University of Virginia Library

11. ELEVEN

Mr. Jefferson
Would Be Proud

ESTABLISHMENT OF A university press, a long-sought objective
at Charlottesville, became a reality in 1963. An oral
agreement in the 1920s between President Edwin A. Alderman
of the University of Virginia and President Frank P. Graham
of the University of North Carolina had been an obstacle.
Alderman was understood on good authority to have told
Graham that a press would not be established at Virginia to
compete with the one at Chapel Hill so long as Chapel Hill
refrained from launching a magazine in competition with the
Virginia Quarterly Review. This agreement held for several decades,
but finally was allowed to lapse. The Carolina Quarterly
appeared, and there was nothing to prevent establishment of
a university press at Virginia.

The Virginia Historical Society in Richmond led in pushing
the latter project. When there were delays, Samuel M. Bemiss,
president of the society and a university alumnus, prodded
the university into action. The result was that President Shannon,
who was strongly in favor of the plan, was able to announce
that the University Press of Virginia was ready for
business. It would be the first university press in the nation to
publish the scholarly output of all educational and other
learned institutions within a state, and other such presses soon
followed its example. Victor Reynolds, longtime head of the
Cornell University Press, and former president of the Association
of American University Presses, a man with a national

reputation in the field, was the first director of the University
Press of Virginia. The board of directors included four University
of Virginia professors and three representatives of
scholarly organizations. Operations were begun in cramped
quarters in the Rotunda but moved in 1967 to a nine-room
house on Sprigg Lane. The family of Samuel M. Bemiss, who
had since died, made the move financially possible, and the
organization functioned much more effectively in its commodious
building—christened Bemiss House.

The press began publishing almost at once and more than
met the publishing schedule originally laid out. After establishing
it on a firm foundation, Victor Reynolds retired in
1969 and was tendered a dinner in the Rotunda. He was succeeded
by his assistant, Walker Cowen, a native of Texas and
Ph.D. of Harvard, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
Cowen had been with the press for three years and was a lecturer
in the English Department. Under him the press has
come to be recognized as one of the foremost university
presses in the land, with management that has kept it in the
black, in contrast to some others, and with a list of scholarly
publications that is the envy of many.

The University Press of Virginia publishes and distributes
books for no fewer than sixteen learned societies and groups
outside the commonwealth, including such prestigious organizations
as the Morgan Library, American Antiquarian Society,
Winterthur Museum, Colonial Society of Massachusetts,
and the Grolier Club. All this has made the University Press
of Virginia the principal publisher and distributor for the
learned societies of this country. Inside the state it has published
works from a majority of Virginia's colleges and universities,
as well as such notable organizations as Colonial Williamsburg,
the Virginia Historical Society, and the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts. Its two major publishing projects are
the multivolume Papers of George Washington and Papers of James
Madison, the largest single publishing enterprise dealing with
the papers of the Founding Fathers. It has also issued
hundreds of books on a great variety of subjects. Assessing the
significance of the press in the life of the university, President
Shannon said: "It has immensely encouraged and stimulated
the intellectual life and scholarly production of the faculty and
graduate students, and has enhanced recognition of the university

as a scholarly and cultural center. Another result has
been its perceptible effect in drawing the university closer into
relationships with sister institutions throughout the state."

Charlotte Kohler's retirement as editor of the Virginia Quarterly
Review was arranged in 1974, to become effective the following
year, the fiftieth anniversary of the magazine. She had
served for nearly three decades in the position. Managing editor
during World War II, she was appointed editor in 1946.
The magazine received many tributes for its excellence during
her editorship. A B.A. of Vassar College and M.A. and Ph.D.
of the University of Virginia, Miss Kohler joined the university
faculty in 1965 as associate professor of English and became a
full professor in 1971.

Staige D. Blackford, Jr., editor of the Cavalier Daily in his
student days and subsequently an editor at Louisiana State
University Press, press secretary to Gov. Linwood Holton, and
assistant to President Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., was named to succeed
her.

New Literary History a publication that had an international
impact, was founded at the university in 1969 as part of the
sesquicentennial observance. Ralph Cohen, Kenan Professor
of English, was the editor of this highly esoteric magazine,
which attracted contributions from such writers as John Cage,
Marshall McLuhan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, René Wellek, and
Max Black. The journal "is designed as a forum for scholars
rethinking such basic issues as the nature of literature in the
lives of men," said Editor Cohen, and it was believed by many
to be "altering the whole concept and theory of literary history
in this country," said the Alumni News. New Literary History was
the first American journal to publish an article written for it
by a member of the Institute for World Literature. Issued
three times a year, the magazine inquires into such matters as
"what happens when a person reads, the concept of symbolism,
form in nature, and the theme of a Mozart piano sonata."
Cohen said in 1972 that there were 1,200 subscribers, considered
good for so recondite a publication. He also was encouraged
by the increasing intellectualism of his students. They
were beginning to ask questions, he said, "not about rhyme
schemes in a sonnet but basic questions about literary perception."

William H. Wranek, Jr., retired as director of the University
News Service in 1961, after serving in that post since 1922
when he founded the service. Wranek also had been editor
and managing editor of the Alumni News off and on for a good
part of that time. He was, in addition, lecturer on journalism
in the School of Education for seven years, and many of the
journalists turned out at Virginia were trained under him,
either in his course or on the student newspaper. He continued
to serve the university as consultant and special writer
after his retirement.

Bevin Alexander, Richmond newspaperman, was named to
succeed him but with a new title, Director of Information Services.
He remained for five years and resigned to accept another
position. William H. Fishback, Jr., also a Richmond
newspaperman, was appointed Director of Information Services
in 1966. He was in fact editor of the Alumni News, although
it was decided to list Director of Alumni Activities Gilbert
J. Sullivan as editor, a position he had held previously.
Sullivan had plenty to occupy his time directing the expanding
Alumni Association, which he was doing successfully,
while the editorship of the magazine was being ably handled
by Fishback. A valuable service was rendered by Fishback during
the student disorders of 1969-70 when he furnished the
Virginia press with accurate information concerning happenings
at the university, as a counterweight to the grossly biased
material that was appearing in the Cavalier Daily. In 1973
"Bill" Fishback was promoted to the position of Director of
University Relations, a new position. In that capacity he gave
attention to community and state relations, and worked with
the university's president and the vice-presidents on a variety
of problems in the area of public affairs. He retained his responsibilities
with the Alumni News.

A new student publication, Plume and Sword, appeared in
1960 and survived for eight years. Its contents, frequently
critical of such agencies and organizations as the Student
Council and the Cavalier Daily, consisted mainly of topical features,
news and interviews, and some poetry and fiction. Its
circulation was small. As for the University of Virginia Magazine,
it was enjoying much greater acceptance from the student
body in the 1960s. It frequently published authoritative articles

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helped in recruiting black students.

by distinguished faculty members. For some reason it
went out of existence in 1969 and was succeeded by a revived
Virginia Spectator. The original publication of that name had
been liquidated by President Darden because of its obscene
content. In its new incarnation the Spectator "verbally assassinated"
various prominent individuals, while nearly everybody
else was "slightly slurred," according to an article by Fred Heblich.
"But scattered among the dirty jokes and uncalled for
insults is some legitimate literature and some clean humor," he
added. Still another publication, The Declaration, a weekly
newsmagazine, appeared in 1973. It was devoted to in-depth
news, features, and sports and was a creditable enterprise.
Like most student organs, it tended to be on the liberal side
and endorsed Henry Howell for governor. The Cavalier Daily,
for its part, got the highest award it had ever received from
the Associated College Press in the spring of 1969—a "firstclass
honor" rating for the first semester of that year. It had
been rated "first class" for several other semesters during the
1960s. The Virginia Law Weekly continued to win praise from
the American Bar Association as the best student newspaper
published by a law school with enrollment of between five
hundred and one thousand. It was given this preeminent position
in 1974 for the eighteenth consecutive year.

John C. Wyllie was named university director of libraries, and
Ray W. Frantz, Jr., director of libraries at the University of
Wyoming, was appointed to succeed him as university librarian.
The community was shocked when Wyllie died suddenly
in 1968, after less than a year in office. The Bibliographical
Society of the university established in his memory
the John Cook Wyllie Memorial Fund for the publication of
books in the field of bibliography. Also, the Clinch Valley College
Library was named for him. Frantz was appointed director
of libraries.

Ray Frantz managed the university's library system well, but
facilities were inadequate to cope with the steadily rising acquisitions
and the mounting student enrollment. An addition
to Alderman Library, costing about $1,500,000 was outgrown
almost as soon as it was opened, and more space became essential.

Dr. Wilhelm Moll was brought from the University of Kentucky's

Medical Center to take charge of the similar center at
Virginia. He had a leading role in arrangements for a medical
library in the projected Medical Education building. The old
medical library had been badly overcrowded for years in a
wing of the School of Medicine. In the middle sixties the medical
library and the other library units at the university became
a part of the teletype network (TWX), by which information
could be obtained in a matter of minutes from libraries or
business and governmental organizations in all parts of the
United States.

The finest collection in existence of the works of Nathaniel
Hawthorne and one of the finest on Robert Frost were two of
the notable additions by C. Waller Barrett to his Barrett Collection
at the library. A dinner was tendered him there on his
seventieth birthday in 1971 with some seventy-five men of letters
in attendance. Rare works were presented in his honor.
Speakers at the dinner were President Shannon and Prof.
Fredson T. Bowers. The following year Barrett was given
Princeton University's Donald F. Hyde Award for "distinction
in book collecting and service to the community of scholars."
His collection was termed "unrivaled in quality and quantity."

