Financial History of WFC : Alumni Rank High in National ......1944, and associate editor of the "Carolina Cooperator," takes off an afternoon fishing after learning that her magazine

T. Lamar Caudle, Jr. '26, President of Federal Bar Association of the U. S.

IN THIS ISSUE : Record Enrollment of 1,749 : "Campus and Classroom Echoes," by Eugene Brissie : A Year in the Financial History of WFC : WFC Alumni Rank High in National Statistics Lowdown on Alumni Chapter Presi dents : The Trustees of WFC : Inside the Rock Wall : Sports A New Crop of Journalists Chapel Talk by Dean D. B. Bryan : Pachal's History of Printing : WFC Alumni in American Men of Science : Commencement Dates.

Vol. XVI. No. 3 MARCH 1947

March Issue WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS

Editor: JASPER L. MEMORY, JR ., '21

Published in October, December, March, and May during the college year by Wake Forest College Office,

Wake Forest, N. C. Office of Publication : 210 South Salisbury St., Raleigh, N. C.

Subscriptions $1.00 Per Year Entered at the Postoffice at Raleigh, N. C., as second-class

matter, October 20, 1935, under act of March 3, 1879

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President-T. Ashley Haywood ' 1l.. ...... Rockingham, N. C. Firs t Vice P1·esident-T. Settle Graham, Jr. '22

Greensboro, N. C. Second Vice President-Dr. G . M. Billings '15

Morganton, N. C. Alumni Secretary-Jasper L . Memory, Jr. '21

Wake Forest, N. C.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE T . Ashley Haywood '11, Chairman ........ Rockingham, N. C. Dr. Thurman Kitchin ' 05, ex officio ... ..... Wake Forest, N . C. John A. Oates ' 95, ex officio .................. .. Fayetteville, N . C. T . Settle Graham, Jr. ' 22, ex officio ........ Greensboro, N. C. Dr. Graham B . Barefoot '21 (1949) .. ... ... Wilmington, N. C. Waldo C. Cheek '34 (1949) ................ .......... Asheboro, N. C. Dr. J . Glenn Blackburn '35 ( 1948) ...... ...... Lumberton, N. C. Carroll C. Wall '17 (1948 L. .............. .......... Lexington, N . C. Dr. James B. Turner ' 07 (1947 ) ................ Laurinburg, N. C. S . Wait Brewer ' 10 (1947) .......... .... ...... Wake Forest, N . C.

THE COVER PICTURE Lamar Caudle, Jr., shown on the cover, represents

three generations of Caudles who have enrolled at Wake Forest. His father, the late Lamar Caudle, Sr., of Wadesboro, was graduated from Wake Forest in 1897. Lamar, Jr., got his LL.B. here in 1926, and Lamar, III , is now enrolled in our freshman class.

Lamar, Jr ., who is a fine embodiment of the Wake Forest spirit, is not only assistant attorney-general of the United States, immediately in charge of all criminal prosecution, but is also president of the Federal Bar Association of the United States.

About twenty years ago the editor returned to the Wake Forest campus after an absence of several years. A feeling of loneliness came over him as he walked through the campus arch and across the magnoliastudded campus. Occasionally a professor or janitor with a familiar face would pass, but the students were all strangers. We wandered on around to the old tennis court, which, at that time, was hard by the old gymnasium, and looked through the wire fence at a singles match in progress.

At the end of the game, one of the players, with a big friendly voice, inquired : "Mister, do you like tennis?"

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" Yes, but I didn't bring any equipment," we replied. "Say , Ben," the big fellow said to his opponent,

" let this gentleman have your racket and shoes, and tell Miss Jo to save dinner for two."

The big fellow, who was Lamar Caudle, Jr., didn 't know at that time whether he was extending an invitation to an alumnus or an outsider. We had a fine time together, and upon leaving the campus we concluded that, if Lamar was a fair sample, the college was in hospitable hands. . . . He was a fair sample, and the same spirit of friendliness prevails today.

BEN PARHAM As we go to press we learned of the death on

February 27 of Benjamin W. Parham '08, of Oxford. Recently elected a trustee of Wake Forest College and president of our alumni chapter in Granville County, his passing will be keenly felt. Our sincere sympathy to his widow, the former Kate Campbell Johnson of Thomasville ; his daughter, Jeanette, and to his brothers and sisters.

RECORD ENROLLMENT OF 1,577 ON WFC CAMPUS

A record-breaking enrollment of 1,577 students at Wake Forest for the spring semester surpasses by 37 the previous high mark of 1,540 set last fall.

In addition to the 1,577 men and women here, there are approximately 172 students attending the college's Bowman Gray Medical School at WinstonSalem. This actually boosts the total figure to 1,749.

North Carolina is represented by 1,334 students or 85 per cent of the total. Virginia leads the way in the 15 per cent total of 243 out-of-state students with 71 men and women.

Veterans constitute 64 per cent of the enrollment with 1,013 former servicemen and women in attendance. Co-eds number 200 or exactly 13 per cent of the group.

Thirty of the 48 states are represented plus the District of Columbia and two foreign countries, China and Brazil. There are two students, whose American parents reside in China, and one from Brazil.

The state furnishing the third largest total of students is South Carolina with 31 men and women.

Every section of the country is represented with students coming from as far north as Massachusetts, as far south as Florida, as far west as California, as far southwest as Texas, and as far northwest as Michigan.

The breakdown of students by states is as follows: North Carolina, 1,334; Virginia, 71; South Caro

lina, 31 ; Florida, 21 ; Pennsylvania, 20 ; Georgia, 11 ; New Jersey, 10; Connecticut, 9; New York, 8; Maryland, 8; West Virginia, 7 ; District of Columbia, 6; Michigan, 5 ; Alabama, 5; Kentucky, 4; Mississippi , 3 ; Missouri , 3; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 2; Rhode Island, 2; China, 2; and Illinois, Indiana, Utah, Oregon, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Louisiana , Nebraska, Ohio, California, Idaho, and Brazil, 1 each.

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A NEW CROP OF JOURNALISTS Since its establishment in 1834,

a steady stream of writers has gone out from Wake Forest. The record made by the older men is too well known to need any amplification at this time. Instead, let us introduce you to 28 youngsters who, as professional pen pushers, are making names for themselves.

A glance at the following list, which is by no means exhaustive, leads us to believe that the tempo of training writers has been stepped up somewhat since the establishment of our journalism department a decade or so ago under Dr. Edgar E. Folk.

Approximately two - thirds of this group are on newspaper staffs . The remaining third is about evenly divided between radio publicity and public relations work for large corporations.

There are undoubtedly others, but here are the ones whose names occur to us now :

Jay Jenkins '40 , recently appointed editor of Wilmington Post .

BELOW: James L. "Jay" Jenkins, Jr. '40, is the new editor of Wilmington's "Evening Post." Formerly be was managing editor of the "Wilmington News" and "Wilmington Star-News." He served for a while as reporter for the "Shelby Star" and as staff member of the Raleigh bureau of the United Press. Coming from a literary lineage, his mother, the former 1\'liss Kate Watson, was a niece of John Charles McNeill '98, North Carolina poet. His father is the Rev. James L. Jenkins '10, pastor of Boiling Springs Baptist Church and formerly president of the junior college there.

Neil Morgan '43 , on editorial staff of San Diego (Cal. ) Daily Journal .

Ray Pittman '40 , Richmond T imes-Dispatch.

Robert S. Gallimore '43 , Ashev ille Citizen.

Leslie Cansler '41 , R a l e i g h Times .

Simmons Fentress '45 , Raleigh News and Observer.

T. William Ayres '42 , Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury and Nanking correspondent of Reuters.

R. H . Brantley, Jr. '45 , Durham Hemld.

Mrs. R. H. Brantley (Elizabeth Jones ) '44, Durham Sun.

Helen Tucker '46 , Burlington Times-News.

Bettie Horsley '47 , Hertford County Herald, Ahoskie.

Tom I. Davis '40 , Hertford County Herald, Ahoskie .

Al Jennings '44, sports editor of G1·eensboro Record.

Sue Marshall '46 , Wilmington Herald.

William S . Humphries '38, associate editor of Roxboro Courier .

Hoke Norris '34, formerly with Associated Press in Charlotte; now doing p u b 1 i c i t y for The Lost Colony.

Rufus Crater '38, formerly with Winston-Salem JoU7·nal; now in army intelligence.

Betty Stansbury '44, associate editor of Carolina Coi:ipemtor.

Wells Norris '41 , editor of Armour Star, house organ of Armour Packing Co. , Chicago.

Eugene F. Brissie '40, public relations representative of Ford Motor Co., New York area.

Ed Gambrell '38, public relations with Southern Bell Telephone Co., Atlanta.

Ferd Davis '40 and Barrie Davis '44, publishers of Zebulon Record, and proprietors of printing plant in Zebulon.

Thompson Greenwood '35, publicity director of State Department of Agriculture.

A. Laurence Aydlett '29, publicity director of State Department of Health.

Mrs. Robert Turnage (Martha Ann Allen) '44, script writer for WRVA, Richmond; formerly with Winston-Salem Journal.

Alice Holliday '45, script writer for WPTF, Raleigh.

Betty Stansbury, B.A. of WFC in 1944, and associate editor of the "Carolina Cooperator," takes off an afternoon for fishing after learning that her magazine bad won first place in the U. S. in competition with more than 100 F a r m e r s Cooperatives' journals.

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM ECHOES OF OLD COLLEGE DAYS " I wouldn't swap one old friend for a dozen new ones." DR. H . H . "Huo" McMILLAN '08

By EUGENE BRISSIE '40

Public Relations Officer Ford Motor Co., Ne~ York A reo

Our guest columnist for the Echoes feature in this issue is the sixth alumnus who has kindly consented to " write up" the College as he knew it in his school days . Our purpose is to cover various periods in Wake Forest's history and to record for our readers and posterity the sort of things that old-timers talk about upon returning to the campus afteT a lapse of yem·s-incidents that are humorous, inspirational, or definitely historical. Other such articles will follow , covering different periods.

After gmduation, Mr. Brissie spent four yeaTS and five months in the Navy, coming out a full lieutenant in Nov. 1945 . In the fleet he served aboard the battleship USS Arkansas and the aiTcraft carriers USS Bunker Hill and USS Boxer. A book he wrote, entitled " USS Bunker Hill: Nov . 43-Nov . 44," was acclaimed by Admiral Nimitz as " One of the best to come out of the war." Upon his disch~rge fmm military service , Bnsste became news manager for Eastern Airlines' northern division, between Richmond and Boston. Fmm there he went to Ford . His wife is the former Louise Phillips of OxfO?·d, Pa. They have one daughter, Carol, seven months old, who Gene says is " a real charmer." Editor.

I wish someh ow that I were back for several hours in the old Student office at Wake Forest. Just as it used to be, with nothing changed. Perhaps actually there's a new office now, with shining desk ornaments , air conditioning and indirect lighting. For all I know there may be an office boy, a battery of office telephones, and a big conference table where literary offerings are torn to pieces by ruthless searching editors. '

Frankly I hope not. For the cubby hole that was

where office files consisted of that pile of papers in the right hand corner as you entered-held a big source of inspiration for me back

EUGENE BRISSIE

in the late ' thirties ( apologies for my " unmellowed" qualifications, as compared with veterans McCutheon, Johnson, Memory and Norris ). It was there I used to turn out a story about anything at the drop of a hat. I chronicled the march of campus time, I delved recklessly into political hodgepodge and probed for answers, I biographed and profiled the lives of great teachers, and even once I recall satirizing the pants off Prime M i n is t e r Chamberlain, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and some Frenchman whose name escapes me at the time.

I was a writer in those days. The halls of Bostwick Dormi

tory, which was a mere stone's throw from the window of the old Student office, never quieted down sufficiently before midnight (except for the nights before final examinations) for the average "artist" to do justice to a piece of writing. As time went by, however, I found the noises getting less and less distracting. And towards the end of my tour of duty in Student Center, the only form of noise coming out of Bostwick boiler factory that I couldn't pretty well ignore was the pre-Christmas fireworks . Those little parcels from the Orient usually began exploding about mid-October and seldom died completely out before midMarch. And, of course, the night

before everyone went home for the Christmas holiday, Bostwick resembled something for which I never found an adequate comparison until I saw an ammunition ship blow up at night 'in the lagoon of a peaceful island.

Being a working student (one who labored to make ends meet, m case all Wake Forest students in the times of McCutheon, Johnson, Memory and Norris came of wealthy stock) , I all but floated on air when Mr. E. B . Earnshaw called me in one day and told me that he had another job for meIF I still needed expense money. When he told me that the job called for living in and being proctor of Bostwick dormitory, I almost lost my heart.

I took the job. I appreciated it, too, Mr. Earnshaw.

The years I was at Wake Forest in retrospect resemble more of a crossroads era than a level stretch of schooling. For one thing parts of the nation were just digging out from under a long depression, seniors graduating from school were still finding jobs not too plentiful, and the foreboding shadow of war was clearly visible from the autumn of 1938 on. It was that year that Chamberlain a n d Hi t 1 e r "agreed" on Czechoslovakia; it was a lso the year that a group of great heroes to thousands of Wake Forest, students retired from active service. I still reflect occasionally upon the Student that Rufus Crater ' put out that spring. It was dedicated to Great Men . . . Poteat ... Sledd ... Lynch ... Gulley ... Cullom. Any student aspiring to become a magazine editor would do well to go back and look up that issue, for it was a monumental piece of work.

