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The
Restoration News
WRITTEN BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILLIAMSBURG RESTORATION »
Volume I
WILLIAMSBURG,
VIRGINIA,
NOVEMBER,
1940
Number 1
Restoration Announces Policy
Paint Becomes Science in the
For Draftees and Volunteers
Modern Warehouse Laboratory
As a measure
of preparedness
for national
defense,
the peace time train-
ing of men for military and naval service has been provided for by The
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and other national laws and
regulations. Accordingly, some employees of the Restoration will be in-
Last spring the Painting Division
Restoration Pays
ducted into national service for periods up to one year. For these men the
Million in Wages
Boards of the Restoration companies have adopted the policy stated below
This policy applies to any employee other than a temporary employee
of the Construction and Maintenance Department inaugurated a new
During this Year
who is inducted into the land or naval forces of the United States, whether
as a volunteer or draftee, under the Selective Training and Service Act of
1940,
and
any
employee
other
than
a temporary
employee
who,
as
a
member of the National Guard or any of the reserve components of the
step in management that has proved
to be quite an advancement.
This
was the establishment of a Paint
Laboratory, which is the focus of a
It is estimated by Treasurer I. L.
Jones, that the Williamsburg Resto-
land or naval forces of the United States or as a retired member of such
ration,
forces, is ordered into active military or naval service.
burg will pay out over one million
dollars in salaries during the year
of 1940 in Williamsburg.
1.
Leave of Absence
A leave of absence will be
granted for the period of such
national
service
not
not exceeding forty days that may
AS YOU LIKE IT .. .
be required immediately follow-
ing the period of such national
service
in
accordance
with
pro-
Attached
Service
Act
of
1940,
and
plus a brief additional
period
required
preceding
the
immediately
period
of
such
national
if
ser-
vice, the entire leave of absence
in
no
case
to
exceed
a
total
of
Service
Service
credits
with the Resto-
continuous
3.
active
Group Life Insurance
Group life insurance in force
on the day that such leave of
pay
and
the
to
the
butions
leave
contributions
in
Corporation'
for
the
s
service
employee
effective
has
signed
an
strainers
and
find
constant
use.
Maintainence
stirs up the paint in a can without
removing the lid. Apparatus for
what
it
says!
If you have any com-
ments
or
suggestions
concern-
ing the paper you should see
that
it
reaches
either
the
edi-
tor, the reporter in your department,
or
your
supervisor.
RESTORATION
NEWS
provided
and
all
ideas,
opinions
reactions,
come
forth
promptly.
Write them down,
telephone
them
in
person
in,
or
The
tell
impor-
tant thing is for every employee
to give
of the
paper
those
the
in charge
benefit
of
their thoughts on the subject
See
EDITORIAL,
Page
4.
Department,
which
will get nearly one -half the total
amount, or $ 422, 071. 58.
partment
of Taverns
The De-
and Ordinaries
has the second highest departmental
payroll, amounting to $ 201, 831. 70
for the entire year.
Employees
all the other departments,
of
including
Crafts, Hostesses, Escorts, Theatre,
Offices, Exhibition Buildings, will
be issued checks amounting
377, 607. 38 during the year.
In
the
first
six -month
123, 748. 83 was paid
struction force alone
sum
the
highest
See
carpenters
single
period
to the ConOut of the
received
the
the
to
the
Page
3.
Corporation
for
the
THE GOODWIN BUILDING
and
information
the
plas-
to the
product has been installed.
Along one wall of the laboratory
See PAINT,
Page
2.
Five Dollars
For a Name
A prize of five dollars is being
RESTORATION
NEWS"
un-
to
out,
be
used
in
This " ballot"
filled
in,
signed,
submitting
may be cut
and
turned
over to the reporters in any department
of
the
organization.
The reporters
the
names
to
will in turn submit
the
editors,
who
will
with due deliberation select the
name most fitted for a paper repre-
senting the Williamsburg Restora-
of
ing period of the leave of ab-
it will
2
and
wood
users. Every device that will save
time, and increase the quality of the
names.
authori-
Page
gloss,
of
ter give valuable
form
sence.
CONSCRIPTION,
machine
On page eight of this issue, in the
lower left -hand corner, there is a
An architect' s drawing of the Restoration' s new office building, nearly 80%
completed and expected to be ready in January of next year, at which time
See
graduates
One
til a new name is selected.
the
The amount of insurance
paint
content
of " THE
the
remain-
measuring
glass
offered to the employee submitting
the best name for this publication,
which will be issued under the title
credits,
contributions
measuring
moisture
Copper
total with $ 32, 513. 72
RESTORATION,
pay the employee' s group
insurance contributions in
addition
materials.
to
zation form; and the Restoration
will
life
a
cups,
just
life
provided
includes
of
means
at $ 539, 622. 00, giv-
to which he becomes eligible will
made
Equipment
mixing machine for large batches of
Of that amount the largest share
will go to the Construction and
That
are estimated
six months
becomes eligible for group life
insurance during such leave of
absence for peace time military
training, the amount of insurance
be
and
ing a total of $ 1, 001, 510. 66.
for the second
of absence.
of his
present
paint, and a hand stirrer to facilitate
For any employee who, by accumulation
the
future needs of the painting de-
Restoration."
addi-
of
meet
to approximately 750 employees of
contri-
period
to
partment.
will
employee' s group
insurance
tion
the Restoration
The laboratory has been fully
equipped
mixing colors in small amounts.
absence begins will be continued
for the period of the leave of
absence,
cation and life of all paint can be
followed and controlled.
Two scales have been supplied to
care for wide variation in weights
them
employment.
record
figures
is the slogan .. .
will be exactly " as you like it"
ration will be accumulated for the
period of such leave of absence
the same as for a like period of
and
written by and for the employees of the Williamsburg
THE
Credits
observation
the two corporations. The salary
fourteen months.
2.
to the masthead
of this paper
visions of the Selective Training
and
Williams-
of
through which the mixing, appli-
Based on the first six months
figures for this year it was disclosed
that $ 461, 888. 66 in wages were paid
exceeding
one year, plus any additional time
Inc. and Colonial
system
project
house
all of the offices
of the organization.
now under way in the 1940 -41 program.
It is the
major
construction
tion
Inc.
and Colonial Williamsburg,
Decision of the editors will be
final,
and in the case of duplication
the prize will go to the person first
submitting
that
name.
�Page Two
THE
RESTORATION
Conscription
to which
eligible
the employee becomes
will
be
determined
in
accordance with the Group Life
Insurance Plan and based
the
employee'
s
normal
upon
Romans."
Nov.
20— Concert
of Negro
Spirit-
uals by the Hampton Institute
Double Quartette, Williamsburg
Lodge
Game Room,
Football,
8: 30.
Nov.
21—
Richmond
W. &
M ( varsity) , Stadium, Rich-
vs.
earnings
provided he has signed an authorization form and avails him-
mond.
Nov. 21— Lecture, by Mrs. J. Jett
McCormick,
Norfolk
Museum,
4 P. M.
Nov.
Horticulture
Norfolk
Society
Museum,
at
8
22— Poet' s Corner
at the Nor-
folk Museum, 4 P. M.
Nov. 23 — Art Exhibit in the foyer
of Phi Beta Kappa Hall, through
Dec
4
Nov.
26— Tidewater
meets
at
7: 45,
Iris
Society
Norfolk
Art
Museum.
Nov
27— Lecture,
on Silver,
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
evening).
Nov.
of
Quartette,
Spirituals,
at the Lodge,
8: 30
28 - 29 —
Fall,"
at
to revision
such
time
in
training
or
any
Plan
Play, "
Phi
Beta
Night
Must
Kappa
Hall,
8 P. M.
in
mal
his regular monthly payments for
Group Annuity in the same
amount as immediately prior to
the beginning of the leave of
to
the
make
Restoration
the
with
upon
the
plan
in
and
the employee' s nor-
earnings
immediately
prior
will
drafted
or volunteers,
is
he will be
given a form stating the exact
amount of his monthly payments
for Group Annuity with directions as to how his payments
should be made if he desires to
continue
S.
them.
Vacations
The Vacation
as follows •
a.
Plan is amended
Any regular employee who,
at the time such leave of absence
begins, has a vacation due him
but not yet taken, will be granted
and scheduling any vacation com-
absence
Any employee who, by ac-
from First Page
prior to the start of the vacation.
b
For purposes of granting
ing due after such leave of ab-
are shelves that are filled with cans.
These are samples of all the colors
cumulation of his service credits,
sence, service credits accrued dur-
become eligible for membership
ing the leave of absence will not
used by the Restoration.
in the Group Annuity Plan during such leave of absence for
be applied toward the one year
of service required for each vaca-
peace
tion according to the Vacation
A rack
in one corner holds a small color
chip of the paint in each of the.
cans
These
colors
have
all
been
time military
training,
will
be made a member of that plan
sent
to
the
job
without
previous
inspection or matching of the color.
To reproduce the colors quickly
and accurately,
all of the approxi-
mately eleven hundred are being
formulated.
This
consists
of
re-
cording the amount of each of the
basic colors that is added to a certain
weight
or
volume
of
white
base. Once this has been done,
future requirements
for that color
c.
Airline Discount
Given Employees
By special arrangement with all
commercial
airlines
the
employees
and
construction,
the
staff
reduced,
the exterior walls be-
ing of brick and the interior partitions chiefly of gypsum block, to
which the plaster is applied directly.
The air -conditioning equipment for
this
building
is the
largest yet
panded when necessary Flourescent
lighting fixtures will be used
throughout,
so that the light will
be as much like daylight as possible
Both in size and cost, the Good-
win Building is by far the largest
single
project
undertaken
under
1940 Program of Work.
the
It is in-
teresting to note that approximately
95, 000. 00
salaries
will
and
employees
be
wages
in
This project has
employment
struction
out
Restoration
engaged in the erection
of this building.
given
paid
to
started
since
to
an
its
con-
average
of
over sixty-five employees, in addition
to the numerous
men
employed
by the sub -contractors.
Mr. W. F. Bozarth is Project
Superintendent, and the mechanical
work is being installed under the
direction of Mr. F. L McGinnis.
status and pay, unless the Restoration' s circumstances
have so
changed as to make it impossible
or unreasonable to do so; and
to the Vacation
6
Plan.
Re- employment
If, in order
to perform
such
national
the company
If an employee
temporary position and receives
a certificate to the effect that he
wishes
to take
at
he will pay Mr. Jones the regular
and
passage
get
a travel
to his
order
designation
for
a
There
will take pleasure in seeing chips of
one - way
fare
the colors we have admired so much
on the buildings assembled on one
rack.
Those connected
with the
and
receive
laboratory will be glad for you - to
necessary once this order has been
visit it.
Service credits accrued dur-
airways for their own personal trips
at the fifteen percent discount given
office
us
mum amount of outside frontage,
so that when the Restoration is
for increasing
of the Restoration may now use the
he should go to Mr. I. L. Jones'
of
in Block
This plan also gives a maxi-
the leneth of vacations according
advantage of this discount courtesy
Most
accrued
will so apply.
service required
The paint laboratory is at the
Restoration Warehouse, and may be
inspected by any of the employees
convenience.
credits
ing such leave of absence will
apply toward the five years of
can be met quickly.
their
but service
absence
location, so that a paint color can be
reproduced in the laboratory and
Plan,
before and after such leave of
classified according to building and
shops
installed in Williamsburg, and is so
designed that its output may be ex-
total vacation pay will be paid
of
as to over-
the adjacent
completed
ing employer' s payments on his
behalf as long as the employee
continues his payments during
leave
23.
yet not of
the first floor may be used as shops.
The building is of fire -proof
the vacation immediately, and his
correspond-
shadow
level,
appearance
his membership begins.
As soon as any employee
such
Paint
Continued
and
continue
determined
elects
to do so, he may continue making
absence,
Nov. 29— Formal dance by The
Colony Club, at the Lodge starting 9. 00 P M.
be
absence and his age at the date
with
continue during his leave of ab-
will
to the beginning of his leave of
an employee
he
massive
based
is a member of the Group Annuity Plan, his membership will
if
on the same
such
The amount of the em-
accordance
4. Group Annuity
If, on the day when such leave
Furthermore,
dors
absence
that time.
of absence begins,
finally selected, results from the
need of a large building with corri-
contributions during the leave of
employees
accordance
ing is based on the necessity for
solving several interesting problems.
The " H" form plan which was
ployee' s and employer' s monthly
Should this country be-
their practices at
will
absence.
or
Society reserves the right to administer the Group Life Insurance
Restoration
the
entering military training in the
future
the
long as the employee continues
his payments during the leave of
future as the Society feels necessary, bath as they apply to employees who may now be in mili-
sence.
27— Concert
Hampton
Nov.
subject
event
pay the corresponding employer' s
contributions on his behalf as
come engaged in war, then the
P. M
Nov
are
modification
will house all departments of the
Restoration except the Division of
Taverns and Ordinaries.
The design and construction of this build-
that
permitted by the Equttable. Life
Assurance Society' s present prac-
tary
21 —
meets,
ployees entering military training
in time of peace for a period not
to exceed fourteen months are
The Goodwin Building, scheduled for completion early in 1941,
self of that benefit by paying his
monthly contributions, and in
The provisions for the group
life insurance protection for em-
tice and
November, 1940
Goodwin Building Ready in
Spring to House Offices
prior to the leave of absence.
Nov. 20— Lecture, Museum of Fine
Arts, Richmond, " Etruscans and
NEWS
will
minus
15 %
an order
discount,
which
he
will present to the airline for passage.
No cash payment will be
leaves
has
service,
a
the
position
honorably
employee
other
than
completed
a
his
m ;litary or naval service, is still
qualified to perform the dunes
of the position which he left to
enter
the
national
service,
having been so restored
services
without
discharged
from
such training and service, he will
be restored to his former position
or a position
terminated
within
after he is restored
tion.
the
one
year
to the posi-
This is in accordance
provisions
Training
and
of
the
Service
with
Selective
Act
of
1940.
7. Duration of Policy
ment within forty days after he
honorably
otherwise
cause
and
makes application for re- employis
to his
former position, the employee
will not be discharged or his
of like seniority,
This policy has been adopted
in the light of present conditions
and legislation thus far enacted.
The right is reserved to rescind
or
change this
policy
at
any
time.
�November, 1940
THE
RESTORATION
SHOTS
Youngest
Son
of the Rock fellers Marries
Rockefeller, 25,youngest
NEWS
Page Three
Department Now
in Full Operation
Included
With
David
son of John D.Rockefel er,
nearly a year of service be-hind
Jr.,
was
it the
the
married to Margaret McGrath, 24, Mount Kisco, New York, at
of
St. Matthew'
s Church, Bedford,
New
York, in
September. At
last month he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from
law
enforcement officers
under
the
direction of
Yale B. Huffman,
graduate of the F. B. I. National
the University of Chicago. Mr.
Minor
Wine
Thomas,
in
of
Education,
Brubaker
the
and
of
those from Wil iamsburg who
Museum
Depart-
attended the
ment
Miss Annabel
Lebanon, Pennsylvania,
cocktail party
Police Academy In
at the
Hotel Murphy and the banquet and
1939 an extensive survey was conducted
dance at the John Marshall of the
Hotel Greeters Association
newest division,
Public Safety,
is now in full operation manned
by eight full - and well -trained
time
the present time David Rockefeller is one of Mayor LaGuardia' s secretaries,
Assistant
Restoration' s
Department of
of the protective facili- ties
of the Restoration, and
it was recommended
Con- vention,
were married recently in
were
the
Bromn, Messrs. John
L.Byrnes,
Warfield
Wynn, Charles
have its own protective force to
safeguard its vast holdings here. This
White, Mrs. Mary
February Mr.Chorley issued an
First
Reformed
The
Church
in
Rev. Paul
Lebanon.
C. Shumaker
officiated. Mrs.
Thomas is the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Bru- baker
of Lebanon, Penna and is a graduate
of
Wil iam and
Mary
Mr. and
Ford
Radford,
Va., and
He
Department
is
Wil iam and
also
Barnett.
a
Mary
graduate
College.
Education
for
two
years. * Mr. '
**
and
Mrs.
Lewis
A. Rupp
of the marriage of Miss Hilda
Mills to Mr. Dale Booth of
Newport News, Virginia, which took
place Saturday evening at 9: 00 P.
Mills
Bruton
Parish
of
the
Church
1939 and
in
went to
at
the
Summer
live on
West Coast. While
in Wil iamsburg Mr. Mrs
and
Rupp were entertained with an open
house" at the Colony Club by
Mrs. Everett
Teal, Mrs. Lionel
Beeton and Miss Made- line
Warrick. Many friends came in
during the evening to pay their respects. * * *
Miss
marksman.
interest to her many friends in
Wil iamsburg, is the announce- ment
Ailine, of Cambridge, Mass ,were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Teal last
month Mrs. Rupp,
married
is required to qualify as a pistol
Mills Of
M., September
York, was
in the training of the Public Safety
Department' s patrolmen is the monthly
firearms qualification. Each member
and small daughter, Bar- bara
who will be remembered as Marguerite
27th at the home of
who
of
Yorktown,
picture
here
taken
is
an in- teresting
Fay
Le- Compte
by
of the patrolmen practicing on the
rifle range. Raleigh
performed the ceremony. The
bride was attired in a lovely navy
and
of
carried
a
shower
banquet
Tallisman roses. Mrs.
Booth, who
for the past several
months has been employed at
know
on display
in the Raleigh Tavern
being reproduced under
is again
the supervision
of the Restoration Craft Program.
All
the Craft House It
0. R. Mills
and
the
Department
Restoration Police —
a
armed
the
protection
officers
group of uniformed,
engaged
of
Restoration
in
property.
Included that group of of icers are:
in
W.Edwards,
Ro- bert
police the
complete
the
Restoration officers
law
city
exercise
enforcement in
all matters concerning the Resto- ration.
It
was further
agreed
that
the
local police could summon the Restoration
police for assistance. Thus
the silver is made of sterling far, twenty- five requests for assistance
and is now on exhibition at
members
visit
Seaford, Virginia
to
that the beautiful silver
the Wil iamsburg Lodge Coffee Shop,
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
of
Restoration
establishing
should
Howard Thompson. Under
an
agreement with
wil be of interest to many members
the
Restoration
Eubank, James
L.Hedrick, Gordon
Lean, Richard
Howell, Hamlet
B.h, James Bateman, and
Smit
Tavern Silver
Displayed It
of
the
of Public Safety. Its primary
function was to organize the
Woodrow
Vir- ginia,
blue ensemble with matching accessories,
of
the Craft
take
is hoped that
the Restoration will
House more often
advantage
of
the
large
have been answered. Patrolmen
of the Department of
Public
Safety must be high school graduates
between the ages of 21 and
35. Four
of the men now on the
discount that is al owed all members
force
their Home in Newport News, where
of
addition to this pre- training officers
Mr
Division has many beautiful reproductions,
must
and
might bring forth just what is
by the Department for training
in the methods of criminal investigation
needed for that extra special gift! Wages
and
The
Agnes Padgett and Mr. Bland
happy couple will make
Booth
is
con ected with
the
Dock Company. LETTERS
Hoke were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Loughrie for
dinner at the Chamberlain re-.
cently
the Restoration The
Craft
a visit to Craft House
have
attended
attend
college.
a
regular
In
school
conducted
self- defense. In
protecting Restoration prop- erty
I
The party was in celebration of
the wedding anniversary of Mr and
Loughrie.
Seen
the bride' s uncle, the Reverend John
Newport News Shipbuilding Dry
Mrs
executive order
Booth -
College
has been employed in the
of
Bundy
and Miss Lelia Frances
Mr.Thomas is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. W. Thomas of
of
that
Mrs. J. L.
constant patrols are conducted through
the Restoration area, the
patrolmen
and
the briok masons with $
17,- 384.
Miss
visted Wil iamsburg in the Spring
and I was delighted with the
55 came next Painters
with $14,
were third
101. 27; plasterers
fourth
making
frequent
visits
to
In
addition
all
but
exhibition
irregular
buildings.
to
their
protective
activities these patrolmen are
Virginia Charlotte Henderson
impression which it made on me
daughter of Dr. and T.
with $
5, 509. 67 and the laborers
alert for such safety hazards as defective
in all trades received $44,871
B.
96 which represented the bulk of
Henderson
and
of
Wil iams- burg,
Mr. Thomas Goree Little,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Little,
of
Atlanta, Georgia,
were
married on September 28th in the
Chapel of the College of Wil- liam
and Mary. Mrs. Little attend- ed
Faamvil e Teachers
College
and
the
College of Wil iam and Mary. Mr.
Little
is
a
graduate
of
the
Georgia
School of Technology. Mrs.
Little is a member of the Hostesses
and Attendants Depart- ment
of the Restoration and Mr. Little
is in the Architectural De- partment.
Among
I
was especial y pleased with the
Raleigh Tavern because it seem- ed
more intimate
and
less forbid- ding
than some of the other build- ings.
I was particularly appreciative of
the negro coachman who told us about
the various coaches. He
was very
painstaking and patient in his recital
and
I have wanted ever
because I
think he
de- serves
to know that his efforts are appreciated." —
Mits.
HELEN
construction
total
Wages
paid in the Food Sections of
C. WIL IAMS,
Baltimore, Md. Congratulations
George
Parsons
your fine work! CRACK
for
walks, steps, streets,
and
for
insecure doors and windows. Information
and
assistance is
also given
to tourists, twenty- two dis- tressed
amounted to approxi- mately $ motorists being assisted in August
alone. The most important day 45, 000. 00,which was near- ly
one - half the total wage paid in that time concern of the Department of
Public Safety is the supervision of
division for the first six months The
the
Division
of
Taverns
and
Ordinaries
traffic
since to
write someone in Wiliamsburg about
him
the
second edition of Wrl rams- burg,
in
the
Restoration
area
The
Department of Research and Record
Virgin: a, Phot graphs by Rutherfo rd has revised and brought up to
in
Goodwin
and Richard Garrison
is now on sale. Views
of the
interior of Bruton Parish Church and
the Wythe House have been included
in this edition. New
date - histories of 86 houses in the restored
sections of Wil iamsburg. These
histories have been carefully documented
with references to every important
statement.
�THE
Page Four
OUT- OF- TDWNCARS
The
columns
vention
GOODWIN,
B. W. NORTON,
L. H.
JONES, F. P. LECOMPTE, ALMA ROWE,
ELTON HOLLAND,
S. P. MOREHEAD.
MRS.
Writers
ADOLPH, DUNCAN COCKE.
MILDRED
Feature
ANN
REVIS,
TOM
NELSON,
MRS. M. B.
ELSIE' Low,
LITTLE,
ELISE
TURNER, JANE BEAL, ADA STUART,
GORDON LEAN, MADELINE WARWICK,
MRS.
RUTH
SOTHERLAND,
BETTY
HOLMES,
TOM
HALLIGAN,
Rum
DAVIS, MONIER WILLIAMS,
EWAN,
ISHAM
TOMMY
JOHNSON,
THOMAS
KEARNEY.
Circulation
W. J. BLACKWELL,
Staff ....
Manager,
ROBERT
HOSKINS,
BEASTEN,
ROBERT
a
most
a year
has
WERE COUNTED CoRIIM6 INTO WILLIAMSBURt -
employees'
MARGIE
DEW,
program
old
now,
an
played
important
JAMES
HUMPHREY.
this
program
part
in
ration
as to accidents;
and as Mr
Chorley stated in his letter to all
of us dated May 31, " this record
measure
due to
the activities of the safety committee
and
the
interest
of
employees
generally in the question of safety."
As good as our record is, statistics which have been assembled re-
veal that during the January- February- March quarter of this year there
were 171 days lost due to injuries
in employment. The quarters im-
mediately before and immediately
following that revealed totals of 93
and
137
This
is the
days
lost,
in time
The editors and reporters of THE
present
LDST- 4OI DAYS
FROM
IN
543. 555 GALLONS
OF ' NATE R WERE USED
8Y THE ' THEATRE Coo LINC,
SYSTEM THIS YEAR.- -
ACCIDENTS
NINE
MONTHS
ENDING JUNE 3O_ H
DURING Jo NE, JULY, AUGUST 1
AT THE RATE
to
it is
the
or
same
abled for the entire nine months.
AUTUMN
to poor Casey in Mudville fifty-odd
and for the employees of Williams-
trend is downward, running from
Autumn crocus by the edge
injured in the final quarter
23%
of last year, to . 017% in the second
Of the berried holly - edge
h
quarter
You
Incorpo-
rated.
It is meant to be only a house
organ, carrying material of special
interest
to
employees.
It
is
meant to be a newspaper
not
in the
ordinary sense. Its articles do not
have to be " big" news, but they
will
concern
the
matters
that
interest
employees.
will
ployees
suggestions,
tive
this news the
depend
themselves
operation.
Its
upon
em-
full
for
co-
contributions,
and
ac-
will make it a
continuance
will
pend upon how well each
helps
re-
the
Only their interest, aid,
participation
success.
de-
employee
in giving his or her own
department
the
proper
represen-
tation.
This is your paper.
It is a bond
employees of the two organizations.
is your
medium
of
expression
and strictly a cooperative
Assist
your
reporter
tions and information
with
venture.
contribu-
in order that
it may make its due impression on
the
organization
however,
of 1940.
in which
we
is
that
the
Let us as individ-
ual employees strive to keep this
trend downward!
by
thoughtful
cases
in most
could have been
effort . . .
prevented!
The Employees Safety Commit-
tee, present membership is John
Ewan,
Thomas
Chairman,
Mrs. H
M. Stryker,
Peticolas
Lee, W. A. Hodges, Harry Sutton,
Cupid.
These
people
suggestions
you have as to how the
possibility
of
accidents
may
This committee
is our committee,
elected to help us have fewer acciLet us support them in their
work by being alert to any dangerwe
may
see
then
enter
the
name
contest,
tell
around
us and reporting these hazards to
the committee for correction.
And
let us be alert to notice and overcome careless work habits or ways
when to publish it, and let us know
if you will support it financially,
thereby insuring its regular publication.
golden
grace,
speeded up communication
warehouse
at the
and aids in placement
of
incoming phone calls. The system
is being controlled from the stockroom,
and
booth
has
a sound -proof
been
telephone
supplied
to
cut
down plant noises while talking.
Speaking of dates, on December
1,
1929, when I came to Williams-
burg and, with my secretary, opened
the first office of the Restoration, I
little realized that eleven years later
I would be a contributor . to a paper
about
I wonder,
am still staggered by the growth of
or
impertinence—
eight
hundred
the Restoration.
Is it courage, or just gall —
Insisting it is Spring in Fall.
FAY P. LECOMPTE.
On an Etude by Jacob
Reinhardt
Moaning, sighing, sobbing,
The ever restless sea:
Beating, pounding, throbbing,
itself
members.
I
It is evidence in
of the justification
of an idea,
first conceived by Dr. Goodwin and
carried out by Mr. Rockefeller' s
generosity and trust in the future.
In the childhood of the Restoration, I enjoyed the privilege of an
intimate
relationship
member
of
the
with
every
organization.
I
knew everyone by name. That is
one
privilege
success
of
that
the
the
growth
Restoration
and
have
The tide comes in to me;
And the white foam scatters,
As each breaker shatters,
taken away. Therefore, I was de-
Dashing in fury at my feet —
Then with a long, weird sigh, the
paper
angry waves retreat.
MARY C. MCCAUSLAND.
The third edition
A paging system has been in-
this, my debut as a columnist.
brought out by an organization of
accidents.
stalled between the various divisions of the two warehouses.
It has
years ago doesn' t happen to me in
But after all, is this good sense
of doing things which might cause
are
us
at your
That has so bright yet sage a face.
be
all so vitally interested.
On page eight, in the lower left hand corner is a ballot. Your use
of this will be an indication as to
your real interest in the paper. If
you think the idea is a good one,
I marvel
lessened.
conditions
to remind
will
be glad to receive any constructive
ous
valiant
Us to defy the autumn wind.
Philip Ferguson, Archie Rucker,
William
are
We can do this
the accident
dents.
between all seven hundred and fifty
It
picture,
Henderson,
In gathering
porters
MIN.
Let' s all hope that what happened
The more encouraging view of
this
Williamsburg,
PER
KC AT THE BAT
POEMS
as though
first issue of the paper written by
Colonial
65 GALLONS
two employees were constantly dis-
the
burg Restoration, Incorporated and
OFF
years
employee,
approximately
Your Paper
JO E
RESTORATION
respectively.
equivalent
by a single
NEWS
REPeESENTEO_
of
the loss of approximately 1%
RESTORATION
31 STATES ANO 3 FoRGIGN coUE) TRIES WERE
bettering the record of the Resto-
Is in no small
PHIL
MRS. H. M. STRYKER,
FORD, ED WARE,
MRS.
Program,
3,07.0
8. COO VISITORS
management are justly proud. Al-
RuTHERPOORD
Staff
our
OAYS I N nUGUST
CARRYING
which both the employees and the
G. McCASKEY
Associate Editors
of
paper offer opportunity for emphasis on the Safety and Accident Pre-
NEWS
Reportorial
November, 1940
CDecKE D ON - nvo AVERAGE
RESTORATION
THOMAS
NEWS
The Safety Program
THE
Editor:
RESTORATION
burg in Virginia
of Williams-
by Rutherfoord
Goodwin will be off the press with-
in the next few weeks. It is being
printed by the Dietz Printing Company.
New racks have been built at
the Warehouse for ladders and the
lighted that the employees decided
to bring out a Restoration
which
opportunity
will
give
us
newsall
an
to become better ac-
quainted
Also, if the editors don' t
throw out this column in subsequent
issues, I will have a chance to share
some
of
my
thoughts
with
the
readers.
A number of people have asked
me what I do in New York and
what goes on in the New York
office. In the next issue I will try
to give some idea of what we do.
Miss Davis, who has just read this
as
it
goes
to
press,
said, "
Mr.
Chorley, it would not be right to
miscellaneous steel supply for weld-
condense
ing and blacksmithing.
she
is
us
right.
to 250
We
words!"
shall
see
Maybe
�THE
November, 1940
Page Five
NEWS
RESTORATION
AROUND
Police Training
THE-
WATe R.
School Graduates
CooLf R
Sixteen
By THOMAS KEARNEY AND ISHAM JOHNSON
Deacon
revival
John
services
Sheppard
at the
attended
Chickahomi-
Mr.
head
George
janitor,
the
The Police Training School,
sponsored and directed by the De-
Mr.
partment of Public Safety, recently
who is in the
graduated sixteen patrolmen as Mr.
John D Rockefeller III presented
Washington,
went
to
visit
ny Baptist Church the last week in
Leonard
August. Services began on the 25th
Central State Hospital, but as he
is slowly improving, he could not
and ended on the 31st.
They had
ten converts.
Deacon Sheppard has
been a deacon of this Church for
the
past years
Mr.
Joseph
Brown,
the
head-
waiter of the Williamsburg
spent
his vacation
in Boston.
Inn,
While
there, he paid a visit to the Parker
Dandridge
see him.
Mr. Joshua Warren, one of our
Inn employees, who is head of the
ice cream department, is marrying
Miss
Henrietta
Jamerson,
our Williamsburg
one
of
citizens
Mr. Ralph Carter is announcing
House, where he served for twentyfive years before coming to the
Williamsburg Inn. Many of his old
his marriage to Miss Kate Jackson
friends are still ,there and gave him
quite a welcome. After a week in
Boston, he visited his old home
town, Barboursville, Virginia. There
he enjoyed himself to the highest,
for a few days
getting up early in the morning to
milk the cows, riding around the
of New Kent. Ralph, an employee
of the Inn, is confined to his bed
the recent " heart attack"
assistant director of the
delivered the address
fered by one of the Depart-
Among
those
employees at the Williamsburg Inn
has been made Worshipful
F.
B.
I.
attending
Dr.
D.
W.
Woodbridge,
Law
Cocke,
of
the
second
Virginia
Legal
talk
on
Office,
the
Criminal
Oh, he had a most enjoyable time
visiting
munication
F
of his old
around
pals.
the " Ole Home
Town "
the sick
mother
list.
Mrs.
Smith
of Miss Mildred
is the
Smith,
one
of our faithful workers of the W.
T. &
the
M. W. Grand
Lodge of the State of Virginia.
Mrs. Martha Smith of this city is
on
of
O.
Mr Branson Junior, second cook
at the Williamsburg Inn wrenched
his ankle the other day, on the mats
behind the range. He was out a
couple of days, but we are glad to
see him back on the job again.
Mr. John
Reed,
one
of our em-
ployees, who is a promising young
Deacon of this community, had a
revival
at
the
Little
Church
of Grove,
Zion
Baptist
Virginia,
recent-
ly. He was very dutiful to his
services, trying to help his community.
On Labor Day, there was an engiven
at
Crutchfield
Park for the Hotel employees. Mr.
Lee Brooks and Mr. Charles Jackson did a little dance, called the
Dance of Love" for the entertainment
of
the
other
quite
a success.
guests.
Oh,
It
was
yes!
His
Mr. George Dixon, head door-
many of his friends with a " you
bring" party. Among the different
things
Bacon
cake,
that
and
pie,
were
eggs,
and
ice
brought
punch,
cream.
were:
of
his friends thought he was getting
his hogs ready for Christmas. They
had a most
enjoyable
you bring" party.
time at the
if I. L. Jones, Jr., ever said,
No
thank
you —I' ve
just
of Ar-
of
that
eaten."
if you know
organization
which
Kings
in
liamsburg Theatre.
whether T. R. G. had one the
last time you saw him.
Captain Yale Huffman,
director
us to state that his daughter joined
of
the church on the second Sunday
of September, and was baptized in
the James River at Treasure Island.
fourth
lecture
on
latent
finger
prints. The class was instructed in
the use of the various kinds of
powders to locate finger prints on
different materials.
In the same
week Agent Maclntyre, of the F. B.
On
last
Sunday,
Rev.
S.
L.
Massie, our Pastor, preached at the
Mt
Gilead Baptist Church.
He
took his text from the 22nd chapter
in Matthew and brought out many
interesting facts. His subject was,
the
A large baptizing was held at
Treasure Island recently by the St.
liamsburg.
Eighteen who confessed
Police,
gave
Law
Enforcement
We Want to Know
Agen-
pondence— we also understand
other
Personal Information
Required
Act
of
1940
contains
the
following clause•
It
the
is
the
expressed
Congress
policy
covered
of
whenever
that
a
the
service
of
the
though
the above,
all
persons considered
with the Restoration beginning on
after
October
for employment
1,
1940,
prefer
have
Lee is the pastor.
or
we
are
to
may, the Goodwin
Bund "
with
Elton
think
that
the
Architectural
Department
wore its
mustache to a frazzle over the
proper correlation, but be that as it
such vacancy shall not be filled
by any person who is a member
of the Communist Party or the
In accordance
in
It may be sheer coincidence, al-
United
States of an employee pursuant
to the provisions of this Act
German -American
breeding
Holland' s.
vacancy is caused in the employment rolls of any business or
industry by reason of induction
Into
night.
and whether it wouldn' t be
advisable for the Restoration
to furnish printed instructions
with
bath tubs — "Sing"
all
Moorehead caught a squirrel in
his and mosquitoes were dis-
The Selective Training and Service
First Baptist Church, of which Rev.
Far
Green
he stayed through both showings of " The Sea Hawk" the
occurred
to
Jooko)
his heavy Hollywood corres-
A coal rally was held on the
third Sunday of September at the
motored
El
Federal
bile belonging to Harold Wallace.
He was returning from a , trial at
Roberts
John (
knows what swell hot dogs El
Greeko John serves.
cies.
Several Fridays ago, the 13th,
Otis Jackson wrecked the automo-
Matt
if
the
I. gave an interesting lecture on
Christ were baptized by Pastor Hall.
and the wreck
Restoration
what connection there is between Jim Cogar' s recent acquisition of a town house on
Woodpecker
Boulevard
and
He Who Latches
His Hand to
the Gospel Plow and Looks Back
Is Not Fitted for the Kingdom "
chicken,
Some
Mechanics
And We Would Be
the deck have mustaches — and
man at the Williamsburg Inn asks
Magruder,
entertained
of Investigation.
was shown the school at the Wil-
Little Boy John Reed, one of our
of the. Palace,
Department of Public Safety
wants to get from England
doesn' t
turn
out
to be a
Dachshund.
Following this talk a special
B. I. motion picture showing
technique
when he tried to pass a bus.
employees
Bureau
topic was, "
rest."
the
John Baptist Church of East Wil-
tertainment
the
Statutes."
was Mr. William Espey, an agent of
might not have been
with T. & O.
Bull Mastiff which the
associated
of
the Federal
Manana
extremely
dental"
The third speaker in the series
Master
the
as
seeworthy."
gave
subject
of
her
the guy who endorsed his pay
check " Any resemblance to a
living wage is purely coinci-
Duncan
Arrest."
of
our
skipper
described
pro-
A. M. He has also been
appointed as delegate to represent
his Lodge in the 65th annual Com-
many
the
fessor of law at William and Mary,
was the first lecturer, speaking on
A. F. &
greeting
for surf bathing a la nature ..
attended
of the James City Lodge, No. 152,
community in a horse and buggy,
to the propensity of a certain
Summer visitor at Yorktown
the
Tuesday and Thursday and were
well
suf-
ment Heads wasn' t attributable
school were the eight Restoration
police,
college
patrolmen,
local
police, and State and Park Service
policemen. Lectures were held each
The
We are proud to announce that
Mr. John Sheppard, one of the
We Wouldn' t Be a Bit Surprised, If
the diplomas, and Hugh H. Clegg,
twelve
each
Department
Building
chimneys — one
Head
does
for
having
offices there and two for the Conference Room
re-
quired, before being employed, to
sign a statement as to whether they
Overheard on the Yorktown Golf
Course — "Caddy, is that gentleman
ported a pleasant trip and saw the
are
in
World' s Fair.
Communist
Rockaway on his vacation.
He re-
I. J.
or
are
American
not
a
member
of
the
Party or the German Bund.
the
trap,
or
is
that
on
the green ?"
C. &
B.
�Page Six
THE
Benefits Committee
1"
Unique in Industry
The establishment
to
administer
RESTORATION
Personalities"
that
is
And
an
ful,
of
the
Restoration'
from
and
agement.
H.
non -supervisory
members
of
the
Stryker
Franklin
and
represent
Mr.
the
of
she found
in their
and
her
gardens
mysterious
multiplied.
She became particularly
interested
in the regal iris, and many rare
varieties
em-
soon
blossomed
in
her
yard Before long her flowers were
winning prizes in Ashland' s Garden
man-
Club, as did her pleasing arrange-
George
Then she came to Williamsburg
while Mr. Geddy, Mr. L. H. Jones,
One
of
raised
Duties of the Benefits Committee
she
the
how I wish I could do that! . . .
and as she was busy pointing out
the Chippendale furniture one of
the bright guests asked what kind
of wood Chippendale was! . . .
Oh, yes," commented one guest
to another. " The reason Mr. Rocke-
was
because he was an Englishman and
wanted
tory.". .
pression
As hostess at
she gave ex-
to the creative satisfaction
of her hobby. In decorating this
fits plan are: CO determine when
doctor' s certificates will be required;
as
to enter
the governor's office, remark, " My!
of the Restoration.
the Raleigh Tavern
in administering the disability bene-
hostesses,
door, overheard the very fat lady,
who was following her group to
and became interested in the work
and Mr. John Green represent the
management.
the
her farthingale
feller restored Williamsburg
ments.
employees,
OVERHEARD"
her
Young Mrs. Fisher was resource-
s
In the first group Mrs.
M.
magic
solace.
Members of this committee were
drawn
the
growth and flowering an unfailing
leadership in employee relations.
ployees
with
plants. Flowers became her hobby.
They were alive, and kind to her.
com-
posed of both employees and management has been cited as one of
the fevv such groups now existant
in modern business, and is given as
example
November, 1940
Twenty years ago a professor' s
young wife in Ashland, Virginia, in
watching her garden grow, became
possessed
of a committee
benefits
I
NEWS
building with flowers she followed
to
preserve
English
his-
Some guests when they come to
Williamsburg and go through the
buildings seem to become imbued
her own notions— placing blossoms and sprays in balancing masses,
H 4 of the revised plan; to investi-
avoiding
with a fine patriotic spirit — Like
the business man from Philadelphia
who told us he had passed Indepen-
gate any cases of doubtful disability; to pass on disability due to
unusual comments, and Mrs. Fisher suddenly found herself in charge of
flower arrangements for all the exhibition buildings.
Due in large part to Mrs. Fisher' s initiative and imagination, the
dence Hall every day for the past
twenty years on his way to work
Restoration began an intensive study of 18th Century arrangements.
very first thing he was going to do
to pass on eligibility under Section
accidental injury in employment of
less than seven days duration.
exaggerated
gaudiness.
Her
natural,
graceful
displays
drew
and had
never
been
in it, so the
First meeting of the committee
was held in August in Mr. Geddy' s
She went into intensive research, listing authentic colonial flowers and
office,
The facts in each
recorded 18th Century flowers to be used solely in the Buildings. The
results of her work have now become nationally famous.
case were carefully investigated, and
before reaching a decision the com-
from old English prints, Mrs. Fisher follows no rules. She has no
one of his young friends.
complicated
the meal the father said the bless-
at
which
were considered.
time
several
cases
mittee carefully considered the statements of the employee and those of
his supervisor, and of the doctor in
the
matter.
It
is
planned
that
the
member-
ship of the Benefits Committee will
change from time to time in order
to
give
more
employees
an
under-
standing of the functions of the
committee,
and
to
give
the
com-
mittee the benefit of the ideas of a
larger group
their manner of cultivation; she started a cutting garden of approved,
Except for the precedents of colonial records, and the impressions
method,
and she insists
that she strives only for the
natural" arrangement. She merely lets the flowers help themselves, but
she doesn' t always get the proper effect at once. •
An immensely interesting phase of her research led to the use of
arrangements of dried flowers and pressed, colored leaves. These, by and
gest surprise was the fact that it is
an old house,
which he has set
about at once to restore. The new
address for future communications
to the head of the Curatorial, Department will be: The Nicholfou Houle,
Woodpecker Road,
pressed leaves and grasses for decoration of their rooms throughout the
Winter.
Recently a Large wall -paper concern which has done much research on
Hanging."
one: "
Sketched from the actual arrangements, the cataThe dried flowers which appear in this pattern
were painted from an arrangement of dried beech leaves, golden rod,
grasses and straw flowers which was made for the Parlour of Raleigh
Tavern."
The two others were taken from rooms in the Palace.
Ex-
quisite, and beautifully colored, the papers have had a great deal of
success
since they were put on
Before
ing. The young visitor' s eyes grew
round and big but he listened attentively.
After the Amen, he said,
What
did
you
do
that
for ?"
for all he has done for us; for our
good food, our clothes, our nice
home." "
Fisher and the colonial wall -papers, reproducing the three floral designs
of the papers and giving water colors of two of " Mrs. Fisher' s chef
d'cruvres." The article reveals pertinent facts of the picking, pressing,
and preserving of the materials by the Restoration.
Horticulture Magazine recently carried mention of Mrs. Fisher' s work
in the eighteenth century field. Several years ago, in preparation for his
house is going to be up- to -the-
popular Williamsburg Issue, Mr. Richardson Wright, editor of House and
Well,"
replied
the small
guest, " Didn' t Mr Rockefeller pay
for it ?" .. .
One of the guests looking at the
row of Mulberry trees at the Capi-
tol the other day asked the young
police
officer
where
the
tree
of
Liberty was she had heard so much
about? .. .
The young lad who didn' t miss a
the market.
House Beautiful, in an early 1940 issue, devoted space to both Mrs.
ing; but it has been stated that the
Very quaint and authentic sound-
per the other night at the home of
meal because we want to thank God
logue describes
bought himself a house. The big-
The bright young son of one of
the hostesses was invited out to sup-
charming by the practically forgotten art of preserving dried flowers and
rative
Mr. James L Cogar has recently
it.. .
large, draw the greatest comment. The colonists, of course, not being
able to procure fresh flowers out of season, kept their houses gracious and
florals Paper as many designs for its handsome " Williamsburg Commomointo
Nicholson House
through
Why," replied the mother, " We
always have blessing before each
eighteenth century wallpapers, incorporated three of Mrs. Fisher's dried
Cogar Purchases
when he went back home was to go
trick, in the Capitol the other day,
looked
clerk' s
at
the
office
chandelier
and
in
remarked, "
the
Gee!
Mummy that light' s got a zipper
on
it. ". .
Mrs. Phillip Nelson, retuming
home
on
a
train,
overheard
two
minute with every newest fangled
Garden, interviewed Mrs. Fisher, and when that handsome issue was
men discussing Williamsburg. One
was urging the other to detour long
gadget
released. it featured many of her fresh " bouquets," giving her personally
much credit.
means,"
and convenience
on the mar-
ket. Edward Banks, local contractor, is in charge of the work, under
Mr. Cogar' s closest observation.
One of our guests, while strolling
around Williamsburg the other day,
asked
one
of
our
colored
attendants
if the College were co- educational.
He answered, " Yes, Mam!
Folks
comes to Williamsburg all the year
round'."
An exacting though satisfying outgrowth of her research and expanding department are the lectures which she now gives to Garden Clubs
over most of the entire East Coast. Mrs. Fisher has prepared much data
on the phases of the work which she has been doing here. She uses in
conjunction with her talks some of Mr. James Cogar' s beautiful Kodachrome slides which illustrate both representative colonial gardens and
Mrs. Fisher' s arrangements in their original exquisite color
So from the Ashland garden, out of the flowering earth, has come her
work — more than a hobby, a career - more than a business, an art.
enough
to
see
it. "
But
by
all
he cautioned, " don' t offer
the hostess a tip like I did. She
won' t take it and will your face be
red." .
Visitors
leaving
the
Ludwell-
Paradise garden are always laughing
heartily- at George Parsons tell of
the old coach and saying, " Yes,
Mam, de coach is used to take the
ladies ' backs' and ' forths' to the
buildings. ". .
�November, 1940
THE
RESTORATION
NEWS
Page Seven
Fifth Series
SPORTING
VIEWS
TureLq Personal
Of Concerts
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
This Month
Hunting
The hot Summer doldrunes are done with. The cool crisp days of
Autumn are here.
There is a magical glamor over the marshes at sunrise
and a bite in the air when hiking over the fields and through the woodlands. It is heartily welcomed because it is real and wholesome and
introduces us to the realization that the seasonal fishing and hunting
wheel has started another cycle.
Those who have aspirations
to hunt
wild life in its native habitat may well take note of the following.
Labor Day officially opened the scactergun season in James City County
doves,
on
soras
and
hens (
marsh
clapper
The months of Septem-
rails) .
ber and October offered the novice huntsman a chance to try his skill
and test his marksmanship as well as providing the veteran gunner the
opportunity to loosen his trigger finger before the season opened for the
larger and more elusive game.
State and County hunting licenses are essential for every hunter, re-
gardless of the type of game.
permit
in addition
Certain species of wild life require a special
to those stated
above
No gun larger than a 10 -gauge
nor any gun shooting more than three shells may be used.
wish
to
special
gun
advise
all
attention
readers
to
the
to
in outline form, the various open
seasons and bag limits for the types
of
game
which
are
most
Quail
Nov. 20
Jan.
20
8
2
Deer
Nov. 20
Dec
31
1
Nov.
Jan.
20
6
1
Soras
Sept.
1
Doves
Sept.
1
20
the Williamsburg
and
12
Sept.
1
Nov
Ducks
Nov.
2
D: c
31
30
warehouse
10
Houses.
It will
building,
office"
it is hard
staffs
of
to realize
that there are so many individuals
who take no active part in any sport
whatsoever. To any active person,
seems
almost
unbelievable
that
physical
without
some
form
exercise.
One of the most adaptable sports
for a general group is golf. Here
find
no
discriminations
as
a
2, 400
This construction will require the
erection
room,
of
a
chimney
new
boiler,
stack,
boiler
partitioned
office for laundry, and certain minor
changes
in various
sections
of the
warehouse building, in addition to
the installation of the laundry
to
equipment
and Steeles will probably go into
operation almost immed: ately.
on
seventeenth
and
this
latest
addition
Road.
to
With
the James-
town Road colony, jitney service for
eight-
Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Taylor
in returning from a trip to Montreal
of
New
Howes" —
York,
and "
The
Mary Howe, Molly
of Washington,
give
one
program
D
in
C,
each
who
to home music of the eight-
eenth century
These
programs
of
and
points
marked
in
New
that
England,
with
re-
twenty- seven
bombers flying over Williamsburg
the morning she left, Canada seem-
ed peaceful by comparison
ever,
eight
hundred
dren
arrived
in
How-
refugee
Montreal
chil-
on
the
same day as the Taylors.
series
eighteenth
century
music
in the ballroom
Mrs. Nancy Bozarth is back
at the Escorts'
months' illness
Desk
after
several
of
the Governor' s Palace, inaugura :ed
by the trustees of the Restoration
several
years
ago,
are
now
an inte-
activities of the Restoration.
Music
is known to have played an important part in the life of the Virginia
colony and it is being re- established
in the life of Williamsburg today
as another
of
the
city' s traditions
which originated during its varied
activities of the eighteenth century
Fresh evidence of interest in the
music and instruments of the eight -
eenth century has been noted in the
to Williamsburg to hear these p- o-
existing warehouse, steam and hot
grams
unique setting of the candle -lit ball-
music
in
the
room.
burg may widen this circle of interest by continuing to develop the
possibilities that lie within its grasp
distribution
plant for heavy oil.
The laundry equipment will be
male
equal chance to develop into a fairly
chamber
installation
type, and will include three washers, two extractors, a flat work
an
of
reserve to supply the possible future
of a central
the
most
modern,
up -to -date
decent golfer. It is naturally un-
unit, two general purpose pressing
Road
and
ous
It is the hope that ' Williams-
make
and
Americans
appreciative
mo - e consciof
the
musical
heritage of their own country
Mr. and Mrs. Washington
Reed have moved into their new
home on Newport Avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Drewry Jones
enjoyed a vacation trip to the Great
Smoky Mountain national park re-
cently. This great area, partly in
Tennessee, and partly in North
Carolina, was purchased in part by
Mr. Rockefeller, in memory of
his mother.
In appreciation
gift, the government
of his
has erected
a
large monument
at the highest
point in the mountains, with a su ;table inscription to Laura ' Spellman
Rockefeller.
Misses
Catherine
Minnie Lou Dobie,
Daniel
and
Anne
Revis have taken an apartment
331 Richmond Road.
at
ironer, a tumbler, a coat pressing
derstood
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Person
have moved from Jamestown
to Richmond Road.
gral part of the broad educational
large enough to supply heat for the
of
have
Green
the Geddys, Upshurs, Joneses
number of visitors who have come
tall and short, slender and stocky,
female: — all
family has moved from the Palace
The concerts were under the
direction
of
Ralph
Kirkpatrick,
harpsichordist and well known au-
The new boiler will be
age and youth, strong and feeble,
and
was
the
Room for all the remaining concerts.
water for the laundry, and have a
any person, male or female, can
develop their mental talents to the
best advantage
be
will cover
floor area of approximately
the vast personnel
in the "
the Restoration,
we
Guest
square feet.
Considering
of
the
Inn, the Lodge,
located in a section of the present
15
Golf
employed
The
house
month
and
home on Jamestown
will
handle the laundry requirements of
Nov.
Jan 30
1512
Dec 31
Sept 30
Rails
hundred
years.
completed
last
residents only at a special price of
1. 00. This price also prevails for
residents for seats in the Supper
Howe,
Wash from Inns Started
by the C & M Department on
the erection of a new laundry to
31
Oct.
the Cole family for more than a
ed
Opossum and
Raccoon
of
The B. E. Steeles, Betty and
Brock, are moving back to their
Howe, Bruce Howe and Calderon
Construction work has been start-
75
20
the
on a section
group was scheduled for Wednesday night, November 20th for local
devoted
1
Squirrels
with
Road
A special preview of the second
Four
4
concluded
second group on Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday of this week.
cello,
75
Turkeys
it
Now Under Way.
150
6
ditto
Rabbits
Nov
Laundry Project
Facilities for Handling
Open Season Bag Lima
Closes Day Season
Game
be
Washington, D. C., soprano; Miss
Orrea
Pernell,
violin,
of New
York; Mrs. Lois Porter, violin, of
Boston; Aaron Bodenhorn, violn-
common
in this vicinity.
will
the Jamestown
Rich Neck Farm which has been in
eenth century music. He will be
assisted by Mrs. Ada MacLeish of
three shell
As a brief summary, we present.
nor' s Palace, featuring eighteenth
century music, were begun last week
thority
I personally
give
regulation.
The fifth series of festival concerts in the ballroom of the Gover-
and
M.
Geddy have built a new home on
that
such
ends
cannot
be
obtained merely by wishful think-
units
ing; there
ous
amount
every
of
has
to
diligent
be
a certain
practice
as
in
other sport.
and
a
number
of
miscellane-
When completed, the laundry
will be able in a forty - our week,
h
The editor of this column
has
volunteered
to devote two hours
of laundry, to iron 9,910 pounds of
per
flatwork, to tumble 1, 778 pounds,
week
for
the
purpose
of
in-
to wash and extract
structing beginners and endeavoring
and
to correct the faults of other " divot
diggers."
operation
E. R. H.
to
press
will
13, 475 pounds
1, 786
require
pounds.
the
Its
services
of a manager, a clerk and fourteen
part time
Model of Francis
Street Completed
items.
operators.
A model for restoring Francis
Street
been
back to its original state has
completed.
It is 100
feet
Miss
Moyra
McCausland
has returned from a visit to friends
in San Rafael, California. En route
she
stopped
off
to
see
the
Grand
Canyon
long, 25 feet wide and is located
We are very sorry to learn that
in the warehouse yard between the
Mr: Joe Holt is a patient at Blue
Ridge Sanatorium where he is un-
car garage and stock building. From
the three types displayed
it is possi-
ble that one may be used for
Francis Street.
dergoing treatment, and all of us
hope he will have a speedy recovery.
�Page Eight
THE
newcomer
Relations
to
the
Department
November, 1940
NEWS
SARAH E. SUMNER
NEW FACES"
A
RESTORATION
Revelers
Gay 90' s"
at
Bali
By MARY
joined
Among those who have joined
T. & O. family is Mrs. Smith -
the
past several
the
Craft
Mr.
J.
At the age of seventeen, she accepted a position as teacher for the
lower grades in the LoLo, Montana
school. This, her first term, opened
on April Fool' s Day, which must
have seemed very appropriate to her
Gransaull
inexperience.
comes to us from New York City,
where he was associated
Briarcliff
Lexington
and
naries. With '` houses, houses every-
were
The Gay Nineties Party of the
Colony Club which was given in
the Game Room of the Williams-
burg Lodge on September 17, offer-
gruder
ed an evening of rare entertainment
to
the
members
Alma
Mr. LeRoy Wilson, formerly
of
the
Traymore
Hotel,
City, has accepted
Atlantic
a position
as
night auditor at the Inn.
Lee
and
Rowe,
their
guests
President
of
the Colony Club, and Elton Holland acted as " greeters."
Mr. William S Gooch, of the College of
William
and Mary, was a jovial
master of ceremonies as he presided
over
Mr. Frank Herbst,
former
headwaiter
of the Hotel Commo-
dore Grill in New York City, has
come
to
the Lodge
in
the
same
capacity.
Miss
Wilamyne
McKellar
has joined the Division of T. & O.
as dietitian of the Lodge. She is a
native of Ontario, was educated at
McDonald Institute
and Teachers'
College, New York. For the past
two years she has been dietitian
and restaurant
manager
of Huyler' s
in Philadelphia.
the
musical
extravaganza
Darlings
of Melo-
dy," who opened the show by singing popular ballads of the period,
received thunderous applause. They
were: Mesdames Ruby Steel, Grace
Peachy, Emily Lane, Lilly Nelson,
Carrie
Lee,
and
Mildred
fel-
and their " pretty maidens"
Phil
and ' Bessie
Nelson,
Yel
wer, Ray and Renee Thibedeau,
Brock
and
Steel
and
Elbert
Eleanor
Slaughter
Ondov,
and
Booda
Gregory.
The " Bar -Fly" boys did full justice
to
the
old
favorite, "
Sweet
Adeline "
These singing waiters
were Hunky Henderson, Brock
Steel and Jimmy Ryder.
The beauty of the Viennese waltz
was well demonstrated by Dotty
Jane Davis and Hunky Henderson
in
their "
Waltz
of
the
Nineties."
offer-
ed as a floor show under the direction of Anna Lawrence Ferguson.
The " Dimpled
The " rakish
and Lib Kent, Al and Helen Klu-
make three in their cottage at MaHeights.
songs and dance.
lows"
Party Big Nit
Department of Taverns and Ordi-
find shelter for his family. Now,
however, he and Edith, and baby
Nineties"
Gay
Lodge, and will be in the Auditing
where but not a shack to rent"
Michael had quite a struggle to
Adolph.
Miss
pixie
Devere,
a
famous
concert singer, portrayed by Margie
Hoskins,
to
a
brought
glorious
the performance
conclusion
as
she
feigned
nonchalance
when
bustle began to wander.
her
next
year
she
Alice
Blue
and
Anna
Gown."
Ferguson
Dick
Law-
Jane Beal and Kemp Boot displayed
rence
great skill in singing and in bicycling in their number, a " Bicycle
wearing formal afternoon attire of
Built for Two."
Hankins,
costumes
The " Floradora Sextette" delighted the audience with their flirtatious
Victoria
the period, won the first prizes for
to
Honorable
Moyra
mention
McCausland
and
as
Hollister
went
Queen
Jones
as
Russell.
The judges of the costumes were
BALLOT
I submit the following name for the Restoration paper:
Mrs V M. Geddy, Mrs. William
Gooch, Mr. Washington Reed, Mr
James Cogar, Mr. T. J. Stubbs, and
Mr. Tom Pinckney.
The Committee
in
of Montana,
which
time
at the conclusion
she
accepted
of
a position
as teacher at Bonner, the A. C. M.
Company' s
lumber
and
milling
tana, where, in 1904, their son,
grades for a year, she was then
elected
principal — all
tending
summer
this
sessions
time
at-
and sav-
ing for further college work
In 1902, she married Charles M
Sumner and moved to Butte, Montana, where in 1904 their son,
Howard
Catlin was born.
widowed
in
1909,
with her small
Missoula. After
ment, she took a
Home Economics
Management
at
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs.
Being
Sumner,
son, returned to
a year' s adjustspecial course inand Institutional
Pratt
Institute,
After this work
at Pratt, she returned West, and for
four years, taught in the Winter
and
managed
Headquarters
in Yel-
lowstone National Park during the
Jimmy Humphrey won the prize
in an amateur contest when he sang
Lillian
CONTEST
The
attended classes at the University
with the
Hotel
The young
the little school room tidy.
House.
Michael
to
fires going, while the older girls did
the sweeping and the keeping of
months has been connected with the
Craft House. Mrs. Reid is the
new hostess at the Lodge. Helen
Campbell
was recruited from the
Hostess Division to fill her place
at
train
couple settled in Missoula, Montana, where in 1875 our Sarah Evelyn Sumner was born
Her earlier education was begun
and completed in the usual one room school house where, as was
the custom in those days, the older
boys cut the wood and kept the
P. Telephone Company
for the
covered wogon
Indiana to Montana
at Richmond.
Reid, who
a
make the long trek West from
Since graduation he has been employed in the traffic department of
C. &
FORD
In 1869, Pope Catlin and his
auburn -haired bride, Alcina Harris,
is Jimmy
Ryder in the capacity of statistical
clerk. Jimmy is well known locally,
having, attended William and Mary
four years, graduating in 1939.
the
BUNDY
Personnel
charge was:
Summer season.
It was during this
time that she was offered the
posi-
tion
Gov-
of
General
Manager
of
ernment Hotels, eighteen buildings,
in Washington, D. C., where, for
eleven years, she was responsible for
making
pleasant
living conditions
for 2, 000 government women workers. When the Government Hotels
closed to make way for the park
which now beautifies the site, Mrs.
Sumner was, for four years, Director of Food and Dormitories at
American University
On
September
17,
1937,
Mrs.
Sumner came to Williamsburg to
become
Manager
of the Williams-
Emily Rutledge, chairman; Terry
Maxey, business manager; Mickey
1 vote to publish
I
will ;
it:
will
Quarterly ;
not
Bi- Monthly
;
Monthly
subscribe to it at five cents per issue.
Signed
burg Inn Annex, and later, Mana-
Warrick, music; Ralph Bowers and
until her retirement, September 5,
1940, she was both employer and
friend to all of us. And, as an
Finlay Ferguson, sets and properties, Jane Beal, publicity; Lucille
Foster, costumes; Booda Gregory,
tickets;
equipment;
TEAR
OUT AND TURN
IN TO AN EDITOR
OR REPORTER)
Dave
Rutledge,
Hunky
sound
Henderson,
talent scout; Bob Beaston, bar.
ger
of
the
enthusiastic
Lodge.
worker,
From
a
that
gracious
time
and
kindly hostess to the guests of the
Lodge, will she be remembered by
everyone.
1
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TheRestoration News
WRITTEN BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILLIAMSBURG RESTORATION »
Volume
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, APRIL,
Employee Meetings
1941
Number 2
Name Of Paper
Opening Day at the Office
To Feature Quiz
Remains Same
Programs In April
By Large Vote
Two Information Quiz meetings
for both white and colored employees of the Restoration will be
Majority of Ballots Request That
Name Remain ' Restoration News'
held this month, offering those at-
New Policy Announced for Future
tending a chance to participate in
an evening of fun and knowledge
for cash prizes.
Doors will be
opened
at
In view of the fact that over sixty
per cent of the ballots cast in the
New Name Contest were in favor
8: 15
and will be closed promptly at 8: 30.
of retaining the first name given the
Restoration' s paper, the editors
Those arriving after that time will
be excluded from what promises to
voted to follow popular demand
and make THE RESTORATION NEWS
the official and final name of the
be the most interesting, entertaining, and lucrative employee meetings ever held. Department heads
will be excluded from participation
publication.
Following the test made with the
first issue Mr. Chorley has author-
but not from attending.
Upon entrance to this meeting
ized the editors to publish the paper
each employee will be given a ticket
with
a number
on
it.
The
stub
this ticket, carrying the same number, will be deposited in a large
bowl. After the doors are dosed
ten numbers will be drawn to select
the
ten
initial
questions
are
participants.
missed,
After
replacements
will be made likewise.
Tabulators
account
swers,
of
and
gram
will keep a running
the
at
will
questions
the
end
announce
and
of
the
the
anpro-
winners.
To the person answering the most
questions
correctly
will go ten
Second
prize
dollars first prize.
will be five dollars, and third prize,
three dollars.
The
judges
of the
Information
Quiz programs will be Mr. Chorley,
Mr. Geddy, Mr. Goodwin, Mr.
Coger,
Mr.
Farish.
Jones
Kendrew,
and
Dr.
The tabulators will be I. L.
and Nick
Shearon.
Tom
in the future on the following
of
Mc-
Caskey will act as the Quizzer.
Questions to be asked will be sent
in by employees during week prior
to the meeting. One person in each
policy.
fined to four pages until such time
Initial ceremony of the opening of the Goodwin Building is pictured above,
as Mrs. W. A. R. Goodwin, Mr. Chorley, Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Heydt,
leave the front entrance in the procession to the speaker' s stand erected near
the cornerstone.
At W. R. I. Warehouse
In response to the numerous requests for places to live that have
The new
laundry
is now
in
been flooding the rental department
operation
of the Restoration
the direction of Mr. A. D. Camp-
through
its agent
at the Warehouse under
Gardner Brooks, an extensive sur-
bell, who is assisted by ten opera-
vey of housing conditions among
Restoration employees is being
made by Vernon Geddy, while a
check -up on space that could
assistant
be
used for living quarters is being
conducted by A. E. Kendrew and
C. V. Lavery.
superintendent
in
treatment
Washington, D. C. All of his emwith the exception
of three,
who have had experience at the Inn,
amples
What
reasonable
nature.
Ex-
follow:
is
in rental
Bond?
Stocks,
quarters
always been
matters,
but he
perfectly
good
one with
can
house
extra
give
up
because
rooms
a
he
he can
out.
available
space
that
could be converted into apartments
or kitchens, and also the building
Who made the plans for the City
of Williamsburg. Which Governor
schedule is being looked into to
had
quarters
Palace
built
and
when?
be proud
of his
new
equipment
which includes three washing machines;
two
extractors,
of
ten
the
minutes
to
moisture;
that
rotate
a minute,
remove
one
and
50%
tumbler;
a
giant ironer which is the most up-
to -date model on the market, and
Mr. Kendrew and Mr. Lavery are
a form of servitude, or a pattern?
the
Mr. Campbell has every reason to
take
employee
business
see if the construction of living
could be pushed
ahead.
will take care of ten bed sheets
a
the
editors
voted
to give
the
following places of honorable mention. " W. R. Ink" by Monier Williams, " The Restoration
Reporter ",
The Restoration Messenger ",
Restoration
Review ",
and "
The
Town
Crier ".
Subtle Architects
Restoration
architects should gain
fame by their subtlety.
A huge sign has for some time
welcomed their early arrivals with
the
You Are
cheering message ...
On
the
that an
investigating
Flemish
has
are
at 1, 320 revolutions
rent
of
It
there
emphasized that this does not imply
or detailed,
tions
as
policy of the Restoration, he said,
to give its employees preferential
wants
or catch ques-
In judging the new names submitted
charge
of the Mayflower Hotel laundry in
ployees,
Mr. Gerldy stated that there have
iamsburg and the Restoration. They
may be general questions, specific
personal,
tion, 75 for bi- monthly, and 69 for
tors. Mr. Campbell has come to
the Restoration from a hospital in
Wilmington and before that was
available.
Questions may be asked on almost anything that concerns Will-
were submit-
an issue each month.
ten
of
names
For Employees
for the first time.
slips
and different
Operation By T. &O.
are learning the laundry
separate
but three agreed to pay five cents
per issue if requested; twenty new
ted; 40 voted for quarterly publica-
for houses
on
Results of the balloting from the
first issue gave 184 returns. All
New Laundry Now In
been five time.: as many applications
singly
as more are considered necessary.
Extensive Housing
Survey Under Way
department will be assigned to collect questions, which must be writ-
paper. Employees may submit as
many questions as they desire
These may be signed or unsigned.
It will be issued bi- month-
ly, or every two months, and con-
Time.
This was all very nice until one
morning,
with
appropriate
cere-
mony,
the sign
was
reversed
promptly at 9 A. M. Our sympathies are out for the late comer who
was greeted by its message, printed
in bold
type . . .
You Are Late.
You will have to get up early to
get ahead of the architects when it
comes to finesse.
minute, ironing them on both sides;
two
uniform
press
units
and
one
coat unit. Each machine full of
clothes is put through two baths of
suds and seven rinses,
being removed by hand.
any stains
The portrait of Evelyn Byrd of
Westover, one of the famous beauties of Colonial times, has been acquired
by the Restoration.
�THE RESTORATION
Page Two
THE
K. C." AT THE BAT
So much water has gone over the
NEWS
THOMAS
G. McCASKEY
RUTHERFOORD
Editors
GOODWIN, B. W. NORTON, L. H.
JONES, F. P. LECOMPTE, ALMA ROWE,
ELTON HOLLAND, S. P. MOREHEAD.
paper came out last November that
if I should attempt to outline all of
the things that have happened
to
the Restoration and to me from that
Feature Writers MRS, MILDRED ADOLPH,
Reportorial
MRS.
JACK
Staff
H.
M.
STRYKER,
NELSON,
MRS.
M.
B.
the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry -
TOMMY '
drove
JOHNSON,
THOMAS KEARNEY.
ROBERT
at Grand
BEASTEN,
ROBERT
MARGIE
DEW,
JAMES
HUMPHREY.
Central
Station.
A car was waiting for me and I
about
forty- five
and
then
I
minutes
reached
one
of the most beautiful spots in New
York State, a place on top of a,
snow -covered hill looking down on
Lake George which was surrounded
by the snowcaed foothills of the
First Aid Class
Adirondacks.
The purpose of this trip was to
The Central Safety Committee,
believing that it would be of defi-
Co.
Saunders
At
arrived at Fort Edward, New York,
and found about two feet of snow.
northward
Staff .... W. J. BLACKWELL,
HOSKINS,
Miss
March ' 13, I climbed into a lower
8: 30 A. M. the same morning I
ISHAM
dock
At 12: 05 A. M. on Thursday,
berth
Manager,
For the past , three years Miss Saunders
has been associated with the General Office
division. Mr. Larmer is connected' with
ville".
ANN REVIS, TOM LITTLE, JANE BEAL,
GEORGE LEWIS, BILL EUBANK, MADE LINE WARWICK, MRS. RUTH SOTHERLAND, BETTY HOLMES, TOM HALLIGAN, RUTH DAVIS, MONIER WILLIAMS,
Circulation
Church.
of old " Mud -
FORD, ED WARE, MRS: ELSIE Lowy
EWAN,
Jr., of Benn' s Church, Virginia, will be
married Saturday, May 3, in Suffolk Christian
PATTERSON.
PHIL
LARMER
Miss Florence Saunders, Suffolk, Virginia and Mr. William Vance Larmer,
time to this, there would be no
room left in the paper for anything
else except " Casey"
COCKE,
SAUNDERS -
dam since the first issue of out
Associate
DUNCAN
April, 1941
SOCIAL EVENTS
RESTORATION
Editor:
NEWS
JOHNSON-
Announcement
COLLINS
has been made of the coming
wedding
of Richmond in the Chapel of the College of William and Mary on
Saturday, April 19th.
Both the Department of Hostesses and Attendants and the Department
of Public Relations claim Miss Johnson. Mr. Collins is connected
with the Nichol' s Insurance Adjustors in Richmond.
I- lostesses Resume
NEALE- BLACK W ELL
Mrs. George
EdwardNeale
Look -See Trips
of Richmond
r ee our good friend, Elton Holland.
found
him
in
grand
physical
shape. He was dressed in ski
trousers and boots and told me he
Department
made a survey to determine the
had been spending six or seven
number
of
Hostesses
resumed
hours a day skiing, at first with
who would be interested in taking
rather
but appar-
marriage of her
daughter, Anne
Eloise, to
town Ferry and goes north to the
Accident Prevention and First Aid
courses. Returns from the question-
ently— as in the case of everything
beautiful old churches, Abingdon
and Ware, and to Rosewell, home
of the Pages.
naires
which
that there
were
are
138
sent
employees
out
reveal
employees
in-
disastrous
results
he does — it was not long before he
became
fairly expert. ( At least
that was his story— about being an
This baronial , three -story house,
expert.)
There is no question but
that this rest cure has done and is
which burned in 1916, was magnificent, with a frontage of over 200
25 employees who have previously
doing him a world of good and the
feet. Toddsbury was the next place
had courses of this kind. Since a
class of 30 persons is about the
maximum number which can be
doctors
only be a relatively short time be-
visited. Its arched doorways were
copied in detail for the parlor of
the Raleigh Tavern.
terested in taking such a course.
This survey showed that there are
efficiently instructed at one time,
the Committee has asked the department heads to select a prorated
number of persons from their respective departments to take the first
course. Meetings of this first class
assured
me that it would
fore he would be entirely well.
This was grand news to me as I
am sure it will be to all of you.
He drove me back to the station
Wakefield
and
furnishing of these homes is im-
I
took
a
three
o' clock
train,
Stratford,
Hall,
Sabine
were
others
on
the
arriving in New York about eight
pressive, and seeing them is most
helpful
the
hostesses
in
inter-
preting old Virginia Life and customs, and in suggesting more ex-
W. D. Hedgebeth
and
Russell
Holland who have instructor' s certi-
There has been a large influx of
ficates will conduct the first class.
men to this peninsula who are serv-
The Employees' Safety Committee, which meets on the last Friday
ing their country in the national
ordinarily plan.
It is said that these trips are a
defense program, both in the uniformed and civilian forces. Those
happy combination of educational
pursuit, and mild hilarity!
of each month, has been carrying
out their
ration
usual
inspection
buildings,
of Resto-
properties
and
tensive
tours
than
many
nings Blackwell, of Reed-
ville, Virginia.
The ceremony will
be on April 12 at
Church, Richmond.
MYERS - BRANCH
Miss Jane Myers and Mr.
John T. Branch were married in
Washington,
the home of Miss
Myers, on March 25th.
Mr. and
Mrs. Branch both attended the
College of William and Mary.
Mr. Branch
Mr. and Mrs. Michael
saull
Accident Prevention Bulletins and
Posters which are available each
gram.
may I suggest one and that is to be
the
month from the National
good hosts to these men who have
come into our neighborhood. Let
appointed
Safety
Council.
These posters are to be placed in
appropriate locations and . will be
us
not
national
take
advantage
of this
situa-
tion in any way. Let us realize that
renewed or changed frequently. At many of these men are far from
the January meeting of the Em- home, their families, and their
ployees' Safety Committee, the fol -. friends and they no doubt will aplowing new members were elected preciate more than anything else
for a term of one year: Miss Madehaving someone befriend them.
line Warrick, Mr. Harry Sutton, You in your own ' particular way
Nathan Grant.
will know best how to do ffiis.
Gran -
of Taverns
born the 25th of January at Bell
pro-
There are many ways, but
of the Division
ents of a baby girl, Sandra May,
Strupel Appointed
given thought as to how we may
important
joined the staff of
the Treasurer' s Department in 1939.
and Ordinaries are the proud par-
projects, and have recently made a
study for the regular posting of
in this
Baptist
ment.
visitors
of us who are not actively engaged
in national defense have, I am sure,
aid
First
Miss Neale is in the Personnel
Relations
Department
and
Mr.
Blackwell
is Payroll and Crafts
Auditor of the Treasurer' s Depart-
list.
The spacious structure and elegant
to
Woodley JenMr. Blackwell
and
o' clock that evening.
are expected to begin early in April.
t h e
approaching
the series of one -day educational
trips to historic places to cover a
wide field which starts at the York-
Restoration
has
announced
During the month of March the
nite benefit to the Restoration as
well as to individual employees, has
of
of Miss
Georgia Burgess Johnson and Mr. William Francis Collins, Jr.
Hospital. * * *
Frank E. Strupel, a member of
C. & M. Department, has been
Benefit' s
to membership
Committee
to
the
girl,
fill
the
Terry
vacancy created by George Franklin' s resignation.
James " Curly" Norton, formerly
connected
with
Metcalf &
Early in New York, working
defense work.
is
that
of
Maxie' s,
Mr.
and
Betsy
Mrs.
New-
comb, born at Stuart Hospital
in
Richmond on February 27th.
of the Architectural Department is
now
Another T. and O. baby, also a
on
on
Richard Poole Hankins has
recently moved to Richmond where
he
will
continue
his
work
with
Wiley & Wilson, Mechanical Engineers
for
the
Restoration. -
�April
1941
THE
RESTORATION
NEWS
Page Three
Allen -Byrd House
Near Completion
The Construction forces of the
Restoration began, on August 27,
1940,
the
restoration
its dependencies,
its gardens.
The
project
and
consists
of an eight -room brick dwelling, a
kitchen, laundry, dairy, smokehouse,
house,
and
KEARNEY
stable,
together
with extensive planting in the gardens. It is expected that this house
will be ready for occupancy by May
15th.
The Allen -Byrd dwelling was originally of a gable roof design with
dormer windows. The building had
been altered to its present hip roof
form, and the dormer windows
of that period.
were
rebuilt
above
on
the
upper
part
It makes us happy to have so
many
faithful
workers
of
the
churches and and other associations
is sponsoring a campaign for the
Sylvester Harold, our head bell-
boy, had the Stork to visit him with
a baby boy. The Stork also visited
Ralph
Carter
in
the
month
of
church
called
in his leisure time. It is
the Men' s Campaign. He
has been very successful. He ren-
dered a program and sang a solo.
The name was " One out of the
Ninety Nine."
February.
The evening was
full of pleasure, . and everyone enjoyed
it.
It
was
called "
Men' s
Night" and assisting Brother Reed
were, Jack Orange, William
crosse, and Wilford Randall.
Red -
workers,
one
of
returning
our
home
We are proud to say that Fred
Crawford,
City
the
a member of the James
Lodge
152,
A. F. &
made application
chimneys is thus different from that
in the main portion of the house
Archaeological
investigation
dis-
a room for the night.
Upon questioning it developed
the stranger had an hour or so be-
fore been given directions from the
home of another worker, but had
become confused, and was growing
more desperate
since he had to be
at work at Fort Eustis
at 7: 30 in
the morning.
Our fellow worker then asked the
stranger to sleep in the spare bedroom in his house.
The stranger
then identified himself.
He was a
welder, sent down from Yonkers,
New York to work on the hospital
at Eustis.
He had arrived
about
a
week before and the only room he
could find was one where the land-
of
the
of
ago
stranger in tront of his house look-
joyable time, and after supper snap-
third floor level. The type of brickwork
JOHNSON
shots were taken of the dinner party.
They had an en-
eli-
Because
so
from a party about 1 A. M., met a
on our list for this paper. Brother
John Reed, one of our employees,
Orange recently.
the alteration in the roof form the
chimneys
fellow
or
ing for a place where he could get
The employees
of the Wythe
House, Palace, and Capitol gave a
buffet supper in the home of Jack
minated by the third quarter of the
eighteenth century, however, and it
was decided to restore it to its appearance
AND ISHAM
A week
of the Allen -
Byrd House,
well
By THOMAS
Lesson In Living
01F TIME
1D P11E( 0)P111E
11E '
C (0)111( 0) R
A. M., has
for the R. A. de-
gree and is expecting to receive
notice very shortly.
T. K.
lady asked $ 10.00 per week. He
explained his inability to pay that
amount but agreed to pay $ 6. 00
and to move if the landlady could
later rent the small beaver -boarded
room
for
the
requested
amount
Returning to his room this night
closed evidence of the old trim and
about
stair,
locked out, and his room rented to
and
also
showed
that
the two
Rev. Massie, pastor of the Mt.
Gilead Baptist Church, preached a
front rooms had been paneled from
floor to ceiling. It was found that
the
interior
woodwork
at
one
made
to
Samples
green..
match
these
were
colors,
and
have been preserved for future use.
The exterior of the house will be
an authentic restoration to its eight-
eenth century appearance. The interior of the house is being restored
to
its original
appearance
with
cer-
tain alterations to make it suitable
for modern living quarters.
William Byrd III, was probably
the most prominent early occupant
of the house, and at one time his
famous
library
of four
thousand
volumes, the largest in the colonies,
was housed there.
The
most
photographed
five- year -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Payne, caretakers at the Wythe
House.
One of our young married men
asked
another
have proved so popular that they
from
This double
Hampton
sang here
for
the
first
November;
their program
Institute
time
in
which
comment.
to
Castle (
to
new
typist) :
the
importance
of punc-
tuation?"
Typist: " Oh, yes, indeed.
ways get to work on time."
I al-
Should he hide his valuables?
He brought out many in-
crites."
teresting facts.
I' ll go if you stick your head in
the door first when we come home."
improving rapidly.
We are glad.
The " Melody Four" and. the
Harmony Four" quartettes will
sing
in a contest
at Mt. Gilead
Church soon.
We are very proud to have
All of the laborers of the Resto-
ration seem to be very pleased with
operation.
our
lost a hard
Five
times
the
Indians
lead,
but something went wrong and they
new
superintendent,
Mr. C. V.
Lavery, and welcome him to Williamsburg.
The Installation
of the Junior
Department of the First Baptist
Eppes was the lead-
Church of Williamsburg, which is
ing scorer with 15 points. Thanks
the oldest Baptist Church in Virginia, took place in March.
were defeated.
to the Restoration for such valuable
players as Frederick Eppes, William
Beale, James Randall, Milton Cooke
and
Hugo
Movies are being shown in the
audit,orium at the high school every
Friday night Watch the bulletin
of
the . Inn.
He
is
second
waiter. In the summer he is head
waiter at the Cavalier Beach Club
in Virginia Beach.
weeks,
is back on the
he
would
this
man
not.
was
He
had
a
fraud?
No,
faith
man.
in
gone, our friend found all his valuables untouched,
the bedroom oc-
cupied was hardly mussed, the bathroom was left spotless.
On the
dresser he found this note: "
Dear
Friend, I' ll never forget what you
did for me
It happen to be someone
that
is
worth
it. . .
P.
S.
I
Mrs. William
Russel
Lincoln
along
and happiness."
The house in which this happened
fellow
was "
The
worker,
Quarter ".
Kenneth
Our
Chorley.
New Department
Has First Birthday
February 15th brought the Department of Public Safety to the
conclusion of its first year of service
to the Restoration.
During this time three patrolmen
H. Wallace, who
underwent a very serious operation
at the Elizabeth Buxton Hospital, is
getting
We are very glad to have Frank
Hicks as a newcomer in our dining
room
John Haley, who has been sick
for several
job.
Johnson.
this
wish you very good health, luck,
Bertha Casselle out with us again.
She has been to the hospital for an
Indians
maybe
The next morning the stranger
Alonzo Billips, one of our employees who has been quite sick, is
a
board for coming attractions.
Now I hope you thoroughly understand
going
in-
cludes spirituals and folk music has
a great deal of charm and appeal
and has caused much favorable
Miss
about
dance with him. His reply was,
40.
in the Game Room of the Lodge
quartet
in
game Monday to Smithfield, 42 to
The Wednesday evening concerts
are to be continued.
person
Williamsburg is :Marjorie Alice Payne,
The Colonial
Concerts Continue
After the stranger had gone to
bed his host began to worry . .
from the 23rd chapter of St. Matthew, and his subject was " Hypro-
blue, and at another time a handolive
another person.
very inspiring sermon on the last
Fourth Sunday. He took his text
time
had been - painted a very brilliant
some
11 P. M. he found himself
Hedrick recently were called by the
Williamsburg Police Department.
very nicely
Walker,
Williams,
of
of
have received appointments to other
agencies. Robert Gaunce was the
first, and is now a Virginia State
Trooper. Hamlet Smith, and James
Norge,
and
Magruder,
both our employees, were called to
the Army for a year of training
I. J., SR.
Applicants for positions with the
Restoration
force must be High
School graduates, between 21 and
35 years old, at least five feet, seven
inches tall, and capable of strenuous
physical
activity.
