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VOL. XIX No. 1

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, October 1948

Editor: EuGENE OLIVE, '10

Published in October, December, March, and May by the Department of Public Relations and Alumni Activities of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C.

One Dollar a Year Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office at Wake Forest, North Carolina. Address all communications to ALUMNI NEws, Wake F orest, North Caro!ina .

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President-Dr. George Erick Bell '19 ............... Wilson First Vice-President-J. Burgin Pennell ' 17-. ........ Asbeville Second Vice-President-Henry C. Liles '32 ....... Greensboro Immediate Past President-Hubert E. Olive '18 .... Lexington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Named Above President Thurman Kitch in '05 , ex officio ..... Wake Forest Irving E . Carlyle ' 17, ex officio ....... ..Winston-Salem Waldo C. Cheek ' 34 (1949 ) ................ Asheboro Dr. Graham Barefoot '21 (1949) .. .. ....... Wilmington Ira T . Johnston ' 15 (1950 ) ........ J efferson John H . Vernon ' 32 (1950) .. . ........... Burlington David M. Britt '37 (1951) _ ........................ .. Fairmont Dr. 0 . Hunter Jones '31 (1951) .......... .... ..Charlotte

IN THIS ISSUE

Front Cover: Literary Societies . Top, Euzelian. Bottom, Philomathesian.

Page Editorial .................. .. .................. .. 1-2

Inside The Rock WalL ........ __ .. .. _ .... .............. . 4-6

Welcome to Freshmen- By President Kitchin ........ 7

Faculty Members and Their Doings ... .............. 9-11

Good Progress for Living Endowment. _ ........ ..... 12

About Former Students.. ... ........... .. .. .... .. .... .. 13-21

Ship of State and Wake Foresters ................. ........ ..... 22

Pulled from the Postman's Pouch .............. ........ .. ....... 23

A Sermon to Raise Money -By Dr. George Heaton ................. ........... .. .. .. ......... 25

Middle of the Football Season ............. ............ .... .. .. .. 28

ANOTHER BEGINNING

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Every September brings to the campus some tons of eagerness and aspiration. Yardstick and scales are

poor instruments for measuring and weighing intangible qualities, but anybody with imagination is quick to sense their immensity . Picture yourself standing two-and-a-half hours in a receiving line reaching from the inside front door of Gore Gymnasium over to and along one side to the other end and across to the other side, being introduced to and introducing your wife to several hundred new arrivals on the academic scene. Your hard-pressed right hand discovers something physical about enthusiasm for being in college. But 1903 students at Wake Forest, plus about 200 in the Medical School at Winston-Salem, makes necessary the use of something other than an adding machine to determine the significance of it alL Veterans, numbering more than half of the men, know that our nation can no longer afford wars. But they are convinced that the nation must afford educational opportunity for its youth. All postwar students know that college is a gateway to future careers, and most of them believe that civilization's fate rests with men and women who make good use of what colleges and universities have to offer. A sense of mission , therefore , permeates the Wake Forest atmosphere at the opening of the current session .

WHAT PROGRESS?

Now that college enrollment the country over has doubled since prewar days and since educational prognosti

cators expect twice the present number of students within the next decade, you want to know what progress Wake Forest is making in its program for removal and expansion. Clearly, little more may be expected in the way of growth in the present location, for the college is committed to the plan to re-locate in Winston-Salem. Further building on the old site is prohibited, therefore. Initial facilities for beginning operation of the college in WinstonSalem are designed to provide for 2,000 students, the approximate number already enrolled at Wake Forest. Speed is both desirable and essential if the college is to care for anything like a normal increase in enrollment. If predicted growth in college attendance occurs generally, Wake Forest may expect 3,000 students in five years and 4,000 in ten. Even now that many would be seeking entrance, it is believed , if facilities and personnel were adequate to provide for them.

FUNDS A summary of subscriptions from camIN SIGHT paigns and of resources otherwise

available for building purposes is approximately as follows: Trustees' Enlargement Program .................... $1 ,339,150 Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

Campaign............. .. .................................... 1,572,000 Convention's Campaign through the

Churches .................................................. ...... 1,440,000 Five Year Earnings of Reynolds GifL ......... 1,500,000 To be added to these figures is the fair market value of the property at Wake Forest. Nobody knows what that is. To be subtracted from the total is the

cost of construction begun on two dormitories at Wake Forest before the decision to move was made. Work on the larger one was abandoned when news of the proposed offer was known. Completion of the other was paid for out of the funds received from the Enlargement Program and the building now houses 150 students. A new phase of the program was initiated October 1 when Trustees engaged the American City Bureau to direct a campaign of several months to secure a substantial sum in "special gifts" from individuals, corporations, foundations, and the like. Otherwise the program continues as formerly.

WHEN WI LL THE COLLEGE MOVE?

Trustees have set no date either for beginning construction on

new buildings or for the removal of the college to its new location. Terms of the Reynolds gift state that unless construction is begun or contracts let by July 1, 1952, the donors "reserve the right to withdraw the offer." Instructions given by the Convention in accepting

l\lrs. Thurman Kitchin (above) points to drawing of proposed Union Building for new campus

the terms of the offer are to the effect that construction is not to begin unless and until a sufficient amount in cash, securities, other assets and collectible pledges is in hand to erect adequate and suitable buildings to acco=odate a student body of at least 2,000. The qualifying statement is made that the fair market value of the Wake Forest property may be considered in estimating available assets for building purposes. Instructions have been given to the chief architect by the Trustees' Building and Planning Co=ittee to prepare working plans which may be available for use as early as 1950, in case circumstances at that time are such as to make the beginning of construction advisable.

ABO UT THE ARC HITECTURE

Much care is being given by the chief

architect, the Building and Planning Committee, the President's Faculty Advisory Planning Committee, and others, to the type of architecture, as well as to the number, size, and uses of buildings to be erected on the new site. It is their belief that the architecture should be of such quality as to insure its desirability for centuries to come. Many

l\lrs. James G. Hanes (left} looks at drawing of propo ed library

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drawings and alterations of drawings have been made already and others will follow. Mr. Larson, chief architect, explained to the Trustees October 1 some of his reasons for employing modified Georgian as a basis for preliminary planning of buildings. Trustees approved by unanimous vote the general type of architecture contemplated, as demonstrated in sketches of buildings in this issue. Architects, engineers, faculty members, and specialists in various fields have given and will devote much time to considering floor plans and every detail essential to making the buildings serve in the very best way their functions.

THE OLD CAMPUS

Everybody asks what will happen at Wake Forest when the college moves. Nobody can speak with authority about

that. Salesmen know that it is not easy to get a good offer for valuable property when no delivery date can be promised. And Baptists in North Carolina are not sure that they will sell at all. Maybe they will keep and use the old campus for educational purposes. If so, the cash returns to Wake Forest College would hardly be as large as if a sale is made to people outside the family. It is inconceivable, however, that the buildings and campus will lie unused in a generation clamoring for educational opportunity . Disposition of the property can be made only by the Trustees of Wake Forest College, upon the approval of the Baptist State Convention. Their decision must await developments, but it will be one concerning which there need be little apprehension.

INSIDE THE ROCK WALL Though it may seem a long time

since commencement, student winners of honors have had no opportunity to announce themselves to alumni. Medal winners at commencement on June 1 included Dorothy Haworth, now Mrs. Murray Severance, Jr. , Knoxville, Tenn., who received the A. D. Ward medal for the best oration by a representative of the graduating class and the Julius C. Smith Senior Orator's Medal given by the Euzelian Literary Society. William Leffis Bennett of Shallotte received the Laura Baker Paden Medal for high standing in the Social Sciences; Deleon T. Murphy of Wallace won the Hardwicke Medal for the best Society Day oration; J. CWton Dunavant of Hurdle Mills received the Joe B. Currin Medal for the best oration on the subject, " Christ in Modern Life." The Phi Society Improvement Medal was awarded to Carl Oldham of Gulf; the Sophomore Debating Medal to William H. Wagoner of Chocowinity; the Junior Orator 's Medal to William Joiner of Griffin , Ga.; and the Senior Orator's Medal to Evander M. Britt of Lumberton .

Speaking of commencement, one of the largest crowds on record attended the Ann u a I Alumni Luncheon in the college cafeteria. Judge Hubert E. Olive of Lexington presided and delivered the principal address. Other speakers included President Kitchin and Dr. Henry Simmons, member of the class of 1888. Irving Carlyle, President of the Board of Trustees, spoke briefly about recent achievements in connection with

the Enlargement Program and plans of the college to move to Winston-Salem. A revised Constitution and By-Laws for the Alumni Association were adopted, upon recommendation of the Board of Directors. All reunion classes were introduced and were well represented. New officers of the Association were elected as follows: Dr. George Erick Bell '19, Wilson, president; James Burgin Pennell '17, Asheville, first vice-persident; and Henry C. Liles 1931-32, Greensboro, second vice-president. New members e I e c ted to the Executive Committee were David M. Britt '37, Fairmont, and Dr. Otis Hunter Jones '31, Charlotte.

Dr. G. Erick Bell '19 Pres. General Alumni Association

Speaking further of commenc.ements, the largest August graduating class in the history ot the college, numbering 87 men and women, received degrees at the close of summer school. The commencement address was delivered by Dr. H. H. McMillan '08, Missionary to China. P r e s i d e n t Kitchin gave to the summer school commencement the same amount of formality as has been customary at regular commencements and delivered an address to the graduates.

The Wake Forest Law School · continues to make an excellent record. Every graduate of the school who stood the State Bar Examination in August was successful. Of the 140 students enrolled in the Law School during the session of 1947-48, 21 stood the State Bar Examination. The following are the names of these new barristers: Harry Edward Paschal, Wake Forest; James C. Gregory, Zebulon; Frank C. Ausband, Winston-Salem; Paul B. Bell, Black Mountain; Bruce Bailey Brown, Clyde; W. Rudolph Bryant, Lasker; Everette C. Carnes, Four Oaks; Wade H. Childs, Jr. , Lincolnton; Ben N. Cole, Charlotte; Guy H. Cox, Jr., Thomasville; Hugh Martin Currin, Oxford ; William C. Delbridge, Spring Hope; Charles L. Folger, Dobson ; James D. Gillila':ld, Macon; Willis F . Gupton, Wmston-Salem; William H. Harris, Jr. , Norwood; Bernard B. Hollowell, Aurora; William P . Pearce, Jr., Youngsville; Zeno H . Rose, Jr., Robersonville; Wiley H. Taylor, Jr. , Beaufort; and Frank L. Todd, Hendersonville.

Law School students receiving high awards d u r i n g the last scholastic year includes Zeno H.

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Chapel scene showing one-half of filled auditorium

Rose , Robersonville, who made the highest scholastic average during his final year. For this achievement he received the Law Week award of a year's subscription to Law Week. Three students receiving the highest average in the class during the school year are Samuel Behrends, Jr., Wilmington; James F. Justice, Jr., Hendersonville; and Zeno H. Rose, Robersonville. Their names are inscribed on a bronze cup donated by the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. Rose also won a first prize of $150.00 in a state-wide will-drafting contest c o n d u c t e d by the American Trust Company in competition with law students from Duke, Carolina and Wake Forest. Paul B. Bell of Black Mountain, another Wake Forest law student, won second prize of $50.00. While first and second prizes were also awarded Duke and Carolina law students, Rose's paper was adjudged the best of all those submitted in the competition.

Summer school e n r o 11 m e n t reached 865, 687 men and 178 women. This number falls short by 33 of the peak enrollment of the preceding summer. North Carolina furnished 88 per cent of the summer's enrollment. Seventeen other states were represented.

Student officers for the summer session included regular officers of the student body who were in attendance, plus persons elected for the summer only to fill temporary vacancies. John Mathis, president of the student body, was enrolled. Temporary officers elected for the summer were Luther Settle, Rawlings, Va., secretary; Charles Ussery, Rockingham, president senior class. Senior representatives to the student co u n c i I, John W. Hardy, Baltimore, Md., Henry Huff, Washington, D. C., and Isaac Perry, Elizabeth City.

Another National social fraternity makes its debut on the campus. In August the local Zeta Chi Fraternity was granted a charter by the National Fraternity of Sigma Chi during their convention in Seattle, Washington. Zeta Chi was represented in Washington by Wilbur Doyle '48, who served as president last year. Other chapters of Sigma Chi in North Carolina are at Carolina, Duke, N. C. State, and Davidson.

Orientation of new students began September 13 with a continuous round of meetings for their introduction to the ways of Wake

Forest. Under the sponsorship of the Student Co unci I, nothing seemed to be lacking for getting them indoctrinated and making them feel at home. (A far cry from days when no Freshman felt safe on the campus or in his room after dark.) Talks were made to them by student leaders of various phases of campus life, by President Kitchin , Dean Bryan, Dr. Hubert Poteat, Dr. A. C. Reid , Dean of Women Lois Johnson , Miss Crisp of the Physical Education Department, and Coach Bobby Kellog. A grand reception in Gore Gymnasium was given by the faculty to all new students the first evening after their arrival and a tea for women students was held next afternoon. Not far from 2,000 persons crowded into the new chapel for the first convocation when Dr. Blanton spoke on "Education and Religion in a Church College." Chapel attendance on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the new chapel ( still unfinished and unbeatable in cold weather) reminds one of crowds at commencement. Seats are numbered and attendance of all students is required. The system is working well. Chaplain J . Glenn Blackburn p r e s i d e s and is in charge of worship pro~ams.

Monday convocations are devoted to various student organizations and activities and are under the direction of the Student Council. Faculty members find seats on the ample stage, for students are assigned to practically all chairs.

First week at college would be dull without pep rallies and a real football game. Dullness did not ex ist on that account at WFC. Much talk about "T" formation had whetted appetites of gridiron devotees, and the "closed" practice of the football squad a few days prior to the first game set the stage for excitement when the Colonials of George Washington University invaded Groves Stadium on the first Saturday of the semester. Previous pep rallies and hurried band practice were sufficient to let visitors and the team know somebody was around when playing time arrived . A bit jittery with a new working plan under test, WFC Deacons showed for awhile that their mastery of the "T" technique was less than complete, but they soon inspired confidence and captured the game that brought to a happy close an eventful week.

Also "inside the rock wall" is the Wake Forest Baptist Church. No organic part of the college, yet nothing is more vitally of it. First Sundays at Wake Forest after opening sessions are eventful occasions for the community and for hundreds of college s t u d e n t s. Alumni of earlier years remember their stirred e m o t i o n s under masterful organ playing of Hubert Poteat, spirited singing of great hymns by hundreds of voices, superb rendition of anthems by the church choir, and a solid dignity in worship that they can never forget and for which they are immensely richer. Hundreds have looked back to some sermon preached in t he Wake Forest Church as an event of supreme significance-a new life was begun, horizons were extended, inspirations born, shackling traditions shattered, besetting sins mastered; truth was revealed , faith strengthened and made more rational, vision lifted. great decisions made, and worthy missions undertaken.

Not less a part of college life, but more, is the Wake Forest Church of today. Not on first Sun-

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Pre-1\tedical Society at WFC

days only, but every Sunday , the ~anctuary is filled and often overflowing with eager worshippers. If you could have found room on the first Sunday, or any Sunday since the opening of this semester, to take a seat in the congregation , you would have been stirred by the sea of youthful, intelligent faces of persons who are looking upon life hopefully but with morethan-usual seriousness. You would have been pleased to hear moving music to see and listen to an able and youthful minister who leads the congregation in worship. If you had taken time enough to discover the multiple activities of a religious character engaging the time and talents of hundreds of students in church and on campus Sundays and week days, you would rejoice in the assurance that the things that matter most are receiving attention and emphasis. Inside the rock wall at Wake Forest is a church-a fellowship of persons who worship God and seek to know and do his will .

Irving Carlyle '17, of WinstonSalem, president of the WFC Board of Trustees, attended chapel October 1 for the first time since he received his diploma. His presence in the college community was not unusual, for it is the place of his birth and childhood, the home now of his mother. Often he has joined the local church congregation in worship on Sundays, but this time he was invited to talk on a week day to the student body. Trustees were meeting at the college on

that date , and it was fitting that they should attend chapel to hear their president give what he called " A Report to the Student Body" and to see at one time and place faculty and students who are a part of the college they serve as trustees. Mr. Carlyle told of progress made to date in the program of enlargement and removal of the college to Winston-Salem. Equally interesting and inspiring was his presentation of the significance of the Christian college and the unparalleled opportunities students now at Wake Forest confront. · Carlyle, son of the late Professor J . B. Carlyle, won distinction durin~ his college days both as an athlete and in scholarship. He is a member of the firm of Womble, Carlyle, Martin & Sandridge, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.

A HALF CENTURY CLUB J. Hampton Rich '98, of Chapel

Hill, took the initiative in forming at the last commencement what is now called "The Old Students' Club." The only condition for membership in this group is that one must have graduated at Wake Fo.r~st fifty years or more ago. Ehg1ble for membership for the first time were the seven members of the class of 1898 in attendance at commencement. Their names are :

John M. Brewer, Wake Forest; Robert H. Herring, Zebulon; A. J. Medlin , Wake Forest; James 0 Pernell, Franklinton; Dr. J. L. Pritchard, Windsor; J. Hampton

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Rich, Chapel Hill; Daniel A. Tedder, Shelby.

Other charter members who graduated on earlier dates and were in attendance at commencement are:

George Blanton '93, Shelby ; W. L. Carmichael '88, Portsmouth, Va.; Dr. Rufus Hunter '85, Raleigh; Dr. Everett B. Lattimore '93, Shelby; Dr. George W. Paschal '92, Wake Forest; Dr. James Henry Simmons '88. Gainesville, Ga.

The resolution of organization of the Old Students' Club is as follows:

Resolved: I. This group of the alwnni

of Wake Forest College

shall be known as the Old Students' Club.

II. The Club shall be composed of the alumni of the College who have passed the fiftieth year of the graduation of their class at which time they hall automatically become

members of the Old Students' Club on attendance at Commencement of that year or any year thereafter and shall be initiated as freshmen in the Old Students' Club and shall be given a Certificate of Membership.

III. No membership dues shall be required of the Club

Welcome to Freshmen Address Delivered by President Thurmon Kitchin September 13, 1948,

During Freshman Orientation Week

We have looked forward with great interest to your coming to this campus. Now that you are here, I am pleased to extend to each one of you a warm welcome into the fellowship of a large and happy family.

Wake Forest College, like every well-organized family group, offers to those who join its fellowship some rich opportunities. At the same time, as in a smoothly functioning household, c e r t a i n responsibilities a n d obligations must be assumed by each individual member in order that the most fruitful benefits may be enjoyed.

From time to time you will be receiving from advisers and instructors, and sometimes from fellow-students, plenty of advice concerning your obligations. It is not my purpose now to speak in detail about what you will be expected to do or even to enjoy. I simply want to assure you that the door to membership in the Wake Forest family has been opened wide to you, even though it has been closed of necessity to hundreds of others who wanted to enter. In extending a welcome to you, therefore, I want to remind vou that we shall expect a high degree of achievement from you since you have been more fortunate than many who were unable to enter.

The years you will spend here will be among the most formative

and significant of your entire life. For this reason it is important that you seek a well-rounded development. Man is a unit, not a series of separate compartments. He does not function at all unless body, mind, and spirit are in working order. A brief word about these three :

Take Care of Your Health From my point of view. it is

basic that you build and preserve a sound body. Good health is necessary both for your own pleasure and for your usefulness to others. While you are at Wake Forest you should guard your physical health with the utmost care. Many of you heretofore have not even had the responsibility of selecting what you eat. The family table did that. Now. in this as in many other things , you will need to use your own judgment. Let me assure you that proper food and adequate sleep are essential to good health. Besides, you should make good use of our courses in physical education, of the gymnasium , tennis courts, and athletic fields. Not all of you will become members of varsity teams, but intramural athletics will furnish opportunity for everyone of you to participate in enjoyable and healthful exercise. The college provides for your benefit the services of physicians and nurses at the infirmary. They

members. However, to those members desiring it there shall be issued a parchment certificate for life membership upon the payment of not les than $500 to be applied to the permanent Endowment Fund of Wake Forest College.

IV. The Old Student . Club shall be subject to the ByLaws and Con titution of the Alumni Association of Wake Forest College.

V. The ignatories below shall represent the charter membership of the Old Student ' Club of Wake Forest College organized May 31, 1948.

should be consulted when signs of physical disorder appear.

Grow Intellectually

Your coming to college is an indication primarily of your desire for intellectual development. Certainly you will not allow anything to interfere with the growth and development of your minds and the achievement of a cultural outlook toward life. Your work in library, classroom, and in your daily preparation of lesson assignments will determine in large measure the entire future of your life. The formation of good working habits. of thoroughness in the performance of any task, and of dependability in all your relationships cannot be too strongly emphasized. What you are in these respects as a college student is what you will be through all the years to come. Your social relationships are a part of your intellectual and cultural training. The importance of these is not to be minimized. On the other hand, do not let anyone lead you to believe that they are more important than scholarship.

Nurture Your Spiritual Life I have spoken of two angles of

the triangle in man's unified life. Good h e a 1 t h and intellectual achievement are not enough. No life can stand on these two angles alone. You must keep in mind the truth spoken by Jesus when he inquired. "For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" So, my final suggestion to you is that above all else you cultivate the

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spiritual part of your nature. If priority is to be given to any side of the triangle, religion should be placed at the top. The recent fate of Germany is one of the many examples in history that intellectual and physical achievement alone will not do.

Wake Forest is positively and distinctly a Christian college. You will find here a Christian environment and capable Christian leaders. On our campus and in our community are numerous religious organizations and activities

which will furnish you an excellent laboratory for your spiritual exercise and growth. I hope you will make proper use of these opportunities.

Wake Forest College has stood for more than a hundred years, and still stands without apology, for a deep and an abiding Christian culture as the crowning glory of personality.

I repeat, we are happy to welcome you into the Wake Forest family.

FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WFC ALUMNUS

Frank T. Hobson, '22, now a Supreme Court Justice of the State of Florida, was appointed last April by Governor Caldwell to fill the unexpired term of Judge Rivers Buford, retired. He was a candidate in the Democratic Primary of May 25 to succeed himself in that office, running against a Circuit judge and the Attorney General of the state. In the first primary the Attorney General led by about 85,000 votes, but Judge Hobson defeated him ten days later in a second primary by about 22,000 votes.

Justice Hobson is a son of a Baptist minister, Dr. W. A. Hobson, many years pastor of the First Church, Jacksonville, Florida. He attended Mars Hill , graduated from Wake Forest, and studied Law at Stetson University. Upon admittance to the Bar of Florida in 1924, he began practicing in Jacksonville, but soon moved to St. Petersburg and became a partner of James Booth.

Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court justiceship, Judge Hobson's judicial experience included twenty years as Circuit Judge. During this time he was called frequently to sit temporarily with the Supreme Court of Florida. At the age of 47 he begins what promises to be a long and useful career in the highest tribunal of his state.

Justice Hobson has been active in legal , educational, civic, fraternal, and religious affairs in Florida. Stetson University voted to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on him at the last commencement. Because of his inability to attend, the degree will be conferred at the commencement in 1949.

Justice Frank T. Hobson '22

His roommate at WFC was Lieutenant Governor L. Y. Ballentine nominee of the Democratic PartY for the position of Commissioner of Agriculture in North Carolina. T. Frank Hobson, Jr., is now a student at WFC.

Strength to your judicial arm Justice Hobson! '

1908 Dr. HERMAN T. STEVENS retired recent

ly !rom active duties in the ministry and was made pastor-emeritus or the Orcutt Avenue Church, Newport News, Va., which he had served efficiently for many years. But Herman is too young to be idle, so becomes on November 1 Director of Public Relations !or Campbell College at Buie's Creek. For this job he is well fitted_ He was a student at Buie's Creek Academy in 1900 when Its one building was destroyed by fire. Even then he assumed leadership of a voluntary campaign to buUd the academy structure which still stands and has been recently renovated for use as a science ~l~~~~tut~Jri~~~ f~~ Jao~~b!ll':"' Herman,

Dr. James Henry Simmons '88 Writes About Visit to

Native Woke Forest

A striking figure in the village and on the campus at last commencement was the 80-year-old Henry Simmons, who had not attended a commencement since his graduation sixty years earlier. Data about Dr. Simmons' life and career appeared in the May issue of this magazine.

A crowded program during the Alumni Luncheon made it difficult to find time for speech making but Dr. Henry Simmons spoke 'eloquently to those who tarried long enough to hear. His words at the close of his talk will be read appreciatively by alumni. Here areo the last three paragraphs:

"I have come to feel that the gro~th and progress of the college are Immeasurably more important than its location, and that future developments will prove, convincmgly, that the removal to WinstonSalem was both wise and fortunate.

"And so, as I have loved Wake Forest College at Wake Forest, I shall love Wake Forest at Winston-Salem-and I would continue to love it if it were reported to me that it had been transferred to Rocky FoTd or to Tu1·key CTeek or even to Hanging Dog.

"I cannot take my seat without expressing my gratitude for the· friendly interest you have shown in my coming to see you, and for the gentle kindness I have received from the Trustees, from Faculty and students and from the citizens. By you; expression of good will and affection you have greatly warmed my heart· you have, indeed, added gold t~ the sunset. Hardly a day passes without bringing me some reminder that my remaining days must be few and precarious and that I am drawing near to the land where burdens shall be laid down; where heartaches shall be healed ; and where weary feet with sandals loosed may rest. But your kindne~s today will certainly make bngh_ter the days that may still ~em~m to me, and the memory of It w11l always be to me like the aroma from some far-off 'spicegarden,' set in a tropic isle of the Southern Sea, and washed forever by the sunlit waves."

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Numerous friends of Dr. Simmons will be grieved to learn that he suffered a somewhat unusual nervous collapse soon after his visit to Wake Forest and has been confined ever since to a hospital. His visit with old friends will be remembered as a benediction.

Greensboro Lawyer At Top of Profession

Head of Smith, Wharton, Sapp & Moore, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Greensboro, is Julius C. Smith. In the firm are 10 lawyers. Of this number 3 are graduates of WFC-Srnith, J. L. Donnell, and William M. Poteat. Smith was formerly a member of the firm of Smith, Wharton, and Jordon. which was dissolved last summer ·when a merger was made with the firm of Sapp & Moore. The new firm is said to be the largest in North Carolina and one of the largest in the South. The organization and direction of a firm of this size is no small undertaking. Mr. Smith not only performs that job but serves also as Vice-president and General Counsel of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company. At the same time he does a huge practice for private clients and takes an active part in civil and political activities of his city, state, and nation.

Julius is widely known as an able attorney and executive. He is loyal to WFC. A medal bearing his name is awarded each commencement at Wake Forest to a senior in the Euzelian Society who is judged to be the best orator.

Young partners like J ack Donnell '43, and Bill Poteat '40, express the wish that every Wake Forest law graduate could have the good fortune of working under the guidance of such an able counsellor as Mr. Smith. They feel that he has put the final polish on more good lawyers in the state than any other attorney now engaged in practice.

Bill Poteat states that when a new lawyer comes into the firm, Smith says to him, "Now I'm going to throw you into the middle of the ocean. Let's see you swim out or sink." But Bill adds that when the young barrister starts to sink, Smith is right there to give him just what he needs to keep going. Bill's testimony is corroborated by that of practically every other


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young attorney who bas had the good fortune to be associated with Julius Smith.

One wing of the seventh floor of the Jefferson Standard Building is occupied by the law firm of which Smith is the head. As for physical equipment, nothing seems to be lacking. The library , consisting of about 6,000 volumes, is said to be the most complete privately owned legal library in the South. It includes the complete reporter system for all courts, State and Federal, and all the recognized source books and texts. Eight secretaries complete the personnel of eighteen persons in the firm. Other law schools represented in the partnership include Carolina, Duke, Columbia, and Alabama.

Our congratulations to Julius Smith and his partners in the new firm.

Faculty Membe rs and Their Doings

Prof. A. L. Aycock spent much time during the spring semester working with the debate team, leading them to many a successful encounter with teams representing some of the greatest colleges and universities of the country. The season ended with a tournament at West Point in May. Mr. Aycock carried a full teaching load in the English Department, served as curator of the Art Gallery at Wake Forest, and led a discussion for the Faculty Women's Club on "In the Art Gallery," illustrating it with color slides.

Dr. Charles S. Black attended the Southeastern Physics Section at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in April and the American Chemical Society in Washington, D. C., September 1-3.

Chaplain J. Glenn Blackburn preached daily for. a week in the First Church of Wtlson March 29-April 4 ; attended first nation-~de conference of college and uruversity chaplains at Yale University May 4-7. He served as preacher for the Seaside Assembly May 31-June 4 and at Fruitland August 23-27. Most exciting event, according to the parson, since coming to Wake Forest January 1 was moving into the new parsonage about the first of June. He has attended some district associational meetings speaking in the interest of WFC. Dr. Blackburn's activities have been numerous and varied so that he writes, " when I get around to studying that will be news."

Dr. Sankey L. Blanton. Besides attending many sessions of Baptist Associations throughout the State, Dr. Blanton has supplied pulpits in churches a t Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Concord, Elizabeth City , Wilmington, Whiteville, Manteo, and has spoken a t Gardner-Webb College.

Dr. 0. C. Bradbury was elected President of the North Carolina Academy of Science at the annual meeting held at Davidson College in May. He will serve in this capacity for one year . He attended the Centennial meeting of the American Associat ion of Science in Washington , D. C., September 13-17.

Dr. H. Grady Britt attended the North Carolina Academy of Science held at Davidson College in May where he read a paper entitled, " Gametogenesis and Fertilization in the Digenetic Trematode, Pneumatophilus v ariabilis." This paper received the William Louis Poteat prize tor being the best paper presented to the Academy.

Prof. F. W. Clonts represented the WFC faculty at the meeting of the Southern Conference at Roanoke, Va., in December and of the National Collegiate Athletic Association meeting in New York City in January. As a member of the Athletic Council, he attended a special meeting at Richmond in April of Colleges of the Southern Conference for the purpose of discussing the so - called " Sanity Code," adopted by the NCAA in New York in January. He attended in May the annual dinner of college teachers of history at Duke University. Prof. Clonts and Dr. Paschal attended two meetings in the spring of Highway Historical

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Markers Committee at Chapel Hill.

Dr. E. C. Cocke attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago where he read a paper before the Phycological Society of America on the "Myxophyceae of North Carolina." He attended the annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science at Davidson College May 7-8 and read a paper on the " Myxophyceae of North Carolina" in which were described a new species of the Algae. During the summer he continued his research on the blue-green Algae of North Carolina besides teaching in summer school. After August 7 he devoted his .full time to research including one week in the Library of Congress at Washington. From September 10-12 he attended the American Institute of Biological Sciences held in Washington where he presented a paper before the Phycological Society of America on "Further notes on the Myxophycea of North Carolina with the description of one new species." Dr. Cocke's "A Brief History of the Department of B i o 1 o g y of Wake Forest College" will appear in the next issue of the publication of Tri-Beta, National Honorary Biological Fraternity. He assisted in organizing and installing at WFC a chapter of Tri-Beta, the first in North Carolina.

Dr. Edgar E. Folk spent the summer in England doing research on several problems in Chaucer. Most of his time was spent in the Reading Room of the British Museum, one of the two largest libraries in the world. A significant incident was a pilgrimage on foot to Canterbury. Using a copy of The Canterbury Tales as a road book, and starting at the site of the Old Tabard Inn near London Bridge, Dr. Folk walked about 15 miles a day, stopping at night at places where medieval pilgrims used to pause--Dartford, Rochester , Ospringe, and Canterbury. Lodging at the oldest inn in each place he stayed in Canterbury the three traditional days expected of medieval pilgrims asking for physical miracles, and " by the end of that time one happened to me-my feet ceased to hurt and I was able to proceed again under my own power to the r ailway station to catch a train back to London." He journeyed in t~o hours the 56 miles that had required four

days of walking. In company with Dr. Allan H. Gilbert, of the Duke University English Department, who was also working in the British Museum, Folk drove in a rented car throughout England, visiting spots with interesting literary associations. While in London, he stayed with Mr. and Mrs. P. J . Clubb, Mrs. Clubb being a sister of Miss Maud Piggott who was nurse in the WF Infirmary 1922-26. Miss Piggott now lives with her physician sister, Dr. Winifred Piggott, in Radlett, near London. Needless to say, Dr. Folk's classes are more popular than ever this semester, and registration for his course in Chaucer had to be closed for lack of room to many persons who wanted it.

Dr. J. Allen Easley attended the National meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis in New York City, the Southern Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis in Durham, the National meeting of the National Association of Bible Instructors in New York City, the Southern Section of the National Association of Bible Instructors in North Carolina, the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Association of Teachers of Bible and Religious Education at Ridgecrest. He represented WFC in annual meetings of the Haywood, Western North Carolina , Tennessee River , Liberty, Surry , Elkin, and Brier Creek Associations. He has supplied pulpits at churches in the following cities during recent months : Henderson, Wilmington , Kannapolis , Mt. Airy, Bladenboro, Weldon, Burlington, Wilson , Scotland Neck, and Wake Forest.

Dr. Gerald G. Grubb supplied for one month during July and August the pulpit in the Baptist Church of Farmville. He spoke in the Mineral Springs church August 22 , and in the First Methodist Church at Selma September 5. Besides teaching in summer school, he continued research at UNC and Duke in preparation for writing a biography of Charles Dickens.

Miss Lois Johnson, Dean of Women, attended the meeting of the National Association of Deans of Women in Chicago early in April . She delivered addresses to the Junior League and the Junior Woman's Club in Winston-Salem in May.

Dr. I. Beverly Lake published an article entitled , Freedom to

Worship Curiously, in the University of Florida Law Review, summer issue, 1948, in which he took issue with the Supreme Court decision concerning the legality of teach i n g the Bible in public schools. He delivered the Commencement address at the NewtonConover schools on May 29 and spoke on September 2 on World Government before the Raleigh Civitan Club. Dr. Lake represented WFC in one of the Associational meetings.

Dean Robert E. Lee has made numerous talks before civic clubs, church organizations, local bar associations, high schools and colleges. During the summer he was on the visiting faculty of the Unive~sity of Florida Law School. In September he addressed the Southeastern Conference of Law Teachers meeting at Miami Beach. The second edition of his Law of Contracts and the third edition of his Cases on Contracts w e r e published during the summer months. Governor Cherry has appointed Dean Lee to serve on the Commission for the Improvement of Justice in North Carulina.

Prof. J . W. Long, of the Department of Physical Education , did graduate work in the Univ •?rsity of Iowa during the summer. He compiled and wrote material for a Handbook in Physical Education , for use at WFC. He is chairman of the College Men's Section of the Southern District American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and is chairman of the Committee on Professional Standards in Health and Physical Education composed of seven other college and university representatives. The object of this committee is to prepare professional Health and Physical Education standards with recommendations to State Dept. of Public Instruction for certification requirements of all teacher training institutions in North Carolina.

Dr. Marc H. Lovelace led a conference on Old Testament Studies at the Seaside Assembly in June, delivered two addresses at Fruitland during Sunday School Week. Much of the summer was spent on a project, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, of identifying some 4,000 photographs made by the late Dr. J. McKee Adams over a period of 14 years in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Greece,

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and Rome. These pictures have been catalogued and arranged in orderly series to be photographed and made into slides for classroom use. This project required trips to New York and Washington. Dr. Lovelace welcomed into his family on September 7 a son, Noel Crawford .

Prof. Thane l\IcDonald attended Teachers College, Columbia University, during the summer session, working towards a Doctorate in l\Iusic Education. He was a member of St. Paul's Chapel choir at Columbia.

Prof. Jasper L. Memory, Jr., delivered the commencement address at the Zebulon public schools. He is the author of a monograph. "E 1 em e n t a r y Statistical Techniques." He was re-elected chairman of the Merit System Council of the State of North Carolina ; spent ,-acation on farm at Wagram and taught 1\len"s Bible Class at Spring Hill Baptist Church.

Prof. Albert R. l\Ienard, Jr., taught during June and July in the summer school of the University of Florida as visiting professor of law. His courses were in Administrative Law and Legal Research. In August he served as Lt. CoL at Fort Jackson. S . C., in the U. S . Army, attached to the Fifth Infantry Division. On September 11 he presented to a Tax Institute conducted by the North Carolina Bar Association in Durham a paper on .. Life Insurance and the Federal Estate Tax.··

Dr. John W. Nowell, in company with Drs. Speas. Parker and Black, attended the annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society at Oak Ridge, Tenn., April 9-10. From June 21-August 20 be was guest research worker at the Institute for Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago. For this work a Carnegie grant was made through the college and expenses were borne by the Institute of uclear Studies. He attended September 6-9 the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in St. Louis. September 1-4 he lectured at the National Training School for Chapter Officers of the Kappa Alpha Order in Louisville. Dr. Nowell has been elected to membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Prof. James C. O'Flaherty spent the summer at the University of


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Dr. Hubert l\1. Poteat '06

Chicago doing research on J . G. Hamann ( 1730-88 l. This work is in connection with a doctoral dissertation on Hamann's religious philosophy.

Dr. Herman M. Parker spent the summer (June 5-Sept. 4 1 at the University of California studying Nuclear Physics under the auspices of the Wake Forest Carnegie Fund, in preparation for a research program in N u c 1 e a r Physics at WFC. This work was interrupted for three weeks because of a sister's death necessitating his return to N. C., but the primary purpose of the study was accomplished. Dr. Parker remarked that two return trips by bus across the continent will be quite enough bus travel for one year.

Dr. C. C. Pearson read before the Historical Society of North Carolina a paper on "Current Historical Research in This State." Dr. Pearson emphasized the point that research centers will have to take into account the large number of students who desire the M.A. degree as a means to higher salaries in the public schools on the one hand and, on the other hand, the demand of Government agencies for more highly trained persons than are now being turned out.

Dr. Hubert l\1. Poteat has sent recently to the University of Chicago Press the manuscript of a translation of Cicero's treatises ' ·On the Nature of the Gods," "On Divination,' ' " On Duties," and "On Famous Orators." The book (of

about 450 pages l will be published next year as one volume of a large series of ancient and modern philosophy. This book. which has required more than t~ee years of work, will be the eighth published by Dr. Poteat. He has contributed the article on Vergil for the American People 's Encyclopedia, to be published this year m Chicago. Dr. Poteat has delivered in recent months numerous addresses to gatherings including the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Masonic Home of New Jersey. at Burlington ; the Kiwanis Club of Raleigh; the St. Paul's Methodist Church. Atlantic City , N. J. ; the annual Gridiron Dinner of the Scottish Rite Bodies of Jacksonville, Fla.; the Baptist Church of Angier ; the Column Lodge of Masons, Trenton, N. J .; the Virginia Classical Association, Richmond, Va.; the Franklin Literary Club. Franklin. Va.

Dr. Bud E. Smith on a Carnegie Grant spent most of the summer in research on Polycodium ( Gooseberries l as found in the southeastern states. Travels in June and July extended to more than 9,000 miles studying and collecting specimens and plants for use at Wake Forest. Sections included in this study are South Carolina, Georgia. Florida. Southern Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Se,·eral herbaria were visited. including University of Fla., Auburn, Fla. State College for Women. A second trip included the mountain regions of the southeastern states, and a third the coastal region of North and South Carolina. Later still a trip was made through Western North Carolina. Some plants new to literature were collected. Dr. Smith is beginning a monograph which will include the taxonomy and cytogenetics. He expects to continue this work for months to come. Dr. Smith and a student who accompanied him made a collection of ferns and fern allies of the southeastern states, many samples of w h i c h were brought to Wake Forest and are preserved in the basement of the Biology Building where they will be used as laboratory material in Botany courses.

Prof. E. W. Timberlake, Jr., has delivered since March 18 addresses at Wilson , celebrating the lOOth anniversary of Mt. Lebanon Masonic Lodge ; at Louisburg Baptist Church; at a banquet in Asheville honoring Dr. Maxwell E. Hoffman


who is Grand Master of Masons in N. C.; a t the lOOth anniversary of Columbus Masonic Lodge at P ittsboro ; at the Masonic Club of the Universi ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a t Rolesville High School commencement; at Selma High School commencement; at the Exchange Club of Raleigh ; and at the Rotary Club of Wake Forest.

Oldest Alumnus THADDEUS RAY BOWERS

Oldest Living Alumnus at 96

Shortly after the close of the War Between the States Thaddeus Ray Bowers of Halifax County, a boy of fourteen years, entered Wake Forest College. That was before t he student days of the late William Louis Poteat , Needham Y. Gulley, William B. Royall (Greek teacher) , and R ichard T . Vann. Among the very young teachers of the day were Luther Rice Mills and William B. Royall, S r. Dr. W. M. Wingate was presiden t of the college. Later presidents Thomas H . P ritchard and Charles E. Taylor were unknown on the campus. Bu t Thaddeus Ray Bowers, at the age of 96, is s till al ive and can tell you stories of many boyish pranks played on students and faculty members eighty or more years ago. Mr. Bowers now insists tha t he spent most of his time in college " loafing," but records indicate that he was a "whiz" at mathematics. Upon leaving Wake Forest he was told by physicians that he had bu t little time to live because of what they thought were very poor lungs. He returned to Halifax County (Littleton , Route 1 ), however, reared a fine family, becam~ a prosperous planter, and a leadmg citizen of his section.

Twelve sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bowers are living. Mrs. Bowers passed away several years ago and two daughters , Miss Carrie and Mrs. Martin, live at the old home with their father. Two of the sons attended WFCGeorge Watson Bowers '03-'04, and Dr. Thaddeus Ray Bowers, Jr ., '15-'21. Well known among alumni is another son , Dr. B. A. Bowers, many years pastor of the First Baptist Church, Gastonia.

If you should visit the 96-yearold WFC alumnus, you would find that he is even now a manufacturer. Years ago he became inventor and maker of a special variety of fly-swatter . Confined most of

Thaddeus Ray Bowers 1866-71

the time to his bed, he keeps materials and tools close at hand so that his work may go on. Thousands of his swatters have been sold, mostly by friends who have seen their good quality and have voluntarily become distributors for him. One of his customers remarked that anybody making such a good article should have his name and trade mark on it, so presented him with a stamp for this purpose. Now one side of the handle of the swatter bears the name and address of the maker, and the other : "Kills flies better and lasts longer." (Mr. Bowers modestly states that the words should be preceded by "Users say," etc.)

So far as the Alumni Office is able to find out, Mr. Thaddeus Ray Bowers is by far the oldest of any former student of Wake Forest College now living. He bids fair to reach the century mark.

Good Progress for Living Endowment

A first installment of names of contributors to the Living Endowment was published in the ALuMm NEws of last May. Names of contributors since that date are listed below. Included are names of all alumni who have made payments to the College on the Enlargement Program. We do not have names of persons who have made their gifts through their

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churches or through the special campaign in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Early in 1949 we hope to secure and publish all these names, together with the total number of contributors and the sum of all alumni contributions for the year 1948. GOAL : Five thousand alumni contributing an average of fifty dollars each every year to Wake Forest College.

L . M. Abernethy, Dr. P. Y. Adams, R. Lewis Alexander.

Ray F. Bandy, Dr. W. 0. Beavers, Dr. S . A. Bell, Randolph Benton, Dr. Wayne J. Benton, Dr. G. M. Billings, F. C. Bishop, Marshall R . Breedlove, Dr. Albert T. Brickhouse, Robert C. Bridger, Jr., Dr. Roswell S. Britton, Willard A. Brown, D. E. Buckner, J . W. Buckner, Claude F. Burrows, Ralph Byrd.

L. L. Carpenter, R. Paul Caudill, Dr. H. Royster Chamblee, Lee Copple, Geo. N. Cowan, Dr. Fred T. Craven.

P. S . Daniel, C. B. Deane, Charles H. Dinkins, James R. Dorsett, D. K. Drum, 0. W. Dunfor<l.

Dr. Hugh S. Edwards, Dr. J. R. Ellison, Jr., Don T. Evans.

Emory M. Fanning, Forrest C. Feezor, Dr. Joseph S . Feraca, W. W. Finlator, A. C. Francis.

E. Norfleet Gardner, Arthur R. Gay, James C. Gillespie, Dr. P . Y. Greene, Dr. H. L. Griffin.

A. H. Hamrick, Charles Harris, J. A. Harris, Dr. Lillard F. Hart, James M. Hayes, Dr. J. B. Helms, Dr. G. Frank Highsmith, Dr. Willia m H . Hill, Walter Holton, E. U. Hoover, Dr. John D. Humber, Robert Lee Humber, Elizabeth Hutchens.

Liston Jackson , Dr. Wm. Reid Johnson, Dr. 0. Hunter Jones, Donald F. Jordan.

Edward H . Kemp, Minda Kennedy, Dr. Frank M. Killian, Raye V. Knight, Myron L . Kocher.

Rowell Lane, Sarah Jane Leath, Dr. H. C. Lennon, Burgess Leonard, Carl R. Liverman.

LeRoy Martin, Claude B. McBrayer, R. A. Mcintyre, R. A. 1\tclntyre, Jr., James R. Minton, J . E. 1\litchell, 0. L. Moore, Talmadge 0. Moses, William R. Moyle, John R . Nelson.

Eugene Olive, J. C. Owen. Dean Paden, B. R. Page, Dr. W. C.