Of these five great I came to know Dr. Sledd best. Sledd, the Story Teller. Actually I never had a f?rmal course under him, but durmg that first year of his retirement I virtually beat a path to his door. It all came about in a creative writing class taught by Dr. Edgar E. Folk. Dr. Folk gave himself away with this statement: "Ever so often I search for some question that I can ask Dr. Sledd. That opens the door on what

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frequently turns into hours of fascinating stories told by a master .... " So it was that I asked "Old Slick" •·w h a t Browning meant by this?" or "there are parts of 'The Raven' that I don't quite get." To the former, as I recall it, he answered, "It really doesn't matter too much,'' and from there he went into a story that took place in Sussex on a Sunday morning in 1914. To the latter he snorted: "Why, young fellow, Ed Poe told me he didn't understand what he wrote in 'The Raven' himself. Said he was half drunk when he wrote it." And from there he went back to the University of Virginia on a summer's night. While lying in bed one night (he slept in a room that had been occupied by Poe) ''drinking in the breath of a quiet Virginia evening," the ghost of Edgar Allen Poe appeared -as it did many times for Dr. Sledd. Poe told him e\·erything.

Dr. Broadus Jones and Dr. Folk many times reminded us as students that year '·to take advantage of Dr Sledd's life while he's still here " Out of my brief informal "course" under him came one of my most highly treasured possessions--<lne of his textbooks given to me by members of his family after his death. The book's margins are lined with characteristic Sledd notations: "tommyrot" here, or "pure bosh" there.

The day Dr. Sledd died, the News Bureau at Wake Forest put in a record day's work. Professor Jasper Memory, Jim Copple~ and myself handled scores of requests from far and near. Newspapermen, many of them his own "boys," sought out the chronological data on his life. Few needed the fill-in, for each wanted to breathe his own meaning into the story of "Slick" Sledd. Of the written pieces, I remember with deep feeling the editorial written by Frank Smethurst of the Raleigh News

~ Copple '36, associate actuary. Penn. Mutual Life Insurance Co., Philadelphla, Penna

Henlee Barnette '40, minister and city missionary 114 E. Jefferson St., Louisville 2

' •~1 Brooks (Wm. Henry) '39, 414 Sunset Drive. Winston·Salem.

• Tom Davis (Thomas Ivey) '40, c 'o Parker Bros., Ahoskie.

• George Kelley '42. Magnolia. • Bill Poe '40, originally from Roanoke. Va.,

mail returned from Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem. on March 15. 1946

- Carl Dull '39, In real estate business, Winston-Salem.

• Jim Gilliland '40. Macon. Had three boats shot out from under him in War II. Harold Bailey '41, married his sister.


and Observer. Frank had been one of Sledd's "boys" at Wake Forest. (Frank Smethurst. who used to f u r n i s h our journalism "lab" under Dr. Folk with practical apprenticeships in his own newsroom, died late in 1941.)

Of course there were the other great men, and echoes of their voices still come back to me-as I am sure they do to other members of our generation at Wake Forest. "Herr Doctor Finkstus" Gorrell retired the following year ( 1939). and Dr. George Washington Paschal (reputed to have read 2,000 lines of Greek most any day merely for relaxation) followed in 1940. I became acquainted with these men first through classmates; and then I spent hours with them in their homes . . . and returned to the musty Student office to dedicate an issue each to their lives and works. Associated with each of these great men were countless little stories worth individual articles.

If I had to write one word that would come nearest to telling my most lasting classroom impressions of Wake Forest, I think "seminar" would be it. Those small groups that got around a table for se\·eral hours a week and discussed - or read papers on-the modern novel, creative writing, philosophy, and other subjects. I can still hear Henlee Barnette" at his end of the table in the modern novel course rattling off Joseph's "seven reasons" as presented in Thomas Mann's Bible series. Similarly, I can see Bill Brooks'4 bushy head of hair bobbing back and forth as he would attack the plot of a story presented in Dr. Folk's creative writing "night class."

There are so many incidents that come to mind-Dr. Pearson's "pop" quizzes in Government, Dr. Reid's facility for remembering home towns.

Of course another huge artery of the "crossroads'' of the late 'thirties at Wake Forest was the advent of World War II. When Germany invaded Poland, it was something incomprehensible that war was actually underway. That winter of the war of nerves between Germany and France-Britain was the object of numerous jokes when The Old Gold and Black staff gathered on Monday and W e d n e s d a y nights. Tom "Boredface" Davis5 could imitate

Hitler perfectly with the aid of a pocket comb: and George "Chink" Kelley" threatened to leave for China on the next train every time a staff member submitted an editorial designed to settle foreign hostilities. Poor old Bill Poe' didn't have time to fight the war of nerves, because every time he settled back to chat about worldwide affairs, some squirt would bellow; "When's the Howler coming out?" I often wonder what ever happened to Bill and to Carl Dull," his predecessor as editor of the yearbook. It seems to me that being asked the same question 333 times a day for 9 months would tend to offset any inherently good brain qualities.

But the war took a turn for the realistic. France fell like a "busted paper bag." Belgium was split wide open. and Nazi soldiers were singing "Marching Against England' ' with every confidence that six weeks would see the job done.

Wake Foresters began dropping out here and there Some came back in several months for a visit in uniform. Jim Gilliland!' walked through Snyder's acre of student center in an ensign's uniform and informed his admirers that he was reporting for duty in the Asiatic Fleet aboard the USS Houston. Jim laughed. "Glad it's way the hell out there- away from the \var!"

Some Wake Forest students belonged to the National Guard. and upon them fell the first call to active duty.

Most Wake Foresters, however, were much later to see service in a new form of "national guard"a draft army and navy. On October 16, 1940, those of us over 21 years of age were invited to answer a few questions. offer a signature, and thus lav ourselves liable to exile on so~e unheard-of-at-thetime place such as Guadalcanal, Balikpappen or the M a r s h a 11 Islands, or to avail ourselves to much talked-of "travel with pay" roles aboard luxury liners painted monotonously gray and equipped with big guns and or airplanes.

The rumblings of war caused most of us a great deal of concern. To hundreds it meant breaking up our school pursuits or delaying our entrance into the business or professional world. But the "fever" is


always potent ... and it became increasingly more difficult to see your classmates join the colors and you be left behind.

By the spring of 1941 ( I happened to have been back on a teaching fellowship that year), the war bad come to influence virtually 100 per cent of the students, as I recall it. Those who weren't drafted or who hadn't volunteered for service, were taking civilian pilot training, seeking admittance into a military branch's training school, or were thinking seriously of the day that a number would turn up.

In the years that followed 1941 our college generation was literally spread over the face of the earth. We ran across each other in foreign ports or at military bases in this country; or we "just missed one another" at various points. Every time you met a Wake Forest man, he had heard something about or from another Wake Forest man. Once on a cruise up the Chesapeake Bay the battleship I was on put into Annapolis. A strapping big midshipman , aboard for a visit , saw my name on the officer's roster. He put in a call for me, but I was ashore. Several days later I received a letter from "Midshipman John (Goose ) Pendergast,"10

who, besides being a whale of a football center , had lent a Bostonian accent to Dr. Jones' Shakespeare class. . . . One noon I was having lunch at a club in Pearl Harbor and in walked "Schoolboy" Snipes," who had seen William "Judge" Burgwyn 12 and several of the old Ahoskie-Woodland gang just a few weeks before .... Again in the very same place I ran into Garrett " Spec" Valentine,l3 a devout Sigma Pi man who had gone out and rocked himself blue in the face on PT boats of the South Pacific .... Bill Kellner,'4 a former president of the Sigma Pi house, was my roommate in Mid-

1c _John Pendergast '41, "Green Levels," Regtstertown, Md. Ah~~~~~rt Finley Snipes <S choolboy) '40 ,

la:dWllham Burg\\ryn '42, attorney, Wood-

1 Garrett Valentine '40, \Vashington, D. C. 11 Bill Kellner '41 , Salem , Va . r John w Scott. Jr . '39, C/O Rocky Mount

Mills, Rocky Mount. 10 D ick Hoyle '41, died in April, 1944, in a

plane accident in California 17 Butch Clark <Walter Clifton) '42, died

September 7, 1943, at Guadalcana1. -11 Ted Phillips (Frank Edward) '40, killed

jn action on Saipan, .Tuly 9, 1944.

shipman school in Chicago during the fall of '41. ... And it seemed that I was eternally missing John Scott '" by from one to a thousand miles.

Wake Foresters, from what I have been able to gather from news clippings and past alumni news accounts , won their share of the battle glory. Air heroes, brave "dogfaces" of the infantry, Marine raiders, warriors of the sea .

Having been so far removed from the "crossroads" generation since graduation, however, it all comes back as a bad dream that there were those too who paid the full price. It undoubtedly will be hard for any member of my college generation to come back to that particular campus without expecting to see the faces of men wholike ourselves-became part of the school's very personality. That the faces of "Dick" Hoyle,10 " Butch" Clark17 and "Ted" Phillips,' and scores of others whose names I am without, will be missing somehow takes away a little part of even an old school's soul.

FUTURE WAKE FORESTERS There appears below informa

tion pertaining to 44 little fellows , some of them girls, whose parents were good enough to fill out the questionnaire which was run in our last issue entitled "Register of Sons and D>tughters of Alumni-Ages 1 hr. to 18 yrs." If your child's name hasn't been run in this column, fill out the questionnaire on page 14 and we'll send him (or her ) a Wake•Forest sticker. Fathe1·-Class at WFC-Child and

Age-Add1·ess William F. Ainsley ( 1935)-Wil

liam F. , Jr., 2; Margaret Lynn, 1 month-Hertford.

G. S. Barbee, Jr. ( 1939 )-George Sprite, III, 22 days-Tarboro.

Stacie L . Bowen (1928)-Richard Lee, 17 ; William Egbett , 12-Athens, Ga.

J. A. Butts, Jr. (1932)-Mary Lou, 4-South Hill, Va.

Lacy S. Collier ( 1939)- Mary Elaine, 14 months-Fayetteville.

A. F. Collins ( 1934)-Glenn Collins, 4-Elizabeth City.

Charles R. Co unci 1 ( 1936)Charles R. , 5; William Terry, 2 -Raleigh.

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Dr. Walter Eugene "Black Boy" Daniel (1927)-Walter Eugene, III, 1 year-Charlotte.

G . D. Danner ( 1930)- Shirley Mae, 11 ; Benjamin Erwin, 9 ; Philip Day, 6-Chatham, Va.

Dr. James C. Eagle (1921)-James C., Jr. , 9 ; Ninion Windsor, 4¥2 -Spencer.

Harry Forred ( 1940 )-Harry, Jr., 3-Reading, Pa.

Rev. Alfred F. Gibson (1943)John , 18; Elaine, 16; James, 14; William, 11-Siler City.

W. M. (Pistol Pete ) Jenkins ( 1931 )-Patricia Lynn, 6 months

-Durham. John E. Lawrence (1937 )-John

E ., Jr. , 16 months-Louisville, Ky .

Ashley T. McCarter (1939)Charles Thomas, 5 monthsGreensboro.

A. E . Moretz ( 1931 l-Elmo, 16; Milton, 14; Olive, 12 ; Mary Lea, 7-Boone.

Talmage 0. Moses ( 1921) - William L . (Bill), 16-Aberdeen.

Commander Hubert M. Poteat, Jr. ( 1936 )-William Louis, 3; Robert McNeill, 3 months- Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Rev. Joe F. Roach (1928)-Linville, 15 ; Alease, 13-Lewiston.

Altha Smith Satterwhite (1945 )James Haywood, 11 daysStanley.

Leon P . Spencer ( 1927) -Nancy Jane, 5; Leon, Jr. , 3-Seaboard.

Rev. I. K. Stafford (1921)-I. K., Jr .. 14; Margaret Ann, 12; Helen Louise, 10-Buie's Creek.

Sam H. Stallings, Jr. (1942)-Margaret Ercelle, 3L2 ; Samuel H., III, 5 weeks-St. Pauls.

R. T. Strange ( 1929 )-Mary Fuller, 8-Durham.

Robert C. Wells (1932) -Robert C. , Jr. , 8; Maude Castleberry, 5 -Kenansville.

BANK DIRECTOR. Dr. George M. Modlin '24, new president of the University of Richmond, was recently named a director of the First and Merchants National Bank of Richmond, Va., along with Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. of United Nations fame.

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WFC ALUMNI RANK HIGH IN NATIONAL STATISTICS Per Cent of Alumni Who Are Paid-up Members of Alumni Association Mounts.

The current issue of the American Council Alumni News, a magazine published by the Association of College and University alumni secretaries of the United States, has an article which deals with the question of paid up alumni memberships. It states that the University of California leads all the other colleges and universities in this factor with 26 per cent of its potential membership having paid the annual alumni dues. Ohio State and the University of Illinois were said to rank next with 20 per cent and 18 per cent memberships, respectively.

Wake Forest College at present has 1,473 alumni who during the past year have paid their $5.00 alumni dues. This constitutes 23 per cent of the 6.300 on our mailing list, and we send the magazine to all alumni whose addresses we have been able to obtain.

