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THE  CAMPAIGN  FOR 


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The  Campaign  for  Hampden-Sydney 
Surges  Past  the  Halfway  Mark 


The  Campaign  for  Hampden-Sydney  has 
surged  past  the  halfway  point  with  a  generous 
gift  from  trustee  J.  B.  Fuqua.  At  the  spring 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  —  only  min- 
utes after  the  Board  reconvened  following  a 
short  recess  —  Chairman  Syd  Settle  an- 
nounced that  Mr.  Fuqua  had  just  pledged 
$400,000  to  renovate  the  Heritage  Room  in 
the  Library  to  make  it  a  permanent  home  for 
the  International  Communica- 
tions Center.  The  Center, 
which  will  be  named  for  Mr. 
Fuqua,  is  a  high-priority  need 
within  the  Campaign  for 
Hampden-Sydney  and  is  de- 
scribed in  some  detail  in  the 
special  insert  section  in  this 
issue  of  The  Record.  After 
making  the  gift,  Mr.  Fuqua 
commented,  "1  am  pleased  to 
support  the  innovative  pro- 
grams of  Hampden-Sydney 
College.  This  Center,  using  com- 
puting and  communication 
facilities  similar  to  those  of 
large  corporations,  will  lead 
the  way  toward  broadening  the 
entire  scope  of  education." 

"The  Campaign  is  beginning 
to  pick  up  some  real  momen- 
tum now,"  said  vice  president 
for  development  Peter  Wyeth. 
"Mr.  Fuqua's  wonderful  gift, 
along  with  the  $800,000  gift 
from  the  Ruth  Michaux  estate, 
has  helped  us  immeasurably. 
We  are  deeply  grateful  to  these 
two  very  generous  people.  Our 
volunteer  leaders  are  getting  their  contacts 
made  and  the  results  are  beginning  to  show. 
We  launched  the  Campaign  in  late  January 
with  ten  million  dollars  committed  in  advance 
gifts,  and  when  this  issue  went  to  press  we 
stood  at  $13.3  million." 

In  ever  greater  numbers  alumni  are  support- 
ing the  College  with  their  Annual  Fund  gifts  as 
well.  The  Annual  Fund,  as  a  part  of  the  overall 
Campaign,  continues  to  provide  approximate- 


"I  am  pleased  to  support 

the  innovative  programs 

of  Hampden'Sydney 

College.  This  Center, 

using  computing  and 

communication  facilities 

similar  to  those  of  large 

corporations,  will  lead 

die  way  toward  broaden' 

ing  the  entire  scope  of 

education." 

JOHN  BROOKS  FUQUA 
Chairman,  Fuijua  Industries 


ly  ten  per  cent  of  the  College's  operating 
budget.  "The  Fund  must  continue  to  grow  as 
the  Campaign  progresses,"  Wyeth  said.  Recent- 
ly the  College  has  been  notified  that  it  is  the 
recipient  of  a  fourth  United  States  Steel  Award. 
This  latest  award  was  given  for  sustained  excel- 
lence in  the  Annual  Fund. 

The  Campaign  has  also  met  another  impor- 
tant sub-goal  within  the  overall  effort  —  a 

$500,000  challenge  grant  re- 
quirement for  library  improve- 
ments as  a  part  of  the  National 
Endowment  for  the  Humani- 
ties Matching  Gift  Program. 
Because  the  College  has  raised 
sufficient  funds  to  meet  that 
goal,  Hampden-Sydney  now 
qualifies  for  $  1 00,000  in  NEH 
matching  funds.  The  goal  to  be 
reached  next  year  is  $300,000. 
The  following  individuals 
have  contributed  major  and 
special  gifts,  totalling  $250,000, 
to  the  Campaign:  an  anony- 
mous Trustee  contributed  a 
large  piece  of  property,  and 
funds  from  the  sale  will  be  used 
for  improvements  to  the  library; 
the  honorable  John  A.  Field 
'32  made  a  gift  in  memory  of 
David  C.  Wilson;  S.  E.  Liles, 
Jr.,  contributed  towards  the 
renovation  of  Venable  Hall; 
Jeffrey  L.  Kiefer  75  and  the 
Kiefer  Foundation  funded  an 
endowed  scholarship;  William 
F.  Schumadine,  Jr.  '66,  Wil- 
liam D.  Selden  V  70,  the  Mas- 
sey  Foundation,  and  the  Thomas  Mellon 
Evans  Foundation  made  gifts  for  undesignated 
Campaign  purposes;  George  B.  Cartledge,  Jr. 
'63  provided  Forum  furnishings  (this  gift 
represents  an  additional  commitment  to  the 
Campaign);  The  Reverend  Glenn  W.  Small, 
Jr.  '63  funded  an  annual  scholarship;  Citicorp 
gave  toward  the  NEH  Challenge  program;  and 
the  Frueauff  Foundation  contributed  toward 
scholarships. 


HAMPDEN-SYDNEY 
COLLEGE  IN  VIRGINIA 


1  'PLUME  61.  NUMBER  2  SUMMER  1985 

Richard  McClintock,  Editor 
Jonathan  Marken,  Associate  Editor 
Michael  Boudreau  '85  and  David  Brown  '87, 

Writers 
Brenda  F.  Garrett,  Typesetter 
Pamela  K.  Woods,  Graphics  Assistant 
Hawes  Spencer  '87  and  Ron  Stern, 

Photographers 

Published  by  Hampden-Sydney  College, 
Hampden-Sydney,  Virginia  23943 

Third  Class  postage  Paid  at  Farmville, 
Virginia  23901,  and  additional  mailing 
offices 


Hampden-Sydney  College  offers  equal 
opportunity  in  all  areas  of  education  and 
employment. 


On  the  front  cover:  Vice  President  George 
Bush  addressed  a  standing-room-only 
crowd  at  a  brilliant  outdoor  ceremony. 


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IN  THIS  ISSUE: 

Sunshine,  Helicopters,  and  Handshakes 3 

Under  the  watchful  eyes  of  Secret  Service  agents, 
seniors  join  the  real  world  at  last 

Fulton  Takes  the  Glory    6 

Stokeley  Fulton  takes  a  bow,  an  award, 
and  the  football  field 

Degrees  Awarded,  May  5, 1985    6 

"What's  So  Important  about  Leadership?"    8 

Vice  President  George  Bush  tells  an  old  story  of 
courage  and  initiative  as  a  fable  for  our  times 

"A  Difference  in  My  Life"    11 

Valedictorian  Greg  Brandt  recalls  the  touch  of 
Hampden- Sydney's  sense  of  community 

Sterile  Areas  and  Bomb-sniffing  Dogs    12 

Securing  Ha?npden- Sydney  for  the  Vice  President's 
visit  was  a  two-week  adventure 

Musical  Chairs  (and  Latin,  and  History, 

and  Bible,  and  English  )     13 

An  examination  of  the  history  and  significance 
of  endowed  professorships  at  the  College 

On  the  Hill    17 

Awards,  centenaries,  "The  Gospel  according  to 
Rassias,"  the  economics  of  suing- for- profit,  and 
almost  more  freshmen  than  we  know  what  to  do 
with 

New  Trustees  Come  on  Board 23 

Nine  men  appointed 

Faculty  Forum 28 

Silicon  chips,  dinosaurs,  Hampden,  Sydney,  and 
mediaeval  art 

Genocide:  The  Word  That  Wouldn't 

Go  Away 30 

A  conference  at  Hampden-Sydney  examines  the 
causes  and  effects  of  a  horrible  act 

Class  Notes   32 


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Sunshine, 
Helicopters, 
and 
Handshakes 


Under  the  watchful  eyes  of 
Secret  Service  men,  148  seniors 
join  the  real  world  at  last 


For  the  first  time  in  seven  years  the 
weather  cooperated  for  an  outdoor 
graduation  on  the  lawn  in  front  of  Venable 
Hall.  Vice  President  Bush  gave  the 
commencement  address. 


"When  we  were  flying  down  in  the 
helicopter  looking  at  this  country- 
side, we  didn't  know  whom  Si 
Bunting,  with  all  his  wisdom  and 
ability,  had  put  in  charge  of  the 
weather.  Chairman  Settle  told  me  it 
wasn't  him — it  was  somebody 
higher  up.  But  whoever  is  in  touch 
did  a  beautiful  job." 

So  Vice  President  George  Bush 
heralded  the  end  of  a  seven-year, 
rainy-commencement  curse  before  a 
small  luncheon  crowd  just  before 
addressing  148  graduating  seniors 
on  May  5th.  The  sunshine,  the 
Venable  oaks,  and  a  congratulatory 
handshake  by  the  vice  president 
added  up  to  a  genial  farewell  for 
the  graduates. 

"We  are  privileged  to  be  in  this 
great  institution,"  Bush  also  told  the 
luncheon  group.  "Thanks  for  invit- 
ing us,  and  thanks  for  the  contribu- 
tions you  make  to  excellence  in  the 
United  States." 

Traveling  with  the  Vice  President 
were  his  wife  Barbara  and  Senator 
and  Mrs.  Paul  Trible  '67.  They  came 
with  plenty  of  staff  and  Secret  Ser- 
vice men  in  two  U.S.  Marine  heli- 
copters. Adding  to  the  excitement 
were  TV  cameras  and  back-up 
rescue  squads  and  limousines. 

When  the  sun  shines  it  really 
shines,  and  Hampden-Sydney  had 
yet  another  claim  to  fame  at  the 
commencement  of  its  209th  year. 
The  College  awarded  an  honorary 
Doctor  of  Letters  to  dissident  Czech 
poet  Jaroslav  Seifert,  winner  of  the 
1984  Nobel  Prize  for  Literature, 
and  though  he  was  unable  to  attend 
the  ceremony,  he  sent  an  acceptance 
speech  that  was  translated  and  read 
by  Paul  Jagasich,  professor  of  mod- 
ern languages  at  the  College.  It  was 
the  translation  of  Seifert's  work  by 
Jagasich  and  Tom  O'Grady,  College 
poet-in-residence,  that  first  brought 
Seifert  international  attention  and 
that  enabled  the  Nobel  Prize  com- 
mittee to  make  its  decision  to 
award  him  a  prize. 


Since  Seifert's  Nobel  Prize  accep- 
tance speech  was  censored,  the 
speech  sent  to  Hampden-Sydney 
was  his  first  uncensored  response  to 
the  West  since  he  won  the  prize. 

"All  my  life  long  I  have  been 
energetically  defending  the  auto- 
nomy of  art  and  culture  in  general 
and  the  freedom  and  independence 
of  poetry  in  particular — its  unalien- 
able right  to  soar  freely,"  Seifert 
told  the  assembly  through  his 
interpreter.  He  also  had  high  praise 
for  the  United  States:  "We  should 
thank  the  United  States  for  helping, 
in  the  most  decisive  manner,  to 
establish  our  independent  state 
shortly  after  the  first  world  war, 
and  also  for  helping  our  nation  to 
regain  its  freedom  at  the  time  of 
the  second  world  war.  We  thank 
you  for  helping  us  with  the  gener- 
osity only  American  idealism  can 
provide,  for  reconstructing  Europe, 
for  eliminating  hunger  and  poverty 
on  our  continent." 

Vice  President  Bush,  in  his 
address  on  leadership,  had  high 
praise  for  Seifert.  "Men  such  as  Sei- 
fert are  liberty's  candle,"  he  said. 
"Their  light  burns  even  through  the 
night  of  war  and  totalitarian 
oppression — both  of  which  Seifert 
endured.  ...We  should  remember 
those  like  Seifert  and  take  seriously 
the  responsibilities  that  we  all  share 
to  give  leadership  to  democracy." 

Bush  also  related  the  story  of  the 
Greek  hero  Xenophon,  an  army 
private  who,  when  his  commanding 
general  had  been  seized,  took 
charge  and  led  his  fellow  soldiers 
on  a  2,500-mile,  four-month  jour- 
ney to  safety.  Bush  challenged  the 
Hampden-Sydney  graduates  to  fol- 
low Xenophon's  lessons — "to  turn 
fatalism  into  hope  and  followers 
into  leaders."  The  ability  of  the 
United  States  to  do  this,  he  said,  "is 
why  we  have  proven  so  resilient 
and  so  resourceful  as  a  nation." 

The  College  awarded  two  other 
honorary  degrees  in  addition  to  the 


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doctorate  awarded  Seifert  and  the 
Doctor  of  Laws  awarded  Bush.  S. 
Douglass  Cater,  a  well-known 
author  and  president  of  Washing- 
ton College  in  Maryland,  received  a 
Doctor  of  Letters.  Cater  served  as 
special  assistant  to  President  Lyn- 
don B.  Johnson,  and  he  has  co- 
authored  several  studies  on  the 
media's  role  in  society.  The  Reve- 
rend J.  Shepherd  Russell,  Jr.  '51, 
minister  of  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Norfolk,  received  a  Doc- 
tor of  Divinity.  Russell  holds  a 
degree  from  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary  of  Virginia  and  he  has 
served  in  Presbyterian  churches  in 
North  Carolina,  Arkansas,  and  Vir- 
ginia. He  delivered  the  baccalau- 
reate sermon  on  Commencement 
morning. 

During  the  ceremony  the  College 
presented  its  annual  awards  for  out- 
standing service  to  the  College  and 
the  community. 

The  Gammon  Cup,  presented  to 
the  member  of  the  graduating  class 
who  has  best  served  the  College, 


was  awarded  to  Frank  Wheeler. 

The  Algernon  Sydney  Sullivan 
Medallion,  given  to  a  member  of 
the  graduating  class  distinguished 
for  excellence  of  character  and  gen- 
erous service  to  his  fellows,  was 
presented  to  two  students  this  year 
—  Thomas  A.  Hickman,  Jr.  and 
Brian  Hoey.  Another  Medallion 
recipient  is  chosen  each  year  from 
those  friends  of  the  College  who 
have  been  conspicuously  helpful  to 
the  institution  in  its  effort  to 
encourage  and  preserve  a  high 
standard  of  morals.  This  year,  Dr. 
Willette  L  LeHew  '57,  a  Tidewater 
obstetrician  who  has  served  as  pres- 
ident of  the  College's  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation, was  honored. 

Receiving  the  Anna  Carrington 
Harrison  Award,  presented  to  two 
students  who  have  shown  construc- 
tive leadership  during  the  school 
year,  were  James  Secor  III  and 
David  Walker. 

Four  awards  were  also  presented 
to  faculty  and  staff  members  for 
outstanding  service  to  the  College. 

Secret  Service  agent  watches  the  Vice 
President's  helicopter  land  {left);  Vice 
President  Bush  salutes  his  Marine 
escort  as  he  disembarks  {below) 


Dr.  William  Shear  received  the 
Cabell  Award,  given  to  a  faculty 
member  in  recognition  of 
outstanding  classroom  contribution 
to  the  education  of  Christian  young 
men. 

The  Robert  Thruston  Hubard, 
Jr.,  Award  was  presented  to  Dr. 
Ken  Townsend  as  the  member  of 
the  faculty  or  staff  most 
distinguished  for  active  devotion 
and  service  to  the  College  and  her 
ideals. 

The  Thomas  Edward  Crawley 
Award,  presented  to  that  professor 
most  distinguished  for  devoted 
service  to  the  ideals  of  Hampden- 
Sydney  and  the  education  of  her 
sons,  was  awarded  to  John  Brinkley. 
The  award  is  given  in  memory  of 
Dr.  Thomas  E.  Crawley  '41,  who 
served  the  College  as  teacher, 
scholar,  musician,  and  dean  from 
1946  until  his  death  last  year. 

Coach  Stokeley  Fulton  was  then 
honored  by  the  Senior  Class  as  the 
member  of  the  College's  faculty, 
administration,  or  staff  who  has 
contributed  most  significantly  to  the 
College,  her  students,  and  the 
community.  President  Bunting  also 
announced  that  the  football  field 
would  be  named  in  honor  of  Coach 
Fulton. 

Following  the  presentation  of 

the  awards,  senior  William  Gregory 

Trevarthen  was  commissioned  a 

second  lieutenant  in  the  United 

States  Marines  by  Vice  President 

Bush  and  Captain  David  Reichert. 

Valedictorian  Greg  Brandt  then 
addressed  the  Hampden-Sydney 
community  on  behalf  of  the  Class 
of  '85.  Reflecting  on  his  four  years 
at  the  College,  Brandt  thanked  the 
community  for  making  Hampden- 
Sydney  what  it  is. 

Finally  degrees  were  awarded  to 
the  148  members  of  the  Class  of 
1985.  As  graduates  received  their 
diplomas  and  Bibles,  they  were 
congratulated  by  President  Bunting, 
Vice  President  Bush,  and  Board 
Chairman  Settle. 


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Graduating  seniors  were 

greeted  by  President  Bunting, 

Vice  President  Bush,  and 

Board  Chairman  Settle. 


Mr.  Bush  listens  as  Presi- 
dent Bunting  tells  the  his- 
tory of  Venable  Hall. 


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Celebrities  Notwith- 
standing, Fulton  Wins 
the  Glory 

While  the  audience  laughed  at  the 
quips  of  George  Bush,  clapped  at 
the  inspiring  words  of  Jaroslav  Sei- 
fert,  one  man  alone  gripped  their 
hearts — one  who  through  years  of 
hard  work  and  dedication  has  estab- 
lished himself  as  a  leader  in  this 
community — Stokeley  Fulton.  Ful- 
ton had  just  returned  home  after  a 
month-long  stay  at  the  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Virginia,  fighting  what  a 
local  sports  editor  called  "his  big- 
gest challenge  ever."  It  was  a  tes- 
timony to  his  vigorous  courage  that 
the  coach  could  attend  Commence- 
ment at  all.  It  took  courage,  lots  of 
prayers,  and,  perhaps,  a  miracle. 

Even  George  Bush  was  quick  to 
give  an  encouraging  word  to  the 
coach,  having  seen  from  the  stand- 
ing ovations  and  electrifying 
response  of  the  crowd  that  a  local 
hero  had  come  home.  Bush  quoted 
Coach  Yogi  Berra,  who  was  once 
asked  to  comment  on  a  nine-game 
losing  streak.  "Well,  we  made  the 
wrong  mistakes,"  Berra  had  said. 
"Now  obviously,"  Bush  noted, 
"from  the  ovation  he  was  accorded, 
Coach  Fulton  may  have  made  a 
mistake,  but  he  has  never  made  the 


Fulton  warmly  acknowledged  the  love 
of  the  crouds  and  of  one  small  admirer. 

wrong  mistake.  So  I'm  pleased  to 
hear  that  warm  response  for  him." 

Fulton  was  honored  by  the 
senior  class  as  "the  member  of  the 
College's  faculty,  administration,  or 
staff  who  has  contributed  most  sig- 
nificantly to  the  College,  her  stu- 
dents, and  the  community." 

Valedictorian  Greg  Brandt 
summed  up  the  class's  sentiments 
well:  "What  has  really  astonished 
me  about  this  place  is  the  way  that 
men  and  women  whom  I've  never 
studied  under  or  played  for  have 
made  a  difference  in  my  life.  I  will 
remember  Coach  Fulton  for  his 
great  love  of  this  school  and  for  his 
pride  in  any  man — on  the  team  or 
not — who  went  here.  Last  fall  I 
heard  the  Coach  say  that  his  proud- 
est moment — after  beating 
Randolph-Macon — is  attending 
graduation,  because  he  feels  that 
every  degree  conferred  upon  a  man 
who  has  sweated  to  earn  it 
increases  the  value  of  his  own 
diploma." 

President  Bunting  announced 
that  the  football  field  would  be 
named  in  the  coach's  honor.  After 
25  years  of  service,  25  years  of 
bequeathing  spirit  and  courage  to 
budding  leaders,  the  coach  deserved 
the  honor — and  the  crowd  on 
Venable  Lawn  on  May  5  voiced 
unanimous  approval. 

Recently,  the  Board  of  Trustees 
announced  that  contributions  to  the 
J.  Stokeley  Fulton  endowed  scholar- 
ship fund  had  quickly  surpassed  the 
initial  goal  of  525,000  (the  min- 
imum needed  to  establish  an 
endowed  scholarship). 


Degrees  Awarded 
May  5,  1985 


DOCTOR  OF  DIVINITY 

The  Reverend 

James  Shepherd  Russell,  Jr. 

DOCTOR  OF  LAWS 

The  Right  Honorable 

George  Herbert  Walker  Bush 

DOCTOR  OF  LETTERS 

Silas  Douglass  Cater 

Jaroslav  Seifert 

in  absentia 


BACHELOR  OF  ARTS 

James  David  Allen 

Christopher  Crowley  Altizer 

John  Wilkins  Ames  III 

John  B.  Aponte 

Christopher  Thomas  Apostle,  aim  latu 

Eric  Edward  Apperson 

George  William  Bailey 

John  Thomas  Baker 

Steven  Aram  Baronian 

Benjamin  Lovell  Bartlett 

John  Edward  Basilone 

Richard  Paul  Beach 

Gary  Wayne  Boswick 

Michael  Robert  Boudreau,  summa  cum 

laude 
Laurence  Dickerson  Bragg 
Gregory  Alan  Brandt,  summa  cum  laude 
Brian  Edgar  Brotzman 
William  Angus  Brown,  Jr. 
Michael  Andrew  Burchett 
William  Thomas  Burke 
David  Barnes  Camden 
Bruce  Watson  Case 
Kenneth  Albert  Cerf,  Ir. 
Mark  Morgan  Clark 
Charles  Raymond  Cochran 
William  Mark  Conger 
Frank  Neil  Cowan,  Jr. 
Jeffrey  Allen  Curley 


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Jerome  Del  Moral 

Peter  Smith  Dent 

Edward  Allen  Dickenson 

Robert  McClure  Duke 

Arthur  Pendleton  DuPuis,  magna  cum 

laude 
Dornton  Kirk  Edens 
Lance  O'Ferrell  Estes  II 
Kevin  Blair  Farina 
John  Scott  Finney 
Paul  McKay  Franks 
William  Roger  Frith 
John  Alfred  Gant 
William  Ryland  Gardner  III 
James  Dunleavy  Gibson 
John  Ira  Gray  III 
Walter  Nils  Green  III 
George  Elliott  Grimball  III 
Michael  Bradley  Hamilton 
Matthew  Gilbert  Hankins 
Vincent  Hale  Henderson  » 

Phillip  Anthony  Hess 
Thomas  Algernon  Hickman,  Jr. 
William  Leonard  Hilton 
Jay  Christopher  Hodge 
Michael  James  Hodge 
William  John  Hubbard 
Robert  Wood  Hultslanderjr., 

cum  laude 
Clyde  Bowen  Kelly 
William  Patrick  Kelly,  Jr. 
Charles  Burke  King,  cum  Liude 
William  Clarence  Knox  III 
Robert  Ralph  Lawson 
Charles  Melville  Lewis  II 
Geoffrey  John  Lewis 
Thomas  Logan  Lewis 
John  Hinton  Lineweaver 
Joseph  William  Lipscomb 
James  Cobb  Matheson,Jr.  i 

James  Brown  McCraw 
Michael  Sean  McCusty 
Edgar  Harris  McGee 
William  John  McGolrick 
Joseph  Edward  Mdnnis 
Jay  Douglas  Mitchell 
Brian  Artis  Moore 
Derrik  Richard  Gregory  Morris 
Steven  Wade  Neal 
Donald  Laskey  Newton 
Robert  Reid  Nottingham, 

magna  cum  laude 
Craig  Smith  Oakes 
Kenneth  Gardner  Pankeyjr., 

sum  ma  cum  laude 
Douglas  Allan  Parsons 
Randolph  Lewis  Parsons 
Julius  Winfry  Peek,  Jr. 


Guy  Baxter  Peffer 

William  Banks  Peterson,  Jr. 

Richard  Eugene  Rogers,  Jr. 

Richard  Angelo  Rossetti,Jr. 

William  DeWitt  Rusherjr. 

Allan  Albert  Sanders 

Albert  William  Schyman 

James  Demarest  Secor  III,  summa  cum 

laude 
John  Valentino  Sheridan  III 
Bradley  Scott  Simms 
Timothy  David  Siviter 
Bradford  Richard  Smith 
Bradley  Scott  Smith 
Paul  Drohan  Stancs 
Richard  Floyd  Burke  Steele  III 
Philip  Antonio  Suazo 
John  Edmund  Tankard  III 
Gene  Andrews  Taylor,  Jr. 
Jonathan  Norman  Lansdowne  Terry 
Turner  Bartlett  Thackston  IV 
Timothy  Hamilton  Thompson 
Donald  Winston  Thomson 
Marshall  Dean  Throckmorton 


William  Gregory  Trevarthen 
William  Louis  Usnik,Jr. 
Timothy  Propus  Veith 
Brian  Morse  Wallace 
Drew  Waterbury 
Alton  Russell  Watson 
Frank  Lee  Wheeler 
William  Moss  White 
Dan  Scott  Williamson,  Jr. 
Harry  Ashton  Williamson  III 
Berkeley  Wilson  Young 
Philip  Bradford  Young 

BACHELOR  OF  SCIENCE 

Stephen  Adolf  Asam 
Scott  Justis  Banning 
Scott  Carleton  Blanchard 
David  Wallace  Blankenship,  cum  laude 
Allen  Cooke  Blow 
Gregory  Wayne  Brooks 
Alton  Frvin  Bryant  III,  cum  laude 
Harry  Edward  Butcher  III 
Bradley  Henry  Cary,  summa  cum  laude 
Honors  in  Mathematics 
and  Economics 
Nelson  Wright  Daniel,  Jr. 
■  John  Kirby  Evett,  summa 

cum  laude 
I  William  Howell  Farthingjr., 
i       magna  cum  laude 
Harry  Todd  Flemming 
John  McCorkle  Forbes 
Richard  Stancell  Godsey 
Brian  Anthony  Hoey,  magna 
cum  laude 
John  Warren  Hollowell 
Joel  Collier  Hutcheson,  summa 
cum  laude 

Honors  in  Chemistry 
Brian  James  Lanham 
William  Ralphael  Lee 
David  Paul  McEnderfer 
Paul  Carlton  Nunnally 
Peter  Robert  Quarles,  magna  cum 

laude 
Michael   Stephen  Quesenberry, 
magna  cum  laude 
Honors  in  Chemistry 
Michaux  Raine  IV 
David  Banks  Simmons,  summa 

cum  laude 
John  Algernon  Simpson 
George  Yancey  Snavely,  Jr. 
John  Franklin  Stecker  III 
John  David  Walker,  summa  cum 

laude 
Theodore  Russell  Ziegler 


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The  Commencement  Address: 

"What's  So 
Important  about 
Leadership  in  a 
Democracy?" 

Vice  President  George  Bush  tells 
an  old  story  of  courage  and 
initiative  as  a  fable  for  our  times 


Thank  you  very,  very  much. 

