them
in N. C, Margaret Leonard McDaniel re-
tired in June. For the past 12 years she has
taught in Clearwater High School in Flor-
ida. Besides being a devoted teacher, Mar-
garet has raised 3 children and now has
2 grandchildren.

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Mary Ellen Bass Mayo's daughter, Hope,
'69x, has been awarded a full fellowship
for five years of graduate study toward a
Ph.D. in Medieval History at Harvard Univ.
Hope received her AB in June from UNC-
CH. . . . Since 1960, Otilia Goode has been
reference librarian for the American Dental
Association in Chicago. Her address; 719
Seward St., Evanston, 111.

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"There's more to a stamp than just
being a means to mail a letter,"
Virginia Gamble Brizendine says,
and she ought to know. As director
of the U. S. Post Office's Division
of Philately, the 32-year veteran of
Post Office Department service is directly
concerned with the development and issu-
ance of stamps. She also handles requests
for new stamps and philatelic information,
traveling stamp shows and the organizing of
ceremonies for the issurance of new stamps.
She's also executive secretary of the Post-
master General's Citizens' Advisory Stamp
Committee, composed of 11 experts who
decide upon new stamps and stamp designs.
As in any multi-miUion dollar operation,
there are problems such as almost getting
the wrong flag on the Florida Centennial
stamp and depicting a Canadian totem pole
rather than the Alaskan variety on the Alas-
kan Statehood stamp. Her current project
is a stamp commemorating the flight of the
Apollo 8 moon mission. Despite her longtime
concern with stamps, she's not a collector
because "When you work with something
all day, it's a bit difficult to adopt it as a
hobby."

Ada Cozzens Barringer teaches fourth
grade in Edenton where she lives at 16
Hawthorne Rd.

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New Addresses
Eloise Cobb Harris, 19 S. Abingdon St.,
Arlington, Va.; Claire Lind Goodwin, Orton

Class of 1935. Row on left (top to bottom): Frances Grantham King, (left) Heath Long
Beckwith, (right) Gene Brown Cothran, Alice Taylor Stanley, Anna Mae Komegay Quill,
Willa Marks, Martha Hefner Smith. Row on right: Kathryn J. Royster, Marion Ferrell
Durham, Margaret C. Moore, Alma Sneed Peebles, Catherine Bernhardt Safrit.

Rd., Rt. 1, Box 77-A, Leland; Katharine
Moser Burks, Port Franks, Ontario, Canada;
Bella Shachtman, 1200 Lakeshore, Apt.
12H, Oakland. Calif.

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Reaville Austin Gray's daughter, Mary,
a student at Western Carolina Univ., was
one of 21 young women presented at the
fourth annual High Point Debutante Ball
in March.

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Reunion Notes (Alice Taylor Stanley re-
porting.) Twelve girls (?) gathered for the
thirty-fourth reunion of the Class of 1935.
Heath Long Beckwith, our President, pre-
sided. We were so glad to see her because
four years ago at the time of our last re-
union she was in the midst of her daughter's
wedding and could not be with us.

Frances Grantham King traveled the
greatest distance to come for the reunion:
she lives in Columbia, S. C.

A number of us are stiU working in the
field of education. Heath says that she likes
being busy so she is the Attendance Coun-
selor for the Warren County schools. Marion
Ferrell Durham is Financial Aid and Health
Careers Counselor at the Community Col-
lege in Charlotte. Alma Sneed Peebles is
secretary for the Infirmary at UNC-G. Mar-
garet Moore, with her B.S. and two M.A.
degrees, is an Associate Professor in the
UNC-G School of Nursing. Catherine Bern-
hardt Safrit teaches exceptionally bright
children in Rowan Junior High School in
Sahsbury. Willa Marks teaches a first grade
in Great Falls Elementary School in Rock-
ingham. Gene Brown Cothran is also a first

grade teacher; her school is in Alamance
County.

Lt. Col. Kathryn Royster, with 25 years
of service to her credit, has retired from
the Army, and she is thoroughly enjoying
civilian life once again.

Martha Hefner Smith, Anna Mae Kome-
gay Guill, and Alice Taylor Stanley are just
plain "homemakers," as they put it.

Mildred Hutchinson has been elected
president of the Pilot Club of Greensboro.

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REtnJioN Notes (Eloise Taylor Robinson
reporting.) It had been eight years since
the Class of 1936 had returned for a reun-
ion, their twenty-fifth, in 1961. Nineteen
members of the class came back this year,
enjoyed the occasion thoroughly, and wished
more of their classmates could have re-
turned. (In addition to those pictured, Les-
lie Darden Highsmith, Mary Lee Alford
Hunter, Cornelia Snow Adams, June Darden
Ward, and Mary Rives signed-in.)

Betty Griesinger Aydelette presided in the
absence of Louise Bell Moffitt, who had to
teach that day in the High Point schools.
Bibbie Yates King told about the Alumni
Annual Giving Program and urged those
who had not contributed to send in their
gifts. The group took up a collection to
increase our rather fimited Class Treasury
and to help with mailing expenses when
our next reunion comes around in 1974.

We shared with each other the news
which follows. Rachel Duimagan Woodard,
who is a supervisor in the Whiteville
schools, and her husband, who is a school
principal, have three daughters. Naomi Gib-
son teaches a sixth grade in Laurinburg and
has had the interesting experience of teach-
ing in both Japan and France. She had let-
ters from three classmates who could not
attend: Ruth Watson Howell, Cordula La-
nier Hassell, and Ruby Keller Corbett. Mary
Ruth McNeill McNairy does some substitute

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Class of 1936. Row 1 (left to right) Elizabeth Yates King, Betty Griesinger Aydelette, Julia
Rice Chalmers. (2) Mary Ruth McNeill McNairy and Margaret Smith Hunt. (3) Alice Knott
Ware, Helen Floyd Seymour, Rachel Dunnagan Woodard. (4) Naomi Lee Gibson, Mary
Morris Waldrop, Bessie Kellogg Stover. (5) Elizabeth Barineau, Sara Henderson Cox,
Eloise Taylor Robinson.

teaching in Greensboro where she and her
husband hve. Their daughter is married, and
their son lives in Charlotte.

Helen Floyd Seymour and her husband,
who is an attorney, live in Sanford. Now
that their children are grown, she does some
volunteer tutoring, and she hopes to realize
a long-time ambition to study organ before
the year's end. Alice Knott Ware and her
husband are back in Raleigh. Alice, who
expects to receive a master's degree from
UNC-Chapel Hill in July, is a Special Edu-
cation teacher in the Raleigh schools. Their
four children are all grown. Elizabeth Bari-
neau, who has been teaching French in the
Department of Romance Languages at
UNC-G since 1961, planned to leave soon
after commencement for a summer abroad.

Bibbie Yates King, whose term as Second
Vice-President of die Alumni Association
expired at commencement, and her husband
live in Greensboro. Their older son is in
service and seems slated for Vietnam; their
daughter is a student at Randolph Macon
Woman's College; and their younger son
will be a senior in high school ne.xt year.
Julia Rice Chalmers and her husband, who
live in Charlotte, will have three college
seniors in their family next year. Their two
older children are returning to college after
interruption by military service and marri-
age. Julia is a food service adviser for the
Board of Education.

Sara Henderson Cox does bookkeeping
for her husband's food locker business in
Kinston. Two of their four children are
married, and they have two grandchildren.
Sara had news of many classmates in eastern
N. C. Bessie Kellogg Stover and her husband
have "retired" to Colorado Springs, Colo., if
.such can be said of two constant travelers.
Bessie worked in many countiies in Europe
and in Japan before her marriage.

Mary Morris Waldrop brought the only
class visitor, her teen-age daughter. She and
her husband, who is in Soil Conservation
work, have a big farm in Louisa, Va., where
Mary teaches a second grade. Another
daughter is married. Leslie Darden High-
smith's daughter, who is a UNC-G student,

stayed over to drive home to Plymouth with
her mother after the reunion. Leslie's hus-
band is a physician. Mary Rives, who had
news about several classmates, lives at home
in Graham and commutes to her work at the
Veteran's Hospital in Durham.

Betty Griesinger Aydelette stays busy
teaching French at Irving Park School in
Greensboro, looking after a house in the
country as well as one in town, and keeping
up with her husband who is a boating and
fishing enthusiast. Betty's three children are
all married, and she has three grand-
children. June Darden Ward's husband is
superintendent of the Winston-Salem-For-
syth County Schools. They have two chil-
dren, one of whom is married and has just
moved to Greensboro. Lib Barineau re-
ported that Margaret Smith Hunt, whose
husband is president of the Community
College at Williamston, has had two daugh-
ters to graduate from UNC-G. The elder

was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry at Duke
this year; the younger will be a graduate
student in biology at UNC-G next year.

Eloise Taylor Robinson does part-time
bookkeeping at the UNC-G Book Store. She
and her husband have a recently married
daughter in Boston and a married son on
the UNC-Chapel Hill Law School faculty
and two grandchildren.

Mary Alford Hunter, who is on the School
of Education faculty at UNC-G, and Cor-
nelia Snow Adams of Kemersville joined the
group for lunch which followed the Class
Meeting.

"Farm Bureau is my hfe," Irby
Shaw Walker declared in the
Greemboro Daily News in a recent
interview in which she recounted
her experiences with the bureau
over the past three decades. She has
served longer than any employee, past or
present, beginning on "the hottest day in
August of 1940" when she and her father,
the late Flake Shaw, loaded the meager
possessions of the N. C. Farm Bureau into a
pickup truck in Raleigh and brought them
to Greensboro. The Farm Bureau was a
fledgling with many problems when her
father was persuaded to become executive
secretary. He agreed on condition that the
office be moved to Greensboro, location of
his family and his large farm, and that his
daughter be hired to help him. In Flake
Shaw's 17 years as an e.xecutive until his
death in 1957, the Farm Bureau became the
state's largest general farm organization.
When the office moved back to Raleigh, it
took "seven vans and the better part of a
week to pack, move and unload," Irby re-
called. As secretary, treasurer, director of
women's activities and second in command
to Pres. B. C. Mangum, she sees her respon-
sibiUties as "tremendous but rewarding."

Eloise Taylor Robinson's daughter, Ann
'62x, was married to Irving Louis Kofsky
on April 12. The bride is employed as a
registered nurse at Mass. General Hospital
in Boston. The bridegroom is president of
Photo Metrics, Inc., Lexington. A thome: 21
Charlesbank Rd., Newton, Mass. . . . Eliza-
beth "Bibbie" Yates King's son, Walter Win-
bume King 111, was married to Joan Bland

Class of 1937. Row 1 (left to right): Marie Roberts, Marjorie Lee Coffield, Mattie Oliver
Davenport. (2) Lillian Pugh Grant, Martha McRae Alsup, Grace Carmichael Watson.
(3) Katharine Crouch Sledge and Mataline CoUette.

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Crutchfield April 12. The couple are living
in San Diego, Calif., where the bridegroom
is stationed as an ensign in the Navy.

New Address
Nina Penton Byerly, 2928 Sylvan Ramble
Rd. N. E., Adanta, Ga.

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Reunion Notes. Eleven members of the
Class of 1937 signed-in for a 32nd reunion
during the last weekend in May. Eight of
the group are pictured; the three "missing"
are Betsy Dupuy Taylor, Wilfred Schlosser
Seager, and Ruth Dennis Gregory.

Distance was no obstacle for two of the
returnees: Mattie Oliver Davenport came
from Baltimore, and Lillian Pugh Grant
came from Ormond Beach, Fla. (The lat-
ter's suntan really proved her residency.)

Ruth Dennis Gregory's daughter, who is
"college-looking" age, came along to the
reunion with her mother and used the oc-
casion to "examine" the University at
Greensboro.

Alethea Hough Vann may be reached c/o
her husband, Maj. Gen. lA'alter M. Vaim
J-4, Hq USEUCOM, APO New York. The
Varm's twin sons, John and David, both
Army captains, graduated from West Point
in 1965. David is now in Vietnam. . . . Sarah
Johnston, librarian, has moved to 194 Chesa-
pake St. S. W., Washington. . . . Linda
Mitchell Lamm of Wilson turned the chair-
manship of Friends of the Library over to
Mary Bynum Pierson, wife of the late W.
W. Pierson, UNC-G chancellor on two oc-
casions, at the Friend's annual dinner meet-
ing April 16.

New Addresses

Bessie Kellogg Stover, 2615 Chelton PL,
Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mary King Piatt,
1886 Massachusetts Ave., McLean, Va.

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Reunion Notes (Georgia Amett Bonds re-
porting.) "Whoever heard of a 31st Class
Reunion?" This was the question asked of
Dot Creech Holt when she decHned to
serve on a conmiittee in her home com-
munity in New Jersey because she would
be out of town attending the 31st reunion
of die Class of 1938. In spite of the odd
date, the Class of '38 turned out fifteen
strong (and stronger in enthusiasm) for the
reunion on May 31.

Six years after our last reunion it was a
matter of pride that no one really needed
name tags; in fact, no one looked very
different from her picture in the annual
published thirty years ago. But the class-
mates present had successfully combined
marriage and careers and reported a com-
bined total of 41 children. In the past six
years there had been weddings of sons or
daughters in % of the families represented,
and the group could boast of a total of 15

grandchildren. Nina Park Booker, known to
her friends as "the skiing grandmother,"
took the prize with six. Martha O'Neal Ban-
ner's 10-year-old was chosen "class baby,"
being the youngest child of any member
present.

"The famihes of the members of the Class
of '38 who attended the reunion have given
their share of sons to the armed forces of
our country. Both of Lucy Spinks Keker's
sons have served in the Marine Corps; and
the Navy has seen the service of sons of
Marie Hudnell Magee, Frances Truitt Smith,
Nancy Young Taylor, and Martha O'Neal
Banner.

Another significant fact concerning the
children of the Class of '38 is the number
who have attended college and the many
who have continued for advanced degrees.
Jean Abbitt Harriss' daughter was back at
the University at Greensboro for the reunion
of her class of 1964, and Marie Hudnell
Magee's daughter will be a UNC-G fresh-
man next fall. Many other daughters (and
now sons) have enjoyed the campus atmos-
phere and the sound educational training
of our Alma Mater. But beyond the under-
graduate years in many colleges throughout
the country, over Vs of the children of class
members present have attended law or
medical schools or worked for a PhD or
advanced degree in engineering.

The sound educational foundation re-
ceived at our Alma Mater equipped our
classmates to become productive citizens as
well as proud parents. Five of them are
teachers; Gvven MacMuUin Pleasants, Jean
Abbitt Harriss, Frances Truitt Smith, Nina
Park Booker, and Marie Hudnell Magee,
who alternates between teaching secretarial
science and practicing it as a secretary.
Three others are secretaries: Martha Mauney
Ward, Nancy Young Taylor, and May Lat-
timore Adams, who has served for many
years on the UNC-G staff. Rosemary Snyder
has continued her art work and now spe-
cializes in glass mosaics. Kathryn Sigmon
Gumey is employed by her brother's firm

as a decorator. Dot Creech Holt continues
to manage the family farms near Smithfield
and is spending much efi"ort in seeing that
the children of the farm workers receive a
good education. Lucy Spinks Keker has
given many hours to the promotion of edu-
cation by serving on the school board in her
community. Georgia Amett Bonds is active-
ly engaged in promoting Girl Scouting at
home and abroad and in writing for the
Girl Scout Leader Magazine.

The Class of 1938 has not forgotten.
"Dear Alma Mater, strong and great,
We never shall forget
The gratitude we owe to you . . .
A never-ending debt . . ."

Ruth Whalin Cooke reported that during
the past year our class was second among
the reunion classes in giving to the support
of the University. Beyond that, the spon-
taneous contribution at the Reunion Lunch-
eon to supplement the fund for air-con-
ditioning the Alumnae House originated
among the Class of '38. We hope that we
have brought honor to the name of our
Alma Mater, and "love we pledge anew"
as we look forward to meeting again for
our 35th Reunion.

Sympathy is extended to Marjorie Gleim
Reich whose mother died in February. Mar-
jorie spent several months in Marion with
her mother during the winter, after two
years in Yugoslavia, and had just left for
New York (where she was caught in "the
snowstorm") when she received word on
February 13 of her mother's death. She and
her family are now living in Venezuela,
where Per Olaf is employed by the Lum-
mus Co. (Apartado #71, Punto Fijo, Vene-
zuela).

New Addresses

Abna Hall Johnson, 6036 Nordiridge Rd.,
Columbia, S. C; Ruth Ivey Meissner, 306
Churchill Dr., Fayetteville; Evelyn Jackson
Spencer, 2001 Hunters Trail, Norfolk, Va.;
Elizabeth Stames, 2 Haughton PI., Asheville.

Class of 1938. Row 1 (left to right): Nina Park Booker, Gwen MacMullin Pleasants, Rose-
mary Snyder Hermansader, Nancy Young Taylor. (2) Jean Abbitt Harriss, Martha Mauney
Ward, Georgia Amette Bonds. (3) Ruth Whalin Cooke, Frances Truitt Smith, Lucy Spinks
Keker. (4) Martha O'Neal Banner, Kathryn Sigmon Gurley, May Lattimore Adams. (5) Marie
Hudnell Magee and Dot Creech Holt.