Now, if that isn't a strong enough pat on the back for the alumni who have responded to our appeal, we can make the case considerably stronger. Some 4,000 alumni have made contributions to our Enlargement Program. Practically all of the aforesaid 1,473 alumni members are included among these 4,000 Enlargement Program donors and made separate contributions to it.

Conversely, more than 2,000 of our alumm have contributed to the Enlargement Program but have not paid $5.00 alumni-membership fees. If we were to add these 2,000 to the 1,473-and, in reality, we do regard them as paid-up members-we would have 3,473 paid-up members .:>four alumni association which is well over 50 per cent of the number on our mailing list.

Let's make it 100 per cent! If you would like a hand in it, just fill out the questionnaire appearing elsewhere on this page and send us your check for $5.00 which will cover your alumni dues for 12 months from the date of payment. A part of it will be used for payment of your subscription to the ALUMNI NEWS and the residue will be applied by Bursar E. B. Earnshaw to the operating expenses of the College.

17 NEW l'IIEJ.'IIBERS Franklin Edwards '10, Franklin, Va . Rev. Horace Easom '20, Shelby William B. Hill '40, Seattle, Wash. Herbert Jenkins, Jr. '38, Ahoskie James L. Jenkins, Jr. '40, Wilmington Dr. W. C. Jennette '21, Westminster,

Md. J. Samuel Johnson '17, Edgemont Charles L. Little '38, Wadesboro Jack B. McDuffie '38, Chapel Hill Miles Lee Rickman '89, Port Angeles,

Wash . W. 0. Rosser, Jr. '34, Whitakers E. C. Shinn '33, Victoria, Texas Sam H. Stallings, Jr. '44, St. Pauls R. T . Strange '29, Durham C. W . Teague '36, Raleigh James E. Wallace '37, Craigmont,

Idaho

LEFT: George Blanton '93, of Shelby. He is one of paid-up alumni members whom we wrote the other day saying that the 12-month period for which they had paid had expired. Along with a rather broad hint that we would appreciate another S5, we threw in the comment, "If we can ever be of service to you," etc .... to which l\Ir. B lanton made this terse marginal notation on our letter: "Service Rendered," and attached his check. That kind of reaction, which we have had from many, is a boon to our spirits. !Hr. Blanton is president of Shelby's First National Bank and has other business interests. Three other member of the class of 1893 who enrolled at Wake Forest from Shelby are Dr. Charles H. Durham, Lumberton minister; Dr. E. B. Lattimore, Shelby physician; and Bon. E. Yates Webb, United States District Judge for Western North Carolina.

Tom Ping Wong '35, Atlanta Ga

146 RENEWAL Dr. G . A Aiken ' 17, Marshall, Mo. Dr. Charles I. Allen ' 11 , Wadesboro R . G. Anders ' 13 , Hendersonville G . N. Ashley '28, Salemburg Lt. John W . Avera, Jr. '40, Coral

Gables, Fla . Dr. Thomas W . Baker '27, Charlotte Lt. Gov. L. Y . Ballentine '2 1, Varina L . P . Beck '30, Wingate A . L . Benton '32, Willard Dr. Wayne J . Benton '3 0, Greensboro Dr. G . W Blackshear '21, Opelika,

Alabama Willard J . Blanchard '4 1, Salemburg George Blanton '93, Shelby T . E. Bobbitt '12, Wake Forest Dr. 0. C. Bradbury, Honorary, Wake

Forest Henry L . Bridges '3 1, Rale igh

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James B. Brower '35, Liberty Dr. W. C. Byrd '21, Sanatorium William H. Causey '33, Farmville James E. Cross '42, Burlington Dr. A. L. Crutchfield '38, Charlottes-

ville, Va. R. W. Crutchfield '30, Kannapolis Forrest W. Clonts '20, Wake Forest Dr. J. E. Collier '29, Richmond, Va. Rev. Oscar Creech '08, Ahoskie Dr. W. R. Cullom '92, Wake Forest Dr. J. M. Davis '11, Wadesboro D. S. Dempsey '24, Lowesville, Va. Dr. L . R. Doffermyre '35, Dunn A. Yates Dowell '17, Washington,

D. C. J. C. Eagles '95, Wilson J. W . Earp '31, Selma Dr. J. Allen Easley, Honorary, Wake

Forest William P. Etchison '99, Columbia.

s. c. Emory M. Fanning '25, Wilmington.

Delaware Dr. W. L. Foushee '94. Durham Hal L . Furr '39, Seaboard Dr. L. M. Futrell '13, Murfreesboro Roy F. Githens '42, Ashland, N. J. Hal B. Griffin '28, Birmingham, Ala. H. C. Griffin '12, Raleigh Earl L . Hansell '36, Charlotte Earl B. Harris '18, Florence, S. C. Dr. Louten R. Hedgpeth '31, Lum-

berton Dr. J. Bivins Helms '24, Morganton Rev. Carey P. Herring '34, Fairmont James F. Hoge '22, New York Reginald B. Holder '45. Rocky Mount Charles B. Holland '28, Statesville Robert D. Holleman '34, Durham Jesse W. Hollowell, Honorary, Wake

Forest Brodie E. Hood '26, Burlington C. C. Hope, Jr. '43, Charlotte J. Williams Howell '33, Gainesville,

Ga. Dr. W. Bryce Hunt '21, Lexington F. W. Jarvis '22, Spindale Finley R. Johnson '33, Windsor Rivers D. Johnson '09, Warsaw R. Leland Jones '28, Wake Forest Dr. P. W. Joyner '30, Enfield Dr. Irwin Kitchin '31, Princeton, N. J. Dr. Thurman Kitchin '05, Wake Forest Thurman Kitchin, Jr. '30, Wake Forest Dr. Walton Kitchin '36, Durham Henry Bruce Land, Jr. '41, Conover W. H. Lewis '41, Portsmouth, Va. Dr. J. Grafton Love '25, Rochester

Minn. ' J R. McDaniel '32, Raleigh Dr. William K. McDowell '29, Tarboro George H. McNeil '29. Morehead City Dr. George C. Mackie '24, Wake Forest David L. Marshall '43, College Point,

L . I . George Mauney '37, Lexington T . S. Memory '00, Whiteville H. L. Miller, Honorary, Wake Forest James R. Minton '39, Greensboro Dr. C. Hunter Moricle '37, Reidsville Z . V. Morgan '22, Hamlet Carl Murchison '09, ProvincE'town

Mass. ' Ellis Nassif '30, Wake Forest Judge John A. Oates '95, Fayetteville Dr. L . N. Ogburn '38, Shamokin, Pa. Rev. Eugene Olive '10, Wake Forest William B . Oliver '31, Pine Level James P. Overbey '39, Reidsville Dr. Charles K. Padgett '28, Shelby Mrs. Billie Mcintyre Parnell '42 , Rae-

ford Wade H . Paschal '22 , Siler City Orus F. Patterson, Jr. '43 , Sanford

Dr. Arthur B . Peacock '27, Moores-town, N . J.

Herbert Peele ' 08, Elizabeth City P . Carlton Peyton '40, Canton Judge W . G . Pittman '20 , Rockingham Mrs. Euphemia Bryan Platte '33, Col-

legeville, Penna. Dr. Louis F . Pondfield ' 21 , Baltimore,

Md. Dr. H. M. Poteat, Jr. '36, Mechanics

burg, Penna. Dr. F. P . Powers '24, Raleigh Dr. William C. Prevette '42, Winston-

Salem S. B. Quillen '95, Lebanon, Va. Dr. R. B. Rankin '14, Concord Dr. W. S . Rankin ' 09, Charlotte Jesse F . Rhodes '21, Asheville Eugene L . Roberts '22 , Pikeville Clarence Ross '15, Graham H. W. Rothrock '35, Enfield W. L. Royall '06 , Wake Forest E . F. Shaw ' 06, Henderson Robert H . Shanks ' 10, Culver , Indiana R. W. Slate '23, High Point D. W. Sorrell '02, Durham Robert W . South '37, Atlanta , Ga. Dr. Wade Sowers '21, L exington Leon P . Spencer '27 , Seaboard Dr. E. L. Spivey '23, Charlotte Walter C. Stallings '21, Shelby Rev. Edgar G . Stephen '21, Gold Dale,

Va. Rev. H. M. Stroup '21, Kannapolis M. Heath Tadlock '33, Columbia Sta-

tion, Ohio Matthias T. Tanner '12, Wake Forest S. C. Tatum '26, Greensboro Dr. C. B. Taylor '35, Hendersonville Herbert B. Taylor '12, Dunn Dr. Foy Vann, '()2, Norfolk, Va. D. C. Walker '21, Wake F orest R. W. Wall '31. Durham Josiah Elliott Ward '27, Elizabeth City H. M. Watson '20, Sanford, Fla. Dr. G eorge T . Watkins, Jr. '12, Dur

ham Dr. J. C. Watkins '97, Winston-Salem Dr. Bahnson Weathers '15, Roanoke

Rapids Dr. Vernon 0. Weathers '06, Ashland,

Ky. W. H. Weatherspoon '06 , Raleigh Dr. Rayford Lee Weinstein '32, Fair-

mont Bruce Whitaker '44, Louisville, Ky. A. H . Whitley '23, High Point Miss Mollie Stell Wiggins, Honorary,

Wake Forest Arthur D . Williams '27, Wilson Erwin T. Williams ' 23 , Lumberton T. J . Williams '27 , Grifton Paul J. Williamson '34, Whiteville Rev. J . B . Willis ' 09 , Hamlet Elbert E . Wilson '23, Ft. Lauderdale,

Fla. Percy H. Wilson '20, Raleigh Dr. Ross B. Wilson '21, Philadelphia,

Penna. Col. Julian E. Yates '94, Washington,

D . C. Dr. D . E. Yow '33, Concord

More WFC Legislators Here are three more Wake For

esters whose names should be added to the list of 35 North Carolina legislators which appeared in the December ALuMNI NEws:

Joe Burden '24, Aulander. C. B. Martin '34, Jamesville.

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J. Eugene Snyder '32, Lexington. The total of 38 we have for this

session is exactly one more than was elected to serve in the 1945 session.

Incidentally, presiding officers of both the Senate and the House are Wake Foresters. Lieutenant Governor L . Y. "Stag" Ballentine '21, of Varina, is the gavel-swinger in the Senate, while Tom Pearsall '27, of Rocky Mount, serves in the same capacity in the House of Representatives.

SCHOOLMAN. James Everette Miller of Ahoskie, who received Wake Forest's B .A. in 1931 and M.A. in 1946, has been made associate in the division of Instructional Service of the State Department of Public Instruction, succeeding Dr. H . Arnold Perry, elementary school specialist. In the same division, with duties in high school supervision is A. B. Combs '10. Director of the division is Dr. J . Henry Highsmith, who taught at Wake Forest from 1907 until 1917 and who in 1934 was granted our Doctor of Education degree.

Medical School Given $900,000 Wake Forest College on January

2 became one of eleven institutions in North Carolina which will share a $1,700,000 endowment fund established by James A. Gray of Winston-Salem. Mr. Gray, former president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., is now chairman of the board of directors of that company.

The College's Bowman Gray School of Medicine headed the list with $900,000. The trust agreement provides that the payments to the Bowman Gray School of Medicine are to be used first for the liquidation of indebtedness incurred in building and equipping the School of Medicine and, thereafter, for improved teaching and enlarged medical research.

100 FOR DR. HUBERT The Rev. W. S . Royall '84, re

tired Baptist minister of Lynchburg, Va. , after 50 years of good preaching, wrote the Alumni Office on March 10:

"Dr. Hubert Poteat scored 100 here at the Court St. Methodist Church last Friday night discussing hymns to sing (and not to sing) in our churches. He was dynamic, witty, and humorous."

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SPORTS Wake Forest's 19-!7 basketball

team played about as tough a schedule as any program ever undertaken by a team in this particular sport and the Demon Deacons wound up their rugged 2-!game slate with a record of 11 \'ictories and 13 defeats.

The Deacons played more Southern Conference games than any other member of the loop as they tackled no less than 17 foes. They wound up their campaign \·dth 8 league wins and 9 setbacks.

The upset of the year. as far as the Southern Conference is concerned. and one of the nation's most startling surprises. was provided by the Deacons on Friday, February 14. when a decidedly underdog Wake Forest five rose up and completely outplayed N. C. State's high-flying Red Terrors, 44 to 39. State finished the season atop the Conference standings with 11 dctories and 2 defeats, one of these by Wake Forest.

Deran Walters, 6-foot 4-inch sophomore center from Statesville, and Jack Gentry, 5-foot 10-inch forward from Walnut Cove. set the pace in individual scoring this season. Walters scored 261 points and Gentry 243.

Congratulations, coach Greason.

SEASON'S RESULTS

WFC Opponents 61 McCrary Eagles .............. 66 49 McCrary Eagles ................ 51 66 Windsor Firemen .............. 25 43 Hanes Hosiery ··· ············-· 62 46 Asheville Bombers .......... 47 45 Asheville Bombers .......... 42 49 Asheville Waste Paper

Bombers ...................... 46 40 William and 1\-fary ............ 33 41 South Carolina -····-·········· 54 58 Clemson ............................ 43 28 Furman ·-··························· 36 32 Duke ·····-··············· ...... .. . 65 67 Clemson ·····-······················· 51 48 N. C. State ........................ 65 53 Furman .............................. 52 49 North Carolina .................. 70 56 Citadel ·· ······-······················ 46 54 v. 1\1:. I. ···········-····· ........... 44 56 Washington and Lee ........ 65 44 N. C. State ·····-······· ...... . 39 46 North Carolina ............... 54 52 South Carolina ................ 47 37 Duke .................................. 57 54 Richmond ...................... .... 63

;\larch Issue W AK.E FOREST COLLEGE ALU1\1NI NEWS

WIN HONORS FOR DEACONS The two Nicks in the Wake For

est backfield-Sacrinty and Ognovich-added a number of honors to their growing list of achievements during the off season.