I've  been  looking  forward  to  this 
day  very  much.  One,  for  the  oppor- 
tunity to  renew  a  friendship  that  I 
treasure  with  a  man  whom  I 
respect — your  president  Si  Bunting. 
Two,  to  come  down  here  with  a 
distinguished  Hampden-Sydney 
alumnus  who's  serving  in  the  Uni- 
ted States  Senate  with  such 
distinction — Paul  Trible.  Three,  to 
see  again  a  man  with  whom  I 
served,  albeit  briefly,  when  I  was 
director  of  Central  Intelligence, 
whose  expertise  and  commitment 
certainly  transcended  that  one  year 
but  gave  me  an  insight  into  him — 
and  that's  General  Sam  Wilson. 
Four,  to  pay  my  respects  to  Chair- 
man Settle  and  the  other  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  who  so 
selflessly  have  kept  this  great  insti- 
tution on  track,  kept  it  sound,  kept 
it  standing  for  principle.  And  then 
also  to  share  the  platform  with 
Reverend  Russell  and  Doug  Cater 
and  be  honored  by  your  institution 
along  with  them. 

Si  mentioned  earlier  that  your 
predecessors  confused  Dr.  Salk  with 
Dr.  Spock;  but  please  don't  get  me 
confused  with  Geraldine  Ferraro. 

You  know  they  think  of  the 
great  philosophers.  I  always  think 
of  Coach  Yogi  Berra — lost  nine 
straight.  They  asked  "what  went 
wrong?"  In  the  last  game  he  said, 
"Well,  we  made  the  wrong  mis- 
takes." Now  obviously,  from  the 
ovation  he  was  accorded,  Coach  Ful- 
ton may  have  made  a  mistake,  but 
he  has  never  made  the  wrong  mis- 
take. So  I'm  pleased  to  hear  that 
warm  response  for  him. 

You  know  graduation,  especially 
on  a  day  like  this,  is  like  springtime. 
It  renews  our  sense  of  the  spiritual 
and  moral  potential  of  the  human 
race.  And  it  is  a  great  day.  As  we 
flew  over  some  of  those  bass  pools 
on  our  way  down  in  the  helicopter 
from  our  residence,  I  got  thinking, 
well  listen,  we'd  better  not  go  on 


too  long.  That  got  me  thinking  of  a 
commencement  at  my  alma  mater, 
Yale  University. 

The  Bishop  got  up  to  speak. 

Unfortunately  the  Bishop  chose 
to  speak  on  virtue,  and  he  con- 
structed his  talk  around  the  letters 
of  his  alma  mater.  'Y'  was  for 
Youth,  and  the  Bishop  devoted  five 
minutes  to  the  nature  and  oppor- 
tunities of  being  young.  Then,  it 
was  'A'  for  Altruism,  and  he  had  no 
end  of  comments  on  that  topic:   an 
even  dozen  minutes  elapsed  before 
he  got  to  'L' — for  Loyalty.  Thank- 
fully, on  Loyalty  he  was  conciseness 
personified  —  two  and  a  half  min- 
utes. But  'E'  was  everybody's  Water- 
loo. E'  was  for  Excellence,  and 
excellently  did  the  Bishop  expound. 
Fifteen  minutes,  not  a  second  less. 
Then  he  wrapped  it  up  in  sum- 
mary:  "Y' — Youth;  A' — Altruism; 
'L' — Loyalty;  'E' — Excellence. 

Finally,  he  was  done.  He  invoked 
all  to  prayer,  and  that  concluded  the 
ceremonies.  Everybody  rose  and 
left.  That  is,  all  except  one  senior, 
who  stayed  in  his  place,  still  kneel- 
ing, his  head  bowed. 

The  Bishop  approached  him: 
"Young  man,"  he  said.  "My  address 
was  eloquent,  but  tell  me:   what 
was  it  that  caused  you  to  pray  so 
long  to  your  Creator  at  this  critical 
juncture  in  your  life?" 

The  senior  looked  up,  startled, 
and  said,  "I  was  offering  a  prayer  of 
Thanksgiving,  sir." 

"And  for  what,  may  I  ask,  were 
you  thanking  Him?" 

"I  was  giving  thanks,"  said  the 
senior,  "that  I  had  not  gone  to  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology." 

Well,  here  we  go.  Hampden- 
Sydney  College.  'H'  is  for.  .  .  . 

Seriously,  I  am  honored  to  be 
here  at  Hampden-Sydney.  "Brought 
into  being  by  the  love  of  liberty,"  as 
Virginians  say,  Hampden-Sydney 
for  two  centuries  has  provided  its 
graduates  the  courage  and  insight  to 


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be  leaders. 

What  Hampden-Sydney  stands 
for  is  symbolized  by  a  thin  volume 
of  poetry,  The  Casting  of  Bells,  by 
the  Czech  poet  Jaroslav  Seifert  and 
beautifully  translated  by  two  of  your 
faculty,  Tom  O'Grady  and  Paul 
Jagasich.  His  poetry  is  about  the 
fire  of  life  within  each  of  us  and 
passes  on  his  strength  and  wisdom 
so  that  we  may  be  made  stronger 
and  wiser  in  our  lives. 

Men  such  as  Seifert  are  liberty's 
candle.  Their  light  burns  even 
through  the  night  of  war  and  total- 
itarian oppression — both  of  which 
Seifert  endured.  And  they  give 
comfort — a  kind  of  leadership — to 
others  who  suffer  in  the  darkness. 

We  should  remember  those  like 
Seifert  and  take  seriously  the 
responsibilities  that  we  all  share  to 
give  leadership  to  democracy. 

Now,  leadership  in  a  democracy 
may  seem  self-contradictory  on  first 
impression.  It  often  seems  like 
nothing  more  than  adapting  to  the 
decision  of  the  crowd.  And  what 
complicates  matters  is  that  we  want 
our  leaders  to  be  responsive.  We 
want  them  to  forge  a  direction  and 
at  the  same  time  follow  the  direc- 
tions of  others. 

So,  what's  so  important  about 
leadership  in  a  democracy?  And  in 
what  way  should  a  democratic 
leader  behave? 

Let  me  tell  you  an  old  story 
which  may  give  us  some  clues  to 
those  two  questions. 

In  401  B.C.,  a  young  Persian 
prince  named  Cyrus  hired  an  army 
of  ten  thousand  Greek  soldiers  to 
help  him  take  the  Persian  throne 
away  from  his  brother.  Cyrus  and 
his  Greek  companions-in-arms 
marched  fifteen  hundred  miles 
overland,  where  they  met  the  Per- 
sian king  and  his  army  near  what  is 
now  Baghdad. 

The  Greeks  won  the  battle,  but 
lost  the  war  when  Cyrus  was  killed 
in  the  day's  action. 


"There  are  always 

two  possibilities: 

one  of  hope  and  activity, 

the  other  of  passive 

despair. " 

THE  HONORABLE 

GEORGE  HERBERT  WALKER  BUSH 

Vice  President  of  the  United  Stales 


That  left  the  Greek  army,  with 
no  reason,  in  a  strange  land 
swarming  with  enemy  troops.  They 
could  not  retreat  eastward.  No  food 
remained  on  the  land.  And  to  the 
north  were  mountains,  all  inhabited 
by  savage  mountain  tribes. 

To  make  things  worse,  the  Greek 
commanding  general  and  his  entire 
officer  staff  had  gone  to  a  confer- 
ence with  the  Persians  under  a  safe- 
conduct — and  all  had  been  assas- 
sinated. 

That  seemed  to  leave  no  alterna- 
tive for  the  Greeks  but  to  surrender 
and  throw  themselves  on  the  mer- 


cies of  the  Persians. 

But  one  of  the  Greeks,  a  private 
in  the  ranks  named  Xenophon,  had 
a  different  idea.  "Notice  that  our 
enemies  lacked  the  courage  to  fight 
us  until  they  had  seized  our  gen- 
eral," he  said.  "They  think  that  we 
are  defeated  because  our  officers  are 
dead.  But  we  will  show  them  that 
they  have  turned  us  all  into  gener- 
als. Instead  of  one  general,  they  will 
have  ten  thousand  generals  against 
them." 

The  Greeks'  spirits  rallied.  They 
resolved  to  fight  their  way  through 
the  mountains.  Xenophon  turned 
out  to  be  a  brilliant  strategist,  and 
his  Army  of  Ten  Thousand  Gener- 
als did  reach  safety  2,500  miles  and 
four  months  later — perhaps  the 
most  celebrated  military  escape  in 
Western  history. 
Now,  what  did  Xenophon  really 
do  to  make  a  difference?  He  re- 
sisted a  kind  of  fatalism  which  set 
in  on  the  Greek  soldiers,  a  fatalism 
which  said,  "There  is  nothing  that 
can  be  done."  Xenophon's  speech 
helped  them  see  that  there  was  a 
second  possibility,  that  they  could 
do  something  besides  quit. 

You  see,  there  are  always  two 
possibilities — one  of  hope  and 
activity,  the  other  of  passive  des- 
pair. I  have  often  been  struck  by  the 
idea  that  the  job  of  leadership  in  a 
democracy  is  to  resist  the  crowd's 
helplessness  until  they  regain  a 
sense  that  they  can  do  something. 
There  is  one  more  lesson  in  the 
tale  of  Xenophon.  His  style  of  lead- 
ership enabled  his  men  to  take 
initiative  and  use  their  intelligence. 
"Every  one  of  you  is  a  leader,"  he 
would  say  to  men  who  went  out  to 
fight  in  the  strange  and  unmapped 
terrain.  In  improvising  tactics  of 
mountain  warfare,  he  invited  dis- 
cussion. "Whoever  has  a  better 
plan,  let  him  speak.  Our  aim  is  the 
safety  of  all,  and  that  is  the  concern 
of  all." 

He  nurtured  willingness  in  oth- 


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ers  to  lead.  He  regarded  his  com- 
rades as  partners,  and  the  more 
able  and  numerous  they  were,  the 
stronger  and  more  effective  the 
army  became. 

Those  two  lessons  sum  up  the 
Greek  idea  of  leadership — to  trans- 
form fatalism  into  hope,  and  fol- 
lowers into  leaders.  Those  two  cen- 
tral ideas  contrast  with  a  darker  and 
undemocratic  notion  of  leader- 
ship— one  based  on  obtaining  sub- 
mission through  fear  and 
domination. 

Xenophon's  lessons  are  surpris- 
ingly appropriate  to  the  problems 
we  confront  today  in  American 
society.  Let  me  take  a  typical  but 
interesting  environmental  problem 
to  illustrate  how  they  apply. 

Over  the  past  two  centuries, 
literally  hundreds  of  villages  and 
towns  and  cities  have  been  built 
along  the  Ohio  River  and  its  tribu- 
taries. The  millions  of  people  living 
there  have  created  great 
industries — meat-packing  plants, 
steel  mills,  collieries,  chemical 
plants,  distilleries.  For  years  and 
years,  they  used  their  great  river 
system  to  dispose  of  the  unwanted 
byproduct  of  all  this  vitality. 

As  a  result,  by  the  1940s,  the 
Ohio  had  become  little  more  than 
an  open  sewer. 

In  two  ways,  the  condition  of  the 
Ohio  in  the  1940s  was  like  the 
problem  of  escape  faced  by  Xeno- 
phon  in  401  B.C. 

First,  a  feeling  of  futility  and 
fatalism  was  widespread.  Nobody 
saw  how  anything  could  be  done  to 
clean  up  the  Ohio.  The  sources  of 
its  pollution  were  so  numerous;  the 
technology  to  reduce  its  pollution 
was  so  meager;  and  despair  about 
its  debasement  was  so  pervasive. 

Our  story  begins  with  a  member 
of  the  Cincinnati  Chamber  of 
Commerce  who  first  spoke  out 
against  the  river's  pollution,  but  the 
crucial  step  came  when  the  legisla- 
tures of  the  eight  states  of  the  Ohio 

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Basin  authorized  and  published  a 
study  of  the  river's  condition. 

Knowledge  is  the  key  to  the  bat- 
tle against  fatalism.  I  have  heard 
some  say  that  study  and  discussion 
impede  action.  But  the  real  imped- 
iment to  getting  something  done  is 
ignorance  —  the  ignorance  which 
results  when  there  is  no  talk  and 
analysis. 

Informed  ideas  inspire  hope,  and 
hope  is  the  secret  of  a  people's 
effectiveness.  Xenophon  would 
have  understood  that. 

There  is  another  similarity 
between  the  clean-up  of  a  river  and 
the  escape  of  the  Army  of  Ten 
Thousand  Generals.  Saving  the 
Ohio  River  required  the  initiative, 
intelligence,  and  leadership,  not  of 
one  leader,  but  of  countless  leaders. 
The  clean-up  depended  on  the 
cooperation  of  every  municipality 
and  every  factory  to  explore  ways  to 
improve  the  treatment  of  their 
wastes,  and  that  cooperation 
depended  on  leaders  within  each 
town  and  plant. 

Scientists  and  businessmen  had 
to  take  the  lead  in  inventing 
equipment  essential  to  monitoring 

"Knowledge  is  the  key 

to  the  battle  against 

fatalism. " 

the  river  and  decontaminating  the 
wastes.  And  political  leaders  had  to 
be  educated  in  the  ways  of  the 
environment  so  that  they  could 
make  their  legislatures  and  their 
agencies  partners  in  the  under- 
taking. 

It  took  time.  Forty  years  from 
the  date  of  the  first  environmental 
study,  the  Ohio's  waters  are  becom- 
ing clear.  The  fish  are  coming  back. 
Two  years  ago,  it  was  even  possible 
to  hold  the  National  Bass  Tourna- 
ment in  Cincinnati — unthinkable  a 
decade  ago. 


Now,  we  come  to  you.  A  free 
country  must  cultivate  in  the  indi- 
viduals of  each  generation  both  a 
willingness  to  be  leaders  and  also 
an  understanding  of  the  uses  of 
leadership.  For  centuries  Hampden- 
Sydney  College  has  done  that  with 
remarkable  success.  This  college  has 
taught  its  graduates  the  arts  of 
leadership — the  art  of  association 
so  that  we — you  and  I — can  deal,  as 
a  free  people,  with  outsized  prob- 
lems too  large  for  one  individual  to 
handle. 

Our  common  life  will  always  be 
beset  by  problems — that  comes 
with  the  human  condition.  But  in 
this  country,  we  have  found  a  way 
to  deal  with  them — with  hope, 
invention,  and  prodigious  vitality. 

I  think  we  have  learned  Xeno- 
phon's lessons  well — of  how  to 
turn  fatalism  into  hope,  and  follow- 
ers into  leaders.  That  is  why  we 
have  proved  so  resilient  and  so 
resourceful  as  a  nation. 

So,  men,  to  your  stations.  But 
take  this  thought  with  you.  In  the 
years  to  come,  each  of  you,  I  will 
guarantee,  will  experience  setback 
and  disappointment.  That  comes 
with  the  human  condition.  At  such 
times  you  will  lose  faith  that  any 
person  can  make  a  difference. 

Then,  remember  Jaroslav  Seifert, 
the  Czech  poet  we  honor  today. 
Remember  that  he  faced  two  terri- 
ble world  wars  and  the  totalitarian 
captivity  of  his  nation,  and  yet  held 
on  to  what  he  called  "the  courage  of 
love." 

He  drew  from  the  commonest 
sights  and  sounds  the  certainty  that 
he  was  not  alone.  When  you  feel 
alone  and  exposed,  pause  and  look 
around  you  at  something  not  made 
with  hands — a  tree,  a  star,  the  turn 
of  a  stream.  Then,  in  that  moment, 
you  will  know  that  you  are  not 
alone  in  this  blessed  world  of 
ours — and  it  will  make  all  the 
difference. 

Good  luck,  and  God  bless  you. 


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The  Valedictory  Address: 

"A  Difference 
in  My  Life" 

Gregory  Alan  Brandt  '85 


Greg  Brandt  praised  the  College's 
sense  of  community:  "Men  and  women 
whom  I've  never  studied  under  or  played 
for  have  made  a  difference  in  my  life. " 


This  is  the  first  time  in  a  couple 
of  years  that  a  candidate  for  a 
B.A. — and  an  English  major  in 
particular — has  had  to  give  this 
address.  Naturally,  I  thought  of 
reading  you  a  lot  of  poetry,  quoting 
Thucydides  from  the  Greek,  or  at 
least  parsing  a  few  sentences: 
anything  to  inspire  that  humane 
and  lettered  frenzy  which  would 
surely  compel  you  to  lob 
champagne  corks  in  my  direction. 
The  guys  with  guns  warned  me, 
however,  that  this  was  not  a  good 
idea. 

So  I  want  to  talk  about  what  here 
has  touched  my  heart  and  what  will 
long  dominate  my  imagination: 
the  Hampden-Sydney  community. 
As  a  class,  we've  been  blessed  with 
professors  who  are  not  merely  able 
teachers  but  who  are  concerned 
about  their  students'  lives  as  well.  I 
think  of  the  late  Dr.  Crawley,  who 
from  the  word  "go" — as  in  "Well, 
go  read  it!" — wanted  those  in  his 
courses  to  be  good  students  of 
literature,  yes,  but  good  men  first. 
Or  I  think  of  Dr.  Lund,  who  as  an 
adviser  has  helped  people  get  off 
academic  probation  so  that  they 
could  get  to  this  point  in  their 
careers. 

But  what  has  really  astonished 
me  about  this  place  is  the  way  that 
men  and  women  whom  I've  never 
studied  under  or  played  for  have 
made  a  difference  in  my  life.  I  will 
remember  Coach  Fulton  for  his 
great  love  of  this  school  and  for  his 
pride  in  any  man — on  the  team  or 
not — who  went  here.  Last  fall  I 
heard  the  Coach  say  that  his 
proudest  moment — after  beating 
Randolph-Macon — is  attending 
graduation,  because  he  feels  that 
every  degree  conferred  upon  a  man 
who  has  sweated  to  earn  it 
increases  the  value  of  his  own 
diploma.  That  is  worth  reflecting 
on  today. 

And  I  will  remember  Dr. 
Farrell's  lectures  on  literature  and 


language  for  showing  that  an 
intelligent  man  can  communicate 
complicated  ideas  without  making 
people  feel  stupid  or  boring  them, 
as  long  as  he  loves  his  subject  and 
wants  others  to  love  it  too. 

But  the  community  is  still  more. 
It's  Dean  Drew's  quiet  concern  for 
the  students  and  his  example  of 
gentlemanliness.  It's  Erlene 
Bowman's  friendliness  in  the 
Bookstore,  Mrs.  P.  T.'s  stories  in 
the  Museum,  and  President 
Bunting's  enthusiasm  at  football 
games.  It's  students  and  professors 
bursting  out  of  buildings  to  answer 
a  fire  call.  It's  the  kindness  of 
Nurses  Martin  and  Crawley  and  of 
the  women  in  the  Post  Office  and 
Library.  (Though  an  all-male 
school,  we  are  not,  after  all,  an  all- 
male  community.)  And  it's  the 
children  who  play  on  campus,  the 
dogs  that  wander  into  classrooms 
and  fall  asleep,  and  Francis  the  ax- 
man,  whom  Mr.  OGrady  has  put 
into  poetry  and  Mr.  Spencer's 
newspaper  has  put  behind  the 
President's  desk. 

Lastly,  I  want  to  celebrate  my 
class  for  at  least  enduring  and  for 
oftentimes  excelling  in  its  work  at 
and  for  the  College.  A  lot  of  those 
who  started  with  us  in  Venable  and 
Cushing  didn't  make  it,  and  I  think 
we've  good  reason  to  shoot  those 
champagne  corks  a  mile  in  the  air. 

I  don't  know  if  these  will  have 
been  the  happiest  years  of  our  lives. 
I  don't  know  if  we'll  get  fatter  and 
dumber.  But  I  do  know  that  there  is 
something  wonderful  here  and  that 
we  shall  miss  it.  From  the  Class  of 
1985  to  the  Hampden-Sydney 
community:  so  long  .  .  .  it's  been 
good  to  know  you. 


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THE  RECORD  OF  HAMPDEN-SYDNEY  COLLEGE 


Parts  of  Hampden-Sydney  College's 
campus  were  "locked  down"  for 
Vice  President  George  Bush 's  visit 
Sunday  while  people  sitting  in  "the 
sterile  area"  had  to  wear  special 
pins. 

That's  secret  service  talk,  by  the 
way.  fust  as  the  military  brass  rely 
upon  stilted  Pentagonese  for 
communication,  the  secret  service 
has  its  own  vernacular.  Hampden- 
Sydney  College  employees  beca?ne 
very  familiar  with  the  jargon  last 
week,  preparing  the  extensive 
security  measures  required  for  a 
vice  president 's  visit. 

On  the  preceding  Tuesday,  secret 
servicemen,  members  of  Bush 's 
staff,  and  representatives  of  the 
White  House  communications  staff 
started  readying  for  the  affair. 

"Locking  down"  was,  of  course, 
required.  What  that  translates  into 
is  that  any  building  with  a  view1 
onto  the  lawn  had  its  doors  and 
windows  securely  locked  so  no  one 
could  get  in. 

Getting  into  "the  sterile  area, " 
the  stage  zone  immediately  around 
the  vice  president,  wasn't  a  cinch 
either.  Pins  were  presented  to  those 
w'ho  were  designated  to  sit  upon  or 
near  the  stage. 

During  the  week  Central 
Telephone  workers  installed  a 
number  of  phones  at  various  sites 
upon  campus.  How  many  phones  is 
unknown  since  Centel  was  directed 
by  the  federal  staff  not  to  reveal  the 
extent  of  the  work. 

According  to  Shep  Haw, 
assistant  to  the  president  at  H-SC, 
the  phones  were  installed  "should 
something  go  wrong  somewhere  in 
the  world  and  they  needed  those 
lines  open. " 

During  the  week  the-  entire 
ceremony  was  walked  through, 
practice  helicopter  landings  were 
made  behind  V enable,  a  to -the - 
minute  itinerary  was  set. 

Some  minor  conflicts  arose,  Haw 
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Sterile  Areas  & 
Bomb-sniffing  Dogs 

Securing  Hampden-Sydney  for 
George  Bush's  Visit 


By  Gary  Craig 

RMC  '81 


Reprinted,  with  permission,  from  The  Farmville 
Herald 


indicates.  For  instance,  the  secret 
service  wanted  wings  upon  the 
bullet-proof  lectern  the  Vice  Presi- 
dent would  use.  The  White  House 
staff  thought  the  press  shouldn  't  be 
able  to  see  the  extensions  of  the  lec- 
tern's protection.  A  happy  medium, 
a  not-so-obvious  shield,  was  finally 
opted  for. 

Thought  was  given  to  having 
Bush  walk  in  with  the  processional 
but  the  secret  service  vetoed  that 
plan. 

"The  secret  service  didn  't  want  to 
have  to  secure  that  whole  area, " 
Haiv  said.  "I  think  if  he  d  done  that 
he  would  have  had  to  wear  a  flak 
jacket. " 

Local  police  were  directed  to 
close  down  Route  133  into  the 
college  and  a  Prince  Edward  County 
Volunteer  Rescue  Squard  crew  was 
designated  to  be  on  hand. 

Farmville  Police  Chief  Otto 
Overton  said,  "They  wanted  an 
ambulance  to  be  standing  by,  not  to 


answer  any  calls,  just  to  be  ready  if 
anything  happened  to  Bush. " 

Southside  Community  Hospital 
and  the  Medical  College  of  Virginia 
Hospital  were  prepared  to  handle 
the  vice  president  if  he  were  injured 
during  the  course  of  the  day. 

At  Sunday's  ceremony  the  secret 
servicemen  were  able  to  keep  a 
fairly  low  profile,  though  ones  with 
binoculars,  earphones,  or  the 
stereotypical  square- shoulders  aiid 
dark-sunglasses  look  weren't 
difficult  to  pick  out.  Some  were  also 
posted  on  roofs  to  peruse  the 
crowd.  A  total  of  40  secret 
servicemen  were  at  the  cere?nony. 
Dogs  were  on  hand  to  sniff  out 
bombs  and  photographers'  bags 
were  checked.  Television  cameras 
were  led  up  front  by  a  White 
House  staffer. 
Bush  also  spoke  to  a  crowd  at  a 
luncheon  before  the  ceremony.  The 
secret  service  was  presented  with 
names  and  social  security  numbers 
of  those  expected  to  atteiTd.  Checks 
were  run  on  the  people  and, 
apparently,  no  worrisome 
subversives  were  discovered. 

The  college  did  what  it  could  to 
quell  any  notions  happy  graduates 
might  have  had  of  causing  a  ruckus. 
Usually  a  Hampden-Sydney 
graduation  includes  the  sound  of 
bursting  champagne  corks.  The 
administration  tried  to  keep 
champagne-popping,  which  can 
sound  like  staccato  gunfire,  stifled 
this  year.  Nonetheless,  one 
celebratory  bottle  was  opened,  very 
quietly. 

Haw,  for  one,  never  had  any 
worries  about  problems  at  the 
ceremony.  Terrorists  would  find  it 
difficult  to  stay  incognito  in 
Southside  Virginia,  he  felt. 

"It  just  seems  to  me  a  subversive 
group  or  someone  would  have  just 
looked  out  of  place  here.  They 
would  have  had  to  dress  as  a 
senior  s  parent  or  something. " 


THK  RECORD  OF  HAMPDEN-SYONLY  COLLEGE 


Musical 
Chairs 
(and  Latin, 
and  History, 
and  Bible, 
and 
English...) 


An  examination  of  the  history 
and  significance  of  Endowed 
Professorships  at 
Ha  mpden  -  Sydney 

By  Michael  R.  Bondreau  '&5 


Michael  Boudreau  u  as 
editor  of  the  Tiger  as  a 
sophomore,  editor  of  the 
Garnet  as  a  senior,  and 
an  assistant  editor  of  the 
Record  for  the  last  two 
years;  he  will  be  studying 
English  literature  in  the 
Graduate  School  of  the 
University  of  Illinois 
this  fall.   ' 


In  1953  an  alumnus  told  President 
Edgar  J.  Gammon  what  the  College 
had  done  for  him.  "When  I  was  in 
a  foxhole  in  the  last  war,"  he  said, 
"all  I  had  was  the  sky  and  what  Dr. 
Massey  had  taught  me  at 
Hampden-Sydney."  His  comment  is 
typical,  not  of  what  happens  to 
Hampden-Sydney  graduates  when 
they  leave,  but  of  what  they 
remember.  Come  to  any  Home- 
coming or  class  reunion  and  see 
who  doesn't  need  to  wear  a  name 
tag — the  professors. 

Hampden-Sydney's  reputation  as 
an  academic  institution  is  only  as 
good  as  the  men  and  women  who 
train  its  graduates.  No  amount  of 
high-tech  educational  equipment, 
visiting  lecturers,  or  field  trips  can 
have  the  same  impact  as  the  pro- 
fessor whose  first  love  is  teaching — 
inside  the  classroom  as  well  as  out- 
side, in  word  as  well  as  in  deed. 
Hampden-Sydney  seeks  such  men 
and  women  and  has  succeeded  in 
getting  them  for  many  years;  it  is  a 
tradition  of  excellence  that  must 
continue. 