A Tennyson collection, said to be the greatest remaining assemblage
of Tennyson materials in private hands, was presented
to the library by alumni and friends in honor of President
Shannon, a leading Tennysonian scholar. Another valuable
acquisition was a 10,000-volume collection of Chinese classics
in the Chinese language, presented by the Ellen Bayard Weedon
Foundation. Also, a rare collection of original cartoons
and comic strips, ranging from Thomas Nast to Walt Disney
and from H. T. Webster to Charles Addams, donated by Bernard
M. Meeks of Arlington. And the extensive Walter Reed
Yellow Fever Archive, assembled over three decades by Nobel
Laureate Philip S. Hench was presented to the library by his
widow. This archive was especially useful to Dr. William B.
Bean, who is writing a biography of Reed. A different type of
acquisition was a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington,
which had come down through the Rives family of Castle
Hill, and was given to the library by Mrs. F. Bayard Rives and
her son, George L. Rives. It was placed in the Mount Vernon
Room at the library, a copy of Washington's library at Mount
Vernon.

The 150th anniversary of the university's founding was observed
in 1969 with a year-long celebration that brought renowned
scholars to the Grounds from a number of countries.
Its theme was expressed in Jefferson's famous phrase "The
Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind." The observance
opened in January with a Charter Day dinner, was followed a
few days later by a dinner in New York at the Hotel Pierre,
under the auspices of the Newcomen Society, with President
Shannon as the speaker; continued on through Founder's Day
in April, and culminated in a three-day celebration Oct.
19-21. It was decided that the sesquicentennial observance
should not be an occasion for self-congratulation but rather
an opportunity to review the university's commitment to the
fulfillment of Jefferson's ideals.

This was the era of nationwide campus agitation, and there
were sour notes at Virginia from a small group of students,
led by Robert Rosen, and calling themselves the Coalition. On
Founder's Day they held a "counter-convocation" on the Rotunda
steps, with perhaps one hundred persons in attendance.
As the academic procession marched down the Lawn to
Cabell Hall for the convocation, about a score of these students
walked along carrying placards with such legends as
"Thousands of Dollars for the Sesqui, But Not One Dollar for
Integration" and "150 Years of Racism—What the Hell Have
You Got to Celebrate?" These pickets, according to a statement
by President Shannon years later, "were being partially
instigated by the ministers over at St. Paul's, and they were
making all their signs . . . in the basement of the church." A
number of them walked out of the ceremonies at Cabell Hall.
Before doing so they heckled the speaker, Esmond Wright, a
university graduate in the class of 1940, member of the British
Parliament and professor at the University of Glasgow. The
Cavalier Daily termed the convocation "a monument to hypocrisy."

Except for these minor distractions, the sesquicentennial
was a great success, with strong support from faculty, students,
alumni, and the public at large. Such internationally
known scholars and writers as Robert Lowell, Raymond Aron,
Daniel Boorstin, and Philip Hauser appeared on various programs
during the year, and a climactic event was the address
in October by Philip Handler, president of the National Academy

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of Sciences, who spoke on "The University in a World in
Transition." Handler stated that Thomas Jefferson "would be
pleased and proud to see . . . his university . . . giving to his
state its leaders for a century and a half, spreading the Enlightenment,
giving tone and character to Virginia and these
United States." European institutions represented at the final
ceremonies included the universities of Padua, Oxford, St.
Andrews, Poitiers, Leyden, and Groningen, as well as scores
of colleges and universities from all parts of the United States
and many learned societies. A special feature of the celebration
was the announcement of fifteen Sesquicentennial Professorships
and the filling of these with the appointment of
that number of distinguished men from the faculty. They
were known as Sesquicentennial Associates of the Center for
Advanced Studies and were freed of all teaching duties during
the year while they pursued their researches, either at the
university or elsewhere. These professorships were approximate
equivalents of sabbaticals. Their number was substantially
increased in subsequent years.

In thanking those who were chiefly responsible for arranging
and carrying out the sesquicentennial program, President
Shannon said: "Particular appreciation must be expressed to
A. E. D. Howard, chairman of the committee who planned
the celebration; to B. F. D. Runk, executive chairman for the
sesquicentennial year, who directed all the activities with flair
and enthusiasm; and to William A. Hobbs, alumnus, former
member of the Board of Visitors, director of development and
public affairs, who graciously carried the administrative responsibility
for the entire undertaking."

The most dismal athletic record in the history of the university
was being compiled in the late 1950s and early 1960s. To the
loss of twenty-eight football games in a row was added the loss
of nineteen basketball games in 1957, and three wins and
twenty-two losses in 1961. The baseball tally for 1960 was
equally devastating—two games won, fifteen lost, and two
tied. Students gave little support to the teams, and there was
much talk of pulling out of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Gus Tebell resigned as director of athletics, a post he had held
since 1951. He had come to the university in 1931 and
coached football, baseball, and basketball at one time or another.

He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964.

Steve Sebo, head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania
and then general manager of the Titans, later the Jets
of the American Football League, was named to succeed Tebell.
He filled this position until 1971, when Eugene F. (Gene)
Corrigan, who had been director of sports information, was
appointed director of university athletic programs, a new position,
with overall charge of athletics. Sebo retained his title
and was given various duties, including scheduling the games.
His associate director was Evan J. (Bus) Male, a former football
player for the Cavaliers and a wheelhorse in the athletic
department for several decades. Male's chief responsibilities
were attending to the finances and administering University
Hall and the other athletic facilities.

Since the departure of Art Guepe as football coach, a series
of successors in the job had been highly ineffective, but with
the hiring in 1961 of William T. Elias, the George Washington
University coach, there was a rift in the gloom. Elias began by
telling the football squad, "Your first duty is to get an education,
and your second duty is to play football"—refreshingly
novel doctrine from a mentor of the gridiron. Eighty men
came out for spring practice, a record. "Pep rallies" were held
before several of the games, something that had happened
hardly at all for years. William and Mary was defeated 21 to 6,
and by the end of the season Virginia had won four and lost
six, the best record since 1952. Elias was chosen ACC "coach
of the year."

Yet despite these successes the students seemed largely indifferent
during the games and "sat quiet-mouthed and
placid, as though . . . attending some type of wake." The "V"
Club was also criticized for lackadaisical behavior.

Gary Cuozzo, who quarterbacked the team at this time, was
a Phi Beta Kappa and a Raven. He went from Virginia to the
Baltimore Colts, where he was backup for the famous Johnny
Unitas. When Unitas was injured in 1965, Cuozzo threw five
touchdown passes against the Minnesota Vikings, more than
Unitas had ever thrown, and the Colts won, 41 to 21.

The studied indifference of the student body came to an
end with Virginia's 35-14 victory over Army in 1964. "Football
frenzy captured the university. . . . What has happened to
the traditional `don't-give-a-damn' atmosphere which is supposed

to prevail over Virginia?" the student newspaper asked.
The Cavaliers won five and lost five that season, but despite
the marked improvement remained in the ACC cellar.

The victory over Army was apparently responsible, in part,
for the fact that Bill Elias was wooed away from the university
by the U.S. Naval Academy. He left in January 1965 and was
succeeded by his assistant, George Blackburn. Elias had recruited
some genuine stars—Gary Cuozzo, Bob Davis, Don
Parker, Tom Hodges, Ed Carrington, Jarvis, Stetter, and Kowalkowski—but
the team seemed not to realize its full potential.
Davis, Parker, Carrington, and Stetter were chosen as
ACC all-stars in 1966, and Virginia ranked third in the conference.
Quarterback Robert E. Davis, Jr., of Neptune, N.J., 6
feet 2 and 195 pounds, set a Virginia and ACC record for total
offense, with 4,025 yards over a three-year period, compared
to Bill Dudley's 3,469. Davis also had the highest total yardage
in the conference for a single season, 1,688. He was chosen
ACC athlete of the year and signed with the Houston Oilers.

Execrable taste was shown by some Virginia students before,
during, and after the VPI game of 1966—which VPI
won, 24 to 7. Adopting its usual sneering attitude toward the
Blacksburg institution, the Cavalier Daily published an editorial
entitled "Needed: Someone to Hate" a few days before the
game. One sentence was, "Let's greet our guests with all the
odium, execration, aversion and abomination in our twisted,
venomous little minds." When the visiting team came on the
field, it was loudly booed, as was the Highty-Tighty Marching
Band. Two Virginia students ran back and forth through the
band while it was maneuvering. The Cavalier Daily, apparently
blissfully unaware of its own crude insults, sharply criticized
the Virginia students the following week for their "blatant
rudeness and ungentlemanly conduct." The newspaper received
a barrage of denunciatory letters from university students
who were embarrassed by its ill-bred comments. The
Student Council wrote a letter of apology to the HightyTighty
Band.

Virginia won four games and lost six in 1967, and then in
1968 it had its first winning season since 1952, with seven wins
and three losses. Frank Quayle, the star back, was named ACC
player of the year, the team averaged 32.8 points per game,
and George Blackburn was named ACC coach of the year.

North Carolina State won the ACC championship, however.
Offensive guard Chucker Hammer and offensive tackle Greg
Shelly were all-Conference, while quarterback Gene Arnette
and fullback Jeff Anderson were also outstanding. Quayle
signed a contract with the Denver Broncos.

One reason why Virginia had so few seasons such as that of
1968 was that the institution's admissions standards were
higher than those of the other universities in the Atlantic
Coast Conference. Virginia led the ACC usually, but not always,
in the number of its athletes with at least a B average in
their studies. Prof. D. Alan Williams, faculty Chairman of athletics
and president of the ACC, said in 1973 that the university
"has the highest standards in the conference, and the ACC
has the highest standards in the nation. We were the only
school in the country last year to totally abide by the 1.6 grade
projection." Virginia also may have been the only one that required
a foreign language for entrance. A perfect example of
the consequences of the university's higher standards is seen
in the case of Don McCauley, who wanted to come to Virginia
but was turned down because his grades were not high
enough. He was promptly admitted at Chapel Hill, where he
broke many records, was chosen ACC player of the year for
two successive seasons, and was the nation's all-time leading
rusher.