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Helen Dennis Peacock '39 repre-
sented the University on April 11 at
the inauguration of President John J.
Pruis of Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.

Martha Cloud Chapman, '42 repre-
sented the University on April 15 at
the inauguration of President Paul
Hardin of Wofford College, Spartan-
burg, S. C.

Bettie Jane Owen Woolen '46 repre-
sented the University on April 18 at
the inauguration of Chancellor Porter
Lee Fortune, Jr., Univ. of Mississippi,
University, Miss.

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Sarah Virginia Dunlap does administra-
tive work for the John and Mary R. Markle
Foundation and hves at 35 East 38 St., New
York, N. Y. . . . Carolyn Groome Dees, Ann
Dees Dees' daughter, was married to Frank
Leonard on April 4. After both graduate
from college in June, the couple will live
in Pensacola, Fla. . . . Emily Harris Preyer's
daughter, Mary Norris, a student at UNC-
CH, and Jean Lindsay Berry's daughter,
Mary, a student at Furman Univ., were
two of 18 young women presented at the

annual Greensboro Debutante Ball in June.
. . . Annie Laurie Turberville Adams' daugh-
ter, Susan Carter Adams, was married to
Robert Oliver Comford on April 5. The
bride, a graduate of Chatham Hall, and
her husband are seniors at the Univ. of
Colorado.

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As a member of the board of the D. C.
chapter of UNC-G alumni and as secretary
to Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., May Davidson
keeps herself busy in many spheres. Her
address: 2450 Virginia Ave. N. W., Apt.
E-207, Washington. . . . Helen Howerton
Lineberry's husband, Albert, was subject of
a feature in the Greensboro Record recendy
in recognition of his leadership in the funeral
directing field as well as his many civic
contributions. Long active in the Greensboro
Chamber of Commerce, he is serving as
president this year, is an active member of
the First Baptist Church and has served on
the board of trustees of Wingate College
and the N. C. Baptist Home for the Aged.
The Lineberry's have five children, includ-
ing Al Jr., who is following his father in the
funeral directing business.

Kathleen Soles was an official delegate to
the national AAUW in Chicago in June,

prior to taking office in July as president of
the Greensboro branch of the AAUW. She
is employed as assistant to the personnel
director for the City of Greensboro.

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Alice Calder Miles is serving with the
Peace Corps on Saipan in the Marianas Is-
lands. Her address is Box 392. . . . Ella
Douglass Morgan, an assistant administrator
for the Wake County Welfare Dept., Hves
at 4118 Rockingham, Raleigh. . . . Eugenia
Keams Kirkman is a therapeutic dietitian
with the National Institute of Health.

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Judy Barrett, counselor at Sanderson High
School in Raleigh, completed her turn as
president of the N. C. Persormel and Guid-
ance Assn. in March. . . . Louise Dickens
Henry of 605 Marvel Rd., Roxboro, teaches.
. . . Irene Smith Edwards and her husband
celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary

Class of 1944. Row 1 (left to right): Hal March Scheffler, Marie
Lewis Perkins, Arline M. Steinacher, Jeannie Cox Pratt, Sara Brawley
Wheeler, Doris McRoberts Piercy, Anne McBride Park, Charlotte
Jones Wagner, Betty Robertson Hilker. (2) May Morrison March,
Armantine Dunlap Groshong, Carolyn Scarborough Shinn, Betty
Johnson Cheek, Huldah York Lane, Vema Suitt McDermott, Jean
Stephenson Petrea, Margaret Johnson Bryan, Katherine Johnson
Rogers. (3) (a step down) Constance Champion Young, Mary Louise
Womhle Clack, Helen Sullivan, Sarah Hopper Harvie, Daphne
Lewis Rudolph, Annabel Embrey Hansen, Doris Ratley Oliver,
(a step up) Isabelle Morrison Paige, Florence Caldwell Touchstone.
(4) Hazel Bland Austin, Doris Mills Fable, JuHa Pollock Plonk,
Rosalie Holmes, Jane Pittard Whitefield, Anne Butler Twitty,

Margaret Odom Carlough, Lola Maie Johnson Ely, (a step up)
Jamie Fowler Sykes, Lucy Corbett Hamlin. (5) (far left) Mozelle
McLeod Myers, Lois Fowler Lehon, Julia Bazemore Johnston,
Dorothy Stewart Rogers, (a step down) Freida Roger Lane, Elizabeth
Bennette Shackleford, (a step up) Janice Hooke Moore, Betty
Halligan Moebes, (a step down) Nancy Kirby West, Scott Tyree
Evans, (a step up) Mary Frances Kellam, Stella Efland Roufliac.
(6) Marilib Barwick Sink, Toni Lupton Hires, Katherine Davis
Smith, Mary Lib Doggett Beamon. (7) Billie Upchurch Miller, Jean
Dickey Kenlan, Betty Dorton Thomas, Jerry Wall Williams, Betty
Lou Howser Surratt, Billie Nifong Albright, Mary Calvert Midgette,
Myrle Lutterlok Swicegood.

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The Univeesity of North Carolina at Greensboro

March 16 at their home at 408 Iris Ave.,
Kannapohs. . . . Josephine Stewart Starbuck
is working with her husband, a fraternal
worker for the United Christian Service
Committee, in Cermany until Aug., 1969.
They may be reached at Breisgauerstrasse
8, W. Beriin 38, Germany.

New Addresses
Frances Ardell Kettler, 7432 Thunderbird
Rd., Liverpool, N. Y.; Anne Parkin Key, 902
"E" St., Scott AFB, 111.

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Maizie Bain Bullard, who continues to
hold forth as personnel assistant in the
University business office, has moved from
the Bain homeplace to their new home at
2810 Rutherford Dr. . . . Anna Tomlinson
Webb's daughter, Mary, a student at UNC-
G, was one of the 21 young women pre-
sented at the fourth aimual High Point
Debutante Ball in March. She is the grand-
daughter of May Lovelace Tomlinson '07
of High Point.

NE^v Addresses
Mary L. Dickens, Rt. 1, Roxboro; Irma
Johnson Lonon, 3239 Westfield Rd., Char-
lotte; Helen Kemp Whitney, 9810 Fox Hill
Rd., Perry Hall, Md.; Betty Hopkins Sher-
man, 2425 Lake Sue Dr., Orlando, Fla.

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Reunion Notes (Nancy Kirby West re-
porting.) The 25th reunion of the Class of
1944 was a delightful happening, climaxed
by the class meeting at 10:30 on Saturday
morning, May 31, in the Claxton Room in
Elliott Hall. Billie Upchurch Miller, Ever-
lasting President, presided.

Billie announced that Janice Hooke Moore
served as Reunion Coordinator and that
Mary Lib Doggett Beaman assisted as
Luncheon Chairman. Before all had settled
down for this meeting, we were urged to
plan to attend the next reimiion in 1972.
Billie also pointed out that a special feature
of this Reunion Weekend is an exhibition
of the paintings of our classmate, Toni Lup-
ton Hires.

Our president paid tribute to our beloved
Everlasting Class Chairman, Miss Vera
Largent, who died July 12, 1967. She said
that Miss Largent's spirit, so loving and so
lively, was surely with us. A moment of
silence commemorated our loss and the gift
that Miss Largent was to the Class of '44
for so many years.

Jean Dickey Kenlan, reappearing after
many had feared her lost at sea, was on
deck as Everlasting Secretary to read the
minutes of our 10th reunion. Nancy Kirby
West, Everlasting Vice-President, read min-
utes of our 21st reunion.

Doris McRoberts Piercy, Co-Everlasting
Treasurer with her sister, Claire McRoberts
Bartlett, was pushing reunion booklets and
class picture sales. She announced that a
total of $700 has been contributed by our

class to the Vera Largent History Scholar-
ship Fund. Our regular class account now
totals $162.73.

Janice Hooke Moore was presented a
plaque, acknowledging her service to all of
our class reunions and appointing her Ever-
lasting Class Reunion Chairman. After ac-
cepting the award with thanks, Janice ex-
pressed the wistful hope that we hold some
future reunion some place besides Greens-
boro, her hometown. Then she read a list
of absent class members who had sent greet-
ings. The most glamorous of the messages
was a wire from Bonnie Angelo Levy, who
is White House correspondent for NEWS-
WEEK.

Everlasting Cheerleader Betty Dorton
Thomas then lead a fairly rousing rendition
of the class song, with piano accompani-
ment by Betty Johnson Cheek. Everlasting
Betty wore a class jacket, going fast, which
was supplied by Eugenia Cox Pratt.

Betty aimounced that our classmate, Mar-
garet Simpson Faucette, died during April
and that Molly ElUs Elliott's husband had
died in June, 1967. As a member of the
Annual Giving Council, Betty revealed that
185 members of the Class of '44 contributed
a total of $2,283.50 during 1968-69. She also
reminded us that many large firms match
contributions made by their employees to
colleges and universities.

Opportunity for each member present to
give her news was given for the remainder
of the meeting and also following the Re-
union Luncheon. The following awards
were presented; "greatest difficulty in at-
tending the reunion" to Sarah Hopper Har-
vie; "greatest distance traveled" to Daphne
Lewis Rudolph; "youngest child" to Char-
lotte Jones Wagner; "foreign travel" to Mary
Calvert Midgette; 'Tjiggest laugh" (a tin cup)
to Juliana Hanks Johnson; and "most grand-
children" to Florence Caldwell Touchstone.

In addition to the '44ers pictures, the fol-
lowing signed-in during the weekend: Clara
Stevens Thomas, Juliana Hanks Johnson,
Mary Ruth Stanley Shields, Marjorie Shep-
herd Green, and Dot Scott Darnell.

Idamae Blois Brooks and her husband, a
Univ. of Va. medical school grad, are now
living at 640 Rahway Ave., Westfield, N. J.
. . . MolUe Bowie March's daughter. Aim,
a student at Salem College, was one of 21
young women presented at the fourth an-
nual High Point Debutante Ball in March.
. . . Anne Carter Freeze's daughter, a stu-
dent at Marjorie Webster Jr. College, was
one of 21 young women presented at the
fourth annual High Point Debutante Ball
in March. . . . Louise Lazarus Frankel is
"thriving in sunny CaUfomia" where her
husband is a television writer and producer.
Daughter Sherry, 21, is an honor student at
UCLA, president of her sorority, and a
campus hostess (Bruin Belle). Ellen, 17, is
an honor roll freshman and a Bruinette.
Louise is active in city pohtics and commu-
nity affairs in Tarzana where the Frankels
live at 19501 Rosita St.

New Addresses
Annabel Embrey Hansen, Box 185, Scar-
borough, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.; Josephine
Farthing Polhamus, 307 Mistletoe Dr., New-
port News, Va.; Jean Gregory, Box 5713,
Asheville; Chase Johnson Duffy, Indian
Hill Rd., Groton, Mass.; Dorothy Perry Car-
roU, 8302 Oakford Dr., Springfield, Va.;
Marjorie Shepherd Greene, The Barton
House, Apt. 107, Arlington, Va.

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Reunion Notes (Frances Reedy Moore re-
porting.) Ten members of the Commercial
Class of 1944 gathered at the University on
May 30-31 for a twenty-fifth reunion. We
were pleased that Miss Mary Harrell, our
teacher and adviser, joined us for the oc-
casion. She retired from "the College" in
1962 and now lives at the Presbyterian
Home in High Point.

We enjoyed seeing each other and shar-
ing our news. Paula Alspaugh Osborne
(2509 Wright Ave., Greensboro), who was
absent at picture-taking time, is Adminis-
trative Assistant to Vice-Chancellor Mereb
Mossman at UNC-G. She and her husband,
who is connected with Meyer's Dept. Store,
"broke the record" for the most graduates:
their son "Chuck," who was a sophomore
at UNC-G before he entered the service,
was graduated from basic training at Ft.
Bragg on May 29; their daughter Pat was
graduated from Meredith College on June
1; and their younger daughter Gail was
graduated from high school on June 3.

Frances "Bucky" Buck (Box 528, Weldon)
who retired '2}-k years ago after working for
20 years as bookkeeper for a wholesale
grocer, is now Assistant Director for Halifax
Multi-Service Center. Her hobbies are hunt-
ing and fishing (but not for men). Jane
Bullard Swayngim (214 Hastings Dr., Ker-
nersviUe) "won the prize" for "the biggest
change." Instead of getting fatter, she has
lost pounds and pounds. Her husband, who
refused to marry her until she reduced to
123 pounds, is a Veteran Service Officer.
She works at a senior high school and this
summer will chaperone a young people's
group to Europe. They have four children:
a married daughter was graduated Phi Beta
Kappa from UNC; a son is a junior at Ap-
palachian and is aiming for medical school;
another daughter is 15; and a second son
is 11.

Jo Freeman Nichols (2719 Pine Lake Dr.,
Greensboro) worked for the Draft Board in
Henderson for two years and then moved
to Greensboro. She met her husband, who
is in the jewelry business and kindly donated
our reunion door prize, the first day she was
in the city. For 15 years Jo worked for
Internal Revenue Service, for 2 years she
had a paper route, now she sells the
WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA. There
are three Nichols children: Debbie was
graduated from high school this year;
Danny, who loves sports (like his mother),
finished the 9th grade; and Patty finished
the 4th grade.

Emmy Sinclair Huff (Route 1, Aberdeen)
and her husband, who is chairman of the
School Board, have a farm (complete with
horses, cows, etc.) and a poultry business.
They also have FlVE sons (another record).
The eldest, who was accepted at the Air
Force Academy but was dropped after 5
weeks because of a broken wrist, has com-
pleted one year at UNC-CH. #2 son has
just finished high school, #3 is 14, #4 is 13,
and #5 is 7 and a first grade graduate. Five
boys and five DIFFERENT schools. Emmy
won the door prize — the beautiful silver
bowl for our silver anniversary. P.S. Marjorie
Wren Roberts is Emmy's next-door neigh-
bor.

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Commercial Class of
1944. Row 1 (left to
right): Jo Freeman
Nichols, Miss Mary
Harrell, Emogene Sin-
clair Huff. (2) Ruth
Lowe Butler, Frances
Reedy Moore, Mary
Alice Rose Wildman.
(3) Mary Stanley
Shields and Jane Bul-
lard Swayngim. (4)
Frances Buck and
Betty Ridge Craven.

Ruth Lowe Butler (503 Kimberly Dr.,
Greensboro) worked at an insurance com-
pany for 2 years and at Vick Chemical
Co. for 18. Si.\ years ago she married her
family dentist, and now she works at home.
The Butlers do not have any children, but
they do have a cat. Frances Reedy Moore
(1110 Tremont Rd., Wilson) worked for a
Boy Scout Council for 4 years and then
for UNC-CH for 3 years while her husband,
who is an attorney, a referee in bankruptcy
for eastern N. C, and commanding oflicer
of an Army Reserve Artillery Battalion, fin-
ished law school. She now works part-time
as her husband's bookkeeper and as private
secretary for Management Consultant. The
other part of her time she keeps house and
attends to the needs of Cfiff, a 7th grader,
and Janis, a 4th grader.

Betty Lou Ridge Craven (710 N. Leak
St., Southern Pines) works part-time as a
private secretary and "Girl Friday;" her hus-
band is a real estate developer. Their two
sons are 17 and 13. Mary AUce Rose Wild-
man (606 Meade Dr., Greensboro) is a stu-
dent again: she's now a junior at UNC-G
and is majoring in elementary education.
Her husband works in the Appellate Divi-
sion of the Internal Revenue Service, and
they have a son, 10, and a daughter, 7.
Mary Ruth Stanley Shields (High Point Rd.,
Kemersville) is a bookkeeper-receptionist,
and her husband is a postal employee. They
have three children: a son who is a senior
at East Carolina and a member of the base-
ball team, a daughter, and another son who
is 6.

We missed our many classmates who
were absent, and we talked about them!
Mary Symmes Bridgman, who is now "at
home" in Winston-Salem where her husband
is in charge of the N. C. Achievement
School, lived in Greece for a year. Harriet
Battle Holder works at the UNC-G Library.
Becky Myatt Faries works in the Admis-
sions Office of N. C. Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem. Letha Morton Jackson is a
grandmother: her oldest son, who is in Serv-
ice, and his wife have a child. Martha Stan-
field Lynch (3904 Dogwood Dr., Greens-

boro) is seriously ill and would appreciate
hearing from her classmates.

There was some "written evidence" of
accomplishments. Betty Jane Cooke, who
returned to LINC-G for a degree, teaches
second grade in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.
Betty Dunlop Ensign and her husband, who
is E.xecutive Vice-President of his company,
have two sons, one of whom will be enter-
ing college in the fall. The Ensigns spend
their spare time sailing on Long Island
Sound. Genevieve McCollum Hines was
sorely disappointed that illness kept her
from the reunion. She and her husband,
who has the Shell Oil dealership for the
Suffolk, Va. area, have four children. Mary
Mathis Rucker, whose husband died after
being wounded in Korea, is director of ad-
missions for the Highlands School in Avon
Park, Fla. Her daughter, Cathie, is to be
married on June 27.

Martha Ann Matthews Odom's husband
is connected with the school system in Laur-
inburg. They have two children. Gloria
Rizoti works for J. P. Stevens & Co. in
Greensboro. Betty Canady Clifton, whose
husband is associated with N. C. State
University, is a real estate appraiser and
the mother of two daughters.