To  that  end,  the  Campaign  for 
Hampden-Sydney  has  called  for  the 
creation  of  endowed  professorships 


to  support  the  salaries  and  benefits 
of  our  own  faculty  on  a  level  that  is 
competitive  with  that  of  other  col- 
leges like  Hampden-Sydney  and  in 
order  to  "honor  exceptional  talent 
with  exceptional  compensation." 
The  minimum  goal  for  this  part  of 
the  campaign,  one  million  dollars, 
is  something  of  a  first  for  the  Col- 
lege, but  the  idea  of  endowed  pro- 
fessorships is  not.  For  over  half  a 
century  Hampden-Sydney  has  been 
proud  to  honor  teacher-scholars  of 
particular  merit  and  devotion  to  the 
College. 

A  Tradition  of  Excellence 

The  Walter  Blair  Chair  of  Latin 
was  the  first  endowed  chair  estab- 
lished at  Hampden-Sydney.  It  was 
created  in  1932  by  a  memorial  fund 
given  by  Miss  Ellen  C.  Blair,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Walter  Blair,  Hampden- 
Sydney  Class  of  1855  and  Professor 
of  Latin  at  the  College  from  1860 
to  1896.  The  chair  is  presently  held 
by  Dr.  Graves  H.  Thompson,  Class 
of  1927,  Professor  Emeritus  of 
Latin  and  Fine  Arts. 

The  Squires  Chair  of  History  was 
established  in  1948  after  the  death 
of  the  Reverend  William  Henry 


Graves  Thompson,  Blair  P, 


if  Latin 


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Hi:    IMAA^IMJ   KSL      I  1/^lVlI    17L,l\-0  1  l^l^l. 


Tappey  Squires,  Class  of  1894.  A 
Presbyterian  minister,  Mr.  Squires 
was  a  trustee  of  the  College  from 
1916  until  his  death  in  1948  and 
sent  two  of  his  sons  to  Hampden- 
Sydney:  David  D.  Squires  '27, 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
from  1968  to  1973;  and  William 
Henry  Tappey  Squires,  Jr.  '37.  The 
chair  was  established  by  his  friends 
who  "felt  that  his  interest  in  history 
could  best  be  kept  alive  by  the 
endowment  of  a  chair  from  which 
his  favorite  subject,  other  than 
Christianity,  could  be  taught."  The 
Squires  Chair  was  last  held  by  Dr. 
Willard  F.  Bliss,  who  retired  from 
active  service  at  the  College  in  1981 
and  died  in  1983. 

Established  much  earlier,  the 
Memorial  Chair  of  Bible  was  rede- 
dicated  in  1959  as  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Danville  Chair  of 
Bible  "in  recognition  of  the  gener- 
ous gifts  made  to  the  College  by  the 
ever  loyal  members  of  this  church." 
Now  vacant,  the  chair  was  last  held 
by  Dr.  Charles  F.  McRae,  who 
retired  from  teaching  at  the  College 
in  1975. 

In  1966  the  Board  of  Trustees 
approved  the  creation  of  five  new 
chairs,  named  for  people  whose 
gifts  and  bequest  have  added  sub- 
stantially to  the  College's 
endowment. 

The  George  H.  and  Minnie  Brad- 
ley Alexander  Chair  of  Physics  was 
established  through  the  bequest  of 
George  H.  Alexander  of  Norfolk. 
Mr.  Alexander  became  interested  in 
Hampden-Sydney  through  his  pas- 
tor, the  Reverend  W.  H.  T.  Squires 
and  Senator  Edward  L.  Breeden,  Jr. 
'26.  Sometime  during  1943  Mr. 
Alexander  visited  the  campus 
unannounced,  talked  only  with  a 
few  students,  and  wrote  his  will 
shortly  afterwards.  On  Mr.  Alex- 
ander's death  in  1956,  his  entire 
estate,  after  several  direct  bequests 
had  been  made,  came  to  Hampden- 
Sydney.  His  gift  to  the  College  was 
unrestricted  with  one  exception — 
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"If  our  professors,  by  the 
steady  power  of  their 
vocations,  lodge  in  the 
conscious  memory  of 

their  students  an 
example  of  productive 

and  happy  lives  of 

service,  they  shall  have 

succeeded. " 


JOSI  AH  BUNTING  III 
President  of  the  College 


that  a  scholarship  in  his  and  his 
wife's  name  be  established.  The 
Alexander  Chair  is  presently  held 
by  Dr.  Thomas  E.  Gilmer,  Presi- 
dent Emeritus  of  the  College  and 
Professor  Emeritus  of  Physics. 

The  Francis  B.  Converse  Chair  of 
Romance  Languages  was  named  for 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  1890  with 
a  talent  for  invention  and  research. 
Following  his  graduation  from 
Hampden-Sydney  he  invented  and 
built  a  typesetting  machine  and 
later  worked  for  the  Goodrich 
Rubber  Company,  helping  to 
develop  processes  for  the  design 
and  manufacture  of  some  of  the 
first  automobile  tires.  Although  a 
man  with  a  decidedly  scientific  tal- 
ent, Dr.  Converse  let  it  be  known 
that  he  considered  the  hours  he 
spent  studying  Greek,  Latin,  Bible, 
and  history  as  time  well  spent.  He 
left  one-half  of  his  estate  to  the  Col- 
lege when  he  died  in  1958.  The 
Converse  Chair  is  presently  held  by 
Dr.  William  C.  Holbrook,  Professor 
Emeritus  of  Romance  Languages 
and  a  former  Dean  of  the  Faculty. 

The  Eugene  C.  Hurt  Chair  of 
English  was  named  for  an  elder  in 
the  Chatham  Presbyterian  Church 
with  no  direct  ties  to  the  College. 
Mr.  Hurt  was,  however,  a  firm 
believer  in  the  place  of  the  Church 


in  higher  education  and  especially 
interested  in  the  work  of  three 
institutions  within  the  Synod  of 
Virginia — Hampden-Sydney  Col- 
lege, the  Presbyterian  Home  in 
Lynchburg,  and  Union  Theological 
Seminary  in  Richmond.  When  Mr. 
Hurt  died  in  1958,  a  portion  of  the 
income  from  his  estate,  valued  at 
approximately  one  million  dollars, 
was  shared  by  these  three  institu- 
tions. The  Hurt  Chair,  now  vacant, 
was  first  held  by  Dr.  Philip  Hor- 
tenstine  Ropp  and  then  by  one  of 
Dr.  Ropp's  own  distinguished  stu- 
dents, Dr.  T.  Edward  Crawley,  a 
former  Dean  of  Students  and  direc- 
tor of  the  glee  club  and  a  Professor 
of  English  at  the  College  until  his 
death  in  April  1984. 

The  Albert  Fuller  Patton  Chair 
of  Economics  was  named  for  the 
member  of  the  Class  of  1904  whose 
estate  created  a  perpetual  trust 
from  which  Hampden-Sydney 
receives  a  percentage  of  the  income. 
When  he  died  in  1959  Mr.  Patton 
was  the  president  of  three  Danville 
firms;  he  was  a  trustee  of  Stratford 
College;  and  he  served  on 
Hampden-Sydney's  Board  of  Trus- 
tees from  1938  to  1958.  The  Patton 
Chair  of  Economics  was  held  by  Dr. 
Edmund  Whittaker,  who  retired 
from  teaching  at  the  College  in 
1967  and  died  in  1975. 

The  Wycliffe  C  Jackson  Chair  of 
Philosophy  was  named  for  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1903  who 
completed  the  College's  four-year 
course  in  only  two  years.  On  his 
graduation  from  the  College  Mr. 
Jackson  went  to  work  for  the  New 
York  Times  for  a  number  of  years 
and  then  joined  his  cousin  in  the 
manufacture  of  a  patent  medicine, 
but  "discovering  some  of  the  ingre- 
dients did  not  meet  with  his  high 
moral  code,  he  soon  gave  this  up." 
His  business  endeavors  eventually 
took  him  to  Griffin,  Georgia  as  an 
executive  in  the  cotton  industry.  On 
Mr.  Jackson's  death  in  I960, 
Hampden-Sydney  received  the 


THE  RECORD  OF  HAMPDEN-SYDNEY  COLLEGE 


third-largest  gift  ever  made  to  the 
College  by  an  individual.  The  Jack- 
son Chair  of  Philosophy,  now 
vacant,  was  held  by  Dr.  Denison 
Maurice  Allan,  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1916  and  the  man  for 
whom  Hampden-Sydney's  highest 
merit  scholarship  is  named. 

The  most  recently  established 
chair  at  Hampden-Sydney  is  the 
Barger-Barclay  Chair  of  Fine  Arts. 
This  chair  was  made  possible  by  a 
pledge  from  Dr.  William  C  Barger 
in  1981.  Dr.  Barger,  Class  of  1925, 
established  the  chair  in  memory  of 
his  friend  Robert  L.  Barclay,  a  noted 
musician  and  composer.  The  receipt 
of  Dr.  Barger's  pledge  is  a  signifi- 
cant step  toward  assuring  the  future 
development  of  Hampden-Sydney's 
Department  of  Fine  Arts. 

Keeping  the  Tradition  Alive 

What  Hampden-Sydney  now  seeks 
in  its  three-year  campaign  is  to 
secure  endowment  for  the  salaries 
and  benefits  of  professors  who  will 
continue  the  tradition  of  excellence 
in  teaching  and  scholarship  begun 
by  men  like  Drs.  Thompson, 
Gilmer,  McRae,  Holbrook,  and  oth- 
ers. At  the  very  minimum,  the 
Campaign  for  Hampden-Sydney 
calls  for  the  creation  of  three 
endowed  professorships:  the  Dis- 
tinguished Professorship,  the  Emi- 
nent Professorship,  and  the  Presi- 
dential Professorship. 


T.  E.  Crawley,  Hurt  Professor  of  English 


A  Distinguished  Professorship 
can  be  created  for  a  minimum  gift 
of  $100,000.  The  income  from  this 
endowment  will  supplement  the 
salary  and  benefits  of  an  assistant 
professor  or  lecturer.  The  impor- 
tance of  such  an  endowed  position 
must  not  be  underestimated,  as 
teaching  in  a  small  college  must  be 


made  especially  attractive  to  junior 
faculty  members  who  might  other- 
wise be  lured  away  by  large  univer- 
sities or  private  industry. 

An  Eminent  Professorship  can 
be  created  for  a  minimum  gift  of 
$200,000.  The  income  from  this 
endowment  will  support  the  salary 
and  benefits  of  an  associate  profes- 
sor or  full  professor. 

A  Presidential  Professorship  can 
be  created  for  a  minimum  gift  of 
$700,000.  The  income  from  his 
endowment  will  support  the  salary 
of  a  full  professor.  (Larger  gifts 
would,  of  course,  increase  both  the 
income  and  prestige  of  such  a 
chair. ) 

The  act  for  incorporating  the 
trustees  of  Hampden-Sydney  Col- 
lege in  1783  charges  that  in  the 
selection  of  professors,  "no  person 
shall  be  so  selected  unless  the  uni- 
form tenor  of  his  conduct  manifests 
to  the  world  his  sincere  affection 
for  the  liberty  and  independence  of 
the  United  States  of  America."  The 
College's  founders  knew  then  that 
teachers  are  role  models  for  their 
students;  it  is  no  less  true  today. 
Investment  in  an  endowed  profes- 
sorship may  be  one  of  the  surest 
means  of  guaranteeing  the  quality 
of  education  that  has  given 
Hampden-Sydney  the  reputation 
that  it  enjoys  today. 


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On  the  Hill: 
News  from 
the  College 


Awards,  centenaries,  "The 
Gospel  according  to  Rassias,  "the 
economics  of  litigious ness,  and 
almost  more  freshmen  than  we 
know  what  to  do  with 


As  a  nominee  for  the  Governor's  Award  for 
the  Arts  in  Virginia,  Mrs.  P.  T.  Atkinson 
(left)  recently  attended  a  reception  given  by 
Mr.  Henry  Clay  Hofheimer  (center),  chair- 
man of  the  award  committee,  at  the  Virginia 
Museum  of  Vine  Arts.  Governor  Charles  S. 
Robb  addressed  the  group.  The  annual 
award  is  given  for  outstanding  contributions 
to  the  arts  in  Virginia.  As  the  curator  of  the 
Esther  Thomas  Atkinson  Museum  of 
Hampden-Sydney,  Mrs.  P.T.  has  been 
interested  in  the  restoration  and  cataloguing 
of  the  many  portraits  and  other  pieces  of 
fine  art  around  the  campus. 


David  Smith  '61, 
Students  Honored  at 
Spring  Convocation 

"Coming  to  Hampden-Sydney  is 
probably  the  biggest  break  most  of  you 
will  ever  get,"  David  Smith  '6 1 ,  presi- 
dent of  Canberra  Clinical  Laboratories 
in  New  Britain,  Connecticut,  told  the 
students  at  the  Final  Convocation  and 
Presentation  of  Awards,  held  on  April 
16.  Citing  his  own  career  here,  Smith, 
who  founded  Canberra  Labs  fourteen 
years  ago  on  the  intuition  that,  as 
diagnostic  equipment  grew  more 
expensive,  economical  mass  biological 
testing  facilities  would  be  needed, 
encouraged  young  men  to  get  as  broad 
a  grasp  of  facts  and  philosophy  as  pos- 
sible in  order  to  understand  how  the 
world  works  and  to  be  able  to  see 
opportunities  as  they  arise. 

After  Smith's  address,  the  following 
awards  were  presented: 

Fraternity  House  Improvement 
Award — Phi  Gamma  Delta 

Fraternity  Award — Chi  Phi 


Joshua  Warren  White  Award 
(Sportsmanship  in  Intercollegiate 
Athletics) — David  Allen 

Intramural  Awards  (Achieve- 
ment in  intramural  athletics) — 
George  Snavely 

Dunnington  Dedication  Award 
for  Baseball — Rick  Rosetti 

Outstanding  Freshman 
Journalist — John  Maloney 

Philip  H.  Ropp  Literary  Award 
(In  recognition  of  outstanding  liter- 
ary achievment) — Ed  Dickenson 

C.  T.  Crawley  Music  Award 
(Recognizing  outstanding 
contributions  in  musical 
activities) — Brian  Moore 

Kearfott  Stone  Memorial  Award 
( Recognizing  outstanding 
contributions  in  musical 
activities) — John  Simpson 

Robert  H.  Port  erf ield  Award 
(For  the  greatest  contribution  to 
the  community  through  the  medium 
of  theater) — Michael  Boudreau 

P.  T.  Atkinson  Award  (In 
memory  of  Mr.  P.  T.  Atkinson, 
former  treasurer  of  the  College) — 
Jamie  Lanham 


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Student  Government  Award 
(Given  by  Student  Government  to 
recognize  significant  service  to  the 
College  or  Community) — Sigma  Nu 

James  Madison  Award  (Out- 
standing achievement  in  political 
science) — Jim  Secor 

Wall  Street  Journal  Student 
Achievement  Award  (Excellence  in 
economics) — Brad  Cary 

Department  of  Economics 
Award — Jamie  Lanham 

Willard  F.  Bliss  History  Award 
(In  memory  of  Dr.  Bliss,  former 
Professor  of  History) — Mark  Fader 

Etta  Sawyer  Hart  Bliss  History 
Aivard  (In  memory  of  his  wife) — 
Mark  Hinkley 

Chemistry  Awards  (Given  to 
outstanding  students  in 
chemistry) — Joel  Hutcheson,  Mike 
Quesenberry,  and  Macon  Whitson 

Macon  Reed  Aivard  (Given  to 
an  outstanding  sophomore  in 
mathematics  or  computer  science  in 
memory  of  a  former  professor  and 
Dean  of  the  College) — David 
Blackwell  and  Ed  Potter 

William  C.  Cheivning  Award 
(Given  to  the  outstanding  senior 
mathematics  major) — Brad  Cary 
and  Penn  Dupuis 

Selden-Franke  Aivard  (Given  to 
the  outstanding  junior 
mathematician) — Ed  Utyro 

David  C.  Wilson  Memorial 
(Awarded  to  the  top  Greek  student, 
in  memory  of  a  former  Greek  Pro- 
fessor and  Academic  Dean) — Chris 
Apostle 

H.  B.  Overcash  Prize  (Given  to  a 
premedical  student  to  honor  the 
memory  of  a  much- respected  and 
revered  professor  of  biology) — John 
Caruso 

Omicron  Delta  Kappa  Citizen- 
ship Aivard — John  Forbes 

Jeffrey  N.  Friend  Aivard  (Given 
to  a  rising  senior  who  best  typifies 
those  qualities  for  which  Jeff  Friend 
'84  is  remembered) — Bick  Stark 

Young  Teacher  Awards — David 
Blackwell,  Patrick  Kane,  Andrew 
Gray,  and  Sean  Driscoll. 


George  Arnold,  celebrating  bis  100th  birthday  on  April  9,  1985,  accepts  the  Board  of 
Trustees  Resolution  of  Thanks  from  Jon  Pace  '82. 

George  Sloan  Arnold,  College  Benefactor, 
Turns  100  and  Is  Honored  by  Board 


Hampden-Sydney's  greatest  bene- 
factor, George  Sloan  Arnold,  cele- 
brated his  hundredth  birthday  on 
April  9,  1985,  at  Sunnyside  Home 
near  Harrisonburg.  College 
development  officers  Jon  Pace  '82 
and  Brian  Thomas  '83  were  on 
hand  to  present  Mr.  Arnold  a  certif- 
icate of  appreciation  from  the 
Board  of  Trustees  and  President 
Bunting. 

"On  behalf  of  the  entire 
Hampden-Sydney  family,  we  salute 
Mr.  Arnold  with  joyous  affection 
and  gratitude  on  his  hundredth 
birthday,  assuring  him  that  we 
strive  ever  to  be  worthy  of  the 
blessings  he  has  shared  with  us," 
the  certificate  said.  Mr.  Arnold  has 
funded  a  trust  in  Hampden- 
Sydney's  name  now  worth  $2.4  mil- 
lion, which  generates  income  for 
scholarship  assistance.  Through  a 
gift  of  stock  and  land  he  also 
funded  the  faculty  residence  in  the 
new  dormitory  complex,  named 


Gilkeson  House  after  his  father-in- 
law  and  brother-in-law,  both  of 
whom  attended  Hampden-Sydney. 
The  income  from  the  gift  annuity 
which  funds  Gilkeson  House  is 
donated  by  Mr.  Arnold  to  the 
annual  fund  each  year. 

The  resolution  of  congratulations 
drafted  by  the  board  also  mentions 
"the  scores  of  able  young  men 
attending  Hampden-Sydney  under 
the  auspices  of  Mr.  Arnold,"  and 
the  "scores  more  already  gone  on  to 
begin  satisfying  and  useful  lives  in  a 
larger  community  which  in  its  turn 
owes  and  will  owe  so  much  to  his 
inspired  generosity." 

Mr.  Arnold's  association  with  the 
College  has  grown  out  of  a  life-long 
friendship  with  Mrs.  P.T.  Atkinson. 
Both  were  reared  in  Romney,  West 
Virginia,  where  Mr.  Arnold  farmed 
and  made  his  investments  until  he 
retired  to  Sunnyside  in  1981.  He 
holds  a  law  degree  from  Washing- 
ton &  Lee  University. 

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Suing  for  Profit  a 
Major  National  Problem 


Maurice  R.  Greenberg,  president 
and  chief  executive  officer  of  Amer- 
ican International  Group,  Inc.,  the 
largest  international  insurance 
organization  in  the  U.S.,  told  stu- 
dents at  a  recent  lecture  that  the 
nation's  current  legal  liability  sys- 
tem and  subsequent  insurance 
needs  cost  society  billions  of  dollars 
each  year. 

"No  other  country  in  the  world 
has  our  contingency  fee  system," 
says  Greenberg,  who  was  himself 
trained  as  a  lawyer  and  who  is  still 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Bar. 
"The  system  encourages  lawsuits — 
by  taking  your  case  on  the  expecta- 
tion that  if  you  win  you  get  paid 
and  if  you  don't  win  it  doesn't  cost 
anything — and  it  clogs  the  courts, 
costs  society  billions  of  dollars,  adds 
nothing  to  the  GNP,  and  contrib- 
utes to  inflation." 

Greenberg  came  to  campus  as 
part  of  the  College's  Visiting  Execu- 
tive Program,  which  brings  in  lead- 
ing corporate  executives  for  one-  or 
two-day  visits  each  semester. 

Punitive  damages  used  to  be 
awarded  for  gross  criminal  negli- 
gence only,  and  the  guilty  party  had 
to  pay,  Greenberg  said.  Today 


almost  every  lawsuit  involves  puni- 
tive damages,  which  an  insurance 
company  must  pay,  not  the  wrong- 
doer, if  there  is  a  wrong-doer. 
"That's  like  having  a  proxy  serve 
your  sentence  for  you.  It  hardly 
makes  the  point  of  punitive  dam- 
ages," Greenberg  said. 

The  system  is  hurting  both  the 
insured  and  the  insurer.  Greenberg 
pointed  to  the  many  doctors  being 
driven  out  of  business  by  the  unaf- 
fordability  of  malpractice  insurance, 
while  the  insurance  companies 
themselves  have  sustained  huge 
losses  for  six  years  in  a  row,  includ- 
ing a  $21  billion  loss  last  year.  "The 
whole  system  is  spinning  out  of 
control,"  Greenberg  said. 

The  lawyers  are  prospering 
under  the  current  system,  however. 
Greenberg  noted  that  two-thirds  of 
all  claims  paid  during  the  recent 
asbestos-related  lawsuits  went  to 
lawyers — only  one-third  went  to 
the  victims  themselves.  "Who's 
going  to  solve  the  problem?" 
Greenberg  asked.  "Most  legislative 
bodies  are  made  up  of  lawyers.  And 
they're  not  going  to  break  their 
own  rice  bowl." 

Yet  if  enough  political  pressure 
can  be  mustered,  something  will  be 
done,  Greenberg  believes.  "It's  a 
major  national  problem.  It's  some- 
thing you'll  hear  a  lot  more  about 
during  the  next  decade." 


Diana  Bunting  greets  Maurice  Greenberg  (center)  as  be  arrives  for  his  lecture. 
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A  Dazzling  Array: 
The  Rassias  Method 


He  had  them  in  the  palm  of  his 
hand  from  the  beginning.  And  a 
great,  calloused  craftsman's  hand  it 
was.  A  crowd  of  high  school  and 
college  teachers,  students,  and 
members  of  the  Hampden-Sydney 
community  squirmed  in  chairs  or 
peered  over  the  balcony  at  John 
Rassias,  the  egg-flinging,  shirt- 
ripping  dynamo  of  the  Dartmouth 
College  Language  Outreach  Pro- 
gram, as  he  hammered  away  at  his 
favorite  subject:  what  Americans 
don't  know  about  language. 

It  was  the  kick-off  of  a  recent 
three-day  workshop  at  the  College 
for  30  language  teachers  from 
across  the  state:  Rustburg,  The 
Plains,  Warrenton,  Norfolk,  Suit- 
land,  Richmond,  Farmville,  Clifton 
Forge,  and  Lexington.  The  Friday- 
night  session,  open  to  the  public, 
drew  over  100. 

The  crowd  peered  at  Rassias 
because  his  gravel  voice  and  Greek 
ebullience  compel  attention.  They 
squirmed  because  everyone  has 
heard  of  his  brassy,  no-quarter  style. 
When  he  snatched  up  a  glass  full  of 
water,  those  unhappy  souls  in  the 
first  row  just  knew  he  was  going  to 
douse  them  with  it.  So  when  he 
splashed  it  over  his  own  head  it 
was  nearly  as  much  a  surprise. 
Once  again  he  had  out-maneuvered 
his  audience  and  showed  them  they 
couldn't  guess  what  he  was  up  to  or 
rest  while  it  was  going  on. 

That's  the  gospel  according  to 
Rassias.  His  specialty  happens  to  be 
language.  But  his  love  is  teaching. 
Whether  you're  a  French  teacher  or 
not,  you  cannot  deny  the  ranting, 
storming  power  of  a  man  who 
awakens  a  room  full  of  people  with 
a  word,  a  flick  of  the  wrist:  easy, 
offhand  gestures  that  neither 
threaten  nor  intimidate  but  rather 
beguile  and  entice. 


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Dartmouth's  controversial  language  teacher  John  Rassias  (center,  behind  the  lounging  Alan 
Farrell)  led  thirty  high  school  and  college  teachers  a  merry  chase  at  a  spring  conference  on 
Reaching  foreign  languages. 


How  he  got  thirty  exhausted 
school  teachers,  who  had  already 
spent  a  week  on  the  job,  to  howl, 
giggle,  shriek,  gambol,  and  prance 
around  the  empty  classrooms  Sat- 
urday at  Hampden-Sydney  is 
anyone's  guess.  One  thing  only  is 
certain:  they  loved  it.  The  sessions 
of  the  three-day  workshop,  con- 
ducted under  the  auspices  of  the 
Southside  Language  Cooperative,  a 
local  organization  of  language  pro- 
fessionals dedicated  to  improving 
teaching  in  five  area  counties, 
echoed  with  gales  of  laughter  and 
roars  of  applause. 

Rassias  himself,  longtime  profes- 
sor of  French  at  Dartmouth  College 
in  Hanover,  New  Hampshire,  was 
pleased  to  come  to  Virginia.  He 
admires  the  state's  recent  reaffirma- 
tion of  the  role  of  foreign  language 
in  the  preparation  of  men  and 
women  for  higher  eduation  and 
professional  life.  He  especially 
enjoyed  the  hospitality  and  warmth 
of  rural  Southside. 

As  to  the  Rassias  method,  it  is, 
as  Dr.  Alan  Farrell,  the  workshop 
coordinator,  described  it,  "genius 
and  energy  put  into  the  service  of  a 
calling."  And  as  such  it  is  accessible 


to  everyone.  Rassias  is  the  first  to 
admit  that  his  antics  are  his  own, 
but  that  the  strength  and  inspira- 
tion to  apply  any  method  to  the 
classroom  come  from  inside  each 
teacher  and  from  the  response  of 
students.  Awakening  that  response 
is  the  first  step. 

Rassias  developed  his  approach 
while  training  Peace  Corps  volun- 
teers in  the  early  sixties.  Today  the 
method  is  being  used  with  great 
success  at  hundreds  of  colleges  and 
high  schools  in  the  U.S.  and  abroad, 
and  he  is  in  constant  demand  as  a 
conference  and  workshop  speaker. 
He  served  on  President  Carter's 
Commission  on  Foreign  Language 
and  International  Studies. 

