University of Richmond - Web Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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he Hanoi Counci .al Lqft to rz1gh!.'sIACK VVILBOURNE, BILL GOFORTH, THAD CRUMP, LARRY YoFFY, RUSSELL LANG, Roi' WYATT, CARROLL ALLEX' During the past few years, under the wartime constitu- tion of the Richmond College Student Government, members of the executive council acted also as the Honor Council. This year, for the first time since 1942, the Honor Council served as a separate functioning branch of Student Government, being appointed by the president. Composed of four seniors, three juniors, and one sopho- more, the Council elected Larry Yoffy as chairman, and Roy Wyatt as secretary. This year a new statute, governing the Honor System, which was completed by a revision committee last fall, was installed. This provides a written code by which the YG Council can work. It has proved very effective as a defi- nite standard for council rulings. In spite of the sudden increase in the enrollment of Richmond College, the Honor Council has had no corre- sponding increase in the number of cases this year. The orientation program at the beginning of the fall session was undoubtedly helpful in acquainting students with the Code and in preventing violations of it. The Council has been able to work happily and efiiciently this year. The members feel that its most important work has been done in preventing infractions of the Code, rather than in trying cases. ! r 1 lf' 17

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ic moncl College Siuclent government In its first postwar year, the Student Government of Richmond College returned to the original organizational composition consisting of three branches, the Execu- tive, Legislative and judicial departments. The president, vice-president, secre- tary, treasurer, representative to the Athletic Council and representative to the Board of Publications make up the Executive Branch. The Senate, composed of four senators elected at large, and four elected from the individual classes, forms the Legislative Branch. This body has as its duty the handling of routine affairs and all ordinary legislation. The Honor Council, composed of eight men appointed by the president of Student Government, serves as the Judicial unit. Cases of honor and interpretation of campus legislation are the functions of this group. SOLON COUSINS, PRESIDENT STUDENT GOVERNMENT Every student of Richmond College is automatically a member of the Student Government Association and it is through the cooperation of all that the organiza- tion functions smoothly. This year the Student Government administered to the needs of twelve hundred students, and began the task of mould- ing a student body that has never numbered more than six hundred into a unified group. Regular class meetings were introduced to replace one of the Richmond College assembly meetings, in an attempt to make each class distinctive in its organizationg a new Honor Code was formed and adoptedg the intramural program served more students than ever before, and a Student Activities Council was formed to facilitate inter-organization relations and to serve as an informa- tion center for all campus organizations. A standing committee on Thanksgiving Day Relations with William and Mary was formed and an exchange of delegations between resulted in a feeling of good will that prevented any sort of unpleasantness. The Student Body at large progressed along the path of unity and cooperation during the year, and Student Govern- ment had as its aim the participation of all in college activities and an all-inclusive spirit of devotion to Alma Mater. These aims were realized to a phenomenal degree in light of the time elapsed. Student government Ciounci SATTLER ANDERSON, Senator-at-large JOHN BATTE, Senator-at-large KENNETH BUTLER, Class Senator DAVID DANIEL, Treasurer t W i 11 1 7 I' ' r We if y fffk leg Aj E ,,,, I M .1 HAROLD FARLEY, Class Senator 'T' A2 Z I e PAT FENLON,SK71L1l07'-llf-ltlfgf' - 5'5 lf' DOUGI,AS GOFORTH, Secretary JACK GREENE, Class Senator GEORGE MADER, Reprexentatzbe to Board Q' Publications K' , 'S 4 JACK NULL, Representative to Athletic Council U . WILL OSBURN, Vz'ce-President MARTIN SHOTZBURGER, Senator-at-large 7 ' if 'X , A ,. 32 . , . 16

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Years have passed since most of us donned red and blue rat caps, tramped pajama-clad around the lake, and guarded our bonfire on the eve of a Wfilliam and Mary game. We were Spider freshmen then, back in the early ,4Os, carefree, with the war no closer than the headlines in the daily news. Then in 1943 we stood around the Hag pole by the library, music frozen in the horns of the band, on the coldest February morn of our college career, and saw the 'f49,ers join the troops. The Air Corps Reservists followed in short order, and before long our class was scattered the world around. We were the class of 343, we were the class of '44, the class of 545, of 346. We are the class of '47. Looking back it seems hardly possible that so many events could have been crowded into the seven, six, five, four, or even,three years since we first came to the U of R campus. College life hadn't changed a great deal when we returned. We still groaned over examinations, yelled at football games, gathered at the Hslop shop, and danced in Millhiser. Our greatest change was our growth in numbers+there were more of us to groan and yell and laugh and play. We were like the returned vet who found that his wrists and ankles thrust far beyond his cuffs and his coat was bursting at the seams. We were a part of the reconversion era when men were going to college by the thousands, were making better grades than ever before, knew what they wanted from education, and at the same time kept alive the jovial side of campus life as it was before the war. All around the campus were the signs of a changing college world and the lingo had taken on a 'fG.I. vocabulary. Everyone talked of the G.I.,, Bill of Rights, they Hgripedw when things went wrong and said they were 'fall fouled upf' Army fieldijackets and Navy P jackets came forth on frosty morns. Jeeps that once had bounced on foreign fields were parked beside the playhouse, now painted a brilli- ant red, and over by the refectory converted barracks were going up to ease the housing shortage. Many of our class, married now, found a new problem had been added to their academic woes-that of lind- ing a baby sitter on the night of the Junior Prom. Familiar faces mingled among the new in the student body, now swollen to almost 1,200, which struggled to get in and out of the icltmonel Colfege eniofz Cifaaa DUDLEY WALTON MALLORY, JR., President Richmond, Virginia Applicant for B.S. Degree in Bu.tz'nesr Adminz's!ratz'on Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, President, Omicron Delta Kappa, Who's Who, Senior Class President, Junior Class Vice-President, Harlequin Club, Inter- fraternity Council, Better Relations Committee Chairman, Student Activities Committee, Rich- mond College-William and Mary Better Relations Committee, Homecoming Committee, Orientation Committee, Varsity Football Manager, Intramural Sports, U. S. Army Air Forces. College Shop, still as small as ever with Buddy back behind the counter after a navy career. The faculty too had grown -augmented by 27 new members, and classrooms-even the largest of them, had out the SRO sign. Yet in this swelling tide of new faces, many of the old familiar ones were missing. We were the first class to graduate under the administration of Dr. George M. Modlin, our new president. Dr. Boatwright no longer in the president's office, had moved up to the newly created position of chancellor. Activities on the campus reached a new high as old leaders returned, and new men began to take interests. Student Government, under the leadership of Solon Cousins, led the way in campus reorganization. Publications were better than ever before, our football team was one to brag about, our basketball team equally as good, and a Student Activities Council was formed to coordinate the campus groups. There was a definite trend toward building a better campus community. As seniors we leave our campus past and with the same cooperation, initiative, and intelligent hard work we learned to exhibit at Alma Mater we direct our steps toward the world of tomorrow. Enriched by the years spent on our campus, we leave with the determination that this world-the one ahead-will not succumb to the pitfalls of the world of yesterday. We leave to take our places in One World, smaller than ever before, a world that calls for big menf, 18