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Virginia Douglas Freeman, a high school
English teacher, also teaches creative writ-
ing at Rockland County Community Col-
lege. Her address: 114 S. Broadway, New
York, N. Y. . . . Sophia Heyn of 168 San
Jorge St., Apt. 6, Santurce, Puerto Rico,
is practicing law in Puerto Rico.

Eleanor Dare Taylor Kennedy, staff
writer for the Greensboro Daily
News and Record, won first place
in the interview division (for news-
papers of 30,000 circulation and
over) in the 1968 writing contest

sponsored by the North Carolina Press
Women. In commenting on the interview,
the judge wrote, "You have some enduring
understanding of the subject when you fin-
ish. The writer has led her to talk inter-
estingly and revealingly about herself," add-
ing that the subject was substantial inter-
view material. The subject? . . . Mrs. Elreta
Alexander, first negro woman to be elected
N. C. District judge in Guilford County.
Eloise Young Plenunons, a teacher, has
moved to West Terrace Apts., 14A, Ashe-
ville.

New Addresses
Mary Powers Federlein, 114 W. Hull St.,
Savannah, Ga.; Jane Wilcox Teneyck, Gar-
die Rock Rd., Pound Ridge, N. Y.

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Mary Clendinning Elam's husband. Jack,
is Greensboro's new mayor. He has served
on the Greensboro City Council for a num-
ber of terms. Davey Jo Lumsden has retired
(for health reasons) after more than 20 years
as a social worker in various welfare depart-
ments and 11 years as assistant Supt. of
N. C. Correctional Center for Women. She
is recuperating from three-months' hospitali-
zation at Duke. . . . Patricia Ann Little,
daughter of Betty Yost Little, was in the
May Court of St. Mary's Junior College
in Raleigh.

New Address

Mary E. Harris, Monticello, Apt. 13,
Abingdon, Va.

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Rita Bernstein Weisler's daughter, Ann, a
high school junior in Greensboro, is one of
10 girls picked from hundreds of candidates
in the U. S. for top award from Seventeen
Magazine's fashion board. . . . Juanita Cox
Hedrick, teacher, has moved to 323 S. 2nd
Ave., Siler City. . . . Norma Eskey Bisha
of 823 Temperance St., Saskatoon, Sas-
katchewan, Canada, is a member of the
Amati Quartet of the Univ. of Saskatchewan.
. . . Mary Hudgin Bobb, missionary, may be
reached at B. P. 4289, Kinshasa 2, Congo.
.... Gertrude Ledden Mattay is now liv-
ing at 340 N. Pahn Dr., in Beverly Hills,
Calif., where her husband is a computer
programmer and security analyst for a Bev-
erly Hills firm. . . . Eleanor Morgan Gibson
who recently returned to Greensboro from
Cedartown, Ca., is a dietician. Her address
is 2021 Maywood St., Apt. A. . . . Marie
Robertson Lattin of 424 Pequot Ave., New
London, Conn., received a master's degree
in social work from the Univ. of Conn, in
June.

New Addresses

Margaret Bumette Hanneman, 706 Beech
St., Vandenberg, AFB, Calif.; Jane Terry
Fawcett, 470 Menchville Rd., Newport
News, Va. i

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Leila Ann Graham of 1260 Petree Rd.,
Winston-Salem, is band director at Mt.
Tabor senior high school. . . . Dorothy Jar-
rell Draughon is working on an MA at Con-
verse College. She lives at 16 Squirrel Den
Rd., Rutherfordton. . . . Jane LaGier Payne
of Bo.x 341, Palmer, Alaska, is a registered
nurse. . . . Elizabeth Ann McKinney has
been appointed Recreation Speciahst Super-
visor with Army Special Services. She left
Feb. 4 for a one-year tour in Vietnam. . . .
Marie B. Turner, home economics extension
agent in Fairfax, Va., received national rec-
ognition at the annual meeting of NAEHE
in Phoenix, Ariz. Marie has served on many
committees for her state association and
works with the Head Start program, Golden
Age Club and other groups.

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Eve-Anne Allen Eichhom, an instructor
in the School of Music, was presented in
a voice recital on campus in May. She is
a church soloist and has appeared in a local
number of operas. . . . Barbara Byrd Ford-
ham's husband. Dr. C. C. Fordham HI,
associate dean of the UNC Medical School,
resigned to accept the position of dean of
the School of Medicine at the Medical Col-
lege of Georgia at Augusta. . . . Eleanor
Dillard Knott, a teacher, hves at 1032 Sher-
wood Ave., S. W., Roanoke, Va.

Mary Dobson Mcintosh, a Baptist mis-
sionary in the Congo, may be addressed
at: E.I.E.K., Kimpesi, Via Kinshasa, Re-
publique Democratic Congo. She and her
family, including four children: Heidie (12),
Cathie (10), Bobbie (9), and Sarah (6), will
return to the U. S. for sabbatical leave in
July, 1970. . . . Peggy Goodman Rothschild's
son, Eddie, enters Bowdoin in Brunswick,
Maine, in Sept. after graduating at the top
of his class of 465. Jill and Jan are in sen-
ior high and Susan starts junior high next
fall.

New Addresses

Barbara Apostolacus Lipscomb, 48 Don-
nybrook Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y.; Cora Lee
Poplin Rawls, Rt. 2, Box 367, PfafFtown.

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Nancy Montgomery Durkee, junior high
school guidance counselor, and her family
(Stephen, 12, Scott, 10, and Susan, 8), have
moved to 26 Jodie Rd., Framingham, Mass.
Her husband, Stephen, is the chairman of
the Art Dept. at Framingham College.

New Addresses
Peggy Coppala Jones, 10525 Tulip Lane,
Rock-ville, Md.; Carolyn Drum, 1120 Urell
PI., N. E., Washington, D. C; Gloria Gaug-
ler Osborne, 23-27 19th St., Astoria, Long
Island, N. Y.

'51

Next reunion in 1972

Gray D. Culbreth secretary to the Direc-
tor, Regional Development Institute, East
Carolina Univ., is living at Pawlwood Arms,
Apt. 1-E, Greenville. . . . Mildred Farlow
Rosenthal works occasionally as a substi-
tute teacher in Miami, Fla. Her address:
13301 S. W. 99 PL, Rt. 4. . . .

Betsy Marsh, who writes for Raleigh
Neios and Observer, won third prize in fea-
ture writing in the large-circulation division
in the N. C. Press Women's contest. . . .
Jaylee Montague Mead, astronomer, has
moved to 8150 Lakecrest Dr., Apt. 418,
Greenbelt, Md. . . . Peggy Peters Criminger
teaches school in Gretna, Va. where she
lives with her husband, a Baptist minister,
and dieir three children at Rt. 3, Box 183.

New Addresses
Barbara C. Miller, 405 E. 54di St., 5C,
New York, N. Y.; Jean Pitman Turner, Box
24, Rt. 1, Deerfield, Mass.; Dorothy Spahr
Walker, Via A. Fabi, Frosinone, Italy; La-
Veme Sykes Bauer, 5254 Howkes Lane, San
Joes, Calif.

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New Addresses
Diana Addison Johnson, 3704 Minot, Ft.
Worth, Tex.; Coleen Brock Pokes, 1819
Spruce St., Fayetteville; Miralyn Johnson
Stanley, 809 Stirrup Dr., Safford, Ariz.

'53

Next reimion in 1972

Eugenia Jarvis Phillips is living at 4208
Hilltop Rd., Greensboro, until April, 1970,
when she and her husband, both mission-
aries, will return to Rhodesia in Africa. . . .
Savannah Seagraves Day (MSHE) received
her PhD from Florida State Univ. in
December with a major in Housing and
Interior Design and a minor in Vocational
RehabiUtation. She is a member of the
School of Home Economics on campus.

New Addresses
Jean Hollinger Dant, 195 W. Hudson
Ave., Englewood, N. J.; Cherie Jantz Hen-
drLx, 3505 Ashwood Ave., Los Angeles,
Calif.; Martha Myers Bobbins, 4844 Oak-
side Dr., Stone Mountain, Ga.

'54

Next reunion in 1972

Nancy Benson, now in Paris studying at
the Sorbonne, received her master's in
French from Middlebury College, Vt., this
spring. Her permanent address is 505
Woodvale Dr., Greensboro. . . . Nora Davis
White, teacher, may be reached c/o her

husband, Maj. Roy T. White, 7350 Spt. Gp,,
Box 863, APO, New York. Barbara Cornelius
Phillips' husband, Charles Jr., was elected
to Greensboro City Council in the May 6
election.

New Addresses

Sarah Almond Moore, 467 Union St., S.,
Concord; Frances Brown Dorward, 1401
Ridgeway Cir., Athens, Tenn.; Barbara
Dixon Jackson, 2715 Woodedge Rd., Silver
Spring, Md.; Jacqueline Goodwin Delfs,
9604 W. 96th St., Overland Park, Kan.;
Kathryn Kipka Jones, Rt. 3, Mooresville;
Arme Rothgeb Peschek, Zichygasse 10/7,
1140 Vienna, Austria; Patsy Stanfield
Dickey, 838 Edisto Ave., Aiken, S. C.
Rebecca Williams Hinds, 2158 Shady Lane,
Columbia, S. C.

Born

To Nancy Barrow Abbitt and Collin, a
daughter, March 30.

'55

Next reunion in 1971

Frances Alexander Campbell works as a
chnical psychologist at N. C. Memorial
Hospital and teaches at Watts Hospital in
Durham. She and her husband and two
children (boy and girl) live at 502 Behnot
St., Chapel Hill. . . . Gertrude Caulder
Tolsdorf of 1144 Hyde St., Apt. 102, San
Leandro, Cahf., teaches. Trudy was married
to Edward Joseph Tolsdorf, Jr., last June.
. . . Ann Colvard Stover and her family
(Gregg, 10, and Lynn, 5) have moved to
2469 Banyon Dr., Dayton, Ohio.

Ellen Sheffield Newbold's husband, Ken-
neth, resigned his position effective July 1
as assistant superintendent for instruction
and pupil personnel services for the Greens-
boro city schools to serve as superintendent
of the Laurinburg-Scotland County school
system. . . . Rachel Warlick Dunn, public
school music teacher and choral director at
Mooresville Junior High, has been awarded
an e.xpense-paid trip to New York City by
the North Carolina Arts Council. The Music
Teachers' Tour provides cultural experience
for teachers which they may impart to their
students.

New Addresses

Charlotte Collson Pickett, 614 Kimberly
Dr., Greensboro; Sammy Penny Overby,
Rt. 2, Fuquay-Springs; Suzanne Rodgers
Bush, 2232 N. Military Rd., Arlington, Vt.;
Alid Schilthuis Merfa, 5201 Stratford Ct.,
Temple Hill, Md.; Mary Ann Stafford No-
land, 15 Hedden PI., New Providence, N. J.

Born
To Carolyn Earnhardt Oden and Wilham,
a son. May 3; to Aim Stewart Butler and
Leonard, a daughter, March 28.

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Dorothy Donalson Moore, whose husband
is Sunday Editor of die Daytom Beach
News-Journal, announces an addition to the
family with the adoption of Julie Lynne.
She joins John Calso (also adopted) who was
five in June.

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37

New Addresses
Polly Jane Allen Via, 86 Kimberly Lane,
Taylors, S. C; Medora Arnold Thomas,
4541 South Versailles, Dallas, Tex.; Diana
Blevins Culbreth, 7139 Sherboume Dr.,
Charlotte; Patricia Godwin Hurley, Box
2743, East Carolina Univ., Greenville; Mary
Jane Moring Montgomery, 5409 Garden
Lakes Dr., GuUford College; Elizabeth
Morrison Bunting, 735 Coronado Ave., Coral
Gables, Fla.; Anne Rutherford Gunderson,
DI USAIS, Ft. Banning, Ga.

Born
To Betty Felmet Lewis and Owen, a son,
April 26.

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Next reunion in 1971

Irene Abemethy Strasser's new addition,
Michelle Gristine, arrived December 14,
just two days after her son's fourth birth-
day "so Christmas is very hectic at our
house with birthdays and holiday all at
once." Her husband, an attorney, bought a
single engine Mooney Mark 21 last spring,
and they make frequent trips to North Caro-
lina (three hours away) from Daytona. . . .
Joan Thompsoii Trotti, her husband and
three children (Beth, 10, Meg, 8, and Mike,
4) have moved to Richmond, Va., where her

husband is on the faculty of Union Theol.
Seminary. At home: 1508 Brookland Pkwy.

New Addresses
Martha Ann Davis, 2400 Campbellton
Rd. S. W., Apt. M-2, Atlanta, Ga.; Elaine
German, 352 Paseo De La Playa, Redondo
Beach, Calif. Dorcas Hill Berg, 1404 W.
Lake St., Ft. Collins, Colo.

Born
To Joyce Turlington Kiser and Franklin, a
son, Franklin David, Dec. 30, 1968.

WANTED! News Notes about yourself and
your classmates. News clippings are espe-
cially welcome. Just address them in care
of News Notes, The Alumiu News, UNC-G.

'58

Next reunion in 1971

Boimie Sue Caskey Ballard of Rt. 3, Box
337-A, Rocky Mount, teaches.

New Addresses
Sally Blackwell Warmington, 103 Deer-
field Dr., Hackettstown, N. J.; June Blanton
Madison, 2168 Bella Vista, Wichita, Kan.;
Amelia Stockton Kimball, 4137 Wycliff Dr.,
Winston-Salem; Margaret TiUett Williams,
720 Lord Nelson Dr., Virginia Beach, Va.

Marriage
Margaret Ann Winkler to Charles Henry
Fitts on April 4. The bridegroom, an alum-
nus of the Univ. of Ga., who received his
master's degree from the Univ. of Mass.,
is employed by Burlington Industries where
the bride is an executive secretary. At home:
3007-E Patriot Way, Greensboro.

'59

Next reunion in 1975

Reunion Notes (Betty Motley Sartin re-
porting.) TO "Our Missing Classmates:"
You were certainly missed when the Class
of '59 returned to the campus for its 10th
reunion!

Tlie renewing of old friendships began
immediately upon our arrival at the Alum-
nae House on Friday evening for Daisies'
Dinner and for the collection of the neces-
sary information about room assignments,
meals, class meetings, etc. After dinner and
lengthy chats with friends and delicious
refreshments on the balcony of the Alumnae
House, those of us who were staying on
campus overnight found ourselves in the
"warm" and familiar halls of North Spencer.

After ten years only one classmate re-
membered just how warm "W. C." (excuse
me, "UNC-G") can be and so brought a

Class of 1959. Row 1 (left to right): Mary Shue Johnson, Janice
Atkinson Hicks, Linda Inman McLester, Floy Nell Hawkins Gar-
rison, Mary Wolfe Sutton, Peggy Duncan Jeens, Betty Motley
Sartin. (2) Dot Grumpier Blanchard, Nancy Ephland Oliver, (skip
across) Suzaime Daughtridge Holdford, Rita Boggs Watts, Mary
Louise Coleman Transou. (3) Sarah Westmoreland Burgess, Brenda
Register Ham, Dellene Lyerly Markey, Henri Swayne Franklin,
Gil Maulden Glass, Denise Shea Franklin, Mary Morris, Eugenia
Hickerson MacRae, Katherine Harrell Flynn. (4) Carole Scott
Frutchey, Flo Radford Buck, Penny Dodd Gaulden, Jane Harrison
Snyder, Joy O'ConneU Campbell, Joyeuse Blankenbecler Jennings,
Joanne Kiser Caldwell. (5) Chris McNeill Kottemann, Ann Dickson

Phipps, Frances Blackvvelder Koon, (skip across) Mary Quillin
Banner, Harriet Hilton Kennedy, Barbara Harris Miller, Sally Wolfe
Heindel. (6) Martha Freeman Davis, Ruth Temple Joyner, Evelyn
Fisher Hart, Emily Jordan Dixon, Faye Baines Rouse, Pat Leonard
Myers, Linda Robinson Metcalf. (7) Margaret Martin, Sue Ormond
Singleton, DeAnn Welch Hanna, Betsy Fulp Brown, Evelyn Cabe
Timblin, Marietta Harris Stebor, Jackie McMahon Poer. (9) Virginia
Bass Bradsher, Betty Lou Rowe Penny, Annette Cagle Mayfield,
Anna Gibson Smith, Janet Pate Riggins, Peggy Hinson Mason, Ann
Lee Bamhardt Robbins. (10) Mary Jane Phillips Dickerson, Alice
Wingate Marshall, Elsie Prevatte Pickett, Beth Hines Harrison,
Ann Lou Jamerson.

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The Unr'ersity of North Cakolina at Greensboro

fan with her. So it was that Gil Maulden
Class found her room to be the center of
attention. The "House Meeting" continued
there until 3 A.M. (Many of us realized
after staying for the entire "House Meet-
ing" that ten years do make a difference.)

Our class meeting was held on Saturday
morning in the new section of Elliott Hall.
Peggy Duncan Jeens presided. A letter of
"greetings to the Class of '59" from Dr.
Kendon Smith of the Psychology Depart-
ment, who has been on-leave in Finland
during the past year, was read. It was re-
ported that our treasurery contained $107.
After discussion it was suggested that $75
be retained in the treasury for future class
expenses and that all over $75 be given
to the Alumnae Building Fund as a memor-
ial to Judith Knowles Moore, Gloria Snother-
ly Morris, and Nancy Jackson VanHoosc,
our classmates who have died.