�Page Four
THE
Hostessing : — A Very
RESTORATION
FOODViOBILE"
NEWS
April, 1941
Green and Hoke
CLICK
fiA HFS T
Introduce New
Liberal Education
Movie fans will soon be seeing
Food Carrier
By MRS. H. M. STRYKER
an unusual picture written, directed,
and produced by a very unusual
Necessity is the mother of inven-
It is June, and our country' s
schools
are closed
vacation.
tion, but as far as the management
for the summer
Two Bryn
Mawr
of the Williamsburg Inn is con-
teachers
cerned the Good Humor Man was
exchange greetings and formalities
cedure for seeing the Governor' s
Williamsburg.
guests
A
minutes
are
in
which
meant
come
she
Johnson
she
has
looked
forward to coming here for four
years.
Next
comes
one
lone
a
slight
accent,
and
guests
are shown
using
it to serve
in the Quarter.
polish-
ed manners. The hostess knows he
will not walk before her, nor inter-
chair to the rear of the hall.
We
of
about
Williamsburg. One sits immediately in the hall to change a film in
Queen
she
Elizabeth,
remembers
and
the
king
A few in the group approve of
such a thing, and it simply ruins
the Palace for her. Verily, by their
room to conduct
her
guard' s
first class of
words, ye shall know them.
By this
the morning.
As we approach the Palace, we
time, the hostess has traced the
lineage of George, the third, all
meet
the way from James, the first.
an
elderly
couple,
slow
of
step, the husband gently keeping
his
wife
to the
front,
it develops
later, because of her deafness. They
hand
their
tickets
to
the
hostess
gladly, and join the group. The
hostess searches her group for clues
that will help her give an interesting interpretation for all. She is
sure that the elderly couple have
lived rich, full lives.
The
Bryn
Mawr
know
history, and they enjoy things in a
quiet way. The lone man looks
searchingly and approvingly. The
mother -in law calls Agnes and tells
her, " That chest of drawers l am
fixing for you is not as large as this
one, but it is much
often
handsomer
be-
We
come
to
the
supper
room
door, and look out over the garden.
The elderly lady says, " We have
been thinking of England a great
possessor
star
is
I t' s
Cheyenne ".
lovely Loretta Young.
of the
who had the
An old Hollywood favorite .. .
a bicycle while balancing a tray full
producer
of hot dishes on his head.
modern
How-
preyed
the
on
thought
the
that
minds
so that
of
he was
Gob,
he m' ght
the
ma_a-
reduced
to
Green, director of the Division of
Taverns and Ordinaries of the Restoration,
and
Bland
his
executive
Hoke,
sat
Lloyd, has turned into
and offers
a
as his first a
A Girl, A
comedy . "
A
Guy ", featuring Lucille
Ball, George Murphy, and a grand
newcomer, Edmond O' Brien.
Harold Lloyd hasn' t forgotten his
question.
The
vision
of
the
Mr.
Green
wrote
to
the
Work-
man Cycle Company of New York,
describing what he had in mind.
The Workman Cycle Company was
unimpressed,
and
such animal.
Green,
said
there
no
This spurred on Mr.
who, working
Hoke and
was
with
Mr. Cipriani,
Mr.
steward
of
the Rainbow Room in New York,
thinking far away thoughts for a
moment. By this time, the ten - eary
Company became enthusiastic.
olds have had their picture taken,
wheels, the Foodmobile has a rear
As
it
half
post
works
is explained,
the hostess
garden
says
tour
good-
bye to persons who seem like old
friends. After two hours, the Bryn
Mawr teachers come to the desk to
ask if it is too much of a favor to
let them go into the Palace again,
cause it is maple, and has nice big
wooden
They add that what they have seen
The hostess suppresses her fearful emotion as she persuades the
this morning
ten year olds not to move the sedan
with
will
give them
some-
thing happy and beautiful to take
them
all
summer.
items
on
the
New
York ice cream peddlers with their
de luxe tricycles flashed across their
minds, and the foodmobile was
born.
workable plans that the Workman
the
happiest, scrappiest
movie lots.
confer on some method of solving
the almost interurban
room service
eyes fill, and the small group left
After
to
to
finally produced such a clear set of
cards.
that technique
make his first production one of the
assis-
down
HAr
deal since we have been here."
with the next group, partly to see
the beautiful flower arrangements.
knobs."
has
Lady From
Loretta Young
Harold
and their mothers are off to buy
teachers
ago . . .
Lloyd,
just completed
another film,
rare and frightening ability to ride
tant,
now.
beating vigorously on the drum as
the
year
Frank
old formula for hysterical fun, for
ten- year -old says she never heard of
into
a
he has employed
and listen, while the mother of one
steps
producer
In the busy seasons the problem
was beginning to be an acute one.
Finally a few months ago John D.
given to her at the other places she
has been.
The ten -year -olds are
hostess
O u r
friend, who was
in our midst just
walking.
The old gentleman soli-
citously tells his wife that this is
we have any post cards or pictures
to give away. She has had them
the
feat-
the first.
the Chinese and other oriental influence, and understand the great
China trade which brought it about.
Others make no comment, but look
her camera, while the other asks if
was
come to the portrait of King James,
didn' t like it, and had him beheaded."
The wife smiles and says
child
ten years. It is soon evident that
their friends told them not to miss
to fame
agement
mothers,
a
of a waiter
grief,
Sir Walter Raleigh, " You know, the
one who put his coat down for
with
were
ever, though he never actually ca
rupt while she is talking, nor try
the door knobs of any closed doors.
We next have two fairly young
each
the proud
services
man,
with coal black hair, swarthy complexion,
waiters
Inn was
bride bubbles with quiet delight as
bride and groom they were. The
The
tray in the other. At one point the
in —a
Here' s the newest wrinkle in room
service, designed to serve our Guest
Houses.
Milton Cooke and Robert
that
the
warmer in one hand and a loaded
group
whispers
that
to be seen tearing down the streets
of Williamsburg balancing a food
gathering.
family
rise
Some of these cottages are two
blocks distant from the Inn, and as
guests in them were given the same
room service as in the Inn itself, it
other
father and mother, and . their son
and his wife, perhaps an April
called "
Sturges, whose amazing life and
sensational
cottages.
They will say, " Thank you," in
some form, at the end of the trip.
They sign the visitor' s book, and sit
quietly reading their handbooks for
few
is
to the outlying guest houses and
hostess
knows, after a few words, that these
two ladies will be agreeable companions to take through the Palace.
the
picture
which is used to transport hot food
Palace, and other places of interest
The
The
Lady Eve ". The man is Preston
the unwitting father of its Food - ured recently in the Saturday Evening Post.
mobile,
an
ingenious
contraption
as the hostess explains the best pro-
in
man.
that
pedals,
now
has
like
stands,
a
a
sprockets
or
single
and
bicycle —
and all. The front
part has two wheels set wide apart,
with a large metal cabinet with two
compartments between them. The
top
compartment
complete
can
bed trays,
carry
two
set up with
dishes and food, while the bottom
compartment has space for two
large food- warmers, three trays, and
extra
linen,
china
and
Daffodil
Tour,
Gloucester
and
Mathews
Counties,
March
30
through April 14.
Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, D. C., April 5 and 6.
Apple Blossom
Festival,
Shenan-
doah Valley, May 1 and 2.
Charleston, S. C., Magnolia Gardens
best March 27 -April 10.
Middleton
Gardens
best
March
29 — April 15.
Cypress
Gardens
best late April.
Metropolitan Opera Co., The Mos-
rather
wheel
regular
iris
silver.
J. P.
que, Richmond, Va., May 2.
L. Raymond Cox, Ame- icana' s Ace
Magician, Game Room of Lodge,
8P rM., April 5th. Admission 500.
Peninsula Choral Society, Bruton
Parish Church, April 8, 8: 30.
College of William and Mary,
Play — " My Heart' s in the Highlands" by William Saroyan,
Phi Beta Kappa Hall, May 8, 9.
Varsity Club Minstrel Show, Phi
Beta Kappa Hall, Friday evening, May 16.
20 American paintings, Phi Beta
Kappa Hall
Foyer,
May
4 - 16.
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The
News
Restoration
BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILLIAMSBURG RESTORATION
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, JUNE, 1941
Volume I
Restoration Draftees
the
of
the
11
Restoration
peace
time
tending
selectees
from
Uncle
in
Sam' s
military
service
and
training army is pretty scarce, only
one selectee having sent word to us
office folks back home.
Vernon Norman, of the Treasurer' s
Department,
attached
to Com-
pany K, 116th Infantry, stationed
at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland,
writes
now"
and
back "
I' m
a
soldier
and tells of " falling down
getting
Pendleton
up
all
Lewis,
afternoon."
of the
and resplendent in his uniform of a
officer.
Mr.
Lewis
as
a
re-
serve officer was called to duty the
middle of February, completed a
special course for officers at Boston
and
reported
the Fifth
to
the
Naval
commandant
District
of
at Norfolk,
whereupon he was given command
of a
small
naval
of seven men,
ful trial
craft with
a
crew
and made a success-
trip to Annapolis
from
which he has returned to the Norfolk Naval Base.
Randolph V. Carter, of Construction and Maintenance, is stationed
at Fort Monroe, Va., attached to
the Quartermaster Corps.
Blacknall,
into
Johnny
also or Construction
Maintenance,
service,
has
but
been
the
Information
Quiz
program which was held in the
Lodge Game Room on the night
See Williamsburg First
and
inducted
we haven' t heard
New Restoration Inn
of April 21st five came away
financially rewarded.
Winners were: Elbert Slaughter first prize of ten dollars;
Miss
Elizabeth
Edson
and
It used to be said that if you sat
at the corner of Forty- second Street
and Broadway long enough you
would sooner or later see every
celebrity in the world. Now it' s
beginning to look like it isn' t neces-
Miss
Beulah Gregory tied for second
place and five dollars each; Mrs.
Washington Reed, and Jack Patterson tied for third place, re-
sary to go to New York for that.
ceiving three dollars each.
Just sit in front of the Governor' s
Approximately 400 questions
were submitted by employees.
Palace.
Sherman
motion
picture
on
Williamsburg is now being produced by the American Film Center
of Radio City for the Restoration,
and will soon be released on 16
mm film for showings
in clubs,
schools,
and
other
places
through-
out the country.
Running approximately
twenty
minutes this picture will be partly
in color, and will be partially made
up of the old pre -restoration film
on this City as shown last year at
an employees meeting at the Williamsburg Theatre.
Wil-
Miles,
assistant
General
chief - of-
Labor
Frances
Perkins;
Edward
Johnson, managing director of the
Metropolitan
Opera
his stars — Charles
and
three
Kullman,
of
Anna -
mary Dickey
and Lily Pons;
Richard Crooks; Robert Benchley;
Gluyas
Williams
the
Robert
Nathan
the
Samson
Raphaelson,
cartoonist;
novelist
and
the playwright
and author of Skylark;
Alice Duer
Russell
is now "
of Massachusetts
and ,
from
the
Hostesses &
buildings
separately
at
as shops
first
and
were
used
storehouses,
and were later joined together by a
structure built between them which
served as an entry for converting
the
shops
into
a tavern.
Present plans call for a tap room
and bar in the eastern building and
a hall and a dining room in the
western building. In the rear of the
first floor will be a modern kitchen,
and on the second floor, where
The rooms will be
character with the rough and ready
quality of a Tap Room in a town
close
to
the
greens
where
markets,
fairs and musters once were held
It is also
proposed
to construct
arbors and booths of greenery in the
yard so that people may sit outside.
It is interesting to note that evidence shows many enactments in
the colonial
laws of Virginia
regu-
lating the use of arbors by tavern
keepers, particularly
when used
during market days, fairs, militia
musters
Do these
old eyes deceive
in the stern toils of the law?
Road
us, or is that the resident
vice- president
enmeshed
It' s all right, though. ' Mr. Geddy is not starting
the Long
prints taken in Yale Huffman' s drive to collect the prints of every member of
on page four)
The
than the western portion which was
Treasurer' s Department;
Continued
operated as a tavern by one Josiah
Chowning in the seventeen sixties.
used by merchants, and will be in
tendants Department; Ed Rountree,
and Nor -
The building, which is directly
opposite the Market Square Tavern,
stands on the foundations of two
old frame buildings which were
Because the east portion or shop
of
At
tav-
seems to have been associated with
blacksmith trades its interior will
be given a more rugged treatment
In addition to the seleotees, three
former Restoration employees have
resigned to volunteer
for U. S.
Davis,
century
served.
are
military service. These are Henry
tion of an eighteenth
ern, is finished.
ques and reproductions, open fireplaces ' will be a feature, and beer,
ale and light refreshments will be
Leroy Bell, Charles Keyser, John
Petty, Robert Moore, and Paul
all of the Division
and Ordinaries.
when
ard Casey, Australian minister to
Other selectees from among the
Sinith,
Taverns
made
furnished in early American anti-
Virginia;
some-
employees
be
part of town.
Lodge
Holt of West
where in the United States" doing
his bit in the peace time army.
Restoration' s colored
will
Rich -
Rush
went to Russell Walker, colored
laborer of Construction and Mainand
life
Chowning' s Tavern, a reconstruc-
Cabot
tenance, has been sent to Aberdeen
Maryland) Proving Grounds.
The distinction of having order
number 1 in James City County
tenance,
A great addition to Williamsburg
social
Mrs. Irving Berlin; Senators Henry
HUFFMAN STARTS PRINT COLLECTION
A. P. Ward, Jr., of the construction
force of Construction
and Main-
Opening In Autumn
originally were rooms for Chown ing' s clientele, will be the public
rest rooms so long needed in this
Miller, the author, who was with
the U. S. — ad infinitum.
Continued on page four)
where he is or what he is doing.
visited
staff of the U. S. Army; Secretary
of
reel
have
of the British Ambassador;
Now In Production
two
who
liamsburg in the last month or so
have been Lady Halifax, the wife
Williamsburg Film
A
For instance, among the
notables
Division
of Crafts, was recently seen in Williamsburg looking very handsome
naval
In Chownings Tavern Taproom
Among the 150 employees at-
Not Too Confining
News
Landlord To Fill Flowing Bowl
Quiz Winners
Find Army Life
Number 3
the organization
ink -pad.
to the Big House;
as
a
protective
he was one of the first to have
measure.
Run,
don' t
walk,
to
the
his finger
nearest
that
the
and drills,
colonial
when
it seems
wassailers
made
too much noise with their al fresco
celebrating. Modern arbor- haunters
will
silent
please
song
confine
and
themselves
genteel
jests.
to
�THE RESTORATION
Page Two
THE
NEWS
June, 1941
K. C." AT THE BAT
RESTORATION
From
NEWS
Eduor:
THOMAS
time
to
time
we
receive
many letters from people who have
visited Williamsburg and who,
when they retum home, take the
G. McCASKEY
trouble to write us about the ResRUTHERPOORD
Editors
Associate
GOODWIN,
B.
W. NORTON,
L. H.
JONES, F. P. LECOMPTE, ELIZABETH
STUBS,
JACK
PATTERSON,
S.
P.
MOOREHEAD.
toration.
Some of these letters
are
complimentary,
others not so, and
some contain interesting suggestions for improvements,
etc. In the
first category one of the finest letFeature W'riters',, MRS, MILDRED ADOLPH,
DUNCAN
COCKE.
ters which
lows.
we have received
fol-
It was written by Dr. Samuel
Eliot Morison, who is acknowledged
Reportorial
MRS.
Staff
H.
M.
PHIL NELSON,
STRYKER,
MRS. M. B.
FORD, ED WARE, MRS. ELSIE Low,
ANN BEMs, TOM LITTLE, JANE BEAL,
GEORGE LEWIS, BILL EUBANK, MADE LINE WARWICK, MRS. Rum SOTHER-
LAND, BETTY HOLMES, TOM ' HALLIGAN, RUTH DAVIS, MONIER WILLIAMS,
TOMMY
EWAN,
ISHAM
JOHNSON,
THOMAS KEARNEY.
Staff .... W. J. BLACKWELL,
Circulation
Manager, ROBERT BEASTEN, MARGIE
HOSKINS,
RALPH
MOODY,
JAMES
HUMPHREY,
HARRY
OLIVER.
to be one of the most
outstanding
historians in the country and who
is a member of our Advisory Committee of Historians.
This letter is
a singular tribute to the Restoration
and to everyone connected with it.
Therefore
I wanted
DEAR
MR. CHORLEY:
understand
what
a
transformation
the
is alone worth the journey, and my wife,
who
appreciates
interior
decoration
and
furniture, was almost rapturous in her
of
House
of
efficient
and
praise of the good taste in which the
interior has been done. We were especi-
ally pleased
of
with
the Raleigh
Burgesses
and
Tavern,
the
Wythe
loyal service by our friend and as-
House and Lodge, including the south-
sociate, Elton R. Holland. His resignation was a distinct shock and
ern hospitality dispensed by Dr. Farish,
loss, not only to the organization,
but to his many friends who have
worthy of remark because
been
associated
with him
for so
many years. To Elton we say farewell and godspeed in your new
fields of endeavor.
On the same date a new department head was created
in the person
A
few
things
seemed
particularly
they are so
much better done at Williamsburg than
anywhere else. The high quality of
articles
sold
and
Restoration.
their
The
relevance
silver,
to
the
pewter
and
glass is all beautiful, and all based on
things
found at Williamsburg,
and
should have a strong
for the country. .
educational
I was
value
so busy
looking at the fine things in the Craft
The " lecture"
Capitol ...
was "
on"
in the
the group had assemb-
those
of us who
any
articles
the summer run of tourists
it might
be well
such
as
might buy.
to have
a
sotto
voice
Ancestors! Hum!
round a bit."
In
the third
hostess,
Must have been
room
her
explained
the
courage,
about
the
old
But ", exclaim-
machine. "
warming
ed one of the parry, " why is there
just
some
in
earthenware
price — one
of
those
pitchers, for instance, that
are used in the Tavern
with the Virginia
arms
serve
with you have been impressed with
Williamsburg
predict
a
and
we
to you our best wishes
pledge
and
heartiest
great
service
on
it,
that
would
whereever
to
advertise
seen.
Another thing, I was very much
pleased with the high quality of the
postcards
town.
sold
Very
America
at the Lodge and
few
provide
historic
postcards
in the
places
that one
be proud to send to ones friends.
cooperation.
in
can
Wil-
The
We
stayed
at
the
Lodge
and
found
the prices reasonable and the food and
No Parking
service excellent.
I have
a better conducted hotel.
Not long ago Patrolman H. L.
Thompson
of
the
Restoration
Police saw a long green convertible
with a New York license resting
sleekly in the space in front of the
Goodwin
Building
reserved
for
Restoration cars. Irritated but restrained,
Mr. Thompson
left
a
polite note in the windshield inContinued on page four)
never
been
in
then,
her
but
attractive;
an
they
are
all
intelli-
gent women who really know about the
building they take care of, instead of
getting off a set line of patter. They
were
all able to answer
intelligently
the questions that we put to them. This
again is a point of superiority at Williamsburg over any other historic spot
that I have visited.
Sincerely yours,
s/
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON.
article
on
Folk Art published in the
April issue of the Southern Literary
Mrs.
Louise
Fisher
She not only
wrote an article on " Old- fashioned
the March issue of the magazine
Antiques, but was also the subject
of a long feature story in The
Christian
Science
dentally
The
once."
On
to
the
council
chambers,
where
the bed chambers
Again the bored gentle -
were. . .
ticket,
asked
the
hostess
if
she
that Mr.
it so that
could get
buildings.
This must be ancestor day,"
the hostess finally decided, for as
she
turned
to
the
middle - aged
couple who were patiently waiting
to speak
to her — the woman
turned
my husband who is a direct descendant of Mr. Rockefeller."
Adieus were being said as the
The lady guides impressed us very
favorably. Their costumes are simple
American
the
Monitor.
picture
the
Inci-
Monitor
NEWS.
stove ?"
and said " I do want you to meet
liamsburg does.
Mr. Cogar is the author
comprehensive
said, " Because it was only cracked
the
stumped,
didn' t think it possible
Rockefeller could arrange
people who had ancestors
free admissions
to the
a low
a
brown eyes brightly flashing, she
crack
was
be
at
of
used was the same one Pete LeCompte took of Mrs. Fisher for the
first issue of the RESTORATION
one
hostess
man, in studying his combination
sold
has
Flowers and How They Grew" for
committee
gathering
again
exclaimed,
reproductions of pottery made in sufficiently large numbers so that they could
have had the pleasure of working
your sincerity, your ability and your
friendliness.
For the future, we
I
Department
went him one better.
in
If not,
were
Curator' s
hat,
come.
there
The
Messenger.
asked
Already
GAOL.
broken into print both actively and
Who sat there without removing his
where the dear old motherly soul
ment.
THE
4.)
passively
whether
decessor we know will spur you to
even greater heights of accomplish-
page
led in the House of Burgesses . . .
Oh! Yes ", interrupted the guest,
we are descended from the Burgesses.". . .
The bored gentleman
House that I did not particularly notice
ency that has been set by your pre-
on
WAS CONFINED1O
Literati
of Charles V. Lavery. To you, Mr.
Lavery, we extend our cordial welThe high standard of effici-
are
OVERHEARD"
took in its spartan - like stride both
fortune and misfortune.
This date marked the completion
years
cartoon
WHAT GOVERNOR IN THE 186.-
CtNTURY
Having made our threatened visit to
Williamsburg, I am glad to report that
whole thing seemed. The Palace itself
thirteen
to
G1
you all.
the Restoration could have been done
better. On my last visit the site of the
Palace was being excavated, so you will
On May 1, 1941, the Restoration
Answers
to share it with
everything is splendid. I don' t see how
Ave Atque Vale"
OBUILDING or Ile COLLEGE OF THE M BURNED
How MANY TIMES HAS W' WREN
hostess
gaol,
directed
when
as
her guests
a parting
to the
question
the young thing in a military cape
asked
the hostess,
who wore two
large diamond rings, if they were
reproductions
too.
But before she
could reply, a breathless young man
rushed in from the gate and asked,
Please
Miss,
can
I get
a marriage
license here ?"
E. M. A.
third
Goodwin' s
edition
of Rutherfoord
Williamsburg in Vir-
ginia drew a rave notice in the New
York Times. The new dollar edition is now on sale.
Dr. Farish' s new book, Robert
Carter of Nomini Hall, is in the
hands
of
the
printers,
and
Dr.
Farish has hopes of seeing it out by
the middle
of June.
Flag Flags
Passers By
Colors Catch
Passers' Eye
The green flag flying at the
Inn, Lodge and Goodwin Build-
ing is not chat of the Irish Free
State,
but
is
the
official
flag of the Restoration.
house
It was
designed by the Architectural
Department,
and follows the de-
sign
Colonial
of
the
Williams -
burg letterhead. The colors have
no particular
significance.
The
architects just thought they were
pretty.
�June, 1941
THE RESTORATION NEWS
SOCIAL
Page Three
EVENTS
LIE
On May 9, 1941, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Beal of Hammonton,
New Jersey, announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Jane S.
Beal '( Public Relations) to Samuel Kemp Boot ( C & M) , son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert K. Boot, of Glencoe, Illinois. The wedding will take
By THOMAS KEARNEY AND ISHAM JOHNSON
f
AMONG
place early in June at the home of Miss Beal' s sister in Chicago.
brides
our
for
the •
Sunday in May. This is the oldest
Spring we are very proud to have
Mrs.
Mary Bundy
Ford ( T &
0)
Baptist Church in Virginia that we
Mrs.
is
and
know of. The pastor, Rev. Robert
of our
E. Lee, preached a very soul- stirring
Mildred
Mrs.
on a six - eek cruise to South America.
w
Helen
oldest
Smith
Carter
Webb
Lee,
chamber -maids
two
of
the
Wil-
liamsburg Inn.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Langton
Treas.) are spending their vacation in New
After the happy marriages,
York City.
we
have sad news. Hugo Johnson,
who is one of our waiters, had his
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Jones, Jr., (Treas.)
are on a motor trip through the mountains
Virginia and West Virginia.
gave the " Address
And
of the Williamsburg Inn, lost her
house by fire, her entire home was
Boyd,
burned.
Also
Mrs.
destroyed while no one was there.
The maids of the Williamsburg
Mr. and Mrs. Byrnes returned to
successful
Williamsburg around the Airst of
in Newport
Mr. and Mrs. Woodley
Treas. &
Blackwell (
whose
engagement
Pers.
was
Rel.),
announced
chased
a
ing forward to their annual Spring
place
recently
on
York
have
made
their
pur-
Mr. and
Mrs.
Thomas
G.
Mexico City. They are taking 8mm.
movies on the trip and it is hoped
they will give a showing of them,
which in the terminology of the
trade we can expect
lossal", "
to be "
spectacular ", "
co-
epic"
spent
his vacation
and
ence
the Goodwin Building have been
completed and will be hung as soon
as their frames arrive.
was
That of Mr.
painted
Heydt' s office was here recently on
Restoration
business.
It
was
her
for
the
conveni-
of
others
of
our
employees
stop and refresh themselves.
place
is
run
pupil
and Ernest
Wayman Adams' school; and that
of Col. Arthur Woods, first president of the Restoration, was done
Miss Janet Warfield, secretary to Mr. John D. Rocke-
in
in Russia in 1878 and who studied
was able to attend the Colony Club
Oyster roast, where she was glad to
meet
many of the employees
who
had previously been only " names"
to her. * * *
to
Baltimore
to
erts, Jr., who is in training camp
there.
and
Italy.
John Hailey, Sr. and Thomas
Ashby, two of our Restoration employees,
Brooks.
Olinsky' s
after
have gone back on their
a two -week
vacation.
On Saturday, May 17th, the West
Point Yanks defeated the Magrud-
er Black Sox by 7 points.
On our sick list is Mrs. Evelyn
Tyler who was rushed to the St.
Phillips Hospital in Richmond.
T. K.
A large group of our friends and
relatives who are residing in Scotch plains and Plainfield, New Jersey,
will be with us at the Mt. Gilead
The beginning of the 156th Anniversary
Church
of
took
the
First
place
on
Baptist
the
first
Baptist Church the 4th Sunday in
June to render an all -day service.
This will be called " Homecoming
Day."
by Ivan G. Olinsky, who was born
during the latter part of April and
motored
see his brother, John Henry Rob-
Cooke,
of
first trip here since 1929.
feller, Jr., was in Williamsburg
Matt Roberts who is now on his
vacation
This
by Milton
by Jossey
Pennsylvania - born
France
ing facts.
to
Stop and refresh yourself.
Wayman Adams, now teaching in
Miss Renee Dreyfus of Mr.
employees
Ernest Wallace,
Two of the six portraits which
are planned for the Board Room of
Chorley
of Nashville, Tenn., was the speak-
jobs
Portraits Completed
Bilan,
the best of the season."
We are very proud to have a
place of business operated by three
of our
Two Board Room
McCaskey ( Theatre) are on a
vacation trip to Dallas, Texas, and
Allan
of the
River.
working on the farm.
and
Secretary- Treasurer
Dance.
Mr. Goodwin
Nassau,
And now the Wil-
Educ.)
Goodwin (
returned from their wedding trip
home in the Red Lion Kitchen.
every minute
Mrs. Rutherfoord
in the last issue of this paper, have
to
News,
was enjoyable.
Mr. and
of Wel-
Henry
National Baptist Publishing Board
dance at the Elk' s Home
liamsburg Inn employees are look-
J.
Dr.
Lodge had a very beautiful and
from our
New York office was in Williams-
June.
M.
er. He brought out many interest-
liamsburg." * * *
burg recently.
service Mr. Vernon
Geddy, Vice president of the Restoration,
badly
Junior League in Norfolk on " Flower Arrangements in Colonial WilBetts
afternoon
was served at
School.
In the
come."
home
Mrs. John R. Fisher ( Cur.) recently spoke to the members of the
Betty
delicious
dinner
Bruton Heights
Carrie Jones, one of our employees
of
Jane Beal
Miss
sermon, a large crowd witnessing
the service. After the service a very
I. J., SR.
Portrait At Capitol
Adoration" is in the collection of
the Norfolk Museum of Arts and
Science. Other portraits for the
Board Room will include those of
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Dr.
W. A. R. Goodwin, Mr. William
G. Perry, and Mr. Arthur A.
Shurcliff.
PLAYING
Theatreman "
Happy"
member of the council of the Vir-
ginia Company, has just been pre-
sented to Colonial Williamsburg
by Mr. Philip H. Rosenbach and
his
Miss Mary Jansen ( Research)
NOW
A very large and handsome 16th
century portrait of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave and
brother,
Dr.
Rosenbach.
Sir
Edmund, here depicted by Paul van
and her parents have taken a house
near Queen' s Creek on Capitol
Colony Club Election
Landing Road.
The recently elected officers of
the Colony Club for the year 194142 are president, Ralph E. Bowers;
tion and development
of the Virginia settlement. He also won distinction
in the command
of The
vice - president,
White Bear at the defeat of the
Spanish Armada. Queen Elizabeth
created him Knight of the Garter in
BYRNES -KELLY WEDDING
On Tuesday, May 27, 1941,
Miss Frances Kelly, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Francis
Kelly of Syracuse, New York, was
married to Mr. John L. Byrnes
T & 0) in New York City. The
wedding was followed by a breakfast party at the Hotel Lexington.
Somer,
was
never
in America,
but
had much to do with the coloniza-
secretary,
treasurer,
tiring
Alma
Alfred
Madeline
Elbert
officers
Lee
A.
Kluwer;
Warrick;
Slaughter.
are
Rowe;
and
The re-
president,
Mrs.
vice -president,
1593, and he is wearing the badge
and ribbon of the Garter in this
Ralph E. Bowers; secretary, Mild- portrait. The painting now hangs
red
Layne;
Shearon.
and
treasurer,
Nick
Movie Actress
in the east hall, first floor, of the
the
Capitol.
Grant trying
Halligan
and
Irene Dunne posing for
RESTORATION
to
NEWS.
squeeze
Notice
in.
Cary
�June, 1941
NEWS-
RESTORATION.:
THE
Page Four
Airport. Restoration
year. Life Goes
Building. Restoration
Acquires Photostat
didn'
go
a part in
Acquires Charles V. toWil iamsburg Lifeliamsburg, t it todid come down
Wilbut
C. &
M. to
Lavery As
photograph the town in
connection with a story
s
Head
The
the
staff
and
Restoration
welcome
employees
of
Mr.
Charles V. y as the new head of
Laver
Const. & Maint.
the
We
have
1941
to
who
succeed
resigned
Elton
expected to
run in the July Fourth issue of
health. Mr.Lavery joins the staff of
rather important feature in their plans
the Restoration after twenty -two years
for the Goodwin
Building. Not
that we feel they are at all to blame —
of
service with
is writing the
Passos, the
novelist,
text, and was
Cardozo,
control
all the
implications of
National
De- fense. We
have
an
is
12:
Saturdays,
such
one) 011ie
fea- ture
the
local
through
Draft
Vermilya- Brown
Board. Merely by way of
information, we
would like to
report that
Mrs,Blackwell returned from her
Company,
Inc., of
New York, one of the largest
construc- tion concerns in the United
States. During his association with
this firm he was at Yale University
year surveying the film pos ibil ties
of Wil amsburg, is in charge of
the production, being assisted by
for
construction of the Sterling Memorial
Eddie
York. To date we have been unable
Library, Yale
the
to locate a
Yale Housing
a
Rex. We
should
also like
to
report that the Wythe House has only
documented
and
authenticated
one
ghost. According to the
Research
Department
all
others are
purely
imaginary. For the Cliche - of-the Month
Club we
executive
Raleigh
nominate the
as istant, a
habitue
of
Tavern, who
young
the
declared: " Gee,
nine
part
years,
in
Graduate
supervising
School and the
his
own
admission
he
once
came
in 426th in the Evening Mail
Modi- fied
to City
hours,
Marathon
from the
Bronx
Hall. Running time: 6
43%
minutes.
C. &
supervision
Paul
Reed
blueprinting,
Department
the
Architectural
to
reproduce
several
copies
at
one
run- ning than to set up the
equipment for one
photostat. Resoration
and
the
Federal
Reserve Bank Building in New York.
He comes to Wil iamsburg after
com- pletion of the National Gallery
of Art in Washington. While
engaged on this project he supervised
quarrying
and
all
exterior
marble
Knoxville,
Tenn., that was
fabrication
of
at
used in the
interior
construction
De LaSalle Institute of New
and has taken technical courses
con-struction at Manhattan
and
Columbia. He is married
1. The
in
1779, a
is
connection
with
his
work
purely
2. Yes — the only
an hourly rental
fee
3. Three
War.
1705, twice during the Civil
4. ". Hamilt. .
Henry
on, the
Gov-
ernor
of
who, from
Indians
cal-
mem- bers on May
bad- minton
in the Goodwin
attraction
this
the
the
Americans,
George
ed
and,
on
Rogers)
against
Clark
Fort
the
second
the winter of
added
was
Buyer. ")
Vincennes,
occasion,
in
1779, he captured
not only t; e fort. but Hamilton
also, who, being brought back to
Wil- liamsburg, languished for
some
time
in
the
prison
near
the
Capitol." R. G' s
the Theatre and
Taverns &
Davis, of
Crafts, having
com- pleted his Caribbean cruise,
will graduate in June from the
New York Naval Training
with the
rank of
em- ployee, Ed
Construc-
tion
Station,
Ensign. Another
Ware, of
and
the
Maintenance
Department, is expecting to resign upon
being called soon to duty in the
Naval
Air
Corps
for
which he
has
vol-
two) forming the absent owner that
he was treading forbidden
ground. What
know
was
Mr.
Thompson didn' t
that
the car
belonged
to Kenneth Chorley. Far from
being annoyed, Mr. Chorley was
delight- ed, and in a letter
Patrolman Thompson said in
to
part: " I want
to say that you were entirely right
in
putting
this
card
on my
car Be. I try to live up to our
cause .
park- ing regulations- and because I
am
always
calling
attention
to
ocher people when they violate them,
I should like to explain why I
parked my car wher I
did." Mr.Chorley went on to say
that
under
his
arrangements
with
the
Wil iamsburg
in
Restoration, a car, usually the
open
is
Lincoln,
use while in
provided
for
Exhibit.
Hall, May 26
his
Wil iamsburg. The
Lin- coln, however, was
Virginia. What' s
Happening Annual Student Art
17th. The new
court is an
Northwest (
inciting
the "
Hair-
Twice
is
in
the
Phi Beta Kappa
first meeting of the Boards to be held
requisite
Times — First
his
against
led
proceed-
York
in
College
and
at
Pulaski
Club, founded
date, however, which
traditonal.
of
has three
children. His family
will move to Wil iamsburg from
Wash- ington where rhey have resided
in
Lineweaver,
Ordi- naries. Also Mack
unteered. No
new gallery and had complete charge
the
Continued from page
Parking Continued from page
Carto n:
the
Draftees
ris
one)
of
Associates. Answers to
Center
members of the Boards
June. This will be the
phot sta ed
Rich
work done by this concern at the
of Williamsburg Restoration, Inc.,
Art. The Wil iamsburg Inn
and Colonial Wil iamsburg, Inc.,
will meet in Wil iamsburg the Swim- ming Pool opened for Club
latter part of
size
so
of
the National Gallery of
B.The
maximum
x48„ The process is a more
Plan. He has also had
the
this
building. Mr. Lavery was born in
fun." C. V.
Lavery, new head of C.
New York City, is a graduate of the
and M., in his salad days was to
mara- thon running what Leslie
Mac -ehct l is now to N. Y. U.By
Mi
Adolphe, and
Raymond
Medical
of
drink- ing' s good
The
which can be
complex one than that of
Sweden,
April
shooting
exterior scenes and
will be here this month for the
interiors. John Devine, assistant director
of the American Film
Center,
who spent several weeks here last
honey- moon with a black eye and that
Rex Colwil has landed in New
suitable house for
in
is an expert in color photography.
He spent two weeks early in
wedding.
made
plates
documents by all
36 "
Comstadt, formerly a
cameraman
connect- ed with the research department
of Eastman Kodak in
Rochester, and
of
For no reason at all we suggest that
be
maps, book
re-quests that orders be placed
several days ahead and in groups if
pos- sible, since it is more economical
photography. Mr.Comstadt was recently
could then, without leaving the
re-ations
serv
ments.
has been doing the color
the personnel as were interested
building, adjourn for a quiet
to
Now In
Chapel. Being
on
Architectural
Production Continued from page
omission, we suggest that an
30
cupola
they.Wil iamsburg Film
appropriate space in the building
be fitted up as a simple chapel.
At
Capitol
drawings,
draw- ing
-
convinced that it is never too late to rectify
sins of
the
machine is under the
the
reproducing
moonlight. No slowpokes
fingerprinting, photostating and
petitionists —
we even have a potential bridal
'
suite beyond the Olympic Arch, but
of
and various
the Wren Building by
we have no
from
machine,
Department and will be used for
and Richmond, and in a day and a
half in Wil iamsburg shot
everything
photostat
develop- ing
depart-
Jr. The party had been to the
Uni- versity of Virginia, " Bremo"
no one at that time could foresee
impressive building — we have air
conditioning and
receptionists,
a
com- plete with dark room and
equipment. The
magazine. John Dos
Sidney
because of ill
Machine The Restoration has recently
in-d
stal e
Life
R.Holland
Department omit ed a
continuous
Virginia," which is
1, accompa- nied on the tour by
photographer Gabe Benzer and staff writer
Mr. Lavery was appointed May
somewhat
reluctantly, but nevertheless unalterably,
come to the conclusion that the
Architec- tural
Department.
on Thomas Jef rson'
"
damaged in
an accident, and so Mr.
Chorley
was using his own private car for
official
to June
9.
Colonial
June
Seminar,
June 15 -
22. Dr. Fowler,
director. Airplane Trips over
Williamsburg Sunday
Williamsburg
afternoons from
business.
Mrs.
W.
F. Low (
Personnel) recently
underwent a
serious
opera- tion at the Medical College of
Vir- ginia
Hospital in
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<p>When using the <em>CW News</em>, it is important to remember that it reflects the realities of its time. For example, columns in the 1940s issues reported on the “News of the Colored People.” Separate reporting of African American and white social events was indicative of the segregation that was the legal norm in Virginia at the time.</p>
<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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TheRestoration
WRITTEN
News
BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILLIAMSBURG RESTORATION »
Volume
I
WILAMSBURG,
VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER, 1941
Adopts
Cost -
With a Mace The
Number
4 Restoration
s Department Puts
of- Living Wage
Full Steam The
Restoration On
Plan Supplementary
the Slide In
1938 Jim Cogar, as
Increase Effective
Construction and
Curator, began
one of the most interesting side
August First For Over
activities
Nine Hundred Five
of
is "
taking
the
Restoration.
This
pictures in color." Of
course it isn' t just a matter of
hundred
and
forty
em- ployees
snapshooting
of the Restoration gathered in
organization
will
be
plan
will
affect
over
hundred
employees, only
percentage
of
being
excluded
929
since
were $
300.
The
the
salaries
on whether you' re a camera bug or not. The
a
subjects, all
first increase took effect July
1st
for all others, due
on
August
to a difer nce
in pay periods. In
his opening remarks Mr. Chorley
paid tribute to Dr. W A. R.
Goodwin,
and
asked
all
Keeper
of
Goodwin,
graven
the
Mace,
carefully
image
thereon.
Ruther-
surveying
of
This
the
is
foord
the
Indian
the old mace
the City of Wil iamsburg, recently
from
obscurity
in
collection
of
Princess
of
recovered
the
Hearst
interiors and exteriors of the Exhibition
Buildings, gardens
and flower
arrangements. There are also views
of famous 18th century Virginia
houses and
public buildings, including
close ups of architectural details.
These
antiques. town,
present to
stand in his honor for a moment of
silence. Then
he spoke of the difficult
in full - color, in-clude
mainly views of Wil iams- burg,
25th for the Construction and Maintenance
and
are used chiefly by the Curator
continuing at Wiliamsburg and
finally at Yorktown, this coun- try
was founded, and fought and died
for lectures to various or-ganizations.
And
also to a class in 18th
to assist employees in gaining
security, and happiness Among
for
freedom.
and Mary. Mrs.
where
we
these he listed our group life
and
how we please; the
insurance plan, sickness
and accidents
benefits, free medical service;
say what we please; the right to have
our children educated as we please;
and
vacations -
the
scenes have been selected for
times
and
of
the personnel program
the Restoration has been following
with pay program;
and
The
please,
right
to
we
when
work
please
right to
right to worship God as
the pension plan.Next
we
Mr. Chorley stated that studies
were being made regarding hospitalization
representatives
and surgical fees for employees
and their families, which group
to
includes approximately 2,
500 persons
in this community. Mr.
Chorley then read and ex- plained
in explicit detail the sup- plementary
wage ' plan. The
first cost
us.We
will have no concentration camps,
of the plan for this initial increase
will be $
44, 112 00 per year. Each
one
succeeding five
will
cost
about
percent in-ease
cr
the
same. In
the
event that three such increases were
we
please; the
right
to
of
please — these
government
things
elect our
own
as
are
us as life itself, and
as
precious
no Hitler
can ever take them away from
no
no
muzzling of
one
to
tell
our free press,
us
when
and
by
whom we shall have children; no
to
tell us
how
we
shall
worship
God, or that we shall not worship
Him at all. We shall have no
dictatorship in this country. God
forbid that
this
country shall
go to war, but if we must —in
total cost would be $
539 per year In'
order to preserve our freedom, our
closing Mr. ey made this stirring
Chorl
statement: Before
"
we bring this
meeting to a close, I have one thing
more I would like to say. While
I believe we are in for diffi- cult
times and we have dark days ahead
of us, I have no question as to
what the final outcome will be. Beginning
right here at James- Ace
projects
since
the
pub- lishing
of the last issue of the RES- TORATION
NEWS. The
list includes Chowning'
Randolph Peachy
s Tavern,
House, Red Lion Inn, Talia- ferro
Cole
House
and
Outbuild-
ings,
and Burdette' s Ordinary. Projects
Coleman House and a new addition
to
This
bedrooms, each
The
to
admiration. Lately
duplication, and
four sets are now
the
with
private
bath.
exterior will be of brick and
that was used in the existing Lodge.
of the L-shaped addition
to
porch outside of
the Lounge. Mr.
the Lodge
L. H. Radig is Superinten- dent
in charge of this project, with the
mechanical work being installed under
the
direction
of
Mr. F. L. McGin is.
Fleming
vs. Salvador
Dali
Dali, the
fur
cadaver tycoon, is
fifty representative Wil-msburg
lia
as
The South Wing will be connected
to the Lodge by a cov- ered
way, leading from the north end
garden clubs
where they invariably arouse excitement
Lodge.
the interior will be finished in the
same type of cypress flushboard- ing
Fisher uses them,
her talks
Wil iamsburg
known
South Wing, contains forty- eight
century social history at Wil- liam
coo, in
the
addition,
bathtub
and
doing a pic- ture
of the Palace for a future cover for
Town and Country Magazine. That
in
itself was news enough to
call
available for
rent at a fee of five
forth a confused editorial from the
dollars. These
have already had
Norfolk- Virginian- Pilot,which wanted
to know if the Restoration was
considerable circulation.
These
slides form not only a beautiful
but a valuable record. All
1,
602 are numbered, catalogued,
and
filed in a cabinet designed
especially
going " escapist." In
fact, the only person in Wil- liamsburg
who wasn' t slightly con-fused
by the Surrealist painter was the
by Joe Bright, and con- structed
by Mr. I obel auer {
in the Ayscough
Shop. Portraits
Palace' s Fleming, who posed twice
of
Lieutenant
English. Fleming says it ain' t so. To
Fleming, Dali was just an- other
artist. What Fleming doesn' t know
Governor Alexander Spotswood,
Governor of the
Virginia Colony 1710 - 1722, and
for
Dali with
his
usual aplomb.
One
of Mr. Dali' s ec en- tricities
was that he said he spoke no
of
his daughter, Dorothea
Dandridge
Spotswood,
both
ac- quired
last Summer, are now under- going
is that when his picture ap-pears,
then
we will fight with all our
hearts and souls and with God' s help
repairs at the Fogg Museum of
or
Art, Harvard University. This
shall
four necks standing on some old
s expert,
necessary the
131,
of
Koda- chrome
small
nine
00 per month or more.
employees,
in
are now 1, slides in the collection,
602
which gives you an idea how
hard the Curator has worked or
how much fun he has had, depending
mem- bers
their
is, scenes
upon a scre n of any desired size.There
assisted in meeting the rising cost
of living. This
mass
Mainten- ance
Department has completed a number
now under construction are
Scrivener House and Kitchen, Vaiden
on transparent gelatins two inches
House
and Outbuildings, Waterssquare which can be " ect- ed ".
proj
slides, that
and explain the new sup- plementary
the
s baby
they' re not really " pictures ", but
announce
wage plan by which the members
of
neighbor'
or yourself in your new suit. And
the Wil iamsburg Theatre on August
3rd to hear Mr. Chorley
your
Program Under
liberty, our
be
democratic way of life —
victorious because
right
must prevail over might. We
shall
do it realizng that we are fighting
for life itself in order to preserve
freedom and liberty for ourselves
and
our children." Curator'
Mr. George
museum'
L.ut,
Sto
he
is liable to have a bull moose'
s head protruding from his midriff,
maybe no head at all, just
Gothic fallen arches. Anyhow,
Fleming
is relining the frail old canvases,
removing later additions of
says he was grateful for the
over - paint and
anything he could do for the Restoration
put another star in my crown."
"
surface film, and
the
under- structure of
paint
secure.
Construction
making
the original
opportunity
to
It'
s
liable
pose, as
to
be
some
he
star.
figured
�Page Two
THE
RESTORATION
Brains, Ltd.—
THE RESTORATION
NEWS
September, 1941
V. G. Pinch Hitting
By Sansalvador
NEWS
For K. C. at the Bat
Editor: THOMAS G. McCASKEY
RUTHERFOORD
Associate Editors
hitters, this column will undoubted-
GOODWIN,
B. W.
NORTON,
As is usually the case with pinch
L. H.
ly, in this issue,
MOOREHEAD.
Feature
Writers, MRS. MILDRED
DUNCAN
PHIL
Staff
words to fill this column.
NELSON,
Before leaving, however, he cer-
MRS.
H.
M.
STRYKER,
DOROTHY
JANE DAVIS, MRS, ELSIE Low, ANN
REVIS, TOM LITTLE, JANE BEAL, BILL
MADELINE
EUBANK,
tainly gave us much to think about
in our meeting of August 3rd.
WARWICK,
the
BETTY
HOLMES,
TOM
HALLIGAN,
RUTH
DAVIS,
MONIER
WILLIAMS,
ISHAM JOHNSON, THOMAS KEARNEY
Circulation
Staff ....
Wage
Committee
RALPH
Supplement
ate
numerous
dependants.
endeavor
as
to
employees
to
operate
assure
these
and
project
people
so
steady
for their health,
sickness, insurance, recreation, vacations,
pensions,
social
When master minds meditate, this is what happens. Can you identify the
results of the Staff Meeting doodles? 1. Nerves in the 18th Century manner
by R. G.; 2. A short meeting for the Vice -President; 3. Colleens by Cogar;
4.
Huffman'
offer
proper
Lake Louise;
dreams ...
vacation
and
An Open Letter
at
be-
To: — Mr. Chorley and the Trustees
and Directors of the Restoration Corporations.
with
these
and
You
other
would
problems.
Every little detail of Williamsburg
restored
would
then
assume
major
importance.
There would be no
tree, or bench, or walk too unimportant
for your studied
interest.
Rentals
and
menus,
admission
a
prices and
traffic hazards . . .
thousand
things
would
suddenly
On behalf
this
of the employees
organization,
paper
wish
to
the
editors
express
of
of
this
appreciation
for the supplementary wage plan as
announced by our president recently.
We are especially grateful for
the
forethought
obvious
interest
in
the
welfare
and
real
of every
employee which was expressed by
this action.
uncertain
We realize that in these
times,
when
many
con-
be an almost
impos-
T. &
O.
to
retract
and
en-
unhesitating interest in all of us.
The plan offered is certainly
Town."
For
that
that your action
required an
is just exactly what it is. And, if
more
you have never thought of it as
such, then it is time you should. It
is to your personal interest to do so,
organization with a limited income
allots $ 44, 112. 00 for a mass wage
for every extra effort you take in
your part of running our town
comes back to you manifold.
It is ours, and now how will we
run it? Millions are looking to us
the annals of
Build well its
than
generous,
and
when
an
and
program
has been started, not only as a
permanent long -term policy, but
also to offset, as far as possible, the
setbacks that Colonial Williams-
burg must look forward to in view
of world conditions, particularly in
the event of gasoline rationing and
other steps that might be taken
but he will need the help and sug-
Ten Years Ago
gestions
this
From the Vtrg>ttia Gazette
of
all
of
the
members
of
organization.
As a part of this program, Tom
The Restora-
McCaskey is going to undertake the
tion is securing from destruction
the only relic of the First James
City County Court House in Williamsburg, of 1717.
odic events in Williamsburg —
events that will show Williamsburg
as a living community in which the
August 1,
August 7,
1931)
Mr. Kenneth
1931) "
Chorley arrived from New York
this week and is spending several
days in Williamsburg "
August
14,
New
1931) "
Bank
Building Now Being Built —Work
was started on Monday on the bank
building for the Peninsula Bank &
Co.,
corner
of
Duke
of
city. The building activities as far
as the
restoration
work
may cease entirely.
is concerned
The restored
development
visitors
of
as well
special
as
and
peri-
the townspeople
might
participate.
These
events
will not be sideshow features, but
an integral and dignified part of
the
whole
restoration
program,
having values that are educational
as well as entertaining.
The entire program is designed
not only to bring people to Williamsburg, but to have them see and
experience the lessons to be learned
here as participants
rather than
spectators.
We feel this campaign
is justified
not only
self -preservation,
as a matter
but
because
of
Co-
and the world
many of us, and we hope that we
It is not conceivable
may in many ways show due ap-
burg will ever be an industrial city.
preciation for this privilege.
Its main revenue must come from
businesses that can be created di-
Likewise
we appreciate
given
the entire
to
us.
it is far advanced
in order
have incomes.
to exist
The
have
to
What will they do?
rectly or indirectly
vantages.
will
that
Williams-
from
people
its ad-
who
will
It is indeed com-
come to the city to see it, will be
the
forting to know that we have lead-
beneficent philanthrophy that made
ers who consider so fully the human
known as tourists and as such, will
provide our main source of in-
possible.
aggressive
promotional
today that it needs badly— inspira-
that
Our Town"
definitely
work
and very liberal.
to
a
the more apparent.
You can be assured that it will come as a boon to
We know
and
as it
has something
high in the records of the future es
ourselves,
assignment
dead
15th.
lonial Williamsburg
foundations, so that it may stand
to
the
to give
program
tribute
a great
of
area will be complete.
Then what?
Our population of people who must
increase, that generosity becomes all
personnel
a
immedi-
the
which would discourage travel. Tug
Norton is going to head this work
Gloucester and Henry Streets "
August 28, 1931) "
Some day
Williamsburg will be a restored
planning
is why there are 900 of us busy
to hold it high in
man' s achievements.
of
are
trench,
Our
version
Trust
sible task for any one person. That
operating "
s
cerns not engaged in defense work
crowd into your daily life.
This would
M.'
Williamsburg —
attractive,
accommodations
prices.
C. &
security.
come famous if you ran it properly
infamous if you ran it selfishly
and improperly.
Your every thought, your entire
human energy would be consumed
reasonable
5.
11. The F. B. I. is caught in a maze.
matter of good business, keep your
open
s
looks like a joint; 6. V for Victory from Goodwin;
7. Lavery draws a two card heart flush; 8. Su.percollosal McCaskey' s extravaganza plus Shakespeare;
9. A Brief and True Report of the employees' meeting; 10. Green' s fantasy;
While doing this you would, as a
Restoration
payroll
affirmative
their
employment, proper working hours,
reasonable pay. You would try to
make provisions
into
to meet
You might be interested to know
that
You would
your
the
as
affected by this plan.
immedi-
ately be concerned with the welfare
900
was
program
so
all of the more than 900 employees
barrel, was given you today to own
over
to
ment head the individual status of
Imagine how you would feel if
this entire project, lock- stock -and-
of
To
want
meant reviewing with each depart-
belonged to you personally.
You would
of
This
Just suppose that the Restoration
effect
line
Just Suppose
and operate.
I
extend my congratulations for the
efficient and speedy way in which
they executed the most difficult
task of putting the Cost -of- Living
W. J. BLACKWELL,
Manager, ROBERT
BEASTEN,
MOODY, HARRY OLIVER.
KC has gone to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to cast
flies and left me here casting for
ADOLPH,
COCKE.
Reportorial
be a complete
strikeout - 1, 2, 3.
JONES, F. P. LECOMPTE, ELIZABETH
STUBBS,
JACK
PATTERSON,
S.
P.
qualities
of
men.
come....'
to the nation
tion, hope
fundamental
Visitor: "
and a recurrence
principles.
to
Is Mr. Kendrew In ?"
Receptionist: "
No,
I' m
sorry,
but he went out just a few minutes
ago."
Visitor: " Will
after lunch ?"
Receptionist: "
he
went
out
he
No,
after."
be
back
that' s
in
what
�September, 1941
THE
RESTORATION
we realized how many members of
the Restoration have, before or
since, been tagged with nicknames
which seem to us worthy of a wider
circulation than has been heretofore
Tug ", " Holly" and
are pretty generally rec-
ognized;
but
what about " Cutie"
Goodwin), "
Nelson),
Dinks" (
Jitter" (
Thompson)
and " Bugs"
Geddy) ? And then there are
Scrooge" (
Jones) , "
Green), "
Waffles" (
D i z z y"
Loghead" (
Steel)
and
Winn).
Departmental News
Musser - Dobie
It was during the course of out
recent efforts to locate that elusive
individual referred to in the Architectural Department as " Bo," that
Blackte"
Page Three
SOCIAL EVENTS
AroundtheWaterCooler
accorded. "
NEWS
General Office Speaks
On July 26, the wedding of Miss Minnie Richelieu Dobie ( Res.)
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Howie Dobie, and Mr. William
Musselman
Musser,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Musser
of
Lampeter, Pa., took place at Fort Grove Methodist Church, Stoney Creek,
Virginia.
honor,
and
Miss
Elizabeth
Musser
of Lampeter,
Pa.,
was
maid
of
honor. Following a wedding reception at the home of the bride' s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Musser took a trip to Nag' s Head before returning to
make their home in Williamsburg.
Miss Margie Hoskins ( H & A) and Ensign Elliot Bloxom were
married on July 5th at Columbia, South Carolina.
They are now making
their home in Lorain, Ohio, but hope to be transferred to Norfolk, Va ,
to enable our good host to get be-
hind the bar. We feel it our duty
to correct
this misapprehension
it be accepted
as true.
lest
We have
it
on no less an authority than the
Director of
Maintenance
the Construction and
Department (
who ran
the survey) that the keeper can get
through the manhole leading behind the bar, and with an inch and
a
half
to
spare.
Ye
host
scales
174 inches across the beam, the
manhole,
Fixing Up the Pub
trivialities
to public
and
belief,
mental
the
aberrations
with which we fill this space always
have a point. Consequently, we are
no little chagrined to have to admit
that one of our better stories, intended for the last issue, got the
blue pencil ( for lack of space, we
assume) . Maybe you will recall the
incident; it happened last Spring
and had something to do with
Samuel Eliot Morison and his visit
to the harem of El Hun -tar -Far -Ish.
The following
was received recently at Mr. Chor-
ley' s office in New York with ten
new one -cent stamps
COLONIAL
30
WILLIAMSBURG,
Rockefeller
New York City.
I
am
stamps
expenditure
which
was
cover
Ten
an
which
charged
I
to
Cents
in
unauthorized
made
and
Gloucester Street.
Mrs. Elsie Low ( Pers. Rel.)
is still out of the office due to ill-
Her friends
this
ANOYMOUS.
A reward of ten cents in stamps
will be given anyone able to figure
out how an " unauthorized expendi-
personnel
Office
of
Division
the
seems
General
to
change
almost as rapidly as the map of
Europe. Brock Steel has left us to
fill a vacancy left in the Blue Print
of the Architectural
the
Depart-
Humphrey
duties
of
has as-
projectionist
at the Williamsburg Theatre.
Mr.
Leslie
get
with:
Supervisor;
Miss
Emily
Architectural Tid - Bits
Mr.
Moore,
acquainted
Mr. Kendrew and his family are
touring the West Coast.
are hoping for
Jr., of
Moorehead
Architectural
entertained
Department
the
at
New York, has been with the Div.
of
Wmsbg Inn & Lodge for the
past two months, working at the
turned
front
the
opening of Chowning' s Tavern.
west.
desk of both
The Ludes
places. .
Mr. and Mrs. Bland
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Jones, Jr.
Treas.)
are receiving congratulations on the birth on August 15 of
a son, I. L. Jones, III.
Chowning' s Tavern opened August
15th
with
Ahearne (
first
Mr. and Mrs.
Joan
Fontaine)
distinguished
Brian
as
visitors.
of
Hostesses
and
Atten-
thentic for the eighteenth century,
as are the backgammon and checker
boards painted on two tables. The
pewter, glass, crockery and leather
furnishings are original; the pewter
reproduction.
the
prints,
sublime
Public Relations
the
Jack Patterson is now the proud
possessor of bachelor quarters in
the brand new Chowning' s Tavern
Kitchen.
In
a recent
interview
Mr.
Patterson stated that his new home
was an ideal set -up for his requirements in that the place was well
insulated against the Summer' s heat
and
the
Winter' s
cold
and
that
it
ridiculous,
representing
and
recently
was so conveniently located. His
one complaint was that he simply
can' t keep lady tourists from barging in at odd hours and that he
Particularly fine are the eighteenth
century
Knight
South-
passed out cigars, celebrating
the
birth of a daughter.
The
Architectural
Department
this colorful
Furnishing items: booths, readopted in this century, are au-
dants who have attended " The Lost
have re-
the
ber:
Mr. Alden
Hopkins,
Landscape Architect, from Washington,
D. C.
Yorktown. All the fish caught were
not out of York River. Make inquiries at Gloucester
Point for
further details.
Among the members of the De-
James
of
has recently acquired a new mem-
hard at work bringing in the fixings
approved
tour
its
above are Jim Cogar and Joe Bright
to decorate and furnish
and Franks
a
Seen
tavern.
partment
after
Mr.
Hoke
WI &L)
have moved into their
new home on Jamestown Road.
Colony," pageant at Manteo, Roan-
you
I thank you and hope that
does not inconvenience
you.
Consumption be done about it?
Wilson,
File Clerk;
Mrs. Carter
Cowles,
Receptionist;
Mr. Randolph Marston, Mail Clerk.
service,
enclosing
to
employees.
That is the conjestion.
Records
and Mary by the Rev. Francis
Craighill. They are now living in
the Mary Stith Shop on Duke of
ter Street.
GENTLEMEN:
our
Mrs. Robert W. Eubank, Central
of William
Red Lion Inn on Duke of Glouces-
Plaza
of
and
of the College
and his family have moved into the
INC.
some
ried on Saturday, June 28th in the
chapel
Mr. Charles Lavery ( C&M)
inclosed:
the
The General Office Division welcomes several new members. Have
you met them yet? If not, come in
ment chartered a boat for fishing at
anonymous letter
of
and Mr. W. Warfield
Winn,
son of the late Dr. and Mrs. John
F. Winn of Richmond, were mar-
Recently the Treasurer' s Depart-
Conscience Stamps
floor
seems to have
T. B. or not T. B.—
sumed
her early recovery.
Contrary
of
ment, Jimmy
L. Barnett of Charles City County
third
Here is a sample:
Room
Miss Lelia Barnett ( WI &
L),
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
ness.
19 inches.
the
Building
brought out the " poetry" in the
The
Bloxom - Elliot
Barnett -Winn
tural changes at Chowning' s Tavern
on
Goodwin
souls
Mrs. George H. Hartman, Jr., sister of the bride, was matron of
in the early Fall.
It has been rumored that it may
be necessary to make certain struc-
The recent trip to the X -ay
r
room
both
oke Island, North Carolina this
Summer are Mrs. A. W. Callis,
Mrs. Frances Schwarz, Mrs.
available now largely because of the
hoped, if they insisted on coming,
war situation in England.
The fur-
that they' d be young ones.
nishings
collected
B. E. Steel, and Mrs. Drewry
in various parts of this country, but
Jones.
The
character
of Queen
consist
of
pieces
Elizabeth is played by Miss Cath-
mainly southern. It is proper that
the prints should be English, how-
cure' or even ten cents could be
charged without " Scrooge"
Jones
erine Moran, a former student at
ever, at that period.
knowing about it.
and a friend of Mrs. Callis.
the College of William and Mary,
old
taverns,
and
Inventories of
contemporary
prints have been used as a guide.
Research and Records
Several
of the
recipients
of fel-
lowships from Colonial Williams-
burg, Incorporated,
Williamsburg
material
ment
or
in
to
have been in
recently to consult
the
confer
Research
with
the
DepartDirector.
�THE
Page Four
RESTORATION
September, 1941
NEWS
Overheard"
The Midnight
Patrol
Hot and weary were the visitors
By BILL EUBANK
the past few weeks as they toured
Williamsburg and the one question
By THOMAS KEARNEY AND ISHAM JOHNSON
It is twelve o' clock midnight and
that
eight A. M. I get my supper and
go down to relieve the four -totwelve shift. This is my first night
at the Palace and I' m pretty shakey.
I' d heard the place was haunted and
full of strange critters by night.
As I make my way through the
boxwood I hear a scream. I stop
suddenly and shake in my tracks.
I had never paid much attention
to
spooks" before, but there is a
sound in the direction of the Palace
job a more satisfactory one.
Various churches are carrying on
their Revivals.
making
They seem to be
spot removing, so as to make every
a real success.
way to combat
instead
of
unusual"
On last Sunday the First Baptist
We are proud to have in the ser-
Church
closed
the
service
of
the
vice of the Restoration many em- 165th anniversary. Rev. R. E. Lee
ployees who are taking vacations
preached for the morning service,
out of the city. For instance, Mil- and Dr. J. M. Ellison, president of
ton Cooke, one of Inn waiters, and
Virginia Union University, for the
family took their vacation in Kentucky visiting one of our used -to -be
do
was, "
uppermost
seemed
you always have it as hot as this ?"
One of the hostesses found a quick
I' m to go on duty at the Palace until
this barrage
the
usual "
answer,
pocket
the
and
this -is - MOST
she took from her
daily
weather
report
from one of the newspapers
show-
ing that the temperature was the
same,
if not hotter,
other
American
in most of the
cities.
One very sedate and perspiring
who
gentleman asked the pretty young
clerk for " two mature and two
And
adolescent
tickets please...."
I could swear I hear someone walk-
was called to camp. They found
said the fond father to his young
ing on the shell path. The foot-
Knox.
that sounds
like someone
moaning.
steps crunch loud enough
to be
employees;
Charles
Jackson,
evening.
him well and living over in Fort
offspring, " look Sonny, see the big
keyholes . . .
heard at the Capitol. The air smells
Also
musty, sort of like a cemetery.
I move on down towards the Ice
House,
and
again
something
Scott,
James
and
Wallace,
their
wives
Alfred
spent
The hostess had just entered the
their
Palace
vacation in New York. They made
screams in the bushes over there.
their home
My breath freezes in my throat to
keep my heart from jumping out.
fully glad to see six A. M. and
pleasant.
the Theresa
Mr.
Lewis,
the
Hotel
you
Room, where I call in from, my
flashlight batteries are all run down.
Lodge
if there is any.
The
fire in the room is a beautiful thing
to see.
It warms me physically and
mentally. I call in and talk as long
as
I can
with
the Lodge.
the
night
auditor
at
This gives me courage
to go on for another tortured thirty
flashing on and off over by the
On and off it goes,
first one way and then the other.
It' s got me plenty worried. On my
brow is a mass of perspiration, but
I' m not hot. I put on my light and
poke
around,
but
1 see
nothing.
Worse still I hear nothing. The
light
and
its
flasher
have
gone,
silently. I hope I can make it until
morning. It wouldn' t be honorable
to quit in the middle of the night.
Several months later and I' m go-
ing out again
on
the midnight
patrol at the Palace. Twelve- fifteen
the screams
that once started my arteries hardening. It doesn' t bother me now,
I' ve learned it comes from a lone-
some owl. It's a mating call I' m
told, and authentically Eighteenth
Century.
As I pass along by the Palace,
that eerie rattling sound turns . out
to be just a loose window. About
then
the wind
springs
up
and the
strange moaning starts again. I'd
hostess
in
the
formation. "
Could
you
possibly
found a rock fish in him.
the F. F. V. Society? We are
eligible and wondered if they had
Helen Whiting spent a very good
vacation visiting relations in Chica-
an office
go.
She is one of our head maids,
and we are glad to have her return.
The second cook of the Inn re-
ceived a ticket for violating the
parking law. Too bad.
George
oldest
Johnson,
waiters,
Deacon,
is
Sr.,
who
on
is
vacation
one
of
known
and
our
Parsons,
Restoration
portrait
ringmaster
Stables,
alongside
in
of
the
Zebedee
Nelson
Taylor,
Stokes
are
glad
on
their
John Hailey, Sr,
who has been
days, has re-
to work.
guests
Another
to
that "
the
Office
portraits
and Mary and that
guest
asked the hostess
to the
get
small
the
caught
glimpses
of an
unusual looking beast, something
nocturnal
Palace
grounds,
guardian
of
a bull mastiff
the
im-
ported from England and specially
is not strange to me now since I trained
Oh! you
castle. "
wearily
for police work.
children
the
to
missions
the
It
Governor' s
those were bowling balls on Queen
Mary' s chest."
two
on top of the Cupalo that needs like a cross between a Shetland
oiling, not until I went up perso- pony and the Hound of the Baskernally to investigate. It moans piti- villes, he really was there all right,
fully every time the wind changes so you can relax. It's Rex Colwil,
light occurs.
Another
wenches."
the
replied
the hostess.
The gentleman and his wife and
Palace Goes
To Dogs
If you' ve
that strange
in
mean the Pastle,"
Charles Gary, of our valet service, is taking a special course at the
Hampton Institute on cleaning and
Now I' m back by the North gate
the
on
her
how
He was happy to meet them again.
course.
sat
hostess
were William
hands.
never believe it was just the arrow
jury
told
turned
shook
Palmer,
as
spend-
fag and one of them in the General
vacations.
Petersburg. There he met many of
and
the
carriage
Matt
home sick for a few
friends
of
self -posed
here."
By the end of a very hot and
busy day many a hostess has brain
Court at the Capitol pointed to the
forms and said " that was where the
ing his time at his old homestead,
his
a
house.
and
Robert
where
hear
the
help us locate the headquarters of
for the garden.
I again
I haven' t seen
House had his X -ay and the doctor
r
and I' ve just called in. Just a short
check -me -in message and I' m off
boxwood
guests,
asked if they could get a little in-
its
Going through the
aristocrat?
the
inquired " are
Two very smartly dressed ladies
The head waiter of the Travis
I go out and stand boldly on the
North gate.
of
Wyche House the other day and
minutes.
back steps of the Palace to survey
the premises. Then a light starts
an
approached
cook, and one of our newly -comers,
accompanied them to his home.
I'm walking around in a daze, by
moonlight,
one
many of them."
Fleming again.
By the time I reach the Hostess
when
fixing her bifocals,
about the eighth floor. It was very
I' m not scared, but I will be aw-
at
that' s why the keys
are so big."
children
hostess. "
asked
ad-
Are
inquired
the
six ?"
Well,"
about
buildings. "
said the father,
one will be six in December
and
one in May."
The
Northern
taking great
down"
gentleman
delight
was
in " running
the South to his patient es-
cort and when they were crossing
the James River ferry after a day
at some of the lovely old plantations
in
Tidewater
Virginia,
the
Rex, whose ancestry goes almost
found out that it was caused by
autos going along " Railroad Ave- back to the Pleistocene, is connue."
And so I go my round, sidered a fine figure of a mastiff,
listening to the rabbits scurry and according to Yale Huffman is
guest
remarked "
why
even
the
beautiful
James
River
you hear
about is the dirtiest river I' ve ever
seen." "
Well, you know," said the
through the bushes and the frogs
gentle with everybody except prow-
escort
croaking in the pond.
lers. He was shipped from England last Spring on a convoyed
that
all
haunted
of
that
Palace
stuff
was
I' ve decided
about
pure
the
bunk. vessel,
and
spent
his
first
months
The chief worry now is why it takes in America being further trained
eight o' clock so long to get around for police work at Tarrytown, New
my way.
York.
with
a
smile
and
a
twinkle,
about eighty years ago a war was
fought here
and some of the
Northern soldiers bathed in that
river and it' s been like that ever
since."
E. M. A.
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<p>When using the <em>CW News</em>, it is important to remember that it reflects the realities of its time. For example, columns in the 1940s issues reported on the “News of the Colored People.” Separate reporting of African American and white social events was indicative of the segregation that was the legal norm in Virginia at the time.</p>
<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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The Restoration News
WRITTEN BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILLIAMSBURG RESTORATION »
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER, 1941
Volume I
Number 5
Chest Clinic Proves
Employees Healthy
Ten Articles of Faith in the American Way of Life
Facts and figures relating to the
chest X -ay clinic conducted for
r
Restoration
employees
three
Speaking
FROM A RADIO BROADCAST
JOHN
received, from which is derived the
ROCKEFELLER,
of
the
D.
JR.
tion
are
regards
in
condition
any tuberculosis
as
infection.
The new type X -ay machine
r
which
was used picked
up signs of
I believe in the supreme worth of the
individual
and in his
liberty.
and the pursuit
responsibility,
obligation,
two
showed
tuberculosis,
of
healed
signs
that
of
number
suspicious
nine showed evidences
tuberculosis,
five
had
right to life,
of happiness
I believe that every right implies
total
Of
every
every
opportunity,
possession,
a
an
a
duty.
I believe that the law was made for
man
and
not
government
and
not
man
is the
their
for
the
servant
law,
that
of the people
four
had
other
conditions.
Of the 261 white / wiles
examined
only eight showed positive findings
of any nature; of the,_ 183 white
females ten; of the 259 colored
males eleven;
and among the 50
colored females none.
The results of all X rays are kept
confidential by the Health Department, and Colonial Williamsburg
has received
the general
Those
have
a
whose
pathological
been
notified
I
believe
I believe
in
with
the
head
dignity
or
of
hand,
labor,
that
owes every man an opportunity to make
a living.
that thrift is essential
to well -
ordered living and that economy is a
prime requisite
of a sound
financial
structure, whether in government, business,
or
personal
wealth
that
or
supreme
and
justice
of
a
power
or
position — is
of
are
festivals
United
which
are
unique
music
in
the
States: How do you get a
organ-
concert
ized? Well, it' s about as
compli- cated a job as that of the little
worth
is the
and
grown since
into full- fledged
dross
the
of selfishness
greatness
of
the
con-
human
man who fits together the left - ver
o
pieces in a jig saw puzzle
factory.
First,
the
board
of
trustees
decides whether or not to hold the
soul set free
concerts. Then Mr.apkiK r trick is called
I believe in an all -wise and all- loving
God, named by whatever name, and that
in and told to go ahead with lining
up his artists and setting the
the
individual' s
highest
fulfillment,
greatest happiness and widest usefulness
it usually, musicians being slightly
are to be found
in living
in harmony
with His will.
I believe that love is the greatest thing
in
affairs
truth
sacredness
I believe that the rendering of a useful
service is the common duty of mankind
and that only in the purifying fire of
the
hate;
I believe
the
the
world owes no man a living but that it
I believe
in
social order
promise, that a man' s word should be as
good as his bond, that character —not
sumed
whether
to an enduring
over
world,
that
that
right
it
alone
can
can and will
overcome
triumph
dates.
Time
passes,
quite a bit
of
indefinite, while Mr.rick
Kirkpat
en- s to find the suitable
deavor
per- formers. In the meantime the
Public Relations Department is
preparing its lists of prospects to whom
might "
an- s will be
nouncement
sent Finally the artists are chosen
and
the
dates
set, and
first See
X rays
then
the
CONCERTS, Page
condition
through
their
Six)Board Room
physician.
Dr.
15. These concerts started in the
then
no reports other than
figures shown above
employees
showed
fundamental
sacrifice
master.
other " lung" conditions, nine showed a cardio -vascular pathology, and
Concerts
November 10 -
informal harpsichord recitals by Ralph
ill health in only ,twenty-nine of the
examined.
dur- ing the week of
Kirk- patrick, and have
of the Restora-
excellent
Restoration is holding
Spring of 1938 with a series of
very comforting fact that as a whole
the 782 employees
Scenes The
its sixth series of Palace
American way of life.
By
health Department have now been
behalf
United Service Organizations,
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
in a recent broadcast gave his
ten articles of faith in the
days
beginning August 6 by the State
on
living. Palace
Concerts — the
Behind
Fuller
credits
the
success
of
Gets New
the clinic to " the splendid adminis-
trative work done by the Restoration staff and
the fine cooperation
Portraits Portraits of Mr. Arthur
A.
Shurcliff and of the late
Rev- erend Dr. W. A. R.
shown by the employees themselves." The X - machine used is
ray
owned by the Virginia State Health
Department and was operated by
one of its members.
Goodwin have recently come into
the
Its use in this
company is an example of the
efforts of the Health Department to
cooperate
with
communities
Building. Mr.rhS u clif' s
paint- ed by
in
family. The portrait of Dr.
criti
from
other
lifetime. The
issue.
It is open to every employee of
If you
don' t want your name to appear it
will be kept in strict confidence and
and
from
made
during
arrival
of
portraits
of Mr.
Kenneth Chorley, by
Jossey
the Restoration. Any subject matter
provided each letter is
photographs
portraits
Dr. s
Go dwin'
column in this
a pen -name substituted.
James,
1926, and has
Goodwin was recently made by Ivan
G.Olinsky, of New York,
cism, comments concerning Colonial
Williamsburg your paper is starting
duly signed by the author
portrait,
Alexander
been presented by the Shurcliff
Idea Market
is acceptable
Colonial
Good- win
in lift-
was done
an `' Open Forum"
of
in the Board Room of the
ing the level of their health records.
For your ideas, suggestions,
possession
Wil-liamsburg, and will be hung
Reveling Pewter mugs and mellow
pipe . . . is the daily scene at jolly
such
are seen Julian Dickens, the congenial
Jack
Bilan, and of
Colonel
host" and his long clay
Arthur'. Woods, by Ivan Olinsky,
Chowni g' s
Tavern. In the above picture
host; Bland Hoke, of the
Lodge;
which now hang in the Board
Room, was previously noted in
ale, " ine
m
Pat erson, of Public Relations and the tenant of Chowni g' s
Kitchen; and
one unidentified brunette. This picture will soon be seen in postcard form to
carry into posterity the above as patrons of good
the RESTORATION
�THE
Page Two
THE
RESTORATION
November, 1941
NEWS
RESTORATION
Cost of Living
NEWS
Going Up
THOMAS G. McCAsKEY
Editor ...... ..
RUTHERFOOAD
Editors
Associate
Figures have lust been received from the United Bureau
GooDWIN,
B. W
NORTON,
L
H.
JONES, F. P. LELOMPTE, ELIZABETH
STUBBS,
JACK
PATTERSON,
S.
P.
of Labor Statistics showing the
MOOREHEAD.
latest cost -of- living index fig-
Feature WrllerJ, MRS. MILDRED ADOLPH,
DUNCAN Co.CKS
Reportorial
PHIL
Staff
ures for the Richmond area as
of September, 1941, this figure
NELSON,
now having reached 107. 4. Be-
MRS. H. M. STRYKER, DOROTHY JANE
HELSLANDER, MRS. ELSIE LOW, ANN
REVIS, TOM LITTLE, JANE BOOT, BILL
MADELINE
EUBANK,
low is shown Richmond index
figures
since
December
15,
WARWICK,
1940:
BETTY
HOLMES,
TOM
HALLIGAN,
RUTH
DAVIS,
a'IONIER
WILLIAMS,
ISHAM JOHNSON, THOMAS KEARNEY
Ctreulation
December
March
W. J BLACKWELL,
Staff ....
Manager, ROBERT BEASTEN,
MOODY, HARRY OLIVER.
June
RALPH
S. N. Jensen,
shall be offi-
cially known as " Colonial Williamsburg". All letterheads for all
involved
will
the
use
urged
or
to
only
the
adopt
the
of
C. &
M. giving one of the two
coach. It will be on display at the Wythe House when completed.
official
OPEN
words
Dear
will
for the
not be
the
term
The Restorauon".
1928
two
corporations
were
The Student Prince ", Lyric, Richmond, November 6, 7, 8.
Sir:
I notice that in the Summer the
front of the Raleigh Tavern is all
but obscured
numerous
organized to carry out the work of
restoring
significant
Williamsburg.
a non -stock,
ship
involved.
of
was organized
non -profit
corporation
educational
portions
Colonial Williams-
burg, Incorporated,
as
member-
to carry out the
purposes
of
the
Williamsburg
work
Holding
Corporation, was a business corporation
organized
to perform
essential business functions.
years
later
this
name
was
those
from the street
trees
and
by
overgrown
shrubs.
unless
re- directed.
At least
the
Tavern fails to be the center of
interest in this block when the trees
are
I' m in
favor of some generous
how-
as a whole
became
the
unofficial
name for our organization
here en-
pruning.
ALL - TWITTER.
A-
were
ernment.
Act
of
In
cational
from
the Federal
1941,
heretofore
exempt
the
tax
granted
and
organizations
Revenue
exemption
religious,
other
on
all
edu-
philanthropic
admission
was
re-
on each and every 100 of admission
burg. Frequent confusion was occasioned by virtue of the varied
charge.
names
but to all complimentary admissions
This
tax
will
and
an
liamsburg and persons entering our
institutional
name
should
be adopted for this very interesting
Kindler,
passes
than
Mosque,
conductor,
reached
approximately
104 7,
for
December
15,
1940.
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Va.
Gentlemen:
I recently spent two very interesting days in Williamsburg, a
shrine of early American History
that should be visited by every
American.
However,
to offer;
I have
this
so worthy
suggestion
a landmark
should be approached with awe and
love and not, as we unfortunately
witnessed, in the Coney Island man-
ton Institute, November 11.
ner
of State, " Growth
given
employees
to
of
Economics."
Phi
of
An ExperiInternational
Beta
Kappa
persons
Colonial
Here
should
The Marriage
of Figaro ", Nine
O' clock Opera Co., Hampton Institute,
Virginia,
December
1
Life with Father" with Dorothy
Gish, Louis Calhern, Lyric, Richmond, December 4, 5 and 6.
women
and
there
Friends of Ed Rountree, former
member of the Treasurer' s Depart-
an
be placed,
slacks,
adults
ancient
vehicle
and outside
this
roped -off area should be a parking
space
from
which
a
stagecoach
should convey visitors to the Gov-
ernor' s House for a nominal fee.
I believe that this would help
much in putting the visitor into the
proper mental
C. E. Roundtree
in
throwing paper about, munching
food, etc.
The restored historical section
should be roped off, no automobiles
should be allowed on these streets.
Williamsburg.
other
Wil-
with
Hall, 8 p. m., November 12,
hereafter
apply not only to tickets purchased,
this work and after great study and
consideration it was determined that
official
National Symphony Orchestra, Hans
ment in Cooperative
ing significant portions of Williamsin
Concert Series, Ralph Kirkpatrick,
Harpsichord, Governor' s Palace,
Pan- Americanism —
pealed and a tax was imposed of 1'
engaged
Williams-
burg.
Secretary
gaged in restoring and reconstruct-
of corporations
8,
Lecture by A. A. Berle, Assistant
changed
Locally, the designation " The Res storation"
the
Richmond, November 10, Hamp-
out.
A few
existed,
November
to pass by it and to possibly miss it
admission tax by the Federal Gov-
name
m,
12, and November 13 through 15.
Noyember 9th, " Local Preview."
purposes
for the project
a.
8: 45 p m , November to through
porated.
No official
Homecoming Day Parade, 10: 30
This seems to cause many tourists
to Williamsburg Restoration, Incorever,
that
Editor
RESTORATION NEWS
In
assumed
letters from Our Guests
PPE.
of
The full corporate name
corporation
involved
will
nor
management
FORUM
are
name
Colonial Williamsburg" when ref-
hereafter
107 4
cost of living Index would have
ure
deiNgbelAtodeeftegAto
erence is made to the work here.
used
15, 1941
five points above the base fig-
and all
organization
the
103 0
1941. ...
organizations
Colonial Williamsburg"
members
Division
Painters'
the
of
old coaches recently acquired a renovating touch. Lafayette once rode in this
after the institution locally known
of
99. 7
100 0
Our first 5%
cost -of- living
supplement was put into effect
on August 1, at which time the
It has been determined that here-
corporations
15,
September
Some Changes Made
as " The Restoration"
15, 1940.
15, 1941....
respect
this
attitude
great
work
not only to
of
restora-
tion, but also to portray vividly to
him the Nation' s Colonial Capitol.
Signed:
W. C. R, New York.
buildings on official business.
The
purpose of this tax is to have all
ment who joined the army last year,
are sorry to learn of his death in an
citizens help bear the burden in-
automobile
accident
near Shreveport, Louisiana
on August 29th.
He was stationed at Barksdale Field,
received
course, a laudable one and one
which we know all of our visitors
which is in the vicinity of Shreve-
Geddy, ( 2) Mr. Jones, ( 3) Miss
port, and was due to complete his
Yost
btuldings which are used purely for
and pass -holders will appreciate and
training period there just a few
and
museum,
respect.
days after his death.
Mail
project
and
the
organizations
en-
gaged in the accomplishment of its
purposes.
volved in financing
Defense
Prior to October 1,
of
admission
to
educational
1941, tickets
our
exhibition
and historical
Such
a
our National
purpose
is,
of
Fable • One day a package was
in
the
Mail
Room.
Not
knowing for whom it was intended
the clerks
circulated
The
guess
last
who
Room!
it to (
named
it
was
1)
opened
for ...
Mr.
it
the
�THE
November, 1941
RESTORATION
Departmental News
Chorley- Travers
CRAFTY ITEMS
ARCHITECTURAL
The monthly meeting
of the
Architectural
Department was held
September 16. Mr. Kendrew gave
a short, talk which was followed by
and
discussions
Page Three
SflCIAY, EVENTS
Departmental News
slides
NEWS
of
On Friday, August 29th, Miss Jean Travers and Mr. Kenneth
Chorley were married by Judge Moffat, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Utah,
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
P. Fabian
in Salt Lake City.
stitute
attended
of Decorators
on October
the Kit -
13.
in New York
Incidentally,
the
Kittinger Company has one of the
Virginia
finest furniture displays now being
plantations.
shown in New York
Htiiiky Henderson resigned from
The Craft Program has been busy
the Architectural
Department
in
September to enter the Architectural
School at Yale
Ralph Bowers has moved into
his new home on Monumental
adding
new
items
reproductions.
to
its
Among
recent additions
line
the
of
most
are two fabric
de-
signs, " The Stripe ", a lovely cotton
material, and " The Williamsburg
Avenue.