Parks, H. R . Paschal , Rupert G. Pate, W. E. Peace, Dr. A. B. Peacock, Edwin F. Perry, Carlton Peyton, Charles C. Pierce, Charles H. Pinner, W. B. Pittard, Walter James Pittman, Mrs. Edward H. Platte, James R. Pleasants, Jr.

Dr. R. B. Rankin, Louis E. Raynor, J. W . Robbins.

Thomas H. Sharpe, E . C. Shoe, Oscar J. Sikes, Dr. J. E. State, R. W. Slate, T. Lynwood Smith, Leon P. Spencer, Dr. John A. Stephens, N. H. Stites.

H . M. Talley, Dr. B. T . Tally, Dr. C. A. Thompson, Dr. Baxter S. Troutman.

Dr. J. R. Vann, John H. Vernon, W . H. Vinson, Jr.

J . 0. Walton, J. Elliott Ward, Dr. Geo. T. Watkins, Jr., (Estate), Wallace West, Calvin C. White, Sam Whiteside, J. Lee Wilson, Dr. Samuel A. Wilson.

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Information About Former WFC Students Dote indicates either year of graduation or of lost year enrolled at Woke Forest

Other names will appear in succeeding issues

1890 J. R. HANKIN , 402 Corona St. Winston

Salem. Now retired, has served as pastor in Moore Co .. Charlotte, and in Ga . Taught in N . C., Texas, A.la. and Ga. Employed by R. J Reynolds Tobacco Co. for 23 yrs. Married to Winda D. Chamblee Father of Melissa, Jim, and Nancy (l\!rs. A.lbert Van Zanat) .

1892 G . F. Hankins, Lexington. Taught in

Warsaw 1893-4. Has been in the selling and manufacturing business for about 50 yrs. His

b:~ar~nie~;;n~o~n~in~~sir898. ore~,e:a~ Lower House of Legislature 1905 and 1907.

~0e~~~r thoer uo~~~r~~~se s~· 1ib~.oinM~ Hankins states that his main hope now is to live until he shall be able to book passage with the first Rocket to Venus or Mars alter contact has been made. Also states that he is a bachelor. but not a Benedict Rotarian

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DANIEL ROY BRITTON, Colerain Was Cashier Bank of Colerain 15 yrs. now its Pres. Operated general mercbandjse store for 33 yrs. Retired 1935 and now looks after his farm and bank business. ~tarried to Sallie Shaw of Winton. Chi.ldren. Mrs. J. K. Coggin of Cary. and Mrs. H. W Smith of Salisbury. ~tember Bertie Co. Bd of Commissioners for 8 yrs .. cha.irman of Bd. 6 yrs. Member Bd. of Education 6 yrs., and of the Kiwanis Club 23 yrs. Bapt. WILLIA~t L. FOUSHEE. Fidelity Bank

~~!f;;.~~~~:i9~gs A~~:~d~.iaJ~h'~gH~;'!ili,~ Univ .. receiving Ph.D. in 1900. Taught U. of Richmond and other colleges. Unmarried Member Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity and Bar Assns .

1895 John A. Oates, Fayetteville. A. B. WFC

1895, and Law in 1910. Lawyer. Pres. Bapt. State Convention 3 yrs. , and Pres. of Bd of Trustees of WFC 1913-14 and 1943-48. Writes that it took "21 1, yrs. to get through WFC."

~~~pfet!0hf:rs~vic~ !~! t':~:te!~\u~~[;? e~~ ~~;~;~uf: I~dJ~':. ~: ~.' s~':ft~5in3"3ea~~~ many years. Active for half a century in public affairs. including temperance, educa· tion, religious and ci\tic matters. Ba()t., State and Co. Bar Assns. Now \'lrriting history of 10 Counties in the Upper Cape Fear. Married to !sahel C . Crowder. Father of John Jr., and Mary

1897 George N. Cowan, Rocky Mount. Minister

Ftrst student from Jackson Co. to attend WFC. Former pastorates: Kinston, Bristol, Tenn-Va., Greenwood, S . C., and Apex Married to Stella Middleton. Chi.ldren: Elizabeth (Mrs. T. J Lidum), Georgia, and James

J. Conrad Watkins, Reynolds Bldg., Winston-Salem. Dentist. LL.B. and A . B. WFC 1897, honorary Sc.D 1922. Admitted to N. C. Bar, 1897. DD.S. Urtiv. or Md .. 1900. Began

~rxcg~. of91~~ti~r o'fi':tet~w_sa~~ \3?g, Memorial Hosp., 1937-42, Kate Bitting Memorial Hosp., 1937-~2. Winston-Salem Health Center since 1938: denta.l Dlr. N. C. Bapt. Hosp. since 1940. Member Fors}'"lh Co. Board of Health 1941-45. Prof. at Bowman

~";t sir;{~if:48. ~~~i"er s;~~ern!~~nal YJ~~t~ Congress 6 times. Married Irene Montague. Chi.ldren: Joseph Conrad, Jr. (dec.), Richard Montague, Mary E.lizabeth (dec.), WilUam Henry, Mrs. W. A. Starbuck. Life member American Dental Soc., N. C. Denta.l Soc. 2nd Dist. Dental Soc .. State List. and Hlst. Assn., Delta Sigma De.lta, Omicron Kap~ w;~!~nWh~ay~··A;;;:;.rcna l~~~~ian. Listed

1899 WILLIAl\l WA.LTON WOODHOUSE, EUza

bethtown. Retired teacher and Co. Supt. of Schools. Farmed from 1913-1919. Worked for Production Credit Assn. 1936-39. Clerk Selective Service Bd. 1940-5. Married to Mamie Thompson. Chi.ldren : W . W ., Jr., Maurice L.. Charles Bailey, Martha. ClerkTress. Elizabethtown Bapt. Church past 23 yrs., Sunday school teacher, Moderator Bladen Assn. 5 yrs. Mason .

1900 J. Y. IRVIN, Shelby. Now retired and

gr.:~~ta':.'d f"t;~; ~g~ te:,~~r ~~~ s~~~n~: Schools. Married to Pearl Lattimore. Son , J . Y .• Jr.

E. F. MUMFORD, Spring Hope. Retired hut ''keeps busy." Fonner teacher in School for

~~~~~ot1~~:Se1~~~1;5 1~!~fo~r~? · c~~i~~; in Pamlico. Craven, Davidson, and other counties. Continues to do supply teaching

fd'~c . ~r9":fl)~.Jm.,M~~Jgo~o ~ ~~~lal9~'f.d,!',:'.j' Mattie Teague. Father of C. G and Howard C. Mumford, and Mrs. A J Maxwell. Jr.

m~~~o~~:o18A~~gs k1~~r?e~ ~~u~%~ Alice Sykes. C~ildren : Gladys Estelle, John Wayland, Elsie Christine, Ala , Alwelda. Bapt. Member School Master's Club.

WILBUR GRAHAM BALL, 303 N. Guthrie Ave., Durham. Pastor Emeritus of Angier

~sio~a~~- ~h~~ivr~~~a~~n~~\~i~sif~~ Assn. 6 yrs., and of the Mt . Zion Assn . 6 yrs. Presently supplies for various churches in and around Durham. and serves as chaplain for the Clyde Kelly Funeral Home. Married to Ca!Ue Rae Stubbs .

Dr. Wingate M. Johnson ' 06

SAMUEL B . WILSON, Rt. 5, WinstonSalem. Minister 45 yrs., teacher 15 yrs. Served as pastor in Va .. N. C .. S. C .. and Ga. Married to Fannie Bailey. Children: E . E. Wilson, Mrs. W. S. Fryar, Horace R. Wilson Mrs. A. W. Gragg, Mrs. S . A. Winslow, Mrs. G. J. Miller, Mrs. A. S. Matthews, Mrs. R. E . Rettew

1902 WILLlAllt E. ~IIDDLETON, Warsaw.

Farmer, Bapt., Bache.lor

1903 HERSCBELL S. Averitt, Fayettevil.le.

~"e'~b':r i~ieerl!~~org~_r'"sd~0.:'rEl~&!'ti~~ 1925-37, chairman 10 yrs. Member N. C. Educational Commission . Has taught school, done a good deal of surveying, and has been practicing law since 1903. Married to CorneUa A. Cu.lhreth, deceased 1935, now married to Mrs. Maude Hicks Ferrell. One son. Franklin Murphy. A. B. WFC 1932.

1904 JOHN HOWARD CAJIIPEN, Whiteville.

Architect. Spent 17 yrs. in public school work at Erwin, Apex, Clinton, Raeford. and McColl, S. c .. ending up with high school

principal's certificate for Life. 20 yrs. at architectural work as draftsman and architect. Married to Julia Ada rolar. Children: Howard Brookes, Tolar Bnsben, Hal Gray, Henry Corwin, Simeon McRae, Mary Lowse, JuUa EUzabeth (Mrs . R . S . Degarmo), Anita Inez (Mrs. J. P, McDoug_ald) . Member of Lions Club, Amencan Insntute Architects. Presby.

EGBERT LAWRENCE DAVIS, Box 1217, Winston-Salem. Pres., Security Life and Trust Co. Has been with R . J Reynolds Tobacco Co., Atlas Supply Co., Davis, In_c., and Dir., Pres. and Treas of Secunty Life and Trust Co. l\1arried to Annie Pearl Shore, deceased, and to Blanche J,.inthicum. Chi.ldren : Egbert L ., Jr., JuUa DaVIS Pollard, Pauline Davis Perry , and Thomas Henry 1923-41 trustee N. C. Bapt . Hosp., Chairman of the Bd ., Finance Committee, and Building Committee Dir. of Chamber of Commerce 2 terms. Bapt ., Deacon. Member of Forsyth Country Club, Old Town Club, U. S. Chamber of Commerce. (See story ALU:\t:Nl N£\.VS 1\Iarch 1948).

FREDERICK L . HUFFMAN, Morganton . \Vholesale hardwood lumber since 1918. A. B . Urtiv. of N C. 1908. Real Estate and Ins. until 1912. Lumber and furniture manufacturing until 1918. Married to Elizabeth Cochrane. Daughters : Mildred Huffman Cobb. and Eleanor R.

1905 C. RU R HAMRICK, Shelby. Wholesale

~j!~ ~~~~~~ N~"C'.'~:Pff H~~p. 0fia';r~}~~ ~ the raising of around two milJion dollars for Gardner-Webb Co.llege, and has also he.lped in the WFC building campaign. Married to Gordia Mae Grice. Children: C. Rush, Jr., and Cordon Grice. Bapt .. Kiwanian, member Chamber of Commerce

CLAUDIU COOPER HOWARD, Fayetteville. Atty. Taught in Salemburg. Bladenboro, and Fayettev-il1e schools. Auditor Cumberland Co. Lawyer and land surveyor. Now Atty. for Cumberland Co. Married to Ruby Cullom. Chi.ldren: Ruth Howard Allred, Berta Howard Smith, hfary Howard Croom, Agnes How~rd Dud.ley, C . C., Jr. Ruby Howard Eury. and Dora Bapt

1906 HERBERT JENKIN • Aulander. Farmer.

Has either been Supt. of Sunday school or teacher of 1\fen's Bible Class continuously for 38 yrs. Member of School Bd. for 36 yrs., and chairman for 25 Chairman Bertie Co. ~ricultural Conservation Assn. Married to Mmrtie Elizabeth Cox Children: Herbert, Jr .. and Elizabeth Jenkins Steimle. Member Ruritan Club, Bapt., Deacon. "I am qwte happy in my farming activities and should you come this way, whistle for me"

WINGATE MEMORY JOB:-> ON , Bowman Grav Medical School. Winston-Salem. Physiciari. Graduated Jefferson Medical School 1908. Private practice in ~inston-Salem s~ce 1910. Editor N C. Jl1ed•cat Journat smce 1940. Professor of Clinical Medicine and Chief of Private Diasnostic Clinic, Bowman Gray School of Med1cine, since 1941. Married to Undine Futrell. Children : Catherine and Livingston. Author of The True Ph.ysician. The Modern Doctor of the Otd Schoot (Macmillan), and The Years After Ftfty (Whittlesey House) Bapt., Civltan, American College of Physicians.

1907 TERRY A. LYON, Fayetteville. Lawyer.

Has served as chainnan Cumberland Co. Dem. Executive Com .. Co. Atty ., City Atty. De.legate to Dem. Nat' l Convention 1916 and 1932; Elector at large 1928. Division Counsel for Atlantic Coast Line R . R . Co. Served as Lt. Col. overseas in World War I , and as Col. in World War ll as Ass't . JAG. Member or Bd. of Directors Carolina Tel. and Tel. Co .. and member of Bd. of Trustees N. C. State Teachers College. A.lso Chairman of Bd. of Trustees Hlghsmith Hosp., Inc. Married to Pauline Horton. Children· Hannah Richardson, Mrs. WilUam G . Thomas. Methodist. Member llighland Country Club. Bar Assns.

OSCAR R. MANGUM, Lenoir. Minister Th.D. Sou. Bapt. Seminary. Formerly pastor in Paris and Henderson, Ky., Liberty and Kansas City, Mo., Oxford and Lenoir, N. C. Author of The Lights and Shadows of Life, He Spoke to the Ages, and Paut's Swan Song. Married to Lila Lee Griffeth. Retired June 30, 1948. Bapt. Rotarian.

J. L. WRITE, Oxford. Wholesale Drug Sundries and Notions. Past State Councilor, past Nat'l Representative of Junior Order United American Merchanics l\.iarried to Lanie Nutt Children : Mrs. EUzabeth Bartha. J . L ., Jr. Mitchell , William E .. and Lt. Henry


H. White , who was killed in action in World Wa r II. Bapt.

1908

CLAUDE B. (PAT) McBRAYER .. Shelby. Atty. Since college days has been C1ty Atty.,

W:!o~de~;ty cg~rt~h:~~lf.t.8~~ ~o~f~ ~or Ct Real avocation is writing stories;, ~oems,

~ucc1\:1 ~~~t;,te~n~"~a:di~~ri~~in;'a~ht~Sile~~ Member Masonic a nd K . P. Lodges, Country Club, Executives Club, and past pres. or local Rotary Club. Presby., Deacon .

1-1 . H. McMILLAN, Wagram, and ,Soochow, China Missionary since graduatiOn !rom

~og-_ ;:J>~· ~-~;c~~~~~e~0h~~~~a::hd'M~~~~J to Leila Memory. Father of Mary Fay, Arch, John, and Campbell. Three sons honor graduates W.F.C.

1909

JOSEPH HJLL BEACH, Lenoir High school teacher from 1909 to 1918 in N. C ., Ala., and Ky 1918 to 1940, Business Office of Coal

RE~~f;~~rkei~ ·c~c ~~~;s~~9~~~~7~~er!~f~; Service System, ~nd srnce 194.7 . has been

~~~c~hno~t i;to:t:~.0Ma~~~bfo L:01t~~~vftfti~~ (dec. 1946 ) Children: Eva K . Tousler, Richard M and .Josebh M Member of N . C.

:::'he~~f s~~ci.'. ~:=a~~er, ~~~ ~:!c~~~n Sunday WILLIAM I. HALSTEAD, South Mills .

General law prachce with office in Elizabeth

~;~~·c:C~tyG:~!r~aA~s~m~~; ~~~;~ 1~29~~\~ 41-43-47. Senate 1936-37-38-39. Is nomina ted to serve in Senate, 1949. Unsuccessfu l candidate for Lt. Governor in 1944. Pres. District

~,fls 0J'e~r;:~s i;"gtet!~vti;e 0~e/;i~~ 8:g:g~~ Uon "as Gov' t Appea l Agt. in World War I and II and is appointed to do the same work u'nder the recent draft act Married to Pauline Jacobs (dec. 1935) , and Flora Ashe (dec. 1943) Children : William Leon, John Wiley, and Lemuel Hubert. M~son, Ruritan, Order Red Men . Member Tnnity Church , teacher of Men's Bible Class for past 30 )'TS.

Mi'nY~::,. t r~t'lre~)~~~~ed t~~B':t~'a G~~: (dec. 1945). Children : LUlie, Talmage, Clement, Mrs. R. W Turner, Eugene, Ruffin and Bryan.

c. J . JACKSON, Wake Forest and

tt,e;c_ot~l&s D~~~Xr s~~~a~~~~On~is~oif:~r~f Sec. Univ. of Tenn ., State Sec., Tenn. a nd Ala. General Sec., Jacksonville, Fla. Mgr Hillsboro Hotel, Tampa. Fla., ~ yrs. On staff

~~:~~~~n co~%un~t~reC~estc~~~~~·ign2s. ~z;,sr e~l~e::lti~~~- ~ae'::C~~~ni"c!olf~~e.co!b~~de/bi~ Univ., Scarritt College1 Carson Newman College, and WFC. Durmg 1st World War

Dr. R. Bruce Wilkins '09

Rev. James L. Jenkins '10

directed all state-wide welfare agency finance

~aarr.fa~~: ~~rtecr;,·un~~f Se~~e~ ro~m2b0ery~~ on Blue Ridge and Sou. YMCA College Board of Directors. Married to Lucy Darragh Freeman (dec.). Daughter, Mrs. ~. C. Dickinson, Jr. Bapt., Rotarian.

ROBERT BRUCE WU..KlNS, National and Deposi tor's Bank Bldg., Durha m. PhysicianEye Ear, Nose, Throat. Studied at N . C. Med ical College, Johns Hopkins, a nd N Y . Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Clinics. Practlc«;:d in Rae!ord, Raleigh, and presently m Durham. Member Senior Staff of Watts Hosp. Ma rried to Marguerite Mason . Children : Robert Macon and Peggy Davis. Bapt.,

fif!~~iS ~~~beExeg~uv:S~e·~f~b. r!i:~\~~i Societies.

BUFORD FRANKLIN WlLLIAI\fS, Lenoir, Atty. with firm of Williams & Whisnant. Mayor of Le noir 4 terms: member State Se nate 1931·32; Presidential Elector In 1932; member State Bar Council since 1938; Pres. Caldwe ll Co. Bar Assn. since 1937. Married to SalUe Ivey Williams. No children. Bapt.. past pres. Lenoir Rotary Club, Mason, K . of P ., Odd Fellows, Sigma Nu Fraternity, ,Bar Assns.

1910

GEORGE C. BROWN, 85 Brucemont Circle,

~~eUn1~( 'if~~¥et;c~~~diae~da~;{'n~i~alfo,y~: and Asheville City Schools for 25 yrs. Farmer and nurseryman. Hobby: pror,agation of shrubs and evergreens--sf:ecia ty, a~leas.

N:~~a8H~t:'t~~ - cga:1:~\~i. 'M~.tsito~aHe1~gle~~ Bapt., member of Optintis t Club, NEA, and NCEA

TRELA D. COLLINS, 1603 Lakewood Ave., Durham. Minister. A.B. WFC 1910, B .D. Crozer Seminary 1913. M . A. Univ. of P a. 1914, and D.O. WFC 1934. P astorates held in Phila· delphia, Pa.. Camden. N . J ., Durham and

~~~iS~~~cN . Nc. <=co~~~iln~r 5~hu~,;~ }~~~=~~ : Married to Eula Lillian Hayes. Children : Lillian and Trela D .. Jr. , (killed in World Wa r II ). Bapt., Kiwanian.

aia~~r!"i:Cct ·~·r;~RJ'!~e~'s;newr!f~~rcafht~\f!~~: 1912. Owner a nd operator of Garriss Clinic.

f9~~4~1 ~h;;t~~~a~~di~d~c;J~~C ~~~ft~t ~~~~ Member various Medical Societies. Married to Louise Norfleet. Daughter, Frances Norfleet, 312 mos. old.

JAMES LINEBERRY JENKINS, Dolling

ff{~~g~or~~~\~r p~~to~oi!\ngPa~~[~~~s N~in~~ a nd Umatilla, Fla. N. C. state evangelist 3

b~~-· :::~u~~~ec~::::. 0~t~~kc;n°Ve%~t:;n, m:r~.: Pres. Gardner-Webb College 4 yrs .. teacher of Bible and Homiletics Gardner-Webb College 8 yrs .• teacher in schools for preachers at Wingate , Gardner-Webb. Fruitland , and else-

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where. Kiwanian, Executives' Club, Married to Kate McAren Watson (dec.). Father ~ay L., Jr., Catherine Watson Vasecky, E11a McNeill , and Betty (now at WFC) .

JAMES ELMER KINLAW, Elizabcthtowl\ Retail furniture dealer and funeral dlrector. T a ught in public schools prior to 1923. Mercantile business since that time. Chair· man Boa rd of Elections Bladen Co., 1942-44. Ma rried to Cora Bells Brady. Children : Dr. M. C., M.rs. John T . Peterson, Mrs. Aaron Smith , Dr. J. B .. and Gordon B. Bapt., Rotarian .

1911

P . V . CRITCHER, Lexington . Atty. General

~~Jr:~~c~o~~?t~; ~~ ~:;pcfs~ri ~:.co~~~~~~ Married to Annie W. Fitzgerald . Children : Mrs. Olen C. Easter, Mrs. E . E . Raper, Jr. Bapt., Kiwanian.

JAMES L. OLIVE, Wade. Rura l mail division, U. S. Post Office, since 1920. Taught school 2 yrs .. in drug business 5 yrs . Served a year overseas in the a rmy in World War I . Married to Ollie Vick Livingstone. ChJldren: Mrs. J . B . Ragsdale , Mrs. J . S . Barker, Jr. apt., vice~pres. Ruritan Club.

EDWARD N. WRIGHT, 26 Farrwood Ave., Asheville. Atty. Attended Harvard Law School, 1912-15. Former chal.rman AsheviUe School Bd. 2nd Lt. FA. World War J. Married to AJma Seymour. Bapt., Klwanian.

1913

WILLIAM JOSEPH CONRAD , JR. , Reynolds Bldg. Winston-Salem. Sec. R . J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. since 1940. 1913-17 employed in offices of R. J . Reynolds Tobacco Co. 1917-18 served in World War I, FA, 30th Div. Spent 9 mos. in France. In Europe 1921-22 dispos-

~.~.~~ bU,.~1:iri':3.r f~~~r 0{r~~~~cco~ 1\iJ\. ~ ~~ac~~~Y c!o~e i,ru!~Cj ~~~~l~~t;:anBd~ta~~ Trus tees N . C. flapt. Hosp. Member Forsyth Country Club, Twin City Club, Oldtown Club. Bapt.

E. M. JOHNSON, Lumberton. Lawyer. Mayor of Lumberton 1922-43; City Com. missioner 1917-22; Atty. for Bd. of Education since 1928; present chairman of Dem . Executive Com. of Robeson Co. Married to Tessie Link. Daughter, Lois R. Johnson. Bapt., Deacon, Rotarian, Mason.