Coach George Blackburn laid down some curious rules for
the Cavalier team in 1970, including "regular Sunday church
attendance . . . avoid swearing and obscene words." The Student
Council objected strenuously, and rightly, saying that the
rules were "contrary to the spirit of personal dignity, religious
freedom and amateur athletics." It also objected to the football
players' having to live together for four years, unless they
could present an acceptable excuse.

Coach Blackburn's contract was not renewed after the 1970
season, and he was succeeded by Don Lawrence, his assistant
for four years. Lawrence remained in the post until 1973,
when Ulmo (Sonny) Randle, `59, was chosen to replace him.
Randle had starred at Virginia as the leading pass-receiver
and kick-off returner in the ACC and had then gone to the
pros. As end on the St. Louis Cardinals he was all-pro four
times. He came to Charlottesville from East Carolina, where
as coach he had been highly successful.

The arrival of Sonny Randle as coach of the Cavaliers
opened a new era—temporarily. An intense, highly strung individual
who demanded more complete dedication to the
gridiron than had ever been demanded at the institution,
Randle aroused great enthusiasm among football-minded
alumni and misgivings in virtually all other quarters. Season
ticket sales broke all records, but soon after the season opened
various players left the squad. Randle put too much pressure
on them, they said, and called on them to put football ahead
of everything, including their classes. The latter allegation was
denied by Randle, and he was supported by the President's
Advisory Subcommittee, which concluded that the allegation
was untrue. Yet nobody questioned that Randle was frantically
emotional and almost on the verge of apoplexy during
games—charging up and down the sidelines, often moving a
few feet onto the field, waving his arms and growling at both
officials and players. "There's a wild man over there," said one
official. Randle's record for 1974 was four wins and seven
losses, and while he expressed determination to do better the
following year, there were serious misgivings as to whether his
almost fanatical approach to football was what the University
of Virginia needed.

Several players went to the pros. Harrison Davis, an end,
was drafted in 1973 by the San Diego Chargers, and Paul Ryczek,
a center, by the Atlanta Falcons. Kent Merritt, a speedy
back who as a member of the track team tied Rector's longstanding
9.3 university record for the 100-yard dash, went to
the New Orleans Saints as a wide receiver. The following year
Dick Ambrose, all-ACC linebacker for two seasons, was
drafted by the Cleveland Browns, and Ken Shelton, a recordsetting
pass receiver, signed with the Denver Broncos.

Behavior of some university students at games during the
1974 season was vigorously rapped. The North Carolina State
marching band was showered with beer cans, ice cubes, and
obscenities, the Cavalier Daily said. Conduct of certain students
at the game the following Saturday was described by a writer
to the paper as "barbaric."

The doings of Virginia undergraduates at basketball games
over a period of years also were deplored, both at the university
and outside. In 1965 a Sports Illustrated article called the
University of Virginia's Memorial Gymnasium "one of the notable

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won the Distinguished Professor Award of the Alumni Associa-
tion and the "Pete" Gray Award, respectively, in 1972.

snake pits" in the ACC. Students insisted, at many
games, on throwing paper cups and other debris onto the
floor and booing visiting players and officials. Similar lack of
sportsmanship was shown when the games were moved to
just-completed University Hall. "This is in sharp contrast to
the excellent behavior of students of rival ACC schools on
their home courts," said the Cavalier Daily. In 1973 Director of
Athletic Programs Gene Corrigan wrote the paper protesting
that "during the past several games 25 or 30 people have cast
a black cloud over the university. . . . This not only gives the
university the reputation of having the poorest crowds in the
ACC, but it hurts our basketball team." By contrast, the Cavalier
basketball players were praised for their continuing
sportsmanlike behavior, despite a series of years in which they
lost most of their games.

In 1971 Virginia had its first winning basketball season since
1954, with a record of 15 and 11. Coach Bill Gibson, who had
been on the verge of being fired a few years before, was
named ACC coach of the year. Barry Parkhill was the team's
bright star. In 1972 the Cavaliers won 21 games and lost 7.
Parkhill was ACC player of the year, Gibson coach of the
year, and Parkhill was named a second all-American by the
UPI. His jersey was retired. Scott McCandlish was a great rebounder,
and others on this exceptional team were Frank
DeWitt, Jim Hobgood, Tim Rash, and Chip Miller. Virginia
ranked tenth nationally.

"Hoot" Gibson resigned as coach in 1974 to take a similar
post at the University of Southern Florida and was highly
praised at a farewell dinner. Shortly before, he had recruited
such superior performers as Wally Walker, Gus Gerard, and
Billy Langloh, who would play the following season for Terry
Holland, Gibson's successor. Holland had made an exceptional
record as coach at Davidson, and had played on that
college's first nationally ranked basketball team.

In lacrosse the Cavaliers continued in the sixties and seventies
to maintain their national ranking. As members of the National
Lacrosse League they played against none but the top
teams in the country and were regular contenders for the
championship. As early as 1952 Virginia had a two-way tie for
the national title, and then, after a three-way tie in 1970, won

the NCAA championship in 1972. The Cavaliers also defeated
a strong Oxford-Cambridge team in 1961. Virginia's firstteam
all-Americans between 1961 and 1974 were Henry Peterson,
Hy Levasseur, Deeley Nice, Snowden Hoff (twice),
Dick Peterson, Peter Coy, Jim Eustace, Doug Hilbert, Jim Potter,
Pete Eldredge (twice), Tom Schildwachter, Tom Duquette,
Bruce Mangels, Barry Robertson, and Boo Smith. Jay Connor
was not only all-American twice in lacrosse but once in soccer,
as well, while Mac Caputo won the same honor once in each
sport.

Virginia's extraordinary record in lacrosse was due in no
small measure to Gene Corrigan, coach from 1959 through
1967, himself an all-American at Duke. His reputation was
such that he was offered the post of head lacrosse coach at
Yale but turned it down. When Virginia won the lacrosse
championship of the ACC in 1962, it was the first ACC title
won by the university in any sport. Corrigan received the IMP
award in 1967.

He was succeeded as lacrosse coach by Clayton Beardmore,
all-American at Maryland, who remained for two years. Glenn
Thiel, coach at Baltimore Community College, then took over.

In soccer Gene Corrigan was highly successful as coach
from 1955 to 1967, during which time he had only two losing
seasons. Paul Saylor was an all-American in 1960. ACC soccer
championships were won in 1969 under Coach Gordon Burris
and in 1970 under Jim Stephens.

The baseball team, coached by Jim West, won its first ACC
championship in 1972. Its record was 9-4 against ACC teams
and 20-9 overall. Standout players were Terry Dan, Steve
Sroba, and Robin Marvin. A particular star of that era was
Mike Cubbage, who went on to a successful career in the big
leagues.

The Cavalier wrestlers were second in the ACC for each of
the five years ended in 1973, and then in 1974 they dethroned
Maryland, which had been invincible for twenty-one years.
Wrestling at Virginia owed much to psychology Prof. Frank
Finger, who coached the team for the seventeen years before
1963 and usually had a winning season. He was succeeded by
Mebane Turner, one of the foremost grapplers in the university's
history. Mike Caruso, who had just graduated from Lehigh,

where he won three NCAA championships, followed
Turner in 1967, but it was George Edwards whose team
achieved the victory over Maryland.

The university's Law School provided two members of the
1963 U.S. Davis Cup tennis team for matches against Iran.
They were Donald Dell and Gene Scott, who ranked seventh
and eighth nationally and came to the Law School from Yale.
C. Alphonso Smith, Jr., one of the foremost tennis players in
University of Virginia history, was the nonplaying captain.
The Americans made a clean sweep of the matches with the
Iranians in Teheran.

The university's tennis facilities, provided by Lady Astor,
had been outgrown, and in 1971 the Perry Foundation of
Charlottesville donated the funds for eleven more courts near
University Hall and at Bonnycastle Dell. Nevertheless by 1974
there were long waiting lines at all three complexes. The Perry
Foundation also provided three new basketball courts in the
"cage" at University Hall, these to be available to students
when the varsity was not practicing in the building.

Outstanding facilities for track and field were completed on
Copeley Hill near University Hall in 1970, replacing those
abandoned on Lambeth Field. The complex was named for
Pop Lannigan, the university's first track coach. Most of the
required $200,000 was provided by the Athletic Department,
with the rest coming from former members of the track team
and the Alumni Fund. A baseball diamond also was constructed.

Scott Stadium, completed in 1931, was rehabilitated and upgraded
in 1974. Over $360,000 was pledged by descendants
of Frederic W. Scott the original donor, and an anonymous
benefactor contributed $300,000 for the purchase and installation
of astroturf. This last made possible much greater use
of the stadium, especially for intramural sports and "phys.
ed." classes.

With the coming of full-scale coeducation in 1970, women
were increasingly active in athletics, on both intercollegiate
and intramural levels. Barbara Kelly was appointed director
of women's intercollegiate athletics at Virginia, and in 1974,
for the first time, varsity women's tennis, basketball, and field
hockey were played. These teams were eligible for university

funding to cover equipment, travel, coaching, and publicity.
Swimming and diving were to be added the following year.
The first woman swimmer in the history of the ACC had been
Mary Brundage, a third-year student at the university and
member of the varsity swimming team in 1966. Women's
teams had early success in varsity competition with other
women in the seventies. The varsity field hockey team had a
9-4 record in 1974 and sent Kathy Devereaux and Cindy
Hook to the Eastern Regional Tournament. The basketball
team had a 10-5 record. In swimming, Ellen Feldman placed
first in the 100-meter backstroke in the 1973 World University
Games, and distance swimmer Susie Allen and backstroker
Dottie Dilts competed in the National AAU championships
the following year. Women constituted 40 percent of the 1,000
students taking "phys. ed." classes at that time and were extremely
active in intramurals, where many of the games were
coeducational. Men and women teamed together against similarly
mixed competition, and found it exciting and enjoyable,
according to the Alumni News. "This year," it said, "the hit of
the season was inner-tube water polo, in which some 50 teams
competed." Funds of the Student Aid Foundation were being
used to finance women's sports, and it was anticipated that
athletic scholarships would soon be awarded.

