Record of Hampden-Sydney, August 2008

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President Bortz to retire ...................................................3After nine years of successful leadership

“All this seems so very little to lose good lives for” ..........4The Life and Death of William D. Pasco, H-SC 1895

New Chairman of the Board ..........................................8Thomas N. Allen ’60 accepts the reins

Transformations in history ..............................................9Retirements and additions change the history department

Anne Lund retires .........................................................13Biology teacher for 34 years

Supporting aspiring teachers ......................................... 14The Brown Teaching Fellowship

On the Hill ................................................................... 15Sports ...........................................................................22Alumni Activity ............................................................25Through These Gates Report ...........................................27Class Notes ....................................................................28

Profiles: Kinsey Marable ’77, library builderProfiles: Thomas H. Barr ’90, coffee marketing executiveProfiles: Mike Fitzsimmons ’95, e-commerce entrepreneur

The Globe Theater puppets ...........................................48

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AUGUST 2008 • VOLUME 83, NUMBER 3

ON THE FRONT COVER: The history of Hampden-Sydney College is embodied in the Birthplace.Photo by Stephen Muskie.

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2 THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • AUGUST 2008

Dr. Walter M. Bortz III,twenty-third president of

Hampden-Sydney College.

3THE RECORD OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE • AUGUST 2008

After nine years of successful leadership

President Bortz to retireON MAY 23, 2008, shortly after Commencement, President Bortz informed the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Henry H. McVey III ’57, and the Chairman-elect, Thomas N. Allen ’60, of his decision to retire, effective June 30, 2009.

In his letter, Dr. Bortz explained, “There is never a ‘good’ time to change a presidency; some times are better than others. I believe that now is such a time. I came to Hampden-Sydney with a ten-year agenda; I believe that my work has been completed in nine years and that a solid platform for new leadership is in place.

“Much has been accomplished in our time together. The physical plant of the College has grown and is in excellent shape. In recent years the College has enjoyed the addition of 240,000 square feet of new space and 93,000 square feet of renovated space. We did well with our ten-year review by SACS and are progressing nicely with the assessment challenges as well as with the adopted Quality Enhancement Plan. Our admission efforts have been excellent and promise to continue to provide a sizeable group of young men who can and do take advantage of this atmosphere of sound learning. The budget has been carefully monitored and has been balanced each year. The endowment has increased by 65% since its recent low in 2001. Our alumni giving and participation in the life of the College is at a high and promises additional growth. Giving to the College has broken all previous records and will permit us to finish the Capital Campaign in December 2008 at a level that was not thought possible a few years ago. The campus has doubled in size from 600 acres to more than 1,300 as we attempt to preserve our beauti-ful surroundings. Our faculty has grown while our student-faculty ratio has dropped to 10 to 1. I believe the College will prove to be an attractive opportunity for new leadership, where new thoughts and new ideas will find fertile ground.”

President Bortz and his wife Lorraine will take up residence in their home in Charleston, South Carolina, from which they plan to travel extensively, visit with their children and grandchildren, and keep in touch with the academic world.

“We are grateful to members of this community,” the President said, “for what has been a wonderful

professional experience. We will follow the continued growth and development of this special place and look forward to returning regularly. I hope that our time with you will be remembered as one in which we advanced the College’s visibility as an exemplary liberal arts college, developed the institution physically and continued to build our pride as an all-male college.”

Chairman McVey said that he and the Board accepted, “with deep regret,” the President’s decision to retire. “We are grateful for his leadership during a criti-cal and exciting period in the life of Hampden-Sydney College. We look forward to celebrating his time with us in appropriate ways at a future date.”

He continued, “As we begin the search for the next president, the metrics defining the College are strong, and the campus is more appealing every year. We are excellently positioned to attract our 24th president.”

On June 2 the Board of Trustees met to discuss the issues facing the College and to prepare a profile of a new president who could best deal with those issues. Mr. Allen said, “You wouldn’t be surprised at any of the issues: things like maintaining the academic excellence of the institution, remaining viable as an all-male institution when demographically more and more women are going to college, the continuing need for capital and endowment funds, and the challenge of replacing the group of forthcoming faculty retirees with truly excellent choices.”

The College plans to follow in the footsteps of the successful search process that led to Dr. Bortz’s selec-tion. To that end Chairman-Elect Allen will chair a Screening Committee (seven Trustees, three faculty representatives, a representative from the staff, and two students), which will report directly to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Paul Baker will provide staff support. Ultimately, a final decision on our new president will be made by the full Board.”

Advertisements are being run in various publica-tions, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York TImes, and the Wall Street Journal. Both Chairman McVey and Chairman-elect Allen encouraged alumni and friends of the College to make nominations of worthy individuals. Nomina-tions should be sent to the Search Committee at [email protected].


recent Hampden-Sydney alumni face from foreign insur gencies in today’s world of ill-defined battle-fronts.

Florida brothers Bill and Sam Pasco both attended Hampden-Sydney College in the last decade of the 19th century, and in this same decade their younger brother graduated from VMI. Indeed, we have to wonder why these young men’s parents—who lived in the faraway world of the Florida Panhandle—were so focused on these Virginia colleges. The answer quite probably lies in the influence and friendship of the Pasco family’s Presbyterian pastor, who had moved to their hometown of Monticello, Florida,

NO, THAT’S NOT A RECENT SOUNDBITE by a media commentator, or even the confessional remark of a military veteran of the front-lines in Afghanistan or Iraq. Instead, those remarks were made at a May 1901 Florida reunion of a group of Spanish- American War veterans; Lawrence P. Butler spoke them in specific reference to the October 1900 death of his good friend, William Denham Pasco, whose name appears on the Spanish-American War plaque on the Hampden-Sydney Memorial Gate.

Perhaps the details of Pasco’s death bear a closer contemporary examination and reflection . . . espe-cially in view of the uncertainties which some more

The life and death of William D. Pasco, H-SC 1895

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The dapper William Pasco, standing at left, was the

manager of the 1894 football team, shown here on the

steps of Stagger Inn at the Seminary building, now

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“[He] was universally esteemed and beloved as a genial and gentle

gentleman.He was a man of fine character and of much

ability in certain directions, especially

in mathematics and the sciences.” THE FARMVILLE HERALD

7 November 1900

in 1867, when their sons were quite young. This was the Rev. Dr. (both a minister and a medical doctor!) Joseph S. Baker, an early 19th-century Hampden-Sydney alumnus. As we shall subsequently discover in the unfolding of this story, the family and the pastor were evidently quite close. Perhaps it was related to the fact that for most of the 1890s the Pasco parents lived in Washington, D.C., where Samuel Pasco, Sr. served as a U.S. Senator. According to two issues of The Hampden-Sydney Magazine of this same period, the Senator and his wife visited Hampden-Sydney on at least three occasions in their travels between their Florida and D.C. residences. Sam graduated in 1897 and then attended the UVA law school; and for years thereafter he practiced law in Pensacola. His older brother Bill, our subject, entered Hampden-Sydney as a sophomore in 1892, and following his graduation in 1895 he then studied engineering at Columbian University (the present-day George Washington University in D.C.).

In the Farmville Herald of 7 November 1900 a local correspondent remembered Bill Pasco’s 1892-95 years at Hampden-Sydney as follows: “[He] was universally esteemed and beloved as a genial and gentle gentleman. He was a man of fine character and of much ability in certain directions, especially in mathematics and the sciences.”

A memorial volume that was privately printed in Florida characterized Pasco’s H-SC years this way: “While here he was probably one of the most popular men who has ever been a student at this institution. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity, Theta Nu Epsilon, and several local orders of his day, and in acknowledgement of his fitness, ability, and popular-ity, was chosen to the highest honors that the student body could confer upon a fellow student.”

During the next three years (1895-98), while he continued his studies in Washington, this gregarious young man probably socialized some with his parents and their friends during the congressional “seasons” that were then observed in the Capitol Hill society.

His parents, Samuel and Jesse Pasco, were well-known figures in the Washington social scene, where Senator Pasco had truly become a force with whom to be reckoned. After all, he had earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard, along with having a notable record as a Confederate soldier. As the headmaster of a Florida academy in the early 1860s, he had taken his entire student body into the

Confederate Army; his leg had been shattered in the 25 November 1863 defense of Missionary Ridge just outside of Chattanooga, and thereafter he was a prisoner-of-war until 1865.

This Florida Democratic Senator served in Congress for two terms, from 1887 to 1899, during which time he was also a member of the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Following his two terms as a U.S. Senator, the Hon. Samuel Pasco remained in Washington, where he served as the national chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission from 1899 to 1905, directing his nation’s somewhat questionable acquisition of canal rights by recommending political and economic assis-tance to Colombia’s breakaway province of Panama. He then chaired the initial U.S. planning of the Canal route and the first years of its precedent-shattering construction.

It was during Samuel Pasco’s service on the Panama Canal Commission that his older Hampden-Sydney son met his mortal destiny in the far-away Philippine Islands. By the time that Bill Pasco was completing his engineering studies in Washington, war had been declared against Spain in April 1898; he had already joined the D.C. National Guard, and because of his educational background (and probably because of his father’s national stature) he was soon commissioned as Second Lieuten-ant William D. Pasco, an officer in the regular Army, and his appointment was confirmed on 23 June 1898. His initial military service was in Cuba during that summer.

That was about half-way through the 109-day Spanish-American War, which U.S. Ambassador John Hay in London had famously called “a splendid little war.” Officially the August 1898 Treaty of Paris declared this war’s “Mission Accomplished!” but in circumstances that latter-day readers will easily understand, the official conclusion to this neat little international war reckoned without the Philippine natives’ resistance to exchanging Spanish control for U.S. control. Their unpredicted insurgency, in fact, issued in a now-generally-forgotten three-year (1899-1902) Philippine-American War—a “post-script war”


that was neither “splendid” nor “little” . . . and it eventually cost Hampden-Sydney alumnus William Pasco his life after the autumn of 1899 when he was transferred to the U.S. occupational forces in the Philippines.

Some parts of this relatively unexamined late 19th-century story have obvious parallels in certain later periods our national history. For example, at the offi-cial conclusion of the Spanish-American War in 1898, General Arthur MacArthur (who as a 19-year-old boy had won a Congressional Medal of Honor attacking Bill Pasco’s father’s Confeder-ate troops at Missionary Ridge) was appointed as the Military Governor of the Philippines, but this MacArthur eventually had to be relieved of that post because he refused to accept orders from Pres-ident McKinley’s civilian governor of the Philippines, William Howard Taft . . . just as his even more famous son, Douglas, was to be relieved of command for refusing to accept civilian orders from President Truman in 1951. And, of course, the U.S. occupa-tion of the Philippine Islands, which had been predicted to be simple and even greeted with celebrations, was not that at all.

Instead, the Ameri-can military forces of occupation were not wanted there; they did not have enough troops or military equipment; their uniforms were not properly adapted to this tropical island environment; their lead-ers did not understand the language and the culture of their oppo-nents; and there was no neatly-defined battle-front in a land where the topography readily lent

itself to ambushes from the insurrectos.First Lieutenant William Pasco arrived in the

Philippines shortly before Christmas 1899. Shortly thereafter he was assigned to a command post on the nearby island of Panay, where he found himself in charge of a very small company that was stationed at an isolated village; he served there from 23 May 1900 until his dying day, 29 October.

For many years Hampden-Sydney’s oft-repeated oral tradition has been that Lt. Pasco met his death at the hands of aboriginal tribesmen who then literally

cannibalized his cooked body . . . and in fact when this writer used to lead Family Weekend ghost tours at Hampden-Sydney he would make gothic jokes about his trying to get the College food service to serve “Pasco-burg-ers” on each October 29. Like numerous played-up campus myths, however, that one, which the College chaplain delighted in repeating, was not factually true. There were indeed some

cannibals among the insurrectos, and there certainly are docu-mented cases of such bodily desecrations, but this is not one of them.

Instead, Lt. Pasco met his death when the twelve men aboard his riverboat patrol were ambushed simultaneously from both banks of a jungle river. Their attackers possibly numbered as many as forty. Two other men in the boat party were also killed, while eight insur-gents were known to have been slain, and another sixteen attack-ers wounded. Pasco fell instantly dead from a shot through

For many years Hampden-Sydney’s oral tradition has

been that Lt. Pasco met his death at the hands of aboriginal tribesmen who then literally cannibalized

his cooked body.

Lieutenant William Pasco 1895 in his Army uniform,

before setting out for the Philippines and his destiny.


his neck as he was disembarking from the bow of the boat onto the riverbank, still firing his rifle as he fell. His body was loaded onto the boat deck and brought back to the base, where it was buried the next day.

Almost a year later, on 17 September 1901, William Pasco’s mahogany casket was returned to his hometown of Monticello, Florida, where a final memo-rial service was held in the Presbyterian Church, and burial rites were conducted by his family pastor at the Roseland Cemetery.

Those attending the graveside service might have noticed that this soldier hero was being laid to rest directly beside the earthly remains of his childhood pastor, the Rev. Dr. Baker, a fellow alumnus of Hampden-Sydney College, whom the Pasco parents had allowed to be buried in their own plot nearly a quarter of a century earlier, in 1877. A six-months-old infant was carried to these services; he was the son of Lt. Pasco’s younger brother and fellow Hampden-Sydney alumnus, Sam Pasco, Jr. This boy, William Denham Pasco II, bore the name of his deceased and honored uncle whom he would never personally know.

In the meantime, however, the death of this soldier-son of such a prominent Washington, D.C., couple, at such a remote and unsupported battlefront of such an unpopular war that was supposed to have already been “splendidly won” many months earlier, had produced on Capitol Hill a brief uproar amid accusations of scandalized mismanagement.

Eventually Governor-General Taft succeeded in bringing a tenuous peace settlement for the U.S.

occupation of the Philippines, with some concessions to a native oligarchy of self-government, and on 4 July 1902

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed pardon and amnesty

to all the insurrectos who had participated in the military

conflict against an eventual total of more than 126,000

U.S. troops who had been stationed in that nation from 1898 until 1902.

The United States retained control of this island nation as a part of its Pacific Empire until after World War II . . . and meanwhile the reality of such a strong American military presence and political hege-mony so far west in the Pacific Ocean made that territory a very tempting

target for the Japanese in December of 1941.So . . . your former

College chaplain’s “Pasco-burger story,” which was always a bit tasteless, wasn’t true after all, but the true story is nonetheless one of tragedy and futil-ity, as Pasco’s friend’s quotation—the title of this article—reminds us. Perhaps, though, we can stretch the truth a bit more acceptably at some other places. There’s a Pasco County in Florida, just north of the Tampa area; it’s named for the father of our alumnus. One of the eventual locks of the Panama Canal was also named for his father; it’s simply called The Pasco Lock; maybe lovers of all things Hampden-Sydney can just quietly think of both the Florida county and that Canal lock as being “a little bit” of our own Pasco.

Dr. Thompson retired as College Chaplain in 2003 and lives in Farmville. In 1991 he was responsible for enlarging the concept of the Memorial Gate from being a tribute only to World War I deaths to one memorializing all H-SC alumni deaths in all our nation’s wars. Among the several manuscripts he is currently preparing is one about how each Hampden-Sydney alumnus whose name is on the Memorial Gate met his death.

The Philippine Islands ca. 1900, showing Panay Island, where William Pasco died.


Thomas N. Allen ’60, the new Chairman of the

Board of Trustees

The ‘big picture issues’ are finding a great leader; fundraising;

increasing the awareness of the College

beyond Virginia; and maintaining an

excellent faculty.THOmas N. allEN ’60Chairman of the Board

Thomas N. Allen ’60 accepts the reins

New Chairman of the BoardA FAMILIAR FACE TO RICHMONDERS and Hampden-Sydney alumni has taken over the reins as chairman of the Board of Trustees. Thomas N. Allen ’60 is chairman following the five-year term of Henry H. McVey III ’57.

Mr. Allen is well known for his dedication to and continued support of Hampden-Sydney College, as well as many other not-for-profit organizations, including the Boys and Girls Club, the Richmond Symphony Foundation, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for which he served as interim director while they searched for a new full-time director. Once the chairman of East Coast Oil Company, Allen is co-founder of The Clovelly Corpo-ration, which deals primarily in real estate, a business that keeps him as busy as he would like to be—which is very—but gives him the flexibility to travel extensively, one of his passions.

Passions are what drive Tom Allen. He is passionate for Hampden-Sydney College, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma, the track team, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is passionate about physical fitness and exercises daily. He is passionate about business and continues to develop new deals as he enters his 70s.

Allen says his goals as chairman are simple: better utilizing the talents of the Board of Trustees and finding a new president.

“Because of what President Bortz and others have done over

these last eight years—the new buildings, the hiring of high-quality faculty, the growth in the endowment,” he says, “it will be much easier to find the next president. We are looking for someone who understands that we are an all-male institution that wants to remain an all-male institution. We don’t need to go back and revisit that, because there is a niche for us. We all understand that we can not only survive in that niche but also

prosper,” he continues. “The Board is absolutely committed to find-ing what I call ‘a game breaker.’ We are not looking for an average person. We want someone who will continue to raise the bar and who will do it with passion.”

As chairman, Tom Allen wants the Board to focus on strategies for the College, rather than on the day-to-day issues of running it. “One of the two primary goals of a board is to deal with strategic issues [the other being to select a president] and yet we get caught up in the inner workings of various committees. On the one hand, we say boards should be focused on strategic issues; on the other hand, we don’t really give them a forum to discuss those issues. We are going to experiment with giving more

time at plenary sessions to discuss what I call the ‘big picture issues’—finding a great leader; fundraising; increasing the

awareness of the College beyond Virginia; changing demographics; and maintaining an

excellent faculty.”As Allen uses his passion for

Hampden-Sydney to lead the Board of Trustees, his passion will likely spread both to those who have long held dear this College and to those who have not yet heard its name.


Dr. Willard Bliss

College in 1958, was gone. However, with a growing enrollment and continued student interest in history, the department doubled with the hiring of Drs. Ronald L. Heinemann, Amos Lee Laine, and James Y. Simms, Jr.

While Heinemann came from the University of Virginia with the ink barely dry on his Ph.D., Laine had earned his master’s degree from Duke three years

earlier and had been teaching at Stratford College in Danville. Simms, who had

earned his master’s degree in 1965 from the University of Maryland, was a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University. They would both go on to earn their Ph.D.s in the 1970s, Laine from Duke and Simms from the University of Michigan.

