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WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS , May 1949

Edit01· : EUGENE OLIVE, '10

Published in October, December, March, and May by Wake Forest College, Office of Publk Rela t ions and Alumni Activities, Wake Forest, N. C.

Subscription Price : One Dollar a Year Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Wak e Forest, North Carolina. Address all communications to ALUMNI NEWS, W ake Forest, North Carolina.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President--De. George Erick Bell '19 ........................ Wilson First Vtce-President-J . Burgin Pennell ' 17 .......... Asheville Second Vice-President--Henry C. Liles '32 ........ Greensboro Immediate Past President- Hubert E . Olive ' 18 .... L exington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Named Above President Thurman Kitchin '05, ex officio ..... ... Wa k e Forest Irving E . Carlyle '17, ex officio .................... Winston-Salem Waldo C. Cheek '34 (1949) ................................... Asheboro Dr. Graham Barefoot '21 ( 1949 ) ........................ Wilmington Ira T . Johnston '15 (1950) ........................................ J effe rson John H . Vernon '3 2 (1950 ) .................................... Burl ington David M. Britt '37 (1951 ) ....................................... . Fairmont Dr. 0 . Hunter Jones '31 (1 951 ) ..... ......................... Charlotte

IN THIS ISSUE Cover P ages: Arch itect's drawing of aerial view

of proposed buildings and campus at Reynolda, look­ing sou th to Winston-Salem.

Page Editorial ........... ..... ..... ....... ........ .... ....... ........... ... . 2 Chart Showing P lan of Class Reunions ............ ..... . The House the Boodlers Buil t

By Bettie H. Peiia ....... . ...................... ........... . Three Hicks Brothers ..................... ....................... . Louie Vernon Coggins ....................................... .. . Bill O'Brian Receives Nation-wide Notice ............. . Pulled from the P ostman's P ouch .................. . Why Should I Gamble on a n M.D.?

By J ohn A. Oates, J r. . .. ..... .. ....... . ............. . Chaplain Henry Blanchard ............. .

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Inside the Rock Wall ..... . ............... 10 New Buildings Proposed for Reynolda ................. . 12 Football Prospects for 1949 .. .. .......... . ................. 14 Future Wake Foresters .... . ............. . ............... 16 Informa tion about Former WFC St uden ts 17 Commencement Program .... .. . . ........................ . 23

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Thurman Kitchin '05, B.A., M.D., LL.D. President Wake Forest College

President Will When alumni received news Become Professor that President Kitchin had re-

quested the Board of Trustees to allow him to retire on June 30, 1950, from administra­tive duties , words of protest and of regret arose from many quarters. Students of the past three decades find it difficult to think of Wake Forest College apart from Thurman Kitchin. Any history of the college for that period will give prominent place to him as teacher, dean of the medical school , college physician, president, able administrator, builder, and educational statesman . Approachable, fr iendly, possessed of rare insight and common sense, sympathetic and under­standing in dealing with people and problems, Dr. Kitchin has presided over the destinies of the college t hrough depression, destructive fires , re-building and renova tion, a World War, postwar expansion, an enlargement program, and initial stages of plans to re-locate the college on a new site in Winston-Salem. During the period of his presidency standards have been raised, departments strengthened and new ones added, a fourfold increase in the size of the student body has been made, several new buildings and much new equipment have been added, the faculty and administrative staff enlarged. Withal, a spirit of un­derstanding and cooperation has been fostered and maintained on the campus, among alumni, and with the constituents of the college generally. But Dr. Kitchin is not leaving the Wake Forest College he has loved since the beginning of his student days here 47 years ago. For one more year he will serve as presi­dent and thereafter his presence on the campus as president emeritus and professor of physiology and

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hygiene will make him a tremendous asset to the college for years to come. He will be available as time and strength permit to attend alumni meetings and other functions where he may serve the institution to which be has devoted the major portion of his life.

Available A look at the figures ought to convince even the skeptical that friends of Wake

Resources Forest College are making good progress toward securing necessary funds for its building program in Winston-Salem. Raising the sum of two­and-a-half million dollars in one year is more than a trifling achievement. Here is the actual record for that period:

Amount subscribed since April 1, 1948

Convention's Program for Wake Forest College ... ............................. .... ... ......... ... .

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Program .... ...... ...................... - ............ .

Wake Forest Enlargement Program ........ .

$1,025,000

1,530,829 58,486

Total one year's subscriptions .............. $2,589,315

Considering the whole picture up to April of this year, the situation stands as follows:

Present Resources for New Campus

Funds Unpaid Source On Hand Pledges Total

Convention's Program $332.157.24 $1,293,413.57 $1,625,570.81

Winston-Salem Program 757,768.43 837 ,318.54 1.595,086.97

Enlargement Program 280,544.85 576,349 .34 856,894.19

Smith Reynolds Foundation 638,557.85 638.557.85

Total $2,009,028.37 $2,707,081.45 $4,716,109.82

Property now at Wake Forest, including a modern new dormitory constructed with funds from the Enlargment Program, is easily worth from four to five million dollars. Whatever may be considered the fair market value of this property is to be added to the total as given above. In addition to these figures is cash on hand in the amount of $75,000.00 which has been designated for a new Groves Stadium in Winston-Salem. This item is not included in the general statement for the reason that the stadium will likely be paid for with funds designated for that purpose and not out of regular gifts for the building program. A campaign is now in progress designed to secure necessary additional funds to begin construc­tion by 1952. Prospects for its success are encourag­ing. An undertaking so gigantic calls both for patience and for sacrificial cooperation on the part of multi­plied thousands. The ultimate goal will be worth all the effort and time required for its achievement.

Classes Holding Reunions May 30: 1899--19~5--1909--1924--1930--1939--1945 1904--1906--1919--1929--1931--1944--1946

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1949

New Plan For Heretofore classes have held re­Ciass Reunions unions at five-year intervals. Objec-

tion to this plan has been offered because members of reunion classes find themselves on the campus when former fellow students belong­ing to other classes are not present. We are indebted to experiments in other colleges and universities for the evolution of a plan which overcomes this difficulty in part and provides for celebrating lOth , 25th, 40th, and 50th anniversaries as well. We are under special obligation to Miss Anne Garrard, Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs, Duke University , for allowing us to make use of a chart she has prepared giving what seems to be the best scheme yet devised for reunions. A copy of our own plan, based on this chart, appears on page 4. This scheme calls for the first reunion two years after graduation. Other reunion dates vary from two to six years and bring together at each commencement two groups of three classes each that were in college as contemporaries. After this year, reunions will be held annually by eleven classes. This year's number is fourteen. All persons who graduated fifty or more years ago are eligible for membership in the Half Century Club which will meet every commencement. Many will attend commencements as often as possible and will be most welcome, reunion or not. We hope everyone will make a special effort to be present always on the dates when his class holds reunions.

Want a Good Maintaining a healthy local • ;> alumni association is not easy. To

Alumm Program. get a chapter started requires ingenuity. Maybe we can help. Experience proves that regular meetings ought not to be financially embar­rassing to those who attend. Fund raising should be avoided at the meetings. Single-type programs are likely to fail. For example, chapters that major on showing a football picture are in danger of keeping away some alumni whose primary interests run to other phases of college activity. Football films are made primarily for the benefit of players and include much that becomes monotonous through the fifty minutes required for showing one of them. A good plan usually includes a diversified program, followed by a football film for all who want to stay long enough to see it. Write the Alumni Office for assistance in arranging a program. Slides showing architect's drawings of proposed buildings on the new campus make a most interesting part of a program. Phono­graph recordings of glee club numbers and of a nation-wide Army broadcast, "A Salute to Wake Forest," are available. Students from the successful debate squad and members of campus organizations are willing to attend some meetings within reach of the college. Several faculty members, coaches, athletes, and officials of the college stand ready to respond to invitations to visit occasional meetings of alumni groups. A good program may be arranged by using local talent only. Most alumni like to reminisce about their college days. Occasional opportunity should be allowed for such indulgence. High school seniors may be invited to meetings sometimes, pre­ferably in the autumn or winter so that time remains

for making application for admission to the college.

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 194_9 ____________________ P_ag::.e_F_o_u_r

Sometimes parents of students currently at Wake Forest arc mvited to alumni meetings, and often wives of alumni are included. By all means, keep the

local alumni Wake Forest conscious. Future useful­ness of the college rests primarily with its former students.

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The House the Boodlers Built Practical Solution to a Problem

By Bettie H. Pena

(EditoriaL Note: Photos of Boodle Inn and some of its builder­occupants, together w ith a con­densation of this article , appeared in a recent issue of the Central Press Syndicate which is a news service supplying features to most of the newspapers of the United States. The release originated in t he News Bureau of Wake Forest College , Tom Bost, Jr. , Director, and was prepared by Mrs . Peiia, a staff member of the Bureau. )

The barn-like asbestos shingle structure, out the Durham road a little distance from the campus, is called by its occupants , "Boodle Inn." In it live eleven " boodlers," gathered together from all over South and North Carolina, students here at Wake Forest.

Boodle Inn has become quite a permanent home to them, partially because most of them had a hand in building it, board by board, and nail by nail, and further because it has been the scene of many hours of study, parties, and fun , and full­time living. If it seems to bulge ~t the seams at times, it probably 1s because the boodlers are having in 50 or 60 guests for some of the specialty of the house, barbecue.

But on with the story of the humble beginnings of Boodle Inn. The year 1946 saw veterans Jerry, Buddy, and Noodie Johnson , Dick

Stone, and Aubrey Todd freezing together in a boarding house while pursuing their studies. Not the least of their reasons for being dis­satisfied was that to their lot fell the cutting of the wood to be burned for heating their quarters. Now, according to them, the place was nice, but the comforts of home were dear to them, and they dreamed a dream of building such. an establishment of their own.

The dream stirred during the general bull session one night that year, and by the following Septem­ber it had come to life. The months in the interim had seen much planning, scraping, and the ex­pending of quite a lot of elbow grease on the part of the original five and six more students, selected for their true boodling spirits. (The name, incidentally , is the modern term for " pitching woo").

The building took place that summer of 1947. Ray Green sup­plied the lumber, cheaply obtained from his home town of Boone, N.C. Posey Downs turned electrician and wired the house, while Bob Huffine and Aubrey Todd took care of the plumbing. Jack Idol super­vised the carpentry, putting into use the excellent knowledge of the trade that he had been taught by his father. All the Johnsons pooled their knowledge and it was dis-

covered that it included a little of everything. Another handy man was James Tart. P erhaps the big­gest help was Dick Stone, who, unable to be present, during the entire time of the construction, paid off in fines for his absence. With these assessments from Stone and approximately $140 from each of the co-owners the house-the­Boodlers-built was completed. Con­struction had been accomplished between August 22 and September 12, the day that the fall session opened. And the boys were ready with the home and the comforts, which include being warm when cold weather comes.

Furnishing the Inn seemed to take care of itself. E. B. Earnshaw, College Bursar, contributed the site for the building and the bunks and part of the plumbing supplies also were contributed by the Col­lege. A gas stove in perfect condi­tion was donated by an interested lady living in Asheville, and Noodie J ohnson brought a living room suite back from his Rowland, N. C., home. Other necessities were collected from the homes of all, and thus Boodle Inn was made livable.

Boodle Inn, far from being a bedlam. is run with the business acumen which has characterized the project from its beginning. While one boy takes his turn at the buying, bill paying, and bookkeep­ing, the other ten, in committees of two, do the cooking and cleaning. The duty week is five days long, Monday through Friday, and two boys a day take care of all the housework. In this way, each boy cooks and cleans one day a week. The bookkeeping job is rotated, giv­ing each person a change from the household duties. On week-ends it is each man for himself where meals are concerned , as few boys usually are left at home when Saturday rolls around.

The Boodlers, good and true, to­day number not eleven, but twelve , though some of t he charter mem­bers have been replaced from time to t ime. The Johnsons, Ger ald, Alex, and J immy, all brothers of Latta , S . C. , and cousin Noodie, of Rowland, N . C., are still residen ts of the inn, as are Dick Stone of Swannanoa, Jim Tart of Smithfield, Aubrey Todd of Durham and Bob Huffine of Camp Lejeune. P osey Downs of Salemburg, Ray Green of Boone, and Jack Idol of Deep Gap

(Continued on pa.ge 11 )

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1949

R. LANSING HICKS '42

Three Hicks Brothers Baptist and Episcopal Ministers and

Methodist Business Man in One Family

William Snelling Hicks, better known as Bill, graduated from Wake Forest in 1939 as a minis­terial student; then one year at Louisville and two at Yale Divinity School won for him the degree of B.D. From Yale he went into the pastorate of the Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia, serving until 1944. In 1943-44 he was also chap­lain of the North Carolina Society of Washington, D. C. Since 1944 he has been pastor of the Blacks­burg Baptist Church in Virginia and chaplain to Baptist students at V.P.I. He is now a member of the Lions Club and president of the Blacksburg Ministerial Association. He is married to lola H . Chase, graduate of Colby College, and they have a daughter, Suzanne Chase Hicks, age two and a half years.

Henry Thomas Hicks, III , was at Wake Forest 1936-40 and entered the Naval Reserve Training De­partment of Northwestern Uni­versity in the summer of 1940. In 1941 he was employed by Edwards and Company of Sanford as pay­master, then became inspection foreman in the machine shop, and later served as Procurement Engi­neer. He went into active service with the Navy in 1944 and spent two years as Hydraulic Specialist at the Experimental Naval Air Station , Patuxent River , Maryland.

B. T. HICKS III '40

Since that time he has been en­gaged as cost accountant and pay­master with the Edwards Company of Sanford. Henry is a Methodist, a Kiwanian and the executive officer of the Lee Rifle and Pistol Club. He states, in explanation of the fact that three brothers belong to three different religious denomi­nations, " I joined the Methodist Church after the birth of our sec­ond child." Mrs. Hicks was Zelda Reid O'Neal of Sanford . Their two children are Betsy Shedd and Henry Thomas, Jr. , ages five and a half and two and a half .

Robert Lansing Hicks, third of the sons of a distinguished Raleigh ramily, received his degree from Wake Forest in 1942. He is at pres­ent at Falkensteinerstrasse 5, Basel, Switzerland, spending a year in graduate study at the university there in preparation for a position as assistant professor of Old Test­ament Language and Literature in the School of Theology of the Uni­versity of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. He was appointed to this position last September and given a year's leave of absence for studying in Switzerland. After leaving Wake Forest, Lansing studied at the University of the South and at Union Theological Seminary in New York . He has had experience in the ministry in Winston-Salem, Weldon, Halifax and Jackson. While studying at Union Seminary in New York, he was assistant to the minister of the Church of the Epiphany. He and Mrs. Hicks, the former Helen Mullican, plan to return in July to

WM. S. HICKS '39

his home in Raleigh , where they will spend a few weeks with his mother, Mrs. Mildred S. Hicks, be­fore beginning his work at Se­wanee.

Louie Vernon Coggins '18

Retires From Long Pastorate Because of Illness

Few people think of looking at the career of a country parson to discover the sensational. Yet, L. V. Coggins has achieved the unusual among the ministerial fraternity by spending the whole period of h is active career-twenty-seven years -as pastor in one rural field .

Mr. Coggins, native of Chatham County, graduated from Buie's Creek Academy, Wake Forest Col­lege, and Louisville Seminary. Then his ministry to the churches of the Beulah Association began. Clement, Lamberth Memorial, Lea Bethel, and Semora Churches have furnished him the sort of oppor­tunity he sought as a young man who loved the people of rural North Carolina.