Grapes ", an attractive percale Other
Mr. and Mrs. Beeton have moved
into the Scrivener House
new arrivals at Craft House include
a nice hunting board and several
Ray Thibedeau has resigned from
the
Mr. Upshur
tinger Party for the American In-
Architectural
Department
new
and
chairs
and
tables
is now connected with the govern -
RESEARCHER
ment' on a defense job
A recent addition to the
tectural Department is Mr
Hopkins,
who
will
duties of resident
tect
take
ArchiAlden
over
Landscape
Dr. Louis Morton, whose book,
Robert Crate, of Nomrnr Hall. A
the
Virginia Tobacco Planter of the
Eighteenth Century, was recently
Archi-
for the Restoration
Mr, Hopkins'
published as the second volume of
training
and ex-
perience are most interesting
received
Island
his B. S. degree
State
College,
M
L
He
won
A. degree
the
the Williamsburg
He
at Rhode
and
his
from
for
as
the
in 1934
and received
from that academy
members
of
the
his de-
in 1936
Curator' s
a tour of the South.
Latest additions to the Curator' s
Department Menagerie are Billy
and Becky Gooch, very handsome
at
Palace (
the
yes,
puppies
we' ve
all
ad-
Billy and
Becky, as you probably know, are
mired
the
alliteration)
namesakes of Governor and Mrs.
Gooch, not to be confused with an
equally famous and popular Billy
Gooch of a later day
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
The bride, who was given in marriage by Mr. Fabian, had Mrs.
Fabian as matron of honor Mr. Chorley' s older son, Kenneth, was
his father' s best man, and his younger son, Edward, " assistant best
The wedding was held at sunset in the beautiful garden of the
Fabian home, and the Rocky Mountains rising in the foreground made
a lovely setting After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Fabian entertained
the bridal party at dinner on the roof of the Hotel Utah
man "
The Chorleys left the next morning for a four hundred -mile motor
trip through southern Utah and the State of Wyoming, returning to the
JY ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, where Mr. Chorley and his sons had
been vacationing
Many of the employees will remember Mrs. Chorley who has visited
Williamsburg often and will remember particularly her very beautiful
mezzo -soprano voice
For the past seven years Mrs. Chorley has sung
Center, Long Island, has joined the
staff of the Department of Public
in the promotion-
al activities of the department.
Mr Gladding was formerly connected with the Borden Company
Eubank -Mason
in New York and did advertising
The marriage
of Miss Eulah
Gen' l
Off ),
Clyde
Mason (
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
R. Mason of Punta Gorda, British
Honduras, to Sgt. Robert Wilson
son of Mr.
Eubank ( Pub Saf.),
and public relations work including
in
the
original
plans
for the Borden Exhibit at the New
York
Mr
World' s Fair.
Gladding
the cow!
there,
tells us, he often
served as subordinate
Elsie,
While
Doctor
of
clerks was given expression through
Chorley
professionally in this country and abroad and among her engagements
participation
as
the housewifely instincts of the file
Mrs. Kenneth
have been leading roles with the St Louis Municipal Opera Company
and several Broadway productions
She has been the guest artist on
Rudy Vallee' s program and on the Chase and Sanborn program
to assist
degree
face lifted recently. In other words,
Walter Gladding, of Rockville
Relations
his
GENERAL OFFICE
cago, and Miss Lucile Foster made
pointer
staff
The Central Records has had its
their Old Kentucky homes, Mrs.
Geiger visited her family in Chi-
white
the
liamsburg he taught h story at the
and Mr. Bright went back to visit
and
on
College of the City of New York
Department have recently returned
from their vacations: Mr Cogar
brown
associate
Philosophy at Duke University in
1937 Prior to coming to Wil-
CURATOR' S CORNER
Four
research
ceived
ture at the American Academy in
Rome
a
of New York University and re-
Fellowship in Landscape Architecgree
His-
of the Department of Research and
Record
Dr Morton is a graduate
Harvard.
competition
Restoration
torical Studies, has been appointed
herdsman
for
and
Mrs.
Richard
B.
August
Eubank
of Essex County, took place on
22nd,
1941
in
Williams-
burg. After their wedding trip they
returned to Williamsburg to make
their home in the Red Lion Kitchen.
a general changing around of furniture and filing cabinets Someone
deserves
congratulations,
for
we
must admit it does look much bet-
ter, and the lighting conditions are
improved
Castle feels that we can expect more
and better work from the file clerks
in
the
improved
Miss Netta
On October 11th, Miss DoroL.),
thy Jane Davis ( W I. &
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. T.
See SOCIAL EVENTS, Page Five)
surroundings'
Marshall
has just re-
turned from a three -week vacation
with relatives in Harrisburg and
Allentown,
Baltimore,
Pennsylvania,
Maryland
She
and
in
really
brought home the bacon" for the
greatest bit of excitement she ex-
perienced was winning a bingo
prize consisting of a ham, chicken,
duck and a quantity of groceries.
The bulletin boards in the Good-
win Building have been set up in
the halls on `either side of the Re-
ception Room.
notices,
Helslander -Davis
This may prove to be a
boomerang, though, for even Miss
previews
Any lost- and -found
reviews
of
of
things
things
to
past
come,
or
an-
nouncements, etc , that would be of
interest to the employees can be
sent to Miss Castle' s office for
posting
�Page Four
THE
RESTORATION
NEWS
November, 1941
Thank you V. G.
for pinch - hitting for me in the
September issue. You did not
strike out. On the other hand you
hit a "home
run ",and if I don' t start hitting I may find myself on
the bench! This year, largely because I wanted to be present at our
meeting on August 3rd and get the Cost of Living Sup lementary Wage
in effect, I did not get away on my vacation until late
in August. As I have done from time to time in the past,I
combined business with pleasure. For some years now I have handled the
Jackson
Hole project ( some time I hope the editor will allow me to tell
you more
about it)for Mr. Rockefel er, Jr.,and as I had not visited the
project for two years I decided to take my vacation there to look it over and
at
the same
time
get some
rest
and relaxation. My two sons, Ken and Eddie, were waiting for me at
Green River, Wyoming, when I got off
the Streamliner. We drove some 250
miles to the JY ranch.This property is about 20 miles from
Jackson, Wyoming —le vation about 5, 000 feet —and is located on a beautiful
mountain lake —Phelps Lake —with the Grand Teton Mountain rising up in
the back- ground to approximately 15,
000 feet. When we arrived at the ranch we found Mr. and Mrs.
Kendrew, Nancy and Lois waiting for us. They had arrived the day before en
route to California and kindly stayed over so we could
see them. The next morning we went for a horseback ride and
the Kendrews enjoyed some real mountain
the Kendrew
trail riding — I
girls did, I' not so sure
rn
say "enjoyed" —
about Father! shat afternoon Ed Kendrew and I went fishing on Phelps
Lake, which if you read the rest of this column you wil find is great fishing,
but in spite of fancy fishing rods, flies, tackle, etc. which he had
with him, our architect did not catch
any fish. 1 made up my mind that
as a horseman and fisherman, Ed Kendrew is a
wonderful architect! That evening we introduced the Kendrews to the " night
life" of Jackson — I will let him tell you with what results. All I know
is the next morning they all left for Salt
Lake City. We were more
than sorry to see
them go. I have found from past experience that when one goes into
a country with
an el vation of 5,000 feet
or over, it takes a few days
to get acclimated, but after going through that period of adjustment, we
felt and
up to anything. We spent our time riding, fishing, picnicing,
reading
in the
evening
playing " 21 " — two suns consistently
my
beating me We saw a great deal
of game In fact the first three days we
saw a black bear and two cubs, two cow moose and
a number
two calves, and
of deer. Later we ran into a small herd
of elk. Speaking of game —at one end of the ranch there is a log
building ( all the buildings are made of logs) which has a small dining room
at one end and the kitchen and storeroom for food m
the other. Some
ten feet away is the cabin which I lived in and about twenty feet
beyond my cabin was the cabin in which Ken and
Eddie stayed. One morning when we went over for breakfast we found that
the cook had left open one of the windows going into
the storeroom,
and that during the night a bear had ripped off the screen, entered
the storeroom, consumed most of the food, and in doing so had practically
wrecked the place. There was some ice cream in an old- fashioned ice
cream freezer which the cook had made the day before. The bear had
removed the container from the freezer and we found it a quarter of a
mile down in
the woods. Realizing that the bear had had a feast and would probably
come
back,
we
decided
that
afternoon
fox
to "
the bear." Bob Crisp, the
visited the In this series of pictures lies the tale of the Bear in
the Kitchen.
cowboy on the ranch, who incidental y won the world' s championship
saddle bronco contest at Madison Square Garden in 1929, Ken and I got a
Top photo shows the result of Mrs. Bear' s first nocturnal visit to the Chorley
Camp at the JY Ranch at Jackson, Wyoming. Here the screen is ripped away
number of boards about an inch thick and in varying widths and nailed them
given the bruin access to
the pantry. Picture
two shows " One Shot McGee' at
the end of the trail, and the lower closeup shows what happens to bears
up on the outside of the
window screen. We then locked and
barricaded the doors going into
the storeroom. We retired about 8:30, and some time later while I was
who poke
their noses
reading in bed, I heard the noise of splintering wood, and at the same
into kitchens. kitchen only
time Ken came running over from his
to get in
woods. We returned
cabin yelling, "Dad, the bear is trying
to have " Mrs. Bear" again run off into
the
the kitchen!" I got up, put on boots, blue jeans and a
flannel shirt over my pajamas and Ken and I went over to the kitchen. Of
to bed The third time when Ken came over I told him that no bear
would get me up again and that he could go back to bed. Whereupon I
course the bear " smelt" us coming, and we heard her jump off the porch turned out my light and went
and run off into the woods. There was nothing we could do—
no
to sleep. _Some time later I was awaken d by a noise that sounded
damage had been done, so we went back
to bed. About an hour later the same thing hap ened again, so-on
went the boots, blue jeans and flannel shirt, "and-' Keh and I again
as though Charlie Lavery was tearing out the inside of the Goodwin
Building, and by Ken calling to me that the bear was wrecking the kitchen
and we
just
had to
do
something
�Page Five
THE RESTORATION NEWS
November, 1941
So, boots, blue jeans and flannel shirt again. While I was dressing
Mrs. Campbell, the cook, called from her cabin near the kitchen and said,
Mr. Chorley, the bear is m the kitchen!"
The only gun I ad with me
h
in the cabin was a Colt 45 which I asked Ken to load while I dressed.
Five or six shells, Dad ?" I said,
As he
loading the gun, he
Six." (
which was bad advice as one should always keep the chamber
immediately in front of the hammer empty.)
said, "
was
So armed with the 45 and two flashlights, Ken and I approached the
kitcheh and there was no doubt where the bear was. You could hear pots
and pans, canned goods, flour barrels, tables, chairs all being turned over.
We sneaked up to the end of the building and stood on a line parallel
with the wmdow through which the bear had entered, and trained our
flashlights on the opening. I hoped that the light would attract the bear' s
attention and sure enough with her front paws on the bottom sill out came
her head and as it did, I pulled
the trigger
and fired.
The bear slowly and without a sound went back into the kitchen. Ken
and I ran for our lives because neither of us wanted any quarter with a
wounded bear. We ran up into the woods where at all times we could
see or hear if she came out of the window.
In a few minutes we got up
our nerve to sneak back to the kitchen from which there was not a sound
coming.
I remarked to Ken, " I don' t know whether that bear is dead, wounded
or just playing ' possum. Go down and get Bob Crisp and his shot gun."
It seemed to me years before they returned. All the time I was holding
the flashlight
on
the window,
must
confess
that
I more
than
once
wondered if I' d ever see Williamsburg again.
Before we investigated further, Ken held his flashlight up over his
head
and
said, "
Dad, I
can
see
the
bear in
Just inside and below
there."
the window, one could see a " hump" of black hair.
We decided to go inside and found lying on the kitchen table immedi-
ately below the window, blood streaming down the wall, the bear — dead.
The bullet had entered the head just behind the left eye and the bear
was killed instantly. Eddie, having heard the story, took one look at
the bear and turned to me and said,
Behold '
One
Shot McGee'."
I called the Game Warden and reported what had happened as it was
out of season and besides I had no license We packed the bear out on
the ground —she weighed about 400 pounds, and it was then 12: 15 A. M.
The next morning at six o'clock we were all awakened by the howling
of animals and we found the two cubs trying to nurse on their dead
mother. Failing to get any milk one of the cubs went into the kitchen
That night, Bob Crisp shot both cubs.
After breakfast we examined the damage the bear had done.
She had
ripped off the boards we had put over the window, and in some cases she
had pulled the boards over the heads of the nails. The wire screen was
lying on the porch floor and the window frame and glass ripped out as
though they were made of paper I had always been under the impression
that bears did this kind of work with their paws, but I discovered
that
they do it with their teeth. It is difficult to comprehend the power these
animals
From
have in their
then
on
I
teeth
was
and jaws.
known
on
the
ranch
as "
One
Shot
McGee."
In
With
the episode
of the bear over,
fancy fishing on Phelps Lake.
the Chorleys
set out for some
In the top photo Mrs. Chorley
plain
proudly
and
displays
a string of trout. Mr. Chorley joins her in the lower picture to claim a share
of the day' s catch.
the country. When Mrs. Chorley asked him this question he replied,
Mrs Chorley, there are a million things I don' t know about a horse, and
that' s one of them."
Finally it came time for us to leave which we did with great regret.
However,
when we got back, as always it was wonderful
to be back on
the job. By the time you read this Mrs. Chorley and I hope to be with
order to preserve my reputation I have shot my first and last bear.
you, as we' re planning to come down to Williamsburg early in November
and spend the month there.
For the latter part of our vacation, Mrs Chorley was with us
ranch, and the boys got great fun out of re- initiating her into ranch
trail riding, fishing, etc.
The Snake River, which irrigates a large part of Wyoming and
runs through the lower part of the JY ranch It is probably one
at the
life —
Idaho,
of the
SOCIAL EVENTS — (
Continued from Page Three)
Davis of Williamsburg, was mar-
a number of parties
ried in the College Chapel to Mr.
Albert Helslander, son of Mrs.
ner left her position here last Fall
as manager of the Lodge to accept
Kewanee, Ills-
a position with the Henry Hudson
finest trout streams in America. Practically every evening about five
o' clock we used to go down to the river, put on our hip boots and fish.
Frank Wiggins
We almost never failed to come home without a few native trout.
Kewanee,
Mr. and Mrs. Helslander will make their home in
However, the best day' s fishing we had — and I hope Mr. Kendrew
reads this paragraph — was the last day we were at the ranch. Mrs.
Chorley and I fished the entire afternoon on Phelps Lake, and we came
back with eight beautiful
mackinaw
trout
I was very careful to take
pictures of the catch which I shall bring to Williamsburg to show
Mr. Kendrew.
Before we left we realized that Winter, at least in that section of the
I rode up Open canyon
We rode one afternoon for three hours in
Another afternoon, Mrs. Chorley, Bob Crisp and
As we approached the top of the canyon on a
small, narrow trail, we ran into heavy snow, and while the horses are
extremely sure -footed, it finally became so dangerous that we had to turn
around. Mrs Chorley was very much interested to know why, on a
narrow trail, a foot to eighteen inches wide, with a drop over the side
straight
After
of
a wedding
trip
to
Williamsburg.
Miss
Frances
Wagener
of
Williamsburg has joined the staff
of the
Personnel
Relations
Depart-
ment.
country, was not very far off
a blinding snow storm.
nois
down from 100 to 1, 000 feet, a horse always walks on the outside
of the trail We asked Bob Crisp why this was Bob was born and
brought up with horses, and is one of the most experienced cowboys in
Miss
Juliet
Dew
of
Fred-
ericksburg has recently joined the
Treasurer'
s Department.
Mrs. Dorothy O' Neil has re-
cently returned to work in the Reservations
Department
of Williams-
Hotel in New York City.
Mrs. Elsie Low ( Pers
tions)
Mrs. Sarah Sumner spent part
has returned
Pinckney
H. &
A) is spending a week in
Richmond visiting her family.
Mrs. Ruby Steel ( H & A)
visiting her daughter in Panama
Mrs.
Gertrude
is
Harrison
a recent
formerly H. & A.) was
visitor in Williamsburg.
Mrs.
took
Fannie
Lou
Stryker
A.) and her family recently
a trip through the Great
of her vacation in Williamsburg re-
Smokies,
cently when she was entertained
North
at
Rela-
to work after a
long illness
Mrs. Charlotte
H. &
burg Inn.
Mrs. Sum -
and visited in Asheville,
Carolina.
�Page Six
THE RESTORATION
NEWS
November, 1941
Archaeological
COLORED
Display Ready
PEOPLE
The employees of the Taverns
and Ordinaries had their annual
Fall dance at the Bruton Heights
preparing several display panels of
School. They had an enjoyable
time, many friends were there. The
plays, either alone or in conjunction
refreshments
were
served
at
The Department
employees
are
still
the
with
maids
at
the
Raleigh
vaca-
Philadelphia
and
past
time
and
pleted.
Baltimore.
attended
success
so
we
can
always
shown here.
The best movies on the market
are being brought to Bruton Heights
and the tickets
cents
are
of
barrier are S. D. Towler,
and Maintenance.
J. S.
Concerts
Continued
newspaper
Fellowships , Granted
from Page One)
stories
are
sent
out
Announcements are printed, 8, 500
of them this year, and for a week
or so Public Relations stands on its
head trying to get thousands of
envelopes
typed,
insert
the
an-
Williamsburg,
Incorof
Research and Record has granted
seven fellowships for the year 1941-
42 to encourage
the writing
of
paper
jection machinery, sound effect, and
artists
the screen are all of the latest type
the
and
place posters and easels advertising
torical
the
by Dr. Hunter D Farish, head of
a
most
is
enjoyable
the
same
presen-
kind
of
equipment used m all the large city
stories
running
about
and the program,
most
the
and ponder
advantageous
spots
to
series
After all the announcements
are
sent out, everybody has a breathing
theatres. -
Another
one of our employees,
Thomas Crump, was called to
camp Our head waiter Mr. Brown,
has
also been
the
season.
on his vacation
for
glaze,
archaeological
material —
iron.
It is possible that future ex-
material.
spell for about nine minutes. Old style tickets have been printed in
the meanwhile, and it is the job of
be permanently mounted in heavy
felt covered boards in such a manner
as
to withstand
shipping
and
rough handling. Each exhibit will
be completely self -contained, and
will require no
explanatory
notes
other than the labels permanently
affixed to it
studies of special merit in the field
The pro-
It
in them, keep news-
Colonial
porated, through the department
two cents
give
salt
The objects in these displays will
for children, and twenty cents plus
tation.
our
of
nouncement
tax for adults.
ware,
hibits will contain a larger variety
weaving one section of this picturesque
and Calvin Jones, all of Construction
Tax
plus one cent Defense
cream
experts
Graves,
Ten
reasonable.
of
namely, glass, ceramics, brass, and
and Saturday.
that
glass
Illustrating how to make one of the most interesting fences now in Williamsburg. It is the wattle fence and can be seen at the Allen -Byrd House. The
tion from each of our citizens, iv
the city and out, to make this movie
a
com-
wine
plify four of the important divisions
We are hoping to get the coopera-
have good pictures
been
of
a wine cask cock, a lock from a
flintlock gun, and other iron objects. These are intended to exem-
trip.
Friday,
has
consists
hold wares, wig curlers, clay pipes,
York. While .there they visited the
Rockefeller Center. They also had
Thursday,
Restora-
Chinese and other table and house-
their revivals. Mr. Author and his
wife spent their vacation in New
and Saturday nights. Starting November 13 they will have movies on
It
ments
various
Movies are now being shown at
Bruton Heights School on Friday
the
stems, fragments of bottles, frag-
churches for they were carrying on
an enjoyable
of
to borrow them. .
The first panel
Cecil Lindsey also had a vacation in
the
exhibits
by any department which may wish
Tavern,
visited many friends and relations
m
other
tion, and will be available for use
tioning. Miss Edith Cook, one of
our
is
arcrixological objects. These panels
are intended for use as window dis-
home of Earnest Wallace.
Some
of Education
of Virginia history.
These fellowships are granted in
connection
with
the
publication
of
the Williamsburg Restoration HisStudies,
which
are
directed
the Research Department. They are
made
upon
recipients
pleted
the
condition
shall
product
submit
of
their
that
the
the
Color Folder For
Inn and Lodge
Being Prepared
com-
researches
for publication in the series
The
is
Something new for Williamsburg
being hatched by W. I. & L., in
the accounting department to number each of them, and keep track of
scope of the series has been defined
all reservations and checks Personal
letters are written to each person
the eighteenth century and the origin, development, and expansion of
Garrison, the Restoration' s photog-
interested in was tobacco and how
making a reservation,
of special groups like
the civilization
here taking the pictures, and a final
it is cured.
Then they motored to
and the officer personnel of nearby
Recipients of the seven fellow-
New York and N. H., where they
army and navy posts are contacted.
News pictures and stories continue
ships are listed below, with the sev-
to go out regularly, and finally the
day arrives when the artists appear.
engaged:
He
was
accompanied
by Mary and George King
They
motored to North Carolina
There
he saw many sights
One he was
met friends for N. H is George' s
home.
Zebedee Taylor has returned back
and all sorts
travel agents
days with a sore foot.
William Smith had his vacation
Other departments now enter the
picture
The Governor' s Office is
always used for a practice room,
lately.
which means that the heavy harpsi-
to his job after being home a few
to
He and his family motored
New York
to visit a brother.
He reported a wonderful trip
Madison Ashby is at home sick
We wish him a speedy recovery.
We
Wallace
through
are
glad
out
to
main
an operation
our faithful
see
Harold
after
gong
He is one of
employees.
Calvin Taylor, while being on
vacation,
visited
in Newport
his
siste= r and
aunt
News
Mr. and Mrs. Julius White and
family motored to Washington
cently.
re-
chord
and
other
instruments
must
be moved over to the ballroom and
back every day, an operation taking
the ingenuity of C. and M The
hostess
tumed
department
attendants
to
provides
serve
as
costicket
as the history of Williamsburg in
of which this city
the form of a Kodachrome folder
for the Inn and Lodge
Richard
rapher,
form
was the center.
has
spent
of layout
several
has
been
The
folder
is planned
Tidewater
the buildings
Willard F. Bliss, Prince-
Civilization
into
the
Shenandoah
Valley" ,
Wirt Armi-
stead
Nashville,
Tennessee,
Cate,
The Founding and Early Cultural
Development
of
Joseph E. Charles,
Richmond" ,
Harvard Univer-
sity, " The Party Origins of JefferFrank
H.
Democracy" ;
Colly, Duke University, " The Desonian
velopment
of the
Colonial
Legal
Virginia" ;
Profession
Calvin
B
taken
of
all
Color
the
pictures
activities
photographers
and
reporters
who
must be given special attention.
But in the words of Abner Yokum,
it is a lot more amoozin' than con foozin'."
Adolph
F
Colonial
Virginia" ;
Meisen, University
of
can
Walter Gladding, C. V. Lavery' s
youngest daughter, Betsy, and a
saw a group of youngsters
of
were
As models for the pictures Mr.
Garrison used Mrs
Smith Reid,
Merchants
in
that
be engaged in by visitors— tennis
at the Inn, swimming, riding,
bicycling, walking; golf at Yorktown, fishing and so on.
there
critics,
offset
ton University, " The Extension of
studies upon which they are
College.
music
to
the wrong idea held by many
people that there is nothing to do
in Williamsburg except go through
eral
Coulter, Princeton University, " The
always
decided
upon
takers, folding chairs are set up
and taken down) every night; and
are
weeks
group of boys and girls from the
Anybody who last month
ly - frozen in
apparent-
one spot while a
North Carolina, " The Early Life of
photographer
Thomas
from some curious position in the
Jefferson";
David
M.
Potter, Rice Institute, " Governmental Offices of Colonial Virginia."
was
snapping
them
top of a tree or out of a culvert
knows what was going on.
now
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<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
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NEWS
THE
COLON
I
Volume I
W
L
A
WILLIAMSBURG,
I
L
L
I
OF
A
VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY,
M
S
Employee Camera
Contest Starts
Kodak Klickers, and Camera Cuties
to Have Fling at Prizes, Awards
employees. Beginning January
15, employees may purchase
reproductions
House
from
at cost plus
Designed to give our employee
10 %.
photographers
This really means a discount of
their
from the
approximately
present retail prices of furniture, and it is hoped and be40%
lieved
that
many
main
of
to
exhibit
their
a camera
Craft
ex-
contest
is
open
liamsburg or the Williamsburg Restoration,
Inc.
The Employee
will
snap
only to employees of Colonial Wil-
employees
20%
on all other
chance
with profit, this paper
sponsoring
they have admired.
discount
a
and
shutters
posures
will now be able to secure their
favorite
reproductions
which
A
G
Number 6
Here is good news from the
Craft House for all Restoration
Craft
R
1942
Good News
fumiture
U
B
tion
re-
begins
March 15th.
House
Camera
today,
Competi-
and ends
on
All entries must be in
by five o' clock three pay -days from
articles.
now, and no later! Send your prize
pictures to the Editor at the Good-
win
Enemy Scores
HE MOUNTED TO THE CABIN WITH HIS ORDERS IN HIS
Casey" Boyer appears definitely perturbed by the lack of customers as the tractor trains prepare to leave the Lodge on their inaugural trip.
These fears, however, proved groundless. The trains carried more than 2, 500
HANDS." "
Nit on Palace
Building.
Will the above headline ever apas
actual
news?
Any
Williamsburg, always a center of
activities,
and often
hostilities,
personally
experiment
cerns
over 40%
of the visitors
to the exhibition
buildings
utilized
the
trains. The operation of the trains has been discontinued during cold weather
but will be resumed in the sprang.
in World War II. ' Whether it will
be required to defend itself against
Two wardens
have been appoint-
building
of the Restoration.
The
majority of these wardens are members of the Architectural
and Cura-
tor' s Departments,
as being more
familiar than others with the buildings
in
question:
Messrs.
Cogar,
Reed, Ferguson, Henderson, Bright,
Holmes, Bowers, Wilkins, Ken drew,
Hopkins,
Morehead,
Frank,
Moves Ahead
Trains Twenty
the
1941
Session of
the Wil-
Among the projects recently com-
liamsburg Police Training School
pleted
was
Maintenance
inaugurated
on
November
11,
1941, and has followed a curriculum similar to that of 1940. This
year, however, additional classes
have been provided to train regular
Vaiden
and auxiliary personnel in war -ime
t
by
This
police duties.
schedule
was
concerned
with
topics
Construction
Department
and
and
are
Scrivener
the
Groups,
which are already occupied,
Waters -Coleman
and the
House, which
is
department
the
new
has
south
also
wing
to the
is now being placed in this building
corner
to be saved, and are to direct pre-
ing, and National Defense, including espionage and sabotage investi-
cautionary measures of closing win-
gations. Lectures, movies and dem-
work was started on the restoration
dow- shutters, setting up sand -bags,
onstrations conveyed to members of
etc. They are also to direct visitors
the school, in an interesting and
of the Ryland House, located at
Botetourt and Francis Streets.
It is
expected that these houses will be
are
to the cellars if a raid should occur
during daytime hours; and are instructed to report to the buildings
immediately and assume charge during practice air raids and blackouts
as
well
Prior
as
actual
ones.
to an actual
attack
on the
fascinating manner, ideas and facts
expounded by members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
various police departments, Prof.
D. W. Woodbridge, Duncan Cocke,
Milton Thorpe and A. L. Meisel,
our City Manager.
A pistol course
of
Nassau
of Mr. Green.
and
Duke
ready for occupancy sometime in the
summer.
on
their customary locations.
consisted of lectures on emergency
sides of a wide corridat to the new
police
Post
There is
not a large number of such pieces.
duties,
and raid precautions.
an-
paper.
Restoration Again
Pays Over Million
in Wages
The records of the Payroll Division of the Treasurer' s Department show that for the second year
in succession, the employees of the
Restoration
received in 1941 over
a million
dollars in salaries
and
exactly $
1, 071, 121. 01.
The employees in the Construcand Maintenance
Department
364, 518. 30 (
34. 03%),
any other single department. The
employees of Williamsburg Inn and
Huffman
The latter part of the curriculum
be
pany and new shops for Mr
sociations or which could never be
duplicated are to be removed from
Yale
will
which was a larger share than for
instruction
supervision
awards
for the Williamsburg Drug Com-
given
Captain
The
nounced in the following issue of
received $
space
and
the
House.
tion
additional
4th prize — a Pewter
Pap Boat, courtesy of the Craft
which
was
of
burg Lodge;
the alterations to the old Post Office,
Atlantic seaboard, only those objects which have Williamsburg as-
under
for two courtesy of the Williams-
wages— or
Work has also been started
provide
Bruton
of
Gloucester Streets. On January 2,
will
or
3rd prize — dinner
com-
Williamsburg Lodge, and furniture
the direction
Williamsburg
Heights Theatre;
this
now ready for occupancy.
pleted
The first portion of the training
the
Early in December, work was
started on the Bryan Group on the
in which the various furnishings
Restora-
tion, or the members of our organi-
Fay LeCompte, and S. P. Morehead.
under
supplied with lists giving the order
the
you
con-
Prizes will be as follows:
1st prize
10 00; 2nd prize — six tickets to
regarding the law of arrest, Virginia
These .- en are
m
Williamsburg,
that
which
be accepted by judges Jim Cogar,
criminal statutes, police duties, scientific crime detection, fingerprint-
Little, and Knight.
and
Construction Work
Police School
The
ed to take charge of each exhibition
snapshot
made
Pictures as far back as 1930 will
an enemy raid in this war cannot be
foretold.
is
zation, may be submitted.
in
every war this country has weathered, is already in a " defense area"
name
There are very few rules to this
contest.
passengers in the first six days of operation; records indicate that during the
pear
If your
written on the back of each print it
will be returned.
Rieg,
Firestone
Supply
Max
Company
and the Chamber
of Commerce.
These shops will be located on both
Office.
Lodge
share — $
The
paid to
received
the
294, 884. 50 (
next
largest
27. 53 %).
balance, $ 411, 718. 21,
all
others.
was
�Page Two
THE
THE
Editor
G.
K. C. AT THE BAT
There
MCCASKEY
B.
W. NORTON,
L
low workers will be called into the
armed forces of the nation, and this,
MRS. MILDRED ADOLPH,
DUNCAN COCKS, THOMAS HALLIGAN,
Features
in turn, will bring about changes
GLADDING.
within
Staff .. MRS. H. M STRYKER,
will have to carry on with their jobs.
DOROTHY JANE HELSLANDER, MRS
ELSIE Low, ANN REVIS, TOM LITTLE,
JANE BOOT, MADELINE
WARRICK,
BETTY
HENNEMAN,
RUTH
DAVIS,
ISHAM JOHNSON, THOMAS KEARNEY
CIrculatzon
ROBERT
HARRY
BEASTEN,
our
organization.
Someone
Who, then, will fill these positions?
In
some
instances
we
will
be
obliged to employ additional
personnel from without. In the ma-
jority of cases, however, those who
W. J. BLACKWELL,
Staff ..
Manager,
MOODY,
In the
months to come, many of our fel-
MOREHEAD.
Reportorial
which I
should like to elaborate on.
H.
JONES, F. P. LECOMPTE, ELIZABETH
STUBBS,
JACK
PATTERSON,
S.
P.
WALTER
is one aspect of the theme
We Shall Carry On"
RUTHERFORD
Editors
GOODWIN,
February, 1942
NEWS
THOMAS
Associate
NEWS
RALPH
remain
OLIVER.
behind
will
be
obliged
to
take over these positions, and, in the
last analysis, who is better qualified
to do so? This will mean increased
responsibilities for each of us, and
Are You Ready?
with this responsibility will come a
number of personal sacrifices.
For the past several weeks Wil-
liamsburg has been busily organiz-
ing for civilian defense
This is an
undertaking very vital to the Restoration and one in which all of the
Restoration employees have coope-
rated fully.
defense
Although
is
integrated
organization,
all civilian
under
Colonial
one
Williams-
burg plays an important role in this
organization.
The local defense unit consisting
of the coordinator, his assistants and
the chief wardens, includes the fol-
The latest view of the Raleigh Tavern as it looks after having emerged
from the heavy growth of trees which formerly stood in front of it. A letter to
the Open Forum of this paper, last issue, was acted on promptly and as a
result the Raleigh reappears in all its beauty.
the present battle lines, we have an
important part to play in this world
struggle. We must furnish a rest-
ful, inspiring, and refreshing interlude in the war -weary lives of the
people that will flock to us.
As proven in England, the populace must have relief, relaxation,
and entertainment,
especially
dur-
lowing from our organization:
Cordinator, V. M. Geddy; Assistant
ing the times of awful
Coordinator, B. W. Norton;
into the war, the need of Williams-
Chief
of Auxiliary Firemen, C. V. Lavery
In addition to these men, literally
hundreds of employees of the Restoration have volunteered for vari-
stress and
fear. As this country gets further
burg will ' be greater, and " we must
be prepared both in mind and body
to ' carry on" to our fullest.
We have adopted
our slogan,
but
ous services and are giving generously of their time and energy.
let us always keep clearly in mind
The entire citizenship of Williamsburg must be versed in protec-
this year we shall have to operate
tive technique and discipline so that
the maximum protection to the lives
operations,
of our citizens and our property can
now be foreseen, but our buildings
will be kept open and our opera-
be
assured
progress
m police
chemical
and
Classes
citizens,
volunteer
work,
warfare
those
are
now
first
in
aid,
on
whether
must
be
a
to
member
all
of the
or not.
We
of
all citizens;
prepared.
Even
is never
we
though
used,
think
what would happen if we needed
this
service
Remember
personnel,
and make adjustments which cannot
tions
will
continue.
Months
ago
ned
open
will require constant
this preparation
the
are
organizations
behalf
reduce
our construction schedule was plan-
must not be alarmed, but we must
be alert at all times
To protect
effort
economically, may have to curtail
and firefighting
classes
Williamsburg
the fact that in attaining our goal
and
were
Pearl
unprepared.
Harbor!
in anticipation
of shortages
that
have resulted from the war. Much
of this work can be done without
using essential war materials, and as
long as this position can be maintained to give employment
properly
we shall carry on this work. Whatever may happen, we shall do the
patriotic
thing.
Williamsburg
must " carry on ",
without fear, and with traditional
American courage. For if we falter
war.
Baldwin,
Bell,
Calrence .
W.
LeRoy ....
Blacknall,
John ...
Allston,
Brice,
Boyer .
Grim
dent, have adopted as our fighting
slogan " We Shall Carry On "
While Williamsburg is far from
United States Navy.
M.
received
M.
C. &
W. I &
L.
Thomas .
W. I &
L.
Robert
Eubank,
Public Safety
W
Griffin,
Forrest .. .
Jackson,
Charles
Keyser,
Charles ..
Lewis,
Pendleton .
Luttrel,
Burrell .. .
Manley,
Walker
Robert..
Moore,
Norman,
Dallas
V. .
Russell.. •
Ward, A. P., Jr. .
Owings,
Donnell.
Thomas
Potter,
Augustus
possibility. After discussion of the
matter,
L.
we would all prefer to share the gap
I. &
C. &
C. &
I&
W. I. &
Stone,
Robert .
C. &
C. &
W. I &
an
automobile
to
described
many
which
above
will
is
un-
L.
ture.
L
look - ut for ways and means to help
o
in the situation in any way that we
L.
can
Each of us should be on the
The success of the war effort
of any nation depends on how much
each citizen is willing to do his or
M.
Charles .
change
doubtedly take place throughout
Colonial Williamsburg in the fu-
M.
Edward. .
to carry on under this revised set -up
until Mr
Boyer' s return to the
similar
Treasurer' s
Ware,
work
following changes have been made:
The
A.
M.
W
added
Therefore, the
office
M.
C&
mean
L.
Crafts
C&
would
present is my secretary will move
into Miss Davis' s office and take
over her job, and Miss Betts will
take over Miss Thielker' s We plan
M.
H &
it
Miss Davis will take over Mr.
Boyer' s work, Miss Thielker who at
M.
W. I &
in
that
L
C. & M.
Research
Joseph
Rountree, Edward
the conclusion
and responsibilities.
James
Norris
I reached
though
Henry,
James
go out and employ someone to take
Mr. Boyer' s place for the duration
of the war —that would be one
C. & M.
W. I & L.
Treasurer' s
Heath,
Paul
This means a reorganization of my
L.
Curator' s
Lineweaver,
will
duty.
left by Mr Boyer' s departure, even
Philip
Davis,
Henry
Davis, Maxey B.
Godfrey, Coulbourn
G. .
and
active
Architectural
W. I. &
Chess,
on
L.
Voluntary Quits to Join the Service
Banks,
go
Crafts
W
John . .
Walker,
W. I. &
W I&
W. I. &
He recently
commission
office here in New York. One could
Leon
Crump,
this
immediately
W. I. & L.
R. V ... .
Christian,
Petty,
L
1&
C. &
Some time ago, Mr. Boyer made
application for a commission in the
L.
Exec.
Roy. ... .
Carter,
W. I. &
Killed
We of Colonial Williamsburg,
inspired by a letter from our Presi-
In so doing, they give
us the opportunity and the privilege
to share with them the burden of
Military Leaves of Absence:
White,
Carry On!
our custody.
The Honor Roll
Post,
and waver, we may remove the one
great influence that we can contribute to the campaign for world
freedom.
In other words, there is a real lob
to be done at home and one, in its
countless implications, as important
as the job of those who are engaged
in the actual conflict. Those that go
into the service leave their jobs in
her share.
L
Colonial Williamsburg as a con-
accident
Humor
venience
to its employees
now offers
hearing the air raid signal get under
Among
hostesses
instructions
for
air
issued
raids: "
to
Upon
them the opportunity of buying De-
tables
fense Bonds through
lotment plan.
wardens."
and
cooperate
with
the
a payroll
al-
�February, 1942
THE
Advisory Architects
NEWS
Chowning' s Tavern
Old Walk Restored
Meet Here
of
Architects
for
The
Colonial
of Gloucester
review
cuss
the
The
the
proposed
architectural
policies
Board
Robert
P.
chusetts;
delphia,
rence
and
com-
Woodwind Quintette to play there
every Tuesday and Thursday even-
of
ing from 9 until 10 P. M. is a
consists
Boston,
Mr.
colorful
Massa-
New
York,
Mr.
Duncan
Richmond,
Va.;
Mr.
Marcellus
Va.;
Campbell,
attend.
The sessions commenced with a
preliminary meeting in the Board
Room of the Goodwin Building in
the morning This meeting was attended by the Advisory Board,
Messrs. Perry, Shaw and Hepburn,
consulting architects for Colonial
Williamsburg, and Messrs. Ken drew,
Morehead
and
Reed
of
the
Architectural Department of Colon-
ial Williamsburg
chairman
Mr. Kendrew,
for the meetings,
greeted
all those attending, as did Mr.
Perry representing the consultants.
of Emporia
Ondov,
When
ment
the
studied
through
the
Architectural
the
Vaiden
archa: ological
original
shown
Mr. and Mrs. William Robert
Turner of Newburg, Mo., was
solemnized
Dec
27,
John' s Lutheran
and
23rd,
the Craft
was
garden
brick
path
uncovered.
It
was in such good condition that an
immediate decision was made to use
every effort to preserve it as a feature
in
the
restored
garden.
In very few restored lots has it
been possible to retain the original
ground level because time has added from a foot to a foot and one -
half of earth above it, not only in
the lot itself, but in the surrounding
streets
Such
was
the case
Virginia, with the
make
our
Vaiden lot so that it was necessary
to
ed with pine
and poinset-
raise
the
whole
tias.
T h e
w h o
Among the items now on order
at Chowning' s are: oysters and clams
was
gowned
in
beige
on
half - hell ,
s
Brunswick
stew ;
path
to
sandwiches
of
several
wool
pecan pie; hot drinks; and the usual
alcoholic beverages, which are fa-
a
miliar to all.
was
given
An added feature of Chowning' s
are the long clay pipes which are
brother,
the
new
corsage
in
Puts Employees
a paper taper.
of
reproductions.
Topics discussed included the
craft certificate, the hallmark, the
new Craft House catalogue, promo-
The
first
was her sister' s matron
Emporia
was
and
for
advertising,
accuracy
the
in
necessity
reproductions,
pseudo -Williamsburg
articles,
and
the effect of war on the production
of Williamsburg articles.
a
number
second
employees
5%
mentary
and
the
Act of 1941
for
have made it
Colonial
Williams-
on
been
from service
Restoration
cars.
as of December
with
the
9,
following
1941,
principal
changes:
Participation in the plan has been
broadened to include men inducted
or
was
of
and
a
minimum
of
reduction
the
to
operation
ordered
similar
or
into
allied
active
military,
best
Leave of absence is now granted
for the period of service ( this was
other will be put up on jacks at the
plus
of
tires
also
on con-
recommend-
formerly
restricted
additional
to one year)
time
prior
to
and
following the period of service.
Group Life Insurance can be conof
trucks
return
Under the terms of the O.
absence.
Upon
the
employee' s
to work for Colonial
Wil-
Cost- of-Living- Supple-
such as the ones that transport fuel,
surance,
the
so desires
into
public
safety
car,
and . trucks
Mr.
Richmond
was
grooms-
was served
at the
Turner left for a wedding trip to
Georgia
Mr. Turner was connected
with the Department of Public
Safety
and Mrs. Turner was
secretary
in
the
Departments
of
Public Activities and Public Safety
of Colonial Williamsburg. At the
end of January they resigned their
positions
with
Colonial
Williams-
burg to move to Indiana.
Morton - Gladstone
Dr. Louis Morton, research associate in the Department of Research and Record, was married to
Miss
Ruth
chester,
Gladstone
Conn ,
on
of Col-
December
28th
in New York City.
Henneman -Holmes
after the beginning of military Ieave
liamsburg, the same amount of in-
went
for
tinued now for only four months
P. M. ruling, certain of our trucks,
which
man
family, after which Mr. and Mrs.
service.
of all company cars and trucks.
One of the office Chevrolets will
be kept for emergencies, while the
The committee
honor.
home of the bride' s mother for the
wedding
party
and
immediate
naval or air forces, or entering a
service,
the
wage
announced
war
has
ed that certain other departmental
cars be put in storage, and that a
strict check be kept on the use of all
A recent letter from Mr Geddy
war
tion
warehouse.
C. L. S. Increase
all
of
of
cessation of the hostess transporta-
servation
to
of the
of
Following the ceremony a wed-
employees in military service and
training. This amended plan is
felt in the withdrawal
of
absolute
tion
pinch
maid
man.
burg to amend its plan concerning
Williamsburg
of
Mr. R. A. Bowen, Jr., of Em-
some
Plan is Amended
effective
Colonial
her
Turner, and Mr. Earl New-
necessary
Their Feet
by
Ondov,
of honor, and Miss Mary Doyle
poria,
tary service under the Service Ex-
Department
marriage
roses,
Mrs. Russell A. Bowen, Jr.,
of Emporia,
lengthening of the period of mili-
on
a n d
sweetheart
Rariton, N. J.
These
Harold Loughrie is
of
Theodore
are brought out on request at no
charge, filled, and then lighted with
the manager of Chowning' s Tavern.
acces-
sories
wore
given the patrons to smoke.
with
black
varieties,
level.
of the various
approved
Rev. John
Kovac officiating.
bride,
tension
manufacturers who are licensed by
the Williamsburg Restoration to
at St.
Emporia,
The church
at the
entertained at the Williamsburg Inn
thirty representatives
1941,
Church,
excavation,
colonial
above
Depart-
Tire Conservation
On Thursday and Friday, January
22
late
Lee
was decorat-
Declarations
Holds Convention
the
Turner of Williamsburg, son of
ding breakfast
Craft Department
and
to Robert
liamsburg recently held its regular
Va.
unable to
Rev.
Monday luncheon at Chowning' s
Mr. Ed-
Mr. Arthur A. Shurcliff, Boston,
Massachusetts and Mr. R E. Lee
Taylor, Baltimore, Maryland were
Ondov
Dickens is becoming a rival of the
Charlottesville,
S.
The marriage of Miss Eleanor
Ondov, daughter of Mrs. John
Travis House as a place to entertain
visitors. The Staff of Colonial Wil-
E
mund
Colonial
Turner -Ondov
sult the good table of host Julian
Lee,
Wright, Richmond,
the
cently been amplified and as a re-
New
Va ;
to
The menu at Chowning' s has re-
York, Mr. Philip N. Stern, Fredericksburg, Va.; Mr. Merrill C. Lee,
Richmond,
addition
atmosphere.
Mr. Fiske Kimball, PhilaPennsylvania;
Mr
Law-
Kocher,
of an old fashioned
thereto.
pertinent
now
of
Street is fast becom-
the introduction
work and dis-
Bellows,
tavern
ing the most popular item in Williamsburg' s unique night life, and
vened from time to time since the
beginning of the restoration project
to
reconstructed
Josiah Chowning midway the Duke
Williamsburg arrived here for its
1941' meeting. This Board has con-
pleted
Social Events •
is Popular " Spot"
On December 12 the Advisory
Board
Page Three
it.
be made effective if he
Employees who attain
On the evening of December 20,
1941,
Miss
Holmes (
Cur)
Elizabeth
was married
V.
to
Mr.- Richard Hubard Henneman
in
St
Michael' s Church,
in
effect on January 10th and 15th,
1942. According to plan, this
used for the maintenance of heat-
eligibility during such leaves will
Charleston,
ing, electrical, plumbing and roof-
have their insurance made effective
Henneman
second increase went into effect as
ing, will be eligible for new tires
upon
and tubes.
pany if they so desire
of Psychology at the College
William and Mary.
the
index
reached
110. 1.
return
to work
with
the com-
South Carolina.
is Assistant
Mr.
Professor
of
�Page Four
THE
NEWS
February, 1942
Restoration Members
NEWS OF THE
Learn Ancient Craft
For
the
past
four
months
COLORED PEOPLE
on
On behalf of the colored work-
Wednesday nights many members
ers, we hope you all a very happy
of the Restoration and others of the
and
College and city have met for the
third
season
m the manual
room of the high school
training
craft
of
the pewter
extend
over
First
range
decorative
articles
as
flower
bowls,
elaborately
fluted;
pierced
18th
and
century
Mrs. Morton and Miss Inman;
and
among the men: Ernest Frank, Tom
manual
with'
a
for
contest
employees
wouldn' t be followed anyway.
there are not many rules. They
Simply send in a picture, taken personally anyonly .
time after 1930. Send it to the editor of this paper and write your name on
the back.
There will be four prizes awarded: — lst Prize is $ 10. 00 in hard cash;
2nd Prize — Six tickets to either Bruton Heights or the Williamsburg
3rd Prize — a fine dinner for two at the Lodge; 4th Prize — a Pewter
Theatre;
Pap Boat
from the Craft House.
issue of this paper.
News •
Departmental
r
through the exhibition
1941
than
went
went
in
in
1940.
According to the figures released
by the Accounting Department, the
total
number
of
visitors
in
1941
was 210, 824, as compared in 1940
to
185, 735
25, 089.
Raleigh
visitors,
In 1932,
Tavern,
an
increase
of
the year that the
first
exhibition
building, was opened, Willliamsburg entertained what was then
considered
a
horde
of
has
transferred
from C &
M. to the Lodge where he
The retirement of W. J. " Cap" Holland from C. & M. on December
31st completed a thirteen -year record of service to the organization, " Cap"
buildings
through
Savage
visitors -
being one of our first employees.
Phil"
Inc.
M. for a position with Doyle and Russell,
is now at Keesler Field, Miss
Nelson has lett C. &
Bill Eubank ( P. Saf.)
Sally Bell has accepted a position at Fort Eustis. James Mayes ( Gen.
Office) who has been ill for sometime is improving and hopes to return
Mrs. Bryan Prentice ( H. & A.) is recuperating at her
to work shortly.
M. has joined the Cost Accounting Department of
the Newport News Shipbuilding Co.
The Christmas Party in the Treasurer' s Department was a happy
other departments joined in the festivities — Public Relations, Personnel,
and the Vice -President' s Office.
the
number
153, 206.
As m the past, the 10 States
send-
ing the most tourists to Williams-
burg were New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Columbia,
the District of
and Virginia.
A
historical
H. &
A. in De-
by
cember. Starting at the Jamestown Ferry, the tour includes the Thomas
Rolfe House, Claremont, the Brandons, Shirley, Berkeley, and Westover.
Hostesses making the first trip were Mrs. Smoot, Mrs. Pate, Mrs. Steel,
new
series
of
trips
was
inaugurated
Starting with this issue the house
organ of the Williamsburg Restoration will be known as " THE NEWS
of Colonial Williamsburg ", to include
our
new
official
name.
laugh
and
smile
at the Lodge.
are
Deacon
Johnson,
one
of
the
First
Baptist
Church
was
A large crowd
the services
on the last
Sunday of the old year.
John L. Hailey has been very
sick, but is improving now. Clyde
Wallace, Matt Palmer and Joe
Hyde have had their first examina-
tion for the army. Samuel Powell
and Phillip Cooke, who are now in
the army, were home recently visiting friends.
Charles Wallace and Curtis Tayare
and
off on
Mrs
their
Isham
vacations.
Johnson
and Mrs. Daniel Johnson
with
their
sister
Mr.
and
Mr.
had din-
Mrs.
Berta
Hyde
UNCLE
Come
on
Uncle
SAM
Sam,
get
in
the
fight
We' re behind you with all our might
Get in there boys, can' t you see
We' re looking to you for victory
We' re behind the country, one and all
We
know
that
you
If you get ngbt
Then
Come
will
never
fall.
in the move
you' ll wind up in the groove.
on
boys,
and
don' t fail
to
stop
Until you' ve reached the very top.
The
Japanese
will
bite
the dust
Uncle Sam' s going to win for us— or bust.
By I. J•)
W. W. Edwards, ( Pub. Safety), has been ill but is back at work again
Police Force.
NAME
cooks
Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. T. C. Hall.
W. V. Johnson, and K. V. Gardner have recently joined the Restoration
NEW
of
ner
C. &
melange of food, eggnog, music, dancing, confetti, and mistletoe. Three
1937
He
He met us
We are glad to have many church
workers in our association, among
staff of the Research Department, has been called back to the army.
of
In
in
him a send off party. We are also
very sorry that we lost Mr. Lewis,
lor
visitors was 151, 036, and in 1939
4, 047!
time
members, but the head waiter of the
Lodge has left and the waiters gave
home after an operation.
Mr. Walter Womble is no longer with the
Architectural Department. He is now employed in Defense work.
Dr. Donnell B. Owings, third of the research associates added to the
Ed Watkins,
old
greatly increased.
is working at the front desk.
people
same
witnessed
Tommy
more
her
the faithful. ( by T. K.)
In the past year the membership
ably assists Mr. Rieg at these classes.
25, 000
the
those
ing instructor for the high school,
Over
spent
jolly as can be.
We are sorry to lose one of our
one of our
Pictures of Williamsburg, the Restoration, employees, are preferred, but any
picture, any size print is acceptable. Winners will be published in the next
train-
1941 a Big Year
She
was sent to Fort Knox.
Ferguson.
MacFarland,
to
We are very proud to see one of
Little, Ralph Bowers and Finlay
Mr.
to an-
our ex -bell boys from Camp.
This
Mrs. Emily Lane, Mrs. John Green,
Mrs. Washington i,eed, Mrs. Guy,
wish
marriage
many friends.
fact, the output is limited only by
the skill developed by the worker
Among those of the class who
we
Betts'
Washington visiting her uncle and
designs;
inkstands,
mugs,
sugar
bowls, pewter plates, trays, " silent
butlers"
and candle holders.
In
have completed various articles are:
Mrs. A. E. Kendrew, Mrs. I. L.
Jones,
Mrs. Bela Norton,
Mrs.
Yelverton Kent, Mrs. Phil Nelson,
roll
Mrs. Pillie Lee also has had her
vacation.
plate
in this medium.
Milton
though the weather was very dreary
he was up there spending a while.
porringers
with
delicate
handles; ash trays, taken
from original
moulded
We
Mrs. Martha Pilars. We are glad
to still have our employees on vacation. We now have Fred Crawford,
cook of the Inn, who spent a week
here and a week m New York. Al-
of endeavor; including such useful
and
on our
nounce
smiths.
a wide
Year.
past.
The articles made by the local
workers
New
coming year as we have been in the
where Mr.
Max Rieg so expertly and generously gives of his time to those who
wish to learn something of the
ancient
Prosperous
hope we may be as serviceful in the
Patrolman
Galford
accepted
a position
in Newport
SUNDAY
MOVIES
News.
The October departmental meeting of the Architectural Department
consisted of a tour of the newly uncovered foundations at Jamestown conducted by Mr. T. C. Harrington, resident archaeologist. The most interesting event was the examination of the 17th century brick kiln, which was
found to be similar to the one used by Mr. Hedgecock, the brick maker
for Colonial Williamsburg. Mr. Harrington pointed out the fact that large
numbers of roofing tile were excavated from this kiln as well as brick.
On January 4th the Williamsburg
Theatre started Sunday Movies in
response to public demand, showing
as the initial attraction one of
1941' s ten best pictures, " The Stars
Two matinees are
Look Down "
given
each
Sunday at 2 and 4 P. M.
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<p>When using the <em>CW News</em>, it is important to remember that it reflects the realities of its time. For example, columns in the 1940s issues reported on the “News of the Colored People.” Separate reporting of African American and white social events was indicative of the segregation that was the legal norm in Virginia at the time.</p>
<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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LET' S
NEWS
REMEMBER
PEARL
WITH
HARBOR
A"
V" - BOND
FOR
of
THE
SAKE
LAND' S
BUY
VICTORY
MORE
BONDS
WILLIAMSBURG
Volume I
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, MAY, 1942
Buy Victory Bonds And
Number 7
Boss Gets F. B. I. Manicure
Stamps
INN RESERVED
FOR UNCLE SAM
Mary people say they can' t conveniently
buy stamps
month
the
or
American
one
until next
after.
Armies
If
Effective
the
decided
to
served
put
off
fightinguntil
next
month, and the Navy decided
to stop supplying Australia and
hunting submarines until next
AMERICA
4th,
the
for
officers
of
the
armed forces and their families in this area as part of
our
wartime
Because
month, or the one after —
HOW
LONG WOULD
MAIN FREE?
June
Williamsburg Inn will be re-
effort.
of
the
crowded
housing and hotel conditions
RE-
in this military area, it is expected that . large numbers
will use the Inn.
Rates will
be $ 3. 50 per day top, and the
Inn will
Addition Made
be operated
on a
non - profit basis by the present
To Craft House
staff.
No
meals
will
be
served at the Inn after June
4th.
A new addition
structed
at
the
is
being
east
end
con-
of
the
south wing of the Craft House.
Ground was broken in February
and
construction
has
Mr. Bean Explains
progressed
Those who are looking for the
rapidly.
The
plan is so arranged
extra
the
display
present
is
to
and
fabrics,
will
souvenir
have
will
room
from
the other
member
walls
for
paint
can
be
display
col-
for
privacy of customers who might
wish to examine and discuss various
possible
tions
of
and
decorative
members
of the
room
and
office
the
open,
ideas
from
the
present
room
expansion
a
college
sales
just
lobby
con-
sion,
area
area
below
and
of the second
the
floor
his
fingerprints
made
in
New
York
at
the
time
when. employees
of
Dies In
Colonel
first
Arthur
Woods,
and
first
chairman of
the
board of
Colonial Williamsburg, died
Tuesday, May 12, at his home
in Washington.
Funeral
vices for Col. Woods,
was 72 years of age,
held
on
John' s
Thursday
Church
in
at
serwho
were
St.
George-
town.
Until
his
SERVICE
TO
Washington
president
retirement
from
active
participation
in
the
work
of
the
Restoration
about five years ago, Col.
Woods spent much
of
his
time in Williamsburg, where
he was widely esteemed.
direction.
panic
He
year,
just
in time
and
He felt
tended
in
was
graduated
time
to
join
He came back
for the first
he
depres-
directed
Univer-
the
It is the privilege
THE " SERVICES"
of the Hostesses
and Escorts to interpret
the his-
right
at home
when
his first staff
found
cut
Woods
new
wartime
sity of Chicago' s recent financial
government to fingerprint all persons.
Colonel
if
In cooperation with the National war effort all employees of Colonial
Williamsburg were fingerprinted. Above, Mr. Chorley has a record of drive during the latest depression.
Rockefeller Center took the lead in a worthy movement started by the
above.
budget
the
to the Unity ersity of Chicago Press
will
small
a
staff,
the army in 1917.
space
nected by a stair with the enlarged
stock
that
from
this
in
in
office
new
having
runs
with
From
the
blame
of tourist traffic don' t
born
combina-
effects
staff.
of the
regulations
closed
space
of
might
entirely satisfy them and they are
looking for some other . " Jonah ".
Mr. Bean insists that his middle
initial, P, does not stand for Peter,
but for Panic.
His HIoroscope all
exhibiting
and
it
explanation
stringency
This
wallpapers
If needed,
real
off
room.
used
ors.
open
sheathed
wood
be
that an
that
even
his
budget
before
he
But he offers
depressions
was
had
end
and
to
be
one.
cheering
always
he at-
meeting
news —
and
some-
times they have pleasant surprises.
He hopes to develop some new in-
tory and the Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg.
This is a rare come and some new customers for
privilege and one involving responsibilities which we deeply appreciate. Colonial Williamsburg publications
In the past year a new field of service has been opened to us by the to partially take the place of the
inclusion among our visitors of a great number of boys in the armed
lost
tourists.
If
forces.
use
some
your
visitors.
We
have
never
encountered
more
interesting
or
interested
We have been deeply impressed by their reaction to Williamsof the country;
some have heard
of
the work here, many have not, but regardless, in their own words they.
it up ".
They literally are asking for what we have to give. They
eat
seem to find comfort
to
write
he
asks
new
a
you
to
wartime
book,
to
work
on the manuscript for a radio pro-
burg and its restoration.
These boys come from all parts
leisure
of
and reassurance
here where
gram or to act for a movie,
sider
these
patriotic
ideals were born and
In
chores
as
part
of
conyour
contribution.
more
serious
vein,
Mr.
Bean
freedom won.
They quickly " feel" the spirit of what we are doing;
they find inspiration in the atmosphere of patriots.
One young lad
seemed to speak for all of them not long ago when standing alone, at
emphasized
his feeling
were
potential
salute, before Peale' s portrait of Washington he said softly to himself
make to the successful prosecution
You boys got it for us, old son, by heck, we' ll keep it ".
many
which
of
the
Colonial
war.
that there
contributions
Williamsburg
could
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Page Two
THE
NEWS
May, 1942
New Names On Our
NEWS
Honor
1!
L
Military Leaves of Absence
Editor
11
K. C. at the Bate
Roll"
Thomas G. McCaskey
Thomas
Potter
W. I.& L.
Associate Editors ....
Rutherfoord
Goodwin,
B. W. Norton,
L. H.
Jones, F. P. LeCompte, Elizabeth
Stubbs,
Jack
Patterson,
S.
P.
Morehead.
Herbert
West
Theatre
L. Smith
C. & M.
I am sure I speak for every man
and woman in the Restoration
Morton
Research
when I say that we are ready to
Cocke
V. P. Office
Features
Thomas
Robert
Louis
Duncan
Robert C. Beasten
Mrs. Mildred Adolph,
Halligan, Walter Glad-
Atkins
make
ding.
pare
Staff
Stryker,
Mrs.
Dorothy
H.
Jane
M.
Helslan-
Moyles,
Boot,
son,
Martha
Ruth
Davis,
Davis,
Thomas
John-
From
Kearney.
Moody,
Harry
company
generous
has
in granting
in the Goodwin
of relaxation
the
middle
Williamsburg
as
Drug
such
as
in
Ar-
with
the
Company
of such
buttermilk,
milk,
morning.
employees
purchase,
a period
made
the daily delivery
ments
very
refreshments
were
for
wish
milk,
Ensign Allty Boyer, all dressed
in his working
clothes
and
up
ready
to take
to sea
on one
of „„•-
U. S. A: s new
subschasers.
Allty
enlisted in the Navy on December
8th, the day after Pearl Harbor,
and received his commission within the month.
He
has
finished
training at the Miami Subchaser
Training Center and is now on active duty hunting down the Uboats.
to
at
Dear
must
be received
by the Drug Company by 10 o' clock
each morning but standard orders
may be placed
convenience
day.
to overcome
of
the in-
telephoning
each
Editor:-
From
men now
Air
of you.
Corps
School,
Ave.,
areas
a
time
section
when
of
the
this contributor
lack
of
to
of
trash
paper,
and
restored
has
are
film
Bits
in the U.
the
Philadelphia
240
W.
have
June."
T. Walker: — "
Russell
received
I hope
Wellem
and will be here until
From
S.
all
the
papers
and
this
that,
and
these
ing
about,
to Boulder
City, Nevada,
home
to
Williamsburg
with
the ex-
This
contributor' s
couldn' t some
ers
be
placed
times
eyesore.
reaction
appropriate
about
was,
contain-
at
different
points to minimize this unpleasant-
innovation
ness ?"—
sive
hardships
The
purpose
was
first
not impose
upon
of the
lieve
financial
might
come
illnesses
and
when
was
to
troubles
about
the
from
it
re-
whirl
extender'
plan
will
still
carry out this purpose.
Short
illnesses
Signed: M. S.
through
to carry
war and be
I
am
Co.
From
this
April
of this
on her work
368th
a pleasure
lines
of
the
70%
is
tial
Inf.
of less
Dear Editor: —
Several
days
to receive
encouragement
for a
gone
beer I
found
It
a few
and
four
got.
dress -
to
Any
am
Roll
had
for the beer I
So I presumed that the price
a
long period of time that the money
problem
will
becomes
continue
to
serious.
function
The plan
for
such
well, it prohibits me— and the ave-
Which
when
brings
and
day,
I
took
figure
for March
15, 1942,
is 113. 4.
the
40c
dared
fact
guests
them
to
to
give
the
the other
stern
to
less.
see
attendance
buildings
less than in April,
was
1941.
reductions
l: udget.
in
We
more.
our
will
operating
have
to
make
It is obvious that the only
time
to
appreciated." .
Sqd.,
Ad-
Maxwell
Baldwin: —" ..
one
of men
to
that
on
your
left
all.
you,
the
c/ o
Cal.
Tell
I
I
Honor
not
all
the
that
be-
hello
dependent
expenses
taken
the
address
Postmaster,
will
forces,
has
one
of
but his
is still APO 1111
San
be
has
money
no
one
which
it
to " bail
it
of debt.
These are difficult
times, but we
is a silver lining to every cloud.
During the last two hundred odd
little
W. I. & L.,
expeditionary
lilt"
spend
It
of
Restoration
the
from day to
with
only
hotels,
sale
must
on the Boys: — Forof
an
earns.
oper-
buildings,
House,
The
op-
money
the
properties,
etc.
its
the
in from
Craft
of
publications,
for
on
exhibition
theatre,
rental
As I have
and
of
sweet
I worked
Australia
Mail
entirely
the
Tripp.
employees
House,
in
Mrs.
worked,
Griffin,
landed
is
can continue
basis.
Francisco
forwarded
to
not
be
discouraged.
These
vears of Williamsburg' s history,
Williamsburg
has
come through
darker days than we are facing
now in so far as the Restoration
concerned,
and
in
every
is
instance
the sun has shone after those dark
days.
Whatever
happens,
meet it with courage
The
present
let
us
and fortitude.
situation
may
get
it does, let us always
who
Robert L. Turner, Pub. Safety,
was among the 45 aviation cadets
who left Richmond last Thursday
if
for an air force
It cost
2. 00 for a snack!
Poor &
the
worse before it gets better, but if
of stew
waiter
us.
him from there.
I paid $ 1. 60 —
watched
him
that
Chowning'
and for two bowls
and two sandwiches
unsmilingly
According to the last Complete
Quarterly
Index
for
Richmond,
Virginia, the Cost - of- Living Index
up
I had some
ployee
cause.
first
mailing
Tavern,
this
like
me.
long illnesses;
thereby helping to
relieve any serious financial difficulties which may come to an emfrom
in Williamsburg
year
exhibition
the
Negtems
rage worker
for
find
Ave.
place where
day."
when
continues
the
Travis
was levied to prohibit something — rest
illness
4th
can
Field, Ala.
days cannot bring about too serious financial shortages; it is only
the
all
love
up.
15c was too much
than
you
whom
price
to come
of
pointed out before, the Restoration
of the Restoration.
with
the
when
members
by the Lodge
rassed when stopping
one
may
us
is on a curtailed
embar
was
to
way the Restoration
you
I
fight-
know we aren' t forgotten. My very
than
ago
are
We have already made substan-
Christian: — "
Leon
at
Si-
Camp
yours ..."
H,
after-
cause I wanted to but because my
country needed me a little more
employees.
plan
inaugurated,
exces-
of
You
doing just fine in the Army. Hop - have already seen what has hapIn
ng that Williamsburg may be well pened to the tourist business.
From Clarence
isting Sickness Benefits Plan. This
does
Re-
hon-
freedom
return
every
is
has put into effect a 4 -day waiting
to
and am
of
definite
who
and
victory has been won.
The war is beginning
I am no long-
in Arizona but have been moved
ation
of tourism.
at crowded
a
men
everything
spared
which
is
that
be
is well.
st a-
member
passes
was more than glad to know that
it will be highly
places
all
in the
every
liberty
for
the
trash
as
er that
Waiting Period
In certain
from
races
or roll, he will offer a silent prayI
Due
of present
men
all
organization
erating
refuse
of
of
best regards to yourself and to all
contain-
scattered
at
address
really
noticed
receptacles.
photograph
scraps
in the
I am
names
write me, you may well be assured
in connection
armed
will all
view the honor roll which has been
time
period
the
erected in the lobby of the Goodwin Building, on which appears
and all the petty
Colonial
in
I hope that you
and empty paper cups, ticket stubs
conditions,
which
by twenty -eight
storation who are now in uniform.
bert,
time
eastern
ers
to the pressure
sacrifices
fions
able
10: 30
A. M.
orders
the
no
com-
the
wards,
Phone
It was nice getting a let-
protected
OPEN FORUM
chocolate
etc.,
Mr
home
can
to know that someone— somewhere
refresh-
may
Dear
our
forces.
at
make
made
nec-
thinks
to employees
Building
and
of the
rangements
been
Eubank: "
with
still
we
is
For those
ter from you, it' s nice, in the army,
Oliver.
Refreshment Time
The
Bill
Chorley:
Circulation
Staff ____
W. J. Blackwell, Manager;
Robert Beasten,
Ralph
of
The Boys In Camp
Kemp
Isham
are
that
have been
Letters From
der, Ann Revis, Tom Little, Jane
Boot, Madeline Warrick, Thomas
which
who
us
sacrifice
Frederick P. Bowes ____Research
Reportorial
sacrifice
to win the war.
of
W. I. & L.
Manley
any
essary
C. & M.
I
me
becoming
Thirsty.
classification
cen-
ter, the first step in the career of
a fighting
Sam' s Air Force.
pilot in Uncle
of
us
the
fact
keep in front
that
the
present
emergency is not going to last indefinitely and that when it is over
Williamsburg will again be in a position to render
ation
to
our
service
fellow
and inspir-
countrymen.
�May, 1942
1
THE
Departmental News .
NEWS
Page
Contest Winners" Oh, Those Stock
Room Blues!
6.
By T. F. R.
GENERAL
OFFICE
I am sitting in my pent house
Miss Netta Marshall, our faithful and obliging telephone operator,
in the cellar.
is delighted with her new position at Fort Eustis. She will operate the
switchboard in the General Hospital and will have an opportunity to
me.
James Mayes must be on the road to recovery. He has requested himother to buy him a camera as he would like to make photographic
Marston
has
accepted
a
position
Stone &
with
gets
Mickey Warrick recently spent her vacation in Erwin, Tennessee.
as assistant
at the Marine
officer
from
of drills
the
and instruc-
Above
is
John
Henderson' s
beautiful snapshot which won first
prize
in
the
Contest.
TID -BITS
Employees
Camera
The second prize went to
This department has recently lost several mem-
Walter Gladding
for his view of
the Raleigh Tavern; third prize to
bers, but has also gained the services of Donald
Grace Raiter for a striking shot of
Bower and Bert Reed.
the coach and horses; and fourth
prize to Frances Wagener for an
Those now in defense work from this department are, Ernie Frank,
Wash Reed, Brock Steele, Walter Womble, Ray Thibedeau, Al Kluwer,
James Norton, Bucky Luttrell ( Army), Vaughn Holmes, and H. Har-
informal scene in a Williamsburg
yard.
At right is Second Lieutenant Ed Ware, who last
tory in the Warehouse.
He went
to Hicks
Innovations At
Field,
The Williamsburg
Fort Worth, Texas, last July for primary training
ed
in the Army Air Corps.
operation
Then he went to Good-
fellow Field at San Angelo, Texas, and in February
this year he received his commission at Kelly Field.
S.
is now
an instructor
at Shaw
Field,
its
tenth
of
year
1942 has brought
and
continuous
and
thus
far
forth quite a few
changes.
A new type
C.
Theatre start-
year
this
additions
Sumpter,
room
Have
maximum
Recently we had a visit from Vernon Norman, our first, and so far
only, draftee. He is stationed at Fort Meade in the Finance Office
His buttons and insignia were gleaming, and he looked well and happy.
We hope he knows
country.
We
look
we miss him and are proud
forward
to the
time
when
of his service
Uncle
Sam
to our
no
longer
is
the
eternal
you this, or have
that
of
screen
I have
ness,
reflection,
was
and
perfect
or
sound
re-
bright-
reproduc-
tion. The first theatre in Virginia
to get one of these was our own
alon
of
shadow.
Since
the
a few
rubber
bands on hand, I am expecting the
F.B. I. to rush in and put me in a
concentration camp as a hoarder.
It' s a hard life. Excuse me, there
the
goes
phone "
Just
again ".
all from the accounting
a
depart-
ment asking if I had mailed a cook
book to Admiral Paul Jones in
1938. He had not received it. All
say,
it
left
here
and
was
Listen, you Secs, cut out your
large orders on me, try to do with
less, because my instructions are
to send what is necessary for the
time
and not
a lot of extras
your cabinet.
for
Paper is hard to get
and when you fill your supply cabinet someone
do not order
else goes without, so
one sheet more than
3ently developed by RCA to give is necessary.
TREASURER' S DEPARTMENT
not
mailed— according to the Records.
Flicker Palace
year this time was technician in our Paint Labora-
it is doHave
Excuse me, there goes
stock
I can
Hubky Henderson is studying at Yale.
Cris Beeton has returned after being out on sick leave for some time.
three.
phones.
Now
Cal.,
tion.
ARCHITECTURAL
the
fish hook to a battle ship.
He i
Base, San Diego,
in charge
When
you that, and why haven' t you ? I
get calls for everything from a
At left is First Lieutenant Norris Lineweaver,
U. S. Marine Basic School at Philadelphia.
of the
question.
Bruton Heights School with the highest average in a class of forty.
now stationed
out.
Yep, and sometimes
The
graduated
gets
same time.
Sherman Roberts has just completed the First Aid course given at
W. I. & L., who
or
one
the
clerk.
of
about
yet seen it doing all three at the
The General Office is glad to welcome two new members —Hallie
Vaughan Rennie, relief switchboard operator, and James Bailey, mail-
rison.
in
out.
ing
formerly
windows
I can go to the front door and look
Webster in
Richmond.
room
three
sun shines, or it rains, or snows,
studies of the very attractive nurses at Catawba Sanatarium.
Randolph
How you must envy
I have
6 feet over my head, carefully
painted black, so no ray of light
exercise her ability in bringing comfort to the sick.
He
Three
stock
room
This applies to all
items.
I think that the various secretaries who withdraw from the
tock
room
could
do
with
smaller
first
quantities. Of course, paper comes
of March its adventures, romances,
by the ream, but envelopes
could
be taken in units of 25 -50, etc., in-
and
dramas
have
Other members of this department are " on the verge" of joining up.
Bill Cholko had to report to Richmond May 1st for his first physical
examination. Jack Branch is awaiting further action on his commis-
with
unusual
brilliance.
sion as ensign in the Navy.
Gillie Grattan expects reclassification
to
Class' 1- A and subsequent induction. Bert Slaughter was promoted to
Class 1 - A on March 31, and expects to be inducted about June 1st.
is a babe of Dame Necessity, de-
re -used.
signed to assist the folks who can' t
clips,
drive to the movies but will cycle
use those that come in to me.
needs
his services,
and he can
be back with
us.
been
unreeled
stead
Second innovation was the Williamsburg
Theatre
Bike Rack. This
of
Such
and
a
box
at
articles
a
as
gem clips should
I
but
use
a
time.
rubber
vast
never
bands
be saved and
number
buy them,
of
as I
Rod Jones, Bert Slaughter, Gilley Grattan, Nick Shearon and Jack if a proper parking device is proLet' s
get
together, coordinate
Branch can be counted on to leave the office pretty promptly on cer- vided. The Williamsburg Theatre and save. Let' s practice economy
tain days of every week ( weather permitting) for their tennis at the was one of the first theatres in the in purchases as if we were using
Inn and horse -shoes at Chowning' s.
They think they are pretty hot
country
new
and are ready to take on all comers from other departments.
to
offer
the
Third innovation
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
Mr. Robert C. Beasten is now Ensign Beasten
sheeted "
of
public
this
pep"
is
a
paper
single -
circulated
the United States Navy Communications Division,
among the theatre employees only.
This is produced for a few cents
stationed at Chicago, Ill.
per
Bert received his commis-
issue
via
sion the 1st of March and reported for duty almost
Fay
are
the
ment, has also left to apply himself to defense work
ten
the " ditto"
LeCompte
George Lewis, estimator for C. &
M.,
immediately.
has gone into defense work at Norfolk.
V. G. Page,
for a long time a foreman of the C. &
M. Departat Norfolk.
our own money.
service.
Off
and
editors
The
Tom
and
Reel."
its
Its
machine.
terest
to
the
and
of
Theatre
Stamps
Our
armed
the
war
equipment,
forces
without
whose
cannot
win
arms
and
purchase
must
Halligan
be paid for by each of us. ARE
name
YOU DOING YOUR PART TO
HELP ' WIN THE WAR
BY
BUYING
THESE
DEFENSE
facts
is
and
figures are always pertinent, of- 1
amusing,
Buy Victory Bonds And
especial
personnel.
in-
BONDS
AND
not,
up
sign
at
STAMPS?
once.
If
�THE
Page Four
NEWS
May, 1942
Overheard"
Children
ask
questions
too,
The Restoration to the Rescue
and
the rank News
of The
it' s nice to know they are interThe other day a youthful
ested ...
stamp collector thought the King
had lived
and
Colored People
in the Governor' s Palace,
wanted
to
know
if
the
now
spice
trees
box in the upper middle room was
where
the
Queen
Another
was
the
kept
her
youngster
town
stamps.
asked
where
Saint
At last! We are
enjoying Spring
are
days again. The
are blooming, and birds
chirping, and
it
makes
our
work
much
if this
eas- ier. We
Patrick
have
Henry made his speech.. .
The young lad whose bright eyes
Garfield
are
proud
Flood with
to
us
again. We
are aw- fully proud to hear that
our
Sher- man Cook has
went by the Governor' s Palace for
bouncing
baby
I
know
that
didn' t
miss
saw
a
one
trick,
of the
said, "
Yes,
governesses
I
go
girl. We
Mrs.
One
of
Williamsburg' s
scions
the other
bright
Eustis
B. uton
of the tourists stopped one
Heights
was
young
for
day to ask direc-
sation asked
No, Ma'
he
m,"
I live
answered. "
and
bright
red
dress
was
just
coming
out
down
the
Palace
steps
when
an
just
coming
in
excited
the
youngster,
and
Oh!
screamed, "
gate,
wiggle
The
some
her
Howards
set
for the
the
Burgesses
er,
exclaimed,
down
on
Daddy,
on
lad
room
as
one
the
as he entered
with
he
of
his
ran
the
fath-
and
sat
forms, "
is where
Cary
and Patrick Henry sat..."
A very observant young boy who
was
quite
hostess
intrigued
raised
go through
she
could
her
the
The
ladies'
hinges
in
sit
asked
on
to
her
a
if
chair.
replied the hostess.
hips
those
were
made
on
H. & E.) carrying a little girl ashore from a U. S. destroyer on which
he is stationed.
The driver of the ambulance which met this rescue
The child had spent 37 hours in an
party was Lucy Kelly ( H. & E.).
open life boat after a sub had sunk her ship.
E.
M.
A.
1_:.
Departmental
PERSONNEL
RELATIONS
The
Eustis.
Head,
Mrs.
W.
friendly
Department
of
F.Low.Bibliographizal
man- ner will
her
the
with
am
with
missed
Company. Although it is
re- gret that we
sure
kind,
be
her
go, still
that
everyone
will
the
Personnel
Relations
happi-
ness
Governor
Built upon a sacred
Where
brave
men
and
the
Ar- thur
of
to
serve. . .
w
Convictions
stationed
was
Shall
we
laid
chance
a
firm
a new
Let no other victor spoil, Restoration
These
of
of
soil.
gardens
homes
Bring
our
green
Our
of old
restoration
Imogen
accepted
a
B.
Etheridge
and
Arbor,
position
De- partment
Michigan,
as
of
Record. Mrs. Sommerfeld'
is
sta- tioned
at
now
Sam
with
Uncle
at
Fort
Huachuca, Arizona. near
first examination
for
maker
extensive study
an
Malikiale
Virginia.
for
Tay- lor
brick
At
Wil iam
Hall
is
now
hod - carrier and
the
is
maker for
in
their
the .
recently.
the head
Mary
yard
the
the
the
has
mortar -
brickmasons.
head
mortar -
plasterers. Ernest
cement posts. The
opened
up
again
and every brick the Restoration has
is
Philadelphia.
James
used
Bob
Sowers molded. On
a Saturday
recently Leonard Wallace
was accidental y cut
by
secretary
has
in
Research
s husband
Mr.
an axe. of
C. Welsh
head
the
Mrs. Emma Sommerfeld
Ann
the
to men' s souls.
right
appointed
RECORD
E.
Miss
Bill
Eubank,
formerly
of
has
S.
Army. RESEARCH
AND
SAFETY
at
the
foundation
creation ?
meeting began. At
a
of
Tyler makes
at
U.
Here
is
o
Muroc, Cal., with
true.
Mary
M. Public Safety, now
training
C.
who is n
world
right
Army
Virginia,
by
dance
de
in
Ward, Jr., formerly
Heroes
of
colonial
is
of toil
grew
This
a revival
of
as- sisted
PUBLIC
soil
trod
soul-
ciety
1768 - 1770." Miss
McWilliams,
of
fu- ture. At left
Days
a very
ser- mon. On the 4th Sunday
Boulder
Dam..
the
Palmer
entitled " Matt
and Joseph Hyde had
the Library of
Papers
Jansen, is making
in wish- ing her great success
RESTORATION
Mortar. ..
Genevieve
The Reconstruction of
Norborne Berke- ley, Baron
Botetourt,
see
The
So-
the
and
Miss
Personnel
loved Assis- tant to the
and
Bricks
there
all
Russell Walker, one of
Yost, librarian of Colonial
Department has suffered a great loss with
Williamsburg, Incor- porated, has an
the de- parture of its much - article appearing in the forthcoming issue
join
Corner
that
pictures
our boys who is
I
Poet' s
stirring
picture
News
Fort
throughout
wAAAAelAeffkAsZz
moving
E. preached
Lee,
the
Her industriousness as well as
days."
be
Heights Movie,
announce
photographs of the submarine campaign had its Reunion Rally on the
This is an unposed official Navy picture of Henry Davis 2nd Sunday. The pastor, Rev. Robert
the
farthingales
door,
really
Yes, indeed,"
when
to
One of the most dramatic
off our coast.
Oh!
Grant
friends with
summer there with top shows and
low prices. The First Baptist Church
left
younger
Ethel
her
party
with
Mary
first place. Thomas
like
will
She
of Virginia"
little
this
would
hips."
impression
Mrs.
of the Bruton
look.
Mummy, at the lady clown.
can
it
afternoon
Wallace en- tertained many of his friends
at a k.tri hday party at
his home. J.
O.son, manager
Robin
The pretty young hostess with
farthingales
there.
a
bridge
King holding
right here in Williamsburg. ". .
her
enjoyable
Kelly entertained many of
if he studied history.
a " l" at
bal
School.
everyone
was
tions and in the course of conver-
an
to
Rockefel er gave
the boys from Fort
in."
a
are proud
been
The
of
ap- pointment
Public
is
Safety.
effective
from
to
Chief
largest
April
for
27th. Mr. Welsh
twenty - one
United
States
being
years
with
Halsey, Stuart Company of Chicago
as
Special Officer. Before coming
of
depart- ment
Sergeant Major. He
then served for ten
years
in
Marine
served
the
Corps,
honorably discharged in 1930 with
war
Wil- liamsburg
Security Officer
and
production
he
of one
the
most _ important
plants
Indianapolis, Indiana, where
was
of
he
in
took part in
the organi- zation of a protective force
of
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<p>The <em>Colonial Williamsburg News</em> was the official newspaper of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Publication began November 1940 under the title <em>The Restoration News</em> and was published under that name until February 1942. The title changed to <em>The News of Colonial Williamsburg</em> from February 1942 to May 1950. The name changed again in May 1950 to <em>Colonial Williamsburg News</em>. It is often collectively referred to by the abbreviated title <em>CW News</em>. Production switched to a digital-only format in 2018. The newspaper ceased production in 2020.</p>
<p>When using the <em>CW News</em>, it is important to remember that it reflects the realities of its time. For example, columns in the 1940s issues reported on the “News of the Colored People.” Separate reporting of African American and white social events was indicative of the segregation that was the legal norm in Virginia at the time.</p>
<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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NEWS
THE
C
L
O
N
O
Volume 2
I
A
W
L
WILLIAMSBURG,
I
L
L
VIRGINIA,
I
OF
M
A
AUGUST,
B
S
U
R
1942
G
Number 1
Restoration Ten Percent Club
Includes Thirty Members
MEMBERS
ORGANIZATION
MAXEY
PAUL
JAMES
JOSEPH
ROY
V
NORRIS
THOMAS
CARTER
LEROY
ROBERT
VERNON
JAMES G HEATH
S.