Incidentally, the history depart-ment was not the only one to increase so rapidly in 1968; that same year saw the arrival of Dr. Herbert J. Sipe in chemistry and Dr. L. Neel Beard, Jr., in phys-ics. The ten new faculty hired that year increased the total number to 60—a figure the Fall 1968 issue of The Record called “the number required to give the college a quality teaching program on the basis of its current enrollment of 630.”

With the addition of Heine-mann, Laine, and Simms, the history department added many new courses: an expanded Ancient and Mediæval Civilization, The Far East, Renaissance and Reformation, and

Russian History, as well as a semester each of Greek and Roman History, courtesy of the classical studies depart-ment. U.S. history grew to include semesters in United States Diplomatic History, The Negro in America, and Studies in Twentieth-Century America. History majors were also required to take 12 credit hours “in any field outside American History,” as well as “at least one course in political science, economics, and philosophy.”

Each member of this trio cultivated his own flavor, passions, and reputation. Laine became known for his

HISTORY IS IMPORTANT at Hampden-Sydney College. We value our traditions, our position in the history of our country, our campus, and the people who have made Hampden-Sydney what it is today: a thriving, Southern college for men. We can easily look back on the Titans of Hampden-Sydney and see how they have influenced the College. What is not so easy is to look at those who walk the campus today and assess how their presence here will play out in the next chapter of our history.

Appropriately, our history department itself, which consists of those who mark the passage of time and reveal its lessons, is undergo-ing a major transfor mation with the retirements of four legendary professors and the arrival of new faculty. Thus it seems fitting to look back at how the department has changed during the past forty years and what may be in store for future Hampden-Sydney students.

In 1967, Dr. Willard Fran-cis Bliss and Dr. Martin Boyd Coyner were the history depart-ment. Their courses focused primarily on the history of the United States. European history was a close second, with courses on Modern Europe, England, and the British Empire. They also offered Ancient and Mediæval Civilization, which covered the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and Romans, feudalism, and “papal and secular governments.” The Twentieth-Century World, which was less than half a century old when Dr. Bliss arrived at Hampden-Sydney in 1948, was a two-semes-ter course looking at the escalation to World War II in the first semester and the development of what would become known as the Cold Ward during the second half of the year.

One year later, Dr. Coyner, who had come to the

Retirements and additions change the history department

Transformations in historyJOHN DuDlEy ’95

Dr. Boyd Coyner

“I never get tiredof teaching thesame courses.

I have a messageto give and each freshman class

is new.”DR. JamEs y. simms

History professor


expertise in all things English, Simms likewise for Russia. Heinemann’s interest in the Civil War and in 20th-century America, which was more “current events” than history in 1968, provided a much broader spectrum of history than Hampden-Sydney students had seen only one year earlier. When Dr. Keith W. Fitch came to The Hill in 1972—a D’Artagnan to their “Three Musketeers”—he added courses on Colonial America, the American Revolution, American foreign relations, and American intellectual history. Each has his own specialty within history, as well as a distinct personality, political belief, and teaching style. Amazingly, Dr. Fitch too brought a new perspective into the mix.

In the 2007-2008 Academic Catalogue, our ten-member History Department (half of whom have been hired in the last ten years) lists 31 different courses ranging from the time-honored United States and Civil War and Reconstruction to Latin American Survey, The Civil Rights Move-ment, and The French Revolution.

One might think that Dr. Bliss deserves much credit for hiring the incredibly diverse trio in 1968. Deeper historical research shows us, however, that Dr. Bliss actually had little to do with hiring them. Simms and Heinemann both say they met with Dr. Bliss, but it was really Dean of the Faculty Frank Simes who made the final decision. This is a stark contrast from today’s hiring method, which regularly requires candi-dates to give a public lecture, teach a class, and have dinner with the entire department.

Simms was originally offered a history job at Hampden-Sydney in 1967 by then-Dean William Holbrook, but he turned it down. A year later, when Frank Simes was dean and continuing the search, things had changed. Simms was recommended to Simes, who had ties to Simms’ alma mater in Michi-gan; Simes offered him the job again. Simms had been looking for a job in the East, closer to his family in Maryland, so this time he accepted. When Simms had interviewed at Hampden-Sydney a year earlier, he had also interviewed down the road at Hollins College.

One can only imagine what that would have been like for the women’s college!

During his hiring process, Heinemann says he came down for an afternoon, chatted with Dr. Bliss and then with Dean Simes. “That was about it.”

He adds that when he and others came in 1968 and into the early 1970s, the College had the luxury of having many Ph.D. recipients out looking for a job. “The College was fortunate to be able to tap into the surplus of Ph.D. graduates and to get pretty good people that it had not gotten in previous decades. What you see from the late 1960s into the mid-1970s is a dramatic change in the face of the faculty—a lot of young people coming in, families coming in, a higher level of scholarship—all for the good of the College.”

The history major at Hampden-Sydney is regularly the second or third most popular on campus. While economics, which is always the most popular major, might seem like the most practi-cal major in terms of getting a

profitable job and having a financially successful career, history provides students a greater opportunity to understand why people do the things they do.

Jim Simms says, “Students get an understanding of themselves, their society, their world. History does not repeat itself, but there are patterns in history that are familiar. It becomes a tremendous learning experience. You are looking at how humans relate to one another and to their environment, what mistakes they make, and where they are successful.”

Simms’ philosophy of history sounds more like he’s talking about psychology: “History is for understanding who you are and how you got that way.”

Despite forty years recounting the rise and fall of czarist Russia, Simms still loves his work. “A histo-rian is a storyteller. We are the keepers of that social memory—of what has been said and what has been done. What I try to communicate to the students is that they themselves are historians. I go out on a limb and say history is the most important thing you will ever study because everything that we know is history.”

Ron Heinemann, who was teaching 20th Century

“You need to make sure you are coming across clearly, that you are on target with your facts and figures. You don’t

want to be making mistakes here.”

DR. RONalD HEiNEmaNNHistory professor

Caroline Emmons

Ralph Hattox

Bob Blackman


America during much of the 20th century, explains how rejuvenating it is to teach. “The joy of teaching is that each year you have a new audi-ence out there. It keeps you fresh; it keeps you on your toes. You need to make sure you are coming across clearly, that you are on target with your facts and figures. You don’t want to be making mistakes here. Both mentally and physically it keeps you young.”

“When we arrived here in 1968, I was seven years out of undergradu-ate,” continues Heinemann, “so I was only seven or eight years older than my students. I was young like they were. Now, here I am many years older than they, but you still have the sense that you and they are together in this, that you are going through an experience for the first time. It’s a young audience and you feel invigorated by that.”

Since Fitch, Heinemann, Laine, and Simms arrived, a number of history faculty have come and gone and with those faculty there have been different approaches to the study of history.

Dr. Caroline Emmons, who arrived in 1998, was the first person hired by the History Department to begin replacing the legendary quartet. As a special-ist in modern American history and the Civil Rights movement, she was tapped to teach the courses made popular by Ron Heinemann.

“Luckily,” says Emmons, “I don’t think I appreci-ated, until I had already been here a while, how founda-tional that generation had been. If I had known that, I would have been pretty intimidated. However, nobody ever put it in those terms, for which I am grateful.”

Emmons thinks she was hired out of an adminis-trative desire to diversify the course offerings within the department. She expanded Heinemann’s single-semester Black History course into two semesters and has taught classes on Caribbean history and the closing of the Prince Edward County schools. “We are a small department when compared to a research university, but we actually have a pretty good range of classes.”

Dr. Ralph Hattox, the current department chair, agrees: “We have maintained a balance between being current and doing things the traditional way. We are

adding courses in different areas and in really intrigu-ing areas. For instance, one of the things that has been

going on in the study of modern American history is something called Atlantic World Studies. It is really big now. It’s not U.S. history; it’s not European history. It’s some-thing entirely different. It’s a new approach.”

Dr. John Coombs, who came to Hampden-Sydney in 2007, is the resident expert in Atlantic World Studies, though he was hired to teach Colonial American history. Developing new ways of looking at history—like Atlantic World Studies—will always come around, according to Heinemann. “There are all kinds of schools: economic determinism, geographic determin-ism, biography, political history, social history. Those are the areas where we have truly expanded: socio-economic history, ethnic history, women’s history, African-American history. In other words, we are moving beyond political studies of white men in Europe and the United States. We are now looking at what some people call

‘history from the ground up,’ looking at the histories of people who have not been given their due but who played significant roles in the larger history as well as their own personal life studies.”

Even the same professors change their approach to material throughout their careers. Hattox says, “I don’t teach Middle East the same way I taught it 19 years ago when I first came here. Since I am a Mediævalist, the material hasn’t changed, but my approach to it has changed. With the new people we have brought on, we haven’t lost anything, but we have added. Professor Emmons does Caribbean World. Professor Blackman has added courses in Imperialism. Professor Dinmore has taken the existing East Asian courses and added to them, like his course in post-war Japan. Our students like the traditional stuff, but at the same time, they are not closed-minded. As long as they think that the course is going to be a solid course—not based on fluff—taught by a real scholar, they are willing to approach this.”

Expanding the kinds of courses offered by the department necessitates hiring additional faculty, as

As a specialist in American

intellecctual history and foreign relations,

Keith Fitch added a new dimension to the department when he arrived

in 1972.

John Coombs

Kenneth Lehman

Nicole Greenspan


was done in 1992 when Dr. Kenneth Lehman was hired to cover the Latin American spectrum. Since 2000, four new faculty members have joined the department, effectively doubling its size again. “I think the people we have hired recently have a mixture of backgrounds. Some of them are from liberal arts backgrounds, but not everyone,” says Emmons, a ten-year veteran who—at times—feels a rela-tive newcomer.

In fact, Professor Bob Black-man, who earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside, began his studies at the liberal arts techni-cal school Harvey Mudd College. Eric Dinmore, who arrived in 2006, graduated from Pennsyl-vania’s Haverford College before pursuing advanced degrees at the University of Washington and Princeton University. Nicole Greenspan, who also arrived in 2006, preferred Canada’s larger York University and the University of Toronto. The latest addition to the department, John Coombs, got his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and his Ph.D. from The College of William & Mary.

Heinemann says, “We have folks who can offer a wider variety in historical studies than we could when there were only four or five of us. We have much more diversity in those studies than we ever had before and I think it is a real advantage to our students.”

This influx of youth, which resembles the changes in 1968, reminds Heinemann that the future of the department belongs to others and not to himself and his former colleagues. He says, “I remember coming in 1968 and looking at the faculty and thinking ‘What a bunch of old fogies.’ They must have thought of us as the ‘young Turks,’ the ‘rebels.’ Historians ought to be able to have the perspective to understand change as it takes place, the old being replaced with the new.”

Stepping away from teaching has been difficult for many—though not all—Hampden-Sydney profes-sors. Following his final semester in 2006, Amos Laine moved to Staunton to be closer to his family; he rarely returns. As a member of the history depart-ment, however, he is more the exception than the rule. Keith Fitch, who suffered a stroke in the 1980s, worked

tirelessly to return to the classroom. Heinemann says of Fitch, “He was not doing a full load and he was doing only the courses that he could adapt to a lecture style

of teaching, which was not his style. He much preferred a discussion type of class. That he had the courage to come back and to change his method of teaching really is a wonderful story that I commend him for.” Now in full retirement since 2003, Professor Fitch still lives on campus with his wife Carol. As lovers of chamber music, they are both very active in working with the Hampden-Sydney Music Festival.

Heinemann himself continues teaching one semester a year, though he officially retired in 2004. He and his wife Sandra enjoy traveling during the rest of the year, but are regularly seen at lectures and sport-ing events on campus.

The one who is having the hardest time facing retirement is Jim Simms, the boisterous and opinionated professor who remains a favorite of students. He has only just begun a phased retirement plan, though he says he will continue teaching for a while longer: “I never get tired of teaching the same courses. I have a message to give and

each freshman class is new.”After Simms retires, Ralph Hattox, who came in

1989, will become the most senior member of the depart-ment, a distinction he approaches with mixed emotions. “In some ways I feel nostalgic because I am very, very fond of Professors Simms, Heinemann, Laine, and Fitch, the people who were involved in hiring me and who served as friends and colleagues and mentors for many years. To see them retire one by one, I get a little wistful. Though, as fond as I am of the colleagues who are gone, I also have tremendous affinity for the colleagues we have added.”

Self-examination can be difficult. It seems like those who are adept at studying others would be able to look at themselves with some objectivity, but it is not always that easy. For the senior members of our history depart-ment faculty—themselves a vital part of the history of Hampden-Sydney College—this is a period of reflection. As these faculty engage in various stages of retirement, a new crop of capable, young historians arrives to take their place in the corridors of Morton Hall and to uphold the high esteem the department has earned.

Though a graduate of Randolph-Macon

College, Amos Lee Laine became a student

favorite and a beloved professor at Hampden-Sydney.

Eric Dinmore

Kirk Pilkington


AFTER MORE THAN 34 YEARS of teaching young men the intricacies of biology, Dr. Anne Casteen Lund has retired. However, like many of her colleagues, she will continue teaching for at least one more semester.

During her career on The Hill, she has led many students to careers in science and medicine, educated young men about the changing roles of women in the workplace and society, and established herself as the kind of supportive professor Hampden-Sydney College prides itself on having.

Dr. Lund came to the College during the 1974-75 academic year as a replacement for Blanche Johnson, a biology instructor whose unexpected departure left the department in a lurch. Dr. Lund was then living in Farmville; she and her husband Michael had completed their Ph.D.s at Emory University and he was teaching English at her alma mater, Longwood College. After learning through the grapevine that Mrs. Johnson was leaving, Dr. Lund called Hampden-Sydney. “They were amazed,” she recalls, “that there was a Ph.D. biologist sitting here in Farmville looking for a job.”

Despite what many people think, Dr. Lund was not the first female faculty member at Hampden-Sydney. As noted earlier, she replaced Blanche Johnson in the biology department. Also on the faculty was Assistant Professor of Mathematics Annie Alexander, who had arrived in 1973 and stayed only one year.

As the first tenure-track female professor at the College, though, Dr. Lund says her students have

always treated her with respect. “Students think they know literature and history; they can talk about that. They didn’t know my language. I have a body of knowledge that they hadn’t quite gotten; that gives a woman scientist an advantage in a male setting.”

Her colleague in the Biology Department for more than three decades, Professor Bill Shear, says, “Anne can connect with students in a way few professors know how to do. She is a real mentor to them.” He is quick to praise her intellect as well, saying, “She has done more independent research projects than anyone else in the department—ever—and nearly every student from our department who has gone on to earn an advanced degree did so because of her.”

Dr. Lund, however, will tell you that her two great-est contributions at the College were increasing the awareness of opportunities for computing and being a part of the creation of the Gender Issues Committee.

Alumni hoping to find Dr. Lund will not have to look very far. She and her husband plan on staying at their home in Farmville. She will keep busy with her daily visits to her sister who is living with multiple scle-rosis and she will remain active in her church and the Episcopal Campus Ministry for local college students. Dr. Lund keeps in touch with many of her former students and she looks forward to many more years of hearing about their successes and achievements, many of which they would not have reached without her help and inspiration.

Biology teacher for 34 years

Anne Lund retiresBy JOHN DuDlEy ’95

Professor Anne Lund (center) and the biology majors plant a tree in her honor beside Gilmer Hall, the science building.


HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE IS PROUD that many of its alumni have taken the lessons in honor and ethics they learned here to secondary schools around the country. Some are teachers or coaches; others are administrators. Regardless of their job, these men become positive role models for the young people of their communities.

To encourage more young men to become teach-ers in public schools and to support students who have already decided on that chosen career path, the College has provided financial support for some 25 years. In 1983, we established the Young Teachers Program. Two years later, this program was funded by The Brown Foundation of Houston, Texas, with a $63,000 grant. Students were eligible for loans of $1,500 that would be canceled after the recipient completed three years of instruc-tion in a public school. Over the years, the loan amount has grown to nearly $4,000.

Since 1985, the College has given 51 students these teach-ing loans, including the 2008 recipient, junior James C. Hyatt. Some students did not enter the profession and repaid the money. However, many use the money to pay for teacher certification courses or graduate school and continue on to teach in public schools. This past spring, the Math Club invited three previous Brown Teaching Fellowship recipients—Andrew T. Gray ’87, Patrick B. Kane ’87, and David K. Blackwell ’87—to return to campus to discuss teacher certifica-tion, continuing education, and interesting aspects of their jobs.

Kane, a math teacher and head football coach at Hermitage High School in Henrico, says, “My father was a teacher and my mother was a stay-at-home mom, so the Fellowship was a major help in paying for college. I always knew I wanted to teach, so the Fellowship was kind of a reward for picking this noble profession.”

Like Kane, Andy Gray is a math teacher and coach who always knew that this is what he wanted to do. He adds, “The Brown Teaching Fellowships and the Christa McAuliffe awards made it clear that the College supported those of us who wanted to teach. The positive relationships I formed with faculty and staff at Hampden-Sydney have been great examples of the bonds that I try to build with students and with basketball players at Gar-Field Senior High School.”

Jamie Hyatt plans on using his Brown Fellowship to help pay for graduate school, where he will pursue both teacher certification and a master’s degree. He says, “I will graduate next December. I hope that

will give me some time to get a little experience in the field as a substitute teacher back home in Roanoke. Ultimately, I want to teach at the high school level, and, since I am a football player here at Hampden-Sydney, I may even pursue some coaching.”

Because not all Fellowship recipients went on to teach in public schools, which is a requirement for receiving the loan, we have been able to extend this program well beyond its originally designated six years. The end, however, is in sight. We estimate that funds for Brown Teaching Fellow-ships will be exhausted within

three years. We have been investigating new funding sources for these teaching fellowships, so that our students who desire this career path can get tangible support from the College.

Teaching is a valuable career that often does not get the respect and attention it deserves. By support-ing the teaching fellowships, Hampden-Sydney can ensure that young people can depend on our alumni to be the positive role models they need. With the help of our alumni and friends, we can continue to encourage young men to become teachers of and mentors for our youth long after the original gift from the Brown Family Foundation has been exhausted.

The Brown Teaching Fellowship

Supporting aspiring teachersJOHN DuDlEy ’95

“The Brown Teaching Fellowships and the Christa McAuliffe

awards made it clear that the College

supported those of us who wanted

to teach.”aNDREW T. GRay ’87Brown Teaching Fellow

David K. Blackwell ’87

Andrew T. Gray ’87

Patrick B. Kane ’87


Commencement 2008Spirits were high despite unusually cool temperatures and the threat of rain on May 11 as the Class of 2008 assembled on Venable Lawn for commencement. Two hundred and sixteen students received their diplomas and a copy of the Bible.