He received warning in 1947 when he suffered a serious heart attack. When he resigned within a few weeks thereafter, members of the church refused to accept the resignation. They prevailed upon him to postpone his decision for six months that he might rest and

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return to his work later. However, in September 1948, Mr. Coggins followed the advice of physicians and decided to retire completely from the responsibilities of the pastorate. The churches he served have called Henry Crouch, senior at Wake Forest, to serve as pastor, but have agreed to stand by their former pastor financially as long as may be necessary.

Mr. Coggins is one of scores of Wake Forest alumni who have planted themselves in the lives of people living in rural communities. The influence of L. V. Coggins and others of his kind will never be measured. The college is true to its original mission as long as it seeks faithfully to prepare men for such places of usefulness. It is not accidental that the minister who served these churches for twenty-seven years and the young minister who has been called to fill his place both received their college training at Wake Forest.

L. V. Coggins '18

Friends everywhere will wish for Mr. Coggins restoration of health and many years yet in which to render the sort of service he is so well qualified to perform.

Bill O'Brian Receives Nation-wide Notice "Time" Magazine and Raleigh "News and Observer" Carry Feature

Articles About Unique Work in Mid-Pacific

Lt. William H. O'Brian '37, U.S. Naval School, Monterey, Cali­fornia, returned to this country re­cently from Truk in the United Nations territory of the South Pacific where he bad spent two years planning and putting into effect English-speaking schools for the natives.

Lt. O'Brian is a native of Gran­ville County and received his prep­aration for educational work at Wake Forest. He states that he began his program of education for the Truk territory with only two cast-off hospital tents. Upon leaving his assignment on December 11, 1948, be was credited with the establishment and successful opera­tion of forty-six English-speaking schools throughout a chain of tiny islands scattered over a territory 400 by 500 miles.

He expresses the belief that he will not have an opportunity to return to his work among the Trukese, but his interest in them will continue. In speaking of his career, Time of January 31, 1949, says:

"A veteran of the Normandy landing who always wanted to be a teacher, O'Brian received his Truk assignment in 1946. He soon found that, for a teacher, Truk was no island paradise. The island­ers, an easy-going, coffee-colored people of mixed Micronesian stock, were poor, half-starved and, in Navy eyes, superstitious (one of their taboos: they refused to eat the Navy's beans).

"O'Brian opened his first school in two abandoned hospital tents. As his pupils learned English, O'Brian mastered Trukese. He taught them to read their own language, using a Trukese Bible that early missionaries had trans­lated. He got older natives to give classes in planting and canoe­making, and he himself lectured constantly on sanitation. 'We must use the toilets and not the school grounds,' be would say. 'We must never eat food off the ground .... We must not store our dead fish in our foot lockers" (which the Trukese had gotten from the Navy).

"A Little Baseball. During the

first year, the Navy assigned another officer to help him. Later, he began hiring officers ' wives. One by one, he took over abandoned Quonset huts for schools, built others in the more remote villages. Finally, his domain spread over 750,000 square miles of Pacific. H is biggest school : the intermediat_e, with more than 250 students, s1x Quonset classrooms, dormitories, and a baseball team .

"The natives were eager to learn, but not always easy to teach. At first , be found , st udents f rom one island would refuse to mingle with those from another . Also, they had a horror of losing face : a teacher scarcely dared flunk students lc;st they refuse ever to go home agam. Even some of O'Brian's alumni were troublesome. A few got back to their villages and refused to do any work; some even tried to over ­rule their chiefs. Others flouted ancient taboos in their par en ts' faces.

"That sort of thing was not what O'Brian was after . He does not think that his schools should de­stroy the island way of life. 'Tr uk doesn 't need democracy,' says h e. 'It needs to feed itself, and it needs English to keep from gettin g fleeced if U . S . protection should end.' O'Brian hopes Truk won't change too much. 'It 's wonderful . If I can, I'm going back there to live' ." --------

DEACONS MAKE BASEBALL RECORD

At this writing the Wake For est baseball team is undefeated for the season, having won nineteen con­secutive games. Of this numb~r , eight are Southern conference VIC­

tories. Our team is the only one in the conference with a perfect score up to date . The winning streak is believed here to be the longest of many years for a college baseball team. Coach Lee Gooch , called by his alma mater to take up coaching after a twenty year absence from professional baseball experience, believes his team will emerge un­defeated at the season 's end. Base­ball fans may look forward to at least another year or two of good Deacon performance on the dia­mond for the reason that all but two or three members of this year's team are expected to play again next season. Some present fresh­man players will add strength to an already superior squad.

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1949

PULLED FROM THE POSTMAN'S POUCH From Dr. S. C. Bostic '22, U. S.

Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Chin­coteague, Va.:

I had intended to make my con­tribution long before this, but here it is at last.

I thought a few lines to bring you up to date on my recent his­tory might be appropriate . After my return from 18 month's duty in the Pacific in 1945, I was stationed at the Office of Naval Officer Pro­curement, 33 Pine St., New York City, for four months. Then, with the war's ending, that place was converted into a Separation Center for officers, and I was in charge of the Medical Department until it closed up a year later. I was then on duty with the Atlantic Reserve Fleet for six months, during which time we were busy preserving and decommissionin_g such ships as the battle cruisers Guam and Alaska; the aircraft carriers Wasp, Enter­prise and Franklin and the battle­ships North Carolina and Washinq­ton. It was interesting work, but a little bit disheartening to see sh ips which had such glorious war records wrapped up and put away in mothballs, and I was glad to be sent from that duty to this station in March 1947.

This station is the chief test cen­ter on the east coast for aviation ordnance-guided missiles, pilotless planes, etc., and is very active. It is growing almost like our stations did in the early months of the last war. I am the Senior Medical Officer of the dispensary which runs an active medical service. For instance, we have had 150 babies born on our obstetrical service in the last 16 months-with three sets of twins.

I transferred over to the Reg­ular Navy Medical Corps in Jan­u~ry, 1947, and so expect to stay With the Navy until I retire in a little over three years.

My ship, the aircraft carrier Savo Island, was recently awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her part i~ the landings at Palau, Ley­te, Mmdoro, Luzon and Okinawa. So I can wear that decoration very proudly along with my other serv­ice ribbons.

I have been pleased to follow the exploits of the Wake Forest foot­ball team the last few seasons and must say they are certainly doing

Wade B. Hampton '09 (Jee March Issue)

better than when I was in college in 1921-22. Best regards and good luck.

From 'Gene Turner '05, Tryon, N.C.:

No appeals from Wake Forest fail to stir generous impulses in my heart. Not long ago came my first copy of the ALUMNI NEWS; the first I have seen in many years­thanks most likely to my thirty­five years of absence from the u. s.

This month saw me enter into the status of the "retired," so for awhile, we shall not know where we are. In the meantime, as you may or may not know, I have been contributing pretty well up to the limit of my capacity to a memorial fund in honor of my mother, which will go in time to the College, though it will never, of course, amount to much. For the time being, at least, will you kindly pass on as a token of personal interest and desire to identify myself with the Forward Movement of Wake Forest, the enclosed check. All success to you in your effort.

From Lowry Mallory, Jr., '4 7, 504 St. Francis Street, Redwood City, California:

I want to take this opportunity to send my expression of continued interest in Wake Forest and more particularly in the building pro-

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gram in which the college is now engaged.

It has been with regret that I have not as yet been able to play a part in this splendid program, but I want to assure you that it has not been out of disinterest. On the contrary, even way out here in California, I relish every bit of news I can get of Wake Forest. I particularly enjoy the ALUMNI NEws, the next issue of which I am eagerly looking forward to re­ceiving.

May I wish for the college con­tinued success in its building drive and enlargement program and may I express again my deep interest in all things concerning the col­lege.

From M. H. Dilling, First Baptist Church, Lowell, North Carolina:

We received your letter and are glad to know that you are getting along so well in this fine work. Do hope all the churches will fall in line in raising this money. Every Baptist of North Carolina ought to be grateful to God for this oppor­tunity and blessing he has given us.

We did not take an individual offering but paid this $1,000.00 out of the treasury. We are hoping to send the other $1,000.00 very soon.

From R. G. Mace, pastor, Olivet Baptist Church, Long Island, North Carolina:

I am in profound sympathy with this Wake Forest campaign and hope my people will make still further contributions.

With high personal regards and with a prayer for the success of your work, I am, . . .

From W. Perry Crouch, pastor, First Church, Asheville:

The Wake Forest College En­largement Program is in our church budget, $5,000.00 per year. Our church year is from May 1 to May 1. Thus we will soon have com­pleted two years with three more to go.

From William R. Smith, treas­urer, North Catawba Church, Lenoir:

Our payments to the Wake Forest Enlargement Program were made through the church budget. We subscribed for this worthy cause $750.00 to be paid in three

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years, $250.00 per year. We did pay last year $250.08. Our mem­bership is 148 enrolled in Sunday school. All have had a part in this giving.

From F. H. Brooks, First Church, Smithfield:

Our pledge of $3 ,000.00 was made to be paid through our annual budget. We paid $1 ,000.00 last year from the General Church Fund, and will pay same this year and next, Lord willing.

From J. Clyde Yates, pastor, Allen Street Church, Charlotte:

The whole church participates in the program, having pledged $800.00 per year for five years.

I shall be happy to convey to the church your expression of gratitude. We count it a high privi­lege to participate in this program.

Dr. Millard A. Jenkins, Pastor Evangelist, 320 Beech St., Abilene, Texas, replying to a request for information concerning his activi­ties since leaving Wake Forest, writes some historical information as follows:

I was at Wake Forest in 1893. At that time we had two North Caro­lina Baptist Conventions, Western and Eastern. Judson College at Hendersonville was our Western Convention College. I was a stu­dent there 1889-92, and at Wake Forest 1893. You might be in­terested to know that in 1894-95 while I was pastor at Waynesville and editor of the Western North Carolina. Baptist, I led the move­ment that resulted in the uniting of the two Conventions into the North Carolina Baptist Conven­tion for the whole state.

Every blessing upon you and upon our dear old school.

Gordon (Scoop) Philips, Tren­ton, N. J., lawyer, who was ad­mitted to the bar in 1940, was formerly sports editor of Old Gold and Black and was active in organ­izing the Monogram Club. He has written us news of Wake Foresters in Trenton. Phillips was unani­mously elected president of the Council of Churches of Greater Trenton on February 15. The coun­cil represents more than 125 Prot­estant churches in the vicinity and is one of the most powerful or­ganizations in Trenton. Gordon writes:

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1949

Oscar Creech '08 (See March Issue)

Frank Thompson, Jr. , became the third Wake Forest lawyer in Tren­ton, New Jersey, early in February when Justice Dayton Oliphant of the New Jersey Supreme Court gave him the oath of office. Thomp­son, who was active at Deacontown in the field of publications back in 1938-40, recently took leave of the United States Navy after seven years of great service. He holds the permanent rank of lieutenant com­mander and was in charge of a fleet of LST boats which operated in the South Pacific during World War II. Following the war, he established the first naval station

at Trenton and was in command of over 500 men located here. At the present time, Thompson is associated with his uncle, former State Senator Crawford Jamieson, with offices in the First-Mechanics National Bank Building.

During the latter part of 1948, Vinnie Convery, former captain of the Wake Forest basketball team in 1940 and one of the all time great cage forwards, was admitted to the practice of law. Convery was formerly a United States Marine officer who saw plenty of action in the Pacific and earned many armed forces decorations. He is practic­ing law at Harrison, New Jersey, but expects to return to his home town one of these days.

Both Deacons are married with Conv.ery leading Thompson three to one in the number of children.

Dr. Stanley B. Apple, captain of the basketball team of 1939, which team won the Southern Conference title and finished second to Ohio State in the National Champion­ship quarter-finals, is a leading member of the Medical Staff of McKinley Memorial Hospital of Trenton. He is fast becoming recognized as one of the outstand­ing physicians in this area.

Richard Darling, class of 1940, has joined his family's optical business which company manufac­tures most of the glasses used in the central part of New Jersey.

It can truthfully be said that Trenton is a stronghold for Wake Forest College.

WHY SHOULD I GAMBLE ON AN M.D.? Written by John A. Oates, Jr., of Fayetteville, Who Will Enter

Wake Forest in September 1949

Today the public cry is, as it was a century ago, "Send us more doctors!" Many people think that perhaps we should lure promising young men into the profession by such enticements as high salaried government jobs, scholarships, and the like, but little do they know of the long lines of hopefuls pound­ing the portals of the medical schools all over the country, and less about those no longer hopefuls who could not get in. The 6,000 physicians who graduate from our medical colleges each year are only a small proportion of the col­lege freshmen who set out on the

long road to become doctors. Those 6,000 are the minority, who gam­bled, worked hard, and won their coveted M.D.'s. Hundreds who didn't reach their goal were left by the wayside, their hopes shat­tered.

Knowing this, why have so many young men started on the long hard road to a medical career?

No one answer could be given to this question. Their reasons are varied, some wanting money, others fame, some were born with a scientific knack, and others are influenced. I can't say that my own

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WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1949

Henry N. Blanchard 1091 Col./ U.S.A. Retired When Henry Blanchard came

from State College, Raleigh, to Wake Forest in 1907 to prepare for the Christian ministry, he quickly convinced his fellow students of the fact that he oossessed chara~­ter and plenty ~f grit. Whether training for the track team, digging away at lesson assignments, getting his first experience at preaching, or engaged at forming friendships, Blanchard impressed one with the idea that he was serious, hard­working, and genuine.

Passing years have revealed these traits in a useful and color­ful career A native of Woodland, Henry moved with his family to Greensboro at the age of 10. There he became newspaper boy and student in the city schools, going to State College 1 A. and M.) after graduating from high school. After deciding for the ministry he en­rolled at Wake Forest where he continued his studies for two years, then went to the Louisville Semi­nary for four years.

Experience in the ministry be­gan during his days at Wake Forest while he was student pastor of the church at Holly Springs. While at

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Louisville he served churches in Wirt and Kent, Indiana. From the Seminary he came to the Memorial Baptist Church of Greenville, N. C. In 1917 he began his long career as an Army chaplain.

Blanchard's experience in the chaplaincy began when he was ap­pointed post chaplain at Ft. Mor-

INSIDE THE ROCK WALL Wake Forest's Delta Chapter of

Phi Beta Kappa, highest scholastic honorary society, elected thirty new members in March. Twenty­four seniors and six juniors are in­cluded in the new list of members. They are. Mary Broome, Asheville; P. A. Cline, Gastonia; Julius Cor­pening, Lancaster, S. C.; Hugh C. Dover, Wake Forest; Walter Fried­enberg, New Britain, Conn.; Charles H. Gantt, Kings Mountain; Elizabeth Gertner, Orlando, Fla.; James H. Getzen, Dade City, Fla.; Paul Griffin, New Bern ; Ivan Hol­leman, New Hill ; Edward W. Johnson, Fayetteville ; Dorothy J ones, Wake Forest; Joseph Liver­man, Winterville; Donald McCol­lum, Winston-Salem; Grace Mc­Elveen, Safety Harbor, Fla.; Robert Orr. Bryson City; Mack Parrish , Ocala, Fla ., Jose A. Pena, Browns­ville, Tex. ; Alice Puryear, Danville, Va.; Robert Seney. Baltimore; Bob­by Shaw. Ellerbe ; Judson True­blood, Gaffney, S . C.; Caley V. Williams, Durham; Gerald White,

Corapeake; Shelton Bass, Clinton ; Lamar Caudle, III, Washington, D. C.; John Ledbetter, Portsmouth, Va. ; Herbert Paschal, Washington ; Vivian Snuggs, Wake Forest; Romulus Weatherman, Statesville. Officers of Delta Chapter are Dr. C. S. Black, president; Dr. HenryS. Stroupe, vice-president, and Mr. Carlton P. West, secretary­treasurer. Elected to honorary membership was Dr. J . Crafton Love '25, neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic and native of Eliza­beth City. Dr. Love is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and has been a member of the staff of the Mayo Clinic since 1928 where he has influenced the techniques in neurosurgery throughout the world. He is author of many scholarly monographs, some of which have been translated into foreign languages.