CHESS
ROBERT
F
SMITH
ARTHUR
P
JR
The
A
women
employees
MICHIE
of
the
Mr
them are engaged in a variety of
Among the war -ime activities of
t
the Williamsburg Restoration, the
most spectacular is the one -day
course in American history provided
the soldiers of Fort Eustis.
Over
15, 000 men in uniform have visited
The Ryland House is nearing
completion with its landscaping and
outbuildings.
Many of the original
paths in the garden were found in
the archaeological excavations which
made
it
possible
original
lines
considerable
Williamsburg for this purpose since
June 4th through
the courtesy
of
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller,
amount
Each day they assemble in groups
of two to three hundred at the Wil-
liamsburg Theatre to see the film,
I Am Williamsburg," and to hear
a short calk by one of the Staff
Members on the history of this
area. Messers Geddy, Cogar, Norton,
Farish,
Kendrew,
and
Upshur
have served in this capacity to date.
Other
war -time
Restoration
include;
services
the
of
the
operation
of the Inn exclusively for officers of
the armed forces and the Officer' s
Club; Mr. Donald Bean and his
associates
are
now
working
on
a
nation - wide radio series, the first
program, " Have Faith, America,"
reconstruct
and
original
new
which
were
Cross;
will
replaced
with
house
same combination has been employ-
ed in restoring the building.
With its broad gables, expansive
roof line and inviting porches and
paint colors, the house is a striking
example of an 18th century colonial
Williamsburg residence set off as it
is by the attractive group of outand gardens
plan to take such courses this
Church
open
a conference
of school
administrators held in June.
of
them Restoration employees.
The
film will be released through the
Eastman Teaching Films series.
Mr. J. A. Upshur
Miss Dorothy Williams
are do-
COLORED
house
is kept
Nathan Donovan
Sherman Roberts
Eugene Turner
in the Service
for
the
EMPLOYEES
men,
Frank
Williams
and two are performing or have
performed
very special services —
Wanda Castle gave instruction to
the Staff Assistants Corps of the
switchboard during air raids —
practice or real — keeping the lines
really
Restoration;
seven
Men' s Centre or other places were
daily life of a Colonial craftsman.
Approximately fifty local persons
most
Tower,
six serve as hostesses
Other
parts,
Mrs. May Thompson
Mr. Ernest Thoret
ing their bit in an important way
by entertaining the service men,
that
various
on
airplane spotting duty in the Methodist
Morgan
For The U. S. O.
the A, R P staff and will be on the
The Eastman Kodak Co. is now
the
serve
Red Cross and Luta Sewell is on
New Color Film
played
to
canteens in case of an
of the lower peninsula,
most of them having promised to
serve on night shifts; six are doing
motion picture story concerning the
March of Time for release by the
twenty -five have
themselves
emergency
evacuation
at work on an Eighteenth Century
motion picture on Williamsburg in
war time, recently filmed by the
Winter,
pledged
Glennie
Mrs. Susan Prentice
Mrs. Grace Ranter
Mr. T. F. Rogers
Miss Carol Royce
Mrs. Luta Sewell
Miss Hazel Shaver
Mr. Elbert Slaughter
Miss Evelyn Sledd
Mrs. Kathryn Smoot
thirteen have taken or are
coming
the National Education Association.
under way are • a
Mrs.
ing surgical dressings for the Red
having already been recorded and
approved by the U. S. Army and
activities
Miss Virginia Marston
Mr. W. Duse McPherson
and it is probable that many more
was
an interesting combination of paint
colors was used originally, and this
buildings
Miss Dorothy Madsen
Goodwin Building or by telephone:
fifteen are knitting, sewing or mak-
with
paving
of the main
duties
large
A
material
On the exterior
defense
Of the thirty -five women interviewed by your reporter in the
preparing to take first aid courses,
divisions
accuracy
of
the
found with interesting patterns and
gutters
Jr
to
civilian
I L. Jones, Jr.
Mr W. L. Keller
Mrs. Elizabeth Kent
Mr T. G. Langton
Mr. T. A. Love
tion, all are buying bonds or defense stamps, and the majority of
volunteer
Folk
Miss Mary Jansen
ning of the ranks in the organiza-
New Activities
Page
Mr. Alden Hopkins
Mrs. Janie Hubbard
ditional duties because of the thin-
Ryland House
EMPLOYEES
Mrs Mary Grattan
them are taking on different or ad-
War -time Brings
of honor
Mr. George Gage
Restoration are going very nearly
all out" for Victory. Many of
MIDDLETON
THOMAS
STONE
Mrs.
BOWES
A list of Restora-
decorations"
Mrs Katy Bragg
By Moyra McCausland
MORTON
P
of War
Miss Lillian Bush
Miss Esther Campbell
Miss Wanda Castle
BEASTEN
BROOCKS
LOUIS
the purchase
Mrs. Willie Hall Benton
COCKE
FREDERICK
BANKS
AUGUSTUS
C
R SIDNEY
JR
these "
Work For Victory
BOYER
M
for
WHITE
ROCKEFELLER
ROBERT
JACKSON
CHARLES
PHILLIP
to wear
Women Employees
OWINGS
L
DUNCAN
JR.
are entitled
JOHN D ROCKEFELLER
WEST
ALLSTON
LAURANCE
NORMAN
P WARD.
ARTHUR
ROBERT
BELL
MOORE
who
EUBANK
M
HERBERT
BLACKNALL
JOHN T
HOKE
GRIFFIN
W
DONNELL
PETTY
JOHN
D
ROBERT
KEYSER
tion employees
follows:
CHRISTIAN
FORREST
WALKER
CHARLES
salaries
employees to mark them as patriots of the first order.
BURT
SHEARON
BLAND
of their
MANLEY
LEON
LINEWEAVER
RUSSELL
G.
BALDWIN
POTTER
WALKER
LEWIS
PENDLETON
E
V
A
or more
Bonds and War Stamps. Pins and stickers have been issued to these
BOOT
NKHOLAS
10%
to
amounting
SHEARIN
HAROLD
CRUMP
BRICE
CLARENCE
ROCKEFELLER
RANDOLPH
HAYWOOD
LUTTRELL
K.
THOMAS
ROUNTREE
WINTHROP
D
BURRELL
HENRY
DAVIS
EDWARD
C
POST
A
HENRY
IN THE ARMED FORCES
EDWARD M WARE
DAVIS
A number of employees have caught the spirit of self -sacrifice which
will help us win the war These employees have authorized deductions
OF THE RESTORATION
open for important calls.
the
Restoration
doing
their
We feel
women
part
are
These
figures do not include our hostesses
or the employees of the Division
of
Williamsburg Inn & Lodge —
all
of
their
them
share
are
also
contributing
T F. Rogers, chairman of the
Restoration
collection
for
the
United
Service
Organization,
reports that $ 476. 34 was raised from
the
employees
which
of
this
company,
means that W. R. I. went
over the top" by $ 46.09 for U
S
O
Heaviest contributor among the
various
departments
was
C. &
M.
�Page 2
THE NEWS
August, 1942
THE NEWS
Editor
THOMAS
Editors
Associate
G
B
MCCASKEY
P
LECOMPTE,
S
P
W.
STUBBS,
MOOREHEAD
Features..
MRS
Reportorial
MILDRED
Jtaten Island
H
M
away
STRYKER, RALPH BOWERS, MADELINE
WARRICK,
THOMAS
DAVIS,
MOYLES,
ELIZABETH
ROWE,
THOMAS
aoout
JOHNSON,
THOMAS
naving
ISHAM
KERANEY
Circulation
RALPH
ROBERT
EVANS
John D. Rockefeller III, chairman
of the Board of Trustees of Colonial
Williamsburg,
who
has
recently
re-
ceived a commission as a lieutenant in
the United States
he
Au Revoir"
is stationed
made ' neces-
sary by war conditions have within
the last month brought about
two
mergers resulting in the elimination
of two departments. The former
Department
of Personnel
Vice - President' s
of
office
Hostesses
The
and
At-
tendants has now been merged with
the
Curator' s Department.
For more than four years Mr. L.
H
Jones
was
head
of
the
Depart-
ment of Personnel Relations and it
was
our
under his administration
present
personnel
procedures
were
that
policies
and
established
The
necessity for his leaving the organization
of
us
is
one
of
great
and he carries
regret
with
to
him
all
our
very best wishes in his new job as
Personnel
Manager
of the United
States Potash Company at Carlsbad,
New
Mexico.
The Department of Hostesses
and Attendants for several years has
been under the able guidance
of
Mrs.
Elizabeth
office
staff and the absence
Henderson
Henderson
and her
and
her
of Mrs
staff
will
be
keenly felt in the organization
Those of us left will still " carry
on."
Our
belief
in
the future
of
the Restoration is strong and sure
and our regret for temporary retrenchments made necessary by this
war
is sincere
trenchments
However,
represent
these
only
re-
in
a
small way sacrifices
that all of us
must make in this struggle for the
reestablishment
Cross
in
of
the
the
American
direction
of a decent
Louis
N
world
Morton,
J"
Officer' s Candidate
heard
of
war
Letters From The
Boys In Service"
Mr.
o clock.
and
Mrs.
Rocketeller,
Jr
anu
Mr (
euuy
were
supper with us that evening, so they were all there witn ivirs
At
School
of Robert
my own particular hobby "
From
Paul
Attachment,
was
San
Finally when he had to leave, I walked out to the elevator
and said goodbye.
with him
My heart was very lull —
not full of sadness, but run
of pride in what he was doing and the way he was doing it.
Many of you have had the same experience — saying goodbye to your
friends
and associates
who have gone into the armed forces,
some have had
tne experience of saying goodbye to members of your own families
part _ therefore, 1 am sure that every member of our organization takes
pride in the fact that the Restoration today is rendering a service to tne
men in the armed forces, and that each one of us has a part to piay in
assigned
Post,
Fleet
Air
Francisco . "
to
Patrol
I
Squadron
aft e r receiving
m y commission
as ensign at An-
and what we are fighting to preserve.
You all know that the Williamsburg Inn has been set aside exclusively
for the use of officers and their families, and that the public space in the
After
napolis
You are familiar with the fact that through the generosity of ivir and
Mrs. Rockefeller, Jr., the Restoration has been made part of the official
training program at Fort Eustis. You have seen the three hundred men
who are Drought to Williamsburg each clay in order that they may learn
something about the early history of this country, why we are in this war
44 at San Diego
circulating
and down
up
the
Inn is being utilized as an Army and Navy Officers' Club
Special monthly rates have been established for men in the service at
West
we
Brick House Tavern and Market Square Tavern.
Coast
Special rates have been established at the Lodge for enlisted men and
finally he aded
into
Pacific'
the '
their families
Blue
I understand that steps are being taken by the local citizens' committee
w h e r e
things
are as hot
Ensign
as L
My location
is confidential,
Pest
to provide
Wash "
Canada now
Baldwin,
I' m over in
I have been here for
about three months I' m working
on the new highway I was in
Alaska for about two months
First
time in my life to see snow in
July It' s still snow on the top of
the mountain
Mr
Chorley, I
would like to have a cake made at
the Travis House and I would send
you the money for one
care
of
Well take
The boss
yourself " (
sent
Clarance a Cake )
From Kemp Boot. . . "
My
address is now Company L, 6th
Quartermaster Training Regiment,
Camp Lee, Va
are
present
since
names
allowed
Sam'
no
or '
it
is
Sam-
my' to all the
boys
After two
weeks basic
A good
training I was
made Acting
Corporal,
Corporal Boot
a n d
am trying for
the Officer Candidate
and enlarged
recreational
facilities
for the enlisted
More and more soldiers and sailors are coming to Williamsbuig and
visiting the exhibition buildings. Men in the service are also using Wil-
seeking the enemy "
Fr o m Clarance
Seattle,
additional
men visiting Williamsburg
but I can assure you that we are
Fort
Carter,
Unfortunately " Alley" could not stay to supper, but we all had a wonderrui
that program.
number of Southerners are in my
group and they are all familiar with
the Williamsburg Restoration Some
even
six
Our responsibility to our friends and relatives who are lighting tor
I am receiving training in the Signal
Corps preparatory to entering the
have
and found he was coming
freedom and liberty makes those of us on the home front want to uu our
middle
Monmouth,
Unfortunately i had meetings an that. atternoon anu
go."
visit together.
relief.
and
From
D. C.
Relations
as a department has been abolished,
but the work will continue under
Department
in Washington,
Headquarters
Red
retrenchments
Navy. At present
Before Joining the Navy Lieutenant
Rockefeller was working at the National
the
can
Choriey and myself when Ensign Boyer arrived in his white uniform
W J BLACKWELL,
MRS J R GEIGER,
Staff
MOODY,
The
we
in to New York late in the afternoon, and ne came up to . our apa tmeic
ALMA
ZAHAROV,
CATHERINE
HALLIGAN,
as
could not get away, but I telephoned ' Allty
MARTHA
EDSON,
He was very anxious tor me to come down and see it. he
went on to say that I would have to come that day as they had just receive,'
orders to sail the following morning, and they were going aoout as raL
ADOLPH
MRS
Staff
AT
At 1. 10 P. M. on June 16th, Ensign " Allty" Boyer called me on the
phone at my office in New York and said his ship was at the foot of
NORTON,
ELIZABETH
F'
It
KC AT THE
School."
liamsburg as a place to be with their families
Every single man and woman in our organization can make a direct
contribution in the present emergency by doing everything in his and her
power to make Williamsburg more useful and more helpful to the men
in the armed forces. We would welcome any suggestions from any of
you as to how this might best be accomplished.
I have appointed Mr. B W. Norton the special representative of the
Restoration to handle all matters relating to this important question He
has rearranged his work so that he may put in full time on this job
You will be interested to know that Mr Norton was scheduled to leave
on his vacation on July 18th
He had all of his train and hotel reservations
made for himself and Mrs Norton
I called him into my office lust two
days before this -- on July 16th —and told him I would like to have him
take over the work of dealing with Army and Navy matters Without a
moments hesitation, just like a soldier in uniform, Mr Norton cancelled
all of his vacation plans, train and hotel reservations, and postponed his
vacation indefinitely in order that he might carry out this important assign-
ment
That is the kind of spirit with which every one of us must back
up our friends, and relatives in the service, and it is that kind of spirit
which is going to help those men to march to victory
From Herbert West, Camp
Livingston,
two months
La "
For the past
I' ve done office work
and am Assistant Supply Sergeant
for the present
This
is inspection
From Leon Christian, Maxwell
Field, Ala "
Thank you for
keeping me informed of the current
events
It is a wonderful
part Wil-
week and it is keeping me too busy
liamsburg
to write much
Tell all the Theatre
Crew that I said hello, and I will
playing in this great war cause, and
write
them
very soon "
and the Restoration
is
I think I can say for all concerned
that
we
appreciate
it."
�r
August, 1942
THE NEWS
Page 3
Goodwin Building
Lament From
Refuge Station
The Switchboard
By Hallie Rennie
In case of an air raid,
the base-
ment of the Goodwin Building will
be a place of refuge for persons
seeking shelter and will also be
one of the five casualty stations in
Williamsburg
Under the supervision of Casualty Warden T F.
Rogers
the basement
of the Good-
Oh, Angie Cowles
f hou hast a soul
That' s as good as any true blue,
But when the lights
Create a sight
Just what does your little soul do?
win Building will become a small
hospital
Call
within a Lew minutes after
Callum
get
tickets,
the first sound of the air raid alarm
See Lavery ' bout pickets .. .
In the northeast
Get Chorley his car by noon!"
Pull down a long distance )
room, there is an
operating table lighted by 200 -watt
bulbs, and there are on hand ether,
gauze,
surgical
septics,
instruments,
splints,
27 cots,
anti-
other
supplies
treatment
Mr A. E Kendrew and family are vacationing at Danny Ranch,
Wyoming.
Mrs Christine Beeton, Architectural Secretary, and family are now in
Washington and may soon leave for Alaska
Mr
Alden Hopkins
has received
a commission
as Lieutenant
in the
U S N R. and will report to Quonset Point, R I for training August 18
Donald Bower is now in defense work, surveying, at Elizabeth City,
N
C
Other ex- Restoration
employees
there are Elton
Holland,
George
Lewis and Louis Radig.
Tom Little and Finlay Ferguson are now with the Virginia Engineering
Company at the Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown, Va
Ernie Frank has arrived in Puerto Rico and is working with the
engineering firm of Madigan and Hyland
GENERAL
OFFICE
DIVISION
It is once more vacation time, and Mrs
week end
Arthur Buie is looking forward to hay. ng two weeks off the
latter part of August
for
the
arm bands
and come
to the Goodwin Building
Follow-
ing is a list of these workers:
Ambulance
Dr
L
L.
Smoot,
first -aid
worker
She gives you the ratin'
By golly, she' s an A -i heel!
Miss Edson' s been callin'
And says to stop stallin'here ..
You look quite amazed,
And do what she says .
But the boys are all out, dear, dear!
Thou
staff
Dr. Henry E Davis, physician
They shout and they holler —
4 registered nurses
Want
1 first -aid worker
Walker
Between black cords and faces
And
8 helpers
The manager of the Craft Program, Mr J A Upshur, chose a most
propitious time for his vacation on the Rappahannock River, missing both
the heat and
the move
to the new
addition.
Crafts' contribution to the Military, C Pendleton Lewis, has recently
been promoted to full lieutenancy
He is stationed at Fort Story, Virginia
All
and
doors in the basement
are
for a considerable
there
are
stores
length
of coffee,
tea and sugar to serve the workers
and those who have taken refuge in
the building. Sterno ( canned heat)
for
where Miss Betty Woodard, formerly of the Hostess is availablehad cooking if electricity
cannot be
This division now operates the Information
Section at the Craft House,
Department, now dispenses information, tickets to
the exhibition buildings and a blond Southern charm
to all
visitors
The tourists may not be circulating around in their
usual numbers, but certainly there is no dearth of
movement among our employees
A
work
great
deal
of organization
and practice has gone into
Miss
Phillip
was
in
Chess,
the
tor' s Dept.,
attached
Medical
who
Cura-
is now
to
Corps
Fort Story, Va.
the
at
Clark
to Fort Eustis,
Ruth
Davis
to Yorktown,
carriage
Virginia
Virginia
Mr Harry Folk to the Virginia Engineering and Wise
Company, Yorktown, Virginia
Mrs. Dorothy O' Neil to the Virginia Electric and
Power Company, Williamsburg, Virginia
may now gratify
their wish,
for the Restoration is renting for a
tour of the Restored Area a recently
restored 18th century carriage, complete with two horses
The rates are 50 cents a half hour
per person, with a minimum rate of
1 for each tour
making ready this station and in
case of an air raid, it is believed
corps
of workers
able assistance
James
All the people who have been
longing for years to ride in an open
Censorship
Evacuees from that the Goodwin Building and the
this department are as follows
Mr
Old Carriage
case electricity is not available,
kerosene lamps are on hand
If the
of time,
say,
frying."
opened, all lights are turned on, and
each worker goes to his post
In
raid lasts
that are races,
Now look, take it easy ' n stop
2 auxiliary firemen
NEWS FROM THE CRAFT DIVISION
lights
And car keys and tickets for flying,
You' ll find it will pay to call back
2 messengers
physical plant.
for a dollar —
seen.
Lay staff.
Casualty Warden T. F Rogers
Deputy
Warden
Richard
A
Telephone operator Luta Sewell
An expanded gift display room, a fabric room
change
By gosh, such a place we' ve ne' er
anniversary ending her first year with the Restoration and Virginia' s
winning of a $ 25 Defense Bond
and two large, light offices ( all sorely needed) have been added to our
findst no balm
Midst Norton and Inman and Bean,
General Office Division Thursday, July 30, with a party celebrating Emily's
its very gay, new addition
a
All the day long
Professional
Emily Wilson and Virginia Marston entertained the members of the
The Craft House, undaunted by gas and tire rationing, is moving into
from
She wants the Inn brought up
Buie, driver
W
voice
That town " op' s" sure gratin'
Restoration
crew (
wagon)
Arthur
you say eels? . .
Please
lower your
squeel "!
to duty at this station put on their
station
The keys for the wheels — or did
casualties
identihcation
Cowles, Sherman
Roberts and Levi Stephens have already taken advantage of this privilege
Virginia Marston and Mildred Layne are all packed up to leave this coming
needed
At the first sound of the air raid
siren, the corps of helpers assigned
NEWS
Sewell, Mrs
of
To falling right out in a swoon?
6 stretchers,
blood transfusion apparatus, skin
pencils, operating gowns and dozens
of
Where is your resistance
will
and
be of
comfort
invalu-
to those
who come to the building for refuge
and
medical
proportion
to
this
of
assistance
A
the
assigned
station
workers
are
large
employees
of
The location is censored for the
protection of rail and bus lines, but
a
newspaper
recently
announced,
Our girls are wearing nothing but
Colonial Williamsburg and they all
cotton
take
ditions many objections to priorities
and
rationing are likely to subside.
ments
great
pride
in
their
assign-
stockings "
Under
such con-
�Page 4
THE NEWS
NEWS OF THE
COLORED PEOPLE
BY
N
Departmental
A clipping from a Vermont paper
KEARNEY
ISHAM
JOHNSON
we are proud to be still prospering
has come
and we are
now vacationing. On list we have
a letter from Pvt. Leslie Burton to
Lieutenant D Vernon Norman, formerly a member of the Auditing
Division, recently returned to Williamsburg for a brief visit. In July he
his parents concerning his trip to
was commissioned
a Second Lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U S.
Army. He is at present stationed at Camp Barkeley, Aoilene, Texas, where
he received his officer' s training.
his
Ensign Nicholas A Shearon, formerly General Auditor of Colonial
vacation in New York. Mr. Branson, Junior, is on his vacation and
Williamsburg, reported July 1 to the Naval Training School at Harvard
Sylvester
Harold
who
is now in Florida.
spent
University.
schedule
Mrs. Ethel Kelly
Crafford,
our
chief
ing is
revealed
at 6. 10 A. M
a
and
her husband
to Cambridge
August 5th
Milton
Betts is called to the army and
William Morris, one of our employees, is now in the Naval Reserve. We are proud to have one
have
Elbert G Slaughter, formerly a member of the
Auditing Division, was inducted into the Army on
Mrs. Helen Whit-
also vacationing.
him
starting with reveille
accompanied
cook,
and family are to spend their vacation in Florida
Letters ' from
ending with studying late at night. Mrs. Shearon
is also to visit friends in New York
Fred
Lieutenant Norman
At the time of the July 31st payday, a WAR
BOND costing $ 18. 75 was raffled off among the
employees in the Goodwin Building Thirty - ine
n
chances were sold.
Miss Virginia
Marston of the
of our employees home from camp,
Charles Jackson, who is now serving
Personnel Relations Department was the lucky winner at the drawing
as Top Sergeant.
of such bonds would be very popular
The interest of the employees
in this raffle indicates that frequent raffles
Ralph Carter is proud of a bounc
ing boy.
Stevens
ed
to
to
the
sick
bed ofhis father.
Charles
and
CONSTRUCTION and MAINTENANCE
Levi
was call-
unexpectedly
South
Caro-
lina
Willis
family
vacationing
are
a t
J. T. Branch, formerly of the Accounting Department, has received
his commission as Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve,
old-
est waiters.
The Inn is closed and the help
was
transferred
to the
Lodge,
and
they seem to like it fine
were all taken into
we
the town
Atter the movie we split up
in groups and had a guide to take us on
a carefully planned tour of the site. 10
see all the places where Patrick Henry,
1 homas Jefferson, George Washington,
James
Monroe,
and
talked and planned
impressive
to put
so many
others
things is really quite
it mildly
We had
lunch in a very nice room which the
local Inn had set aside for our use It
was sandwiches and tea from the camp
but we were provided with real dinner
music and a lovely atmosphere to eat in
Our guide was a Mrs. Steele, a very
charming woman
myself
One of the boys and
wandered
into
a sandwich
shop
for a sundae after eating, and there we
met Mrs. Steele who introduced us to
her daughters ( both married).
We sat
down with them and had a nice visit
The result was we were late in getting
back
Well, when we showed up the
sergeant was looking for us and, he hit
the ceiling We got dressed down good
Ensign Bert Beasten completed his training course
at Northwestern University, and is now in active duty
my daughters and who were so nice to
them,' well for once the sarge was
stumped
And when she got
oh,
are
the
nice
The
outshot
of
the
whole
thing was nothing, which is very fortunate for me, because I was headed for
Lieut. Ed. Ware is now a flying instructor at Shaw
T A. Michie is a flying instructor in Florida
Stele
with '
young soldiers whom 1 lust introduced to
K P for next Sunday lust as sure as
Ensign Branch
PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT
Sergeant Johnson and family have recently returned from a two weeks'
Eastern State Hospital as night supervisor Patrol Officer Farinholt is a
new members
of the department,
having been transferred from C & M.
makers
there
the theatre and given
a very nice talk and shown pictures of
anything after this the same sarge pulled
Right
another
one
on him
which
really
kicked
back
As we were walking down the
street, he turned to the men and said,
Get
in
single
line,
please'
When
a
sergeant says please' the day of miracles
had been reamed and the ultimate in
politeness achieved
He was obviously
handicapped
by the presence of a lady
I must say this has been one of the
most
pleasant
have
furniture
ride to Wil-
we got
those
Gardner on the force a short time ago, was previously employed at the
Famous
when
into high gear, up
vacation in Florida. Patrol Officer Goff, who replaced Patrol Officer
Overheard
a half -hour
and
walked Mrs
Field.
our
t is about
liamsburg
through
is now at Maxwell Mr. Johnson
of
follows
and as he shifted
in the Pacific.
one
this city on one of the Fort Eustis
Soldiers 1 ours. 1 he letter in part
and is awaiting orders to report for training.
Kemp Boot is in training at Camp Lee, and recently received Corporal' s stripes
Bay Shore, as is
Leon Christian who the family of
Field, Ala.
received which quoted
ACCOUNTING ITEMS
the behalf of the Restoration
The summer
Soldier' s Visit
News
was recently
THOMAS
AND
August, 1942
spent
and
unique
days
that
in the
Army
One
15
I
not
enough"
of the
18th century certainly made a great
Craft House Addition
impression on the cocksure lady
with one of the funnier new hats,
when she kept telling her com-
The Crafi House Addition is al-
panion all about the " Hippondale"
chairs
and " my dear,"
most finished and nearly ready to
she said,
those beds are so short!
be turned over to the Craft Depart-
What in
ment for its occupancy. In finish-
the world did a long man do in a
short
bed like
you say they were,"
ing
Tudor, did
that?" "
and the deaf
applied
old man said he had never heard of
pewter beds .. .
the
the guest
with
the
pale
of
the
guests
present
same
A
time
and
room
has
improved
that the
been
at
Addition
the
was
being built
It is very interesting to see how
the Construction
ex-
Department
was
able to erect the Addition with a
minimum
interference
with
the
surroundings at the Graft House
how lovely it looks!
Why it looks so real I know it must
E. M
souvenir
augmented
claimed "
be artificial." .. .
and
display cases and cupboards in the
Fisher had just completed
one
Williams-
The arrangement of counters and
vague
arranging the fresh fruit in the
old epergne in the state dining
when
Colonial
as manufactured
Glass Company
cowpit " . .
room
paint
distributed by the Pittsburgh Plate
eyes said " what ever did they call
such a beautiful thing like that a
Mrs
the final
For the most part they are
approved
burg colors
The lovely hostess with a decided
Virginia accent was explaining
about the Turkey work " cyarpet"
when
the Addition,
colors on the interior are now being
One of the groups of soldiers leaving the Williamsburg
Theatre following
the lecture and movie which starts these daily tours for the men of Fort Eustis.
and with the existing planting and
landscaping.
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<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
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NEWS
The
of
Colonial Williamsburg
VOLUME 2.
WILLIAMSBURG,
VA.,
NOVEMBER,
NUMBER
1942
Employees Meet;
Christmas Plans For
This Year Adapted
RESTORATION
To War Conditions
LATEST ADV / ES
C
Up Bond Sales
EMPLOYEES
ACC0
2
0/ MO TO
Monthly Payroll Allotment
Goal Set At $ 6, 000, Now
Over Halfway Mark
The Christmas activities by the
Restoration are
expected
to
be
The
again featured this year, but modified
and
the
changed
existing
to
fit
wartime
to
to the
travel,
the
tion will
ly " local"
ticipation
navy
personnel
as well
living
was
plan.
U
repeat
Christmas
essentially
program
including
the
of
colorful
w
0
J,
N
year,
Yule
at the Raleigh
N. aS •
E
Game
The
is
for
of
Christmas
other
also
1942
years.
ever,
that
all
onial
area
to
It
the
is
residents
light candles
be
and
their
1.
it
Thomas Crump
Maxey Davis
Paul
with
Cogar
dur-
garlands
the
and
wreaths
exterior
Buildings
that
have
the
lighted
of
been
buildings
with
to
the
Pacific
Post
that the
decorate
Donnell
William
at
M.
Cary
Ad-
mission $ 2. 20.
Concert . .
by the famous
Kryl Symphony
Phi Beta Kap-
at 8 P. M.
Ad-
mission free.
26— Thanksgiving
Day Classic . .
William and Mary
vs
University
mond at
of
the
Rich-
Richmond
The Male Ani-
mal" by the ' William and
Mary
Players
Beta
at
Phi
Hall.
Kappa
Ad-
mission 55 and 75 cents.
In
these
way
days
or the "
the dirt
as
the
is
In The Navy Now
that
4, 500
ment
of Public
Williamsburg
have
received
ments— John
with
it
acres
lieve
great
of
the
Relations
several
their
was
had
announced
been
Camp
acquired
Peary
congestion
to re-
in the
Nor-
ees who had homes along the river
and in that section
of York
coun-
ty.
Everyone had to move — and
in a hurry— because the project is
being rushed for completion early
in
1943.
McCready
10.
John
L.
by a staff com-
gone
into
Recently
steps
have
The
Department
been
of
who
the
tablishment
part
of
the
A very
program
Atlantis.
Smith
Beaston who are serving the Navy
England
somewhere '
T. Blacknall
this
number
will
Sea
outside the
that twice
be here
eventual-
in
the
Pacific"
Richmond
nearest
of
needed
to
atives
been
designated
great
operate
friends
ates many difficult
Williamsburg.
The
Restoration
in
service
problems
cre-
for
the Office of War Informais
working
tion, and Walter M. Gladding with closely with the city and the Colfor
the Navy.
Jack is stationed in lege to meet these problems
Richmond and Walter ( Lieutenant immediate needs and for the long
pull.
jg.) in Boston.
Wil-
various
to
Rich-
converted
being
done
The
work
is
capacity making
properties
for
suit-
liamsburg.
Among
mond.
of build-
able living quarters,
due to the
influx of new residents in Wil-
the
of
the buildings
been:
recently
The
Boot
Shop, the Ayscough Shop, the sec-
John
Reed
Kilpatrick,
pledge cards were distributed
by
a group of young ladies from the
departments in the Goodwin building.
In
cient
tired
accounting
to tabulate
the
meantime,
our
effi-
department
the results
reand
the audience was led in group
singing by Mrs. Kenneth Chorley,
wife of our president.
ley
have
has
Alaskan
first
and
sang
then
three
lead
the
singing
old
and
General
Kilpatrick
not
an
Mrs. Chor-
solo
numbers
audience
new
war
in
songs.
proved
to
be
under a special grant for the pur-
ond and third floors over the Fra-
pose
the
zier- Callis Shop and the Colonial
Restaurant, which have been con-
also an inspiring
singer.
As a
tribute to the late George M.
project will require three years for
verted into a temporary dormitory
Cohan — who
its completion.
for
from
ation.
A
Rockefeller
is
rival
1766,
til
the
It
estimated
sheet,
also
Virginia
Foundthat
bearing
Gazette,
was
1776.
es-
in May,
published
February,
the
was
in Williamsburg
and
here
un-
1775,
a
In
second rival paper, Alexander PurVirginia
lished
here
period
estab-
in
office
transferred
in
an
the
was
men
to it by rel-
paper
journal
til
people
of the
of the es-
time
which
in
of
such
or attracted
and
for
influx
the time
over
Virginia
at
but
city,
restrictions
a
ago
has
liberty
the
to
the
Following an address by Brig.
General
the curtailment
been taxed
and
who
Highway.
tion and Maintenance Division has
Research
in 1736 to the year 1780,
die' s
ly.
to
M. Busy
Despite
was
the reading of excerpts of letters
from Allston Boyer
and
Robert
ing construction in the
Restoration, due to the war, the Construc-
liamsburg
taken
26, 000
Bees in training just
city it is anticipated
lishment
Patterson
of
of
index
from
tablished
left
assign -
an
Gazette
name,
instead
Department
service
and read our
lives to their country.
Converting
Gets Foundation Grant
a
been
opening
address
to the men who
the Restoration
moving
Winn
The
To Gazette Begun
to double the size of the camp so
spite
Depart-
months
war
In
C. &
and Record has begun the compil-
folk area.
This meant uprooting
a number of Restoration employ-
camp,
members
Chess
Navy
Seabees."
September
for developing
the
Two
9.
had
two who have already given their
Williams
Robert
of
honor roll of 65 names, including
Shearon
Warfield
already
from
John A. Upshur
Complete Index
that
Stadium.
Dec. 3 -4 — Play . . "
Leroy
which
In his
tribute
paid
have
Robertson
Nicholas
Duncan Cocke
Wallace Cooper
West
ation
and
Mary vs North Carolina
Nov.
Brice
Phillip
he
1, na rhrie
Arthur Middleton
Louis Morton
Frederick Bowes
J. T. Branch, Jr.
Randolph Carter
Savage
mittee.
Hoke
i
program
vice
charge
on
talions,
pa Hall
ex-
resident
in
working
flying
Orchestra,
Shirley
l4avnl
our
was
carefully arranged
Henry
Leroy Bell
Kemp Boot
Ownings
rushes work on a very large new
camp for its
Construction
Bat-
Bohumir
Davis
Joseph
Thomas , Michie
8. U. S. East
Research
23—
Geddy,
been
Out Magruder
Field,
in
attained.
Baldwin
Magruder For C. B.' s
Nov.
to be
Clarence
Navy Takes Over
Aviation Unit
for
bonds.
reached
again
be
P.
and
from
candles.
2: 30
allotted
stamps
and
ordered,
Nov. 21— Football . .
Bland
Roy
Farinholt
Thomas
Herbert
Richard
Thomas Potter
Naywnnd r hParin
Robert Stone
Edward Ware
Charles Jackson
Charles Keyser
George Lee
John
Taylor Massie
Vernon Norman
Australia
Forrest Griffin
5. South Pacific
Bert Beasten
6. U. S. West
Milton Betts
Alden Hopkins
Norris Lineweaver
Exhibition
would
North
4.
garlands
announced
Alvin
Baldwin
Allston Boys.
Harold Burt
3. Mid -Pacific
to
Sidney Broocks
Walker Manley
Slaughter
Russell Walker
A. P. Ward
v.
U. S. South
Augustus Banks
Leon Christian
Frederick
Epps
Robert Eubank
2.
how-
asked
Elbert
Alaska
Clarence
wreaths.
James
still
special
pattern,
in their windows
homes
pay roll
allotments
Mr.
ing the holiday period, and to decorate
savings
ember
fu eaif Do'. 4
of the col-
will again
of
underway
cess of $ 3600 with a goal of $ 6000
plans
hoped,
part
been
o
has
but
adapt
was
has
and
committee
to
of the
Dance at the
appointed
expected
meeting
president,
city -wide
parti-
As a result of the rally the Nov-
Rooni.
not yet been
an
OR
,
Log
Tavern,
the New Year' s Eve
Lodge
m
0
Ceremony at the Lodge, the Open
House
with
to stimulate
which
war
its
last
The
cent
by
John Green that the Inn and Lodge
would
5th
for several months to get 10 per
in Williamsburg.
announced
act-
rally at the Matthew
School
a drive
as the military
recently
into
cipation in the pay roll allotment
entire-
and possibly include parby the nearby army and
posts,
It
Whaley
Celebra-
to be almost
November
employees'
of tourists
Christmas
have
evening,
situation.
inability
rolled
ion on the bond front Thursday
with
conditions
which affect the local
Due
in
Restoration
July
Gazette,
and
1780.
was
was
published
Thus
when
estab-
three
there
rival
un-
was
journals,
all bearing the name
Virginia
zette,
in
The
of
were
Index
the
the
rival
original
William
Dr.
of
issuing
will
journals,
Gazette
Parks
Hunter
the
embrace
in
D.
a
the
the
as
of
students
at
Chorley
excellent
had
called
speaker
just
upon
but
died — Mrs.
the
General
the College of William and Mary. to Iead the audience in singing
The Doctor Foster House is being one verse of " Over There" which
remodeled to serve as a dormitory he did with great enthusiasm.
for men employed in the Restoration.
Mr.
The new parking
the
James
City
House is very
area west of present
County
near
Court
completion,
and the landscaping
in this vicinity will be completed
in the near
future.
Chorley
at
was
the
a message which
along with the
unable
meeting
to
but
Mr. Geddy
president' s
be
sent
read
very
substantial
subscription.
Castle, Mrs.
Rowe and Mrs. Zaha-
M i s s
rov were in charge of the program.
city.
issues
well
founded
Farish,
over - flow
Ga-
director
Department,
Did You Know That ... —
as
by
1736.
Research
the
only
is
The Restoration has been given permission to issue war bonds?
Within a few minutes from the time that an order is received, the
actual bond is on its way to the purchaser. If you want to buy a bond,
get in touch with Mr. Jones' s office. You can save standing in line at
being assisted in this project by the hank or post office. Better yet, tell the payroll division to deduct
Mrs. Winifred Gregory Gerould, the payment from your paycheck, and your bond will be delivered to
and
Miss
Genevieve
Yost.
you
along
with
your
check.
�Page
November,
NEWS
THE
Two
Williamsburg Goes Hollywood
Tid Bits From
THE
Editor
NEWS
Thomas
The Treasury
G. McCaskey
Associate Editors _... B. W. Norton,
F.
Elizabeth
LeCompte,
P.
Stubbs,
S.
P.
Features
Reportorial
Moorehead.
Adolph
Mrs. H.
Staff
Stryker,
Ralph
Bowers,
M.
Made-
line
Warrick,
Thomas
Moyles,
Martha Davis, Elizabeth Edson,
Alma Rowe, Catherine Zaharov,
Grace Raiter, Louise Inman, Page
Folk, Prickett
Carter,
Thomas
Halligan, Isham Johnson, Thom-
as Kearney.
Circulation
well,
the
service
writing
hopes,
etc.
who
Ralph
Moody,
Robert
J.
quite
Mrs.
J.
Jones,
names.
They
grin,
letter
Smith,
make
or
post
a
card
mail
sack
are handed
alight.
Hearts
more
the
of
of
There
of
out.
beat
These
miles
are
a
the
Faces
a
Nick
men
a
then
lot
any
to
parts
that
they
Not
are
that
of
at
they
when
for them.
Not
at
and
Camp
Miss
home.
Just
youth at the front,
seas,
storm-
up
eign
a
let-
ter from home.
Mail
is
portant
the
and
im-
in
all
N.
shore
is
a
government
ship
reach-
port
from
patrol,
to
carry
mail
the
boat.
risked
a
United
The
submarine
States
mail
to
Corregidor.
When
there
S.
was
about
far
was
in
home
The
from
will
of
is
and
make
he
their
Street
a wedding
on
trip.
Department
continue
is
days.
to brighten
Have
mail
always
is
at
passed
least
out
one
and
receive any word from home. They
loaf around while the other felread
their
letters.
They
you
ever
Blues?
awful —At
heard
of
Well,
present
the
time
tain
individual'
general
ers
deep
s
aren' t
a
cer-
For
desk.
information
that
on
of
the
the
read-
acquainted
with
of explanation that they are the
little missiles of paper that tell
ie:
when
much
they
money
of the
come
they
employees,
to work,
earn,
how
what
de-
they
er
nostalgic
tie
yearning,
Uncle
lies
yearning —and
conies
Sant
He
is
for
can' t
a
him..
do
about the young man who doesn' t
get a letter; the army, navy, and
Marine
Corps
him, make
him
the
best
can
weapons
fighting
there
only
one
The
folks
So
men
at
get.
can
There' s
do
that.
ed
letter
for
to
of
at
the
one
of our
home.
the
send
Call
Goodwin
addresses.
the
and
scaffold
contractor
back,
Boston
while
shoulder
his
helper
brace
gave
received
his
days lost
we Payrol-
Personnel
Clerks.
that,
for this
and
From
tickle
the
sometimes
Green
and
the
has had with
uation,
you
to every
can
for
your
in the
the
at
Mr
the labor sit-
take
person
ganization
hat
off
Lodge
grand
job
could
or-
he
have
is
doing.
I wish
everyone
seen
the Lodge Game Room last night.
There
were
officers
soldiers,
dancing.
perintendents
sailors
There
from
and
were
the
su-
construc-
tion companies which are building
Canip Peary, playing ping pong.
There were two stag tables of
bridge.
The room was teeming
After leaving the Lodge, we took
a walk
to the
Duke
of
Gloucester
Street and then up to the business
district.
For
the first
some " Seabees"
time
I saw
from Camp Peary.
They wear the regular sailor' s uniform
be
and
the
only
distinguished
way
is
they
have
letters " CB"
the
sleeves.
There
the
on
were
their
many
on the street.
of about
of
There was
eight or ten
One " Seabee"
in
out
loud
and
talked
and asked
did,
a
Mrs. Chorley
piano ?"
over
good
all
the
when
we
a
can' t
We
folks,
point
is knowing
but there
it.
get
but
assistant
tine.
to
kept
the
from
of view —
what
breathe
a
we
and I went
with
this
if
piano
all
any
go
and sing.
of
said
and
another
he
in
the
although
the
mandolin
violin.
we did not have
Ser-
Unfortunate-
played
the
them
if they
of them played,
one
group
because
would
ly, none
So
a song
while
fest,
we
did have quite an interesting
versation
word
fell
way.
words
enjoy
nobody' s
complete
with
these
con-
boys.
told
us there
were
and
they
Texas
boys
or
all
came
Peary
either
Oklahoma.
with
whom
about
One
now
from
of
I happened
the
to be
talking at that moment was from
Oklahoma.
his
I told him I was afraid
University
was
beating from
in football.
of
a bad
and
Mary
he could not and
agree
argument
the
for
William
That
not
in
to.
We
the
about
respective
had
merits
teams
and
a
he
lars
that
Oklahoma
would
William and Mary.
that bet.
Then
the great question
came up as to who would
stakes
beat
I said I' d take
and how
hold the
we would
get to-
of
we
confi-
dence and are subjected to everybody' s
have
casual
some
indifference.
men
We
co- workers
that
by telephone
some
times
per
day.
Their
swell
and
others., Oh,
fifty
names
suf-
Probab-
in erecting
have saved
In
the
end
we
didn' t bet
at
all.
I was greatly
impressed
Seabees ".
these "
They
let' s
talk
about
it
A
workman
without
testing
was
a*
on
et
its
floor
don' t
a
clean -cut bunch of men.
their
staff
of disability.
Scenes
and
candid
camera
the
Tavern;
production (
Middle
seated)
and
average
is 33
of Camp
ladder
shows
George
Walker
in
Gage,
the
foreground,
then Bert Reed playing the part of the Governor' s Secretary, and the
old coach; bottom features Ben Spraggins and one of his horses, John
Brown,
and finally
Harry
Sutton
acting
a role
as the prisoner
asleep
on his soft bed at the Gaol.
diers
and
sailors
that
have
been
Appreciation!
visiting - Williamsburg, there have
naturally
been
experiences.
a
few
There
most
no trouble
Fort
Eustis,
has
with
or
unpleasant
been
soldiers
from
the
al-
from
Mr. John
sailors
vicinity.
There
however,
that
are
some
come
to
for
refueling
with
and
D.
Rockefeller,
Rockefeller
Jr.,
Center,
New York City
ships,
Yorktown
other
purposes
Dear
Mr. Rockefeller:
and sailors from those ships come
to Williamsburg.
They
have
been
We
confined
ships
and
have
much
to
their
want
to
we
tell
you
appreciate
how
the
very
privilege
been at sea for many weeks.
It is
only natural
for those men to
of using the facilities of this very
lovely hotel.
We have become so
have a tendency to try to " paint
the town red ", it being the first
used,
to
in moving
crowded,
from
post to post,
uncomfortable,
and
ugly housing facilities,
that we
there is not much red paint to can hardly believe we are in the
of beautiful surroundings
throw around here so in a few in- midst
town
they
stances
have
they
seen.
Of course,
get rid of their
sur-
again.
plus energy by storming the ABC
Happy"
Halligan
has had
to pick up a few by the nape
their necks
pants and
and
the
throw
seat
them
of
of their
out
of the
Of
course,
placing
we
of
that
this
Williamsburg
realize
the
Inn
at the disposal of army and navy
officers
and families
of
the
thoughtfulness it is certainly typ-
football
Mary and
These
team
at
William
is the man
instances
are
and
that he is.
few
and
far
between.
I
heard
we
trouble
are
many
in
when
for
the "
people
all
of then
of
start
From what
last night, I do not
think we need have any fear that
these
men
selves
Rockefeller
ical,
good
works
of
the
Yet,
in
its
family.
and
because
we
it
per-
to thank
sonally, we wanted
feel
you
say
kinds
Seabees"
to visit Williamsburg.
I saw
lesser
personally.
have
that
the
is really one
Williamsburg
Theatre.
I am very
glad that " Happy" was captain of
as
will
not
conduct
them-
We have been made to feel very
welcome
lane,
here,
the
erything
tended
possible,
himself,
home.
So
Mr.
has
MacFardone
ev-
really
has
ex-
to make us feel
at
just
we
be known
gentlemen.
and
manager,
it
that
had
we
to
are
let
deeply
grateful.
Let us not forget
our near neighbors.
that they are
They are all
headed
where,
for overseas
essary, they
lives for us.
Yours faithfully,
if nec-
will lay down their
They deserve to be
Lt. anal Mrs. Robert
treated as gentlemen.
M. Metten,
Williamsburg
Inn.
I am told
years
Peary,
row
Architect
and
The Vanishing Receptionist
that
as soon
as
All good things must come to an end they say, and, so we must
record our regret at the withdrawal
of our receptionist into a narrow
Now we see her, and now we don' t!
This fair lady has gone
they have finished their training
they are headed for overseas. Nat- the way of all furbelows and trimmings for the duration. We recall
with delight the parade of blondes, brunettes and brownettes who have
urally, they are anxious to have
It as good a time as possible
they leave.
They
realize
slipped.
The resulting knee injury caused may
a month
of the Raleigh
of
cubicle.
stability.
and
star
we
now.
climbed
EASTMAN:
are a fine,
eighty percent of them are marwon' t mention for fear it' s too
ried. They know that, unless they
confidential — some days they feel are members of
the
permanent
well!
in front
store. "
They
bet.
we reach
Post
other
WITH
Is
is finally offered . to bet me ten dol-
all the low down
soul — In
LOCATION
of who are stationed at bases in this
voice: "
then
the
vice Club
long
paragraphs
gather that our jobs are
to
ON
can
in
that
main they are older nien and they
would
foregoing
side
on
in the
next?
monotonous,
a bright
and
a fractur-
injuries.
ly one extra minute
the scaffolding
would
several
difficulties
Lodge
feeding
gether after the game to settle the
today — and
piece
contractor
fered
will
it
home."
a
little
a
L"
dope
to
with
we stop and wonder what
terribly
While putting siding on a house
The
the
the
month.
tickle
for
the feminine
Williams
when
tickle
fellow
who
into
have become a joke
We
the
From
a
we
us.
world.
service
Building
The Ticklers
him
young
far
past
become
letters
write
a
Mrs.
lers have
the
wants
in
so
of warning
can' t write
group
in
him
man
days
kind
the
out
three
the
Sam
But Uncle
not
Within
one would
the
num-
are
1500 or 1600 at Camp
fit, give
to make
and
night.
feed him, clothe
him physically
needed
with
anything
the great
ber of people we
or when their services are no long-
home.
home
broken.
really
never
with
take
calling
knee
in pay
letter
consideration
of
you
there anybody who can play the
stacked
get raises
from
When
are pouring in so fast until they
they
didn' t get a letter
serv-
are
too, when
awake
at supper.
they many inside.
listen avidly while the other fellows read choice bits from letters
never
into
after
hundreds
a group
Then,
The
people
and
them outside the Service Club, and
for.
It is worse at night for the boy
last night,
the
work
received.
efficiently
are
they
they
who
it was
standing
partment
have
organized
more
them in the stores, the theatre and
the Payroll Office
P. C. V.
better
Happy Halligan as the tall and sinewy blacksmith, Harold Henn the
cameraman, Fay LeCompte as a Colonial Gentleman sunning himself
glad that " Brooksie"
is not giving
up her job for the present, and
she
room
operating
of
Rinehart
Henry
Treasurer' s
our
af-
kitch-
laxing and enjoying their recreation at the end of the day' s work.
to
son
Eustis,
will
North
that
the
shots taken by Bert Reed during the filming of the picture on 18th
Century Williamsburg Life by the Eastman Kodak crew. Top shows
on
1942,
Rinehart
Mr.
Fort
Rinehart
on
through
and 1
and
with life and it was very interestof
ing to see all of these people re-
married
31,
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Ohio.
of
Brooks
Rinehart,
usually a dozen men. who do not the life history
lows
was
daughter
Earl
Elden
Mrs.
Lodge
seen the Lodge kitchen and dish-
P. C. V.' S I' d like to offer in way played
the
is
Shearon,
Norman
C.,
at
the
went
washing
Branch
somewhere
October
Sergeant
armed
first boat reaching the ship from
the
probably
Texas.
Mrs.
Saturday,
services. When
dangerous
from
Brooks,
for- their return
beaches,
needed
and
for
beauties)
Nick
or
Olga
and
a long
City
time
now
I.,
Barkeley,
desperately
es
on
him
Atlantic
Jack
Vernon
stationed
a
R.
sea,
Arcanum,
ing
him
Rinehart - Brooks
are forgotten.
the dangerous
have
taken
have
by
heard
to
less, and they didn' t realize how
sailing
to
and
last
go
that the folks at home were care-
the
has
or bathing
Newport,
turn
mind.
unloved
from
unknown.
Wilson,
Nothing
out
Slaughter
we
we
is being thoroughly indoctrinated
the mail clerk.
sight;
Bert
inducted,
Lee
Denver,
to
away
who
terwards
Mrs. Chorley
at
ing hundreds
when
didn' t
bathing
are
Norman ?
which
he
you
issue,
letters
Camp
Mr.
of
of
odyssey
away from the eager circle around
Out
answer
and yards
what
and
last
that
just
his
See
the
away.
few
for us to
robins.
Since
little
is
in
than
to
that
faithful
supper
round
little
are
home — home
thousands
the
package.
contents
rapidly.
pieces
for
or
by
the
Brown.
grab
One
are
one
out
so
Last night
had
and
was
calls
those
of reply in the form of elongated
where
clerk
that
take note, and en and dishwashing room. I want
It has become you to know that I have never
the thing
from
mail
work,
hope
been
swell
their
such letters with yards
had
The
We
R. announced
Letter for a Soldier
been
of
writing us will
drop us a line.
Black-
Evans.
have
us
haven' t
missing,
W.
Staff ....
Geiger,
Some of our men who have gone
into
about
Mrs. Mildred
1942
never
With
come
before
they
these
was
back.
the large numbers
adorned
of sol-
our classic
charming
a gorgeous
brunette.
How
entrance.
ladies.
blonde
Like
Earl
Carroll,
we make
One visitor remarked, "
When
and
there
delightful!"
when
I
departed,
claims
I entered
was
a
for
there
beautiful
�November,
1942
THE
NEWS
Page Three
Last Restoration For Duration
On The
From The Boys In Service"
W. I. and L. Front
From
We
would
boys
in
like
the
to
report
service
seem
our
to
be
the
heard
who
is
in
from
Australia,
somewhere
Charlie
Forest
in
the
White
the
the, boys
of
Burt
Pacific
at
the
good
job.
rolled
Warfield
in Officers
at Fort Bragg
has
joined
bile,
has
Candidate
the
Air
Merchant
Marine
a
en-
of
The final restoration job scheduled for the duration of the
Dr. Archie Ryland' s residence as seen above in its
authentic
home
on
Henceforth
is
Mo-
lane
months
was
ago
visiting
He found
Jim
in
Macfar-
New
York.
out that Kenneth
ley, as well
Colonial
as being
Whenever
you
Chor-
President
Williamsburg,
in the " banking
business."
are
Burns
in
Washington.
glad
to
the official
name of this house
came
back
return - not
only
what
she
brings
PATRIOTISM IN OUR DIVISION
The
committee
building of morale
on
the
upconsists of the
Eleanor "
most prominent
early
Research
Department.
Dr.
Craft
House
Roosevelt"
months.
be
Land"
In
fact,
the
might
No -Man' s
the "
called
of
it
Restoration. (
The
Capitol
Governor
011ie
Bage,
our
driver).
In
shur
recalled
was
in the
janitor -
Seabees
as
September
to
Zaharov.
truck
Mr.
active
Navy, leaving
Mrs.
will
a
Up-
Hattie
are
Lee
are
Mrs.
Building.
Joan
Recent
force
Glassburn,
Zaharov' s secretary,
Mrs.
Mrs.
Caroline
Cochran
Jim ' Macfarlane _ is doing well
as Secretary of the Officer' s Club
Miss Mabel Shaver who took Mr
he
has
with
all
to himself.
eight
girls
to
work
Don' t tell
Moyles
is
not
us
jeal-
ous?
success.
Mr. Green rolled
out the
and we had barrels
barrel
of fun.
Johnny Byrnes has a gleam in
his eyes these days.
Wonder what
he wants from
Into
fall and
saddened
so
to
of Larry
some
Brown,
our night Audit-
and
P.
Sweeney,
Robert
J.
November
Mr.
of
Shiel
25
Eugene
Shiel
nected
with
Evelyn
and
take
the
sion
of
con-
Department
of the Williamsburg
Inn,
now been transferred to
counting
on
Virginia.
formerly
Food
Mr.
place
Lanexa,
was
Department
but has
the Ac-
of the Divi-
Williamsburg
Inn
and
Lodge.
is
Navv
objects
save
one
goggles
Columbus,
Mine
d' art,
14
ing has
is
on
of
ab-
proven
to
our
we
are
buck
fabric
room
very
years
quite
has
bride
as
he
an
convenient
place
prospective
is small
with
of
goggles
was
befuddled
to
no means
we
conducted
order
a
for
in
5, 000
letters.
let
Mum' s
it
mood
bounds
one
a
long
opens
up
all
with
Allston
would
pauses
to
endless
the
with
the
din-
inquired
be
served.
ponder,
this
business . possi-
prevention
than
exists
with
what
rent
atmosphere
been
As
anotl; er
is,
the
a month,
always
the
it
our
rooming
we
could
bedroom
and
it
would
which
aim
visitor
to
for
cer-
it
has
establish.
remarked,
it
ade-
in
North
fish
have
metal
or
hunt
birds.
When
in ship' s business
individual
mostly
work,
projects
with
all
of
carpentry
which
Fla.:
it
the
soon
about
the
Restoration
and
partment of Public Safety.
At `
Ihe 6raft Ilouse
of
was
FOR CHILDREN
second
in that
ex-
Miniatures $ .
knows
no
for every-
Dolls-
Clay
25
Ladies .
Dolls Book .
35. 00
item,
and
with
label
25
25
Gentlemen .
50
Paper .
50
75
Pipe .
hubby
Hostess
he,
SALES
the
with
PLUS
and
vary,
but
one
we
are ob-
of the cus-
can
be consum-
ated in one sitting.
5. 50 - $
1. 00
Broom $ .
Hearth
Post Paper Note Size .
Bayberry Candles ( per pair
man.
part
tomer' s education
1. 50
FOR GROWN - UPS
pocket
public
if a good
Gentlemen
that
wiser
find that our best results
tained
1. 25
1. 50
She left
APPEAL
educating
Palace
s
Rag)
Dolls ( Rag)
are
We still employ various methods
of
Governor'
tax).
Jane
and
1. 00
1. 00
Dolls (
obviously
result?
sadder
Doll
de-
per, "
know
net
laden;
a
Sampler -
20. 00
silver
10 per cent
you
arms
was $
1. 00
1. 00
Sundial
Hughie,
his $ 50. 00
The
empty,
set
said
of
sure
with
then "
sterling
and
Darling,"
this
to a small
just love that drink-
The
set ?" (
canter
souvenir
pointing
wouldn' t Jane
complete
enthusiasm
Our methods
customer
who
Post Paper with Quill
Reproduced Prints
Sealing Wax Set
50
50
.
Pen .
50
75
75c -$ 1. 50
1. 00
CW -7 Finger Bowl
1. 00
4 CW -4 Muddlers
Sundial
Post Paper ___.
1. 00
1. 00
1. 00
was
interested in purchasing a sizable
amount
of
furniture,
seemed
to
1. 25 - $
2. 50
find the methods of our sales lady
amusing
cleared
turning
to
instructive
that
General
he
in
had
re-
the
just
the
it
selling
he
the
Zaha-
completed
Electric
made
salesmen
ever,
upon
House
Craft
Company'
salesmanship
always
check
The
day, he told Mrs.
the
course
when
the
rov
he
than
for no apparent reason.
a
and
that
practice
methods
of
encountered.
Craft
House
s
The
P.
S.
gent
The
methods
bought
the
Don' t forget
even
do
to do
had
worked.
Berry
Beaker
Spoon
CW -12
Amber
Bottle
CW -165
Green Bottle
CW -20 Open Salt
Egg
or
Toddy Cup
mailing
for
1. 50
1. 50
1. 75
1. 75
2. 00
Flip
Glass,
2. 00
CW -16T Green Bottle
Cocktail Glasses
CW -44 Brass Key
Glasses
Old- Fashioned
2. 00
2. 00
Ice Bowl
2. 50
with
2. 00
2. 40
CW -51 Spoon
Christ-
you if you will pay for the postage.
1. 20
1. 25
1. 25
1. 50
1. 50
Shuck Mats
CW -49
CW -54
at the Craft House.
your
Corn
Linen Towel
CW - 14 Etched
furniture.)
your
Glass . $
to
used them • all so effectively and
so fast he couldn' t keep up with
her. (
Flip
Herb Box
all
Howgal
Plain
All Prices 20%
about
the other two men from the
4.
Y
decisive
be
is
I am` doing fine down
zft Selections
and
state
we
afoot
better than anything I have ever
been in. It was great to hear all
received
Pickaninny Rag
place,"
We' ll
60. 00
and
I have
of
darling
to act following
lady' s suggestion.
haughtily
1.
fortnight
begin-
where
which
mas shopping
or
interest
Boyer,
here in the Army and I do like it
During
darling,
get
mystery
below par,
into
never
a
and
maneuvered
Words will
Oh Hughie,
do
more
descent
are twen-
of his voice. "
otherwise,
into
Va.:
co,
the past
brought
that
lukewarm
home
more
in
and the same
Doll Family
Doll Broom
the
tainly tend to create that informal
far
assigned
placed
Life goes on pretty much
water,
Note
dramatically,
today.
dissatisfied
ing its boys in service.
had
House,
and she yenned
probably
unfortunately,
both
date,
company
If not engaged
quickly.
thing but had not yet learned to
interpret hubby' s expression or to
successful,
dinner
When
promo-
necessary
the
She was
and
considerable.
Safety
work
does not always show its value as
accident
walk,
to say, we
out here
Paper
Paper
Color
is
and
was
and will
majestically
the
hour
are
word."
room,
room
small
we
hours
Pewter
day.
situation
in
is
a field
know;
may find it
sailed
mail
a very
a bang
If
it
summer
Christmas
you
the
as
the lack
Christmas,
it up with
out
eye
was
were
same
STILL
out
would
bilities,
be
there
nature, the sweet young thing had
snare
successful
promotion
in
to get
that
a
of escape.
This
that
Gov-
summer
draftee)
adoration
definite
would
Needless
honeymoon-
Craft
still
least
there
From
Pacific:
will
quately express my appreciation
for the kindness W. R. I. is extend-
fur-
lady
times
a
time before they paid dividends, at
that
world
platoon.
are
From Richard J. Davis, Quanti-
The
buyers
transportation.
in
out
We still carry on despite
the
whose
asset
his
for
to the
impossible
you
noise under-
turned
unwary
ing
kind
that
the
met in Williams-
ty -our hours per day. The Japs great fun. So we are a pretty
f
are good fighters and there is a self contained unit with very few
1 am learning more
tremendous job to be done, and we complaints.
bout this business each day.
are going to need all the help we
From
Alvin
Farinholt,
Clearcan get if we expect to finish this
the
the
the
at
private (
his
budd-
gone during its construction.
dignity
a
mission
never
we
is another
small
in Williamsburg!
mecca
thinking
ASSET
addition
living
wore
of
of our
leave
spite of the gruelling
She
of
a
We
was
ning of the awakening
of the
seriousness of life. . A very young
ing
Should our sales fall
employee
Ohio,
plant
Depot.
ADDITION
new
tion
eye."
his
wedding.
the torpedo
on one pompous
saved
the
family
House early in November.
we
The
on
war.
how
on the
the same
that will have to
the
let' s
1942,
sence but will return to the Craft
we will
to
at
in
mail
Invest in Safety
these
sea
detect
Eu-
26,
Mary King, the custodian
doing
took
and
of her
from
works
way, but
It
She
Mrs.
in Alexandria,
members
and
ers,
a
well ?"
Mrs.
will
and
became
September
present
The
Toano,
at
on
NEW
of
soon
married
only
were
SHIEL - SWEENEY
marriage
the
and
HONEYMOONERS
pansive
Fairtrace.
were
Virginia
or at the Lodge.
The
force
place.
she
Eugene
rain must
we are particularly
announce the death
s
sales
While Hazel came down as Miss
Shaver,
the
Santa Claus?
each life
the
MacPherson'
gene
The employees party was a huge
of
used
for
summered
No,"
doing their share at the Lodge
and
of
thought
used
Palace
Still
MacPherson
being
Obviously
never
service
in his place
Mr.
had
Darden
home.
join
to the Craft House
Smith;
Connolly.
and
one
ther it was her understanding
ernor' s
the
She
was
only oasis in this female institut-
additions
Eyes"
our meeting
of
but
here
in the Pa-
would like to get home again.
is a shame to waste perfectly good
changes in the last buildings.
revolutionary
two
has undergone
Alene "
Tommy
at
after
the books.
war
The
Office
Helen of Troy"
was
Craft House Bulletins
old Post
Oriental
Barraud
1800' s.
bell; Mary " Kate Smith" Rosseau;
that
Beasten,
I have had some very ex-
anyone
owners of this historic house, habing lived there in the
Duncan; Frances " Katherine Hep- went to the maintenance departburn" Henderson; Lady Frances ment and Mrs. Miller left to go
Burns; Esther " U. S. 0." Camp- with Max Rieg' s new shop in the
B.
and
example
ccncerned
the
soon
Willie
it
or
of
ion -
her
back.
following:
and in the
York
because we are so fond of Frances
ask
on the records
war s
garb.
NOTE:
We are always
see her
you
about
working
well
but
here
The
it
Duncan Cocke is in my com-
pany
his job you might remind them our
Farish
also
New
just
from
to.
D.
of
was
and need a check cashed see K. C.
Frances
get
publications will be " The Dr. Barraud House ", according to Hunter
thirty day leave.
A few
out
and "
me
We are very busy but
probably
climax
tomorrow
after- the same.
noon and will be another one for when in port have a chance to
Smith
at
Bert
until
now
Savage
Corps
Lamar
as myself
News"
believe
grand finding out what was happening in the town I feel so close
at Quantico
I have told some
citing experiences
School
and Tommy
Alabama.
the
Winn
as well
The
and
burg
From
go
doing
I was
of "
Gazette ",
usual. Thanks lots for sending it.
and
Brooklyn
is
copies
is. We had
from
he
since
civilians
cific:
reports
G r e a t
and they think it is something un-
Navy Yard. Ensign Hoke is kept
busy at the Warfare School and
all
Henry,
I have been getting
a kick out of it.
Griffin
Harold
paper
and
doing well, judging from the letters they send home and we are
justly proud of them. Of late we
have
Joseph
Lakes, Ill. c
Off to Employees!
De-
�Page
THE
Four
AROUND
NEWS
November,
THE
WATER
COOLER
i
The Architects
The Architects
News Of The
ReportReport •
In
recent
ural
weeks
Department
the
has
People
Colored People
Architect-
been
The
study-
the
a
group
of
colored
soldiers
increased
Restoration
the
to the
problems
at
next
that,
nothing
to
straw
to him, "
but
a
look
pile
His
on."
sleep
Just
demand
keep
of progress
compan-
As
coming
up,
and
example,
space
in
floor
a
bit,
and
said, "
I woke up in jail
nothing
but
under
Aw
go
one time
a hawd
on,
with
cement
floor
me."
In
posite
has
the
the
were
the
leaders
for
the
morning
of their
day,
when
the
introduced
being
to
soldier
Colonel
groups
Foster
introduced
to
Corporal
Southerland
Mrs.
been
altered
from
possible
the
Mrs.
Southerland.
We
at the
the
army
The
and
and
this
some
College
space
men' s
center.
slated
same
the
this
Ladies
Tavern
and
Questions
escorts
er
to
are
and
soldier
still
it
is
boys
finished
And,"
rooms?" "
hostess, "
could
still
the
be
so
and
nice
and
see
Eustis
ings.
Many smart rejoinders
along
Street
are
loss
Revolutionary
War
during
and
are
plans
filed
so
for getting conpermit.
can
of time
start
and
after
the
marked "
States —so
destroyed
he
help
war
with-
to give
work
Hopkins
has
shuts
complet-
ed his
the
R. I., and is now stationed
re-
his
training
by the Yankees
new
and restored by the Yankees —
are
well— that' s fair enough."
at Quonset
still
Point,
at Kan-
and Tom
at
Little
by Va. Engin-
the
Naval
Mine
One
Sunday
afternoon,
two Depot, Yorktown, Va.
Restoration fathers were taking
Ex -Chief Draftsman, Wash
for
little
a
four
walk
acted
as
while
hostesses
ings.
It
little
girls
exactly
year
so
old
daughters
their
in
mothers
the
happened
were
alike,
with
red
the
almost
coats,
and
still
for
build-
that
dressed
is
in
Norfolk,
Doyle
Mr.
and
Alfred
and
Reed
working
Russell.
A.
Williamsburg
has
Kluwer
who
left
over a year ago and
been
wor king
-
O' Conner &
Co.
for
the
at
Thomas
Charles-
the main thoroughfare of the city. aminations and is now a registerFinally
a kindly interested
lady ed architect in the State of Mascame up to them asked, " Whose sachusetts.
little
girls
real
citedly, " Oh,
which
replied in unison,
They are ours."
showing
At
they ?"
are
Architectural
moved from
Department
the
small
draft-
Then the lady, ing room to make available
interest,
are
The •
has
asked
they
ex-
twins"'
he
advised
space
needed
Aldrich,
that
received
now
First
by
office
Newsome
Engineers
he Colonel
for
Congratu-
from
N.
the
Moorehead
a
recent
Y.
the
has
visit
where
Introducing
before
long.
Nelson
he
Philipse
on duty on the Pacific Coast with
the
newly
organized "
awaiting
definite
service.
acquit
Seabees" —
know
Phil
creditably,
with
the
Bill
electric
near
the
front
of Chowning' s Tavern
Courthouse
ing it possible
is framed
and
Construction
and his
Department
questionably
serve
Pacific
The large
signboard
with decorative
will
which
is supported
a
post.
The
siah
the
Chowning"
board
are
top
and
tween the words
jovial
Good
him
Beasten,
Screw
ago
Bill."
he
Rita
Boyer
Hayworth
in
a
Manhattan"
scene
the
and
from "
star
Charles
Tales
studded
of
been
hit
that plays the Williamsburg Theatre for three days, Nov. 26- 27 -28.
introduction
Now
that
pearance
ready
ern
haps,
he
he
painted
has
pending
a popping
the
quietly
who
is
Bert —we know
a grand
Johnny
Monie
ap-
bracket
to the
and,
great
Willkie)
a
to
son
to
W or s h i p f u l
and
A.
delegates
to
the
Lodge
D.
Lodge
152
Bucher,
most
had
in
the
the "
on
not
Blacknall,
other
we
of his
worshipful
Price
are
the
arrived
Jackson
to assist
in
the
is limited,
and
obtain
their
sad
news
loved
for
to
Mrs.
Cowles
has
been
season
and
she
covered
with
trees
in
best
learn
the
and
John
T.
Branch,
Navy,
will
preliminary
who
is
of
soon
complete
training
at
his
Newport,
Island.
is
now
Aeronautical
Civilian
Alfred
ees,
Scott
was
remember
at
Haw-
School
may
was
also
Officers'
he
has
four
in
the
his
about
the
Pete"
Tucker
School.
and
that
commission.
maintenance
is
of
for
and
handling
the
the
mechanical
the
Maintenance
it
About
Sherman
know
fox
Construction
to
be
way
to
the
that
to
in
Beaston
know
that
charge
in
at
the
Warrick
the
some
Goodwin
a
and
to
see
Lock Joint
Pipe
Virginia,
Enroute
an
Tennessee
outstanding
mocracy
and
Naval
she
a
for
she
saw
private,
officer
and
a
of
a
seated
together in a section of the lounge
and
and
exchanging
experiences
Emily
Wilson,
our
movie
surrealist
when
her
with
oriental
that
Girl
makers,
billy
tongs,
playing
cards,
spinning
Molly,
ters,
pipe
pigs,
dolls,
butter
pipe
have
Tav-
of
per-
new
recently
their
homes
Magruder,
homes
vicinity
of
have
in
been
ousted
the
vicinity
in
been
the
building
immediate
Williamsburg.
no
brought
good.
dressed
without
they
them,
were
Wil-
Some
up
At
but
in
next
returned
the
left
of
masks
on
is
morning
to his home.
a
good
likeness
one
of
our
Inn
Lodge &
boys
We
are
ladder,
old
let-
Gazette,
composition.
have
to
look
to
to
Mr.
his
LEVI
cov-
see
the
Deli
will
Roy Brice
Fred
ing
vs. "
excellent
the
home
and
by
front.
ees,
was
slightly
trainAs
he
is
now
Iowa
and
ever
lalah
in
the
a
in the
took
good -sized
basket
on
Betts
at the
of
get
squad-
has
joined
shy
in
of
fresh
Junious,
Lodge,
chickens
who
the
second
has
a lot
poultry
busi-
T. K.
ness.
Safety In War Effort
There still persists among us an
that the war
fight
his
will
be won
hard
enough.
What we have not realized fully
is that the fight belongs to all of
us.
We
are
a
portion
greatly
er!
our
can we do to increase
What
needed
of
country' s
manpow-
it?
One important way is to consider
the
matter
of lost time from
helped
tions
count
greatly
to
acci-
We have
by
reduce
of
still
a
a
Levi
He
Shil-
bike.
own
health
their
lost
injury
or
need
chance
police dog of us to help;
to recover his dignity.
carries
cook
is
administered
now
aviation
Branson
and
it
awhile
in the
you
see
ment
wounded
but
one of our employ-
Milton
there
to
wounds,
in
o l d
the Army.
out to
left leg. • Dr. Tucker
his
Base
ron U. S. Air Base at Sioux City,
he was at-
a German
him
all
heard of the safety program, many
have served on the committee and
MAJOR"
on
is
Nashville, Tenn.
Eppes,
dents and sickness.
laurels.
is receiving
Levi
to
g o o d
if our men
rifle, " Maud' s
enxious
uniform
Air
hound
platter,
Virginia
who
swearing
by Uncle Sam.
Roy is at the
attitude
old
horseshoes,
long -barrelled
tacked
from
fellows
coffee
wheels,
hams,
watermelons,
geese.
goat,
one morning
employees,
have
carries
carrier,
puzzle,
dog
out
She
coal
jigsaw
racks,
like
starts
she
props.
rugs,
Friday
looks
rolled the bicycles
who
Night
Edwards
If
the rack
of our colored
he will
his.
eggs
leisurely
Many
is so high
burst
Crump
his way home and took his clothes.
He was very cold driving home
views.
New-
room.
to
like hobble -goblins, caught him
de-
Chinese
sailor
in the
drafting
burst
the
Army
are
on
the
to wait until after the war is over
noted
an
the above project are now located
small
like
service
evidence
when
colonel
office
engineers
and
he
his
Preston
her
Navy.
the
final
Aldrich,
cloth
but
run
depart
engineers
Building.
fathers
vests,
says
a
in
this
took
brother
brac.
former
new
it
the
to
interested
his
All
their
the
back.
sour
want
and
didn' t
down
be
Ewell,
occupying
luck
is
potato
nohow."
Mickey
FWA
the
of the
Company
now
will
with
the
found
put
story
ered wagon, cow and other bric -aBert
So
he
and
on
on
and
station
potato
sweet
Richmond
examined,
given
holiday
Torments,"
Department.
with
n o w
We
grapes?
grinders,
supervision
that
day.
afternoon
said, " You
for
Training
received
did
remember
a rainy, blustry
be-
ago.
Roberts looked out of the window
as
Instructor.
Kemp Boot is still at Camp Lee
the
the
at
Carolina,
South
that
offices
Williamsburg
their
days
entertained
sent to
31st.
liam
not close on Labor Day this year.
a
in
brilliant
Sherman— Philosopher
car
Michie
time
a Halloween
party at his home.
James Bullips, one of our employ-
to
may
lost
a few
him
Department
the Ordnance
Rhode
wish
of luck.
Ensign
with
the
foliage.
in
the
visiting
enjoyed
young
arrival
enjoyable
they
Mother
sweet
assistance.
her family in Roanoke during the
where-
delighted
of Vir-
there.
and
throughout
Their time
to
and
of
definite
a most
State
of
While we do
side."
safe
are
to be cal-
has safely
his
abouts
one
department
know
you
of the
were
of
College
Barbara
emergencies
You
job out there.
led into service,
public.
his
his
smile
cork.
Bottle
Miss
the
well.
his for-
made
on
bril-
sometime
hiding
visitors
a broad
on
Be-
in
as "
to
hangs
to greet
with
bottom.
Completed
has
at the warehouse
mal
painted
known
colors
have
taking care of the Japs, You
luck
doing
by
Jo-
is a picture of a
gentleman
liant
words "
that
at the
Miss
office.
on
a Wendell
coeds
and
un-
wrought
iron work
wooden
of
City
Halloween
has been recently
promoted
to
Senior Ensign on board his ship.
in
mak-
to put up the new
sign.
coming
A. F. & M.
Restoration
power poles have been taken down
Tavern
now
fall
will
We are wishing
him luck,
hoping to hear in December
temporary
old
Ruth
happy
of James
while
orders for for- privilege of seeing the mountains
We
himself
experience
con-
Castle
drawn
reservoir" (
is now
to
Bottle Screw
last the
also
Shepperd,
Master
They
priorities will have to be establish-
and
Restoration.
At
is
Phillip
Orangeburg,
Singleton
are
Miss
Harold.
pocket.
Lieutenant
projects.
on
23
have
beautiful
ed
thorne
sulted
just
October
Ware
homony pipe line and other local
Tarrytown,
on
have
in
lations to you Ed —we hope it will
Tom
returned
we
Lieutenant.
Chica-
Mr.
Shaw
promotion — he
a
first in this
bonnets matching. They attracted town Navy Yard in Boston, Mass.
attention as they strolled down has successfully passed all ex-
the proud fathers
been
and
We
He
office.
at Camp
Carolina,
Ensign
employed
Co.
that
Charles and Cue Willis has very
Colonial
Ferguson
eering
their
South
post.
Finley
Office
Laboratory,
our
visited
is still stationed
eign
Lt. Alden
the
the chemist
of our Paint
recently
By
flanking buildings were destroyed sas City, Mo. Lt. Hopkins visited
by Northern soldiers in the War Williamsburg
before reporting
to
Between
in charge
way just as soon
the
how
gaps
down.
listened to his escort tell how the
burned
they
work
employment
way
in
these
conditions
means
are out
fill
As
under
world
this
taverns
Duke
of
Gloucester
the vicinity
of the
as to be available
as
A private from New York State
to
completed,
struction
General
M. Notes"
Ed Ware, formerly
act-
recon-
shops,
Tavern.
en-
heard too.
Palace
the
in
studies
several
outbuildings
the
joy their daily tours of the build-
of
houses,
Raleigh
answer-
to
Fort
to
ladies."
hostesses
asked
from
come
and
C. &
Communique
ive work proceeds on the prepara-
do you mean they put them in the
Raising the flag of Queen Anne at the Capitol.
This ceremony takes
place every morning on the cupola of the House of Burgesses but few
have ever seen it. Booker Orange is shown doing the honors here.
soon.
plans
announce
little
Sylvester
for
man and 2 s. 6 d. for beast, when
tion
of
the dear old lady with a troubled
expression interjected " dear, dear, structed
to
ginia which was held in Farmville.
completion
these
the
Grand
Tavern was explaining
that the
rates for rooms were 2 s. 6 d. for
with
of
willing
space
its
is
are
office
company' s
alteration
in
girl,
We
announce
of Wil-
of
expanded
Coupled
baby
Rozelia.
30
under way for
behalf
we
are proud to
John
navy
Telephone
greatly
ing
Theatre
for
hand
mov-
Crump, is rejoicing over his bounc-
op-
accommodate
enlargement
has
The brown -eyed hostess
to
liam and Mary.
Studies are also
and
to
building
facilities
students
was
Foster,
office
Williamsburg
dormitory
a recent
escorts
of
at
one of our oldest workers, Preston
third floor and part of the second
him
is
stick to the end.
the
ion reached over playfully, pushed
the
That
few is still
In
part,
for
down.
season
forward.
colored
is being made.
one
another
the faithful
ing
in
come
tumble
and
New
property.
has
to
means
for
more housing and office space
going through the Gaol, one said
one
local
time
leaves
ing general questions arising from
In
1942
and
take
sugges-
time
on
illness.
of
for
care
consult
ac-
But
improveeveryone
of
your
our
com-
pany doctors, look
for
hazards
that may cause accidents, report
unhealthy
working
job practices,
and
ness
and
error.
conditions
and
avoid careless-
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<p>When using the <em>CW News</em>, it is important to remember that it reflects the realities of its time. For example, columns in the 1940s issues reported on the “News of the Colored People.” Separate reporting of African American and white social events was indicative of the segregation that was the legal norm in Virginia at the time.</p>
<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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VOLUME
WILLIAMSBURG, VA., JANUARY, 1943
Gifts Sent To
All the men who left the Restor-
a carton of Chesterfield cigarettes,
to be mailed
The
had
burg
the
to
went
post -
scattered
States.
were
It is
all
received
priority
from
because
received
Paul
in
Boyer
have
North
a U. S. S. PC when
al-
from
We are happy to report that our
Says Boy-
cigarettes that I opened this morn-
hack at his desk in New York City,
ing was the
The
means
carton
whereby
one
o' clock
I after an illness which began during
thoroughly ingratiated myself with
my fellow officers, ( I put brother
at
resume
I Am
a
the
gave
of
a
the
Williamsburg"
Ferguson
November.
at
the
For three
weeks
Johnston - Willis
he was
Hospital
in
nicotine behind me two years ago)
Richmond.
Mr.
Chorley
recently
them
to the
Lodge.
being
Game
While
served
discussed
Steel
through
and then took
Room
at
the
refreshments
there,
the
Mrs.
visitors
some of the buildings
fitness
a few days.
tain likes
reports
are due in
What' s more, the CapChesterfields — a
happy
coincidence ".
Robert
W.
Eubank,
as
Safety
stationed
who
a member
will
at
were
Mr. Kendrew
architectural
prob-
well
Department,
at
Delhart,
is now
Texas,
with
of the Williamsburg
The
informal
Rob-
ert writes: " I got a carton of cigarettes from Colonial Williamsburg
today and appreciate them. I was
thinking tonight, in the last year
I have been in
about
thirty -six
states and have discussed Williams-
burg and the Restoration quite a
lot —more or less a walking Cham-
unit
nature
an opportunity
building
used
buildof this
to learn
the methods
by the
lie within their
Mr. Kendrew'
Travis House
were
Restoration
Travis
will
closed
last June
which
when
was
gasoline
province.
explanations
ra-
visit
the
units
will
real
desire
be
such
exhibition
those
same
of doing
And,
it de-
answer ...
One morning
was going
Chinese
recently,
could
talk
I knew
it
before
I
My group of solup
entirely
of
trainees
33 men
from
Fort
Eustis
and not a one of them
back.
According to
stopped
It was
told
my
interpreter
five
to
men
groups
buildings
the
liamsburg
point
of
to
mentioned
around
common
George
all knew
in
New
time felt
the need
for
and candid
on
their
way to the Palace
I
I
and
so from
then on things were fine.
the paper
So
Washington
him,
On the
told
mulberry
them
trees and
they were all very much amused,
silk
that after
worms
all our trouble
wouldn' t eat from
Those
and
one asked
about
an
adjac-
through
remember
not lgrapher
the
March
and
summer
voice
said,
2)
in a world
at
war.
After this Williamsburg
miere, Colonial Williamsburg
use
the
picture
in
preplans
its
local
training programs for Army and
an inquiring
Page
the place
Williamsburg
the crowd
on
particularly
of Col-
onial
some
Continued
be
feature,
Navy visitors
of
camera
which describes
use
middle
of
Durartii
Time
of
will
and
the
the visit
Lloyd
interested in seeing this
magnolia,
from
buildings
Williamsburg.
who
ent tree. I explained that it was a
in
and to release
Army
throughout
and
the
Navy
it for
camps
country.
The picture will be shown on the
Theatre Celebrates 10th Birthday
of a restaurant
missions
crew to Williamsburg last spring
to
them.
Then
Feb-
shots of people walking
regular
of Colonial
regular
some
at the Wil-
Saturday,
because
it was produced
by the
March of Time from unrehearsed
Chief -
for some
interest.
about
on
film
ruary 13, for six continuous performances from 2 until 11 P. M.
a
have
new
dreds of people shown in this film,
on January
has
showings
Theatre
of
who
stationed
the
Williamsburg in Virginia" is given
its first public
bill
nection
Williamsburg
when
histori-
19th.
of Commerce."
forces
but according to Mr. Bean it would
be impossible to locate the hun-
explain
coal
armed
Peninsula
evince
and
who
the
of
the streets and exhibition
tory, I floundered
the
ists and unifomed personnel of all
I
Chinese every dozen words I spoke.