The Commencement Address was given by Maurice A. Jones ’86, publisher of the Virginian-Pilot. As a student, Mr. Jones was known for his extraordi-nary work ethic and was rewarded with induction into Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa and elec-tion to the Student Court and to the presidency of the Student Body. His academic record earned him the position of valedictorian of his class, and he was the first Hampden-Sydney College student to receive the Truman Fellowship and the second ever to be named a prestigious Rhodes Scholar. Mr. Jones earned a master’s degree in international relations from Oxford University in England and a doctor of jurisprudence from the University of Virginia. He has practiced law at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, served as

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On the Hillthe deputy chief of staff for the Governor of Virginia, and was the commissioner of social services for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Since 2005, he has worked for Landmark Communications.

As is common among commencement speakers, Mr. Jones offered advice to the graduating class. He told the young men to find and pursue their passion: “That is probably the best thing that you can do to ensure that you will bring to whatever you do—to whatever that passion is—something extra that will make you irreplaceable. And this is not just in work, but also in life.”

Mr. Jones also encouraged the graduates to travel. “Traveling changed my life. Traveling enabled me to empathize more with the rest of the world. Perhaps the most valuable thing it allowed me to do was to be more self-critical of our own country, to see things about it that I did not see before going abroad. That has been very helpful for me as we tackle the tough problems we have in this country, whether it be poverty, or an education system that is struggling, or uninsured families. Now, I’ll tell you what it hasn’t done; it hasn’t

Father Joseph Metzger ’84 delivered the baccalaureate sermon.

Maurice Jones ’86, Hampden-Sydney’s second Rhodes Scholar and publisher of the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, gave the Commencement address.


Valedictorian Brandon Stultz proposed to his

girlfriend in his speech.

made me any less humbled or any less proud of being from the United States. There is something special about this place, but it’s also something that we have to work hard to maintain.”

The final bit of advice to the graduates likely met the approval of the parents in the audience. He said, “Call your parents every day. Tell them that you love them. Give them a chance to tell you they love you.”

Many seniors were recognized for their personal achievement and contribution to the College. The Gammon Cup, named in memory of Dr. Edgar G. Gammon, Class of 1905 and College President from 1939 to 1955, is given to the graduating senior “who has best served the College. Character, scholarship, and athletic ability are considered;” this year’s recipient was Andrew J. Prehmus, a summa cum laude English major who served as president of the Student Body during his junior year and established himself as a leader on the Tiger basketball team.

The Anna Carrington Harrison Award for the junior or senior who has “shown the most construc-tive leadership during the school year” was given to seniors M. Watson Mulkey, chairman of the Student Court, and James L. Gresham II, president of the Student Body.

The Samuel S. Jones Phi Beta Kappa Award in recognition for academic excellence was given to magna cum laude graduate W. T. Hillman Terzian for his honors research project, Patterns of Antibi-otic Resistance Observed in Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-Positive Coagulase-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Hampden-Sydney Students.

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion, “given to a member of the graduating class distinguished for excellence of character and generous service to his fellows,” was awarded to John M. Boswell, Jr., a respected campus leader and resident advisor known for his “playful yet careful guidance to countless freshmen.” The Medallion is also given to “other recipients chosen from friends of the College who have been conspicuously helpful to the institution in its effort to encourage and preserve a high standard of morals;” this year’s recipient is W. Birch Douglass III ’65. Mr. Douglass has long served the College on campaign committees and is a lifetime member of the Society of Founders.

Four faculty members were honored for their contributions to Hampden-Sydney College this year. The Cabell Award, for “a Hampden-Sydney faculty member in recognition of outstanding classroom contribution to the education of Christian young men,” was given to Elliott Professor of Biology Alex-

ander J. Werth. Dr. Werth is known for his enthusi-asm, fairness, availability, and teaching skill.

For “the member of the faculty or staff most distinguished for active devotion and service to the College and its ideals,” the Robert Thruston Hubard IV Award was given to Library Director Sharon I. Goad, who tirelessly researched and contributed to the design of Hampden-Sydney College’s new library, from the building’s inception to its completion and opening to students.

The Thomas Edward Crawley Award, for “that professor most distinguished for devoted service to the ideals of Hampden-Sydney College and the education of its sons,” was given to Elliott Professor of Mathematics Gerald M. Bryce. Having taught at the College since 1978, he has instilled a love of mathe-matics in hundreds of students and inspired many to become successful teachers in their own right.

The final award given at commencement was the Senior Class Award, which recognizes “the member of the faculty, administration, or staff who in the eyes of the Class members has contributed during their four years most significantly to the College, its students, and the community.” This year’s recipient, who has had a profound effect on the students in his first year on campus, was Wheat Professor of Leadership Lt. General (Ret.) William G. Boykin.

Possibly the most surprising moment of the morn-ing came when physics major and first-honor graduate R. Brandon Stultz delivered his valedictory address. After reflecting on the lessons he learned at Hampden-Sydney and Socrates’ observation that the unexamined life is not worth living, he announced to the crowd that he had fallen in love. Mr. Stultz then stunned the crowd—and his girlfriend Christa Anne Leotti—by proposing to her from the stage while the crowd cheered and applauded in happiness for the couple. Thankfully, she said, “yes.” Brandon’s proposal drew attention from the Richmond Times-Dispatch; in that article Dean of the Faculty Earl Fleck said, “When I realized what he was doing, I was fervently hoping that his intended would say yes. How embarrassing if she said no.” It turns out that the couple—who have been dating for more than a year—had already discussed marriage and Brandon had already infor-mally proposed.


Alphonso O’Neil-White ’72, far left, speaks with Presi-dent Bortz, Professor Ron Heinemann, and former student body president Hakim Sutton ’03 at the Black Alumni Mentorship Reunion.

First African-Americangraduate addresses reunionHampden-Sydney College’s first African-American student and graduate returned to the campus, for the first time since graduating, when he spoke at the 2008 Black Alumni Mentorship Reunion Weekend.

Alphonso O’Neil-White ’72 is the president and CEO of HealthNow New York, Inc., which oper-ates BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueShield of Northeastern New York. He is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and serves on the board of many organizations, including the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.

Mr. O’Neil-White spoke to a large number of students and alumni, recalling some of his fond memories of being a student at Hampden-Sydney.

“I was—without question—embraced by the Hampden-Sydney community, and I was nurtured by it,” he said. “The College’s traditions of high academic expectations, achieve-

ment, and behavior have served me throughout my entire life. In many ways, the Hampden-Sydney spirit has been with me every day since I stepped on this campus on that lush, fall, sunny day in 1968.”

He credits his parents with instilling in him the means and the spirit to overcome what he called his family’s state of “abject poverty.” They taught him to “be proud of who you are, demonstrate self-confidence at all times, be smart, never settle for less, and—most important—dare to dream. Dare to dream of a better place, and a better life, and a better world.”

When he arrived at Hampden-Sydney as a fresh-man in 1968, the country was in great turmoil. The Civil Rights Movement was reaching a boiling point after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,

Jr., and the war in Vietnam was dividing the country.

As members of the Hampden-Sydney community debated what the College’s role should be during that time—one that sheltered academic pursuits from current events or one that was active in those events—O’Neil-White, as well as all of the students at the time, was growing.

“I characterize my time at Hampden-Sydney as a time of

“I was—without question—

embraced by the Hampden-

Sydney community, and I was nurtured

by it.”alPHONsO O’NEil-WHiTE ’72

President and CEO ofHealthNow New york, inc.


becoming aware, not a coming of age, not becoming a man, not merely an awareness of other people, but an awareness of my essential self. This awareness allowed me to develop the sense of character necessary to maxi-mize my time at the College and to create the founda-tion for my successes in life, law, and business.”

He continued: “I came to Hampden-Sydney ready for a fight, but I learned very quickly that the war was within me and I would have to win that battle in order to thrive here. I came here ready to teach a bunch of white kids a lesson or two about black folks, but I ended up learning much more than I taught. I learned that it was pretty arrogant of me to presume to know everything about black people, and even more arrogant to presume that I could speak for them, because they are not all alike and they surely don’t all think alike, and, by the way, such is the case with white Americans. I came thinking that I had no prejudices, no biases, no bigotries, but I learned that I had just as many—if not more—as the people I sought to change.”

As he concluded his remarks before the students, O’Neil-White left them with these words: “If you want to create a more tolerant, respectful, just, inclusive world, then you must become the embodiment of those things yourself. You cannot change it if you are not changed. I learned this in the most profound way here at Hampden-Sydney, as I embraced the true spirit of the College.”

Hardy Receives Mettauer Award for researchThe John Peter Mettauer Award for Excellence in Research was presented to Dr. Sarah B. Hardy, Elliott Associate Professor of English during Final Convoca-tion on April 22. Hampden-Sydney College annually gives The John Peter Mettauer Award in recognition of outstanding research achievement by a faculty member. Dr. Hardy has been with the College since 1995.

In presenting the award, Provost and Dean of the Faculty Earl Fleck’s citation read, “‘Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of a Trekkie professor, her many years’ mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new readings and new interpretations, to boldly go where no woman has gone before.’ This modification of the opening lines from the original Star Trek series captures many elements of the research interests of this year’s Mettauer award recipient. She has been intrigued with the evolution of this series not only because of her interest in tele-visual narrative but also because of her interest in gender studies. Her work on Star Trek led to the publication in 1999 of an article titled ‘A Paramount Narrative: Exploring Space on the Starship Enterprise.’ In 2005 her professional interest in space—both outer space and other kinds of spaces—resulted in the publication of a co-edited collection of essays titled Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal through Politics, Home, and the Body, a volume to which she contributed an introduction and a chapter on ‘Breeding Ambiguity: the Womb as Alien Space in the X-Files.’ Her interest in gender studies includes not only issues of feminism, but also men’s studies. Just this month, she presented a paper titled ‘Creating Good Men at Good Colleges: towards insti-tutional vision in single-sex education’ at the American Men’s Studies Association Conference, a timely and important topic for Hampden-Sydney College.”

“Dr. Hardy also has published on literary narra-tives, including articles on ‘The Art of Diagnosis,’ an exploration of medicine and narrative in short stories that appeared in the journal Narrative, and on the short story and oral narrative theory, published in Style, a journal in the field of literary studies.”

The Mettauer Award is given in honor of John Peter Mettauer, who was born in 1787 in Worsham and studied at Hampden-Sydney College and later at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took a medical degree. A medical pioneer, Mettauer developed surgical procedures and instruments that, with refinements, are still in use today.

Dean of the Faculty Earl Fleck with professor Sarah

Hardy, winner of the Mettauer Award for excel-lence in scholarly research.


Alumni recognized for serviceThe annual Patrick Henry Award, given by the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest for significant contributions to the nation, home state, and/or local communities, was presented to Mark R. Cruise ’82 in recognition of his service to the people of Virginia and to Leighton D. Yates, Jr. ’68 for his service to the people of Florida.

A Patrick Henry Honor Scholar at Hampden-Sydney College, Mark Cruise was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and played basketball as well. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in reli-gion, he enrolled at Boston University where he earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1985. He then accepted a call to become pastor of the Columbia Baptist Church in Columbia Station, Ohio.

Cruise moved into the health field in the early 1990’s, first serving as Senior Planner for the Compre-hensive Health Investment Project of Virginia. He eventually became the executive director at the Free Clinic of the New River Valley in Christiansburg and then spent ten years as executive director of the Virginia Association of Free Clinics in Glen Allen.

Cruise founded Free Clinic Solutions in 2006 and currently serves as its principal. This organization provides customized training, technical assistance, consulting, and other support services to Free Clinics and related associations, partners, and suppliers. Cruise has also been actively involved in the development of the National Association of Free Clinics and the Free Clinic Association Executives Council.

Always involved in his community as well, Cruise is currently chair of the Virginia Network of Nonprofit Organizations and a member of the Phoenix Project’s Community Advisory Board. He co-founded two other organizations: Partnership for Access to Health-care and Virginians for Improving Access to Dental Care. He has been active in the Rotary Club, several child abuse prevention groups, various church and ministerial affiliated groups, parent-teacher organiza-tions, youth baseball, and the Chamber of Commerce.

At Hampden-Sydney, Leighton Yates, who gradu-ated with a degree in English, was vice president of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and was a member of Eta Sigma Phi, the classics honorary society.

Serving his country as a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. army, Yates earned the Bronze Star, the Vietnam Service Medal, and Vietnam Campaign Medal. He obtained his JD with high honors from the University of Florida in 1973. While there, he served as Executive Editor of the University of Florida Law Review and was

a member of three honor societies.Yates is currently an Equity Partner in Holland &

Knight LLP, a firm with which he has been associ-ated since 1998 and one of the largest law firms in the world. He has gained recognition as a top attorney by well-respected national, state, and local publica-tions, including The Best Lawyers in America, Leading Florida Attorneys, and Who’s Who in America.

Since 1975, Yates has been a volunteer director of Florida’s Blood Centers. He served as Vice Chairman of the Board of this organization from 1980 to 1995, and since 1995 he has served as the Chairman of the Board. His efforts led to expansion of a local blood bank providing about 30,000 units of blood annually to hospitals in five Florida counties, to the current annual tally of 350,000 units to over 70 hospitals in 23 Florida counties. This makes Florida Blood Centers, Inc. the fourth largest independent blood center in the United States. In 2004, Yates was named Board Member of the year by the Florida Association of Blood Banks.

Yates’ other extracurricular activities include serv-ing for over ten years on the Board of Directors of Orlando’s Opera Company, with stints as president and as chairman. He has served two four-year terms on the Florida Board of Bar Examiners, with terms as chair and vice chair. He also has been involved with the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commis-sion, where he currently is Director of the Corporate Council, and, last but certainly not least, with the Boy Scouts of America as a scoutmaster and den leader.

The Patrick Henry Award for Public Service was presented to Leighton D. Yates, Jr. ’68 (left) and Mark R. Cruise ’82.


Alumni join Dean’s staffTwo alumni have joined the office of the Dean of Students at Hampden-Sydney College. Mladen V. Cvijanovic ’08 of Belgrade, Serbia, is the director of new student orientation and intercultural affairs, and John R. C. Ramsay ’05 of Raleigh, North Carolina, is the director of student activities and organizations.

Mladen majored in psychology and minored in Spanish; he was inducted into Psi Chi, the psychology honor society. He was active on campus as a member of the volunteer fire department, the rescue squad, and the police department. In his senior year, Mladen was a head resident advisor and a founding member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, which had been absent from campus for a number of years. He also worked for two years as a team leader in the Fitness Center.

Before returning to Hampden-Sydney, John was working in project management for Clear Water Enterprises and hardware sales in eastern North Caro-lina. He earned a degree in English and was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society. John was an active member of Sigma Nu fraternity, the volunteer fire department, the Outsiders Club, and the Faculty-Student Affairs Committee.

Both Mladen and John are alumni of The Society of 1791, Hampden-Sydney’s rigorous leadership train-ing program.

Mladen V. Cvijanovic ’08, new director of student

orientation and intercul-tural affairs, and John R. C. Ramsay ’05, new direc-

tor of student activities and organizations.

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE WILL R AFFLE THIS

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MR. & MRS. CHUCK LUCAS ’59APPROXIMATELY 61,000 ACTUAL MILES

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Faculty-Staff profiles

Inspiring others to lifetime fitnessJaNE KuPKOWsKi, DiRECTOR OF TiGER RECREaTiON, aQuaTiCs, aND iNTRamuRals

AS DIRECTOR OF TIGER RECREATION and a strength and conditioning coach for Hampden-Sydney College, I have had the opportunity to pursue my pas-sion and purpose in life as a personal trainer, nutrition consultant, and wellness lifestyle coach. This passion began at the age of 16 when I decided to train for the Chicago Marathon, to raise over $1,000 for the Ameri-can Cancer Society. It became clear to me at that time that I wanted to dedicate my life to inspire and help others seek “lifetime fitness.”

I began motivational speaking to young athletes and children who dealt with self-esteem issues and eating disorders, as well as teaching behavior modification classes at a local hospital. Then I ventured out to high schools, colleges, conferences, and hospitals all over the country. My main focus was that at any level they are able to accomplish anything. As a strong Christian, I wholeheartedly believe that people never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher than themselves. This I try to instill in others.

As a trainer, it is important to me to become a role model at work as well as in the community. I competed in my first fitness and bodybuilding show in 2003 and advanced in less than a year to National Physique Committee (NPC) level, winning two competitions and qualifying for Junior Nationals in 2005.

During my four years at Southern Illinois University, I challenged my clients to run marathons with me or to train

for fitness competitions. I ran in four marathons and two short-distance races, and competed in a bodybuild-ing show with my clients. As a role model, since actions speak louder than words, you must establish yourself personally and professionally in order to help others dedicate their lives to change.

Four years ago Pride Nutrition, a major nutritional company located in Chicago, Illinois, named me a sponsored athlete and fitness model. Over the last eight years as a professional athlete, I have competed in 13 marathons, four ultra-marathons, over 65 5K and 10K races, two decathlons, three triathlons, three NPC fitness competitions, and Junior Nationals in Chicago. Recently, in Hampton I ran in a 24-hour event benefit-ing cancer research. After covering 76 miles in 21 hours, I had broken four records and qualified for a 100-mile mountain marathon.

Coming from a family of breast cancer victims and survivors, raising $45,000 for breast cancer research during the three-day Avon Breast Cancer Walk for the Cure was another highlight of my career. My mother passed away from breast cancer when I was very young, and I decided then that I would not live my life in fear. I prefer to run races and to live every day to its fullest.

lEFT: Tiger Recreation director Jane KupkowskiFaR lEFT: Jane competing in an adventure race and with some fellow competitors.


following the recent departure of Head Coach Ryan C. “Bubba” Smith.

“It is an awesome feeling to become the head coach at my alma mater,” Vick said. “Hampden-Sydney is an incredibly special place and returning to the community with my family is a dream come true. I want to thank Coach Tony Shaver, Athletic Director Joe Bush, President Walter Bortz, Dr. Paul Baker, Dean Anita Garland, and Dave Wilson ’63 for the opportunity. Without their leadership and support this wouldn’t have been possible.”

Vick played four years of basketball under Shaver, starting for three seasons at shooting guard. He helped the Tigers to a four-season record of 79-31 (.718), which included a pair of Old Dominion Athletic Conference championships and two appearances in the NCAA Division III Sweet 16.

After Vick graduated with a degree in psychology, he joined Shaver as a coach. The pair led the Tiger hoops squad to an astounding 118-28 (.808) record, four NCAA Division III Tournament berths, and an appearance in the national championship game in 1999, where the 29-3 Tigers ultimately fell to Wiscon-sin-Platteville in an epic, double-overtime affair.