Sacrinty had the distinction of being c h o s e n the outstanding player in the annual East-West Shrine game at San Francisco on New Year's Day. Being selected the No. 1 player on the field is considered all the more impressive in view of the fact that Sacrinty was playing on the losing team as the West won 13 to 9. He will get a free trip to the Pacific Coast next year as guest of this game and will be presented a trophy at halftime. The selection of Sacrinty as the outstanding player marks the first time in history anyone from this section of the country has ever rated that honor. A number of players who won All- America honors from institutions in the two Carolinas have taken part in this game but none was ever awarded this trophy.

The Reidsville senior also was awarded the coveted Lewis E. Teague Memorial trophy, annually presented to the two athletes-man and woman-adjudged by the sports writers as making the greatest contribution to amateur athletics in the Carolinas. Frances

Kinney of Raleigh, brilliant swimmer and a student at Woman's College of the Unh·ersity at Greensboro, was voted the best woman athlete. Sacrinty was selected over such versatile athletes as Carolina's Charlie Justice. Duke's Ed Koffenberger, South Carolina's Brvant l\Ieeks. I . C. State's Howard Turner. and others. Nick and l\Iiss Kinney received their awards at a dinner given in their honor at Florence, S. C., on Tuesdav, Febru-ary 25. · ·

The third honor won by Sacrinty was the award as the most valuable football player on the 1946 Wake Forest football team, which upset both Tennessee and Boston College.

Ognovich, a junior from Uniontown. Pa., won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy for the second consecutive year. This award is annually presented by Dr. William P. Jacobs of Clinton, S. C.. to the player picked by the sports writers and coaches as the best blocker in the S.Juthern Conference. Wake Forest now leads all the 16 Southerb Conference institutions i n t h e number of times its players have won the honor. Baptist athletes have won it four times. Ognovich received the trophy at a special banquet held in his honor at Durham on Monday, February 10. At the close of the football season he


was chosen on the 11th annual AllAmerica blocking team named by Wirt Gammon, sports editor of the Chattanooga Times. This team consisted of the nation's outstanding blockers in both the line and the backfield.

1947 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE A rugged 10-game schedule, fea

turing intersectional attractions with Boston College and Duquesne, will be played by the Demon Deacons, it was announced by Athletic Director Jim Weaver.

The Deacons will open up their stiff 1947 card here in Groves Stadium on Saturday night, September 27 , with Georgetown 's Hoyas providing the opposition. The contest is being played at night in order to avoid conflict with two daytime features between Carolina-Georgia at Chapel Hill and Duke-N. C. State at Raleigh. Thus fans will have an opportunity to see at least two of these three attractive opening season contests.

Four of the 10 contests are considered home games although only two of these will be played here in Groves Stadium. The Wake ForestDuquesne contest will take place in Winston-Salem on Friday night, November 21, and the annual Thanksgiving Day contest with the University of South Carolina will again be staged at Charlotte.

Seven of the nine opponents on last year's schedule will be met again this fall. In addition to Duquesne, other new teams on the schedule are William and Mary and George Washington . The latter two teams replace Tennessee and Chattanooga which were played last fall.

Seven of Wake Forest's 10 games will be with Southern Conference opponents. Conference teams on the 1947 schedule are North Carolina, South Carolina, Duke, Clemson, N. C. State, William and Mary and George Washington.

The schedule is as follows: Sept. 27-Georgetown at Wake

Forest (night). Oct. 4- Clemson at Clemson,

S.C. Oct. 11-North C a r olin a at

Chapel Hill. Oct. 18-George Washington at

Washington, D . C. Oct. 25-Duke at Wake Forest. Nov. 1-William and Mary at

Williamsburg, Va.

Nov. 8-Boston College at Boston, Mass.

Nov. 15-N. C. State at Raleigh. Nov. 21-Duquesne at Winston

Salem (probably a night game). Nov. 27-South Car o 1 in a at

Charlotte.

WINTER GRID DRILLS A squad of 65 candidates, includ

ing 20 lettermen, are w~rking out daily at Wake Forest's wmter football drills which are expected to continue until spring holidays, which begin on Wednesday, April 2. .

The drills are under the direction of Head Coach Douglas C. (Peahead ) Walker and his coaching assistants, Bobby Kellogg, John Jett, and Tom Rog:rs. Pat Preston former Deacon gnd great and a ' member of the Chicago Bears' world's championship team last fall, is also assisting in the drills.

The 20 lettermen seeking positions on the 1947 eleven are Ed Bradley and Jim Duncan, ends; Sidney Martin and Bernie Ranula, tackles· Ed Royston, Bob Leonetti, Jim ca'mp, Gene Pambianchi, and Richard (Bud) Wedel, guards; Harry Clark and Boyd Allen, centers· Nick Ognovich and Don Hipps, blocking backs; Jam~ s {Bud) Lail and Tom Fetzer, tallbacks; Harry Dowda and Ernie Pechon, wingbacks;_ and George Pryor, Anthony D1 Torno, and Jeffrey Brogden, fullbacks.

Coach Walker is doing quite a bit of experimenting in efforts to fashion his strongest eleven. He is using Hipps, a guard last fall, at both blocking back and fullback. Di Torno, a blocking back, is a candidate for fullback and Camp, another blocking back, has been shifted to a guard spot.

It is a bit early to do any speculating as to the 11 men who will be in the starting line-up this fall. The present No. 1 eleven consists of Duncan and Bradley, ends; Martin and Ranula, tackles; Leonetti and Royston, guards; Clark, center; Ognovich, blocking back; Lail, tailback; Cliff Haggard, a freshman reserve last fall, wingback; and Pryor, fullback.

John (Red) O'Quinn, one of the leading ends, is not out for the drills, as he is one of the leaders on the current basketball team. He will likely report for football at the conclusion of the basketball

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season. Ulysses (Jim) Cornogg, tackle letterman, has missed the drills, too. There is a possibility he may forego college ball this fall to take a fling at professional football.

The remammg 12 lettermen from 1946 have either graduated or will go into professional football.

FORMER DEACON GRI D STAR PRAI SED BY TI ME MAGAZINE The oft-expressed opinion that a

good football player's chance for success in life is limited has been repudiated again in the case of Edwin Laughlin "Dusty" Dudley '35 , native of Wilmington and a former Wake Forest grid star.

Dudley was recently the recipient of an excellent article in Time Magazine which praised his contribution in helping to combat the dreaded disease known as Yaws in Haiti.

Dudley, a public health officer, and his staff of doctors worked in ten strategically placed clinics in selected districts in southern Haiti. These clinics were set up by the Uriited States Sanitary Mission, which with a grant of $150,000 from the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and an equal amount from the Haitian government, has been working prodigiously in an effort to eradicate this disease.

Mr. Dudley and his staff administered 80,000 arsenical injections a month. These injections offered only temporary relief and reinfection occurred quickly. However, when a penicillin test was used on 500 patients the results showed lasting cures in every case.

According to Time , this disease is "not venereal but is caused by a spirochete that is indistinguishable from that of syphilis. Attacking through cuts or bruises, the spirochete first produces a raspberrylike running sore, usually on the legs. After a few months, sores erupt all over the body; in the third stage, the disease eats away the flesh. Approximately 80 per cent of the people of Haiti are affected by this disease."

Dudley, an ex-Army Major, attended Wake Forest and was an outstanding end on the 1931 and 1932 football teams. Friends here recall him as being a tall, handsome, well-built youth of 6 feet 2 who weighed around 190 pounds.

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THE LOW-DOWN ON LOCAL ALUMNI CHAPTER PRESIDENTS President of Wake Forest's ~n

eral Alumni Association is T. Ashley Hayu·ood ' 11. of Rockingham. Tangible evidence of his regard for his alma mater is the $50,000 he subscribed the other dav to our Enlargement Program. He married Urtie Harris of Warrenton. Their two sons are Ashley 15, and 1\Iarshall 13 Ashley is- an orchardist . farmer, and manufacturer. He is proprietor of North State Orchards. Inc .. and United Mills. Inc. He is president of the North State Game Club and Director of the North Carolina Peach Council.

Robert T . " Bob'' Allen, Jr . '27 , president of our Charlotte alumni group. is a businessman , interested chiefly in insurance and real estate. His office is in the Libertv Life building. He and his wife. the former Mary Sprinkle of Marion. Va. have two children-Martha, 1. and Robert. ill. 41 .•. Bob is a brother of H . Pitt Allen- '30, of Lumberton. Bob coached high school teams for 15 years before entering the business field. He is a member of l\Iyers Park Baptist Church, the Charlotte Park and Recreation Commission. and is a 32nd-degree Mason.

Dr. George Erick Bell '19. is president of our Wilson County

V. T. Craddock, Jr. '35, above, is president of our alumni unit at Greensboro. He is Office Manager of Burlington Mills Hosiery Co. and is married to Helen Alice Dowd of Sanford. Their only child, Beverly Jean, is 13 months of age.

Dr. Ralph A. Herring '21, above, is president of our For yth Coun ty alumni unit. Pastor of the Fir t Baptist Church of Win ton- alem, he married Willeen Tull of Arkansa . They have four children: Ralph, David, Jackson. and :\largaret . Ralph i now enrolled at Wake Forest. Dr. Herring has served as both pre ident and second vice president of the North Carolina Baptist Convention. He is a trustee of Wake Forest ollege and a member of the Foreign l\1is ion Board .

unit. A physician and joint owner of Woodard-Herring Hospital, h e is married to Inza Toml inson of Wilson. Their children are Joanne. 15, and ~orge Erick. Jr., '46. who is now enrolled at Harvard University Medical School. Dr. Bell is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, deacon in Wilson's First Baptist Church, a Wake Forest College trustee, first vice president of the N . C. Medical Society , a member of the city school board. and trustee of N.C.T.B. Hospital. He is a brother of Berdan Bell '26 , of Silver Spring, Maryand, and partner of Dr. M. A. "Dick" Pittman '19, of Wilson.

William Henley " Polly'· Deitrick '16, of Raleigh heads our Capitol City group. He married Elizabeth Hunter of Raleigh , is president of theN. C. chapter of the American Institute of Architects, president of Raleigh's Civic Music Association, member of the executive committee of N. C. Art Society, and director of Raleigh Rotary Club and of the Carolina Country Club.

James Wiley " Jimmy" Earp '31 of Selma is top man in our John-

stan County organization. and is one of the best farmers and auctioneers in ''these parts.·· He and Mrs. Earp. the former Annie Simmons. have three sons - James. Jr., 8. David. 5; Fred. l-and a daughter Jane, 9. For a decade he has served on the Johnston County welfare board. Jimmy is one of four Earp brothers 'to graduate from Wake Forest College Theothers: Dr. C. B. '26. Wake Forest Greek professor; Dr. R. Elmore '24, of Selma; Worlev S '35. with the U. S . Department of Agriculture in Washington D. C.

Henry B. Edwards '26 . is the man who calls the meeting to order wh en our Cle,·eland County Alumni gather A lawyer. he married J ewell Askew of Lewiston. They have one son , Henrv B Jr.. 6. H enry was a membe~ of the Legislature in 1931. was a trustee

Dr. J . Samuel Johnson ' 17, above, is head man of our Durham County alumni. He is pastor of the Edgemont Baptist Church, and his wife is the former Rebecca Saunders of Somerset, Kentucky. They have three children: Allen, Sam, and Jeane. Allen will be a member of our freshman class th.is fall.

Dr. Johnson is one of eight Johnsons from St. Pauls who have enrolled at Wake Forest: Otis '07 , is a retired Baptist minister living at St. Pauls. Harry P. "Horsepower" '12, is a lawyer at Tavares, Florida. Allen '17, farms at St. Pauls. Frank '27, is a physician at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Their sisters, Bell, Annie Lou, and Helen, were enrolled here in our summer sessions.


of Meredith for ten years, is past president of the Shelby Kiwanis Club, attorney for Cleveland County and a deacon in Shelby's First Baptist church.

DT. Hemy Fleming Fuller '34, Kinston physician, is our Lenoir County president. He and Mrs. Fuller, the former Dorothy Barnes of Brenham, Texas, have two youngsters- Dorothy 5, and Fleming 2. Fleming, who was a topnotch cheer-leader in his college days, is president of Kinston's Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Shearon Han·is '38, Albemarle lawyer, is president of the Wake Forest College group in Stanly County. He married Helen Morgan of Albemarle. Their daughter, Sarah Helen, is six weeks old. Shearon is general counsel for the Queen City Coach Co., and for two years was in military service. He received the Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, and three Battle Stars.

Dr. Lauten Rhodes Hedgepeth '29, Lumberton physician, is the man you want to contact if you

...