This was bringing
the
we
Parish.
a few
minutes
of
The first showing of most movies
is an invitation affair for the cast,
cal facts, and was amazed that he
took
students
to
bound
schedule
first at Bruton
the
Williamsburg,
College of William and Mary, tour-
the
to be different
left the Theatre.
diers was made
of
to see the restoration
Williamsburg
reopened
the
question . .
pends on the company!
about
ap-
forming
tioning lost Williamsburg its tour- background for the trip.
ist business,
thing every day?
same
always
especially
For the time being,
House,
the
they
that
received with enthusiastic
once each week;
The
special
s skillful
of
preciation.
Re opens
tired
get
Discovering
that
my
charges
knew absolutely no American his-
ings..
and about many other matters
the
old
ever
toration
Presbyterian Hospital in New York at first hand about
entirely
the same
don' t you
Castle.
tion
and was pronounced
And so will hundreds of citizens
lems and progress in the actual res-
the
be
of
the U. S. Army Air Forces.
ber
examinations
again.
remembered
Public
underwent
Time Marches On!
BOZARTH
be a field day.
Anitetiug gave ,. lie Naval Construcofficers'
By NANCY
con-
part of the
and
their
Continuous Performances
men
After Mr. Bean' s address
interesting
Mrs.
president, Kenneth Chorley, is now
gales: "
at
conducted
of
er between
and
cluded the introductory
trip.
Africa
he wrote
8, when
officers
Geddy
film "
who was aboard
Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
of
time to time by research workers
here and abroad. A showing of the
acknowledgement
Post
and Allston
on January
work done by the Restoration
and
described in particular
the many
exciting
discoveries
made
from
ribbons,
we have
February 13th For Six
Williams-
most
packages
must
of
of welcome, Mr.
cigarettes.
men' s mail
tours
group
Theatre.
United
intact —
red
and
Service
ready
the
Public Showings At Theatre
My Day With
Always
other points
throughout
greetings
had
to various
began
assembled
to insure their delivery by Christmas Day. Fifty
ether packages
sent
Seabee
small
masters of New York City and San
Francisco as early as November 1
were
Williamsburg Gets Preview
and
overseas
Williarnsburu
New March Of Time Film On
The Soldiers
with best wishes, from the company
Nine packages
Seabee Tours
Men of Camp Peary To Visit
Williamsburg Every Friday
ation to go into service were sent
at Christmas.
NUMBER 3
Are Started
Back At The Helm
Boys fromWRl
from
Williamsburg
of the theatre
with
another
in
con-
feature
of
great interest to Williamsburg, the
Disney production, " Saludos AmiThis film was made for Mr.
Nelson Rockefeller' s Committee on
gos."
where
one
can
dine
leisurely
and
the re- opening of the Travis House
should
have
be
good
missed
news
the
graciousness
to
all
atmosphere
which
existed
motago
Inter
who
cities
of
at
two
at Blow
Feb. 8— George Washington
vs
M.
be
the division
and
W. &
vs.
M.
under
the
of
Lodge.
At the annual meeting
Williamsburg Inn
Elizabeth
James
D.
Feb.
17 —
Feb.
Fort Eustis
vs
vs
W. &
20— Washington &
W. &
Feb.
restaurant
M.
Lee
vs
M.
American
Operating
Base
Pianist
2,
College
of
William
and
lecture
by
A.
Tyler
Hull, Jr.
Feb.
16,
Asia ".
Cross,
burg and the county.
be
the
food
will
be
The quality
the
as
before,
chicken,
Virginia
same
ham,
Singleton
of the 1993 War Fund in Williams-
In the coming
the new manager.
the
of the
of
year
the
local
chapter has one of the biggest jobs
high
to do in its history and will need
featuring
the support and cooperation of ev-
and
eryone.
fish
Subject: "
Japan
Phi Beta Kappa
from the Chesapeake Bay.
Travis
House will be open for dinner daily
from
5: 45
to
8: 30
except
on
Sun-
The day before the grand opening ten years ago, January 12th, 1933,
as Dr. Goodwin, George P. Coleman, then mayor of Williamsburg, and
Still In The Scrap
day when luncheon will be served
from 12: 30 to 2: 30, in addition to
Mary, Phi Beta Kappa Hall.
Illustrated
will
Red
of
chapter
M.
Concert by Yvonne Dawson- Dienne,
Feb.
York,
standard
27 — Naval
W. &
in New
City County
Moorehead was appointed chairman
Reynolds, who for many years op- I
M.
America.
of
Feb. 15— Norfolk Air Station vs erated most successfully a similar
W. &
of South
Mr.
several
Red Cross War Fund
House
management
Mrs.
after
Moorehead Chairman
closed.
As in the past the Travis
will
M.
Feb. 13 — V. P. I.
were
Gym
Feb. 5— Hampton- Sydney vs W.
W. &
restaurants
Affairs
and his crew visited
the
Inn and Travis House before those
Basketball
American
Disney
in
Hall.
Miss Rhoda Pratt, star of the opening play, are shown about the WilWilliamsburg
liamsburg Theatre by Tom McCaskey. The poster advertises the first another front!
supper, and Monday, when it will
be closed entirely in order to give
film shown at the Theatre. During its first decade the Theatre branch
cook
of the Restoration
the employees a day off. All meals
will be $ 2. 00.
This
increase
in
for Wartime Living ", published by
audience totaling nearly two million, shown over 2, 000 different feature The American Women' s Voluntary
pictures, and thousands of selected short subjects
and news
reels. Services of San
Francisco,
Cali-
Concert by Ramon Douse, Violinist price of 33. 3% is occasioned by an
Feb. 21, College of William and even greater proportion of increase
Mary, Phi Beta Kappa Hall.
in the cost of food and labor.
has served the entertainment
needs of an aggregate
Four of the original staff of regulars which opened
the Theatre
book with
In
an
occupies
Tom
chapter
first
on
interesting
a sub - title " A Book
are fornia, Williamsburg
still in its employ —Fay LeCompte, Tom Halligan, E. E. Wiley, and
McCaskey.
has gone to war on
position
breads.
Sally
Lunn
under
a
�PAGE
TWO
THE
Fort Eustis Tours
THE NEWS
Editor
Thomas
Ed Ken -
drew.
Mrs.
Reportorial
Mildred
Staff
Stryker,
Adolph
Mrs. H. M.
Bowers,
Made-
Ralph
line Warrick, Thomas Moyles,
Martha Davis, Elizabeth Edson,
Alma Rowe, Catherine Zaharov,
Grace Raiter, Louise Inman, Page
Folk, Prickett Carter, Thomas
Halligan, Isham Johnson, Thom-
Ralph
W.
J.
Moody,
Geiger, Robert Evans.
of gasoline
Black-
Mrs. J. R.
of quotas
alloted
the
Soldier
daily
pended
Colonial
enjoyed
were proud to have
its
hundreds
thousands of visitors
of
come
each
year and see us at our best.
Today Williamsburg
may
even
look
over- run -
and perhaps a little untidy.
still
great
numbers
members of the
There
of visitors
armed
In
over.
The
impressions
carry away are vital
of the Restoration.
they
to the future
They MAY remember that there
is a war on, realize that we cannot
avoid certain
unusual
and know that great
our organization
services
or in
are
in the
of
a letter
armed
responsibility
with
that
to
Colonial
Wil-
iamsburg is doing its utmost to
normal
times
their
and
visit
is
anxious
to
to some of them that we
regret the necessity
close
some
Shops
of
that
of having
the
were
small
open
buildings are needed
facilities;
for
to
Craft
free,
since
housing
in
cos -
tume— at the Exhibition Buildings
because materials and woman - powas
well
as
manpower,
are
scarce; that many of the famous
gardens are not kept up to their
usual appearance
riot
to
men
take
care
of
them; that the de luxe Dining
Room of the Williamsburg Inn has
been closed so that the building
could be turned over to the exclusive use
ed forces
of the officers
of the
arm-
and their families;
that
the maintenance and care of our
buildings must be limited to essen-
tial needs because
workmen
are
Gen-
Eustis,
thanked
many
away
of our
at war
or
en-
gaged in making war implements;
and that we cannot
answer some
requests for service as promptly as
of the
We must prove to all that we are
doing our level best to keep Wilas neat and as attractive
population,
required
of
rubber,
Eustis
due
to
conservation
in the
and
at
is
and
all
have
been
to
and are making
May
1942,
when
been
of excellent
the
educational
a
every
THEIR
STYLE
Mr. Careless: " I' m not much of a
can
add
to
I can multiply your aches and
no
prior
knowledge
It
first
work
and
discount your chances of- safety
promotion."
the
is
a
through
the
that his
fact
that
he
had
been
of his time and
a
real
worker' s
on the
real
battle
ap-
here
that
I must
inform
you
effort
in
Wil-
staff
the
caused
gasoline
this
to
but
has
the
been
serve
the
men
who
are
coning
forces
in
group
so that we now
will
have
to
call it a soldier and sailor program.
As you will see elsewhere in this
at
shortage
species
program has been extended to this
paper,
Camp Patrick Henry to start experimental
tours each
Sunday,
but
of
Seabees and our soldier training
the
Plans had been made for mempermanent
year
to Williamsburg
every day in
greater numbers. Out at Camp
Peary they now have about 20, 000
discontinued."
of the
come
difficult
extinct
the armed
daily convoys will be temporarily
bers
have
of the Restoration
re- organized
the
that
we
the most
somewhat
value
of
but
the Restoration
with flying colors.
Tourists, of course,
are
still
a
It
early history of our country. "
is with great reluctance ", he said,
Williamsburg
has organized
a War Board to handle many of the
problems
also
now
community,
to be postponed.
affecting
and
the
Tug
whole
Norton
has
been lent to that group as Director.
Here are two views of the farewell party given Wanda Castle by Mr. He has recently opened an office in
and Mrs. Chorley in December. In the long shot is shown the U. S. S. Block 15 and spends many hours in
Castle, a novel boat -like table complete with waves, smokestacks, and his new office and in his old one.
My Day With
The Soldiers
lifesavers. In the closeup stands Wanda during her acceptance speech
Continued from Page 1)
Japanese
Magnolia ?"
of the travel clock presented her by the staff.
I quickly
explained that it was not and went
into
the
Palace.
The Chinese soldiers thoroughly
enjoyed
the
Palace,
paper
and
the
in
especially
the
Supper
numerous
as seen
Then
they began to
the
in the
interpreter,
and
made
new
for
the
influ-
talk
through
these
Palace
are telegrams from several " well known" persons, and she is wearing
the orchid brought in just before dinner by her staff of handy men —
Arthur, Levi, and Sherman. In the background is a blackboard used in
one of the skits put on by members of the assembled company.
the
furnishings.
about
Wanda Castle
without
benefit
and
Wanda
R.
Castle,
who
for
the
column
offices
six
entered
lined
to the Lodge
Capitol,
o' clock
Gaol
In the
Tap
the Betty
we left
and
for the
Raleigh
Room
lamp
for G. I. Sand-
Tavern.
shouted "
cheap ".
an
She was the first
of the organization
liamsburg from
Delft
was
explanation
that
after
By this time they were beginning to show signs that prove the
Fort Eustis paper was right when
it said
we
escorts "
walk
the
sol-
to
join
the
member
City,
of local
and
social
organiza-
As all
of
boy -
ee ".
of
the
room
We hurried
into
the drug store to indulge in the
very American custom
ice
of
eating
cream.
Miss Castle was sent to Smith
College
in
Northampton, Mass.,
for
by
training,
at
and
Mt.
billeted
Holyoke
near-
College
in
From the account
you know,
who
convoy
have
trucks
each
man
came
to
The
in-
to
has
Williamsburg
Stringfellow
a
been
and
the
Building will soon be
in its entirety
to a USO
Since the last issue of The News
several important
taken
place
changes
in the
main
have
office.
signed
to
the
Executive
Ed
Depart-
Colonial Williamsburg has there-
undertaking
this, Ed
into
Cocke' s old office
house
for
employees.
The Foster
Duncan
has
moved
and
amination before Duncan gets back.
House
on
Palace
While on this temporary assignem- ment, Sing Moorehead has been ap-
Green now accommodates 13
ployees, both men and women, and
pointed Acting
the
tectural
second
floor
of the
old
Imper-
ial Theatre Building, on the corner
of Boundary and Prince George
tensive
training
all
drawing
the lights
hands
with
an
hit the
active
deck"
and
to a close at 10 P M. when
must be out.
If
you
are
interested
WAVES.
The table
ship
through
sailing
the
seas
occurred
when
Honor
Roll,
we
name
Wanda
R.
placed
on
our
Castle.
at either of Miss Castle is now a member of
these locations, get in touch with the Women' s Auxiliary Volunteer
Mr. Thomas Moyles at Williams- Emergency Service.
During her
burg Lodge.
leave
Needless to say, the
the project, but
rates
The above
two
white employees.
of
absence
Miss
Mildred
are Layne has been appointed Acting
Office
Manager.
Incidentally, you men in the serhopes - to vice will be interested to know that
only
come out even."
ployees
simulated
Just before Christmas an epochal
event
in securing a room
we
units
now
have
one
department
for manned 100% by women. This is
The colored em- the Craft Department where Kitty
are also having
are
a hard time
Mr. and Mrs. Chorley entertain- finding a place to live, and
ed at dinner in honor of Miss Cas-
Head of the Archi-
Department.
Streets, has living quarters for 16 the first feminine
of her early days in the Navy it reasonable. Colonial Williamsburg
appears that she is undergoing in- is not trying to make money by
Zaharov has taken over Jack Up-
is shur' s duties and the whole departhoped that the new dormitory that ment is doing a bang -up job.
a
it
will
As we enter this new year 1943,
I think all of us are beginning to
see a slender silver lining to the
dark clouds that have gathered in
IN THE DOGHOUSE
with
Tom
Halligan,
the theatre' s thickening density over the entire
husky assistant manager, says that world for the past four years. We
Places were laid he is now known as " Keeper of the
know our men and woman in the
pennants flying and smoke issuing
from the funnels.
on one of the " decks" and the place
When I left the group at their
brought
and recently
director
fore gone into the rooming
employees.
diers to death."
oh
USO
paced the streets looking for a ment to assist in handling the inroom to live in, they are scarcer creased
administrative
problems
than the proverbial hen' s teeth. brought about by the war. While
rooms
employee
New York
and was an active
Then I suddenly South Hadley.
very ordinary ware, so I stammerout
ber 22.
was
still
Committee
full -time
co-
Service
of the Women' s Auxiliary Volun- business in a modest way by tak- if the war does not end soon, I exteer Emergency Service on Decem- ing over two units to provide pect he will be taking the Bar Ex-
community
expressions
realized that to them
class
tions.
I showed them the Delft plates
their
training
tive of Dallas, Texas, came to Wil-
oil as its fuel.
but
and
that
used in China today, with peanut
proudly
the officers
explained
that this type of lamp
of Absence
WAVES. Miss Castle, who is a na-
and explained
interpreter
Leave
them
I showed
whale oil was used in it. They at
once became very talkative and exThe
of
Colonial Williamsburg, was grant-
interpretation
and " Java ".
At one
managed
ed Military
up in twos, and were off in a long
wiches
has
soldiers,
of
Center
been
local
Kendrew has been temporarily as-
something
Chow"
word . . . "
they became typical
cited.
Company Eases
Rooming Situation
Joln s WAVES
me.
one
has
center.
things
After seeing the Kitchen I men-
The Restoration
operating with the
converted
years
tioned
On the table beside her
Room,
Chinese
ences
cards were in the form of life preservers.
During
Fleas."
Reason —the Restoration' s service are doing their jobs well
new dog lives in a pen adjacent to and it gives all of us renewed in-
the course of the
Happy' s abode, the Raleigh Tavern spiration Io see to it that our job
es- Kitchen. Its tenant must feed and
here at home is tackled with the
terpreter explained that they were pecially for Miss Castle were ren- care for the watchdog. On a recent
same enthusiasm and determination
pains. I can divide your attention.
me and said something.
I can reduce your earnings.
I can
and
to
liamsburg,
for these men, who in many cases,
had
voice from the end
your
concluded
home front
proximately 50, 000
soldiers
have
visited
General
Williamsburg.
Stockton said that the tours had
said "
from
his
order.
pace for those of us battling
motor
cut
taken
us - at first, but
finally
effort in setting
activi-
requiring
now
giving too much
So I asked if anyThe
the Restoration is building
effort to maintain just as many body knew about ` ice -cream' and tle before her departure.
theme of the
party
was
built solve their problems.
points of interest open to visitors
coca - cola'.
A very high pitched around
her acceptance by the
as conditions will permit.
A. E. K
interest
de-
trouble was purely functional and
when "
and
gasoline.
take
has
doctors
Room.
I
I
in the batting
He frightened
schedule beginning at 6: 15 A. M.
but
and
courte-
ted use, in order to save tires
mathematician
your trouble.
fast
Restor-
all this was only a Public Dining
LET' S CRAMP
However,
its
ed
as possible,
am
ed
usual because our cars have restric-
liamsburg
the
Laid up
the
for
by Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller,
because there are
enough
Brigadier
tours were given the men of Eustis
that there are now fewer
hostesses — and none. are
er,
you have heard,
for repairs.
The Army, as well as the
civilian
wall
pleasant.
Perhaps you will have a chance
to explain
from
at Fort
was
camp.
maintain the high standards set in
make
of
Officer
ation
industries.
demonstrate to all those we come
in contact
many
Boss has been temporarily
January
conditions,
numbers
defense
But it is OUR
on
As
sus-
place again
forces,
their families and friends —looking
us
were
eral E. A. Stockton, Commanding
traiysportation
quiet, orderly life and attractive
appearance
in normal times.
We
are
Fort Eustis,
temporarily
Since
ancient
overcrowded — yes,
to
Tours
minimum.
We have all worked hard on the
have
KC At The Bat
oil in the
curtailment
lighted to report that he has mend-
ties
Is A War On
We
For
23rd.
do its share
Remember There
of this
and fuel
East, and subsequent
gasoline
re- creation
Capital.
VG Pinchhitting
Because of the prevailing shortage
sies to the men and officers
as Kearney.
Circulation Staff ...
well,
Farewell Party To Wanda
G. McCaskey
S. P. Moorehead,
Features
January, 1943
Off Temporarily
Associate Editors .... B. W. Norton,
F.
P.
LeCompte,
Elizabeth
Stubbs,
NEWS
offering their thanks for the pleas-
dinner several
songs written
dered by a quartet
made
ure they had received this day in Messrs. Kendrew, Lavery,
Williamsburg.
win, and McCaskey.
up of meatless Thursday Happy
Good- lunch with ' Panther,' who was
ing rare sirloin that day.
had
hav-
that is required
of us all if the vic-
tory now looming
horizon
in
is to become
the
an
distant
actuality
�January, 1943
THE
Public Safety
Reporting
My Kingdom
For A Penny
Because
defense
By FAY LECOMPTE
After
man
never
from
the
worried
the
little
much.
theatre
He
handled hundreds of them
Pe -yoo," he' d say, " what' s a scent
So one day as usual he went to
the bank teller and said, " Shoot the
cents to me, Gents."
his
Department.
hoarsely, "
The
handled
however,
S.
and
with
M. Adams
short-
well
the
has
so
far,
recent
of two
and J. A.
addi-
new men,
Smith,
the
sailing should not be too difficult.
Both are local boys and Smith has
Corps
There' s a penny
situation
pretty
four
with
years
in
the
an honorable
Marine
and
meri-
torious record.
John M. Smith, who has been a
age.
But,
but,
theatre
but,"
what' ll
man, "
the
I
do
member
for
ejaculated
about a year and a half, was promoted
change ?"
Exactly,"
but
of
answered
course
you
the
teller,
know
this
is
of
to
the
the
November,
your
department
rank
of
1942.
stripes
in
you wear
a long time,
John.
When you hear the screeching of
war. We can' t get any pennies
the siren and the grinding of
from the Federal Reserve —"
And we need about 1, 500 a day,"
said
the
theatre
man,
standing
stunned. " But I can beat this metal
he
called
up
put
it' s the squad
back
geant
into
Smith
very
shortage — I' ll use my head."
And
brakes,
car ( recently
service)
with
at the wheel.
glad to have
Ser-
We are
it in operation
he
I have been stationed here at
barely a minute which we could call our own.
em
lc
stamps
instead,"
the price
department
to 50c,"
said the
Wanda R. Castle —
Mount Holyoke
a fond
the
kids'
banks,"
the
people
exact change,"
have
feller benefaction ?
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri:
He
ran
strangers
and
on
the
pleaded
street,
and taxiing,
also servicing
ran into Roy Brice.
ed to Sergeant
he
lectured
met
to
he
himself
While
about six weeks
Wallace H. Cooper —
jg) Maxey B. Davis —
for the
Virginia
South Pacific:
Gazette
and
letter
the newspapers
and I
paper,
I find these
both
a most interesting
City, Iowa:
It really did me good to know
H. Jackson —
received
I really
the reading
Fort Knox, Kentucky:
some
do enjoy
of the papers,
reading
Since I have heard from
I felt as though
I am
what the folks back home
of the paper it seems
as though
Sausage),
in
Eve-
bags ( Luter' s
in their hands,
secret
and
in
drawers.
Panther ",
the
Federal
Reserve
have any didn' t worry
and
didn' t
him. Every-
one began banking their pennies at
the Theatre.
One
day
the poor
Theatre
the safe, to
man
get
the
cashier some dunes, but he couldn' t
find
any.
tiff watch
co Hills
is doing
part
All
he
could
find
were
Well, I can use nickies instead,"
said the patient cashier.
But
when
he
he could
looked
find
York, has arrived
is on patrol
Palace.
I' ve got nothing
told
for
nickies
pennies.
about the arrival
the Theatre
man
stand it any longer.
Theatre
sack.
he
Say,
was
holding
The
marked, with a wry face, " There
go my bushes ".
hear
Welsh
a hungry
room
at
out
the
by a
guys
a
grabbed
him.
need
pen-
any
He abandoned
theatre
of
He
training.
cried
no pennies
these
for
little
man
the
farmer, "
What
after I have saved
you,
you
brought
said —"
from
on the head
them
all
here
And he hit the
the Theatre,
with the
lovely
right
pen-
nies.
quite a crowd
gathered ' round.
crying
had
They could not
tell whether the Theatre
really
waiter' s
tain
man was
or laughing.
The
weeks
he
This
was
exclaim
his first
years
and
Yes
other
were
over
was
200
years
exclaimed
curtains
now
she
indeed ",
old
up
r,
for
wants
said
houses
that one across
there
to
the
six
change
hostess,
here,
too.
Why
the street has stood
for over 200 years.
been
altered
Nothing
or
replaced."
Hum ", said the sceptical
tleman, "
they
must
old gen-
have
had the
same landlord we have."
that
The group at the Capitol one day
seemed
full
rather
of
questions
pleasant
asked
about
young
the
bell
in the Burgesses
501 Pages
Illustrated $
Theatre Sells War
Bonds And Stamps
through
Scotland
and
Department
Industry
stamp
selling,
bond -and-
movie machine lent all its effort to-
with
of
as
By HELEN
BULLOCK
Modeled on the first American Cook Book, it makes for good
reading and for good eating.
the
hill
the
Palace
The
a
around
guest
remarked, "
some
from
recognizing
she
had
taken
a short
there
interesting
time
are
cer-
angles
of
Twinkling, he focused
scene ".
his camera
at her and said, " yes,
Hogarth
through
I
curves ".
the buildings
colored
maid
one
answered
informed
and
Foster is out drilling
this morning ".
her, "
the
228 pages of practical recipes.
the
Mrs.
soldiers
E. M. A.
Quarter -bound paper boards, $ 2. 50. Leather bound, $ 4. 00
New Portraits Hung
By RUTHERFOORD
The
PHOTOGRAPHS
GOODWIN &
RICHARD
GARRISON
Condensed pictorial story of the inspiration and instruction
afforded by Colonial
full -page
colotype
Williamsburg,
illustrations.
including
85 pages.
Cloth binding $
thirty -ive
f
Mr. Andrew
1. 00
of
Mr.
Building.
Hepburn,
members
Room
This
in
Being
an Account
of the most
Occurrences
room,
and
in
that Place from its first Beginning to the present Time."
Paper covered boards, $ 2. 00
Full leather, $ 5. 00
partplans
It was painted
son,
noted
shows
of Williamsburg
wall behind them.
by Charles
Boston
The following citations given to
American
PUBLISHERS
TO
COLONIAL
WILLIAMSBURG
Hopkin-
artist.
have
hung in the Board
incorOFFICIAL
por-
the
and
sketches
hanging on the
GOODWIN
important
the
latest
now hanging
ners seated at a table, with
WILLIAMSBURG in VIRGINIA
By RUTHERFOORD
of
in the Goodwin
is the
trait in the collection
O
William
the architectural firm
of
Perry,
Shaw, and Hepburn, has been hung
in the Board
2. 00
binding $
portrait
Perry, Mr. Thomas Mott Shaw, and
Mr. Rockefeller
the Hon.
amateur
kitchen
hostess
the building
phone
porated a bond rally into its initial
program
was
an
The
ward a billion dollar goal.
Theatre
It
day and a friend called her house.
ART OF COOKERY
to
and the tremendous
The Williamsburg
table
One of the escorts was out taking
The Williamsburg
Stamps.
by the U. S. Treasury
take the lead in national
path.
costume
the
like these
began
was the month set aside
Picture
the
The host-
Down at the
through
4. 00
Paper
Bonds
on
room.
After a day' s work one of the
hostesses
was
walking
home
soldiers
IN
September
one
officer said " did you say rung back
or brung back ?"
O
in Chipleasure
the Theatre
and
lieutenant
ess carefully explained she thought
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA
the
New
Institute
York
also
Room:
of
been
from the
Architects,
Southern
Society,
Ashton Dovell giving a brief, pert-
the Virginians in New York City,
inent
the
talk.
With
the aid
of
the
open
a special
Bond
was
more than $ 4, 000.
month,
rain,
Booth
during
the ladies
sitting
sun and
eternal
soot,
to roll up a total month' s sales of
Virginia
Commerce,
ladies of the city, the Theatre kept
through
see.
particularly
who had been explaining about the
Wythe House, " we do have many
him
SHEPPERSON
the
jaunt since his arrival in Williams-
him, that despite the seeming paradox, he was doing both.
For he
you
BOLLING
in the dining
visit with his family
the whole
demented,
back
materials
Oh!! ",
We' ve had
tures
lished account of Dr. Edward Bancroft, arch -traitor to the
American Cause. Williamsburg is part of its background.
Speaking of
Caprecently
had
a
ear."
Welsh,
doctor said, when he had examined
quite
old
Oh!
tainly
other day, " I wish I could get that
September
By this time
guests
in
curtains
old. "
their intimate association with the men and women
who
shaped America' s destiny.
It includes the hitherto unpub-
to
for the Motion
shouted, " No!"
because
startled
Lodge
a deep selling War
ten years
her
amazed when the hostess told her
before,
couldn' t
going
The Theatre man took
No ?"
was
guest
the
In September,
decorous
made
ain' t!
One of the
the back.
new man after his week of relax-
nies ?"
breath.
of Panther he re-
he
a sock — I mean
farmer
do you
she
interested
The surprising, yet authentic human story of two people and
He would run
door he was stopped
farmer
heard
ation.
As
war' s
where
photographer was taking some pic-
of I:ondon and Williamsburg
By ARCHIBALD
at the Governor' s
him
stabbed
with a look.
away.
Now the
bottom of
and LUCY LUDWELL
New
burg last April.
He is now back
on duty and says he feels like a
but pennies,"
the cashier who
At last
To a beauty sublime
rather breezy and the wind wrap-
JOHN PARADISE
in Williamsburg
When Mr. Lavery
cago.
were
much paint,
her one time
her like a flag pole.
at Pocanti-
in Tarrytown,
pennies.
all
and needing
We restored
it was used during the recess and
the Burgesses would be rung back.
With a decided twinkle the young
to Rex
dog trained
Estate
Captain
looked into
Successor
Pocantico Panther," a bull mas-
and
He had plenty of pennies,
that
home
are doing.
everybody
Recent Official Publications of Colonial Williamsburg
the afternoon, and in the evening.
their
1700 -1943
There once was a village so quaint
ped her colonial
them in boxes (
we
thought quite clever:
has
in the Books of a Region
to
So they brought in pennies. They
brought them in in the morning, in
in Paris),
of
of information.
in the newspapers.
ning
produced
which
me
Let me express my appre-
the Restoration
regularly.
found
Distinguish
women, and he finally advertised
They brought
desk,
limerick
them."
Your
The Spirit of a Nation
and
agreeable
I
I was promot-
ago.
Pittsburgh, California:
well and enjoying camp life fine.
I am receiving
do enjoy reading them very much.
Lt. (
in Tennessee
went
Penny from the False Copperhead,"
made
upkeep.
with
committees
on " How
and minor
I must say it was quite a reunion.
something toward victory. Since you all are doing your
makes us want to do more for the defense of our country.
at
into the stores, he talked to little
children,
I have been in the
at the
Air Corps ever since I have been in the Army but haven' t done any young gentleman
in
the
party,
flying. My work is on the ground which has to do with pre -flighting
please do tell that to my wife.
From
said the accountant.
out
day
little
the
Leon Christian —
again.
the
Don' t give ' em any change
all," said the ABC store.
this
I have been bil-
leted so far at Rockefeller Hall. I have been told that a number of the
buildings were burned some time ago and Mr. Rockefeller rebuilt this
Hall.
Isn' t it strange that I should gravitate toward another Rocke-
you and have
father.
Make
I
We were
met at the door with " Go upstairs and make up your beds" square corners and all and be ready for mess in five minutes.
cil one
Historic
Mass.:
have been on the go every moment since I have been here.
Charles
open
South Hadley,
College,
So
One of our hostesses, poetically
inclined, " doodling" with her pen-
much.
head.
Break
School started on Octob-
where the boys that I worked with once are and to find that they are
fine. As for me, I am fine.
I get the papers and enjoy them very
said the auditor.
Raise
Lee
er 5th and we received our commissions on the 23rd of December.
now I am a brand new lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps.
Fred B. Epps, Jr. — Sioux
Give '
Camp
since the day I was inducted, way back on the 21st of June. At the time
you wrote I was deep in the struggle for a commission and there was
source
to do.
he
Camp Lee:
which I have been receiving
knew. And they all told him what
said
Kemp Boot —
ciation
everyone
Tell everyone that I
hello."
for
Sergeant
May
England: " Just a card to let you know that I am
glad to get the paper that you are sending me.
said
THREE
Overheard"
men
Safety
served
exclaimed
service
of
busy year for the Public
and
head
influx
a very
the bank teller
But this morning
lowered
and
tion to the force
cents.
John T. Blacknall —
great
workers
PAGE
From Employees In Service
1942 proved
a day. been
I mean
the
in this vicinity,
all, what' s a penny?
Pennies
of
NEWS
State
and
the
Chamber
of
Virginia
So-
ciety —
Sons of the American Revo-
The Dietz Press,
103 E. CARY ST., RICHMOND,
Inc.
VIRGINIA
lution.
The two citations hanging in the
lobby are from the Commonwealth
of
Virginia.
�PAGE
FOUR
THE
Craft House News
The Craft House has survived
Christmas
NEWS
January, 1943
Snowtime In Williamsburg
News Of The
Colored Folks
and did a record- breaking
business.
Fort Eustis, the Seabees, and the Navy from the surrounding
country visited us— singly, in pairs, and with their families, God Bless
By Thomas
into many homes!
the old gentleman,
entire
force would
We even stayed open on Saturday evenings to help
and then when the stock
room was so swamped,
leave the upper crust and rush
around
midst
Kearney
And
Them! Mail orders came roaring in until Christmas Eve saw us wan
and weary but quite sure that Old Saint Nicholas had found his way
Johnson
We are
the
Year
the
shred pack and boxes, getting the parcels out.
Isham
beginning
with
our
moving on.
The Craft House looked very lovely this Christmas.
We used gar-
everyone
lands of pine and wreathes of pine and hemlock ( the holly berries went
on a strike this year) and many shiny Christmas ornaments.
Henderson appeared, on a visit back from the now darkened "
White Way."
hope
and
We
and New
Years.
we
whole
New
still
each
had a pleasant
a
Rody
Great
another
movements
Christmas
As employees
enjoyed
the
as
holidays
She is as glamourous as ever and there isn' t a visiting
celeb that she doesn' t have a speaking acquaintance with. There are
most
much.
kings, and princes, and prime ministers, and of course, the military of
Lee, and
all ages passing through Pan -Am. We at Craft House have entertained
sored a Bar B. Que party for many
Thomas
Humphrey
Kearney,
William Edwards
spon-
no mean shakes either. Navy captains, admirals, generals, et cetera
of our employees
are among them. Lord and Lady Halifax and their party spent many
hours with us, and Colonel McDonnell ( aide to Lord Halifax) was most
chummy. He was intrigued with the corn shuck mats, and when he
learned that they were occasionally used for seats, he bought ten or
twelve of them in view of the shortage of springs, downs, and other
ter Christmas, in the home of Mrs.
soft materials.
He even solved the secret of the Russian successes, at least from the
Irish point of view. For, as one Irishman explained it to the Scotch man, " Of course, the Russians are doing alright now since we sent
Pollie
Lee.
the Saturday
We had a grand
Many of the employees
many of their
Here is the way Williamsburg
looked twice during
December.
The
city only missed having a White Christmas by a few days.
Pictured
here is a striking shot of the Coleman House taken from the yard of
the James Geddy
with the Navy.
House
by Walter
Gladding
before
he left
for
duty
homes
time.
entertained
friends
in
their
greet
Fred
this Christmas.
We wereglad
Eppes
to
at holiday
time.
Also
Ser-
geant Charles Jackson was home to
greet
his many
glad
Tim O' Shenko' to take over the situation!"
af-
to
see
friends.
Clyde
We were
Wallace
back
home.
C. &
DEPARTMENTAL
M. Jottings
From
Samuel Kemp Boot received a very nice Christmas present from his
Uncle Sam —
the Gold Bar of a Second Lieutenant in the Fighting
Quartermaster Corps. Good luck, " Shavetail ", but keep your eyes on
the rookies.
Monier Williams has just recently signed up in the " Seabees" and is
now awaiting call to active service.
Good luck to you, Monier, and our
sympathy to Charlie Lavery when he takes over
your " maintenance
headaches."
Rumors are drifting in that Ensign Robert Beasten may ere long be
taking a well deserved leave in the good old U. S. A.
work
Henderson
after
Mr. Macfarlane,
has returned
have been occupied with the conversion of the second floor of the Imperial Theatre into a dormitory for employees of the Division of Inn
and Lodge. Two additional bedrooms have been added in this building.
in demands
for ' phone service in this area have ne-
The War Production
Board
has just given
the " go- ahead"
signal
on
are to be congrat-
their
fine
planning
of
Mr. Ernest Thoret
is trembling with the thoughts of
approaching
James
muting
two
Mr. Moody is taking great
light
matrimony.
Knight is about
to move
after
com-
from Lee Hall for the past
approved
the
D. C., has
drawings
for a dor-
mitory for colored employees of the
in a new
erprints
for
new
of his
ganized in
under
dework.
he
ing has
fing-
of
recently
Miss
here
or-
Timlin.
Build-
for some
time
up the new Telephone
New
Mary
members
De-
are
and Elizabeth
placeable
to his
object
no
station.
We
him
these
successor
We
an irre-
days
to
had
so we
announce
a
at
farewell
tea
party for him yesterday afternoon
in Mr. Chorley' s office —all our office except Mr. Chorley were there
and
all
Mr. Packard' s
latter
included
abeth
Wight
Kathryn
in
also
Bowen)
was
Hostess
others
Mrs.
who
Williamsburg.
gone
the
Eliz-
Furman
used
Mrs.
to
be
Chorley
there.
to
war — or
stopped
If
at
a
of
office
has
large
you
at
had
about
7
P. M.
one
afternoon
cember, you
early
would
ifornia.
cated
Lieutenant
at
Camp
Nelson
Calis
Pendleton,
lo-
near
Carlsbad.
of us hanging
to
Arlington
in
WARNER BkOS.
SENSATION:
JAL B.
ALLIS
Superbly
D irecte d
6y
CONRAD VEIDT
sroNer
and
didn' t tell
CREENSTREET
stand
up.
ablanca
where
he
MICHAEL CURTIL
PETER IDRRE
from
an operation
Hospital
PDDUCIIDN
sumed
in Richmond,
her work
exhibition
Screen Play by Julius J &
Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch • From a Play by
Murray Burnett and Joan Alison • Music by Max Steiner
Mrs.
at the
Thursday - Friday - Saturday, Jan. 28 -29 -30
IF YOU
CAN,
COME
TO THE
MATINEES
AND HAVE YOUR CHOICE OF SEATS
Circle
and has re-
as hostess
in the
buildings.
The
Olga
the
Roth
has
recently
department
hear
him
tell
employees
and
enjoyable
ployees
Lodge
mittee,
in
the
a
of
very
son
of
called
Isham Johnson.
to
He is
William
but is getting along nicely now; is
about
well
and
has
gone
back
to
I. J.
Highland Park
Last
us,
but
a
fall Mr. Chorley
number
who
their
of
had
land
our
been
and
met
with
colored
em-
dispossessed
homes
at
Ma-
gruder by the United States Navy,
and explained that the Restoration
receiving
desired
on
patrol
to
be of
property
assistance
would
therefore
make
certain
to them
for
available
and
re-
settlement.
landed
in
suit. However, when we saw him he
resplendent
in
and was hoping
was
ones
scribe
it
picture
of
to
Uncle
Jerries
sent
Did you ever see a
but
gave
from
the
Commando
stolen,
brand - new
someday
knife?
to
us
what
hear
Nick' s
him
a vivid
it would
de-
of Henry Street, north of the C. &
O.
Railway.
referred
The
to
as
Development.
number
of
tract
has
been
Highland
the
Park
To
date
employees
quite
have
a
pur-
chased lots ranging from one -half
an
acre
to
one
acre
in
size,
and
some of them have already erected
temporary houses and are living in
them.
enough
be
good
for.
Among
those
who
have
purchased lots are: Raymond Cumber,
Burcher
ing sent to North
with the payroll
this
di-
Carolina
division
and is
of
the
chi
Taylor,
James
Wallace,
Taylor,
for
game
room
November 24th.
the
of
emthe
The com-
Mr. Byrnes
and
Coleman
Banks,
Thom-
as Ashby, and Isham Johnson.
He is still try-
ing to get Uncle Sam to buy him a
SO MUCH
successful
party
Mr. Welch,
was
of Nick' s
it, he
War Department.
Inn.
attended
Johnson
Thomas Ashby has been very sick
uniform.
vision
he
brought
Bill Cholko stopped by to see us Charlie Scott, Linwood Williams,
at New Year' s and told us he is beRufus Banks, Josh Hundley, Mala-
reservation
white
and
and
duty. Nick never saw his ship
The tract decided upon for this
again, nor any of his belongings. purpose is located on the extension
Navy
W. I. and Lodge
joined
Williamsburg Theatre
at Stuart
Psalm
well
a
was
One
was
Arlington,
Mrs. H. M. Stryker has recovered
text
was
adventures
to the bottom.
house with a telephone in it.
His
62nd
of the
preached
all
our hair curl,
reimbursement
new
the
words
Sanford
of
couldn' t
what we heard made
for the
a
pastor
Church,
out many of facts.
he
Sam
things,
in
ployees
get
of all
the Springtime.
the
sermon.
his
There were probably a lot of things
Charlotte wrote that she found in
in the Navy, is Washington.
used
quite
blues,
jg)
found
Nick was just back from Africa
looked
Lieutenant
Baptist
where he had seen and done plenty.
September to be with her husband,
as
Lee,
wonderful
Nick Shearon' s, as we had done for
whose
headquarters
First
E.
a fine day it made
about
two solid hours.
To
moved
R.
the
T. K.
onto every word of
Mrs. Thomas Pinckney and her Norfolk practically in his birthday
children
think
in De-
have found
Mrs. Philip
Page
Nelson,
Jr. casualties from his ship, when they
H. and E.) is spending some time were landed at the beach near Casat Carlsbad,
Rev.
be run
if it is cold and keep
movie running.
people
will
So wear your sweater and
work.
minor
with her husband
out the movie
in Camp Clariborne, La., and is the
least
any
in the
and then
Talk
runs
the Army a few weeks ago.
Treasurer' s Department
part of it.
office —
the
among
and
The
address when
finding
oil
Timlin
to be in the Army.
is assigned
present.
ire Nevi
Mrs.
Day in December.
Sunday being
has been
of the Goodwin
been
setting
their
division
head
Sewell
Misses
give us his
are certainly
have
CLAUDE RAINS
Fools
anyway.
records.
this
the
Mrs.
getting
our
department
partment.
The New York Scene
angle
the girls while
A
W. P. B., Washington,
He will
with
girl.
Ladies and Gentlemen, don' t for-
He is now holding hands with all overcoat
months.
Dix tomorrow
AS EXCITING AS THE LANDING AT CASABLANCA!
April
and
We have news in that Joseph F.
the construction of a Dormitory for Colored Employees. This building
and Mrs. Rey.
will contain twenty -two double rooms, two men' s and two women' s Dowling of our office goes to Fort Treasurer' s Department
toilet rooms, and a large Commons Room.
baby
a USO group who were on a tour get the movie at Bruton Heights
ment that Ray Thibedeau is now a entertaining camps did their bit for three nights a week, featuring your
civilian employees, and it was much favorite stars with the latest picCaptain in the Army Engineers.
tures.
Come one, come all.
If the
Brock Steel, former blueprinter, appreciated
by all.
gun.
32A, to care for this need.
for
bouncing
a
Marialla Smith entertained many
of her friends, telling them she had
plenty to serve, but she had an
Depart-
cessitated larger quarters for the. C. and P. Telephone Company of Vir- Restoration to be built in Williamsginia. We are at present making the necessary alterations in Block 15, burg. Work on this project has beBuilding
ulated
the affair.
our
back to Williamsburg
C. and M. manages to keep rollin' along these days. Recently we
to
his vacation.
Word has reached
We sho' will be
glad to see Bert.
Great increases
the Architects
John
of
NEWS
Mr. Wallace was also proud
Just
from
this
Bert
MacDill
He' s doing
week
we
Slaughter
Field,
had
a
letter
written
from
Tampa,
all right,
too.
Never
before
have we
had
so
Florida. little time in which to do so much."
Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
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4.
NEWS
1,
Volume
IAI,
'
WILLIAMS BU RG
1June
Pic~+ F0
1
Number
CELL
From
1,
1948
WOO d
o
ezt
COPY
P^"
EDITORIAL
Top news of the month was the retirement on June 1 of Vernon M.
of
President
Vice-
Geddy as Executive
by Bela W. Norton.
Colonial
to be
Williamsburg,
succeeded
Stepping down after nearly sixteen years as ranking local official
of
the
in
the
post
Geddy will retain his connection
Mr.
organization,
and will
Counsel,
of
continue
as
and as a Director
Incorporated,
Williamsburg,
also
with the project
a Trustee
of
of Williamsburg
Colonial
Restoration,
Incorporated.
suffered
Geddy
Mr.
the
was
taken
and
reluctance
on
by
to
announcement
As
the
last
attack
senior
resident
the
officer
move
and
the
Colonial
In his
Boards.
3rd stated:
Rockefeller,
Williamsburg
Geddy has played a leading
Goodwin' s dream into a reality and in
It is a
shrine.
into a great national
Mr.
beginning,
part in translating Dr.
Williamsburg
developing
matter
of deep regret to
of
and the present
year,
and authorized with regret
authorities,
press
since
practically
heart
Chorley, Mr. Rockefeller,
John D.
Mr.
on May 19,
Mr.
the
a
medical
of
advice
all
of
us
that,
for reasons
of health,
Geddy to ask to be relieved of
necessary
the heavy administrative responsibilities he has been carrying.
However,
it is a source of very real satisfaction that he will
it
has
for
been
Mr.
carry on important work for Colonial Williamsburg and that we
may have the continuing
It
member
is
of the Colonial
succeed
will
Williamsburg
to
is
This
assume
the
this
first
much
of his advice and counsel.
gratification
Williamsburg
that
Mr.
Norton,
staff for sixteen
a
years,
By his past service to Colonial
and the public service he has rendered in the com-
Mr.
the
and
munity
benefit
of
source
a
Geddy.
state,
Mr.
important
issue
of
a
Norton
has
demonstrated
his
ability
position."
regular
employees'
publication.
It
is
designed
to keep a continuing record of the programs and policies of Colonial Williamsburg,
sections
who
work
which
to create an awareness
and
here.
will
departments,
:
serve
support
all
and
of what employees
are doing in all
and to coordinate personal notes about all those
of all will be needed
interest
all.
to make
this
publication
one
�Page
2
NEWS
CARRIAGE
from
Colonial
FLEET GROWS Starting
ACCEPTED
COLONIAL
May 11, a
second old car- riage
was added to the Wil iamsburg scene. This
is
the " blue"
before the
from
the
with
the
one
seats.
is
a
closed
Old
BIPPUS ($ 5) That
of
D. McPherson,
the
number
Museum. A
Secretaries'
restored
operation
one
coachman
John
is
is
in
charge
two
Ben
photographed
coachman
The
coach
the
is
most
carriages
signs
No
opposite
the
stables
That
in
second
and
keeps
extensive map of
the restored area,including the
use
and
co- ordination of this activity is
Steel,
Mrs.
close
race
to
see
in
the
Reception
available
for
Center. THEATRE
Mrs.
R.
and
which
sales.
at
as private residences,
made
under
Department.
S.
Broocks,
Mrs.
Merritt Foster head up the sales de-partment
for coach tickets and are having a
records
indicat- ing
5) That -an
BAKER ($
development
The
sign
holidays. HELEN
and
E.
door
Meekins
be
B.
side
a
buildings used
Activities
Park- ing"
that the building is closed be
hung on the front exterior doors
of the Goodwin Building on
Spraggins, sometimes
for
the
LANIER ($5)
for both tourists
Special
Goodwin
of the Lodge South Wing. MILDRED
of the Wil iamsburg scene
the
the
HUMPHREY
That "
the horses looking so well groomed. The
coach has long been a favorite part
residents.
of
be placed on South England
Street
The
man
Sheppard. Willie
of
plan
area. W.
of
the
floor
Manual.
LEE,JR. ($ 10)
tour
C&
M Department, sup- ervises
called
Wil iamsburg.
the
BY
ANN
Building be included in the
of thirty minutes gives the visitor a
general view
a
1948
coach
Now
Court House
SUBMITTED
EMPLOYEES
and
the visiting public
take a car iage every 15 min- utes
the
SUGGESTIONS
WILLIAMSBURG
used
war to carry hostesses to
buildings. It
four
can
from
carriage,
June 1,
Williamsburg
can
set
the
GETS
highest
NEW
TREATMENT
The
Wil iamsburg Theatre has recently been
rehabilitated by Henry Beebe' s de- partment.
With
the instal ation of Happy" "
Halligan
as
TRAVEL
SYSTEM
The
its
new
manager
year things began
came
First
Hertz Driv ur self Company has recently
-
pop
same
plane - auto
first
popping at
new
came
up. Next
added Williamsburg to its new rail -
the
seats,
the
of
this
the old
kind
cinema.
that
new
projection equipment,
installed
at
City
travel
system. Using
as
just
the
Radio
was the new air
Music Hall. Next
the leading national magazines and
conditioning system, which is a multi- ple
newspapers, the
Hertz organization is trying
unit job, right
up to the minute in conditioning
to get tourists to leave their cars at technique. On
the line for immediate installa- tion
home, travel
by plane or train and then rent
are new rugs. An
a Hertz car when they reach their destination.
The
Hertz
car
rental
here
the new Travel Office
in
mation
the
Office.
Craft
House
William
at
Canham
is
scheduled
the
old
is
handled
through
to open
Inforin
exhibit
charge
of the rentals along with the other activities
of the office including bike andcamera
rentals and road and ferry information.
RECENTLY
of
Inquirer
has
been
advertisements
from
featuring
placed
in
colonial
the
Goodwin
the
Philadelphia
signs
Building.
�Page 3
June
1,
NEWS from Colonial Williamsburg
191+ 8
CANADIAN- AMERICAN DAY
RE:
THE PRESIDENT' S DESK
FROM:
the
In
I
business,
my
the
in
part
taken
and
observed•
of
course
of
execution
and
planning
I
functions.
many
attended
have
of-
many
have
But
them. • .
never in all my experienceOnhave I seen the Trustees and Officers,carefullyextend exebehalf of any function planned so may I and to
beautifully. . .
so
cuted
the
and
all
usdideso •
that
ma(
AmericanrDay'
eiCanadian-
great
such
Canadians
the
for
weekend
for
appreciation
heartfelt
our
you
BACK OF THE SCENES. . .
The
and
that President Truman and Governor Tuck met on thethat Canadians and their
the day latter' s home ground
day
y t
blows;
exchanging
of
instead
handshakes
exchanged
of
international
the
inds
neighbors to the south joined together in a thought -provoking ym
its
needed
much
friendship
in the
of our president, Kenneth Chorley,
back
conception
had
world
lastisnterfiWilliam
and
The event wound up with nearly every Colonial Williamsburg employee contribu-
Mary.
ting a hand toward the smooth run -off.
The event was originally planned for last fall as a testimonial tolPri e Minis-
terter W. L. Mackenzie King, a faithful follower of Williamsburg, for his
in
The
present.
pals
royal
to be
were
Governor-
the
with
office,
public
wedding
hcwcverC
exchanged
and
as
Abbey
Westminister
in
present
General
in England,
Elizarethd
President
vows.
exchad States,
Philip
The invitation was extended to Harry S. Truman,
through General Harry Vaughn, the President' s military aide, who has a daughter at
opportunity
while
Mary,
and
William
he
for
fall
last
in Williamsburg
was
a
game.
football
President, it is understood, was delighted with the invitation and he took
sooniafter the opp
eeneawarded
in
receive
but
President
the
person
which
degree
office
to
as
which
been
had
he
The
ad
un
Further planning for the April event was made by Mr. Chorley during
with
a
special
Presidential
wentftoleashingtoneto
and
Ottawa
by
who
Norton,
Mr.
trip
to
press
Secret Service agents came to Williamsburg about two weeks intadvance of the
to
event
exact
out
map
e.
Ross
and
plans
members
for
Charles
secretary
the
s
President'
itinerary
antion' s peos in specula-
Spectacular interest in the event was built up
indications
tion on the forthcoming meeting of President Truman and Governor Tuck,were received
outspoken
anBackground
the
on
President
the
of
opponent
Civil
issue,
Rights
large press, radio and newsreel coverage of the trip.
the
the
to
day
Bratferton
at
them.
acommodate
The
Hall.
the
entatives
consisted of
of
largest
and
Correspondents
House
White
of
Department
the
by
pared
arranged
and
Relations
Public
rented
Court
entire
e
dinner
Most of them arrived
ra
for them Tom McCaskey,evening, at and John GoodbodySecret Service outlined the
there that Bob Hoke which time the were on hand to g
city,
by the press delegation, one of the more important adjuncts ofnthe event, , with
ments.
tiro
Three
wirephoto
outfits
-
sented,
and
Jack
the
Turner,
men
photo
filming
ACME,
and
INP- -
set
up
shop
stood
ghhoout.
the
h
lehesOn outfits were repre-
bunch in the Search Room
iams
AP,
of
the
lab
event
and
rushing
the
movies
back
to
Washington to be put
on
Washing
�4
Page
on television
DAY (
had been
Depot
Mine
the
ing,
the
President
to
the
was
would
the
this
1948
Norton
and
had
come
trip.
chauffeur
the
cars
driving they
had
the
and all arrange-
Service men were quartered
at the
being serviced.
About 4: 15 Friday mornbed.
It was the Secret Service saying that
there
were
cars
at the Naval Mine Depot
Secret
procedure.
Mr.
got
fogbound
for
cars
for
official
telephone
yacht
more
was to arrive by yacht
made
and
the
1,
Cont' d.)
networks.
The President
ments
June
NEWS from Colonial Williamsburg
CANADIAN - AMERICAN
out
of
docked
at
Dahlgren (
some
30 miles
from
Washington)
and
The Secret Service needed two
by car.
Arthur Buie and Levi Stephens were roused out
remaining
way
Accordingly,
and drew praise
seen.
from the
Secret
Service
for
some
of
the best
The trip was hectic,
since it was 113 miles each way and
there was little time.
Several of the newsmen were tumbled from bed to make the trip
over high -crown, narrow and winding roads; the several cars traveled together at high
speeds and were controlled by radio.
The President arrived on time and the morning' s activities went off smoothly
despite
threatening rain.
The campus had been readied by the College and Colonial
Some weeks before the paint section under Robert Webb had
Williamsburg crews.
freshly whitewashed all the picket fences in the immediate area and the landscape
J. B.
Brouwers had cleaned up the front triangle.
under
crews
That morning Bert
Score,
maintenance
foreman,
with
William
Reinecke
and
Frank
Jacobs,
roped
off
the
Inn area as directed by the Secret Service and were called on for an emergency job
of street patching near the Palace.
When the President and his party arrived at the Inn, he was shown to his room by
Mr. John Green.
He quickly reopened the door of his suite to see where his daughter,
Margaret,
and jokingly asked where
the " prima donna" was going.
was being
shown
Maid
Robbie Gough was
key
room
she
out
a
like
would
in the President' s room with instructions
leave.
and
dollar
his
bill,
As
she
did
the
President
asked
her
to hand the President
name
and
then
asked
autograph.
After she had recovered enough to say yes,
autographed
it
and
handed
it
to
her
the .
if
he brought
her.
Captain Sam Peach had his police section on duty at the Inn assisted by no less,
Captain Sam
15 Secret Service men and a small army of 25 to 30 military police.
had a hand in the planning of the details with the Army, state police, Secret Service,
and city
forces.
After luncheon he took his men to help at the Palace.
than
A.
and was
Edwin Kendrew escorted the President through the Palace buildings and grounds
a bit stymied when he started to show the Palace cellars to the President
only to find that they had been locked as part of the security for the President.
The now famous " homey" touch which the President gave his signature on the Palace
book
guest
present,"
wherein
was
found
he
gave
his
several
address
days
1600
as
later.
The
Pennsylvania
book
had
Ave.,
remained
Washington, "
in use
at
the
at
Palace
and it was considered remarkable that some souvenir -seeking visitor had not yet torn
the
page
out.
The long open Chrysler which Arthur had made a special trip to New York to bring
down- - said to have been made for the King and Queen of England for their tour of the
New York World' s Fair many years ago -was used along with the other rented cars over
the
ensuing
vices,
his
weekend
arranged
for
the
for the cars
cabinet -making
business
Canadian
party.
and chauffeurs
and
Cue Willis,
Mrs.
Angie
and called
on
loan
Cowles,
head
of
Office
Ser-
in old hand Levi Stephens
from
the Lodge.
She
also
from
ar-
ranged for the special ferry trip at Jamestown on Sunday to carry the Canadian party
across
to Brandon.
of
hands.
all
Up and down the line,
the entire affair showed the contributions
�June
1,
1948
NEWS
LEONARD
PROFILE:
Near
BILES,
tee number
one,
keeps
sportsman
in
the
shop
Golf
out
a
Colonial
from
Page
Williamsburg
5
Doctor
where
those
converted
golf
chicken
blues
begin,
The
house.
a genial,
man
is
golf
red - faced
professional
Leonard Biles, and the chicken house, lately of Colonial Williamsburg' s poultry project on Richmond Road, is the temporary clubhouse and caddy shack for the Williams-
burg Inn golf course,
Len Biles
few
the
years
rattle,
ever
of
He
1900.
In March,
in Wales.
has
at
Club,
and
golf
club
in
his
duffers
with
this
on
in Scarborough,
N.
Y.;
Homestead
hotel
resort
side
N.
hard
Hot Springs.
at
sided at nearby James River Country Club,
brother - in -law,
Joe
1947.
in Norfolk,
soon
after
a
a
in Surry and at tongue - twisting
Y.;
with his new bride,
the
of
at
the
He
Atlantic.
Wianno
Ontario.
Lake
by
the Mason - Dixon Line to Virginia' s mountains
luxurious
hand
he boarded the Mauretania
Watertown,
at
a
at Waybridge
patiently
Sleepy Hollow,
Cod;
Cape
on
had
1912,
worked
positions
moved across
the
side
other
since
accepted
Golf
He was born near Great Yarmouth,
and served as professional
Aberytwyth
and
a 2755 -yard nine -hole layout first opened on June 15,
from England.
hails
Yacht
Then
for a 17 - year
and
he
stretch at
During the recent war,
he pre-
stepping down only in favor of his
Fuller.
Somehow, Len has managed to squeeze into his temporary headquarters a remarkably
complete selection of balls, bags and clubs, as well as golf shoes, hats and socks.
An added responsibility
has been the recruiting
and training
of local caddies,
most
of whom never saw a course before and never tracked a smothered hook into the deep
And,
honeysuckle.
along with his merchandising
has been
professional
busy
the
at
business -
old
and administrative
chores,
the new
that of teaching both sexes of
varying ages and all shapes the mystery of interlocking grips and slow backswings.
These duties have kept Len' s own golf to a minimum,
but he still can at least recall
a 63 at Hyannisport, a 64 at hilly Homestead, and a 67 on the long, wood - fringed
Cascades
But
course.
championship
golf
professional
Biles'
his subpar golf, but his granddaughter and two grandsons;
them
in
his
new
So far,
whenever
with withstand summer heat,
the
players
Jones,
have
will
Brown,
Leon B.
Of course,
out.
is
is
not
able.
and the greens are getting in such good shape that soon
to
nothing
The golf course
operator.
he
pride
the Inn course, designed by the Scot veteran Fred Findlay, has done
Greenskeeper Bob Johnson hopes that the new seeding of Bermuda grass
well.
pretty
Studebaker
greatest
he commutes north to see
cuss
Smith.
Emanuel
and
but
local linksmen
Jeter
themselves.
crew includes Joseph A.
Myers,
On sunny days,
look forward
D.
Davis
Owen J.
is
tractor
Harrold,
Berkley
well over fifty golfers turn
to the day when the
condition
of the
course will permit forming a club, with members competing in handicapped tournaments
and
4
of
a
second
nine
only
for
once
layout
in
modestly
the
67,
although
refused
golfers
18 - hole
for
and
route:
the
who
two
River
And
Hampton.
and
weeks
ago
drove
guest
because
the
get
in
shape.
To
date,
par
Jack Hamilton, Amateur Champion,
course
one Lodge
recognition
course
record.
No
official
holed out his tee
he
of the year has been the hard - hit drive
team,
James
all
golf
while in the distant future looms the prospect
holes.
34 -
33,
registered,
Point,
a larger clubhouse,
both
Meanwhile,
from West
competitors
challenging
hands will welcome
first
was
playing
hole
shot
alone.
of Brewster
345
some
one
on number
The most
Cornwell
green,
in
has
yards
been
broken
toured the tricky
has
yet
eight
remarkable
of the William
distant.
been
and then
The
shot
and Mary
College
�Page
6
NEWS
PROFILE (
from
Colonial
Cont' d.)
VOX
POP
incidentally has had an auspicious first
season under Coach Billy Gooch, with a
its
say
win -loss
planning.
record
of four
and three.
June
Williamsburg
1,
1948
IN WILLIAMSBURG
Getting
on "
Williamsburg ready to have
Pop,"
took plenty of
Vox
This
started
in New
York
at
a
The CW - WRI golfing contingent,
headed
by Charlie ( Three Putt) Hackett, has been
seen on and off every fairway, in every
meeting between Mr. Norton, Mr. Boyer,
the Vox Pop originator Parks Johnson.
tone
of
marsh and briar patch, and even wading
date
set,
knee - deep in the watercress in the gully
fronting number seven tee.
Especially
active are Messrs. Cooke, Geddy, Sparks,
On Sunday, May 9, the entire crew of
the radio show arrived in Williamsburg
and were turned
over to Tom McCaskey,
Bob
was
assist
Taylor,
Norton,
Alexander,
Cipriani,
Loughrie,
Boyer,
Green,
Bob
Lee,
Monier
Williams,
Bert
the
College
side,
add Mrs.
to
complete
go
on to
well
Biles
as
the
past.
the
distaff
Mrs.
as well as the
Lavery and Miller.
is
the
able
something
Sam
is
an
scheduled
requirements
at
to
and hopes
the
likes
to
future
Norton'
who
would
s
office
be
to
pick
interviewed.
A long list of local people were
offered
to
wanted
Johnson
and
ex- Hollywood
star
to
as
reminisce
Then
see.
came
two
days
of
sonal interviews with many people.
Finally the choice was made and Mrs.
Adolph,
work.
looks
He
like
in Mr.
Warren Hull who picked out those they
Army Air Corps veteran
graduate
Len
the
the
persons
course
So
introduce
held
Sarazan.
do
to
out
and new
Stubbs,
William and Mary next autumn,
to
was
was
Mrs.
assistant
his
act
who
co- ordinate
On
Williams,
and swings
Gene
underfed
First
show.
and
the
begun.
Bartholomew
Monson, Mrs. Haislip,
Misses Lanier, Layne,
who looks
to
established,
preparations
team.
Koch.
on
John ( Sam) Banks,
assigned
was
initial
George
recruit,
Biles'
Upshaw,
program
and
visitors to the city via a conducted tour.
Next they were entertained at the Inn' s
famous Buffet Supper.
Next day a huddle
Colonel Wheat,
plays
Len
Tucker,
Ernest
Evans,
Chorley,
Pete
the
and
The
one
the
Thomas,
of
Museum
the
the
hostesses;
Supervisor;
of
Brown,
Ellen
major - domo
of
the
Palace,
were
selected.
a
Miss
Ben McCary, a
Whaley; and Fleming
of Matthew
Vardon
Frank
Wine
A. P. V. A.;
Bagby,
student
about the old clubs hanging on the caddy house wall, and will tell you that Harry
Minor
per-
was
the
greatest
of
them
all.
Among more recent tournament players he
liked Hagen and Sarazan, and in today' s
book
he
Hogan,
of
writes
and
the
names
Sam Snead.
of
Nelson,
was
Bobby Jones.
Bobby Locke' s knickers
a veteran
of
the plus - four
Golf
has made no complaints yet about
young ladies in shorts.
ATTENTION
Tans
a
GOLFERS:
The
tournament
soon
Williamsburg
employees.
Golf
for
So
clothes?
don' t faze
decade,
and he
today' s
Committee
all
Colonial
please
the
program
were
hand
all scores in to Len Biles for a handicap.
were
given
to
first - served
went
on
interviewed.
stations
The top amateur,
course,
Well,
Tickets
first come
on the
the
500
air
Between
ABC
persons
At
manner.
network
and
160
the
and
in
7: 30
guests
180
carried
the
Millions of
Williamsburg Vox Pop program.
listeners heard a glowing account of our
city and were encouraged to visit us.
Since the program a great volume of mail
has been received
from listeners
in all .
parts of the nation, indicating the drawing power of this show.
At a future date a complete recording
of
the
program
will
be
played
Goodwin Building projection
benefit
it.
of
those
who
would
in
the
room for the
like
to
hear
N
�June
1948
1,
PERSONAL
NEWS from Colonial Williamsburg
BRIEFS
taken
William
F.
SMITH,
Room
Clerk
at
the
Inn,
Pa
Kane,
Baby
Walter
Richmond
are
Smith.
Alice
and Lyman
C.
L.
new construction
and mother
THURSTON
PETERS
are
at
John L.
and
in
Kent
Ernest
Peters
Otis
had
his
ODELL,
yards,
is
Engineer
and
and
ODELL
E.
Richard
joined
LEE
of
is
American
were
Jr. (
became
the
mother
little
Pa.;
called
son
Boston
made
Patricia
of
Mr.
at
Star
Two
of
Mrs.
Peer
Palace
Beal
with
SHELDON
A daughter,
Donna
her
husband
during
evening
Elizabeth YOST
has
lecture
of the
often
lent
a hand
Doris
programs
hostesses,
who
to
auditors
audit
and
join
the
Anne' s at Arling-
attended
Virginia
the Eastern
from
From Bill
C& M "
Miss
formerly with our departa position
decorators,
been
offices
appointed
with
Sted-
of Roanoke
of near Toano,
accounting
has
PECK,
Montgomery,
Miss
accepted
our
CW
notes
Newton SEAL,
joined
was born on May 17 to Mr. and Mrs.
Donald TAYLOR.
Mary Taylor was formerly
Receptionist at the Goodwin Building,
while
0.
site for
in Richmond
comes
old
Miss Moyra
Mass
interior
Daniel ( Ethel
Rae,
left
recently
has
man' s,
their
from
an
HOGAN,
annual
Order of St.
Louetta YOUNG,
ment,
III
their
convention
MCPHERSON
of the
news:
Frank
DE Jr
MARSTON
week
Matthew
Ross Bros. &
has
Heights,
ton
Martin Beal)
and Mrs.
the
of
and
last
MCCAUSLAND
Episcopal)
Force
Museums
of
hostesses
s
BEAL,
in Dalton,
Sales
session
Association
Frank
ELLIOTT
in
the annual
year'
the
and
Charles
to New York
returned
Hampton
Edward ALEXANDER
SHOWMAN
attending
last
has
and
completed
Randolph
House
Craft
JANSON,
from
Mechanical
autumn,
Messrs.
have
Construction
the
is being moved to this
in Suffolk
firm
L.
sailed
They will
shop near Cogar' s house
purpose
formerly with Todd ship-
the new Estimate and Purchasing Agent
Mrs.
this
Street
Lybrand,
own
Jr.,
the
of Richmond
been
for Europe.
house
Co.
Jr.,
on York
for
A.
has
James
LEWIS,
7
like the rabbit
May
open an antique
Suffolk
21
J
oak,
gloves,
COGAR
CW under the postwar building program.
Thurston was formerly associated with the
Construction
white
poison
in Wonderland"
Norfolk
superintendents
of
in " Alice
of
of
a victim
seen wearing
recently checked in a 62 -pound arrival,
Nina
Jean GIESELMANN
Miss
by
UPSHUR,
Page
to
recently
E
serve
M.
on
the Rent Control Board, acting in the
Gene informs
us he is
Camp. Peary area.
not only concerned with politics, but
Mrs.
E. M.
LEE
also with
Peary ticks"
and family have moved into the Pitt Dixon
House
Gloucester
while
Street
their
is
house
under
on Duke
of
architectural
graduates from W& M this Spring, is to
become the bride of Harry David Sizemore,
Jr.,
Wren
study for possible reconstruction
Clarence E. TAYLOR was recently appointed
of Clarksville,
Va.,
on June 7 in the as the archaeological laboratory helper
Chapel
Another hostess heading
assisting Minor Wine THOMAS
for marriage
is
artist
Marjorie
H.
OAK,
who drew the cartoons for the forthcoming
Employees'
her
Manual.
engagement
Miss
to William
Oak has
Jolly,
Tom
HALLIGAN,
better
known
as
announced
Happy" and house manager of the Theatre,
recently returned from a trip to New
Jr.,
York
of
where
he
got
a first hand
look
at
Fred L.
FRECHETTE,
Chie fthe way our big cousin, the Radio City
Petersburg, Va
Room Clerk of the Inn and Lodge, was among Music Hall and other big -time theatres.
operate
those taken into membership of Bruton
A big event takes place in
Parish Church at the Confirmation Service
the Theatre Family soon when Patrick
held Sunday morning, May 16
Mrs.
G.
BUCHANAN,
the smiling Irishman and
Halligan' s assistant manager,
takes unto
Tilsley MACDONALD of Craft House has
himself a bride.
resigned and moved to Rumson,
N. Y
And just to keep it in
Mrs.
William BLANKS has left the Craft
the family circle, the bride will be
Hilda
BATEMAN,
of Williamsburg,
who
House;
her place
in the office
will be
�8
Page
June 1,
NEWS from Colonial Williamsburg
worked
con' t from page
at
the
Theatre
relief
7)
last
summer
as
operator
cepted
PERSONAL (
a full time
a
drive -in
Carr
graduation
at
the
Theatre,
booth
job
1948
has
ac-
the
at
new
Tabbs.
Henry KINKEAD,
Not to be outdone by the
utility man, has replaced him in the proassistant manager, Dabney CARR, one of the jection room.
Henry is a GI student ', who
first joined the staff in 19+ 3
Mrs.
student ushers, is also planning on
Tina Jones,
of Arlington
and a
nuptials.
Franklin MINOR is attending her sister' s
at
movie
cashier
former
W& 1vI
Mrs.
student,
John
will
FISHER
become
has
Mrs.
almost
completed
a highly successful series of lecture
trips which carried her to twenty -two
cities, including Houston, Texas, Memphis,
Tennessee,
Philadelphia,
land, Maine,
ford,
Connecticut,
resident
been
he
Just
road.
Southern
Hotel
this
N. C.,
weekend
son,
in
Hampton
as
guests
of
Mr.
and
Lick,
George
Miss Ruth JOLLY spent
Long
the Memorial Day weekend at the Spottswood
Arms
Hotel
Indi-
Virginia
at
BRIDENBAUGH
weekend
Mr.
was
and
attending the
tained
Convention
Association
and
Hart-
West
past
COWLES
Mrs.
the
recently promote dSturbridge Village
the Inn,
also has
He spoke
May 15.
of
in Asheville,
was
Angie
Pa.,
Carter Cowles III, spent the Memorial Day
Department
Mrs.
members
Carl
speaker
in Worcester,
on "
S.
of
and
Beach
guest
UPSHAW,
manager
the
on
Mrs.
week
in Meadville,
Port -
Charleston,
Illinois,
and French
Lynton A.
ana
to
Evanston,
this
exercises
Colonial
P.
the
their
at
Old
Mass.,
on
Craftsmen."
MOOREHEAD
enter-
Architectural
wives
at
a
cocktail
there
Miss Shirley DAVIS has returned
party on May 7 in their home, the Lightfrom Atlanta after visiting her father who foot House, on Duke of Gloucester Street
has been ill for some time.
Her mother,
Katy HANRAHAN,
vivacious first lady
Mrs. Franklin Beatty Davis, returned with of the Theatre box office, will graduate
her for a short stay
Alden HOPKINS
from Matthew Whaley in June.
This summer
spoke
to
the
Rosecliff
Waynesboro,
Garden
Club
in
she
will
be
the
He was acMay 7.
companied by Mr. and Mrs. John HENDERSON
and Miss
Wanda CASTLE.
On Saturday and
Sunday they toured Skyland Drive and
visited
er' s
full -time
Monier WILLIAMS
ington
Va.,
in the
REED
on
home
of Mr.
and Mrs.
Va
in Warrenton,
Wash-
Wash
Reed
was formerly of our Architectural DepartMrs.
ment
Genevieve
OSLUND
of. the
president
of the
local Rotary
From Ewell JONES
colleagues
for
in C &M;
mantle
the
of
old "
cashier
has been made vice -
Ewell
Isham
Club.
comes word of his
dons
the
JOHNSON,
Restoration
report-
columnist
John
News" "
SHEPPARD recently became a coachman
Josh HUNDLEY spent a recent Sunday in
Craft House attended the W&M Varsity Show
Richmond
presentation
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde WALLACE,
motored to Petersburg to visit their
in Richmond
and
was
companied home by her daughter,
is
a student
Among
at
those
St,
in Williamsburg
with
their
summer
Room
Clerk
at
MASSEY
has
several
GEDDY
spent
of
Mr.
is
Mrs.
her
week
at
McNeal
T.
G.
in
PEYTON,
Charlotte
work
in
the
after being
Mr.
Hotel
visited
Ross
to
and
New
Orleans
there
who
School
who are busy
Inn
Department
a
Ruth,
s
gardens
weeks
Pontchartrain
return
the
returned
Architectural
for
Catherine'
ac-
and
the Virginia
Miss
Mrs.
on
ill
the
their
Beach home
PRICE
spent the weekend of May 15 in Hampton
where
Planck
she
was
wedding
a bridesmaid
Maupin
in
the
SAUNDERS,
Price former
and
Mrs.
a
Clyde'
s
Coleman BANK' S
Williamsburg
John
doctor'
s
L.
HAILEY
Mr.
sister
daughter
and
has been in
on a visit from New York
James TASWELL has been
Robert
Vernon
at
Monie
daughter
Mrs.
friends
with
Joe
care
ROBINSON
have
Fleming BROWN,
B.
been
ill
MILL
on
and under
and
vacation"
of Vox Pop fame ( see
story on page six) took another community
bow the same evening when he was installed
as
President
of
the
Bruton
Heights
PTA.
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From COLONIAL
NEWS
Volume
1,
Number
PICNIC *
July, 1948
2
for
picnic
annual
for colored
has
in
will be staged
of
the
held
have been hard at work to see that both picnics
acted as chairman,
charge
and
For
companionship.
with Virginia
recreation
many
PICNIC
are on tap within the next two weeks.
The picnic
on Tuesday,
July 20.
on the following Tuesday, July 27.
be
will
employees
relaxation,
sports,
of
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
for Williamsburgers
white
employees
Committees
program
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
Two gala outings
The
WILLIAMSBURG
Marston
the
first
as his right -hand aide,
For the
activities.
offer
affair,
a full
Bob
Evans
and Jeff Graves
second picnic,
the general
planning has been in the hands of Fleming Brown, with John Mack Williams in charge
of food and refreshments;
other
committee
members
are Selby Mitchell,
Elnorice
Taylor, Roosevelt Harris, Thomas Kearney, Humphrey Lee and Charles Speight.
CW is counting on a full turn -out for both picnics,
king'
s - sized
of employees
supply
are
chicken
of
expected,
but
and
lack
drinks
iced
of space
for
the
and has earmarked a
Wives
occasion.
and facilities
will
or husbands
not permit
other
members of the family to attend.
The picnic for July 20 is scheduled for the Inn Grounds,
Brouwers
and
crew
clearing
the
area
insect
of
July 27 will be held at Log Cabin Beach,
colored employees
life
well
in
with J. B.
advance.
The
picnic
on
and transportation will be provided for all
who need it.
The white
employees'
picnic
will
start
at 3: 30,
with
a recreation
program
including golf, softball, tennis, croquet, horseshoes, bridge, and novelty races.
Numerous prizes, including two new silver cups donated by Mr. Chorley for the lady
and man golfer handing in the lowest net score, will be awarded at the Pool at 7 : 30.
The
program,
facilities
climaxed
are
by
reserved
swimming and diving contest,
for employees
without charge.
a
will
The colored employees' picnic will start at 5 p. m.
and will feature dancing in the pavilion and swimming.
end
at
8.
All
sports
and end at midnight,
The entire schedule for both picnics is in the mail,
addressed individually
to each and every CW employee.
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC *
PICNIC
�Page
2
NEWS
from
Colonial
Williamsburg;
July, 1948
A Memo
From
the
E.
V.
Now that the first month of my new assignment has been completed
I want to say something to my fellow employees of Colonial Williamsburg through this publication.
A fine spirit of cooperation throughout the organization has impressed
me
interest
I
since
in my
took
over
Mr.
has
been
most
work
Geddy'
former
s
duties.
A friendly
At the
encouraging.
same time
this
attitude on the part of so many friends has made me realize anew the
responsibilities that go with my job and it has also highlighted the
loyalty
teamwork
and
something
up through
the
throughout
organization.
Teamwork
is
not
We' ve had it for a long time because it has been built
new.
the
years.
But, speaking from personal experience and the
observations of recent weeks I want to emphasize it as one of our great
assets.
And I want very much to see it developed so that it is more
widely recognized both within the organization and throughout the community.
It seems to me this loyalty and spirit of teamwork are securely
founded
this
on
a
that,
question
in
pride
organization
is
look
jobs
our
to
something
around
Colonial
with
you
be
and
proud
Williamsburg.
If for
of.
compare
Indulge
notes.
A job
an instant
with
you
in a little
self - analysis.
How do you and your job stack up in comparison with
what others are doing and with what you were doing one year ago, five
years
ago
or ten years
Pride
in
one'
s
ago?
work
is
a
actively and enthusiastically
force.
powerful
throughout
I want
to foster
it
this organization.
When you realize that Colonial Williamsburg
now has more than a
thousand employees it is obvious that this is far more than a one man
organization.
It has to have leaders,
of course,
but it needs the
loyal, enthusiastic support and the conscientious,
work
of
single
every
man
and
woman
in the
self every single job must contribute something,
his
own
our
weight
to
doing
to
entitle
drift.
we
him to
a
seat
on
the
To justify
it-
for everyone must pull
boat.
If
we
And that means Colonial Williamsburg
don'
t pull
will drift.
I make have these first
these observations not to preach or to lecture but simply
let
many
weight
consistent daily
organization.
you
impressions
important
things
and
that
interesting
are
very
much
things
about
ahead
worthwhile.
my
of
us
new
work.
this
We
summer.
have
We'
re
If you can' t see them from
day to day take a few minutes to take stock of yourself and then look
ahead.
Then pitch in with the day' s work and I venture to say that you
too will catch the real spirit of the organization.
Let me know if you have any difficulty in finding it.
Bela
W.
Norton
P.
�July,
NEW
NEWS
1948
from
local Jaycee member,
EMPLOYEES
University
John T.
has
FERRIS
of Richfield
the
joined
Springs,
architectural
N. Y.
He
staff.
Rockefeller
of
is the new secretary of the
Publicatic. ns
Depa_
She
t,ment.
has
for
the
past
part - time '
three
ecreta, r;; to
Baptist
Williamcburg
ly, ii . 3c Moser'
WEITr',
well
wr: i -Leo
that
that
men' per
sre
in
838
at
of
the
and
end
Mrs.
her
the
John
hii. sband
an
have
S. W.
Ave.,
s
Depar
in Kannapolis,
N. C.
Campbell
Fort
Sill,
at
heads
the
Born
Mary.
and
she
Okla.,
who
is the
has moved with
United
States
and
abroad
during
her
Bob
duty
CON.'.N: Y is a vereatile Navy veteran who
are
an
in
ont.
va'_ ious
s
to
tours
cc.'rbine
his
of
CW job
with
drumming
in h i 3 jaz band, o__?
erating the Conley
Vendir7 Cc ^; r:ay ( stamp and chewing - gum
r
vending riac'., ines),
playing top- flight
golf,
Peggy FISRE3 is a new
Treasurer'
Carpenter,
William
father'
as
at
of
Joan CARPENTER
of Col.
Incidental - manaas
Roanoke
Hozrtert
Mrs.
city
Ward
Church
predecessor,
established
apartment
Dr.
1948,
served
a native
Unit
at
of the
her family to many Army bases both in the
graduated
years
is
daugrter
Vivian MOSES
from William and Mary in June,
She
Virginia
R. O. T, C.
Miss
Center
is a graduate
of Virginia with nursing
experience.
County,
formerly worked in the architectural
office
Page 3
Williamsburg;
Colonial
w'• rking toward a law degree at
ar..'.
He had two long spells
Mary.
of action in the Pacific during five years
William
and
is a recent William and Mary graduate,
flying land -based Navy Liberators, latterly
with Bombing Squadron 109, Buzz Miller' s
where
Reluctaat
He •
home
is
she
was
a member
Her
Gamma Sorority.
at the College
of
Miss
of Williamsburg,
the
husband
and she
Kappa
is
a
Marjorie
who teaches
Kappa
student
BROWNING
at Bowling
Green during the school year, is again
working on the Virginia Gazette indexing
the
Mrs.
project
during
KELLOGG
has replaced Mrs.
the Department
Mrs.
Kellogg,
summer
Mary
Russell HAY in
of Public
Information.
at Fort Eustis,
as
is from Independence,
Mo.
who has
Mr.
student
of
at
She
the
the
receptionist
a recent
graduate
of
went
University of Rochester, has joined the
Virginia
Gazette
index
Hunter
staff
CHL,J KLEY of Williamsburg is a new member
of
F.
the
Meredith
August
DIETZ,
Dietz,
Jr.,
Nancy
was
now
William
Norfolk
in Fort
classifier
and
of
and
Division
Archives
and
of
Products
Air
Lauderdale,
searcher
in
Miss Hickey
CW.
to Low - Heywood School for Girls in
Conn.,
and the Yale University
Stamford,
of
Fine
Arts
at
New
Haven.
Miss
Department
Architectural
is
Files
the
the
the
for Polar
Inc.,
Conditioning,
Fla.,
Indiana,
Mrs.
secretary,
Miss Betty HICKEY,
College
former
Dianna
Indianapolis,
s
College
attended
Hay has returned to Richmond
of
replaced
Upshur'
Mr. and Mrs. Pearson are living
at 221 Boundary Street while he is a
Miss
GEYT
with
previously employed by the Norfolk School
Mrs.
VAN
is married,
Betty PEARSON of
Board.
Mary.
whose husband is stationed
Mrs.
Portsmouth,
Foster
He
Raiders.
child
one
sister
of
of the Dietz Press,
of Richmond,
is
new working in the office at Craft House.
Miss Dietz,
editor
of
a prolific
the
author
Southern
and former
Literary
Messenger,
has a new cookbook Let' s Talk Turkey
MR.
scheduled
issue
Mr.
Pa.
for publication
Department.
Both
Penn State.
Clinton
Harold Loughrie,
secretarial
work
are
1948
autumn
Center.
a Post
Mrs.
graduates
is training
Three
new
under
colleagues
at the Reception
George HICKAM,
Office
of
and his wife is doing
have joined Bill Bippus
is
this
and Mrs.
Clinton QUIGLEY of Lewistown,
have joined the staff of the Food
employee
and
whose husband
prominent
GEORGE
P.
COLEMAN -
of the News
since
This
the
is the first
death of Mr.
George P. Coleman, for many years the
first citizen of Williamsburg and a longtime
friend and associate
of Colonial
Williamsburg and member of its Board of
Trustees.
Along with the whole Williamsburg community, we express our deep
sorrow
and
and our sympathy
members
of
the
to Mrs.
family.
Coleman
�Page
L
NEWS
PROFILE:
Colonial
Williamsburg
July
1948
HAROLD LOUGHRIE, the Man Behind the Menu
Over
from
from
at
which -
our
hotels
behind
is
doors
that
guests'
never - never
Employees
marked "
land, "
Only" -
the back of the house,"
John D. Green' s far -flung empire
is directed, and where one of the most important provinces is the food department.
