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ALUMNAE NEWS NOVEMBER, 1963
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Contents of
LONGWOOD COLLEGE Alumnae
Page
Association
Dr. Lankford's Message
Number
Volume XLIX
Foreign Languages at
Editorial
2
Richmond Renascence
Elizabeth Shippktt Jones
Mildred Dickinson Davis J. Ellington White
Board
Longwood
3
November, 1963 Editor
1
4
Seventy-Ninth Founders
The 1913
Day
9
Reunion
Class
10
Betty Ruth Stimpson
Assistant
Living
Up
to
Our
Legacies at
Longwood
.
.
11
MEMBER AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL Mi. Wygal's Parting Message
13
College Commentary
14
LONGWOOD COLLEGE
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Board Dr. Francis G. Lankford, Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster,
Executive
Jr., President, Longwood College President Emeritus, Longwood College
Your Alumnae
President's
Message
16
President
Caroline Eason Roberts,
Glencarrie, 322 Baldwin Drive, Staunton, Va.
Our Alumnae Chapters
17
Miracles— 1963
19
First Vice-President
Evelyn
Traylor
Macon,
1110 Griffin
Street,
Lynchburg, Va.
Second Vice-President
Rosemary Elam Pritchard. 604
E.
Cawson
Street,
Hopewell, Va.
Impressions From
Fall
Council
20
Ex-President
Janie
Potter
Hanes, 321
The Danish-American Summer School
Institute Hill, Lexington, Va.
Organists
Ex-Secretary
for
21
Virginia McLean Pharr, 5220 Gravelbrook Drive, Richmond, Va. Ballot
23
Founders Day Program
24
Chairman of Snack Bar Committee Maria Jackson Hall, 2432 Grove Avenue, Richmond, Va.
Alumnae Fund Appeal
25
Chairman of Alumnae House Committee Rosa Courier Smith, 7711 Wood Road, Richmond, Va.
Budget and Financial Report
25
Directors
Dorothy Hudson, Route
Midlothian, Va. Tucker Winn, Apt. 313, 4701 Kenmore, Alexandria, Va. Margaret Mottley Adams, 1618 Greenleaf Lane, Charlottesville, Va.
Executive Secretary
Elizabeth
1,
and Treasurer Jones, Route
Shipplett
2,
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Farmville, Va.
Class Representatives
Christine Jones Ferguson, P. O. Box 322, West Point, Va. Rebecca Jones, Room 1509, 309 W.Jackson Blvd., Chicago 6, 111. Cecil Kidd, 6319 Three Chopt Rd., Richmond 36, Va. Ann Kovacevich, 2200 S. Buchanan Street, Arlington, Va. Peggy Green Olney. 303 Mistletoe Drive, Newport News, Va. Judy Smith Liles, 1228 Norview Ave., Apt. A-8, Norfolk, Va. Joyce Powell, 112 Garden Drive, Newport News, Va. Elizabeth Predmore, Apt. 2, 316 21st Street, Virginia Beach, Va.
Wedding
31
Warriner Lauds Retiring Faculty
31
News
Special
Longwood
Second Class mailing
College, Farmville, Va.
privileges at Farmville, Va.
Printed by Stone Printing and Manufacturing
Company
30
Bells
32
at Fall
dinner meeting.
Published quarterly by
26
Roll
Births
Class
Cover: Candid shots of Alumnae Board and Council members
Honor
of Roanoke, Va.
Honor
Roll
Chapter Presidents
In
Memoriam
52
Named
52
Inside Back Cover
—
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LMKFORD'S MESSAGE
DR.
J. am writing this message ftom Dacca in East Pakistan where we have been living for the past year. This is actually
"the other side of the world" from Virginia.
been serving
Here,
have
I
chairman of advisers working for the
as
University of Chicago Pakistan Education Project, which
is
supported by the Ford Foundation.
During the year, there have been nine advisers on our team eight from the United States and one from Norway. In our project,
—
we
At
deal with three aspects of education in Pakistan.
the University of the Punjab in
West Pakistan and
at
Dacca University in East Pakistan, we are helping to establish programs of student affairs. At both universities, the Ford Foundation is helping to construct buildings
They are to be is hoped that use them and that this
that will serve as student activities centers. called Teacher-Student Centets because faculty, as well as students, will
may be one means
it
of promoting out-of-class contacts be-
tween students and faculty. Traditionally, the relationship between faculty and students has been very formal and
We
impersonal.
ment of
encourage the develop-
are also trying to
program of counseling and
a
of student
a balanced
program
activities.
Another one of our projects consists of 43 pilot secondThese are scattered widely over Pakistan
Dr. and Mrs. Lankford pictured in Pakisran.
ary schools.
both East and West Wings.
in
In these schools,
curriculum for the
inttoducing a diversified
we
are
teachers,
time,
first
moving
American Comprehensive
in the direction of the
Secondary School.