1914

pa:t0l~~r:.· c~~:C~fe~~lfh ~~~!nt~1Co~~ ~a~rf:Jk~~ ~~iu~f ~~s{Vi~~~s .n~vo v~~Tt-Sii~: ~=R~bot~u£~~~e =~~o~llvi~~tCtu~ember of

OLIVER PAUL HA~IRICK, Boiling

William J. Conrad, Jr., '13

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Hoyt Patrick Taylor '14

Springs. Principal Boiling Springs High School for 16 yrs. Taught in the high school 18 yrs. Mayor of Boiling Springs, and chairman of Red Cross drives for 3 yrs. Married to Jessie Teresa Pangle. Children : Oliver Paul Jr .. Maxwell and Dudley. Sunday school supt. or teacher since 1914.

HOYT PATRICK TAYLOR, Wadesboro. Atty . Dem. nominee for Lt. Gov. Practicing in \Vadesboro since 1914. Served in Infantry overseas World \Var I . Awarded Silver Star.

!':"!'!~ . ~~2'i~3~~da:der~~~ .9~J~~~B. ~~~ Co. Dem. Executive Com. Member State Senate 1936-45. Chm. appropriations 1943. Served on numerous other commissions. Legislative Asst. to Governor 1945. Married to Inez Wooten. Children: H. P .. Jr., Frank Wooten. Caroline Corbett. Baptist, Sunday School teacher (25 yrs.). Trustee Anson Sanatorium. Meredith College (Chm.), and N . C. Symphony Society.

1915

mA THOMA JOHNSON, Jefferson. Atty. Member General Assembly 1931 and 1939;

Dr. Walter E. Clark '17


Member Board of Trustees U . of N . C. since 1939; Member General Board Baptist State Convention several ti.mes; presently member State Democratic Executive Com. County Attorney since 1936. Served in World War I. Elected member Executive Com. of W .F C. Alumni Association 1947. ?-1arried to Mary Shull . Son. Thomas Shull Johnston. law student at W.F .C. Baftist, Sunday School teach{pasroct~~~~n~:r). pres.). American Legion

an~0'l~a~· !~~~u~v~~elgfev!i~~e';:0Bu~~~~~ 1925-29. U . S . Commissioner since 1927 . Practiced law in Shelby since 1916 Appeal agent, local draft board. World War II. Married to Kate Hoyle. Children : Mrs. Mary M

r~ill~!pJ~tn rie8c~~: 1\:::ch~r M:tenc;;ar~fi{e Class since 1916.

JOH!\' D. SLAWTER, Wachovia Bank Bldg .. Winston-Salem. Attorney . President Forsyth County Bar Association, member Chamber of Commerce, Country Club and N . C . Bar Association. Married to Carrie Linville. Chil~ dren : John D .. Jr., W. Linville, Ben Le e , and Sarah Ann. Moravian .

HERBERT M. VANN, Bowman Gray School of :Medicine. Winston-Salem . Teaching anatomy at W .F .C. School of Medicine since 1919. Now registrar. Married to M.Hdred Arzani. Children: Robert L .. and Mrs. James I. Waller Baptist, member Forsyth Country Club.

1916 L. P . HENDRL"X, Mocksville. High school

principal. Married to Lottie Chloe Woodard . Children : Orner Woodard and Sarah Oneida Baptist.

DWIGHT HUMESTON IVES, Concord . Mlnister and teacher. Formerly pastor and teacher in Indiana. Kentucky, Pine Bluff Sanatarium: Civillan Engineering Draftsman,

~~J'stD~~~ ~";.<;;~ntf~~~d ri'e';~a~!~~est;;n~~ tive and Editorial Assistant Biblical Recorder . Did postgraduate vocational work at N. C. State. Married to Virginia Summers. Children: Dwight H. Jr., and Mrs. Vlrgirtia Ives House. President Concord Unit National Education Association. member National Educational Association and National Geog. Soc. Baptist.

HERBERT R. PASCHAL. Washiuraon . Vice-

~~~~~tn;cabn:c,{a3hi;~a~;,Bb~~k~~g ~s9h~~~-Treasurer and director Chamber of Commerce, Chairman trustees City Administrative Unit. Married to Annis Beaman. Son. Herbert R. , Jr., student W .F .C. Baptist, Rotarian.

K. A. PITTllfAN, Snow Hill Attorney. Practiced law in Ayden (1917) and in Snow Hill !since 1932). World War I '17-'18. Represented Pitt County in Legislature session 1925: Senator 7th Senatorial District sessions 1941. 1943. Baptist.

G. VAN STEPHENS, Warsaw Minister.

fe~~~t 1Lo~ec0~r%n~c~~01~a~t~;:t~S 8~ Chadbourn. Troy, and Warsaw. Hobby-

}:~sell~0~hll~~~~bor~"£.i"tve\~ v<eFr~~~ ces B . Baptist. Rotarian.

JOHN BAYLUS WHITLEY, Slie r City. Interviewer N. C. State Employment Service Practiced law in Wake and Chatham Coun~ ties 10 years. Editor and owner of weeklv newspaper 10 years. 2nd Lt. in World War i. Marrted to Mamie Goodwin. Children : Mrs. Russell P . Townsend , Margaret L .. Charles 0 ., Clyde T .• Elizabeth G. Baptist, American Legion. V F .W.

LEONIDAS POLK WILLIAM , Edenton . Physician. Married to Margaret Davis. Children : L . P .. Jr., and Peggy. Baptist. Member medical societies.

1917

ffiVJNG EDWARD CARLYLE, Wachovia Bank Bldg., Winston-Salem. Attorney. Native of Wake Forest. Has practiced law in Winston-Salem since 1922. Former president N . C. Bar Association. Served three terms in N . C. General Assembly, two as a member of State Senate. Listed in 1948-49 Who's Who in AmerLca. Chajrman W.F.C. Board of Trustees. Married to Mary Moore. Children : Elizabeth Moore and Marl' Irving

BI~~Lx~:evtleCL~!~ist.R.MlOi. ~- ~ri~~ S. A. T . C. 1917-18. Graduated from Medical College of Va. School of Dentistry 1921. Associate Instructor of Operative DentistrY, M .C .V.. 1921-22. Married Buna Lawrence. Children : Doris L . (Mrs. C. G. Gunn, Jr.), Dwight L .. and Walter E .. Jr. Baptist, Deacon. Charter member and past president Asheville

Burgin Pennell '17

Lions Club, Scottis h Rite Mason, and past master of Mt. Hermon Lodge . Dental Associations. Member N C . State Board of Dental Examiners, and American Association of D . E ., Federation Dentaire Internationale.

JAJ\IES 111 . BAYES, 812 Overbrook Ave., Winston-Salem . Minister. Served 2 years in World War I , principal lift View lnst. 1919-21.

So~t~rer,';, BJi~t a~~mt'::fng\~~-2J: ~~r~;a ~eckley , W . Va . Served as member of General Board o£ W. Va . Baptists and of N. C . Baptists, Board o£ Trustees of Meredith College. Board of Directors o( B iblical Recorder. Married Aline Pace. Children ; James M ., Jr .. Harold T . P (student W.F C ), and Phyllis Aline

J . R. HUDSON, Lowell Trader. " Travels and enjoys living." Married Edith Robinson. Presbyterian. Member Gas ton Country Club.

BURGIN PENNELL, 817 Jackson Bldg. Asheville. Attorney. World War I. Charter member American Legion . Married Muriel Zimmerman. Children : Miriam Pennell Davis, William Thomas. Baptist. deacon , Sunday

Basil 1\1, Watkins '17


~~h~~s~~~i~~"~d!is:;;.~m~~ ~rst\~1a:o~ Army. Member Executive Committee Alumni Association and active in behaU of W F C .

JAMES T . PRITCHETT. Lenoir A.B. U.N.C. 1914, Law School W.F.C . Former mayor of Lenoir. Member General Assembly (lower house) 1939-45. Democratic nominee for Legislature 1948. Capt. Infantry \Vorld

f.-~~:1 Ja~a~ri-t~ }~-.~~ja~f~biOe~1rti~.r~~: terian, Elder, teacher o£ Brotherhood Class since about 1920.

CARROLL C. WALL, Lexington. President and Treasurer C. M. Wall & Son, Inc. in Lexington and or Cheek-Holton MJg. Co., Durham. Has devoted entire time to lumber business. A trustee of W F C. and former trustee of N C. Baptist Orphanages . Chairman Board of Trustees Lexington Memorial Hospital, lnc. Married Maurine Brittain. Son. Carroll C. Wall. Jr. Baptist. Deacon, Sunday School superintendent. Rotarian, Boy Scout CounciJ past president

BASIL MANLY WATKLNS, 1415 N . Mangum St. Durham. Lawyer. Member Durham City Board of Education since 1935, chalnnan since 1947. Has served on Board of Trustees of W.F.C for about 20 years. Married to Elizabeth China. Son. Basil Manly, Jr ., student W.F.C. President Durham Bar Association, Baptist, Kiwanian. Member Durham and N . C. Bar Associations. Many years teacher of Men's S. S. C1ass.

1918

VICTOR L. AVDREW , SR., Newton. Mlnistcr, North Newton Baptist Church. Has been pastor in Kentucky .afl;d North Carolin.a. Served 10 years as nusstonary pastor m eastern North CaroUna. Married Clara Webb. Children: Edwin R.. Victor Lee, and James Emile. Kiwanian, Ljon. Mason

HORACE E.-\.SOl\1, Shelby Brotherhood and Foundation Secretary for N. C Baptist State Convention. Served as Director of Educauon and Music with the following churches: Southside, Wilmington; First. Ashe-

C~~~m~~rst. E~~i~~~enrrs!ndDalk~do~~t ~m&~~Ve~na:~¥J~~~? N~~ll'i~~- c::o7~~ Kiwanis. Directed evangelistic campaigns in many cities. Director Convention's Program for W .F C. to raise $1,500.000. Trustee W F C Married Margaret Stevens. Daughter, Margaret (\V.F.C. student). Member of American Legion. Baptist, Deacon

WOOD PRIVOTT, Edenton. Appeals Deputy, Employment Security Commission of North Carolina. Married to Cornelia Jones. One adopted daughter. Frances, age 2

1919

\VJLLL\.-:\1 LeGRAND BENNETT, Wadesboro. Assistant Cashier and Assistant Trust

HPctor C. Blackwell '21

Officer. Bank o! Wadesboro. Lived in Win· gate and worked with Perry Mill Co. 1919·21. Bank of Marshville 1921·23; Standard Oil Co .. Charlotte, 1923·25; Allen Milling Co. and Allen Stores, Wadesboro. 1925-41; Bank of \Vadesboro since 1941. Married to Leila Self. Children: LeUa Self, Isabel, and LeGrand. Jr Baptist, Rotarian. Executives Club.

PHILIP LOVING ELLJOTT, Boiling Springs. President Gardner-Webb College

f!~f:ti 9r~~tif:a~~:nlft~-f,~~T:fe'::t ~'3h:~a~0~( ~;}~~nJ'~r;.r;:~~'MngtJ:~oe~~m~~l~e~eest~ ern Carolina Teachers College 13 year s. Has also served as Enlistment Secretary (Con-

loe~~e~n~e~~~ri~laM~~sg!tr0ab~JnB~1:n~Yl; chur ch es. Married to Etta Maurine Carringer Children: Ruth Eleanor. Diana Jayne, Phll, Jr., and Rachel . Baptist. Rotarian

1920

CHARLES EDWARD BREWER, Concord.

~~~~~ Dril!~~cJO:~~yrne~~a~:~ug~~ido'r~ regul9:r a rmy 2 years, as a National Guard Captatn 18 yea.rs, Judge Recorde r 's Court

~:~~Ss~~~s t'Oe~~~~~h ~~~~a~~~~~~etl~~ Son, Charles Torbert. Methodist, Lion. American Legion.

BONNTE DAVID BUNN, Oxford _ M.A. University of N. C. Studied at Cornell Univer· sity and P eabody College. Was High School

~rn£\f~~~to~un\~a~~~:~m~~"<!.~'dt ob~c:~wi: ~f~~ntre tfaf'eri~~d10~:1

FF(an;:es. ~!~~fst: Deacon. member of cho1r. Past master l\1asonfc Lodge, Councillor Jr. Order. past president Rotary Club, President of North Central D istrict N. C. E . A .. President Shrine Club.

Wll.LIAi\1 GASTON CAMP, Mooresboro. Taught school at Cherryville 2 years and has been pastor since 1920. Presently serving Old Sand Run Church , Mooresboro, and is in 2nd pastorate at Pleasant Ridge. President of P astors' Conference in King's Mou.ntain Association_ Married to Julia McDaniel

LEVY SPURGEON CLARK, Mount Hollv. Minister. B.D. Rochester Seminary, D.D. American Bible College. P astorates, Hornell , N. Y .• 7 yea.rs, Uniontown, Pa .. 8 yea.rs, a.nd Mount Holly since 1943. Married to Susan B . Hunt. ChiJdren : Laura Louise, Sallie Sue. Member of Lions Club.

J. MARVIN GLANCE, Box 1362 , As heville . Residence at Leicester. Attorney. Summer session at W .F.C. Married to Paron J . Meadows. Children: Laura Loulse, Billie Dow, and Talbot Carlyle (killed in World War ll). MethodJst, Sec.-Treas. Buncombe County Bar AssociaUon. member N. C. Bar. and Jr. Order United American Mechan.Jcs.

SPURGEON C. GLOSSON, ?t'loncure. Mi.nister and Farmer_ 2 years at Louisville Seminary, 4 years as pastor in Richmond County, 14 years in Chatham County and taught school 5 years. In poor health p ast 3 years. Now Jiving on dairy fann. Marned to Betsey Harward. Children: WUUam Floyd, H . Harward, Franklin, Callie, and Da.n. Baptist.

J . LOUIS PRICE, Hickory. Minister. Th.M., S.B .T .S. 1925. Pastorates: Louisburg, Pendleton, Bloxom, Va., Siler City, and HJckory. ~~~edL.~o a~d"Wffirirn Eftl~:aL Children: Dr

J. D . ROBBINS, Rocky Mount. Corporate Executive. Married to Susie Holding. Children : John D ., Jr .. and Mrs. William Mow-~~?·c:tffll~· b?~b~nian, Country Club, Caro-

THOMAS EDWARD WALTERS, Ridgecrest . Minister. 3 years at Southern Seminary. Pastorates : Colerain . Harrellsville, North

~o;1~ a~3~~'dg~~~~-ns~J· 1:Vi~so~Uu~-prqgrams. Married to Virginia Rodwelf. Children : Mrs. \V. Dean WUlls, Thomas E., Jr .. and David Rodwell. Baptist, Mason, LJon.

1921

HECTOR CLIFTON BLACKWELL, Fayetteville. Attorney. Solicitor Recorder's Court Cumberland County 1928-30. Judge Recorder's Court Cumberland County 1930-32 Mayor, City of Fayetteville 1939·41. Served as Major JAGD 1942-46. Married Laura

~~ld~:nf:ru~:n~e £-eag'fo~ ~Nr._s3t8 , s~!~ Associations.

LESTER JAI\tES DAWK[?I..' S, Hickory. Deputy Collector. Taught 23 years and has been in government serv·ice 5 years. Married to Mattie Tate. Baptist.

ARCmE ELLEDGE, First National Bank Bldg .. Winston·Salem. Attorney and referee

B. E. Morris '21

in bankruptcy for several years. Married to

it~~.~~in~~ugi';~i't:~1o~~s l~~t~ various fraternal and social organizations. past president Lions Club.

J . A . ELLIS, Rt. 1, Clemmons. Department

:'ch~fez; Ry;a~.e~~!~i~ob~gcoA~~· ~~fe~~ Daughter, Anne Carol. K . P .

RALPH ALDERMA..N BERRlN"G, First Bap· tist Church, Winston-Salem. Minister. D.D. conietTed by W.F.C. in 1945. Fonner pastorate Crestwood. Kentucky. Since 1936 First Baptist Church in Winston-salem_ President N . C. Baptist Convention 1944-45; Vicepres ident Southern Ba:plls t Convention 1938. Member Foreign Miss1on Board. Council on Christian Education, and chairman of com-

~i~e ~~~:;ro~~tioWn~~e~a~0~or~1~~~~~ Ralph Alderman, Jr .• David Franklin. Jackson Rea, and Margaret.

B. E. :t\IORRIS, 1010 Broad St .. Durham. Minister. LouisviUe Seminary Tb..M. 1924. Pastor First Church, Asheboro 3 years. \Vestern Avenue Church Statesville, 8'2 years, \Vest Durham Church 12 1 2 years. Served as vice-president Baptist State Convention, president General Board, Trustee W .F.C., pres!· dent Baptist Council of Durham. Marned to Connie Margaret Abernethy. Chlldren : Frances Morris Spurrier, Virginia Morris GleRJ. ~~:O~t MorTis Parker. a.nd Barba.ra . Ki-

REX G. STEPHENS, Louisburg. Blgh school principal. Formerly teacher in N. C. and N. Y. Married Alice Poyner. BapUst.

HOLCOl\W 1\tc:CLAIN STROUP, Kannapa. lis. Pastor Franklin Heights Church since 1943. Attended Southwestern Semi.nary 1924-27. PreVious pastorates include Spruce Pine, Ramseur, Franklinville. Denton, Holloways, and Stoners Grove. Served as Moderator of Randolph, Liber~ and Cabarrus Associations.

~~a~~~bl.e'":~ ~~~e~n~t~a¥eJoa~ottsh~ ~~d~~n~~b~~··~~:J.ri~1£!b~. G~~~: Nancy, and H . M .. Jr. (W.F.C. student).

Ci~if~:~c~B.8:~o::g~~:.siaui'~~':!,,: then entered Civil Service in 1923. Served in N . C. National Guard 1933-40 as an officer,

i~~6 ocr~~v~~ila ~S:·n~r'm's~~e!f~~ rank of Lt. Col. Farms as a sideline. Married to Lena Christian Morrison. Children : James Albert, Jr .. and Anne Morrison. Mason, KJwanlan.

1922

W . BRYAN BOOE, 404 O'Hanlon Bldg, Winston-Salem . Attorney and Postmaster. Has held state and national offices in the American Legion, Is past presfdent WinstonSalem Llons Club. and has been a National Executive Committeeman for 6 years. Mar-

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Judge Richard D. Dixon '22

:ried to Lillian Wall. Son. W Bryan, Jr. .Baptist. member Forsyth Country Club, Bar Associations.

COY C. CARPENTER, Winston-Salem. Physician and Dean of Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Was Instructor in Pathology. Syra-cuse University Medical School 1924-25: Resident Physician and Instructor in Clinical .Medicine, Syracuse, 1925-26; Professor of Pathology W.F.C. and Bowman Gray since 1926. and Dean since 1936. Married to Doro-1.hy Mitten. Children: Harry Mitten. Coy C ..

ifect~'!fu~So~i~~~~.1ftt.isa~t:":n3°C~~~ 7.1ecbcal Societies. Certified American Board -of Pathology. Nu Sigma Nu and Alpha Omega Alpha Fraternities.

RICHARD DILLARD DIXON, Edenton. W .F.C. Law School 1922 Attorney 1922-41.

C. Sylvester Green '22

Clerk Superior Court and Recorder's Court. Judge Juvenile Court, and Auditor Chowan

~r~~rth19~~-;.~~jng.udf~46~~8~uy~~~: ii~u~t Military Tribunals, Nuremberg, Germany, trying War Crimes. Married to Louise Manning Badham. Son. Richard Dillard, Jr. Former vice-president N. C. Historical and Literary Association, and N. C. Society for Preservation of Antiquities. Episcopalian.

C. SYLVESTER GREEN, 1005 Monmouth Ave., Durham. Editor Durh.am Morning Her-

~~~"to;aw:~ msP.uChh~c~u~~cti~~g~~· ~~d Grove Ave. Church, Richmond ; for a number

~{;X;.ar.u:e~J'l:.5.ol)~rk;'{}~~~~~tr.th G;:J: uate study at Duke, Harvard, and Union Theological Seminary In Richmond. D .D Washington and Lee 1934, Litt.D. University of S. C. 1940. Author or New Nigeria and B. W . Spilman-The Sunday School Man Recording Secretary Baptist State Convention 1930-32. Served on many committees Baptist State Convention and Southern Baptist Convention. President Council on Christian Education Baptist State Convention . Member 5 scholastic fraternjties . 1\Iarried Mary Morris. Children: Nancy Rose and Charles M. Rotarian, Mason, Lecturer, Baptist.

JAME Y. GREENE, 36 Lookout Drive, Asheville. Minister. Has been a health seeker since 1922. Teaches in First Church Asheville. Married Myrtle Settle (dec.) Son , James Y., Jr. Baptist.

EDWARD URBAN LEWIS, Tarboro. Tobacco buyer W. B. Lea Tobacco Co., Rocky Mount since 1931. Fonnerly with Long Cot-

~~::t~ b~~1ai;~ft~~\t r~pa~u'i~s b~~i~~~~0fr~~ April to July each year in Rocky Mount. President Tarboro Board of Trade. Member and director Rotary Club of Tarboro, member Tarboro Country Club. President Carolina Cotillion Club. Baptist. Married to Margaret Battle. Son, Edward Battle.

CHARLES H. PINNER, Tabor City Principal Tabor City School since 1938. M.A. University of N . C. Superintendent Wake Forest

~~~~~~~t'::J~~· Kif'ciflf~ewf~i~~3~ i1:;;i~~ to Wilma West. Children · Jeanne Annette. Mary Jo. Baptist and has served as Sunday school superintendent, teacher, chairman of Board of Deacons and Finance Committee . President Southeastern District N. C. E . A , Rotarian, American Legion.