The Student Aid Foundation was launched in 1951 with a
fund of $46,000; by 1965 the fund had risen to $115,000, and
in 1974 was approaching $500,000. Grants in aid were given
in the latter year to about 130 student athletes in football, basketball,
golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, track, cross country,
and wrestling. Baseball and tennis were not included.

The time had come when there were only female cheerleaders
at varsity games, in glaring contrast to a decade before,
when the male contingent was aghast at the mere thought of
girls in that role. But while the males were not thoroughly
acclimated to the presence of women in their classes and
dorms, they concluded that cheers led by none but girls were
a bit too much. In 1974 it was decided to divide the twenty
cheerleaders equally between the sexes.

Intramurals at Virginia had expanded spectacularly under
the able leadership of Edward R. (Butch) Slaughter, who retired
in 1973 after forty-two years on the university's athletic

staff and sixteen years in charge of intramurals. The latter
program was said to be the best in the ACC, with many thousands
of participants in a score of sports. Several tournaments
in a number of different leagues were run each semester. As
an example of the tremendous involvement, some twelve
hundred students were taking part in 1972 in 185 basketball
games in Memorial Gymnasium. Nonfraternity men and
coeds made up a substantial percentage of the players in the
various types of competition. In addition to directing this farreaching
program, Butch Slaughter, an all-American football
player in his student days at Michigan, had coached football,
baseball, and golf at Virginia and served as chairman of the
Department of Physical Education. "He is probably a friend
to more university students than any other man" said the
Alumni News. Slaughter was given an award by the Seven Society
for his devoted service to the university.

Another sports celebrity was honored when "Al" York was
paid tribute for his leadership in boxing. Captain of the team
when Virginia boxers were national powers, and coach thereafter
for many years, York was given a watch by the Z Society
at a dinner attended by over two hundred and fifty persons.

At varsity football and basketball games in the seventies a
new and refreshing element was introduced by the antics of
what was laughingly known as the Fighting Cavaliers Indoor/
Outdoor Precision(?) Marching Pep Band and Chowder Society
Revue. An outgrowth of the Pep Band that functioned
spasmodically in the fifties and sixties, this zany outfit burlesqued
the precision maneuvers of well-drilled bands at other
institutions. Its clowning was deemed highly amusing and
added a waggish note to the contests in Scott Stadium and
University Hall.

The Alumni Association was growing steadily in memberships
and contributions during the sixties and seventies. Gilly Sullivan
had succeeded Mac Luck as director of alumni affairs in
1958, and a drive was launched during the 1958-59 session
for life memberships at $200 each. This effort paid off handsomely,
and a decade later Association President James L.
Trinkle was able to announce that there were 6,116 life members
(LM's), and the association's endowment had reached

105. Avery Catlin, executive vice-president of the university,
1974-.

$700,000, largely as a result of these memberships. Since
many were buying them on the instalment plan, nearly five
hundred thousand dollars more was to be collected. Life
membership funds were placed in trust, and only the income
was used. In that same year total membership in the association
exceeded ten thousand for the first time, since there were
more than four thousand regular members in addition to the
LM's. "In recent years," said the Alumni News, "the figure for
total alumni support has been in the area of $1,500,000." Circulation
of the News was "rapidly approaching 20,000," and it
was a remarkably good source concerning university happenings
and trends.

There were so many different alumni organizations of one
kind or another that the Office of University Development,
established in 1970, had as one of its functions the coordination
of their efforts. These agencies included the Law, Engineering,
Graduate School of Business, and Student Aid Foundations,
and the alumni associations of the schools of Law, Medicine,
Graduate Business, Nursing, Education, and Architecture.

Funds received by the University of Virginia Alumni Association
from dues contributed substantially to the association's
activities. These included publication and distribution of the
Alumni News, alumni chapter activities, homecomings and reunions,
individual services to alumni, grants and loans to students
and faculty members, and upkeep of Alumni Hall.

Officers from about thirty alumni chapters gathered at the
university in the fall of 1963 for the first of a series of annual
workshops designed to acquaint them with the progress of the
university and the operations of the alumni association. After
busy sessions on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning,
they attended the Virginia-North Carolina football game, and
then were guests at a dinner with two other alumni groups.
President Shannon gave the address.

Three years later the association established two annual
awards, one for outstanding teaching and the other recognizing
exceptional student leadership, the awards to be made at
the class day exercises each June. The faculty award carried
with it a check for $500 and the student award $200. Both
included life memberships in the association.

Also in 1966 the places where most university alumni live

were tabulated. Of the 37,058 alumni at that time, Virginia
had 15,444, New York 2,729, Maryland 1,626, New Jersey
1,408, Pennsylvania 1,372, Florida 1,124, California 1,042,
and North Carolina 984. Richmond was said to have "the largest
concentration of university alumni in the world," with
2,072, followed by Charlottesville, with 1,951, and Norfolk
with 1,023. Several years before, a faculty committee headed
by Dean F. L. Geldard polled alumni for suggestions concerning
the university. More than 40 percent of the replies urged
continuation of the policy whereby a substantial percentage of
out-of-state students attend the institution. It was held that
there were distinct educational advantages in enabling the students
from Virginia to have contacts with those from other
states and that it enhanced the university's reputation as a national
center of learning.

Contacts between students and faculty at the university
were made closer and easier by a plan inaugurated in 1970.
The alumni association made funds available to faculty members
who wished to entertain students in their homes. Up to
$35 was provided for each occasion, with a maximum of three
such opportunities per professor.

By 1974 membership in the alumni association was just under
fifteen thousand, a record, and contributions to the
Alumni Fund totaled $583,035, another record. Alumni Fund
Director Clay Delauney said that over the years about twothirds
of all contributions to the fund had come from outside
Virginia, and much the same could be said of endowments.
Under a succession of able presidents and with the competent
work of Alumni Activities Director Sullivan the association
was making gratifying progress.

The building program under Edgar Shannon was tremendous,
although this was not anticipated when he took over the
presidency. At the end of Colgate Darden's term, Darden remarked
to Shannon: "Well, I've got the the buildings pretty
well done now. Once you get the chemistry building, you can
concentrate on the faculty." Shannon did concentrate on the
faculty, with splendid results, but he also had to devote much
attention to construction of additional physical equipment,
made necessary by the unexpectedly rapid rise in enrollment

and the accompanying expansion of the teaching staff.

The program for the decade 1960-70 was summarized as
follows by Shannon:

All this came to over fifty million dollars in state, federal,
and private funds. By the time Edgar Shannon went out of
office in 1974, the total would be more than double that
amount.

The addition to Newcomb Hall in 1965 brought forth additional
scathing comments from the students, despite the
hall's indispensability, and its constant use by these same students.
Termed an "environmental blunder" by a writer in the
University of Virginia Magazine, and said to resemble a "dead
elephant," the author declared that the addition made the hall
look "like an even bigger dead elephant." He conceded that
the addition provided "much needed space." Similar architectural
criticisms had appeared in the Cavalier Daily, which also
pronounced Newcomb Hall too expensive for what it provided.

Seven new dormitories on Alderman Road, estimated to
cost three million dollars and housing more than eight
hundred students, were built in the mid-1960s and were
named for Professors Robley Dunglison, Edward H. Courtenay,
and Socrates Maupin from the early faculty, and
Thomas Fitzhugh, Francis P. Dunnington, William Minor Lile,
and Albert H. Tuttle from the later.

106. The Big Tent was going strong in 1970 as a gathering
place for returning alumni.

Morea, built in 1834 by Prof. John P. Emmet on what was
later called Sprigg Lane, was purchased in 1960 through the
generosity of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Weedon and the
Alumni Board of Trustees and given to the university. It was
renovated and furnished with antiques and then made available
as a residence for visiting celebrities. The place was
named Morea from the Latin word morus, meaning "mulberry
tree." Emmet, the builder, planted mulberry trees there in the
vain hope of introducing silkworm culture. The first VIPs to
live there after the building's renovation were Prof. and Mrs.
Arthur L. Goodhart. He was the only American to become
master of a college at Oxford or Cambridge—University College,
Oxford—and had recently retired as master there.
Goodhart was visiting professor in the University of Virginia
Law School for the second semester in 1965.

Acquisition in 1964 of a $1,000,000 Burroughs digital computer,
replacing one that was much less sophisticated, was an
important forward step. It was located in the basement of Gilmer
Hall. At about the same time a $400,000 IBM computer
was acquired for the university's administrative data processing
center in Garrett Hall.

Working drawings were being prepared in 1965 for the new
$5,100,000 chemistry building on McCormick Road, between
Thornton Hall and Gilmer Hall, rounding out the group of
scientific and technical schools in that area. It was expected to
be ready in about two years, replacing the Cobb Chemical
Laboratory built in 1920.

A new master site plan for the university was submitted that
fall, the result of a three-year study by a university committee
headed by Comptroller Vincent Shea, in collaboration with
the Watertown, Mass., firm of Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates,
Inc. It called for five academic areas; liberal arts in and
around Cabell Hall, science and engineering near Scott Stadium,
fine arts on Carr's Hill, medicine at, and to the southeast
of, the present center, and a graduate and professional area
centering on the Law School in Clark Hall and the Graduate
School of Business Administration in Monroe Hall. This blueprint
was followed in subsequent years, with the exception
that the Law School and Graduate School of Business were
moved to the North Grounds. Wooded slopes of Mount Jefferson
below the McCormick Observatory were reserved, under

the plan, for special research facilities associated with the
university's academic program. The nuclear reactor, physics
acceleration building, radio-astronomy building, and research
laboratories for the engineering sciences were already in place
there. The University Center Area near Newcomb Hall would
include the main library, administrative offices concerned with
student affairs, dining halls, and student activity facilities. Intercollegiate
athletics would be based on Scott Stadium and on
Copeley Hill at and near University Hall, where new track,
lacrosse, soccer, and baseball fields were to be provided. This
would make Lambeth Field available for dormitory construction.
Except for the abovementioned deviation with respect to
the Law School and Graduate School of Business, the foregoing
recommendations became a reality in the ensuing years.

