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October 26, 1946 Those Who Have Gone Before... By BETTINA HUSTON To a glorious homecoming and the alumni for whom it was planned, we dedicate this page in hopes that they may here glean a little more knowledge of their former class-, mates and their doings. John T. Chappell, class of 1915, whose niece and nephew, Marie and Harold Orvis are now enrolled at Guilford, recently addressed the American Chemical Society's 110 th meeting on the subject of "Chris tian Chemists." After graduating from Guilford, Chappell took his M.A. and his I'h.D. in chemistry at Johns Hopkins. He is now teaching at Olivet College and living in Kan kakee, Illinois. Bunyun Hadley Andrew, class of 1931, submitted a dissertation on river boundaries in "partial satis faction of the requirements for the degree of Dr. of Philosophy" in His tory at the University of Califor nia, February, 1946. Andrew re ceived his A.B. at Guilford and his M.A. at the University of Califor nia in 1941. Wendell Newlin, class of 1931!, was recently elected principal of the Leaksville grade school. A na tive of Graham, North Carolina, Newelin spent from 1942 to 1045 in the Mediterranean theatre of war with the Criminal Investigation Di vision of U. S. Army. The former Frances Purdom, class of 1938, now Mrs. Charles Baril, has joined her husband in Manila where he is stationed with the Army Air Forces. Not only is ■ft Past-president of the Alumni As sociation, B. Clyde Shore from Wins ton-Sal em and member of the class of 1925, is doner of the Shore Jour nalism Scholarship provided for a student especially interested in creative or Journalistic writing. there a housing shortage in Manila but it rains there, too, and Mrs. J Baril is finding rain a real problem j in a house with no glass windows. Before leaving this country she 1 taught a Physical Kducation pro- j gram for a year among the atom bomb workers at Oak Kidge, Ten nessee. Michael class ot 1940, took his M.A. in personnel guidance at Columbia University this summer, after receiving his Army discharge j and is now with Sears, Roebuck | and Company at Atlanta, Georgia, lie is engaged in a training pro gram, being paid while he learns, , and will end up a Sears executive. Kilbert Bdgerton, class of 1940. ; anil Marianna Dowd Kdgerton, I class of 1940, had a 7-pound 9'/ 2 - ounce son, David Earle, on August 13th. After leaving Guilford Kdger ton was a student at Ilaverford and Mariannn worked in the State Hos pital, Taunton, Massachusetts, as a student social worker. J. W. McGinnis, who graduated in August of 19*12, is now pastor of Kirk wood Presbyterian Church, Kannapolis, North Carolina. lie at tended Divinity School at Duke. Robert McNeely, class of 1943, is a correspondent with the U. S. Gyp sum Compnny, Charlotte, North Carolina. Bob Rohr, class of 1943, and Alice Ekeroth Rohr, class of 1940, are now living somewhere on or near the premises of the University of Wisconsin where Bob is taking his M.A. in physics. "Al" is working I on a newspaper with plenty of time on her hands and enjoying every minute of it. All is not work how ever, for relaxation the two go boating or swimming on the near by lake or treat themselves to a lively game of tit-tat-toe in the sand. I Robert Beyer, class of 1945, we , hear is snapping suspenders as a ; clerk in B. Altman's N. Y. C. ! Through the door, turn to your • right, and there's Bob in the Men's Department handling suspenders, ties and guests. | Half of Guilford seems to have migrated to the University of North Carolina, where may be found, among the olhers, Bill Grice, class 1 of 1941, Knobby Blair, class of 1943, ) and Paul Chambers, class of 1939, ! and Danny Young, class of 1940, at ! the Medical School and Virginia ; Ashcraft in the school of Social ' Science. Eunice Lindley, class of 1930, is enjoying a vacation in Jamaica with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wellons. Huldah Chilton, class of 19-41, whose sister Mary Frances is now a senior living at Mary Hobbs, is teaching Physical Education, French . and English at Allen Jay. Chester Ryan, class of 1942, is at tending college in Newark, New Jer sey, where he is studying manual ; arts. He, his wife and two-and-a half-year-old daughter, Mandy, are now living in West Orange. Ryan • plans to graduate in June. ' Jack Wright, class of 1946, is at Earlham College playing football. Sadie White, class of 1943, who was married to Richard Taylor on 1 September 19, is now an assist -1 ant instructor at the University of Illinois, where her husband is get -1 ting his bachelor's degree. Bob Nolan is mastering in Physi ■ cal Education at Springfield ; Howard i'ietry, class of '4l, is studying math at State; Dave Stanstield, class of 1944, is at Hartford Seminary; and Bill Van Hoy Is attending the school of religion at Duke University. Speed Hollowell, class of 1943, is traveling with the seasons from New- York to Miami as a recreation man. lie is now in Florida. Joan Ripperger, class of 1944, is working for the McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York City, and Gail Willis, class of 1944, is also in New York City with Harpers Brot hers. Setli and Hazel Macon are living in Greensboro where Seth has been transferred back to the local Jeffer son Standard TJfe Insurance office. John Perrian, class of '39, is in Winston-Salem with the Veterans' Administration Association. Kingston Johns, class of 19-14, is ■ teaching English and coaching at ' Buxton Prep. His wife, the former 1 Betty Walker is with him. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Tillson, ! are at Pinehurst, North Carolina, where Charlie is coaching. Fred Taylor, class of '4l, is a full- Hedged doctor on active duty as a Navy physician in the Columbia. North Carolina, station. Jim Mc- Donald, class of 1939, has re-en listed in the Navy and is now sta t tioned at New Orleans. | Larry Menghetti, captain of Guil ford's basketball team in '4l, is at the vetinarian school of the Uni ! versity of Pennsylvania. Phil Hur | witz, class of '43, is studying in the University of Pennsylvania Medi -1 cal School. I "Gabe" Gabriel, class of 1944, is J vacationing in Florida at the St. I Moritz Hotel, Miami Beach, j Of the Nunn sisters, Nancy, class i of 1945, is working for a broker in I ! Winston-Salem and Rosemary, class I of 1943, is working in the hospital | there. Tuseon "The Rook" Maynard. I Guilford football and basketball star of former days and graduate of 1943, is now employed as physi cal education director in the Y. M. C. A. at Draper, North Caro lina. \\ edding Hells Helen Gray Douglas, class of '39, will marry Bruce William Shoo hridge in Australia sometime in De cember. Helen served during the war with the WAC in New Guinea and the Philippines and she revived her discharge in Brisbane, Australia. After her release from service she worked in the Department of Ex ternal Affairs of the Australian Gov ernment. Shoobridge was educated in Australia where he graduated from the Friends school nt Hobart itond from Dookie Agricultural Col lege in Victoria. Marvin Sykes, class of '36, who was released from the Navy last February will marry Miss Jamie Fowler of Greensboro on November 9 Sykes received his degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and worked on the News- THE GUILFORDIAN Record Staff until his entrance intc the Navy in 1942. Mildred Ragan, class of '43, Is engaged to William Franklin Grant Jr.; the wedding will take place it the late fall. Since graduating from Guilford Mildred has been with the school faculty of Winston-Salem teaching fourth grade. Martie McLennan, class of 1945 was united with Archibald McDowel Bynum of Farmvllle, Va. in a simple Quaker ceremony a week ago today. The wedding took place at Ashe horo Street Friends, Greensboro, North Carolina Just returned from China and his recent marriage to Evelyn Elizabeth Wheldon in Chengchow is John C. Bradshaw, Jr., class of '37. From Invited to umpire the homecoming softball game this afternoon is Earnest G. Shore of Winston-Saletii who is a member of the class of 1911 and present sheriff of Forsyth County. December to May of the past year Bradshaw did hospital reconstruc tion work in China; and during June and July did laison work with U.N.R.R.A. and C.N.R.R.A.. the Chinese relief organization On the tenth of August he was married and since then has been traveling. The first week in September Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw went to Peiping on a sight-seeing tour, the only official leave issued to the groom in three years of C. P. S. work. Previous to the year in China, Bradshaw was in India. He arrived in this country Tuesday October 15th via the S. S. Topatopa and visited Guilford Col lege and A.F.S. headquarters in Philadelphia. A regular haven for Guilford AlmnnMe is Straughan's Book Shop in Groenshoro. Of its co-owners. Miss Mattie and Miss Alice Straughan. Miss Mantle attended Guilford in 1917-18 and among Its employees ■ll n be found Mrs. Robert Register, Mary Laura McArthur. Toby Laitin. and Snaki Knight, all former Guil fordians. The Misses Straughan opened their first shop in 1924; surviving five fires in the first year, the.v moved their establishment to Greene Street where they forewent further tires but fell prey to the depression. After pulling through the depres sion. the sisters retired from busi ness in 1939. But books were in their blood and in 1942 Miss Mattie and Miss Alice opened their present shop on West Market Street where the.v and their staff of Guilfnrdians still carry on. They wee recently lauded in the Greensboro Daily News in the sixth of a series e>f articles being run concerning women who operate their own business in Greensboro. With the departure for Ranial i lab, Palestine, of Pete Moore ('39) i popular public relations director of Gliilforel. and his wife Lucretia, we ure reminded thait Pete is not the first Guilfordian to dedicate a por tion of his life to teaching in Pales tine. Sara Hadley of High Point ('44) and Laura Davih ('ls) have ioth taught at the Friends' School there. Laura Davis left this country in 1939 intending to spenel three years In Palestine. However, it was right liefore the war broke out and she, along with the other Amerie-nn teachers there, found herself with out either transportation or the desire to leave Paletsine for the duration of the war at least, so her three year contract stretched into seven before she finally returned to the states. Miss Davis saw the growth of much of the Jewish-Arab > conflict in Pale?stine and had at I opportunity to gain her own concep tion and opinion of the probelm. i Now she is resting at her home h Archdale with no plans for her im i mediate future, while Pete ane Lucretia are making their way te Itamalluh where they will botl teach for a period of two years. Keccnt Guilfordians Among those who have left Guil ford's ivy covered walls in the re cent past, present status seems t( fall