The new School of Business Administration is making steady

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gan, Ala., in 1917 with the rank of First Lieutenant. Thereafter he served in France and came in 1920 to Charleston, S . C., as chaplain of the Coast Defenses. Later he served at Key West Barracks, at Ft. Ogle­thorpe, in Hawaii , at Carlisle Bar­racks, Pa., at Galveston, Texas, at Ft. Benning Ga., at Camp Lee, Va., in hospitals at Ft. Bragg, N.C., and Denver, Col. , and at the Port of Embarkation, Charleston, S. C.

Blanchard retired because of physical disability in 1944 with the rank of Colonel. Since that time he has been located in Greensboro.

Col. Blanchard has been active in the Masonic Order. He was married in 1914 to Miss Bertha Wells of Hanover, Ind. Their only son, Henry N. Blanchard, Jr., gradu­ated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1941 and was killed in action in France in 1944, shortly before he was to receive the rank of Major.

The photograph of Col. Blanch­ard seated on the beautiful horse was taken during his chaplaincy in the Hawaiian Islands. The horse received a blue ribbon as the most suitable one for an officer's mount, 6th Cavalry Horse Show.

progress. It is the newest addition to the separate schools of the college and bids fair to become one of the largest. Recently a local business administration fraternity was organized. Twenty-five pledges were elected to membership at a recent meeting. They are: Robert Brinkley, Valdese ; Mac Perry, Zebulon ; John Pate, Fayetteville; W. R. Rucker, Shelby ; John Yeo­man, Princeton, N.J.; E. B. Griffin, Rocky Mount; Ham Boyd, Durham; Fred Mayse, Spindale; Walter Joyner, Concord ; Bill Shore, Winston-Salem; Aubry Todd, Durham ; Earl Byrd, Apex; Bob Drake, Pittsboro ; Wendell Sloan, Charlotte; Jack Bishop, Rocky Mount; Dale Cooper, Leaksville ; Paul Rogers , Tabor City; Jim Powell, Canton; C. D. White, Brunswick ; Stacey Thomas, White­ville ; Bob McNeil , Wake Forest; Tom Auston, Charlotte ; Ray Burns, Belmont ; Cliff Mabry, Wake Forest; Pel Royal, Salemburg.

The Physics Club of the college had as its guest speaker in March

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BOODLERS' INN (Continued. from page .S)

have been replaced by Louis Joy­ner of Swannanoa, Cecil Jeffords of Germanton, Ernest Roberson of Spindale, and Charlie Parnell of Lumberton.

For never more than $25 a month apiece they live in style at the Inn, with plenty of privacy and free­dom, good food, and warmth in the winter. Also plenty of social func­tions are theirs, such as the recent barbecue for which they prepared their own pig and invited over half a hundred friends down to sam­ple it.

When five years from the date of the building has expired, the Col­lege will be given priority in bidding for the purchase of the house and the profits will be divided among the eleven builders. And, at that time, one more chapter in how students met the housing shortage will be pleasantly closed.

Right: Boodlers dine at Boodlers Inn

INSIDE THE ROCK WALL (Continued. j1·om pag'! 10)

A. D. McFayden, chief examiner for the U. S. Patent Office, and an alumnus of Wake Forest College. He spoke of the practical applica­tions of physics in industry. The club at this time elected as associ­ate members D. F. Herring, Winston-Salem ; M. E. Bullard, Wake Forest ; R. C. Woodward , Roanoke, Va.; Joseph Nanney, Spindale; Z. V. Morgan, Hamlet ; and A. S. Johnson , Apex.

Mrs. Zarina Soule Kukde, native of India, visited the campus in March on behalf of the Student Volunteer Movement for Christian Missions. Her visit was sponsored by local religious organizations.

Students of the Law School heard three distinquished speakers during March in the series planned by the School to bring practicing attorneys and judges to address them on practical aspects of law practice. Justice Samuel J . Ervin of theN. C. Supreme Court spoke on the topic "If I Were A Young Lawyer." Paul B. Eaton, patent at­torney, addressed them on "Patent, Trandemark, and Copyright Law." Edwin V. Mack of the American Trust Company talked on "Com­mon Errors in Drafting Wills."

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Dr. Herman Parker of the Physics Department directed a Physics Fair recently to demon­strate what is new in the physical world. The fair attracted wide at­tention and included spectacular experiments with electricity, sound waves, and demonstrations of the workings of a Geiger counter, used to count radioactive particles. Seventeen students who are major­ing in physics made contributions to the fair.

Last semester's law students who made the Dean 's List, with scholastic averages which placed them in the upper ten per cent of their classes, include the following. In the Third Year class, Thomas S. Johnston, West Jefferson ; Thomas C. Muse, Aulander; Ray F . Swain, Winston-Salem; James F . Justice, Jr. , Hendersonville. In the Second Year class, Samuel Behrends, Jr., Wilmington; C. 0. Whitley, Siler City; George M. Womble, Raleigh ; Marvin R. Wooten , Clinton ; Nathan Cole, Jr., Wilmington. In the First Year class, Leroy Robin­son, Candor; Garrett D. Bailey, Burnsville; James A. Webster, Jr., Leaksville; Charles H. Taylor , Kinston; Jesse Brian Scott, Rocky Mount; Donald S. Riley , Raleigh; Eugene J. Moore, North Wilkes­boro; William B. Byerly, Jr., High Point; Robert F. Floyd, Fairmont; Robert M. Bryant, Winston-Salem.

WFDD, the campus broadcasting station, has moved from its original quarters in the press box at the stadium to one of the barracks west of the gymnasium. Newly elected officers of the station are Roland C. Woodward , Roanoke , Va., man­ager; Bill White , Roper . asst. manager ; Ray Royston, Baltimore, Md. , business manager; Tillie Roberts, Asheville, continuity chief; Dave Herring, Winston­Salem, chief engineer; Ed Best, Woodland, promotion director ; Jewel Adams, Holly Springs, li­brarian; John Nelson, Bethesda, Md., chief announcer; new faculty advisers, John Chandler and Robert Helms. Additions to the staff of announcers are : Henry Lewis, Charles Neal, Jerry Hall, Alex Kiser, Don Burden, Carl Rosenbaum, Sonny Burroughs, Bill Hamilton , Vic Watts, Bernie Frazier, Jr., Clyde Mitchell, Bill Shore.

WFDD has adopted a new consti­tution which was approved by the faculty. The station provides infor­mation and entertainment for the college community, broadcasts special programs and religious services, and makes available to many students opportunity to gain valuable experience in the radio broadcasting field.

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FOOTBALL PROSPECTS FOR 1949 By TOM BOST, JR.

Barring any unforeseen losses, indications are Wake Forest's 1949 eleven will be a more versatile and stronger team than its 1948 pre­decessor which won six games and lost three in regular season compe­tition and played and lost to Bay­lor in the Dixie Bowl Game at Birmingham on New Year's Day.

Wake Forest lost few men from the highly regarded 1948 eleven which numbered Duke, William and Mary, South Carolina, Du­quesne, N. C. State and George Washington among its victims. In fact, only seven men from the 1948 club are gone, four of which were regulars. Those men who have completed their grid careers are Ed Hoey. left end; Captain Bernie Hanula, right tackle; Boyd Allen, center; Tom Fetzer. quarterback; Harry Dowda, right halfback; and James 1 Bud) Lail and Richard f Bud) Phillips, fullbacks. Hanula FE.>tzer, Dowda and Lail were starters on the 1948 team. Prob­ably the biggest loss in this group is Fetzer, one of the leading punt­ers in the nation last fall and an outstanding passer and defensive player as well. The loss of Allen leaves the club with no seasoned center. The other two letterman centers. Dave Dawson and Ed Baublis, lack the experience of Allen although Dawson saw quite a bit of action during the latter part of the season.

The Deacons will have at least two lettermen or more for each position on the 1949 team with the exception of quarterback. The lettermen who will form the nucleus for the 1949 team are Jim Duncan and Ed Butler, left ends; Bill George and Glenn Rein­hard. left tackles; Ray Cicia, Jim Garry and Gene Pambianchi, left guards; Dave Dawson and Ed Baublis, centers ; Bob Auffarth and Bill Dye, right guards; Tom Palmer and George Sniscak, right tackles ; Ed Bradley and John (Red) O'Quinn, right ends; Carroll Black­erby, quarterback; Bob Jones and Lou Pollacci, left halfbacks ; Mike Sprock and Nick Belisis, right half­backs; Bill Gregus, Luther King, and Ed Karpus, fullbacks.

In addition to these 23 varsity letterman holclovers , there are a

!"umber of highly promising play­ers from the best freshman team to represent this institution in years. The leading freshman players in­clude Ed McClure, left end; Jim Zrakas, center ; Clyde Pickard, right guard; Ed Listopad, right tackle; Kenneth Bridgers, right end; "Dickie" Davis and Ed K issell , quarterbacks ; William (Nub) Smith and Dick Travagline, left halfbacks; John Solek and Charles (Bozo ) Roberson, right halfbacks; Bill Miller and Bobby Stutts, full­backs. The powerful freshman team defeated Duke 32-7 , N. C. State 19-7, South Carolina 27-7 , and William and Mary 18-14 and lost only to North Carolina by a scant 14-13 margin.

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Probably the biggest difference in the 1949 team over the 1948 E.>leven will be a great improvement in speed. The 1948 team lacked a really fast, breakaway, climax type of runner. The 1949 team will have several fleet-footed and elusive runners, the best of whom are Travagline, Smith, Solek, and Roberson. All are fast and elusive and will bolster the running attack considerably.

The biggest change in the cur­rent spring drills is the shifting of Bill Gregus from left halfback to fullback . Leading scorer and ground gainer on the 1948 team, Gregus is not a fast stepper but more of a power runner who eats up plenty of yards. He scored nine touchdowns last fall. He is ex­pected to more than offset the loss of Lail at fullback and he will be ably backed by King and Karpus.

Another factor which should make Wake Forest a stronger team is that the club will be more ex­perienced with the new T forma­tion which was used for the first time last fall. Any team makes a lot of mistakes with the T in its first season and Wake Forest made itf share of them but the Deacons know much more about this system than they did a year ago and will probably make fewer miscues this fall.

Wake Forest uses a T patterned somewhat after the type of T used by the Chicago Bears in profes­sional football.

There is one new addition to the football coaching staff. George Mc­Afee, the brilliant halfback of the Chicago Bears for the past several years, has recently joined the staff and is assisting in spring drills. McAfee is expected to prove in­valuable in improving the T for h<> had some six seasons under this system with the Bears.

The same other members of the staff will also be on hand this fall. This staff is composed of Douglas Clyde (Peahead ) Walker, head coach; Tom Rogers , line coach; Bobby Kellogg and Murray Grea­son, backfield coaches. Either McAfee, Kellogg, or Greason will probably be assigned the job of head freshman coach. It's unlikely that all three men will be used as varsity backfield coaches.

The 1949 schedule is one of the ;nost attractive in this institution's history. Look it over at the top of next page.

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Visiting speakers to the campus in March included Judge Henry L. Stevens, former National Com­mander of the American Legion, who addressed the Edgar W. Tim­berlake Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. Judge Stevens stated that the most common pitfalls of lawyers are laziness and whiskey.

Legends of Baptist Hollow, a small book wTitten by Bill 1\lc­Ilwain and Walt Friedenberg, members of the senior class, con­taining six legends about events re­lating to Wake Forest College, has entered into its second issue. The authors are pleased with the re­sponse they have received from alumni, faculty, students, and others. The volume is sold bv the Delta Publishing Company at Wake Forest at $1.00 a copy. The introduction is wTitten by Dr. Hubert M. Poteat. The Legends are written in humorous vein and keep the reader's attention to the end.

Elected in March to membership in ODK, national honorary leader­ship fraternity, were six students and two alumni. New student mem­bers are Lamar Caudle, III, Wash­ington, D. C.; John Dillon, Ashe­ville; P. A. Cline, Gastonia; John T. Lanier, Winton; and Jim Getzen, Dade City, Fla. Alumni members are Irving E. Carlyle of Winston-Salem and James Hoge of New York City, both attorneys. New members were installed on May 5, followed by a dinner for all members when James Hoge de­livered an address.

Thirty law students and two faculty members visited Washing­ton, D . C., during the spring holi­days where a special seminar had

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been arranged for them. The bar­nsters were greeted by Attorney General Clark, Solicitor General Perlman. Assistant Attorney General Lamar Caudle '26 , and Assistant to the Attorney General Peyton Ford. The semmar gave the visitors an opporturuty to hear lectures by officials of the Antitrust Division, Lands DivisiOn, Tax Divi­sion, Bureau of Prisons, Federal Bureau of Investigation. the De­partment cf Just1ce, the Treasury Department, and the State Depart­ment. Tours were made of the Senate and House of Representa­tives, Federal Bureau of Investiga­tion, the Supreme Court, and the State Department. Professors Wil­liam C. Soule and Albert Menard of the Law School faculty and lVlr. Claude F. Gaddy, Secretary of the Baptist State Convention's Council on Christian Education, accom­panied the law students.

The second annual Magnolia Festival was held the week of May 6-13, under the joint direction of lVliss Marjorie Crisp, Director of Women's Athletics, and Thane Mc­Donald, Director of Music. The Festival included a Band and Glee Club Concert, the crowning of the May Queen, a Campus Sing, a Sunday evening concert by the Little Symphony Orchestra, a pre­sentation by the Little Theater of Shakespeare's Othello, and an operetta by the Music Department, The Only Girl. by Victor Herbert.

Pre-Easter services were held each evening April 11-15 in the Wake Forest Baptist Church with the following faculty members serving as speakers: Miss Lois Johnson, Robert M. Helm, I. Beverly Lake. A. C. Reid, and Hubert M. Poteat. The services were well attended and proved to

Pre-Medical students who are members of Alpha Epsilon Delta were addressed in April by Dr. Robert P . Morehead '31 , Professor of Pathology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The address was illustrated with slides and pre­sented facts about cancer.

Tassels, honorary leadership society for women, recen tly initi­ated into its membership Miss Marjorie Crisp, faculty member teaching Physical Educat ion, and five students : Colleen Brown, Winston-Salem ; Billie Bryan, Wake Forest: Genevieve Royal, Rose­boro; Candace S carborough . Wen­dell; Betty Winningham, Bu r ling­ton. Members of this organization are persons who have attained high standards of leadership in various college activities , including high standards of scholarship.