ABOVE: Robert A. "Bob" Collier '27, is president of our Iredell County alumni group. Be practices law at Statesville. His wife is the former Margaret Adams of Raeford. They have two children: Bobby, 16; and Isabel, 11. Bob is president of the North Carolina State Baseball League and is a candidate for mayor of Statesville.

desire to join our chapter in "the State of Robeson." His wife is the former Louise Hogan of Hamlet. Two sons-Louten 10, and Joseph 7. Louten is past president of Lumberton Rotary Club, Robeson County and 5th District Medical socieites, the Robeson County Horse Show, and Past Master of St. Albans Lodge. He is at present secretary of Robeson County Medical Society.

Dr. James Houston I vey '24, is president of our Richmond, Va., chapter. Jim is a pastor of Richmond's 2nd Baptist Church. He married Ida Glover Cross of Louisville, Ky. They have two children - James Houston III, 10, and Mary Jean, 16.

Herbe1·t Jenkins, JT. '38, of Aulander, is our Bertie County unit head. He married Skippy Wright, a Wake Forest girl. They have two daughters-Susan Alice, 4; and Peggy Ann, 1. Herbert is in business and farms, sells fertilizer and buys peanuts.

Archie Leak Smith '40, Asheboro attorney, calls our meetings to order over in Randolph County. He

BELOW: David M. Smoot '15, is president of the local alumni unit at Wake Forest. Be is president and owner ~f the Insolation Company, Inc. and IS a Johns-Manville contractor. His wife is the former Louise Bolding, for some time connected with the post office at Wake Forest. She will be remembered pleasantly by the many students who knew her. Dave has a <laughter, Mrs. Dan L. Bodin (by his first wife) who lives at Decatur, Georgia. Be and Louise have one child, David, Jr., 12.

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married Eleanor Mayes of Durham. Their son, Archie, Jr., is two. Archie is a brother of T. Lynwood "Leaky" Smith of High Point. They came originally from Maxton.

Frank H. Wood '31, of High Point, is president of our unit in that furniture town. He is a member of the firm, George T. Wood & Sons, Inc., wholesale rug and carpet distributors. He married Marion Shipman of High Point. Children: Frank, Richard, and Faye Sherrill.

DT. M. Browne Holomon '26, 1 North Haverford Ave., Margate City, N. J. , is president of our Philadelphia chapter. A physician, Browne married Wilma Titman of Philadelphia. They have one child, Nancy Lee, 11 . He is associate chief in the department of colon and proctologic surgery at Atlantic City hospital, and proctologist at Shores Memorial Hospital, Somers Point, N. J ., and St. Mary's Hospital, Philadelphia. He is a member ~f the American Proctologic Society, Philadelphia Proctologic Society, and the International Clolege of Surgeons (Geneva).

ABOVE: Dr. Foy Vann '01, is president of the Wake Forest alumni unit at Norfolk, Va. Be and Mrs. Vann have three children: Foy, Lyman, and John. Dr. Vann is Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery at the local and government hospitals at Norfolk and has served as president of a good many medical societies.

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PRESIDENTS OF ALUMNI CHAPTERS

General Alumni Association: T. Ashley Haywood '11, Rockingham. . ,

0 Anson Co. Paul Kitchm 3 , Wadesboro.

Bertie Co.: Herbert Jenkins, Jr., '38, Aulander.

Cabarrus Co.: Dr. James Nolan '19, Kannapolis.

Cleveland Co.: Henry B. Edwards '25, Shelby.

Columbus Co.: Frank T. Wooten '17, Chadbourn.

Cumberland Co.: James R. Nance '31, Fayetteville.

Davidson Co.: Dr. C. Ray Sharpe '12, Lexington.

Durham Co.: Dr. J . Samuel Johnson '1 7, Durham.

Forsyth Co.: Dr. Ralph A. Herring '21, Winston-S,al~m;,

Franklin Co.: W. A. 'Bill Huggins '33, Louisburg.

Gaston Co.: Rev. 1\I. L. Barnes, '12, Mt. Holly. ,

Greensboro: V. T. Craddock 35, Greensboro.

Hatifax Co.: R. C. Josey, III, '36, Scotland Neck.

High Point: Frank H. Wood '30, High Point. . ,

IredelL Co.: Robert A. Coll1er 26, Statesville.

Johnston Co.: J. W. Earp '31, Selma.

Lee Co.: William W. (Bill) Staton '38, Sanford.

Lenoir Co.: Dr. H . Fleming Fuller '32, Sanford.

Mecklenburg Co.: Robert Allen '27, Charlotte.

Norfolk , Va.: Dr. Foy Vann '01, 306 Medical Arts Bldg.

Nash-Edgecombe Counties: W. D . (Bill) Clark '31, Rocky Mount.

Northampton Co.: Rev. E~le J. Rogers '37, Margarettsville.

Philadelphia, Pa.: Dr. Browne Holloman '24.

Randolph Co.: Archie L. Smith '40.

Richmond Co.: T. Ashley Haywood '11, Rockingham.

Richmond, Va.: The Rev. Dr. James H. Ivey '24, 2nd Baptist Church.

Robeson Co.: Dr. Louten R. Hedgepeth '30, Lumberton.

Rockingham Co.: D. Floyd Osborne '34, Leaksville.

Scotland Co.: Dr. L. T. Buchanan '11, Laurinburg.

Stanly Co.: Shearon Harris '36, Albemarle.

Wake Co.: W. H. Deitrick '16, Raleigh.

Wayne Co.: J. Frank Mcinnis '29, Goldsboro.

Wilmington: Rev. T. H. King '98, Wilmington.

Wilson Co.: Dr. G. E. Bell '17, Wilson.


Visitors to the Alumni Office James Bonds '42, Windsor. J. Melville Broughton, Jr. '44,

Raleigh. Ben H. Elliott '38, St. Pauls. William H. Flowe '41, Concord. Dr. R. B. Groves '21, Lowell. Dr. J. Samuel Johnson '17, Edge

mont. J. C. "Turk" Kesler '21, Oceana,

Va. J. Reid Key '27, Washington, D. C Rev. L. H. Hollingsworth '43,

Mebane. John Arch McMillan '02, Thomas

ville. John McMillan '43, Duke Univer

sity, Durham. 0. M. Mull '02, Shelby. Martha Allen Turnage '44, Rich

mond, Va. Dr. George Watkins '12, Durham. Robert C. Wells '32, Kenansville.

Daughters of Professors Edit Youth Feature in

"The State" Magazine The editors of The Woodland

News, local weekly published by four girls in the local graded school are now editing a feature sectio~, "Youth of Carolina," in The State magazine.

These girls are the daughters of four college professors and have been editing The Woodland News for the past three years. The editors are Margaret Brown, daughter of Professor D. A. Brown; Virginia Knight Cocke, daughter of Dr. E. C. Cocke; Virginia Chilton Pearson, daughter of Dr. C. C. Pearson, and Alice Speas, daughter of Dr. W. E. Speas.

The Woodland News was founded in 1944. Professor Brown of the English department suggested to his daughter, Margaret, that such a paper would keep the neighborhood gang busy during the summer months. It was during the polio epidemic when children were confined to their homes. The original purpose was to print news for the children, but the grownups soon became interested, and the paper began to include them also. At present the subscription list consists of 125 names.

CONVERSATION A letter to Mrs. Ethel Crittenden

dated April 15, 1938, from A. I . Justice of Hendersonville, reveals

a conversation years ago between two wonderfully good men. We quote, in part:

"I remember well your father, Dr. C. E. Taylor. The last time I saw him was in Raleigh at the Baptist State Convention. I will relate this little story. It may do you good; it did me good. The- Convention closed at a late hour at night. A lot of us were leaving on late trains. We had to wait some time before the trains were due to leave. I noticed two men walking back and forth near me, arm in arm, intensely engaged in conversation. One of them was Dr. C. E . Taylor. The other was Dr. R. G. Willingham. They were relating to each other their religious experience, and what they anticipated in the future. Perhaps they did not know that anyone overheard them, but I was sitting on a seat near them and heard it every word. It was but a short while after this that both of them were called from earth to heaven. It will be but a short while before that call will come to me, and I hope to meet them both on the other shore and tell them how much good that conversation did me in the waiting room in Raleigh."

A radio transcription of that conversation, we are sure, would be most helpful. Brother Justice didn't tell us what he heard, but those who knew Doctors Taylor and Willingham have a right good idea of its nature.

Necrology Our office bas received notice of

the deaths of the following alumni since the December issue of the magazine. Our sincere sympathy to the bereaved.

Walter M. Gilmore, Nashville, Tenn., B .A. 1891. Died December 19, 1946.

Asa Parker Gray, East Lansing, Michigan, B.A. 1911. Died June, 1941.

Stephen J . Hasty, Salisbury, N. C., B.A. 1905. Died March 1, 1947.

John J. Hendren, Chadbourn , N. C., B.L. 1885. Died January 4, 1947.

W. J. Jeffreys, Jr., Hamlet, N. C., 1934-38. Died January 19, 1946.

Benjamin W. Parham, Oxford, N. C., B.A. 1904. Died February 27, 1947.

George Ross Pou, Raleigh , N. C.,


Dr. J. Grafton Love, above, neuros urgeon in the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. and 1925 WFC graduate, returned to the campus recently to be initiated into the Wake Forest chapter of ODK, national honorary leadership fraternity. Reared in Elizabeth City, he was in North Carolina for a short while on a lecture tour. He married Mary Elizabeth Terry, of Rochester, who bas borne him three sons antl a daughter, ages 5, 8, 10, and 12. Dr. Love belongs to many learned societies and is associate professor of neurosurgery at the Mayo Foundation Graduate School, University of Minn.

1915-16. Died February 9, 1947. John B. Rucker, White Plains,

N.Y., B.A. 1917. Died February 7, 1947 .

Dr. Rufus Weaver, Washington, D. C., B .A. 1893. Died February 1, 1947.

James Carr Whitmire, Asheville, N. C. , B.S . 1943. Died January 11, 1947.

LAW SCHOOL STAFF EXPANDS Allston Stubbs, prominent young

Durham attorney, is now serving as a part-time member of the Wake Forest law faculty , it was announced by Dr. Robert E. Lee, dean of the law school.

Stubbs, who holds A.B. and LL.B. degrees from the University of North Carolina and an LL.M. degree from Duke, is teaching a course for the spring semester in trial appellate court practice.

A former secretary of the North Carolina Bar Association for four years, Stubbs served as secretary to the Governor of North Carolina for a year during the Broughton administration. He was also associated with the legal aid clinic of

the Duke University law school for a number of years.

Mr. Stubbs will serve only on a part-time basis with the Wake Forest law faculty and will continue to devote the greater portion of his time to the actual practice of law in Durham.

The addition of Stubbs gives the Law School six full-time men and one part-time lecturer. The teaching personnel consists of Dean Lee, Dr. Dale F. Stansbury, Dr. I. Beverly Lake, E. W . Timberlake, Jr., J . 0 . Tally, Jr. , and Albert Menard.

Dr. Stansbury, who was recently made law librarian at Duke, is teaching at both Wake Forest and Duke. After this semester he will devote full-time to his duties at Duke. He served as dean of the law school here from 1935 to 1944.

A total of 105 students are enrolled in the law school for the spring semester. It is recalled that at one time during the recent war there were only four students in the law school. Of the 105 students now enrolled, there are 25 new law students admitted this semester. Physical limitations made it necessary to deny admission to many.

Dr. Robert M. Olive '13, above, Fayetteville dentist and brother of WFC's staff member, Eugene Olive, has been made president-elect of the North Carolina Dental Society. Dr. Olive's son, Clarence, was enrolled here before the war .... And while we are thinking of State presidents, there is Herbert Peele '08, president this year of the North Carolina Press Association. Herbert has been a WFC trustee for a good many years and is editor of Elizabeth City's "Daily AdYance." His son also, the late John Peele '36, was a Wake Forester.

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T. E. "Tom" Browne '02, above, of Raleigh, who is called the father of vocational education in North Carolina, retired at the close of the past school year as Director of Vocational Education in our State. When he accepted that position in 1918 there were approximately 500 students in vocational classes in N. C. When be went out of office, there were 114,100. Expenditures during this period grew from S35,600 to $2,614,362. His pioneer work in organizing the program in North Carolina was adopted as a model by some other states. He served as president of the national organization of Vocational Education directors. His alma mater is proud of him and his reconl and extends heartiest congratulations.

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MINIMUM OF RED TAPE As far ·as Edward Lorenza Wil

liamson, 23-year-old senior at Wake Forest from Cerro Gordo, is concerned. there is very definitely a minimum of red tape in landing a good government job.

Williamson. who was one of the 29 students completing his undergraduate course, at mid-year. enrolled in the law school. He attended classes for a week and then decided he wasn't cut out to be a lawyer, so he dropped out. He went job hunting in the nation's capital. He had no idea just what he wanted but thought something in the nature of a civil service job might be all right for the time being.

He ran into an old girl friend who said she knew a friend in one of the many government departments who could help him. He called on that friend and was referred to a committee of Army officers with a lot of rank and shiny brass. ·

Williamson made a hit right off the bat with the officers and they told him to get a quick recommendation from a member of the faculty at Wake Forest. Williamson wired Dr. D. B . Bryan, dean of the college, for that recommendation that afternoon. Bryan was quick to respond and on the next morning

BELOW: Appointed in February as Auditor of the State of North Carolina is Henry Lee Bridges '31. He was a self-help student at Wake Forest, did practice teaching in the local high school, and taught a year or two before returning here to study law. He was a major in World War II.