This is the largest department of the Inn and Lodge, directing some 175 employees,
and seeing the everything from bouillabaisse to baked beans is procured and prethat
for
pared
most
guest.
exacting
Major - domo of this department,
with a clear
title to its migrainous responsibilities, is William Harold Loughrie, who assumed
the position of Catering Manager on July first.
Harold Loughrie ( pronounced Lock - rey) is a hard - working, good- natured adminis-
trator, Virginia born and bred, who came to Williamsburg back in 1937 to work in the
old Williamsburg Inn, and who has pushed steadily up the ladder of responsibility to
his
present
assignment.
His ten -year service emblem was awarded by Mr. Rockefeller
at last February' s annual employees'
the
meeting in the Reception Center.
Acting at first as food checker and wine steward, Harold doubled in brass when
Inn
built by
new
was
setting
there.
storerooms
up
His mushrooming activities
grew when he became the first manager of the Lodge' s Coffee Shop, and afterwards
his
retaining
still
all
jobs)
other
first
manager
Chowning'
of
s
Tavern.
After
a
four -year interlude in the service from 1941 to 1945, during which he won a coveted
Bronze Star from the Army for service under fire, he became Assistant Catering
Manager.
He moved up to his new post after Andy Cipriani resigned recently to
accept a position with Foley Brothers, the fabulous new department store in Houston,
Texas.
The Catering Manager is responsible for the purchasing of food and equipment,
for the preparation of food in our many kitchens, for the maintenance of these
kitchens, and for the actual service of food and drink at Travis House and Chowning' s
Tavern.
At both the Inn and Lodge our waiters work directly under the respective
Assistant Managers, although here to
Harold and the managers work as a team to assure
hospitable
efficient
and
service
patrons.
The over - all organization
of the
Catering Department the shown by a simplified chart here, and it should offer a good
is
graph'
s- eye - view
of
complex
chores
daily
which
face
its
administrator -
and
which
range from unscrambling red tape when food shipments are delayed to worrying out the
color scheming of an entree:
Food iseDught and selected for local palates with the same precision and care
by Jim Cogar
Mrs.
Geiger
used
are
or
is
imported -
antiques
choosing
for
the buildings.
Delicacies
hogs caviar from Baku, or perhaps truffles from roots nosed up by disin France
Belgium.
ciminating
or
Although a large volume of supplies is
necessarily shipped in from outside cities, our policy is to purchase everything we
from local
can
markets.
For example, seafood is regularly sought from fishermen of
the York and James Rivers, while near -by farmers provide quantities of fruits,
vegetables,
amount
of
eggs,
food
and
poultry.
in our
consumed
As our purchasing agent and chefs kn Jw so well, the
restaurants
is
staggering -
5, 000 pounds of sugar
monthly, for 100
example, and 2, 500 chickens, or 900 pounds of butter; at the Travis
House
alone,
serv'
d up,"
well - cured
Smithfield
hams
vanish
each
month.
And
all
this
food
is
as our eighteenth- century forefathers would say, in appetizing style,
whether buffet dinner at the Inn. Shop breakfast or the elegant and nationally
at an inexpensive Coffee
famous
All beverages, too, come under the Loughrie purview, from iced orange juice or
to
beer.
steaming
coffee
wine
or
He is justly proud of his wide selection
of
vintage Heidsieck handsome wine list offers 13.
wines; his Liebfraumilch 1937
gourmets the opportunity of ordering
bottle.
Charles
or
hard - to -get Michelob
at $
beer
is
on
draft.
Harold'
per
s
insistence
At Chowning' s Tavern,
on
top -notch beer
or
ale
�NEWS
1948
July,
PROFILE (
from Colonial
Page
Williamsburg
5
Cont' d.)
maybe a reaction to the hodgepodge of tepid and tasteless
filled the meager beer - ration of the overseas G. I.
brews
which too often
The new Catering Manager, like most of his associates in the " back of the house,"
has
been
aided
by
WRI
the
policy
of
on-
the - job
The Coffee Shop oyster stews,
training.
for example, were perfected during a six -week Loughrie junket to Rockefeller Center in
to
1939,
study the
operation
of
His most recent trip, made with
there.
restaurants
Purchasing Steward Forrest Griffin only last month, gave these Williamsburg experts
the chance to compare notes and procedures with their opposite numbers at the Homestead,
the Greenbrier,
and the Hotel Roanoke.
Harold' s long tour of duty in the Army started in pre -Pearl Harbor days of
August, 1941, at Camp Lee, moved west to Fort Francis E. Warren in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
and
Shortly after D Day at Normandy,
to Europe.
thence
Captain Loughrie
joined
General Patton' s Third Army, as CO of a Truck Company which helped move personnel for
infantry
in the front - line
divisions
armored
and
area.
The
Bronze
Star
was
the
out-
come of a perilous expedition with tanks to rescue QMC personnel captured by an SS
Division,
this,
taken
action
an
under
he adds all five battle
fire
stars
and "
above
former
and
Audrey
Olga
went
to
Lynn,
to
Valley
High School
at
Hot
Mrs. Loughrie
fourth
birthday.
up in the Covington - Hot Springs
Springs
together.
Harold'
s
S FOOD
T/ 0
EMPIRE:
OF
AN
is the
region,
parents
continued
LOUGHRIE'
To
duty."
of
call
Cole Stable on Nassau Street with their
her
celebrate
Both were born and brought
Lamb.
the
soon
the
beyond
from the ETO.
The Loughries live at the reconstructed
daughter,
and
on
next
still
page)
EX - G. I.
CATERING
Harold
MANAGER
Loughrie
Assistant Catering Manager
Position
to
be
filled)
r
Kitchen
Purchasing
Travis
Chowning' s
Kitchen
Manager,
Steward -
House
Tavern
Manager,
Lodge -
Manager F.
Mrs.
F.
D.
Griffin
Mrs.
Assistant
Approximately
hostesses,
yard
Kitchen
Manager,
Mrs.
and
Letha
Booth
1
men.)
Bones"
Miss
Carpenter
Norma
Bamman
Kitchen'
Manager,
Owens
175 employees,
bartenders,
R. "
Assistant
Lodge
Odell
Inn -
D.
Griffin
1'
Manager -
Inn
1.
1 Mrs. Mary Woods
including
waiters -
Travis
supervisors, cooks, bakers, storekeepers,
cleaners,
dishwashers,
Cahowning' s -
House,
�Page 6
NEWS
PROFILE (
Cont'
Mrs.
hostess
as do his brother and
Loughrie was at one time
House.
is a bridge
and poker player
who likes tennis, golf, and fishing.
Early -morning risers may have seen Harold
and Andy Cipriani and Linton Upshaw setting off on a dawn fishing trip.
As far
as golf is concerned, Harold is a good
friend of Sam Snead, but adds quickly
that any momentary
efforts
Williamsburg
EMPLOYEE
at Travis
Harold
Colonial
d. )
live in Covington,
sister.
from
resemblance
on a course
is
almost
in their
sure
to be
July, 1948
HOUSING
SURVEY
Recognizing the housing problems of
many employees, Colonial Williamsburg is
making a thorough study of this subject
immediately.
A questionnaire has been
prepared for each employee,
so that a
full understanding of the present and
future needs of the CW community can be
tabulated.
This query will not only
ascertain inadequacies of present housing
and the exact housing desires of our 1000
employees, but will check on the closely
related problem
accidental.
of transportation.
No promise of swift remedy to hous-
ing headaches is made, but Vernon Geddy,
who is conducting the survey in collaboraJOHN HAIILEY
tion with Duncan Cocke and the Personnel
Relations Department, will recommend steps
RETIRES
After nearly
vice with CW,
He became 65
eighteen
years
of ser-
July 4.
For
the
past
several years John' s job has been keeping
the
C.
business
blocks
tidy.
From
the
and M. Department comes high praise of
his "
his
will
outstanding
loyalty," and regret
employment has been
terminated. "
be
missed,"
writes
Bill
His home is at Grove,
mailing
address R. F. D.
2,
for
requested
that
the
full use of the special section headed
remarks."
He
McPherson,
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
SURVEY
and his
Williamsburg.
Earl Newsom
and Company,
New York
consultants,
relations
are
studies
Williamsburg
s
The new Colonial
Williamsburg Coloring Book,
it is
give
questionnaire his full attention, stating
ing a number of
BOOK PUBLI ?HED.
S
reason,
everyone
his needs perfectly frankly, and making
public
COLORING
ultimate
For this
all.
that
by all his friends he spoke to every
day."
solution
urgently
John HAILEY is retiring.
on
leading to a satisfactory
an official
publication, is off the presses and on
sale.
Suitable either for crayon or
watercolor, this children' s book has
thi
With recent
in
conduct -
Colonial
summer.
changes
in the organiza-
tion a new head of the Department
Public Information,
of
formerly known as the
Public Relations Department, is to be
appointed.
Temporarily Mrs. Alma Lee Rowe
thirty different drawings to color, with
four colored drawings to serve as guides.
The new publication, which retails for
ly it is as busy as ever during the summer.
65 cents, has a colored paper cover and
is enclosed in an attractive mailing
in Williamsburg during the past three
envelope.
All CW employees may purchase
this at a 20% discount either at Craft
House or. the Goodwin Building Stock Room.
is
acting
Mr.
months
on
head
of
the
department.
Newsom and his partners
a
number
of
occasions.
work this
summer will be reported
Executive
Committee
in September.
Current-
have been
Their
to the
�July,
NEWS
1948
GROUP HOSPITALIZATION
BENEFITS
from Colonial
AND SURGICAL
FEE
Williamsburg
Page
7
half of the cost of operating the Plan.
Employee contributions are made monthly
PLAN
by payroll deduction.
The Group Hospitalization
cal
Fee
Benefits
Plan
which
and Surgi-
became
effect-
Employees presenting claims under the
Group Hospitalization and Surgical Fee
ive for employees of Colonial Williamsburg Benefits Plan bring bills in connection
and their dependents
1947, with the hospitalization
and / or operation
and
to the Personnel Relations Department in
popular
of the organization'
s employee
the Goodwin
This
office
subBuilding.
benefit plans.
mits the necessary forms to the Insurance
The high percentage of employee parCompany and settlement checks are
ticipation during the initial enrollment
received
within three
or four days.
has become
period
one
and since
a desire
tection
on
of the
February 15,
most
attractive
that time has
indicated
and a real need for the pro-
At present 523 employees
belong to the Plan and 241 of these are
offered.
providing
coverage
dependents.
This
for
their
seems
an
OF
INTEREST
eligible
excellent
show-
ing in view of the fact that six months'
Bob HOKE,
plume
Robert
writing
L.
Hoke,
under the nom de
authored
the
New Restoration Projects in
continuous active service with the company article
is necessary for membership.
Williamsburg"
for the July issue of
The Commonwealth
During the sixteen months the Plan
The first " rescue"
has
been
in force,
presented
134
claims
been
these covered hospitalization
In
hospital
and
the
claims
surgical
of
deep
at the
attention
totalled
for
any
miscellaneous
maximum
Plan'
to
was
from
first
s
operation
employee.
of
employees'
days
of
age (
no
Also,
Bill SAUNDERS,
nineteenth
their
eighteenth),
eighteen
hours
for hospital
surgical
a $ 100.
year
Plan
maxiof
of
from
three
birthdays (
the
cost
has
as eligible
been
depend-
fourteen
months)
instead
to
of
and the waiting period
before
claim
benefits
could
be
has been waived.
The cost to participating
employees
is 600 per month for individual coverage
and $ 2.
per month for a policy
the employee
regardless
are made
of
and his eligible
the
possible
burg' s assumption
number.
including
dependents,
These
by Colonial
low
rates
Williams -
of approximately
is)
the
Also
Pool was
the
one-
V. P. I.
graduate
who is managing
and air
the Pool
for
a $ 150. DEWEY
additional
the
children
instead
their
made
with
to include
ents
of
the
and
The
schedule.
increased
the
liberalized
charges,
after
schedule
50.
confinement, $
hospital
surgical
schedule
mum
one
that
at
Maisie HENDERSON of the Craft House by
force veteran
writers of the Plan totalled $11, 346. 40.
this summer
The Plan provides $ 5. per day for
hospital charges up to a maximum of thirty days
of
saw John WARNER
diamond placed on the finger of Miss
17, 427. 27 and settlements received from
the Aetna Life Insurance Company, under-
one
Inn Pool
literally,
water (
attracting
presented,
fees
season
help a young honeymooning couple out of
of employees
and sixty -three were for dependents
employees.
the
Seventy - one of
settled.
and
have
will
of
AIDE
begin
our
HERE a
Next
month,
distinguished
most
ing the past month,
special
notice
Herbert
Brownell.
campaign
advisers.
the
managers
With
solitude
News
roster
visitors.
deserves
was one of nominee
a
Dur-
one of our guests who
year
was
the
feature -
regular
in this election
Thomas
influential
Brownell,
and comfort
Brownell
Dewey' s trio of
and most
Mrs.
Mr.
he
came
to
of our little
city directly from the Republican Convention
in Philadelphia.
�Page
8
from
NEWS
RECENT
SUGGESTION
Recent
AWARDS
employees'
netted $ 60.
on
are
awards
the
four
at
roster
to
a grand
total
the
Suggestion
of
which
Mike
LOU STRYKER ($
have
eleven
Mike
awards
System was first
in March,
Room
follows
into
Raleigh
the
Rest
Room
at
the
Tavern.
O' Riordan,
Inn.
Williamsburg
has
effect
the
1948
5) That a sliding
bolt be put on the door leading
from the Ladies Withdrawing
FANNIE
suggestions
July,
Williamsburg
cash on the CW barrel -head.
Spot - lighted
watchman
Colonial
now
since
put
into
Starting with next month' s
FORECAST
issue
1945.
of
the News,
a
series
of
articles
on CW' s new building projects will get
RALPH
C.
10) -
MOODY ($
pointed
curbing
entrance
rounded
bile
That the sharp -
to
in front
Inn
off
service
to protect
and truck
of
Also
way
few photographs of
the
yard be
automo-
if
Tom Williams'
REID ($
in
That
5)
employee
hotels
month
camera
holds
that applause
cut
signs
be
at
employees
posted
stencils
Mrs.
graph
Irma
job
COWLES'
the
to wash
is
is
the
WILLIAMS,
the
joint
handled
while
through
the
from
assist
O' RIORDAN ($
provided
the
Inn
That
5) in the
for
benches
service
employees
be
yard
to
this
at
use
news
your
Distri-
the
result
Make
Send news
paper.
own
of
with an
Gazette
the Virginia
sheet
mimeo-
Virginia
Miss Casey MILLER' S ingenuity,
is
are
of Mrs.
Miss
room.
MICHAEL
issue
Section.
MARSTON.
masthead
a
on the fault-
first
their hands before leaving the
The
for
picnics,
out
product
Services
Office
bution
for
look
employees'
less
washrooms
asking
the
Incidentally,
tires.
due
NATHANIEL
next
under
or ideas along with your criticisms
Bob HOKE, Goodwin Building
to
when they are not on duty.
MICHAEL
O' RIORDAN ($
That
5) -
rack
be
provided
yard
at the
a bicycle
the
service
EMPLOYEES'
for
Inn
in
the
use
tion late this month or early in August is
of
the
employees.
new printed
Here
Manual.
10) -
LANIER ($
MILDRED
placed
at
That markers
construction
be
ROLFE
E.
KENNARD ($
That
5) -
lined,
of
of
publica-
Employees'
Williams-
employee benefits outduties
interest
forth.
visitors
for
illustrated
background
departmental
procedures
of
Scheduled
and
the
burg is related,
sites
giving a sketch or outline
the work in progress.
MANUAL -
The
cover
DRAPERY
AND
CARPET
specified,
to
employees
will be
and
set
in color.
be
informed that Williamsburg is
not on " Daylight Saving Time."
MICHAEL
O' RIORDAN ($
5) -
That
trash
the
Craft House
be
Inn
trash
instead
the
service
house
from
placed
in the
of
sale
O' RIORDAN ($
yard.
at
the
tized
Inn
and
5) and
each
That
the
Lodge
be
furnished
watchman
a
badge denoting his position.
BONNIE
BROWN ($
5) -
That
a
sign
be
erected
calling attention to the Spinning
House.
of
will
be
Colonial
draperies
depuwith
SALE.
draperies
There
and
will
carpets
be
in
a
the
Game Room of Williamsburg Inn from Tuesda
This
July 27, through Friday, July 30.
in
sale
MICHAEL
of used
parts
make
of
fine
limited
are
the
at
first
Williamsburg.
in excellent
wornout
scatter
floor
rugs.
to
Some
employee
of
the
condition
and
coverings
woul
�1948
July,
CW- "
C. G."
NEWS
from
Colonial
TEAMWORK
Williamsburg
which has been considerably revised this
season,
When " The Common Glory"
started its
second banner season at the Matoaka Lake
Amphitheater on July 2, Colonial Williams-
arrangements
these persons,
bands,
Lake
personnel
year' s close
free
Corporation
co- operation
James-
which sponsors the
Many departments lent a
drama.
symphonic
with the
hand, but the work of the Special Activities Department to boost the Paul Green
drama to visitors deserves particular
were made
so that all
with their wives and hus-
could attend the performance
Matoaka
burg took many new steps to continue last
town Corporation,
Page 9
were
of
charge.
guests
of
the
All
at
CW
Jamestown
for this performance,
with
CW paying
only
own part,
CW offered a hand on the open-
the
Federal
Tax.
On its
ing night by giving a party and buffet
dinner for newspaper and magazine critics
attending the show.
attention.
Under the
direction
of ex- Thespian
Tom McCaskey, displays were set up in the
Inn and Lodge and at the Reception Center.
Two color enlargements of scenes from the
play
were
prepared
for
the
hotels,
and
TAP' MAN BEHIND THE DESK
at
Several weeks ago,
on a particularly
the Center a special display was built
busy afternoon, Steve Webster was behind
around dolls dressed in replicas
the
of the
same costumes used in " The Common Glory."
desk
the
at
Lodge.
arrived in Williamsburg
Our bulletin boards have been liberally
vance
covered
accommodations.
with
notices,
and
a paragraph
has
been inserted in This Week in Williamsburg.
In addition to this assistance in
publicity, Tom', s new Travel Office in the
Craft House sells tickets each day from
9 to 5 on a courtesy basis,
as a conven-
ience to visitors for whom a trip to the
main box office at the amphitheater
always
is not
easy.
in Williamsburg late in the afternoon and
wishing to see the exhibition buildings
as well as the play, the hours of admission to the Capitol and Palace have been
pushed
ahead until
performances
are
5: 30 on evenings
scheduled
and
these
when
two
buildings are not closed until 6: 00.
Meal hours at our restaurants were advanced
of his
one - half
hour
so that
patrons
of
The Common Glory" would have adequate
who
had
a full day in ad-
reservation,
Steve
asked
for
somehow found time
to look high and low for a room, and was
at last able to take care of the stranger
that
night
at
the Lodge.
How successful he was became evident
last week in an editorial in the Hotel
World- Review, popular weekly trade journal
of
the
The
hotel
Guest
publisher
To accommodate theater -goers arriving
A guest,
industry.
IS Always
of
the magazine,
to Steve
and
Nichols,
the exacting
whom
Steve
Under the heading,
Right,"
his
had
colleagues.
Don
Nichols,
offered
For
kudos
it
was
hotel man'. s editor,
helped.
An
excerpt
follows:
Nowhere
have
I
seen more
effi-
cient boys at the desk than at John
Green' s Williamsburg
These
boys -
all
of
operation.
them -
look
the part, act the part and practice
the part of as able good -will ambassadors
I
room of the Inn is now open daily except
have ever seen.
They
reflect the personality of the man at
the top John Green and his able
Sunday for dinner from 6 until 8 p. m.,
managers
time
for
a
leisurely
supper.
The dining
and for Sunday Night Buffet from 6: 15
until
8: 30.
The Lodge dining room is
open for dinner from 5: 30 until 8 p. m.,
and Travis House is open each evening
from 5: 30 until 7: 30.
To
acquaint
our
what
desk
burg
contact
employees more thoroughly with the play,
and
assistant
managers.
And
a
sore
spot a mishandled
front
can be.
But not at the WilliamsInn and Lodge.
Obviously that
kind of front office efficiency just
doesn' t
own public
as
happen."
�Page
10
NEWS
HOSTESS
Colonial
from
BRIEFS
Williamsburg
From Mrs.
on
CW'
Mary I.
s
Summer
in
the
hostess
hostess
Mrs.
Gwendolyn
W.
to
S.
the
hostess
WOODY,
with Mrs.
tess
Haller
teaches
Mrs.
and will
the
in the
City Point,
public
Haller and Mrs.
Armistead
Ave.
serve
schools
Mrs.
as
hos-
Woody
home
of Mrs.
Moncure
Nancy GOULDMAN and Mrs. R. F.
SCHULTZ have recently joined the ranks of
the escorts.
Nancy is a Theta of the
College of William and Mary.
Mrs.
Schultz served during the war as a
Lieutenant
Schultz
Marines.
of
She
and Mr.
Schultz
College
of
YOST
graduated
and
from
N. 0
to
Ernest
daughter,
little
with
son
her
Mrs.
Mass.
pursue
his
will
PATE
Mrs.
of Richmond,
while
W.
E.
to
spend
ATKINSON
port,
R. I.
Mr.
Macon
ETHERIDGE
visit
has
friends
at
the
Mrs.
studies
her
home
vacation
of her
E.
at
J.
New-
daughter....
With the opening of " The Common Glory,"
July 2, the Palace and the Capitol have
remained open until 6 p. m. to give to '
visitors arriving to attend the pageant
an opportunity to see those buildings.
To help in the emergency Mr. Fred FLANARY
Mr.
Clem
VAUGHAN
have
donned
costume
and are acting as hosts at the Capitol
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas FLETCHER were among
the
of Wil-
Matoaka
College
be
her
Mrs. J. M. CORMACK is spending the summer
in Mexico City where Mr. Cormack, a member
of the faculty of William and Mary, has
Doris
Mary
the
and
will
to Salem,
and
Mr.
living on Richmond Road.
is a member of the faculty of the
are
William
gone
gone
of Hopewell.
Woody are living on
in the
Mrs.
weeks
guests
Macon,
who
Lejeune,
came
Mrs.
summer.
six
her
is attending Marine Corps Reserve Camp at
HALLER
14.
as
James
was welcomed
June
group,
also of
throughout
Va.
past
has
Va.,
department.
of City Point, Hopewell,
back
corps:
salts have made their
here
is
Daniel comes this
photogenic
Fans and smelling
appearance
1948
gentleman in charge of the Wig Shop for
the
report
July,
first nighters
and Mary on June
6.
On June 7 she
and Harry Sizemore were married in
Christopher Wren Chapel.
They are living
NELSON
on
at
the
theater
Lake
Mrs.
July 2
has recently returned
on
Philip
Nelson."
liam
Griffin
Harris.
while
Mrs.
Harry
ADOLPH,
time
some
HOLMES,
the
Ave.
in
Doris
home
of
continue
his
completes
with Mr.
response
work
Department
an
I.
E.
Va.
where
she
from Warren-
visited. her
daughter -in law, Mr.
and Mrs.
son
and
Philip
a hostess
W&
at
M...
is spending
Mrs.
to
Mr.
as
Adolph,
in Florida
in
State
the
will
ton,
David
of Education,
FROM
NEWS
invitation
C&
M
from
jour-
Bill BENTIEN recently returned from
Monier WILLIAMS
is
neyed to Farmville on June 23' and talked
a
to
vacationing in Canada, where he expects
to prove his skill over the finny tribe
the
about
teachers
the
at
educational
Mrs.
Williamsburg
her
of
guest
her
sister,
Philadelphia,
has
the
returned
summer
value
of
CARTER
Mrs.
Pa
a visit
has
Hugo
where
to
had as
Charles
Mrs.
from Texas,
school
in
Hutt
s
some
vacation
of
THURSTON
WERMUTH
she
week'
has
Unit
B.
yet,
but
Dallas.
Lorraine
Mrs.
Laurie
Wermuth' s
Atkinson,
sister -in law,
with her
son - in law
se-
and Mrs,
their
as
her
Mr.
guests
in
Rici : aond
1: ced
Shop
Duke
Ellert ( Bob)
the
into
of
has
old
Theta
quarters
in
Gloucester
been
the
Dalt
Home
the
Street.
colonial
corps
of
s
Peruke
Mr.
are
our
He is not making reservations
it won' t be too long
Mrs.
HAI. LIP left July 6 for two
Several
vacation....,
of
the
department
spent
a week
Saturday,
July 3.
It
the
were
fish
returning
on
Carl
areas
assistants
Charles,
hohert ELLERT are moving from
rooms
on
days
reral
week'
from
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Clay Waters,
returned with her to Williamsburg and
spent
lake
rugged
his
making steady progress with new Lodge
been visiting relatives in Houston and
Mrs.
the
and
easier
to
catch
B
ferries
L.
fellows
at
is
than
Cape
reported
the
BRYANT,
Inn
and Lodge engineer, is currently on vacation
Vacationing from C & M during
July
will
Itille'1J;
t':
Mr.
BEEBE,
Frank JACOBS,
HITCHEN:,
Louise
Sidney GAGE,
Oscar LINDSAY,
Ed WATKINS . "
Miss
Bert
Hugh
SCORE,
and
�July,
CW
19+ 8
NEWS
from
Colonial
NOTES
Williamsburg
Mrs.
Isabella BRAYER recently spent
a few days
manager,
with
Mrs.
the
former
Travis
House
Reynolds, at her home in
Tom MOYLES has been elected
Winchester
President of the Virginia Charter of the
Greeters
of
America.
Tom
is
just
back from a New England vacation where he
saw a former Inn -Lodge assistant manager,
Earl
E.
MOODY
Hodges
spent
Kingwood,
Mr.
and Mrs.
the weekend
West
Va
Ralph C.
of the 4th in
Jack UPSHUR
and his
family are en route to Ocean Drive Beach,
S. 0
Harold SPARKS drove to Mt. Vernon,
Ohio,
his
11
has just come back from a visit with her
brother
Hotel
Page
over Independence Day to reune with
wife
and
two
Mrs.
children.
Sparks
Mr.
and
sister
and Mrs.
in Linbrook,
L.
I
Arthur SEDILLE and son are
visiting with friends in New Jersey
Mrs.
Bonnie BROWN,
Spinning House,
weaver
recently was visited by
her
family from Mastik,
Mrs. ALEXANDER and K. C.
have
just
Paris.
at the Wythe
attended
L.
I
Ed
and
and MrsCHORLEY
a Museum
Conference
in
Ed is studying museums and his-
torical
associations
navia,
in England,
and on the Continent,
Scandi-
while K.
C.
is catching up on unfinished business both
in Europe
and
England
Mrs.
Angie
COWLES and her son are visiting in Roanoke
and
Hampton
the
4th
Cape
at
Miss Shirley DAVIS
May Point, N. J
spent
Miss
has been ill but is recuperating and exSally FITCHETT is working in the Goodwin
pects to be in Williamsburg in the autumn. Building again during the summer before
The Inn and Lodge staged an informal
returning to William and Mary for further
farewell party for Andy CIPRIANI, who
study,
Miss Mary Lillington HUNTER, a
has resigned
as Catering
cept a position
Manager
in Houston,
to ac-
Texas.
former employee of the Special Activities
Department,
was
married
on June
12
in
Lynton UPSHAW made a brief farewell
speech and Andy was presented with a
traveling bag by his fellow workers
LaCrosse
Mrs.
KENDREW is back in the office after a
Geraldine
BRYANT
has
returned
Toano
to
Mrs.
and
A.
J.
VICKERS
Durwood Armstrong
Sing MOOREHEAD
list
sick
work in the Coffee Shop after a visit
with her parents in West Virginia
Mr.
to Mr.
for
the
past
two - week vacation
Hampshire
of the Lodge
of
has been on the
few
Ed
weeks
in his camp in New
Jeff
and
Mrs.
GRAVES
motored
have returned from a visit by plane to
through New England in their new Studebaker during his vacation in June
A
Leesburg,
Lawrence
MARTIN
Mr.
after
Fla
are back
and Mrs. Walter
two weeks of vaca-
tioning in the Carolinas
Walter is Chief Engineer
Lodge,
and his
wife
is
and Florida.
of the Inn and
associated
with
the Catering Department of the Lodge
Mrs.
who
Anne
served
Smith
READ
overseas
during the war,
of
the
Craft
KOCHER
has
been appointed
with the Red Cross
flew to New York some
W.
J.
at
M. I T
Mr.
130 - A
her
and Mrs.
PHELAN have moved from Route 2 to
Chandler
Court
Miss
parents
Jane
GIRTEN
trip to visit
in Chicago
Mrs.
Shirley
SANDERLIN recently visited friends in
Pittsburgh,
Pa
Mrs.
time.. ago to attend a reunion of veterans
of the. African and Italian campaigns
Mrs. Harry FOLK of Craft House had as her
guest recently Miss Ann DANIEL of
Alexandria, a former CW employee
tained
Stiles
former Peggy VAN BUREN,
Mrs.
a
two -year term to the Visiting Committee
for Architecture
is back from a two - weeks'
House,
for
her mother,
daughter
Lines,
the
has been visiting
accompanied by her small
Rod
members
JONES
of
and
his
wife
the Treasurer'
ment with their husbands
enter-
s Depart-
and wives
at a
Joseph VAN BUREN has announced the engage- picnic in their summer home in Gloucester..
ment of her daughter, Mary MacLeod, to
Miss Casey MILLER is vacationing at her
Henry Evans Davis III, some of Dr. and
mother'
s New Hampshire
house
Our
Mrs.
H.
E.
Davis of Williamsburg.
Henry
Davis is a former CW employee who served
in the Navy as a Lt -Comdr "
Blackie"
and Eloise
week
BLACKWELL are off on a three vacation
Mrs. Dorothea JENSEN
sympathy
to
Col.
and
Mrs.
WHEAT.
Col.
Wheat was called on July 2 to Kansas City,
Mo.,
because
of
the
death
of
his
mother....
�Page
NEWS
12
HOUSEKEEPING
DEPARTMENT
Colonial
from
NOTES
July, 1948
Williamsburg
happier
much
it
with
Tom McCASKEY
and
Happy HALLIGAN went fishing on the York
Here
of
in Williamsburg
conversation
been
heat
for
River
the main topic
a couple
of
weeks
has
0
foul
So it' s hardly news,
but something to be endured with as good
grace
can.
as we
To get away from it all
and for a change of scenery, Mrs. Anne
the
MAYNARD
wave.
of Market
Square
and
Brick
Score-
recently.
for the Scotch.
the Irish,
McCaskey claimed a
since Halligan used a rod and reel
with three hooks
two.
Halligan
too
House
4Tor
tight
Total
to
against
claims
put
bait
a hand line with
that McCaskey
on both
much conversation,
result -
was
hooks.
few fish:
Taverns is visiting her sister in Halifax. But wait till next time, they say'
James HUMPHREY,
projectionist
at the
We hope she is sitting on a cool shady
porch
gracefully
waving
fan.....
a
This
Theatre,
change of scenery idea seems to be catchMiss McGREEVY enjoyed ( ?) her first
ing.
plane trip
to New York in June.
She was
a
week
Mrs.
recuperating
CLOWES
expects
starts his vacation shortly and
to
use
the
time
to
get
better
quainted with his young daughter
ac-
of six
months who is getting very frisky about
and
Matthew
now
CHEESEMAN,
head porter
of
stands in much better stead
Mrs. SWEENEY decided to travel by bus when the Theatre,
now since he was able to furnish a carpet
they toured Skyline Drive and Luray
for his parson at his Church.
Matthew put
The first day of summer ( June 21) also
ushered
in Mrs.
PERKINS'
and Mrs.
LARSON'
S
in a request for a strip of the rug being
birthdays,
so we had a double party in
taken up at the Theatre
honor.
They never did tell how many the new Mohawk carpeting
their
candles
to put
diplomatic
all been
NASH
one
on
of
didn' t
and
cake
put
from
visit
our
Miami,
housekeepers
were
Fla.
here
Mrs.
ago
years
so we
proved
We have
any
to welcome MrsGeorge
delighted
a
several
on the
at
She
the
Laura
for
use
at
the
Church
on
Penniman
GREENFIELD
VILLAGE
to make way for
and got it ap-
New
Quarter
Baptist
Road.
was
Lodge
JOHNSTON
EXHIBIT
is looking forward to attending the " Lost
N. C.
this weekend.
We
Colony" at Manteo,
hope she doesn' t get lost among the sand
A photographic exhibit of the Edison
Institute and Greenfield Village at Dear-
dunes
Oh yes,
born,
wonderful
thought..
the
Inn
and
vacations
Pearl
Pearl
BROWN
have
started -
DANDRIDGE
from
the
from
Lodge
are
enjoying theirs."
Laura
Michigan -
the
extensive
has been placed
on display
Johnston
and Coral
Rogers
Buildings and scenes
acre tract where the
arts
in the
ture,
PERSONALS
are
Pat BUCHANAN,
from
Theatre,
their
and
assistant
his
bride
honeymoon
to
manager
have
Canada
of
illustrated
are
are
shown in the
series
of
especially prepared• by
the Institute for display here.
returned
and
of the two hunthree principal
building of America - agriculmanufacturing and transportation -
mounted pictures,
the
in the first
floor corridors of the Goodwin Building.
dred
THEATRE
educational
project founded by the late Henry Ford -
The exhibit
of
presentations
is another
of
other
in the
points
series
of
Tom HALLIGAN is vacaliving at Norge
interest in the country for employees of
tioning up in the hills of old Kentucky,
Colonial Williamsburg, residents of the
resting no doubt on his laurels for having city and visitors.
It was arranged by Mrs.
brought
months
the
Theatre
of
1948
last
year
with
through
a
the
first
substantial
six
lead
Ray PECHAN, chief of
service at the Theatre, is beaming these
days over the new usher' s room being constructed.
He expects to keep the staff
over
Eleanor
composed
Mr.
Duncan
of
for
Mrs.
McCaskey.
the Exhibit
Duncan,
Mr.
Committee
Bowers
and
�July,
1948
PERSONAL
NEWS
from
Colonial
BRIEFS
Williamsburg
Page
13
list has returned home after taking treatat
ments
Piedmont
Sanatorium
Voyd
Robert JUDKINS has been transferred from
SAUNDERS of Appomattox, Va. took over
Williamsburg
John
Inn to the Goodwin Building
where he is replacing Sherman ROBERTS as
a
chauffeur-
messenger
Fleming BROWN
has just returned from a motor trip to
New
York
City
Philadelphia
and
From
HAILEY' S
enjoying
vacation
The boys on the two coaches
weather
vacation
New York
vacation.
While
there
mother and
baby are doing nicely and " Shorty" can' t
stop
TRAVEL
OFFICE:
Alfred COOPER is proud peppy of
a baby girl, Angelic Constance;
our
Nolly WYATT hopes to take his
some
Good reports on two of
smiling
pantry
Frances
workers:
GREEN,
wife
of the Rev. Charles Green, has been released from Buxton Hospital and is
recuperating
home.
at
time
this month."
he was
the guest of Mr. Boyer on an inspection
of Rockefeller Center restaurants, a tour
of the entire Center, and a show at Radio
City
is
seem to stay busy despite the hot
the Inn Food Department comes word that
a
Willie SPRINGS
vacation
Roosevelt HARRIS will soon be away on his
John HAYWOOD,
Breakfast Cook, is back from
job
a well - earned
Evelyn JOHNSON
Active Month -old Baby!
In its first month of operation the
youngest activity of Colonial Williamsburg
had a busy time.
Approximately 3, 000
persons
were
served
at
the
Travel
Office,
located in the wing of the Craft House
which formerly housed the Information
Office.
Evelyn Berry until her recent marriage
In varying numbers these guests rented
to Robert JOHNSON, Inn waiter) has rebicycles, received travel information,
turned from her home in Emporia, Virginia, rented the Hertz Driv -ur - self car, made
where she has been recovering from an
reservations
for trains, planes and boats,
illness
From the Lodge Food Department bought films, postcards, rented cameras,
Mayo HART of Norfolk and Orelia LINDSEY of and arranged sightseeing trips out of town.
Williamsburg were married on June 26 by
the Rev.
Green of the Union Baptist
Church.
After a brief honeymoon they
initial
will return to their respective jobs
Emma LOCKLEY has been made a Watch Care
member of the Union Baptist Church
John CONWAY is vacationing with his
family
in Middlesex
County
Julia
Belle
MOORE has returned to work after a week' s
Bay
at
vacation
Shore
recuperating
Hospital
at
Bell
after
And
an operanow
a news
roundup from our Lodge dining room
two new employees are greeted,
waiters:
James BRIDGERS and William CARR,
Newport News;
graduate
Vaughan
tha
of
MITCHELL (
CARTER (
ROBERTS (
University
Vacations:
Greensboro,
Williamsburg);
Log
both of
the former is a recent
Shaw
Cabin Beach) •
NC.);
and
Mar-
John
Spencer
job as dining - car waiter
co- workers
on the
Southern
He will be missed by all his
From Ewell
Jones
in
C&
Charles SCOTT who is still on the sick
month.
Mrs.
M.
W.
Foster
will
Department.
Two new articles appeared in July at
this
busy center tandem bicycles, the
old " bicycle built for two; were added for
a novelty and it is hoped that they will
boost bicycle rentals in substantial
fashion also tickets for " The Common
Glory" are now sold at the Travel Office.
In addition to its assigned work the
Travel Office kept very busy during its
first month directing visitors to the
Center.
It is interesting to
note that a majority of these people were
repeat" visitors to Williamsburg and
Reception
BAKER has been called back to his former
Railroad.
clerk at the Travel Of-
join Mr. Canhem on the staff of the Travel
Office starting in July, and between them
the new activity is expected to flourish.
The Travel Office is operated for the Inn
and Lodge by the Special Activities
Mary DEANS is
in her home
tion
Dick Canham,
fice, was a busy young man in the office' s
remembered that this was the place where
M
tickets and information were formerly
dispensed.
�Page
NEWS
14
FAMILY
GUIDE
MOVIE
In
to
effort
an
PROVIDED
munity mindedness,
burg
Theatre
this
summer
is
Colonial
its
July,
Williamsburg
com-
Clarence E.
CLARKE,
Tom Halligan' s Williams - tory Assistant,
its
on
running
born
by
Mrs.
Vernon Nunn for the Parent - Teachers
June
have
programs
prepared
1948
ARRIVALS
THEATRE
AT
demonstrate
listing
a
from
namgd
Archaeological
Labora-
is the father of a girl
11.
Clarence
their
and
daughter
Mrs.
Clarke
Leslie
Frances.
Associ-
ation known as the Family Movie Guide. * * *
The P. T. A.
for
working
and the Theatre
a
almost
have been
improve
to
now
year
THEATRE
JOINS
CITY
PROGRAM
the movie habits of the city' s young folks.
Since
a
as
pictures
whole
Joining
economic-
cannot
hands
officially
with the
ally be made for a juvenile audience, the Williamsburg Recreation Committee, the
next best thing to do seemed to be to pro- Theatre presented a free movie for the
special pictures
for children.
vide
This children of Williamsburg on July 10.
done
was
Saturday
every
term.
school
Mrs.
Nunn
this
drive
and
week
as
which
a
were
less
teach -Scott.
other
supported the P. T. A.
Williamsburg
give
film
suitable
one
for
students
is
school
less
or
more
scat-
is publishing Mrs.
Family Guide, which is
the Theatre
Nunn'
very
after
compiled
matter
ed,
fine
and
Magazine,
and
the
work
of
consultation
Parents
forums,
substantial
guides
Time,
the
on
of
radio
Women'
Part
was "
The
Howards
of
of
this
film
was
made
in
seemed
to
it
enjoy
completely.
The
showing was arranged by Henry, Kinkead,
utility man of the Theatre staff, who is
also a member of the city committee.
Members
the
advertising
the
of
the
Recreation
signs,
tickets,
and served
cooperative
Committee
distribution,
as house
staff for
venture.
s
Clubs. * * *
DON'
HOUSE
AND GARDEN
issue
of this magazine
The
ARTICLE -
has
There
is
an
by
the
and
our
licensed
Katzenbach
account
excellent
of
also
reproductions
drapes
and
manufacturers
and
tion Bicycle No. 43,
with
headlight
and
PICNICS
White Employees'
Picnic -
of
the
The Date:
July 20
wallpaper
Scalamandre
The Place:
Inn
Grounds
Warren.
OWN FOUR
GREEN' S
THE
Cogar.
The
JOHN
T FORGET
current
an informative
article on Williamsburg by James L.
HUNDRED -
equipped
Restora-
Hour:
Colored Employees'
3: 30 -8 p. m.
Picnic -
last autumn
speedometer,
is
ped-
Green, CW V - P
who
directs hotel operations.
Riding with
the dogged determination of a six -day
The
Date:
The
Place:
The
Hour:
July 27
dled about town by John D.
cyclist
this
in Madison
spring
hundred
Square
completed
miles
since
Garden,
his first
last
Wil-
story concerned
Approximately 500 youngsters turned
provided
print-
McCalls,
Federation
shown
starring Cary Grant and Martha
out for this sugar- coated history lesson
and
while
summer,
tered,
s
film
liamsburg and much of the
Williamsburg history.
per
attractions
suitable.
the
the
and
the
of
most
substitute
During
out
to
least
at
children
The
the
during
Virginia,"
ers at Matthew Whaley
in
morning
John
four
September. * * *
Log Cabin Beach
5
p.
m. -
midnight
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NEWS
Volume
1,
Number
WILLIAMSBURG
3
NEW BENEFITS
August,
FROM
ANNUITY
GROUP
PLAN -
EMPLOYEES'
MEETING AUGUST 25
After months of study, arrangements have been made to broaden the
provisions
the
of
Colonial
Williamsburg Group Annuity
Plan.
Employees
who
share in this plan for protection at retirement age will discover many new
benefits
members
the
of
plan
Center
Reception
clearly
to them.
available
and
company -
or
8
at
fully
not -
who wants
Chief
effective
August
the
changes,
all
employees -
25.
Life
Here
the new provisions
A representative
explained.
the Equitable
explain
are urged to attend a general meeting
m.,
p.
to stay in Williamsburg
employee
To
of the sponsoring
Assurance
Society -
will be on hand,
among the advantages
how the changes
of the revised plan,
1.
Definite
and increased
2.
An option to employees terminating service before
are:
retirement
benefits;
retirement, but after ten years of service and five
years' membership in the plan, to choose either a
cash payment
based
upon
on their
on
contributions
annuity;
Assured return
the
of all contributions
employee,
death
either
together
before
with
made
interest,
or after
retire-
ment.
4.
be
insurance
and plans
Retirement
of
female
employees
at
age
65. .
i
him.
which becomes
1,
by
will
will affect
on September
3.
at the
long enough to talk personally with each and every
to know just exactly
paid -up
whether
or
a
1948
�Page
2
NEWS
PROFILE:
ED WATKINS,
from
Colonial
Williru, isbur
August,
1948
Warehouse King -Pin
request for a left- handed monkey wrench directed to Ed Watkins
usually net the wiseacre a fair sampling of the Watkins crackling
but give Ed enough time and he could probably produce
such an implement: Out of his rather bizarre "
general
store"
by the
down
0
tracks
have
come
stranger
much
things.
Horseshoes
200year- old bricks, lows pipe fittings, and venetian blinds are
stock
in trade for the Warehouse Superin- Ja, tendent. Besides doling out
the
both
the
odd
and
the
usual
from
the
amazing
assortment
of supplies needed for the operations of Colonial illiamsburg, Ed
has the upkeep responsibility for the whole cluster of brick and
metal buildings known familiarly as "
the
build it,
fix
of
warehouse." This
from
the
key man
Virginia
mountains
and
in Henry Beebe' s "
remembers C & in the
M
Todd & Brown, CW' s early con- struction contractors. Ed was born
out in Southwest Virginia, some 44 years ago. High school there and some two years
of
days
in
Restoration
it"hails
department
Grundy,
civil
at
engineering
P.
M. I.
led
work
construction
to
that
in
land
of the
up-
and - down
scenery. It was a little later, in 1929, while on a visit
to his wife'
parents in Newport News, that
he
became aware that
things were happening
He stop ed over, joined up with J.
B.
Brouwer' s landscape forces
and
s
in
Wil amsburg.
has been with the organization ever since, with the exception of a short war shift of
building bigger and better boats for the high seas
at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Ed took over the warehouse
responsibil ties in 1937
and has
seen
this hub
of the Construction and
Maintenance
Department' s operations grow from a crowded one - building affair into the
sprawling
present
layout
for
and
supply
craftsmanship
sur- rounding
Botetourt Street. The tourist rarely sees the operation
the
north
end of
of this aspect of Colonial
Williamsburg'
s activity, but continually
revels in the result. Brick for
the
finely -worked wood for the buildings, paints of rich colors, fuses for the Lodge
range are brought into use from the warehouse. Within and about
sidewalks,
that enclosure is
Robert Webb' s paint laboratory, Norman Harmon' s woodworking section, Jennings Taylor'
s olive - drab vehicular fleet, Minor
Wine Thomas' relics heap, the base of
operations, the Brouwer
plant doctors, Pete Tucker'
s
electricians
and servicemen, Bert
Score' s
bustling
carpenters, and, temporarily, the Inn and Lodge laundry. At the center of this
is
Ed and his
principal preoccupa- tion, the storeroom. For
a while,
activity
he and his fast- moving assistant, Lyman Hall, carried the load
themselves,
cringing at the thought of every impending inventory. Counting and checking the articles
in
over
much
order
of
000
6,
as
two
with the
different
months. Now
additional
help
categories
it
available.
which
can
are
binned
be
William
Stuart
keeps
and
rattled
stacked
about
place
the
off
the books
then
in
and
Julian
took
as
shorter
Dickens,
late
the Publick Gaol," has charge of the yard. Bervin Saunders and Robert Robinson
"
keep
the entire area tidy in
addition to providing that helping hand where necessary. The endless variety of his stores has
brought
a few
gray
strands
to
Ed'
s
black
hair
because
he
takes
pride
in
being
able
�August,
1943
NEWS from Colonial Williamsburg
same ease and promptness as he fills an
order for a hexagonal nut for a flanged
bicuspid.
He tries to have enough on
hand at all times whether it be light
bulbs
or
iris
bulbs,
and
his
stock
con-
trol cards do everything but light up and
salute the flag when the supply gets too
low.
He also tries to keep a supply of
everything that is needed frequently, the
various departments requisitioning as
Messrs.
needed.
Score,
Tucker,
and
Brouwers are his biggest customers.
But most of the time it' s pretty hard to
stump Ed.
warehouse
And
the
area
is
tidiness
of
a tribute
keeping abilities.
At 5 each day, Ed mounts
bicycle like a charging white
sets
his
angle,
battered
and
felt
hat
whole
house-
his trusty
stallion,
at
a
rakish
Mrs.
homeward.
pedals
the
to his
Sarah
Berkeley Watkins is a graduate of William
and Mary who was teaching school in
Ed Watkins,
Jr.,
Grundy when they met.
is now an active
Ed is a wiry man with seemingly endless
Page 3
fourteen years
with two younger
sisters,
of age,
Berkeley
and
His day at the warehouse
starts between 7: 15 and 7: 30 and it' s a
fast pace until 5 in the afternoon.
There are the orders to fill, and the incoming supplies to be opened, checked,
and holler
at his
got
He hasn' t been able to devise
put
a stock
energy.
on
records,
and
stored
or
expedited.
Sarah, aged six and four respectively.
Ed
is
an
inveterate
fisherman
and
at
times causes the warehouse gang to hoop
away.
control
tales
card
to
of the
prove
one that
his
point.
In one morning can arrive such diversified supplies as electrical, plumbing,
heating,
janitors'
and construction needs.
Ten motor freight lines regularly stop at
his door and every week or so a freight
or
coal
gets
a
into
pulls
car
lot
of
salesmen
the
Ed
siding.
notes
that
and
TRAVIS
HOUSE NOTES
Mrs.
Ruth
staff
WILKINS
hostess
as
joined
last
janitors''' supply salesmen are in the
is completing
her thesis
majority; ' Y
Punctuating his day is the ever present ring of the telephone, either for
him or someone working in the warehouse
degree
M
He
area.
the
lot,
used
but
to
the
have
to
installation
box for paging has saved
the calls are for Harry CW'
Mr.
s
run
all
of
steps.
Sutton,
over
fall,
Charlie
150%,
with
nails
storeroom
like
butter
activities
liamsburg
sun.
So
far
this
sleeve,
Connecticut,
who
of
that
is,
s
melting
out
in the Wilover
5, 000 pounds have been used and the fact
that they are hard to get is responsible
for
a
few
more
gray
hairs.
Mass
Another
House
Wilkins
for the M. Ed.
Miss
assistant
her vacation
Boston,
Mrs.
summer
House
Jackie,
Hackett'
year
is spending
Farms,
Travis
Most
construction needs have upped his supply
of the
FALL,
this
Travis
Ger-
manager,
at Wellesley
Waiter Bill
LUCAS
will marry Miss Jacqueline Hale of Gilder-
and he wonders why
folks should call during the lunch hour
when it' s not an emergency.
last
trude
W&
a squawk
Fix -it -
Since
at
the
month.
hard -
to -get item is parts for Tom McCaskey' s
fancy bicycles at the new Travel Office.
June,
Bill
was
late
next
will teach Chemistry
finishes
month.
from
graduated
W&
M
in
at Toano while
his last year of school
Irene ASELOCK ( TH pantry worker) will
enter Howard University, Washington, D. C.
this
Fall.
Irene
was
awarded
a
scholar-
ship in physical sciences when she was
graduated
from
Bruton
Heights
in June
Winnie Fred WALKER ( TH pantry worker)
will
spend her vacation
Lawrenceville,
10th."
Virginia,
at her home in
starting August
�Page 4
NEWS
CELEBRITIES
Tht
Colonial
BODYGUARDS,
AT LEISURE:
AND
from
FIELD
August,
Williamsburg
1948
DACHSHUNDS,
MARSHALL'
S
BATHING
TRUNKS
Back in 1937, Fred 0. Seibel, the gifted cartoonist for the Richmond
Times - Dispatch, drew his impression of Colonial Williamsburg as a great tourist
under the
the Four Corners of the Earth."
mecca,
appropriate
caption " From
Today,
even the most costume - wise Williamsburg resident cannot fail to appreciate the growHe sees it in the sea of out - of -state
ing public interest in the restored city.
license plates, in the mushrooming tourist homes and restaurants,
and in the crosscurrents
of
strange
and
But one of the most dramatic
dialects.
conflicting
gauges
of
Colonial Williamsburg' s popularity is the record of distinguished visitors who succumb to its historic lure and its proven hospitality.
Many of the most noted guests occupy the Inn' s famous Room 213, overlooking
here.
the south terrace.
Mrs. Roosevelt
stayed
So, in years long
1
past,
while
one
did Shirley Temple bodyguard was posted at her
the terrace.
door and another on
Lily Pons was another celebrity
i'
among Inn guests, and has the distinction of being the only woman
1.
Inn dining room in slacks to /
allowed in the
ever
a concession
f
ik.
brought
and the
artiste.
what the Inns
sedate
style
Many have
Service Directory describes as " small and well -mannered"
the
dogs towering
Lord
for
Halifax,
example, brought
two
low slung dachshunds who later basked in
Falla -like Life publicity. - Churchmen, such as the Archbishop of York and
Right
Reverend
St.
Tucker,
George
come
here - whether
to
visit
the
lunch
or
Church
Bruton
at Travis House. Educa- tors are attracted to Colonial Wil iamsburg for
its
historical and architectural traditions - among such visitors have been college
Sproul, Dodds, and Baxter. Novelists are represented by Sholem
Asch and
Elswyth Thane, and publishers by Alfred Knopf and Lord Camrose of
the London
Daily Telegraph. Symphony conductors who have deserted their podium for a Williamsburg
presidents
vacation
include
the
Eugene
Ormandy, Hans
late Mrs. Andrew
Ford, Sr. visited Wil iamsburg with
group of
been
on
Williamsburg.
a
garden
enthusiasts. The
and
guests,
Florence
Eldridge. The publicized
have
Frederic
March
coiffure of
Leopold
Stokowski.
and last
Mrs. Woodrow
spring
Wilson
and
Mrs. Henry
alluring
eye of Hollywood, too, has
often
Cagney, Sir Cedric Hardwick, and Nelson
Eddy have
Cary Grant, James
been
as
Kindler,
Carnegie have been guests,
and
Joan
his
Fontaine has
talented
actress - wife
been seen, and
that of her
sister, Olivia de Haviland. Mickey Mouse and Pluto have been here in the person
of their
lunched at the Inn,
celluloid stepfather, Walt Disney. Lauritz Melchoir
but drew few
eyes - for that was the day when Mr.
Churchill was in town: All Williamsburg remembers the friendly visits
of
President
Roosevelt
and
Truman
Prime
Minister
Churchill,
as
the
at
well
as
American
Canadian-
that
celebration
of
President
last
spring.
For
British
guests, this one t- capital of Britain' s largest and most
ime
colony has
populous
Iverchapel,
today
Lord
special appeal - Lord Halifax,
Linlithgow,
Field
Marshall
Sir
John
Lord
Dill, Admiral
Sir
James Somerville, First Sea Lord
Dudley Pound, Sir Alexander Cadogan,
and a host of others. English and American friendship of
was never better personi- fled than during the visit in
1943
Archibald
of
the
Wavell
Combined
almost
General
Staff even
lost
his
over-
sized
if
bathing
trunks
Field
borrowed
Marshall
for
Sir
a
chilly
�August,
NEWS
1948
This
is,
cross - section
Who among
of course,
of
the
Colonial
only
Williamsburg'
celebrities
are
the
hundreds
thousands
of
swallowed
Who'
among
of visitors
of
every purse and interest, every race and
creed, every homeland and avocation, who
together offer striking testimony to the
appeal of this laboratory of living history where present and future generations
may study the traditions of America' s
A highway robber badly wanted in Warwick
County was picked up a couple of weekends
ago at the Lodge by CW officers George
RIPLEY and Oscar GARDNER.
He had no opportunity to try his luck in WilliamsSam PEACH' S man have had a busy
burg
summer, too, keeping an eye on poachers
at
the
greens
reported
are
fees,
and
college
students
are
as well to Dean John Hocutt
Sam,
incidentally,
with
his
new
mustache
DAY SHINDIG
The truants
Course.
Golf
Inn
brought to the Club House to pay the proper
past.
INDEPENDENCE
5
s
s guests,
up
Page
Williamsburg
BRIEFS
a small
international
and
Colonial
from
is more than pleased
The alleged
Mercury
brown
which
Treasurer
Rod
JONES
is
tending has roused the Goodwin Bziiding
Prompted by news that the first Declaration
of
Independence
was
read
but
aloud
One
wits.
claims
didn' t
that
quite
get
he
the
swallowed
tail
a cat
down.
Another says that Rod and Sing MOORE EAD
from the steps of the Capitol on July 25,
are alike
in one respect they both have
1776, amid applause and merry - making, the
except
Others call it a
Rod.
a mustache
cast of " The Common Glory" re- enacted the
eleven
on each
side.
football mustache" ceremony this year on the anniversary date
It will stay in place at least until sumto a throng of visitors and curious resiThere
dents.
have
live pageants"
restored
out,
and
been
suggestions
some day,
of
mer'
both inside CW' s
reconstructed
buildings
and
the
effect
of
the
ALEXANDER
indicates
fifty
than
and is continuing
of
Scandinavia
Gloucester
Street,
with
a
costumed
crowd following the play' s town crier,
paused to shout the " tidings" at key
points
until
unofficial
he
crowd
reached
the
in modern
Capitol.
dress,
who
featur-
ing wide - eyed children, followed in their
joined by a fair delegation of
local
canines
of
representative
son,
read
able
effect.
applause
the
breeds.
portraying
Declaration
with
followed.
Jeffer-
consider-
Dancing and impromptu
sportA late
his
study
Clippings
which
make
inspected
museums
recently,
in
from
the
reference
to
nation'
Colonial Williamsburg will hereafter be
An
wake -
The able Walter Brooke,
newspapers
that he has
European
They witnessed a lively march up
Duke
be
feet."
ing a bad
bulletin from the touring Director of
more
performance.
must
of " museum
case
Education
and many employees were on hand to
gauge
Fd
end
s
posted
as
of
general
interest
on Goodwin
Building bulletin boards before finding
their way into the scrapbooks of the
Department
will
be
of
part
Public
of
those
These
Information,
furnished
to
the
Department by two metropolitan clipping
services
s
�NEWS
Page 6
e
OF TdE
TALES
Neither
practiced
the
Craft
washed brick
as
House,
structure
which
serves
showroom
local
of
who
directs
inaugurate
of
in
sketches
who
are
the
Local artisan Max Rieg now has sever-
flavor
House
and
and will
ending a long famine caused by shortages
of material.
Heading his list is a striking two - armed candelabra,
the original of
which may be seen in the Governor' s Office
a series
et
Georgian
craft program.
of
good
associates
this
the
as
well
as
a word about
the
wraps
of
ties
most
be
for budget
inexpensive
in
four
for
1/ 4"
2
I
2. 5C
Pin $
Height
5. 00
6"
Base
at
6"
x
the
tive
new
glass
by
12. 90
Holder $
due
Blenko
Glass
Virginia.
these
Cogar,
present
and
old-
tumbler)
glass, "
toddy
and
in
the
pitcher
by
large
fraternal
and
has
a
prices
the
the
baluster
its
of
and
base,
glass"
A
used
sherbet
glass (
wine
in the
get
a ware
quoted
editor,
small
and
appearance,
sale
at Craft
early retail
large etched water jug, a
are
a
large
slope - shouldered
stick -
handle (
a
beaker,
colonial
remember
Metalcrafters.
of
still
a victim
priorities'-
is
pewter
a
must
precious
shop-
hoard
clouds
pass.
former
nine
and
candle-
those " time
advertisements ?).
a
holder
to
sale,
two
also
varied
and
Birds."
back
wallpaper
Warren.
12 paint
lighter
the
shades),
old
production,
Scalamandre
the
market,
patterns
Pittsburgh
colors
Kittinger
back -
on
25
and
of
paint
are
the
Katzenback
Glass
to
offers
revive
colors
of his pieces
the
de-
let- downs"
and plans
all
new
fabrics
as
Plate
with 24 "
stronger
has
with
cotton
patterns known as " Tulip" and
Liverpool
on
woven
are
are
back
its
store until
fabrics
airtwist, of
A
designs.
same "
also,
sturdy
toasts.
glassware -
made
is
the
signs -
colonial
firing
goblet
House
retire"
employees
war
for
with
the
double
a
are
version
a
from
Schumacher
from
scheduled
chamber
CW
veteran.
stock
in
the
soon
The
colonial "
stemmed
teardrop,
worn
proportion;
join
will
Selections
smaller
with
Another
a square -
is largely tin, and
down
a
in quaffing
glass
a
glass
in
glass (
sized"
from
copied
on
all
consultant '
fashioned
item,
America
from *
to be
excavated
Palace.
Virginia
antique
Soon
CW.
8 1/ 4"
above::
recently by Jim
former Curator
Europe
that
20% discount
of
ferried back
glass
a
on
is
a keyhole
The famous Rieg pewter Remember
reproductions
based
are
to
Many
new
Posy
Height
West
Milton,
of
House
and one
based candlestick,
Five -pointed
pieces,
handwrought
all
are
harness
from
the
brass
men
distinc-
are
of
Old Court
copied
Decanter $
7" -
is of-
pins,
Three
5.
escutcheon
Glass
Square
headaches.
tion
brass
Museum,
1 3/ 4"
x
soon.
buckles on display at
SELECTIONS*
Escutcheon
stick with
sufferers
than $
less
the
Keyhole
Brass
ofthe
special
chamber
available
replicas
production
Worth
also
priori -
wartime
and
A brass
will
retailing
HOUSE
CRAFT
has
program
from
emerged
the Palace.
fered
But
both at Craft
Sign of the Golden Ball,
that
indicate
craft
and the
available
And a sedlitz
business
a few of the
new reproductions may
be of interest,
and
should
articles
a snuffer
manufacturers -
Williamsburg.
Colonial
for the moment,
issue
licensed
friends
of
program,
September
FOOD AND SILVER
al brass
headquarters
for the expanding
FABRICS,
1948
white-
that
The News will have more to say about Jack
Upshur,
BRASS,
alchemy nor high junks is
at
August,
Williamsburg
AND GLASS,
HOUSE WOODS --
CRAFT
Colonial
From
Stieff
some
soon.
back
in
silver
is
plus a tricky new lapel pin which
actually keeps posies fresh in a few drops
of water.
Ceramics expert J. Palin Thorley
is turning out a new Delft jardiniere at
his East Liverpool, Ohio, workshop, and
Williamsburg Ginger Cakes are scheduled.
�August,
1943
HOSTESS
BRIEFS
August -
the
NEWS
from
soaring temperatures the family group:
This
is
Williamsbur
command
father,
of
month
Colonial
Thomas
Frederica
land.
and Mrs.
the
Mass.,
Street...
Mrs.
Dow,
Harry
and Mr.
Mass.
Etheridge
Jr.,
in North Andover,
and Mrs.
All
are
visited Mr.
C.
G.
Reeves
former
in
residents
Mr.
recalled
to Williamsburg
and
Mrs.
and death of Mrs.
A.
Osborne.
place
Mrs.
the
with
Frank
of
of Wil-
Brigham
has
hostesses
Mrs.
J.
her
home
has
accepted
Post
in Germantown,
laid
aside
John
a position
Office
as her guests
Sinclair,
Cuba
to Bangor,
visited
hor
Scotsviile,
of
Clem
the
of
their
Mrs.
Mrs.
R.
A.
M.
eligible
Wrightsvil e
groomed to sartorial
Sea
formerly
PATE
her
escort
popular
and there
honor
through
member
was
conferred
of
the
the
building.
hostess
on
him,
and
visited
greeted
the dark - haired beauty
retinue
and with perfect
aplomb
Fred,
is
of the
he
after
Capitol
with
stopped at
YOUNG
and
parents,
Mr. and
Springs.
C.
daughters,
to
daughter,
Mr. and
guests of
Mrs.
L.
Mrs.
recently
T.
Mr.
has
visited
a
Turner,
her
Mrs.
Funke
Katherine,
with
J.
R.
and
M.
have
on
Newport,
and
Tuscumbia,
Road."
Peyton
daughter
returned
Ala.,
after
Mrs. Funke' s
D.PEACHY
little
from
her
Mrs. Warren
and
just
Mrs.
returned
home in
B.
has
Sidney, recently
and
visit
Mrs.
visited
cruise in the Coral
hostesses) with
parents,
Mrs.
G.PEYTON
Lt.Peyton
their
a
and
Martha
Green, with
cottage at
ters, Mary and
her
crabs,
back
vacation
Mrs.
A. TURNER ( Polly
the
Mr. and
is
a
Beach.
son- in- law, Commander and
Maloney...
and
as
Helen
her
I. she
where
and her
took
at
from
Fred
with
Gloucester
the
Mrs. GREEN
desk
Wrightsville
Mrs. ATKINSON
department
of
Mrs.
of
daugh-
appeared
enthusiastic_ approval
Palace
name
Miss Maryland'
Fletcher,
accounts of York River
returned from a
Clem will
perfection,
to meet '
Mr.
days
Va., she
buttered
Indian
in
marry Kitty Jean Hartley on the 28th of
August
On Saturday,
July 31, ' Maryland
Day' at ' The Common Glory,' Fred FLANARY,
at the Palace
at
Lt.Henry Peyton
his
Davis,
removed
bachelors.
the
C.
Ferrell
from
The
recently
will
soon be
several
appeared
her son - in law and
John
W. Brennan, were
four
Ernest
spent
Miss
and
at
has
en route
Va.,
VAUGHAN
list
was
Maine
mother,
at
and
Sinclair
Ill.
recently. The expedition was highly
cessful. They brought back
at
in the Williamsburg
Sinclair,
Lt.
Chicago,
of
Waynesboro,
breezes
hot
Marjorie
and
Fletcher,
daughters,
Duke
mouth- watering
Mrs. Thomas DUNN has had
her nephew, Lt. William E.
Mrs.
children.
Md
fathi. ngales
of
suc-
It is gratifying to know
that she is making satisfactory progress...
Ruth WATERS is spending an indefinite time
at
also
Mrs. LEE
party
her
operation.
OAK
small
daughter, Miss Gail
Fletchers on
ocean
HENDERSON is a patient at Johnston - Willis
Hospital in Richmond, where she underwent
an
Mrs.
guests
Miss Frances ROBB went on a crabbing
Mr.
resumed
and
their
son, Thomas
of
Lora,
York
as
The Nag' s Header and enjoyed a week of
were
Adolph' s father,
New
had
an added spring in her step after a
sojourn at
Nag' s
Head. With
Mr. and
Mrs.
by the illness
Adolph
s
Flet- cher' s
Salem,
ADOLPH
have
wife, and
and
Mae
Mr.
situation
Fletcher'
Jr.,
his
Mr.
and Mrs.
Reeves
lived
at
liamsburg.
Green Spring and later occupied the Semple
Home
the
of
FLETCHER
mother, and all the children, vacationing,
see Williamsburg.
The hostesses
will testify that the American family is not dwinMrs.
W.
E.
ETHERIDGE
dling dangerously
has returned from a vacation in New Eng-
Mr.
Page 7
parents,
Mr.
Jamestown
Mrs.
Mary
I.
�Page
8,
NEWS
THE CAMERA
From
Colonial
EYE
August,
Williamsburg
and
the
State
sponsored numerous foreign - language
Not many nights
gathered
ty.
at
the
Wearing
ago a " family"
Raleigh
costumes
for
a
par-
a lavish array of
distant lands the Wil iamsburg story.
film travelogues have featured Wil iamsburg.
Fitzpatrick'
in
Ichicken, and roast
s
survey
the
cameramen
last
from the Inn
for
shots
used
in
one
no
in this family
could
one
month
soon
in
of Wil- liamsburg hospitality for
a
New
York
film
maker, B. K.
Blake, whose battery
found
to
were
the
of
cameras
was
shown
year,
two
in the city
be
Palace
photographed by Holmes' men,
Ballroom
and
the second
here in June pre- ng a
pari
distribution
in America' s
and blazing photo- graphic lights
department stores. Shooting centered on the Homecoming
Weekend at William
simply
of
who
one
of
many
recognize the
and
Williamsburg,
under
impor- tance
photogenic qualities of Colonial
and
his
of
movie - makers
historical
the
group
which
cameras' eyes was
sweltered
film -goers
throughout
the
one
world. Each
time
are
old
motion - picture
into
maintenance
men. CW and
in
hands
game. Hostesses
service
and
before cameras
others
are
and
many shots
recon- structed
buildings
includ- ed. The
Blake
Raleigh dinner party
sponsored
Restaurant Association
by
and
Standard Brands. The Mahogany Institute last year
use
cabinetmaker
of
Kobelbauer
at
his
films
showing
workbench,
and
Edward Seward of New York took considerable
footage for a film
on
National
and
Virginia
financed
State
by
education
Esso.
authori- ties also
recognize the use of Colonial
its Wil iamsburg
the
were
National
skilled
checking
to actors and
also
restored
staged, was
made
the various CW departments team up to see
that our visiting cameramen get all
the cooperation they need, from his- torical
double
CW
the
among many which gather through- out the year
to help bring the restored city to
and Mary, but
the
film, for which the
was
simply
film
for
added many degrees to the
warmth of the summer evening. Blake is
pressed
was
last
in the House of Burgesses.
a bite, because each was
only
to help bring to
Movie - makers for special
commercial films
life a scene are frequent visitors. The Donahue Productions company
there
employees
theaters
another Virginia travelogue. Two "
live" scenes
touch
Vir- ginia
of the octogenarian Burton Holmes
the
But
of
nation' s
and
beef, sent specially
occasion.
has
in
Many
Miss Foster' s scrutiny, they hungrily eyed
for
Department
to use
telling those in
dinner
which had passed
ham,
prints
19+ 8
as
school
a
historical
laboratory
films. Last
for
summer,
for
example,
Howard Southgate worked with the
Interpretation
and
Public
Information
De- partments
in
as unruf led as Hollywood veterans - which is not
scenes for a picture sponsored by
unusual
the
The
Howards
in a
of
community which
Virginia"
and
experienced "
other
films. CW understands, too, the importance of
movies
reaching the
in
The latest figures
CW film
out-side audience.
on the Eastman "
Eighteenth
Century Life
in Williamsburg, Virginia" indicate that more than 5,
000,
000 persons have seen it;
others crowd
into
to
the Reception Center two evenings each
add
to
this
impres-
week
sive
Virginia
life
roster,
Department
of
and times
Patrick
Henry,
Still photographers, of
long
Education which
considered
treated the
of John Smith,
and
Thomas
Jefferson.
course, have also
Wil iamsburg
a
mecca. Samuel Chamberlain,
an old friend of CW
and
author of Behold Wil iamsburg, has just been in the
city again for new views for his
1949
recent
visitor
Virginia
was
Calendar, and another
F.
distnguished
S. Lincoln, whose
�August,
1948
NEWS
from
Colonial
Page
Williamsburg
the special Williamsburg issue of the
Record.
John Henry Coon,
CURATOR' S DEPARTMENT
well -known
Mrs.
9
Architectural
lecturer,
was
a recent
caller,
Amateur
tographers
movie- makers
have
been
more
end
still
numerous
pho-
Williams.
Tom
article " Welcome
appears
in
the
is
the
author
of
to Williamsburg"
current
issue
of
an
public
at
the
Travel
restored
maga-
Office,
Re-
area.
available
to
and
Cogar
COGAR &
the
or
so
of
the
new
successful
firm,
on
their
stories
of
has
gone
to
Chicago
Jim
for
a week,
several days in Midway,
of Mrs.
William B.
after
Kentucky,
Cogar
and
Cogar.
WINS
PINT - SIZED
TRUCK
TOURNAMENT
a Hackett,
all
male
CW
golfers
are
reminded of the current tourney conducted
at the
Lewis,
were
early with many
as the guest
Whether they have the backswing of a
Hoke
of
and the promise of many
antiques
in the Fall
Mary Elizabeth
TAYLOR is visiting her sister in New York
City for a week
Mars. Dorothy GEIGER
WILLIAMS
GOLF
school
recent trip to England that they returned
spending
the
article is on display at Miller' s Camera
Shop and elsewhere in town.
JAYCEE
the
in Blackstone
and Mr.
LEWIS,
six weeks
zine Movie Makers,
and which offers many
constructive suggestions for planning or
shooting films of the
prints
have been made
attended
arranging
travel experiences
which
the
CLARK
Shirley
DAVIS and her mother are spending some
time at Cape May Point, New Jersey
Mr.
than
ever this year, and have been given a big
helping hand by Staff Photographer Thomas
L.
Lena
flower
spending several days making new slides
for his Williamsburg programs.
Inn Golf
Course
under
the
Photo - bug Tom Williams is feeling the
British influence on Williamsburg these
days and declares it to be pretty good
from his point
sponsor-
ship of Williamsburg' s active and sports -
of view.
His point
from
of
view,
the
of
the
wheel
to be
new
exact,
little
is
British
conscious Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Ford panel truck which has recently been
Heading the Jaycee committee for the event assigned to the Photographic Laboratory.
is CWer Bob Conkey, law student and member Tom says it' s pretty good for scooting beof the 19+ 8 W &
M golf team,
who lends a
tween the photogenic spots of the city.
hand at the Reception Center many evenings This answer to Tom' s need for transportation was purchased
several
weeks
ago in
The entry fee is a moderate $ 2, and
there
is
a variety
of prizes
for
all
the
flights -
many donated by local merchants.
Two 18 -hole qualifying rounds must be completed by dusk on August 14, with match
play getting
under
thereafter.
way
Top-
Washington
where
it
had been
received
Its diminutive
directly from England.
size and 30- horsepower engine are plenty
for town work and it registers amazing
economy in gasoline,
according to Jennings
The
is Harold Sparks wit h Taylor who tucks it in at night.
an initial round of 37 - 42, 79, despite an pint -sized carry -all is Americanized to
8 on wood - fringes No. 7.
However,
few of
the point of having the conventional left -
ping early
the
qualifiers
returns
are
in,
and
Sparks
once
com-
piled a 17 on the same hole.
Bulletin:
first -round
Charlie
total
of
Hackett
hand
drive
right - hand
turned
37- 35, 72)
in
a
British
petrol"
instead
of the
usual
drive.
But
sticks
to
neat
label
tradition
with
signifying
the
it
the
gasoline
British
the
gauge.
�Page
10
NEWS
from
Colonial
August
Williamsbur
SAFETY COMMITTEE REORGANIZES
RESERVATION
A new Colonial Williamsburg Safety
Committee has been formed, taking the
fall,
place
of the former Employees'
Safety Committee and Central
The
Safety Committee.
reorganized group, directed by Army veter-
on
an Col. L. C.
visited Rock City,
with
future
Wednesday
Wheat,
first met on July 21,
meetings
following
to
be
held
on
the
the first Monday
OFFICE NOTES
Frances BURNS,
July
for
28
the
her arm in a
removal
Mary SIEGERT
of the College
their
ham,
who broke
celebrated
SYKES
1948
the
cast
and Bernice
drove to New Orleans
On the way down they
Chattanooga, Birming-
vacation.
Baton Rouge,
of
and on the return trip
visited Gulfport, Biloxi, Pensacola, Sea
Island, Charleston, and Myrtle Beach.
of
every month.
Aiding Col. Wheat as committee secre- While at the Cloister, they saw our
The hotels friends,
tary is Mies Virginia Marston.
Harry WELCH and Burdette GRIFFIN
are represented by Commodore Thomas G.
David BARRETT recently spent ten days
and J.
Peyton
0. Browning; C &
at home in Massachusetts and returned to
M by W. D.
New York to meet Miss Fulton, who arrived
MacPherson and Irving Sprinkle; other
members
are Minor Wine Thomas,
the archaeological
Koch
of
the
Architectural
extensive safety
the near future,
to
be
laboratory,
director
of on the Queen Elizabeth
and Albert
Department.
An
campaign is scheduled for
with specific plans soon
Mrs. Harry LYON,
from Scotland
accompanied by her nephew,
Henry
Martin
of Goldsboro,
spent
a week
in
New
N. C.,
recently
York."
M.
formulated.
RECIPE
Williamsburg
2 lb.
bottle
1 tbs.
then
beer.
Welsh
THE
MONTH -
Rarebit -
NO.
Chef
Snappy American Cheese
1 cup Heavy
Grate
Inn
OF
1
Crawford'
s
1 tsp.
Beer
Lea
Recipe
Salt
1
Cream Sauce
Own
tbs.
1 tsp.
and
Perrins
Sauce
Tabasco Sauce
Dry Mustard
Cheese
add
all
Serve
and
add
other
to
hot
cream
ingredients,
very hot
on
toast
sauce.
except
or
Stir until mixture
beer.
Holland
Rusk.
Let
cook
for
3
becomes
smooth;
minutes.
Add
S.
�LINE
FOR
FAKE
WINNING
TOTING
M. C.,
UP
THE
GOLF
CASH
AND
GAMBLER....
RINGERS
WINNER,
AND
RECREATION
CHAIRMAN
INVENTORS'
HOLIDAY
�BE - BOP.
HARD- WORKING
COMMITTEE
LOG CABIN STYLE
�August,
1948
NEWS
from
Colonial
BRIEFS
Williamsburg
Special
CLEVERDON of Cleverdon,
Pike,
of Boston,
ants,
came to Williamsburg
the
first
pile
our
was
Varney,
structural
driven
and
the
in
Point
Golf
Team
Mrs.
for the
records
Miss
administration
Vir-
ginia Lee WERTH has been ill at her home
new
in Gloucester
Charlie HACKETT, Bob EVANS,
Laundry
and Pete TUCKER have been playing on the
West
Cocke
is in Washington
11
month of August taking a special course
consult-
last week when
for
to Mr.
Assistant
Luta SEWELL
Mr.
Page
on
Mrs.
Mr.
vacation
Betty REDGFBE'TH is
A.
E.
KENDREW
and
family have left for a vacation in Wolf boro,
Sing MOOREHEAD
N.
H
Mr.
and Mrs.
V.
M.
GEDDY
returns to the office on Monday after a
and
heavy
siege
ports
that earlier
the Virginia State Bar Association meeting
to be held August 13 - 15 at White Sulphur
ried
his
the
with
search
cold
in the
for
old
He
virus.
re-
summer he car-
cannon
for
the
Mr.
and
Springs,
West
Public Magazine to New Hampshire where he
Office
found
Miss
Sally
ried
in
an excellent
example
century brass cannon,
of
an 18th -
which was used in
the community for celebrating political
triumphs
Miss Janet Jolly of South
Ruth JOLLY.
Janet
for
vacation.
a
visit
two - weeks'
friends
in N. J.
and Madeline,
and
Virginia
Services
FITCHETT.
September
will
The
welcomes
the
attend
Section
return
of
of
Sally will be mar-
to
Donald
R.
Mapel,
who
as host at the Gaol
left
during
his
N. Y....
Dr.
and
Mrs.
Elizabeth
BUIE
spend their vacation
Mrs.
from a vacation
The
Arthur
vacation
and his wife will
They will
N. Y
COCKS
Selby MITCHELL' s mother has been visiting
him
On August 9 Ruth and
her two sisters,
Duncan
is now employed
Hill, Virginia, has been visiting her
sister,
Mrs.
CAPPON
have
in
returned
in the Middle West
STUBBS
spent
part
of
her
Accounting Department welcomes Mrs.
vacation visiting her sister and brother -
Delores PETERSON and Miss Rebecca LEVERING, who will replace Mrs. Jean TRUEHEART
in law
and
Mrs.
BLOW,
Marjorie
SCHADEGG
of Yorktown,
George
in
J.
0.
5) That employees
weekly during summer.
BROWNING ($
BRIDEN-
two weeks
with
at Virginia
the National
Guard
spend -
on
Beach.
AWARDS
living in Franklin House be issued two towels
That a larger glass be put in the siAnging door leading from
Coffee Shop into pantry to prevent injury to employees and breakage
COLLINS ($
crystal
5) gate
KATHERINE
BILLIE
Mrs.
10) -
of
CLIFF
and
and Newton SEAL are
maneuvers
SUGGESTION
ALSTON ($
Dr.
BAUGH are vacationing in New Hampshire
Hunter CHALY
has been employed
the Goodwin Building this summer as a
DONNTETTER
in Norfolk
and
china.
That a stop light or stop sign be installed at service entrance
from
Inn.
HARROLD ($
SNEAD ($
5) That benches be provided in yard of Franklin House and thus
save abuse to chairs which are now carried outside from the rooms.
5) -
That parking be prohibited on the side of the road from the Swim-
ming
Pool
entrance
to
the
corner
nearest
the
Inn
Back
Dock.
�Page
NEWS
12
from Colonial
House,
INN AND LODGE NOTES
Mr.
Bill
SMITH
has
resigned
his
position
on
the Inn desk and will leave Williamsburg
to rejoin his family in Pennsylvania on
August
12.
Taking his place will be
Steve
WEBSTER,
popular
Lodge
room
clerk.
his
a
Steve
a
short
new
at
the
native
fers
vacation,
then
Inn.
called,
Va. "
comes
assumed
W.
as
the
he
act
as
cashier
Forrest GRIFFIN,
and Lodge
kitchen
purchasing
manager
respect-
recently
returned from a three During that time they
extensively through the eastern
vacation.
motored
George
Miss
vice
GUSTAFSON,
Gus,"
to
ively,
week
she will
and Mrs.
steward
states
Replacing
is Denton
Hampton,
of
to be
Lodge
and
the
at
position
where
1948
E.
HAYNES
resigned
his
position in the Inn and Lodge accounting
office on July 31 after six years' ser-
Steve left the Lodge desk on July 31,
took
August,
Williamsburg
pre-
Margaret
McGURIMAN
of
the
Inn and Lodge accounting office is
vacationing at Daytona Beach, Florida.
Lodge
after having served as office manager at
the
Chamberlin
at
cumulated
over
Old
Point
Comfort
1700
hours
for
he ac-
COLONIAL
WILLIAMSBURG
air
During the war,
months.
sixteen
FOLLOWING
EMPLOYEES
in the
as
Raymond
in the
and
Navy
Betty Ann HODGES, room clerk and operator
respectively,
at the Lodge, returned from
a two -weeks' vacation on July 29 after
having given their new Ford a workout on
a trip to Michigan.
The same day, Bill
an
aircrewman
BATCHELDER,
upper
and
five
New
Assistant
York
to
three -week
a
enjoy
years
State
Manager,
as
chief
join
left
his
OF
SERVICE
WITH
HAVE
THE
COMPLETED
A PERFECT
A
ATTENDANCE
RECORD:
CHARLES
HACKETT
E.
C&
M
LUCILE FOSTER
Curator'
AT, T, STON
New York
s
Dept.
for
children
BOYER
Office
After
vacation
night
YEAR
CONGRATULATES
WHO
auditor,
ALDEN
Fred
HOPKINS
Architectural
TOZIEE was recently switched to day work.
His
the
on
comment
sleep
housekeeper
House
Halifax,
a
for
Taverns,
Va.,
where
represented
the Circle
PALMER
on
she
and
sick
and
well - known
the
team,
Inn
bell
One
of
bodge
while
crew
the
local
Inn
and
from
Lodge
Jackson,
Lodge
In
a
waiter,
holds
of
the
bellman,
recent
game
manager
of
is
s
post.
Alfred
plays
against
of
third
the
New-
port News Dodgers, his eighth - inning home
run won the day for the home team
Mrs.
A.
from
the
J.
VICKERS
Lodge
has
kitchen
been
E.
HOPKINS
C&
M
DEWITT
POST
C&
M
transferred
office
CRAWFORD
Inn
and
Lodge
Inn
and
Lodge
and
the
fielder'
team
who
ORVAL
FREDERICK
familiar
is
a
Crafts
by Cornelius
Jackson
down
of
is
Negro baseball
Palmer,
Charles
stars
Dept.
LOUDEN
in
is recovering
Black Sox,
Alfred.
Theatre
ARTHUR
Brick
leave
and the two JACKSON brothers,
Charles
base.