Wake Forest debaters again w in high honors in intercollegiate events. A team consisting of Henry Huff of Washington. D. C., and Bill Wagoner of Chocowinitv took the major honors in the Southern Speech Association Tournam ent and Congress held in Waco, Texas. April 4-8. Represented in this con­test were sixty-four other colleges. The Wake Forest team "'as the only one to emerge undefeated . Henry Huff was named by h is fel­low debaters as the best speaker of the one hundred and fifty students attending the meeting. Seven ty­two debate teams entered the senior men's division . Schools de­feated by the Wake Forest team were the University of Mississippi, University of New 1\lexico, Texas A. & M., S . M. U., University of Texas, and Mississippi College. Topic of discussion for the debates was the live issue of Federal Aid to Education. Professor Franklin Shir­ley. debate coach, accompanied the team to Waco.

The Wake Forest A Cappella Choir completed a 1.000 mile tour of North Carolina and Virginia and gave a series of eighteen concerts within a period of nine days. The Choir sang in churches, schools. to ch·ic clubs , and over radio. Forty members are included in the Choir. selected from the Glee Club of seventy-five members. and are di­rected by Professor Thane 1\lc­Donald of the Music Depar~ent.

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The Spring Tour included c.oncer ts in Raleigh, Salemburg, Smithfie~d , Rocky Mount, Laurinburg, F air­mont, Monroe, Wingate, Charl~tte , Albemarle, Gastonia , Statesville, Lenoir , Morganton, Winston-Salem, Petersburg, Va., Henderson, Wake Forest, and Greensboro. The Music Department has recently made recordings of numbers by ~he Choir Glee Club, and Band, whtch have been put on sale in a y.'ake Forest Album of Music cons1stmg of three double-faced twelve-inch records. The recordings have be~n in great demand .and are still available at the Music Department.

Alton Hall, Wilmington , has been elected to the presidency of the Baptist Student Union to suc­ceed outgoing president Hugh Dover. Hall is vice-president of the Math Club, an officer in the Physics Club, and leads his class in scholar­ship. He is majoring in Physics and minoring in Math.

Wake Forest was represented at the Sixteenth National Convention of Omicron Delta Kappa, leader­ship fraternity for men, held in Atlanta recently. Attending the Convention were Dr. Jack Nowell of the Chemistry Department, a nd students Dan Lovelace, Walter Friedenberg, Bill Hensley, and Judson Trueblood.

Spring activities of the Little Theater included two perform­ances of Ibsen 's Ghosts, prepar a­tion for presenting Shakespeare 's Othello during the Magnolia Festival, and participation in the performance of Victor Herbert's operetta The Only Girl.

Dean Lee of the Wake Forest Law School mailed to all Law alumni recen tly the second issue of his News Letter . In this way activi­ties of the Law School are kept before the Law alumni . The Dean pointed out the fact that this year's enrollment is the largest yet and that the School is maintaining high standards of scholar ship. All s tudents who stood the State Bar E xamination recently w ere suc­cessful.

Lawrence M. Caldwell, ll, Age 3 years

Future Wake Foresters Gloria Beth Bagwell, age 2 mos.

Father, Jack R. Bagwell 42. Rt. 4, AsheVIlle.

William Carroll Beard, Jr. , age 12; Margaret Ann Beard, age ti ; Emmett Wayne Beard, age 3. Father, W. C. Beard '34, rtt. 1, F ayetteville.

Rogers Clark, age 13 yrs. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. H . M. Clark, Eliza­bethtown.

William Bruce Dover, age 1 mo. Parents, Hugh C. Dover '49 , Marga­ret H. Dover '48, Wake Forest.

James Russell Finch, age 4 mos. Mot her, Doris Seago Fmch '44, 2174 Blvd. Granada, S . W ., Atlanta, Ga.

Charles Benjamin Galloway, born April 26, 1949. Father, Rev. J . Elliott Galloway '47 , Wake Forest.

Ann Vivienne Gavin, age 7 yrs. ; Frances Lea Gavin, age 3 yrs. Father, Alsa F . Gavin '38, Midway Park.

Steven C. Gross, age 2 1;2 yrs. Father, Jerome S. Gross '42, 513 Stratford Rd., S . Hempstead, L . 1., New York.

Otto Vetas Hamrick, III, age 10 mos. Father, 0. V. Hamrick, Jr., '37 , Shelby.

Brodie Earle Hood, Jr., age 15 yrs. Father, B. E. Hood '26, 225 Parkview Dr., Burlington.

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Louise Elaine Hoover, age 6I:z yrs .; Ronald Wayne Hoover, age 3 yrs. Parents, Rev. and Mrs. E. U. Hoover '47, S .B.T .S., Louisville, Ky.

Cornelia Marie Leonetti , age 9 mos. Parents, R. P . Leonetti '48, Rosa Wilson Leonetti '47, 2 Green­acre Rd., Greenville, S. C.

DeVere C. Lentz, Jr., age 20 yrs.; Betty Jeanne Lentz, age 18 yrs. Father, DeVere C. Lentz '25 , 16 Chiles Ave., Asheville.

Stuart Louis Levine, age 12 yrs.; Rochelle Iris Levine, age 212 yrs. Father, Sam Levine '31 , 340 Wyona St. , Brooklyn 7, N. Y.

Jane Elizabeth Link, age 8 yrs.; John Pritchard Link, age 4 yrs. Father, John R. Link '31 , Mars Hill.

Barbara Elizabeth MedHn, age 5 mos. Father, Gene W. MedHn '48, 32 Davie Circle, Chapel Hill.

Mildred Marilyn Middleton, age 4 mos. Father, J . Leonard Middle­ton '40 , 1621 Lorraine Dr. , Sunset Hills, Raleigh.

Rebecca Jane Piercy, age 6 yrs. Father, Fred Graham Piercy '41 , Centro Colombo-Americano, Car­rera 7 No. 23-49, Bogota, Colombia.

Robert Stephen Poston, age 3 yrs .; Gloria Jean Poston, age 4 mos. Parents, Rev. E . Eugene Poston '44, Mrs. Eugene Poston '45 , 1700K S . 13th St. , Louisville, Ky.

Anne Edwards Smith, age 15 yrs.; James Paul Smith, age 6 mos. Father, James B. Smith '24, Box 23 , Ruby, S . C.

Barbara Anne Taylor, age 1 yr. Father, Dr. V. W. Taylor, Jr., '36, Elkin.

Nancy Gayle Upchurch, age 7 yrs. Parents, Ernest C. and Eliza­beth Upchurch '45, Lewiston.

Demming Morton Ward, age llh yrs. Father, Dr. D. E . Ward, Jr., '43 , Bapt. Hosp. , Winston-Salem.

Jo Anne Walton, age 12 yrs.; Robert Lewis Walton, age 7 yrs. Father, Rev. J . 0 . Walton '31, Thomasville.

Necrology Our sympathy is extended to

relatives of alumni whose passing has been reported recently to the Alumni Office. Their names follow :

Hon Joseph Melville Broughton '10, Rev Lucius· R. Evans '31. SmJth C. Gretter '33, Fores t Martin Groves '11 , James Isaac Mizelle , D , '38, Dr. Marshall Lockhart Mott , Jr. , '16, Dr Raymond He nry Oddono '43, Herbert Ft0y d Seawell '91. T. M. Seawell '03.

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Information About Former WFC Students Date indicates either yea r of graduation or of last yea r enrolled at Wa ke Forest.

Other names will appea r in succeeding issues.

Edwin S. Moore, Jr. '91

1885

w. C. ALLEN, Waynesville. Before retiring in 194.2 was supt. and principal of several schools in N. C. including Scotland Neck. Wilson. Waynesville. Weldon and Canton. Field Director Am. Red Cross 2 yrs. Direc­tor Veterans Training School 194.2-45. Author 2 state histories, 1 on list for public schools from 1901 to 1941. and other from 1941 to present time. Married to Cottle Wilkinson. Children: William C .. Jr., Lilian. Bapt.. dea­con emeritus. K. or P .. Odd Fellow, 2 yrs. membership Sovereign Grand Lodge in India­napolis and Winnipeg, canada

1891

EDWIN ~UTH MOORE, JR., 2028 First Ave. North, Birmlngham, Ala Gen. ins. business. Spent 8 yrs. after leaving WFC as traveling ins. agt. covering 7 states. Opened office in Birmlngham 1899. Spent 12 yrs. in establishing Blue Cross Hosp. Serv. Corp. in Ala. Bapt .. deacon, Mason, Shriner. pres. Birmingham Fed. Savings and Loan Assn. past 25 yrs. His father. Edwin S . Moore, Sr .. was at WFC in senior class when he joined Confederate Army, later served as trustee of the college for many yrs. before moving to S. C. Mrs. Moore died in 1938. Only son Edwin H. Moore, WFC '24. Pres. of Ed S. Moore. Inc., wrote in Oct. 1948, ··we cordially welcome you, Mr. Moore. back to the organi­zation which you founded 49 yrs. ago." Mr. Moore announced, "To my many friends I offer my services, enriched by the many years of active experience in all lines of gen. ins . ... I retired as manager of Hosp. Serv. Corp. of Ala. on Aug. 31, 1948, after 12 yrs. as manager.·•

DR . BER NARD W. SPILMAN, Kinston. celebrated on Jan. 22 his 78th birthday. He retired several yrs. ago from his lifetime work as Sunday School leader. author. lec· turer. founder of Ridgecrest and trustee of the N. C. Bapt. Orphanage. For 4 yrs. he served as pres.. of Bapt. State Conv. and was active. for hall a century in Bapt. affairs of N . C. and of the South. Because of failing health, he has been confined most of the time to his home in Kinston. He main­tains a lively interest in Kennedy Memorial

~:";',; ~~to~~~ri'a:e fo·r ~;{:i~h0ifr.~"sr;;'J:iia~ was primarly responsible. Present for his birthday dinner, besides Mrs. Spilman. was a cousin, Isla Owens of Emoorla. Va. A life­long friend of WFC. DDr. Spilman gave the major part of the cost of the Philosophy Seminar which bears his name.

CHARLES B. Wll..LIAMS, 2414 Weber St .. Lakeland, Fla. Minister and teacher. Vale­dictorian Class of 1891. Degrees: A.B. WFC: B .D . Crozer Sem.; M.A. and Ph.D. U. of Chicago: D . D . Baylor U. Pastor Winton 5 yrs.; attended Crozer Sem. 3 yrs.; pastor Texas 5 yrs. Prot. Southwestern Bapt. Theol. Sem. at Waco 5 yrs. and Fort Worth 9 yrs. Pres. Howard Coli. 1919-21. Prof. Mercer U. 1921-25; Union U., Tenn., 1925-28. Retired to Tampa, Fla. called back to pastorate at Shiloh, near Elizabeth City, 1941-46. Retired a11ain to Fla. spending time supplying pul­pits, wnting, and teaching in Bapt. Bible Institute at Lakeland. Author of many books including The Texas Titan in Truth, Light Upon th.e Letters of Paul. A History of the Baptists of N. C., New Testament His­tory and Literature. Listed in Who's Who in America, 'Who's Who in American Clergy. Who's \Vho in American Education, Who,s Who among North American Authors, 'Who's Wh.o and Wh.at, and The International Blue­book (Who's Who in the World 1. Married to Alice Julia Owen in 1899 . Present wife Edith Stallings. Children · Charles Weston. Lois (Mrs. Wm. N. Pace ), Charlotte Edith. Bapt .. Rotarian, Mason, WOW Member So­ciety of Biblical Literature and Exegesis (international ); Victoria Institute; Philosopi­caJ Society of Great Britain

1892

ROBERT LEE MOORE, Mars Hill. Pres emeritus Mars Hill Coli . Principal Amherts Coil . 8 yrs. and pres. Mars Hill Coli 40 yrs. Married to Edna Corpening. Children: Nona cMrs. 0 E. Roberts) and Ernest Corpen­ing. Bapt., formerly moderator French Broad Assn., vice-pres. N. C. Conv., trustee WFC, trustee Bapt. Orphanage, Director Citizens Bank.

1893 MILLARD ALFORD JENKINS, 320 Beech

St .. Abilene, Texas. Minister. retired from pastorate of First Baptist Church after serv­ing since 1915. Native or Asheville. educated at Sandhill Academy, Judson College ('89-

£0:~ith\V1,ef~~!). r~'::ri,J~~e~eei':;aus~ec':.~v!~ honorary D.D . degree Bethel College '08. Pastorates held prior to one in Abilene : Bilt~ more. Waynesville. Macon. Ga ., Owensboro and Louisville. Ky .. Asheville. In Abilene pastorate rec'd over 12,000 new members. Has been evangelist and traveler, visiting twenty-three countries and crossing Atlantic

Robert Lee 1\loore, '92

10 times. Served on numerous boards and committees and as official of denominational groups. Author of several volumes of sermons and addresses. Married to Marietta Sales (d. '99) and Margaret Holman. Chil­dren : Margaret Edelweiss Ames, Mildred Lucile Polk , Millard Alford

l\1, A. Jenkins '93

1894

RUFUS HENRY CARTER, Roswell. N M., passed away on January 8 after a brief ill­ness. Mr. Carter. na tive Tar Heel. moved to New Mexico soon after his graduation from WFC. He taught 1 12 years in Fair Bluff be­fore beginning a similar career in Raton, N. M. Soon thereafter he became banker business man, bank examiner. first comp­troller in the state, one of the founders of Montezuma College. deacon and active churchman. Since 1933 he had lived in Ros­well. Surviving him are his widow and one son, R H. Carter. J r

FRA.NK M. LEE, 501 W Euclid Ave , Tampa, Fla Retired. Wholesale grocery business. Tampa. 1902-1933. Married to Lila MacFarlane. Daughter Mrs K. C Bonfoey. Episcopalian

1897

ROBERT HAYES McNEILL, 3212 Garfield St .. N.W .. Washington, D . C. Atty Practiced law Jefferson, N. C., 1893-03; atty. Ashe Co. 1903; Washington, D C., since 1903 Member firm McNeill & McNeill 1933; firm McNeill & Edwards 1939; practicing individually since 1940 when formed the firm of McNeill & Fuller; practiced before Corns. of U. S. Senate and House of Reps., U. S. Supreme Court, important Commns. and Bds. of U. S. Govt .. Washington . D C .. Courts. and U. S. and State Courts in adjoining States: special counsel for N. C.: counsel for special com­mittees of Congress; counsel in senatorial contest; atty. Nat'! Defense Com. U. S. Senate 194.2 Commlttee then under chair­manship of Senator (now Pres.) Truman. Pres. Royal Village Corp .. Clerk U. S . Senate Comm. on Patents. 1903-05; Sec. N. C. Rep . State Exec. Com. 1904-05; candidate Superior CC'urt Judge, N C. 1901; N. C . gubernatorial candidate 1940. Republican candidate Asso. Justice N. C. Supreme Court. Married to Cora Beatrice Brown Children: George Hamilton, Frances Harrison. McNeill Easley. Bapt.. S .A.R.. St. Andrews Society, Mc­Neill Clan Assn. of Am.

1898

JOHN L. PRITCHA.RO , Windsor Retired physician and farmer Married to Carrie M. Pritchard. Bapt.