Asked  if  he  would  return  to  Vir- 
ginia, Rassias  declared  that  nothing 
would  please  him  more.  He  sug- 
gested that  he  would  like  to  put  on 
another  workshop,  but  this  time  for 
high  school  superintendents  and 
principals.  Theirs,  he  said,  is  the 
power  to  dampen  or  spark  the 
spirit  in  teachers.  Perhaps  the  mas- 
ter's experience  on  four  continents 
can  persuade  them  of  the  vital  sig- 
nificance of  inspired  language- 
teaching  in  their  classrooms. 


Noted  Executives, 
Scholars  Help  Make 
Semester  A  Success 


A  variety  of  leaders  in  both  the  bus- 
iness world  and  the  academic  world 
visited  the  College  spring  semester. 

Albert  H.  Gordon,  chairman  of 
the  board  of  Kidder,  Peabody  & 
Co.,  Inc.,  a  large  Wall  Street 
investment  banking  and  brokerage 
firm,  spoke  at  a  luncheon  for  the 
Hampden-Sydney  Alumni  Council 
in  April.  Accompanying  him  was 
William  Ferrell  '62,  a  vice  president 
at  Kidder  Peabody.  At  age  84  Gor- 
don is  still  going  strong,  actively 
running  his  business  and  serving 
other  organizations  as  well.  As  the 
national  co-chairman  of  the  $350- 
million  Harvard  Campaign,  he  gave 
the  alumni  at  the  council  meeting 
some  good  advice  on  how  to  run 
the  Campaign  for  Hampden- 
Sydney.  He  also  held  a  seminar  for 
economics  students. 

Joining  Gordon  in  the  seminar 
was  John  W.  Heilshorn,  an  execu- 
tive vice  president  for  Travelers 
Corporation  of  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut. Heilshorn  recently  moved  to 
Travelers  from  Citibank,  where  he 
also  served  as  executive  vice 
president. 

Earlier  in  the  semester  the  eco- 
nomics department  sponsored  a 
symposium  on  business  ethics.  Par- 
ticipating were  Mike  Hoffman, 
director  of  the  Center  for  Business 
Ethics  and  chair  of  the  philosophy 
department  at  Bentley  College; 
Kenneth  Elzinga,  professor  of  eco- 
nomics at  the  University  of  Virgi- 
nia; and  Warren  F.  Schwartz,  pro- 
fessor of  law  at  Georgetown 
University  Law  Center. 

Jane  O.  Pierotti,  vice  president  of 
Hotel  Group  Human  Development 
for  Holiday  Inns,  Inc.,  visited  the 
College  for  a  week  in  April  as  a 
Woodrow  Wilson  Fellow.  The  fel- 
lowship program  is  designed  to 

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help  college  students  bridge  the  gap 
between  the  academic  world  and 
the  business  world. 

"I  love  being  able  to  interact  with 
tomorrow's  business  leaders,"  Pier- 
otti  said.  "It  gives  you  a  fresh  per- 
spective on  what's  on  the  minds  of 
people  entering  the  work  force." 

Pierotti  gave  three  public  lec- 
tures, covering  topics  from  "Effec- 
tive Verbal  Presentations"  to 
"What  Makes  People  Tick." 

A  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Southern  California,  Pierotti  has 
been  involved  in  the  national  Junior 
Achievement  program,  has  served 
on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Urban  League  of  Madison,  Wiscon- 
sin, and  has  been  a  speaker  for 
regional  Rotary  Clubs  and  Sales  and 
Marketing  Executives  conventions. 

Carl  F.  Stover,  a  scholar  and 
director  of  a  variety  of  cultural,  edu- 
cational, and  scientific  institutions, 
came  to  campus  on  April  16  as  part 
of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  lecture  ser- 
ies. He  spoke  on  "Technology  and 
War." 

Stover  has  served  as  president  of 
the  cultural  resources  division  of  the 
National  Council  on  the  Arts,  and 
he  studied  cultural  policy  as  a  scho- 
lar in  residence  at  the  National 
Academy  of  Public  Administration. 

He  has  also  served  as  president 
of  the  National  Institute  of  Public 
Affairs  and  the  National  Commit- 
tee on  United  States-China  Rela- 
tions, and  he  is  a  founding  member 
of  the  Society  for  International 
Development. 

Dr.  William  L.  Frank,  Professor 
of  English  at  Longwood  College, 
spoke  in  February  at  Hampden- 
Sydney's  Friends  of  the  Library  Lec- 
ture on  the  fiction  of  William  Hoff- 
man '49.  Hoffman  has  published 
seven  novels,  one  volume  of  short 
stories,  and  several  uncollected  sto- 
ries. Godfires,  his  new  novel,  will 
appear  in  June. 

Frank  chaired  Longwood's  Eng- 
lish department  for  over  ten  years, 
and  he  has  served  on  the  Executive 
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Committee  of  the  South  Atlantic 
Association  of  Departments  of  Eng- 
lish. He  recently  read  a  paper 
on  "Biblical  Allusions  and  Religious 
Symbols  in  William  Hoffman's  The 
Land  That  Drank  the  Rain"  for  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Modern  Phi- 
lological Association. 


BULLETIN       BULLETIN        BULLETIN 

Annual  Fund  Wins 
Fourth  United  States 
Steel  Award 

As  this  issue  was  going  to  press 
Alumni  Fund  Chairman  Tim 
Butler  '62  announced  that  the  Col- 
lege's Annual  Fund  has  won 
another  United  States  Steel 
Award,  this  time  for  Sustained 
Excellence,  the  highest  category  of 
recognition,  for  the  Annual 
Fund's  record-breaking  1981-82 
year.  It  is  Hampden-Sydney's 
second  Sustained  Excellence 
award. 

The  Council  for  the  Advance- 
ment and  Support  of  Education 
(CASE),  in  conjunction  with  the 
United  States  Steel  Foundation, 
has  for  26  years  recognized  distin- 
guished achievement  in  alumni 
giving  programs.  This  is 
Hampden-Sydney's  fourth  award, 
the  third  in  a  row.  It  was  one  of 
only  fifteen  institutions  in  the 
country — among  them  Williams 
College,  Centre  College,  and 
Cooper  Union — to  win  such  an 
award. 

We  will  have  more  information 
about  this  award,  and  about  the 
1984-85  Annual  Fund  which 
promises  to  set  even  more  records, 
in  the  fall  issue  of  the  Record. 

BULLETIN        BULLETIN        BULLETIN 


Renowned  Musicians 
Perform  on  Campus 

The  best  of  two  very  different  mus- 
ical genres  livened  up  the  spring 
semester.  The  Mitchell-Ruff  Duo,  a 
world-famous  jazz  group,  delighted 
a  large  crowd  in  Johns  Auditorium 
in  February,  while  concert  pianist 
Martha  Ann  Verbit,  whose  solo  re- 
citals have  included  the  Lincoln 
Center,  the  National  Gallery,  and 
London's  Wigmore  Hall,  gave  a 
quieter,  though  not  less  intense,  rec- 
ital in  College  Church  in  April. 

Pianist  Dwike  Mitchell  and  bas- 
sist and  French  horn  player  Willie 
Ruff  were  the  first  musicians  to 
introduce  American  jazz  to  the 
Soviet  Union  in  1959  and  to  China 
in  1981.  They  were  booked  as  the 
second  act  in  leading  nightclubs 
with  the  biggest  bands  of  the  50s: 
Dizzy  Gillespie,  Louis  Armstrong, 
Duke  Ellington,  and  Count  Basic 
They  developed  a  large  following 
and  drew  the  admiration  of  legen- 
dary jazzmen  such  as  Gillespie 
and  Miles  Davis.  Recent  perfor- 
mances at  Carnegie  Hall  and  with 
the  Boston  Pops  attest  to  their  abid- 
ing fame. 

With  his  extraordinary  technique 
and  imagination,  Dwike  Mitchell  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  great  jazz 
pianists.  Willie  Ruff  was  trained  as 
a  classical  musician  and  he  studied 
with  Paul  Hindemith  at  Yale  Univer- 
sity, where  he  now  teaches  when 
not  touring.  In  performance,  he 
reveals  what  a  beautiful  jazz 
instrument  the  French  horn  can  be. 
Miss  Verbit  is  a  frequent  soloist 
with  the  Boston  Pops  Orchestra 
and  has  appeared  at  the  Newport 
Music  Festival  and  the  American 
Liszt  Society  Festival.  She  has  made 
several  world  premier  recordings  of 
early  20th  century  works  for  Gene- 
sis Records.  She  is  also  known  for 
her  performances  of  late  romantic 
composers,  such  as  Liszt  and 
Chopin. 


THE  RECORD  OE  HAMPDEN-SYDNEY  COLLEGE 


Pianist  Martha  Verbit  (above)  and  the 
Mitchell-Ruff  Duo  were  among  the 
entertainers  brought  to  campus  this  year  by 
Annual  Fund  contributions. 


Her  Hampden-Sydney  recital 
included  Beethoven's  "Sonata  Opus 
27,  number  2";  Liszt's  "Funerailles"; 
Chopin's  "Nocturnes"  in  E  minor 
and  C  minor;  and  Charles  T. 
Griffes'  "The  White  Peacock." 

Acclaimed  for  her  profound 
musicianship  and  unforgettable 
stage  presence,  Miss  Verbit  has 
received  excellent  reviews  from 
many  of  the  nation's  leading  news- 
papers. The  New  York  Times 
called  one  of  her  recitals  "a  high- 
intensity  performance  that  swept 
the  listener  along...an  illuminating 
evening."  She  received  her  musical 
training  at  Hollins  College,  the 
Eastman  School  of  Music,  and  the 
Boston  University  School  of  Fine 
Arts. 


Godfires,  William  Hoff- 
man's Ninth  Novel, 
Appears  in  June 

Reviewed  by  Dr.  William  Frank 

Hoffman's  ninth  novel  God/ires 
(June  1985)  returns  to  Hoffman's 
present  locale  for  its  setting,  and  to 
the  land  and  the  people  he  knows 
so  well.  The  novel  unfolds  in  rural 
southside  Virginia,  in  the  region 
encompassing  Farmville,  Lynch- 
burg, Richmond  and  points  adja- 
cent. Hoffman  employs  a  highly 
unusual  point  of  view  for  him,  a 
radical  departure  from  that 
employed  in  his  other  novels,  one 
which  allows  him  to  present  con- 
current plots  running  throughout 
God/ires:  one  traces  the  murder  of 
one  of  Tobaccoton's  most  promi- 
nent citizens,  Vincent  Fall  Farr;  the 
second  explores  a  gothic  inner 
world  of  mystery,  spiritualism, 
kinky  sex,  hypocritical  religion, 
guilt,  expiation,  and  redemption. 
Tobaccoton,  a  small  rural  town  in  a 
fictional  Howell  County  (in  reality 
Farmville,  Va.  in  Prince  Edward 
County)  is  described  by  its  protago- 
nist, Billy  Payne,  as  "...tick  infested, 
chigger  infested,  but  most  of  alL.re- 
ligion  infested.  If  religion  were  oak 
trees,  we  would've  been  living  in  a 
primeval  forest  instead  of  a  thirst- 
ing land  where  the  red  soil  of  fields 
flowed  into  the  sun's  glaze  like  riv- 
ers of  dust." 

Godfires  is  a  double  whodunit: 
who  murdered  Vincent  Fallen  Farr, 
and  why?  And  who  is  "the  Master" 
who  keeps  the  narrator  in  chains 
for  three-fourths  of  the  novel, 
teaching  him  about  God,  sin  and 
salvation.  The  novel  opens  with  a 
scene  that  can  readily  be  seen  in 
any  one  of  the  seemingly  endless 
horror  and  sci-fi  flicks  that  are  the 
"in"  movies  of  the  80s:  Billy  Payne, 
the  narrator-protagonist,  is  lying 
"belly  down.. .my  chain  clanking  as  I 
shift  to  gaze  out  the  crooked  door- 


way of  the  cabin  toward  motionless 
briers,  tangled  kudzu,  and  drooping 
swamp  weed  blooming  yellow.  I 
await  the  precise  tread  of  the  mas- 
ter." Hoffman  then  plays  with  the 
reader  for  over  200  pages,  describ- 
ing "the  Master"  as  an  "erect  mil- 
itary figure"  who  wears  a  Smith  &  Wesson 
.38  police  special  and  a  sheath  knife 
"used  to  skin  out  deer." 

Ultimately,  however,  Godfires  is 
a  novel  of  forgiveness,  and  of 
reconciliation,  and  of  love.  In  the 
final  analysis,  Hoffman  seems  to 
say,  all  we  have  is  love:  the  love  of 
a  Father  for  His  Son,  of  a  wife  for 
her  husband,  of  a  friend  for  a 
friend,  of  a  son  for  his  father,  of  a 
man  for  his  ideal.  When  all  else  is 
shorn  away,  stripped  from  us,  leav- 
ing us  naked  and  afraid,  the 
redemptive  power  of  love  appears, 
to  clothe  our  nakedness,  cover  our 
shame,  purge  our  guilt.  What  Billy 
Payne  agonizingly  and  painfully 
discovers  step-by-slow-step  is  that 
no  man  need  be  an  island,  that  we 
all  need  one  another,  that  love  cov- 
ers the  proverbial  multitude  of  sins. 
Although  Billy  and  his  father  find 
solace  in  the  bottle  throughout  the 
novel,  ultimately  they  find  courage, 
and  comfort,  and  strength,  and  for- 
giveness and  love  in  each  other. 

Godfires  (Viking  Press)  is  avail- 
able at  the  Hampden-Sydney  Book- 
store for  $16.95  plus  tax  and  ship- 
ping charges.  Call  (804)  223-4381, 
extension  1 17  to  order  your  copy. 


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A  High-Class  Problem: 
Unexpected  Abundance 
of  Freshmen  for  Fall 


Confirmations  for  the  Class  of  1989 
are  up  almost  309?  from  last  year 
at  this  time.  As  of  Tuesday,  May  28, 
314  students  had  confirmed  posi- 
tions in  next  year's  freshman  class. 
Total  confirmations  are  expected  to 
exceed  320,  according  to  Associate 
Dean  of  Admissions  Anita  Garland. 

Garland  cited  as  a  factor  in  the 
increased  number  of  students  enrol- 
ling the  fact  that  Washington  and 
Lee  University,  in  Lexington,  will 
accept  women  next  year  and  has 
had  an  unusually  large  number  of 
applicants.  "W&L  is  no  longer 
Hampden-Sydney's  largest  competi- 
tor for  students,"  she  said.  Garland 
added  that  some  students  who  have 
confirmed  will  cancel  later  in  the 
summer,  but  Hampden-Sydney 
should  still  have  the  largest  fresh- 
man class  in  its  history. 


H-SC  Student  Elected 
National  Treasurer  of 
Eta  Sigma  Phi 

Brad  Pyott,  a  rising  senior  at 
Hampden-Sydney,  was  elected 
national  treasurer  of  Eta  Sigma  Phi, 
the  national  honorary  classics  fra- 
ternity, at  the  fraternity's  annual 
meeting  on  April  18-21  at  St.  Olaf 
College  in  Northfield,  Minnesota. 

Pyott,  who  is  from  Tazewell,  is 
one  of  several  Hampden-Sydney 
students  who  have  recently  held 
national  positions  in  the  fraternity. 

Eta  Sigma  Phi  seeks  to  foster 
interest  in  and  the  study  of  the 
classics. 


Alumni  Join 
Admissions  Office 

Graduating  seniors  Eric  Apperson, 
Patrick  Kelly,  and  Will  White  have 
been  named  Assistant  Deans  of 
Admissions. 

Apperson,  of  Glenside,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  a  four-year  member  of 
the  Hampden-Sydney  football  team 
and  was  captain  of  the  team  as  a 
senior.  As  a  junior,  Apperson  was 
named  to  the  second  team  all- 
ODAC  squad. 

Kelly,  of  Charleston,  South  Carol- 
ina, served  as  a  member  of  the 
Prince  Edward  County  Volunteer 
Rescue  Squad  and  also  worked  as  a 
staff  assistant  at  the  reference  desk 
in  Eggleston  Library  while  at 
Hampden-Sydney. 

White,  of  Winchester,  Virginia, 
served  as  a  Student  Court  adviser, 
co-president  of  Circle  K,  and  co- 
ordinator of  the  Big  Brother  pro- 
gram at  Hampden-Sydney.  White 
also  served  as  president  of  the  Col- 
lege's Rod,  Bow,  and  Gun  Club  this 
year. 

Apperson,  Kelly,  and  White  will 
replace  Jeff  Holland  '82,  who  has 
served  as  assistant  dean  for  the  past 
two  years,  Brian  Pruitt  '83,  who  has 
served  for  one  year,  and  Rik 
Morris  and  Berkley  Young,  who 
served  as  temporary  replacements 
for  Tom  Jervey  '81,  who  left  after 
the  fall  semester  of  this  year. 

As  Assistant  Deans,  the  three 
will  be  responsible  for  recruiting 
high  school  students  by  visiting 
high  schools  around  the  country. 
They  will  also  interview  prospec- 
tive students  as  they  tour  the 
campus. 


Brian  Thomas 
Promoted;  Pace  Leaves 

Brian  Thomas  '83  has  been  pro- 
moted to  director  of  annual  giving 
within  the  development  office 
effective  July  1 .  He  has  served  two 
years  as  assistant  director  of  annual 
giving. 

Jon  Pace,  former  director  of 
annual  giving,  is  entering  United 
Virginia  Bank's  commercial  account 
training  program.  He  will  eventu- 
ally end  up  in  UVB's  western 
region. 

"Brian  is  an  outstanding  alumnus 
of  Hampden-Sydney,"  said  Peter 
Wyeth,  vice  president  for  develop- 
ment and  external  affairs.  "He  and 
Jon  Pace  have  done  a  wonderful  job 
getting  the  Annual  Fund  where  it 
needs  to  be,  and  he  is  well  prepared 
for  greater  responsibility  within  the 
Campaign." 

Thomas,  eager  to  begin  his  new 
responsibilities,  said  he  was 
"pleased  to  participate  in  an  effort 
that  will  benefit  the  College  for 
decades  to  come."  He  said  he  will 
continue  to  work  hard  "to  keep  the 
Annual  Fund  one  of  the  strongest 
in  the  Nation." 


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forester  Sue  Tennant  presents 
Hampden-Sydney's  Tree  Farm  sign  to 
trustee  James  \\".  Gordon.  Jr. 

Forest  Management 
Recognized  by  ATFS 

Hampden-Sydney  was  recently 
awarded  membership  in  the  Amer- 
ican Tree  Farm  System,  a  manage- 
ment system  for  timbering  and 
reforestation. 

"You  are  joining  an  elite  organi- 
zation," said  forester  Sue  Pember- 
ton  Tennant  when  she  presented 
the  award.  "This  certifies  that  the 
College  is  managing  its  forest  lands 
in  a  proper,  scientific  manner,  one 
approved  by  the  state  Tree  Farm 
Committee  and  the  American 
Forest  Institute." 

Accepting  the  award  for  the  Col- 
lege was  Board  member  James  W. 
Gordon,  Jr.,  a  Richmond  attorney 
who  chairs  the  Hampden-Sydney 
Timber  Management  Committee. 
Also  on  hand  were  John  A.  Tim- 
mons,  Jr.,  vice  president  for  finance, 
and  grounds  supervisor  John 
Emert,  a  former  state  forester. 

"The  College  is  honored  to  be 
designated  a  Tree  Farm','  Tim- 
mons  said.  "We've  worked  hard  to 
manage  our  timber  lands  properly." 
According  to  Timmons,  College 
land  that  is  not  a  part  of  the  main 
campus  will  eventually  be  cleared  of 
its  native  timber  and  replaced  with 
a  more  commercial  timber,  such  as 
loblolly  pine  and  walnut. 


Only  those  organizations  with 
proven  track  records  are  granted 
membership  in  the  Tree  Farm  sys- 
tem. The  certificate  states  that 
Hampden-Sydney  is  managing  its 
lands  "in  a  manner  which  assures 
continuous  production  of  commer- 
cial forest  crops  in  accordance  with 
scientific  forest  management 
practices." 


Shakespearean  Actors 
Perform  Wedding 
Play 

Romance,  promises, 
disillusionment — few  can  portray 
the  steps  of  love  and  marriage 
more  vividly  than  do  British  Sha- 
kespearean actors  Arthur  Kincaid 
and  Deirdre  Barber  in  Wooing, 
Wedding  and  Repenting,  a  medley 
of  scenes  from  the  world's  greatest 
playwrights.  Hampden-Sydney  Col- 
lege hosted  the  performance  on, 
appropriately  enough,  February  14. 
The  wedding  play  included  three 
scenes  from  Shakespeare:  the 
maneuverings  of  Beatrice  and 
Benedick  in  Much  Ado  About 
Nothing,  the  outrageous  wedding 
scene  from  The  Taming  of  the 
Shrew,  and  the  wooing  of  the  dis- 
guised Rosalind  in  As  You  Like  It. 
A  more  serious  note  was  struck  by 
Ibsen's  A  Doll's  House,  with  its 
remarkably  modern  feminist  argu- 
ments, and  by  Strindberg's  The 
Father,  in  which  it  is  the  man  who 
struggles  for  his  freedom.  The 
styles  of  the  pieces  varied  from  the 
knock-about  farce  and  the  rhyming 
couplets  of  the  early  anonymous 
Johan  Johan  to  the  brittle  wit  and 
sophistication  of  the  Restoration  in 
The  Way  of  the  World.  The  even- 
ing was  brought  full  circle  with  Pri- 
vate Lives,  in  which  a  divorced  cou- 
ple meet  again  and  realize  they  are 
still  in  love. 


Nine  Named  to 
Board  of  Trustees 


The  Hampden-Sydney  Board  of 
Trustees  has  elected  five  new 
members  and  re-elected  four  cur- 
rent members  to  serve  five-year 
terms. 

New  trustees  include  E.  Morgan 
Massey,  president  of  the  AT.  Mas- 
sey  Coal  Company,  Inc.,  of  Rich- 
mond; Leslie  G.  McCraw,  Jr.,  presi- 
dent and  chief  executive  officer  of 
Daniel  International  Corporation  of 
Greenville,  South  Carolina;  Joseph 
F.  Viar,  Jr.  '63,  founder  and  presi- 
dent of  Viar  and  Company,  Inc.,  of 
Alexandria;  James  A.  MacCut- 
cheon,  a  partner  in  the  interna- 
tional accounting  firm  of  Arthur 
Anderson  and  Company,  based  in 
Washington,  DC;  and  William  G. 
Ferrell  71,  vice  president  and 
director  of  Kidder,  Peabody  & 
Company,  Inc.,  of  New  York. 

Re-elected  trustees  include  the 
Honorable  Paul  S.  Trible,  Jr.  '68,  a 
United  States  senator  from  Virgi- 
nia; Robert  W.  King,  Jr.'  52,  an 
attorney  with  Moore,  Van  Allen, 
Allen  and  Thigpen  of  Charlotte, 
North  Carolina;  Richard  M. 
Venable,  Jr.  '50,  president  of  the 
Trojan  Steel  Company  of  Charles- 
ton, West  Virginia;  and  James  L. 
Trinkle  '50,  president  of  C  W. 
Francis  &  Sons,  Inc.,  of  Roanoke. 

E.  Morgan  Massey  serves  as  a 
director  of  St.  Joe  Minerals  Corpo- 
ration and  many  Massey  subsidiar- 
ies engaged  in  coal  mining  and  land 
development.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  board  of  directors  of  Bitumi- 
nous Coal  Operators  Association 
and  National  Coal  Association.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Mining  and  Metallurgi- 
cal Engineers  and  past  chairman  of 
the  Virginia  Section.  In  addition  to 
his  mining  interests  he  serves  on 
the  board  of  the  University  of 

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Richmond  and  The  New  Commun- 
ity School,  and  he  is  an  organizer 
and  director  of  Dominion  National 
Bank  of  Richmond.  He  holds  a 
B.M.E.  from  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia and  an  M.B.A.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Richmond. 

Leslie  G.  McCraw,  Jr.,  served  in  a 
variety  of  engineering  and  construc- 
tion managerial  positions  with  du 
Pont  before  joining  Daniel  Interna- 
tional in  1975.  He  also  served  three 
years  in  the  Air  Force,  attaining  the 
rank  of  captain.  Outside  of  the 
company  he  serves  as  a  director  of 
Fluor  Corporation,  a  director  of  the 
Palmetto  Bank,  and  chairman  of 
the  Engineering  Advisory  Council 
at  Clemson  University.  He  is  on 
the  Board  of  Visitors  of  Columbia 
College  and  on  the  Board  of  the 
South  Carolina  State  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  He  holds  a  degree  in 
civil  engineering  from  Clemson 
University,  and  he  attended  Cornell 
University  Business  School. 

Joseph  F.  Viar,  Jr.  '63  did  gradu- 
ate work  at  Lynchburg  College 
before  embarking  on  his  career  in 
computer  programming  and  man- 
agement. His  company  develops 
large-scale  computer  software  sys- 
tems for  government  clients,  such 
as  the  IRS  and  the  U.S.  Immigra- 
tion and  Naturalization  Service. 
The  company  also  conducts  admini- 
strative management  activities, 
such  as  its  operation  of  the  Sample 
Management  Office  of  the  US. 

Robert  King  '52 
Morgan  Massey  Leslie  McCraw 


Environmental  Protection  Agency. 
Viar  has  also  served  as  a  panel 
member  of  the  MIT  Enterprise 
Forum  and  as  a  volunteer  consul- 
tant to  the  City  Council  of  New 
Orleans.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Trans-Potomac  Club  and  the 
National  Contracts  Management 
Association. 

James  A.  MacCutcheon  began  his 
career  with  Arthur  Anderson  in  1974; 
he  specializes  in  providing  accounting 
and  audit  services  to  a  number  of 
clients  in  public  office.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  American  Institute 
of  Certified  Public  Accountants,  the 
Virginia  Society  of  CPA's,  the  Ohio 
Society  of  CPA's,  and  the  Institute 
of  Internal  Auditors.  He  holds  a 
B.S.  from  Case  Western  Reserve 
University. 

William  G.  Ferrell  71  worked  in 
corporate  finance  for  Citibank  in 
New  York  for  several  years  before 
taking  his  present  position  with 
Kidder,  Peabody  &  Company,  Inc. 
He  serves  as  treasurer  for  the 
Investment  Association  of  New 
York  and  is  a  member  of  the  Bond 
Club  of  New  York  and  of  the 
Municipal  Bond  Club  of  New  York. 
He  also  serves  on  Hampden- 
Sydney's  Founders  Committee  and 
the  Corporations  &  Foundations 
Committee  of  the  Campaign  for 
Hampden-Sydney. 

Senator  Paul  S.  Trible,  Jr.  '68  was 
elected  to  the  U.S.  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  1976  and  to  the  U.S. 


