Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such living lights as Railroader Robert Young, Senator Alben W. Barkley, Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Erskine Caldwell, Ed Stettinius (now the University's rector). But in 1940-41, only 122 of the state's 6,856 white high-school graduates went to the University. Complained the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Editor Virginius Dabney, '20, last week: too many University students were "young wastrels [with] large bankrolls and few serious intentions of studying." What's more, he added darkly, most of the wastrels were not even Virginians...
Arguing the negative of the topic: "Resolved, That formal dissolution of the British Empire would contribute to the maintenance of world peace," the Cambridge debaters, Ian S. Lloyd and William Richmond, declared that Great Britain is now "striving to bring freedom, welfare, and peace to her colonies...
...Richmond served during the war in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was present at the evacuation of Dunkirk, and saw action in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and in the Mediterranean...
Demobilized in January, 1946, he returned to his studies at Cambridge. Active in politics, he is a member of the Cambridge Borough Council and is vice-President of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. Richmond is also President of the Union Society at Cambridge...
...Richmond in Royal Navy...