A. PAUL ROGERS, Tabor City. Merchant and farmer. Since 1923 partner in flnn W. ~ Cox Co., dealers in furniture, hardware,

~~~~~~o g~~ths~~.!tf.s. Ch~f.Je!e'*esA.f~~ : Jr.. L. Harold, William B., and Thomas J His son Harold says that his father gave him

w:~~ c~g~~~t o{v;~~ev~r~~t. e~~~eth~o::~r Baptist, Deacon , Rotarian.

CARL W . STEPHEN , 34 Longview Road, A~hev1lle. Accountant, Ecusta Paper Co'<' .. Pisgah Forest, since 1939. Spent 5 years 1n bankmg, 10 years In public utility work. Married to Roberta Garren . Chlldren: Carla M.arteil ,anc;~ Robert Wood . Baptist, member C1tlzens B1ble Class. Cosmic Club Asheville Coin Club, Asheville Stamp Club . . <;!LIVE ALLEN TROMP ON, Sparta . Phy-

!i~g'kf;,~~i{~ol?~=~tio"t v~nci.ra~:d t~~3::; :J~~;;: M~i~':.1 s~re~f~ter. Shirley Ann.

1923

WILLIAI\f L. ANGEL, Shelby. Lawyer. Practiced in Burnesville 1924. With Southern Railway Legal Department 1925-27, Pilot Life Insurance Co. 1928-42, Shelby since 1942. Member Board of Directors Cleveland BuildIng and Loan Association. Judge Cleveland County Recorder's Court 1947-50. Married to Clara Marie Perry. Baptist, deacon teacher Men's Bible Class since 1931. Vice-President Kiwanis Club.

ROY H. McDOWELL, Belmont. Physician. M .D. Universitr of Maryland, M.Ph. Johns Hopkins . Marned to Kathryn Bowers. Child.ren : Charles Lindsay, Harold Carlyle. Baptist.

1924

L. EARL ANDREWS, Le>dngton . Superintendent City Schools since 1937. M A. Columbia University, addJtionaJ work Columbia and U. N. C. Taught two summers at W.F C.

~'r~~: <~fa~sf.:'J'e~~~~~~re~[.;;t: f~~;;: collegiate Debator. assistant ln English. Married to Catherine Mitchell. Children ; L . E .,

Robert H. Burns, Sr., '24

Jr., and Cleveland Mitchell Baptist , Rotarian, Chairman District Boy Scouts.

ROBERT HENRY BURNS, R. , Whiteville. Lawyer Attended W.F C. 1899-1903: school

ll~g~~ 19~3~~f;er~~~~~~rs~:n K::~~:s ano~ Pilot Life Insurance Co. 1912-15; Superintendent Agencies and 2nd Vice-President United Life Insurance Co., Concord , N H. 1916-19. Manager James I. Miiler Farms and TLmber Lands 1919-23; W .F .C. Law School 1923-24 : County Judge two terms, and Attorney since 1924. Local attorney for several banks, International Paper Co .. and other corporations. Organized and was first president Columbus County W.F.C. Alumni Association. Married to Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Sons: Robert Henry. Jr .. and John Kendrick. Baptist, Lion, Bar Associations.

J . C. CASSTEVENS, S. Stratford Road , Winston-Salem. Physician and surgeon. Owner and operator of Casstevens Hospital . Married to Esther Owen. Children : John C ., Jr., Jane Marilyn, and Lois Lyndon. Presbyterian. Member Forsyth Country Club, Med-

A. Paul Rogers '22


ical A ssociations, Social Register of N C. WJLLJAl\1 H. HOWARD , Hickory. Manager

Howard-Hickory Nursery Co. Served in World \Var n as buck private 3 months. Learned to fl¥ at age 42. Marrie~ to Mildred Bowles.

f:~~15fi.tcr:g~Y (t~~t~~esc?~b!!·N~8~~wA~~o~Pa~ tion of Nurserymen

JOSEPH W . PARKER, Windsor. Attorney. University of Maryland Law School. practiced in Windsor since 1945. Formerly with Standard Oil Co .. Soil Conservation Se rvice . Married to Jessie Bazemore. Daughter, Mary Margaret. Baptist, Rotarian, Mason.

1925 WlLLIAi\1 ALLAN BREWTON, Enka. Phy

sician. Medical Director American Enka Corporation. Surgeon for Southern Railroad Practice Hmited to industrial medicme. Spent 51 2 years in Army as Division Surgeon. 88th Division, with rank of Lt. Col. (MC). Married to Carmen Mather. Children: LaRue and Jeff. Baptist. Medical Societies, Biltmore Forest Country Club.

FOSTER PIERCY CARTER, 27 Edgewood Road, Asheville, Attorney. Member Board of ~on~ervation and Developme~t 1933-39 Act1ve m politics in many campa1gns. Married to Marguerite Kimberly. Ch.lldren: Sarah Elizabeth, Garret Kimberly. Baptist, Civitan.

R. A. CHERR\-, 1-U6 Dollar Ave., Durham. Accounting-Tax Consultant R . A . Cherry & Co. Asst. Secretary N. C. Joint Stock Land Bank 15 years. Operating own business since 1935. Served church as member and chairman Board of D eacons, teacher, member finance committee and treasurer. Married to Eunice Love. Daughter: Molly Jean (Mrs. G. J. Taylor). Baptist. Lion. National and N . C . Association Public Accountants.

MALCOM T. FOSTER, Fayetteville. Physician. Health officer Fayetteville and Cumberland County. Married to Helen Coggins. Children. Malcom Foster, Jr., William Wade.

J. WADE JARRATT, Linwood. Farmer. Teacher {taught shop work-furniture and textiles). Married to Gladys Fitzgerald. Children: Alma. Alton (dec.), Lynn. Baptist, Deacon, S. S. teacher. choir leader.

ROBERT LEE PUGH, New Bern. Superintendent Craven County Schools. Taught in high school. served number of years in prin-

~~~~~:fsio e~~:ti~ ¥:elra~*i"n\. P~!~~bt, 1~~~ tarian, Phi Delta Kappa, 33 degree Mason, present Grand Marshal Grand Lodge N. C., A.F. and A.M GE~RGE C. SPOOLMAN, Windsor. Clerk

Super1or Court since 1926. Married to Pearl Brett. Daughters: Nancy Spoolman. Episcopalian, Rotarian.

Sc~o!i·. wTr;utg~t0~0'c~~~~ ~~~~fa~ ~=~ l\1ingo 5. Maury 14. Married Hannah Mabei McDaniel. Children: Robert Earl (1st year at :;8;0~!· R~":-f~~- Alice. Mary Anna. Baptist.

Lloyd M. Abernathy '26

George L. Edwards '27

1926

LLOYD M. ABERNATHY, Granite Falls. Attorney for City of Granite Falls and Granite Building and Loan Association since 1932. County Attorney 1934-38, 1946 to present date. Member N. C. Senate extra session 1936, regular session 1937, and extra session 1938. Democratic nominee !or Solicitor of Caldwell County. Secretary-Treasurer Caldwel.l County Executive Committee since 1934. Married to Helen Edwards. Children: Gloria Helen, Uoyd M . D, Robert Edwards, and Gene H . Baptist, Rotarian. County District and State Bar Associations, Vice-President Granite Falls , Recreation Association, Inc.

Pr!:Jc~J fn· ~~~~~' 1~~6~~wu~e~~- fr~y World \Var ll. Solicitor New Bern City Court. Married Irene P. Hines. Children: Henry A. III. Durward, and John Payne. B . P. 0 . E. Jr. Order, American Legion . Bar Associations.

CHESTER R. MORRIS, Currituck. Atty. Judge Superior Court since March 1947 . County Attorney 1926-39. Solicitor 1st .Judicial District 1939-4.7. President lst D istrict Bar Association 1945-46. Married Edna Earl Boswood. Son : Earl Travis. Baptist, Ruritan, Mason.

Pr~-b~~~:Lcf~~'!r s~~G~93~e~ffi~;~nin SJ:~~ ~!!rer~~~o~~e~~g ;:{:g~l itr~~~ Mount 1926-37 . Married to Bessie Jones. Son: Lamar Sledge (student \V .F.C.l . Baptist, Deacon. Lion.

192i

P. G. CA.ll", \Vh.ite Oak. Bladen County

~~~totar~;~i~~s~d'a0\~~'\v~lie~axChdt~S::~~ Mary· Willis and Juliette. Baptist, Rotarian.

THEODORE F. CUMi\llNGS, Union Square.

t93:!t:: J:r~f:d ~~Ze ~o~i!~IC~on~~~: Children : Theodore F., Jr .• M1chael R ., Ann Connor. Methodist, Bar Associations.

GEORGE L. EDWARDS, 2502 State St., Durham, Freshman in 1918, taught school and attended college alternately, completmg graduation requirements summer of 1926. Graduate work at U.N.C., State, and W.F.C. Recently elected principal Y. E. Smith Scha:ol. Durham. Taught previously at Stokes Juruor

~~~~gs~~~icnOw cg~~~ a~~ut~~eJ;,~u~ Durham. Held offices in schoolmasters' clubs and other organizations for principals and teachers in local communities and throughout state. Has worked with Chambers or Commerce, Boy Scouts, Theatre Guild. Deacon, S . S. teacher, and speaker in churches. Contributor to educational journals, Biblical R ecorder, Durham Morn.ing Herald. Assisting in the writing of Social Studies Bulletin for use in State schools. An inventor and holder of u. S . patents. Member local. state, and national educational associations.

Page Eighteen

Sh~?bEy ~o~AI\}~~~~t ~~d1b/ii-e~td~ir;;sa:dat~ FayettevUle High School 12 yrs. Dir. of

~9~~~0~a:M~ c~~~'i~"ie~- Jen~~~- cHJ.tSX~ ren: Jeannie, Lynne. Bapt., Choir Dir .• Kiwanian.

JA!\1E R . LEWIS, 22 Melrose Ave., Asheville. Operating Mgr. Smoky Mountain Stages, Inc.. since 1934. Married to Bertha Parrish. Children : James R .. .Jr ., a.nd Shirley Anne. Presby.

G. VANN MrLLER, Lexington. Merchant, "Men's Shop." Pres. and General Mgr. Fred Thompson, Inc. Married to Ruth Owen. Children : Martha Ellen, Mary, and Thompson. Bapt., Kiwanian, Piedmont Club.

TURNER S. WALL, JR., Lexington. Solicitor Davidson Co. Court 1930-32. Atty. for Home Owner's Loan Corp. 1934-41. Judge Davidson Co. since 1944. Married to Carrie Pickett. Daughter. Betty Anne. Bapt., Bar Assns.

ROLAND HERBERT WEAVER, Taylorsville. Minister. AssociaUonal Missionary Alexander Assn Pastor in Sandy Creek Assn. 1925-40; South Yadkin Assn. 1940-43; Mt. Calvary, Catawba River Assn. 1943-48.

:~ve~1::k A~~~~~io~ar~;kn~~~ S~o~a~kf~: Married to Ada Mae Price Idee.). Children: Mrs. F. C. Pearson. Cecil C ., Herbert K .• Charles D ., George R., Maude. Mrs. M. K . Peacock. Bapt.

1928

0. T. BINKLEY, S.B.T.S .. Louisville, Ky. Theological pro(essor. Studied at Louisville and Yale. Ph.D. Pastor at Chapel Hill 1933-38. Taught at \VFC 1938-44. Married Pauline Eichmann. Daughters : Pauline Edith, Janet. 1'4"ember Phi Beta Kappa. American Sociological Soc., Torch Club. Author and writer on Bibtlcal and religious themes.

ROBERT CRAVEN BRIDGER, JR. , Bladenboro. Vice-pres. Bladenboro Cotton Mills, Inc. Town commissioner 4 y-rs., member school board 1 term. Chairman and cochairman during war for all bond drives

r~ u~~e~e;'Xm~~r~ancaRe~ai~~Ss~~!~:~ Dorothy ~son. CbUdren: Robert Craven, m. Frank, Lawrence Parker, George Richard. Bapt., Deacon. Church Clerk, Sec. Board Deacons, Rotarian.

JULIUS C. EARLY, JR. Falls Church, Va. Captain U.S.N. Medical Officer and Flight

~cf~~gO~ f~o~u\etel:raRu~~d·of0~~ ~W3~~ Married to Katherine Major. Twin daughters: .June Major and Katherine Saunders born in 1943. Designated "Naval Aviator'' after ftigbt training at Pensacola, Fla., in 1943. Member Medical Assns.

HA.l\lPTON C. HOPKINS has accepted the pastorate or the First Baptist Church of Lenoir City, Tenn., and began his ministry

Robert C. Bridger, Jr., '28

Page Nineteen

R. Knolaod Benfield '29

ID~hela~'l~h\ir~I!'ii.J's".:'~~r~s~r~~! ~,:'.},~ bers received during that period 384, total offerings $179,864.

CLYDE F. JONES, Fayetteville. Deputy Collector Internal Revenue. Formerly Ins. and Commodities salesman. Married Annie Royster. Son: Clyde F . Jr. Bapt., Lion .

JAMES RODNEY PILAND, 2406 Stafford Ave., Raleigh. Research Associate Professor of Agronomy in charge of Analytical Laboratories, Dept. of Agronomy, N . C. Agr. Experiment Statton. M.S. in Chemistry N. C.

~~~en~~~~e~~ug1:t~9rs : llf.~~~~~cet0an~ai.f~:i'!~ Bapt., Mason {past master). Hobbies : gardening and restoration of antique furniture .

1929

R. KNOLAN BENEFIELD, ffickory. Pastor First Bapt. Church. Taught English in ffigh School 5 yrs ., Th .M. S .B .T .S. Former pastorates Angier and Waynesboro, Ga. Hickory Ministerial Assn.. Chmn. Catawba Co. Red Cross Chapt. Married to Emma Margaret Hartsell . Children: Bonita, Knolan, Jr. Member Foreign Mission Board of SBC

JOHN VERNON BLACKWELL, Fayetteville. Atty. Formerly Co. Solie! tor and Co. Judge. Married to Eloise C. Hall. Son. John V. Blackwell, Jr. Bapt.

LUTHER ROBINSON, Lenoir. Supt. Caldwell Co. Schools. Former teacher Mountain City and Lenoir public schools and directed million dollar bldg. program for county schools. Married to Mildred Laxton. Children : AnHa Ruth, Alta Lorraine. Bapt.. Deacon, Sunday School teacher. Mason. Kiwanian.

Se~.?rTti · ~?eB1~d 0~~s~0~·. GS';'.:'~~I fg;i's~ teaching English and coaching. Married Nina Jones. Sons: Edward , Joe. Methodist, Mason, Kfwanian.

A. U. STROUPE, Mt. Holly. Physician. Served in army 3'2 yrs. Married Dorothy Lincoln. ChJldren : Gloria Ann. Marcia Faye. Bapt. , Lion, Mason, Shriner, Medical Societies.

1930

EXUi\f F. BAKER, Rt. 5, Winston-Salem. Pastor New Friendship Bapt. Church slnce 1946. Formerly pastor Kernersville and Andrews . Moderator Western N. C. Assn. 1941-2. Army Chaplain 1943-5. Married to Laura A. Shannon. Children : Mrs. Mack E . Smith IT, William Burrell , Robert Shannon, Furney Green.

RUFU ALLEN BRITT, Bladenboro. Pastor. plumber. farmer. Pastor rural churches until 1942. Served with U. S . Army Eng. 1943-45 in military supply section. Purchased small farm in 1946, established Britt Plumbing Co .. pas tor of two rural churches. Professional trades: plumber, electrician, carpenter. Married to Lola Elizabeth Kearney,


Daughter· Elizabeth Kearney . Bapt .. W 0 W ., Mason, pres. P.T.A.

J. L. KEATON, Box 2871 , Winston-Salem. Medical laboratory and X-ray technician, medical dept. R. J . Reynolds Tobacco Co. Married to Minnie E. Newman_ Son : Philip Newman. Bapt., Old Town Civic Club.

AUDIE A. POWELL, Shelby, Atty. Taught school 4 yrs. Judge Recorder's Court Cleveland Co. 9 yrs. Married to Mary Eliza beth Pratt. Daughter: Mary Ann. Bapt., Lion , B .P .O.E .. Mason. Country Club, Bar Assns .

J. LEE WILSON, Lexington. Atty. Member General Assembly, 1939: State Senate 1941. Solicitor Davidson Co. Court 1932-36; 12th Judicial Dist. 1942-46. Served In Army 14 mos. Married to Lucy Crowell ChJldren: Johnnie Lee, Jr., Walter Thomas. Bapt., K.iwanian, Bar Assns.

1931

F. DOUGLA BYRD, JR ., Fayetteville. Supt . Cumberland Co. Schools . Served 21 2 yrs. in Navy with rank of Lt. Married Rebecca Jackson. Son. F . Douglas lll. Bapt .. Lion, American Legion , N C.E A

W LESTER FARRELL, Pittsboro. Postmaster. Formerly Sec. to Congressman E. W Pou and Congressman Harold D . Cooley. With

Mie;ito~et~::e:c~ic~~t~~ IJ!;ic~ar£~e~o~~ WILLIAl\1 A. HOOVER, Murphy . Physician

and surgeon . Internship Baltimore City

if~:f.ie~~33s~~i:~':.s\~i~~~~n~u~~f,'f.~~~ ~~~t;?.; ~~fr.ir~~~8 v~UW~~d ~ Aav~~ C~~~lcncaSulM~~r,: Deacon. Chairman Church Finance Committee, member and past pres. Lions Club. Past member City Council, F .A.C.S .

LeROY SCOTT, Washington Atty and counsellor at law. Conciliation Commissioner under Frazier-Lempke Farm Bankruptcy Act for 3 yrs; member General Assembly in 1947.

~a.:;f~!~:d }~~ lt~J-1-i,\~s'b'!nd~ho~ . ~.il~ 'it ~~din/a~i~~. YlJ~u~~~~:d .W~/s~o~~~~a~Efk~ V.F .W., American Legion.

mi'!.;lste~: M:~J0fnnieT'L~Tsa~~~: · da~a~; graduated . Served four rural churches while attending W.F.C. Th.M. Louisville Sem. Formerly pastor of rural churches tn Ky . and Ind. and of churches at Windsor and WUmington. N. C . Now at Mills Home, ThomasviUe. Children ; Joe Rodwell (dec.), Joe Anne. Robert Lewis. Llon.

1932

S~IOOT ALBRIGHT BAKER, Grover. Minister. Th.M. Southwestern Bapt. Theological Seminary; Th.D. Pikes Peak Bible Seminary. Spent from June 25th to Sept. 1st of this year on tour of Europe, studying m: ~tl~f~U:arfg~!a~·oJ>~f:_~~~~~M~~~iedc~~o~~ Elizabeth Brueck. Son : Allred Lee.

GEORGE COSTNER CHILDS, Wadesboro. Atty. and Anson Co. Criminal Court Solicitor. Married to Pauline Teal. Sons: George

James P. Morgan '33

Alfred R. Wilson '33

Costner, Jr., Edwin Lester, Paul Jenrungs. Bapt .. Civitan (Vice-pres.)

BRA.XTON LEE DA V1S, Snow Hill. Supt. Greene Co. Schools . Pub. sch. teacher and pastor churches since 1932 . Married to Edna Earl Tripp. Son Robert Lee. Bapt .. Rotarian

CARROLL VANCE WILLIS, Vanceboro . Phr.sician. Married to Norma L . Askew . Children : Carroll v .. Jr., Bobby Leigh. Member Medical Assn.

WYJIIAN E. WOOD, ffickory . Pastor Brown Memonal Bapt. Church. Taught school 1933-

~~ ~~or oe.-;;n'{,"e~~~a.;;3~:;~i&as~~~1~2~ stud'ent and pastor S.B.T .S 1942-45, receiving B .D . Degree. Married to Flora McDaniel. Children : Linda . Daniel. Former member of Optimist Club, Southwestern Minister's Conference. Dir. Enlargement program for W.F.C. in South Fork Assn.

1933

GORDON W. GRANT, Alexandria, Va. U. S . Dept. of Justice, Washington , D . C. Has been employed by Government since gradu~ ation. Married to Harriett Newens. Daughter: Peggy Anne. Vice-pres. Washington W.F.C. Alumni Assn.

JOHN F. MATTHEWS , Louisburg, Atty. LL.B . Duke Untv. 1938. Co. Prosecutor and Atty . 1940-46. 4F during war because of arthritis. Says he has the best doctor in the world , Dr Chas. A . Bland (W.F.C.). who prescribes going fishi.ng every afternoon. Married to Mary Guagenty . Children : John F . II, Louise Kelly. Episcopalian, Rotarian , AF &AM.

EDWARD l\1 , HAIRFIELD, JR., Tarboro. Atty. Practiced law in Morganton 1933-43. Atty. for U. S. Gov't. since 1943 Married to

I!J":~e'S~~et!;a~:~tinC~~ct;~n · Edward w , JAME PERRY MORGAN, First Bapt.

Cburch, Durham. Minister of Education. Past pres. Southeastern Educational \Vorkers' Assn. contributor to religious journals, numerous activities connected with conferences on Religious Education. Kiwanian . Spent 4 yrs. Army Air Forces, rank of Capt Married to Maxine Slaughter . Daughter: Susan Maxine. O.D.K., Kappa Phi Kappa , Lambda Chi Alpha.

ALFRED ROBINSON WILSON '33, 1700 Lakewood Avenue, Durham, is senior member of the law firm of Wilson and Holleman and serves as judge of the Recorder's Court of Durham County. He is actively associated with civic, church, and fraternal organi.za~ tions and activities of his city and county. Past district governor of Civitan International , Methodist, steward, president Julian S. Carr Bible Class. member Bar associations. Married Flora E . Prevatte. Children : J eff Barnes Wilson (WFC '36-38), Mrs. w. c. Baker, AI Wilson (now pre-Law at WFC). A sketch this year in Durham Sun states: "'If a vote on the Durham man who is rendering unselfish, productive service over


and above the call of duty was taken, Jud'e A R Wilson would receive strong suppl,rt frotr many quarters and much of that sup-

~~~ \~~u 1t~e~~rr~~~~ ~e~e~~~ ~:vneor~~r useful living as respectable citizens." The .sketch points out that an enoTry'lOUS amou~t of time is given by Judge W1lson to thlS work of counseling and rehabilitation and that the number of persons who have been reclaimed through his efforts is large.

1934 WJLLIAl\l S. BABCOCIC , Tarboro. Clerk

Superior Court Edgecombe <;:o. past 2 ~~ yrs. Practiced law 3 yrs., served m Army 18 mos. Married to Viola Smith. Daughter: Barbara Drake. Past pres. Rotary Club, Bapt. , Sunday School teacher, Jr. Chamber of Commerce. pres. Hilma Country Club, I nc.