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0 CAR E. SAMS, Mars Hill. Vice pres. Mars Hill Coli. since 1930. Pastor Harris­burg, Va., 1902-06; Lynchburg. Va., 1906-17;

~~~~~'!."n ~~f!'. T~20--27~ 9~~;!?·af~!~e~~ag~~-: W. Va .• 1927-30. A native of Mars Hill , Dr Sams has been instrumental in promoting the building and endowment program of the Coli. both beCore and since 1930. Educa~ed at Mars Hill, Wake Forest, and Rochester Theol. Sem., he has honorary degrees from Carson-Newman and WFC. He has served as pastor of rural churches while engaged in educational work and as a trustee of the Southern Sem Married to Pauline Lacey Cone. 2 sons, Oscar, Jr .. film specialist with Encyclopaedia Brit .. and Conway, teacher West Mich Coli.

1899

JESSE COLE:\IAN OWEN. 857 Crestview Ave, Lakeland, Fla Degrees: A B., Ph.D., D D Minister State, Home, and Foreign Missionary. Spent 13 yrs in China, 10 yrs. with Home Mission Bd. Former acting pre~. Montezuma Coil. Has hel~ 462 evan ge­liStiC meetings. 27,200 profess1ons of con­version. Now retired after 59 yrs in minis­trv. Married in China to Rebekah Miller Children: Margaret cMrs. W. T. Smith). Leila (Mrs. W G Rodgers), Rebekah (Mrs. Forest Burks), Je~sie !Mrs. L. W Meachum), James Clarke. All four daughters born in China Since wife was also a missionary they ha\'e put in 115 mdividual years in active Chris­tian wor~ He has published 2 books and his wife 1 m the Chinese language, and he published 2 in English and has 2 in hands of printers Bapt., Mason, Scotti~h Rite, all York Rite and Shrine. I 0 O.F., K P., Lions, Jr Order, Homesteaders.

GEORGE BISI\IARK SANDERLIN, 3436 Mt Pleasant St. Washington 10. D. C. Translator for Library of Congress (retired!. M.A W~C 1900. Graduate student Johns Hopkins Umv and Uni\: of Berlin. LL.B. and LL.M Geo. Washington Univ. Married to Charlo~te Brady Children- Dr. George W Sanderhn, Mrs. V. H Long. Dr. Walter S. Sanderlin. Bapt., Columbia Commandary, Modem Lan­guage Assn., Am Library Assn., member of Bar in Columbia and Md

L\'CLRGUS RAYNER VARSER, 305 E . Fifth St .. Lumberton. Atty Admitted N. C. Bar 1901 and began practice in Kmston . Former partnership with A. J Loftm as Loftin and Varsar. later Loftin, Varsar and DB\\'son: member firm McLean, Varsar and McLean. Lumberton, 1911. later McLean, Var­sar. McLean and Stacy. N. C. Senate 1921-23~ Asso. Jushce N C. Supreme Court 1925. Pres­ent!~· member Varser. Mcintyre and Henry. Married to Lily Ford Snead. Children. Emily Ford fdec.). Lycurgus Rayner fdec.), Lily Snead Benson. Baptist. Trustee WFC, mem­ber Am Law Institute, bar assns., etc

J,\.:\lES FRAUGHTl\tAN WATSON, 875 Dill Ave S.W Atlanta Ga D i.rector Atlanta

Ins titute of Speech and Expression. B.A. Furman U . 1902; Teachers Diploma. School

~~n E~t!':~iiorM~r~~f~n cr~o,;9~~d!V~r-~~:: ton) 1917; Ph .D. Webster U . 1930 Formerly preacher, teacher. school supt Established schools, churches and businesses 1902-06 and 1909-14 Founder and pres. Atlanta School of Oratory and Expression 1920-39; founder and director Atlanta Institute of Speech and Expression 1940-. Author Basic Princi­pLes of Education and Expression, The Key to Effective Speaking and Oral Reading , Voice and Speech Correction for Conversa­tion. Radio, and Public Express ton, and many other books. Ljsted in Marcus' Who's Who in America Married to Lilian Oliva Lee. Children : Robert Lee, Fraughtman Lane. Bapt. , Atlanta Chap. Am Institution of Banking, Assn. of Credit Men, Jr Chamber of Commerce, etc.

1901

L. A. PATRICK , 807 Park Lake Ave., Or­lando, Fla . Retired . Traveled for shoe house, New York, 2 yrs. Retail installment furni­ture business nex-t 25 yrs. which proved very profitable. Purchased 250 acre_ farm and successfully developed the land mto a peach orchard, Succeeded in having street opened through propert:y: that gave the town of Hamlet, N C ., its mam business street at a cost to the town of only $1 ,100 . Living in Orlando because of health. Married to Annie Mcllwaine. Children: Dorothy, Golda, Faye, Lane A .. Jr., Belvin. Bapt. , deacon, K .P .

GEORGE BEARD ROOKE, Route 9. Box 178 Atlanta , Ga. 1901-05 principal several S . C. schools . Graduated Draughon's Busi ness

~~~1k'ke~~:~taSin~:·· u!:r5 'ti~~~ h~:rr~;~n t~ Olive Helene O'Bryant (dec.). Children: George B .. Jr., Robert Hall, Francis Marion (dec.), Ben M .. Wilbur C. Bapt., Bible class teacher

1902

GILBERT T. STEPHENSON. Wilmington, D e l. A .M. WFC 1906 , LL.B. 1910 Harvard Univ Law practice Winston-Salem 8 yrs. associated with finn of Hastings, Stephenson, a nd Whicker. Connected with Wachovia Bk , & Tr. Co. 1918~29 as secy .. asst. trust officer, asso. trust officer. and vice-pres. Vice-pres. trust dept. Equitable Trust Co., Wilmington, Del 1929-36. Member Graduate School of Banking faculty since 1935; appointed Dir. Trust Research Dept. Jan. 1937. Served on Trus t Div. committees of Am. Bankers Assn. and was pres. I yr.; chmn. trust education committee which prepared Trusts I and II, the trust textbooks of Am . Institute of Bank­ing and has assisted in revision of text­books. Among his published books on trust subjects are: Guide-Posts in Preparing Wilts (co-author }. Living TTtLSts , Wills , Th.e Life Story of a Tru.stman. English E'xec:utor and Trustee Business, What a Life hts uTance Man Sttould Know about Trust Bus-iness. Has

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Jesse Coleman Owen '99

made first-hand study of trust systems of Canada, England, France, Germany, Den­mark, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, and Ire­land. Member Am. Bar Assn. and Conner vice-chmn. of Section of Real Property, Pro­bate and Trust Law of that Assn. Former pres. Rotary Club.

VANCE LUCAS, 932 North St., Talladega, Ala. Merchant. Taught school 10 yrs. after leaving college. Merchant 30 yrs. at Ashland, Ala. Moved to Talladega 1946. "Have always been an ardent lover of my friends and en­joyed my enemies." Baptist . Has served as deacon and S.S. Supt. Married to Ida Bell Young, Children : Zeb V Lucas, Mrs. Maureen Mitchell. Jack H. Lucas. Has 4 grandchildren. " I remember very pleasantly Drs. Taylor, Poteat, Royall , Carlyle, Paschal, Mills, Sledd, Cullom and many others."

THOMAS i\1. SEAWELL, 1903 In the February 1; issue or "Winder

News," Ga., a photograph of Thomas M. Seawell, an account or his death, and a brief appraisal of his lire and work ap­peared. 1\tr. Seawell was a native of earth~ age, a former editor of Gainesville "Daily Sun," Gainesville , Fla., and of the "Fayette~ ville Observer." He edited also weekly papers at Waynesville , Tltus\'ille, Fla., " Winder News;• Winder Ga., and ·•ca rrollton Times and Free Press" Carrollton, Ga. He had been active throughout his career as a churchman, a Rotarian. a.nd as a leader in community. civic, and political at'fatrs. Mr. Seawell had been in 111 health since 1943 when he relinquished his activities In the newspaper field and was connected there­after with a federal project associated with the State Game and Fish Commission of Georgia until the time of his death. Sur­viving him are his widow, former!)• Miss Anne Lee Williamson, and one daughter, Lee Anne Seawell.

1904

H. L . STORY, business address Marshall. residence Asheville. Publisher weekly news­paper and job printing. School principal 2 sessions; lumber business 2 yrs.; owner and publisher weekly paper at Edenton 1910, sold in 1927. Moved to Marshall in 1924 and has published Marshall News-Record continuously since Oct.. 1924. Married to Marie Eloise Lankford. Children. Lankford L .. James I. Bapt.. former deacon.

1905

JOHN W. COLE, 901 N Pine St., Charlotte. 1\fgr. Gen Am. Credits, Inc since 1933. Taught school 1905-10, practiced law 1910-12, mgr. Bradstret Co. 1915·33. Married to Susan Elizabeth Snyder. Children: John, Jr. James M., Ben N .. Gene Porter, Collier C. AU 5 sons are WFC graduates except Collier c . who wi.ll probably enter next fall. Bapt., Goodfellows Club.

JOI-I'J STEGER HARDAWAY, Bonita Spring. Fla. Once a banker, retired by auto

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John S. Hardaway '05

accident in 1935. 1t1ost of his time was de­voted to the bank but side activities covered everything from selling Liberty Bonds to assisting in civic drives. Last 14 yrs. have

~:;~M~~e~~o1~. dti~ht 5~c1~t{1~st~~~1fo:1 ~;~ pon. snook, reds, trout and the other pisca­torial endeavors. Says he is 64 yrs. young 1\-f.a.rried to Eleanor Huie (dec.). Bapt.

\'I'lL 0~ HORA CE PRICE, 201 Providence Rd ., Charlotte. Lawyer and tax counsel Practiced public accounting and auditing sev­eral yTS. before entering general law prac­tice and tax matters. \Vh.ile at WFC was in­structor in g)'lTl 312 yrs .. active Euz.elian So­ciety. Church, other campus activities. 1\Iar­ried to May Kate Sadler. Children Wilson H Jr., Marion Alethia 1\fethodist, member bar assns.

1907

RALPH HARRIS FERRELL, 1522 DuPont B ldg., Miami , Fla . Lawyer Married to Belle Willingham Children : Ralph Harris. Jr . Rob­ert W . Bapt .. teacher l\1en·s Bible Class. member State Bd. of Law Examiners. past president Khvanis Club, past vice-president Florida Bapt. State Conv .. past pres. Ga Bapt. S S . Conv.

GEORGE FRA~KLVi HIGH MITH, Ar­cadia . Fla. Physician _ Graduated 1912 from U .C .M Va .; 1 yr. Grace Hosp .. 1 yr special

R . H. Ferrell '07

'' r·.-: urology and surger,y Passed Va and N C Bds. of Med 1912, Fla. Bd. 1914. Lo­cated Arcadia , Fla .. 1915. General practice medicine and surgery Served World War I. 1st Lt M.C. Marned to Evelyn Claire Ful­ler Bapt., member med assns ., F.&A .h-'1 .. Board of Directors Arcadia General Hosp medical staff.

ALONZO HARRI ON ~I\'ER , 3325 N.E. 15th St.. Fort Lauderdale. Fla Physician . orthopaedic specialist. Retired since 1944 MD Med Coil or N. C .. Charlotte. 1911 . l\1_0 New York Un.iv and Bellevue Bosp Med. Coli.. 1916; attended orthopedic clinlcs Paris and London, 1921 _ Interne German Hosp .. Brooklyn. N. Y.. 1911-12. Riverside Hosp .. New York City, 1912, New York Or­thopedic Hosp. 1912-15; orthopaedic practice. Charlotte. 1919-19H. Member staff Good Samaritan. Mercy and Charlotte 1\iem. Hasps., past cons. orthopedic surgeon State Insane Hosp . etc. Maj .. M c .. World War I. Spent 34 mos. in France. With A E. F. at Alsace Lorraine. Chateau Thierry, and as orthopedic surgeon at base hosps Married to Eleanor Grace Gurney Children; Eleanor Gurney Alonzo Harrison. Presby., member med. so­cieties. A. Legion. Officers \Vorld \Var, Forty and Eight. Omega Upsilon Phi. Phi Beta Pi. Mason. Elk. Rotarian. Country Club Executives Club. etc. Listed in \Vho's \\'ho in America..

1908

DA:'\'IEL GRAHAM BLAND, Lumpkin , Ga. Lumber mfg. and hotel owner. Associated with J. F. Alexander, Forest City, until his death in 1925. Lumber business at Lilesville, N. C .. Juliette and Lumpkin. Ga. Represented Stewart Co., Ga ., Gen . Assembly 4 terms. al!'o State Senate 1 term. Recentlv elected pres. Columbus Nat I Life Ins. Co .. Columbus, Ga. Served as l\1ayor of Lumpkin, Ga., pres Chamber of Commerce. pres. Roofer ~'lfg Assn .. D1rector N_ C. Pine Assn., l\-1oderator Summerhill Bapt. Assn_ 6 yrs. Married to \Villie Lo'\·e \\'all rdied 194·ll and J\.largaret C . Bailey. Children: Henry Wall. Stephen Graham. Harriette Bland \Villiamson. His children are married and associated with h.im in lumber mfg. industry l\lason. Shriner Lion

1911

CIIARLE ~liTH GRIND TAFFE. Frank-lin. :Mica miner. wood worker's plant, furni~ ture maker_. merchandising. ·Married to Pollie Jones. Children twins, Ann and David, age 5. Bapt.

D \ VID J. LEWI , 2237 Herschel St., Jack­sonville, Fla. Atty Finished law school Mercer U. 1912 and resided in \Vaycross. Ga until entering Army in 1917. Served 25 mos., 10 mos. overseas. 1st Lt. lnf Has lived in Jacksonville since 1919. ft1arried to Grev Pittman tdec.J and Ethel Stearns Childrerl David J .. age 23; Giles P .. age 22; Bland P ., age 20; Jane. age 12; Frederick S ., age 8 Giles and Bland are students at WFC. Bapt ., Mason. Shriner, Ponte Vedra Club. city, state and co. bar assns.. past pres . Jacksonville

Bar Assn .. past comdr Am. Legion. past pres. Jacksonville Legal Aid Assn ., vice-pres. and director Central Savings Bk of Fla .. Jackson­ville.

WHEELER ~IARTTh', 2H E . Main St.. Wil­liamston Atty Asst . U. S . atty. Eastern Dis­trict or N C .. U. S . Referee in Bankruptcy Eastern District of N_ C .~ pres . N. C. Bldg. & Loan League; secy. & atty. Martin Co. Bldg. & Loan Assn. , appeal agent for draft board . Married to Louie Poteat 1\fartin. Son: Wheeler Martin , Jr . Lt. Col AAF. killed in \Vorld \Var II Bapt . Kiwanian. bar assns.

1912

CARL LEON BETT , 1st Nat'l Bk Bldg. Rome, Ga . Dental degree Harvard U 1919. Practice Rome, Ga.. since 1921 Served in Na"··v, World \Va.r L Ga. delegate to Am. Denial Assn . 1932~36~ '\'ice~pres. Ga. Dental Assn. 1937: pres . 1938. Fi~hes and golfs as avocation. Still shoots under 80 t ?l. Has sent dozens of students to \VFC. Married to Jane Tonella Akin Children : Jane Eliza~ beth. Anne T .. Ernest . Presby., deacon. Ki~ wanian.