Following his time with Hampden-Sydney, Vick moved on to assist at East Carolina University for two seasons. In 2001-02, Vick served as a special assistant to Dave Odom at the University of South Carolina, the same season that the Gamecocks advanced to the championship game of the National Invitation Tour-nament (NIT). Vick left Columbia in 2002-03 for the College of Charleston, where he helped guide the Cougars to a 25-8 record and a berth in the NIT.

Vick joined his former college coach at William and Mary in 2003-04, and along with Shaver, had been a vital asset to the recent rise of the Tribe basket-ball program. With the Dee Vick era on the horizon, Coach Bush took the time to express the excitement and gratitude of many Tiger hoops fans. “I am espe-cially pleased that we are able to find such a qualified former player and coach to continue the Hampden-Sydney College basketball tradition of excellence,” said Bush. “Coach Vick brings to The College a wealth of experience, both as a recruiter and coach. He is a perfect fit for the position.”

Dee Vick returns to lead hoopsFormer Hampden-Sydney College basketball stand-out Durant G. “Dee” Vick, Jr. ’94 has returned to The Hill as the 18th head coach of the Tiger basket-ball team. Vick, who served the last five years as the top assistant under former Hampden-Sydney Hall of Fame basketball coach Tony Shaver at The College of William and Mary, returns to his alma mater

News from the fields and courts

Fall sports roundupmaTT GREEN ’07, sPORTs iNFORmaTiON DiRECTOR

Dee Vick ’94 will lead the Tiger basketball effort this

year as the new head coach.


LacrosseHampden-Sydney’s spring athletic teams provided Tiger faithful with plenty of thrilling moments over the final three months of the 2008 academic year. The Tiger lacrosse squad treated home fans to one of the greatest wins in program history, erasing a two-goal deficit with less than two minutes remaining to force overtime against traditional ODAC powerhouse Roanoke College and eventually upend the Maroons on a heroic deciding strike in the extra frame. All-ODAC selections Doug Carpenter and Colin Dunn produced the late fireworks; Carpenter scored with 0.7 seconds remaining in regulation on a rip from fifteen yards out to force the fifth period, and Dunn, a senior long stick midfielder, notched a behind-the-head goal in overtime to seal the 13-12 victory. Dunn’s goal appeared on ESPN as one of the top-ten lacrosse goals of the year—for all divisions.

The Tigers placed seven players on the All-ODAC Men’s Lacrosse team. Dunn landed on the All-ODAC first team, his fourth first team nod, after tying a career high five goals, while setting a new career-best with four assists and leading the team in ground balls, scooping 66 on the year. Joining Dunn on the first team was fellow senior and defenseman Alex Pritzlaff, who earned his second consecutive first team honor as one of only two Tigers to start every game, picking up 46 ground balls.

Senior defenseman Ian York was the lone Tiger named to the second team while sophomore midfielder Kyle Jett, senior midfielder Kyle Frazier and senior defenseman Will Ashwell joined junior midfielder Carpenter on the honorable mention squad. Carpenter and Jett spearheaded the Hampden-Sydney attack all season and finished ranked first and second, respectively, on the team in goals and points. Carpenter tallied 24 goals and eight assists while Jett managed 23 goals and four helpers.

BaseballOn the diamond, Hampden-Sydney scored a 10-3 victory over visiting Roanoke College in the final game of the regular season to launch into the ODAC tournament. Needing a split with the Maroons in the final series of the season, the Tigers rebounded from a tough 4-3 loss in game one of the conference double-header before rallying from a 2-1, fifth inning deficit with nine runs in the final four innings in game two to ensure their tourney berth.

Three Tigers were named to the All-ODAC squad. Senior third baseman Daniel Prieto earned second team accolades after batting .302 with 35 hits, 18 RBI and 14 runs scored. On the base paths, Prieto success-fully stole eight bases in nine attempts. Senior hurler Daniel Hadra completed his stellar Hampden-Sydney career with an honorable mention All-ODAC nod. The durable Hadra posted a 5-8 record in 15 appear-ances, recording seven complete games en route to a 3.43 ERA. Hadra held opposing lineups to a .270 batting average while fanning 82 on the year.

Senior catcher David Toney was named to the ODAC All-Sportsmanship team after starting 39 games behind the plate for the Tigers. Toney batted .288 with ten doubles and a Hampden-Sydney best eight home runs in addition to his 33 RBI.

GolfHampden-Sydney’s golf team enjoyed one of its best seasons in recent history in 2008. Led by All-ODAC selections Nick Combs, Bob Boykin, and Rob Shrader, the Tigers placed third in the ODAC Golf Championships held at the Poplar Grove Golf Course in Amherst, VA. Hampden-Sydney’s three-day total of 929 was just 20 strokes behind tournament champion Washington and Lee.

The senior trio of Combs, Boykin, and Shrader paced Hampden-Sydney all season long. Combs and Boykin earned first team All-ODAC recognition with solid final campaigns. Combs led the team with a 75.9 stroke average, recording two top-five finishes and a top finish of third-place at the Tom O’Briant Invita-tional with a season-low round of 69. Boykin ranked second on the squad with a 76.0 stroke average and, in addition to his two top-five finishes, won medal-ist honors at the Virginia State Intercollegiate with a season-low round of 67 to help lead the Tigers to a second place team finish.

Shrader earned honorable mention accolades after recording a 78.4 stroke average and firing a season-low 69 in the opening round of the Camp LeJeune Intercollegiate.

Senior defenseman Alex Pritzlaff


Tennis: first-ever regional rank-ing, sweep of conference awardsSecond-year head tennis coach Murrie Bates did not take long to turn the Hampden-Sydney tennis program around. With two recruiting classes under his belt, Bates began to taste the fruits of his labor in 2008, leading the Tigers to a 14-3 overall record, No. 2 seed in the ODAC Tournament and a No. 14 rank-ing in the ITA Atlantic South Region rankings, the first such ranking in program history.

As if that was not sufficient, Bates’ Tigers fell one match short of winning the program’s third ODAC championship, falling in the conference title match to defending champion Washington and Lee.

Hampden-Sydney battled all season to earn every accolade, which followed upon the completion of the year. Sophomore sensation William Moss snagged his second consecutive ODAC Player of the Year award after posting a 11-2 overall singles record and climbing to as high as No. 7 in the ITA rankings. The reigning ODAC Rookie of the Year succumbed to an injury in the final match of the regular season and was unable to participate in the ODAC tournament, but still managed to hold a final ranking of No. 10 in the

region.

The Tigers swept the remaining postseason awards; freshman Rich Pugh followed in the footsteps of Moss in claiming ODAC Rookie of the Year accolades, senior Andrew McLeod was named ODAC Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and Bates was honored as the 2008 ODAC Coach of the Year.

Pugh went through the ODAC schedule nearly unscathed following an 8-1 ODAC season. He finished 15-2 overall, having gone 12-1 at No. 2 singles and 3-1 at No. 1 singles, and concluded the year rated 19th region-ally by the ITA in singles play.

McLeod boasted a 3.79 grade point average while double-majoring in chemistry and economics and commerce. He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa national honorary societies, and is a member of the Chi Beta Phi chemistry honor fraternity. On the court, McLeod earned second team All-ODAC honors in 2008.

New athletic facilities to be dedicated November 15On November 15, 2008, as the Hampden-Sydney Tigers prepare to take the field for The Game with long-time rival Randolph-Macon College, the College will dedicate the Kirk Athletic Center, which includes the Hellmuth, Kirk-Viar, and Krupin Wings. Festivities will begin at 10 am.

The renovated and expanded Kirk Athletic Center is home to all of the College’s field sports: football in the Krupin Wing; lacrosse and soccer in the Hell-muth Wing; baseball, tennis, and the administra-tive offices, conference rooms, and classrooms in the Kirk-Viar Wing. The new Hall of Fame Gallery will serve as a reminder of past triumphs and an inspira-tion for students as they enter the building through the new East Wing entrance. Snyder Hall memorial-

izes Lt. Stephen F. Snyder ’65, an outstand-ing basketball player and the only

Hampden-Sydney College alumnus killed in action in

Viet Nam. On November

15th we will recog-nize the generosity of

the many alumni and friends who made this

project possible, most notably John W. Kirk III ’72, Everett A. Hellmuth III ’75, Michael J. Krupin ’69, and Joseph F. Viar, Jr. ’63.

Sophomore sensation William Moss snagged his second consecutive ODAC Player of the Year award.

Andrew McLeod ’08


News from the Alumni Clubs

Homecoming PreviewRiCHaRD P. EPPERsON ii ’79, assT. ViCE-PREsiDENT FOR DEVElOPmENT & alumNi RElaTiONs

THE WATERS CUPThe South Hampton Roads Alumni Club and the Danville-Martinsville Alumni Club will receive the 2008 Waters Cup Award, which is presented annually at Homecom-ing to the outstanding Hampden-Sydney College alumni clubs across the country. The purpose of the Waters Cup is to inspire club creativity and promote friendly competition among various alumni groups across America. Selection is based on evaluations of alumni attendance, admis-sion yields, fundraising and career development objec-tives, and club initiatives.

New Reunion FormatHampden-Sydney College has examined and implemented several different class reunion formats over the past 20 years. Some reunions have been held in Richmond, some on campus, some with formal dinners, and some with informal receptions at College administrators’ homes. Local hotel accommoda-tions (or the lack thereof) have not boosted efforts to increase attendance, and securing reservations continues to be problematic. While the new Hampton Inn in Farmville has provided some relief, overnight stays during big week-ends like Homecoming and Commencement are difficult to obtain. Alumni have cited Friday-night travel, limited reception time together, and reunion expense as areas that need to be addressed. Our alumni association and, more specifically, our past reunion chairmen have given their advice in an attempt to provide the best class reunion experience possible.

As a result, we have decided to try a new format for this fall. A brief expla-nation follows:

The second annual Homecoming Golf Tournament (open for all alumni, parents, and friends and especially reunion class attendees) will begin late Friday morning, October 10, at The Manor Golf Club in Farmville. For alumni, parents, and friends wanting to play tennis instead of golf, the 30th Annual Thompson Cup Open will take place at 1 pm at the Varsity Courts on campus. All details are contained in the 2008 Homecoming brochure mailed to all alumni.

On Friday evening, the College’s focus will be on our two senior class reunions: the 1963 and the 1968 gatherings. Cocktails and dinner at Settle Hall will highlight the evening’s agenda; valet parking will be available. On Saturday, the 45th and 40th reunion classes will gather for a special lunch in the Lewis C. Everett Stadium lounge.

All other class reunion activities will begin on Saturday morning, October 11. President Bortz will greet alumni and friends at a coffee reception in the new library. A special faculty presentation (very popular last year) will begin around 10 a.m. Each reunion class will

have a specially desig-nated class tent along-side College Road near Cushing and the Founders Lot. These reunions are designed to be affordable, informal, and family-oriented—bring the kids and their friends. The class reunion registration fee will include tickets to the Homecoming Luncheon, special reserved seating at for the football game at Everett Stadium, and gifts—class t-shirts, caps, cups, and admission to a post-game party near Kirby Field House. To celebrate the 30th anniver-sary of the classic movie Animal House, who better to invite as the featured band than Otis Day and the Knights, voted America’s #1 Party Band!

H-SC alumni, parents, and friends won’t want to miss our 2008 Homecoming Weekend. We honor the classes of 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003 with our new format.

Reunion class members should check their mail for specific class reunion programming details, but go ahead and mark your calendars now.

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEHOMECOMING 2008

FRIDAY REUNIONS FOR CLASSES OF 1963 & 1968GAME DAY REUNIONS FOR CLASSES OF 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, & 1998-2008

FR IDAY, OCTOBER 10

9:30 AM: Second annual HOMECOMING GOLF TOURNAMENT at the Manor Golf Club in Farmville; shotgun start at 11 am. Contact Tournament Director Jim Ennis ’72 at (434) 547-3489 or [email protected]. $250 per person; proceeds benefit H-SC Annual Fund.

1 PM: 30th Annual THOMPSON TENNIS CHALLENGE at the Varsity Courts. Round-robin format open to alumni, parents, and friends. Join current Tiger coaches and players for a great afternoon! No charge.

4 PM: ALUMNI PUBLIC SERVICE FORUM, Parents & Friends Lounge.Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest.

6 PM: COCKTAILS AND DINNER for the Classes of 1963 and 1968 in Settle Hall. Specific details mailed to class members.

SAT UR DAY, OCTOBER 11

8 AM: COFFEE with President Walter M. Bortz III in the new Library.

9 AM: ACADEMIC LECTURE EXPERIENCE with Dr. Alex Werth, Elliott Professor of Biology: “Sea Change: The Rise and Fall of Coral Reefs.” Chairman’s Room, Settle Hall.

10 AM: CLASS REUNION ACTIVITIES for the Classes of 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998-2008. Join classmates and friends on Cushing lawn under class tents. Specific details mailed to class members.

10 AM: LACROSSE ALUMNI GAME. Tigers past and present play an exhibition game at Hellmuth-Pritzlaff Field.

11 AM: HOMECOMING LUNCH & AWARDS CEREMONY, Cushing Lawn. Join reunion attendees for our Homecoming feast. Cost $15 per person (children under 10 free). The Waters Cup will be presented to the South Hampton Roads and Danville-Martinsville alumni clubs. The Alumni Citation will honor an outstanding volunteer.

1 PM: GLEE CLUB & MEN’S CHORUS ALUMNI pre-game performance of the National Anthem and school songs. Gather at Crawley Forum to rehearse, 12 NOON.

1 PM: FOOTBALL GAME vs. Emory & Henry College at Fulton Field. Don’t miss this classic rivalry!

3 PM: SOCCER GAME vs. Randolph College at Miller Field. Support the Tigers!

4 PM: POST-GAME PARTY WITH OTIS DAY & THE KNIGHTS (voted America’s #1 party band) at Kirby Field House parking lot. The original Animal House star performs a special concert for students, alumni, and friends. Admission Free!

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The 2008 Homecoming brochure mailed to all alumni.


Keynote speaker Ronald Shiflett, Jr. ’74 exlained how industry deals with carbon emissions quotas.

An annual event, the Summer College attracts many Tigers and friends of the College to the Hill. Orga-nized by the Office of Alumni Relations and members of the faculty, the Summer College usually examines one topic and issues related to it. This year’s Summer College was held during the weekend of June 6-8, and its topic was “Global Warming: The End of Develop-ment as We Know It?”

Since the weekend of the Summer College fell during a record-breaking heat wave, which saw the temperature hit 100, the topic of global warming seemed especially relevant although the organizers disclaimed any credit for the “special effects.” Visiting scholars, faculty, and alumni working in related fields made presentations which went beyond the discussion of whether climate change is man-made or not. As indicated by the title, the presenters critically analyzed the economic impact of global climate change.

Ronald Shiflett, Jr. ’74, executive director of the International Utility Efficiency Partnerships Inc. (IUEP), which was established during the Clinton administration, delivered the keynote address. The mission of the IUEP is to reduce emissions by develop-ing environmentally friendly energy projects. Providing a perspective from the viewpoint of the industry, Mr. Shiflett talked about the occurring signs of climate change (e.g. increasing overall temperature), with-out engaging in a debate regarding the origin of this phenomenon. Mr. Shiflett asserted that the electric industry is forced to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses and that the list of possible solutions includes hydroenergy, wind power, fossil fuels, carbon seques-tration, biomass, and geothermal energy.

Through responsibility for 32 projects in 12 coun-tries, Mr. Shiflett has become aware that little has been done voluntarily in order to reduce emissions in the United States. Data show that for the period start-ing in 1990 and ending in 2005, CO2 has increased 25% relative to 17.6% growth in the economy. In fact, Virginia and the two Carolinas emit as much green-house gas as industrialized South Korea. Mr. Shiflett discussed the energy policies of the (then) presidential candidates, Senators Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, and John McCain. While discussing how emissions are dependent on the efficiency of coal plants, Mr. Shiflett

expressed concern about the efficiency of U.S. coal plants. As the technology ages, the steam cycle becomes less efficient and emissions grow disproportionately to energy production.

Another session was presented by Dr. Ken Townsend and Dr. Saranna Thornton, both members of the economics department at Hampden-Sydney. Dr. Townsend introduced Russian research which asserts that heat output from economic activity doubles every ten years, which is much faster than the rate of economic growth, threatening sustainability in the long run. Then Dr. Townsend proposed that future generations will not be able to enjoy the same benefits of energy we currently enjoy. He then explained the cost of reducing emissions, which increases for every additional ton. In conclusion Dr. Townsend talked about the Cap and Trade policy to reduce emissions, preferred by both businesses and government due to its low cost and minimal regulatory character.

Dr. Thornton discussed the macroeconomic impact of the global climate change. As a whole, she asserted that various costs will rise. Damages and building costs will tend to increase, due to the higher frequency of hurricanes. Also, energy costs will rise because more energy will be used for refrigeration and air condition-ing. A third increase will be observed in water costs, due to shortages caused by the warmer weather. She asserted that debating whether climate change is a result of human activity will not help much. According to Dr. Thornton, solving the problem needs to be a collective action, because it is non-excludable (it affects everyone) and non-divisible, such as national security, so it is not solvable by the market. Dr. Thornton talked about policy options, despite the lack of a road map for solving the problem in its entirety. Promoting energy efficiency seems clearly to be one of the ways to start to deal with climate change.

Other sessions of the forum covered a variety of topics such as the origin of climate change, business leadership, and even a critical analysis of the film An Inconvenient Truth. In addition to being educational and informative, the Summer College is a time favored by many alumni, who wish to return to their college years and to enjoy mingling with faculty, staff, and other alumni.

Dr. Sandy McLaughlin ’65 analyzed the scientific evidence of the problem.

Dr. Charles Sydnor critiqued the media’s role in

presenting both sides of the global warming debate.

Summer College tackles global warmingiVO iVaNOV GyuROVsKi ‘09


Through These GatesWe’ve reached our goal!As we celebrate reaching our total fundraising goal of $91 million for Through These Gates: A Campaign for Hampden-Sydney College, we continue working to reach sub-category goals for a number of initiatives.

It was through a generous $1-million gift by the Barksdale Dabney Henry Fund, which is headed by the great-great-great granddaughter of Hampden-Sydney College trustee and Amer-ican patriot Patrick Henry, Mrs. Margaret Henry Penick Nuttle, that we surpassed our total goal. This gift, whose historical ties to the College seem very appropriate, has gone toward our new library, which our students have utilized at a remarkable level.

Every gift and pledge toward Through These Gates has supported the most ambitious and successful fundraising effort in the history of Hampden-Sydney College. The generosity of all of our alumni and friends allows us to continue instilling the values of a liberal arts education in the young men of this country. Through These Gates marks a most successful beginning to the 21st century for the College.