Square
The
on the
TOM HALLIGAN
can' t
Anne MAYNARD,
still
illness
recent
team,
Market
is
I
change: "
Mrs.
nights"
to Travis
LOLA
LARSON
�August,
1948
BACK
THE HOUSE,
OF
from
NEWS
NEWS
KITCHENS
LODGE
INN &
OF
Colonial
AND INN DINING
visiting her
Paul CRAVEN,
ROOM
Slerting,
Inn waiter Harvey KELLY spent much of his
two - week vacation boasting of the recent
addition to his family, Katrina
d' Antionette,
Inn headwaiter
girl
a
of
the
been
Buckeye
ill
WOOD,
for
three
abed
in
the
COOK
Mrs.
weeks.....
Inn assistant
has
College
Michael
of
while
GRIFFIN
Mary
reported
Forrest
have been
a visit
GRIFFIN
and Mrs.
to Bedford
Hotel
months
Meadows
ing
and
Bedford
CALDWELL
at Virginia
Lodge
Beach...
storeroom,
His
most
is
a
recent
catch was a tasty bass which nearly
2
The
pounds
members
of
the
wives,
Bay
entertained
and
Shore
Annie
guests
last
TAYLOR
and
ATKINS
is
back
at
WILLIAMS
Lee
is
the
illness
with
changed
now Mrs.
GRANT
on
illnesses....
in
a prolonged
returned
Rosa
picnic
are back
after brief
after
Alease
Bankston
and
Emma LOCKLEY,
also
vacationists
husbands,
ride
and James
WALLACE
Coffee Shop
a
month
duty at the Lodge
Estelle
their
on
is
now
Alease
Mrs.
Rosa Lee McKinney.
Springs
each
of
duties
fall
returns
Dan,
Va.,
to take up his teach-
in the
high
Raymond TOWNSEND,
checker
at
grapher
and
the
W& M
Inn,
has
photographs
ing
the
the
WILLIAMS,
Norman MARSHALL is leaving
He works here during the summer
again.
of
of
fisherman.
champion
names -
where they saw former Inn Resident Manaand his
He is now
ger Bland Hoke
family.
Manager
Thelma
Carolina
WEIKEL,
D.
Two
General
Mrs.
Marion
Flonnie
0.
Pa.,
Springs,
Mrs.
a week recently
They
vacation.
on
Miss
has returned from a honeymoon
spent
members,
stalwart
of the Inn back door, is still trying to
get a satisfactory vacation at Virginia
Beach
Sam THOMAS has been doing a
fine job of pinch- hitting in the Inn
storeroom
former
Heavenly Gospel Chorus, of which several
employees of Colonial Williamsburg are
is
Virginia
O' RIORDAN,
the
13
also of the Coffee Shop, has returned
after spending two weeks with her parents
topped
Mary
kitchen manager,
Medical
Hospital
Ethel
State
in Atlanta
parents
in Tennessee
in North
JOHNSON returned in July after two weeks
of roaming the Virginia countryside,
fishing, bathing, and just plain loafing.
Four days were spent in the capital city
Page
Williamsburg
school
student
is
an
of Williamsburg
Our
kitchen
family
LAUNDRY
and food
this
of
and surroundmember
the
sickness
and the
of
Two
month
both
under
been
having
his
has
past
vital
Humphrey LEE and Booker T.
foot
a
doctor'
a great
s
care.
deal
Employees
of trouble
behind them are Humphrey,
food
Catherine
The
wee
Scot
for
lass,
the
annual
Isabella
picnic
BRAYER,
baked
those big cakes for the two outings
Arnold JOHNSON, Inn pantry -man, spent a
few days recently in Toano attending the
funeral
of
Sheppard,
will
visit
his
who
and
grandfather,
was
83
inspect
George
Mrs.
the
Ethel
kitchens
Rockefeller
Center
in North
Beach
Mrs.
of.
Leila SMITH
is
with
vacations
Booker,
Irwin
Carolina
their
and
SCOTT
vaca-
and
Ethel WALTRIP
at Virginia
spent
three
weeks visiting in Maryland and Kenbridge,
Virginia."
Langon
KELLY
the Rainbow Room during her vacation tour
of
tioned
TAYLOR
employees,
JOHNSON are
Humphrey has
with
proved his ability in supervising the
service
vacations,
the laundry has really been in an upstir
photo-
QUIGLEY,
ITEMS
Between
there
collection
newest
Clint
the
expert
a beautiful
countryside
to
Gordon
�NEWS
Page
LODGE
DINING
ROOM
Colonial
from
Miss
Park
NEWS
August,
Eunice
good old- fashioned
Under
tWguidance
of
Resident
vacation,
Manager
PERKINS
country
1948
enjoyed
Williamsburg
some
cooking
on her
and Miss Lola LARSON made
a
MOYLES and Headwaiter SPEIGHT, waiters of
the Lodge met recently and successfully
trip to Georgia during her vacation
Gertrude BANKS is taking her vacation
thrashed
Washington,
out the
highlights
and tech-
Mrs.
The
dining room service.
waiters also extended sympathy to the
families of our co- workers, Percy SHERMAN,
and James BRIDGERS, who had to be away
niques
for
of
several
days
due
to
illness
The
families
immediate
in
annual
saying, '
I' ve
had
and
Rogers,
in
Connecticut."
Mrs.
Laura
Johnston,
Flora
Randall
their
OFF- PREMISE
picnic
at Log Cabin Beach was an evening filled
At
amusement,
fun, and joy for all.
the close of the evening, as the crowd
began moving homeward, distant voices
be. heard
Carol
York
Miss
a fine
an
off - premise
offers
AT
CROWNING'
well
beer
and
s Ale
Budweiser,
Schlitz,
24
Ribbon
beer -
for five cases
is
per
cans
now
at a reasonable
Ballantine'
as
Orders
Douglas Williams
S
license,
beer by the case
price.
time.'"
BEER
Chowning' s Tavern has been granted
with
could
New
available,
and
as
Blue
4. 65.
case, $
or more will be
delivered to purchasers within the city
limits.
HOUSEKEEPING
DEPARTMENT
In
ITEMS
tled
The
gold
tooth
episode
is
still
cause
of
Lodge by members
Last
partment.
his
tooth
gold
later
he
in his
stopped
to
a honeymooner
Five
room.
ask
about
the
the tooth after the three -months'
it was
The
July birthday
Elizabeth
are
Guiness
s
of
stout
famed
special
offered
for
from
Heiniken
botsale -
England,
beer.
left
months
returned
cake
was
EDSON,
from
a
a
to
its
Miss
tasty
former
CRAFT
tooth
After
passing through the city.
frantic call to the maid who fell heir
owner
and
Holland'
cases
beer
of the Housekeeping Dewinter
HOUSE
NEWS
a
while
period,
and
ale
Bass
and
chuckling in the halls of the Inn and
addition,
ale
to
Now
on vacation
waiting
who
is
and
Mr.
rightful
Louise
DAVIS'
Miss
morsel
housekeeper
of
at
her
are
Mrs.
mother'
s
Caroline
home
Russell McGEBEE
COCHRAN,
in Ashland,
Miss
Catherine
DORRIER recently returned from a vacation
at
her home
in Waynesboro,
in New York
Arthur
Va
LOUDEN is back in Williamsburg
after
Miss
Lottie
the Inn and Lodge has been staying at
vacationing
Market
LEE is now working at Craft House, where
she is replacing Miss Mary Branch HENDERSON, who is being married this month.
Miss Lee came from Westfield, New Jersey,
last March and since then has been helping
Square Tavern for a couple
of
weeks while visiting old friends here
Mrs.
Laura
over
the
from
and
JOHNSTON
return
Panama
of
Scenic
snow - capped
lizing the members
this
were
signer
here'
vacationed
been
much
excited
daughter - in law
cards
mountains
Department
who
has
her
of
have
cool
been
lakes
tanta-
of the Housekeeping
summer.
The '
wish you
was Miss Mary McGREEVY,
in Yellowstone
National
her
brother - in -law,
photography
studio
Douglas
on
Green,
Jamestown
at
Road.
his
�August,
1948
NEWS
PICNIC
ROUNDUP
from
Colonial
Williamsburg
two annual employees'
picnics in July 800 at the picnic on the Inn grounds and
600 at the picnic staged one week later
at Log Cabin
Beach.
All hands pronounced
affairs
thanks
due
evidence
be
the
best
yet,
hard -working
with
special
Some
committees.
of the fun and food involved
seen in the two pages
which
appear
15
BRIEFS
More than 1, 400 persons attended the
both
Page
in this
may
of photographs
Mr.
I. L. JONES,
vacation,
at
their
spent
during his recent
two weeks with his family
summer
home
in Gloucester
The Accounting Department was entertained
on July 31 by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene SHELDON
in their home at Camp Peary
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Oscar
GARDNER
son,
Thomas Bay,
Hospital.
are
proud
parents
born August
Oscar
is
now
on
of a
1 at the Bell
vacation.
issue.
No ailing appetites were reported.
During both picnics 655 southern -fried
chickens
were
devoured,
190
dozen
eggs
RETIRED EMPLOYEES
AT PICNIC
went by the boards and 1, 900 buttered
disappeared.
rolls
With this were 47
From Ewell Jones
cases of colas and 113 cases of beer.
Enough
a barn,
tears
50
and
mustard
pounds
2
tons
was
of
consumed
onions
of
ice
of tomatoes,
10 pounds
caused
cooled
Other staggering totals
to paint
no
things
off.
those
present
were
Luke
Willie
WILLIAMS,
JOHNSON,
Robert
and John HAILEY..'.'
10 gal-
lons of pickles, 125 pounds of frankfurters, 7 pounds of salt, a quarter -ton
of potatoes,
1, 400 cake squares and 1, 300
frankfurter
comes this bulletin of the Log Cabin Beach
The picnic was a happy reunion
for some of the retired
employees.
Among
picnic - "
include 12 bushels WALLACE,
of butter,
and Linwood Williams
CW
FLAG
GETS "
NEW
LOOK"
rolls.
The
new
official
Colonial
Williams-
burg flag made its first public bow recently
over
the
background
EMPLOYEES'
The
new
MANUAL
32 - page
OFF
PRESS
Employees'
Inn
A lively red_
portico.
replaces
its green predecessor,
but the CW seal in the center remains the
same.
Until worn out, the green flag will
Man-
continue
to
wave
at
the
Lodge
and
Goodwin'
ual has just appeared,
and a copy sent
Building,
but these too will be replaced'
to
booklet
when
fall
each
a brief
The
employee.
description
of
the
of Colonial Williamsburg,
the
various
departments,
important
procedures
tion.
should
new
which
work
It
employees
illustrate
of Miss
be
useful
the
Marjorie
they
victim
to
the
weather.
the duties of
and the
of the
alike.
contains
background
Small
manual
Oak.
more
organizato
old
and
PICNIC
PHOTOS
cartoons
are
the
All photographs
for
both
taken by Tom Williams
employees'
picnics
are
avail-
They will be on display in the
Goodwin Building corridor until September 15.
Prints 4 x 5 inches may be
able.
secured
for
receptionist
80
each.
Betsy
Order
Hall.
through
�Page
INN
NEWS
16
AND
LODGE
from
Colonial
August,
Williamsburg
l2
CORRESPONDENTS
Fred Frechette, Chief Clerk of Williamsburg Inn and Lodge, has been designated
News
Gatherer
for
Extraordinary
that
far - flung
organization.
An able staff
of re-
porters will aid and abet Fred in his job of keeping posted on all fronts:
CATERING
HOUSEKEEPING
SECTIONS
Inn
Norma
Nathaniel Reid
Johnston
Robbie
Haywood
FORCE
Inn
Inn
Laura
Bamman
John
BELL
SECTIONS
Gough
Lodge
Lodge
Frances
Alma
Cue
Lodge
Coral
Martin
Wallace
Flora
Willis
Rogers
AUDITING
Randolph
SECTION
Lelia
Travis
House
Richard
DINING
RESERVATION
Bethards
Johnson
RESTORATION
Pryor
Langdon
Lodge
Douglas
Reporters
in
other
departments
will
be
listed
should consider himself a reporter,
make
the
NEWS
STEP
UP
FOR
FREE
all
and
interest
LAUNDRY
Gordon
Williams
employee
serve
OFFICE
Mary Seigert
Inn
Robert
Chowning! s Tavern
Viola
Winn
ROOMS
in
subsequent
issues.
since the support
However,
each
of all is needed to
all.
X - RAY
Next week, the free chest X - ray clinic will be held at the Williamsburg Courthouse, providing Colonial Williamsburg employees with another good opportunity to
let
the
health
people
take
a
look
right
through
you.
The clinic is open to all persons in the county and city over 15 years of age
and the assembly - line process of having the inside of your chest photographed
takes
only
a
few
On Wednesday,
moments,
August 18th,
the clinic will be open from
9 a. m. to 12 noon, from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. and Wednesday evening from 7 p. m. until
9 p. m.
Thursday, the clinic will be open from 9 a. m. until 12 noon and from 1 p. m.
until
5 p.
m.,
with
the
same
held in Toano on Tuesday,
schedule
on
Friday,
August
20th.
The
clinic
will
be
August 17th.
Sponsored by the James City County Tuberculosis Association and the local
health unit,
the annual
and is proportionately
free
service?
clinic
is an important
effective
part in the control
of tuberculosis
with the number of persons who step up for this
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<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
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PICTURES
LT
NEWS
Volume 1,
WILLIAMSBURG
Number 4
splendidly.
COMMITTEE
1948 For those who have not already
seen the photographs taken by Tom Wil iams
at this year' s employee picnics, they
will remain on display in the corridor of
the Goodwin Building through September
TOWN
MRS. CHORLEY VISIT
OF
CHORLEY,
ENGLAND, DURING
REORGANIZED
LAUNCHES
getting
set
to
for
September,
SAFETY
DRIVE
AGAINST
an
organization - wide
drive
prevent
accidents.
MR. AND
RECORD
ACCIDENTS CW' s now Safety
Committee, headed
by Army veteran Col. L. C. Wheat, is
who
NAMESAKE
From
COLONIAL
PICNIC
17.
PAMPHLET F?
Col.
held
Wheat,
West
important
Point
graduate
administrative
posts
at the Army Transportation Center at
Fort Eustis during the
war, has studied
acci- dent
figures
and
is
worried
over
a
TRIP A lifelong ambition was fulfil ed trend of increasing carelessness among
employees. In August, he points out, 41
by Kenneth Chorley and
Mrs. Chorley in
July when they visited the little English accidents causing a loss of 676 man hours were
town of Chorley while in the British Isles re-ported, as compared with a July record
of
this
31
summer. The July 23 edition of the
Chorley
and
Guardian
contains a
picture of
Mr.
Mrs.Chorley photographed in the
Guardian
two
visitors.
offices
and
an
interview
with
the
American
accidents
with
186
man
hours
lost.
Instructional material on safely
and
first
CW
least
aid
is to
employees
twice
supervisors
all
at
be
posted in
added
precaution, two
conspicuous
stated: " Mr. Charley'
s interest in local history will be
apprec- iated when it is realized that
Williams- burg is a perfect example of the
13th century town, once the capital of
Virginia.Many mil ions of dollars have
been spent in its restoration by John
period. During August, an inspection for
fire hazards was conducted all over CW by
John H. Jebens, Safety Engineer of The
D.er,
Rockefel
soon be
article
an
to
month. Bulletin board
each
warn- ings will
presented
their
places.
The
As
be
from
members
of
the committee will act as safety inspectors
for a
Borden
three -month
Company.
made
Mr. Jebens' findings
known
will
and
Jr." Mr. and
Mrs. Chorley' s three
studied. Aiding Col. Wheat on the new
Safety Commit ee is Virginia
Marston, as
months' trip through England and parts of
the Continent was cut short when they secretary. The hotels are represented
by Com odore T. G.
Peyton and J. 0.
received word that
Mr. Chorley' s
father, Dr.
Browning;
E.
Clowes
Chorley, had suffered an
C &M by W. D. and
McPherson
Irving
Sprinkle; other
members are Minor
accident in New
York. They flew back to New
Wine
Thomas,
Jr.,
Museum
Supervisor, and
York immediately and latest reports are
Architectural
Bert Koch of the
that Dr. ey is recuperating
Chorl
�Page
2
NEWS
PROFILE:
MINOR
WINE
THOMAS,
from Colonial
JR.,
Inventive
Minor
Williamsburg
September,
1948
Virginian
Wine
Thomas,
Jr.,
is a Virginian by birthright, by perceptible soft -spoken Tidewater drawl,
and by a remarkable versatility, which must have
been handed down by resourceful colonial forebears.
His most recent title, Museum Supervisor, demonstratec the inadequacy of Webster and the English
q.
language to pin down a man who is chemist- inventor-
4'
naturalist- hunter - designer- Lion. farmer
and proud
father of two, a man who has made a good living
catching bats and crayfish, storekeeping in the
W&
M Chemistry Department, setting up traveling
displays for history- conscious school children,
and lecturing on archaeology to thousands of
Williamsburg visitors.
Tommy hails from Hamburg,
munity
in the
was
a school
for
such
Shenandoah
superintendent
posts
remote
young M. W.
His
Valley.
who was
the
as
parents
both from
were
soon to receive
a Ph. D.
Indian Reservation
Apache
the
a crossroads com-
from Columbia
N.
Albuquerque,
at
His
Valley.
father
and set out
M.,
where
acquired a nurse by the name of Winifred Kinzumah Apache.
Later the family moved briefly to Williamsburg, where Tommy recalls a fall into
a muddy ditch soon to be restored to history as the Governor' s canal and fishpond.
Then to New York for a two -year spell in Columbia' s experimental Lincoln School, and
finally
back
to Virginia
again.
At the Radford High School,
the future lecturer and
raconteur got a head start as the State champion in public reading for three successive
years.
It was then that the young naturalist
as frogs, fishworms, freshwater mussels,
collected ( for cash)
such specimens
crayfish, stray cats, and bats.
At William and Mary, Tommy had a near full- time job as storekeeper
Chemistry Department,
but somehow found time to attend classes, become
the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, join several honor societies,
mammoth
French
horn
in the
Band.
College
tion, and has been here ever since,
cess
of
Company
ammonia,
Hopewell.
at
nitric
acid,
There,
and
He
came
to CW
of the
president
of
and wrestle with a
in 1938,
even
before
gradua-
except for a war - time spell with the Solvay Proas control chemist,
salts
nitric
dangerous work with poisonous gasses,
for
he fixed nitrogen in the form
This
explosives.
involved
some
and one close decision with carbon monoxide.
At CW, Tommy studies the archaeological fragments unearthed by Jim Knight' s
crews and submits findings which, with the Research Department' s reports,
are corre-
lated with the all important architectural studies to assist in the authentic
restoration
or . reconstruction
of
colonial
buildings.
His archaeological laboratory,
set up in 1940 in the Warehouse,
has sinks, stoves, and chemical equipment in one
room, and filing cabinets for the storage of catalogued items in the second room.
Some forty tons of artifacts are safeguarded here or in an adjacent storage shed.
Most of the articles sifted from Williamsburg' s diggings are iron objects
padlocks,
perhaps
wine
keys,
500, 000
bottles,
archways,
hinges,
pieces
iron
of
glasses);
decorative
wall
nails);
saucers,
ceramic
plates,
fragments
bowls,
cups,
of
the
vases);
1650 - 1850
glass
period
fragments
and brick and stone frnents ( remnants from fireplaces,
plaques,
etc.
T.
These
tell tale
reminders
of
Virginia'
s
�September,
1948
NEWS
from
Colonial
past, unearthed from the old city' s sandy
clay soil, have helped not only in the
restoration
provided
Program
work
model
stems
silver
foundations
for
but
basis
A
articles.
ered in the
the
itself,
an accurate
set;
and tumbler bottoms
sent
copied
to Wedgwood
was
found
to
wine
Lion
have been care-
and a china patthe
and lectures
on his
archaeological
findings on many weekday evenings.
also
glass
in England
be
House,
Page 3
Thomas
is
First
Vice - President
for many Craft - of the active Williamsburg Lion' s Club,
spoon discovwhere he is scheduled to take over the top
of the Raleigh is
a Stieff
fully copied by Blenko;
tern
have
Williamsburg
next
year.
Hunter Thomas is widely recognized as
the best duck shot in James City County."
He is a charter member
to be
actual
office
of the James River
Literary and Cultural Society, which main-
product
tains
one lonely
duck blind behind James-
of eighteenth- century Wedgwood craftsmen:
Among Tommy' s most interesting
finds" are bottle buttons ( round insig-
town
nia,
has a roomy farmhouse and many acres just
stamped
on
the
hot
glass
of
Nicholson,
and Greenhow;
characters
of
original
covered
on
the
site
Gazette
office,
and
Caslon
Farmer,
the
of
the
believed
those used by the premier
er
William
Parks
Thomas
colonial
the
Road.
and
Here
parent
Thomas
he begins
a
helped by his wife, the former Annabel
print-
Brubaker
of
in 1940,
been
takes
over;
Lebanon,
and two lively offspring, Minor
Wine Thomas
III,
just
Pa.,
four,
he married
one.
turned
age
wham
and Phyllis,
he
has developed many chemical treatments
preserve
5,
dis-
have
of
second full day' s work each afternoon at
Virginia
to
member
himself.
chemist
Here
old
other
home - maker,
Jamestown
off
and 300
type,
The
society is Ed Kendrew.
bottle, giving owner and the bottling
date) of such Williamsburg notables as
Wythe,
Island.
relics,
to
save
hand
labor
to
in
CURATOR' S
cleaning,
jects
without
and to remove corrosion on obdamaging them.
Assisting
him at the laboratory on a part time
Lucile FOSTER
the mountains
spent Labor Day weekend
along the Skyline Drive
basis
is G. I.
Mrs.
JENSEN
W&
student
Clarence
Clark of
M.
has
her
brother
Thomas'
latest
is a system of synchronizing
slide
projector
from New York as her guests during
vacation
Shirley DAVIS and Dr.
achievement
her
the auto-
Hiram
now used
in the
DAVIS,
of
Richmond,
spent
the
day weekend
in Atlanta
Reception Center with the tape recording.
parents
Mrs.
Working with the equally ingenious Dick
Showman, Tommy punched holes in the tape
which
months'
search
of
LEA
holi-
family are enjoying their apartment
al
recorded
impulses
the
were
sound,
able
so
to
that
operate
electricthe
recorded
Showman
Inventors
narration.
pro-
hear
that
several
Thomas
other
and
museums
of
Thomas
Showman,
Director
Interpretation.
supervises
is
He
the museum
chief
of
assistant
the
Department'
arranges
at
the
Old
exhibits,
Court
John
fered
a
Bonnie
BROWN
is
leave
on
Capitol
Mrs.
and
severe
Yerda
stroke
of
until
Katherine
have already set up a similar device.
Designer
with Shirley' s
and
her
on
Scotland Street, the product of many
jector automatically, neatly changing each
slide at the proper moment in Ronnie King' s
Dick
and
sister
Inventor
matic
Dorothea
in
her
to
new
bride.
from
mother
JACKSON
guests her cousins,
SMITH,
in Grove,
absence
Pearl
Martha
Lee
is
has
her
Lee,
mother
has
suf-
and
Yerda
job
at
the
better
as
her
weekend
John Broody and his
�Page
NEWS from
HOSTESS
BRIEFS
September is
heard
turns
the sound of the school bell
land.
Young America re-
in the
to
the
We foresee many
classroom.
lesson
history
a
Colonial Williamsburg
enlivened
When
with,
I
19+ 8
Stryker have returned from a motor trip
which took them to many places of beauty
and
historic
and
New England
HARDY
to
interest
the
is being
was in Williamsburg last summer I saw..."
We mustered our resources
September,
in Pa.,
We
ranks
the
of
initiated
Delaware,
welcome
Barbara
Barbara
clerks.
at the Raleigh
Tavern....
Clem VAUGHAN and Kitty Jean Hartley were
for Labor Day,
28
Aug.
married
in the
Wren
Chapel.
They
the last hurdle on the course of 1948.
Many busy weeks to go after that, but
will spend several weeks in the mountains
of Virginia,
then return here and make
ahead
their home on Griffin Avenue while Clem
lies
Winter,
in
the
calm
of late
the Promised
farthingales
summer
hostesses"
Fall
and
Land for the ladies
With regret we see our
depart.
Mrs.
W.
S.
WOODY left last month to resume her place
as
teacher
Gwendolyn
on
in the
Hopewell
September
Mrs.
7
Dr. Taylor left Aug.
Canada.
Schools.
HALLER returned
Mrs.
to City Point
A.
G.
his
continues
FLANARY
at
studies
W& M
Fred
is winding up his holiday with
friends at Elmwood Farms, Hunter, N. J.
The departure of Clem and Fred ended the
brief period when the hostess group boasted
two gentlemen in wigs and knee breeches."
TAYLOR with
Mrs.
23 for a vacation in
Mary I. Daniel
They traveled by motor, stopping
in Washington, New York, and Vermont
Mr. and Mrs. Russell WING and daughters
OUTSTANDING
VISITORS
spent a week at their cottage on the RapMrs.
pahannock
Allen
CALLIS
has
re-
Important
turned to us after an illness of several
weeks
left
to
Mrs. WATTLES and Capt. Wattles
Sept6 for Boston and Nantucket
visitors
Williamsburg.
continue
to
flock
Last month' s partial
roster includes the names of Mrs, John R.
Steelman, wife of the President' s advisor;
Dale CARTER is back from a ten -day vaca-
Joseph
J.
O' Connell,
chairman
of the
Civil
tion in Philadelphia, New York, and
Atlantic
Mrs. R. F. SCHULTZ,
City
Aeronautics Administration, and Mrs.
who O' Connell; Mrs. George W. Welsh of Grand
has been with us for the past few months
Rapids, wife of the president of the U. S.
as escort
and hostess
has
left for Wiscon-
Council
of Mayors
sin
her
has
accepted
Rapids,
Mich.;
where
husband
a
and Mayor
Ronald
F.
of Grand
Lee,
Chief
position on the Univ. of Wisc. faculty....
Historian of the National Park Service,
Mrs. John HENDERSON has returned home from and Mrs. Lee; and a number of the White
Johnston - Willis Hospital
Congratulations
the
passed
to
State
in Richmond
Peruker
Bar
exam.
Bob ELLERT.
He
and
House Correspondents
He
Jo
Ann
while
was
here for the evening
the Presidential
docked
at
Yacht WILLIAMSBURG
Yorktown.
At
that
same
time,
will continue with us while he completes
his work at W & N
Beverly OWEN
Admiral Leahy,
and William D.
spent
a
Beach
during
Secretary, debarked to attend the evening
performance of " The Common Glory."
refreshing
weekend
the torrid
at
Virginia
spell
Presidential Chief of Staff,
Hassett, Presidential
Marguerite BOZARTH and Nancy BEAMER had a
delightful vacation trip motoring through
Va.
and
W.
Va.,
and visiting Niagara Falls
Mary Ann EAST has been visiting in MissiShe spent some time with friends
in Corinth,
then went on to Oxford, Miss.,
ssippi.
her
old
home
Mrs.
STRYKER
and
Dr.
An exhibit of photographs taken by
Richard Garrison of :.cony of the privatelyoccupied
colonial
home will be on display
in the Goodwin Building Board Room on Thursday
afternoon
and
Friday,
Sept.
16 - 17.
�September,
C&
1948
M BEGINS
NEWS froci Colonial Williamsburg
St.
William
Randolph
Lodgings
Prentis
Craig'
Tavern Ground as being broken
sell House, the
week the
latest projects
that bustling area
William
be undertaken
to
House Duke
Lodgings,
the
Raleigh Tavern. The Russell House wil be a
s
the Russell
s
finishing
annex
this
building program - in
typical Wil iamsburg colonial house of a one-
Gloucester Street, between the Prentis House and Max
and pewterer'
lots. Meanwhile, the forces of Charlie Hackett and Lyman Peters are
touches
the
to
on the Guard House and
the
the reconstruction of
outbuildings
Shop. The William Randolph Lodgings will face on Nicholson Street at the
rear of
applying
other
and
war
post of construction work down by the
and -a- stories on Duke of
half
Rieg'
of
with remarkable speed for
Randolph
in
Street
s
House
Raleigh
Gloucester
Russell James
House
Rus-
5
WORK ON RUSSELL PROPERTY
Nicholson
the
Page
to
the
Lodge,
restored "
the
and
Debtor'
s Prison," and work
The Magazine, the
laundry near
new
is
going
Lightfoot Kitchen, the James
ahead steadily
Craig House,
the Warehouse. Scheduled for
early attention is the reconstruction of the Lewis House, making use of the lonely
chimney across from the Inn entrance drive on Francis Street; it will probably be used
as quarters for the resident manager of
the Inn.The
Russell House, plans for which were drawn by
will measure approximately 32 by 36 feet and will be of
stories,
half
and
descriptions
Alden
with
in
Hopkins
from
dormer windows. The design
on
archaeological evidence
insurance policies. The pleasant garden and yard laid out by
old
old
is based
John Henderson,
frame construction, one - and -a
records
will
a
smokehouse, dairy, " necessary house,"
the lots,the reconstruction of the William Randolph
is starting. Plans for
this structure have been drawn by
Bob Taylor. In 1735
ones House then letter
for Lodgins to
Randolph, Esq., situate at the
William
have
and well. At the rear of
Lodgings
Cobbs
had
back
of
the
In
1770
powerful
the
Governor'
it
was
Garden."Randolph, brother of Sir John Randolph and member of
s
owned
Council, used
by
the
Daniel
house
Baxter,
as
about
his
whom
quarters
little
while
is
small, narrow, one story building just twelve feet
in Williamsburg. (
known). The
Lodgings
be
a
steep
will
pitched roof. Its foundations were among the most complex uncovered in this city
in width, with a
and show two additions to the original structure as well as
later alterations. When completed, the William Randolph Lodgings will provide
additional
housing
space,
as will
the
Russell
House,
Craig
House,
Lightfoot
Kitchen
and "
Debtor'
-
�Pafre
6
NEWS
from
Colonial
ITEMS
LONG
the
summer
at
Yorktown,
have
been
attractive
flower
1948
REWARD
Louise
Inman
became
the
third
Colonial Williamsburg employee to chalk
up 20 years'
service with the organization
when her anniversary came due last month,
and Henry Beebe proudly presented her with
placed
on display in the Lodge lobby where they
will remain for approximately six weeks.
The
TENURE
Miss
Several original paintings by Horace Day,
outstanding artist who has been spending
September,
Williamsburg
the
arrangements
service
recognition
charm.
Beating her to the line by a few
in the entrance lobby of the Goodwin
Building are the work of Miss Betsy HALL,
months were Kenneth Chorley and Monier
Receptionist,
Williams,
with
Mrs.
picked
on
who
claims
Fisher.
her
way
Most
to
no
of
competition
the
flowers
The
work
the
Service
are
were
new
presented
Harvey House restaurant in the Stringfellow Building is scheduled to open on
September 13
John GREEN and Tommy
MOYLES will attend the annual meeting of
the American Hotel Association in Washington this
Wythe
The
August.
presented
a
Ferguson,
month
ETHERIDGE ($
B.
OSCAR
20 - year
to
two
veterans.
emblems
other
also
CW - ites
much -photographed
in
coachman,
at
House
10 - year
badge
present
to
Ethel
matriarch
of
the
kitchen.
AWARDS
That a sign be placed near the rear door of the Ludwell-
5) -
Paradise
out
two
Ben Spraggins, was pinned by Henry Beebe
for his 15 years' service and Dick Showman
SUGGESTION
IMCGEN
first
recognition
House
ticket
of
so
that
guests
will
not
enter
from
the
back
yard
with-
admission.
LINDSEY ($
5) That boxes for collecting news items for the " News from
Colonial Williamsburg" be placed at various locations throughout the
organization.
JO
ANN ELLERT ($
JAMES
A. COOK ($
That Williamsburg map folders be available for distribution
5) the
local
That
5) -
bus
depot
paper
napkins
the Williamsburg
EDWARD
A. WATKINS ($
and
be
supplied
these
NELL T.
EAST ($
5) the
LUCY
SNEAD ($
5) -
time
in the
of the various
in the Colonial Williamsburg
siderable
employees'
cafeteria
at
on
the
part
of
construction
telephone directory,
persons
who
need
to
jobs
b< included
thus saving concommunicate
with
locations.
That a more effective sign be erected for directing guests to
Palace
That
Gardens.
at
station.
Inn and Lodge.
That listings
10) -
train
wine
the Wine
cellar.
Cellar
be
indicated
on the
diagram
of the
Palace
�September,
1943
NEWS
from
Colonial
REVISED GROUP ANNUITY PLAN
WINS QUICK EMPLOYEE APPROVAL,
Williamsburg
Page
Representing
surance
company
the sponsoring
was George
W.
7
life in-
Kerwin,
Director of Group Annuities for the EquitEarly reports
prove
that CW employees
question
like the revised group
Already,
plan.
annuity
without
almost
half of
Life
able
Assurance
The third
Society.
speaker of the evening was Vice -President
Duncan Cocke,
who with the Treasurer
and
those who had rejected the old plan have
Personnel Relations Director will supervise
subscribed to the new plan,
the operation of the plan for CW.
Details of the new plan are set forth
who were members
and employees
of the old plan have bee n
quick to authorize transfer to the revise d in an attractive 19 -page booklet, available
plan with its new retirement benefits.
in the Personnel Relations Department.
Figures released by Treasurer Rod
Chief advantages of the revised plan are:
Jones at the end of the first week in
1)
increased retirement benefits; (
2) a
September showed that 55 of 117 employees
who have rejected the old plan had become
of
members
vacation
the
new
absences
plan.
Also,
despite
and sick leaves,
return
354
of
the 394 members of the old plan had
already indicated their willingness. to
change.
cash payment or paid -up annuity for emleaving CW service; ( 3) assured
ployees
ble for the new plan when they have accuof
service
within
the
Employee
with
interest
of all employees
benefits
now include
a Disa-
bility Benefits Plan, a Group Hospitalization Plan which has just been liberalized
CW
News,
Vol.
Group
Annuity
Center on August 25, CW officials and a
representative of the insurance company
CRAFT
HOUSE
outlined
Mrs.
preceding 24 months,
contributions
4) and retirement
at age 65.
New signatures were being re-
one year
all
ment; (
ceived daily.
Present and new employees are eligimulated
of
upon death either before or after retire-
I,
No.
2),
and
the
revised
Plan.
provided they have
not reached age 642.
At a special
the
more
meeting
in the Reception
favorable
provisions
now offered to participating employees.
Executive Vice - President Bela W. Norton
pointed
out
that
annuities
would
where
average one -third to one - half more than
previously,
and that virtually all the
additional financial burden was to be
borne by Colonial
Williamsburg - which
will pay $ 15, 000.
its
share
of the
more each year to carry
load.
remarked: "
the
tain deficiencies
plan
important
eliminates
that became
cer-
apparent
spent
her
visited
at
Machaponga,
family
Mrs.
Va.,
Wil-
liam SAUNDERS, the former Mary Branch
Henderson, is back working at the Craft
House until she and her husband leave for
he
which
Anne
In several
revised
vacation
Harry MORTON, Craft House manager,
left for a three -week vacation, part of
had been offered only after long and careful study of the old group annuity policy,
respects
s
she
Texas
Adding that the new retirement aids
Norton
George OLIVER recently returned from
a week'
now
NEWS
will
Smith
spend
READ
is
in New York
now
on
vacation.
Mrs.
After
spending a few days in Connecticut, she
plans to visit her mother in Cazenovia,
N.
Y
Mrs. Genevieve OSLUND, Craft House
office manager, resigned Sept. 4 and will
move to Richmond in the near future.
in
recent years under the existing program.
There have been times when we had to make
decisions and settlements with employees
that
we
did
not
particularly
enjoy.
Now
NUPTIALS -
Miss Sally FITCHETT, of the
Office Services, and Donald Mapel, a stu-
we believe that we have a plan that will
dent
eliminate
summer
such
difficulties
in the
future.
on
at
W&
as
M who has been employed
a host
September
at
the Gaol,
7 in the Wren
were
Chapel.
this
married
�Page 8
NEWS
EUROPEAN
FENCES:
from
Colonial
or What United Really
September
Williamsburg
1948
Means
By Edward. P.
NOTE:
Mr.
returned
tour
Alexander
from
a
he gives here
of
the
has
just
three- months'
European
of
lieu of a more
sions
Alexander
In
museums.
detailed
report,
some brief imprestrek.)
Any of you who fail to appreciate
U. S. A.
shoes
what
means
in
the
should have been in my
on the
border.
Belgian- Netherlands
I carried
suitcases
the
Union
three
heavy
from the train along
platform
for
what
seemed
a
half mile or so, stood in a long line until a Belgian immigration officer stamped my
pasoport,
capes,
stood in line again for the Belgian customs
blank
to
three
bugs
I
inspector
repeated both processes for the Netherlands officials,
how
show
eight
visited
money I
the truin.
much
to
back
Sweden,
frontier
Most
England,
countries -
Denmark,
into
bringing
was
inspections
France (
their
were
Then
country.
not
twice),
to look in my suit-
and filled out a
that
Belgium,
I
lugged
difficult,
the
but
the
since
Netherlands,
officials. •
there
Then
ferent
system;
and
the
Norway
coinc
12
is
I
the
matter
of
values
in
dollars.
encountered
currencies.
their
and
pence
half
Switzerland -
and
make
a
shilling (
500)
crown (
are
200),
different
It is hard to remember
England
and
the
almost
eighteen
same
20
does
not
use
a
pound.
shillings
size.
French
the
sets
of
all the difdecimal
coinage
The florin ( 400)
francs ( 300
for
the
dollar)
are worth so little that it takes bills of big denomination to buy moot
things.
Much of your last day in a country is spent trying to use up all that
country' s currency, for it will usually not be any good across the border.
Languages
French;
in the
area
in the
northern
about
only
also
are
central
very
part
section
one-
in Flemish
fourth
In southern Belgium the
confusing.
may be
in both
they
the
size
French
only.
And this is
of Virginia.
The
and
street
signs
are
Flemish ( Low German);
in
and
a very small country with an
Scandinavian
languages,
which
are very musical and lilting, have some similarities to English, but in Norway I
ordered a '' vol" sandwich, expecting veal and actually getting whale meat.
These and many other customs impress the American with the great strength of
conflicting nationalisms
effective
regional
or
American experience,
us must keep trying.
After
visiting
in Europe and with the difficulty of obtaining any kind of
world
federation
sixty- three
be back at Colonial Williamsburg,
over
all
of
them.
under
such
circumstances.
And
yet,
from
our
we know the advantages of federation are so great that all of
museums (
my
feet
hurt
at
which to my prejudiced
the
thought),
it' s
grand to
eye has certain advantages
�September,
1948
NEWS
Colonial
from
M NOTES
C&
Williamsburg
E.
PARKER
is back
on the
job
after
a
two -weeks vacation during which he
to South
motored
9
are turning out an extra amount of material
these
R.
Page
Carolina
days
house
area,
the
Spare
hours
last
from their corner
of the ware-
a fact that was omitted
account
in the NEWS
from
on the
area.
In addition to pounding out all of the
antique
hardware
for the new construction,
are taken up for J. P. McROY and Edgar
MYERS in building their new homes
they are still handling the miscellaneous
Hugh HITCBNS is justly proud of the fact repairs for maintenance
A few of the
that
his
Common
pects
children
were
members
been ordained
Baptist
the
ex-
But
TAYLOR
forced
overnight
stays
anglers
because
has
for
Pete
Centerville
of
ing excursions to Cape Charles to wet a
line.
a deacon of the New Zion
Church
C& M superintendents have been making fish-
in New York
Elnorice
Jersey.
of
BANKS
Coleman
cast
to spend his vacation
New
and
two
Glory"
the
ferries
TUCKER has recently returned from a trip
to Reading,
Pa.,
where he inspected the
boilers being built for the new laundry...
despite
excuses (
of
and
the
one
the
resultant
of
the
boys
who
no
as
en-
Shore
overcrowded
fish.
rest
but
such
on the Eastern
result:
spoiled
stayed
fish),
at
home
see
Ed WATKINS was called to Grundy, Va.,
because
of
the
sudden
brother
Dr.
Washington,
D.
on
has
grasses,
tant
the
on
first
C.,
BROUWERS
is
of
been
confined
engaged
his
Jr.,
at
last
work
illness
made
after
home
a
SYMPOSIUM
of
GARDENING
MARCH
his
READIED
EVENT
Alden Hopkins is getting his landscape
J
B.
several
McCANDLISH
because
PLANS
FOR
consul-
month
Harold
to his
as
He
course.
visit
back
days
of
a widely known expert
been
golf
official
death
John Monteith,
of
has
drawings together, Mrs. Fisher is busily
collecting floral materials for drying and
other
members
of
the
Symposium
committee
are
ill- taking
dent, has been flying to Boston for
several weekends to direct the decorating
care of the initial preparations
for the 1949 Garden and Flower Symposium.
The Symposium for 1949 has been moved
up to February 28 through March 11 and will
of
follow
Robert
ness
the
Cambridge
100
over
WEBB,
years
paint
Baptist
old.
superinten-
Church
The
which
exterior
is
is
of
the
in general
past
pattern
It will
years.
the
be
program
divided
of
into
cut stone, including the steeple with its two one - week sections within those dates,
towering spire, while the interior has a with identical programs each week.
Initial
announcements
to the press and
heavy beamed ceiling with several columned arches
on each side
In July,
the mailing list are going out from the
Dept.
of Public
Information
at present
and
Dr. Curtis May, Chief Pathologist of the
Department
to
check
of
on
Agriculture,
the
diseased
the Palace
grounds.
twigs
examined
were
was
Samples
and
called
beech
trees
of
proved
roots
that
in
in
and
trees
had
suffered
severe
winter
injury because of the unusual weather
conditions.
After
a complete
inspection
tour covering all plantings,
he said that
at present everything seemed in good
Charles
healthy growing condition
PETERSON
and
his
helper
Eldridge
CHEATHAM
the
organization,
individuals
and departments are well into the lengthy
advance
there
was no disease or insect injury, but that
the
throughout
preparations
Messrs.
Kendrew
for
Hopkins,
will
again
the
annual
Brouwers,
offer
event.
Eaton,
expert
and
and
specialized advice during the program in
company
W.
Pond,
scape
of
Architecture
to
England
and
chief
Fisher.
Chairman
invited
week.
Mrs.
with
talk
on
at
of
the
Professor
School
Harvard,
the
Virginia
speaker
the
has
contrast
colonial
final
of
Bremer
Landbeen
between
gardens,
session
of
New
as
each
�Page
10
NEWS
INN AND LODGE
RESERVATION
NEWS
from
Colonial
ITEMS
OFFICE: "
Frances
Burns
re-
turned to work on the 24th after spending
a week in Washington and New York on business
Mrs.
John POPULAR
spent the first
two weeks of August in Chicago and Evans-
ton, Illinois, visiting her family and
friends
Mrs.
Stuart HUGHES was oper-
ated on at Bell Hospital August 19 and
spent the following week at home recuperMarsha REED
ating
spent the last two
weeks of August vacationing at home and
in Big Stone Gap, Va."
Mary Siegert
Williamsburg
September,
N. Y. with the Dodgers pro football team...
Mrs. Maude CRISP is the Isaac Walton of
our
group.
She went on quite a successful
fishing trip recently and came back with
big ones
Friends are extending
the
their
sympathy
to Mr.
and Mrs.
CATERING
DEPARTMENT: "
Mrs.
residents
spent
West
New
of
part
of
Virginia.
years'
York.
Mrs.
in
Charleston,
W.
Va
J
T.
GARRISON spent two weeks during August
visiting his family in Fort Mill, S. C....
Louvette JENKINS left on August 31 to return
to
home
her
in Gloucester,
Va.
She
will finish her senior year in high school
there
for
this
North
STOLTZ
Frances
year
Carolina
on
the
BRYTON left
31st
Cleo
spent the last two weeks of August
visiting
relatives
Thomas REDCROSS,
in
Portsmouth,
Va
short order cook,
service
Mary TYLER returned
to work dur-
ing the latter part of August after recovering from her recent illness."
Mrs. Frances Martin
at
the
Inn
Girls
ideal
month
mind a group
DEPARTMENT: "
for
picnics -
August
with
in
who
HAWKINS and Frances COWLES."
INN
CATERING
BAMMAN
is
is
this
an
in
of Inn and Lodge housekeepers
DEPARTMENT: "
Home
now "
Coral
Rogers
chen because
Miss
Norma
the Range."
on
when she leaves work,
it' s home to a kit-
chen to the Cole Kitchen
after
the
a
Even
she moved from the Geddy Kiton August
Mrs. Mary WOOD returned to work
illness.
recent
Medical
College
1
August 9
She had been in
Hospital
Charles -
worth DICKENSON fractured his collarbone
in
bicycle
a
150.
6.
He
has
a cast but has been able to
Sam
working
set
August
accident
been wearing
of
golf
clubs
THOMAS
on
won
the
July 27.
He
suddenly became famous as the " Talking
Man" because of his many telephone calls....
Michael O' RIORDAN is enjoying the spotlight after his recent interview by a
Times- Dispatch sportswriter on the Virginia
HOUSEKEEPING
WOOD
vacationed from the Lodge during August
are Lucy PIGGOT, Hazel WILLIAMS, Marian
continue
cele-
brated his birthday on August 17 with a
party
Maude
a well —
deserved vacation
She has completed ten
Odell
OWENS left on August 20 for a three -week
vacation which she will spend visiting
relatives
William
SCHAUMBURG upon the recent death of Mr.
Schaumburg' s step -mother and brother,. both
Mrs.
LODGE
1948
Beach
Rocky
Mount,
room
boardwalk
N.
staff
Troy CLOVES,
of
C.,
has joined the storePauline CURLEY,
Inn bar-
tender, was called to her home in Emporia,
Va. on August 9 because of the illness of
piled into three cars and headed for Yorktown.
The cars were also piled with good
things
to eat.
Invited guests were Mary
McGREEVY, Odell OWENS and Will SCHAUMBURG.
A joint birthday celebration was held
ford' s assistant,
spent the first two weeks
of August on vacation in Jacksonville,
Fla
Ethel KELLY was given a surprise
for Miss McGREEVY and Mrs. SWEENY on Aug-
birthday party at the Franklin House on
ust
21.
candles...
The cake was decorated with six
their combined ages, we suppose:
John Clowes, Mrs. Eva CLOWES' son and formerly a resident of Williamsburg, trained
this summer at a camp on Lake Champlain,
her
July
Branson
sister
30
pantry
by
crew
committee
August
her
fellow
which
which
Chef
employees.
she
directs
planned
3 she went
City
to New York
JUNIOR,
Craw -
The
formed
the party.
the
On
on a two - week vacation
Thomas
Wallace,
cook
�September,
1948
at the Inn,
weeks
of
NETS
vacationed
from
Colonial
during the last two
August."
CHOWNING' S TAVERN: "
Haywood
Martha PALMER,
Bessie waiter,
and- - iola PRYOR returned from
V
their vacations
Nat
during August
REID, Inn bellman who serves As a waiter,
missed several days during the month of
J. UUness......
of
August
York
George
28 from
City.
REID
returned
Four
store
grocery
of
the
Pryor
join
and the
his
one
the
or
other
Alton
soon. .:
WAL-
CRUMP,,
waiter,
returned
1
lb.
August
on
OFFICE:
Mr.
Fred
August
She
to the
Mrs.
Warfield
who
David
HOLMES,
of, the
ing office,
and Fred FRECHETTE,
clerk,
switched
OF THE MONTH -
Chef John Mack Williams'
were
to
cover
No.
his
returned
t
account-
chief room
part -.
time
night
absence.
2
Crabmeat
Au Gratin
1/ 4 lb. Butter or Vegetable Fat
1
1/ 4 lb.
Milk:
Crumbs
American
Mieese
Flour
over
sizzling.
minutes,
the
add
for .shells.
crabmeat
Add flour
cheese.
tabasco sauce,
and
salt.
Stir
cracker
crumbs.
Put, in
moderate
oven.. until
This mixture
cocktail
Put butter
Stir
until
well
Casserole.
brown.
blended.
is very nice to serve
parties.
fat
in
Add
saucepan.
Heat
ilk.
five
Add crabflake,
sauce,
Sprinkle
Serves'
or
smooth. .
two dashes of Worcestershire
Bake
in
until
and
to visit
left for a three -week vacation on
21.
1/ 2 cup Cracker
Pick
and
TOZIER,
1/ 2 tsp.. Salt ( or more if desired)
4 tbs.
30.
to Boston
to his post as chief night auditor during
Regular Crabmeat
pts.
Jr.
assistant
Mrs.. Mary TILLETT
motored
south
August,
work
Lodge
Johnson,
enjoying their vacation on a motor trip to
Inn in August after having spent seven
RECIPE
August
relatives.
points
JUDKINS spent the last. two_ weeks of Aug-.
ust fishing and swimming at Seaview Beach
Thomas
of
WINN spent the last three weeks of August
Captain Thessalonians
ROOM:. "
27
vacation
to ACCOUNTING
Henry TYLER, and ..Cue WI;LIp are Elks.
DINING
eks
her husband
LACE is a :Mason., , while Saint .HOLLAND,
INN
last week
Bi111 BATCBELDER,
August
on
two -w
Lodge
other three Are . expected
fighter
operator at the Lodge, replacing Miss
Dorothy DIETZ, who retuned to her home in
Lynchburg on August 25.;....
Mrs. Mary FISH,
Inn telephone operator,, returned from a
Bellmen are. members:, of secret or fraternal
orders
the
OFFICE:
state
in New
seven
spent
a fire
room- service
joined the front office' crew as telephone
he ap-
pointed his brother, Nat.. to manage
as
George KIN,
manager, returned with his family from a
three week vacation innorthern New York
on
a week' s vacation
During his absence,
served
Robert
FRONT
Ernest -WAL-
Viola
CREW:
During the last part
army.
he
11
vacationing at Bayshore Beach."
LACE and Eli CANADY are eaeh the proud
parents of baby girls."
BELL
the
Page
hitch'
in Japan
REDCROSS;-
because
in
years
of his '
John
August
Williamsburg
Cook
to
a dash of
and stir in half of the
remainder
of crumbs
over top.
six.
over toast points
as hot canapes
for
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12
NEWS
WILLIAMSBURG
REPRODUCTION
from Colonial
WALLPAPER
If all of the authentic
and the men who make
Williamsburg
over.
Such an eventuality
19+ 8
it
wallpaper reproduced by the New York firm
of Katzenbach and Warren were put together,
times
September,
Williamsburg
it would cover the restored area many
is not likely,
however,
since the wallpaper
is for
the most part safely hung on the walls of homes from coast to coast, bringing a
touch
the
of
eighteenth
into
century
the
lives
of
Americans.
countless
A key part
of Jack Upshur' s Craft Program, WRI' s wallpaper reproductions are among the best known and most popular items of Williamsburg furnishings.
In 1937, Katzenbach and Warren was licensed as the sole manufacturer of Williamsburg Restoration Wallpaper Reproductions and Commemorative Paper Hangings.
Currently they are manufacturing eight different colonial designs, each in a number
of color combinations, and three commemorative wallpapers which carry out the eightspirit
eenth- century
of
Williamsburg.
Some of these are carefully turned out by the
modern roller process,
the
while others
As old advertisements
eighteenth
Grape,"
was
by the old hand - blocking
methods.
attest, wallpaper was in common use in Williamsburg
A
century.
found in the
are manufactured
small
Lee
old
fragment
House
one
of
here
and
of
the
original
for
authorized
wallpapers, "
in
Fox
Further
reproduction.
research in parts of this country and in England brought to light several original
eighteenth- century
wallpapers
which would have been appropriate
in the houses
of
Williamsburg during colonial days.
One remnant was found as the binding of a Book of Court Records of Southampton
in Courtland,
County,
from
a
piece
found
in
the
Va.;
records
are
the Joseph Hewes
of
House
the
and the residence for many years of Joseph Hewes,
Signer
the
of
Declaration
an old mandolin
case,
of
Independence.
1775.
year
in Edenton,
N.
Another
C.,
was
reproduced
built in 1757 -1765,
first Secretary of the Navy and a
Still another was found as the lining of
and another as the lining of a hatbox.
The firm of Katzenbach and Warren was chosen for the wallpaper reproduction
both because of their high standards of craftsmanship and because of their long
interest in Colonial Williamsburg and its objectives.
William E. Katzenbach,
president of the company,
left the publishing business
in 1927 after three impatient years and joined an old school friend, Phelps Warren,
to begin importing art, furniture, and designs which they felt were lacking in the
American
A chance buy of some foreign wallpaper which was found to have great
appeal persuaded them to limit their field to wallpaper design and manufacture.
scene.
The grandson of a well -known painter of the Hudson River School, Katzenbach attended
attended
in the diddle
schools
Oxford.
as a Club Director
He
has
West
studied
East before
and
under
Norman
going to Princeton.
Bel Geddes.
During the
He
war,
later
he served
in India for the Red Cross.
WRI' s striking wallpaper patterns, popular today for those who live in modern
houses or apartments as well as homes of colonial design, offer first -hand evidence
of a craft item which benefited from careful research undertaken jointly by the
manufacturers
a
faithful
and
CW:
reflection
an attractive
of
the
good
and saleable article
taste
of
America'
s
past.
in today' s market which is
�September,
1948
NEWS from Colonial Williamsburg
BRIEFS
13
note
Billy HUMPHREY
spent a week' s vacation working on his new
Mrs.
Dorothy
GEIGER,
who has been
has
returned to the Goodwin Building looking
Pierce MIDDLETON re-
refreshed
turned August 23,
having
weeks
at Amagansett,
vacationing
Stella DUFF vacationed
R. I.,
take
Williamsburg,
vacationing in Chicago and Kentucky,
much
Page
for
two
spent four
N. Y
Ed KENDREW
spent
the balance of his vacation at Elm Point
Camp, New Hampshire.
He returned to the
office
on September
Mrs.
Jodie
7
CROWDER visited her mother' s home in
Boone, North Carolina, the weekend of
August
28
Monie
PRICE
flew
He doesn' t have to worry about the
Mr.
and
housing situation any longer'
Mrs. G. G. GRATTAN recently spent a week
at Gwynn' s Island in Mathews County
The Division
in Providence,
weeks
house.
to Wash-
of Education
welcomes
the re-
turn of Ed ALEXANDER from his recent trip
Mrs. Luta SEWELL returned August
23 from Washington, D. C.,
where she took
a course in the preservation and adminisabroad
tration
of
Mac"
archives "
McPHERSON
returned to the office from his vacation
on September
7
Betsy HALL, Ruth JOLLY,
Dorothy SCHWARZ,
Lois CHURCHILL,
and
Lorraine HAISLIP spent the weekend of
ington Saturday, September 4, to spend
the Labor Day holiday with friends
August
vacation which he spent visiting in
Island and Maine
Miss Mary
Lillian BUSH returned to the Payroll
STEPHENSON visited friends in Wakefield
and Petersburg,
Va.,
during the Labor Day
Va....
weekend
Meadows
28
Nag' s Head, N. C.,
where they
Mrs. Sarah WEBB
Colony"
John BATTS visited his family in DeWitt,
returned to the office from her vacation
Va.,
on September
during the Labor Day holiday
7
Gene S. SEELDON was on
Alden HOPKINS returned August 29 from his vacation from August 30 to September 6....
Rhode
Bill
and Anne
BIPPUS
spent
the weekend of August 28 visiting relatives
in Charlottesville,
to leave September
Va.
They plan
11 for a week' s vaca-
tion which they will spend in taking a
saw
at
the " Lost
Office
August 30 after vacationing in Forest,
Mrs.
Peg
FISHER,
and
husband, "
B. A.,"
spent the weekend of August 28 at Big
C.
J.
Lodge
on the Skyline
Drive
CARTER returned from his vacation
August
30
Mrs.
Upshur' s secretary,
organization
Betty PEARSON,
Mr.
will be leaving the
September
10.
Her
husband
tour of the historic sites of Virginia.... has been offered a position in Norfolk and
Mrs. Charlotte MASSEY returned
office August 30, having spent
to the
a week' s
vacation
John
at
Virginia
Beach
they will make their home there.
JOLLY will replace Mrs. Pearson
Anne
Ruth
M.
Bippus
HENDERSON is on vacation and will return
to the Architectural
tember
15
Day weekend
Department
on Sep-
Ernie FRANK spent the Labor
in Lansford,
Pennsylvania
LIFETIME
PASSES'
Rod JONES returned from his vacation on
August 16, appearing slightly exhausted
In accordance with a suggestion
from attempting to make his mustache all
mitted last winter by W.
grow in one direction,
sub-
the
side
up
and
the
other
Mrs. Jean TRUEHEART,
rather
down. (
than one
He
says)
lately of the -
D. McPherson of
C&
M Department,
lifetime passes
the exhibition buildings of Colonial
Williamsburg will be mailed early this
to
Accounting Department,
reported that she month to the 34 employees who have been
and her husband, Bill, are established in retired from active service with the
Philadelphia in a three -room apartment
organization.
Hereafter, such passes will
which took only three days to locate:
be presented to employees at the time of
retirement.
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Page
ROYAL
NEWS
CARRIAGE
FOUND
from
IN KENTUCKY:
Colonial
Williamubur
September
1948
ADDED TO CW. FLEET The fancy carriage which once transported King John V of Portugal in regal
style has been added to the two- hundredyear- old
vehicular
fleet
of
Colonial
Williamsburg.
Believed to have been built in France
during the second quarter of the eighteenth
century,
the
ornate
coach was
found
Kentucky stock farm by Jim Cogar,
amid
the rafters of
a stable so
the
of
on a
hung
as to be out
way. At
present
it
is
in the Ludwell- Parudioe Stable
on Nicholson Street where it requires
some complicated
the
removing
will
be
and
repaired
probably
put
on
display
at
man-handling, including
wheels,
some
to
move
it
future
and
in
time. Norman
out. It
Harmon
of
the wood- working shop supervised its transportation from Kentucky here
this summer. Elaborately carved, the body of the coach is
with
enormous
rear
almost
wheels
as
high
as
two persons seated side by side in
thick
leather
which
the
take
the
entire coach.
relatively small,
The body, which holds
royal fashion, is swung on immense strips of
of springs. The interior is upholstered in red velvet
piece
and on the outside of the coach are paintings of scenes
from mythology. Similar vehicles were used in England and some were imported to
American colonies. Lord Botetourt was given a state carriage by the Duke
the
of
Cumberland -
described
as
creating
quite
stir
a
Colonial Wil- liamsburg has four other
on
local
lanes
in
colonial
days.
old coaches, two of which are on daily tours by
drivers Ben Spraggins and John Shepperd, ofering visitors a cariage- eye' s view of
the city.
NEW
EMPLOYEES
C. Vernon
Hampton has joined
Businens
Operations
the
Lodge
as
SPRATLEY, Jr.,
of
the Division
Legal
Assistant. The
of
son
of
the distinguished Virginia State
Supreme
Court Justice, he is a graduate of
the University of Virginia Law School and of
late has been associated with the law
firm
of Phillips, Marshall and Blalock
Newport News. He took up his duties with
CW
on
September 1 Margaret KINARD
in
is the
new
editorial assistant of
the Institute of Early American History
and Culture. She is a graduate of Agnes
Scott College and received her M.
A.
degree
from Vanderbilt University Dave MORTON is
new
construction
superintendent
of
Unit B. He has moved his family
to Wil iams- burg and at present is living
South
on
Boundary Street
Virginia ' Vicky" WIERUM is secretary for the
Department of
Special Activities,
Mrs. Faith MINOR who
succeeding
is resigning after
three
years' service
with CW. Miss Wierum
is from
Rockvil e Centre,
N. Y.,
and
graduated
in
June
from William & Mary
William P. LANDON of Richmond is the
new construction superintendent of the new
laundry building: and
Sandaton
s
Robert
is
L. WILLIAMS
of
Construction Estimator, Randy Lee'
._
assts- tant,....
Miss Mary Louise MORTON
of Wile. liamsburg is doing some
temporary
work - for
the
Department
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<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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NEWS
COLONIAL
W I LLIAMS B U RG
Volume 1, Number 5
MEMO
FROM
October,
THE
1948
PRESIDENT;
As many of you undoubtedly know, Mrs.
I sailed
from New York
Europe
vaction
on
a
trip. We
France,
wer
Netherlands, and
abroad at the
in
and
business
combination
visited
the
Chorley and
in June to spend the summer
Belgium,
England,
Switzerland. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander
same time and perhaps many of
you have already had an opportunity to
share
their
leave
an
experiences through
accounting
of
the
the
they may have given you.I shall
reports
projects
we
were
able
to
carry
out
to
a
later
date. But there is one thought which I should
like to give you now. This trip to me was
an interesting and enlightening experience which has given me a new perspective and
a
deeper
of
understanding
our
own
organization
and
its
as
duties
well as its opportunities. Anyone who has visited post - war Europe must return
to this country with an urgent sense of the need for telling and
retelling the
great story of American democracy. I,
personally,
was reminded that Wil iamsburg was the cradle for this democracy and
that,
consequently, we of Colonial Wil iamsburg have an obligation to see that
its
concept is never for- gotten. All of us, I believe, have been aware
in varying degrees of the contemporary significance of this past with
we are so richly surrounded. Now the time has come when we must
which
think
of
work
toward
the
terms
past," and
it
in
the
truest
we shall
months, while
I
expect
to
fulfillment
our
motto, "
That
the
future
do our part. During Mr.Norton' s
he is
spend
of an active, vital force. Let
of
a
us
may
learn
from
absence of about two
in South Africa
with
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd,
large
part
of my time in Williamsburg. I
hope during this period that we may together work out definitive
plans
for developing further this
proud
heritage of the Wil iamsburg Concept.
In the meantime, my warm- est greetings to you all and my thanks to every one
of you for the way. in which you
are
�Page
2
NEWS
of
Colonial
October,
Williamsburg
PRESIDENT' S STATEMENT
RE:
PUBLIC RELATIONS PROGRAM
Mr. Chorley has made the following statement announcing the new
public
relations
program:
It is the firm conviction of those who are responsible for the
direction of Colonial Williamsburg that if this project is to nerve the
great
set,
which
purpose
Mr.
John
D.
Jr.,
Rockefeller,
had
in mind
at
the
out-
it must be more than a bricks -and -mortar physical reconstruction of
the
eighteenth-
America'
s
capital
century
outstanding
travel
of
It must be more than one
Virginia.
Since
attractions.
this
was
one
of
of
the
stages in this nation over which the greatest men in our history moved,
where they planned and executed the great American experiment of self -
government by a free people, Colonial Williamsburg must stand as a living and eternal symbol of that faith we call ' Democracy.'
During the past twenty years, our attention has had to be focused on
the
creation
of
the
physical
background,
or
stage.
We
have
worked
hard
and long to accomplish an outstanding reconstruction of a colonial city.
Now that the physical restoration of Williamsburg has reached the
point where we can foresee its ultimate completion, it is only fitting
that we should consider the direction that our efforts must take from
here;
as
that means reconsidering
force
great
a
in
the
life
the significance
of
a
free
people.
of Colonial Williamsburg
How
can we make
Williams-
burg more useful and a greater influence for good in the troubled world
today, an inspiration to the thousands who visit here each year, a symbol
for the many more thousands who for one reason or another can never come
to Williamsburg?
For that is what Mr. Rockefeller
set out to do more
than twenty years ago.
To help us achieve this objective, I am happy to
announce to all my associates that we have obtained the services of Earl
Newsom and Company,
an outstanding firm of public relations counselors
who have broad knowledge
in that special field,
the province
of our ef-
fort.
With their enthusiastic help, we have been trying during the
past few months to map out the best way in which Colonial Wiltliameburg
can interpret the dramatic and moving story that evolved here more than
two
hundred
now
under
years
way.
ago,
That
work
has
been
detail.
In order for it to be successful,
of
member
every
my opinion
faced."
productive,
and
a program
is
As it goes along, the employees will learn about it in
of
the most
this
organization.
exciting
It
opportunity
it must have the co- operation
is
a challenge
to us
that the organization
all
and
has ever
in
1948
�1
October, : 19+ 8
NEWS
Colonial
MRS.
Williamsburg
ISABELLA
of
BRAYER:
Page
Scottish Magician of the Inn Bake Shop
The outstanding
nowned
for
listed
on
taste
treats in a dining room re-
delicious
menu
to golden
food
the
at
are
brown
the
pastries
Whether
Inn.
breads,
your
mouth - watering
or feathery cakes with frothy icing, you
Part of the
a creation
to your liking.
find
will
tradition
these
from
the
runs
pies,
1
its
which
items
the
Inn
has
continually
for
draw
excellent
comments
food,
end praise
Nor could they do otherwise,
for
they are truly of the ' nectar and ambrosia" categuests.
gory.
The author of these masterpieces
is
queen
her
of
ovens, mixers,
Isabella
of culinary art is a little Scot who
Dwarfed by the mixing bowls,
and other bake - shop equipment which she uses so well, Mrs.
domain
in the
is
artist
Brayer
A veteran
the
employee,
she
Inn kitchen.
responsible
joined
the "
for
those
back
of
magnificent
the
house"
pastries.
crew
at
the
Inn when it opened in March of 1937 and received her ten -year pin last
During the war years she served at the Travis House, and there,
in the tiny kitchen downstairs, turned out the Sally Lunn, the deep dish
winter.
pies,
the
and the devil' s food cake:
tremendous
A native
in her
food
life.
reputation
of Glasgow,
She has,
supervisor
sections
Kodak
at
at
Simmons (
Rochester,
to
prefers
work
enjoys.
Mrs.
Brayer
came
to this
before coming to Williamsburg,
bllege
and also at Tufts,
plant
which did so much to give the Travis House
now
Scotland,
Quiet and unassuming,
and
it
when
and
Columbia
in
the
the City Club of Boston,
country
held positions
Home
early
as
Economics
and the Eastman
New York.
she works without fuss in the Inn Bake Shop
she
will
be
To accomplish
unhindered.
this
she
frequently opens up the kitchen at five in the morning in order to get
of
most
her
work
the way before
of
out
the
rest
of
the
crew
comes
in.
To
say that she is modest may be trite, but it is true enough in her case.
Any hint of a compliment
will embarrass her terribly because she really
fuss
is about;
She has only been known to complain once, and that was during the war when she felt that her work was
suffering because she couldn' t get the shortening, butter, and sugar
necessary to turn out top - quality pastry.
two" with her shoes on, Mrs. Brayer is gray- haired, re0nly five "
When speaking,
she employs an honest - to -goodtiring, and almost shy.
can'
t
ness
is
as
uhderatend
burr -r.
good
as
the
what
She'
s
one
of
as
quiet
her
as
a mouse,
wonderful
no
bigger
cakes.
F.
F.
than
a minute,
and
3
�Page
4+
NEWS
COOPERSTOWN:
The Deerslayer,
In recent years,
interested
have
Colonial
of
Pot - bellied Stoves,
as Americans
in their past,
been
1948_
and Abner Doubleday
have become increasingly
restoration
throughout
undertaken
October,
Williamsburg
and museum projects
the United States.
From
time to time the News will report briefly on these " assoof
ciates"
CW. - -
The Editors.)
In the lovely rural fastness of upstate New York a museum
and restoration
project
is under way with a three
fold objective:
to commemorate the history of a region made famous by James
Fenimore
Cooper
in his "
Leatherstockiug Tales "; to recreate a
country village of America' s great farming center of the mid -
nineteenth century; and to develop a national museum and " home"
for the American national game of baseball.
The leading figure in this ambitious enterprise,
which al-
ready attracts more than 50, 000 tourists
town,
generations.
With his advice
these
minister
is Stephen C.
projects,
or assistance,
and
also
annually
to Coopers-
Clark, whose family has lived there for
help
the
a number of separate
in many
community
as a fine hospital, a fully equipped gymnasium,
corporations
other
ad-
projects -
such
and a municipal building and
library.
On the dubbed " of Lake Otsego, which James Fenimore Cooper' s " Deerslayer" apshores the
Glimmerglass,"
propriately
which
serves
headquarters
as
for
is Fenimore House,
the
New York
State
an imposing stone . mansion
Historical
It
Association.
houses a valuable collection of Cooper manuscripts, some of America' s finest genre
paintings, a remarkable group of " life masks" of early American leaders including
Thomas Jefferson, a display of Shaker costumes and handicraft, and interesting col-
lections of medical equipment and children' s possessions including the " saw" of the
sawbones" of the early 1800' s and the tiny wooden rocker in which our great- greatgrandmothers
have
might
their
rocked
crude
dolls
to
Dr.
sleep.
Louis
Jones,
Direc-
tor of the Association, has his offices here and those of his staff, and there is
also a fine reference library specializing in the history of the Northeast.
Near
the
by
is
neglected
markable
the Farmers'
collection
horse - drawn hearse
into
c.oup,try
a
country
and
with
tor'
s
here
which
farmer'
hoodwinked
other
interest
so
many
and
in
early
tools -
the
from the
wife.
to
loom
The
plow -
the
to life again
Museum
and
The Corners" is being
already in place are a
be
added.
Another
petrified
which
turned
man"
out
to be
a hand - carved block of gypsum.
is the National
Ba: eball Hall of Fame and Museum and adjacent Doubleday Field, where ,'
an annual major league game commemorates
and
contributes
fiends
to maintain
the
7;
display
the "
In the center of the village of Cooperstown
the early days of baseball
museum.
The
new
rea
developed
1Y1
f
and
a
even
completely equipped ,-_
A lawyer' s office,
doc- ( --
Giant,
1869
has
shop -
dress.
will
in
which bring
his
and
sorrows. "
Cardiff
Americans
Corners,"
farmer
blacksmith
proper
buildings
is
The
and "
America:
rural
attendant
and
unusual
s
s
long - forgotten
of
schoolhouse,
trained
office,
of
America'
of
town
store,
Museum
of
of
world
director
of
-"
�October,
1008. 8
UMW
Quinn,
of
Colonial
a veteran
Williamsburg
of
Page
physicians.
CHRISTMAS
5
BOOK
over fifty years in
organized
baseball,
SALE
and
recently
remember
until
top official of the
Boston
The
f
museum,
Braves.
which
re-cords and
days
of
game
the
hand- made
the
to
baseball
to
s
Yankee'
the
include
the
Babe
New
York
bats
contains
early
from
a
year
employees
the
on
sale
sale,
prices
are
all
CW
will get
15, and the
next
will
issue
of
full
schedule
which in
the
News
of
some
have a
price
cases
exceed
reductions,
fifty
of
material
sent
after
Ruth, and Mel Ott' s
uniform ( No.
4),
which
Giant
ecial
to
should
publications
s
" Row."Recent
Murderer'
addi- tions
death of
present:
the
very
some
offered
shoppers
annual
under . way about November
iarged,
equipment from the
when
titles. This
is shortly to be
en-
Christmas
the
percent.
SCRAPBOOK"
he hung up last season after a long
career
as
an
active
player. Cooperstown is within easy
driving
distance of New York
City ( 200
in
miles), and is just off the Cherry Valley
pike. Its
turn-
historical
in
from
particularly a
visit
itself. Travelers
another
project
corridors
Historical
.
the
exhibit
from
is
among
the
items
1930
to
1946. Featured
is a
picture
Tavern, ceremonies at
Williams-
past.
confusion,
employees
indicate their employment
with Colonial Wil iamsburg when visiting
the offices of our company
physicians,
Dr.
B.
or
I. and
Bell
when
from
explained
on
either
page
calling
of
22
Dr.
J.
for a
R. Tucker,
home
these
of
doctors.
the
visit
As
Employees
Manual, Colonial Wil iamsburg has an
arrangement with Dr. Bell and Dr.Tucker whereby
the
certain
President
Lodge, the
Ro sevelt'
organization
medical
bears the
services
employees by these two
cost of
rendered
its
firet
opening of
the
Building, scenes
s
visit
to
burg, and the opening of the
Inn.Several
avoid
the
Williamsburg
Raleigh
opening of the Goodwin
To
of
guest at
from
REQUEST
composed of
the
to the study of America' s
are asked to
title
Our
thirty photographs showing scenes in
the development of the Williamsburg
restora- tion from
dedicated
under
Events
Scrapbook." This
Williamsburg should enjoy
to
the
of
projects
should offer an inducement to any
motorist,
although its scenery is a sufficient
inducement
DISPLAY The Goodwin Building Exhibit
Com- mittee has instal ed a new display
parties of the
are shown in the
the
farewell
joined the
Anniversary
dinner
to
past
display, including
Wanda
Castle
when
she
Waves, and the Tenth
the
of
Hostess
Section.
Other views show various interesting events
in
Williamsburg during recent
years. This
exhibit
will
remain
in
the Goodwin Building through
October.,
and
organization
all
are
invited
to
employees
see
of
the
it. Mrs. Duncan,
Mr. Bowers, and Mr. McCaskey, members
of the
committee, assisted by Miss
Wierum, assembled
the
�Page 6
THE
NEWS
OFFICE
NEW
OF THE PRESIDENT
Colonial
of
OF CW IN
4;
iiliamsburg
and in this capacity is working closely
YORK
with Earl Newsom
Miss
Rockefeller
largest
more
indoor
Center
of
country'
s
first
two
only
ice
skating
pond,
Assist-
ant
the
offices
of
The rest of the staff includes Miss
the
Jeanne Mills, Mr. Chorley' s secretary;
Miss Mary Burke, Mr. Boyer' s secretary;
Miss Mae Peterson, Miss Layne' s secretary;
radio
firms,
networks,
theater,
office - building
and Company.
is Administrative
the world' s
leading
great
Layne
has
theater,
than a thousand
studios
Octobers 191+ 8
New York' s
garage,
twenty - six
the
an. ice -
restaurants,
and
to
the
President
and
Office
Manager.
Mrs. Alice Stone,
receptionist;
Miss Joan
Erthal, file clerk; and Miss Carolyn
the consulates of twenty -one nations.*
Muser,
It
Any employee visiting New York is
welcome here, and those wishing to call
also
contains,
within
towering buildings,
of
the
President
fifteen
the New York Office
CW.
of
K. C. ")
its
Here
Kenneth
may board
headChorley ( "
quarters outside of Williamsburg,
aided
by a staff of eight other persons.
maintains
his
The 56th floor of the RCA Building
is occupied by Mr.
Jr.,
his
space
Mr.
sons,
and
consists
Chorley,
John D.
the
which
houses
teletype
which
duce
and a sizeable
secretaries
machine,
the operating
fice,
certain
floor,
to direct
and
then
ask
elevator,
skyward,
at the
receptionist
the
there
him to " Colonial
ask
Mrs.
gulp hard
debark
Stone
Williamsburg,"
for
a
first - hand
view.
for
one
fourth
and
In order
expenses
service
56th
an express
it shoots
Statistics courtesy Sam Chamberlin' s
Rockefeller
Center.
clerks,
and file drawers
the walls.
line
while
CW' s
one
rooms -
one for Allston Boyer,
for Mildred Layne,
room
Rockefeller,
associates.
four
of
clerk.
to
re-
of the of-
facilities
EXPERT TO CONSULT
are
ON GOLF COURSE
MAINTENANCE
shared with and paid for by other members
of the Rockefeller
offices.
Last month Dr.
Mr. Chorley has many other responsibilities in addition to being President
of
CW.
He
feller,
represents
Jr.,
in
Mr.
a number
John
of
D.
Rocke-
interests,
an
expert
retained
on
to
golf
advise
Prior to the war,
greens
expert
of
John Monteith,
course
CW
on
Dr.
the
Jr.,
maintenance,
its
was
problems.
Monteith was
American
the
Golf
Asso-
including the Jackson Hole ( Wyoming)
ciation.
Preserve.
Army Air Forces during the war, and had
charge of the growing of grass on all
He
of numerous
is
consultation
in
scheduled
one
the
sense.
or
period
meetings
Assistant
to
and museum boards.
Committee
more
which
members
acts
between
every
Allston Boyer,
time
member
to the
of
there
public
He
other
until
for
Board
duties
relations
represents
CW'
week.
has
devote
in
its
s
time
Dr.
and
been
to
He
times
full
broadest
Executive
branch in developing a long -range program
will
a year
with
Mr.
visit
and
an officer
CW'
made
with Mr.
Williams.
s
render
suggestions
Monteith
recently
recently
President,
He served as
in the
airfields.
of
This Committee has regularly
meetings.
relieved
active
he is in almost daily
with
the Executive
Board
an
committees
On CW business,
the
also
his
golf
a
for
four
each
improvement.
first
Biles,
course
report
Mr.
inspection
Johnson,
�NEWS
Octobtf., 1943
of
Colonial
Williamsburg
CW' S LICENSED MANUFACTURERS
originality
One of Jack Upshur' s most erudite
as well
craft
as talented
program
is
co- partners
Franco
ace
which
and other
adorn
interest
Scalamandre,
the
Governor'
buildings,
and
include
sold nationally
under' special
Several
sericulture
members of
CW liccnee.
and
in
in
Franco
Scal-
Italian
be n
have
official
Italy
to
plans
a licensed manufacturer
1937, and
large
number
has
of
program. I
working
all these
add
the
whic
coletin
and
Franco
hallmark of
either
special
new
months
Meanwhile, anyone
expositions for the
designs
hard
available a-
also
designs in
ahead.
who
first - hand
wants
further
evidence
of
Scalamandre' s craft - manship can
visit
Craft
House
note
of
or
the
can
silk
take
fabrics
in the ex-hibition buildings. Look again
at the gold and ivory curtains in the
Supper Room at the Palace, or the rich
D' Arts et
Praxis. In 1924, Franco Scalamandre,
a high - Meson, was
degre
a
French
model.
Scalamandre
gain, and
later, in 1938,
Exposition
in the White
became
in
make
to
craft program. 1 signs and techniques
in weav- ing -first
in 1936
at the
Exposition Generale at Anvers, Belgium, and
at the
City),
which fabric was designed
firm has been
the
Metiers in
D.
Hard hit by the war, the
holds
and
the
others.
design for sale through the craft
and
University
of Naples, has twice
been award ed the gold medal
bear
Washington,
Morristown, N. J.,
A
recent
as ignment
old
produced
of Doctor of
at
the Polytechnic
diploma at international
at
for CW
the degree
Engineering
Headquarters
Silks, Inc.,
universities.
who
sites
from
an
on textiles
amandre,
House
House, for
pro-I fessors of design
authori- 1 ties
Washington
many
engaged
family
Heyward -
was President Truman' s study
and weaving.
the
historic
with
s
in Southern
they; were
working
Washington'
are
Italy,
where for generations
in
in
Mansion ( New York
the seventeenth century to
Calabria
de-
C.),
Jumel
The Scalamandre family, of French origin,
migrated with the Bourbons
his
museums.. His "ustom- ers" now
c
Monticello,
Mount Ver-non,
Kenmore,
s Pal-
and which
of
blue
damask
Apollo
forced
offer
Room
curtains
at the
of the
Raleigh. Scalamandre silks
con- vincing evidence of the care
Mussolini' s antiMasonic Fascist party came to
power. In 1929, after
with
some years as an importer, he
articles
to
flee
when
set up
the
which
Craft
Mr. Upshur
Advisory
and
Com- mittee have
developed
two looms of his own in Paterson, New
Jersey, and in 1933 moved his growing
plant
to its present location at Long
Island City. Today, in addition to
his
power
looms, he has two hundred hand- operated
looms at work,
of over
two thousand rare fabrics - led
him i Awards
each requiring the attention of
a
knowledge
of
highly skilled craftsman. His extraordinary
old
textiles -
backed
7
II - amandre Silks, Inc.to take special
Scal
in the
gifted Italian -born textile authority
whose firm reproduces the lovely silk
damasks
Page
by
of 5.
$
a
for
suggestions
were won
month
this
by:
Nancy Bozarth
James
Cooke
Helen C. Dewing
Lyman
Hall
�Page
8
NEWS
Colonial
of
FAMOUS
COACH
Williamsburg
TEAM
October,
1948
RETIRES
The long- familiar team of white horses, old Shamrock
and Graybar, which has been in harness pulling the open
carriage for many years,
i-
has been retired.
Leaving the list of active working critters, the hand some team, probably the most photographed pair of
in
horse
record
by
of service.
on
be replaced
America, leaves
They are now
the streets
new team.
a
in
along
age,
behind
an
Both Graybar and Shamrock are
one
The
twelve
reached
up
recently
when
which made walking difficult. Later
sympathy, came down
recommended
with
having
developed
was broken
a
growth
the other horse, possibly out
heaves (horse asthma). The
on
his
of equine
CW veterinarian, Dr. Wilson,
so they now occupy
Lane pasture, enjoying life and
the green
grass of Wil iamsburg to the fullest. Trainer
consultation with Monier Williams and
with
the
Graybar
that both horses be taken out of service, and
the Spencer
well
team
having years and the other twenty.
leg
enviable
out -topasture, and will soon
the
present
Dr. Wilson, hopes
soon
to have both
coaches
McPherson,
in
back on the street
black
team and
a new matched pair of
horses. Tom McCaskey, promoter of the coach
ride, states that busines for 1948 is well ahead of 1947 and that
next year
both
coaches
busy
season.
RECIPE
OF
will
be run
THE
throughout
the
MONTH - NO. 3
Chowning'
s Tavern
Pecan
Waffles -Prepared under the supervision of Mr. Carpenter: Measure 1 cup of sifted
pastry
Beat
cup
flour
and resift
with
2 egg
milk,
thoroughly and
whites
until
teaspoon baking powder and 1/
4+ salt.
teaspoon
yolks until light and lemon
colored and combine with 2/ 3
1
alternately with 2 to 3 tablespoons melted butter. Blend mixture
add
it
to
the
dry
ingredients,
beating
briskly.
Beat
2
egg
but not dry. Fold them into
stiff,
above mixture. Add 1/ cup pecan pieces. Pour the batter into a
2
heated
waffle
iron,
filling
the
iron
only
two
thirds
full
and
allow to
spread until entire iron is covered. Close top and let cook until waffle
stops
steaming
and
is
well
puffed
and
�October,
CHANGES
1948
NEWS
IN HOUSE
Wil. linmsbur
Colonial
of
NAMES
As new evidence
comes to light,
nate new " house names"
restored
the
Here
area.
Research
Pierce
Department,
change.
These
after
used
be
Employees
tion
as
Middleton,
lists
John
Custis
occupied
all
ligence
by
of
some
all
CW
are
of
changes
of the reason for the
releases
and
this
interest.- - The
as
Director
recent
official,
to review
desigin the
and
will
here-
publications.
list
for
informa-
Editors.)
to Custis- Maupin House
this
owned
him,
in
names
are urged
well
Maupin -Dixon House
new
CW officials
for various buildings
along with a brief explanation
1.
Page 9
but
soldiers
1714
from
property
rented.
until
his
death.
The
house
was
not
It was destroyed by fire in 1776 through the neg-
quartered
there
the
during
Revolution.