1913

WILLIAM CAREY DOWD , JR .. 1121 Queens Rd W.. Charlotte. Pres and Treas. The Dowd Press. Inc. Attended U.N C. 1913-14 News Pub. Co .. Charlotte. 1919-47; pres. & pub. Charlotte News 1927-47 1st Lt. Army Q.M.C.. A.E.F 1918-19 Married to Ann Garvey Rogers . Children \VilHam Carey. ID ~irs. \Valter B. Latimer 1\.-lember Chamber of Commerce tdir.l. Am Legion, Sigma Chi Honorary life member and past pres. ~- C. Press Assn Bapt. . deacon. Good Fellows ldir.l, Charlotte Country Club. Charlotte City Club. Kiwanian

HENRY H. GRO\'E • 3327 Riverside Ave. J acksonv-ille, Fla. Pres. Groves Thread Co .. Gastonia 1\-lany yTs. mgr. Gastonia Thread Co .. nO'\\' retired. Lived in N. Y. 1920~24 looking after sales for business; 1924-43 lived in Gastonia. thereafter in Jacksonville, Fla. Bapt .. Lion. Chief contributor to present Groves Stadium at \Vake Forest He and his brother have made gifts toward erection of new Groves Stadium in Winston-Salem \Vrites. "I am always keenly interested in Wake Forest and its welfare, although I am not near enough to visit my good friends there very often. I would like to see ·wake Forest pl3y Univ. of Fla . in football here in Jacksonville . How about it, .. Sons : Robert Alan~ Richard ~tilton, Henry Herman, Jr

1914

JA~IE ROBERT RODWELL. 312 N Church St. . Charlotte Organist. pianist, teacher. Organist following churches since 1919: First Bapt., Greensboro; First 1\II.E., Birmingham, Ala.; Village Chapel. Pinehurst; First Bapt • Charlotte since 19451. Studied Peabody Con­servatory and Julhard School of htusic,

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1915

HORACE W. GIBSON, Rt. 3, Box 493. Albany, Ga. Farm Supt. U. S. Marlne Corps World War I; wholesale B?d retail .gr_ocer, Lakeland, Fla., 1920-48; c1ty commJ.sstoner and mayor. Lakeland, Fla., 1941-43: moved to Albany, Ga., l948. Married to Elizabeth Sutton Sneed. Children: Horace, Jr .. Earleen, Robert, William, Allyn, Samuel, Harriet. Bapt., Am. Legion, V.F W., Mason

NIMROD HARRY STILES, Box 84, Haines City, Fla -Cltr·us grower. Formerly Coca­Cola bottler, Ford auto dealer. wholesale

~~~~~: l\f!':r're~ t~~ett~0ms"::~~~0e~~ S8o~d James Daniel, age 17 Bapt., Rotarian {pres.), Mason. Shriner

1916

CLAUI)E ROBERT FRANKS, Cleveland, Ga. Teacher Formerly in miUtary service, played professional baseball. practiced law Married to 'Vilhelrnina Waldroup. Children Clovis, age 14, Lowell, age 13; Claude, Jr age 11; Brenda Sue, age 9. Bapt

JOHN GILLIAM PROCTOR, Marion. Law­ver Attended U.N.C. 1916-17, Navy Wor1d \var I. reentered U.N.C. and finished law 1921. General law practice, Lumberton. 1922-41 Served \Vorld War II 1942-43. Atty. City of Lumberton 1930-39; Judge Recorders Court, Robeson Co .. 1930-36 (3 terms); secy.­treas. Co. Bar Assn., 1930-39; chmn. 7th Dis­trict Young Democrats 1930-36; secy.-treas. Lumberton Nat'l Farm Loan Assn. 1930-36. Employed since Oct. 1946 as Appeals Deputy for N. C. Employment Security Com. cover­ing Central Piedmont area. Married to Mary Rowena Yancey Bapt., past master St. Albans Lodge 114. A.F.&A.M., Mason. Shriner, past cmdr. Am. Leg'on. Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Delta Phi fraternities.

FRED C. SAlUS, Mars HUL Teacher. At­tended WFC 1899-1901, dropped out because of illness. Returned for 1 yr. m 1903, and again in 1915-16, graduating with B.A. and M.A. Has been school principal and supt., now teaching, Married to Mamie Gwnn fdec.) and Trilby Beaver. Children : R . H., Charles P., WilUarn David CWFC graduate)

EDGAR S. THOMPSON, Venice, Fla. Re-

~~rr~~!~esll~i:~e No~P. r:tY.l.ob~t~ a~~ 12Ch~~i physician \Vtnston-Salem 2 y-rs Med. direc­tor R. J Reynolds Tobacco Co. 1922-47. Mar· ried to Anne T. Schultz. Children: David Wilson, Rosamond Willette. Bapt., Mason.

1917

JOHN BAffiD EDWARDS, Thomasville, Ga. Atty., Solicitor Gen. Southern Judicial Court. Veteran World War I: solicitor Co. Court, Thomasville, Ga .. 1925-29: member Ga. Leg. 1937·38; appointed 2 yrs. ago by Gov. Arnall to present position. elected unopposed to succeed himseU for 4 yr. term. Marrted to Ruby Lee Tucker. Bapt., Elk, State Bar Assn

'liNTON C. GWALTNEY, 1463 Beatie Ave .. S.W., Atlanta, Ga. Chiropractor. Served World War I; gov. service several yrs. Mar­ried to Jane Burgess. Son : Minton C .• Jr. Presby Elder, Mason-Eastern Star, De lta Sigma Chi.

JELMON GARVES P OOLE, Kjnston. Den t-

~!~: ~a~!ij,~of~. ~~b~9~ P:S~~~~:~: 5t~al)f~~ Dental Society. Bapt.. Mason, Elk, Pierre Fauchard Academy (Dental).

CLA.RENCE F. SPAUGH, 831 Argonne Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga. Engineer, Sou. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. Continu9us employment with Co. except for 8 mos. military service, World War

~u:!~~~i:~et~7~W/ifi~~ ~~~~~ge S1°9~skl!C:::i!: of Telephone Pioneers; Blue Bell Garden Club; interested in volunteer Boy Scout pro­gram, wearer of "Silver Beaver. ' ' Methodist.

ELLIOTT R. STEWART, Hamilton. Pastor Hamilton and Everetts Churches. Attended S.B.T.S. Evangelistic work Bd. o£ K y. 1 yr. Pastor Whitley City 1 yr.; Okalona Bapt. Church 3'2 yrs.: Center Square Church, Ind ., 2 l"fS.: missionary Hyde Co. 20 yrs.; pastor Greens Cross Field 5 yrs. Married to L eofy Mae Brown. Children: Evelyn, Elliot Brown, Thomas H., Amanda Louise, James Truett. Mason, Odd Fellow, pres. N. C. Pastors Con­ference 1947, trustee Chowan College.

RANSOJ\t KELLY \VmTE, W_ Palm B each , Fla Pastor First Bapt. Church, W . Palm Beach . Pres. WFC class of 1917 Rec'd Th.M ..

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Th.D ., Louisville Sem. Held pastorates Marion and Bessemer, Ala .. Nas hville. Tenn. Membe r Ala. State Mission Bd., S .B .C . Education Bd., Tenn. State Mission Bd. Director Am. Bapt. Theol. Sem .. S.S. Bd., Foreign l\1ission Bd., etc. Trustee Howard Coil. , Cumberland Univ. Married to Vesta Benthall. K iwan lan, Execu­tive Club, Fla. Bapt. Witness Com.

1918

DEAN S. PADEN, Atlanta, Ga. Pres. King Hardware Co. Atte nded U. of Toulouse, France, 1919. LL.B. Atlanta Law Sch ool 1926. Married to Louise Bowen. BaJ?t.. d eacon , Capital City, Bone Head, Kiwaman, Truett­McConneH Jr. Coll., director Fulton Nat 'l Bank, Atlanta Freight Bureau

1919

DARRY LEIGH GRIFFIN, 323 Poindexter Dr., Charlotte. Training officer, U . S. Vet­erans Admin. Graduated WFC ' 19 at age 19, one of youngest members of class. Be­came business man in home town of Wood­land until recession or 1921. Taught school

h"al~a~~~~. awe~~a;~ed p~~';&t~~s~;ya~~~ket~ teach when Claude Kitchin couldn't get him into diplomatic service. Returned to states and taught school again at Mint Hlll. Became

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principal and coached championship basket­ball team. Went to work on Charlotte Observer in 1926 and was everythin~ for 14 yrs. £rom office boy to Sports and C1ty Edi­tors. With U. S. Dept. of Labor in 1940. Wrote radio newspaper publlcity. N . C. Director, Office of Govt. Reports . Veterans Admin. since 1945. Married to Irma Waters. Son, Harry Leigh, Jr .. age 14. He enters WFC 1953 and has already told Thane McDonald he' ll be in his band. Knocked Jasper Memory oft his feet while at Parkton by giving him a tennis lesson. Son is pres. or his class at high school. Bapt .. Elk, member Nat 't Fed· eratton Federal Employees.

JESSE A . JONES, Box 511, Kinston. Atty. World War I 9 mos. Law practice Kinston since 1919. Admitted to practice Ln Supreme Court and other courts of N. C.; U . S . Dis­trict Court: U . S . Court of Appeals (4th Circuit); U. S . Supreme Court; U. S. Tax Court; U. S . Treasury Dept. Married to Ger­trude Tay lor. Children : Elizabeth Gray; Gertrude Alden. Bapt .. deacon , Lion , Mason, Executives Club, Shriner, teacher Men's Fel­lows hip Class 15 yrs., Gov. Lions Interna­tional Dist . 3l·C 1944-45. ba r assns., chmn. Bapt. Education Counsel, trus tee State Bapt. Orphanage.

1920

HENRY CLAY (FOXY) BREWER, 27 Rose­wood Rd .. Rome, Ga. Supt. Rome city schools. Attended s ummer schools WFC and U . or Va. Ca me to Rome !aU of 1920 as athletic dJrec­tor and teacher; principal 1923: ass't. s upt. 1940; supt. of city schools 1944 . Has sent 25 boys to WFC. Married to Eugenia F. Ma­lone. Pas t pres. Kiwanis Club: pas t director Cha mber of Commerce; Bapt., past chmn. or deacons; past comdr. Am. L egion.

lotte. 1\1At~~.~~~~~a~g~ed L~~~~ r~d~ha~J~ft'; since graduation. City atty. 1935-41. P ast pres. WFC Alumni Assn., Mecklenburg Co. Married to Vernessa Hall. Children; Jane, age 22; Bill , graduate WFC '47, now 2nd y r . law student . Bapt., Mason. Shriner, bar assns.

HORACE R. WILSON, Box 51. St. Simons Is land , Fla. Building Contractor. Engaged in rental work and textile Ind. from 1921-37. Moved to Ga. and entered lumber business. Began building construction work 1946. Mar­ried to Myrtle Sink. Children: Reginald, age

::~g~arilie at~~:Y ~~:~: hh:ts~=n~h~ll WF~~ Bapt .

1921

ALEXANDER LACY HOGAN, 1323 Hol­man St., Kinston. Druggist. Opened Kins­ton 's newest drug store Jan., 1948, name Hogan's Pharmacy. Married to Irene Tilgh. ma n . Children : Elizabeth Ann, age 19; Mar­garet Irene, age 13. Bapt., Mason, Kiwanlan.

EDWIN F. HOLMAN, 3828 Peachtree-Dun­woody Rd., N.E .. Atlanta 5, Ga . Editor, The Associated Press. Managing editor Winston­Salem Jountal , 1924-26: city editor Charlotte Obser ver 1926-29: with Associated Press since 1929. Married to Mildred Pennington . Chil­dren : John E .. age 18: Penn. age 14 . Episco­palian, Men's Club of St . Phillip 's, Touch­down Club, Press Club, Northside Civic Club, Kappa Alpha.

1922

Gl.JY CARSWELL, 1937 Queens Rd .. Char­lotte. Atty. Past pres. WFC Alumni Assn. Married to Clara Horn . Bapt .. deacon, chmn.

~:~b~~"M;,1!;:eP~kc~~~~r~ d<3f~b.0~~~r~~e City Club, bar assns .. trustee Gardner-Webb CoU ., director Charlotte Y.M.C.A.

FRED B. HELMS, 523-527 Law Bldg., Charlotte. SenJor partne r Helms and Mulliss, Attys. Began practice in Charlotte 1922;

~~:f~~~~g a~: .fJ~e o~9~~-~rl~t~a~~2e~2l~ Margaret Harrelson. Children Margaret H .. age 17; Frances Grey, age 10. Bapt., Cou!ltry Club, City Club, Am. Judicature Soc1ety, bar assns. (pres. State "Bar Assn . 1946-47).

RALPH 1\tA.RION LEE, Box. 335, Mars Hill. Dean. Mars Hill Coli . M A. degree U.N.C. 1928 . Teacher and coach Boiling Springs Academy 1922-23: principal Yancey Col. Institute 1923-26: teacher and asst. dean Mars Hill Coll . 1926-42: dea n 1942. Reserve Army officer 12 yrs .. rank Capt. (honorable discharge physical disabllltyl. Mayor Mars HJ.U since 1936. Member N. C. Bapt. Educa­tion Council. Visiting professor of history and government WFC summer terms 1940 and 1941. Married to Rowena Pittard. Chil· dren: Jane Elizabeth (Mrs. Chas. A . Frone­berger): Margaret Ann; Martha Lorena. Bapt.,

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deacon , Civitan. l\1en's Club, Am Economic Assn .. Southern Economic Assn .. Pi Gamma Mu. WILLL\~1 ~tOORE NICHOLSON, JR ., 1633

Beverly Dr. , Charlotte. Atty. Former city atty., Lincolnton; former solicitor Lincoln Co. Recorder's Court; former Sen. Asst. U. S. Atty., Western Dist of N. C . (resigned March 1948). Married to Mabel Rhodes. Children Bill. age 18 (now at WFCl; Ann , age 14. Judy, age 7 .

1923 JOHN R. K OTT, 215~ Norton Rd . Char­

lotte. Dist. Mgr Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. Has been with same company since gradu­ation Married to Amy Rue Perry Chil­dren ~ Betsy, age 21; Marsha, age 18. Bapt .. deacon; formerly S .S . supt., trustee N. _ C Bapt. Hasp .; currently member Execullve Com. and 'rice-chmn . of board . past-pres. Kiwanis Club, member Charlotte Life Under­writers Asn ., Charlotte Life Mgrs. Assn N C . State Life Underwriters Assn .. Execu­tives Club. City Club. Myers Park Country Club, etc .

ELBERT EZRA WlL ON, 621 N.E. 3rd Ave .. Ft. Lauderdale. Fla U. S . Post Office. Scout Executive M.iami.. Fla .; teacher Perrine, Indiantown, West Palm Beach, Fla.. Wal­lace, N . C., and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla . Married to Margaret Grimes. Children : Elbert Bran­son, age 23; Ann Pat, age 20. Bapt., Mason. Am. Legion .

1924

ROBERT T. (BOB) ALLEN, JR., 200 Mid­dleton Ave., Charlotte . Gen. ins. broker ope­rating Bob Allen Agency. Pres. and gen. mgr. Queen City Athletic Club, Inc .. which sponsors Charlotte professional football team and other sports activities. Coached athletics at Mars Hill. Winston-Salem. FayetteviUe, and Charlotte from graduation until 7 yrs ago when he entered present business _ Very active in Shrine Bowl Game for crippled children , Observer Fresh Air Camp for underprivileged boys, etc. Married to Mary Sprinkle. Children: Robert T .. Ill, age 7 ; Martha. age 3 . Served on Charlotte Park & Recreation Com .: director and past pres. Charlotte Quarterback Club: dist. vice-pres. Demon Deacon Club; served 2 terms as pres. Mecklenburg Chap. WFC Alumni Assn. Bapt., Mason, Shriner, Variety Club, Red Fez Club, Country Club. etc.

T. HUDSON BILE , 241 W. Kingston Ave .. Charlotte. Pastor Berryhill Bapt. Church since 1946. Attended Louisville Sem. 1927-30. Pastor Williamstown Church. Ky .. 1930-31 . Southport Church, 1932-36: Army transport Chaplain 1936-39, 41-46; pastor West End Church, High Point 1939-41. Married to Penelope Parker Children : Dr. E . Wiley Biles. Capt. Army M.C ., age 25; Paul E ., age 12.

JMIIES B . TVEY, Second Bapt Church , Richmond, Va., will receive an honorary de­gree of D.D . at the U . of Richmond . June 6. according to an announcement released by Pres. George Modlin '24 . Graduating at Wake Forest, Ivey attended U . of Ala .. S .B .T S .. Union Theol. Sem., and U. of Chicago. Former pastorates include Wetkumpka, Ala., West Point, Ga .. Troy. Ala., and St. Joseph, Mo. He has been in Richmond since 1945, served as pres. of the St. Joseph Council of Churches, on the Social Service Commission of the Southern Bapt. Conv ., chairman of the com­mission on mjnisters work of the 1\fo. Coun­cil of Churches, and a trustee of S .B T S.

MIKE LEE, Kinston Physician General practice of medicine. Kinston, 23 yrs. l\1ed director Caswell Training School past 16 yrs. and acting supt. since July 1948. Married to Felsie Tucker Son: Mike Lee, ill, age 8

WILLIAM FRANKLIN PEACOCK, Bar­tow. Fla . Physician Instructor in anatomy, embryology and histology Univ. of Ga. 1926-29; graduated Rush Medical Coil. 1930; in­terned Grady Mem. Hosp.. Atlanta, Ga., 1930-32; practiced medicine Vidalia, Ga. 1932-34. and Bartow, Fla . 1934-49. Staff member Bartow city and county hospitals . Actg supt. co. hosp. 1942-45. Bapt., Lion (past pres.), med. assns. (past pres. co. med. assn .).

ROBERT GLENN TYNDALL, 413 Harding Ave ., Kinston. Surgeon !A.B . WFC 1924; B .S . Med. WFC 1926; MD. Univ. of Pa. 1928) U. -s. Army 194.2-45, Major M .C Surgeon and med. director, Parrott Hosp., Kinston, 1945-49. Married to Margaret L. Helms. Children : Margaret D., age 11; Robert Glenn , II, age 4.

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1925

HOYT BLACKWELL, Box 336, Mars Hill Pres. lllars Hill Coil . Studied Union Theal. Sem. New York City, U.N C., Yale and U. of

;~:t'~~~~ ~~~~~egi~~~~ ffat~u~J'.;c,~~~ Assn. Name will appear in forthcomin' edi­tion of International \Vho's \Vho . Marr1ed to Ohve Brown Children . Hannah Brown. age 13; Albert Lemuel, age 10; David Eric, age 3

. MACK KING HARRILL, 130~ E. 4th St., Apt 4 , Charlotte. Atty., s ide hobby r eal estate. Some activity in politics on behalf of tax payer and for social and economic betterment of all mankind Veteran World War 1. Married to Lou Ayer. Bapt.. Men's Club, church choir, Mason, Shriner, Red Fez, bar assns.

w. c. REED, Kennedy Home. Kinston Orphanage supt. since 19~3. Formerly high school principal Cullowhee, Sylva , Balls Creek. Newton. Pastor First Bapt . Church l\1aiden. Married to MelJje Parker. Children · W . Olin, Marcella tstudents WFC ), Mary Nell Rotarian fpast pres. and now chmn. program com.). chmn. Lenoir Chap. Am Red Cross.

1926 DAVID E. BOBBITT, Charlotte Pastor

Green Mem Bapt Church past 6 yrs Grad­uated Loutsville Sem. 1929 Former pasto­rates : Abingdon. Va.. 4 yrs.; Cherryvi~le, Va , 8 vrs.; Coleram, N. C., 2 yrs. Marned to · Moielle Parker. Son: Albert, age 13. Bapt. . Civitan , Mecklenburg Ministers Assn.

CEDRIC L . CROOM, 307 W Atlantic, Kins­ton . Clerk . Worked for tobacco company several yrs. and for Calif. Packing Co. at Marysville Married to Nancy L. Harvey

GEORGE L. GREENE, Marshall Atty Senator 30th Dist. 1932-34 Rep nominee for Lt. Gov . of N. C 1944.; Mitchell Co. atty 1932-38; Madison Co. atty. 19H-47; Hot Springs city atty. since 1942 Marned to Mary Frye. Children : Charles R .. age 21; Carolyn J. age 18: George Arthur, age 13. Bapt., A.F.&A.M .. Mason, Shriner. etc.

W. W. SHARP, JR., 1620 Providence Rd ., Charlotte. Vice-pres . and gen. mgr. Chad­bourn Hosiery Mills, Inc . Pilot Life Ins. Co. 5 yrs.; played . professional baseball 19.31 ; hosiery mig. stnce 1931. Actively par~ct­pated in baseball , basketball, and golf smce leaving school. Married to Mary Preddy. Member Nat'l Guard since 1925, past pres. Rotary Club, City Club, Country Club , pres. Nat'l Assn . Left Handed Golfers.

1927 WALTER E. DANIEL, Professional Bldg ..

Charlotte. Physician . Med . school, post grad­uate hasp . training, private practice . Mar­ried to Perry Gibson. ChHdren · Walter E , Jr., age 3'2 ; Aldridge Gibson, age 1',. Bapt

CALVIN R . EDNEY, Marsh311 Lawyer, farmer. Taught at Mars Hill and Carson-

Newman Colleges. Rep . State Sen 30th Dist. 1945-46. Rep _candidate for Con g. 11th Dist 3 times. Marned to Palma Carter Children Calvin R .. Jr .. age 13; Greenwood. age 11. Bapt., S . S. teacher, Business Men's Club, Lion . 1\1ason

FRED H. HA TY, 3017 Hampton Ave., Charlotte. Lawyer. Solicitor Charlotte Re­corders Court and Judge Mecklenburg Co. Recorders Court. Voluntanly retired from Co. Court bench in Dec. 1948 after serving 2 terms. Now engaged in general practice. Member Christian Science Church, S. S. teacher, vi~e chmn Bd. of J?irectors. Deeply interested tn Masonry, Sen1or \Varden Pha­lanx Lodge No. 31, York R•te Bodies. Scott­ish Rite Bodies, Allied Masonic Degrees, Shriner Licensed amateur radio operator. member l\'lyers Park Country Club. Niarried to Margaret Shaw Son: John. age 13.

EARL \\'. Kl~,. EY, La Grange. Merchant and farmer. Agent Standard Oil Co. 1930-33 Owner and operator Kinsey Feed Store since 1933. Married to Minnie Lee Hardy Chil­dren; Nora Jean, age II; Joseph E .. age 5 Bapt., Rotarian (past pres.). mgr. La Grange Baseball Club since 1935; chief La Grange Fire Dept.. pres. Eastern Carolina Fireman's Assn . I yr.

HEJ\' RY C. OGLE BY, 2028 Fort Davis St., S .E ., Washington, D C. Secy. Congressman Herbert C. Bonner. Attended E.C T C. 1930-32, 1st man to get a degree from that school Teacher and principal various N. C. hlgh schools until 1943. Army 1943-45. Present position since Nov. 1945. l\larried to Frances Patrick. Son: Henry Patrick, age 2 Meth­odist, Rotarian. Mason, Am Legion, V.F.W

W. LOCKE ROBIN ON, Mars Hill. Physi­cian . Post graduate work Harvard and Med Coil . of Va. Married to Eula Grove Chil­dren: Grove, age 13, Patricia, age 8. Bapt., Civltan, med. societies.

BADGER liT. Qt:mES, 1430 Biltmore Dr., Charlotte. Roofing and sheet metal contrac­tor. Taught school 8 yrs., principal Matthews and Pineville High Schools. Employed 10 yrs. as roofing salesman Charlotte Hardware Co. Organized Charlotte Roofing Co. in 1945 as equal partner with E. E. Phillips. Married to Kate Morgan. Bapt., Optimist.

D. Y. WALKER, 3126 Cambridge Rd .. Char­lotte. Claim adjuster. Practiced law in Morganton 3 yrs. Employed in claim dept. of The Travelers Ins. Co., Charlotte: trans­ferred to Raleigh in charge of Eastern N. C. for 14 yrs.: made asst. mgr. claim dept. for North and South Carolina and transferred to Charlotte in 1946. Married to Mary Ruth Graves. Children. Dan, age 15; Tom, age 12: Lochlin, age 5. Presby

MILTON G. \VILLIA~I , 111 S. l\lcLewan St., Kinston . Co. tax supervisor and col­lector. School principal Rockingham and Bertie Counties 10 y-rs. ~tarried to Carrie May Dunn. Children: Milton, Jr .. age 10; Annette, age 8. Member Gordon St Church, Lion (past pres.).

1928

STACIE LEE BOWE , Box 1021. Athens, Ga. Dist. sales mgr. N.E Ga State Automo­bile Assn ., Inc. Supt. and principal Bunn High School 7 yrs.; gen. agt. and state agency supervisor, life ins., 5 yrs.; gen. sales. educational supplies. 5 yrs.; present position 4. yrs. Married to Edith Pearce. Sons· Rich­ard Lee, age 19: William Egbert, age 15. Bapt., Civitan . Mason

D. J . UA~IRICK, 608 Woodruff Place. Char­lotte. Life ins l\Iarried to Louise Allen Son : Joe E .. age 17 Bapt. , Life Under­writers Assn

GEORGE H. LAMI'LE\', 1801 Fulton Ave., Charlotte. Sales representative Shapleigh Hdw Co ., St . Louis Mgr. retail hdw Roa­noke Rapids 1929-39. Hdw. business in Nor­folk, Va ., and Goldsboro prior to present employment. Married to LouJse Pruden Daughter : Rebecca Glynn, age 12 Bapt., deacon. Lion (charter member)

FOlL 0. RUSSELL, 2228 Overhill Rd .. Char­lotte. Sales mgr. Dr . Pepper Bottlers Corp . Married to Bernice Brewer 1\--tethodist, Red Fez, Mason. Shriner, WFC Alumni Assn.

ENNl P. THORNE, 603 First Ave., S . W , Largo. Fla. Vet. Admin. hosp. chaplain $ince 1946. Graduated Colgate Rochester Divinity School, N . Y.. 1931 . Pastor Youngstown, Ohio, 1931-36: Oil City, Pa., 1936-41. Entered Army 1942 stationed at Camp Davis. Trans­port chaptaln, 3 different ships. Discharged , rank major, 1946. While in service at Ft. Dix, N . J., rec'd Award of Merit for out­standing performance of duty. Contributor to professional magazines Married to Lou.ise Leadley. Children: Frank L .. age 16; Sylvia

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1949

P .. age G; Elizabeth Louise, age 1 1 iz: Bapt., secy. WFC Fla Alumni Assn

1929

JOliN C. ASHCRAT, 2229 Chambwood Or , Charlotte. Resident Claims Mgr and Worl<­men's Compensation trial atty.. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. Married to Helen Owen Children ~ Florence, age 18; Ann, age 16; Joan, age 14 ; Owen, age 20. Presby . elder, teacher men's Bible class. Midwood Men's Club. Charlotte Mgrs. Council.

TUOMAS W. BAKER, 2029 Queens Rd ., Charlotte. Physician. MD. Univ . of Pa . 1931, internship Phila . Gen . Hosp. 1931-33; grad­uate fellowship internal med., Mayo Clinic, 1934-38; M.S. internal med. Univ. of Minn 1936; practice internal med., Charlotte, s ince 1938. Chief dept. of med . Charlotte Mem H osp. since 1947 Married to Margaret Luns­ford. Bapt., member Country, Kiwanis. Execu­tives and Cotillion Clubs. Am . Coil. or Physicians, Am. Heart Assn., Am. Diabetes Assn .. A M.A .. pres. WFC Med. Alumni Assn. 1948-49. etc.

vi:~~';~u LiJy~~t~~R~~z!a'Ta~~~~kSch~~fe!t Berea 1 y r and Paw Creek 8 y rs. Married to Mattie Murray. Presby. Mason

BEN D. COURTNEY, Williamston Furn­iture salesman. Married to Betty Haywood Children: Ben H .. age 3; William B .. age 2 Bapt .. Lion, Mason.

CHARLES P. HESS, 1334 Morvenwood Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. Atty. Graduated FJa. L aw School 1932. Married to B elva B askette. Children: Bobby, age 12: T emple, age 11