HERBERT T. BAILEY. Tarboro. Hardware and Gas merchant. Manufacturer of concrete blocks. Served overseas during war. Elected "Man of the Year" in Tarboro !or 1947. First

~~~bor~ r Me~~~~~r A~~- .f~J"W::r~~\;a:~:~· ~=~b~~t t)r ~al~u~rWeY~~fcf.:.ov~8t~hng~:~: ~g~~~:.;ianAme~fc~~n, Red.F C"':O'ss ~hb~~~~r. K.iwanian. Ambassador Club, Dir. Coastal .Plain League Baseball Club.

JOH?o; I\'ITLTON GOLD, Winston-Salem Chief of Police. Formerly N. C. Highway Patrol, Police Chief of Reidsville. State Bureau of Investigation and F.B.I. Married to Jane Irvin. Children: .Jean Irvin and Mary

El~tt~· 8t:f~~~~s~ru~lld AL~~oc~;n°tr;;,mCl~~ Police Assns

JOHN w. MARTIN, Macclesfield. Owner and operator Martin Drug Co. Mayor of Macclesfield for 3rd term. Married to Geneva Barnes. Children: Jennie Sue. Laura An n . Member N.C.P.A. and A. Ph. A. Extends an invitation to all to come by his store.

T WESTBROOK WILCOX, 356 Fairfax Drive Winston-Salem. Atty. Married to MelroSe Hendrix. Children: Landis, K ent, Clark. Bapt., Civitan, Country Club.

1935

dr~;~~fo F.3.8f~~tb~~. HiJ1ni~'!:~~infi. a~~ Eastern Bapt. Theological Seminary. Since 1939 has held pastorates in Eastern and Western N C. and a 5 Yl'- pastorate in S. C. Has been pastor at Mint Hill (new chur c h ) since Aug. 1. Married to Ruby E . Robbins . Son: Harry F., Jr. Mason, Commandery, Shriner

JESSE S. CANADY,. Fayetteville. District Sanitarlan with State Board of Health !or

8~~~di~~to~~~iL~trie~~~~~h;0.J~~.s~~~: ALVAH L. HAMILTON, JR., Mor ehead

City Dentist. Emory Un.iv. D .D .S . 1940. Sen•ed 7 yrs. in Army. Unmarried.

MALCOLM C. PAUL, Washington. Lawyer. Pro~ecuting Atty. Beaufort Co. Recorder 's Court 1938-47; U. S. Navy 194.2-45, released with rank of Lt. Cmdr.: Chmn . Beaufort Co. Democratic Executive Committee since 1946, Co. Atty. since 1947. Married to Hulda Winfield. Son: Charles Winfield. EpiscopaUan, Mason. Kiwanian, Elk, Red Men, American Legion (past cmdr .)

CARL C. WU..SON, Thomasville. Atty. Judge Thomasville Recorders Court 1940-45; member Selective Service Local Bd . War II; Atty. Thomasville City Schools; Chmn. Dem. Executive Com. Married to Elizabeth B arn es. Daughters: Mary Elizabeth, Patsy Lynn. Bapt., Lion, American Legion. Mason, Bar Assns,

1936 CARL A. BARRINGTON , Fayetteville.

Atty. Practiced in Dunn 6 yrs., SoUcitor Dunn Recorder's Court 2 yrs. , Navy 3 :yr s .. 15 mos. oversf>as, rank o f Sr. Lt. Practiced law in Fayetteville sin ce war. Married to Patricia Partin. Children: Carl A. , Jr. , and carolyn Louise. Methodist, Sunday School Supt., teaches adult Bible class. Lion , American Legion, Boy Scout Troup Committee, pres. Co. Bar Assn.

ROBERT D. HOLLEMAN, Durham. Atty. Married to Ruth Elizabeth Tucker. Children : Robert D., Jr., Ruth Elizabeth, William Tucker, Salma Carol. Bapt. , Deacon, Executive Com Bapt. Council of Churches of Durham, Inc., Trustee K . of P . Orphanage, Jr. Chamber of Commerce, Bar Assns.. Pres. Durham Co. Chapter of \V .F .C. Alumni. Civitan.

H EATH B. i\IARSB, Hickory. District Salesmanager for Purina Mills . Salesman with Proctor & Gamble 1936-41; Purina ~Uls Sales De pt. 1941-48; appoin ted member

General Salesmanagers Advisor y Board of Ralston Purina Co. 1947 -48. Married to Marian McManus. ChiJdren. Frances, Don.

=~~c!'ti~~Jap~i-i~~l;,t~;col~~~~dthe a\hoW~~~ Forest College, it has been easy for me to excel in rr.y work with the Ralston Purina Co. I have been able to at'C'Omplish in 7 years what most men would be proud to accomplish during a lifetime."

HA.l\'llLTON W. STEVENS, Wilson . Physician. Health OfP cer Wilson County. Former health officer O,slow. P ender and Alamance Co's. Graduate work Univ. of N . C. Married to Helen K . Plumme r. Da~ghter; Caroline El a.i~e. Bapt., Kiwanian, Mason, Pres. N . C. Public H ea lth Assn . 1948.

HENRY B . WYCHE, H allsboro. Asst. vicepres. Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co. Married to Georgia Huntington. Chi.ld.ren : Henry B ., Jr. , Anne Munro. Bapt., C1vttan, Chairman Co. Red Cross Chapter. School Board Agriculture Committe;e. N . C. Bankers Assn.: Chmn. Better Farmm g for Better Living Council Columbus Co.

193i _DOUGLAS 1\1. BRANCH, Kannapolis

Mmister. Pastor rural churches Frankliri and Wake Counties 1937-39, Cary Bapt. Church 1939-42. Field Sec. Bapt. State Conv . or N . C. 2 yrs. S .B .T .S . in L o uisville 2

Herbert T. Bailey '34, and Wife

yrs . Se rved as pastor in Scotland N eck, now

~::~ted 0~o FJ!:!ie BWatike~~'g~ndr~~~n~y~~se Frances and Jessica Diana. Mason, Jr . O.U .A.M. States that he is grateful to W .F .C. for what it did :for him and is backing to the limit the present program for expansion.

REX DOWTIN, Eglin Field, Fla. Major U . S . Air Force. Was in the real estate business in Asheville for 3 yrs. Attended Flying School at Randolph and Kelly Fields. Commissioned in 194.1 , and has been on active duty since that time. Received Regular Air Force Officer appointment 1940. Married Mildred M . Mooneyham. Children: Rex P .. .Jr., and Lynn Suzanne.

SANFORD 0. HINKLE, JR., 2344 Wes tover Drive , Winston-Salem. Partner Hinkle's Book Store. Served with Marine Corps during war. Married to Mildred Newsom . Daughter : Mary Elizabeth. Bapt .. Jr. Chamber, Lion.

WD..BUR A. HUzr-..""EYCUTT, Black Mountain. Minister. Asst. pastor Loray Bapt. Church Gastonia 1938-40; student S.B.T.S

~!~;~3W~e~ ~Or~~ ~Jl ~94C,~e/;.!n r~e of Major. Now pastor Black Mountain Bapt. Church. Married to Flora K . Stroupe. Children : Linda Lee, Shirley Ann. Lion, American Legion, Mason.

CLARENCE P. (PERK) REINHARDT, Morganton. Personnel Di.r. Drexel Furniture Co. Employed as freshman coach W .F.C. 1936-37; Athletic Dir. Wadesboro High School 1 yr. and of Morganton High School 5 yrs.

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Served in Army 1943-45. Married to Martha Austin. Methodist, K.iwanian. Golf Club, Personnel Assns.

1938

EMORY J. BARBER, Balgrade. Yugoslavia. American Embassy. Slnce College has been with N .B .C. New York City, Wardman Park Hotel , Wash .. D . C., Milton Steifel Stock Co. in Conn ., and Bennington Drama Co. of Vermont. Served as Lt. in Army 4 yrs., 31,~ in Africa and Italy.

CR.ARLES l\1, CLODFELTER, Lexington. N. C. State Probation Commiss ion. Served in AAF 1942-45. M9rried to Faye Snipes. Children: Sha ron. CraJg, Janis. Lion.

J. CULLEN HALL, Salisbury. Physician, limited to Obstetrics & Gynecology. Since leaving W .F .C. spent 4 yrs. medical school. 4 yrs. hospital work, and 2 yrs. in private practice. Married to Mary Catherine Cheek. Children : Martha Elizabeth and Patricia Sue. Methodist, Medical Society.

HERSCHELL FRANCIS SNUGGS, Chapel Hill. Student. U . S. Army Medical DepL 1940-45. Married to Christine Tyson Hellen. Daughter : Frances Christian. K .A. Fraternlty, Interdorm Council at U .N .C. Freshman class poet and head cheerleader W .F.C. 1938.

ROSCOE LeGRANDE \VALL, JR., 2208 Buena Vista Rd., Winston-Salem. Physician. M.D. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. Se rved as Capt. MC, AUS 194.2-46 as Battalion Surgeon, Anti-Aircraft, ETO, receiving 4 battle stars and bronze star. House Officer Boston Lying-In Hosp. of Ha rvard Med•cal School 1946. Asst. Resident Physician, Hosp. for Women, Brookline. Mass., 1948. Res idency in Obstetrics at Boston L yin g -in Hasp. 1948~49 . Striving for required training for American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Hopes to get back to "the dear ol ' South and Wake Forest (also 'dear old ') ." Married to Florence Deloney. Children: Susan Louise and Roscoe L . ID. Bapt.

1939

CLINTON SAMUEL CRISSMAN, Graham~

~~~~;~a~O ~~~~tM;d:li~~nOm~ so~9:4~-;~i Stephen. Rotarian. Chamber of Commerce, Medical Societies.

THOl\tAS I\1. FREEMAN, 708 W. Front St., Burlington. P as tor Hocutt Memorial Bapt. Church since 1947. Th.M. S .B .T .S . 1942. Formerly pastor of Kenly , Pine Level , and Thanksgivm~ churches in Johnston Co. Married Ma1sie Castlebury. Children : \Villiam, Ann, Judy Lou, "three potential Wake Forester s." Member DKA at W .F .C.

T . SLOANE GUY, Jr., Wadesboro. Pastor First Bapt. Church. Attended S .B .T .S . and Yale Uruv. Divinity School. Former pastorates: Statesville (asst .). \Vilkesboro, N . Wilkesboro (interim), North Haven, Con.n., and Richmond, Va. Married to Anne Haynes. , Children : Linda Evelyne, T. Sloane m. Rotarian.

SAM E. WHEELER, Oxford. Partner J. G . Wheeler & Sons, Plumbing, Heating & Electricians. Worked for Southern Railway 1 yr ., and then entered present business with father and brother. Coached at Oxford High School for 3 y rs .. winning 26 football games, losing 2, and 1 tie. Won 53 basketball games, lost 8. Is now running training stable for show horses as s ideline and has shown horses all over the east under name of J _ C. Wheeler & Sons. Married to Mildred Currin. Bapt., Lion, Sec. Fire Dept.

THOMAS 0 . WHELESS, Louisburg. Physi-

~:~caf0rr:~~rng Gl:~u~~3· fnfe~;~~dua~~ Asst. R~idency at N . C . Bapt. Hosp. 1944-45. Served m Army as 1st Lt. MC until 1946. Gen. practice Louisburg since 1946. Married

}'r~~~tr)~M~~f~a·1 ~~~i~Jt~s.Sigma cmedicaJ

1940

BEAI\tER H . BARNES, Lexington. Atty.

~~~ i~W:ar!u~\~ ~U~ic~oss~~er::~s~~g N . Africa , Italy, England. and Austria· law practice in Lexington since 1946; Co. 'polio campaign manager; capt. local Nat'l Guard Unit of 68 men and 4 officers. Past commander of local AMVETS post. Lost first murder case last January (only murder case tried), client confessed before his atty. saw himl Married Vessie Gillispie. Bapt., Lion's Club, AMVETS, V.F.W., Deamon Deacon Club.

NORMAN LONNIE BLYTHE, Rocky Mount. Minister. Southern Seminary 3 yrs_ Served as Navy Chaplain 4 yrs, on small

P __ a.::..ge_T_w_en_t...:y_-o_n_e _________________ W~A...::K_::E~FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, October 1948

aircraft carrier; covered 5 invasions. Is now f:s~:rtat~.:lei.a~f::.k Bapt. Church. Married

JAMES M. DeVANE, 807 W. Chapel Hill St .. Durham. U. S. Navy 4% yrs. Discharged as Lt, Cmdr. B.S. in Commerce UNC 1947. Now 1ntern in Hasp. Administration at Duke Hasp. Married to Nell Fletcher. Son: James M., Jr.

JAME 111. BAYES, JR., Winston-Salem. Lawyer and Sec. Treas. Shields & Hayes Insulation Co., Inc. Marine Corps 1941-46. Married to Thomasine Herring. State Commander V.F.W., State Legislator 1947 term. Bapt., teacher of Young Mens' Bible Class. Chamber of Commerce, Bar Assn., Wildlife Club.

STEPHEN M. SPENCER, JR., 423 S . Fifth St .. Durham. Student Duke Univ. Formerly high school math teacher: U . S . postal clerk. U. S. Army 5 yrs.: math instructor W.F.C. 1947; graduate student at Duke Univ. since Sept. '47. Received M.A. degree in math from Duke Univ., June 1948. Unmarried. Baptist.

1941

CHARLES M. ALLEN, Wake Forest. Teaching Fellow W .F .C. 1939-41; instructor in Biology W.F.C. 1941-46; military service with Air Forces 1942-46; asst. professor of Biology W.F.C. since 1946. While in the Army served in England. France, Belgium and Germany. Discharged with rank of Major. Married to Clara David. Baptist, N . C. Acad. Sci., AAAS. Sigma Chi.

GEORGE WILLIS BENNETT, 355 S. Bayly. Louisville. Ky. Student and Fellow In Speech Dept. at S.B.T.S. Formerly pastor of Bapt. churches in Asheville and Oteen. Now pastor Union City. Ky. Married to Caroline Dillard. Daughter. Carol Susanne.

KENNETH !11. CHEEK, Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem. Asst. Resident in Medicine since 1947. Internship in Rochester. N. Y Capt. in Army medical corps 1944-46, serving In Leyte. Okinawa, and Japan. Expects to enter private practice of Internal Medicine in Nov. 1948. Married to Louise Robinson. Children: John Newton. Charles Victor. Presby.

BAI\1IT.TON H. HOBGOOD, Louisburg. Atty. and Judge of Co. Court. Served in

::r~~~ Jr~'J'.:at~,r\¥giv~v':,';. ~is~rarge~9~~ Married to Margaret Stallings. Chlldren: Betty, Bob. Methodist, Steward. Lion, V.F.W., American Legion.

WILLIAM CARTER PREVETTE, Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem. Physician. Bowman Gray 1941-44. Internship in Detroit Receiving Hasp. 1944-45. LaGarde General Hasp. (Army) New Orleans, 1945. N. C . Bapt. Hasp. since '45 In Pathology and General Surgery. Married to camilla Shore. Bapt., Phi Chi Fraternity, Gamma Sigma Epsilon.

Bu';~~;to~: ~~te~0~f·p'r~du~~t;,:oi>~:~nf~ii Burlington Mills, Inc. Studied Aeronautical Engineerir!g at Johns Hopkins Unlv. Associated with Glen L . Martin Co. Engineering D ept. until May 1943. Served in AAF 2 \~ yrs. Wtth Burlington Mills Corp. since 1945. Married to Paulette Candice. Episcopalian, Country Club, Delta Sigma Phi, Textile Overseers Club.

JACK !11. EULISS, 702 W. Front St., Burlington. Treas. and Mgr. Alamance Motors. Inc. Army Air Corps 1942-46. Attended Post Graduate School of Modern Merchandizing and Management, Detroit, Mich., 1947 . Married to lone Cheek. Son: Jack Manning ll. Bapt., Sunday School Supt., Jr. Chamber of Commerce, Vice-pres. Graham Motor Sales, Inc.

1942

HORACE G. FLOYD, Havelock. Aeronautical Engineer, Navy Dept., at Cherry Point. 1942-43 engineering night school at Johns Hopkins Univ.; 1942-44 Engineer with Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore; U. S. Coast Guard Voluntary Port Security, Baltimore, 1944; 1944-46, U. S. Naval Armed Guard Forces, aboard merchant ships in the Caribbean and Pacific. Married to Kay Buckman. Methodist, Sigma Phi Epsilon, N. C. Zeta Chapter.

PAUL R. KEARNS, Tutuila. Samoa. Lt. (j.g) M.C .. U. S. N . R. Asst. Medical officer in charge of surgical service and X-ray. Due for discharge from Navy in March, 1949. Married to Margaret Evelyn Hailey. Children. Judith Ann. Robert Allen.

WALTER EDWIN PEACE, Florence, S. C. District Representative International Harvester Co., Charlotte. since 1946. Employed by Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Corp., Balti-

!flOre, Md . Entered Army, spent 32 mos . m England . Discharged from Army as M / Sgt. Married May 1947 to Kathleen Cook who came to the U. S . from Eng. where he met her during \~ar. Bapt.

1943 JA)VIES P. JOHNSON, Belmont. Employed

by P1edmont & Northern RR. Spent 3 yrs. in ~~~i,:,!a~jl~~mM.;!~~;.et Mulkey. Bapt .. Jr.

DOUGLAS LITTLE, Smithfield. Automobile Dealer. Served in Army Married Mary Katherine Scruggs. Bapt.. Kiwanian.

M. J. SYLVESTER, JR., 4346 Livingston Road, S . E ., Washington 20, D. C. Lt. (j .g .) U .S .N.R. since graduation. Married to Hele n V. Campfield. '43. Daughter, Jan Harding.

1\IRS. lit. J. YLVESTER, JR . (Helen V. Cnmpfield). 4346 Livingston Road, S . E .. Washington 20, D . C. Housewife since 1946. Employed by Navy prior to that time. Daughter. Jan Harding. Bapt.

ROBERT W. TIMBERLAKE, Atlanta. Ga . Student Emory Univ. School of Dentistry . U.S.N .R . Dental Corps. Married Emmet Pauline Jones. Psi Omega. A . F . & A . M .

MELVIN WALTER WEBB, Bakersville . Physician . Bowman Gray 1942-45. Med . Corps U. S . N. 1945-48. Married to Evelyn Dorothy Wright. Member of Naval Reserve and N . C . Med . Soc.

1944

MANLY YATES BRUNT, JR., 804 Miller St., Winston-Salem. Student Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Served in U . S. Navy.

THOMAS WILLIAM ELLIOTT, JR. 107 Chamberlayne St., Raleigh. With State Banking Commission as Asst. Bank Examiner . Pilot in Naval Air Corps 1943-46. Attended Univ. of N . C., graduatmg with a degree in Commerce 1948. Bapt.

ERNEST WILSON GLASS, Chadbourn . Minister. Chadbourn Bapt. Church . B .D . Duke Divinity School 1946; Th .M . S .B.T.S . 1947. Instructor W.F.C. School of Religion 1947-48. Married to Marjorie Magruder.

EARL HOYT PARKER, Edinburgh, Scotland . Graduate student Unlv. of Edinburgh.

~ePurnyf~eN~b~'f~t~a~c~~~J . iJi; ·as~tpPe:st~~ and director of education First Bapt. Church, Monroe. States that he would be happy to hear from any WFC alumni. His address Is Brunstone Rd ., Jappa, Edinburgh. Scotland.

L. ELBERT WETHINGTON, 804 Second St., Durham. Graduate student in Theology , B .D . Duke Divinity School 1946. Attended Duke Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1946-48. G. H. Kearns Fellow in Religion 1947-49. June '48-May '49 . Ph .D . research and dissertation. Pastoral supply. Married Lois Dorothea Ruppenthal.

1945

RUSSELL HAROLD BRANTLEY, JR .. 1010 Gloria Ave., Durham. City Editor Durham Morning Herald. Married to Elizabeth Jones. Daughter: Robin Ann.

JOHN WESLEY CHANDLER, Wake Forest.

W~~~~t~t'ud~~d ~~~:ot'l~v. aB?vin~~:c~~~0o~ 1946-48. Graduate student in philosophy Harvard Univ. summer of '48. Bapt., Phi Beta

~t~le~ts0i~~n!~~\~~niCon':~~% a~Jt0un1:~~i~ ties.

CALVIN S. KNIGHT, 205 Watts St., Durham. Student and Minister . Since college has been educational Dir. of Watts St. Bapt. Church in Durham; Boy's Work Secretary, Central Y.M.C.A., Miami, Fla .; now a senior

~~~t~~h~~~~n*~a;c~~~~:~d 8~~~r of Berea ROBERT L. MEANS, 415 N . Spruce St.,

Winston-Salem. Physician . M .D . Bowman Gray Medical School Dec. 194 7. Began internship at City of Detroit Receiving Hasp. July 1, 1948. Married to Mary Jane Vieira. Methodist.

PEYTON ROYAL, Parkersburg. Minister . Chaplain of Edwards Military Institute and Pineland College 1945-46. Student Duke Divinity School since 1946. Married !o Vera Rogers. Bapt.

1946

LOIS HOLLINGSWORTH, (Mrs. W. Elmer Barbour), 309 Geer St., Durham. Since college has been Asst. Mgr. of Detail Dept. of Washington Daily News (D. C. ): Fashion copywriter for "Hecht's" In Wash., D . C.; Mechanical Drawing teacher in junior high

school in Durham: now 5th grade teacher at Hope Valley School In Durham. Baptist. P .T .A ., Classroom Teachers. Sigma Kappa.

W. ELMER BARBOUR, 309 W . Geer St Durham. After leaving college played witt. New York Giants Professional Football team,

i>~~s~~~l ~td.c:/!}i~~~taJJ'n"i~~- Ji~t;,o~b\~\:·;n~ is now football coach at Durham High School. Married Loui~e Hollingsworth . Bapt., Touchdown Club, Scribes Club.

JANE FRAZIER (Mrs. Nicholas Sacrinty) , Siler City Teaching in Lewisville while "Nick" studies medicine.

PRIDE GRAHAM RATTEREE, JR., Kings Mountain . Played 1 yr . of pro-footballar;>d is now line coach at Staunton M1llltary Acade my in Va . Presby.

ALGERNON F. SIGMON, JR., Hickory . Has jus t re turne d home after 2 yrs. spent in a sana torium. Plans to enter Duke Hops. for furthe r treatment. Lutheran. Esquire Club, Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

1947

BETTYE CROUCH (Mrs. John Dixon Davis) , 1609 Lake wood Ave., Durham. Employed for 1 yr . as Educational D4' .• Lakewood Bapt. Church. Durham. Sec . m office N c. Council of Churches , Duke Campus. Plans to do graduate work either at Duke or Chapel Hill this fall . B a pt., Duke Divinity D a m es Club , Religious Educational Directors Club .

WINIFRED RUTH HOLLOWELL, 1514 St. Mary's St., R a leigh . Medical Technician at Re x Hosp . in Raleigh . Spent 1 yr. at Bowman Gray Medical School in technical training. Bapt.

NICHOLAS WILLIAM SACRINTY, Siler City. Medical s tude nt. Pla yed 9uarterba,ck with Chicago Bears. Coache d spr1ng practlce at both W .F .C . and Holy Cross. Received East-West Award , J a n . 1. 1948. in San Francisco, Callf. Married Martha . Ja'!e Frazier. Greek Orthodox Church. Ph1 Be a Kappa.

RALPH LD'SCO~B SLAWSON, Kannapolis. Entered Richmond Professional Institute for major in Commercial Art. Sept. 1947 . Completed 1 yr. and worked for summer as display man at Montgomery Ward in Kannapolis. Baptist, Choir member. Boy Scouts (Order of the Arrow), Y.M .C.A.