University Hall—the auditorium, gymasium, and fieldhouse
complex—was opened in 1965 with a concert by the
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The long-sought structure
was the result of seven years of hard work and planning.
Shortly after the concert the first basketball game was played,
against the University of Kentucky, with a capacity attendance
of over nine thousand. Connected with the main building was
"the cage," described as a "giant empty box used for indoor
practice by the football, lacrosse, baseball and track teams."
University Hall cost more than four million dollars, of which
the alumni contributed $500,000, the General Assembly appropriated
$2,367,692, and the rest was raised by revenue
bonds. In 1970 additional facilities were made available.
These included handball and squash courts and a six-lane,
twenty-five-meter Olympic-size swimming pool.

The new fine arts center was a striking complex, situated on
Carr's Hill and extending northward from the president's
house. It comprised the School of Architecture and the department
of drama. A new library, named for Fiske Kimball,
first head of art and architecture at the university, served all
departments. There was also a theater. An "exterior committee,"
composed of artists, architects, and scholars, mostly from
Harvard and Columbia universities, had provided advisory
help.

The home of the School of Architecture was said by Dean
Joseph N. Bosserman of that school to be "the most significant
building constructed at the university since Jefferson designed

and built the original academical village, in terms of style,
character, innovation, quality and almost any other good thing
you choose." It was named for Edmund S. Campbell, head of
the school from 1927 to 1950. Architects for the $3,300,000
structure were Rawlings and Wilson of Richmond, and it was
designed by Pietro Belluschi and Kenneth DeMay of Sasaki,
Dawson, DeMay Associates, Inc. Fayerweather Hall and the
Bayly Museum, used for years by the school, were converted
for use by the Department of Art.

The nearby $3,000,000 drama building on Carr's Hill was
opened in 1974. It "makes a magnificent learning facility for
students interested in acting, design and directing," David
Weiss, chairman of the Drama Department, declared. The
theater, seating 600 persons, is named for Sarah Gilder Culbreth,
mother of Dr. David M. R. Culbreth, a medical graduate
of the university in the class of 1877, who left $625,000
toward the cost of the ultramodern structure. Dr. Culbreth
was the author of an interesting volume of reminiscences concerning
his days at the university.

Restoration of the Rotunda to its original state, as conceived
and carried out by Jefferson but with certain twentieth-century
additions and modifications, had been a long-sought objective
of Prof. Frederick D. Nichols of the School of Architecture.
He initiated the project in the 1950s but had difficulty
obtaining financing. A building committee with Francis L.
Berkeley, Jr., as chairman and Nichols as consultant was
formed in 1965 to work on the plan. A few years later a trust
fund left by the late Dr. Cary D. Langhorne, a medical graduate
in the class of '96, suddenly became available. The trust
provided half of the cost of restoration on condition that this
sum be matched. The matching amount was forthcoming
from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
for an overall total from the two sources in excess of
two million dollars. There was opposition by some faculty
members and persons in the community since they regarded
Stanford White's restoration after the 1895 fire, with its huge
dome room extending to the roof, as superior to the Jeffersonian
plan, which provided for two chambers, one on the
ground floor and the other under the dome. But preponderant
opinion favored Jefferson's original design, and work was
begun in 1973 with a view to restoring the structure in accordance

with his concept. It was anticipated that the project
would be completed in time for Founder's Day 1976 and that
the dedication would be a notable event of the nation's bicentennial
observance. Ballou and Justice of Richmond, headed
by alumnus Louis W. Ballou, a firm that had restored Jefferson's
capitol in Richmond, were the architects, and R. E. Lee
and Son of Charlottesville the building contractors.

While the importance of restoring the Rotunda would seem
to be obvious, the extraordinary lack of information in some
quarters concerning the building was a bit staggering. Two
eighteen-year-old girls on a sight-seeing tour entered the university's
version of the Roman Pantheon and inquired, "Where
are the bedrooms?" On being informed that there weren't any,
they asked cheerily, "This is Monticello, isn't it?"

The Rotunda had previously been listed in the National
Register of Historic Places, and in 1971 the original Grounds
as a whole were so listed. They were also included in the Virginia
Landmarks Register.

The new $5,000,000 home of the Law School on the North
Grounds opened in the fall of 1974, following its dedication
the preceding spring. It made possible expansion of the
school from an enrollment of 950 to 1,050. This figure was to
be increased to 1,200 by the second phase of the construction
program, to begin almost immediately, at a cost of $2,500,000
raised from private sources. It was expected that the Law Library
would have 500,000 volumes upon completion of the
second phase. Arthur J. Morris, '01, founder of the Morris
Plan of consumer credit, gave $350,000 "to furnish the library"
and then bequeathed $100,000 for a Morris Plan chair
of consumer banking. The Law School, the $3,200,000
Graduate School of Business Administration, and the $5,000,
000 Judge Advocate General's School were all going up simultaneously
in the early seventies on the North Grounds.

The seven-story, $10,700,000 Harvey E. Jordan Medical
Education building and the five-story, $2,400,000 Josephine
McLeod School of Nursing building were both dedicated Nov.
10, 1972. Five basic science departments plus an animal research
area were housed in the Jordan building, along with
lecture halls, laboratory space, and student activity facilities.
Closed circuit classroom TV and equipment for independent
study, along with bedside demonstration of nursing techniques,

were features of the nursing building. Both structures
were important elements in the university's plans to increase
its production of health care personnel.

Also highly significant in the foregoing program was the
grant of over one million five hundred thousand dollars in
federal funds toward construction of a new Health Sciences
Library and Information Center. These funds were to be combined
with General Assembly appropriations, plus contributions
from alumni, friends, and foundations. More than
eighty-six thousand medical texts and journals were to be
housed in the library, which would be equipped with reading
rooms, seminar and conference rooms, study cubicles, audiovisual
facilities, and offices, plus stack capacity for 170,000 volumes.
It would replace the libary built in 1929, planned for
6,600 volumes and a seating capacity of seventy-six. The new
facility was to serve the current enrollment of over 750 medical
and nursing students, as well as interns, residents, faculty,
and visiting physicians. It too was expected to play a significant
role in training more health personnel for the commonwealth
and improving health care through continuing education
and affiliated hospital programs.

With the removal of all athletic contests from Lambeth
Field, plans were carried forward for the erection there of
student apartments. Three of the twelve apartments in Phase
One were ready for occupancy in September 1974, and the
first 100 students moved in. All twelve apartments were completed
a few months later, and 408 students were accommodated.
Phase Two was expected to be ready in September
1975, with 840 students housed in the entire project. Restoration
and renovation of the colonnade rimming the stadium
was to begin shortly, thanks to a $75,000 alumni gift.

Plans were under way in 1974, with C. Waller Barrett as
chairman, to seek $8,000,000 from various sources to construct
a manuscripts and special collections library. It would
house the invaluable materials cared for in Alderman Library—the
Barrett, McGregor, and other collections and the
millions of manuscripts—and would be placed on the site of
the McIntire Theater. The latter facility had fallen into disuse
as a place for ceremonies and concerts and was used as a parking
lot. The McIntire site would be filled in to the level of
surrounding buildings, under the plan.

107. Carl Zeisberg provided to returning alumni a multilingual
exhortation for maximum attendance.

New dining facilities for students were made available in
1974 on McCormick Road, to provide breakfast and dinner
for some fifteen hundred who had previously had all their
meals at Newcomb Hall. Lunch was available to them at whichever
of the two they preferred. At the same time, the Newcomb
Hall grill had been remodeled and was open weekends
and evenings, serving beer and delicatessen and short-order
foods.

Extensive improvements on the Lawn were carried out in
the late sixties and early seventies through the generosity of
Mrs. Robert M. Jeffress, widow of a 1909 law graduate and
prominent Richmond financier. The Lawn crosswalks were restored
to their original herringbone pattern and brick splash
courses laid along the colonnades, as protection for the white
columns against the red mud of Albemarle. Brickwork around
the statues of Washington and Jefferson was renovated, and
the metal railings on the roofs of the buildings surrounding
the Lawn were replaced with new white wooden railings of
Jefferson's original Chinese Chippendale design. Mrs. Jeffress
also contributed to the refurbishing of the Gwathmey Room
at the Colonnade Club, a memorial to her brother, Allen T.
Gwathmey, noted professor of chemistry and longtime secretary
of the club.

Thomas P. Abernethy retired as professor of history in 1961,
after thirty-one years on the faculty, during which time he was
department chairman for a decade and director of the graduate
history program for twenty-eight years. Eleven of his former
students contributed to a Festschrift in his honor. Abernethy
had supervised personally more than thirty doctoral
dissertations and dozens of master's theses. He had taken his
own doctorate at Harvard under the celebrated Frederick
Jackson Turner, but following graduation he had written
books that took issue sharply with Turner's much-quoted thesis
that on the frontier "American character was constantly
put to the test and remolded to be tough, resourceful and independent."
Abernethy set forth a contrasting thesis in his
From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee (1932). He contended
that the frontier produced "not democracy but arrant opportunism,"
and, in the words of his colleague D. Alan Williams,
he argued that the frontier "fed the greed of the land-speculator

politicians who promoted settlement and controlled government."
Furthermore, "the voice of the people was negligible
in the early years."

Charles Henderson, former dean of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science, retired as professor in 1961.
The Charles Henderson Professorship of Engineering was established
in his honor.