William  Ferrell  71       Richard  Venable  50 


Senate  in  1982.  Prior  to  his  political 
career  he  served  as  a  Common- 
wealth's Attorney  for  Essex  County. 
He  holds  a  law  degree  from 
Washington  &  Lee  University- 
Robert  W.  King,  Jr.  '52  received 
his  law  degree  from  the  University 
of  North  Carolina  Law  School  in 
1959,  and  he  has  practiced  law  with 
Moore  and  Van  Allen  ever  since. 
He  has  served  in  a  variety  of  lead- 
ership positions  with  the  Charlotte 
Central  YMCA,  and  he  has  served 
as  president  of  the  Mecklenburg 
County  Bar  Association. 

Richard  M.  Venable,  Jr.  '50  has 
served  on  the  College  Board  since 
1973.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Charleston  area  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, an  active  member  of  the 
Rotary  Club,  and  an  elder  in  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church. 

James  L.  Trinkle  '50,  a  graduate 
of  the  University  of  Virginia  Law 
School,  has  served  as  president  of 
the  General  Alumni  Associations  of 
Hampden-Sydney  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia.  He  has  also  served 
on  the  Board  of  Directors  for  the 
Central  YMCA  on  the  Board  of 
Trustees  for  the  United  Way  of 
Roanoke  Valley,  and  on  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  Peoples  Federal  Sav- 
ings and  Loan  Association.  He 
served  as  Campaign  Chairman  for 
the  American  Cancer  Society.  His 
memberships  include  the  National 
Association  of  Real  Estate  Boards 
and  the  American  Bar  Association. 

James  MacCutcheon 

James  Trinkle  51  Joseph  Viar  '63 


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Trustee  Notes 


J.  B.  FUQUA,  chairman  of  the 
board  of  Fuqua  Industries,  Inc. 
(NYSE)  has  received  the  Award  of 
Merit  for  Distinguished  Entrepre- 
neurship.  The  award  is  presented 
by  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
Wharton  Entrepreneurial  Center  to 
outstanding  individuals  who  typify 
entrepreneurs  in  the  free  enterprise 
system. 

Edward  B.  Shils,  Ph.D.  and 
Director  of  the  Wharton  Entrepre- 
neurial Center  presented  the  award. 
In  honoring  Fuqua,  Shils  said,  "J.B. 
Fuqua  is  a  man  of  singular  resolve 
and  ingenuity,  whose  management 
of  Fuqua  Industries  is  testimony  to 
the  triumph  of  individual  initiative 
and  entrepreneurial  vision." 

Past  recipients  of  the  award 
include  Donald  J.  Trump,  president 
of  The  Trump  Organization;  Ted 
Turner,  chairman  and  president  of 
Turner  Broadcasting;  Henry  Ford 
II,  chairman  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee of  the  Ford  Motor  Com- 
pany; Sanford  I.  Weill,  president  of 
Shearson  Lehman/American 
Express  and  William  McGowan, 
chief  executive  officer  of  MCI  Corp. 

J.B.  Fuqua's  life  and  professional 
achievements  personify  entrepre- 
neurs in  American  business.  Fuqua 
has  risen  from  a  Virginia  farm  boy, 
who  did  not  attend  college,  to 


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become  founder  and  head  of  Fuqua 
Industries,  a  Fortune  500  company. 

Fuqua  Industries  is  a  diversified 
manufacturing,  distribution  and 
service  company  with  sales  of  over 
5732,000,000.  Principal  operating 
segments  include  lawn  and  garden 
equipment,  photofinishing,  recrea- 
tional products,  and  seating. 

ROBERT  V  HATCHER,  JR.  '51, 
chairman  and  chief  executive  officer 
of  Johnson  &  Higgins  in  New 
York,  delivered  the  commencement 
address  in  June  at  Woodberry  For- 
rest High  School,  where  his  son, 
Lee,  graduated. 

DAVID  N.  MARTIN  '52  was 
featured  in  a  recent  issue  of  Style 
Weekly  for  his  enormous  success 
with  The  Martin  Agency,  which  he 
started  in  1965.  As  the  largest 
advertising  agency  in  Richmond 
and  one  of  the  largest  in  the  South- 
east, the  agency  expects  its  yearly 
billings  to  soon  top  S50  million. 

"Quite  simply,  we're  trying  to  be 
the  best  agency  there  is,"  the  article 
quoted  Martin  as  saying.  "Our  work 
is  as  good  as,  if  not  better  than, 
work  being  created  in  Chicago  and 
New  York."  Last  year  every  writer 
and  art  director  on  the  staff  of  the 
agency  was  represented  at  least 
twice  in  Communication  Arts  mag- 
azine's premiere  competition,  and 
many  other  awards  were  won  as 
well. 

HENRY  C.  SPALDING,  JR.  '60, 

executive  vice  president  of  Scott  & 
Stringfellow,  Inc.,  in  Richmond,  has 
been  elected  to  the  board  of  the 
Epsicopal  High  School  in  Alexan- 
dria, his  alma  mater. 

GENE  B.  DIXON,  JR.  '65,  presi- 
dent of  Kyanite  Mining  Corpora- 
tion in  Dillwyn,  attended  the  1 14th 
AIME  annual  meeting  in  New 
York  City  and  presented  a  paper 
concerning  the  economics  of  indus- 
trial minerals  entitled  "Kyanite 
Mining  in  Virginia."  Dixon  serves 
on  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of 
the  Virginia  Port  Authority  and  on 


the  Longwood  College  Foundation, 
Inc.,  of  Longwood  College.  Kyanite 
Mining  Corporation  is  the  world's 
largest  producer  of  Kyanite. 

PAUL  S.  TRIBLE,  JR.  68,  United 
States  Senator  from  Virginia,  was 
recently  selected  to  serve  on  the 
Foreign  Relations  Committee.  He 
was  also  named  by  his  colleagues  as 
the  most  promising  new  Republi- 
can in  the  Senate  in  the  April  23, 
1983  edition  of  U.S.  News  and 
World  Report. 

Campaign  Leader  Notes 

CHARLES  H.  EURE,  JR.  49,  has 

been  named  president  and  chief 
operating  officer  of  Norfolk  Ship- 
building &  Drydock  Corporation. 
Formerly  the  executive  vice  presi- 
dent of  operations,  he  has  been 
with  the  company  since  1961.  He  is 
on  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
corporation,  and  he  also  serves  on 
the  Shipbuilders  Council  of 
America. 

Senator  WILLIAM  B.  SPONG, 
JR.  41,  dean  of  the  Marshall- 
Wythe  School  of  Law  at  the  College 
of  William  and  Mary,  has  received 
the  Virginia  Chamber  of  Commer- 
ce's highest  award — the  Distin- 
guished Service  Award  for  1985. 
The  award  was  presented  at  the 
Chamber's  61st  annual  banquet  and 
38th  annual  Congressional  dinner 
in  Arlington.  The  primary  criterion 
for  the  award  is  that  the  recipient 
be  "truly  outstanding  in  his  or  her 
contribution  to  the  advancement  of 
the  entire  Commonwealth." 


Charles  Eure  '49 


William  Spong  41 


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Spring  Semester 
Dean's  List 


Eighty-five  students  made  Dean's 
List  for  this  semester.  This  is  com-  _ 
pared  to  seventy-seven  who  made 
Dean's  List  during  the  fall  semester. 
To  qualify  for  Dean's  List,  a  student 
must  earn  a  3-3  grade  point  average 
for  fifteen  hours  or  more  of  work 
in  a  semester. 

Freshmen:  J.  Calo  III,  C.  P. 
Chalmers,  M.  A.  Citrone,  C.  G. 
Fulghum,  G.  P.  Gillespy,  M.  J. 
Glassford,  C  G  Hester,  J.  H.  Kel- 
lam,  M.  B.  Lazenby,  P.  L.  Parsons, 
R.  W.  Pfeil,  S.  D.  Vinson,  and  M.  J. 
Wheaton. 

Sophomores:  W.  E.  Barr,  D.  C 
Brown,  W.  D  Bunch,  R.  K.  Cit- 
rone, R.  W.  Eggleston,  T  C  Eller, 
M.J.  Fader,  G  E.  FahyJ.  L  Hei- 
berg,  J.  B.  Jackson,  W.  B.  Lucas,  M. 
F.  Mclntyre,  C  D.  Putt,  A.  G.  Rab- 
chevsky,  M.  W.  Robertson  III,  J.  B. 
Sewell  III,  T  J.  Swartzwelder,  J.  B. 
Terry,  and  K.  A.  Wootton. 

Juniors:  S.  B.  Arington,  K.  D. 
Baker,  F.  W.  Blankemeyer,  B.  D. 
Burns,  J.  R.  Caruso,  J.  C  Collie,  S. 
M.  Coyle,  F.  W.  Crutchfield,  J.  W. 
Curry,  G.  C  Daniels,  C.  A.  Fincher, 
S.  S.  Giannetti,  A.  P.  Gust,  W.  T 
Hayes,  Jr.,  D  E.  Marshall,  C  W. 
Mayo,  J.  R  McGhee,  Jr.,  D.  L 
Miller,  M.  L  Moran,  G.  J.  Morris,  F. 
B.  Pyott,  J.  W.  Robinson  III,  S.  M. 
Sharp,  T  Stark  IV,  M.  E.  States,  E. 
S.  UtyroJ.  J.  Wilkerson,  and  W.J. 
Young. 

Seniors:  C  T  Apostle,  E.  E. 
Apperson,  G.  A.  Brandt,  A.  E.  Bry- 
ant III,  W.  M.  Conger,  F.  N.  Cowan, 
Jr.,  J.  A.  Curley,  W.  H.  Farthing,  Jr., 
W.  L  Hilton,  B.J.  LanhamJ.  H. 
Lineweaver,  S.  W.  Neal,  P.  C.  Nun- 
nally,  K.  G  Pankey,  Jr.,  J.  W.  Peek, 
Jr.,  W.  D  Rusher,  Jr.,  J.  D  Secor  III, 
D.  B.  Simmons,  D.  A.  Terry,  T  B. 
Thackston  IV,  D.  W.  Thomson,  T. 
P.  Veith,  B.  M.  Wallace,  A.  R.  Wat- 
son, and  F.  L  Wheeler. 

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Hampden-Sydney 
Joins  Longwood  to 
Produce  Twelfth  Night 

The  Jongleurs  of  Hampden-Sydney 
joined  the  Players  of  Longwood  to 
perform  Shakespeare's  Twelfth 
Night  on  two  successive  weekends 
in  February.  Dr.  Stephen  Coy,  asso- 
ciate professor  of  fine  arts  at 
Hampden-Sydney,  directed  the  play. 

"It  was  truly  a  joint  effort,"  Coy 
said.  "We  didn't  simply  cast  stu- 
dents from  both  colleges.  The  direc- 
tor was  from  Hampden-Sydney,  the 
designer  and  technical  people  were 
from  Lonwood,  and  both  schools 
footed  the  bill.  This  was  the  fullest 
cooperation  we've  enjoyed  for  some 
time." 

Coy  also  noted  that  a  Shakes- 
peare play  has  not  been  attempted 
at  Hampden-Sydney  for  a  number 
of  years.  "It  takes  actors  of  great 
capability  and  much  training  to  per- 
form Shakespeare,"  he  said.  "It's  not 
very  often  that  the  right  crew  of 
students  comes  along.  This  year 
was  perfect,"  he  added. 

Senior  Michael  Boudreau  added 
much  of  the  comedy  in  his  role  as 
Malvolio.  John  Simpson  added  a 
unique  touch  as  well,  singing  his 
own  compositions  as  Feste. 


I 


The  Tiger  Wins  Big 

In  the  Big  Leagues 

i 

The  Hampden-Sydney  Tiger 
has  won  several  awards  in  the 

Virginia  College  Press  Association 
1984  and  1985  competitions,  it  was 
announced  in  May.  "This  is  a  bigger 
deal  than  it  may  sound,"  said  Tiger 
editor  Hawes  Coleman  Spencer  '87 
with  characteristic  modesty.  "The 
Tiger  is  a  very  little  paper  by  their 
standards  (their  smallest  category  is 
for  circulations  of  less  than  3000), 
but  we  were  judged  right  along 
with  the  Cavalier  Daily  and  news- 
papers from  JMU,  VCU,  and  Wil- 
liam &  Mary." 

In  the  1984  competition,  the 
Tiger  came  away  with  a  first-place 
award  for  individual  general  news 
writing,  for  an  article  by  John  Stev- 
enson III  '85;  with  two  second-place 
awards,  for  excellence  of  general 
makeup  and  excellence  of  editorial 
page;  a  third-place  award  for  excel- 
lence of  display  advertising;  and  an 
honorable  mention  for  excellence  of 
feature  page. 

In  the  1985  competition,  in 
which  most  of  the  prizes  were 
taken  away  by  the  JMU  Breeze  and 
VCU's  Com?nonu,ealtb  Times,  the 
Tiger  won  a  first-place  award  for 
display  advertising,  a  third-place 
award  for  excellence  of  feature 
page,  and  an  honorable  mention  in 
general  news  writing,  for  an  article 
by  Hawes  Spencer.  Ted  Tronnes 
'87  won  third  place  for  his  "Fifth 
Passage"  comic  strip,  and  Chris 
Apostle  '85  won  an  honorable  men- 
tion for  an  editorial  cartoon. 

"This  is  quite  an  act  to  follow," 
said  incoming  editor  David  Brown 
'87.  "But  I  think  we'll  be  able  to 
handle  it." 


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Faculty 
Forum 


Silicon  chips  for  space-age 
electronics,  reasearch  in  dozens 
of  fields,  and  lectures  on 
dinosaurs,  Hampden  and 
Sydney,  and  mediaeval  art 


Dr.  Thomas  Joyner  has  won  a  grant  from 

NASA  to  develop  radiation-resistant  silicon 
poaer  chips  for  future  space  missions. 


NASA  Awards  Joyner 
$30,000  Research  Grant 

W.  Thomas  Joyner,  Jr.,  Professor  of 
Physics  at  the  College,  has  won  a 
$30,000  research  grant  from  NASA 
for  work  on  a  silicon  power  device 
that  could  prove  critical  to  future 
space  probes. 

The  new  device  has  the  advan- 
tage of  being  both  small  and  radia- 
tion resistant,  so  it's  compatible 
with  nuclear  reactors.  But  its  resist- 
ance must  be  increased  dramatically, 
and  that's  the  challenge  now  facing 
Joyner.  "This  is  a  high-risk  project," 
he  said.  "However,  if  successful,  the 
device  could  revolutionize  high- 
temperature  high-radiation 
electronics." 

NASA  grants  are  highly  compet- 
itive and  Joyner  was  selected  out  of 
a  large  applicant  pool.  Much  of  the 
project  will  be  done  at  Hampden- 
Sydney  using  student  assistants,  for 
the  College  has  a  number  of 
instruments  not  ordinarily  found  at 
an  undergraduate  institution.  It's 
rare,  in  fact,  for  undergraduate 
schools  to  even  win  such  a  grant. 

College  Provost  Daniel  P.  Poteet 
II  said  the  grant  "culminates  years 
of  hard  work  to  make  our  physics 
department  one  of  the  nation's  fin- 
est." At  one  time  the  department 
ranked  first  in  its  percentage  of 
graduates  who  go  on  to  obtain  a 
Ph.D. 

Joyner  chaired  the  department 
for  thirteen  years.  Since  he  was 
trained  in  nuclear  physics  and  did 
most  of  his  professional  research  in 
solid-state  physics,  he  was  tailor- 
made  for  the  NASA  project,  which 
overlaps  both  fields. 

If  the  new  devices  can  be  made 
radiation-safe,  they  may  be  used  in 
the  1992  Manned  Orbiting  Labora- 
tory. Contracts  for  that  mission  will 
be  negotiated  in  1987.  More  likely, 
however,  the  devices  will  be  used  in 
a  later,  nuclear-powered  laboratory. 


"The  College  has  been  very  sup- 
portive," Joyner  said.  "The  best  part 
about  the  grant  is  the  benefits  it 
will  bring  our  students.  They  will 
gain  some  rare  and  invaluable 
experience."  Students  assisting 
Joyner  are  juniors  John  Donelson 
and  George  Becknell  and  sopho- 
more Tripp  Willinghan.  The  grant 
includes  payment  for  student 
assistants. 


From  Dinosaurs  to  the 
Space  Age:  Faculty 
Lectures  Cover  Wide 
Spectrum 

Though  Hampden-Sydney's  faculty 
may  be  small,  their  interests  cover 
just  about  everything,  if  spring 
semester's  Faculty  Forums  and 
Honors  Lectures  are  any  indication. 

W.  Thomas  Joyner,  Jr.,  professor 
of  physics,  spoke  in  April  on 
"Manned  Orbiting  Laboratories,  the 
Moon,  and  Mars:  NASA  Planetary 
Exploration  Plans  to  2001."  Having 
recently  won  a  $30,000  research 
grant  from  NASA  for  work  on  sil- 
icon power  devices  for  future  space 
probes,  Joyner  was  eager  to  discuss 
the  time  schedule,  costs,  and  mil- 
itary implications  for  manned  orbit- 
ing laboratories.  He  also  described 
proposed  lunar  bases  and  missions 
to  Mars.  Perhaps  his  most  interest- 
ing points  concerned  the  differences 
between  the  U.S.  space  program 
and  that  of  Russia. 

William  A.  Shear,  professor  of 
biology,  was  more  concerned  with 
conflicts  on  earth  in  his  lecture  on 
"Dinosaur  Extinction  and  Nuclear 
Winter."  A  well-known  evolutionist 
currently  doing  research  on  390- 
million-year-old  ecosystems,  Shear 
suggests  that  knowledge  of  the 
prehistorical  era  is  relevant  to 
today's  issues. 

President  Josiah  Bunting  III  drew 

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THE  RHCORD  OF  HAMPDEN-SYDNEY  COLLEGE 


on  his  extensive  military  experience 
in  a  lecture  on  "What  We  Learned 
in  Vietnam,"  which  immediately 
preceded  the  Genocide  Conference. 
Bunting  is  often  invited  to  speak  to 
military  organizations,  having  writ- 
ten a  best-seller  on  the  Vietnam 
War,  The  Lionbeads. 

Alan  Farrell,  associate  professor 
of  French,  looked  at  Vietnam  from 
a  much  different  perspective  in  his 
lecture  on  "pidgin"  language  in 
Indochina.  When  he  lived  and 
fought  with  French-speaking  mon- 
tagnard  tribesmen  of  the  Haute 
Region  along  the  Laotian  frontier, 
he  "had  one  of  the  last  glimpses 
into  the  fleeting  world  of  simplicity 
in  language,"  he  said.  This  "pidgin" 
language  is  a  compact  form  of  both 
language  and  thought. 

Graves  H.  Thompson,  Blair  Pro- 
fessor of  Latin,  discussed  a  much 
more  elaborate  means  of  expression 
and  language  in  his  February  lecture 
on  "Art  in  the  Middle  Ages." 
Thompson  has  long  been  interested 
in  the  history  of  writing  and  deco- 
rating mediaeval  manuscripts. 

Dale  M.  Johnson,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics,  dealt  with 
art  just  after  the  Middle  Ages  in  his 
lecture.  "The  Painter's  Perspective: 
From  Art  to  Geometry."  He 
focused  on  the  great  fifteenth- 
century  painters'  rediscovery  of 
perspective,  a  technique  that  draws 
on  mathematics.  He  has  published 
widely  on  the  history  of  mathematics. 

Mrs.  Sidney  L  Johnson,  a  lec- 
turer in  rhetoric,  gave  two  lectures 
during  the  course  of  the  semester. 
"Are  You  a  Tree  or  a  Monument?", 
given  in  February,  compared  the 
differing  educational  methods  of 
England  and  America.  Mrs.  John- 
son taught  in  England  before  com- 
ing to  Hampden-Sydney.  In  March 
she  spoke  on  "John  Hampden  and 
Algernon  Sydney:  Representative 
Englishmen,"  using  a  slide  presen- 
tation to  trace  the  history  of  the 
patriots  for  whom  the  College  is 
named. 
28 


Two  Professors  Take  on 
Administrative  Tasks 


Dr.  Gerald  Bryce,  Associate  Profes- 
sor of  Mathematics  and  Computer 
Science,  and  Michael  Wilson, 
Assistant  Professor  of  Modern 
Languages,  have  joined  the  Col- 
lege's administrative  staff. 

Bryce  has  replaced  Dr.  Larry 
Martin  as  Associate  Dean  of  the 
Faculty,  a  half-time  position  that 
runs  for  three  years.  He  has  his 
Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  he  taught  for  five  years  at 
Randolph-Macon  before  coming  to 
Hampden-Sydney  in  1978. 

"We  hope  to  broaden  our  capa- 
bilities for  teaching  the  learning 
disabled,"  Bryce  said  about  one  of 
his  goals  as  Associate  Dean.  He  will 
also  run  the  advising  program,  and 
he  will  join  Michael  Wilson  in 
promoting  the  College's  expanding 
Young  Teacher's  Program,  which 
provides  loans  and  grants  to  quali- 
fied upperclassmen  pursuing 
careers  in  public  education. 

Wilson  is  the  new  Special  Assist- 
ant to  the  President,  a  part-time 
position  recently  created  to  help  the 
College  run  its  $25.5  million  Cam- 
paign. Wilson  is  expected  to  help 
with  various  on-campus  projects. 

"I  worked  hard  on  the  details  for 
the  Conference  on  Genocide'  we 
held  in  March,"  Wilson  said.  "I've 
also  begun  work  on  several  long- 
range  projects.  The  new  position  is 
a  challenge,  and  I'm  enjoying  it  very 
much." 

Prior  to  his  move  to  Hampden- 
Sydney  in  1981,  Wilson  taught  at 
Amherst  College  and  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts,  where  he 
did  his  graduate  work.  A  specialist 
in  Spanish  linguistics,  he  has  also 
taught  English  as  a  foreign  lan- 
guage at  a  university  in  Mexico. 


Research  &  Publications 


•  James  Angresano,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  economics  and  cross 
country  coach,  recently  pub- 
lished an  essay  in  the  Review  of 
Social  Economy. 

•  Paul  S.  Baker,  director  of  student 
aid  and  records,  recently  co-edited 
a  diary  entitled  "Student  and 
Soldier:  The  Dairies  of  G.L.P. 
Wren,  1858-1864."  Baker's  essay 
"Federal/State  Relations  with 
Education  in  the  South"  will 
appear  in  the  upcoming  Encyc- 
lopedia of  Southern  Culture. 

•  Shearer  Davis  Bowman,  assistant 
professor  of  history  and  head 
soccer  coach,  is  working  on  a 
comparative  study  of  antebellum 
U.S.  planters  and  their  counter- 
parts in  19th-century  Prussia.  He 
delivered  a  paper  on  the  same 
subject  in  October,  1984,  at  The 
First  World  Plantation  Confer- 
ence in  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana. 
During  spring  semester  Bowman 
joined  religion  professor  Owen 
Norment  to  conduct  an  interdis- 
ciplinary seminar  on  "Nazism: 
Historical  and  Religious 
Dimensions." 

•  Joseph  B.  Clower,  professor  eme- 
ritus of  Bible,  was  given  the  out- 
standing citizen  award  at  the 
annual  Woodstock  Chamber  of 
Commerce  banquet  in  January, 
1985.  He  was  recognized  for  his 
work  of  preserving  Woodstock's 
past  in  his  recent  books,  Yester- 
day in  Woodstock  and  Glimpses 
of  the  Past.  Clower  is  a  Wood- 
stock native. 

•  Stephen  Cady  Coy,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  fine  arts,  produced 
"Waiting  for  Godot"  at  the  Col- 
lege in  October,  1984.  He  co- 
produced,  with  the  department 
of  speech  and  theatre  of  Long- 
wood  College,  Shakespeare's 
Twelfth  Night  in  February- 
March,  1985. 

•  Elizabeth  J.  Deis,  visiting  assist- 


THE  RECORD  OF  HAMPDEN-SYDNEY  COLLEGE 


ant  professor  of  English  and  rhe- 
toric, recently  published  an  essay 
on  George  Meredith  in  Portraits 
of  Marriage  in  Literature.  She 
also  delivered  a  paper  with 
Lowell  T.  Frye  on  British  travel 
books  of  the  1830's  at  the  Mod- 
ern Language  Association  con- 
vention in  December,  1984. 

•  Lowell  T.  Frye,  visiting  assistant 
professor  of  rhetoric  and  English, 
published  an  essay  on  Thomas 
Carlyle's  idea  of  history  in  a 
recent  issue  of  the  Victorian 
Newsletter. 

•  Paul  A.  Jagasich,  associate  profes- 
sor of  modern  languages,  and 
Thomas  J.  O'Grady,  poet-in- 
residence  and  lecturer  in  English, 
were  presented  the  John  Peter 
Mettauer  Award  for  Excellence 
in  Research  at  the  College's 
spring  convocation.  Their  trans- 
lation of  The  Casting  of  Bells  by 
Czech  poet  Jaroslav  Seifert 
helped  Seifert  win  the  1984 
Nobel  Prize  for  Literature.  The 
translators  visited  the  poet  in 
November  of  1984  to  retrieve 
more  works  unavailable  in  the 
West,  which  they  are  now  trans- 
lating. Jagasich  attended  the  Sei- 
fert conference  at  the  University 
of  Chicago  in  January,  1985. 

•  Amos  Lee  Laine,  professor  of 
history  and  department  chair- 
man, will  participate  in  an  inter- 
national conference  in  London  in 
July  1985,  commemorating  the 
450th  anniversary  of  the  deaths  of 
Bishop  Fisher  and  Sir  Thomas 
More.  Laine  will  chair  a  session  in 
which  papers  about  John  Rastell 
will  be  read  (Laine's  book  on  Ras- 
tell appeared  in  August  1983). 

At  the  Ninth  International  Con- 
ference of  Patristic,  Medieval,  and 
Renaissance  Studies  at  Villanova 
University  in  September  1984, 
Laine  presented  a  paper  on 
"Raleigh's  Tower  Works:  The  His- 
tory of  the  World." 

•  J.  Frank  Papovich,  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  English  and  rhetoric, 


published  two  essays  in 
December,  1984:  "Teaching  the 
Homeric  Poems  in  Translation: 
Seeing  Homeric  Values,"  in 
Approaches  to  Teaching 
Homer's  Iliad  and  Odyssey 
(MLA  press):  and  "Sherman's 
Civil  War:  The  Memoirs  of  Gen- 
eral William  T.  Sherman,"  in 
Military'  History.  He  also  deli- 
vered a  paper  on  "Landscape, 
Tradition,  and  Identity  in  The 
Way  to  Rainy  Mountain  at  the 
Twentieth  Century  Literature 
Conference  in  February,  1985, 
and  he  gave  a  series  of  lectures  in 
Chesterfield,  Hanover,  and  War- 
renton  for  the  Virginia  Founda- 
tion for  the  Humanities. 