Williamson took the dean's remarks to the committee.

The officers were greatly impressed and called in the North Carolinian for another conference. They informed him that he was to be sent to Tokyo as an attache with the State Department. Williamson rubbed his· eyes, pinched himself, for he couldn't belie\'e it. Things had moved so fast that he was in a dither and didn't know what to sav. ~·How long will it take you to

get ready?" one officer asked. "A few days." replied Williamson. He left Washington that night to say farewell to his folks and get his

ABOVE: The Reverend James B. "Jim" Willis '09, bas just rounded out his first quarter of a century of service as pastor of the Hamlet Baptist Church. Serving for many years on the WFC Board of Trustees is only one of many magnificent contributions he has rendered his alma mater.

Henry Gibbons, a Methodist staff member of the "Sand Hill News," said, in part, of him: "The proud parishioners of genial Jim Willis are going to fete him and his fine family for his 25 years of faithful administration. He has the quickest wit, the sharpest repartee, suavest decorum, and biggest principle of almost any man I know .... He is sympathetic, generous, loving, willing, understanding in his outlooks on life .... Never has the hour been too late or the call too little for him to refuse to come. He makes it a habit to call on every patient in the local hospital and has done so for years; their faith means nothing to him. It is his bigness and the fulfillment of his calling that prompts him to the task. He is among the first to come in hours of need and the last to leave. He's an enthusiastic supporter of every good and noble movement--and preaches well, too, or his flock would have dispensed witiJ his services years ago."

clothes in shape. He expects to be gone two years.

And to think it all started when he ran into an old girl friend So Williamson is pretty well con\'inced government red tape has no meaning in his own particular case.

DEAN PEACOCK. New dean of Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo. Michigan, is Dr. L. Arnold Peacock '25. Peacock holds both the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wake Forest. and for a while taught freshman English here.

COMMENCEMENT SET FOR JUNE 1-2

Sermon-Sunday Evening, June 1

Alumni Reunions and Graduation Exercises.

1\Ionday. June 2

Reunion Classes: 1877 1882 1887, 1892, 1897, 1902. 1907, 1912. 1917. 1922. 1927. 1932. 1937, 1942

Details Will Appear in l\1ay Issue

BELOW: Lloyd Y. Thayer '31, of High Point, bolder of two degrees from Wake Forest, has been acclaimed !'\lao-of-the-Year at High Point. He's principal of one of the schools there llld tips the scales at 235.

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INSIDE THE ROCK WALL L iterary Society Officers

President this term of the Philomathesian Literary Society is J . A. West , Wilmington senior, w hile the incoming president of the Euzelians is John Dixon Davis, senior from Beaufort, son of Leslie Davis '05.

Bob Humber Invited

Wilbur Doyle, a pre-med junior from Martinsville, Va., is the new president of the Wake Forest chapter of the International Relations Club. Doyle, who was elected unanimously at a recent meeting of the club, succeeds Judson Trueblood, Gaffney, S. C., sophomore, son of Dr. E. J . Trueblood '21.

Robert Lee Humber '18, prominent Greenville lawyer, has been invited to be the guest speaker of the club at its next meeting. Recently tabbed the " Grassroots

LEGISLATORS: Pictured above ar e a group of Wak e Forest College a lumni in the North Carolina Legislature and certa in others who a r e Sta te officials. They were watching t he Wak e Forest College-University of Nor th Carolina basketball gam e in Gore Gym w hen Dr. C. S. Black snapped this shot. They a re, bottom row, from left: 0 . B . Moss

Crusader" by the Reader's Digest, Humber, a former Rhodes scholar, won national renown for his plan for world federation .

Lawyers Organize

Pi Beta Nu , a new legal professional fraternity , has just been organized here. Warren Pritchard, senior law student from Spruce Pine, has been elected president.

Although organized informally last summer the new fraternity has just received formal recognition by the faculty. Prof. Albert Menard, a member of the law school faculty , is acting as adviser.

The main purpose of the new fraternity is to further the professional interest and education of the members. Gamma Eta Gamma is the only similar organization at Wake Forest and it is not able to

'13, Nashville ; Joe Branch '38, Enfield ; Woodrow W. Jones '37, Rutherfordton; J asper L. Memory, Jr. '21, alumni secr etary and his son, Jappie; Alton A. L ennon ' 29, Wilmington. Second row : 0 . L. Moore ' 08, Laurinburg; George C. Quillin ' 18, Fayetteville; Wade E . Brown '31, Boone; R. N. Simms, Jr. '30, Raleigh; William P. Hodges '28 , State Insurance Commis-

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F ra nk Castleberr y '40, a bove right, has been assign ed to Wa k e Forest by the War Depa rtment as vet erans educational adviser. Here h e helps " G.I." Johnson solve some of his problems. F ra nk , or ig inally from Raleigh , knew a ll the students in college when he was enrolled h er e as a student.

sioner , Ral eigh. Third row: Hughes J . Rhodes '21, assistant a ttorney-general of North Carolina, Ra leigh; Joe Burden ' 24, Aulande~ Lee B. Weathers ' 08 , Shelby; Lt.-uov . L. Y. "Stag" Ballentine '21, Varina; Henry Russell Harris '03, Seaboard; C. H. Jenkins, Aulander; State Auditor Henry Lee Bridges '31, Raleigh.

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serve all of the students now enrolled in the law school

J\1. T. Rankin Speaks Dr. AI. T. Rankin '18, executive

secretary of the Southern Baptist Foreign l\Iission Board of Richmond. Va., spoke at the Wake Forest Baptist Church on 1\larch 9. He was awarded the D.D. degree at the 19-16 WFC commencement.

Yeterans 1\Iembers of the Veterans Club

have elected Kermit Caldwell. junior from l\laiden, as the ne"' president of their organization for the spring semester.

Wilbur Doyle, Martinsville. Va., junior. was chosen vice president. Bill Clarke, Draper sophomore is the new secretary of the organization and George Stamps. Richmond, Va., senior has been reelected vice president

Preacher The Cullom l\Iinisterial Confer

ence elected Elliot Stewart. Windsor senior as its president for the spring semester.

Other new officers are Dewey Hobbs, Wilmington senior. first vice president; Walter Moose. StatesdUe senior, second vice president; Robert Winecoff Troutman sophomore. secretary; Edward Sharp. Harrells\·ille junior, treasurer, Elwood Orr, Rocky Mount freshman. reporter; l\lurray Severance. Gastonia senior. chorister; and Furman Hall, Wilmington sophomore, pianist.

Dr Marc Lovelace, associate professor of Religion, is the sponsor for the Conference.

Dr. Vaughn Dabney, dean and acting president of Andover-Newton Theological Institute in Newton Centre, Mass .. is to be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Cullom l\Iinisterial Conference

Dr. Cullom's Birthday Dr. W. R. Cullom "92. who estab

lished the department of religion at Wake Forest many years ago, was 80 years of age on Jan. 15. A Christian gentleman in the truest sense of the word, Dr. Cullom has thousands of friends whose lives have been enriched by knowing him.

Wife of .Missionary Addresses Christian Service Group

An interesting talk on the Chinese people by Mrs. Frank Lide.

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Here is a recent Yiew of the new dormitory going up on the tenniscourt ite adjacent to Bostwick Dormitory. It will be occupied by women, and Hunter Dormitory will be returned to the men. The architect for

\•:ife of Frank Lide. missionary to China, highlighted a recent meeting of the Christian Ser\'ice Group.

Mrs. Lide discussed , . a r i o u s phases of the Japanese occupation during the recent war.

28 Graduate At Mid-Term A total of 28 students comprised

the mid-year graduating class. Diplomas for these students \\'ill be presented to them at the regular college commencement exercises which will be held here on Sunday and l\londay, June 1 and 2.

A number of the graduates remained here for the spring semester to continue their studies in other fields, particularly law. A few took up graduate \\'ork at other institutions.

J\Iiss Laura Clark Enroute To Missionary Po t in China

l\liss Laura Clark American missionary to China and sister of 1\lrs. Thurman D. Kitchin is on her way back to Wuhu. China, to resume her work at that post.

IVliss Clark has spent the past t w o m o n t h s here with IVlrs. Kitchin. This visit is only her second in the 12 years she has served as a missionary in China. Her last visit in this country was in 1939 when she enjoyed a furlough of six months.

this building and all the other new buildings on the campu , for that matter, is WilHam H. Deitrick of Raleigh He is president of the N. C. Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

A nati\'e North Carolinian from Hamilton, she recently ga\'e an interesting talk at chapel exercises on her four years of imprisonment in a Japanese concentration camp. She pointed out in this talk that the greatest boost to her morale while a prisoner was the packages of food and supplies provided by the American Red Cross. She holds the greatest admiration for the Chinese people and is laYish in her praise of the great fight they waged against the Japs.

New Cour es Se\·eral new courses are being

offered during the spring semester. The Department of Physical

Education has added courses in "Organization and the Administration of Health and Physical Education." '"1\linor Sports." ""Organization and Administration of Recreation-Intramurals," and '"Theory of Coaching (Baseball!." 1\lembers of the athletic staff are the instructors.

Four new courses are also being gh·en by the School of Religion. These are ·'Introduction to Biblical Archaeology," "Hebrew Prophets." "Rural Church Administration," and "History of Christianity." The Rev. Gariand Hendricks, pastor of Olive Chapel Church, has been added to the lecturing staff

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of th is department. He will assist Dr. Sankey L . Blanton, Dean of the School of Religion, and Dr. Marc Lovelace, Associa tion professor of Religion, in teaching these new subjects.

Dr. C. Chilton P earson, professor of Social Sciences, is teaching a new course entitled " Governments of Europe." Dr. Henry St roupe, assistant professor of Social Sciences, is giving a course on "North Carolina History." Wilfred Buck Yearns, an instructor in Social Sciences, is teaching "Sou th American History."

Dr. Charles A. Krummel, a visiting professor from Duke, is giving a course in German I.

"Light and Optics" is being taught by Dr. Hermon M. Parker, associate professor of Physics.

Musicians Give Three Concerts

Wake Forest's Glee Club and Little Symphony orchestra gave a concert in the Spring Hope High School Auditorium on Jan. 9. Professor Thane McDonald, head of the college music department directed the program.

The Glee Club and Little Symphony also appeared recently in a concert at Oxford and were enthusiastically received by a good crowd. A third concert was given in February at Franklinton.

The program offered was a wide and varied one, including selections from Wagner, Mozad, Grieg, LeMare and Sibelius.

Dr. C. Spurgeon Black '18, head of Wake Forest's chemistry department, was elected in February chairman of the North Carolina section of the American Chemical Society. He was a major in the chemical warfare divis ion of the Army in World War II, and served also in World War I. Some of the best pictures we have carried in the past few issues were taken by him.

Special selections were presented by the men's Glee Club, the women's Glee Club, a male quartet, a girl's sextet, the Little Symphony , and the Oom-pah German band, a recent novelty creation by the music department. This band will offer a medley of familiar airs.

Publications

Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin has announced the appointment of three faculty advisers for the student publications of the college. At the same time Dr. Edgar E . Folk was made general consultant.

Dr. Henry Snuggs was named faculty adviser to 'l'he HowLer , college yearbook. A graduate of the Wake Forest class of 1909, Dr. Snuggs returned to the college in 1945 to teach English.

Prof. Dalma A. Brown has been appointed adviser to The Student, college literary magazine. Brown, who graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1924, joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1941 after teaching for several years each at Mississippi, Tulane, and Citadel.

Edwin Wilson, instructor in English, has been named faculty adviser to the Old Gold and BLack, student newspaper. Wilson was graduated from Wake Forest in the Class of 1943. During his senior year he enlisted in the Navy V-7 program and served many months

Pictured above is Dr. Carl l\1. Townsend '24, pastor of Hayes-Barton Baptist Church, Raleigh, who conducted a revival meeting at the Wake Forest Baptist Church March 9-14. Dr. Townsend holds the Doctor's degree from the Louisville Seminary and was captain of the WFC tennis team in 1924.

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on a ship in the Atlantic. During hi~ undergraduate years at Wake Forest he was editor of The HowLer, wrote a column for OLd

I. Beverly Lake '25, Professor of Law at Wake Forest College, is the recipient of the highest degree obtainable in the field of law. He bas just been informed by the Columbia University School of Law that be is to receive the degree of Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D.).

The title of Dr. Lake's dissertation is "Discrimination By Railroads And Other Public Utilities," to be published in book form in the near future. He read over 2,500 court opinions from England and all the American jurisdictions, plus numerous texts, articles, and statutes in preparing his Doctor's thesis. This scholarly work received much praise from the examining committee at Columbia University, which is composed of authorities on Ia w and business.

Only 19 such degrees have been granted by Columbia.

Dr. Lake became interested in the general field of discrimination while be was doing graduate work at Columbia University in 1939-40, having been granted a special fellowship by Columbia for this purpose. Articles written by him on the subject have already been published in several legal periodicals.

In addition to the newly acquired S.J.D. degree, Dr. Lake previously earned three other degrees. He got his B.S. from Wake Forest in 1925, his LL.B. from Harvard University in 1929, and his LL.l\1. from Columbia in 1940.

He joined the faculty of the Wake Forest Law School in 1932 after engaging in the general r>ractice of law in Raleigh for three years. During the war Dr. Lake was employed for three years in the Office of Price Administration in Raleigh, where he was district rationing attorney and later the district rationing executive. He is the son of James L. Lake, professor emeritus of physics at Wake Forest, and !\Irs. Lake.