The retirement of Robert K. Gooch in 1964 as professor of
political science was the occasion for almost unprecedented
tributes. In the words of the Alumni News: "Bob Gooch is one
of the few persons at the university who, by general agreement,
is praised by students, faculty and alumni as a `master
teacher, eminent scholar and beloved gentleman of Virginia.' "
The Cavalier Daily termed him "the living symbol of the university,"
and the University of Virginia Magazine said he was "the
students' professor" and "the Virginia man's Virginia man."
For twenty-five years Gooch was the "inspiration, innovator
and chairman" of the Honors Program. He had shocked the
university community in 1931 with an attack on the institution's
undergraduate program, which he compared to a "kindergarten
or grammar school," a characterization that was a
factor in bringing the Honors Program into being a few years
later. Subsequently he provided the spark that led to establishment
of the Liberal Arts Seminars. Bob Gooch was not only a
star athlete in his student days but a Rhodes Scholar. He went
on to get his Ph.D. at Oxford. His specialty was comparative
government, and he wrote three books on French parliamentary
government, one book on British, and another on American
government. Gooch served for many years as chairman of
the university's Department of Political Science and, for
shorter periods, as chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Department
of Foreign Affairs and the Institute of Public Affairs. He
was president of the Southern Political Science Association
and a member of the executive committee of the American
Political Science Association and of the board of editors of the
American Political Science Review; he was for many years an advisory
editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. The Robert Kent
Gooch Scholarship Fund in the college was established in his
honor by alumni, faculty, and friends, with the stipulation that
the winner must have the approximate qualifications of a
Rhodes Scholar. The Z Society provided an annual fund for

the purchase of books for Alderman Library as a tribute to
Professor Gooch. The Robert Kent Gooch chair of government
was established following his retirement.

Chemistry Prof. John H. Yoe, an international figure in the
scientific world, retired in 1963, after serving on the faculty
since 1919. His many awards and distinctions have been mentioned
in earlier chapters. The year following his retirement
a pamphlet listing all of his publications was issued. There
were no fewer than 412 books and articles, beginning in 1910.
Two of his books were translated into Russian and several into
French and Spanish.

Dr. Carl C. Speidel, professor of anatomy and a member of
the medical faculty since 1920, retired in 1964. His nationally
acclaimed discovery in 1931 of important secrets of nerve
growth, which won for him the research prize of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, has been
noted. He also won half a dozen other research prizes.

Dr. James E. Kindred, another veteran of the Medical
School, also retired in 1964. On the faculty since 1923, Dr.
Kindred was professor of anatomy for most of his career. He
was twice winner of the President and Visitors Research Prize
and coauthor with Dr. Harvey E. Jordan of a textbook on embryology
that went through five editions.

Stanislaw Makielski retired in the same year as professor of
architecture after serving since 1923. He received a citation in
1959 from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
as "one of the great teachers of architecture." Professor
Makielski served for a decade on the State Board of Architectural
Examiners. The Cavalier Daily said he was "deeply admired
and respected" by both students and faculty. He died in
1969.

Dr. Edwin W. Burton, a member of the medical faculty since
1930 and head of the Department of Ophthalmology for
twenty-five years, retired from that post in 1965 but continued
to teach. Twenty of his former students gave him a dinner at
the Farmington Country Club and presented him with an inscribed
silver tray and an album.

Thomas K. Fitz Patrick resigned as dean of the School of
Architecture in 1966, after thirteen years in the position, to
return to teaching. He was past president of the American

108. The Clifton Waller Barrett Library.

Collegiate Schools of Architecture, a member of the National
Architectural Accrediting Board, and first chairman of the
American Institute of Architect's Committee on Nuclear Facilities.
During this deanship the curriculum was reorganized
to establish three divisions: Architecture, under Prof. Frederick
D. Nichols; architectural history, Prof. William B. O'Neal;
and city planning, Prof. Paul S. Dulaney.

Assistant Dean Joseph N. Bosserman was named to succeed
Fitz Patrick. A native of Harrisonburg, Va., and graduate of
the University of Virginia and Princeton, Dean Bosserman
had held Fulbright professorships in England and Germany
and had also lectured in Spain and Scotland. He was a fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts in England and served on the
board of governors of the American Association of Architectural
Bibliographers.

Chemistry Prof. Arthur F. Benton, a graduate of Princeton
and California Institute of Technology and former chairman
of the Chemistry Department at Virginia, retired in 1966. He
served on the chemistry faculty for forty years.

Political science Prof. George W. Spicer retired in 1968 after
a career in which he was especially active in promoting better
county government. He was influential in drafting the Virginia
legislature's act of 1932 establishing the county manager
and county executive forms and was chosen chairman of the
Virginia Commission on County Government in that year, a
position he held until 1938. Professor Spicer also wrote several
authoritative books in the field. In addition, he was active
on behalf of civil rights, and in 1959 was consultant to the first
U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Spicer served a term as president
of the Southern Political Science Association.

Dr. Oscar Swineford, a member of the medical faculty for
thirty-nine years and a specialist in allergy, retired in 1967. He
was noted for his efforts to encourage the teaching of allergy
in medical schools and was active as an author. The Oscar
Swineford Allergy Fund was established in 1961 by former
students. It made possible the holding of a yearly postgraduate
conference on allergy at the Medical School.

Dr. Charles Bruce Morton II's significant surgical career
came to an end with his retirement in 1970. He had brought
to the Medical School a surgical technique different from that

of the famous Halsted-trained Dr. Stephen Watts, and by his
innovations "kept the surgical program from provincialism
and inbreeding." Dr. Morton was the author of seventy papers,
as well as a history of the Department of Surgery. He
performed nearly 13,000 major operations during his career,
and his earnings above salary contributed over $600,000 to
the department.

Dr. E. C. Drash terminated his career as a thoracic surgeon
in 1970, after forty years on the medical staff. He had been
absent from 1942 to 1945 as chief surgeon of the university's
World War II Eighth Evacuation Unit. During his years at the
university Dr. Drash "developed associations with the various
sanatoria for tuberculosis in the state," Bruce Morton says in
his history of the surgical department, "and enjoyed phenomenal
success in treating their patients."

Another leading member of the university faculty who retired
in 1970 was the beloved T.  Munford Boyd of the Law
School. One of the first professors to win the Thomas  Jefferson
Award (1957), "Munny" Boyd was active in many phases
of student life, despite the fact that he was totally blind. One
of the university's foremost interpreters of the Honor System,
his statements on the subject were memorable. The Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award was given him the year he retired for
"excellence of character and service to humanity."

Several veteran members of the faculty retired in 1972:

Frederick T. Morse, professor of mechanical engineering, a
member of the faculty since 1933.

William B. O'Neal, professor of architectural history, on the
faculty since 1946.

Lorin A. Thompson, professor of business administration
and president of George Mason University, member of the
faculty since 1940.

Bernard A. Mayo, professor of history since 1940. As a student
at the University of Maine in the early 1920s, "Bernie"
Mayo was manager of a student orchestra that employed the
subsequently famous Rudy Vallee to play the saxaphone at $5
a night. "Rudy was a nice boy, but he never could sing well,"
said Mayo. While at Virginia, Professor Mayo wrote Henry
Clay: Spokesman of the New West and Myths and Men and edited
a collection of Jefferson's writings entitled Jefferson Himself.

Upon his retirement former students produced a volume of
essays in his honor.

Professors who retired in 1974 included the following:

Dr. Andrew D. Hart, professor of internal medicine and
former director of student health, after serving on the faculty
since 1928.

Dr. John M. Nokes, professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
on the faculty since 1931. He was a former president of the
Virginia League for Planned Parenthood.

Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., curator of manuscripts and university
archivist; in his latter years executive assistant to the president,
a member of the faculty since 1938.

Richard H. Henneman, professor of psychology, on the faculty
since 1947.

Edward C. Stevenson, professor of electrical engineering, a
member of the faculty since 1950.

Edward J. McShane, Alumni Professor of Mathematics,
member of the faculty for thirty-nine years. A three-day symposium
in his honor was held by the Department of Mathematics,
followed by a reception.

The departure of Prof. Neil Alford in 1974 to accept the
deanship of the University of Georgia Law School was the
cause of widespread regret. He was described by Tom Lankford
in The Declaration as "one of the most outstanding
teacher-scholars, who departs after 26 distinguished years";
he has "utterly charmed students . . . with his Southern drawl,
his wide, friendly grin." Alford "collaborated with his mentor,
John Ritchie, and with Richard Effland to produce what is the
most widely used textbook on trusts and estates in the country."
He also performed superbly for years as the university's
attorney.

Dr. McLemore Birdsong, admired professor of pediatrics
for thirty-four years, was preparing in 1974 to retire the following
year. At various times president of the Medical Society
of Virginia and the Virginia Pediatrics Association and chairman
of the pediatrics section of the Southern Medical Association,
"Mac" Birdsong was regarded as an exceptionally able
teacher. He was the author of over thirty published works in
the field of pediatrics.

Secretary to a succession of deans since 1926 and graduate
programs assistant in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

since 1965, Miss Elizabeth Purvis was honored by both
the Seven Society and the Ravens for her conspicuous contribution.
She began as secretary to Dean John C. Metcalf, then
served Deans John L. Newcomb and Walter S. Rodman, and
in 1938 became secretary to the Graduate School.

Prof. Oreste Rinetti, whose classes in Italian were said to be
next to the largest in any American university, died suddenly
in 1960. A native of Italy, he had taught Italian language and
literature in his native land before coming to the United States
in 1925 to join the Yale University faculty. He became a professor
at the University of Virginia three years later. Professor
Rinetti was made a cavaliere of the Crown of Italy by virtue of
his great success in teaching Italian at the university.