•  William  W.  Porterfield,  professor 
of  chemistry,  spoke  on  relative 
stability  of  nido  cluster  isomers  at 
the  Intraboron  Symposium  at  the 
University  of  Durham  (England) 
in  October,  1984.  He  also 
attended  the  3rd  International 
Conference  on  Platinum-Group 
Metals  in  Edinburgh  in  July, 
1984.  His  advanced  inorganic 
chemistry  textbook,  published  in 
late  1983,  is  now  being  used  at  a 
number  of  major  universities. 

•  Herbert  J.  Sipe,  Jr.,  professor  of 
chemistry,  recently  published  a 
paper  on  "An  Improved  Synthe- 
sis of  Aryl  Sulfones"  in  Synthesis, 
the  international  journal  of 
methods  in  synthetic  organic 
chemistry.  Two  Hampden- 
Sydney  students,  Sam  White  and 
Donnie  Clary,  were  co-authors  of 
the  paper,  which  has  been 
requested  by  scientists  in  Italy, 
Czechoslovokia,  Israel,  India,  and 
France.  Sipe  also  was  recently 
awarded  funds  by  the  National 
Science  Foundation  for  an  IBM 
PC/XT  computer  and  other 
equipment,  which  has  considera- 
bly broadened  the  opportunities 
for  research  by  advanced  chemis- 
try students. 

•  Homer  A.  Smith,  Jr.,  professor  of 
chemistry,  is  doing  summer 


research  at  Georgia  Tech's  school 
of  chemistry.  He  was  elected 
treasurer  of  the  Virginia  Section 
of  the  American  Chemical  Society. 


Sabbaticals  &  Departures 


Biology  professor  Stanley  Gemborys 
will  be  on  sabbatical  leave  for  the 
fall  semester  this  coming  year. 
Gemborys  will  be  replaced  by 
David  Arieti,  brother  of  Associate 
Professor  of  Classics  James  Arieti. 

Five  professors  are  leaving 
Hampden-Sydney.  Mr.  Bill  Myers 
will  be  leaving  his  position  in  the 
Mathematics  and  Computer  Science 
Department  to  assume  a  position 
in  the  Computer  Science  Depart- 
ment of  Union  College  in  Kentucky. 

Ms.  Jeanne  Nailor  will  be  leaving 
her  position  in  the  Mathematics 
and  Computer  Science  Department 
to  attend  Duke  University  to  com- 
plete her  doctoral  studies  in 
mathematics. 

Dr.  Brian  Schrag,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Philosophy,  will  become 
Dean  of  the  Faculty  at  Bethel  Col- 
lege in  Kansas,  his  alma  mater. 

Dr.  Homer  A.  Smith,  Professor 
of  Chemistry,  leaves  after  twenty- 
one  years  at  Hampden-Sydney  to 
become  department  chairman  at 
Milliken  University  in  Decatur, 
Illinois. 

Dr.  Dale  Johnson,  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  and  Compu- 
ter Science,  will  be  leaving  to 
assume  a  position  with  the  Mitre 
Corporation  of  Massachusetts  work- 
ing with  computer  research.  His 
wife  Sidney  was  an  instructor  in 
rhetoric  this  year. 

John  Ryland,  head  librarian, 
will  leave  for  a  position  as  head 
librarian  of  Oglethorpe  University 
in  Atlanta.  Astrid  Brynestad,  refer- 
ence librarian,  will  leave  for  a  posi- 
tion at  the  University  of  Tenness^ 


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Genocide: 
The  Word 
That 
Wouldn't 
Go  Away 


A  conference  billed  as  "the 
most  important  ever  held  at 
Hampden- Sydney"  examined 
the  causes  and  effects  of  the 
horrible  act  that  "lurks  in  the 
hearts  of  us  all" 


What  is  behind  the  periodic  erup- 
tions of  mass  murder  we  call  geno- 
cide? What  factors  in  human  nature 
and  in  our  religious  and  political 
institutions  fail  and  turn  one  peo- 
ple's fury  on  the  weak  and  defense- 
less members  of  other  social,  racial, 
or  religious  groups? 

Four  distinguished  scholars 
grappled  with  these  questions  in  a 
Conference  on  the  Roots  of  Geno- 
cide held  at  the  College  on  March 
27-29.  Dr.  Richard  Rubenstein, 
theologian  and  author  of  The  Cun- 
ning of  History;  Dr.  Robert  J.  Lif- 
ton,  professor  of  psychiatry  and 
author  of  twelve  books;  Dr.  Charles 
Sydnor,  Jr.,  president  of  Emory  and 
Henry  College  and  producer  of  sev- 
eral television  documentaries  on 
World  War  II;  and  Dr.  Melvin 
Konner,  chairman 
of  the  anthropo- 
logy department 
at  Emory  Uni- 
versity and  author 
of  The  Tangled 
Wing,  joined  to 
cover  the  historical, 
psychological,  an- 
thropological, and 
religious  implica- 
tions of  genocide 
in  the  modern 
world. 

Between  public 
addresses  the 
scholars  worked 
with  groups  of 
faculty  and  stu- 
dents in  various 
classes  and  semi- 
nars. Other  colleges  joining  Hampden 
Sydney  in  the  conference  included 
Longwood,  Sweet  Briar,  and 
Randolph-Macon  Woman's  College. 

In  spite  of  the  various  and  some- 
times contradictory  opinions  of  the 
four  scholars,  they  seemed  to  agree 
on  one  central  truth:  the  holocaust 
was  not  a  one-time  affair  under- 
taken by  madmen  but  an  expres- 
sion of  the  evil  which  lies  dormant 


"If  there  is  any  uncon- 
tested right,  it  is  not 
the  'inalienable'  right 
of  the  citizen  to  'life, 

liberty,  and  the  pursuit 
of  happiness, '  but  the 
god-like  right  of  the 

state  to  do  anything  it 

wishes  with  its  citizens, 

provided  they  are 

incapable  of  effective 

resistance. " 

DR.  RICHARD  RUBENSTEIN 


in  the  heart  of  every  man,  an  atroc- 
ity within  the  capability  of  every 
society.  This  force  must  be  under- 
stood as  nearly  as  possible  and  con- 
trolled if  mankind  is  to  preserve  its 
rich  heritage. 

Dr.  Rubenstein  has  called  the 
Nazi  Holocaust  "the  expression  of 
some  of  the  most  profound  tenden- 
cies of  Western  civilization  in  the 
twentieth  century."  In  his  keynote 
address  he  said  that  today's  world  is 
equally  ripe  for  a  "politics  of  exter- 
mination," due  primarily  to  the 
rapid  technological  changes  that 
have  made  millions  of  people 
"redundant"  and  "surplus."  Dr. 
Rubenstein  has  been  a  professor  of 
religion  at  Florida  State  University 
for  15  years.  He  serves  as  president 
of  the  Washington  Institute  for 

Values  in  Public 
Policy. 

Dr.  Lifton,  who 
served  for  many 
years  in  the  Yale 
Medical  School 
before  his  recent 
move  to  the  City 
University  of 
New  York,  traced 
the  many  simi- 
larities between 
Nazi  doctors  and 
professionals  in 
general.  The 
doctors  "doubled" 
by  leading  second, 
professional  lives 
that  were  in 
many  cases 
separate  and 
distinct  from  their  personal  lives. 

They  could  be  loving  parents 
and  spouses  at  home  and  numbed 
killers  at  work.  "Physicians  may  be 
more  prone  to  doubling  than  other 
groups,"  Dr.  Lifton  noted.  "As  soon 
as  you  become  a  doctor,  your  very 
first  day,  you  could  be  exposed  to  a 
corpse,  and  as  you  start  accepting 
such  things  you  form  a  second  self, 
your  doctor  self,  in  which  you  don't 


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feel  so  much  in  regard  to  life  and 
death.  Above  all  you  protect  your- 
self from  the  pain  of  death  and 
from  losing  patients."  Add  to  that 
the  Nazi  belief  sincerely  held  by 
many  doctors  that  they  were  killing 
"corruption"  in  an  effort  to 
improve  the  human  race,  Lifton 
said,  and  we  can  begin  to  under- 
stand the  motivation  for  such 
genocidal  behavior  on  the  part  of 
those  normally  considered  the  heal- 
ers in  society. 

Dr.  Sydnor  provided  an  historical 
perspective  on  the  problems  of 
genocide.  He  stressed  that  the 
modern  vehicles  of  bureacracy  and 
techology  weren't  all  to  blame  for 
the  German  holocaust;  it  was  indi- 
viduals who  made  the  decisions  to 
kill,  and  it  was  individuals  who 
implemented  such  decisions.  He 
also  urged  students  not  to  overlook 
basic  human  motivations  when 
exploring  a  complex  psychological 
phenomenon.  At  the  heart  of 
Hitler's  behavior  was  a  fanatical 
racism,  as  is  readily  apparent 
through  many  historical  studies,  he 
said. 

Closing  out  the  conference  was 
Dr.  Konner  who,  in  addition  to  his 
work  in  anthropology,  has  studied 
neurology  and  psychiatry  at  the 
Harvard  Medical  School  and 
teaches  in  both  fields.  If  man  is 
ever  to  quell  his  extreme,  violent 
tendencies,  he  must  set  up  his  own 
surveillance  system  and  scrupu- 
lously work  to  guard  the  human 
rights  of  the  world's  population.  He 
also  maintained  that  men,  as 
opposed  to  women,  naturally  have 
more  aggressive  tendencies,  and 
that  world  politics  might  be  some- 
what calmer  if  more  women  were 
allowed  into  the  political  arena. 

The  four  scholars  readily  admit- 
ted that  the  Nazi  experience  was  of 
such  magnitude  that  it  could  never 
be  summed  up  in  formulas  or  the- 
ories. 


The  poster  for  the  Genocide  Conference,  designed  by  the  College's 
publications  office,  has  been  selected  for  publication  in  this  year's  edition  of 
"The  Artist's  Aiarket,"a  national  guide  to  opportunities  for  free-lance  artists. 
The  drawing  was  done  by  local  artist  Deborah  McClmtock. 


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CUSS  NOTES 


Class 
Notes 

News  received  by  April  15.  1985 


The  members  of  the  Class  of 
1 935  {below)  gathered  at 
Middlecourt  for  a  reception  on 
May  3,  1985,  in  honor  of  their 
50th  reunion. 


1919 

J.  BARRYE  WALL  recently 
retired  as  editor  of  the  editorial 
page  for  The  Farmville  Herald. 
He  purchased  the  newspaper  in 
1921  and  has  actively  served  as 
editor  and  publisher  for  the  past 
64  years.  He  will  continue  as 
publisher  and  will  be  editor 
emeritus.  BIDGOOD  (Bid) 
WALL  75  will  replace  his 
grandfather  as  editor.  He  had 
been  handling  the  editorial  page 
for  several  months  while  Mr. 
Wall  was  convalescing  at  his 
home  following  a  stroke.  J. 
KENDRICK  (Ken)  WOOD- 
LEY  79  will  replace  Bid  Wall 
as  news  editor.  WILLIAM  B. 
WALL  '50  will  continue  as 
general  manager  of  The  Herald. 

1931 

The  Reverend  JOHN  W. 
SHERMAN  and  his  wife  Laura 
were  featured  in  a  recent  Harri- 
sonburg Daily  News-Record 
story.  Their  52'/j-year  marriage 
was  held  up  as  a  model  for 
young  couples  to  emulate. 
Sherman,  who  pastored  five 
Presbyterian  churches  over  the 
course  of  his  career,  has  lived 
with  his  wife  in  Harrisonburg's 
Sunnyside  Retirement  Home 
since  1981. 

1940 

The  Reverend  WILLIAM  G. 
WALKER  has  retired  from  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Owensboro,  Kentucky. 

1941 

Dr.  ROBERT  G.  SCHULTZ 

has  retired  from  the  Rock- 
ingham Memorial  Hospital  of 
Harrisonburg,  where  he  has 
served  as  an  obstetrics- 


gynecology  specialist  for  nearly 
35  years.  The  Harrisonburg 
Daily  Neus- Record  ran  a  fea- 
ture article  on  Schultz's  career, 
noting  that  he  was  Harrison- 
burg's first  OB-GYN  and  he 
averaged  1 59  deliveries  per  year, 
or  5,500  for  his  career. 

1942 

Dr  JOHN  S.  PANCAKE, 

professor  of  history  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Alabama,  has  pub- 
lished his  fifth  book,  This  Des- 
tructive War:  The  British 
Campaign  in  the  Carolines, 
1 780- 1 782.  It  is  a  sequel  of  sorts 
to  his  earlier  work — 7777;  Year 
of  the  Hangman — on  the  Brit- 
ish effort  to  recover  her  Ameri- 
can colonies.  Pancake  notes  that 
"although  I  had  always  known 
that  the  Revolution  in  the 
South  was  a  bitter  civil  war,  I 
was  not  prepared  for  the  savag- 
ery and  vindictiveness  with 
which  Tories  and  Patriots  har- 
ried each  other.  I  had  put  down 
as  patriotic  gore  and  exaggera- 
tion the  contemporary  accounts 
of  Tory  atrocities.  The  accounts 
did  not  exaggerate.  What  had 
previously  escaped  my  notice 
was  the  fact  that  our  noble, 
patriotic  ancestors — most  of 
them  Prebyterians  of  the  Carol- 
ina backcountry — were  every  bit 
as  hateful  and  bloody-minded  as 
their  Tory  counterparts.  They 
may  have  believed  in  the  New 
Testament  but  they  fought  by 
the  Old." 

1948 

Dr.  SHELTON  H.  SHORT 

III  has  been  elected  to  the  board 
of  directors  of  Forest  Farmers 
Association,  an  Atlanta-based 
organization.  Active  in  the  refo- 


restation of  much  land  in  south 
ern  Virginia,  Short  has  served 
on  the  Virginia  Forestry  Associ 
ation  Educational  Board,  the 
Louisiana-Pacific  Corporation 
Reforestation  Tree-Enterprise 
Board,  and  the  Conservation 
and  Economic  Development 
Commission  for  Virginia. 


1949 

CLARK  B.  CAVETT  is  teach 

ing  English  with  his  wife  at 
Huachiao  University  in  main- 
land China.  They  find  their  stu- 
dents adept  at  written  English 
but  needing  help  with  spoken 
English.  They  will  return  to  the 
States  in  August  1985. 

1952 

ROBERT  W.  HASSOLD 

recently  spoke  on  productivity 
for  a  lecture  series  established 
by  Greenville,  South  Carolina 
businessmen.  Hassold  has  left 
the  vice-presidency  of  Steel 
Heddle  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany to  form  his  own  company, 
Humaneering  International,  Inc. 

W.  RAMSEY  RICHARD- 
SON has  been  appointed  to  the 
Children's  Medical  Center 
Committee  of  the  University  of 
Virginia  Hospital  Advisory 
Board.  He  also  serves  on  the 
Board  of  Virginia  Diocesan 
Homes,  the  Board  of  the  Char- 
lottesville/Albemarle Mental 
Health  Association,  and  the 
Board  of  the  United  Way.  He  is 
president  of  the  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son Chapter  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

WILLIAM  R.  SHANDS, 
JR.,  has  been  made  senior  vice 
president  and  corporate  secre- 
tary of  the  Life  Insurance  Q>m- 
pany  of  Virginia.  He  was  for- 


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merly  senior  vice  president  for 
law  and  public  affairs  with  the 
Continental  Financial  Service 
Company.  The  sale  of  Contin- 
ental Group,  Inc.,  which  elimi- 
nated the  staff  of  Continental 
Financial,  necessitated  the 
change. 

1953 

Colonel  RICHARD  E.  HAIS- 

LIP  of  Virginia  Beach  received 
the  Legion  of  Merit  on  his 
recent  retirement  from  the 
Marines. 

1955 

Lt.  Col.  EDWARD  H.  BEN- 
SON has  retired  from  the  U.S. 


Dr.  William  Overcash  '6(1 

Air  Force  after  30  years  of  ser- 
vice. He  served  as  director  of 
physical  therapy  at  Wilford  Hall 
Medical  Center  on  the  Lackland 
Air  Force  Base  in  San  Antonio, 
'  Texas.  He  is  presently  a  physi- 
cal therapist/ consultant  with 
the  Professional  Therapy  Servi- 
ces of  Florida  in  Seminole. 

1956 

JOHN  R.  FISHER  III,  a  prin- 
cipal in  the  Winchester  account- 
ing firm  of  Yount,  Hyde  &  Bar- 
bour, has  been  elected 
Middle-Atlantic  Regional  Direc- 
tor of  the  National  Association 
of  State  Boards  of  Accountancy 
for  1984-85.  Fisher  is  a  member 
and  vice  chairman  of  the  Virgi- 
nia State  Board  of  Accountancy. 
G.  OTIS  MEAD  III,  presi- 
dent of  Mead  Associates,  Inc.  in 
Lexington,  was  recently 
inducted  as  an  honorary 
member  into  Washington  and 
Lee  University's  chapter  of 
Omicron  Delta  Kappa,  the 
national  honorary  leadership 
fraternity.  He  has  served  as 
president  of  the  Virginia  Asso- 


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Otis  Mead  '36  (right)  is  congratulated  on  his  induction  into  ODK  at  Wash- 
ington &  Lee  by  fellow  members  Royster  Lyle  '56  and  Larry  Hoover  '56. 


ciation  of  Realtors  and  of  the 
Lexington-Rtxkbridge  County 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  The 
Roanoke  Times  &  World 
News,  in  a  recent  feature  article 
on  him  and  his  successful  effort 
to  bring  the  Virginia  Horse 
Center  to  Rtxkbridge  County, 
said,  "Many  people  here  believe 
the  victory  would  have  been 
nearly  impossible  without 
Mead's  total  devotion  to  the 
cause  and  his  attention  to  its 
tiniest  details  over  the  last  14 
months." 

1957 

HENRY  H.  McVEY  HI  has 

been  appointed  president  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Rich- 
mond Symphony.  WILLIAM 
C.  BOINEST  '57  serves  as  vice 
president  of  the  board. 

1958 

Dr.  KARL  C.  HENDERSON 

has  been  promoted  to  research 


specialist  in  the  nondestructive 
methods  and  diagnostics  section 
at  the  Babcock  &  Wilcox 
Lynchburg  Research  Center.  He 
will  direct  development  of  elec- 
tronic systems  as  well  as  pro- 
vide electronics  support  for 
other  areas  within  the  Research 
and  Development  Division.  He 
has  been  a  senior  research  engi- 
neer with  the  company  since 
1977. 

1959 

RONALD  W.  DAVIS,  a 

harpsichordist  for  the  Rich- 
mond Symphony,  was  praised 
in  a  Richmond  Times-Dispatch 
music  review  for  his  "neat,  dis- 
creet, and  complete  harpsichord- 
ing"  during  a  recent  concert  of 
the  Richmond  Sinfonia.  The 
concert  featured  the  music  of 
the  Bach  family. 

M.  NORTON  HOWE,  JR., 
has  opened  a  new  store  in 
Richmond's  Shockoe  Slip,  The 


Norton  Howe  '59  (right)  presides  at  the  opening  of  The  Stalling  Line,  bis 
sporting  goods  shop  in  Richmond,  on  April  5.  1985.  With  him  (from  left) 
are  Kaye  and  Laura  Howe,  partner  Scott  Owen,  and  Susan  Owen. 


Starting  Line,  which  specializes 
in  aerobic  fitness  sports  gear, 
especially  for  running,  swim- 
ming, cycling,  hiking,  and  walk- 
ing. The  store  conducts  training 
runs  on  some  weekday  evenings 
and  Saturday  mornings,  and  it 
plans  to  conduct  similar  outings 
for  cyclists.  It  also  plans  to  offer 
personal  service  to  schools, 
clubs,  and  individuals  involved 
in  aerobic  sports  and  fitness.  A 
Hampden-Sydney  College  pen- 
nant is  prominently  displayed 
near  the  entrance  to  the  store. 
HUBERT  R.  STALLARD 
has  been  appointed  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Chesapeake  and 
Potomac  Telephone  Company 


William  Cassidy  '63 

of  Virginia.  He  began  his  C&P 
career  in  1959  and  has  been  an 
assistant  vice  president  for  the 
past  four  years. 

1960 

Dr.  JOSEPH  C.  HILLIER  of 

Matoaca  has  been  elected 
Governor-elect  of  the  10,000- 
member  Capital  District  Kiwa- 
nis  Club,  which  encompasses 
Virginia,  Maryland,  Delaware, 
and  the  District  of  Columbia. 
He  will  take  office  on  October 
1,  1985.  This  information  was 
reported  incorrectly  in  the  last 
Garnet  &  Grey. 

Dr  WILLIAM  E.  OVER- 
CASH,  JR.,  D.D.S.,  received 
the  Academy  of  General  Dentis- 
try's prestigious  Fellowship 
Award  during  a  special  cere- 
mony at  AGD's  Annual  Meeting, 
Golden  Gate  to  Learning,  July 
27-August  1,  1984. 

The  Academy  of  General 
Dentistry  is  the  second-largest 
dental  organization  in  North 
America  and  is  composed  of 
25,000  dentists  in  the  U.S.  and 
Canada  dedicated  to  continued 

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education  in  general  practice.  To 
earn  a  Fellowship  Award,  AGD 
members  must  complete  more 
than  500  hours  of  continuing 
education  within  ten  years. 

Dr.  Overcash  graduated  from 
Medical  College  of  Virginia  den- 
tal school  in  1968  and  has 
maintained  a  general  practice  in 
Kilmarnock  since  1968. 

Dr.  Overcash  resides  in  Kil- 
marnock and  has  another  office 
in  Urbanna. 

JOHN  M.  WELLS,  JR.,  vice 
president  of  the  R.  H.  Kyle 
Furniture  Company  in  Charles- 
ton, West  Virginia,  has  been 
elected  president  of  the  Bucks- 
kin Council  Boy  Scouts  for  1985 

1961 

DAVID  O.  HOLMAN  has 

been  named  a  vice  president  of 
the  United  Virginia  Bank.  He 
went  to  United  Virginia  from 
Southern  Bank. 

1962 

JOSEPH  M.  RUFFIN,JR., 

has  been  elected  vice  chairman 
of  Ruffin  &  Payne,  Inc.,  a 
Richmond  building  supply 
company.  He  has  worked  for 
the  company  since  1962.  Before 
his  promotion  he  was  executive 
vice  president  for  purchasing. 

196^ 

WILLIAM  D.  CASSIDY  III 

of  New  York  has  been  named 
vice  president  for  administra- 
tion of  Bairnco  Corporation's 
newly  formed  Lighting  Group, 
which  consists  of  Bairnco's 
three  lighting  subsidiaries: 
Lightolier  Inc.,  Keene  Girpora- 
tion's  lighting  group,  and  Wide- 
Light  International  Gjrporation. 
Cassidy  previously  served  as 
senior  vice  president  of  human 
resources  at  the  investment 
firm  of  A.G  Becker  Paribas. 

DENNIS  B.  DILLS  has 
been  elected  vice  president  of 
the  Trust  Operations  Group  at 
Wachovia  Bank  &  Trust  Com- 
pany in  Winston-Salem,  North 
Carolina. 

Dr.  THOMAS  R.  McDA- 
NIEL,  professor  of  education  at 
Converse  G)llege,  has  been 
named  a  Charles  A.  Dana  Pro- 
fessor. The  professorship  is 
supported  by  the  Dana  Founda- 
tion of  New  York;  recipients 
are  selected  on  the  basis  of 
excellence  in  classroom  teach - 

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ing,  research  and  publication, 
and  professional  leadership. 

1964 

DAVID  C.  FULLER  has  been 
elected  executive  vice  president 
and  head  of  United  Virginia 
Bank's  Norfolk  retail  division. 
He  is  responsible  for  branch 
network  and  consumer  loan 
operations  in  South  Hampton 
Roads  and  on  the  Eastern 
Shore.  Before  his  promotion  he 
served  as  senior  vice  president 
and  section  head  in  the  bank's 
commercial  division. 

1965 

Dr.  THOMAS  CONNELLY, 
JR.,  dean  of  the  School  of  Nurs- 
ing and  Health  Sciences  at 
Western  Carolina  University, 
has  been  elected  to  the  board  of 
trustees  of  Appalachian 
Regional  Hospitals.  The  organ- 
ization is  a  comprehensive 
health  care  system  comprised  of 
10  hospitals,  eight  home  health 
care  agencies,  and  four  outpa- 
tient care  centers  in  three  states: 
Kentucky,  Virginia,  and  West 
Virginia.  Connelly  is  also  a  fel- 
low of  the  American  Society  of 
Allied  Health  Professions. 

1967 

Dr  C.  BRUCE  ALEX- 
ANDER has  been  promoted  to 
associate  professor  at  the  Medi- 
cal Center  of  the  University  of 
Alabama  in  Birmingham.  He 
has  served  for  four  years  at  the 
Center. 

The  Reverend  EDDIE  W. 
DEDRICK  was  installed 
recently  as  the  pastor  of  the 
Farmville  Presbyterian  Church. 
Dr  LEWIS  H.  DREW  '60  del- 
ivered the  charge  to  the 
congregation. 

W.  ROBERT  EASON,  JR., 
has  been  named  a  vice  president 
of  the  United  Virginia  Bank. 
He  joined  the  bank  in  1974  and 
served  most  recently  as  an 
assistant  vice  president. 

1968 

PENDLETON  M.  SHI- 
FLETT  III  has  been  appointed 
senior  portfolio  manager  and 
head  of  the  mortgage  and  real 
estate  division  of  Continental 
Investment  Advisors  Ltd.  of 
Richmond. 

R.  W.  WILTSHIRE,  JR., 
has  been  elected  executive  vice 


president  of  Home  Beneficial 
Corporation  and  its  affiliate, 
Home  Beneficial  Life  Insurance 
Gimpany  of  Richmond.  He 
joined  the  company  in  1969  and 
has  been  a  vice  president  since 
1979. 

1970 

PHILIP  C.  SPENCER  has 

been  named  General  Manager 
of  the  Owen  Printing  Company 
in  Petersburg. 

LEROY  B.  VAUGHAN, 
vice  president  and  residential 
sales  manager  for  C  Porter 
Vaughan  and  Company,  was 
recently  installed  as  president  of 
the  Richmond  Board  of  Real- 
tors for  1985.  He  previously 
held  a  number  of  offices  with 
the  Board. 

1971 

J.  DANIEL  HARDY,  JR.,  has 

been  appointed  Chief  Adminis- 
trative Officer  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Christians- 
burg,  the  third  largest  inde- 
pendent bank  in  Virginia.  He 
previously  served  as  vice  presi- 
dent of  Central  Fidelity  in 
Lynchburg. 

W.  RICHARD  KAY,  JR., 
has  joined  the  Corporate  Coun- 
sel department  of  the  Bank  of 
Virginia  in  Richmond.  He  was 
previously  a  Corporate  Counsel 
for  the  Suburban  Savings  & 
Loan  in  Annandale. 

DUDLEY  M.  PATTESON 
has  been  named  a  senior  vice 
president  of  Ferris  &  Company 
Inc.,  a  Washington  brokerage 
firm.  He  joined  Ferris  four 
years  ago  as  vice  president  for 
corporate  finance. 