The Robert G. Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Founda-tion of Richmond has issued a dollar-for-dollar challenge to assist the College in raising the remain-ing construction costs for the New Library. The Cabell family has deep historical roots at Hampden-Sydney. Colonel William Cabell, Sr., served on the first Board of Trustees with Patrick Henry and was the first of a long line of family members to serve the College.

The New Library has broken all previous fundraising records, amassing more than $17 million in pledges and gifts between 2004 and 2008. Now, we must raise $500,000 in new gifts to receive the $500,000 Cabell Grant. We hope to reach this goal by December 31, 2008, the closing date of the campaign.

Dedication of Kirk Athletic CenterOn November 15, we will celebrate the completion of yet another hallmark of Through These Gates. With the addition of two

wings, which include the new Hall of Fame Gallery, locker rooms, training facilities, and coaches’ offices for all intercollegiate field sports, Gammon Gym has been expanded into the new Kirk Athletic Center. Construction crews are working on the third and final phase of the project—locker rooms for football, lacrosse, and soccer and an expanded training room. For the first time in the history of the

College, all field sports will have their own locker rooms and showers. Work on this wing of the building will be completed by the weekend of October 24 and 25 when the Hall of Fame and will be dedicated. The new Hall of Fame Gallery, through which guests will pass as they enter the Athletic Center, is a bright new home and a fitting tribute to the generations of men who have stood out among the many student-athletes on The Hill.

On that same weekend, the refinished basketball court inside Gammon Gym will be dedicated as Snyder Hall, for 2nd Lt. Stephen F. Snyder ’65 through an outpour-ing of gifts and pledges in his honor. Mr. Snyder was a popular Hampden-Sydney basketball player and student who played on that very court during his colle-giate career. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, went to Viet Nam, and was killed in action in August 1966. For his bravery under fire and heroic selfless actions, he was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.

Thunderbird RaffleThrough the generosity of Charles F. Lucas ’59 of Beckley, West Virginia, the College is raising

money for the Lucas Family Scholarship by holding a raffle for a 1957 Ford Thunderbird. Mr. Lucas, the retired president and owner of Lucas Tire Company, is an avid car collector who is certain that this highly cherished vehicle will be popular with Hampden-Sydney alumni who fondly remember the first time they saw a Thunderbird rolling down the road. The odds of winning are great, because we are selling only 500 raffle tickets. Each ticket is $250. Therefore, when we sell every ticket, we will have raised $125,000 for student scholarships. The draw-ing will be held at Homecoming in October 11. Tickets are available on-line at www.hsc.edu/alumni/tbird.html or by calling (434) 223-6148. Call today for your chance to drive home in an American classic.

A C A MPA IGN R EPORT

campaign report: JUne 30, 2008Priorities Goal Gifts &Pledges PercentScholarships $12,250,000 $21,007,422 171.5Student enrichment 3,000,000 262,284 8.7Faculty chairs 8,500,000 2,122,237 25.0Faculty enrichment 6,750,000 3,627,527 53.7General endowment 10,000,000 1,914,410 19.1Building maintenance 6,275,000 1,418,093 22.6 Endowment Total 46,775,000 30,351,974 64.9Library 18,416,739 18,090,013 98.3Gammon 6,800,000 6,693,479 98.4Kirby Field House 800,000 977,013 122.1Other Capital Projects * 7,000,956 Capital Projects 25,100,000 34,592,697 133.0Annul Fund 19,125,000 25,596,363 133.8Miscellaneous/Pending ** 3,055,322 Grand Total 91,000,000 93,596,356 101.8

* Other Capital Projects includes Campus Improvements ** Misc/Pending includes Undesignated and Letters of Understanding

overall 2008-09 giving aS oF JUlY 31, 2008 Goal Pledged PercentBudget Support $2,557,552 $64,202 2.5Restricted Annual 1,073,132 46,455 4.3Endowed Funds 2,416,958 19,720 0.8Plant Funds 4,176,745 37,688 0.9

Total $10,224,387 $168,065 1.6Fund year completed 12.5

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News from Alumni

Class NotesCompiled from information received before July 1, 2008

1950Dr. CLAUDIUS H. PRITCHARD, JR., participated in the inauguration of Dr. Mark Lombardi as the 10th President of Maryville University-St.Louis on April 13, 2008. Dr. Pritchard served as Maryville’s 7th President, retiring in 1992. He now lives in Summerville, South Carolina.

The Rev. V. NEIL WYRICK, JR., is publishing his 10th book, Letters to 21st Century America, From Charles Wesley, Hymn Writer Supreme. It is available through CSS Publishing, a publisher of Christian books.

1953Dr. HUBERT E. “PUCK” KISER, JR., of Bluefield, West Virginia, received the 2007 Citizenship Award from the Southern Association of Orthodontists. Dr. Kiser is a past president of the Southern Society of Orthodontics and the 1992 recipient of the S.O.A. Distinguished Service Award. He retired from the practice of orthodontics in 2001.

1955The Rev. WILLIAM C. “BILL” MOUNTS, having been ordained in Morningside Presbyterian Church

on June 1, 1958, celebrated 50 years in ministry on June 1, 2008. He has served churches in Atlanta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; San Antonio, Texas; and Athens, Georgia.

1956G. OTIS MEAD III, president of Mead & Associates, has been inducted into the Virginia Realtors’ Hall of Fame. He has been in the real estate business since 1959 and is an active member of his community, including the Lexington-Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Horse Center. Mr. Mead has also served on the board of direc-tors for Stonewall Jackson Hospital. He lives in Lexington.

1958The Rev. WILLIAM T. PERKINS, a retired Presbyterian minister living in Chesapeake, was featured in The Virginian-Pilot newspaper for his work with the Lions Club. He has been a member in Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland clubs for the past 48 years.

1960The Rev. Dr. THOMAS K. FARMER lives in retirement in Danville, Kentucky, with his wife Martha. He completed 12 years as

the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Danville, alongside the campus of Centre College. The college conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity on Dr. Farmer in 1999. He has continued in ministry by serving two Kentucky churches as their Interim Pastor. He is the father of Thomas K. Farmer, Jr. ’89.

1963Dr. JOHN N. McDANIEL was honored with the 2008 Distinguished Faculty Award at Middle Tennessee State University, where he has served for 38 years as a professor of English, chair of the English Department, and, for the past 25 years, dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. McDaniel has won numerous teaching awards and published two books: the first critical monograph on acclaimed Jewish-American author Philip Roth and an English translation of Giuseppe Cocchiara’s seminal Italian study History of Folklore in Europe.

Dr. JOHN W. MELTON III is a rheumatologist at Chesapeake Medi-cal Group in Lively.

WILLIAM W. TENNENT III and his wife of 43 years, Ann, live on the Ware River in Gloucester. He retired in 1998 from 25 years in banking and nine years as CFO of a construction company. He has spent the last ten years in apartment and house restoration and investment.

1965Capt. ANDREW J. BUTTON (U.S. Navy, Retired) retired in May 2007 from The Boeing Company, as director of international business. He worked for Boeing from 1993 to 2007, before which he was a Navy naviga-tor and mission commander in the P-3 Orion Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft. He lives with his wife Janet in Matthews, North Carolina.

Dr. THOMAS F. CONNELLY, JR., retired as dean of academic and student services and professor of

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Former presidents of Maryville University

pictured with Dr. Mark Lombardi at his

inauguration as the tenth president of Maryville on April 18, 2008. From left:

Dr. Claudius Pritchard ’50, president 1977–1992; Dr.

Harriet Switzer, president 1970–1976; Dr. Lombardi;

and Dr. Keith Lovin, president 1992–2005.

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Middle Tennessee State University President Sidney A. McPhee (right) presents the Bob Womack Distinguished Faculty Award to Dean John McDaniel ’63. Chasen Haynes, 2007-08 Student Government Association president, looks on.

Allied Health at Cabarrus College of Health Sciences effective May 31, 2008. Dr. Connelly has spent 38 years working in higher education. Before arriving at Cabarrus College in 2002, he worked at Western Carolina University for 28 years. He earned his doctorate in education from the University of Kentucky.

WILLIAM D. “BILL” SHIR-LEY, SR., was featured in an article in Staunton’s Daily News Leader. Mr. Shirley is a 38-year coaching veteran who, with his son Rob Shirley, runs the two-day Bill Shirley Quarterback Camp at locations around Virginia during the summer. This is their third summer hosting the camps.

1966CHARLES W. CRIST and three of his friends set out on a cross-country motorcycle ride. The quartet plans on riding from Richmond across the South to California before heading to Canada to visit Banff then return east to Virginia. Their trip will be chronicled on their website, www.granddadsgonewild.com.

1967Col. WILLIAM T. “BILL” ANDERSON recently had two articles published on United States Marine Corps history: “Gunnery Sergeant Fred W. Stockham: Contempt of Personal Danger” in the June 2008 issue of Leatherneck Magazine, and “Guest of the Kaiser: A Private’s Tale” in the April 2008 issue of Fortitudine, Marine Corps Historical Bulletin.

Dr. CHARLES W. “CHAR-LIE” FORD and his wife Pat are living the good life in Paradise (i.e. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina). He says, “The Grand Strand is lovely year round. I play golf, pursue my hobby (magic), and visit our daugh-ters and grandchildren whenever we can.”

Dr. WILLIAM R. “BILL” NOTTINGHAM, JR., is a physi-cian with Delaware Medical Group, LLC, in Wilmington, Delaware.

1968Dr. CHARLES C. “CHUCK” WILLIAMSON, pastor of Philadel-phia Presbyterian Church in Mint Hill, North Carolina, is celebrat-

ing 40 years in the ministry. He earned his doctor of ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the father of Charles W. Williamson ’98 and the brother of the Rev. William W. Williamson, Jr. ’66.

1969CHARLES M. DOUGLASS is president of The Profit Source, LLC, in Richmond.

G. FRANKLIN “FRANK” FLIPPIN has been named a partner at the Roanoke law firm Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP. Mr. Flippin is a business attorney with experience in corporate law, includ-ing mergers and acquisitions. He is the past president of the Virginia Bar Association and the former chairman of the Virginia State Bar Business Law Section.

1970DANIEL C. BARTGES, JR., was commissioned by Bon Secours Richmond Health System to create a painting of Assisi, Italy, for St. Francis Medical Center in Chester-field County. In preparation for the painting, Mr. Bartges spent a week in Assisi mixing paints to accurately capture the colors of the area. The final product, which is 6 feet by 10 1/2 feet, hangs in the lobby of the Medical Center.

1971Dr. E. FORREST JESSE, JR., a rheumatologist with Arthritis Specialists, Ltd., was named in

Richmond Magazine’s 2008 list of “Top Docs.”

ROBERT W. WOLTZ, JR., president of Verizon of Virginia, was featured on the cover of The Richmond Times-Dispatch April 28 supplement celebrating National Volunteer Week. Mr. Woltz was reading to children at Maymont Elementary School.

1973RICHARD B. DONALDSON, JR., is running for re-election to the Newport News School Board, on which he has served for the past eight years. He is managing partner of the law firm Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly.

BRIAN C. GROGAN has been appointed by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Commission of the Virginia General Assembly to serve as a member of its sub-commit-tee for history and education.

1976GREGORY B. HENDERSON has joined the Mount Olive College Foundation Board of Directors. He and his wife Bonnie live in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

1977ROBERT D. PARSONS has been named senior vice president of inves-tor relations for Advantage Capital Equity Solutions, Inc., a hedge fund manager located in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Parsons, his wife Jan, and their two children live in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.CONTiNuED ON PaGE 29

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Kinsey Marable ’77,library builderKinsey Marable builds libraries for clients who love books—and just might make time to read them.

Book collecting is fetishistic. A classic novel, first edition, in its original dust jacket is an aesthetic object, a thing to be held and admired. Reading, on the other hand, is a contact sport. Spines crack, pages fold and tear. The crowded bedside table, the carry-on, the coat pocket—these are the paperback’s natural habitats. A fine clothbound book belongs in a library.

But a library shouldn’t feel like a museum. A library should be a

of stature and taste, who may make time to read, but not to collect books. “They take time to find,” says Marable of library-worthy volumes, “and it takes expertise to ascertain what sort of con-dition they’re in. You would take years to put together a library on your own that I would put together for you in six to eight months.”

Marable doesn’t just get you books, he gets you the right books, a syllabus of self-improvement, rare, handsome and mostly out-of-print volumes cover-ing subjects he considers worthy (as well as those that complement a client’s interests). “I know what makes up, or should make up, a good library,” he says, without a hint—thank good-ness—of snobbery. Marable’s unpreten-tiousness and Southern gentility (he’s Virginia born and bred) is a key asset here; easy to imagine a professorial type in the private library game, darkly insisting you top up your collection of Hegel. Marable believes books and libraries should be accessible and invit-ing. “It’s meant to be something that’s usable and very enjoyable,” he says of a good home library. “These are books that you’d be happy just going one to one to one.”

For instance? Marable is primarily a 20th-century man. “Nineteenth- and 18th-century books are beautiful, but fragile,” he says. “They’re not necessarily books you would pick up and read.” In Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., on the shelves of his charmingly lived-in office and pristine jewel-box of a home, you’ll find John Dos Passos, Irish Houses and Castles, Richard Wright, Great Bordellos of the World, Jean Stein and George Plimpton’s oral history of Edie Sedgwick, the letters of Virginia Woolf. His shelves are colorful and diverse—exactly the effect he strives for in his clients’ homes.

Architecture, fine arts, and interiors get heavy play in a Marable-commis-sioned library (those are his favorite subjects), but there’s also plenty of fiction, history, books about food, and

comfortable space, an emblem of your worldliness, cultural literacy, and good taste. Everybody wants a library in their home; it’s collecting books for the damn thing that can be a problem.

Especially if you have multiple homes. Wealth and property bring an acreage of shelf space. Illiterates cheer-fully call Books By the Yard, but what if you’re a person of sophistication who just happens to have more library than he can handle?

You call Kinsey Marable.Marable is an assembler of libraries

for people who care about books: Oprah Winfrey, Donna Karan, hedge-fund managers Tom Marsico and Philip Falcone, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, and others

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titles like Living with Dogs.How does one enter the private

library field? Marable’s answer, sur-prisingly enough, is Goldman Sachs. He started there in 1985, specializing in new issues of preferred stock, primarily for U.S. and U.K. com-panies. This took him frequently to London, where he discovered the G. Heywood Hill bookstore on Curzon Street in Mayfair, one of the world’s best and oldest antiquarian bookshops. A lifelong reader and book lover, Marable began buying books to bring back with him, attracting the notice of colleagues, some of whom asked him to do the same for them.

A second career was born. He left Goldman in 1992 (wincingly pre-boom; “it was early for me to quit,” he acknowledges) and eventually reinvented himself as a bookseller, with an antiquarian bookshop of his own, on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown. The store, which Marable has since closed so that he can focus full-time on his library business, established him as a book dealer, and his Goldman connec-tions provided him with his first commissions.

Fourteen years and seventy-five full libraries later, Kinsey has a diverse stable of clients (many of whom prefer not to give their names). Charlotte Moss is one satis-fied customer, a Manhattan interior designer who asked Marable to pull together her home library. “We’re in sync,” she says. “We have a sensitiv-

ity toward certain kinds of literature. When someone really understands your reading preferences, that’s a home-run relationship.” Another New York designer, David Kleinberg of David Kleinberg Design Associ-ates, regularly refers his clients to Marable. “I love how Kinsey sort of

rustles up a collection of books that can be from the most esoteric to the most common. They’re unpreten-tious. They’re for people who actually take books off shelves.”

Marable’s fee, which includes the books themselves,

is around $100,000 for an aver-age library of 500 to 700. That’s the ground floor. Recently he put together a client’s 3,500-book library for about $500,000. Marable’s shy with the numbers, but ask him if he’s ever done a library for as much as a million and he’ll nod. “Way over.” Quality as much as quantity deter-mines the price. A top-condition first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird will set you back as much as $40,000, and, according to Marable, “You can’t buy a good art book for under $1,000.”

Well, it’s an investment. “Books have gone up,” says Marable—500 to 1,000 percent in the last decade for a classic first edition. (Even more: in 1991, collectors paid about $1,500 for a first edition of The Catcher in the Rye; by 2007, the going price was $30,000.) “And out-of-print books on a variety of subjects—

good books—have quadrupled in price over the last ten years.”

But these aren’t commodities to be traded; they’re books to be plucked down in the evening and (gingerly) read. And Marable’s clients do read, he insists. “Or they want to have the opportunity to be able to read some of the most wonderful books. So I put together something that will expand their knowledge and their life over years to come.”

“It’s been a learning experience,” confirms Charlotte Kettler of the library Marable assembled for her and her husband in McLean, Virginia. “And there’s a lot in there we have yet to discover. It’s a continuing adventure.”

Kinsey Marable & Co.(202) 337-3802www.privatelibraries.com.

This article, written by Taylor Antrim, first appeared in the March 2008 issue of ForbesLife magazine under the title “Book ’Em, Kinsey.” Reprinted by permission of ForbesLife Magazine © Forbes LLC 2008.

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STEVEN G. SIMPSON has retired from the Department of Defense, U.S. Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), after 25 years of government service. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Simp-son was the resident agent in charge of the DCIS offices in Norfolk, Richmond and Roanoke. Mr. Simp-son served in assignments in the continental United States, Europe and Hawaii. He lives in Chesapeake with his wife Bonnie.

DAVID L. TASHJIAN is chief executive officer of the consulting and investing company SXM Group, LLC. In 2007, he retired as manag-ing director of Lazard, LLC, where he focused on trading and investing in distressed assets globally.

1978ROBERT B. JOHNSON has left Tax Filers Value Club, LLC, where he worked with Richard Lea ’79, to join his Theta Chi brother Bob Oldfield ’79, as the national director of sales and marketing with Ivy Ventures, LLC, a medical imaging consulting firm based in Richmond. Mr. Johnson and his wife Cindy live in Richmond.

Dr. FRANK D. STONE-BURNER, JR., a vascular surgeon with Virginia Surgical Associates, was named to Richmond Magazine’s 2008 list of “Top Docs.”

CHARLES H. “CHUCK” WEBB has retired as a Colonel after 31 years of service in the U.S. Army Reserve and United States Marine Corps. He served as a Judge Advo-cate (USAR), a Civil Affairs Officer (USAR), an Infantry Officer (USAR

&USMC), and a Force Reconnais-sance Officer (USMC).

1979GREGORY W. FELDMANN is president and CEO of StellarOne Bank headquarters in Christians-burg.