Who traveled the greatest distance to the
reunion? Beth Hines Harrison from Dallas,
Texas, Elsie Prevatte Pickett from Conway,
Ark., and Mary Jane Phillips Dickerson from
Jericho, Vt., won the distance prizes which
were copies of A GOOD BEGINNING, a
history of "the College's" first four decades.
Reports of various kinds were given includ-
ing the "whereabouts" of some of you who
were not at the reunion. It was reported
that two of our classmates (Barbara Bennett
in High Point and Arme Fry in Chapel Hill)
were being married on the day of our 10th
reunion. Our class meeting ended with
Peggy's announcement that our next class
meeting would be in 1975.

After the "community" Reunion Lunch-
eon in Elliott Hall Ballroom all but 15
of us had our picture taken. The missing 15
were Edith Hargrove Kelly, Pam Proctor
Spader, Sally Pullen KeUy, Mary Lou Smith
Buck, Olivia Edmundson Nevins, Joan
Chandler Knowles, Billie Hamilton DeVane,
Diane Carpenter Peebles, Ann Spivey John-
son, Patricia Allan Kemp, Doris Darlington,
Jo Ann Curlee Bowman, Nancy Graham
Glenn, Sara Townsend Emanuel, and Mar-
gie Park Lucas.

As we said goodbye to each other and
to "the College," we promised to come
back in 1975. Won't you who were absent
this time, please, make your plans to be
back, too?

Lou Blevins Johnston, her husband, an
Army major, and their 13-month-old daugh-
ter have moved to 23 Wooley Ave., Long
Branch, N. J. . . . Joyce Ewing Smith of
564 Mariposa St., Chula Vista, Calif., is a
teacher. June Galloway (ME), a member of
the health, physical education and recrea-
tion faculty, was elected president of the
Southern Assn. for Physical Education of
College Women, an assn. of women physical
educators from 13 southern states. . . . Adele
A. Graham of 604 "G" St., S. E., Washing-
ton, D. C, is a major in the Woman's Marine
Corps. . . . Janet Pratt Wiley of 520 Hudson
Ave., Hunters Point, San Francisco, has
three children.

New Addresses
Suzanne Carter Sanderson, 10910 W.
101st Terrace, Shawnee Mission, Kansas;
Rebecca Causby Rector, 9950 Maplested
La., Richmond, Va.; Nancy Cochran Wind-
sor, 837 Isham PL, Newport News, Va.;
Edna Faye Cox Shackelford, Rt. 1, Fremont;
Grey Davis Broiling, Regina Residence,
Hastings, Minn.; Renata Johnson Pike,
547-B Winans Rd., West Point, N. Y.; Pam-

ela Morris Clark, 239 Watkins Dr., Hamp-
ton, Va. Carolyn O'Connell Campbell, 379
Mid Place, Albany, Ga.; Mary Phillips Dick-
erson, Box 134, Jericho, Vt.; Diana Reed
Jackson, c/o W. K. Reed, Box 503, Daven-
port, Fla. Denise Shea Franklin, 28 Newton
St., Brighton, Mass.

Marriage
Nancy Robertson Hogan to Richard Dur-
ward Sylvester on March 29. The bride-
groom, a U. S. Naval Academy graduate and
lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, is vice
president of Benner and Fields Inc., me-
chanical contractors. The bride is employed
by Eastern Airlines. After a trip to Hawaii,
the couple are living at 3516 Normandy
Rd., Greensboro.

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Next reunion in 1970

Jane Harris Armfield was named vice
president of Moses Cone Hospital's board
of trustees in Greensboro in May. . . .
Petitesa Klenos Macaulay has moved to
3960 Lynn Ora Dr., Pensacola, Fla. Her
husband, a Marine who returned to Vietnam
in Dec, is scheduled to return next Janu-
ary when he will be assigned to school at
Auburn Univ. . . . Carolyn Ross Briggs has
moved to 1211 Stratford Lane, Denton, Tex.
The Briggs have one son, Stephen Judd,
bom Dec. 30, 1968. . . . Chrystelle Trump
Bond is an assistant professor in the Goucher
department of physical education. Besides
teaching, Chrystelle directs student dance
performances and choreographs many dra-
matic presentations. She and her husband
live in one of Goucher's dormitories. . . .
Minnie Lee Vanhoy Anders has a housefuU
with Cindy, David and Penny Marie, who
joined the menage May 30, 1968, but she
still finds time for substitute teaching. Hus-
band Ronald is raw products manager for
Country Gardens canning factory in Cole-
man, Wis. . . . Gloria Wellman Thomas
teaches. Her address is: Rt. 7, Box 692,
Salisbury.

New Addresses

Barbara Bailey Ricktenwald, Box 375,
Yancyville; Elizabeth J. Brown, 215 W.

Livingston PL, Metairie, La.; Rita Caudle
Toivonen, 120 Third St., Findlay, Ohio;
Virginia Dutton Creekmore, Staff Judge Ad-
vocate's office, Edgewood Arsenal, Md.;
Margaret Fuquay "Taylor, Box 603, Ram-
seur; Lynne Henderson Thompson, 214 W.
Cork St., Winchester, Va.; Anna Hughes
Garretson, 2862 Fairway Forest Cir., Salem,
Va.; Carolyn Ross Briggs, 1211 Stratford
Lane, Denton, Tex.; Betsy Stark Garrett,
Qtrs. 2252, Naval Hosp., Quantico, Va.

Marriage
Janet Russell McCurry to George Bernard
Clark on April 3. The bride, guidance coun-
selor at High Point Central High School,
and her husband, who works for Monarch
Furniture Co., live in Robin Hood Manor
Apartments, High Point.

Born
To Lois Bradley Queen and Wilham, a
daughter, Sara Bess, January 19; to Marie
Cardwell Harrill and James, a daughter,
Lorraine Robertson, March 10; to Beth Mc-
Quague Lackey and Charles, a son, March 7.

Next reunion in 1971

Singer-actress Lee Bellaver may be
reached at Box 84, Tappan, N. Y. . . .
Shirley Aim Kelley Home has been teaching
business and secretarial courses for the
past two years at Rowan Technical Institute
in Salisbury. . . . Nancy L. Neill of 3407
29di St. N. W., Washington, D. C, teaches
art. . . . Nancy Russel of 8820 Hunting
Lane, Apt 203, Laurel, Md., is a captain
in the Women's Army Corp. . . . Belvin
Irene Thompson Kent of 1143 Alabama
Ave., Melrose Park, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., is
a nurse and homemaker.

New Addresses
Melissa Bassler Sammarco, 1646 May-
wood Rd., S. Euclid, Ohio; Margaret Brin-
dle Howath, 2010 Henry Rd., Rockville,
Md.; Margie Buck Homaday, Rt. 4, Scots-
dale Rd., Laurinburg; Linda Daniel Soder-
quist, 5705 Green Meadow Dr., Greens-
boro; Jean Degenaar Durfee, 623 Lynd-
hurst, Dunedin, Fla.; Charlene Deniham
Adamson, 9419 Senen Locks Rd., Bethesda,
Md.; Beverly Klaff Freeland, Box 315-C
Old Ct. Rd., Pikesville, Md.; Chariene
Maskal, 24451 Lake Shore Blvd., #918-W,
Euclid, Ohio; Betty Lou Peele Warbasse,
3835 W. Keim Dr., Phoenix, Ariz.; Ann
Pickel McAlister, 420 S. Prospect, Wheaton,
111.; Alice Pohl Proctor, 2472 Wade Ave.,
Raleigh; Dorothy Sizemore Walker, 4894
Summerford Dr., Danwoody, Ga.; Mary S.
Underwood, 106 Cosmar St., Vienna, Va.

Born
To Josephine Shaffner Forsberg and Max,
a son, Eric Burwell, March 15; to Maureen
Turner Vandiver and Roy, a son, Scott Wes-
ley, July 19.

'62

Next reunion in 1972

Judy Beale, now living in Los Angeles,
Calif., gives her permanent address, 1236
Elk Spur Ext., Elkin, for alumni mailings
since she is "on the move" often.

Pearl Te-Ling Fu had just stepped
into her duties as assistant director
of Guilford County's Economic Op-
portunity Council in early February
when she was appointed acting di-
rector on April 29, succeeding Di-
rector Paul Gezon who resigned to take a
post in Ohio. Daughter of Dr. Shang-Ling
Fu, sociology professor at Bennett College,
Pearl is returning "home" in one way for
after receiving her degree in sociology from
UNC-G, she worked as a caseworker for
the Guilford County Welfare Dept. She
attended the Univ. of Hong Kong before
coming to Greensboro and received her mas-
ters from Tulane before going to Chapel
Hill four years ago as a psychiatric social
worker with the UNC School of Medicine.
Pearl's major concern in her new job is that
the transition not disturb the people served
by the council. She's relying heavily on her
staff and the executive board since the
council is without a deputy director at this
time.

The Alumni News: Summer 1969

39

Carol Mann visited the Greensboro
campus after winning the Raleigh
Open on the Ladies' Professional
Golf Association tour April 27 and
spent most of the day talking and
demonstrating to physical education
classes and visiting old friends. Wearing a
flower print miniskirt that showed off her
long tanned legs (she's over sLx feet tall),
Carol joined the Ladies' Professional Golf
Association Tour in 1960 to "travel, meet
people and make money." As vice president
of the LPGA executive board, she can rattle
off impressive statistics as to how the tour
has grown, and besides making money
($50,000 last year), she enjoys her life as
a golf pro immensely. P. S. Two weeks after
her campus visit, she won the 14th annual
Dallas Civitan Open Golf Tournament, fin-
ishing with a linal-round 70 and a two-stroke
lead.

Linda Matthews' new address is 1545
Ouellette Ave., Apt. 1210, Windsor, On-
tario, Canada. She is teaching Textiles and
Clothing in the Home Economics Dept. at
die Univ. of Windsor. She received her
master's in 1968 at the Univ. of Md. . . .
Carina McCall Newland and her husband,
who is Xerox Corp.'s area sales manager,
have moved to 3908 Kingston Ct., Fort
Worth, Tex.

Shirley Scott Simpson, viafe of a Greens-
boro patrolman, was subject to a feature
entitled "They're always adjusting" which
appeared recendy in the Greensboro Record.
Shirley was district home economics teacher
for the Guilford County Junior high schools
for five years after marrying Homer, but
with the arrival of their second child, Susan,
now 16 months, to join five-year-old Shawn,
Shirley retired and says "it's great". Hom-
er's erratic schedule, which changes from
week to week, presents a few problems, but,
as the headline says, "they're always adjust-
ing," and all are proud that Homer is a
policeman.

Kay Swindell Cochran is director of die
Albemarle Child Development Center, a
new day care faciUty for children in Albe-
marle.

Sylvia Wilkinson, "visiting writer" at
UNC-CH, was a guest lecturer at Madison-
Mayodan Senior High School in February.
Although she talked about how she became
a writer, she told the students she preferred
to discuss auto racing and would rather
.spend her Hme with race-drivers rather
dian writers. Sylvia, who won the Mademoi-
selle magazine award for her second novel.
Moss on the North Side, has an article in
the April issue of Mademoiselle on "What
It Is Like To Grow up in the South." Linda
Wright Evans has moved to 8624 Melwood,
Bediesda, Md. She and husband Bill have
one daughter, Kathy, bom Feb. 28, 1967.

New Addresses

Katherine Almond Robison, 1630-C Nor-
lakes Dr., St. Louis, Mo.; Nancy A. Hewett,
904 Kemp Rd. West, Greensboro; Stephanie
Kroboth Adler, 10106 Beach Mill Rd., Great
Falls, Va.; Bette Wood Stephenson, 613
Ashe Ave., Gary.

Born

To Shirley Scott Simpson and Homer, a
daughter, April 8.

'63

Next reunion in 1973

Commercial Class of 1963. Row on left
(top to bottom): Jane Bare McEntire,
Martha Dixon Hatch, Patricia Harpe Shel-
ton, Pat Estridge McKee, Sheila Bostian
Johnson. Row on right: Vinnie Fishbume
Williams, Jean Kimrey Shropshire, Cheryl
Lassiter Poole, Carol Wilson Dunn, Caro-
lyn Murray Burton, Tommy Payne
Roberts.

Reunion Noties: The '63 Commercials
proved that a small group can fare as well
as a large group when it comes to reunions.
Due to diaper changes, vacationing hus-
bands, Memorial weekend holiday and grad-
uating husbands, some of our girls could not
be widi us. Altliough only 12 girls attended
Alumni Weekend, it was obvious that those
12 really enjoyed themselves.

Miss Mary Harrell, formerly with the
commercial department, graciously con-
sented to come from High Point and visit
with us during our class meeting on Satur-
day morning. She brought us up-to-date
on what she has been doing since leaving
UNC-G. The girls enjoyed her visit very
much and presented her widi a gift. Each
of the girls had the opportunity to tell
what she has been doing since graduation.
This "bring us up to date time" was en-
joyed by all.

At the close of the class meeting, two
things were voted upon unanimously: (1)
tliat we would meet again very soon with
our families in attendance,and (2) diat no
one looked a day older than when she
graduated.

News Notes

Becky Cash Stephenson and husband.
Bob, a special agent with Naval Intelligence,
have moved to 9052 First View St., Apt. B
201, Norfolk, Va. . . . Since returning to
the States last Dec, Nancy Cobb Smith has

forsaken teaching for fuUtime housekeeping
dudes. Her address: 5101 Lobaugh Dr.,
Virginia Beach, Va. . . . Patricia Ebert Mc-
Millan, her husband and 11-months-old Lin-
da Michelle have returned from Germany
and Hve at 1002 Cedar, Alamogordo, N. M.
. . . After teaching school in N. C. for five
years, Marilyn Linkhaw became Mrs. Joseph
Britt (her husband is a lavv^er) and moved
to 205 West 18th St., Lumberton. . . . Ear-
lynn Miller (MFA), a doctoral candidate at
UNC-G, choreographed a special contem-
porary dance performance as part of a dis-
sertation requirement for her degree. En-
titled "Sculptolinear Kintinum," it was per-
formed by the UNC-G Dance Co. in Taylor
Bldg. Theatre in March. . . . Alice Russ
Littlefield of 6809 5di St., N. W., Wash-
ington, D. C, is a social worker and has
two boys (3 and 2) and one girl (1).

New Addresses
Frances Brovm Gray, 1503 Jarvis St.,
Raleigh; Judy Coats Blankinship, 709 Indian
Trail, Martinsville, Va.; Jeanne Davant Mor-
gan, 914 North Carolina Ave. S.E., Apt. 1,
Washington; Jean Desmond Stafford, 3730
Maplehurst Dr., Endwell, N. Y.; Nancy Ford
Cioni, 5 Scammell Dr., Yarkley, Pa.; Betty
Griffin Robertson, 5458 Gaillard Dr., Mo-
bile, Ala.; Day Heusner, Rt. 7, Box 143,
Durham; Joy S. Joines, 417 Pinedale Dr.,
Reidsville; Nelle Lowry Rountree, Apt.
2300-K, Terrace View Apts., Toms Creek
Rd., Blacksburg, Va.; Patricia Rogers Sie-
ber. Belcher Islands, N.W.I. , Via Moosonee,
Ontario, Canada; Helen Straughan Mea-
dows, Box 704, Culpepper, Va.; Eugenia
Sykes Schwartz, 54598 Ivy Rd., South Bend,
Ind.; Brenda Wilson Hartsell, Horse Rock
Rd., Westemport, Md.

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Next reunion in 1974

PIeunion Notes (Linda "Chicken" Logan
Keimedy and Sharon Lee Bristol reporting
jointly.) After extending a welcome, the
Everlasting President elaborated on details
about the luncheon and the activities which
would follow the meeting. We completed
the immediate business lay discussing the
Alumni Annual Giving drive. It was noted
that the $1,342 donated by our class was a
considerable sum and compared favorably
with other classes, but it was the general
feeling that this was a rather small amount
when the overall brilliance which has been
demonstrated by our class in years past is
considered.

Following the business the "returned'
members of the Class of 1964 were quickly
submerged in a game of "Show and Tell"
regarding their present status and Uie route
taken to achieve tiiis status. (Considering
die abdominal protuberances of several
members of our class, this game was quite
a graphic one and emphasized the sage
philosophy of one Charles Duncan Mclver,
who beUeved and stated quite often diat
"To educate a woman is to educate a fam-
ily-") , ,

The tremendous dedication of one s chos-
en field of endeavor was most lucidly illus-
trated by one class member who has had
tliree children in as many years. Her major
while at UNC-G . . . Child Development,
what else?