1972 

EUGENE  W.  HICKOK,  JR., 


C.  Cum  mack  Morton  13 


a  professor  at  Dickinson  College 
in  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  has 
joined  the  adjunct  faculty  of  the 
Dickinson  School  of  Law  to 
teach  a  course  in  banking  regu- 
lation for  the  spring  semester. 
He  has  been  chief  counsel  at  the 
state  Department  of  Banking 
since  1981. 

HAROLD  L.  HUGHEY, 
JR.,  has  been  named  a  vice 
president  of  the  Bank  of  Virgi- 
nia in  Richmond.  He  will  work 
in  the  cash  management 
department,  having  previously 
worked  in  a  similar  position  for 
Sovran  Bank. 

1973 

Dr  JOSEPH  M.  CROCKETT 

II  has  been  named  associate 
professor  of  chemistry  at 
Bridgewater  College  in  Bridge- 
water.  Currently  at  Baker  Uni- 
versity in  Baldwin  City,  Kansas, 
he  will  enter  the  new  position 
on  September  1. 

STUART  C.  DOWNS, 
director  of  Harrisonburg's 
Sawhill  Gallery  and  the  James 
Madison  University  Fine  Arts 
Collections,  was  the  subject  of  a 
recent  feature  article  by  the 
Harrisonburg  Daily  News- 
Record.  In  the  article,  he 
explained  some  of  the  methods 
involved  in  collecting  art. 
Downs  is  a  member  of  the 
Hampden-Sydney  Museum 
Board. 

C.  CAMMACK  MOR- 
TON has  been  appointed  pres- 
ident and  chief  operating  officer 
of  the  Retail  Development  Div- 
ision at  Western  Development, 
a  Washington,  D.C-based 
developer  of  specialty  retail 
shopping  centers  and  urban 
mixed-use  projects.  He  will  be 
responsible  for  the  company's 
various  value-retail  outlet  malls. 
He  was  previously  the  vice  pres- 
ident of  development  and  spe- 
cial assistant  to  the  president  of 
KRAVCO,  Inc.,  in  King  of 
Prussia,  Pennsylvania. 

1974 
STEPHEN  L.  OWEN  has 

become  a  partner  in  the  law 
firm  of  Venable,  Baetier  and 
Howard,  with  offices  in  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  and  Washing- 
ton, D.C 

Dr.  THOMAS  M.  SHEL- 
BURNE  has  joined  the  staff  of 
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CLASS  NOTES 


Alumni  Profile: 

Joe  Viar  '63  and 
the  Triumph  of 
the  "Unqualified 
Generalist" 

In  1976,  the  full-time  staff  of 
Viar  and  Company  consisted 
of  its  founder,  Joseph  Frank- 
lin Viar,  Jr.,  one  of  five  men 
I    elected  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees this  past  February.  The 
"company"  given  equal  bil- 
ling with  him  was  no  more 
than  a  few  ambitious  ideas 
:    and  a  secretary  he  shared 
1    with  the  ad  agency  next 
I    door. 

Joe  Viar  is  a  good  deal  less 
lonely  at  work  these  days.  In 
1985,  thanks  to  those  ambi- 
tious ideas,  Viar's 
1    Alexandria-based  company 
[    made  the  "INC.  500"  for  the 
;    third  year  in  a  row  as  one  of 

America's  fastest-growing 
I    companies.  (It  should  be  four 
I   in  a  row,  Viar  happily  points 
|  out,  but  INC.  magazine  did 
not  know  that  Viar  and 
Company  existed  the  first 
year  the  list  was  compiled.) 
Viar  now  employs  an 
unshared  staff  of  about  100 
people,  divided  into  two 
equal  groups.  One  designs 
the  computer  software  that 
clients  such  as  the  IRS  and 
the  Virginia  Attorney  Gen- 
eral's Office  use  to  track 
cases.  The  other,  more  ambi- 
tious half  provides  not  only 
programs  but  admini- 
stration— the  sort  of  day-to- 
day management  that  Viar 
believes  government  does 
least  well.  In  effect,  this 
second  group  serves  as  an 
extension  of  EPA,  supervis- 
ing a  network  of  77  laborato- 
|:  ries  that  test  hazardous 
waste.  Together,  these  two 
halves  of  Viar  and  Company 
generated  roughly  $12  mil- 

David  Cantluy  79,  who  wrote  this 
profile,  is  an  editor  with  Time-Life 
Books  in  Alexandria. 


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"Hampden-Sydney  is  doing  something  right: 

a  lot  of  guys  we  went  to  school  with 
are  doing  okay,  in  a  lot  of  different  fields. " 

JOSEPH  F.  VIAR, JR.,63 


lion  in  revenues  last  year. 

Viar's  life  will  grow  even 
more  crowded  next  fall, 
when  his  five-year  term  on 
the  Board  officially  begins.  It 
is  an  assignment  that  Viar 
looks  forward  to  as  both  a 
proof  of  his  success  and  an 
opportunity  to  repay  some- 
thing of  what  he  took  from 
the  College,  along  with  his 
degree  in  mathematics, 
when  he  left  in  1963.  Viar 
delights  in  recalling  his  four 
years  on  the  Hill:  the 
Hubards,  Ropps,  and  other 
"giants"  who  taught  him,  the 
raw  joy  of  being  a  football 
co-captain  and  all-conference 
quarterback,  the  night  he 
slept  at  Dean  Crawley's  door, 
like  a  petitioner  for  some 
exalted  species  of  ticket 
(imagine  a  concert  tour  by 
John  Milton,  with  Robert 
Herrick  for  an  opening  act), 
to  insure  that  he  got  the 
room  he  wanted — Cushing 
444,  the  room  in  which 
PiKA  had  been  refounded 
generations  earlier.  He  still 
smiles  to  recall  the  classmate 
and  brother  who  arrived  at  2 
a.m.  with  the  same  goal  in 
mind. 

What  he  cherished  most, 
however,  was  the  friend- 
liness and  unselfconscious 
democracy  that  he  found  in 


the  student  body.  Joe  Viar  is 
a  gregarious  and  generous 
man,  the  kind  who  treats 
pesky  interviewers  to  lunch 
at  the  best  restaurant  in 
town;  who,  as  a  lark, 
arranges  honorary  "Citizen 
of  New  Orleans"  status  for 
the  restaurant's  French 
owners;  who  can  perform 
that  kindness  because  he 
serves  New  Orleans  as  an 
unpaid  consultant;  who  thus 
donates  his  time  and  exper- 
tise to  a  distant  city  because 
he  remembers,  gratefully, 
the  insurance  salesman  (now 
on  the  New  Orleans  City 
Council )  who  took  the  trou- 
ble to  arrange  Viar's  group 
insurance  when  the  Viar 
group  numbered  all  of  two 
people. 

In  similar  fashion,  Viar 
already  donates  his  time 
(and,  yes,  his  money)  to 
Hampden-Sydney.  He  is  a 
co-chairman  of  the  Founders 
Committee  and  president  of 
the  Washington  Area 
Alumni  Club,  and  sees  his 
new  office  as  an  expansion 
of  these — as  a  chance  to  give 
"not  just  bricks  and  mortar, 
but  participation."  That  idea 
of  participation,  of  the  peo- 
ple at  the  heart  of  anything 
worthwhile,  is  central  to 
Viar's  character.  Viar  is  a 


practical  and  sensible  man, 
as  might  be  expected  of  a 
successful  businessman  who 
has  been  working  with  com- 
puters from  the  day  he  left 
Hampden-Sydney,  but  he  is 
also  a  man  who  got  his  start 
in  computers  through  a 
magazine  article  and  a  per- 
sonnel director  with  a  long 
memory  for  football — and 
who  can  appreciate  the 
humor,  the  serendipity,  in 
that  and  other  matters  of 
seemingly  dry  fact. 

Viar  was  bound  for  New 
York  to  learn  the  insurance 
trade  when  he  read  a  Time 
magazine  article  about  com- 
puters. He  quickly  wrote  a 
letter  to  IBM,  which  asked 
where  he  had  been  during 
the  hiring  season.  Viar  rep- 
lied, "I  thought  you  were  a 
typewriter  company,"  and 
went  home  to  look  over  the 
two  Lynchburg  concerns  that 
used  computers.  He  set  his 
sights  on  General  Electric. 
The  GE  personnel  director 
remembered  Viar  as  the 
quarterback  who  had  led  E.C. 
Glass  High  School  to  its  last 
district  championship,  and 
persuaded  the  computer 
chief  to  waive  the  job 
requirements  and  give  Viar  a 
try.  Viar  set  to  work  rewrit- 
ing programs  for  a  new 
computer,  a  job  that  was 
supposed  to  take  three  years; 
Viar — the  football  player 
and  unqualified  generalist — 
finished  in  one. 

So  Viar  "walked  right  into 
the  very  infancy  of  the  com- 
puter business — and  loved 
it."  Obviously  he  still  loves  it 
all:  work,  happy  accidents, 
and  the  College  that  pre- 
pared him  to  tolerate  and  to 
exploit  them.  As  we  left  for 
that  French  restaurant  he 
smiled  and  said,  "Hampden- 
Sydney  is  doing  something 
right.  A  lot  of  guys  we  went 
to  school  with  are  doing 
okay,  in  all  sorts  of  different 
fields."  But  few  are  doing 
better  than  Joe  Viar,  and 
fewer  still  deserve  to. 

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the  Jonesville  Family  Medical 
Center  in  Elkin,  North  Carolina. 
He  was  previously  the  chief  of 
staff  and  interim  commander 
for  the  Castle  Airforce  Base 
Hospital  in  California. 

1976 

Dr.  C.  WILLIAM  DABNEY 

has  established  a  practice  of 
orthodontics  in  Surfside  Beach, 
South  Carolina.  He  recently 
completed  his  orthodontic 
residency  in  New  Jersey. 

1978 

THOMAS  W.  OSGOOD  has 

been  promoted  to  vice  president 
in  the  Capital  Region's  Metro 
group  of  the  Bank  of  Virginia. 
Before  the  promotion  he  was  an 
assistant  vice  president. 

1980 

DONALD  L.  APPICH,  JR., 

has  been  promoted  to  used-car 
manager  at  Emrick  Chevrolet 
in  Richmond.  He  represents 
the  third  generation  of 
Appiches  to  serve  as  sales  man- 
ager at  Emrick. 

JOSEPH  F.  OUTTEN 
recently  spoke  on  "The  One- 
Minute  Sales  Person"  for  a  lec- 
ture series  established  by 
Greenville,  South  Carolina,  bus- 
inessmen. Since  June  1984  he 
has  been  a  sales  representative, 
consultant,  and  instructor  with 
the  Wilson  Learning  Corpora- 
tion, an  international  organiza- 
tion involved  in  the  research, 
design,  and  production  of  adult 
learning  systems. 

1981 

J.  BOLLING  LEWIS  III  has 

been  elected  mortgage  officer  at 
Wachovia  Bank  &  Trust  Com- 
pany in  Raleigh,  North  Carol- 
ina. He  joined  the  bank  in  1982. 

1982 

JAMES  A.  L.  CONDREY 

works  for  the  Greenbrier  Hotel 
in  White  Sulphur  Springs, 
West  Virginia. 

HUGH  C.  (Ted)  CUN- 
NINGHAM III  has  been 
appointed  sales  representative 
for  the  F.W.  Hubbard  Insurance 
Agency,  Inc.,  in  Farmville.  He 
will  serve  in  the  Aetna  Life  and 
Casualty  personal  financial 
security  division. 

RICHARD  M.  RUMMEL 
has  been  promoted  to  division 

36 


manager  of  the  Washington, 
D.C  headquarters  of  Whitehall 
Laboratories.  He  was  formerly 
a  region  account  manager  with 
the  company. 

1983 

PRESTON  P.  CAMPBELL 

has  joined  his  brother  Otho  to 
start  a  consumer's  automated 
referral  service — CARS — for 
used-car  buyers.  Based  in 
Richmond,  the  service,  the  first 
of  its  kind  in  the  country,  uses 
computers  to  match  buyers  and 
sellers  MICHAEL  L. 
DUFFER  '76  has  also  joined 
the  venture  as  director  of  sales 
and  marketing.  Campbell 
serves  as  vice  president  and 
computer  programmer. 

KEVIN  L.  SLATTUM  is 
working  for  Allied  Corporation 
in  Richmond.  He  is  pursuing 
an  MBA  at  the  University  of 
Richmond's  evening  school. 

1984 

WILLIAM  B.  TREVILLIAN 

III  has  been  promoted  to  group 
sales  representative  in  the  Bir- 
mingham, Alabama,  group 
office  of  the  State  Mutual  Life 
Assurance  Company  of  Amer- 
ica. He  joined  the  organization 
last  year. 

JOHN  PENN  TURNER 
was  recently  pictured  in  the 
Richmond  Times-Dispatch 
performing  a  magic  show  for 
hospitalized  children  at  the 


Medical  College  of  Virginia 
Hospital.  His  act  was  part  of  a 
circus  staged  by  the  Children's 
Medical  Center. 

A.  CHURCHILL  YOUNG 
IV  has  been  appointed  a  sales 
correspondent  for  the  Curtis 
Paper  Division  of  the  James 
River  corporation  of  South- 
ampton, Pennsylvania. 

Advanced  Studies 
&  Degrees 

1966 

FRANK  M.  BOOTH  III  has 

received  a  doctorate  in  educa- 
tional administration  from  the 
University  of  Georgia.  He  told 
students  at  Brenau  Academy, 
where  he  has  served  as  dean  for 
two  years,  that  he  has  taken  at 
least  one  class  each  year  for  36 
consecutive  years. 

1974 

JOHN  T  CURNES  has  been 
appointed  assistant  professor  of 
neuroradiology  at  the  University 
of  North  Carolina  School  of 
Medicine  at  Chapel  Hill.  After 
serving  for  three  years  as  a  neu- 
rosurgery resident,  he  com- 
pleted his  residency  in  diagnos- 
tic radiology  at  UNC  He  is 
currently  finishing  a  neuroradi- 
ology fellowship  at  the  Bowman 
Gray  School  of  Medicine  in 
Winston-Salem. 


A  flock  of  Hampden-Sydney  men  attended  the  wedding  of  Jock  Liles 
'82.  Front  row,  left  to  right:  Rob  Grubbs  '81,  Dan  Keane  '81.  Scott 
Goodman  '82,  Betsy  Liles  (Sweet  Briar  '82),  John  Corey  '81.  Back  row, 
left  to  right:  Richard  Parker  '81,  Bill  Whitley  '83.  Mark  Webb  '82,  Boi- 
ling Lewis  '81,  Ben  Snead  '83.  Tim  Keena  '80,  Bill  Carr  '82,  Martin  Fer- 
rara  '81,  Jock  Liles  '82.  Mark  Brewer  '82.  Bryant  Hare  '80,  Mark  Deaton 
'82.  Photo  provided  by  Bill  Carr  '82. 


1982 

R.D.  (Rod)  HUNTER  has 

been  elected  to  the  Managing 
Board  of  the  Virginia  Law 
Review.  He  will  be  the  notes 
editor. 

1984 

TODD  WEINERT  graduated 
from  Lehigh  University  in  June 
of  1984  and  is  now  employed  by 
IBM  in  Boca  Raton,  Florida,  as 
a  computer  engineer. 


Marriages 


1940 

EMORY  S.  WALDREP  of 

Boydton,  celebrated  his  46th 
wedding  anniversary  with  his 
wife,  Ruth,  on  September  24. 
On  the  same  date  they  became 
great-grandparents  for  the  fifth 
time. 

1971 

DAVID  C.  CRAWFORD  HI 

was  married  to  Clair  Healey  Gil- 
lespie on  August  4,  1984,  at  the 
Warm  Springs  Presbyterian 
Church.  The  Reverend  DAVID 
C.  CRAWFORD,  JR.  '41  per- 
formed the  ceremony. 

1972 

PETER  H.  McEACHERN 

was  married  to  Page  Monahan 
on  July  14,  1984,  at  Christ  Epis- 
copal Church  in  Winchester. 

1976 

WILLIAM  L.  BOWLES  was 

married  to  Tanis  L.  Braswell  of 
Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  on 
December  8,  1984,  in  Columbia, 
South  Carolina.  The  couple  will 
reside  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah, 
where  Bowles  is  employed  as  a 
national  sales  trainer  for  the 
Sorenson  Research  Division  of 
Abbott  Laboratories. 

1977 

E.  FRANKLIN  MASSIE  III 

was  married  to  Tracey  Sweet  on 
October  15,  1984.  The  Reve- 
rend J.  SELDEN  HARRIS, 
JR.  '80  performed  the  cerem- 
ony. The  wedding  party 
included  DAVID  L  HAR- 
LOW 77,  JAMES  R. 
BELCHER,  JR.  77,  JAMES 
R.  LEWIS,  JR.  77,  and  WIL- 
LIAM J.  PHIPPS,  JR.  77. 


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1978 

JOHN  ROBERT  GRAHAM, 
JR.,  was  married  to  Carole  Ann 
Shirley  on  August  25,  1984,  at 
Raleigh  Court  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Roanoke.  Graham  is 
a  sales  representative  for  Atlan- 
tic Metrovision  Corporation. 

JAMES  F.  PEEBLES  was 
married  to  Diana  Mary  Wins- 
low  in  April  1984. 

BARRYE  L.  WALL  was 
married  to  Victoria  A.  Vodra  of 
Riverside,  Connecticut,  on 
December  15,  1984,  at  St.  James 
Episcopal  Church  in  New  York 
City.  The  couple  will  reside  in 
Singapore. 

1980 

W.  VANCE  HULL  was  mar- 
ried to  Julie  M.  Perry  of  Norfolk 
on  September  15,  1984. 

CLARK  W.  LITTLE  was 
married  to  Patricia  Ann  Wright 
on  October  27,  1984,  in  Rich- 
mond. The  couple  will  live  in 
Newport  News. 

J.  HOWARD  RODMAN 
was  married  to  Laurel  Ann 
Kubilins  on  May  19,  1984,  in 
Virginia  Beach.  Rodman  is  an 
account  executive  with  Dean 
Witter  Reynolds  in  Portsmouth. 

DANIEL  M.  SLACK  was 
married  to  Nicole  Schmidt  on 
February  9,  1985,  at  Sacred 
Heart  Catholic  Church  in  Virgi- 
nia Beach. 

JOSEPH  M.  ZIGLAR,  JR., 
was  married  to  Paula  Maria 
Orphanidys  on  November  19, 
1983,  at  St.  Andrews  Episcopal 
Church  in  Newport  News. 
Ziglar  works  with  Chesapeake 
Masonry  Corporation  in 
Hampton. 

1981 

R.  KEVIN  MAHONEY  was 

married  to  Teresa  Costello  of 
Montville,  New  Jersey. 
Groomsmen  included  DAVID 
J.  WEST  '81,  DOUGLAS  R. 
LAWLER  II  '81,  BRIAN  W. 
BOUCHER  '81,  and  ROD- 
NEY P.  RUFFIN  '82. 

JOHN  ROBERT 
SCHOONOVER  was  married 
to  Shelley  Lynn  Poe  on  August 
4,  1984,  in  Gatesville,  Texas. 
WESLEY  SCHUESSLER  '81 
was  the  best  man. 

1982 

DAVID  A.  S.  HEPPNER  was 

married  to  Ann  Foy  on  May  26, 


Gamett  Thompson'12 

1984,  in  Richmond. 

GEORGE  W.  (Jock)  LILES, 
JR.,   was  married  to  Betsy  Bell 
on  September  29,  1984,  in  Char- 
lotte, North  Carolina,  where 
Liles  has  a  residential  construc- 
tion firm. 

W.  CRENSHAW  NEW- 
MAN IV  was  married  to  Jane 
Randolph  Shannon  on  August 
11,  1984.  They  live  in  Winston- 
Salem,  North  Carolina,  where 
Shaw  is  working  on  his  MBA  at 
Wake  Forest  University. 

1984 

FREDERICK  HELM  was 

married  to  Barbara  Neiman  on 
November  24,  1984.  He  is 
working  for  Guest  Quarters 
Hotels  in  Washington,  D.C. 


Births 


1968 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  JAMES  L. 
BECKNER,  a  daughter,  Kath- 
erine  Lancaster  Beckner,  on 
September  6,  1984. 

1969 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  JEFFREY  M. 
BULL,  a  son,  Jeffrey  David 
Bull,  on  October  2,  1984. 

1970 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  PHILIP  C. 
SPENCER,  a  daughter,  Brit- 
tany Lynn  Spencer,  on  March 
28,  1985,  in  Petersburg. 

1971 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  CHRIS- 
TOPHER HENDERSON,  a 

son,  James  Christopher  Hender- 
son, Jr.,  on  December  3,  1984, 
in  Columbia,  South  Carolina. 
To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  E.  FOR- 
REST JESSEE,  JR.,  a  daughter, 


Ernest  Trice  Thompson  '14 

Sara  Blake  Jessee,  on  May  16, 

1984,  in  Richmond. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  DUDLEY 
M.  PATTESON,  a  son.Jarrott 
McHenry  Patteson,  on  January 
24,  1985. 

1972 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  WILLIAM 
W.  WATSON,  a  daughter, 
Janet  Katharine  Watson,  on 
January  1 1,  1985,  in  Culpeper. 

1976 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  HUN- 
TER BENDALL,  a  son,  Char- 
les Hunter  Bendall,  Jr.,  on 
October  15,  1984,  in  Richmond. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  CHRIS- 
TOPHER D.  EIB,  a  son  and 
first  child,  Christopher  Shawn 
Eib,  on  November  23,  1984,  in 
Richmond. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  WILLIAM 
R.  HILL  III,  a  son,  William  R. 
Hill  IV,  in  January  1985,  in 
Richmond. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  WILLIAM 
CARRINGTON  (W.C.) 
SPROUSE,  JR.,  a  son  and 
second  child,  James  Baldwin 
Sprouse,  on  May  13,  1985. 

1977 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  MARK  A. 
COPES,  a  son,  Joshua  Beverley 
Tayloe  Copes,  on  March  18, 

1985,  in  Newport  News. 

1980 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  THOMAS  P. 
GRAY,  JR., a  daughter  and  first 
child,  Amy  Catherine  Gray,  on 
March  11,  1985,  in  Richmond. 


Please  send  notices  about  alumni 
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Waters,  Alumni  Director, 
Hampden-Sydney  College, 
Hampden-Sydney,  Virginia  23943. 


Deaths 


1912 

Dr.  WILLIAM  BAIRD 
McILWAINE  III,  a  retired 
Petersburg  pediatrician  who 
once  served  as  president  of  the 
Virginia  Pediatric  Society,  died 
on  October  12,  1984.  He  was  a 
former  president  of  the  faculty 
of  Petersburg  General  Hospital 
and  a  diplomate  of  the  Ameri- 
can Board  of  Pediatrics.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Virginia  Medi- 
cal Society,  the  Southside  Virgi- 
nia Medical  Society,  and  the 
American  Pediatric  Society,  and 
he  served  two  terms  on  the 
Virginia  Board  of  Medical  Exa- 
miners. The  Alpha  Omega 
Alpha  medical  honor  society 
named  him  an  alumnus 
member  in  1979.  Dr.  Mcllwaine 
was  an  elder  at  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  and  the  last  living 
charter  member  of  the  Kiwanis 
Club  of  Petersburg. 

ALLISON  GARNETT 
THOMPSON,  a  prominent 
Charleston,  West  Virginia  law- 
yer and  former  U.S.  attorney, 
died  on  April  8,  1985.  A  senior 
partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Con- 
ley,  Thompson,  Lambert,  and 
Shepherd,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  American  and  West  Virgi- 
nia bar  associations  and  he  held 
a  law  degree  from  Harvard 
University.  He  was  a  founder 
and  chairman  of  the  board  of 
the  First  Federal  Savings  & 
Loan  Association  of  Charleston, 
and  he  was  a  member  of  the 
advisory  board  of  the  United 
Bank  of  Dunbar.  He  served  as 
president  of  the  Charleston 
YMCA,  chairman  of  the  Kana- 
wha County  Democratic  Execu- 
tive Committee,  and  trustee  of 
Morris  Harvey  College.  He  also 
served  as  chairman  of  the  West 
Virginia  Turnpike  Commission. 
He  was  an  elder  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Charles- 
ton and  a  member  of  the 
Charleston  Boat  Club  and  the 
Charleston  Tennis  Club. 

At  Hampden-Sydney, 
Thompson  was  a  member  of 
Kappa  Sigma  and  an  honorary 
member  of  Omicron  Delta 
Kappa  leadership  fraternity. 


1913 

The  Reverend  GEORGE  H. 


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RECTOR  of  Elkins,  West  Vir- 
ginia, died  on  March  11,  1984. 
Found  in  his  possession  was  an 
1895  Hampden-Sydney  student 
handbook,  which  will  be  put  in 
the  Atkinson  Museum. 

1914 

The  Reverend  ERNEST 
TRICE  THOMPSON,  profes- 
sor emeritus  of  church  history 
at  Union  Theological  Seminary 
and  a  former  national  Presby- 
terian leader,  died  on  March  31, 
1985.  He  was  instrumental  in 
the  merger  two  years  ago  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.S. 
and  the  United  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  U.S.A.  He  served 
once  as  moderator  of  the 
church's  national  General 
Assembly,  twice  as  moderator  of 
the  Presbyterian  Synod  of  Vir- 
ginia. He  was  a  founder  and 
first  president  of  the  Virginia 
Council  of  Churches  and  a 
member  of  the  American 
Society  of  Church  Historians. 
Co-editor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Outlook,  an  independent  Rich- 
mond weekly  periodical,  he 
wrote  numerous  articles  for  it  as 
well  as  for  other  religious  publi- 
cations. He  also  authored  1 1 
books,  including  a  three-volume 
history,  The  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  South. 

Dr.  Thompson  received  a 
master's  degree  from  Columbia 
University  and  a  master  of 
theology  degree  from  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  He 
received  an  honorary  doctorate 
of  divinity  from  Hampden- 
Sydney  in  1926  and  an  honorary 
doctorate  of  letters  from 
Washington  and  Lee  University 
in  1933.  He  served  in  the  Medi- 
cal Corps  during  World  War  I, 
and  as  a  chaplain  overseas.  He 
pastored  a  church  in  Texas 
before  joining  the  faculty  at 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
1923.  After  his  retirement  in 
1964,  Dr.  Thompson  served  as 
a  visiting  professor  of  church 
history  at  Austin  Theological 
Seminary  in  Texas,  and  he 
taught  at  St.  Andrew's  Presby- 
terian College  in  Laurinburg, 
North  Carolina. 

Dr.  Thompson  was  buried  in 
the  Seminary  Cemetery  at 
Hampden-Sydney. 