The death of English Prof. Archibald Bolling Shepperson
in 1962 brought tributes from the Cavalier Daily and others.
The paper described him as "uniquely a gentleman" and
added: "As a teacher, a writer, as editor of the Virginia Quarterly
Review, as a member of the Raven Society, he rendered
notable service to the university. But it is for his laudable personal
virtues that we shall most remember him."

Prof. Allan T. Gwathmey died in 1963, aged fifty-nine, at
the height of his career. In addition to accolades received by
him in earlier years, he was voted the meritorious service
award of the Virginia Academy of Science and the university's
Thomas Jefferson Award. "Pete" Gwathmey's dedication to
the cause of scientific progress and to the advancement of the
university's scholarly standing was also recognized by his winning
both the Raven and Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards.
The Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Fund was established
by colleagues and friends after his death to provide an annual
scholarship for an outstanding graduate student doing research
in the physical sciences.

Dr. Henry B. Mulholland died in 1967, five years after his
retirement from the medical faculty, on which he had served
for over forty years. He entered the private practice of medicine
in Charlottesville following his retirement. The Thomas
Jefferson Award went to him the year he retired, and in 1966
he was voted a mastership in the American College of Physicians,
the organization's highest honor. The Seven Society, of
which he was a member, contributed $777.77 toward the

Henry B. Mulholland Chair of Internal Medicine, established
as a tribute to him.

A unique member of the medical community, Dr. Halstead
S. Hedges, `92, died in 1968 a few days before his 102d birthday.
Dr. Hedges, a pioneer ophthalmologist on the medical
faculty, was honored at a reception on his 100th birthday, at
which time a fund named for him was announced. His versatility
was acclaimed by English Prof. Joseph L. Vaughan, who
said: "Dr. Hedges is a man whose medical ability is matched
only by his ability to outfish and outwalk all his residents, and
who can calmly lean back and quote the first half of Book One
of the Odyssey in the original just for the pleasure of hearing
Homer's thundering lines."

Wilbur A. Nelson, who had served as chairman of the
School of Geology and State Geologist from 1925 until his retirement
in 1959, died ten years later. He had been a consultant
for various governmental and business organizations.
Nelson served as president of the Charlottesville Chamber of
Commerce and helped to promote the establishment of the
Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. In
World War II he was director of priorities in the Office of Production
Management and later organized and became director
of the mining division of the War Production Board.

The passing in 1970 of F. D. G. Ribble, retired dean of the
Law School, brought many tributes of admiration and affection.
He was credited with major responsibility for a number
of the school's advances, notably the establishment of the Law
School Foundation in 1951-52. Member of the law faculty for
forty-two years and dean for nearly a quarter of a century,
Professor Ribble was not only a capable administrator but an
editor and author of note. He edited the second edition of
Minor on Real Property (1928) and wrote State and National
Power over Commerce (1937), both of which were often cited in
the courts. He received both the Thomas Jefferson and IMP
Awards.

James S. Miller, Jr., professor of electrical engineering, a
member of the faculty from 1920 until his retirement in 1969,
died in 1972.

Dr. W. Gayle Crutchfield, professor of neurosurgery, a member
of the faculty from 1941 to 1971, died the following year.

109. New home of the Law School.

The Medical Center sustained a loss in 1973 with the death
at age fifty-five of John M. Stacey, its director for nearly a decade
and previously director of the university hospital since
1953.

A nationally distinguished art historian and painter was lost
by the untimely death in 1974 of Prof. William C. Seitz. Representatives
of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and
the National Gallery of Art in Washington attended his funeral.
His monograph on Claude Monet (1960) was regarded
as a masterpiece, and he soon came to be considered a major
recorder and interpreter of the work of modern artists. Seitz
was "literally irreplaceable," Prof. Frederick Hartt, Art Department
chairman, declared.

Misses Betty Booker and Betty Cocke, two ladies who had
kept much-patronized rooming houses on University Avenue
for generations, passed away during these years.

Miss Booker, whose establishment was at the corner of Madison
Lane, died in 1967 at the age of ninety-one. She had a
notable career as a lyric soprano in this country and Europe
and made her debut at Covent Garden in 1911 with the Royal
Opera at the coronation command performance of King
George V and Queen Mary. Betty Booker sang in Cabell Hall
on many occasions, usually for the benefit of St. Paul's
Church. She gave up her operatic career to look after her
mother and opened her rooming house at the university. Mrs.
Booker had kept a close eye on her daughter during the latter's
career on the stage. When Betty was in her late teens in
her native Richmond, she was in a rehearsal for an opera with
an Italian tenor from New York. As Miss Booker described
the incident many years afterward, her mother was on the
front row when the tenor complimented Betty and said, "And
now, Miss Booker, this evening I give you one big kiss." "Oh
no you don't!" exclaimed Betty's mother, as she rose indignantly
in her seat.

Miss Betty Cocke, a great-granddaughter of John Hartwell
Cocke of Bremo, one of Jefferson's coadjutors in founding the
university, died in 1973 at age 100. Her sister, Louise, had
died in 1969 at 101. They operated their rooming house next
to St. Paul's Church for nearly seventy-five years, with Betty as
the dominant figure. The Alumni News said after her death:
"Aside from her captivating warmth, wit and sense of humor

and matchless integrity, she had an uncommon ability to communicate
with youth."

The University of Virginia was making rapid forward strides
in the 1960s and 1970s as a center of academic excellence.
State sales tax revenues and bond issues, growing out of reforms
sponsored by Gov. Mills Godwin, helped markedly to
strengthen departments and finance additional buildings and
facilities. By 1970 the impact of both this increase in revenues
and the remarkable achievement of the Center for Advanced
Studies in bringing nationally known faculty to Virginia were
evident in the university's improved educational ranking.

In 1970 the American Council on Education released the
results of a survey of graduate programs in thirty-six disciplines
in 130 institutions. Eighteen departments at the University
of Virginia were rated above average or better, with
four of these in the highest category. The four were English,
ranked ninth in the country; history and math, twenty-third;
and developmental biology, twenty-seventh. Six departments
were rated "good," or in the second category of excellence,
namely, astronomy, economics, physics, physiology, political
science (government and foreign affairs), and zoology. Eight
other departments were in the third category, or "more than
adequate," namely, chemistry, chemical engineering, French,
microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, philosophy,
and psychology. The foregoing rankings were based on replies
from some six thousand scholars and department chairmen
throughout the country, and it was a far better showing
than the university had made four years before in a similar
survey. Yet in 1970 the University of North Carolina was given
twelve departments in the highest category compared with
only four for the University of Virginia. While the state of
North Carolina was appropriating substantially more to its
state university than the commonwealth of Virginia, it had a
much smaller endowment, and persons informed as to the two
institutions did not believe that there was so wide a disparity,
if indeed there was any at all. Ian McNett, writing in Change
magazine, said that the university at Charlottesville had "acquired
a reputation as a first-rate academic institution according
to all the traditional barometers of academic excellence."
Loren Pope, College Placement Bureau Director in Washington,

D.C., writing in Newsday praised the university's educational
program and declared that among those institutions
striving for individuality and diversity, "no private college
does a better job than Virginia or Michigan."

Despite the foregoing favorable judgments, it appeared that
the facts concerning the remarkable progress at Charlottesville
had been slow in getting across to other sections of the
United States. Many were judging the institution and its departments
on the basis of impressions formed years before.
About two decades are apparently required for word concerning
the sort of progress made at the university to percolate to
all areas of the nation's academic community.

Although there had been notable advances, the Carnegie
Commission on Higher Education listed the state of Virginia
in 1971 as one of twenty-one states that, in its view, were not
providing sufficient support for institutions of higher learning.
Fortunately the university's endowment of more than
$100,000,000, as of 1974, helped to make up the deficiency.

The university had other assets, both tangible and intangible.
Dean Joseph N. Bosserman said in 1968 that Charlottesville
and "the intangible university atmosphere" were strong
points in attracting faculty. He added that visiting professors
"almost invariably go out of their way to comment on how
polite and how bright the students are." He also cited the
Honor System as a conspicuous asset, saying "a teacher knows
that he doesn't have to go around spying on the students."

Four years later Vice-President and Provost David A. Shannon
said he found that once prospective professors came to
the university, "our chances of recruiting them are improved
considerably. . . . They see it's an alive, dynamic institution"
rather than "a sleepy coat and tie school."

The average compensation for all faculty at Virginia in 1973
was $21,369, higher than Princeton's $20,712, according to
figures released by the American Association of University
Professors. Harvard's average was $25,448, Stanford's $23,784,
Duke's $22,313, and Yale's $22,040. In average compensation
for faculty, Virginia stood second only to Michigan
among the twenty-three public universities belonging to the
prestigious Association of American Universities. The Alumni
News reported in 1968 that "in terms of fringe benefits we
have as good a program as you can find at a state university."

More than twenty-five hundred students were receiving financial
aid in 1970-71, totaling more than two million dollars.
The average scholarship award was $884, the average amount
paid on work-study programs $652, and the average loan
$725.

Standards for admission were being raised steadily, and the
number of applications also was rising rapidly. The institution's
growing reputation for scholastic excellence was an important
factor in the mounting number of applicants. Also,
"the university is now one of the less expensive state-supported
institutions in the commonwealth," Admissions Dean
Ernest H. Ern declared in 1971. The preceding fall, entering
college students averaged 590 on the verbal SAT test and 616
on math, more than 130 points above the national average.
Applicants were being judged on the following basis: (1) the
total academic record in secondary school and the school's
evaluation of the candidate; (2) college entrance exams, board
test scores; (3) extracurricular interests and activities. For the
session of 1972-73 no fewer than 81 percent of the entering
students ranked in the top 20 percent of their secondary
school classes, a figure that had been rising steadily. Academic
attrition amounted to less than 2 percent in the college annually,
compared with 30 percent nationally. By 1974, 54 percent
of the students in the college were on the dean's list.
Furthermore, a much higher proportion of the entering class
than ever before was graduating, and the number of graduates
was mounting each year. For the session of 1973-74 the
university awarded 3,741 degrees, including summer school,
or 15.8 percent of all degrees granted by Virginia's state institutions.
Included were 237 Ph.D.s, or 57.1 percent of those
awarded in the commonwealth.