E LEWTON SMITH, Washington. Radio annOuncer and part-time commercial artist . Attende d E .C .T .C. I y r . Author play and novel to be published winter of 1949 . Took a borne art course and draws pos ters and pictures for commercial use. Announces at WHED. Plans to go to N . Y. next y ear and study drama tics.

JOHN I . ADAffi Newton . Student at Emory Uni v . School of Dentis try . Ga. Psi Omega.

CHARLES OTIS LOGAN, Shelby. Left W.F .C. in '42 and spent 4 yrs. in USNR. W~stminster Choir College, 2 yrs. Stud1e d vo1ce. sang with Symphonic Choir .. under Bruno Walter, Stawski , Charles Munch. Eugene Ormandy. solo work with Prince ton Univ. Glee Club. Pla ns to r e turn to N. Y. to s tudy voice with Frank B arbaric. Married to Eleanor Murphy w ho has been study mg voice in N . Y. for las t 3 y r s . Bapt.. Mason.

SIDNEY B . SCHRUM, 788 Adams Ave., Memphis , T e nn. Student at Southern College of Optome try in Memphis , Tenn. Bapt.

LARRY L. WILLIA111S, Waynesville . Atty. B . s . W.F.C. 1943, served in Arm:.r 3 yrs LL.B. W .F .C. '48 . B a pt., Phi Delta Phi.

1909

SANTFORD MARTIN, Piedmont Publishing Company , Winston-Salem. Editor since 1912 of Winston- Sa!em Journal and of Tw!n Citl/ Sentine! since 1917. Studied Law at WFC and admitted to Bar 1910. Private Sec . to Gov Bickett 1917-20; N . C. State director Four Minute Men 1917-18; member N . C . State Dept. Conse rvation and Development since 1926, chmn . since 1941; member Farm Security Advisory Com. for N . C . and of Ame r. Soc. of Newspaper Editors: trustee Campbell College ; Forsyth Country Club; Bapt., deacon for 25 years. teacher of men's Sunday school class 20 years; served on General Board Baptist State Convention. on Board of Di-rectors Bi blical Recorder, on Education Council Bapt. State Conv. Author: Letters and Papers of Governor Thomas Bickett ( 1921) . Mason . Listed in Who's Whoin America.


Ship of State Finds WFC Men at Helm Nominees for office in the No

vember statewide elections include many who had some or all of their college training at Wake Forest. As always, WFC may be counted on to supply a substantial percentage of the persons who fill positions of importance in state and nation. Here are names of WFC alumni among the party nominees to be voted on in November:

U.S. SENATE J. Melville Broughton '10 (D ),

Raleigh.

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

2nd District John H. Kerr '95, (D), Warren

ton. 3rd District

Perry G. Crumpler '20, (R), Clinton. 7th District

J. 0. West '21, !Rl, Dunn. 8th District

C. B. Deane '23, (D l, Rockingham. 11th District

Calvin R. Edney '27 , (Rl , Marshall.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR H. P. Taylor '14, (D l, Wades

boro. Kyle Hayes '31, <Rl , North

Wilkesboro.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT

Robert H. McNeill '97 , (R), Statesville.

SECRETARY OF STATE J. S. Dockery '18, (R), Ruther

fordton.

STATE AUDITOR Henry L. B r i d g e s ' 31 (DJ,

Raleigh.

STATE TREASURER Brandon P. Hodges '26, (D),

Asheville.

ATTORNEY GENERAL Herbert F. Seawell, Jr ., '26, (R),

Carthage.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

Buford T. Henderson '28 , (R), Winston-Salem.

COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE

L. Y. Ballentine '21, (D), Varina.

COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE

William P . Hodges '28, (D), Raleigh.

COMMISSIONER OF LABOR McKinley Harrill '25, (R l, Char

lotte. N. C. STATE SENATE

1st District W. I. Halstead '10, (D), Hert

ford. 6th District

0. B. Moss '13, (D), Spring Hope. 7th District

John D. Larkins, Jr. , '29 (D) , Trenton .

D. L . Ward, '26, (D J, New Bern. 8th District

Julian T. Gaskill '26, !R), Goldsboro. lOth District

R . J . Hester, Jr ., '25, (D), Elizabethtown. 13th District

R. N. Simms, Jr., '30, (D), Raleigh . 17th District

Edwin M. Stanley '31 , (R), Greensboro. 19th District

R. E. Little '17, (D) , Wadesboro. 21st District

Luther E. Barnhardt '25 , (D), Concord. 28th District

Max C. Wilson '25, (D), Lenoir.

N. C. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Beaufort County LeRoy Scott ' 31 , (D) , Washing

ton. Bladen County

D. H . Bridger '20, (D l, Bladenboro. Brunswick County

James B. Hewett '43, !Rl, Shallotte. Burke County

0. Lee Horton '26 , !D), Morganton. Caldwell County

J . T . Pritchett '17, (D), Lenoir.

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Catawba County Loomis F . Klutz '14, (R ), New

ton. Cleveland County

B. T. Falls, Jr., '40, (D), Shelby. Cumberland County

F . M. Averitt '32, (D), Fayetteville. Davidson County

J . Eugene Snyder '32, (R), Lexington.

Franklin County H . C. Kearney '22, (D), Franklin

ton. Halifax County

Joseph Branch '38, (D), Enfield. Harnett County

B. F . McLeod '13, (R), Buie's Creek.

Haywood County Grover C. Davis, '13, (D )", Way

nesville. Hertford County

C. Gordon Maddrey '26, (D), Ahoskie.

Jackson County Hugh E. Monteith '22, !R),

Sylva.

McDowell County Roy W. Davis '31, (D), Marion.

Mecklenburg County John West '43 , (Rl, Ch<rrlotte.

Northampton County J . Raynor Woodard '30, CD),

Conway. Robeson County

F . Wayland Floyd '24, COl , Fairmont.

Rutherford County Woodrow W. Jones '37, (D),

Rutherfordton.

Stokes County Leonard H . van Noppen '37, (D),

Danbury.

Transylvania County Ralph Fisher '17, (R), Brevard.

Union County H. B . Smith '29, (D), Monroe.

Warren County John H. Kerr, Jr., '23, (D), War

renton.

Wake County William T. Hatch '28, (DJ,

Raleigh. Lawrence Harris '25, (Rl, Wake

Forest.

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Pu lied From the Robert Lee Humber '18, Green

ville, whose interest in Wake Forest is unexcelled, writes from a plane en route from Portland, Oregon :

Dear Eugene: Your letter concerning a

Living Endowment for Wake Forest College from f i v e thousand of its alumni was forwarded to me in California, and I heartily concur in the splendid vision. sound judgment and constructive reasoning embodied in that proposal. In an especially significant way, an institution, like Wake Forest, belongs to its alumni, upon whom must devolve the responsibilities as well as the leadership for its growth and continuing mission.

Our Alma Mater has today an unprecedented opportunity among institutions of higher learning to re-assert the great spiritual values of our culture and to teach the ageless truths which alone can ignite the historic energies and aspirations of our race. This does not mean that we have to abandon the laboratories in which science is planning a more abundant life for man but it does mean that we must go back to cloisters for communion. May Wake Forest lead this crusade pro humanitate et Christo!

My brother, (Dr.) John D. Humber ('17) , 225 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, joins me in enclosing his contribution to this fund.

With every good wish always to you and Iva, and to our Wake Forest friends,

Yours sincerely, Robert Lee Humber.

Interest in the old college is not conditioned by geographical considerations. Yet, distance sometimes lends enchantment. Nostalgia may play a part in that, but expressions of love and loyalty coming from far away places warm the hearts of homefolks. Earl Parker '44 , now a graduate student in the University of Edinburgh , took time out the last of June to write a newsy letter. Replying to a request for permission to quote from him, he wrote again in Aug-


Postman's Pouch ust. From 7 Brunstane Road , Joppa, Edinburgh, Scotland, came the following :

Dear Mr. Olive: You will find enclosed five

dollars for which please forward to me at my present address the "Alumni News." I have read with interest of the plan for A LIVING ENDOWMENT· however, my present student status re tricts the interest to passivity.

You may be interested in bearing of a recent experience of mine. Permitted by the Senatus Academicus of New College (Edinburgh) to take a term of study at another university, I availed myself of the privilege of sitting under Prof. T. W. Manson and H. H. Rowley, eminent British scholars in N. T . and 0 . T., respectively, at the Univer ity of M~nchester. Imagine my surpnse when I saw !Hanson, who is also head of the theological department, and he took time to .,.o with me to the registrar, to the bursar, to the library where he without any prompting secured tack priv.ileg~s for me, to the refectones m which he pointed out the virtues of each, to the department of Semitics where he introduced Rowley and so forth. Then Prof. Rowley took over. He informed me of vital student activities and invited me immediately to his home. Such was the reception that an ordinary American who was matriculating for only a five weeks term received at a stodgy, provincial English university from professors who are world renowned scholar and could not be clas ified in any sense as idlers with time on their hands. Coming from reserved Britons, it is even more difficult to understand. Perhaps we hospitable southerners can learn something about hospitality even from the aloof English, n'e t pa ?

I was delighted by the opportunity of companionship with Kyle Yates, Jr. , for a few days before my going to Manchester and then for ten days in Manchester when he joined

me after the summer term (April-May) at New College was over. Once again I felt myself in intimate touch with Wake Forest, as he divulged the recent events and immediate plans of the college.

The appointment of George Griffin to the religion faculty is very commendable. Gt;orge is exceptionally w~ll-t~ame~. mature and stable m h1s attitudes and outlook, conscientious. He will do a superb job at Wake Forest.

(From the August letter) I rejoice in the progress of

the Living Endowment Movement; you have concei.ve~ a great idea there. Conhnwng contributions, great or small, on the part of alumni will contribute immeasurably to bind our affections to Alma Mater .. . The programs undertaken - that is, the appeals to church and alumnus - if successful, and God forbid our failure to rally with our support, should cement our love so that regardless of the greatness of outside gifts to Wake Forest we shall claim her for our own ...

Several month ago Kyle and I dropped by Headingley We ley College, Leeds. where I cont'acted Principal Vincent Taylor. He, his faculty, and stu'dent body accorded Kyle and me a welcome worthy of the Methodist hierarchy. I kept a king Kyle whether he thought our benefactors under tood that we were Baptists. Coupled with the Manchester experience, it has modified my view about the English ....

Pro.,.re s on my thesis is slow but, I hope, ure. When I consider the amount of research and compo ition yet to be con ummated, the months seem exceptionally s h o r t. Nonetheless, I yearn for the return to the U. S. A. Convey m y greetings and warm regards to member of the college administration and faculty whom you might see. With kindest regards, I am

Cordially yours, Earl Parker.

Sometimes a note of thanks will bring a note of thanks for the no~e of thanks! That happens often m

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, October 1948 Page Twenty-four

Bursar Earnshaw's office, for he knows how to write a good letter in any circumstances and especially to one who sends him a check for WFC. Dr. G. M. Billings '15, Morganton, mailed us a substantial check in August for the Living Endowment and received thereafter a personal letter of thanks. He wrote back:

Dear Olive: I am most gra teful for your

recent letter, and appreciative of the nice compliment relative to my loyalty. There has never been and never will be anything but loyalty to anything associa ted with Wake Forest. Kindest and highest regards.

Cordially, G. M. Billings.

Donald F. Jordan '38, does not allow the fact that he attended State College and received last June a degree in Engineering, after trying the field of teaching for a while, to diminish his affection for "Dear Old Wake Forest." He wrote in September:

Wake Forest College Alumni Association Enclosed please find a check

for $25.00 which I would like to have applied to the College Building Program, and Alumni Association dues. I enjoy the ALUMNI NEWS and the contacts that it renews w ith the school and classmates ...

In June of this year I received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from State College in Raleigh. I haven't forsaken an old friend, I've just added a new one.

I was married on June 20 to Miss Mildred Jennings of Lumberton and we are living in Charlotte where I have an engineering position w i t h Goode Construction Corporation. We will be closely watching the Demon Deacons this fall and wish them every success. I ' ll settle for a tie (we wouldn ' t!) when they tangle with the Wolfpack, although it is Wake's time to win this year. I am looking forward to a visit back to the school. 0 u r congratulations, Donald,

upon. your two-fold triumph -matnmony and a degree in engineering. Every man needs to do a

lot of engineering, both before and after getting married, if he is to live happily ever afterward. Come to see us and bring her with you .

THEY ARE MARRIED ALUMNI NEWS rejoices in all

that happens, if it is good, to every former student of the college. No news is received more jubilantly than announcements of successful matrimonial achievement. Our list is by no means complete, but here are names of some whose recent embarkation upon what we hope will be seas of happy sailing calls for and receives our heartiest felicitations.

Murray Severance, Jr. , '48-Dorothy Haworth '48.

Joe Pena '49-Bettie Horsley '47.

Maury Newton '48- Cornelia Braver.

Elwood Orr '48-Myrtle Davis '48 .

Bill Poe '47-Mary Virginia Warren summer '47.

Ronald Hill- Evelyn Pittman '47.

Chas. Max Drummond '48-Barbara Ann Fisher '46.

David A. Reeder - Charlotte Easley '44.

George 0 . Clifford, Jr.-Nancy Easley '46.

Jack Easley '43- Elizabeth Fujioka.

Everett C. Carnes '48-Rachel Page '45.

Santford Martin '47 - Frances Harrell '47.

Bill Ennis '47-Reda Umstead '48.

Harold Causby '50-Mary Lou Hamrick.

Ed Kanoy '49-Ann Lominac '48.

Jim 0 . Bonds '42- Rose White. Hugh Martin Currin '48-Doris

Carroll summer '46. William C. Haire, Jr., '51-

Millis Gray. William L. Stover '49-Anne

Spivey. Bennie Pledger '49-W i 1 1 i e

Eakes. William H . Harris, Jr., '48-Ann

Duane. Guy Smith '50- Mertye Can

nady.

ONLY TWO MONTHS TO JOIN LIVING ENDOWMENT PLAN

Elsewhere in this issue will be found a second installment of names of alumni who have become members of the Living Endowment Plan. Many other names should be included in the next issue. If yours has not yet appeared, you will certainly want to get it in next time.

You know by this time what the plan is. No more "alumni dues," no bills for subscriptions to the magazine. Just one grand opportunity for "at least five thousand alumni to contribute annually to the whole program of Wake Forest College an average of fifty dollars each ." That is an enormous endowment : YOU are the invested capital and your annual gift to the college is endowment income.

Maybe your check will be for only $5.00. Probably it will be for $25.00 or $50.00 Many have given and others will give $100.00. Some have given more than that. and these closin <1 months of the year will undoubtedly bring larger amounts from an increasing number who know that gifts of this sort are deductible from income

before computing taxes. All will give primarily because they believe in the program and mission of Wake Forest College. They feel that they owe her a debt of gratitude which can only be repaid in part by helping to make educational opportunity available to others.

Others than alumni are eligible for membership in the Living Endowment Plan. Some are already in and others will be warmly welcomed. You see, there is a feeling of satisfaction about knowing that you are one of a group whose combined gifts to Wake Forest College amount to a quarter of a million dollars a year. That is as much as the net 'income received last year from the Smith Reynolds Foundation.

And why shouldn't alumni alone ( there are many thousands of them) give every year to the college they love and believe in as much as that Foundation yields?

What will this money do? Everything the college is doing! Your gift makes you a partner with others in offering some scholar-

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ships to worthy students; in paying salaries of great and good teachers; in providing and making comfortable places for instruction; in operating the numerous functions of the administrative department of the college; in bringing to the campus inspirational and cultural features in addition to those already found there. Your gift, in whatever manner made, will help to provide the new b u i l d i n g s needed for the Greater Wake Forest College.

Send along your gift to the Enlargement Program. That is an excellent way to make you a member of the Living Endowment Plan. Payment on a former pledge, or just a payment "period" entitles you to a place of honor and makes you a participant in the program of Wake Forest College. Or, send along your gift to the "Living Endowment." Every check is to be made to "Wake Forest College." It is deposited with the Bursar and you receive a receipt from him, along with the assurance that your contribution is greatly appreciated by all of us who seek to use it as you want us to in making the college render a better service than ever to the thousands who are coming and will come for what it has to offer.

Necrology our sympathy is extended to relatives of

alumni whose passing has been reported recently to the Alumni Office. Their names follow : John Gorton Anderson . "06. Thomas Leaston Blalock. '90 . Lila Cottingham, 'OL . • Benjamin McLauchlm Covmgton, 17 Herbert W . Early, '98. Thomas Jackson Folger, "04 Reau Estes Folk. "83. Harold Ashe Hall. "46. Hurst Bunn Hatch. ·os. William Romulus Jenkins. "39 Clyde Franklin Jones, '25 . Oscar Wentworth King, "04 . Jonathan J . Lane, "32 . Samuel Russell Lane. '26 Charles Cicero Lee. "14. William Carey Lee, "15 Walter Eugene Lockhart. "27 · A . M. Lovelace. "78. Edward B . McCullers. '82 John Ernest Marion. "03. F R Martin . '87. J~li~s Edward Meyer. "26 . Franklin Troy Mitchell. '22. Albert Kenneth Newsome. "OL David Ray Ntmocks. '21. William Pullen Phillips, Jr .. '19. William Porrazzo, '33. John Ivery Smith, '06. Juniard Newton Smith. '19. Harry Murden Stubbs. '16. Cornelius Tate Tew. '05. Edgar Nathaniel Thorn, "08. John Jordan Tolar, '95 . Benjamin Thomas Ward . "21. Ernest Leslie Ward . "15 Paul Fred Waivers. "41 . Dr. George T . Watkins. Jr .. "12. Walter Puryear Whitted. '15 William AUIIUstus Winston, '1~.


International Relations Club WFC

Dr. George Heaton Delivered to His Myers Pork Congregation, Charlotte, on June 6, 1948,

A Sermon To Raise Money for WFC Some excerpts from the sermon

follow: " The reason I am preacning this

sermon is that you might understand the singular and unique relationship between this church and Wake Forest College, and that you might be persuaded to enforce that understanding by generous gifts to the college at this time. I am not an alumnus of Wake Forest College, and very few of the members of this church are. I want at the outset to get your thinking straight. We are all going to support this campaign because we are members of this church. We may have other college loyalties , but no intelligent member who knows what is going on in our church, in our state, and in that school can fail to have a generous part in this appeal for funds ."

For the Sake of North Carolina "We must do this because North

Carolina needs a great university out of Wake Forest College. In 1900 in the United States there were 250,000 college students in America; in 1940 there were 1,1 500,000; in 1947 there were 2,354,-000. The President's Commission on Higher Education states that in 1960-just twelve years from now-there will be 4,600,000. Two times as many as there are today! To fail to increase the facilities of Wake Forest at this time would be to immobilize her when she was

confronted with her most critical and greatest challenge."

For the Sake of the Baptists "Not only does North Carolina

need a greater Wake Forest College; the Baptists of this state need her even more. I am told that only 19 per cent of the Baptist ministers of this state are so much as college graduates. That is a very shocking revelation when we realize the high standards which public education is creating in our communities. It is also a very discouraging fact when we realize that only 35 per cent of our adult membership has a high school education ; while 65 per cent have less than a high school diploma. More than two-thirds of our members, or 68 per cent are in the lower economic class in their respective communities ; and only 8 per cent are in the so-called upper class economically.

"These facts mean that Baptists must provide educational opportunities at a minimum cost for our masses of people, or we will be denied the leadership which our contemporary culture requires. These facts mean that unless we create a school which will give us a trained ministry we shall find ourselves in the position of trying to achieve spiritual victories with the devices of the illiterate. We shall be as inadequate as the purveyor of nostrums or patent medicines before the advances of medi-


cine and surgery ; and held in as great contempt."

For the Sake of Our Church " Our church needs a greater

Wake Forest as well , and that is why we mu~t give of our money there as well as here. Some of you ha ve extra money which is available fo r investment. Because you belong to this church you ought to g1ve that money to our college. Wake Forest is doing in the field of higher education for Baptists what your church is strivmg to do a m on g our B.aj)tist churches in the field of rehgwus education. Here is a college for Baptists as well as others which is not taking for granted the drift of things and then trying to adjust students to that drift."

who will accept responsibility for their own welfare and yet rely with complete assurance upon the activity of God in accomplishing His purpose. At no school do I know of religion being so integrated into the teaching process as at Wake Forest."

" I like to feel that this church and Wake Forest College are producing students and Christians who evaluate things the way Mr. Chips did. You recall that delightful book of James Hilton which became a best seller back in 1934. Mr. Chips had retired as a teacher and in his retirement became beloved and a symbol of the spirit of the school. Then the First World War came, and he was brought out of retirement to teach again. One night the students had a lesson with the old Latin teacher they would never forget. There was an air raid, and louder and louder came the reverberating crashes of the guns and the shrill whine of anti-aircraft shells. The boys were nervous, but not Mr. Chips. After a particularly loud

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crash he said, 'You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make-and these things -that have mattered-for thousands of years-are not going to be snuffed out because some stink merchant in his laboratory invents a new kind of mischief.' This is the faith we try to impart here; and it is the faith which is being transmitted over at the College.

" North Carolina Baptist boys and girls need an institution where they will have the opportunities for self-discovery; where they will learn how to meet with triumph and defeat; where they can be challenged to efface self in devotion to a common cause; where they will know the power of religion in life; where the skills of the imagination are sharpened; where the sons of the poor and the weak will be set free from the enervating sense of inferiority; and where the sons of the wealthy and the power will be set free from the enervating sense of privilege. By our gifts we must help do this at once."

" We need Wake Forest because it produces a minimum of Little J ack Horners- and a maximum of graduates to whom their obligation is clear , and who comm1t themselves to the highest and best patterns for the well being of others in the community. You know the Little Jack Horner college graduate . . . he stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum ... . Because you can get a plum for yourself, you are a good boy. The President of my Alma Mater would call him a nasty little moral isolationist. He is the 'unendurable pr ig, the insufferably smug and self-satisfied, the completely engrossed in his own small existence and isolated from the world of human need!' I am sure there are a few of them graduating f rom Wake Forest, but most of the students I have met in that college have caught a vision of their importance in the right solution of the problems for this day.

THEY WILL BE MISSED

"This church should feel a close kinship w ith Wake Forest for here it is that the student can achieve a sound balance between a healthy respect for the past, and a hearty faith in mankind's future. Here in this church we have not scorned the past; nor have we worshipped it . Wake Forest has a tradition like that and it produces students l ike that. We have believed that there were possibilities in the future for mankind, and so does Wake Forest. In a day when so many Baptist schools are becoming shrines for the past and prophets of impending doom , Wake Forest is a light in the darkness.