Two class members who were roommates

40

The UNR'EBsrri' of North Carolina at Greensboro

PiiMHnS

Class of 1964. Left below first row: Mrs. Cornelius Krusc, Dr. Kruse,
Linda Logan Kennedy. Row 1 (left to right): Patsy Routh Stephens,
Vera Butner Klotzberger, Judy Munhall, Kay Womack Varsamis,
Katie Lou Williams Cauley, Linda Gooch Boulden, Millie Overton
Tripp, Rosalie Tripp Ruegg, Carol Daugherty Bruton. (2) (Skip in)
Harriet Thompson McNairy, Donna Allen Flynt, Lynda Lane
Wheeler, Linda Wagoner, Bonnie JeflEreys Brown, Bette Tetterton
Joseph. (3) Anne Prince Miller, Jeanne Tannenbaum, "Happy"
Harriss Waller, Nancy Towery Anderson, Susan Towe Hagood, Sue

Latham Stevenson, Jean Abemethy Poston, Jean Ellen Jones, Carolyn
Bishop. (4) Judy Rand, Jane Francum Johnson, Isabel Walker
Harrar, Ann Batten Woodall, Betty Calloway Ehle, Sylvia Simpson
Stikeleather, (a step down) Judy Sanford Bryant, Pat Biggard. (5)
Julia Renegar Broome, Ann Yelton Loven, Martha Allen Riggan,
Betsy Reed Frye, Judy Phillips, (a step doviTi) Priscilla Pinkston
Shoemaker, (a step up) Rachel Spradley Parker, Sharon Bristol.
(6) Mary Soyars Cartwright, Ginger Clement Barnes, Charlotte
Vestal Brown.

in school have continued the relationship,
now as sisters-in-law. (Moral: when you
choose your roommate, make sure you like
her because she may marry your brother
and you'll never get rid of her.)

It was gratifying to learn of the varied
and significant contributions being made by
our class. Occupations range from assistant
curator at a museum to assistant to the
dean at a university (our own, to be exact),
from a script writer for television commer-
cials to a television news commentator. We
have much reason for pride in the accom-
plishments of our class as a whole and,
most importandy, as individuals.

Our reunion was made even more poig-
nant by the presence of a truly remarkable
man, remarkable in his devotion to learn-
ing and the warmth and perception with
which he conveys this devotion. The Class
of 1964 was uncommonly grateful for the
presence of Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius Kruse,
who came from Connecticut to be with us
at this reunion. Dr. Kruse conducted the
Honors Seminar for some members of our
class when we were juniors, and he re-
turned the next year to deliver our com-
mencement address.

We noted with sadness the death of three
of our classmates: Carolyn Marshburn King,
Jackie Phillips Haislip, and Helen Wensil.
And we couldn't help but be sad about the
fact that our daughters cannot "follow in
our footsteps" because of the discontinu-
ation of the One-Year Commercial Program.

Those of us who knew her and her many
accomplishments in the field of journalism
were deeply saddened by the death of our
classmate, Diane Oliver, in 1966. She has
been and will continue to be missed. (If you
have any thoughts concerning a memorial
for Diane, please contact Sharon Bristol,
6F Torlina Court, Baltimore, Md. 21207.)

Would you who couldn't be with us be-
lieve it if we told you that we missed you?
The reunion was filled with "Whatever hap-
pened to old Betsy? Yeah, the one who used
to make the Tuesday Tea look like the end
of a ten-year fast!" and "Does Lucy still
run around her bed three times before
brushing her teeth?" We saw old friends
and old "enemies" who have mellowed into
old friends. But we missed your face! We
wanted to know where you are, how your
life is, and whether you've gotten fat or
grown slender. You are not forgotten!

Most of us who returned are pictured,
but these eleven were "camera shy:" Sylvia
Fortner, June Hancock Gladding, Carol
Adams Harrington, Janet Hai-per Gordon,
Penny Buchanan Kiser, Linda Mullinax Fye,
Betty Baker Reiter, Mary Ann Crocker
James, Betty Ward Cone, Ruth Ennis AUred,
and Wilma Kay Pegg Johnson, who was in
charge of "local arrangements" for the re-
union.

From the eighty of us who returned to
the remaining four hundred and ninety-six
we send this message: get a babysitter lined
up for 1974 and come for our tenth reunion
when we'll do it all again. Remember that
if you don't come to see us, we'll come to
see you. And that's a threat!

Nkws Notes
Alma Cordle Thiessen and her husband,
both employed by Wycliflfe Bible Transla-
tors, are in language school in Costa Rica
until September when they will go to Ecua-
dor to work with the Indians for 4 years.
Their address: Apartado 2240, San Jose,
Costa Rica. Joyce Ann Hester, now teach-
ing at Shaw University, lives in Apt. 5, 3005
Leonard St., Raleigh. She received her mas-
ters in Spanish from the Univ. of Wis., last
June. After teaching math for three years,

Janice Pruett Stuart has retired to care for
a new son, Alan N. Stuart (bom Feb. 8).
The Stuarts live in Apt. 305, 969 Downing,
Denver, Colo. . . . The arrival of Benjamin
James April 22 prevented Phyllis Snyder
Bargoil from attending class reunion May
31, but she wanted classmates to know that
Ben has joined Donna, 2y2, at 9 Fontana
Ct., Winston-Salem. Martha Trexler Bennett
of Rt. 1, Box 39B1, Gloucester, Va., is
teaching at Y'orktown Elementary School.
. . . Norma Whitehead of 6114 Airborne Sq.
CMR 3153 APO San Francisco, is teaching
at an overseas port.

New Addresses
Betsy Cress Mclvery, 5-E Georgetown
Village Apts., Spartanburg, S. C; Janice
L. Cress, 4315 Leesville Rd., Apt. 28-G,
Raleigh; Janet Harper Gordon, Meadow
Wood Garden, Apt. 41, Lenoir; Vienna Kern
Heilig, c/o Allan M. Heilig, Social Work
Dept., V. A. Center, Mountain Home, John-
son City, Tenn.; Rachel Spradley Parker,
Star Route, Box 37, Conway; Myra Stames
Helms, Magnolia Apts. 4-A, Chester, S. C;
Rebecca Stroud Estes, 495 Mt. Paran Rd.,
N. W., Atlanta, Ga.

Marriage
Mary Kathryn McMillan to Gene Michael
Bland on April 12. UntU December the
couple will live in Germany where the
bridegroom is serving with the Army Special
Forces. The bride was an operations analyst
with Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., prior
to her marriage.

Born

To Lynda Dodson Williams and Robert,
a daughter, Teresa Lynne, April 9; to Em-
press Jones Vick and James, a son, March
6; to Mary Hilda McNeely Solomon and
Rube, a son, April 24.

The Alumni News: Summer 1969

41

'65

Next reunion in 1970

Margaret Austin Ratcliffe, 603 Braxton
Rd., Front Royal, Va., plans to return to
teaching next fall. Son David is now two.
Sue Baxter Leonard appeared in the
leading role in the Greensboro Lyric The-
atre's production of Brigadoon in May. She
was in the Junior League Follies earlier in
the year. . . . Mary Ann Carpenter Brown,
her husband and son, Skipper (2), have
moved to 175 Tenth St., Cramerton, where
she teaches. . . . Chipley Church Johnson
teaches physical education at Olympia High
School in Charlotte and lives at 5510 Fam-
brook Dr. . . . Donna Cook Kemp and her
Air Force husband are living at Grove Bay
Village, Apt. 2T1 Triggertrail Ave., Coco-
nut Grove, Fla. . . . Charlotte C. Crowell
of 1807 Cone Blvd., Greensboro, is a nurse.
. . . Martha Currie King of 1336 Harding
PL, Charlotte, teaches math in South Meck-
lenburg high school.

Sarah Davis Brown of ISSVa 15th St.,
Manhattan Beach, Calif., is a claim's repre-
sentative in the Calif. Social Secunty Oihce.
. Marsha Faust Barnhouse of 1104 Pack-
ard St., Apt. 3, Ann Arbor, Mich., is a stu-
dent. . . . Belated congratulations to Brenda
Thornton Furches and Clay on the birth of
a son Lee Thornton, last July. A school
teacher, Brenda lives at 7566 Faraday PI.,

Fayetteville Patricia Gabriel, a graduate

student in business education, has been
tapped for membership in the Zeta chapter
of Delta Pi Epsilon, national honorary grad-
uate fraternity in business education on
campus. . . . Melinda Holmes, social worker,
lives at 510 Smithdale St., Winston-Salem.
Margaret Kirkman Roy is teaching music
and English in Okinawa where her husband
is stationed with the Air Force. They plan
to return to the States this summer.

Beulah Marion Perkins, a high
school guidance counselor,^ has been
selected as Pilot Mountain's Citizen-
of-the-Year, the first woman to re-
ceive the honor which has been
awarded annually since 1953. A ci-
tation accompanying the certificate noted
that she is "a model citizen, a humanitarian
of the first magnitude, capable of evaluating
the spiritual and educational values of life,
and is most interested in the lives and prob-
lems of our future citizens, the young peo-
ple." A graduate of Appalachian State Uni-
versity who received her Master in Edu-
cation at UNC-G, Beulah and her husband,
who is audiovisual aids supervisor for Surry
County schools, have four children ranging
in age from college (N. C. State) to pre-
school.

Linda Darlene Moore of 599 Ansley Ct.
N. E., Apt. 1, Atlanta, Ga., is fashion floor
decorator with the display department at
Davison's Dept. Store.

Clare Morrison Grissett was named
North Carolina's Outstanding Biol-
ogy Teacher for 1969 in recognition
of her teaching and her work with
students, eight of whom won top
state and national awards at the
Charlotte Science Fair in March. In past
years her students have included three win-

ners of National Science Fair awards, West-
inghouse Science Talent Search winners.
National Science Symposium participants
and numerous winners of Ford Future
Scientists of America awards. Clare received
her BS in medical technology at Penn
State, her masters (in education) at UNC-G
and has done additional graduate work at
Wake Forest and N. C. State. Wife of the
Rev. Finley Grissett, pastor of Franklin
Presbyterian Church, she was on the faculty
of Rowan county schools for nine years be-
fore joining the Boyden High School (Salis-
bury) faculty this year.

Betty Morton Chandler is teaching in the
public school system in Rocky Mount where
her husband is a lavi^er. At home: 216 Char-
lotte St., Rocky Mount. . . . Susette Blair
Mottsman, after one year with the Char-
lotte-Mecklenburg school system, has been
teaching sixth grade in DeKalb County, Ga.
for the past three years. Her address: 3506
Buford Hwy., Apt. H-4, Atlanta, Ga. . . .
Helen Singletary Price, her husband and
year-old son, David, have moved to 5817
Backlick Rd., Springfield, Va. Tom, a Duke
graduate, is project manager for a private
computer consulting firm. . . . Susan Stentz
Evans and husband Kelly are living near
Chapel Hill (with an acre of pine trees
around them). Kelly is editorial assistant on
a magazine published by the American
Association of Textile Chemists and Color-
ists, and Susan teaches third grade and
has almost completed work toward an M.Ed.
Their address: Box 955.

New Addresses
Lyn Blanton Kirkland, 546th General
Dispensary, APO New York; Charlene Car-
penter Boxley, Yorktowne Village 23, 2132
Bedford Ave., Durham; Sarah Corpening
Camero, Sulleiro 6° I, Lopez de Hoyos,
64 Madrid 2, Spain; Linda Dora Washburn,
112 Adam's Dr., Newport News, Va.; Bar-
bara Edwards, Box 816, Clinton; Enid Har-
rell Selph, 710 Scenic Hwy., Pensacola, Fla.;
Gayle Hartis, 5925 Lansing Dr., Charlotte;
Karen Hayes Iverson, 401 Vine Ave., Park
Ridge, 111.; Dorothea Hostettler Scandella,
Abrams 2- A, Escondido, Stanford, CaUf.;
Yolanda Ippolito Chi-istensen, CMR, Box
2147, Griffiss AFB, New York, N. Y.; Nancy
Kredel, 113 College Dr., GafFney, S. C;
Beatrice Lee Newton, 909 Parkside Dr.,
Wilson; Judith McLean Spencer, 3333 Duf-
field, Rt. 1, Davisburg, Mich.

Linda Middleton Williams, 924 Spring
Valley Plaza, Apt. 160, Richardson, Tex.;
Anne Minton Ward, 1100 Seagate Ave., Apt.
102,, Neptune Beach, Fla.; Carolyn Pfaft
Murray, 3269 W. Washington Rd., Apt. 2,
East Point, Ga.; Doris Phillips Fawcett, 5335
N. W. Loop, 410-612, San Antonio, Tex.;
Mildred Price Kaufmann, 321 Rosemont Rd.,
Apt. 203, Virginia Beach, Va.; Teresa (Terri)
Ouincannon, 104 Hanna St., Carrboro; Joan
Rickards Andersen, 2314 Quincy St., Apt. 2,
Durham; Nancy Sears, Rt. 2, McLeanville;
Alice Smith Scott, Box 203, Wendell; Caro-
lyn Souther Judkins, Fletcher; Jean Spears
Lathan, 30 Knoxbury Ter., Greenville, S. C;
Cynthia Swisher McMillan, 7039 Traditional
Dr., Knoxville, Tenn.

Marriages
Anne Hamilton Ayers to Dr. John Ward
Yarbrough on April 6. The bridegroom, a
graduate of Duke Univ. and the Bowman-
Gray School of Medicine, is a resident in
surgery at Duke Univ. Hospital. The bride
taught second grade at Union Cross Ele-

mentary School in Winston-Salem prior to
their marriage. At home: 2302 Pratt Ave.,
Durham.

Virginia Lee Horsman to Ronald J.
Knouse, February 22. After a trip to Eu-
rope, the bridegroom, an alumni of ECU,
returned to his position as manager of the
Member and Community Services depart-
ment of the Blue Ridge Electric Member-
ship Corp. At home: Apt. 2, Meadowood
Garden Apts., Lenoir, where the bride is a
social worker with the Caldwell County
Welfare Dept.

Brigitte Redding to Dr. Mark Hilberman,
March 1. The bridegroom attended Cornell
and Columbia and graduated from New
York Univ. Medical School. Now a surgical
resident at N. C. Memorial Hospital, he
will complete his residency and go into aca-
demic surgery in San Diego, Calif., where
the couple will move in June. The bride,
an RN, works in the intensive care unit of
N. C. Memorial Hospital.

Born
To Suzanne Kaye Pell and Gerald, a
daughter, April 14; to Jane Yancy Ethering-
ton and Burton, a son, Eric Burton, bom
in Nov., 1968, in England.

'66

Next reunion in 1971

Carolyn Best Land is living at 307 W.
5th Ave., Gastonia, with her mother-in-law
until her husband, a 1st Lt. in the Army
returns from Vietnam in October. . . . Nancy
A. Brown is teaching home economics at
Colonial High School, Virginia Beach, Va..
where she lives at 116 70th St. . . . Emily
Lee Burton's new Greensboro address is
302-D Ashland Dr. She is teaching second
grade at Cone school. . . . Nancy Jewel Clark
is living in 801 Granville Towers, Chapel
Hill, where she is a graduate student in h-
brary science. Karen Duime of 1211 Airlee
Ave., Kinston, is a nurse.

A daisy to Lt. Jane Helms for per-
severing in her search for Vietnam-
ese alumna, Chang, in the confu-
sion of wartime Saigon. When Dr.
Meta Miller read in the fall Alumni
' News that Jane was helping to keep
the computers working in Tan Son Nhut, a
suburb of Saigon, she dispatched a letter
asking her to look up Chang at 135/46
Ming Mang St." (Dr. Miller, one of the
University's most peregrinating emeriti, had
missed Chang on a round-the-world trip last
year although she did see her in Wales in
1966.) As it happens, there are two Ming
Mangs in Saigon. The first had no such num-
ber as 135, but "the troop who investigated
remembered there is anotlier Ming Mang in
Phu Nhuam, a sort of suburb of Saigon and
barely three minutes from Tan Son Nhut.
After inquiring at a local plaque shop, we
were on our way and had no trouble find-
ing 135/46. Chang's brother was sitting on
the porch with some friends, and Chang
was right next door so I got to talk with
her about five minutes before having to
leave. I gave her instructions on how to
get in touch with me." Jane's tour ended in
mid-May, and she was looking forward to
considerable leave stateside before another
assignment.

42

The UNivEBsm.' of North Cabolina at Greensboro

Sara Hough Malpass of 5817 Frament
Ave., Apt. 104, Norfolk, Va., teaches. . . .
Brenda Lanier Cleary of 3710 Belhaven
Dr., Greensboro, teaches in Jamestown ele-
mentary school. . . . Marilyn LaFlante (MS-
PE) is on the P. E. faculty at State Uni-
versity of N. Y., College of Cortland, Cort-
land, N. Y. . . . Linda McGraw, who re-
ceived her M.S. in Textiles and Clothing
three years ago, has been appointed Exten-
sion Specialist with the E.xtension Div. of
VIP in Blacksburg, Va.

Frances Parker Rollins, a fourth
grade teacher at Irving Park School,
was winner of the fourth annual
Ben L. Smith award, presented in
recognition of professional excel-
lence in Greensboro city school fac-
ulty members. Frances will use the $150
award to continue work toward a masters at
UNC-G. Carolyn McNairy, her principal,
also a UNC-G alumna, said, "She has a
great desire to become a better teacher, to
improve professionally, and to share ideas
with the staff."