Forty-seven percent of the entering students came from out
of state in 1959, but by 1973 this figure was down to 30 percent.
While this was a substantial decline, it accorded with
what appeared to be prevailing sentiment in Virginia. And it
should be noted that the latter percentage was twice as high as
that for the University of North Carolina and the University
of Wisconsin, for example, where a 15 percent limit was fixed
by state law. Every city and county in the Old Dominion was
represented at Charlottesville in the 1973-74 enrollment, as
well as every state in the union and forty-eight foreign countries.

Black students numbered 463, and there were 4,524
women, about one-third of the total. The Schools of Law and
Medicine "continued to be by far the most sought-after divisions
of the university," President Shannon declared.

The first of the "chairs dinners" for holders of endowed
name professorships and their spouses, was held in October
1973. They were an annual feature thereafter. More than one
hundred of these chairs had been established at that time, seventy
of which had been added since 1966.

Faculty-student relations were close, according to Frank
Hereford, who said in 1974, "Certainly they are closer than
they were when I was a student" in the 1940s. He added his
"firm belief" that "the quality of student life is far better than
it was when I studied here."

After struggling for many years to obtain adequate financing,
Alderman Library emerged in 1973 in first place among
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, in both expenditures
for books and total expenditures. It ranked among
the top twenty-five university libraries in the United States.
The next task was to obtain funds from private sources for an
additional building to house its invaluable collection of rare
books and manuscripts.

By 1974 the university's physical plant had been vastly expanded.
The fifteen-year program under President Shannon
totaled almost $115,000,000 in state tax funds, federal and
foundation grants, private gifts and bequests, and revenue
bonds.

Shannon told the Board of Visitors at its February 1973 meeting
that he planned to resign as president in August of the
following year. He would have been in office for a decade and
a half, he said, and "I wish to pass on my duties to another
while I am still enjoying them as I do." He added that his
fifteen-year term of office was well beyond the average for college
presidents, and that he wanted to spend more time with
his wife and five daughters. Desirous of returning to his "first
love . . . teaching and scholarship," he stated that he planned
to continue his classes in the works of Tennyson, some of
which he had taught throughout his presidency. He was
elected Commonwealth Professor of English upon his retirement.

110. Inside the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

The senior class of 1973 presented him with two silver Jefferson
cups "with thanks for a job well done." The Alumni
Association gave him $1,000, to be spent on the Tennyson collection
in Alderman Library, and said it was a token of his
"demonstrable leadership in the university's rise to enviable
distinction among the nation's institutions of higher learning."
The Z Society announced an annual scholarship in his honor.
Six years before, when the Thomas Jefferson Award went to
him, the citation spoke of his "brilliant performance as president."

Since his election to head the university in 1959, Edgar
Shannon had been chosen to high positions in the educational
world. A partial list would include president of the Association
of Virginia Colleges, of the Council of Southern Universities,
the Council of Presidents of State Institutions of Higher Education,
and president and chairman of the executive committee
of the National Association of State Universities and Land
Grant Colleges. He also served on the boards of the U.S. Naval
and Air Force academies, as well as on countless committees.

It can readily be seen that much of Shannon's time was
taken up with his duties in these various posts, not to mention
the attention that had to be devoted to dealing with the General
Assembly and with foundations and various other groups
and agencies. A similar situation prevailed with most university
presidents. In fact, one estimate was that these men and
women spend as much as half of their time coping with such
matters. Shannon expressed the view that this estimate was
perhaps a bit too high but not greatly out of line.

Tribute to the remarkable progress made by the university
between 1963 and 1973 was paid by Malcolm Scully, an alumnus
who had served on the editorial staff of the Chronicle of
Higher Education and was a contributing editor of the Saturday
Review. He wrote: "If you have been associated with the world
of higher education over the past five years . . . you have become
aware that the University of Virginia has grown into a
first-rate national university. You hear it at scholarly meetings
when young Ph.D.s talk enviously of colleagues who have obtained
positions at the university; you see it in the attention
afforded the university in national magazines, you sense it in
the general respect which the university receives in academic
circles across the country. . . . Clearly the university is no

longer simply the genteel, introverted place I left a decade
ago."

Edgar Shannon had given the leadership that brought the
university to this position among the nation's institutions of
higher learning. He had achieved this despite the fact that he
was not considered primarily an administrator; important
members of the Board of Visitors did not feel that administration
was his forte. Yet they were unanimous in acclaiming the
striking advances made during his presidency and happy to
accord to him the lion's share of the credit.

His wife, Eleanor, was regarded as having played an admirable
role during his presidency. She received the Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award in 1972. The citation described her as
"in the great tradition of the university president's wife . . .
firm of belief, quick of mind, warm of heart," and spoke of
"her many contributions . . . her many nameless acts of kindness,
and of love to the university."

A committee headed by Rector Joseph H. McConnell chose
Frank L. Hereford, Jr., as Edgar Shannon's successor in September
1973, one year before Shannon retired. Hereford's selection
from a field of 159 nominees followed a seven-month
search. He was Robert C. Taylor Professor of Physics at the
time, as he had relinquished his position as vice-president and
provost in 1971 to return to the classroom. With wide administrative
experience in previous years as department head,
graduate dean, provost, and vice-president, Frank Hereford
was admirably equipped for his new task. Born fifty years before
in Lake Charles, La., he was a B.A. and Ph.D. of the university.
In his student days he was a member of Omicron Delta
Kappa, Tilka, and Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity, as well
as Raven and Phi Beta Kappa. Prof. Jesse Beams said Hereford
was the ablest student he had ever taught. Personable
and outgoing, with a quick and inventive mind, Frank Hereford
appeared to be the man for the job. As provost he had
had a significant role in attracting topflight faculty, and as
chairman of the Committee on the Future of the University
he had been involved with planning for the institution's development
and the admission of women.

In addition to being an experienced administrator and an
internationally known scholar, Hereford was fortunate in having

married the former Ann Lane of Petersburg, who had
studied at Swarthmore and Sweet Briar and was a B.S. of the
university. Ann Hereford had just the right qualities for a university
president's wife—lovely and charming, she knew how
to entertain parents and alumni graciously, and at the same
time was sufficiently knowledgeable to have a role in her husband's
important decisions. The Herefords had two sons and
two daughters.

Before taking office, Frank Hereford appointed Associate
Engineering Dean Avery Catlin to the newly created position
of executive vice-president of the university. Catlin was a B.A.,
M.A., and Ph.D. of Virginia who had been on the faculty since
1948. He was to coordinate all aspects of the university's academic
and physical planning and serve as the institution's
principal administrative officer for university development.
He would function as acting president in the president's absence.

The new president was inaugurated on Oct. 9, 1974, a crisp
and sunny autumn day. Several thousand persons were on the
Lawn as the procession marched to Cabell Hall, led by Grand
Marshal B. F. D. Runk, who had planned the program. Rector
McConnell presided and the speakers were Gov. Mills Godwin
and Frank Hereford. The latter spoke of the need to establish
a "conscious perspective" in the relation between science and
the humanities and proposed further study of the "intersections"
between the two. He hoped that in this way mankind
could attain "new understanding of the human situation, cultural
unity through unity of understanding."

The university almost lost its new president in late December
when he narrowly escaped drowning in the icy waters of
Chesapeake Bay. He was on a duck hunt, and the small boat
into which he, his son, and a friend were crowded, together
with a dog, was swamped in choppy water and sank. The two
boys managed to swim to a buoy, and the dog got to shore.
But Frank Hereford's heavy clothing became waterlogged as
he tried to swim, and he was barely able to stay afloat. Creek,
the Labrador retriever, was alert to the emergency. He ran
dripping to the lodge where they had been staying, rushed
around barking and whining, jumped on his master's bed and
lay there whimpering. The keeper of the lodge became
alarmed, leaped into his boat, and headed for the duck blind

111. Frank and Ann Hereford accepting congratulations after his inauguration as president of the
university in 1974.

in the darkness. En route he encountered the floundering and
foundering Frank Hereford, who was barely managing to
keep his head above water and would almost certainly have
drowned had it not been for the warning given by his faithful
dog.

The University of Virginia stood at the pinnacle of its prestige
in modern times as Hereford settled into the presidency
as successor to Shannon. Both men were hailed enthusiastically
in the Virginia press. It was pointed out that the university's
College of Arts and Sciences and its professional schools
were widely admired, the faculty was of distinguished eminence,
and the student body of unprecedented quality.
Whereas in earlier times about a dozen Virginia counties were
customarily unrepresented among the students at the university,
such was no longer the case, for all the counties were now
sending matriculates. And both blacks and whites, males and
females, were enrolled in large numbers, testifying to the fact
that the people of the commonwealth were the beneficiaries
of the instruction being offered at Charlottesville. The public
schools sent a much larger proportion of the student body
than in former years. All this, it seems safe to say, would have
gratified the university's founder, whose oft-expressed desire
was to provide the widest possible system of education for
those Virginians capable of profiting from it.

Truly, the center of learning that he founded had traveled
far since that distant day in 1825 when some forty young men
from southern plantations entered its portals. The Lawn and
Ranges, the arcades and colonnades, were almost unchanged
since the first contingent of students arrived and gazed upon
the half-finished Rotunda. But the university's inner spirit and
mission had been transformed. What some had called in modern
times, with considerable exaggeration, "the country club
of the South," had vanished. In its place had arisen a nationally
ranked university, wide-ranging in its scholarship and untrammeled
in its search for truth. If Mr. Jefferson could look
down upon it today from his mountaintop, he would be
proud.