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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final plans for Graduation Week and Commencement of the Class of 1949. were announced last night by Lynn W. Eley '49, chairman of the '49 Class Day Committee...
...Student Council Committee on the Red Book and Register will release its College-wide poll today, Charles W. Detjen '50 announced last night...
Surrounding Tradition. Today, W. & L.'s first gentleman is a suave Southerner named Francis Pendleton Gaines, who arrived 19 years ago from North Carolina's Wake Forest College. President Gaines has done nothing to change the smooth flow of campus life-including the round of fraternity dances leading up to the annual Fancy Dress Ball for Washington's birthday...
...plump 56, Gaines still rises at dawn, still likes to promenade about the campus swinging one of his 30 canes. He himself never forgets the traditions of W. & L. ("You may not be aware of it," he tells dinner guests in the president's house, "but Lee died in this room.") Nor can his minks, surrounded as they are by a statue of George Washington on the cupola, the bronze plaques that mark the places where Yankee cannon balls hit during the Civil War, the tomb of Lee himself, and the polished skeleton of Lee's favorite horse...
...board chairman went wiry, 69-year-old Earl W. Bennett, treasurer and Willard Dow's right-hand man on finances. He had guided the company's spectacular expansion during depression years...