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Gold and Black and contributed articles to 'J'he Student .

Dr. Folk, the new general consultant, finished here in the Class of 1921. Following graduation he served on the editorial staffs of the Nashville Tennesseean, Mob i 1 e Register, Norfolk Vi1·ginian-Pilot. Newark Ledger and the New York Herald. He returned to his Alma Mater in 1936.

WFC Alumni and Professors Listed in 1944 Edition of

American Men of Science The following list was sent us

by one of our scientists who says he checked the Directory leisurely and hopes there are no omissions. We hope so, too. Alexander. J. C. '32. Research

Chemist, Va.-Carolina Chemical Co., Rahway, N. J.

Anderson, 0 . D. '24, Physiologist, Rt. 2, New Oxford, Penna.

Ashcraft, T. B. '06 , Professor of Math for 33 years, Colby College, 34 Pleasant St. , Waterville , Me.

Black, C. S. '18, Head of Chemistry Department, Wake Forest College, Wake Forest.

Bradbury, 0 . C., Honorary, Professor of Biology, Wake Forest College.

Braun, N. L. '15, Professor at Catawba College, 303 Mahaley Ave., Salisbury.

Britton, R. S. '17, Professor of Math, New York University, 99 Claremont Ave., N. Y. C.

Carpenter, C. C. '22 , Dean, Bowman-Gray Medical School , 958 N. Hawthorne Rd ., WinstonSalem.

Carrick, C. W. '15, Professor of Ornithology, Purdue University Experiment Station, Lafayette, Indiana.

Cocke, E. C., Professor of Biology, Wake Forest College.

Garrison, S. C., died January 18, 1945, Professor of Ed. Psychology, Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.

Gould, H. N. , former Professor at Wake Forest College, now Professor at Newcombe College of Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

Hardesty, I. '92, died Nov. 7, 1944, former Professor of Anatomy,


Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

Kemp, E. H. '28, Psychologist, Zebulon.

King, E. S . '24, Physician, 6-140 Oleander Apts. , Wilmington .

Kitchin, I. C. '31 , Department of Zoology, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

Kitchin, T. D. '05, President of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest.

Lennon, H. C. '27, Physician, 305 N. Ridgeway, Greensboro.

Mackie, G. C. '26, Physician, Wake Forest.

Modlin, L. R. '37, Chemist with Goodrich Rubber Co. , 715 W. Market St. , Akron, Ohio.

Morgan, J. E. '31, Greenway Apts. No. 204, 3411 A. St. S.E., Washington, D. C.

Perry, B. A. '30, Texas Substation No. 19, Winter Haven, Texas.

Phillips, H. M. '32, Head Dept. of Biology, Emory University, Ga.

Ray, A. B. '40, Union Carbide & Carbon Research Laboratories, Inc., Long Island, N. Y.

Reid, W. A. '28, Chemist, North Carolina State College Faculty, Raleigh.

Royster, H. A. '91, Physician, 2318 Beechridge Rd., Raleigh.

Sledd, A. P. '16, Professor at Furman University, Greenville, S.C.

Speas, W. E. '07, Professor of Physics, Wake Forest College.

Sprinkle, M. R. '28, Edwardsville, Ill.

Thompson, H. M. '20, formerly with N. C. State College, Raleigh.

Vann, H. M. '15, Professor at Bowman-Gray School of Medicine.

Way, S. C. '17, Physician, 1615 Monteray Blvd., San Francisco, California.

Weathers, C. L. '20, Professor, 115 Lincoln Rd., Brooklyn 25, N. Y.

Whitaker, M. D. '27, Lehigh University President, Pennsylvania.

Whitley, W. C. '28 , Professor, 1864 Graystone Rd. , N.W., Atlanta , Ga.

Wilcox, D. H., Jr. '30, Chemist, 1513 Pineola Ave. , Kingsport, Tennessee.

Wyatt, T. C. '20, Physician, 904 Euclid Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.

Wyatt, W. J., Jr. '24, Professor of Chemistry, 5009 Baltimore Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C.

WFC DEBATE TEAM WIN SOUTH ATLANTIC TOURNEY Members of the Wake Forest

debating team scored their most notable victory of the year in the South Atlantic forensic tournament held in Hickory last weekend.

Wake Forest took first place in the debating competition of the tourney with 13 victories against only one defeat.

The affirmative team of Daniel Lovelace, Raleigh junior, and Henry Huff, Washington, D. C., law student, had a perfect record by winning all seven of their contests. They defeated teams from South Carolina, Appalachian State Teachers College, Lenoir-Rhyne, Carson Newman, Mars Hill, Maryville, and East Carolina Teachers College.

The negative team of Sam Behrends, Wilmington senior, and Kermit Caldwell, Maiden junior, won six decisions and lost only one. Victories came at the expense of Carson Newman twice, and Tennessee Tech, High Point, Florida, and Lenoir-Rhyne once each. Ironically the only defeat came at the hands of Tennessee, which sports fans will recall was the institution which Wake Forest's football team defeated for the nation's most stunning upset last fall.

Bob Smith, Wilmington senior, won first place in after dinner speaking to add another important victory for Wake Forest in the individual competition. Smith also took second place in extempore and impromptu speaking.

Colleges and universities competing in the tournament included Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina , South Carolina, Georgia, Wake Forest, Mars Hill, Tennessee Tech, Carson Newman, Maryville , Lenoir-Rhyne, Appalachian State Teachers College, Roanoke, East Carolina Teachers College, and High Point.

A. L. Aycock, assistant professor of English, is the debating coach at Wake Forest and accompanied the team to Hickory.

Florida took second place in the debating contests while LenoirRhyne and Carson Newman tied for third place. Florida won 11 matches and lost 3.

\'Vhen your address changes, kindly notify Alumni Office, Wake Forest, N. C.

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PASCHAL'S HISTORY OF PRINTING IN N.C. RELEASED Featuring Our Printers, Edwards &

Broughton Company and Dr. Charles Lee Smith '84.

Dr. George W. Paschal, college historian and professor emeritus of Greek , has recently published his sixth volume, A Hitory of Printing in North Carolina. It is his third volume since h is retirement from active teach ing in 1940.

The book is of special interest to Wake Forest not only because of the author's long connection with the college, but also because it celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Edwards & Broughton Company, the Raleigh firm which since 1871 has printed every college catalogue, every volume of The Howler, all except one volume of The S tudent , and most other Wake Forest work, including books by Dr. W. L . P oteat , Dr. A. C. Reid, and Dr. P aschal.

Another source of interest to alumni is the fact that it celebrates the fortieth anniversar y of the connection of Dr. Charles Lee Smith 84, with the firm . Dr. Smith, who was an editor of the third volume of The Student, h ad his first contact with the company in 1883 when it published the magazine. After teaching at Johns Hopkins, William J ewell College, and Mercer University, he returned to North Carolina to acquire an interest in the printing firm and to become its president.

The volume quotes a document in wh ich Dr. Smith bequeaths to Wake Forest his library, recognized as one of the finest private collections of books in the South. The library consists of five to six thousand books, many of them rare and valuable, which Dr. Smith has spent a lifetime gathering from all over the world.

Dr. Paschal has carefully related the story of Edwards & Broughton to the general history of the State and in particular to that of the printing industry. His theme is in the contrast : the early printers struggled and starved with their meager output for a provincial society; today, North Carolinaprinted books are among the finest which come from presses anywhere in the country. Josephus Daniels, a descendant of the State's first printer, has written the introduction.

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CHAPEL TALK TO WFC STUDENTS By DEAN D. B. BRYAN

"For whatsoever is born of God ove1·cometh the world .· and this is the victo1·y that ove1·cometh the wo1·ld . ··

Our Lord in the darkest period of his life as He faced the Cross said to His disciples: "But be of good cheer I have overcome the world." We are likely to overcome the world or to be overcome by it. The way to overcome is here clearly pointed out both by precept and example.

Our religious faith becomes a more vital factor in our living as we experience such periods of strain and stress as we are now going through. We have become more interested than ever in the power of our religious reserves to sustain us. The press has given wide publicity to the religious faith which supports the men high above the earth, on the earth and sea and underneath as they meet the grim realities of life and death. Expressions of this sustaining source of strength have been reassuring. It is just as important, however, for us as civilians on the Wake Forest campus to search our own experiences in order that we may give answer to ourselves as to what our religious faith means to us as students here today.

I invite your attention, therefore, to this consideration: What can our religious faith offer us?

Pattern

Our religious faith should offer us an intellectual pattern for our thought processes. "In the beginning God," "In the beginnning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God"; thus you see from both the Old and the New Testaments an idealistic conception of God as creator of all things is paramount. He is recognized as a sentient being possessing plans and purposes in the process. The most intelligent observation and conclusion one can draw from the process is that such an ordered universe, even down to the lowest forms of life, could not have come into being without superior intelligence, nor that such an ordered system could have been brought into existence without a purpose. Both reason and faith offer here an impelling urge for man to re-

late himself with confidence to the processes of life and reality in all of its relationships.

Motive

Our religious faith offers us an educational motive for our tasks here in hand. A great bishop in another day found his educational motive and philosophy of the processes deeply grounded in his religious faith. After God had created all things in air, earth and sea, He created man and commissioned him to exercise dominion over His world . This is man's divine commission. For a man to discharge this obligation he must intelligently understand that over which he has been given charge. Hence there is no subject offered in this college that does not open another avenue for understanding life and there is no subject that cannot be pursued in the spirit of reverence that does not further equip men to carry out this divine command. God speaks to us through the revelation of His inspired word, and through the revelation of His handiwork, and through all nature and human relations as we are able to comprehend His spirit of truth and love. He who discovers and effects justice in human relations, he who discovers the control of diseases, and he who discovers the hidden treasures of the earth and turns them to noble account is discharging that divine commission. This outlook on the place of education, this philosophy on the processes should offer us a new incentive and should emphasize the dignity and spiritual nature of all learning activity. To me this is a concept of Christian education at its best.

Sense of Values

Our religious faith can offer us a new sense of values. Values are conditioned by want. Values are mental states. They are psychological. A plot of land in one location in town may be equally large and in itself possess the same properties as that of another lot, but if one lot is where there is great de-

Dr. Bryan became profe sor of Education in 1921 and dean of the College and director of the summer chool in 1923. He has served continuously ince then. He teaches the !\len's Bible

Cia s in the Bapti t Church and is a member of the Wake County Board of Education. He and !\'Irs. Bryan, the former Eu]Jhemia Griffin of Pittsboro have reared an excellent family. Dan: their only son, is an attorney with the FBI in Alaska. Euphemia, Jr. (Mrs. Edward Platte of Collegeville, Pa.) and Helen (Mrs. Boyd Owen of Waynesville) both married physicians. Elizabeth teaches in the Wit on high school, and Billie is enrolled in the local high chool. All except Billie are WFC graduates.

mand for it, it will sell for ten times more than the other. The relative values, therefore, consist in conditions that create or satisfy an individual or public want. All of our values are in proportion to our desires. A diamond has small value in itself. If they were as plentiful as pebbles they would not be wanted nor purchased. And because of their rarity they are wanted as symbols of the rarest emotion known in social relations . Thus a rare symbol is demanded and the price is paid. Our religious faith can bring us to a consciousness of values in life in proportion to its powers to intensity our wants . It can make us rich if it leads us to want honesty, decency, general righteousness and reverence for that which is, above all things else, holy. Our lives can be just as rich and valuable as the objects of our greatest desire.

Our religious faith can offer us a new sense of freedom. One who

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A YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL HISTORY OF WFC Woke Forest College Enlargement Program

By C. J. JACKSON '09, Director

Commitments in securities, cash, and real property worth a total of more t han fifteen million dollars were made to Wake Forest College and its School of Medicine in 1946 by the several members of two generous and far-sighted families in Winston-Salem.

That part of the gift which came to the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College from the Gray families has no condition attached other than that the gift be used for the advancement of the Medical School along lines which are agreed upon .

Income from securities owned and to be owned by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation , valued at approximately $12,500,000 (to produce $350,000 annually which is pledged to the College), and the necessary area of Reynolda for a campus offered by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H . Babcock are conditional gifts.

The conditions are: 1. That the entire College be

moved to Winston-Salem where its Medical School is already located.

2. That the College authorities provide in cash, securities and good pledges a total of $6,000,000 by July 1, 1952, for the purpose of erecting the necessary buildings on the new campus for a student body of at least 2,000.

These conditions are recognized by thoughtful people as eminently generous and, likewise, full of wisdom when the future of the College is taken into account. Moreover, 600,000 North Carolina Baptists, in accepting such generosity, should be eager to bring some tangible expression of their appreciation to lay beside it. We will do our part, and do it gladly, thanking God for such an opportunity.

Another gracious move was made when the Reynolds Foundation Board responded to our request and voted unanimously to give the net earnings of the Foundation during the construction and re~ moval period, to apply on the $6,-000,000 minimum goal for new buildings. It is estimated that this

item will amount to $1,500,000. This leaves $4,500,000 to be provided through the efforts of North Carolina Baptists in order to meet the conditions of the gifts from the Foundation and by Mr. and Mrs. Babcock.