Dr. JOSEPH A. LEMING is the parent of two Hampden-Sydney students, as his twin sons John A. Leming and David M. Leming matriculated in August of 2008.

1980Dr. WILLIAM S. MILES was selected 2007 Physician of the Year by the North Carolina Respira-tory Therapy Association. He is the Medical Director of the Stanly County Community College School of Respiratory Therapy. He has also been named one of Charlotte’s Best Doctors in 2006 and 2007. Dr. Miles is a trauma surgeon and director of surgical critical care at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

WILLIAM J. “BILL” PAN-TELE, a Richmond lawyer and member of the City Council, has announced his candidacy for mayor of Richmond.

1982Dr. MICHAEL J. BREINER has been appointed to the Health Systems Solutions, Inc., Board of Directors. Dr. Breiner founded the Southwest Virginia Center for Cosmetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Roanoke.

WILLIAM H. CARR was appointed by the Williamsburg City Council to the Williamsburg Economic Development Author-ity for a four-year term. Mr. Carr continues to serve on the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals and is currently the vice chairman.

R. BRYAN DAVID has been named the executive director of the Region 2000 Economic Develop-ment Council. Mr. David was the Amherst County administrator from 2000 to 2005; since then he has been administrator of King George County.

1983H. HITER HARRIS III, cofounder

and managing director of the merg-ers and acquisitions firm Harris Williams, was featured in the maga-zine Deal Maker Daily.

1985C. BURKE KING has been named president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia and will be responsible for the management of all employer health insurance businesses in Virginia. He joined the company in 1992 and was most recently respon-sible for WellPoint Inc.’s individual business product management, product development, and segment innovation. WellPoint is the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. Mr. King also serves on the Virginia Association of Health Plans Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He holds an MBA from The College of William and Mary.

1986Dr. STEPHEN B. “BRAD” ARINGTON, an Intel bio-health business attorney, will join the law firm Lowenstein Sandler. He served as counsel to the Digital Health Group at Intel from 2005 to 2008 and worked in the general counsel’s office from 2000 to 2005. He gradu-ated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1991 and New York University Law School in 1994.

STEPHEN T. COLBERT, host of the Comedy Central television show The Colbert Report, received spe-cial recognition at the annual Webby Awards. He was named “Webby Person of the Year” for persuading his fans to add enough on-line references about him that a Google search for “greatest living American” at one point brought his Colbert Nation web site to the top of the results.

MAURICE A. JONES has been appointed publisher of The Virginian-Pilot, in addition to his role as vice president and general manager of Landmark Publishing Group. With Mr. Jones’ appointment, The Virginian-Pilot is the largest daily newspaper in the United States with an African-American publisher. Mr. Jones is also the first African-Ameri-can publisher at Landmark.

EDWARD McMULLEN, JR., has founded McMullen Public Affairs in Columbia, South Carolina, and provides corporate strategic develop-

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ment, research, and other consulting services. Mr. McMullen and his wife Margaret Ann live in Columbia with their two children, Thomas (15) and Katherine (11).

LITZ H. VAN DYKE is executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Holding Cor-poration Headquarters of StellarOne Corporation in Charlottesville.

1987FRANK L. “CHIP” WISWALL III, an instructor in history, received the 2008 Hagenlocker Award for Faculty Excellence from Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Mr. Wiswall also wrote a chapter on the reign of Henry III of England for The Royal Minorities of Medieval and Early Modern England, edited by Charles Beem of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. The book will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2008.

1988GRAHAM T. “HAM” DOZIER has been promoted to managing editor of publications at the Virginia Historical Society, overseeing production of the scholarly journal, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and the society’s member-ship newsletter, History Notes. Mr. Dozier is also editing for publication the Civil War letters of Colonel Thomas Henry Carter, an artillerist in the Confederate Army of North-ern Virginia.

Sgt. MATTHEW P. EVERS-MANN was the keynote speaker for the Memorial Day celebra-tion in Wilton, Connecticut. Sgt. Eversmann was in Somalia’s battle of Mogadishu, which was drama-tized by the motion picture Black Hawk Down. He is the founder and president of Freeman Philips LLC, a leadership development company. He lives with his wife Victoria and five-year-old daughter Molly in Sackets Harbor, New York.

1989STACY W. ADAMS is an assis-tant district attorney in Decatur, Alabama.

JAMES V. BICKFORD IV is an attorney in San Diego, California,

specializing in DUI defense.ONDRAY T. HARRIS was

confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 13, 2008, as the director of the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on May 22, 2007, and was designated the acting director while awaiting Senate confirmation. Before serving at CRS, Mr. Harris was deputy chief of the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Before becoming a Justice Department lawyer, Mr. Harris served as a partner at the law firm of LeClair Ryan in its Richmond headquarters office.

PHILIP “PETE” HEUISLER IV, a senior transition consultant for Wells Fargo, coordinates 401(k) Mergers for large corporations. As a father of three, Mr. Heuisler says he had not had much time for volunteer projects, but that all changed in 2007 after reading the book Take Time for Your Life. Last year, he completed a number of volunteer diversity projects, including eMen-toring, leading a diversity book club discussion, attending a non-profits boot camp, packing meals for a worldwide relief organization, volun-teering at a charity golf tournament, and leading a job skills training workshop. In October 2008, he was elected treasurer of the non-profit group Minnesota Licensed Family Childcare Association.

J. CHRISTOPHER NAF-TZGER has been named assistant secretary and assistant general counsel at Chesapeake Corporation. He has served as assistant general counsel since July 2007.

1990CARLOS A. ALVARENGA III was named CEO of S&V Management Consultants, which was acquired by Satyam Ltd, where Mr. Alvarenga had worked as a vice president and global supply chain strategy practice leader.

Dr. JOSEPH H. LANE, JR., was a contestant on the TV game show “Jeopardy” in March 2008. He was leading by $4,000 going into Final Jeopardy, but was tripped up when he had to come up with the

name of the 2007 Mars probe. Dr. Lane is a political science professor at Emory & Henry College.

Rev. JOSEPH B. NEWELL and his wife Mishael are missionaries with Assembly of God World Missions serving in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. SCOTT F. POOLE, the prin-cipal at Lanier Middle School, was profiled in the Fairfax Connection following the completion of a major renovation at the school. Dr. Poole earned his master’s in education from George Washington University and his Ph.D. in education leadership and public administration from George Mason University. In the article, Dr. Poole gave credit for his career in education to “some terrific professors in college that changed my attitude about learning”.

1991JOHN P. “JP” CULLEN is a wealth management advisor with Merrill Lynch and has recently earned instru-ment rating as a private pilot. He and his wife Sandy live in Greenville, South Carolina, with their children Walker (9) and Noah (2).

Dr. GARY H. DARDEN, an assistant professor of history at Fair-leigh Dickinson University, wrote the history text for the book that accom-panies a photo exhibit touring the United States, entitled “The American Soldier from the Civil War to the War in Iraq: A Photographic Tribute.” The exhibit is at the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery from May 13 through September 8.

TODD A. RODRIGUEZ is a partner in the national law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP and works in their Downingtown, Pennsylvania, office. He practices regulatory and transactional health care law. Mr. Rodriguez lives with his wife Kelley and four children, Reilly (10), Tabitha (8), Tyler (5), and Tristan (1) in Downingtown.

1992EDWARD I. BATES has been appointed senior principal and co-head of Real Estate for the European private equity firm Doughty Hanson & Co., based in London and Paris, where Mr. Bates lives.

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Thomas H. Barr ’90,coffee marketing executiveIf you know what a tall double half-caff no foam hazelnut latté is, you can thank (or blame) Thomas H. Barr ’90.

He was the person at Starbucks Coffee responsible for teaching consumers how to customize their coffee, and this is just one of the many elements of the Starbucks experience Barr has had a hand in creating. Since joining the company in 2000, when Starbucks had a mere 2,500 stores (compared to more than 15,000 now), Barr has ascended the ranks and increased his responsibility, marketing everything from brewed beverages to food to the entire domes-tic product line.

After graduating from Hampden-Sydney, Barr first worked in commer-cial banking for six years and then earned his MBA from Vanderbilt. He took a job with GlaxoSmithKline in Pittsburgh, where he met his then-future wife; she took a job in Seattle and he followed her after landing a job with Starbucks. Eight years and a number of rungs up the corporate ladder, Barr is now vice president of North American local market-ing, responsible for advertising and promotion in the United States and Canada.

Barr’s responsibilities have grown with the company and he credits Hampden-Sydney College for much of his success. He says, “I try to be honest with people and open. I think those things breed good leadership. I know that they have served me well. Typically, Hampden-Sydney may not get the top students, but we get smart, agreeable students who become good, functional leaders who can move people in the same direction.”

a framed poster of ‘petite cookies’ on my wall. You have to take pride in your mistakes because they remind you that not everything will be a success. You learn a lot from your mistakes, so they are valuable. You just don’t want to have too many. Then you’ll be out of a job,” he adds with a laugh.

One of Starbucks’ signature char-acteristics was around long before Barr arrived, but he can offer insight into its existence: unusual names for small, medium, and large size drinks. For those who have not been to a Star-bucks: small is called “tall;” medium is called “grande;” and large is called

“venti.” Barr asks, “Would

Starbucks be who we are today with small, medium, and large? I think our unique sizes show that there is a real passion for coffee here. We started with tall and short. When we needed something bigger than ‘tall’ they came up with ‘grande,’ which is Spanish for big. ‘Venti’ is Ital-

ian—I think—for “twenty’ because it comes in a 20-ounce cup.”

New and innovative ideas keep Starbucks, and most companies, grow-ing and competitive. Barr says, “We are very diversified and growing interna-tionally. We have diversified consumer-packaged goods, but at the end of the day we are a coffee company. While global overall consumption of coffee has decreased slightly in recent years, the global consumption of premium coffee like Starbucks has seen high growth. I think we have had a big role in growing the love of coffee.”

“Since I arrived,” he continues, “Starbucks has changed from a small company to a multi-national corpora-

Hampden-Sydney’s small size and rural Virginia location also helped Barr develop a modesty he says has helped him in Starbucks’ corporate environment. “When we develop a successful product, the success is shared by everyone in the project group. I might have been the leader, but I learned a long time ago that being egotisti-cal only leads to trouble.”

This summer, Starbucks introduced Vivanno, a new line of smoothies, which is a prime example of how the company has expanded since Barr arrived. For example, the first product over which he saw produc-tion was the Toffee Nut Latté. When a company like Starbucks develops a new product, the process includes extensive market research, internal development, consumer testing, and commercialization before it ever reaches the stores. “As we researched the popularity of smoothies, we had to say to ourselves ‘A lot of people are into smoothies, but how do we do it?’ We discovered that our custom-ers want fresh, quality ingredients and not a long list of man-made chemical ingredients. We have put a lot into creating a product we hope they will enjoy.”

It does not always turn out that way. In his office, Barr keeps reminders of products he led into production that he now wishes had never seen the light of day. “I have

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tion. Decisions are bigger and it takes more people to get them done. Certainly, the company has grown in many interesting ways—and I think good ways—but personally I have grown from being a mid-level manager into someone who has a real influence on the company.”

Barr readily admits that he was not a stand-out student in high school, but that changed once he got to The Hill. “Hampden-Sydney’s small size gave me a chance to find my voice,” says Barr. “I came in as a B- student and left as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. My education there was incredible. It fueled my passion for history and political science, but my economics major helped me get a job.”

Something about Hampden-Sydney he might hold more dearly than his academic growth is his personal growth. Barr explains: “It is a great place to become a man. An all-male school helps you build different, more lasting relationships with your friends and professors than you would at a bigger, co-ed school. I have friends and relationships from Hampden-Sydney that I still cherish today.”

One example of how cherished some of these friendships are comes every year, and has since 1989. That year, Walter L. Grubb III ’89, James W. Mercer, Jr. ’89, Christian T. Mamon ’89, and Barr traveled together to Mexico for some fun in the sun. Each year since, the group, now joined by David F. Stewart ’91, has traveled together to relive old times and create new memories.

“I love getting together with those guys,” says Barr, “because we know each other so well and have so much fun together. We go somewhere different each year,

and—I don’t think my wife knows this yet—we are planning on going back to Mexico to celebrate our 20th year.”

Barr, who was raised in southeast Virginia and now lives in Seattle, takes comfort in reminiscing over his years at Hampden-Sydney. “I loved those crisp autumn Friday mornings, walking to class from Fraternity Circle, and thinking about having a football game on Saturday. Those were wonderful moments. I love Hampden-Sydney and everything it did for me: I became a better student, I developed wonderful relationships, and I developed many leadership skills that have helped me greatly in business.”

Barr considers educating Star-bucks customers on how to order their customized drink his greatest achievement at the company. His personal favorite “on Friday afternoons” is a “double tall non-fat vanilla latté with room,” and he gets a kick out of how customized some coffee orders can get.

“You should hear some of the coffee orders here in Seattle. They sound like a bunch of French wine snobs. They don’t ask for their drink ‘extra hot’; they want it at 175 degrees.”

So the next time you are just trying to a get a simple cup of black coffee and the guy in front of you cannot decide whether or not he wants to add another shot of espresso to his venti extra hot soy caramel macchiatto, you can thank Tom Barr.

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owner of Colonel’s Limited, a Wash-ington, D.C.-area Papa John’s Pizza franchise that he started shortly after graduating from Hampden-Sydney. The company recently opened its 50th location.

J. RODERICK “ROD” O’CONNOR has been chosen to fill the newly created position of senior vice president of operations for AEG Facilities, which owns and operates entertainment and sports venues around the world. Before joining AEG Facilities, Mr. O’Connor was president of the X Prize Founda-tion, a non-profit that creates and manages multi-million dollar prize competitions to enable radical break-throughs for the benefit of humanity.

1993JEFFEREY H. BIEDERMAN, JR., is vice president of wealth management at Citi Smith Barney in Huntington, West Virginia.

EDWARD “WARD” BLAKE-

LEY, JR., is managing partner and founding member of Tide-water Consulting, a Florida-based governmental relations firm with offices in Jacksonville, Miami, and Tallahassee.

CARTER P. BROOKS, a financial advisor for Edward Jones in Richmond, was recently honored by the firm for his job performance. This recognition earned Brooks an invitation to Edward Jones’ annual Managing Partner’s Conference in May at the firm’s regional campus in Phoenix.

HOLT BRADSHAW “BRAD” GRAY has joined Lexar Media as director of new business develop-ment, after almost 14 years working for Circuit City. He will be identify-ing new ways for consumer electron-ics to utilize flash memory.

Dr. CREIGHTON J. HITE has joined Glen Forest Associates, Ltd., in Richmond as a partner and clinical psychologist. The majority of his work is with children and adolescents conducting psychological and educational testing and court evaluations, as well as individual and family counseling.

LOUIS J. “JETH” JONES II has opened The Jones Law Firm with his principal office being in Houston, Texas. Mr. Jones was formerly with Heard Robins, LLP in Houston, handling complex civil liti-gation from 2002 to 2008. The Jones Law Firm will focus on criminal defense and civil litigation in state and federal courts throughout the Gulf Coast. Mr. Jones was honored as a Texas Rising Star for 2007-2008 by Texas Monthly magazine and the Rising Stars edition of the Texas Super Lawyers magazine. He and his wife Mary and son Will live in West University Place, Texas.

PETER L. TRIBLE, JR., was elected a member of the Tappahan-nock Town Council on May 6, 2008. He is an attorney with the law firm Trible & Griffin, PLLC.

1994J. WESLEY ANDREWS has joined Cardinal Capital Management after leaving Lehman Brothers where he was vice president focused on hybrid debt and convertible securities trans-actions for financial institutions.

ALEXANDER B. McGEE is director of Georgia-Pacific, LLC, in Washington, D.C.

CHAD S. RUNNION is a strategic account manager at Frost & Sullivan, working in the Environment and Building Technologies practice.

RUSSELL W. “RUSTY” RYAN has accepted a position with AIG SunAmerica Mutual Funds as regional vice president covering Virginia & West Virginia.

1995CHRISTOPHER W. BISHOP is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State.

JAMES A. EVANS III has been elected to the Board of Directors of Main Street Tyler, an organization responsible for the economic redevel-opment of the downtown of one of Texas’s most historic cities.

RAY E. LOCKARD completed the 2008 Boston Marathon in just over four hours. He works for Alnalym Pharmaceuticals in Boston.

DANIEL J. “DAN” McCOR-MICK is a project manager for Wells Fargo Bank in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. DANIEL C. TURNER, an assistant professor of English at Siena College, was part of a panel discus-sion at the University of Connecticut’s conference “The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters.” Also on the panel was Hampden-Sydney English Professor George F. Bagby. Dr. Turner’s biographical entries on contemporary poets Kate Daniels and Hampden-Sydney’s own Grace Simpson for Encyclopedia Virginia were selected by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities as two of 30 representative entries presented to the Virginia House of Delegates in March 2008.

1996SCOTT “GRIFF” ALDRICH and his wife Julie have been living in London since Spring 2006. Mr. Aldrich continues to practice law with Houston-based Vinson & Elkins, with a focus on international capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. Julie is currently studying theology at Oxford Univer-sity.

TREY J. BLOCKER, an attorney

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Ray Lockard ’95 running in the Boston Marathon.

Professor of English George Bagby with Dan Turner

’95; they were fellow panel-ists at a conference on the

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MARK YOUR CALENDARFOR CLASS REUNIONS AT

HomecomingOctober 12, 2008

FOR CLASSES OF

1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998,and 2003

and lobbyist with Jackson Walker L.L.P. in Austin, Texas, will be spending the summer in Australia and New Zealand as part of an attorney exchange program with the Sydney-based law firm of Henry Davis York. His focus will be on international relations and trade between Australia, New Zealand, and Texas.

CARTER R. HALE is an attor-ney with Scott, Sullivan, Streetman & Fox, P.C., in Mobile, Alabama.

THOMAS W. “TW” JOHN-SON, JR., has been named head coach of the lacrosse team at Hobart College in Geneva, New York, where he has coached since 2004. Before going to Hobart, Mr. Johnson coached lacrosse at Limestone College, leading the team to three consecutive conference champion-ships and three NCAA Division II Championship games, capturing the 2002 title.

1997CLAY L. DOHERTY has been promoted to senior vice president of Hollenbeck Associates, a public relations agency in San Francisco. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the day-to-day running of the agency. Also, Mr. Doherty was elected as a delegate for U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

BOBBY L. WHITE is a physi-cian assistant at Danville Orthopedic Clinic in Danville.