Millicent Quinn has been appointed Giles
County H. E. Extension Agent in Pearis-
burg, Va. . . . Apologies to Nancy Smith
Whiten for an error in the last issue. Her
address is 46 Forrestal Dr., Brunswick, Me.
. . . Starling Anne Walter is a student of
Russian Literature at Russian Institute in
Bloomington, Ind. Her permanent address
is P. O. Drawer 5806, Fayetteville. . . .
Carla Walton Cornelius is a nurse at Duke
Hospital and lives at 216 Chaleau Apts.,
Chapel Hill. . . . Shirley Wheeler Whealton
is teaching health and physical education
at New Bern High School and lives at P. O.
Box 4, Bridgeton. . . . Jackie Abrams Wilson
sent her permanent (for the next three years)
address in Belgium: 32 Kastanjedreef, Val
Notre Dame, Overijae, Belgium, which is a
suburb of Brussels. She said she and her
husband, Phillip, were seeing Europe in
weekend snatches.

New Addresses

Jane Carrington Ayers Nunn, 2221 Bran-
don Rd., Wilmington; Barbara Blithe Ware,
1015-E Peleliu Dr., Tarawa Terrace, N. C;
Nancy Jane Burch, 1212-D Whilden PL,
Greensboro; Elizabeth Carter Wooten, 3lO
50th St., S. E., Charleston, W. Va.; Wendy
Chrislip Dale, 8707y2 Trabuco, Santa Ana,
Calif.; Ann Gatlin Beach, 693-D Kandle Dr.,
Custer Terr., Ft. Benning, Ga.; Ann Hoover
Rogers, 205 Union St., S. Concord; Sally
Aim Howard Langford, 22A Rock Ridge
Terr., Dover, N. J.; Mary Lou Masten Con-
nelly, 608 Brightwood PI., Apt. B3, Louis-
ville, Ky.; Penelope Ann Moore Gilmore,
432 Savannah Road, Lewes, Del.; Lucile
O'Brien Dole, 10612 S. E. 256th, Apt. 303,
Kent, Wash.; Connie Patten Perkins, Apt.
B-14, 4230 Dam Rd., El Sobrante, Calif.;
Pamela Robbins Miller, 841 South Dakota
St., Tampa, Fla.; Carol Roberts Creekmore,
136 Charles PL, Indian Head, Md.; Rebecca
Rutherford Marvin, 15 Burgundy Rd.,
Aiken, S. C; Elizabeth Theiling Anderson,
5419 Wheeler Dr., Charlotte; Carolyn
Vaugh Masters, Garden Quarters Apts., Apt.
7-C, 75 Henderson Rd., Newark, Del.; Mar-
garet Ware Simmons, 1102 Friendly Road,
Dunn.

Marriage

Katherine Topodas was married to
Thomas Themistos on April 19. They are

living at 255 Regency Park Dr., Agawam,
Mass.

Born
To Vonda Grove Renegar and Larry, a
daughter, Susan Lea, April 9; to Lydia
Leonhardt Clontz and Norvin, a daughter,
Angela Pitts, Jan. 8.

'67

Next reunion in 1972

Brenda Atkinson Deans of Rt. 2, Sekna,
is an interior designer. . . . Catherine Lee
Bardin who returned last fall from a year's
duty in Vietnam, is stationed with the
American Red Cross at Fort Gordon, Ga. . . .
Betty Jo Barnes Wroblewsld (Apt. 107 Dud-
owood Towers, 1000 E. Joppa Rd., Balti-
more, Md.) is employed in the Personnel
Division at Edgewood Arsenal, Md. . . .
Gayle Campbell resigned as Distribution
Education teacher at Maggie Walker High
School in Richmond, Va., in June to return
to her home in Fayetteville at 2215 Meadow
Wood Rd. . . . Judith Lynne Cook (Box 13,
Edgewood Arsenal, Md.) is a purchasing
agent.

Glennie Overman and Mike Daniels, one

of the first couples to graduate from UNC-G,
are living in West Berlin where Mike is
stationed with the Army. Prior to Germany
and army service, they lived in Greensboro
where Mike was employed as a paint chem-
ist at DeSota Chemical Coatings, and Glen-
nie taught home economics. Housekeeping
and German language classes have kept
Glennie busy but she hopes to begin teach-
ing in the Army Education Center soon.
Their address: c/o SP/4 M. D. Daniels,
RA12811355, HQ Sp. Trps. B Bde,, APO
New York.

Judy Felton Tuttle, elementary teacher,
is living at 3097 Colonial Way, Apt. E,
Chamblee, Ga. . . . Connie Gamer Koonce

of 821 Montclair Rd., Fayetteville, teaches.
. . . Nancy Harrill Godwin and her husband
live down the street from Knossos palace
on the "marvelous island of Crete which
Joe and I explore every spare moment."
Nancy is a substitute teacher at Iraklion Air
Base State dependents' school. Their ad-
dress: 6931 Scly. Gp. Box 561, APO New
York. . . . Moya Lavin Parmele and her
hubsand, a major (instructor) at Lackland
AFB, are living at 5826 Fawn Valley Rd.,
San Antonio, Tex. . . . Judith Martin Larson
is attending business school and living in
Coronado, Calif. (441 Orange Ave., Apt. 1)
while her husband, a Navy lieutenant, is
serving aboard a naval vessel in Vietnam.
Judith and Allen, who was then stationed
in Charleston, were married last July in
Charlotte. Judith was a caseworker with the
Charleston Welfare Department prior to
their marriage. Allen graduated from the
Univ. of Minnesota before entering naval
service.

Judith McConnel Bishop of 1303y2 D,
Momingside Dr., Kinston, is a caseworker
for the county welfare dept. ... A student
at N. Y. Studio School of Painting and
Sculpture, Alice Moffitt Thomas is hving at
36 Willow PL, Apt. 2, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Barbara Pegram Willens of Rt. 4, Box

351, North Wilkesboro, is a registered
nurse. . . . Donna Louise Rogers is with the

Peace Corps and may be reached at Box
15, Lekempte, Wollega, Ethiopia. She is
teaching ninth and tenth grade business
courses in a curriculum which she initiated.
Jeanette Marie Smith of 413 ShofFner St.,
Graham, teaches. . . . After receiving her
MA at Ohio Univ. in Dec, Elizbaeth Stew-
art moved to Southbury Training School,
Southbury, Conn. (Box 214), where she is
a speech pathologist. . . . Jane Taylor Brook-
shire is a math teaching fellow at UNC-G
this year while her Marine hubsand is in
Vietnam. Her home address is: 348 Forest
Hill Rd., Wilkesboro. . . . Barbara Vaughn
McGee of 1355 Moline St., Apt. 202, Au-
rora, Col. teaches first grade in the city
school system. . . . Virginia Ann Wells
Brown, now living at 7906 Morris Ave.
#101, Camp Springs, Md., does substitute
teaching when she can find a babysitter for
her 18-month-old son. . . . Susan Mehring
WiUets of 102 E. Nolan Hall, Galveston,
Tex., teaches. . . . Carolyn Ann Wood Owen,
instructor, has moved to 605 Shady Lawn
Rd., Chapel Hill.

New Addresses

Sandra Barnes, Box 324, Dobson; Barbara
Anne Bey, 6812 Murrav Lane, Annandale,
Va.; Patricia J. Boyd, 433 Lawton Rd., Char-
lotte; Barbara Brazee Hannah, 823 Clifton
Rd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.; Martha Bridges
Sharma, 779 Bevier Rd., Piscataway, N. J.;
Ann Buie Loomis, 116 Hanley Lane, #4,
Frankfort,Ky.; Elizbaeth Cazel Greene, Rt.
4, Box 341, Seaford, Va.; Nance Coggins
Motsinger, 3816-K Salem Sq. Apts., Country
Club Rd., Winston-Salem; Carolina M. El-
liot, 201-C Thor Dr., Richmond, Va.; Alice
Harmon Bageant, 1202 E. Mulberry St.,
Apt. 113, San Antonio, Tex.; Elizabeth
Helsing Dull, 3115 Central St., Evanston,
III.; Mary Jo Hutchins Sapp, 126-A Pearl
Ave., Greenville, S. C; Brenda L. Keisler,
1000 E. Jopps Rd., 108 Eudwood Towers,
Baltimore, Md.; Joyce Sadler Kenney, 2741
Ransford Ave., #6, Pacific Grove, Calif.;
Nancy Southworth Carlton, 2418 Beacon
St., Charlotte.

Marriages

Elizabeth Morrow Walker to Haywood
Northrop Hill, Jr., on April 19. A graduate
of Westminster School, Atlanta, and David-
son College, the bridegroom is a third-year
med student at Bowman Gray School of
Medicine. The bride is a technologist at
Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem. At home:
1640 Northwest Blvd., Winston-Salem.

Gail Weber to Watson Stoessel Fox,
March 21. The bride is a systems engineer
employed by IBM. The bridegroom, an
alumni of UNC-CH, is president of Fox
Cleaners & Laundry, Inc. At home: 2524
Nethervvood Dr., Greensboro.

Born
To Pamela Ashton Albright and James,
a daughter, April 18; to Eloise Hale Hols-
claw and Guy, a daughter, April 14; to
Linda Long Wooten and Billy, a son, Wil-
liam Powell, February 12; to Jo Workman
DeWar and Larry, a son, March 20.

1

Next reunion in 1973

Helen Louise Adams is teaching in Blue
Ridge School and lives at 154 Botany Arms,
Greenville, S. C. . . . Patsy Lyon Allred is

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43

a claims representative for Liberty Mutual
Insurance Co. in Greensboro. Her address is:

Box 246. Oak Ridge Katharine C. Bailey

of Rt. 1, Danville, Va., teaches.

A memorial fund honoring Belinda Bran-
don, which was begun by the Pleasant Gar-
den Jaycees shortly after she was killed in
an automobile-train collision last November,
totals $845 which will be used for the pur-
chase of special education material at Sou'h-
east High School where Bea taught. "Bea's
Fund" on the University campus will soon
top $1,000, to be administered by the Stu-
dent Aid Office in short-term, no-interest
loans.

Permanent address for Sandra Cannady
Turlington, a teacher, is P. O. Box 703, Lil-
lington. . . . Hazeline P. Conn, elementary
teacher, has m.oved to Rt. U. S. 9 W., Mil-
ton, N. Y. . . . Be^sy Culbertson is due to
receive her MA in June from the Univ. of
Wisconsin and has been named a univ. fel-
low in the humanities next year with equal
grants from the University and the Ford
Foundation. Her permanent address in Sep-
tember will be 454 W. Main, Madison. . . .
Mary Hallie Daughtry of Rt. 2, Newton
Grove, teaches. . . . Eileen Dishman Har-
rington is now employed by the N. C. Em-
ployment Security Commission as an em-
ployment interviewer in its Hertford county
office in Ahoskie. She and her husband, a
lawyer, live at 407 Colony Ave., Ahoskie. . . .
Gean Hayes Gentry of 6611 Monument
Ave., Richmond, Va., is working in the cata-
log dept. of the Tompkins-McCaw Library
in Richmond.

Kathryn Suzanne Hare of 1329 Briar
Creek Rd., Apt. 10, Charlotte, teaches. . . .
Catherine Hargrove, presently employed in
field placement work in Baltimore, Md.,
moved May 23 to 614 Airport Rd., Chapel
Hill, in order to enter the UNC School of
Social Work. . . . Grace Harlow Bennett of
Rt. 3, Box 249-S, Withers Cove, Charlotte,
is teaching in West Mecklenburg High
School. . . . Marcia Kay Holder's address
is 7047 Bissonette, Apt. 27, Houston, Tex.
She is an Air Force administrative officer
now on recruiting duty in Houston. . . .
News about Marcia Holder was included
in a series of stories about opportunities for
women in the Air Force, written for the
Greensboro Record by Alumna Phyllis Mor-
rah McLeod '37. Marcia, now a 2nd Lt.,
joined the Air Force to satisfy her yen for
travel which she looks forward to upon
completion of a year of stateside duty.
Meanwhile, she is on recruiting assignment
in the Houston-San Antonio area where she
talks to students on college campuses, in
high schools and in nursing schools. Besides
recruiting, her work includes all phases of
public relations. Marcia, who tried her hand
in several fields before finally graduating in
anthropology (a year of pre-med in Tenn.,
2y2 years' nursing training in S. C, and
secretarial work) is an enthusiastic booster
of the Air Force way of life for women. . . .
Sandra Honbarricr, hom.e economics ext.
agent in Isle of Wight County, is living at

234 Main St., Smithfield, Va Susan Jones

Hopkins, a teacher, is living at 316 W.
Carolina, Apt. F, Eden. . . . Janet James
Austin of 1640 N. W. Boulevard, Apt. 5,
Winston-Salem, is teaching in the Forsyth
County Schools.

Carol Ann Kusenberg of LeMans Apt.
H3, 2515 Northeast Freeway, Atlanta, is a
welfare dept. caseworker. . . . Larry L.
McAdoo is in graduate school and may be

reached at 358 Eigenman Hall, Ind. Univ.,
Bloomington, Ind. . . . Frances Diaime
Miller of 5845 Blackstone Ave., Chicago,
111., is a secretary with the American Dietetic
Assn. . . . Sherrill Lawson Owens, an insur-
ance adjustor for John Hancock Insurance
Co., also is enrolled in graduate school at
Tulane Univ. Her permanent mailing ad-
dress is: 41 Mackell Ave., Dallas, Pa. . . .
Judy Raye Parrish Lee of 4023 Shamrock
Dr., Burlington, teaches. ... A Head Start
teacher in Greensboro, Nancie Pendley Mc-
Millan lives at 503 Weaver Dr., Lexington.
. . . Bonnie Miller Prisk is a school teacher
in Fort Lauderdale where her address is
1991 N. E. 35 Ct.

Barbara Jeanne Polk of 1362 Seminole
Dr., Greensboro, is working on her MEd in
guidance and counseling on campus. . . .
Nancy Ross Stewart, interior decorator and
former interior design teacher at Guilford
Technical Institute, has been assigned to
Wellington Hall of Thomasville's new store
in Ft. Lauderdale. Her address: 461 S. W.
Iowa Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. . . . Laura
Sitz Adams of 53 Trowbridge St., Apt. 1,
Cambridge, Mass., is receptionist for the
English Department at Harvard. . . . Linda
Swaringen Proseus of 678 Hyde Park Dr.,
N. E., Concord, teaches first grade while
her husband is in the Air Force. . . . Ann
Ruth Zelkin, social worker, lives at 6811
Townbrook Dr. 2-B, Woodlawn, Baltimore,
Md.

Nkw Addresses

Mary Alexander Ward, 206 Robin Dr.,
Plymouth; Sylvia Arey Runyon, 605-0
Smedes PI., Raleigh; Carolyn Bailey Camp-
bell, 4 Sutton PI. East, Apt. 20-B, Agawam,
Mass.; Susan K. Bernstein, Apt. W-11, Cal-
loway Gardens, Caffney, S. C; Patricia Biz-
zens George, 8603 S. W. 68di Court #4,
Miami, Fla.; Eileen Dishman Harrington,
407 S. Colony Ave., Ahoskie; Deane Dozier,
18 Pleasant St., Apt. 3, Newport, Va.; Gloria
Elkins Phillips, 1245 Hull St., Apt. 2, Mont-
gomery', Ala.; Mary Golden Boyce, 3972
Sheldon Dr., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.; Joan L.
Harrison, Apt. B-22, Town & Country Apts.,
Garrett Rd., Durham; Susan L. Newby, 4801
Kenmore Ave., Apt. 1013, Alexandria, Va.;
Kathryn Pritchard, 3102 Lawndale Dr.,
Greensboro; JoAnne Roach, Rt. 9, Box 439,
Fayetteville; Shirley Watkins, 117 W. Co-
lonial Dr., Salisbury.

Marriages

Margaret Brenda Griffin to James Michael
Rogers on April 13. The bride is a com-
puter programmer for Western Electric in
Greensboro, and her husband, a Reynolds
Scholar, is a student at Bowman Gray School
of Medicine. At home: 443 Irving Street,
Winston-Salem.

Patricia Ann Harbuck to Lt. James Mich-
ael PuUiam on March 8. The bridegroom,
an alumni of Wake Forest Univ., received
his Army conunission in July. They are liv-
ing at Fort Benning, Ga., where the bride-
groom is stationed.

Grace Louise Larlow to Steve Parker Ben-
nett on April 6. The bridegroom who at-
tended Belmont Abbey College is employed
by Chervolet Motor Division in Charlotte
where the bride teaches at West Mecklen-
burg High School.

Judy Ann Harris to Beverly Tate Beal on
April 5. The bridegroom, a graduate of
Wake Forest Univ., is stationed with the
Army in Arlington, Va., and the bride
teaches at Kemersville Junior High.

Margaret Anne Hayes to John Clyde Tate
III on May 4. The bridegroom, who is pres-
ently with the Navy at Davisville, R. I., was
employed by Burlington Industries after re-
ceiving a degree in business administration
from UNC-CH. The bride will continue her
duties as assistant director of admissions at
UNC-G until August 1.

Nancie Jordan Pendley to Lewis Eugene
McMillan on April 5. The bride, a Head
Start teacher, is working toward her master
of education degree at UNC-G. The bride-
groom, who had three years at High Point
College, is manager of Acme Face Veneer
Co. in Lexington where the couple will live.

Terry Lynn Sprinkle to John Roderick
Williams on April 6. The bridegroom at-
tended St. John's Military Academy and
completed military service with the Army
Special Forces, and the bride was continuity
director at WBIG in Greensboro prior to
marriage. The couple live in Madison, Wis.,
where the bridegroom is returning to his
studies at the Univ. of Wis.