~~~t-.Tiera t~h~~etiu~~~s:!P~~~:s B~~:,:a~~~ Assns., Men's Garden Club, etc.

NORMAN A. HOBGOOD, 708 Washington St.. Kinston. Tobacconist. Spent 4 yrs. in Shanghai. China. for tobacco company. Army 1942·44. wounded Anzio B each . Italy . Since

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0. HUNTER JONES, 222 Profess ional Bldg., Charlotte. !B.S 1929, B .S . Med . 1931) Physi­cian. practice limited to obstetrics a nd gyne-

~~~tgy.tri:Jn?ncCo::1~~~i~· 1i~~ScoX:atir'H~~~-~ Brooklyn, and Sloane Hosp .. New . York. 42 mos. military service 38th Evacualton Hosp Unit (Charlotte Mem. Hosp . Unlt). Overseas

~~~~e~n~l:e~~·~c~!~\~~~gtt~r ~~~k. ~t~ Alumn i Assn. Member Executive ~om . of Gen. Alumni Assn . Married to Nancy Hovis. Children Nancy Louise, age 5; Frances Hovis age 2 Bapt. , Rotarian. Executives Club.' Country Club, Dipl~m.at Am. Bd of Obstetr ics-Gyn .. med soc1ebes, etc.

FRED l\1 TAYLOR, Williamston . Tobac­conist and farmer. Buys. supervises. and sells tobacco on various auction markets. Also supervises and assists in supervision of farm operations. Bapt.. deacon, member finance com, S. S. T eacher Spent 212 yrs military service. 20 mos. in England. Member Am Legion

1930

H.t-\7EL :\t ULL COLE, 1320 Romany Rd . Charlotte. Housewife. Practiced law 2 yrs School principal S . Mtn . Industrial Insti tute 5 y rs. Married to Everett J Cole . Children "Bubba," age 6; Mary Carleton, age 11 Methodist.

Ch~·rl~lte F Aft~~~~Rdi r~~l~r .T~;~~~~ei~s~~t ~ ball coach. Harding H S. Married to Lena Evangeline Russell Bapt., S S . Supt., d eacon lchmn.}. Teachers Leg. Com .. secy. Harding H.S. Athle tic Council. Y M .C.A Boxing Com ., Asst. Mgr municipal swimmi ng pool in summer

CURRY T. RAYNES, Emory at Oxford. Oxford, Ga Asst biology professor, Emory Univ. System. Biology instructor. L . I . Univ .. Brooklyn, N Y. 1930-36: instructor Gordon Militar:v Coli .. G a., 1942-45. Married to La­Verna Lee Robinson Children: C. Tommy, age 4 ; sarah Elizabeth, 11 2- yrs

JOHN CLYDE YATES, 2001 The Plaza, Charlotte. Pastor Allen St . Bapt. Church 6 )"rs, Former pastorates : Statesvi lle, Bessemer City , Kannapolis . Moderator South Yadkin, Cabarr us and Mecklenburg Assn s , 3 yrs. each Has preached in about 200 r evival meetings in N C .. S. C .. a nd Va . Has manuscripts for 3 books about ready for publication and several more in making. Married V. C. Cooke. Children : Sarah Elizabeth, age 25; Rachel Winifred. age 23; John Clyde, Jr., age 16; Phyllis Carolyn, age 14; Margaret

A. Frank Hamrick '34

E!aine, age 11 : Nancy Doris. age 9; William Richard and James Robert, twins, age 5 ,

1931

LESLIE BERGE BEAl\1, Crouse Lawyer a nd farmer Law practice 1931-41 . Farmed pas t 20 . y rs . Now engaged in both gC"neral a nd da1ry farmmg, selling grade A milk from herd of 30 cows. Served as Solicitor Lincoln Co. Recorder 's Court 1932-36 . Supt. county public schools 6 terms . Served as Lay Leader Crouse Methodist Church many yrs. Married to Mattie Kendrick Children : Mrs. Helen Rhodes: Kathryn Eliza; Leslie Berge, Jr Member Professional Club. pres. Co. Farm Bureau .