roughly into three large cata gories: teaching, graduate work anc mntrimony. Teaching: Berlene Pearson is teaching thirty lively little third graders at Wei come, North Carolina—and enjoy ing it Sue Shelton, whose lovely voice is still a pleasant memory at Guil ford, especially at Mary Hobbs where she whiled away many long minutes when meals were late, is teaching music at Sedge Garden. The rest of last year's north suite crew (Fran Siler, Bertie Robertson, and May Queen, Nancy Miller) are also teaching school: Fran the sixth grade and Bertie the fifth grade in separate Lexington schools, and Nancy the first grade at Mount Airy. Little "Porky" (now Louise) Ab bott is teaching high school at Allen Jay, ninth and tenth grades. She loves it but made a drastic mistake when she loaned one of her boys an old book of hers with the inscrip tion "Squeaky" in it With her newly acquired dignity as a high school teacher both "Porky and Squeaky" have gone out the win dow, but her boys seem to prefer them to "Miss Abbott" —poor Porky! Linda Pell is teaching in her hometown, Westfield. Graduate work: Honor roll student, Ray*We>od, is s|>e>nding his spare time at the Yale Divinity School perusing the works of St. Augustine, along with Dr. Outler whom he is assisting in the preparation of a paper on St. Au gustine and his doctrine. Ray re ceived a scholarship to Yale and is getting further assistane by help ing Dr. Outler. Song-bird Peggy Taylor is room ing with Tex Gray and her bass viol in the Three Fine Arts Club in Cin cinnati where the two girls are pur suing their musical careers at the conservatory. Tex is aiming toward symphony orchestra; while Peggy is vacillating between singing und the teaching profession. Jack Hartley is at the University of North Carolina getting his master's in Physical Education. Don Werntz is doing graeluate work at the I'niversity of North Carolina and haunting Ye Olde Alma Mater on weekends. lectured above is N. C. English; prominent Guilford alumnus of (he class of 1926. Following his gradu ation he taught school fe>r two years, entered the textile business and served one term in the 19l(!( State legislature for Randolph County. An active business man, Mr. English holds positions of secretary-treas urer of the Riigan Knitting Co., director of the First National Bank in Thomasville, director of Southern Husiery ami is a member of the Manufacturers Association. As a trustee anil chairman of the building committee, he has taken a leading part in raising funds for the com pletion of the Bob Doak Memorial Room in the Gym. Page Three i Matrimony: From the frozen northland (Maine) we hear that Paulie Fuller i traded in the headache of president ■ to the Woman's Student Govern- I ment to become Mrs. Stanwood Ilolt > at some future date. She has her 1 diamond and is now holding down a civil service job in Gardiner, Maine. Gladys Jones is marrying Wallace Feace Chappell today at the Pres byterian Church of the Covenant, Greensboro, North Carolina. I Bonnie Simmons is engaged to Seaman 1/c Deward Dell Walters, the wedding date dependent on the bridegroom's military orders. Wilson Mitchell married Grace rane of Greensboro on September -Bth, and he is now employed by the Alerrimac Insurance Agency. Lucille Reynolds is working in the Burlington Mills until she gets married to Albert Hylton. Former Mary Ilobbs house presi dent, Doris Coble, is clerking in the new Guilford College post office pending her marriage to Penn State student, Harry Kimmel. Miscellaneous There are always those nigged individualists who insist on going their own way and not following the cut-and-dried paths of their fel lows. Martie Robinson is now employed as assistant buyer in the maternity shop of Pogue's Department Store in Cincinnati. M. J. Martin after spending a hectic four years writing for the Guilfordlan, and for the Quaker (even editing the Quaker her senior year) has settled down to working for the Downington, Pennsylvania, newspaper, the 'Archive." She is learning the business from the ground up, writes articles, is equipped with a press card, has a nose continually smeared with print ers' ink and loves it. Iris Beville is doing secretarial work at the Burlington Mills and managing to take in all the Guilford games on the weekends. Christine Stansfield is working in the "Y" in Quincy, Illinois. Christy Hersey, now married to Dean Thomas, is living as best she can with the housing shortage in a iH- ®r I Expected today is J. O. Burke, class of 1926 and president of I/CV ingUin Chair Co. For several years lie has taken an active interest in Guilford's educational and athletic activities. very small apartment in Wilming ton, where her husband is teaching at Wilmington Friends. Berla Iflekl, conscientious editor of the Guilfordian last year, is now employed by the Office of Strategic Services in Washington. Straight honor roll and A-student, Grace Siler, is doing secretarial work in SehifTman's in Greensboro, North Carolina. Norman Goodrich is working at the Western Electric in Burlington when he isn't at Mary Ilobbs keep ing an eye on House president, Mary Lee Macon. Bartlett Holt, former Guilfordian, visited the campus October 11th. He is now a P.F.C. in Uncle Sam's Army playing a French horn in the Army Air Force Band at Scott Field, Illinois. The band which has a reputation for being the best in the Middle West, plays for parades and gives a concert at the fort once a week.
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