Judith Anne Stallings to Preston Leroy
Burgess on April 4. The bride teaches fifth
grade at Parkwood Elementary School, and
the bridegroom works for the Durham Fire
Department. At home: 4329 HoUoman Rd.,
Durham.

Linda Louise Swaringen to Richard Al-
bert Proseus on April 20. The bride teaches
first grade in Alamance elementary school
while her husband, who graduated (physics)
at UNC-G in June, works for Industrial Air
Inc. The bridegroom, a member of the Air
Force Reserves, expects to enter OTS in
August.

Nancy Kay Tysinger to Lawrence Howard
Simon on March 8. The bridegroom, a grad-
uate of UNC-CH who teaches history at
Williams High School in Burlington, is a
summer candidate for his master's degree
from UNC-CH. The bride teaches at High
Point Center High School. At home: 1438
Whilden PL, Greensboro.

Carolin Ann Walden to Allen E. Scherer
on April 26. Carolin was with the Red Cross
in Vietnam where she met Allen shortly
after her arrival last July. Both were on
duty at Pleiku until Thanksgiving when the
bride was transferred to Ben Joa Army base
near Saigon. The bridegroom, who returned
home in March after completing a year's
service, is a graduate of Southern Illinois
Univ. He served a year in Germany with
the Army before going to Vietnam and has
returned to Germany with Carolin joining
him for another year's tour of duty.

Marjorie Elizabeth Warlick to Frederick
Whiting Clark, Jr., April 12. The bride is
an interior designer in El Paso, and the
bridegroom, who majored in industrial engi-
neering at Georgia Institute of Technology,
is stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex. At home:
5101 Trowbridge, Apt. 7, El Paso, Tex.

Paula Margaret Winchester to Spec. 5
Lee Paul Schleining on March 22. The cou-
ple were wed in the Post Chapel at Ft.
DeRussy in Honolulu where the bridegroom
is serving in the Army with the Special
Forces in Vietnam. After a week at Wakiki
Beach, he returned to Vietnam until August,
and the bride returned to teaching at Hope
Mills High School in Fayetteville.

Born

To Bonnie Binford Mizelle, and Ralph, a
son, Bryan Carroll, Feb. 24 (new address:
7715-A Bestmere Rd., Norfolk, Va.); to Lee
Souza Anderson and Kenneth, a daughter,
April 18.

44

The Unr'ersity of North Carolina at Greensboro

FACULTY

Harriett E. Mehaffie

Assistant Professor of Education Emeritus

by

Anna M. Kreimeier

Assistant Professor of Education Emeritus

Harriett MehafBe, teacher of social studies
in Curry high school for 33 years, died at
age 72 April 29, 1969, at her home in Lo-
gansport, Indiana, after several montlis of
declining health.

She earned her Bachelor of Education
degree at the University of Chicago in 1926
and her Master of Arts degree in history
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
in 1941. She began her teaching career in
the county schools near Logansport. In 1929
she came to Woman's College, teaching in
Grade 7 at Curry school. Later she became
history supervisor in Curry high school,
teacliing "Methods in Social Studies" and
supervising student teachers.

Miss MehafEe was an active member of
numerous professional, religious, and civic
organizations, among them the National
Education Association, North Carohna Edu-
cation Association, League of Women Vot-
ers, and Eastern Star. While at UNC-G, she
was president of the University chapter of
the N. C. Education Association. During
1958-60 she was president of the Business
and Professional Women's Club and in 1961
was president of Republican Women. Also,
she was a member of the board of trustees
of the Christian Science Church in Greens-
boro.

In 1960, she was honored by election to
Alpha Delta Kappa, an honorary sorority for
outstanding teachers. Upon retirement, the
students of Curry high school paid tribute
to her in their dedication of the school an-
nual: "To you, Miss Mehaffie, who has been

our devoted teaclier and friend, who has
maintained an interest in us as individuals
and in our activities, and who has a warm
understanding of us, we the seniors, dedicate
this annual."

Miss Mehaffie was an excellent teacher.
Her teaching often approached perfection.
She gave unstintingly of her time and her-
self to her students, her associates, and her
friends. Her students and student teachers
adored her and sought her help and advice
in solving their problems.

Traveling was Miss Mehaffie's hobby and
recreation. She traveled extensively in the
United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatamala,
Hawaii, Europe, and tlie Orient.

Her siuvivors are three sisters: Mrs. Flor-
ence Schneider, Mrs. Jo Scott, and Mrs.
Clara Easter, all of Logansport, Indiana.

Mary Virginia Hall

Mrs. Mary Virginia Hall, 78, wife of
Alonzo C. Hall, professor of English emer-
itus, died March 24 at the Greensboro Nurs-
ing and Convalescent Center. A former
teacher, Mrs. Hall was one of the organizers
of the UNC-G Faculty Wives Club and was
a friend of many alumni during her hus-
band's 40-year tenure until his retirement
in 1956. In addition to Mr. Hall, who lives
at 206 Tate Street, she is survived by a
daughter. Sue Hall Schapiro '44 of Long
Island, New York.

Clara Davie Prall

Mrs. Clara Davie Prall, widow of Dr.
Charles E. Prall, former dean of the School
of Education, died May 5 in Wesley Long
Hospital in Greensboro. A native of Iowa,
she was a former president of the Faculty
Wives Club on campus. Co-audior of Tiny
Tales and Other Stories, she was active in
tlie Delta Gamma Society, DAR and the
Huguenot Society. A son, Charles E. Prall,
Jr., of New York City, survives.

Rutherford S. Rowan

Rutherford S. Rowan, husband of Mrs.
Martha Mathews Rowan, Director of Resi-
dence Halls on campus, died March 15 in
a Randolph County nursing home following
an extended illness. A native of RusseUville,
Ark., he was a retired employe of the Chi-
cago Pharmaceutical Co.

Anthony Vanella

Andiony Vanella, brother of Dr. Lawr-
ence M. Vanella, director of the speech and
hearing center at UNC-G, died March 31
in Nutley, New Jersey.

ALUMNI

'12 Hattie Burch died in Largo, Fla., on
March 22. After receiving her MA degree
from Columbia in 1916, she made her home
in her native Roxboro for many years before
moving to Fla.

'14 Effie Newton died Feb. 11. She was a
teacher of mathematics at Fayettevdle High
School until her retirement in 1942; she
was also a past president of the Cumber-
land County Alumni Chapter. After 12 suc-
cessive years of service, she resigned in
1962 as secretary of the Cumberland County
Democratic E.xecutive Committee. She is
survived by a sister, Bess Newton Smith '26.

'17 Mary Louise Maddrey died March 18
in Winston-Salem. After receiving her mas-
ter's degree from Columbia University and
doing further graduate study at Harvard, she
served on the faculty at Winthrop College,
was a member of the staff of Brick Presby-
terian Church in N. Y., then went to Hollins
College in Va. where she served as Asst.
to the Dean for 32 years. Active in many
community activities throughout her life,
Hollins College bestowed upon her the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award and an
honorary membership in their Alumnae
Assoc.

'18 EUza Collins died February 16 in New
Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilmington
following a short illness. A teacher in the
New Hanover County School System for
many years, she ran a craft and gift shop
after retirement and continued to contrib-
ute to Wilmington affairs by working with
the Little Theatre, serving as YWCA sec-
retary, helping with physical therapy at the
local hospitals, and as an active member
of the AAUW.

'19 The husband of Mary Bradley Thomp-
son of Gastonia has written of her death
July 9, 1968. A former teacher of Latin and
geometry in Lowell, she also is survived by
a son and two daughters.

'19 Following a heart attack at her home,
Annie Lee Stafford Greenfield died May 6
in Kernersville. After serving as a high
school teacher in Halifax County and a
high school principal in her native Kerners-
ville, she held the position of first principal
of Collegio Moravio, the Moravian mission
school in Bluefield, Nicaragua, for three
years. In addition to her husband and a
daughter, her sister, Eugenia Stafford '16(x)
survives.

'28 Ruth Bellamy Brownwood, poet, jour-
nalist, and dramatist, whose literary endea-
vors won recognition both in the U. S. and
abroad, died in a Durham hospital March 5.
She traveled extensively and lived five years
in Japan where she taught English, worked
as a journalist, and edited several books.
Her interest in drama, both as a performer
and a playwright, conrinued throughout her
life. She also composed music. Survivors
include one sister, Mae Bellamy Woodall
'26x.

The Alumni News: Summek 1969

45

ALUMNI

IN MEMORIAM

continued ,

'30 Miriam Stadiem Katz (x) of Kinston
died February 25 at Lenoir Memorial Hos-
pital. Active both in civic and social pro-
grams in Kinston, she is survived by her
husband, a son, a daughter, and her sisters,
Sadie Stadiem Block '25(C) and Frances
Stadiem Barshay '32(C).

'35 The son of Phoebe Bobbitt Hoyle

has notified us of his mother's unexpected
death last October 4 due to a heart attack.
A teacher of high school French and English
since her college graduation, she and her
family made their home in Newport News,
Va., at the time of her death.

'36 Susie Sugg Parker's husband writes
of her death in Charleston, S. C, December
28. A former elementary school teacher, she
is also survived by two sons.

'38 Word has been received of the death
of Anne Hood Capps (.\) during a fire in her
home March 29 in Kinston. She was current
president of the Kinston Woman's Club.

'39 Phyllis Keister Schaefer, daughter of
Dr. Albert S. Keister, professor emeritus of
economics and former head of the econo-
mics department, died April 30 at her home
in Wilmington, Delaware. After receiving
her master's degree in chemistry from Wel-
lesley, she and her husband worked as
chemists with the Hercules Powder Com-
pany in Wilmington. Survivors include her
parents, four daughters, one of whom is a
student at UNC-G, and four sisters, all of
whom are UNC-G alumnae.

'44 Margaret Simpson Faucette, a native
of Greensboro, died of a stroke April 19
in Burlington where she made her home
with her husband and two daughters. At
the time of death, she was ovraer of a
Christmas gift shop in Burlington.

'46 Betsy Highsmith Bruce, her husband,
and their four-year-old son died May 4 of
suffocation in a fire that destroyed their
home in Greenville, S. C. Their two daugh-
ters are among the survivors which also
include a sister-in-law, Ethel Pendleton
Highsmith '52.

'52 Elizabeth Ann Crawley Addington (x)
of Cocoa Beach, Fla. died January 7 fol-
lowing complications and pneumonia. In
addition to her husband and parents, she
is survived by four sons and two daughters.

'58 Word has been received of the death
of Julia McCaskill Hefner on April 13. A
native of Pinehurst, she was making her
home in Fayetteville at the time of her
death.

We wish to ex-press sympathy to the fol-
lowing alumni who have lost a member of
their family in recent months.

'16 Annie Lee Stafford Greenfield '19,
sister of Eugenia Stafford (x), died May 6.

'17 The mother of Juanita McDougald
Melchior, Edelweiss McDougald Dark '28x,
Lois McDougald '27c, and Dorothy Mc-
Dougald Leimon '37, died April 3 in Wilm-
ington.

'18 Nell Bishop Owen's husband, Jesse,
died in Greensboro. Among survivors is his
daughter, Anna Lynn Owen Hoke '56.

'19x Ada Bell White's husband, Paul, died
May 5. Among survivors are his three
daughters, Ruth White '43, Polly White
Dodson '52, and Laura While Wolfe '51.

Frances Clendenin Fordham's husband,
C. C. Fordham, died May 2 in Greensboro.
Among survivors is his^ daughter-in-law,
Barbara Byrd Fordham '49x.

'23 Louise Williams Newman's son, Paul
Robert, and his wife died in the crash of
a hght plane which he was piloting near
Daytona Beach April 12.

'24 Mae Whittington Norfleet's mother,
Mary Lee Whittington, died March 28 in
Greensboro. Other survivors are her daugh-
ter-in-law, Elizabeth Wills Whittington '34.

'26 Bess Newton Smith's sister, Effie New-
ton '14, died February 11.

'27 Bertha Smith Seawell, mother of Eliz-
abeth Seawell and mother-in-law of Frances
Poole Seawell '28, died May 4 in Sanford.

'29 The mother of Elizabeth Holmes Hur-
ley and sister of Cora Paimill Nissen '03C
died April 21. She was Lucy Pannill Holmes
'05C.

'30 Margaret Buchanan Snipes' mother-
in-law died March 27 in High Point.

'31 Nell Forrest Hughes' husband, a re-
tired executive of Cone Mills Corp., died
March 12 at Duke Hospital; the father of
Otilia Goode and Nancy Clement Goode
'33x died March 11.

'32 Alice James Crews' husband, Fred,
died May 12 in Hickory. Selwyn Wharton
Yow's mother, Lillie Phillips Wharton, died
May 8 in Greensboro.

'34 The mother of Rebekah Kime Davis
and Elizabeth Kime Whitt '34c died May
2 in Liberty.

'34 Phyllis Keister Schaefer '39, sister of
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Keister, Katherine Keis-
ter Tracy '36, Jane Keister Bolton '43, and
Alice Keister Condon '48, died April 30.

'36 The mother of Marjorie Austin New-
ton, Josephine Austin Oden '41x, Ramona
Austin Wilson '50, and Sybil Austin Skakle
'48x, died March 23. Phillip J. Weaver,
brother-in-law of Kate Dunne Weaver '36c,
Elizabeth HoUyburton Weaver '29x, and
Elizabeth Lloyd Weaver '39x, died March 3
of a heart attack.

'37 Lynne Harrell's brother died Febru-
ary 10.

'38 Margaret Harkrader Harris' husband
died in Duke Hospital March 17.

'39 Louisa Millard Douglas' father, a re-
tired minister, died April 19.

'40 Frances King Wyrick's father-in-law,
Samuel Wyrick, Sr., died May 4 in Greens-
boro.

'43 Alice Moore Cress's father-in-law
died March 13.

'44 Sue Hall Schapiro's mother died
March 24. (See In Memoriam — Faculty.)
DeLon Kearney Turner's father-in-law died
April 27 in Greensboro.

'45 Annabel] Aydelette Flavin's mother,
Mary Lenora Aydelette, died April 29 in
Lake Helen, Fla. Among survivors are her
two daughters-in-law, Betty Griesinger
Aydelette '36, and Vera Pegram Aydelette
'44c. Ernestine Bunting Presnell's husband,
who was plant superintendent at Stedman
Mfg. Co., died March 7.

'46 Carol Street McMillan's father-in-law
died May 9 in Raleigh. Betty Yost Little's

father-in-law died May 6 in Greensboro.

'47 Alexander W. Claiborne, father of
Mary Katherine Claiborne and Nona Clai-
borne Griffin '51, died April 2.

'49 Janis Medhn Snow's father-in-law
died on March 8.

'50 Helen Hilton Bryant's mother died
March 23. She is the mother-in-law of Polly
Sanders Hilton '55.

'52 Mary Bailey Shreve's mother-in-law
died March 16. The father-in-law of Martha
MedUn Jobe and Sarah Middleton Jobe '60,
died on March 31.

'55 Frances Weadon Mabe's father died
May 3 in his home in Brown Summit.

'56 The mother of Jean BovsTiian of High
Point and Lois Bowman Busick '60 of
Gibsonville died March 27 in Greensboro.

'57 The father of Jo Ann Eberenz Lewis
and Julia Eberenz Wilson '59c died March
16.

'60 Patricia Morrison Wiley's hu.sband, an
Air Force pilot, was killed in Vietnam. She
lives with their two chidlren, John and
Jane, at 453 Heathcote Rd., Statesville. Mar-
ilyn Voss Knox's mother died April 12 in
Clinton, Md.

'60 Nancy Thompson JoUy and Mary
Thompson '61 lost their mother, Mary Brad-
ley Thompson '19, July 9, 1968.

'63 The father of Diana Neal and Sandra
Marie Neal '67 died on March 8.

'66 "Renie" Peacock Beyer's father-in-
law died suddenly on April 19.

'67 Elizabeth Crawley Addington '52x,
sister of Kathryn Crawley and Louise Craw-
ley Sample '60, died January 7.

'68 The father of Lt. Patricia Harry and
Catherine Harry, class of 1970, died March
15.

46

The University of Nokth Cakouna at Greensboro

BUSIDESS

The Revisions in the By-Laws to the Char-
ter of the Alumni Association, as circulated
among the voting members of the Associ-
ation during May, were approved. The tal-
lied vote was 1,547 in favor of tlie revisions
and 10 against them. Some differences in
our Associational calendar and precedures
were effective immediately.

The New Officers of the Association,
elected during May, were installed at the
Annual Meeting on May 31 (rather than
six months later at the midwinter meeting
of the Board of Trustees as had been the
case for a number of years).

Ruth Clinard '29 of Greensboro is now
President; Martha Kirkland Walston '43 of
Wilson is Second Vice-President. There are
four new members of the Board of Trustees:
Grace Albright Stamey '23 of Waynesville,
Betty Griesinger Aydelette '36 of Greens-
boro,Donna Oliver Smith '60 of Monroe,
and Martha Smith Ferrell '57 of Greenville.