ROY WALTON DAVIS, 266 S . Main St ., Marion Atty. Solicitor McDowell Co. Crimi­nal Court 1931-37: .Tudge, 1937-38 Active law prac~ice in Marion since 1931 Represent­ative 1949 Gen . Assembly tor McDowell Co. Married to Mildred Wilson. Son : Roy W., Jr ., age 19. Methodist , trustee Kiwanian (pres.), Am. Legion, Sigma Nu, bar assns.

JOHN R . LINK, Mars Hill . Pastor Mars Hill Bapt. Church since 1945 . B D Crozer Sem.; s tudied Duke Univ.; taugh!· German Chowan Colt .; pastor Apex 7 yrs ., taught Bible Mars Hill Coli

ALVIN OUTLAW, Box 474, Kinston Atty Married to Doris Croom. Children : Ramona Lee. age 15; Douglas Alvin , age 2; Nancy Sue, age 4 mos. Member bar assns.

1932

ARCIIIE B. CARROLL .. Jn. ., 2227 Briar­wood Rd., Charlotte . Gen . Agt. New England Mutual Lite Ins. Co. Taught school 3 yrs . Served U .S .N. 3~2 yrs .. entering as Lt. (j.g .). last rank Lt. Comdr. Married to Genevieve S . Carroll. Children : David W., age 2 12; Anne, age 6 mos . Secy.-treas. Wilson Community Budget; Am Red Cross campaign chmn. Wilson Co. 1947; Army Advisory Com. Bapt ., Kiwanian, professional assns

HUGH STEPHENSON EDWARDS, Beckley, W Va Physician. Tuberculosis work in Va., Mass.. Ga., and W Va Presently Supt Pinecres t Sanitarium. a state tuberculosis institution Married to Kathleen Williams Children. Deborah Ann. age 7; David. age 5. Bapt., Rotarian. med. assns

WALTER LEE HOGAN, Jlt., 1517 W Sec­ond St ., Charlotte. Commercial agt. Piedmont & Northern Ry. State Guard 5 yrs., Jr Chamber of Commerce 7 yrs. (vice-pres and Bd . of Directors ); Advisory Com . Div Special Education; rec'd U. S . Jr . Chamber or Com­merce Distinguished Service Award 1948; elected " Young Man of the Year " Married to Mary Carolyn Fraley. Son: Walter Lee, III , age 7 Member The Little Church on The Lane, Traffic & Transportation Club, Civi­tan, etc.

Sc~~tvr!'xe~Uti~1e~E~,h~~xb~~~S ~~~~a. c~~ Formerly teacher and athletic coach. Since 1936 Scout executive. Cape Fear Council,

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Wilmington, 1936-42; Gulf Ridge Council 1942~ 49. Married to Lucy M. Bagg, Children ; David, Jr., Charles, Joseph, Jeanne, Virginia Methodist. S S . teacher, steward, pres. Wes­ley Fellowship Class, Rotarian, member many professional committees.

1933

DANIEL B. BRYAN, Jft., Miami, Fla Special agent, F .B .I.

R. E. COWAN, \VllUamston. Office mgr. Williamston Peanut Co. Navy, 3 yrs . Mar­ried to Lelia Roebuck Daughter· DiAnna, age 2. Chri~tian Church, Lion, Mason , Am Legion.

WALTER CARR COX, Kins ton Apts .. Kins­ton. Mgr. freezer locker plant. Teacher and principal 9 yrs.: military service 4 yrs. Married to Sara Henderson. Children: Alice Fick. age 3; Walter Carr, Jr., age 9 mos. Bapt., Mason .

E. PAUL JOHNSON, 267 Midvale Dr., N.E., Atlanta, Ga. M.A WFC 1934. C. P . A. Taught school 2 yrs. Attended Mass. Insti­tute or Technology and N Y. Univ. Worked in rubber procurement and development program durmg war Married to Anne Hohl Children : Paul Leonard , age 6: Robert Ken~ neth. age 2. Bapt .. Am Institute or Account­ants, Nat' l Assn. or Cost Accountants Ga Society or CPAs. ' .

adr~~!;•Att'. F~t~~s w~a~~~~n':.~dof.;.:..S~r7 Married to Ruth Ricks. CtuJdren : Sadie Sue, age 9; Patsy, age 7. Bapt., deacon, Elk, Lion. Deacon Club, Master Barber Assn. of Am., N. C. Farm Bureau, Country Club.

1934

A FR.J\NK HAMRICK , 802 Fourth St., Apt . I, Manetta. Ga Teacher Graduate work U of Ga ., U .N .C., Emory U Instructor

~~g~n~~:S1:~ru;~1~u!re3~;:bh~;sm~~~~~3~~ 42; pnncipal Blowing Rock H S. 1942-43; U.S.N (instructor Naval Academy Prepara­tory School) 1943-45; English instructor Ga . School of Technology, Atlanta Married to

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1935

ca0~~r~~~~~~fut!rY ~~~fc~· 1r4a1~.:Cs~~v~~: Pacific Theatre. Awarded Legion of Merit for service on Guadalcanal. Col. Med. Re­serve. Private practice since 1946 at Haw­kinsville. Married to Sarah Annette Smith Member Ga. Med Assn .. A .M.A .. Southeastern Surgical Cong.

SETH GRAHAM McKEEL, 514 W Oak Dr.. Lakeland. Fla . Half owner and mgr. H . J Drane & Son, Inc. Uns. Agency) Wor~ed for Great Am. Ins. Co .. N Y .. after

~9~51.ngM~~~el0~~edL::J:.; ~~2r. d.i~~r.~rr~~ ~-eth P~~b~~~s·t!~~l~h[r~a~i~k a~dah~~Un~~ Club, Golf Club.

JOHN i\1. PAXTON, 3221 Commonwealth Ave ., Charlotte. Service representative Ford Motor Co. 3 yr. military service in England Married to Eleanor Erwin . Son : John Envin: age I Bapt.

SAI\-~UEL ALLEN WILSON, 204 E. Park Dr .. Lmcolnton . Physician M.D. Emory U. Mcd School 1937; interned Grady Hosp., Atlanta, Ga.. 1937-39; general practice Lin­colnton Army 1940-45, 18 mos. overseas E .T.O. Med practice and urology in Lin­colnton since discharge. Married to Mamir Cooper. Children : Samuel Alien, Jr. age 6; ~~~rn:i.~lene. age 4 Bapt .. Kiwanian, Mason,

TOi\J P. WONG, 26~ Cain St .. N.E .. At­lanta, Ga. Restauranteur. U. S. AAF 3 yrs .; overseas duty China-Burma-India Theatre Pres and gen. mgr Ding Ho Restaurant. ~'!acrne:uanta, Ga. ~rried to Ethel Byrd

1936

HOMER 0 . BAKER, 4910 Monroe Rd,

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New Orleans, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, rank of Major. Preached V .E . Day sennon to allied troops of all nations represented at the time in Italy. The service was held in the place AdoU Hitler had spoken 7 yrs. earlier Mar­ried to Victoria Yarbrough . Children : John Robert. age 23; Billy Swindell . age 21. They arrived in time to accompany parents through coli . and sem. days. V.F.W .. Am. Legion. Com­munity Clubs. O.R.C. (active), pres. Mecklen­burg Bapt. Asso. Executive Bd.

ch':~.~Ala~t t"ens~c~?aw~~ig~~:g~t;ns!~~~ : Fla . Minister. Rec'd Th .M . Louisville Sem. 1939. Pastorates : Madison. 1940-44; Jackson­ville, Fla.. 1944-46: Bonifay. Fla ., 1946-48; asso. pastor East Hill Bapt. Church, Pensa­cola, Fla., 1948-49. Married to Mary Wilson . Children ; Willard A .. Jr .. age 5; Sarah Janet. age 3. Pensacola Ministerial Alliance, Pensa­cola Bapt. Pastors' Conference.

ESDRAS \'VILLARD ROUSE. Dogwood , Seven Springs. Veteran instructor, farmer, merchant. Taught school 9 yrs.; manager. owner general country store and market. !armed since 1940. Married to Ann Hicks Bland. Children: Joan Yvonne. age 10: San­dra, age 9; Ann, age 6; E . Willard (" FeJia"). age 3 . Bapt.

LEON WILSON WYNNE, Robersonville . Farming and tobacconist. Married to Mary G . Ferebee . Son: Leon Wilson. Jr., age 17 mos. Bapt.

1937

WILLIE ALLEN (Bll.L) BETHUNE, 1001 Johnston Bldg .. Charlotte. Salesman Jeffer­son Std . Life Ins. Co. 3'2 yrs. Armv. 2 yrs. overseas. Has been with same Co. since leaving school. Married to Sara Marvin . Son Marvin Allen, age 1. Presby .. V .F W, Am. Legion, MIIUon Dollar Round Table, Jr Chamber of Commerce.

REX DOWTIN, 1st XAS Sq. Elgin Field, Fla. Major, U . S . Air Force. Real estate business in Asheville until 1940 . Presently attending Air Staff and Command School, Air Univ .. Maxwell Field, Ala. Will return to Elgin Field in June. Married to Mildred M. Mooneyham. Children : R ex Gaylord, age 3 1 2: Lynn Susanne, age 112 . Bapt.

DONALD C. OLIVE, 327 W. Park Ave ., Charlotte. Claim adjuster, Am. Mutual Lia­bility Ins . Co. U . S . Border Patrol 3 yrs.; Marine Corps Pacific Theater 3 yrs., com­pleted active duty as 1st Lt. Married to Kilda Beatty. Son : Donald Jerry. age 9. Member Cub Scout Com. for Charlotte Meth­odist Church; instructor Jr. Rifle Club, Char­lotte Rifle and Pistol Club.

LYNWOOD E. WILLIAMS. 1309 McAdoo St .. Kinston. Physician . M.D. Univ. of Pa. 1940; intern Episcopal Hosp., Phila .. Pa. Staff member N. C. Sanatorium, McCain, 1942. Med . practice and staff member Mem. Gen . Hasp . in Kinston since 1943. Married to Dorothy Dean Wells. Children : Lynwood E ., Jr .. age 3 1 2:; Dorothy Dean. age 20 mos.

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1949

Commencement Program Sunday, May 29

8:00 p.m. Baccalaureate Sermon Dr. Edward Hughes Pruden, Washington , D . C.

11:00 a.m. Monday, May 30

Meeting Board of Trustees Senior Orations Presentation of Medals and Prizes Alumni Luncheon Organ Recital

1 :00 p .m. 3.00 p.m. 4 :00 p.m.

8 :00 p.m.

Recital on Donald Pfohl Memorial Chimes President's Reception for Seniors and Guests Graduation Exercises Address by Mr. Robert Lee Humber, Greenville,

N. C. Conferring of Degrees Closing Remarks by the President

Note : Alumni wishing to spend either Sunday or Monday night in Wake Forest will be assigned to rooms in one of the dormitories. Applications should be made in advance to the Alumni Office.

Lion , pres. Co. T . B . Assn ., profess ional societies, etc.

1938

S. R . PERKINS, S . Garden St., Marion . Merchant. Military service 29 mos., 19 mos .. Pacific. Married to Margare t Morrison . Daughter . Peggy, age 6 . Presby deacon , Kiwanian (vice.pres.).

1939

A THONY JAMES CAREY, 1401 W Rd .. Kinston. Oil and gasoline distributor, Socony· Vacuum products. Surveying until 1942. army engineers S .W - Pacific 4 yrs., enter­ing army as pvt. and discharged as 1st Lt. Married to Mary Dorcas Harding. Children A. J ., Jr., age 4' 2: Benjamin Arthur, age 1 ~2. Episcopalian, Executives Club, R .O .A .. So­ciety of Am. Military Engineers.

WALTER OTIS DUCK, Mars Hill. Phr.s i­cian. M.D . Hahnemann Med. Coli.. Ph1la .. Pa ., 1943; internshjp Knoxville Gen . Hosp .. T enn _, 1944: Army 2' 2 yrs.; general med . practice Mars Hill since 1946. Married to Betty Ann McKinney. Children : Rosalind Jeanne, age 2',2: Linda Joyce, age 7 mos . Bapt .. Civitan, Am. Legion , Country Club, med . societies.

BERNARD J . LANGSTON, 126 Palencia Pl .. Lakeland. Fla . Atty.

GORDON A. PHILLIPS, 48 S . Hermitage Ave ., Trenton, N . J . Atty. Special agent FBI 1941-46 stationed at Washington , D C .. Los Angeles, Calif. , Sioux Falls, S . D .. Bis­mark , N D ., St. Paul and Duluth, Minn .. Syracuse , N . Y. Admitted N . J. Bar 1940, asso. with J . Albert Homan , Esquire , since 1936. Elected pres. Trenton Council of Churches 1949, with 125 Protestant Churches; Atty McKinley Mem. Hosp.; Campaign chmn. Co. cancer campaign 1946, 1947; co·cam­paign chmn. McKinley Hosp. drive 1948 raising over $500.000: chmn. annual meeting of Council of Churches 1948; etc. Married to Betty LeRoy . Children : Marcia Tabram, age 5; Robert Jenner, age 3 . Presby.; S . S . supt.; A . F . & A. M .; Trinity Lodge; Scottish Rite; director Trenton City Rescue Mission , Co. Cancer Society, Trenton Symphony Con­certs, Council of Social Agencies, etc.

WHY GAMBLE ON AN M.D.? (Continued from page 9)

decision to study medicine has come from any particular one of these reasons. Perhaps it was a

mixture of all of them. My father's ambition for me has

always been in the field of medi­cine. This one fact alone is reason enough, for Daddy is seldom wrong.

For some reason, I have always been confident that I could become a doctor ii I tried hard enough, so t he thought of not being able to get into a medical school has only recently entered my head. Know­ing that medicine has always been a profession of financial security, besides all the other reasons , I was almost decided, but not convinced. I had no assurance that I would like the life of a doctor.

Last summer I had my chance. When I reached the camp at which I was a Junior Counselor for the summer, I found that the medical student who was serving as camp doctor needed an assistant. I jumped at the job and spent the rest of the summer in the Blue Ridge helping "Doc." I can 't say that it was an easy job. It wasn't unusual to wake up at two in the morning to go out to see one of the boys who was sick. A near case of polio , flu, stomach aches , an epidemic of poison ivy, and twenty­one boys having the mumps, were routine. It couldn't be called the "Life of Riley" but it was a doctor 's life, and I liked it.