"This church ought to support Wake Forest because it is dedicated to the production of students

ALFRED MONROE LOVELACE '76-'78 Deceased June 24, 1948

He lived to be more than 93 yea rs of age and was, for some time prior to his death, next to the oldest living former s tudent of Wake Forest College. Mr. Lovelace had been a school teacher. a surveyor, and farmer. A schoolmate of former Pres ident W L. Poteat and of Dr. N Y. Gulley at Wake Fores t, he had Jived s ince college days in Cleveland County as one of its most distinguished and useful citizens. Fourteen years he served as County Surveyor. He surveyed the present line between Cleveland and Gaston Counties when King's Mountain voted to join Cleveland. For 77 years Mr. Lovelace was a member or the Sandy Run Baptist Church. He could talk entertainingly giving colorful accounts of life in Cleveland County during the past century.

Dr. GEORGE T. WATKINS, Jr., '12. Durham, passed away in May following an

attack from which he suffered briefly. A last-minute notice to this effect appeared in May ALUMNI NEWS. but it is fitting that some further word be said in appreciation or an alumnus whose devotion to Wake Forest is rarely equalled and probably never surpassed. Son of the late Rev . George T . Watkins, D .D .. class or 1889, and Mrs. Watkins (still living in Durham). he inherited tendencies leaning toward partiality for what was later to be his Alma Mater. Father and three ~ons--George, Basil, and William-, each in h1s turn, found their wa:v to Wake Forest and won their degrees with distinction. (Sons of George and Basil have followed the fantily tradition.)

Probably no single family has given, according to its ability, greater tangible evidence of faith in and love for the college. It is no secret now that the three Watkins brothers were among the first and most s ubstantial contributors to the college Enlargement Program. This was not the first time they had ~ven their money, time, and talents to the mterests of the college. But they saw clearly the need for making the college better qualified to serve its mission and were ready to put their shoulders to the wheel to speed it along its way.

George, a family doctor whose ministry to all classes of people demanded of him more than even his strong constitution could long endure, decided to give a considerable portion of his earnings to his Alma Mater. He subscribed $15,000 to the Enlargement Program soon a[ter it was initiated, payable in six years. To make sure that the pledge would be paid, he made an endowment insurance policy payable to the college. Prior to his death he had paid $3,500 on his subscription. Since that time the college has received $13,514.16, the net value of the insurance policy issued for the purpose, so that Dr. Watkins' total gift since the beginning of the campaign is now credited at $17,014.16.

Although Wake Forest College, as well as his family, church. and city, has lost a devoted friend, his life was of such fibre as to guarantee its continued existence. He will continue to live in his children. He will Uve on in the college which shared a generous portion of his love and devotion. He will live long in his church and in the lives of hundreds of persons to whom he ministered. Wake Forest College will render nobler service to unborn genera lions because of George Watkins .

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Wake Forest Little Theater

FORMER WAKE FORESTERS GRADUATE FROM DUKE LAW

SCHOOL

Edgar H. Wilson. 211 South French Broad A venue, Asheville, WFC '40-41, had his education interfered with until his release in 1945 from the Army Air Force with the rank of Flight Officer. Then he entered the Duke Law School from which he was graduated last June. He was elected at Duke to membership in the highest honorary society in the legal profession, the Order of the Coif, and graduated "with distinction." During the summer he continued studies at Duke, leading to the LL.M. degree. In September he began teaching as an assistant professor of law in the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. Macon, Georgia.

Charles Ward White '40, Wake Forest, son of the late Professor Bruce White and Mrs. White. entered Duke Law School after serving two years during the War in the Navy as a lieutenant. He received his degree from Duke at the J une commencement this year. Likewise, Earl Thomas Hart '41, of Youngsville, already an LL.B. graduate of WFC, was one of six candidates to receive the LL.M degree at the Duke commencement in

June. He, too, had his education interrupted by the War when he joined Military Intelligence as a special agent.

TO LINWOOD Sl\UTH '31

President High Point Chapter Wake Fore t College Alumni Association. Mr. Smith recently received from Col. W. R. Brewster, Pre ident Georgia Military Academy, a letter including this statement:

"I am happy to inform you that the Board of Governors of Georgia Military Academy, at their annual meeting held Monday afternoon, May 31, 1948, elected you as a member of the elfPerpetuating Board of Governors of Georgia Military Academy."

CHARLES M. FREEMAN '42, RETURNS FROM FAMINE RELIEF WORK IN INDIA

Friends of Charles Freeman, son of Dr. and Mrs. L. E. M. Freeman of Raleigh and Meredith College, were not surprised to learn that he picked one of the hardest and most serviceable jobs to be found in the work of rehabilitation following World War II.

Recently returned to this country from three years of helping to relieve famine and tension in India, where he worked under the direction of the American Friends Service Committee, Charles describes some of his experiences. Living as a member of village households, he " took a lot of chances. I ate what they did , which explains why I got dysentery from time to time. But I happen to think it was worth it. In that way I could really feel like one of the family and come to know them as I couldn 't have otherwise."

Freeman had studied Bengali before leaving the United States and picked up the language quickly after his arrival in India. This fact enabled him to come into close personal relationships with the peoole. They found it difficult to understand why foreigners could take such unselfish interest in them , bu~ Charles explained that he felt toward them very much as Gandhi did .

Assignments made b y t h e Friends Service Comroi ttee to Freeman include w ork in helping to organize fishermen 's cooperatives in the Basirhat Subdivision , forty miles east of Calcutta ; in the Noakhali District of East Bengal, where people had been killed and houses burned, he worked to re-create confidence betw.zen Hindus and Moslems; in East Bengal almost all of 1947 was spent in administering children 's food canteens. For three months :recently he worked in the largest of the refugee camps of 300,000 persons, and more recently still in a riotaffected area in the Punjab.

After leaving Wake Forest College with the degree of A.B., Freeman received an M.A. degree from the University of North Carolina where he majored in social studies. He hopes to return to India within a year or two and continue his work with the American Friends Service Committee in the relief and rehabilitation of the Indian people.


MIDDLE OF THE FOOTBALL SEASON Tom Bost, Jr., Director of Pub

licity, has been among the busiest of the busy since the football squad began training for the season. Ordinarily he would use this space for giving highlights of the games already played and telling what he thinks about the outlook for those to come, but he is at this writing in Pittsburgh whipping up enthusiasm for seeing the battle with Duquesne in that city on October 16. He thought he would be able to do it after the exciting scrap with UNC October 9. but that engagement was too much for him (as it was for our team.)

Most of our readers know , however, that we won two and lost two of the first four games played. Witnesses of all four express themselves as well pleased with the showing made by the Deacons under their short experience with the "T " formation. First game was with George Washington at Groves Stadium. We took that with apparent ease, in spite of some ragged playing due to the newness of the system under actual playing conditions . But real strength was demonstrated by our team , a nd they have become more efficient as the season advances.

!ina stated that WFC gave his team their toughest fight so far this season. Most Wake Forest supporters were pleased at the showing made by our boys, even though few believed that there was a chance of winning against such strong opponents.

TRADITIONAL FOOTBALL OPPONENTS

Wake Forest's three traditional rivals are the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and North Carolina State College. The Wake Forest-North Carolina rivalry, dating back almost 60 years, is one of the oldest in Dixie. It was

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these two neighboring institutions first met on the gridiron. They have been playing regularly ever since and their games now rank among the top in Dixie.

Interesting rivalries have also developed during the past 20 years with Clemson and South Carolina and these contests have produced some top-notch football in this section.

The Demon Deacons trail in number of victories against the three traditional foes - Carolina, Duke, and N. C. State. However, under the 11-year regime of Coach Walker the Deacons won 6, lost 4, and tied 1 with N . C. State, and won 5 and lost 5 against Carolina. Between 1942 and 1946 Wake Forest was the only Southern Conference team able to defeat Duke. The Deacs turned the trick 20 to 7 in 1942.

Boston College got the big end of the scoring, but they also had the big players that averaged 220 pounds each in weight. Sports wr iters in Boston remarked that the statistics showed that our boys played much better than the final score indicated. Boston observers have been impressed each year with the good sportsmanship and the strength of the Deacons. Playing there is always before a capacity crowd.

William & Mary, rated to win, has one of the strongest teams in the Southern Conference, but we took that game by a very decisive score, getting revenge for the loss suffered there a year ago.

Left to right: Ed Bradley, RE; Tom Palmer, RT; Bob Auffarth, RG ; Boyd Allen, C; Ray Cicia, LG; Bill George, LT; Jim Duncan, LE

About 27 ,000 fans crowded int~ Groves Stadium, additional seats, and on the ground near by to see the contest with UNC October 9, rated as the very top team in the South, and one of the very best in the nation. Coach Snavely of Caro-

these two institutions which introduced football to this State in 1888.

Wake Forest and N . C. State introduced another of Dixie's most colorful football rivalries in 1907 and, except for 1909, have been meeting continuously ever since.

Due to the fact Duke (then Trinity College) did not play football for a period of 26 years (1894-1920), it was not until 1921 that

Series Records through 1947: With North Carolina - Wake

Forest won 11, lost 31 , and tied 1. With Duke - Wake Forest won

5, lost 20, tied 1. With N. C. State- Wake Forest

won 13, lost 24, tied 3. With South Carolina - Wake

Forest won 8, lost 7, tied 2. With Clemson - Wake Forest

won 7, lost 7, tie<:l 0.

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BiJI Gregus, LH John (Red) 0' Quinn, RE Tom Fetzer, QB

1948 WAKE FOREST FOOTBALL SQUAD ROSTER

Name Pos . Butler, Ed .... ............................... . .. LE Duncan , Jim * ................................. LE Hoey, Ed • ........................................ LE Taylor, Phil ............................. .... ...LE George, Bill* ...... ...................... .. .LT Johnston , Bert ............................... LT Reinhard, Glenn • ............................. LT Staton, Jim .... ............................. LT Borger, John .................................... LG Cicia, Raymond • _ ................. .. . .. LG Garry, Jim * ------------ -- ------------ ....... LG Pambianchi, Gene• ........... ..... _ ... LG Melanson, Roger .... ..... ............... ..LG Allen, Boyd _ ............................... C Baublis, Ed ..... _________ ___ ............. C Bridges, Jim ........................... C Dawson , Dave ................ ..... ... .. C Lukoski , Frank ............... ... .... C Auffarth, Bob ......................... .... ..RG Clark, Charlie .......................... . .... RG Dye, Bill* ............................ , .. RG Coble, Jerome .......................... RG Ranula, Bernie* ................... ... ...RT Harasyko, Walter ............ .... ...RT Palmer, Tom • ... _ .. ............. _ .. .. RT Sniscak, George ................... ___ . .... .RT Bradley, Ed .................................... RE Gibson , John .. .................... _ .. RE Groves, Bob ..................... RE O'Quinn, John (Red) • ................... RE Blackerby, Carroll ...................... QB Fetzer, Tom• ................................. QB Salley, Ed ............................. QB Cicconi, Peter ............... .. ......... __ LH Gregus, Bill* ......................... .. LH Jones, Bob .......... .. .... .. ................ .. . LH

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Home Winston-Salem, N . C. Reidsville, N. C. Clairton , Pa. Washington , D . C. Waynesburg, Pa. New K en sington, Pa. York, Pa . Greensboro , N. C. Northampton , Pa. Ansonia, Conn . Gastonville, Pa. Phillipsburg, N. J. Somerville , Mass. Shelby, N. C. Baltimore, Md . La Grange, N . C. Rocky Mount, N . C. Stamford, Conn. Baltimore, Md. Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Connellsville, Pa . Greensboro, N. C. Vineland, N . J . Anson ia , Conn . Collingswood, N . J . Lan sford , Pa . Stratford, Conn. Valdosta, Ga . Charlotte, N . C. Asheboro, N . C. Bessemer , Ala . Reidsville, N . C . Fayetteville, N . C . Donora , Pa. Toledo , Ohio Laurinburg, N . C. Charleroi , Pa . Hickory, N. C. Malden, Mass. Greenville, S. C. Ambridge, Pa. Wilmington , N . C. Durham, N . C. Stratford , Conn. Hickory, N . C. Burlington, N . C. Raleigh, N . C.


11-YEAR RECORD OF COACH D. C. (PEAHEAD) WALKER AT WAKE FOREST

1937

Wake Forest 0 Tennessee 32 \Voke Forest 14 Furman

Wake Forest 6 George Washington 34 \Vake Forest 0 N . C. State

Wake Forest 19 Erskine 0 Wake Fores t 0 Boston College

Wake Forest 0 North Carolina 28 Wake Forest 19 Clemson Wake Forest 28 V . M . I.

Wake Forest 0 Clemson 32 Wake Forest 20 George Washington Wake Forest 0 N. C. State 20 Wake Forest 33 South Co rol ina Wake Forest 0 Duke 67 Wake Forest 24 Wofford 0 1943 Wake Forest 19 Davidson 7 Wake Fores t 20 Camp Davis

1938 Wake Forest 7 Maryland

57 Randolph-Macon 6 Wake Forest 0 Georgia Wake Forest Wake Forest 54 N . C. State Wake Forest 6 North Carolina 14 Wake Forest 21 V. M . I Wake Forest 31 Citadel 0 Wake Forest 41 Clemson Wake Forest 20 South Carolina 19 Wake Forest 20 N . C. Pre-Fllght Wake Forest 7 N. C . State 19 Wake Forest 0 Greensboro B . T. c. Wake Forest 0 Duke 7 Wake Forest 2 South Carolina Wake Forest 0 Clemson 7 Wake Forest 6 V . M. I . 6 1944

Wake Forest 13 Western Mary land 20 Wake Forest 7 North Carolina Wake Forest 21 Davidson 0 Wake Forest 14 ~~~~,~"nd

1939 Wake Forest 39 Wake Forest 38 V. M . I

Wake Forest 34 Elan 0 Wake Forest 21 N. C. State Wake Forest 19 South Carolina 7 Wake Forest 27 Miami Univ. (Fla .) Wake Forest 6 North Carolina 36 Wake Forest 13 Clemson Wake Forest 33 Miamj 0 Wake Fores t 0 Duke Wake Forest 32 N C. State 0 Wake Forest 19 South Carolina Wake Forest 66 Western Maryland 0 Wake Forest 0 Duke 6 1945

Wake Forest 14 Marshall College 13 Wake Forest 6 Tennessee Wake Forest 7 Clemson 20 Wake Forest 0 Army Wake Forest 46 Davidson 7 Wake Forest 19 N. C. Statt!

1940 Wake Forest 53 Presbyterian Wake Forest 14 North Carolina

Wake Forest 79 Wm . .Tewell College 0 Wake Fores t 13 South Carolina Wake Forest 12 North Carolina 0 (Gator Bowl Game at Jacksonville , Fla .. Wake Forest 19 Furman 0 Jan. 1, 1946) Wake Forest 0 Clemson 39 Wake Forest 26 South Carolina \Vake Forest 31 Marshall College 19

1946 Wake Forest 0 Duke 23 Wake Forest 18 George Washington 0 Wake Forest 12 Boston College \Vake Forest 20 N. C . State 14 Wake Fores t 19 Georgetown Wake Forest 7 Texas Tech. 12 Wake Fores t 19 Clemson Wake Forest 7 South Carolina 6 Wake Fores t 6 N . C. State

Wake Fores t 19 Tennessee 1941 Wake Forest 32 Chattanooga

Wake Forest 66 Camp Davis 0 Wake Forest 0 Duke Wake Forest 14 Duke 43 Wake Forest 14 North Carolina Wake Forest 52 Furman 13 Wake Forest 35 South Carolina Wake Forest 6 South Carolina 6 1947 \Vake Forest 7 N. c . State 0 Wake Forest 13 North Carolina 0 Wake Forest 6 Georgetown Wake Forest 6 Marshall College 16 Wake Forest 16 Clemson Wake Forest 6 Boston College 26 Wake Forest 19 North Carolina Wake Forest 0 Clemson 29 Wake Forest 39 George Washington Wake Forest 42 George Washington 0 Wake Forest 6 Duke Wake Forest 0 Texas Tech 35 Wake Forest 0 William and Mary

1942 Wake Forest 14 Boston College Wake Forest 0 N . C. State

Woke Forest 0 North Carolina Wake Forest 33 Duquesne Wake Forest 20 Duke Wake Forest 0 South Carolina

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FORMER WAKE FOREST ATHLETES IN NATIONAL

LIMELIGHT

Three good baseball players at Wake Forest a few years ago have made headlines in recent weeks throughout the country. One of them, Carl " Kelly" Palumbo '39, with his Trenton, N. J. , Schroths, won the National American Legion Junior World Series. Palumbo was honored by the City of Trenton in a big celebration on September 29. Gordon A. Phillips '39, one of Palumbo's backers and prominent attorney of his city, kindly sent us a newspaper chppmg giving account of the victory and the celebration. Other Wake Foresters present to honor Palumbo were Willard Marshall '39, Tommy Byrne '43, and Rae Scarborough '39 .

Varsity pitchers at Wake Forest when Palumbo was captain of the Freshman baseball team were lefthanded Tommy Byrne now with the New York Yankees and Rae Scarborough of the Washington Senators. The late John Caddell was accustomed to allow Freshman Palumbo to warm up with these varsity stars. Palumbo transferred to New Jersey State Teachers College in 1939 to finish his course in Physical Education, but the war intervened so that he did not finish his schooling until he received his Master's degree at Rutgers last June. He is now teaching at Parker's School, Trenton.

Sports fans know that the World Series has been enlivened by the superb pitching of both Tommy Byrne and Rae Scarborough, along with some good work at the bat. Both AP and UP notices about these brilliant pi t c hers have praised them highly and have referred to them as former Wake Forest College stars. As in the case of many other WFC baseball players, Palumbo, Byrne, and Scarborough were given special attention by the late Coach John Caddell who, along with Mrs. Caddell , regarded most of his athletes as his members of his own household. Here's a hand for these deservedly famous Wake Foresters!

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WFC ALUMNI MEET

Distance does not diminish loyalty, if one is to judge from the way alumni in far away places go many miles at considerable expense to meet other Wake Foresters and learn about recent happenings at the college.

Last spring President Thurman Kitchin and Eugene Olive met with enthusiastic groups in Wilmington, Columbia, S.C., Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida. Floridians are meeting again in Lakeland October 16 and have arranged a good program, under the chairmanship of A. J. Floyd and Ennis P . Thorne, secretary and program chairman. Some travel more than 100 miles to attend the Florida meetings, and some present members of the student body have journeyed from all quarters of the citrus-growing state to attend WFC. A letter from Ralph Ferrell '07, Miami, expressed regret that meetings held hitherto have come at times when he had unavoidable conflicts, or he would have traveled from Miami to Tampa, Orlando, and Lakeland to be present for the good fellowship.

In August Eugene Olive attended the annual meeting of the American Alumni Council, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and had a visit with Burnett Harvey '43, who completed his course in the Law School at the University of Michi~an at the end of the summer. Burnett has tried universities and colleges here and there. but casts his first ballot still for WFC.

Wells Norris had written earlier to say that he thought alumni in the Chicago area should have as much consideration as the Floridians , so a meeting was planned for Chicago following the Ann Arbor Council. It was good to have fellowship with persons living in the Chicago area. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Gay, Dr. Charles C. Josey , Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Baner, Wells Norris (and a mighty fine young lady friend who seems capable of delivering him from bachelorhood), Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Trent, Dr. H . W. Vernon and his son. Edwin Baner suggests that ALUMNI NEWS carry a department called, "I'd LIKE TO HEAR FROM." If you know of an alumnus from whom you'd like to bear, send the request to us and we'll do


our best to locate him and get you some word from him.

Alumni chapters in many places are planning meetings this fall. We suggest that officers of existing chapters meet and make plans for getting all alumni in their areas together. It is not necessary for someone from the college to attend to make the programs good. When our office can be of any help either in the matter of sending information desired or in providing a speaker, please call on us. Alumni living in areas where no chapters exist are invited to write us about the possibility of getting one

Dr. George Sherrill Pres. S. C. Alumni Association

started. Our office is now equipped with an up-to-date addressograph, so we can send you quickly names of alumni living in any given area. Sometimes one of the best programs in any section can be arranged by simply using the topic: "All about WFC Alumni in the (. ............... .) Area." If we can help you in this or any other sort of program, call on us.

WFC ALUMNUS AND FORMER TARBORO MINISTER RECEIVES HARVARD

DOCTORATE Among the recipients of degrees

awarded at the annual commencement exercises of Harvard Uni-

versity last June was the Rev. Robert Malcolm McNair, who was granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the department of the History and Philosophy of Religion. The special doctoral field was primitive religion, and the title of the dissertation was "The Idea of the Good in the Mythology of the Navaho Indians." Dr. McNair received the A.B. degree from Wake Forest College summa cum laude, in 1937; the S .T.B . degree from Harvard in 1941; and has also studied at the University of California and in France. His field work for the doctor's degree was done on the Navaho Indian Reservation in Arizona. He served as the assistant in the Hancock Church in Lexington, Mass. , as the rector of Calvary Parish, Tarboro, North Carolina, from 1943-1947, and since as rector of Christ Church, Medway, Mass. In September he became visiting professor of religion at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He is married to the former Elizabeth Liles Edwards of Tarboro.

HUNTER CHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS PREPARING FOR MEDICAL

MISSIONS Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hunter, of

Fayetteville, announced last May the establishment of a memorial to their son, Thomas M. Hunter, Jr., '48, in the form of scholarship aid amounting to $250.00 annually to be awarded to worthy students planning to become medical missionaries.

Thomas Hunter, Jr., met his death last November in an automobile accident. He was a member of the class of 1948, although he did not live until graduation day.

The scholarship is guaranteed for a ten year period, at least, and the first installment of $250.00 was received before last commencement. Mr. Hunter is a prominent business man of Fayetteville, active in civic and religious affairs of his city, and an alumnus of the University of North Carolina. Mrs. Hunter is the former Josephine Phillips of Dalton.


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

Jlomecoming

Wake Forest College will play against its old rival, N. C. State College, at 2 :20 p.m.,

Groves Stadium.

But we want you to come on earl ier in the day and visit on the campus, meet old

friends, see your former professors, walk through the buildings and grounds, get

lunch at the College Cafeteria, and breathe again that distinctive Wake Forest

atmosphere.

We believe we'll win the game. But win or lose, it will be hard fought and worth

seeing.

Here is the schedule of other games yet to be played this season :

October 30---N. C. Sta te at Wake Forest 2 :20 p.m.

November 6---Duke at Durham 2 :00 p.m.

November 13-Ciemson at Winston -Salem 2 :00 p.m.

November 25-U. of S. C. at Columbia 2 :30 p.m.

Tickets to the game in Columbia are $3.60 each. All others are $3.00 each, plus

10c mailing fee. All orders for tickets should be addressed to

ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE, BOX 975, WAKE FOREST, N. C.

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