Traditionally, the secondary school in
work
included
Pakistan
the humanities
in
In our pilot schools,
clusively.
home
science, agriculture,
we
ate
almost ex-
adding work in
economics, industrial
new
A Commission
teachers.
scribed a syllabus for
ones. This
on National Education has
all fields
"new curriculum,"
new many
as
it is
called, contains
innovations, for Pakistan and the teachers, as well as head-
much
masters, need
A
it
into effect.
We
has been a serious problem.
program to work on
this
new
many
ptoblem and
complete
arts
long be remembered. Dacca side of the world
is
Besides our ex-
us.
almost exactly the opposite
We
Virginia.
We
When we
and Europe.
and in
from
Kong, and Thailand. I
has been a
program
improve the
to
quite meager in many,
came out
across the
stopping in Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan,
return to this training
is
This has been an exciting year for
experience,
seven in industrial
eco-
periences in Pakistan, our travels around the world will
countries. it
home
cases.
have helped with
great satisfaction to see sixteen teachers in agriculture
we hope
In this way,
preparation of teachers, which
Pacific,
shortage of qualified teachers, especially in the
fields,
a
help in putting
year,
these short courses
nomics, social studies, Bengali, commercial education and
pre-
of study, including the
Within the past
in English, mathematics, science, agriculture,
and
buildings, selecting and importing equipment, and training
officers.
more than 2,000 persons have attended
other subjects. arts,
This has meant planning
commercial education.
headmasters, headmistresses, inspectors, inspec-
and other education
tresses,
say
will return
get home,
we
Hong
by the Middle East will
have visited 20
has been an exciting and rewarding
it
but we are eagerly looking forward to our
Longwood.
We
have missed the students, our
among the faculty and alumnae, and, of course, our family. Many have written us the news at the college and I am pleased that evetything has moved along nicely friends
East Pakistan within the last year.
These are the
first
trained teachers in these fields in East Pakistan. I
have
meant
visited
good
a
many
of out pilot schools which has
deal of traveling in both wings.
been especially enjoyable, for these to
see,
trips
This has
have enabled
me
close up, the various sections of the country in
both East and West Pakistan.
going with
me on
Mrs. Lankford has enjoyed
several of these trips.
in
Our
thitd project consists of an Education Extension
In these,
we
—one
in
Lahore and one in Dacca.
offer short in-service courses for
November, 1963
secondary
I
am
ttuly
while
Soon
after
1964-66. to visit
of our
I
we will
get
a
grateful
way in which he has kept we have been away.
excellent
session and
Centet in each province
Mr. Wygal has done
our absence.
Acting Ptesident.
to
him
for
as
the
the college developing
home, the Legislature
will
be
in
be busy with support of our budget for
After the Legislatute adjourns,
some alumnae activities
marvelous job
I
should be free
chapters and give you a better report
of this past year.
tf-aiei(j,a
at J^an^iaaad
Jlant'Pruitt '58, a daughter,
'56, a son, Stephen Ashby Nellie Lucy Cleaton '54, a daughter, Cynthia
Macon Smith
Victoria Malley Elizabeth
daughter,
Virginia Stacey Verser Harrman '49, a daughter,
'55, a
Grow
daughter, Judith
'61,
a
girl,
Sharon Kav
Martha Wilson Black, '54, a son, James David Dorothy Winton Minick '49, a daughter, Deborah Eileen Mary Mercer Wright Poole '61, a daughter. Cynthia Lynn Frances Young Brown '55x, a son, Jeffrey Alan
Marie '59,
a
Ann
Clara Dell Kidd Mills '61, a son Calvert King Poole '59, a son, Arnold Travis Marilyn King Campbell '59, a son, Craig Kate Krehbiel Lawrence '58, a daughter, Jennifer Lynn Susanne LaFontaine George '58, a daughter,
Eloise
Clarence
'58, a son, '55,
Susan
Baskerville, III
Lucy a
daughter, Susan
a
Martha Tomlinson Ashby '54x, a daughter, Martha Lynn Dot Vaden Oglesby '55, a son, Vincent Boyce Virginia Van de Riet Gardner '61, a daughter,
a son, Walter
'59,
'52,
Edward
daughter
'53, a
Mary M. Karr Borkey
Greenberg
Betry Shank Eubank '50, a daughter, Joan Elizabeth Birdie Silcox Burton '59, a daughter, Sarah Roberta Silcox Burton '59, a girl, Sara Betty Spivey Sellers '59, a son, Robert Phillips Eloise Stancill Godsey '47, a son, Rick Virginia Sutherland'Knott '54, a son, William
Emma Elizabeth Mary Helen Jones Kelley Mary Lynn
John
Elizabeth 5
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