The total conditional gifts amount to more than three times as much as we are called upon to contribute to bring about a condition which will open the way for making Wake Forest one of the great colleges of the world. When we do this part we are now undert~ing generously, gladly, and glonously, and show that we are willing to go forward into bigger things, there is a genuine possibility that our endowment can be increased through the help of our friends to the point where it will be second to none in the South. It is not beyond the realm of a reasonable hope that Wake Forest College, located in Winston-Salem, can have an endowment of more than $50,000,000 within a few decades and equipment worth $25,000,000 or more as circumstances require.

But it is a test of the iron in our blood. It is a challenge. It is our opportunity. Now is a time that a proper response to the urge of the best there is in us can produce a truly great Christian college. The spirit we show, our intelligent grasp of the potentialities involved in this comprehensive program, and our willingness to work and to give generously and sacrificially of our means will determine the dedegree of success which will be attained. In addition to the opportunity which is ours, t he responsibility is upon us and, as a Christian denomination endowed with wise leaders and vision, we cannot escape it.

The Baptist State Convention held in Asheville in November, 1946, authorized a large and representative committee to direct a campaign to secure through the churches for the College within three years at least $1,500,000. To attain the total minimum goal of $6 ,000,000 in the allotted time will call for a very large number of gifts through the churches as well as many large commitments made

and paid directly to the College. Such an opportunity for cooperation has never before been offered any Baptist group in North Carolina, in the South, or in the world. What will we do with it?

FOUR METHODS OF GIVING ARE SUGGESTED:

1. An undesignated gift of money to be used by the trustees in constructing the new College buildings at Winston-Salem.

2. Gifts of Government Bonds or other bonds and stocks. Such gifts are credited on income tax returns, just as cash gifts are. Securities which have enhanced in value may be given without

reporting the increase in tax returns. And, further , the donor may claim full value at time of transfer to the College, as a credit on both Federal and State income tax returns.

3. Gifts of part, or aH of an estate, through a special arrangement

with the College or through one's will. Through this method there will be no inheritance tax to pay. Likewise, a gift through an estate note avoids inheritance tax. A very large proportion of all gifts to American colleges in recent years has come through wills or the gift of estates.

4. Gifts on the annuity basis, whereby the donor receives regular payments on the gift throughout life will make it possible for some to give in larger amounts. Such a gift may be made for some other person, if so desired; and that person will receive a fixed payment regularly throughout life. A joint annuity for a man and his wife can be arranged. The rate of return from a Wake Forest College annuity is much higher than the rate received from Government bonds.

Appropriate cornerstone, bronze plates, plaques or other markers will be properly placed to designate all memorial gifts for new buildings and equipment at Winston-Salem.

WILL YOU FIND YOUR PLACE IN THIS PROGRAM OF PREPARATION FOR A FUTURE LADEN WITH OPPORTUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY?

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THE TRUSTEES OF WAKE FOREST COLLEGE The trustees of the College serve

without compensation, and, while we have had little or nothing to say about them in THE ALUMNI NEws, we know, and our readers will a_l{ree, that a finer body of men can't be found anywhere.

We pass along to you here some biographical information about each of them.

President of the Board is Jude:e John A. Oates '95, Fayetteville lawyer. He married Isabelle Crowder of Warm Springs, Ga. They have two children: John A. , Jr., and Mary Ashford. " If I had a thousand children, I would send them all to Wake Forest," Judge Oates commented.

Vice President of the Board is Dr. Clarence Poe of Raleigh, president and editor of The Progressive Farmer. He married Alice Aycock of Goldsboro. Their children are Charles Aycock, Mrs. Gordon Smith, Jr., and William D.

Treasurer is Talcott W. Brewer '03, Raleigh merchant and proprietor of S. W. Brewer & Son. Secretary is Elliott B. Earnshaw '06, college bursar, whose wife is the former Edith Taylor.

Attorney is J. Wilbur Bunn '07, Raleigh lawyer. Married Maude Davis of Winston-Salem. Children : Mrs. Nancy B. Wray, Julian, Dr. D. F., and Tom. All but Julian have studied at WFC.

Other members of the Board follow:

Dr. Graham Ballard Barefoot '21, 124 Forest Hills, Wilmington. Physician. Married Mary Elizabeth Murray of Burgaw. Children : Mary Elizabeth, Graham Ballard, Napoleon B., Duncan Murray, David Caldwell, Roxana. Graham Ballard, Jr., is attending Wake Forest College.

Dr. George Erick Bell '19, Wilson. Physician. Married Inza Tomlinson of Wilson. Children: Inza Tomlinson, George Erick, Jr., Jeanne. George Erick, Jr., has attended Wake Forest College.

Samuel Wait Brewer '10, Wake Forest. Merchant. Married Nancy Belle Phillips of Newton. Children: Mrs. George W. Joyner, Asheboro; Mrs. W. W. Kitchin, Durham; Samuel Wait Brewer, Jr. Samuel Wait, Jr., has attended Wake Forest College.

Dr. Dewey Herbert Bridger '20,

Bladenboro. Physician. Married Lois Dickson of Wake Forest. Children : Isabella Anne, Dewey Herbert, Jr.

David Ernest Buckner '17 , Greensboro. Vice President and Actuary of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company. Married Wylanta McKay of Greensboro. Children : David E., Jr., John Herbert.

Irving Edward Carlyle '17, Winston-Salem. Lawyer. Married Mary Belo Moore of New Bern. Children : Elizabeth M., Mary Irving.

Charles B . Deane '23, Rockingham. Congressman. Married Agnes Cree. Children: Betty Cree, Agnes C. , Charles, Jr.

Dr. Charles Henry Durham '93, Lumberton. Minister. Married Essie Moore of Gastonia ( deceased ) . Children : Mrs. David H. Fuller, Lumberton; Mrs. Jasper L . Memory, Jr., Wake Forest; Mrs. Howard M. Reaves, Mobile, Alabama. Second wife, Sadie Tatum of Cooleemee.

Horace Easom '18, Shelby. Chairman, Expansion and Endowment Campaign of Gardner-Webb College, Boiling Springs, and Director of Religious Education and Music at the First Baptist Church in Shelby. Married Margaret Stevens of Clinton. Child: Margaret.

Judge Johnson Jay Hayes '08, Wilkesboro. U. S. District Judge. Married Willa Virginia Harless of Wilkesboro. Children: Hadley, Johnson, Jr., Hayden, Willa Jean, Carol , Rebecca. Hadley, Johnson , Jr., and Hayden have attended Wake Forest College.

Dr. Jefferson Bivins Helms '26, Morganton . Physician. Married Doris Elizabeth McCollum of Sumter, S. C. Children: Jefferson B. , Jr., Thomas H. , Robert E., James w.

The Rev. Carey Peele Herring '17, Fairmont. Minister. Married Eva Mae Fuhr of Wilmington. Children: Dr. Harold C. Herring, Beulah M. Herring. Dr. Harold Herring attended Wake Forest College and Beulah M. is a student at Wake Forest now.

Robert Powell Holding '18 , Smithfield. President First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. Married Maggie Browne of Selma. Children: Robert P., Jr., Lewis B., Frank B. Lewis B. has attended Wake For-

est College and Robert P ., Jr., is at Wake Forest now.

The Rev. Charles C. Holland '28, Statesville. Minister. Married Lexie Bess of Statesville. Children : Charles D. . Elizabeth Holland Chapman , Irene Holland Shumaker, J . T.

Andrew John M. Hutchins '12. Canton. Supt. of Schools. Married Edith Hargrove. Children : Edith Carolyn, Andrew John M., Jr.

W. Reid Martin (Honorary alumnus ), 2203 Circle Drive, Raleigh . Vice President of R. S. Dickson & Co .. Investment Bankers. Married Mary Katherine Hampton of Raleigh. Children : Mrs. Robert A. LeVine, Raleigh ; Mrs . Edward P . Davidson , Millville, New Jersey.

John Alan McLeod '14, Dunn. Lawyer. Married Bertha Eldridge of Four Oaks. Children : John Alan , Max Eldridge, Kathryn Rose Edwards, William Franklin. John Alan , Jr., and Max Eldridge have attended Wake Forest College and William Franklin is now a student at Wake Forest.

The Rev. Burrell Ellis Morris '21 , Durham. Minister. Married Margaret Abernethy. Children : Frances, Virginia, Margaret, Barbara.

0 . M. Mull '03, Shelby. Lawyer. Married Pollen McBrayer. Child : Mrs. Montrose Mull Meacham.

Benjamin Wingate Parham '08 , Oxford. Lawyer. Married Kate Campbell Johnson of Thomasville. Child : Jeannette.

Herbert Peele '08 , Elizabeth City. Publisher of Daily Advance. Married Kate Ford of Mullins , S . C. Children : John (deceased ), Thomas. John attended Wake Forest College. Mrs. Peele is a niece of the late Rev. Doctor Rufus Ford of Marion, S. C., one of the finest gentlemen ever to go out from Wake Forest.

Dr. Clarence N. Peeler '01 , Charlotte. Otolaryngologist. Married Blanche Gardner of Wilkes-Barre, Penna.

The Rev. Richard K . Redwine '16, Mount Airy. Minister. Married Beatrice Barnard of Atlanta, Ga.

The Rev. Nane Starnes, Asheville. Minister. Married Teanie Mae Reed of Waco, Texas. Child: Reed.

Dr. John Clyde Turner '99. Greensboro. Minister. Married Bertha May Hicks of Raleigh.

Dr. Carl Vann Tyner '14, Leaksville. Surgeon. Married Charlotte


Brown of Hillsboro. Children : Kenneth Vann , Hugh Edward, Carl, and Charlotte Ann. Kenneth Vann and Hugh Edward have attended Wake Forest College.

Carroll Charles Wall '17, Lexington. Manufacturer. Married May Maurine Brittain of Summerfield . Child : Carroll Charles, Jr. Carroll attended Wake Forest College.

The Rev. Ronald Edwin Wall '27, Elizabeth City. Minister. Married Esther Hutchins of Lexington . Children: Paddy Sue Wall , Ronald Edwin, Jr.

Dr. Casper Carl Warren '20, 800 Queens Road, Charlotte. Minister. Married Mary Lassye Strickland of Dan ville , Va. Children: Mary Virginia, Casper Carl, Jr., Alva Eugene. Casper Carl, Jr. , is now at Wake Forest College.

Basil Manly Watkins '17, Durham. Lawyer. Married Elizabeth China of Sumter, S.C. Child : Basil Manly, Jr.

Dr. Joseph Conrad Watkins '97 , 1507-11 Reynolds Bldg., WinstonSalem. Dentist. Married Irene Montague of Winston-Salem. Children : Dr. J. Conrad, Jr. ( deceased), Richard M., William H ., Mrs. Eleanor Watkins Starbuck. J . Conrad, Jr., Richard M., and William H. attended Wake Forest College.

Carroll W . Weathers '22 , Raleigh. Lawyer. Married Sarah McLean of Wilson (deceased ). Children : Carroll W., Jr ., Sarah Sue, Second wife: Mary Parks Bell of Mooresville.

The Rev. James Bennett Willis '09, 208 Charlotte St., Hamlet. Minister . Married Marie Thornton of Fayetteville. Child: Miriam Carlyle.

William L . Wyatt '05 , 921 Vance St. , Raleigh . Merchant. Married Lulie Marshall. Children: William L ., Jr ., Edgar M., Annie Catherine, Frances Hicks. William L. , Jr ., and Edgar M. attended Wake Forest College.

Joseph Byron Wyche '03, Hallsboro. Merchant. Married Mary Bailey Blanchard of Turkey, N . C. Children : Henry B., Joseph T. , Benjamin N., Letha Jane, Ray B . All of the Wyche children have attended Wake Forest College.

CHAPEL TALK (Continued from page 21)

goes through life being guided only by the consciousness of law, or the policeman who is on hand to administer that law, is in no sense a free citizen; he is a slave to the

law. But that one who, on the other hand, goes through life being guided by a spirit of concern both for the welfare of himself and others is not a slave to the law. He lives above the law. He finds his freedom above the law. The law in the spiritual realm is not different. There are those on this campus and there are those whom we know who live daily above the law through the inspiration of love rather than compulsion.

Serenity

Our religious faith , finally , can offer us a sense of serenity. I do not mean complacency, I mean serenity. Serenity does not necessarily characterize the old in years; it's an attitude that may be gained in youth as well as in advancing years. It is conditioned by one discovering himself in relation to other forces. It comes through understanding and the discipline that brings one a larger freedom . It comes through confidence and faith. The late poet laureate, John Charles McNeill , symbolizes it in his little poem Sundown. His pic-

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ture of sunset is more than the close of a day. Even as a young man he understood the meaning of serenity. The secret of it lies beneath these lines :

Hills, wrapped in gray, standing along the west;

Clouds, dimly lighted, gathering slowly;

The star of peace at watch above the crest-

Oh, holy, holy, holy!

We know, 0 Lord, so little what is best;

Wingless, we move so lowly ; But in thy calm all-knowledge let

us rest-Oh, holy, holy, holy!

SUl\fMER SESSION Begins Tuesday, June 10 Ends Saturday, August 9

Courses for incoming freshmen, upperclassmen, transfers, school teachers, and officials.

For particulars write: Dr. D. B. Bryan, Director

Wake Forest, N. C.

Financial History of WFC : Alumni Rank High in National ......1944, and associate editor of the "Carolina Cooperator," takes off an afternoon fishing after learning that her magazine

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