1998RICHARD A. “CHOPS” BAKEWELL has joined the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service as an economic officer. His first assignment, beginning in May 2008, is in the U.S. Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana. He will be accompanied to Georgetown by his wife Diana, their 8-month old son Aidan, and their border collie Maggie.

DAVID B. HANNA has been promoted to senior attorney at Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC. Mr. Hanna will be working out of the Charleston, West Virginia, office and his primary areas of practice

are general litigation, insurance law, toxic torts, product liability, and consumer finance. He received his J.D. in 2001 from West Virginia University College of Law.

H. PAUL LOVELACE was featured in Morehead University’s The Trail Blazer on-line edition. He teaches religion at Morehead University and lives nearby in a 200-year-old wood-heated cabin with his wife. Mr. Lovelace also serves as director of Kentucky Heartwood, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Kentucky’s public land and forests from exploitation from chemical, oil, and gas drilling. He has a master’s degree in religion

from Harvard University and plans on starting a forest school in Estill County, Kentucky.

CHRISTOPHER K. PEACE and the Patrick Henry “Road to Revolution” historical trail that he helped develop—and that features Hampden-Sydney College—were featured in an article in The New York Sun. Mr. Peace is a member of the Virginia General Assembly represent-ing Hanover County, which is home to a number of sites listed on the “Road to Revolution”.

1999JAMES ASHBY IV is a commercial sales and leasing associate with Thal-himer/Cushman & Wakefield. He lives in Richmond.

2000CHRISTOPHER R. LEA is a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

ROBERT M. O’BRIAN, JR., works in marketing and sales for Lynchburg Ready Mix Concrete Company, Inc.

2001DAVID S. BILL IV was promoted to director of academic technology at Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts. He will be responsible for the integration of technology across all academic disciplines. Mr. Bill will continue to teach AP World History and coach cross-country.

RYAN D. GIBSON was elected to the Orange Town Council. Mr.

Thomas Johnson ’96

Clay Doherty ’97 with Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U. S. House of Represen-tatives, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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Mike Fitzsimmons ’95, e-commerce entrepreneurDo you ever see something on a television program that you wish you could buy? Maybe a suit or a piece of furniture? Mike Fitzsimmons ’95 wants you to know that you can, and that his e-commerce company, Delivery Agent, can help you.

Founded in December 2001, Delivery Agent, through its website www.SeenOn.com, lets you browse through a wide variety of items that have appeared on television programs like Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, and The Office. Do you want your own espresso machine as seen on Will and Grace? They have it.

Delivery Agent got off to a slow start, but Fitzsimmons persevered and now has a client list that includes all the major broadcasting networks. He even inked a deal to provide all e-commerce requirements for the highest-rated TV show on the air, American Idol.

During summer break in college, Fitzsimmons interned at Circuit City; he began working for the company after graduation. After four years in business development, he was recruited to work for Something Now, a dot-com business in the heart of the dot-com boom. Something Now was eventually bought by CNET, which gave Fitzsim-mons the opportunity to go out on his own. He says, “[Something Now] was a great bridge from traditional retail to e-commerce. It gave me the itch and

exposed me to the nuances of Silicon Valley technology culture.”

He started Delivery Agent in his San Francisco apartment, piecing together the company with part-time workers and consultants for the first year and paying software programmers cut-rate wages after the dot-com boom had turned to bust. While

developers were working on

“I didn’t come up with the idea of buying stuff you see on TV,” says Fitzsimmons in his San Francisco office. “For decades people have been talking about the clothes stars wear on TV. Not too long ago people started talking about interactive TV, but that still hasn’t materialized. We have developed a way for people to find the things they see on TV and buy them on-line. I’ve never claimed to invent the idea. I was fortunate to have a practical understanding from a previous company about what it would take to build a technol-ogy platform to make this happen on-line instead of waiting for interactive television.”

Mike Fitzsimmons ’95 can fulfil your hankering for Adrian Monk’s picture

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the prototype, Fitzsimmons was refining his business plan and start-ing to pitch the idea to investors. “I was exposed to the capital-raising process in my previous business but I really didn’t have a clue. As a first-time CEO, it is really challenging to raise venture financing.”

Getting venture capital took a steep learning curve and a surpris-ing amount of luck. “Candidly, I was not comfortable pitching VC firms because I felt a little deficient, not having an MBA. Those guys have heard a million pitches. In terms of growing up, that was a hard road. I must have pitched 50 venture capitalists in the first round. You get told ‘no’ a lot and why it’s not going to work. Then you sulk back to your little apartment to try again another day.”

Being treasurer of Sigma Alpha Epsilon gave Fitzsimmons an unexpected opportunity to get a head start on his fund raising skills. “I loved that stuff. I was the guy printing out spreadsheets and going after money from past-due members. It was really fun for me. We renovated the house (this was done privately before the College owned the houses) so we had to go raise capital from the SAE alumni. We raised $20,000 and got new floors and new counters. I really got into it. I’m not sure everybody else appreciated it, though.”

Luck was finally on his side when he nearly stumbled into getting his first round of venture capital. He was sharing office space with a friend who was also trying to start a business. When this friend failed to show up for dinner with a prospective investor, Fitzsimmons went to dinner with him instead and ended up landing the deal. The second investor called Fitzsimmons after reading a newspaper article. They met and Fitzsimmons gave a half-hearted presentation. Strangely,

the investor liked the fact that Fitzsimmons seemed disinterested. “Everything I learned is wrong,” he says with a laugh. “It’s all about being lucky. It really is part of the deal.”

By 2005, Delivery Agent had done a few deals, earned about $1 million in revenue, and raised about $350,000 in what Fitzsimmons calls “Angel Financing.” After two more rounds of pitches, Delivery Agent has raised $35 million in venture capital, some of it from firms which had initially turned them down. “That whole first step of being told ‘no’ and having to learn the process was incredibly beneficial. If I had gotten it on the first hit, I wouldn’t have grown in the same way and figured out how I should play the game.”

Having money was only part of the equation. He also needed products to sell. The first commer-cial deal he landed was with Sony Pictures’ Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. “That project didn’t go live until 18 months to two years after I conceived the idea,” he adds. “That first two years was all about getting the prototype and getting the first commercial clients, not taking ‘no’.”

To break into the Hollywood side of the business, Fitzsimmons invited several former Hollywood executives to be members of an advisory board, who could intro-duce him to current executives. He also hired a lawyer who represents many Hollywood executives. “I was very comfortable presenting, once I got my ‘sea legs’. A lot of that goes back to Hampden-Sydney. I was very comfortable articulating a story.” He also thinks not being part of the Hollywood establishment helped give him some credibility. “They knew that I was not another hustler, not another Ari Goldberg from Entourage. If you do a great job executing and maintain a posi-

tive image, then you have a good chance at building a sustainable enterprise. It just goes back to being an honest, good guy.”

“From my Circuit City days I learned that I needed to be in an environment where I was in more control. I wasn’t going to do well in a 30,000-person company. It’s why I went to Hampden-Sydney. I knew that it was somewhere that I could define my own course and not be another number. One of the reasons Hampden-Sydney was so good for me was that I was always as inter-ested in doing stuff as I was in sitting in the classroom. My mind would wander. A small school kept me in line. If I had gone to a bigger school I might have branched off. Who knows if I would have finished? The English and rhetoric classes are particularly valuable assets.”

Delivery Agent now has about 100 employees and continues growing. They have offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles and will soon be opening an office in New York. Their efforts have been featured in the likes of The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur Maga-zine, and The Hollywood Reporter. Delivery Agent is taking its next steps, moving into sports, having just completed a deal with the NBA Finals, and overseas. “Within the year we will be in the U.K. We will do $50 million in revenue. Now we’ve gotten really lucky, we are just keeping our heads down, executing, and trying not to mess it up.”

“A small school kept me in line.

If I had gone to a bigger school I might have branched off.

Who knows if I would have finished?”miKE FiTZsimmONs ’95

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Gibson lives in Orange with his wife Rachel and their two sons.

ASHBY W. PRICE has joined CapTrust Schott Group and opened the firm’s first mid-Atlantic office in Richmond.

2002CHARLES BEACH IV underwrites bloodstock (horse) insurance for Unicorn Underwriting in London, where he lives.

EDWARD L. HYMAN is a crew chief for WW Associates, an engineering, land planning, and surveying firm in Charlottesville.

CALEB B. VARNER, who has returned to the United States from his service in the Peace Corps, was the guest speaker at the Cum Laude Society charter induction ceremony for Farmville’s Fuqua School.

2003TIMOTHY W. BURKE lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and is an account executive with the Tampa Bay Rays Baseball Club.

CHARLES E. “TREY” GREG-ORY III was promoted in January 2008 to GMP (Good Manufactur-ing Practices) Chemist within the Analytical Services Laboratory of Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals. He is in charge of all training and internal quality audits in the labora-tory. Mr. Gregory has been with the company for five years.

CHRISTOPHER S. SCOTT has been named the new head football coach at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach. Mr. Scott is an alumnus of Ocean Lakes and returned there in 2003 as a teacher and assistant football coach.

2004E. H. “WYN” KITTREDGE IV lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is a sales representative for Stryker.

2005JOHN Z. AXSOM was named Teacher of the Year at Homer L. Hines Middle School in Newport News.

ANDREW D. PEMBER-TON has been promoted to senior consultant at the Richmond-based technology consulting firm, CapTech Ventures. He was also named as a career specialist to serve as a mentor for new employees and aspiring technical consultants.

CHRISTOPHER E. RIVIERE of Farmville sells fire and rescue equipment to local paid and vol-unteer fire departments and rescue squads, as well as some industrial applications. He works for Fire and Safety Equipment Company and specializes in breathing apparatus, gas detection, and thermal imaging.

WILLIAM V. “BILL” TAYLOR has been promoted to content champion at Advent, a Nashville-

based experiential marketing company. Mr. Taylor gained attention for his blogs on subjects as diverse as “Aristo-telian Business Sense” and “10 Tips for an Eco-Friendly Trade Show.” Before working at Advent, he taught English at an orphanage in Honduras and worked as a teacher’s aid in a special education program.

2006JOHN B. “JACK” CATES, JR., is an internal wholesaler for variable annui-ties at Genworth Financial.

J. BROOKS HONEYCUTT III is an inside sales engineer for Control Dynamics, Inc. He lives in Glen Allen.

RUSTY N. SIMMONS is a man-ager at Rockingham Steel in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

INGRAM S. “GRAM” SMITH is an associate at AFCO Realty in Atlanta.

MASON J. WINGARD is a credit analyst with First Commercial Bank in Birmingham, Alabama.

2007ALEX H. BELL has moved to Atlanta to work as a financial analyst for the energy company Mirant.

DANE C. WILLIAMS is a sales representative for Sunbelt Rentals & Sales.

2008J. MARK EASON is a credit analyst with First Federal Bank in Dunn, North Carolina.

Anglers in the inaugural Hampden-Sydney Alum-

ni Rockfish Invitational call it a day after meeting heavy

seas and some measurable success at the February

9th event. From left: Ned Horton ’12, Tommy Lyons

’11, Dacre Knight ’05, Ryan Ash ’07 (with 2nd place

38" rockfish), Elliot Byers ’03, Daniel LeGrande ’02

(with winning citation 48" rockfish), Steve Ash ’06, John Tuttle ’07, Blake Dozier ’05,

and Peter Boyd ’05. Along for the trip but not pictured

were Kenny Strickler ’05, Alex Crouch ’06, and Sutton Tinsley ’06. A second tourna-ment is scheduled for the fall.


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Advanced Studies1990BRADLEY C. WALLET is pursu-ing a Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of Oklahoma.

1993W. DAVID CULP, JR., received his Ph.D. in oncology and experimental oncology from the Karolinska Insti-tute in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 8, 2007. The title of his dissertation was “Identifying Molecular Targets for Cancer Therapy.” Dr. Culp is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

1995MICHAEL P. RICHARDSON graduated with his Doctorate of physical therapy from the Medical College of Virginia in December 2007. He is part owner of Rehab Associates of Central Virginia, an outpatient physical therapy practice in Lynchburg.

1996W. WILHELM “WILL” RABKE earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Richmond on May 10, 2008.

1998MARK E. FELDMANN, JR., is a fourth-year surgery resident at the Medical University of South Caro-lina in Charleston.

1999THOMAS L. DICKENS III gradu-ated from the Florida State Uni-versity College of Law with a Juris Doctor on Saturday, May 3, 2008. In attendance was D. Michael Jones ’00.

The Rev. MICHAEL J. KOCH is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

2000MATTHEW S. MARKHAM earned a master’s degree in public administration from Georgia State University in May 2008.

2001J. PAUL DAVIS has been ac-cepted into The University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business to pursue a professional MBA.

JEREMY P. MAULDIN defended his Ph.D. dissertation in pharmacology from the University of Virginia and is now working at the Cancer Research Institute of Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas. His primary function is to coordinate phase 1 clinical trials.

2002JAMES R. “JAMIE” DeVIESE, JR., was ordained a transitional deacon for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston (West Virginia) on May 17, 2008. He is completing a bachelor of sacred theology degree at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, while living at the Pontifical North Ameri-can College (Vatican City State), and will begin his studies for a license

Newly-minted lawyer Thomas L. Dickens III ’99 with D. Michael Jones ’00.

in canon law this fall. Mr. DeViese, who expects to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest in June 2009, will serve in West Virginia.

MICHAEL B. DUNCAN com-pleted his master’s in fisheries science at Virginia Tech and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and envi-ronmental studies at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.2002

CALEB B. VARNER has earned a Keller Scholarship at Duke Univer-sity’s Fuqua School of Business where he will begin work on a dual master’s degree in business management and public policy. Mr. Varner is a former member of the Peace Corps in Ecua-dor and the Dominican Republic. He is an associate of VSL & Associ-ates of Solingen, Germany.

2003ANDREW TAYLOR CALL is completing a master of laws in international business and trade law, with a specialty in banking and

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FOR CLASS NOTES

1. Color or black-and-white both work. Photos can be returned if you request it; otherwise they will be kept

on file. Please send only real photographs or a high-resolu-tion scan; color prints from a scan do not reproduce well.2. Electronic photo submis-

sions need to be large enough to allow for 300 dpi resolu-

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finance law, at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Mr. Call is president of the Chicago Province of PhI Delta Phi, the International Legal Fraternity. Mr. Call also serves on the boards of directors of both the Illinois Business Hall of Fame, and the American National Business Hall of Fame.

DAVID W. RODWELL III graduates in May 2008 with an M.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and will begin a five-year residency in otolaryngology (head and neck sur-gery) at the University of Tennessee in Memphis.

2004DAVID R. DAUGHERTY gradu-ated from Florida Coastal School of Law in December of 2007 and passed the Virginia Bar Exam in February 2008. He practices law in the Northern Virginia area.

ROSS M. MICHELS completed medical school at the Medical Uni-versity of South Carolina on May 16, 2008. He began his residency in internal medicine at Tulane Univer-sity in New Orleans, Louisiana, in June 2008.

MARTIN J. SCHMIDT is

The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of

Wheeling-Charleston (West Virginia) ordains

James R. “Jamie” DeViese, Jr., ’02 as a transitional deacon.

starting the Interdisciplinary Gradu-ate Program in the biological and biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The program will lead to a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.

PRESTON G. WILLIAMS graduated from Ohio Northern Uni-versity Law School on May 11, 2008.

2005WILLIAM W. HORNER received his master’s in accounting from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in May 2008. He has accepted a position with Deloitte in Richmond.

BRADLEY C. JOYNER has been accepted into the Missis-sippI State University School of Business and Industry. He will be studying for his master’s in business administration.

WILLIAM F. POWERS IV is beginning his fourth year of medical school at Eastern Virginia Medi-cal School in Norfolk and will be pursuing a surgical residency after graduation.

MATTHEW W. SHEALY grad-uated cum laude from the University of South Carolina Law School.

D. KEITH WILLIAMS, JR., a graduate student at North Caro-lina State University, is one of five recipients of the American Chemical Society’s Analytical Chemistry Divi-sion graduate fellowships.

2006BRENDAN E. LEE is pursuing a Doctoral degree in clinical psychol-ogy at the American School of Professional Psychology in Washing-ton, DC.

CHRISTOPHER S. THOMP-SON is pursuing a master’s degree in history and a master’s degree in library science at Catholic University of America.

2007MICHAEL J. RUTKOWSKI is working on his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Arizona State University.

BRETTNEY D. SMITH is pursuing a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology at The Clemson University Graduate School.

ANDREW B. WALL has completed his first year at the North Carolina Central University School of Law.

2008M. BRIAN CARVER has be-gun working towards a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia. He is spending his first lab rotation in the Bushweller Lab of the Biophysics Department.

SHAWN MIDDLEBROOKS will be attending the North Carolina Central University School of Law in fall 2008.

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PATRICK ALLAN ELB and KAREN ELIZABETH NICELY were married on April 5, 2008, at North Shore Fellowship in Chat-tanooga, Tennessee. In attendance were Rick Broughton ’95, Christo-pher Bedford ’95, and John Dudley ’95. The bride is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chat-tanooga, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in psychology. The groom is a customer service manager for Abra Auto Body. They live in Chattanooga.

1997BRADFORD TOWNSEND BROWN and REBECCA LEE RIGGINS were married on May 31, 2008, in Poquoson. Among the groomsmen was David Craig Brown ’02. The bride is director of human resources and administrative services at the Victory Family YMCA. The groom is the director of development for Robert Brown & Associates. They live in Poquoson.

SHAUN ROBERT IRVING and CHRISTINA JONES were married on March 22, 2008, on Cedar Mountain, North Carolina. In attendance was Ryan E. Irving ’95. They live in Richmond.

GEORGE ELLIS SUMMERS, JR., and CAROLYN HENLEY VOORHEIS were married on June 30, 2007, at The Congregational Church in New Canaan, Con-necticut. Kort Brown ’97 and James Hagerty ’97 were groomsmen. The bride formerly worked for Becton, Dickinson and Company in medical sales. The groom received his Juris Doctor from University of Rich-mond and earned an MBA from Vanderbilt University. He is licensed to practice law in Florida, Montana and Tennessee. They live in Livings-ton, Montana.

1999WILLIAM GREGORY BALD-WIN, JR., and MAYLISA THERESE McGRATH were

Weddings1985Dr. MICHAEL S. QUESEN-BERRY and RACHEL SCHNEIDER were married on May 25, 2008 at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, after which the newlyweds spent a week hiking in the park. The bride is completing her Ph.D. at UCLA. Dr. Quesen-berry is a senior scientist at Lonza and lives in Douglas, Massachusetts.