Smith

Stamey

Linda-Margaret Hunt '69, who will be a
graduate student at UNC-G next year, was
elected by her classmates as their Alumni
Board representative for the next two years
(heretofore the "Senior Class Representa-
tive" has served only one year).

A complete listing of the Alumni Board
of Trustees — both the new and the continu-
ing members — appears on the first page of
this magazine.

Significant Chances have been made in
the Association's election calendar. The
Nominating Committee will be working dur-
ing the late summer and early fall (rather
than after the Christmas holidays) so that
ballots may be mailed by November 1
(rather than by May 1).

Because 1969 is an odd-calendar-year, the
voting members of the Association will elect
during the November balloting a First Vice-
Persident, a Recording Secretary, and six
members of the Board (rather than four).

The First Vice-President, who fulfills the
duties of the President in her absence, is
chairman of the newly created Alumni-
University Council. The Recording Secre-
tary records the minutes of the meetings
of the Association, the Board of Trustees,
and the Executive Committee of the Board.
The Board of Trustees administers the affairs
of the Association between annual meetings.

Two nominees will be presented for First
Vice-President, and two will be presented
for Recording Secretary. For each office the
one receiving the higher number of votes
will be declared elected for two years.
Twelve alumni will be nominated for mem-
bership on the Board of Trustees. Each
active member of the Association will be
entitled to vote for six of these candidates,
and the six receiving the highest number
of votes will be elected for two years.

The Nominating Committee will be grate-
ful for suggestions about candidates quali-
fied for these positions. Suggestions may be
sent between now and September 1 to any
member of the Committee.

Mrs. H. H. Walston, III (Martha Kirkland
'43), whose address is 1225 Kenan Street in
Wilson and who is Second Vice-President
of the Association, is chairman of the Nom-
inating Committee. The following alum-
nae have been asked to serve as members.
Mrs. W. G. Friddle, Jr. (Betty Duncan '52),
1211 Red Bank Rd., Greenville. Mrs. W. B.
Joyner (Margaret Hudson '26), 401 Ehn
St., Weldon. Mrs. William L. Owens (Jessie
Potts '47), 203 Stewart Ave., Clinton. Mrs.
Gene W. Jones (Ann Fowler '51), 515 Barks-
dale St., Raleigh. Mrs. William Pendleton
(Becky Beasley '48x), 420 Old Springs Rd.,
Mount Airy. Mrs. Jack L. Phillips (Peggy
Coleman '60), 714 Mass St., Reidsville. Mrs.
W. A. Campbell (Ruby Byrd '32), 324 De-

Vane St., Fayetteville. Edith Hinshaw '41,
1412 Parkview Circle, Salisbury. Mrs. Jean
G. Surratt (Betty Lou Howser '44), 2127
Sagamore Rd., Charlotte. Mrs .John B. Ken-
nedy (Linda Logan '64), Route 11, Box 330,
Lenoir. Mrs. James W. Adams (Bella Bou-
huys '51), 307 Vanderbilt Rd., Asheville.
Jean Watson '54, 32-H College Village,
Winston-Salem. Mrs. Gerald D. Thomas
(Ann Darlington '53), 904 Avondale Rd.,
Asheboro. Mrs. Coy T. Phillips (Fay Hine
'32), 308 Tate St., Greensboro. Ruth Henry
'26, 219 West Avondale, Greensboro. And
Mrs. Sherman E. Hines (Pearle Chamness
'39), 708 Nottingham, Greensboro.

On The Occasion of the 50th anniversary
of their graduation and in the midst of a
"season" of almost-intolerable-temperatures
(HOT)! in the reception areas of the Alum-
nae House, the members of the Class of
1919 announced at the Annual Meeting of
the Association on May 31 that they were
launching an "Alumnae House Air-Condi-
tioning Fund" project with an initial gift
of $105. Their idea proved instantly to be
a very popular one! The classes of 1937 and
1938 joined-in with immediate contribu-
tions; an vmidentified class collected $20
for the cause; the Class of 1959 passed a
luncheon-box-top and added $45. Anne Mc-
Bride Park '44, the first alumna to be mar-
ried in the Alumnae House, made an in-
dividual contribution. At the meeting's end
tlie Air-Conditioning Fund, started less than
an hour before, totaled $223.56. This was
indeed an admirable beginning for the pro-
ject which Alma Riglitsell Pinnix '19, a
member of the Alumnae House Committee
and the original instigator of the Air-Con-
ditioning idea, and Frances Vaughn Wilson
'19 have promised their classmates they will
push.

Among The More Than 1,000 who were
graduated from UNC-G on June 1 were
seven Alumni Scholars: Danita Brigman of
Kannapolis, Krisan Cochrane of Garner (who
was graduated cum laude), Annette Cox of
Pleasant Garden, Margaret Hamlet (who
was graduated magna cum laude and
elected everlasting secretary of the Class of
1969) Betty Hoyle of Laurinburg, Barbara
Martin of Winston-Salem (who was gradu-
ated magna cum laude), and Carol Joines
Smarr of Greensboro.

Seven Alumni Scholars, who will be fresh-
men in the fall and who are pictured, were
selected by the Alumni Scholars Committee
— both district and central — diuing the
spring. As have been all of the Scholars,
tlie new recipients were selected on the
basis of their academic standing, intellectual
promise, character, leadership ability, finan-
cial need, and demonstrated ambition.

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ALUMNI BUSINESS (Continued)

Alphabetically among the new Scholars,
Mary Ollie Bunigarner of Lenoir is first.
She ranked second among the members of
the senior class at Hudson High School in
Hudson. A member of the Beta Club and
the National Honorary Spanish Society, she
was co-editor of her school's radio staff and
secretary-treasurer of the Philosophical So-
ciety. She has been president of her church's
United Methodist Youth Ministry and sec-
retary of a committee on Christian Social
Concerns. Interested in research, she will
major in chemistry.

Karen Sue Dawson of Eden was a mem-
ber of the National Honor Society at John
Motley Morehead Senior High School where
she ranked fifth among the seniors. A mem-
ber of school clubs which were concerned
with music, French, and literature, she was
president of the Inter-Club Council and a
member of the newspaper staff. She has
been president of the Presbyterian Youth in
her church. Recipient of a health award, she
is academically interested in both nursing
and sociology.

Katherine Ann Inman of Greenville will
major in foreign languages in preparation
for a career in teaching or in foreign diplo-
macy. Recipient of two awards for her abil-
ities in French in statewide competition, she
was an exchange student to Argentina last
summer, and she has participated in the
program of an Academic Center for Latin
American Studies in Creenville. She was
president of the Future Teachers' organi-
zation and a member of the National Honor
Society at Junius H. Rose High School
where she ranked thirteenth in the senior
class. She was a National Merit Scholarship
semi-finahsts.

Linda Diane McDaniel of Fayetteville
ranked first academically among the seniors
at Central High School, who elected her
class president when they were freshmen.
A member of the Beta Club, editor of the
yearbook, an officer in the Future Home-
makers Association and the French Club,
she was selected as her school's Good Citi-
zen in D.A.R. competition. She received aca-
demic recognition in mathematics, French,
biology, and chemistry. She will major in
elementary education in preparation for a
career in teaching.

Penelope Ann Muse of Laurinburg was
co-editor of the newspaper at Scotland High
School where she ranked first among the
members of the senior class. Named chief
marshal for her school during her junior
year, she attended the Governor's School in
Winston-Salem last summer. A member of
both the National Honor Society and the
Beta Club, she was president of the latter.
She was a member of the school's marching
and symphonic band and president of the
P'uture Homemakers Association. Active in
the 4-H program for seven years, she has
served as a member of the Scotland County
Council of 4-H Clubs. North Carolina dele-
gate to a citizenship short course in Wash-
ington, D. C, two years ago, she is plan-
ning to major in political science.

Judy Ann Phillips of Bumsville was desig-
nated "Senior of the Year" at Cane River
High School. She ranked first academically
among her classmates. A member of the
Beta Club for three years, she was president
of the organization this year. Additional club
memberships indicate an interest in music,
French, English, and science. She played
junior varsity basketball, and this past year
she was manager of the school's cheerlead-
ers. She has been president of her church's
United Methodist Youth Fellowship and
secretary of the Yancey County sub-district
organization of Methodist Youth. She was
designated as an "Outstanding Teenager of
America." Recipient of a mathematics
medal, she is interested in studying mathe-
matics and engineering and in becoming
an architect.

Carolyn Christine Rape of Mount UUa
ranked second among the members of the
senior class at West Rowan High School,
who named her "Most Likely to Succeed"
in their superlative selection. Co-chief mar-
shal in her junior year, she was president
of the Science Club, reporter for the Na-
tional Honor Society, chaplain of the Junior
Civitan Club, and co-captain of the girls'
basketball team. Six of her 4-H projects
have been adjudged winners in county com-
petition, and she has been president of her
4-H Club. She has been treasurer of her
church's Luther League for two years, and
in 1967 she was chosen to represent the
League at a Southeastern Regional Youth
Conference. She will major in science in
preparation for a career in medical technol-
ogy-

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Chapter

News

New Alumni Scholars (left to right): Mary Ollie Bumgamer, Karen Sue Dawson, Katherine
Ann Inman, Linda Diane McDaniel, Penelope Anne Muse, Judy Ann Phillips, and Carolyn
Christine Rape.

Numbers is perhaps the key word in
Alumni Chapter activities for this spring.
More of our alumni than ever before have
participated in activities planned and exe-
cuted by their local chapters in North Caro-
lina and out of state. The "happenings" have
been e.xciting ones and have shown that
chapters can be most effective and active
in their local areas as they continue to
support the University at Greensboro.

The "prize for attendance" must go to
the Wake County Chapter (with Mary
Alice Robertson Poor '26, chairman) which,
at the invitation of North Carolina's First
Lady, Jessie Rae Osborne Scott '51, met for
its Spring Meeting at the Governor's Man-
sion, followed by a reception given by Mrs.
Scott. For the first time "in chapter history"
alumni had to stand in line to pay their dues
. . . 275, they tell us, came and were fined up
"clear out to the street." The Chapter's $150
yearly scholarship to a Wake County student
attending UNC-G is certainly assured for
another year.

The following night the Durham County
Chapter met for a dinner meeting and had
the pleasure of hearing Dr. Eugene PfafF, a
member of the Department of History and
Political Science since 1936, tell of his "Re-
flections on the Middle East." Dr. Pfaff
took a leave of absence from UNC-G during
1966-67 to serve as First Secretary of the
United States Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

Baltimore, Maryland Area alumni com-
bined a business meeting with a pot-luck
supper for their Early Spring Get-Together
on March 12. Barbara Parrish and Brenda
Meadows "headed north" for the meeting
and carried with them the 'news and views"
from the campus. The group bade farewell
to June Rainey Honeycutt '52 to whom we
new look for her continued work in organiz-
ing chapters — this time in Dover, Delaware,
where she and her family will be living.

The Sampson County' Chapter spon-
sored its second Tour of Homes on April 16
and proved to all tliat tliey have become

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The Univebsity of North Carolina at Greensboro

by

Brenda Meadows '65

Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs

quite "professional" in the touring business.
Alumni and their friends were invited from
the surrounding counties as well, and news-
paper and TV coverage extended to such
points as Raleigh, Wilmington, Goldsboro,
and Laurinburg. The thirteen homes on tour
were representative of varied types of archi-
tecture and furnishings and were seen by
more than 250 folks who "took the tour,"
in addition to the many hostesses who also
participated. Though sponsored by the local
Alumni Association, the Tour became a
community project under the leadership of
Emily Teague Johnston '46 and Ann Tyson
Turlington '52, and the proceeds of more
than $500 will be used to provide a schol-
arship for a local student attending the
University.

Columbia, South Carolina alumni, too,
have been busy raising funds this spring to
continue their scholarship aid to a local
student. In addition to their spring dinner
meeting, alumni and their friends gathered
in late February for their annual benefit
card party. The "goodies to eat and door
prizes to win" helped the chapter realize
a profit of $152.

"Congress Turned On!" was the topic for
tfie Washington, D. C, Chapter when it
met for its spring luncheon with the Hon-
orable L. Richardson Preyer as the guest
speaker. The newly-elected member of the
House of Representatives from North Caro-
hna's Sixth District is the husband of Emily
Harris Preyer '39 who joined her husband
for the occasion. The 75 alumni and guests
present also gave Emily her "official wel-
come" into the Washington Chapter.

Alumni in Cumberland County took ad-
vantage of their opportunity to hear Dr. Lois
Edinger, Associate Professor of Education at
the University, on May 7 in Fayetteville.
Dr. Edinger told alumni and their guests
of the changes taking place in the School
of Education, Curry, and on campus.

A special word of "thanks" must go to
Merilie Davis '60 and to the other Atlanta,

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AT THE MULTI-COUNTY MEETING:

Ida Gordner, Rowan Coimty Chapter Chair-
man, left, is shown with Dean Katherine
Taylor during the social hour preceding the
dinner April 17 at Salisbury Country Club.
Students who participated in the student
panel are Linda Ketner, right, and Linda
Kelly, both of Salisbury. Below, Jim Lan-
caster of Greensboro, left, Charles Martin
of Winston-Salem, male participants in the
panel, made an earnest plea "to send more
males to join our ranks." As Charles, a ris-
ing sophomore, observed about the life of
the outnumbered male on the Greensboro
campus, "Well, we hold the door a lot, but
eventually you have to go. . . ."

Georgia Area Alumni for their part in help-
ing to "house" members of the UNC-G choir
during its tour-stop in Atlanta. This newly-
reorganized chapter really knows the mean-
ing of "service" and worked to provide it
when called upon.

The Greensboro Chapter has completed
its second project of the year with the draw-
ing to a close of the Book Discussion Series.
This spring alumni from Guilford and sur-
rounding counties had the opportunity to
hear Dr. Clifton Bob Clark, head of the
Department of Physics, on "New Trends in
Physics"; Dr. Celeste Ulrich on "Sports and
Society"; and Dr. Richard Bardolph on "The
Civil Rights Revolution." At the request of
the participants the series will be continued
again next year for the third consecutive
year.

A request from interested students and
the "go-ahead" nod from the Rowan Coun-
ty Chapter and its chairman, Ida Gordner
'19 were the beginnings of a most exciting
"experiment" this spring in Salisbury. Out-
going Student Government President Randi
Bryant (Virginia Beach) and incoming Presi-
dent Katy Gilmore (Southern Pines) thought

our students needed an opportunity to tell
"the University's 1969 story" to the people
of the state. And tell the story they did
to the 150 who gathered for dinner and lis-
tened to the students' story. The listeners —
alumni, parents of University students, high
school students who are entering as fresh-
men next fall, and high school guidance
counselors — came from Cabarrus, Davidson,
Davie, Iredell, Rowan and Stanley counties.
The student panel, moderated by Dean
Katherine Taylor, included Linda Ketner
and Linda Kelly both of Salisbury, Jim
Lancaster, Greensboro, and Charles Martin,
Winston-Salem. In an effort to "tell it like
it is," the students talked about accelerated
academic programs, social regulations pres-
ent and past, student government, the Neo-
Black Society of UNC-G, and "men on
campus." After a question-and-answer peri-
od, the program ended with a concert by
the University's new modem jazz band un-
der the direction of Raymond Gariglio of
the School of Music. Deemed a "success"
by both audience and participants, "the ex-
periment" will hopefully be carried to other
parts of North Carolina during the next
academic year.

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Alumni Giving

Incentive

Award

THE University of North Carolina at Greensboro won a national first
place Alumni Giving Incentive Award for sustained performance among
public institutions in its Alumni Annual Giving Program. The award,
which carries with it a $1,000 check, will be presented July 22 by the Amer-
ican Alumni Council to George Hamer, Director of Development, during a
conference of the American College Public Relations Association in New
York City.

Altogether, the American Alumni Council recognized twenty-seven colleges
and universities in the United States for superior performance in armual alumni
giving. UNC-G received one of thirteen first place awards and was the only
college or university in North Carolina to be so honored.

In expressing pleasure over the award. Chancellor James S. Ferguson said,
"It is a fitting tribute to the fine support which this university has received
from its alumni in this state and in many parts of the country. The growth
in our annual giving program over the last six years has been a point of pride.
Contributions have increased 400 percent, and the number of our alumni
who contribute has more than doubled. This is further evidence of this
institution's emergence as a university."

The award was based on sustained performance of the UNC-G Alumni
Annual Giving Program througli the 1967-68 year. Alumni contributed $131,-
569 to the University last year, compared to $104,650 during the 1966-67 year.
In the last six years, UNC-G alumni have increased their annual gifts from
$32,907 to last year's record-breaking $131,569 amount. This year, as of mid-
June, $119,000 has been contributed toward a goal of $140,000 for Alumni
Annual Giving Program.

The UNC-G Alumni Annual Giving Program is directed by the Develop-
ment OflSce of which George W. Hamer is director. Betty Anne Ragland
Stanback '46 of Salisbury served as chairman of the Alumni Annual Giving
Council during the past two years, and Mary Cecile Higgins Bridges '40 of
Greensboro is the current chairman. Each year approximately 1,400 members
of the alumni association work to help raise money in the program.

This marks the third occasion in the last four years which the American
Alumni Council has recognized UNC-G for superior performance in its
Alumni Annual Giving Program. The previous two awards were honorable
mentions for improvement shown in the program.

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