1920 

DAVID  N.  HUDDLE,  the 


Blair  Dickinson  '37 

first  director  of  engineering  for 
the  Virginia  Highway  Depart- 
ment, died  on  February  15, 
1984.  He  had  been  an  outstand- 
ing halfback  for  Hampden- 
Sydney 's  football  team  and  he 
was  the  oldest  living  member  of 
the  College's  Kappa  Sigma 
chapter.  During  World  War  I 
he  served  with  the  American 
Expeditionary  Force  in  France. 

1921 

THOMAS  E.  GRAHAM  died 

on  September  17,  1984,  in 

Winchester. 

1924 

WILLIAM  RYLAND 
GARDNER,  a  Richmond  insu- 
rance agent  since  1917,  died  on 
February  6,  1985.  He  was  a 
general  agent  for  the  John  Han- 
cock Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  from  1941  to  1966. 
He  was  a  member  and  past 
president  of  the  Richmond 
Chapter  of  Chartered  Life 
Underwriters,  the  Richmond 
Association  of  Life  Underwri- 
ters, and  the  Richmond  General 
Agents'  and  Managers'  Associa- 
tion. At  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  he  was  a  past  deacon 
and  ruling  elder,  and  he  served 
on  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Presybterian  School  of  Christian 
Education. 

Gardner  belonged  to  the  Es- 
tate Planning  Council  and  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  was 
past  governor  of  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars.  He  served  on 
the  advisory  board  of  the  Salva- 
tion Army.  He  was  a  former 
member  of  the  G)untry  Club  of 
Virginia  and  the  Common- 
wealth Club. 

1928 

THOMAS  B.  CHURN  of 

Reno,  Nevada,  died  on 


James  Douglass  '41 

November  10,  1984.  He  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of 
Virginia  and  received  a  master's 
degree  in  education  from  the 
University  of  Nevada.  Before 
his  retirement  in  1969,  he  was  a 
teacher,  psychologist,  and  guid- 
ance director  for  the  Washoe 
County  School  District.  He  was 
a  founder  of  the  Washoe 
County  Counselors  Association 
and  a  member  of  the  Nevada 
Personnel  and  Guidance  Associ- 
ation and  the  Nevada  State 
Education  Association.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Evangeli- 
cal Free  Church  of  Reno.  At  the 
funeral  services  he  was  called  "a 
true  son  of  Virginia,  warm  in 
manner  and  dignified  in 
bearing...." 

1926 

JOHN  G.  REVELEY,  JR., 

retired  principal  of  Smithfield 
High  School  in  Smithfield,  died 
on  March  9,  1985.  He  was  a 
past  president  of  the  Virginia 
High  School  League  and  was  a 
member  of  Trinity  United 
Methodist  Church,  where  he 
was  a  former  chairman  of  its 
administrative  board.  He  was  a 
member  and  past  president  of 
the  Smithfield  Rotary  Club  and 
a  member  of  the  Smithfield 
German  Club.  After  his  retire- 
ment from  Smithfield  High 
School,  he  taught  in  the  New- 
port News  school  system  and 
the  Isle  of  Wight  Academy.  He 
held  a  master's  degree  from  the 
College  of  William  and  Mary. 

1929 

DENNIS  E.  H.  CLARK, 

retired  manager  of  the  West 
Virginia  Water  G)mpany  in 
Welch  and  Bluefield,  died  on 
June  24,  1984.  As  chairman  of 
the  West  Virginia  Water  Asso- 
ciation and  as  a  member  of  the 


National  Board  of  Directors  of 
the  American  Water  Associa- 
tion, he  received  the  Fuller 
Award  as  the  outstanding  man 
in  his  field.  Clark  held  a  variety 
of  positions  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Bluefield  and 
Welch,  and  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Theta  Chi  fraternity. 

A.  EDWIN  CRALLE,  JR., 
a  retired  businessman  of  Pros- 
pea,  died  on  October  19,  1984, 
in  Lake  Wales,  Florida. 

Dr.  CHARLES  M. 
HEARTWELL,  JR.,  professor 
emeritus  of  dentistry  at  the 
Medical  College  of  Virginia 
School  of  Dentistry,  died  on 
January  12,  1985.  He  founded 
and  was  the  first  professor  in 
the  school's  maxillofacial  proso- 
dontic  department,  which  con- 
centrates on  restoration  of  the 
neck  and  head  of  accident  vic- 
tims and  cancer  surgery 
patients.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Virginia  Dental  Society  and 
the  Maxillofacial  Prosodontic 
Society.  He  graduated  from 
MCV  and  took  graduate  studies 
at  the  Naval  Dental  School  in 
Bethesda,  Maryland.  He  retired 
from  the  U.S.  Navy  Dental 
Corps  in  1940  with  the  rank  of 
captain. 

1930 

Dr.  HARRY  B.  STONE,  JR., 

a  prominent  eye,  ear,  nose  and 
throat  specialist  in  Roanoke 
from  1937  until  his  retirement 
last  year,  died  on  May  22,  1984. 
He  served  on  the  staff  of  Lewis- 
Gale  and  Roanoke  Memorial 
hospitals,  and  he  presided  over 
three  organizations:  the  Roa- 
noke Academy  of  Medicine,  the 
Virginia  Society  of  Ophthal- 
mology and  Otolaryngology,  and 
the  medical  staff  of  Community 
Hospital.  Before  going  to  Roa- 
noke, he  was  the  resident  house 
surgeon  at  the  New  York  Eye 
&  Ear  Infirmary.  He  was  a  naval 
reserve  officer  from  1 942  to 
1946.  He  served  as  chairman 
of  the  board  of  deacons  at  First 
Baptist  Church  in  Roanoke,  and 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Roa- 
noke Rotary  Club  and  the  She- 
nandoah Club. 

1931 

DAVID  G.  SANDERS, 

retired  manager  of  Pet  Dairy, 
died  on  July  13,  1984.  He  had 
served  as  director  of  Commer- 


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boro  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
member  of  the  Red  Cross 
Board,  and  member  of  the  Sal- 
vation Army  Board.  He  also 
served  as  president  of  the 
Rotary  Club,  and  he  was  an 
elder  and  trustee  at  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of 
Middlesboro. 

J.  EDWARD  TRAYN- 
HAM,  JR.,  of  Waynesboro  died 
on  February  16,  1985. 

1934 

RAYMOND  HUSTON 
BOWYER,  retired  clerk  for  the 
U.S.  Postal  Service,  died  on  Sep- 
tember 15,  1984,  in  Charleston, 
West  Virginia.  He  was  a  World 
War  II  veteran  and  a  member 
of  the  Bream  Memorial  Presby- 
terian Church. 

1935 

Dr.  HENRY  S.  MOSBY,  a 

professor  emeritus  and  former 
department  head  of  Fisheries 
and  Wildlife  Sciences  at  VPI, 
died  on  August  12,  1984,  in 
Blacksburg.  He  had  published  a 
book  and  numerous  scientific 
papers  in  the  field  of  wildlife 
management.  A  former  captain 
in  the  U.S.  Army  Air  Force,  Dr. 
Mosby  served  at  one  time  as  an 
elder  in  the  Blacksburg  Presby- 
terian Church. 

1937 

M.  BLAIR  DICKINSON  died 
on  September  11,  1984,  in 
Boynton  Beach,  Florida.  He 
received  an  MA  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia  in  1941.  Apart 
from  his  service  as  a  naval 
officer  in  World  War  II,  his 
entire  career  was  spent  as  an 
educator,  beginning  as  high 
school  principal  at  Hume  in 
Fauquier  County. 

As  a  Navy  lieutenant,  Dick- 
inson saw  most  of  his  wartime 
service  in  the  Mediterranean 
theater.  His  ship  was  engaged 
in  the  invasion  of  Sicily  at  Gela, 
and  he  saw  action  in  the  critical 
battle  of  Salerno.  Hostilities 
over,  he  moved  into  English 
teaching  as  instructor  at  North 
Carolina  State  in  Raleigh.  There 
he  married  Lucile  Lawton,  one 
of  his  departmental  colleagues, 
and  from  then  on  they  were  a 
tandem  team  at  his  overseas 
assignments. 

Dickinson  joined  the  growing 


number  of  Hampden-Sydney 
graduates  who  struck  out  in 
international  fields  after  World 
War  II.  He  took  assignments 
with  American  Dependents' 
schools  at  three  successive  army 
posts  abroad:  Okinawa,  1951- 
55;  Kaiserslautern,  Germany, 
1955-59;  and  Vicenza,  Italy, 
1959-61.  He  topped  off  his 
career  with  a  four-year  stint  at 
Leesburg  High  School  in 
Florida. 

Dickinson's  friend,  SAM 
RUFF  '38,  recalls,  "Mention  of 
Blair's  personality  is  essential  to 
any  idea  of  the  man.  He  was  an 
accomplished  analyst  of  Chaucer- 
ian and  Middle  English  gram- 
mar constructions,  but  neverthe- 
less easily  escaped  the 
professorial  stereotype.  In  a  cas- 
ual but  cultivated  manner,  he 
peppered  his  conversation  with 
humorous  allusions,  recitations 
of  Kipling  poems,  snatches 
from  Elizabethan  lyrics,  and 
even  irreverent  paraphrases  of 
quatrains  of  Omar.  His  enjoy- 
ment of  literature  was  conta- 
gious. In  short,  Blair  had  style." 

1938 

C.  GRATTAN  LINDSEY, 
JR.,  a  former  trustee  of  the  Col- 
lege, died  on  March  1,  1985.  He 
served  as  president  of  the 
Lindsey-Robinson  Company 
and  was  the  president  and 
owner  of  the  Regional  Realty 
Company  in  Roanoke.  He  was 
on  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  Virginia  Poultry  Federation, 
and  he  was  an  elder  in  First 
Presbyterian  Church.  He  held  a 
graduate  degree  from  the  Har- 
vard Business  School. 

Dr  FRANK  P.  TURNER, 
JR.,  a  retired  dentist,  died 
August  19,  1984,  in  Martins- 
ville. He  served  as  president  of 
the  Piedmont  Dental  Corps 
from  1953  to  1955.  He  was  a 
member  of  Christ  Episcopal 
Church  and  once  served  on  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  Southwestern  Virginia. 

1939 

JAMES  B.  REVELEY  died 

recently  in  Dallas,  Texas. 

1941 

WALTER  R.  BANTON,  the 

chief  federal  probation  officer 
for  the  southwest  district  of 
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Alumni  Office  Update 

Alumni  Council 
Meeting 

On  April  19th  thirty-one 
alumni  representing  the  Alumni 
Council  and  presidents  of  local 
Hampden-Sydney  clubs 
returned  to  the  campus  for  a 
full  day  session  of  detailed  brief- 
ings from  administrative  offic- 
ers, faculty,  and  students.  Al 
Gordon,  Chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Kidder  Peabody  and  also 
Chairman  of  the  Harvard  Col- 
lege fund,  spoke  at  lunch  on  his 
experiences  at  fund  raising  for 
Harvard.  This  meeting  is  held 
annually  to  update  alumni 
volunteers  on  the  most  recent 
developments  at  the  College. 
John  Waters  '58,  Director  of 
Alumni  Relations,  recognized 
the  contributions  of  outgoing 
Alumni  Association  President 
Dr.  Bill  LeHew  '57  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  meeting  and 
presented  LeHew  a  Hampden- 
Sydney  chair  in  appreciation  of 
his  service  to  the  College. 

New  Alumni 

Association 

Officers 

New  officers  of  the  Alumni 
Association  were  elected  by  the 
Alumni  Council  at  its  annual 
meeting  at  Hampden-Sydney  on 
April  19th.  They  are  as  follows: 
president,  Leigh  S.  Fultz  '67, 
president  of  Capital  Synergistics 
Corporation  in  Winston-Salem, 
North  Carolina;  vice  president, 
James  Randolph  (Randy) 
Edwards  '69,  administrator  of 
Roanoke  Memorial  Hospitals; 
and  secretary,  Herbert  L. 
Sebren,Jr.  '66,  attorney  at  law 
in  Tappahannock.  These  men 
will  serve  rwo-year  terms  which 
will  expire  in  the  spring  of 
1987. 


50th  Reunion  of 
the  Class  of  1935 

The  Class  of  1935  held  its  50th 
Reunion  at  Hampden-Sydney 
on  May  3  and  4.  Twenty-seven 
class  members  along  with  their 
wives  and  guests  attended  a 
reception  given  in  their  honor 
by  President  and  Mrs.  Bunting 
at  Middlecourt  on  Friday  even- 
ing, followed  by  the  class  reun- 
ion banquet  in  Winston  Hall. 
Rev.  Bernard  E.  "Dopey"  Dot- 
son,  Sr.  from  Southern  Pines, 
North  Carolina,  served  as  the 
Master  of  Ceremonies  at  the 
banquet  which  featured  remarks 
on  the  state  of  the  College  by 
President  Bunting  and  the  usual 
reminiscing  by  individual  class 
members.  In  addition  to  the 
Class  of  1935,  twelve  other 
alumni  from  classes  which 
graduated  before  1935  and  their 
guests  were  also  present  for  the 
reunion  activities,  which 
included  a  continental  breakfast 
on  Saturday  morning  at 
Hampden  House  and  visits  to 
various  campus  facilities  such  as 
the  Esther  T.  Atkinson  Museum 
and  the  Athletic  Center. 

Reception  For 
The  Sons  Of 
Alumni 

On  February  13th  the  Alumni 
Office  entertained  currently 
enrolled  students  who  are  sons 
of  alumni  at  a  reception  in  their 
honor  at  Hampden  House. 
Fourteen  men  attended  the 
social. 

Senior  Night 
Dinner 

The  annual  Senior  Night 
Dinner  given  by  the  Alumni 
Association  in  honor  of  the 
Senior  Class  was  held  on  April 
4th  in  the  lobby  of  the  Athletic- 
Center.  This  event  formally 
introduces  each  year's  Senior 
Class  to  the  activities  of  the 
Alumni  Association.  Alumni 
Association  President  Bill 
LeHew  '57  and  President  Bunt- 
ing addressed  the  Class  of  1985 
on  this  occasion. 


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Virginia,  died  in  Salem  on 
August  2,  1984. 

ROBERT  L.  DABNEY  III, 

founder  of  Dabney  Tire  Com- 
pany in  Roanoke,  died  on  Janu- 
ary 30,  1985.  He  served  in  the 
U.S.  Navy  in  the  Pacific  during 
World  War  II  and  during  the 
Korean  War.  He  was  a  retired 
lieutenant  commander  in  the 
U.S.  Naval  Reserve,  an  elder  at 
Raleigh  Court  Presbyterian 
Church,  a  past  president  of  the 
Roanoke  Host  Lions  Club,  and  a 
former  board  member  of  the 
Virginia  State  Tire  Association. 
He  held  an  engineering  degree 
from  Virginia  Tech. 

JAMES  E.  DOUGLASS,  a 
miller  and  civic  leader  in  Aldie, 
died  on  January  29,  1985.  Dur- 
ing World  War  II  he  served 
with  the  U.S.  Army  Air  Force 
and  was  awarded  the  Purple 
Heart.  In  1982  he  donated  the 
historic  Aldie  Mill,  which  had 
been  in  his  family  for  six  gener- 
ations, to  the  Virginia  Outdoors 
Foundation  with  the  intent  of 
restoring  the  mill  to  working 
condition  for  public  viewing.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Aldie 
Presbyterian  Church,  a  charter 
member  of  the  Aldie  Ruritan 
Club  and  the  Volunteer  Fire 
Department,  a  director  of  Sov- 
ran Bank  for  38  years,  and  a 
member  of  the  Middleburg 
Lions  Club.  He  also  served  on 
the  Loudoun  Board  of  Zoning 
Appeals. 

Dr.  JEFFERSON  FRASIA 
JONES,  JR.,  who  served  in  the 
Virginia  Medical  O^nter  in 
Salem,  Virginia,  for  12  years, 
died  on  October  28,  1984.  He 
had  previously  served  in  the 
Catawba  Sanatorium,  and  he 
was  once  an  officer  in  the  U.S. 
Navy.  An  avid  sportsman,  Dr. 
Jones  was  a  member  of  both  the 
James  River  Foxhunters  Associ- 
ation and  the  Cumberland  Hunt 
Club. 

1944 

BENJAMIN  LEE  OLIVER, 

manager  of  a  True  Value  Home 
Center  in  Virginia  Beach,  died 
in  July,  1984.  He  was  a  native  of 
Hampden-Sydney  and  attained 
the  rank  of  captain  while  serv- 
ing in  the  Marines.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  Beach 
United  Methodist  Church. 


40 


Pat  Striplin  '45 

1945 

ERASTUS  FAIN  (Pat) 
STRIPLIN,  a  retired  public 
relations  officer  with  the  Nor- 
folk and  Southern  Railway,  died 
in  July,  1984,  in  Roanoke.  He 
was  a  World  War  II  veteran 
and  wrote  for  several  newspap- 
ers in  Virginia  and  in  New 
York  state.  He  had  published 
one  book,  The  Norfolk  & 
Western:  A  History. 

DONALD  W.  WICK,  a 
retired  employee  of  the  Mcjun- 
kin  Corporation  in  Charleston, 
West  Virginia,  died  on  Sep- 
tember 3,  1984.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Christ  Church 
United  Methodist  and  the 
Masonic  Lodge  and  Edgewood 
Country  Club.  He  was  a  board 
member  of  the  Charleston  Cys- 
tic Fibrosis  Foundation,  and  he 
was  an  Army  Medical  Corps 
veteran  of  World  War  II. 

1948 

LAMAN  KEITH  HAR- 
GRAVE  died  on  February  23, 
1985,  at  his  home  in  Dolphin. 
He  was  a  World  War  II  veteran 
and  a  graduate  of  Princeton. 

1950 

WILLIAM  G.  JONES,  JR., 

died  in  June,  1984,  in  Raleigh, 
North  Carolina. 

1956 

Dr.  CARL  H.  SOMMAR- 
DAHL,  JR.,  who  practiced  den- 
tistry for  a  number  of  years  in 
Roanoke,  died  on  March  21, 
1985.  He  held  a  D.D.S.  from 
the  Medical  Gillege  of  Virginia. 

1959 

FRANK  H.  WHITE  of 

Abingdon,  Virginia,  died  on 
June  1,  1984.  In  an  editorial  in 
the  Washington  County  News. 
Lowry  Bowman  praised  White 


Keith  Porter  '61 

for  his  hard  work  and  his  com- 
mitment to  helping  people. 
Bowman  noted  that  White's 
farm  "always  has  been  one  of 
the  agricultural  showplaces  of 
the  county  because  it  is  so  beau- 
tifully maintained." 

1960 

H.  ELLIOTTE  BOSWELL  III 

of  Burkeville  died  on  November 
30,  1984. 

1961 

J.  KEITH  PORTER,  president 
of  Waters  Advertising  Agency 
in  Newport  News,  died  on  July 
4,  1984.  He  was  formerly  an 
account  executive  with  The 
Virginian-Pilot  and  The  Ledger- 
Star  newspapers,  and  he  was  on 
the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Virginia  Peninsula  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  In  the  Grace  United 
Methodist  Church  he  served  on 
the  administrative  board,  on  the 
pastor-parish  relations  commit- 
tee, on  the  council  on  ministries, 
and  in  the  church  choir,  and  he 
was  chairman  of  the  communi- 
cations committee  of  the  Virgi- 
nia Conference  of  the  United 
Methodist  Church.  Porter 
served  on  the  budget  committee 
of  the  Peninsula  United  Way 
and  was  executive  director  of 
the  Virginia  Seafood  Council. 
He  was  also  a  past  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Peninsula  Arts 
Association. 

1964 

Dr.  ROBERT  E.  HELTZEL, 
JR.,  a  Richmond  periodontist 
for  about  1 5  years,  died  on 
August  13,  1984.  In  addition  to 
his  practice  he  taught  courses  at 
MCV's  School  of  Dentistry  and 
he  was  a  member  of  the  board 
of  Grace  House  and  a  member 
of  the  West  Henrico  Kiwanis 
Club.  He  also  taught  Sunday 


school  at  the  Grace  Covenant 
Presbyterian  Church.  Dr.  Helt- 
zel  served  two  years  as  a  captain 
in  the  U.S.  Air  Force  in  Spain 
before  opening  his  dental  prac- 
tice in  1969. 

Condolences 

1941 

Senator  WILLIAM  B. 
SPONG,  JR.,  dean  of  the  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  Law  School,  lost 
his  mother,  Emily  Nichols 
Spong,  in  February,  1985.  Mrs. 
Spong  chaired  the  Portsmouth 
School  Board  for  13  years,  effec- 
tively lobbying  for  funds  to 
build  better  schools  and  pro- 
grams. She  was  the  founder  and 
president  of  the  Portsmouth 
Historical  Association,  and  she 
participated  in  efforts  to  provide  ' 
jobs  and  rehabilitation  services 
for  the  handicapped.  A  Virginian- 
Pilot  editorial  praised  her  as 
"intelligent,  determined,  ener- 
getic, ...an  exemplary  citizen" 
who  "brightened  her  city  and 
state." 


inprammir 

Reunions 

Class  of  '45 

40th  Reunion 

October  18,  1985 

Chairman  Ernest  Gates 

Class  of  '50 

35  th  Reunion 

October  4,  1985 

Chairman  Bill  Wall 

Class  of  '60 

25th  Reunion 

October  18,  1985 

Chairman  Bill  Goodwyn 

Class  of  '65 

20th  Reunion 

October  4,  1985 

Chairman  George  Heilig 

Class  of  75 

10th  Reunion 

October  18,  1985 

Chairman  Charlie  Baskervill 

Class  of  '80 

5  th  Reunion 

October  19,  1985 

Chairman  Vance  Hull 


Homecoming  &  Parents  Weekend  1986-88 

1986 

Parents  Weekend    September  27 

Guilford 

Homecoming    October  1 1 

Emory  6  Henry 

1987 

Homecoming    October  1 7 

Washington  &  Lee 

Parents  Weekend   November  1 

Gettysburg 

1988 

Parents  Weekend    September  24 

To  Be  Announced 

Homecoming    October  8 

Emory  &  Henry 


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1985  Football  Schedule 

Note  that  this  schedule  has  been  changed 

from  previously  published  versions. 

September 

14     Samford  Away 

21     West  Virginia  Away 

28     Guilford  Home 

October 

5       Bridgewater 

Parents  Weekend 
12     Emory  &  Henry 
19     Washington  &  Lee 

Homecoming 
26     Maryville 


November 

2      Gettysburg 

9      Sewanee 

16     Randolph-Macon 


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1986  Football  Schedule 

September 

13     Samford  Home 

20     West  Virginia  Home 

27     Guilford  Away 

October 

Bridgewater  Away 

Emory  &  Henry  Home 

Homecoming 

Washington  &  Lee  Away 

Maryville  Away 

November 

1       Gettysburg  Home 

Parents  Weekend 

8      Sewanee  Away 

1 5     Randolph-Macon  Home 


ACADEMIC  CALENDAR 

1985-86 


First  Semester 

AUGUST 
25       Sunday 


Freshmen  and  Transfers 


report 

27  Tuesday        All  other  students  report 

28  Wednesday  Classes  begin 


SEPTEMBER 
4         Wednesday 
25       Wednesday 

OCTOBER 

9         Wednesday 

14  Monday 

1 5  Tuesday 
18       Friday 


Last  day  of  Add  Period 
Last  day  of  Drop  Period 
for  Upperclassmen 

Deficiency  reports  due  in 

Records  Office 
No  classes* 
No  classes* 

Last  day  of  Drop  Period  for 
Freshman 


NOVEMBER 
8         Friday 


14 
26 


Thursday 
Tuesday 


Close  of  registration  for 

spring  courses 
Rhetoric  Proficiency  Exam 
Thanksgiving  break  begins 

after  classes 


DECEMBER 


10 
11 
12 
15 
17 


Monday         Classes  resume 
Tuesday        Last  day  of  classes 
Wednesday  Study  day** 
Thursday      First  day  of  exams 
Sunday  Study  day** 

Tuesday        Last  day  of  exams 


Second  Semester 

JANUARY 

14  Tuesday        All  students  report 

1 5  Wednesday  Classes  begin 

22       Wednesday  Last  day  of  Add  Period 

FEBRUARY 

12       Wednesday  Last  day  of  Drop  Period  for 

Upperclassmen 
26       Wednesday  Deficiency  reports  due  in 

Records  Office 
MARCH 
5         Wednesday  Last  day  of  Drop  Period  for 

Freshmen 
Friday  Spring  break  begins  after 

classes 
17       Monday        Classes  resume 


APRIL 


3 
11 


Thursday 
Friday 


29  Tuesday 

30  Wednesday  Study  day** 


Rhetoric  Proficiency  Exam 
Close  of  registration  for 
fall  semester 
Last  day  of  classes 

n         i         i'       *  * 


MAY 

1 


7 
11 


Thursday      Study  day** 
Friday  First  day  of  exams 

Sunday  Study  day** 

Wednesday  Last  day  of  exams 
Sunday         Graduation 


*  for  students  who  wish  to  remain  on  campus  on  October  12-1 X 

dormitories  will  remain  open  and  meals  will  he  provided. 
**  Rhetoric  101-102  final  exam  will  be  scheduled  on  one  of  the  study  days. 


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DEFERRED  GIVING 


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The  Key  to  the  Future. 


In  your  present  or  future 
will,  please  consider 
Hampden-Sydney  as  an 
outright  or  contingent 
beneficiary.  The  College  has 
received  bequests  ranging 
in  size  from  several 
hundred  dollars  to  over  one 
million  dollars  in  the  past 
several  years.  Every 
bequest,  regardless  of  size, 
has  been  received  with  par- 
ticular gratitude  —  a  last 
appreciation  from  an 
alumnus,  parent  or  friend 
to  whom  Hampo^n-Syaney 
was  a  very  special  place. 
Bequests  have  also  created 
named  funds  to  support 


the  donor's  particular 
interest  in  the  College  (eg., 
faculty  salaries,)  and,  of 
course,  the  name  of  the 
donor  is  recognized  in  per- 
petuity through  the 
endowment  created.  There 
are  also  tax  considerations 
in  naming  the  College  as  a 
beneficiary. 

The  official  form  of  an 
unrestricted  bequest  to  the 
College  is  as  follows: 
"I  give,  devise  and  bequeath 
[all  the  rest,  residue  and 
remainder  of  my  estate] 
or 

[ %  of  the  rest, 

residue  and  remainder  of 


-] 


my  estate] 
or 

[the  sum  of  $ 

to  the  Trustees  of  the 
Hampden-Sydney  College,  a 
Virginia  corporation  located 
in  Hampden^ydney,  Virgi- 
nia, to  be  used  for  such  gen- 
eral purposes  of  the  College 
as  the  Trustees  thereof  may 
deem  appropriate." 

For  further  information 
about  a  bequest  to 
Hajnpden-Sydney,  please 
write  George  Peters, 
Hampden-Sydney  College, 
P.O.  Box  637,  Hampden- 
Sydney,  Virginia  23943  or 
call  him  at  (804)  22^4382. 


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