1993The Hon. RICHARD YORKE ATLEE, JR., and ELIZABETH BATTLE HARRISON were married on May 10, 2008, in Virginia Beach. The bride is a graduate of St. Mary’s College and the University of of North Carolina at Wilmington. She is a senior sales executive with the pharmaceutical company Allergan, Inc. Mr. Atlee is a graduate of the College of William & Mary School of Law. He is judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Rela-tions Court for the Ninth Judicial District. They live in Yorktown.

1994LYNN MAURICE “BUTCH” ALLEN and MARIA REBECCA PERRY were married on May 5, 2007, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. Sam Henry, Jr. ’94, David Parker ’94, Tucker Shumack ’95, Michael Staunton ’94, Joel Velasco ’95, and William Wright V ’94 were men of honor. Everette Seay IV ’94 was in attendance. The bride is a graduate of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina; she teaches fourth grade at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage, Alaska, where they live. The groom is director of the Alaska Ocean Festival and Alaska Ocean Film Festival housed at the Alaska Center for the Environment in Anchorage.

1995CHRISTOPHER WATKINS BISHOP and AMY LORENE NICODEMUS were married on June 27, 2008, at the Four Seasons Resort at Sayan in Bali, Indonesia.

At the wedding of “Butch” Allen ’94 (left) and Maria Rebecca Perry on May 5, 2007, in Knoxville.

At the wedding of Christopher Bishop ’95 and Amy Lorene Nicodemus on June 27, 2008, in Bali.

Patrick Elb and Karen Elizabeth Nicely, married on April 5, 2008.

William Baldwin, Jr. ’99 and Maylisa Therese McGrath, married on October 20, 2007.


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were married on April 12, 2008, at Meng Xia Presbyterian Church in Taipei, Taiwan. Daniel B. Larison ’01 was best man. The bride is a graduate of James Madison Univer-sity and received her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University; she is the product development manager for Indoor Biotechnolo-gies. The groom received his master’s degree from Norwich University; he is a proofer for the National Legal Research Group. They live in Keswick.

2003CHARLES EDWIN GREG-ORY III and JAMIE WYNN VAUGHAN were married on December 1, 2007, at First Baptist Church in Ashland. In attendance were Casey Eanes ’02, Daniel Elli-thorpe ’02, Matt Brock ’02, Mike Duncan ’02, David SzymanskI ’02, and Josh Vaughan ’02. The bride is a graduate of Virginia Common-wealth University and works as an analyst at Circuit City Stores, Inc. Mr. Gregory is a GMP Chemist at Boehringer-Ingelheim Chemicals, a pharmaceutical industrial plant in Petersburg, VA.

2004EDWARD V. LANKFORD IV and WHITNEY L. VICK were married on March 29, 2008, at Courtland United Methodist Church in Courtland. Groomsmen included Owen L. Tomlinson ’04. The bride is a teacher with Southampton County Public Schools. The groom

married on October 20, 2007, at Southern Oaks Farm. The bride is a graduate of Virginia Tech and is a realtor with Real Estate III. The groom is a real estate broker with Greg Baldwin Realty. They live in Charlottesville.

ANDREW BUTLER HAMP-TON and VANESSA CHRISTA COURTOIS were married on August 18, 2007, at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond. In attendance were John Scott ’99, Matthew Garrison ’99, Brad Graf-ton ’99, Todd Heaton ’98, Matthew Haynes ’97, Baxter Phillips ’97, Parrish Taylor ’00, David Call ’02, Paul Lozito ’99, Clinton Kelly ’97, Mike Cahak ’00, Thomas Mishoe ’74, Buddy Sanders ’76, Lee Brooks ’75, Rick Walker ’76, William Tor-nabene ’99, Jack Shannon ’99, Tim Hampton ’75, Thomas Waskom ’99, and Gregory Thomas ’99. The bride is a graduate of Radford Uni-

versity and is a commercial banker with BB&T. The groom received his Juris Doctorate from The William & Mary School of Law. He is a senior corporate counsel for Circuit City. They live in Richmond.

2000HENRY HUGH CHRISTNER and CATHERINE McCLAIR KOBIASHVILI were married on April 19, 2008, at The Woodlands Community Presbyterian Church in Woodlands, Texas. In attendance were Randolph Jefferson Marcus ’00, David Russell Hamnett ’00, and Robert Livingston Wainscott ’00. The bride is a graduate of Hollins University and teaches ballet at Premiere Dance Studio in Rich-mond. The groom is a regional sales manager with Ossur Americas. They live in Richmond.

KARL-CHRISTIAN VAN-MOERKERQUE and AMY TSAY

At the wedding of Shaun Irving ’97 and Christina

Jones on March 22, 2008, on Cedar Mountain in North Carolina. With

them is Ryan Irving ’95.

At the wedding of Andrew Hampton ’99 and Vanessa

Christa Courtois on August 18, 2007, in Richmond.

George Summers, Jr., ’97 and Carolyn Henley

Voorheis, married on June 30, 2007, in New Canaan,

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is vice president of E. V. Lankford Insurance Inc. The couple lives in Emporia.

MATTHEW PAUL WIL-LIAMS and KELLY MICHELLE ROBERTSON were married on February 23, 2008, at The Domin-ion Club in Glen Allen. James “Rusty” Foster ’04 was best man. Baxter Vendrick, Jr., ’98 and Ronnie Palmore, Jr., ’07 were groomsmen. Steven D’Antonio ’07,served as usher. Michael “Mick” Anderson ’04 was the featured ceremony solo-ist. Also in attendance were Vincent Grady ’08 and Barrett Tucker ’08. The bride, a 2004 Randolph-Macon Woman’s College graduate, serves as communications and marketing specialist for the Norfolk Redevelop-ment and Housing Authority. Mr. Williams is an associate engineer with Secutor Systems Inc. in Chesa-peake. The couple lives in Virginia Beach.

2005BENJAMIN D. MUNSON and EMILY E. KIRBY were married on June 26, 2008, in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The groom works at Old Point National Bank as an assis-tant branch manager in Hampton. The bride is a teacher for Chesapeake Public Schools.

ANDREW DOWD PEMBER-TON and KELLY PERRY were married on April 26, 2008, in Richmond. Mark W. Wilkins ’05 was a groosman. The bride is a 2004 Longwood University graduate and is an elementary school teacher in Chesterfield. The groom is a senior consultant with CapTech Ventures in Richmond.

At the wedding of Karl-Christian Vanmoerkerque ’00 and Amy Tsay on April 12, 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan.

At the wedding of Charles Gregory III ’03 and Jamie Wynn Vaughan on December 1, 2007, in Ashland.

At the wedding of Matt Williams ’04 and Kelly Robertson on February 23, 2008, in Glen Allen.


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James Bright ’93 with Ellen Elizabeth Bright.

David Foreman ’89 with Caroline Anne Forman.

Bart and Beth Ann Shaeffer ’96 with Charles and George.

on March 7, 2008. He joins his brother Clemens (3) at their home in Georgetown, Delaware.

1995To WYNTER and SHANNON BENDA, a daughter, Kennedy Jane Benda, on May 21, 2008. She joins her two older sisters, Adele Rose and Flannery Mae at their home in Portsmouth.

To MIKE and MICHELLE RICHARDSON, a daughter, Reese Catherine Richardson, on September 12, 2007. They live in Forest.

1996To ALEX and KRISTA CALFEE, a son, John “Jack” Briggs Calfee, on November 7, 2007.

To BART and BETH ANN SHAEFFER, twin sons, Charles Wayne Shaeffer III and George Weston Shaeffer, on January 7, 2008.

To BRIAN and ASHLEY SOM-MARDAHL, twin girls, Charlotte Weston Sommardahl and Catherine Clark Sommardahl, on May 19, 2008.

1997To HAL and MEREDITH WELLS, a son, Harold “William” Wells V, on November 25, 2007. He joins big sister Liza (3) at their home in Wilmington, North Carolina.

1998To MARK and JENNIFER EVANS, a son, Luke Hodges Evans, on May 16, 2007, in Newport Beach, California.

To MARK E. FELDMANN, JR., and KATHRYN FELD-

Births1978To JOHN W. ALLEN, JR., and SHANNA ALLEN, a son, John Cale Allen, on November 30, 2007.

1989To DAVID R. FOREMAN, JR., and KATHRYN FOREMAN, a daughter, Caroline Anne Foreman, on May 16, 2007. She joins her brother Eric (6) and her sister Ashley (3) at home in Evans, Georgia.

1990To TOM and MARTA BARR,

a daughter, Brennan Virginia Barr, on June 15, 2008. She joins brother Jackson (2) at home in Seattle, Washington.

1991To LAWRENCE H. MARTIN

III and ALISON MARTIN, a son, Reed Henry Martin, on July 3, 2007. He joins his brother Jeb (3) at their home in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1993To JAMES and TIFFANY BRIGHT, a daughter, Ellen Eliza-beth Bright, on May 16, 2007.

To W. DAVID CULP, JR., and SYDNEY CULP, a son, Wil-liam David Culp III, on March 8, 2007. They live in Durham, North Carolina.

1994To ROB and ALIX ROBINSON, a son, Graham Newsom Robinson,

JD Jordan ’99 and Ann Jordan with “Jack” Jordan.

MANN, a son, Matthew August Feldmann, on May 8, 2008, in Charleston, South Carolina. He joins his sister Kate (2).

To RYAN and AIMEE GRAV-ENDER, a daughter, Katherine Margaret Gravender, on April 3. They live in Matthews, North Carolina.

To BEN and CHARLOTTE PARIS, a son, Nathan Lestarjette Paris, on December 31, 2007. He joins his sister Mary Augusta (4) at their home in Fork Union.

1999To WILL and LUCY HOMILLER, a daughter, Frances Lee Homiller, on November 11, 2007. They live in Midlothian.

To JD JORDAN and ANN JORDAN (SBC ’99), a son, John Glen “Jack” Jordan, on March 31, 2008. They Live in Roswell, Georgia.

To KEVIN and HEATHER TERMINELLA, a son, William John Terminella, on February 6, 2008. They live in Richmond.

2000To WILL and ANDREA BROOKS, a daughter, Olivia Taylor Brooks, on April 21, 2008. They live in Greens-boro, North Carolina.

To MATT and CARRIE MARKHAM, a son, Davis Scott Markham, on February 29, 2008. They live in Atlanta.

2001To DENNIS and IZABELA BIS-SELL, a daughter, Sara Virgina Bis-sell, on May 9, 2008, in Greensboro, North Carolina.


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Deaths1933JOSEPH LEE HUDSON of Arling-ton died on June 30, 2007.

Dr. ALFRED H. STUART of Oak Park, Illinois, died on August 19, 2007.

1937The Rev. Dr. MARVIN K. COM-PHER, formerly of Richmond, died in Tampa, Florida, on April 14, 2008.

1938Dr. DAVID L. “DUSTY” GREEN-LEES of Odessa, Texas, died on May 14, 2008.

1939WILLIAM D. BUNDY, JR., of Tazewell died on February 29, 2008.

1940CARL WILLIAM NOLDE of Richmond died on April 12, 2008.

1942The Rev. IRA BENJAMIN WATSON, JR., of Hurricane, West Virginia, died on May 26, 2008.

1943JAMES GWYN PEDEN of Hickory, North Carolina, died on April 17, 2008.

1944JOHN RUFF of Palo Alto, Califor-nia, died on June 7, 2008.

Diana Rhoads, English

1945HENRY H. GALUSHA, JR., of Dinwiddie died on May 13, 2008.

1947GEORGE LONG COOPER, JR., of Yorktown died on February 27, 2008.

1950SAMUEL MASON COLE, JR., of Kilmarnock died on December 11, 2007.

HARRY CONWAY LONER-GAN, JR., of Orange died on March 20, 2008.

1951Dr. CLEMENT JAY ROBBINS III of Virginia Beach died on April 14, 2008.

1952Dr. CHARLES C. “CHUCK” BINFORD of Houma, Louisiana, died on May 22, 2008.

ROBERT H. COULTER, JR., of Richmond died on December 10, 2003. He is the father of Joel B. Coulter ’80 and the grandfather of John H. Coulter ’11.

1956GUY ROBERTS STOCKTON of Roanoke died on July 13, 2007.

1958WILLIAM CAHILL RICHARD-SON, JR., of Colorado Springs, Colorado, died on February 28, 2008.

1959JAMES GOSS FERNEYHOUGH II of Monroe died on May 3, 2008.

1962ALLEN LOUIS DAHL of Dump-lin’ Mountain Farm in Bedford County died on April 7, 2008. He is the step-father of Kevin C. Booker ’93.

1965JOHN BOAZ SARTAIN of Dallas, Texas, died on April 26, 2008. Mr. Sartain was a former Trustee of Hampden-Sydney College.

1971TRAVERS R. HARRINGTON, JR., of Fayetteville, West Virginia, died on October 25, 2006.

1980FITZ-HUGH CONWAY FICK-LEN of Houston, Texas, died on April 20, 2008.

1987DAVID P. SCHNEIDER of Louisville, Kentucky, died on May 27, 2008.

1995JOSEPH RYAN KRAEMER of New York, New York, died on April 26, 2008.

FacultyDIANA AKERS RHOADS of Earlysville died on June 9, 2008. She was an assistant professor of rhetoric and English.

David Schneider ’87 and familyJames Peden ’43 John Ruff ’44 John Sartain ’65


THE GLOBE THEATRE had a brief history on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College, but its impact was felt by a host of students and commu-nity residents. Founded under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Eggleston, daughter of President Joseph D. Eggleston, the staff was composed of sons and daughters of faculty members, with additional help provided by Dr. J. H. C. Bagby, professor of physics at the College.

The theatre was housed in the former slave quarters behind Penshurst, at that time home of the president of the College. According to Miss Eggleston, the idea of a puppet show originated with a Punch and Judy show performed for children in a village in Wales, where Miss Eggleston and a cousin were visiting in the summer of 1925. She resolved then to entertain children at home with marionette plays.

Folk-art masterpieces made by local children

The Globe Theater puppets

The eponymous hero of “The Elephant’s Child” and the hippo potamus

whom he consulted on his travels, star among the

puppets made by campus children in the 1930s.

Five years later, Miss Eggleston was informed by thirteen-year-old Asa D. Watkins, Jr. ’37, the son of a professor of English at the College, that he had made a cardboard stage, and she determined to begin the mari-onette shows. Early experiments at making puppets, however, as she wrote, proved to be “failure after fail-ure.” Finally, a little woman of soap, with hands and feet of wax, proved satisfactory, and additional puppets were made. Others in the community joined the effort, and the first play, “Black Magic,” with the story sketched to fit the existing puppets and the dialogue made up by the youngsters as they went along, was performed in Profes-sor Watkins’s study.

The success of that play inspired construction of larger stage in the Penshurst quarters and more sophisticated puppets. The children presented such plays as Treasure Island and The Elephant’s Child. College students even got into the act, presenting several

classical Latin plays.Many of the original puppets, preserved by Asa Watkins, who grew up to be

an art teacher, were presented to the Museum in 1998. They are on display until September.

Miss Elizabeth Eggleston (center) planning a show

with the campus children who ran the Globe Theater.

Planning for the future, todayIf you are interested in helping Hampden-Sydney Collegewhile assuring continued income for yourself, consider these returns on a deferred annuity gift:

Deferred Gift Annuity (to begin at age 65) Age of Income Tax Annual Annuitant Deduction Annuity Rate 30 $3,625 28.6% 35 $3,736 22.7% 40 $3,838 18.0% 45 $3,909 14.3% 50 $3,973 11.3% 55 $3,925 9.0% 60 $3,829 7.1%

Immediate Gift Annuity Age of Income Tax Annual Annuitant Deduction Annuity Rate 60 $2,827 5.5% 65 $3,454 5.7% 70 $3,988 6.1% 75 $4,484 6.7% 80 $4,961 7.6% 85 $5,408 8.9% 90 $5,925 10.5%

For more information, please contact Barbara Henley, Director of Planned Giving,(434) 223-6864 Direct, (800) 865-1776 Toll Free,637 College Road, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943-0637

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In On This Hill: A Narrative History of Hampden-Sydney College 1774 to 1994, John L. Brinkley reminds us that throughout its long history, Hampden-Sydney College has struggled to build and maintain a comprehensive library. Brinkley’s history also chronicles the constant efforts of this small college to acquire needed funding for operations, building, and growth.

Hampden-Sydney College’s new Library, completed in 2007, thus represents the culmination of a centuries-long quest. Offering 83,000 square feet of space, a book capacity of 350,000, a speaking center, two multi-media classrooms, 10 group study rooms, and wireless access throughout, the Library has quickly become the academic hub of this campus. Presenting the College at its best and surrounding those who gather there with tradition, history, and scholarship, it has already proved itself to be the embodiment of the “atmosphere of sound learning” the College has always endeavored to provide for its students and the community.

The College has also been successful in raising money for the new Library. We are just $1 million away from meeting the costs of its construction.

At this moment in the College’s efforts to grow and support itself comes again the name CABELL, which has been a part of Hampden-Sydney College since before its beginning in 1775. Colonel William Cabell, Sr., who served on the first Board of Trustees alongside James Madison and Patrick Henry,

Join us in meeting the Cabell Foundation Chal-lenge for the new Library.

was himself a fundraiser for the College, acting as treasurer of the first state-sanctioned lottery in the country designed to benefit higher education. Colonel Cabell’s devotion to H-SC has been sustained to this day by a long line of his descendants.

In keeping with its own history of generous support of higher education

and in part because of the Cabell family’s ties to the College, The Robert G. Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation of Richmond has issued a dollar-for-dollar challenge grant to help Hampden-Sydney raise the remaining

funding for the new Library. To receive the $500,000 award, the

College must raise $500,000 in new gifts, and it hopes to do so by December 31, 2008, the closing date of the Through These Gates campaign.

Please join Hampden-Sydney and the Cabell Foundation in this historic confluence—the completion of the College’s first comprehensive library and the culmination of the greatest fundraising project it has ever conducted. Become a part of the history and future of Hampden-Sydney College by sending your gift or signed pledge today.

To join this effort to meet the Cabell Challenge, please call the Office of

Institutional Advancement at (800) 865-1776. You may also make your gift or pledge on the Hampden-Sydney College website, www.hsc.edu/development/give.html.

A classical columned rotunda leads to the Rare Book Room on the Library’s fourth floor, which holds many of the College’s

bibliographical treasures as well as a superb collection ofantique maps of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.

The Robert G. Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation

of Richmond has issued a$500,000 challenge grant

to help Hampden-Sydney Collegeraise the remaining funding

for the new Library.

Documents

Record of Hampden-Sydney, August 2008