A
later
house
was built on this site some time between 1815 and 1850 and occupied by the Mau pin
family
Custis'
2.
since
about
1837.
Dixon owned the lot from 1782 to 1797,
after
house burned and before Maupin' s house was built.
Randolph- Peachy House to Peyton Randolph House
This change has been made in order to conform to the policy laid down early
in the restoration,
who
have
occupied
the same category
3.
that
special weight
house.
a
This
should be given to celebrated persons
change brings
with the George
Wythe
the Peyton Randolph House
House
and the St.
George Tucker
into
House.
Roscow Cole' s Office and Laundry
The buildings occupied by the Williamsburg Public Library and Mr.
Ashton
Dovell' s Law Office are reconstructed on the sites of Roscow Cole' s office and
Cole owned the property from 1819 until 1835.
The office
laundry respectively.
was originally built in 1819 or 1820; the laundry, built as a kitchen prior to
1801, was converted to a laundry in 1806.
4+.
Marshall Lodge
to Griffen House
This house appears on the Frenchman' s Map ( c.
Griffen
1)
the
until
his
death
in 1810,
Samuel Gatliff and ( 2)
College,
1811 - 33.
Ferdinand S.
Griffen,
the
Continental
Congress.
Campbell,
a colonel
the Virginia Board of War 1779 - 81,
of
1782)
and then to his
and belonged to Samuel
daughter
Elizabeth
who married
Professor of Mathematics at
in the Revolution,
was
sheriff of James City County,
He married a daughter
a member of
and a member
of Caster Braxton the
Signer."
5.
Repiton House
to Greenhow- Repiton House
This change was made because the Repiton family did not own the property until
1810 - 28.
It belonged
to the Greenhow
family from 1782 or earlier
until
1810.
John Greenhow, a wealthy .merchant whose residence stood on the site of the
Travis
House,
he
not
did
owned
occupy
several
the
lots
and
houses
Greenhow - Repiton
in
House,
Williamsburg.
but
rented
it.
Apparently
The brick building
over)
�Page
10
NEWS
CHANGES
IN HOUSE NAMES (
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
0ctober,
1948
CONT' D.)
hitherto known as the " Debtor' s Prison" has been named the Greenhow - Repiton
Brick Office because there is architectural evidence that it served as a dependency of the Greenhow- Repiton House.
Moreover, there is no documentary or
architectural
evidence
to support
the tradition
that
it was built
in 1744 to
serve as the city prison of Williamsburg.
6.
Nancy
Camp House
to James
Although Nancy Camp,
Anderson
House
the daughter of James Anderson,
was part owner of this
house and lot, her ownership was largely in the nineteenth century and she did
live
not
in
the
house.
it has been renamed after its principal
It was acquired in 1770 by Janes Anderson, blacksmith, who served during the Revolution as the " Public Armourer" of
Virginia.
Anderson occupied the house from 1770 until his death in 1798,
eighteenth-
for the
except
Therefore,
owner
century
and
1779 -
years
80
occupant.
he
when
lived
in Richmond.
The
house
was
destroyed
by fire in 1842, but the property remained in the possession of the descendants
of James
7.
Anderson
until
after the Civil War.
Norton House to Norton -Cole House
Originally called the Norton
Huse because this property was owned and occupied by John Hatley Norton, the Virginia representative of his father' s London
firm,
mercantile
John
Norton &
Sons,
from 1778 until
1781,
it has been changed
to Norton - Cole House because the present brick building, which stands on the
site of Norton' s house, was built by a later owner, Roscow Cole, some time after
1830.
8.
Brush House to Brush -Everard House
The small house built and occupied by Brush, the early keeper of the public
Magazine, circa 1716 is believed to have been enlarged by an owner late in the
eighteenth
century probably Thomas Everard, clerk of York County, 1745 -84.
As the house will not be reduced to its size and appearance in Brush' s day, it
is proper to add to its name that of the later owner who enlarged
9.
Barraud House to Dr.
Barraud House
The title was added to facilitate the identification
10.
Charlton'
s Inn
to
it.
Charlton
of its early owner.
House
This change was made to avoid confusion between two Charlton brothers,
whom kept an inn the location
11.
Peruke
of which
Maker' s Shop to Archibald
one of
is unknown.
Blair' s Storehouse
Built by Archibald. Blair, this small house was used as a storehouse throughout
the
12.
colonial
Cabinetmaker'
period.
s Shop to Ayscough
House
This building was never a cabinetmaker' s shop in colonial days,
marily
identified
with
the Ayscoughs.
but is pri-
�Octooer,
1948
NEWS
of Colonial
Page
Williamsburg
went
of Special
11
Activities.
During " The Common Glory" season,
the Travel Office sold $ 13, 306. 10 worth
of tickets for The Jamestown Corporation.
This totaled 6, 294 tickets, or an average
of 125 per day.
The Travel Office has been a profitable
operation
for
and makes
its
bicycles,
cars (
and the
TRAVEL
OFFICE -
ONE
OF
CITY'
S
BUSIEST
coca
SPOTS
sale
colas,
its
income
first
from
four
the
Driv -Ur- Self),
of film,
and
post
months
rental
of
cameras,
cards,
booklets,
Approximately
stamps.
1, 000 post cards per day were sold at
this point during the past two months.
Colonial
fice,
the
Williamsburg'
first
information,
s Travel
CW center
has
of
been open
all
Of-
Reservations
travel
for trains,
planes,
and
boats are made either for visitors or
four months
local
residents
the
at
Travel
It
Office.
and during that time has served 15, 000
is hoped that the office will soon be
persons.
authorized to sell tickets
transportation.
Chief
request
at
the
Travel
Office
is for routing; to other scenic and
historic places in Virginia or near by.
Interstate
comes
request
visitors'
travel
second
list.
Arrangements
transportation
and from the airports,
on the
The office
for
and
keeps
docks
are
also
for such
to
railway stations,
Out - of -town
made.
trips, or in -town sightseeing, is arranged
up to the minute on all ferry schedules
for the visitor
for an area of 125 miles
From the initial experience with this
service it would seem that it is one that
around Williams-
burg and is busy answering queries on
these.
It has all train, air, and boat
schedules
Maps
are
badly
vides
of the various Eastern
distributed
sired.
is
also.
free
Brochures
and marked
on other
states
clerks
if de-
places
to
and
mation
in the State are given out along with
the
and
useful,
prices,
and
other
about
times
open,
information.
A book
in
other
contact
of
visitors'
to
are
It
pro-
pro-
travel
rendered.
standpoint
as the volume
staff.
our hotel
personnel,
place where
services
Office
Williamsburg.
convenience
viding a central
see
detailed
information
needed
a great
by the Travel
it must
of business
inforFrom
also
be
has
demonstrated.
eight by- ten -inch photographs is also on
exhibit
showing
visitors
pictures
of
such
places as Stratford, Luray, Monticello,
and plantations along the James River.
The
hotels
carry notices
rendered
at
and tourist
homes
of the new service
the
Travel
Office
all
being
and
visi-
tors are invited to bring their travel
problems
there
for
assistance.
Mrs.
DON' T
Friday alad Saturday, Oct. 15 -16, offer
the last opportunity for the influenza
shots
9 - 11
Merritt Foster is now the chief clerk and
is assisted by Miss Diana Van Geyt, Miss
2 -4
Virginia
Lipinski.
Lee Wierum,
and Mr.
Paul
It is a seven - day, nine -hourper - day operation directed by the Depart-
1
FORGET::::
given
a. m. -
at
company
Bell Hosp.
Bell Hosp.
p.
m.-
7 -9
p.
m.-
Tucker
8 -9
p.
m.-
Bell
expense:
or Tucker Clin.
or Tucker Clin.
Clinic
Hospital
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EX
NEWS
12
SERVICEMAN
PROPOSES
SEABEE
Colonial
of
MEMORIAL
October,
Williamsburg
FOR
CHOWNING'
19+ 8
S TAVERN
From time to time, CW uncovers heart - warming evidence
that our own special brand of hospitality has
admirers.
The following letter, received recently
with the little " suggestion carts" used by visitors at
Chowni g' s Tavern, will be framed and hung in
the
Tavern.
But a
Sea
Bee
visitors
further
may
also
reminder
about
Editors).
When
the
answer
might
attached
card
was
handed
at
it
a
to
me, I
time
when
took
I
food
it
could
with me
give
our
war -time
in order. How
aug- gestione? - - The
so
it
service (
of
be
more
that
I
thought.
I
s
comment
or
or
except to say that they are all superb. The heart -aw rming
friendly courtesy of
the colored waiters is something
could
not
I
will
long
remember,
one suggestion, however, that
Chowning
Josiah
the
on
and
and
return
I would like to
brave and
the
his customers are
atmosphere)
to
enjoy
at
again.
Chowning'
There
is
advance. The long dead
devoted
Americans who were
fittingly remember d there. But Chowning' s
Tavern
played another,
and I think just as
important part, in our country' s
more recent history, which seems to be entirely overlooked. Only a few
years
of
ago
its
our
thousands
the
doors
hospitable
country. Again brave
more
and
opened
again
to
and devoted Americana
thousands
came,
they
the
filled its
in
rang
just
few
from
the
they
as
must
to
those
familiar
the place
done
have
they
benches, but
the tables and their
rafters,
short
convivial companionship; then
benches. By
num- bers
that would have staggered old Josiah. Their glasses thundered on
songs
defenders
passed
to
in Colonial days. For
a
weeks, Chowning' s gave them relaxation and
on
those
to
of
is full of
us
grimmer
who
ghosts - not
strangers, but of lusty, hard- drinking, hard- fighting
business. Many
will
never return
I have done,
of long dead
do, as
comrades. To many of us
it is a shrine, representing the beat of Virginia hospitality and at the name
time the place where we were able to for- get the aching loneliness
of war for a few hours in cheery company. It is not
fitting
that
Peary
no
memory
Sea
should remain of the
at Chowning'
Bees
school- teachers, browsing in the
history,
should
and
be some
sign
s.
We
we
of
going
were
the
Camp
touring
no
mists of antiquity. We were living and making
Chowning' s had its
that
and
coming
are
part in our lives. Somewhere there
not
forgot-
ten. I would
not
venture to suggest its nature, but I hope that, when I return next year,
as I certainly hope to do,the ghosts of the Sea Bees
will
have
their
recognized
place
along
with
those
of
Josiah
�19+ 8
October,
INSTITUTE'
NEWS
S NEW
RESEARCH
Colonial
of
ASSOCIATE
Williamsburg
HALLIGAN,
to
Pierce
Middleton'
Associate
of
s
successor
as
Institute
the
of
Early American History and Culture
HINDLE,
Brooke
M. I. T.,
at
from Brown,
Mr.
from the University
as
as
served
out.
instructor
an
Naval
Reserve
Radar
While
Maintenance
escort
carrier
officer
at
in
Midshipman'
Chenargo,
the
Pacific
fight his way back
quirements
for
an M. A.
just
uniform
he
New
and
as
and is submitting
days
of
the
in
this
and he
s
a staff
Radar
Cent-
at Pennsylvania,
Philosophical
now continue
have
Their
daughter.
work
s-
in Williams-
decided
to
college
classes.
plans
take
to
suffered
a
honest,
FROM THE THEATRE
law
that'
also
s
now,
Nothing too spectacular bursting
fall
A
season.
in
THEATRE,
full
touch
of
now
force
an
color
is
the
added
by the due cap worn by Catherine
HANEAHAN,
our
diminutive
Senior
planned
to
equinox
domicile -
the McCormick
around.
set
paint
California"
in
his
and
house,
it' s
dew every
been
day
but
gotta
see:...
Manager,
break
is,
he
has
from
the
that
Tom
he' d
old
ole
all
to
says
the
his
that
Theatre
blow.
drastic
student,
s
how
of
you
So,
to
Chitlunswitch
Neb.,
spell
Sallie
replacement.
usher
as
returns
Relief
that
car.
new
comes
to
fifteen
forget
SAUNDERS
to
the
Curtis
Porter
the
year' s
that
to
filled
we
come
Sure
that
soon,
coming
afraid
for
to him
in
the
he
Maupin
back'
of
L.
still
hope
service
are
a week
is
rescue
so much vacation
with
might
Sal
Assistant Projectionist,
operation
for
Jimmy HUMPHREY while Jimmy was away on
Tom McCASKEY
vacation
Cashier,
who is now a lowly freshman at the College of William and Mary, and taking
to the big step'
Thomas
rather
well
McCORMICK, our Doorman, is having his
first vacation.
However, it' s ceiling
zero
we
hard
and Jimmy takes up his new
organization,
that
for
his
vacation.
Tate has
back
slight
That
give
for
waiting
some dealer
is
a
some
ADAMS and Jimmy STEWART are back from a
duties
WILLIAMSBURG
that
Says
shape.
Did
who is ushering; Ray ORR, college student working for his BA, of Mattoon,
TATE,
THE
sad
Assistant
rather
keyboards,
ments.
operation
in
bolster the faltering troops, we have
the following reinforcements:
Mary COLE,
of Williamsburg,
now cashiering;
Colan
summer'
burg is one of the new Ludwell Apart-
from
or ride the rails,
Now
BUCHANAN,
MacDONALD,
a five- month'
home
there."
out
Patrick
I11.,
Hindle'
we
to
until February when he returns to law
studies
Following last spring' s college graduation, Theatre personnel
field.
The
old
will
here
and
had
as
the
Society.
This study led him to take a
special interest in early American
science,
a
he
a thesis on the early
American
for
York
School,
aboard
off
either
work
Fleet
a Ph. D.
took
quote), "
He has virtually completed his re-
er.
he
he (
the
s
Officer
things
were
took
at
of
for his " dukes"
of Pennsylvania
broke
war
looks
graduated
Hindle
and thereafter
Manager,
Kain'
ole
for two
studying naval architecture
years
the
is
After
Philadelphia.
of
Re-
House
As
tucky last month.
yet we haven' t figured just why, but by
week
search
Page 13
recently
went
to Washington to buy some brand new
pictures
for
the
cinema
of Williamsburg.
He reports that things are looking up on
the
Hollywood
production
several outstanding
release
shortly.
line,
with
items being put into
�Page 14
NEWS
or
Colonial
BRIEFS
Williamsburg
October,
1948
while
fighting a severe attack of influAfter several days at Bell Hospital,
he recuperated at home
Thomas KANE, of
Highlands, N. J.,
has joined the staff as
enza.
Lorraine HAISLIP attended the wedding of her brother in Roanoke, Va
Diana VAN GEYT and Vivian MOSES spent
the week end of Sept. 18 with the Tat-
ter' s parents,
Mr.
in Waynesboro,
Va
maintenance
and Mrs. N. P. Moses,
We welcome Helen
GEDDY and Shirley STONE, new employees in
Office
Services
Irma WILLIAMS was in
New York City for a week' s vacation
Virginia WERTH has returned to work after
being ill for some time
Sarah WEBB
will replace
Shirley DAVIS in the Curator' s Department
Jane SEGNITZ began
her vacation October
1.
She will visit
friends
in New York
On her return,
City.
she will take over Mrs. Duncan' s duties
as
Film Librarian
Williamsburg,
new
a
Assistant
STEVENS
ford,
Frances
W&
Film
ROBB
M graduate,
of
Librarian
Mar Kent
Va.,
for the week end of Sept. 25...
William BENTIEN is back after a month' s
Friends
of Louise
INMAN will
be * lad to know that her mother is impreeilg
rapidly
The family of Robert
Rardelph LEE' S assistant in
C&
ii, has moved into a new residence on
St
Henry
his
H
vacation
0.
BEEBE
spent part of
Charles
City
in New York
WIUAS enjoyed a vacation in Williamsburg
Wanda CASTTF; and Alma Lee ROWE vacationed
Warm
at
Springs,
Va
Ernest
Pi ZEST has returned after a two -week
:
vacation
in
returned
to the office
Canada
Button Hospital
urc. eiwent
an
Bert
KOCH
after
in Newport
News,
appendectomy
has
just
a session
Bob
cently
Sing MOOKEBFAD
at
where he
TAYLOR
vL3ited relatives in South Carolina re-
is spending a
month at Warm Springs and Roanoke, Va
years at the Stockton Hotel at Sea Girt,
N. J. during his vacations from school.
He is now the owner of his own luncheonette business at a seaside resort and
will work here during the slack season
there
Forrest GRIFFIN reports an
interesting and profitable trip to Washington,
Friday,
missed
two
week'
s
work
during
the
extra
York
City
cost
to
of freight
Floyd
after
a painful
which
kept him invalided
HONEYCUTT,
29
siege with arthritis,
for a week
Norma
Bamman
Chef Fred CRAWFORD spent the month of
September vacationing in Jacksonville, 21a.
Lynchburg,
and
Va
Pernell
GALE
of. New-
port News has joined the salad pantry
crew
Mary THOMAS
and Clementine
JACKSON,
pantry girls, were bereaved by the loss of
their brother, Clavin Jackson, who died in
Fla. where he was serving in the army.,...
Mattie JEFFERSON, dishroom, and Gladys
WALLACE, pantry, are now attending Virginia State College
State
Lodge
and North Caroline,
College,
respectively, - - John Heywood
Food Department:
Florence HALCOMB
joined the staff last month in the capacity
food
fee
supervisor
Ema HONEYCUTT
left
7 for a two - week vacation
M is very well represented in the CofShop.
The following students are
working
Michael
attempted
steward, returned to work on Sept.
W&
Food Department:
he
returned recently from a vacation
to New
trip
on Oct.
Inn
where
the New York and Chicago markets
Billie Winston SNEAD, Mr. Loughrie' s girl
of
INN AND LODGE DEPARTMENT
D. C.,
facilitate the procurement of wholesale
foods from that market in order to save,
and express charges on items purchased in
and Mary Jane KING were in Rad-
illness
the army to equip him for the job, for
before entering the service he spent four
when possible,
is the
He has much more
steward.
than his experience as a top sergeant in
part - time
O' RIORDAN
Edward REILLY,
September
MARSH,
on
the bar:
Harold REINHARD,
Jack BARRETT,
Bill
ONKEY,
Edward
Henry LAM, Glen
�l 48
GARRISON,
ILSWS
Robert
CAINES,
James
i
Co1Gala_
of
WEEKS,
Page
Williamsburg
LYON
spent
Robert McPEEK, Frank SAUNDERS,
and Jean
MOOREHEAD.
Mr. Loughrie quipped that all
home
in Plymouth,
that was necessary
also
hold
Annie
30
was a professor
TAYLOR
after
a
returned
two - week
BOOKER
returned
lowing
a
September
Hampton
O " owning'
s
enjoyed
left
Alma
Bill
to
Wallace
SAUNDERS,
manager
who
there
gr.idder,
tee^r.
Her
son,
is a member
is
former W &
her
the
new
junior
a
position
MARLOWE,
W&
at
a native
of
M
L. I.
and
LEE recently
of
a
those present
were
became
Chevy
Among
at the North Carolina -Texas
Lelia
and
Werfield
the
of
of
riASTL';,
A.
J.
joined
Bobbie
Vickers,
Bobbie
the
staff
in his
is
taken the position
CALDWELL has joined the Irn Housekeeping
Orise GINGRAS,
staff
staff,
of the Inn
the
ball
food checker,
which he
Tenn.
Ray,
a
photographer,
cent
Coral
Reservation
joined
husband
the
when
Staff
Otis
will make
Otis
Office:
hail
Sept.
Julie
13.
mother.
Rogers.
GARRISON
She
and
her
from
and
Hampton, Va,
their home here until next June
graduates
from
W&
M
student
the
foot-
veteran Inn
at his
home in Knoxville,
at
senior
brought
W&
back
M
and
amateur
several
Margaret
cause
her
of
interesting photos which he took while
Sylvester
of
is
in
the " Smokies."
their deepest
loss
has
is back after a vacation
spent
Sympathy is extended to Pearl BROWN berecent
food
a
recently became a grandmother
the
re-
as
at the
Ray TOWNSEND,
squad
Rebecca TAZEWELL and Doris- WASHINGTON
left in September to return to school
of
sister
of cashier
a member
Eudelia
the
checker at the Lodge after being away
Eariene HENDRIX
during the summer
husband
It
Society on Sept. 18 and 19.
might be added that she carried off many
of
the honors
Lucy SCHAUMBERG is
and
joined
cashier
position
and
Dahlia
Fla.
a student at the College,
the
Her
flower show presented by the Williamsburg
Winn
VICKERS
general
College
in the
vacation
Winn.
Jacksonville,
recently.
staff
Bob COOK,
M
Section:
House.
two -week
hus-
blue
new
at
a
her
the proud
J.
possessor
Travis
enjoying
the
college
Lelia
who does the
the Inn and Lodge,
her work
as
Riley is
band also is a student at the
several
of
Her
Pauline
Mrs.
clerk.
Hempstead,
is
a native
McGuriman
took a busman' s holiday and entered
examples
Mcand
receptionist.
Margaret
Receivable
Cashiering;
of the Brooklyn
Laura JOHNSTON,
arrangements
for
flower
a
is
replaces
Peggy
John,
She
time.
Margaret
Elizabeth
Norfolk,
of
game
of life -guarding.
26.
first
Ernest
Eva CLCWES
Housekeeping Department:
attended the Baltimore Colts - Brooklyn
Dodgers football game at Baltimore on
Sept.
resigned
Dept
roll
Another swimming -pool employee, John
WAi„ " ER, is now working at the bar after
a summer
has
Accounts
se : e ; d as manager of the ewi.mming pool
of assistant
her
Mary Roaseau
RILEY
during the summer, transferred to Chown ing' s when the pool closed to assume the
duties
the
AccountinE_ Department:
husband
Virginia State
Institute. - -
at
father
now employed at Fort Eustis in the Pay-
Eli-
Thelma
RANDALL
Tavern:
for
24
her
birthday.
eightieth
niece
Sept.
GURIMxN
Mary DEAN,
and Katherine
of
where
20 fol-
on Sept.
during
ROBERTS has returned to
her
end
N. C.,
Martha
and Alma WALLACE
vacations
enter
Sept.
on
vacation
illness
long
his
celebrated
saw
week
Martin
work
to
to work
zabeth PARILLA,
College
to
Frances
class. --
the
15
Ethel
Inn Bell
and
loss
Milton
Crew:
sympathies
to Bell Captain
HAtIROLD and his wife
of
their
BETTS
son
attended
ball game between Hampton
Shaw
University
Inn Dining
Burgess
Friends are extending
at
Rocn:
the
foot-
and
Nat Reid.
REDCRCSS
of
Grove, Va. recently joined the dining
room
crew
Ethel
COOKE
re-
JACKSON
recent
Institute
Hampton. - Evelyn
on the
Charles
returned
on
�NEWS
Page
16
Oct.
3 after a week' s vacation
ington,
Waiter
D. 0
Irvin
of Colonial
Reed,
in Wash-
REID
re-
cently became the proud father of a baby
Hollis ROSS, bus boy, left to
enter
Hampton
Institute.
Robert
Front
Thomas
Office:
at the Lodge,
and Dentcn W.
room clerk there,
of
the
regional
Greeters
Saturday,
Sept.
to
the
vention
is
president
on
the
District
Tommy"
Virginia
the
Greeters
and "
the
Board
is
Charter
a member
later
news
When Gov-
again.
of Maryland,
with
his
wife
and
visited
them
aboard
Elizabeth
Mrs.
Binns
and
their
yacht
CALLIS
guests
her
accomon
a
trip to some of the old plantations.
They saw Westover, Shirley, Berkeley, and
Brandon.
The old gardens are as lovely
now as they are in garden woek, it is refrom
of
Fred
Williamsburg
of
the
Yorktown
Nouvelle
ported
of
Governors.
of
Gus"
con-
Moyles
in
Lane
panied
They left on Oct. 6
Fla. "
is
19+ 8
two very charming daughters,
visited Williamsburg not long ago, their escort was
Fred Flanary.
Fred had lunch with them
at
Hotel
in Richmond
25.
of
the
ernor
and
GUSTAFSON,
of
Southeastern
Miami,
at
Jr.
manager
attended the meeting
governors
Association
attend
Johnson,
MOYLES,
formerly
FLANARi
boy
October,
Williamsburg
his
a
visit
to
GREEN
her
son,
in Baltimore.
wife
quaintance
of
has
D.
She
a new little
returned
A.
Green,
made
the
and
ac-
granddaughter,
Sue Ellen
S. C.,
and
HOSTESS
BRIEFS
And
pecially to greet her grandson,
little
George Daniel, who arrived on Sept.
27
October' s bright
now, "
blue
Mrs.
weather."
The torrid summer is a memory.
cool shadows lie across the Palace
Long,
Green. "
Is
the
er,
the
hot
days
it
October
like
always
And,
guest.
hostess
this
Mary DANIEL is in Greenville,
visiting her son, George B. Daniel,
her daughter - in -law.
Mary went es-
replies, "
summer,
this ?"
without
We
but
Helen
companied
the
Macon,
with
her
son
her mother, Minnie
PATE,
on Jamestown
Road
Jay Dewing of
Annapolis, recently visited his mother,
a few
of
Barbour
is visiting
a flick-
had
most
asks
James
James,
DEWING
Hotel
at
Fannie
her
Old
husband
Point
Lou
to
STRYKER
the
Comfort
ac-
Chamberlain
to
attend
a
time it' s lovely in Virginia."
Nell EAST took a trip to New York
muting of the Virginia League of Munici-
for
Most any time now, we expect a new
establishment to open up in Williamsburg,
Mesdames Dunn, Wing, and Bozarth --
a
glimpse
of
the
winter
palities
fashions
Dorothy WING and her daughter, Rose
Adele Wing, spent several days in Baltimore
Bonnie BROWN, the lady of the
spinning house, and her husband, with
daughters Barbara and Mary Lou, have
moved
into
an
The CARTERS,
apartment
Mary,
in
the
old
Debtor'
St...
with her daughter
Dale and son Charles,
Greenhow- Repiton
on Scotland
s
Prison,
now
Office,
For weeks
Lilah DUNN,
skill with the needle
is exceptional
and we anticipate a blossoming of the
new look" in Williamsburg.
called
which
Makers."
Dorothy WING, and Nancy BOZARTH have been
traveling to Richmond for instruction in
the art of tailoring.
We understand that
their
are making a home
Brick
Mantua
has
Two of our hostesses,
Mildred ADOLPH
been transformed into a charming small
and Mae FLETCHER,
house
fashion show sponsored by the Young
Nori
SMITH
is back with us,
escorting parties through the buildings.
Nori
spent
counselor
the
at
a
summer
in the Catskills
girls'
camp
Lyn
Nancy HART have moved to Warrenton
Lyn will
be
associated
were models
in the
Women' s Club.
as
and
THE
QUARTERLY
Mr.
and
OFFICE
where
with Washington
Mrs.
Douglass
ADAIR
attended
the
�1948
October,
performance
of
the
operetta "
Greenbrier"
in Richmond on Wednesday night, October
6, as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willis
Shell
Mr. Adair has recently been
elected president of the Faculty Club at
William and Mary for the coming year.
to
the
ment
eye"
is bringing
interior
with
displaying
a pleasant
after
still
a
WEDDINGS
the
new
into
Marsha
Office
and
W&
were
of
M,
at
the
Miss
of Mr.
M.
who
has
C.
son
Norfolk
left
for
Reservation
student
18
at
home
H.
Matthews,
of
Mrs.
of
and
Hostesses,
Sept.
on
San
daughter
Morros,
Gene
HACKETT
SHELDON
Jennings
were
Lt.
25.
TAYLOR
Texas,
mar-
Mahone
where
he
to
Kitchen
assist
while
to
Douglas
are
both
Bob WILLIAMS,
estimator,
at
in
atmos-
returned
COWLING
list
has
took
Chevy
The
guests
their
outdoor
Lt.
has
illness
apartment
and
Matthews,
scheme
and cheerful
Harold
sick
the
Deane
the
has
moved
corner
of
North
Henry and Prince George Streets
Charles
at
the
Apartments.
Ayers
Supervisor
in
a
Sept.
Ludwell
and Mrs.
is
ried
the
They are now making their
Mina
Mahone,
of
Leo Mays,
married
the bride.
home
W.
Mr.
REED
short
assistant
the
the
ROHRBOUGH
and
the
on
of
in color
Paul
phere
Paint Depart-
to completion
redecoration
a change
work
The
colors
McQUATTERS
Miss
Page 17
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
W4bb'
girls
supper
Acre"
s
a new
over
C& M Department
a good
blonde
time
party on Sept.
at
an
24 at
Road.
Jamestown
on
Buick.
old
the
of
had
1948
his
The
delicious clam chowder was prepared by
chief
spent
Robert WEBB
chef"
three
week
Camp Peary.
ends
C
on
He finally
his
J.
yacht
CARTER
at
got it to float.
will complete his training in the air
Next
corps
The Men' s Bridge Club membership includes
G.
G. "
Gillie" GRATTAN, Henry BEEBE,
liaison
pilot
school.
Miss Shirley DAVIS has resigned her
position in the Curator' s Department
become the bride of Dr. Hiram Davis,
of Dr.
burg.
20
in
and Mrs. Henry Davis of WilliamsThe wedding will take place Nov.
Atlanta,
Miss
partment
Mrs.
Hall.
is
to
son
Special
HACKETT,
Alden
Activities
became
EATON
is
the
TUCKER,
9
Ed
WATKINS,
and Bob EVANS
proud
Elizabeth
father
of
Alden Eaton -
a new
born
Su] ley BRAXTON has been congratulated on completing ten years'
service with Colonial Williamsburg as of
James
hope
homes
new
ROBERTSON
to
able
residence
be
time
same
ton ETHERIDGE
C&
Pete
it for fishing...
18
PRUDEN
in Norfolk.
to use
Ralph BOWERS,
daughter -
Sept.
of the De-
Jacques Hoffmann on Oct. 9 at Lee
Mr. Hoffmann is in the army and
stationed
Charlie
he plans
Bert KOCH,
50t.
Georgia.
AdelaideRICHARDSON
of
year
this
and his
the
at
to
and G.
move
Imperial
have
Club
their
Clay-
month
wife
N.
into
taken up
Ap-
proximately 35 employees of C& M have
placed orders for safety shoes which have
the metal toe - cap as additional protection
M NOTES
for
Orval " Hop" HOPKINS, who supplies
the painters with the necessary materials
to re -coat the Williamsburg surfaces,
is
on a two -week vacation during which he is
being the " man of leisure."
Recently he
were
brought
Not
included
in
the
list
September:
his
brother
Arlie
to
the
paint
workmen
of new C& M employees
William
John AUTRY,
shop to give him a backstage view of the
Coleman
H.
and
processes
which
into the production of those " pleasing
go
ATKINSON,
timekeeper,
and
field engineer.
C& M employees taking vacations
efficient
methods
A.
in the last issue
Banks
Ivan
during
Johnson
0.
Beebe
Calvin
Elton
Brown
James Jones,
Jones
Jr.
�NEWS
18
Page
J.
B.
Brouwers
Mildred
R.
V.
Carter
G.
Wm.
T.
Cook
N.
Command
and
served
27 months
F.
tired from the U. S.
Willie
Emma
pean
Taswell
Preston Crump
Green
Lanier
October,
Williamsburg
Pruden
James
L.
theater
DIVISION
CHANGES
important
changes
Division
personnel
have
Effective
recently.
From Henry Beebe' s C& M bailiwick
of
the
welcome
has
reporters
in advance,
news
been
that
a
full
Geiger
staff
Thanks,
assembled.
for help in the months
ahead
from:
Coleman
Wm.
A.
V.
Fred
W.
Mayfield
Blockston
Roy J.
Burrage
Robert
R.
Bunks
Donald K.
will
Curator'
s
with Mr.
Cogar
present
Murphy
Mr.
Assistant
D.
McPherson
Department,
V.
G.
Page
various
Jeter
Robert
Bert
Flatten
Hargrave
Roosevelt
E.
Harry T.
Victor
Harris
Parker
tinue
Peoples
to
become
Lewis
Mrs.
in
the
associated
in
their
new
Librarian.
Wine
and
craft
Thomas
of
also
becomes
Interpretation
assumes
Mr.
shops.
as Director
the
charge
Thomas
of
will
the
con-
of the Archaeological
Laboratory.
Peterson
D.
C.
Post
Mack
Hill
J.
H.
Robertson
Hugh
Hitchens
Bervin
Saunders
John
L.
Newton
D.
Hudgins
Josh Hundley
Roger R.
Joe
Willie
Hyde
This
News.
H.
Jacobson
A.
P.
Ward,
Harvey Johnson
E.
A.
Watkins
Ewell
Jones
Linwood Williams
James
Jones,
Mar
Kent
WANTED::;:
Small
Springs
Jacobs,
L.
Jr.
HELP
Seal
Frank
Stevens
think
Jr.
is the fifth issue of the monthly
The
editors
it -
about
takes plenty
together
Sr.
of time
this.
Is
CRAFT
Extension
HOUSE
to
him.
you
Craft House is enjoying two new and
interesting personalities: Helen HOBSON
the
office,
assistant
to
and
the
Gordon
in Westport,
the Red Cross
the First
H.
stockroom
former was previously
iness
STEELE,
know
holds
what
barred.
and trouble
it
even
worth
you
It
to put
a Mimeographed
our
while? -
242.
if
from
us
like.
you
yet,
what
you
Give
copy or layout
feel
like
like
take
and
served
Col.
Steele
a
and send it
and
it - but
what
let
the
us
you.
you want without your help.
in the antique bus-
Conn.
War.
hotfoot
hear
Tell
don' t
Or better
mark it up,
We can' t turn out the kind of paper
The
manager.
with
in France and Italy during
World
to
no
Drop an informal memo to Bob Hoke at
the Goodwin Building, or give him a ring
copy of the News,
FROM
want
with
a news - sheet,
like
one
at
of
1,
position
Mr.
Director
W.
Davis
Film
Minor
Carter
D.
her
and
announced
antiques and gift shop on York Street.
Her duties will be taken over by Mrs. Duncan,
McGinnis
resign
in Education
been
November
Department
John Connors
Harold E.
1947.
Wilson
CORRESPONDENTS
comes
re-
Army in November,
Two
M
He
Tucker
EDUCATION
C&
in the Euro-
War II.
World
during
1948
Taylor
Arthus
Bruce Hardy
Colonial
of
was
tached to the Ninth Air Force Service
at-
J.
C.
G.
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NEWS
Volume
1,
Number
COLONIAL
WILLIAMSBURG
6
CW AND " ANTIQUES"
November,
1948
PLAN FORUM FOR EARLY 1949
One of CW' s most important projects in the 1949 calendar is the First Williamsburg Antiques and Decorations Forum, which we are sponsoring jointly with The
Magazine Antiques.
Such forums not only enable CW to do a more effective educational job, but bring visitors to Williamsburg at a time of year when we can accommodate
them most easily.
This particular forum has long been in the blueprint
stage, and was scheduled for 19+ 9 at the suggestion of Earl Newsom and Company,
which took a leading part in arranging its sponsorship and is working closely with
CW in developing its promotion.
Outstanding authorities in the fields of ceramics, furniture, glass, metals,
will
and textiles
participate.
The first session will be held from January 24
through January 28 and the second from January 31 through February 4.
James Cogar,
former Curator and present consultant for CW, has been active in arranging the program.
In addition to Mr. Cogar, authorities who are expected to be in Williamsburg
for
the
Forum
include:
Marshall
Davidson,
Editor
of
Publications,
Metropolitan
Museum
Ruth Davidson, Research Editor, The Magazine Antiques
Joseph Downs, Curator of the American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nina
Fletcher
Little,
Author,
Lecturer,
and
Collector
Charles F. Montgomery, Specialist on Americana
John Marshall Phillips, Director of the Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale
University, and Curator of the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Percy E. Raymond, President of the Pewter Collectors Club of America
Franco
Scalamandre,
Charles
Messer
President,
Stow,
Minor Wine Thomas,
Antiques
Director
bcalamandre
Editor,
of
the
New
Silks,
York
Inc.
Sun
Archaeological
Museum,
Colonial
Williamsburg
Malcolm
Watkins,
Smithsonian
Hensleigh
Alice
Associate
Curator,
United
States
National
Museum,
Institution
Wedgwood,
Winchester,
President,
Editor,
The
Wedgwood
Magazine
of America,
Incorporated
Antiques
A registration fee of $ 15. has been established, and all- expense rates which
include meals and lodging at the Inn or Lodge have been worked out for the coil
venience
range
of
from $
visitors.
6o.
to $ 95.
These special rates ( which include the registration l'e'e)
for
the
five -day
period.
�Page
NEWS
2
of
Colonial
COLONIAL
WILLIAMSBURG'
On November
27
C
A N D
NEWS
November,
Williamsburg
O M M E
19- 8
N T
S BIRTHDATE
Williamsburg
Colonial
officially
becomes
22
years
old.
CW' s
Trustees are thus commemorating the memorable conversation between Dr. Goodwin and
Mr. Rockefeller when the latter first contemplated the restoration of Williamsburg.
This conversation took place at the dinner on the day when Phi Beta Kappa Memorial
The infant project was soon born, and has moved rapidly toward
Hall was dedicated.
On its anniversary
maturity.
recalled
and
date its original
and abiding purpose may properly be
underscored:
The purpose of Colonial Williamsburg is to re- create accurately
the environment of the men and women of eighteenth - century Williams-
burg and to bring about such an understanding
times
that present
the contribution
of
BUILDING
our
and future
of these
generations
of their lives and
may more vividly
early Americans
to the ideals
appreciate
and culture
country."
PROGRAM
The next two pages offer scattered evidence of CW' s postwar building program designed both to add to our hotel accommodations and facilities and to bring nearer
Conareas
of Williamsburg.
to completion the restoration of the chief colonial
siderable funds have been allocated for construction work which will be carried on
in the
future
as
conditions
permit.
Shortly after this issue of the News is distributed,
ground will be broken for
the new wing of the Inn, with extensive interior renovations at the Inn already
under
Air -conditioning will now be installed in all units except those on the
way.
third floor,
The
space.
while the lobby will be revised to permit more check - room and office
new
plans
also
provide
present Inn and Lodge additions
On
the
the Lightfoot
Orrell
diagonally
Lewis
just
House.
around
which
more
rooms.
employees'.
When
both
the
are completed,
several
dwellings
are
across Francis Street from the Quarter will become part of its parent
The Guard House nears completion,
the
calendar
with the opening of the Magazine
corner.
the new Laundry with its remarkable functional
by the Warehouse should be ready for use by June.
And -
layout
Kitchen,
Kitchen -
several
96 more guest rooms will be available.
including
being reconstructed the Russell House, the William Randolph Lodgings,
and the
for the Inn.
a
guest house
will
serve as
The lonely chimney
scene,
colonial
for
down
The two pages which follow show only a few of the reasons why our Architectural
and
Construction &
Departments
Maintenance
are
so
busy
these
days -
but
the
component
parts will together make up a more educationally significant Williamsburg, and one in
which
many
more
visitors
can
be
accommodated
more
easily
and
in
greater
comfort.
�WING
NEW
INN
WILLIAMSBURG
OF
Ground will be broken soon for a new wing of the Inn to contain forty
more
air—
conditioned
circular
staircase,
The toP elevation
elevation
is
a
view
rooms,
and
shows
from
many
a
large
lounge
additional
with
Williamsburg'
emlloyee
and
the new wing from the front,
the
opposite (
golf
course)
Left,
for
the
grows,
while
the
only
rooms.
lower
side.
ultimate
Inn.
Williamsburg
also
s
service
with
completion
Planned
Meanwhile,
its
early
new
in
wing
1949.
layout
the
for
Lodge
scheduled
�CW' S
Postwar
Construction
in
Full
Three
of
views
work
our
Swing
draftsmen
Unit
B
of
Lightfoot
sample
of
which
Department
our
Program
the
the
and
so
the
Lodge,
in
restoring the
of
the
C &M
the
and
wizardry
construction
Brick
kept
busy --
Kitchen,
of the
kind
has
a
of
exerts
interior
Greenhow—Repiton
Office.
�1948
November,
GIDEON
NEWS
STIEFF
BALTIMORE'
S
of
PAUL
Colonial
REVERE
Page 5
Williamsburg
dealers who carry Stieff' s silver have
been clamoring
Boston' s Paul Revere,
although
im-
duction.
mortalized by Longfellow for his famous
ride, won his real place in history as
one
of
nial
the
premier
America.
to
custom -
horses
to live
built
cars
has
and
k--•——
fash -)
Silver
is
His
Gideon
and he
N.
visit
and
Stieff
Sterling
you will
further
authenticity
Craft
as
Sterling
spoon
The
6. 44
Mr.
card tray
five
generations
in Baltimore.
Stieffs
have
Stieff'
always
interests:.
s
paternal
manufactured
designing
for General
E.
Lee
which
stands
tax.
the --' -
in
Lee
at Washington
copied
from
a
colo-
coffee
forks,
and
spoon
was
rat - tailed
fashioned
Tavern
site,
and
one of the teaspoons is carefully modelled after one wrought by Paul Revere himself.
always
been
and
Mr.
University.
Stieff' s father turned from piano - making
to silversmithing,
Company in
Stieff
and established The
young Gideon
1892:
started work here at eighteen
and
designer
Stieff
of
silver
and became
is recognized
ally.
The King of
Emperor have Stieff
dinner
and
has
now
as
president
at twenty - one.
after an original unearthed during excaRaleigh
a
Memorial
Lee
Here may be found such
silver
attract-
pieces.
Chapel
20% Federal
craftsman
Colonial
a letter
other
Robert
Includes
teapot
the
silver
special model
and
three - tined
at
and
a
Stieff pianos,
8. 16
plate $
knives,
vation
a ladle,
had musical
or
Stieff
The
several
candlesticks,
resident
gift) $
butter
or
plant
The Stieff family is of
German ancestry, although
1. 44
'
nial original by the artisan Jacob Hurd;
and flatware including pistol- handled
spoons.
add
grandfather
of
under
a
to
opener,
articles
Program.
able
mug,
employees.
wedding,
Christmas
which
manufactured
holloware
serving
anniversary,
find
evidence
all
CW
silver.
first
the craftsmanship
marks
to
excellent
Craft
at
be
for
of
inspect
silver
hand,
soon
Stieff,
Stieff and Company.
House
Price*
in
Sterling coffee
or
Baby) spoon
name
is president
If you
will
ive
Reproductions ;
1939.
since
Stieff
new pieces to the silver line, including
suggestions
Special
Williamsburg
Restoration Sterling
Stieff
pre-
new
Gift
the
on Baltimore' s Wyman Park Driveway is under
colo-
in Baltimore,
ioned
i
of
of
way and will speed future production.
Meanwhile, Jack Upshur hopes that Gideon
His present - day counter-
part happens
fers
silversmiths
for the WP Silver Repro-
Expansion
internation-
England and Japan' s
One
silver.
set was made for Admiral
another
for
the
late
complete
Schley,
Cardinal
Gibbons -
the latter a special order bearing an ap-
special interest to Williamsburg visitors,
plied coat
whether
gold.
House
or
hibition
in
in
its
its
reproduced
original
buildings.
form
in
Craft
state
in
the
Reproductions
only recently been available
at the outbreak
of
quantity:
Stieff plant was converted
for
facture
of machine
tools,
ex-
have
in any
the
the
manu-
and had to
be
reconverted before the large backlog of
could be
orders
tackled.
Along with
Craft
House,
more
than
300
selected
pre - war 18K gold
which
war,
of arms
with
initials
in 14K
Among the most elaborate sets designed at the Stieff Company were three
Mr.
sold
Stieff
coffee
ten
has
sets,
thousand
each
of
dollars.
including
specially built high- powered motor-
MUSIC,
cars,
for
duckpins,
Perhaps
Colonial
many hobbies -
yachting, and photography.
Williamsburg
comes under
the heading of hobby as well as business,
for he is a long -time Williamsburg " fan"
�Page 6
NEWS
as well as a valued member
of the
of Colonial
CW
Craft
November,
Williamsburg
191+8
ADVERTISING
Program family of licensed manufacturers.
This
autumn
program
was
advantages
SUGGESTION
F.
That
Dietz ($ 10) -
similar
to
a mail
outside
of
Craft
visitors
who
box,
be
House
come
a box
placed
into which
there
after
requests
leave
their
Nell T.
East ($
tickets
information
and
That
5) -
to
for
names
the
the
single
and
admission
Benjamin
D.
the
out
to
the
Wil-
or Tribune,
or in
magazine.
of
our
hotels
and guest
those
who
will " turn
back
the
clock
and
visit historic Williamsburg."
That
Fields ($ 5) to
visits
houses, but the opportunity to study an
exciting chapter in America' s past for all
purchased.
added
New Yorker
conveniences
buildings
be punched by hostesses to eliminate
doubt as to date of purchase or by
whom
advertising
point
Many papers in
the northeast area are carrying this copy,
which stresses not only the comforts and
addresses.
exhibition
to
off - season
in the New York Times
clos-
ing hours or on Sunday might deposit
of
upon
Early reports indicate that
liamsburg.
the program is bringing definite results,
and is helping to ease the usual decline
in CW' s revenue during winter months.
Employees may have noted our new copy
AWARDS
Meredith
a stepped - up
agreed
first
part
slides
be
of Reception
Center program describing portion of
program which follows
so
that
guests
will
TO
intermission
not
be
ALL
COLORED
EMPLOYEES
confused
Colonial
and leave during the break.
fer
for
Park
Williamsburg
sale
certain
is planning
lots
in
the
to of-
Highland
Any employee interested
in these lots call Mr. Spratley or Mrs.
Williams in the Goodwin Building.
RECIPE
Tomatoes
Escalloped
Williams
1#
2
Boil
for
22
en
Travis
can
above
Prepared
crumbs,
bread
and
crumbs.
together
butter
and
Put
green
peppers -
1
chopped
15
garlic
minutes.
Add one tablespoon Lea and Perrins,
coarse
the
2
onions -
ingredients
under
supervision
of
Sue
guests:
tomatoes
medium - sized
NO.
THE MONTH -
OF
Casserole -
House
Development.
in
bake
greased
in
Salt
chopped
bud
and pepper
to
taste.
one tablespoon sugar, and one cup
casserole,
moderate
oven.
sprinkle
with
bread
�November
1948
NEWS
Colonial
of
SPECIAL
CHRISTMAS
November
CW' s annual publications
which
more
from
develop
drastic
Christmas
price
sale
26
reductions
until
have
been
This
Christmas
relief
year
new
for those budget headaches
titles
are
available
and
even
made.
Call at the Goodwin Building any weekday between 8: 30 and 5: 00 to inspect the
books
listed
below
and
make
your
selection:
Usual
Title
Colonial
John
Colonial
Records
Price
Williamsburg
Paradise
and
Natural
Byrd'
s
Littling
of
in Photographs (
leather
in Virginia (
bound
Art
of
Cookery (
Art
of
Cookery (
of
Present
State
Fithian'
Folk
s
of
Virginia
bound
and
the
Catalogue .
Journal
Colonial
Williamsburg
Williamsburg
Williamsburg
Scrapbook
Justice
90
2. 00
1. 20
5. 00
3. 00
1. 00 .
Times
in Virginia
6o
binding)
4. 00
3. 00
in boards)
2. 50
1. 50
2. 50
1. 50
College
2.
60 .
75
4. 00
Art
in Colonial
Colonial
in boards)
leather
Carter
American
boards)
binding)
in Virginia
Williamsburg
of
15
1. 05
1. 05
Williamsburg .
s
Sports
Sons
in Virginia (
America'
Robert
2. 50 .
1. 20
2. 75
Virginia,
Williamsburg,
Williamsburg
Williamsburg
Williamsburg
Williamsburg
Restoration
3. 00
Virginia
of
Gaywood
Norton &
1. 05
50 .
History
40
1. 65
Live .
Stay Young
Price
3. 00
3. 00
Church
Bruton Parish
of
Special
4. 00
Ludwell
Yorktown
Wm.
John
65 $ .
Book $ .
Coloring
Lucy
and
7
BOOK SALE::::
again offers
shopping.
Page
Williamsburg
35 .
4. 00
40
1. 65
2. 40
25
1. 00 .
2. 40
6o
3. 00
1. 80
2. 00
1. 20
2. 00
1. 20
Sale
�Page 8
NEWS
TRAVIS
HOUSE
Colonial
of
NEWS
his
with
WEBMUTH
Lynne DREXLER
House
vis
staff
from Hampton,
lyn WHITE,
to
lapse
two
has made her home
the
past
in
Eve-
year
pantry
TH'
s
a
M waiters,
isn' t
serve
Dick
gave
Har-
romance
her
as Kitchen
on the
as usual,
has just
chef,
left
a week' s
week
for
a
of
work
and
her
daughter,
with
her
to Lucile
cession
flowered
and out
winter
prints
carte
is
the
Slowly
the
the
just
Palace,
Foster'
went
capes,
crowds
a
the
are
a pro-
domain.
s
into winter
around
between
started
sure
Cool
quarters
sign
that
corner.
Mina
has
Texas,
pilot
Rosa
we
make
At
back
visited
Mrs.
her
and Mary
Frank
Saliske.
Mrs.
Albert
Matthews,
joined
her
where
TAYLOR
he
is
Grace'
her
W.
at
is
PEACHY
is
son
a
Hospital
sister,
Mrs.
to Richmond
at
the
College
s
M.
San
stationed
Mahone
Grace
at Medical
Guerard
Mrs.
husband
Lt.
school.
now
in
Ed' SPENCER,
Polly
Sidney and Mary,
recently visited her parents,
Commodore
PEYTON and Mrs. PEYTON,
in Indian Springs....
Annette
in
a
her
BOCOCK
Haviland,
Turner with her daughers,
tles,
dwindling.
trips,
June
daughter,
former
Richmond.
chill breezes
see
June went on to Boston to stay for a while
accompanied
first
to
June
Hobart
patient
HOSTESSES
Mary
from a severe at-
before
Morros,
Williams
forced her to limit
hope
where
of
The
we
Mrs.
the
OUR
flu
Mahone,
Sue
FROM
and
and
long
Mary DANIEL took a trip to West Hartford,
at
The
vacation in Lynchburg.
NEWS
Fletcher
Show,
while
CARTER is convalescing
visited
Sue WILLIAMS,
this
a
cousin,
HOPKINS,
completed
for
Connecticut,
living up to his
Inez
which has
activities
tack
a brilliant
in Washington
head
where Mr.
Hardware
disposition
after
Richard BETHARDS,
girl,
National
W&
reputation
vacation
Wil-
there
October.
dramatic
Mr.
of Rich-
joined her husband
in a trip to New York,
the
brother
says
House
Evelyn will
performance
her
and his wife,
Mae FLETCHER
mond
attended
bar, played a leading role in " The
Great
Campaign"
given
by the W & M Playin
entertained
liam Attkisson,
Hallie
son
former
Supervisor
ers
small
and
She is newly married
Travis
years.
WHo
ry White.
at the TH:
wife
1948
then to Bristol, Connecticut, to enjoy the
autumn beauty of the Connecticut hills
Jo Anne ETTERT is recovering from an in-
the
our
of
one
as
the former Evelyn Carey, has
returned
to
joined the Trahostess.
Originally
Lynne
for
Williamsburg
of
recently
November,
Williamsburg
WATTLES
reports
who has been
Boston,
Mass.,
that
hasty trip to the garden to look for a
moment at the vanishing loveliness of
Waynesboro
and Mr.
summer.
Arlington,
Wat-
in a hospital
for some weeks,
is making
Caroline
progress
satisfactory
Captain
a patient
LEE
Va.,
Much
of
the
news
this
time
is
of
Fannie
coming visitors
had a house full
Lou
young
of
folks.
entertained Mr.
from New
York
coming
daughter
with her husband
Barbour
Marian,
and
Macon
Mrs.
little
Florence
husband welcomed home their
Guilford
Taylor
W&
Daught-
of
had
as
James
TAYLOR
and
sox,.
Washington,
D.
Va..
d..
Gwendolyn HALLER,
Va.,
Hopewell,
of
brought a group
Gwendolyn
is
Pat BEAL,
a former hostess, was warmly
greeted
her
Captain
C.,
Point,
of friends to visit the buildings recently.
Macon,
son,
in Warrenton,
City
M Home-
Janes
Joe Wilson of
end
STRYKER
Minn ; e PATE
celebration
guests
for the
Larry Brigham of
and Mrs.
over the Homecoming weekLily NELSON has returned from a
visit with her son, Philip, and his wife
home-
er Evelyn with a group of friends flew
home
and Mrs.
ings
when
while
one
she
here
Frank and Pat,
or
so
ago.
of the
summer
dropped
for
into
hostesses
the
buildThe Beals,
Homecoming.
moved to Pennsylvania
Frank,
Jr.
is
now
the
big
a year
�Noceaieer, ,
1948
interest
NEWB
Colonial
of
in Pat' s life.
wili.ianuburg
went
Page 9
to New York
and Philadelphia
Ruth JOLLY,
Lois
SEGNITZ attended
CIIURCHILL,
and Jana
the W & M - NC game on
November 6 in Chapel Hill.
GOODWIN
BUILDING
Trudy"
NEWS
MONSON of the Architectural
De-
partment left October 23 for Delray
CRAFT HOUSE BRIEFS
Beach, Florida, where she has accepted a
position with the Delray Beach Hotel
Football enthusiasts are Caroline
COCHRAN who attended the VMI- Virginia game
Miriam SHEA joined our organization
October 11 as secretary to Lawrence
Kocher
Ed KENDREW
Boston
New York
and
HOPKINS
attended
spent
in
Alden
recently
the formal
and Clara OLIVER who was accompanied
a few days
Junior
as
GEDDY
and his
their
son
wife
spent
Vernon
with
N.
attended
C.,
dent
Dr.
Alexander
annual
27 through
30.
is
Vice
Association
Anne READ have settled
winter
PRICE
spent
au
must
Miss.,
employees
of
returned
HOr' r'MAN, (
to her
nee
duties
her
vaca-
CW,
were
in
dusk
and
anna,
Society
Georgia,
of Travel
recently
November
22,
since
Bill
Robert
25
D.
Public
House.
Russell McGHLE has made
a
on September 17 he was with
Craft House three years with only one
day' s absence made up on Sunday'
DIETZ
Richmond;
gave
two
lectures
the
last
in
Bernice
was on vacation during October and
talked on the " President' s Day"
at
heading
Ghosts
Baltimore,
is
off
W.
Md.,
woman'
Va.,
of Colonial
a couple
Her book, "
Adventures
Inn"
a
for Welch,
and Aromas
exhibit
items.
In-
Agents
at Craft
record ":
and
has
formation Department following her honey moon
Bob HOKE attended a meeting of
the American
Street....
week in October before women' s clubs in
of York,
Richardson ),
in the
on
is now working
Meredith
Williamsburg for Homecoming weekend
elaide
in the
McCREABY, nationally known for his herb -
is
A
snugly for the
apartment
at Keesler Field in Biloxi,
November
on
and
Jane and Kemp BOOT
revoir.
report
program
former
new
and
she and Bill are insisting that they will
say
tion in Miami, Florida, visiting her aunt
both
in their
beloved
DORRIER
growing,
at
Camp Peary
Mary STEPHENSON
has returned from a month' s vacation in
Pa.,
her
He says he' s coaxing the herbs at dawn
ment
uncle
in
Catherine
for
Collectors and Historical Depositories....
Wanda CASTLE has moved to her new apart-
Monie
and
Presi-
State and Local History and Dr. Cappon is
actin; as Chairman of the Meeting on
California
C.,
Va
Mazie Henderson SAUNDERS continues to make
farewell appearances ( a la Schumann Heink) but she is still with us, although
the
October
of the American
N.
Smithfield,
Lester CAPPON,
They also attended meetings at Duke University and the University of North
Carolina.
of Richmond
Thelma Brown House at 409 Francis
meeting of the American Association for
State and Local History in joint session
with the Society of American Archivists
in Raleigh,
Orlando,
Jr.,
Ed ALEXANDER,
Luta SEWELL,
PRIEST
Oliver,
George
M faculty) and her
the W &
in
by
the W &
of
M- University of N. C. game
Page FOLK spent a weekend with relatives
at
a few days
Princeton
at
Wanda CASTLE,
and Ernie
Draftsman
Dr.
to
Annapolis,
Maryland
Terry DEWS of
Newport News has joined the Architectural
Department
husband (
son,
opening of
the restored Hammond- Harwood House
her
of
quaint
to
s
talk
club;
on
Kitchens"
Craft
House
Let' s Talk Turkey:
and Recipes of The White Turkey
the
Dietz
press.
�Page
NEWS
10
C&
of Ccionial
tions
M ITEMS
November,
Williamsburg
during
October:
Sully Braxton
David
and
Paul
DEAN,
the
farmers
near
Barhamsville,
car
was
the
under
s
Warehouse
Section
now
this
purpose,
made
and
the
repairs
Electrical
from
Floyd MARTIN,
ials.....
an
addition
to
the
etc.
for
Depart-
Fort
Eustis
for
plant
two - and - a - half
years,
We hope that his stay will be a
long
pleasant
and
Davis
one
Estie
Hooker, weighing 7z pounds, made his
debut
at Bell Hospital
At
October
25.
father,
Estie,
the
an
at 4 : 30 a. m.
latest
in
as
Towler
BRIEFS
plug)
but
the
usual
good
2bm McCORMICK,
himself
frosh
too
on
fast
head doorman,
for
the
the
Linwood
nicely
congratulated
the doors
fast
Mary COLE has decided
to give up her career in the cashier' s
cage
and
and has
left
He
York.
New
is
to
join
her
stationed
husband
at Fort
Nature Boy) PECHAN,
jovial Chief of Ser-
vice, was in his element last week,
an uproar among the local telephone
ask, "
his
answer
busi-
After
service
McPHERSON
WILLIAMS
has
been
with
CW
on
and Monier
fifteen years
Dews
October
13
WILLIAMS
spent
the
weekend of October 23 in the Valley of
Virginia searching for coach horses to
replace
the grays which were recently
tired.
They were
successful
re-
in finding
in
Thomas....
Betty DAVIS from the College is taking over
Raymie
Mary' s duties at the keyboard
and
on completing
game
on the theater, but
Tom was quick enough to close
first
gleeful
After
Saturday.
they tried a ' rush'
pictures
Seems
What'
would
a
s
be, "
couple
of
as if folks
causing
would
call up
The
today."
Wrong Number."
playing
Sorry,
attempts
the
frustrated
patrons
started calling the telephone
fice
complain
to
about
Catherine
HANRAHAN,
senior
ofFact
numbers.
wrong
good condition as could be expected.
was the picture that day was " Sorry,
Hooker and son reported to be getting Number" starring Barbara Stanwyck
along
of
except
in
the
ThJATER
operators.
on
ness area, was still talking to himself.
Except for this temporary defect he was
Mrs.
D.
Nothing much is happening at the local
cinema
report
engineer
Smith
S.
college
with his
and the Navy at Cheatham Annex for three
years.
E.
Ben Spraggins
Harry Sutton
Jr.,
engineers in BloclB 15 and 23 on October
He has been employed by Eastern
19.
State Hospital for twenty years, the Army
at
Frank
Meekins
Edgar Myers
proved
of
Robertson
Horace Morecock
salvaged. mater-
force
Post
H.
a
family, and Fred MAYFIELD and his wife
have moved to the Leaky residence on York
Street
C D. ONLEY reported for duty
as
C.
J.
Johnson
WILLIAMSBURG
has
refrigerator in which to keep drinks,
Harry donated his old GE refrigerator
ment
D.
Hopkins
to
Thanks to the generosity of Harry T.
the
Peoples
Petersen
of in -,
Granville
loves
stalling a new motor.
just ask him'
drive the Crosley PEOPLES,
Sr.
E.
Willie
F. F.
care.
BOELT performed the " operation"
Hall,
Isham
Virginia
doctor'
Dean
Orval
Granville PATRICK has been driving his
old Stanley No. 19 Crosley Pick -up while
his
Victor
M.
Wm.
New Kent County, report a good yield in
the peanut crop this year on their plantation
Harry T.
D.
from
1948
Wrong
cashier,
was
pledged to the Kappa Delta sorority reThe
cently
HALLIGAN
twin
Toms,
McCASKEY
went to Washington
and
on election
They report that
day to book pictures.
the town was quiet when they arrived but
We trust
in an uproar when they left.
Pat
they mean in an uproar over Harry
two bay horses which they believe will be
BUCHANAN
satisfactory.
The following C &
in North Carolina seeing the Indians known
Myers
enjoyed
vaca-
N.
C.
says
and
from
that "
his
the
we
wife
spent
unbeatenwas
a
untied
robbed."
sober
list.
weekend
Pat
�November,
NEWS
NEWS
1948
Colonial
of
relations
BRIEFS
and
sale
articles,
long
prices -
as
ber
the
a
also
list
of
is
Williamsburg
Bob
CONKEY,
it
offers
at greatly
the
given
on
special
had
a
sale -
The
season
but
a
good time, losing twice to both Hampton
and Langley Field in a home - and -home
schedule.
Peyton MASSIE
Harbor
together
put
a
and ex - pro
spectacular
The
McCASKEY
guests
organized by
rough
For
four
years
he
worked
Inn - Lodge
Oyster
Roasts
pro-
mise to be top - flight tourist attractions.
Details were worked out jointly by Tom
Matoaka
Christ-
5
page
Inn golf team,
has
book
firm before joining Earl Newsom
Company.
wood
Remem-
Christmas
and
for
reduced
last
they
as
special
titles
prices
mas
which
to CW employees
11
with Fox studios in New York and Holly-
The Craft House has a few slightly
damaged
Page
Williamsbur
John GREEN.
and
is
the
for
site
three
of
At
the
dollars
present,
roasts,
Lake
where
can consume
as
many raw or roasted oysters as they wish,
plus king -sized hamburgers and steaming
hot
The
coffee.
singing
Inn'
the
around
s
quintet
fire.
leads
Everyone
the
is
handed a big apron before the feast and
best -
can
attack
a
stack
of
oysters
without
ball of 69 on the tricky Hampton course
fear
in
acting for CW' s rent board, has been
negotiating small voluntary rent increases
to help meet mounting fuel costs
December, January, and February promise
to bring more revenue this year than last,
the
last
champion
turned
70s,
Wynsol
in
partner
match,
State
Spencer
65.
a
but
Harold
managed
a best
and
Amateur
his
SPARKS
ball
in
partner
and
his
the
middle
but was trounced by low -scoring opat
Hampton.
Colonel ( Lefty)
ponents
WHEAT
also
was
CW' s
edged.
ace
Charlie
HACKETT was unable to play in the last
One
match
plays
was
of
the
most
at Williamsburg'
the
CW
direction
exhibit,
of Dick
successful
s Community
prepared
SHOWMAN,
Night
under
aided
dis-
the
and
but
of
are
still
this
up
period,
scenes.
Smith,
C.
W.
and visiting Newsom consultant
Kirk BURBANK.
around
Its
artist
the
Place
Six
theme "
in the
panels
were
Colonial
built
with
is
special
There
different
are
views,
Carleton,
for $ 1.
who missed
it
at
emCom-
munity Night will be able to see it soon
in the Goodwin Building or in Casey' s
Kirk
show -windows
BURBANK,
incident -
ally, will be in Williamsburg most of the
autumn,
helping to develop CW' s new pro-
motional
program
on
the
married
spot.
he
children,
is building a house near Green-
Connecticut,
and
and
had
has
A Yale
graduate,
wich,
is
his
two
own
box
two
are boning
The
cuts
of
cards
reproduced
with the
correspondence
each
of
six
from water
Press
is
F.
S.
and
his
Williamsburg
NYC
of
selling
Lincoln
Inn is now featuring table d' hote din*irswith
along
the
a
la
Program
This
fare
carte
is being
out by Bob HOKE and Tom McCASKEY,
10, 000
special
circulars
already
worked
with
printed.
CW' s own activities are being co- ordinated
with the community' s program, as arranged
Ed
by Williamsburg' s active Jaycees.
ALEXANDER spoke recently at an A. A. U. W.
meeting about his European trip this summer.
public
twelve - card box
Publisher
year' s Christmas
Anyone
ployees.
of
short -
an attractive
program,
roster
devour
cards in color, featuring Williamsburg
Corinthian
sizeable
supervisors
cost
displays reminding townspeople of CW' s
own history, its growing attraction for
visitors, its expanding interpretation
and its
which
colors by the New York artist Virginia
Williamsburg:
Community,"
months
Jr.,
newest item sponsored by CW' s Publications
TURNER,
W& M
lean
and
possible
on
Fund
BOWERS,
the
SPRATLEY,
any earnings which pile up from spring to
fall.
Every employee is urged to make a
special effort to keep costs down during
abetted by Minor Wine THOMAS, Tom
WILLIAMS, Bob HOKE, Casey MILLER, Jack
Ralph
Vernon
reprisal
Wanda
CASTLE
president
Bela
York
14,
November
is
the
local
NORTON
and
CW'
docked
s
A. A. U. W.
in
Executive
New
Vice-
�Page
NEWS
12
President
will
soon
and Williamsburg
news
Historical
liamsburg
back
can get
at
his
desk -
some firsthand
The
Africa
darkest
on
be
Colonial
of
Association has
Southern
chosen Wil-
for its next annual convention
Coincidentally,
this
1949.
in November,
is also the home
CW'
expected
Special
Some 400 historians
gather
rates
for
for
of the month,
the
school
1, 057
school
children
swelled Williamsburg' s visitors, as compared with 668 for the same period last
yearThe
off
school
financially
program
as well
Distinguished
included
dent,
Victor
Ratner,
with
CW
of
CBS
paying
the month
Vice- Presi-
nationally known
Both
designer.
industrial
thus
as educationally
visitors
and Walter Teague,
consult
is
came
down
One
officials
in
Times - Dispatch
teer
work
a
at
full -page
Eastern
spread
for
State
to
of
in
the
their
volun-
Hospital
Among several convention groups meeting at
our hotels lately was a large delegation
from
the
Industrial
Relations
Council
and Mrs. Chorley expect to be in
Williamsburg until early December
the
The General
Education
Board
Rockefeller
sessions..
groups
During the first
in November.
started
week
to
featured
Richmond
1948
K. C."
of its new president,
CAPPON.
Lester
s
are
November,
Williamsburg
Foundation
will
In December,
shortly
ber of Commerce
windows
of the
meet
one
here
of the Cham-
will
feature
a
display of moderately priced Craft House
Plans are shaping up for the
twin Garden Symposiums early in March.
articles
For
news
of
the
Decorations
brand - new
Forum,
Antiques
to be held
January and early February,
in this
In
issue
Guinness
the
world -famed brewery,
CW
adds
the
see elsewhere
current
publication
Time,"
details
and
in late
of
issue
of
Britain'
s
a special article on
of construction
of the
nation' s top publishing houses is debating a historical novel about WilliamsChown burg, by a " big name" author
Pro28.
closes November
ing' s Tavern
basement
prietor "
the free evening lectures offered by our
CW
for
will
Bones"
warmer
be
sold
Carpenter
at
a
to
leave
Off- premises
climes.
plans
beer
50- cent - per - case
reduc-
tion until the closing ( as long as the
New
lasts)
supply
Ernest
B.
WIEGAND
LUND,
as
who
in
succeeds
Resident
Born in Norway,
U.
S.
in
Portland,
1924,
employees
studied
Oregon,
at
and
been engineer - designer
Company
John EGAN,
in
New
Pacific
and has recently
for the Dixie
has
Manager
been
E
appointed
in
the
during the War,
sad
the
Bronze
Fifth
Armored
an
Division
winning the Purple Heart
Star
with
cluster.
He
will be top aide to Harold LOUGHRIE
Williamsburg' s Red Cross Gray Ladies,
including many wives of CWers, Vere
and
which
which
are
Guinness
installed
presented
in
the
Palace
How many Curers have heard all
Jeff
experts
in the Reception
GRAVES,
a 20 - 1 Dewey man who wilted at the
election news,
Center?
received a handsome bouquet
in sympathy from some of his colleagues.
But Williamsburg went Republican in the
presidential
election
for
the
first
their wives have been interested
current
milk
investigation
her
to
course
teach
in the
of Williamsburg'
Clerk
supply
a special
time
Many employees and
years
recent
WING
is
in Richmond
local
s
scheduled
groups
to
to
bandage -
wrapping for the Virginia Cancer Society.
Chairman of the local Cancer Society' s
Service
Committee
Congratulations
bi:
officer
hogsheads
enable
of Williams -
A graduate of
g Inn and Lodge.
Cornell' s Hotel School,
Mr. Egan was
CW
take
of the Hotel. Syracuse
York,
Catering
s Armour
Tenn •
to
in
College
Chicago'
Memphis,
formerly
Syracuse,
Assistant
of
Engineer.
Lund came to the
Institute of Technology,
Steel
Walter
Mechanical
Mr.
include
twelve
is
Mrs.
on service
H.
H.
WERMUTH
records
to:
Sing MOOREHEAD and Alonzo VAUGHAN, 20
years; Robert EVANS and Lucy SNEED, 10
years;
and Linwood
WILLIAMS, /
5 years.
Compiling a perfect attendance record in
the year ending September, 1948, were
Arthur BUIE and Selby MITCHELL ( Office
Services),
Matthew
CHEESEMAN
and
Thomas
�NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
1948
November,
Theater),
McCORMICK (
Crafts),
George
Police),
Russell
Cleveland
Loring J.
Joseph KOBELBAUER,
William
TAYLOR
Ellis
Inn
Henry
Mary
J.
HARGRAVE (
and
has
RIPLEY
D.
DANIEL (
C&M),
TAYLOR,
Curator'
the
Bert
GARRISON
Lodge).
fore
of Norfolk,
tion
one
to
coming
Coffee
Shop
ITEMS
Floyd HONEYCUTT,
21
a
A
cook.
a chef
of
the
Inn
at
Oliver
enjoyed
October
the
TABB,
a two - week
vaca-
Thomas
ten - year
KEARNEY,
at
men
MacWILLIAMS
William
crew:
Richard LEWIS,
October
he was
the
cook,
during
Chef
LODGE
as
crew
Lodge,
the
re-
turned recently from a three -week. vacation
his
INN AND
range
Norfolk Division of William and Mary beand
Rosa
s),
Hostess),
James T.
joined
native
TURNER ( Education),
Charlie
WALLACE (
and
McGEHEE
Page 13
from
a two - week
returned
vacation
on
dur-
two
new
men
of Norfolk,
a former Williamsburg
Plato MORROW
dent
steward,
added
HARRIS,
returned
to
to
and
resi-
the
Lodge recently after having been at Chown ing' s and at the Inn during the summer
Sam
JOHNSON
missed
two
weeks
of
work
dur-
ing which he and Ema HONEYCUTT, hostess
in the Coffee Shop, motored to Dallas,
Texas
John EGAN recently became assistant
Loughrie.
to Mr.
Before coming
ing October due to a severe attack of influenza
Also bitten by the flu bug was
Charles JACKSON,
Warren
Mary TYLER
EPPS, and Nat REID attended the party given
here,
on the occasion
he
was
associated
administration
Clinton
course
QUIGLEY
and
with
the
hotel
at Cornell
his
wife,
wedding
proud
dis-
coverers of an apartment in Williamsburg,
celebrated the event by traveling to
State
to
Pa.,
College,
attend
the
Penn
the
of
Air Forces,
November
as
Loretha
to
J.
at
the
Lodge
JOHNSON,
who
sixth
VICKERS
rejoin
instructor.
an
cashier
year
State
A
anniversary
first
general
of George REID' S
the
He
for
is
left
U.
S.
has been
the
past
employed
Butts
homecoming festivities
WILLIAMS and Jack KUEMMERLE recently
in the kitchen and pantry department of the
Inn, has recently received a promotion.
joined
Loretha
food
the " back
W &M
Norma
of
the
Both
checkers.
BAMMAN,
Williamsburg
Inn,
cent
in the
article
from
by Lady
Eagle.
Brooklyn
to work
illness
ZIEGLER
food
as
a
is
not
joined
in
a
on
Inn
for she veviously
chen
The
Fare
similar
the
Lodge
October
C
She
however,
Fdna
PAYNE
WILSON
spent
a week
in October visiting his old friends and
relatives in King and Queen County
O.
D.
WEIKEL
vacation
left
in West
Virginia.
October
Virginia
26
to
spend
Nat
vantage
of
influenza
his
CATES
shots
given
at
Com-
comduring
pares very faborably with last year when
pany
staff
served in the Inn kit-
L.
several
A total of 422 CW employees took ad-
spent
22.
and Lodge,
capacity
Leslie
division
tute and hopes eventually to complete her
training at normal school in Petersburg,
25 after a
returned to work recently after a ten -day
illness
hotel
Guarded
Mildred BARNES
the
the
Mary GRIFFIN
on October
supervisor
new to
to
story was
her vacation in Elizabeth City, N.
Margaret
came
years ago after studying at Hampton Instiat
was featured in a re-
Brooklyn'
two - week
as
at
Director
of Williamsburg
returned
crew
students
Food
title of the feature
Authenticity
house"
are
expense
only
280
of our
protection.
October.
employees
This
desired
this
�14
Page
AS
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
OTHERS
SEE
US
liamsburg
by Louis Spilman,
eloquest
editor of the Waynes-
News - Virginian,
statement
of
which
the
was
renewed
It
is
reprinted
here
in
alone
restoration
could
never
an
faith
who
could
see
the
tion;
and
and
bute something
United
in
which
of
an
Here,
of the country,
breath
at
this
in the
spot
on
eastern part
has been reconstructed
of Colonial
atmosphere
parable
authenticity.
portant
steps
were
Here
taken
of
incom-
so many
that
a
left
imtheir
of an individual
he
individual
himself
it
can
given
be
said,
the
was
impetus
the fundamental
tution
of
this
new
individual
that
freedom
carried
structure
new
Here,
world.
it
into
of the consti-
alone;
who
or to
contribute
There
are,
still
there.
spark
of
No
one,
with
imagination,
can
even
trod
there,
energy
without
no
have
we
to the
vision,
pride
with
even
in his country,
that pride
after
a
fought
expanded
visit
to
now,
after
Here
freedom
grant
has
will
been won,
of
service
unto
others
of others.
of
to the miracu-
none
but
of the
Waynesboro
Rockefeller
men
faith
unity.
all these
a
need
a willingness
such
new
as has
waste
conception
to
never
need
of
public
do
to
for
lighted
unselfish
this Waynesboro
Street'
we
potential
our
is
values;
service;
others
souls
before.
can become the Waynesboro of the
through
world
What
and
of
need
Waynesboro
not
possesses
millions
Surely Waynesboro possesses
people.
we
and spe-
we
serve
some residents
possesses
we
against
interests
God
privileges.
rights
to
life
live
of their community,
some.
a generation
can help having
Williamsburg.
of vested
cial
of
and strengthened
for individual
centuries
a modicum
the
to
tap for unrestricted community development.
But surely Waynesboro possesses people;
good
one,
refuses
or enthusiasm
reservoir
that accompanied the early days of the
No
selfish
pessimists.
feeling somewhat the emotion and strain
city.
to contri-
they are in the minority.
They are the
unhappy ones; the carping critics, the
yet
walks
of Williamsburg and visit the buildings
that have been restored
existence
historical background of Williamsburg..,.
a wee
the
the
strives
of course,
Waynesboro
is
na-
determi-
Williamsburg who have given nothing of
land.
The aura of that early struggle
is
How
who
lous reformation
rugged
a re-
faith.
who refuses
lives:
their
and
of
of value to the community
imprint on the molding of a new nation
wild
the
upon the American
useless
from
a
impact
unquenchable
dead
Williamsburg should be an inspiration
to every man, woman and child in the
peninsula
dollars
there existed a tenacity,
How
States.
full
stored Williamsburg
its
nation
little
these
accomplished
There existed an unselfish
vision in the hearts and minds of those
entirety:
one
but
have
purpose.
in America we hope many visitors may
share.
1948
vide the financial spark -plug to the Wil-
Some time ago we came upon an editorial
boro ( Va.)
November,
is
just
Without
unity)
another '
Main
town."
its glorious privileges through lethargy,
fear,
smugness
and
But Williamsburg
than
a
turn back
to
satisfaction.
represents
even more
the
Williams-
past.
burg represents the vital results obtainable from present - day recognition of
public duty and from present - day ability
to create unity and singleness of purpose.
feller,
The
millions of John D. RockeJr.,
have been employed to pro-
REMEMBER:
THE
SPECIAL
Time:
CHRISTMAS
November
Place:
26 -
BOOK SALE
Christmas
Goodwin Building, Monday
through
For
full
see
page
list
7).
Friday,
of titles
8 : 30 -
5
and prices,
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NEWS
Volume
1,
Number
1948
the
now
WILLIAMSBURG
IMPORTANT NEW
APPROVED!
Seven
major
Arms
s
King'
7
await
December,
CONSTRUCTION WORK
projects,
inc •_
ng the reconstruction of
Mr. John
D.er,
Rockefel
Jr.,
and
approved by
authorization by the Board of Trustees when it meets next week in
construction
new
tavern, have
final
been
New
York. Together with colonial structures already scheduled or actually under
con- struction, the buildings and gardens now approved represent a big step forward
in CW' s postwar program to complete the restoration of the central portion of
Williamsburg. This
announcement is good news both for our architects
eighteenth - century
and construction
forces, who can look forward to a period of full scale
activity, and
to the thousands who visit Williamsburg arnually and who will soon be able to
view
these
significant new
historical
attractions. Along with the Raleigh
celebrated
such
guests
in
hostelries
the
William
as
be
reconstructed in
and
Tavern, the King' s Arms was among the most
capital. Here
colonial
Byrd
architectural
III, Sir Peyton
the area just
Skipwith,
proprietress Jane
and
across Duke of
Vobe
George
Gloucester
entertained
Washington. It
will
Street from the
Raleigh. Just west will be built the King' s Arms Barber Shop, which will become the
future
wigmaker' s
shop. To the east a large frame dwelling, the Alexander Purdie
House,
will
be
erected. On the
Street, gardens will
be
constructed - including a
restored
property
and
small "chair-
extending
stables,
behind these
kitchens, and
buildings to
other
Francis
outbuildings
house" behind the Purdie
House. A second group of colonial buildings will be reconstructed along Francis
Street from
John
Waller
Carter
its
area
properly
once
will
defined,
Street
to the
and the
directly
site
Square
House,
behind
the
new
emphasize the
House - to
the
Capitol
on
be
Blue
Waller
dwellings -
with
restored area for
Meanwhile, the
Tayloe
tourists
House on
Nicholson
tenant, Miss Jeanette
Light-
is
Kitchen
until her
John Tayloe of Richmond
finely
be
proportioned
restored.
gambrel
Also
Street.
their
the permission of the life
foot
known
as
Bell
the
Tavern
Thus
will
the
Draper
House, the
be
whole
rebuilt
on
Capitol
completion. The public lands adjacent to the Capitol will be
near
and
east.
the
Ayscough
House - and
Moir
home
ready
for
outbuildings
and
approaching
Street will
gardens -
will
at
Wil iamsburg from the
be
restored, with
Kelly, who will move to the new
her. The
town
house
of
Colonel
County, this eighteenth- century structure with its
roof
approved
was
noted
were
plans
for
its
to
continue
terraced
gardens, which
with
will
also
archaeological
investigation and the
reconstruction of gardens and
outbuildings in the area on Palace
Green between the Carter -Saunders and Deane
Houses, and behind the Bracken
House. No
the
submit ed.
requirements
commercial
of
building has yet been
commercial
authorized; a study is now being made of
activities, and
recommendations will
be
�NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
To
all CWers, a fine
Christmas Day; To our
hostesses turkey, to
their hay; To
ballplayors, barbers,
our horses
or
public informers, Or draftsmen hung up on gables
or dormers;
To photographers,
slide- salesmen, golfers,
and cooks - The New Year can' t be quite as bad as
it looks; To
carpenters, gunsmiths, or
amateur bowlers, To those who like fruit - cake or three layer soders; To
house - hunters,
old tuners, craftsmen,
and typists, To
floorwaxors, drivers, or
learned
archivists;
To
winter - promoters,
and
all
of
our voters, To hammock - bound nappors
or
saltwater boaters; Our greetings to you in this
holiday season, In stanzas
good reason.
of
verse
Symposium - arrangers, our
with
poor rhyme
but
hat' s off
to you, And to Chowning' s whole kitchen for fine
Brunswick
stew
line
those
To
We
sometime
the ladder
For those
from
be
up
hope they' ll
see
up
to
who make mone: r
those
and
those
down
you
who
make book, And each weak- knead female helped by the
New Look;
And the glad
hand of
Santa
for
Franklin House lodgers With a card rimmed in black for the fans
of the
Dodgers And a hey- nonny- nonny for
the exiles at Peary And those who at Gloucester
depend on the
ferry.
For all
a
face, reason, or
season of
a James River
at CW,
mirth,
girth; To
Regardless
of age,
those who shoot
blind, And
ducks
from
in patiently
waiting benumb their behind; To those who range
woodlands behind pointer
around
a
those
dog May your eveni gs be merry
Yule log; But
hunters
of
wait; Don' t forget
coon, Who
stolidly
stand
in
the
the
�Page 3
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
A surfeit of kudos and a year' s grace
from hoodoos
To
from
the
experts
And steak,
who
lamb,
pick
the
authentic
or chicken,
For those who guard funds
pseudos;
or hamburg to go
in the mid- winter blow;
And a host of warm greetings (
there'
s enough
to go '
round
For our New York associates, whether snow or fog- bound;
To the holiday
ends
desk - bound at hotels
heartiest
thanks
from
the
this poem
others
at
home;
W. th extra full stockings for all tired feet
Which
crisscross
our
kitchens
so
guests
can
all
eat.
A rousing good cheer for a better New Year
To our innkeepers serving that Michelob beer; ,
the
Inn
buffet
supper
or
Agourmet' s warm plaudits
And
a
holly-
token
wreathed
Travis
House
ham,
for old Uncle Sam;
and
toasts
wintertime
To the quintet who sang at the big oyster roasts; `
And
pieces
of
eight (
and
dinner
then
too)
For the holiday waiters and the caterer' s crew;
And thanks for the headlining film goers' menu,
With
the
hope
that good
shows
Git along little doggerel,
all next
year will
continue.
to your corral
You' ve wound up your round up, so into your stall;
But toss up your head once, and give bovine holler Let' s
hope
That
Berlin
That
all
that
next
year
be
quiet,
will
will
be
well
in
That peace and prosperity
For a well -fed new future
That
Marshall
and
adds
the
the
more
worth
hillside
rest
of
to
our
dollar;
dew- pearl'
the
d;
world;
go hand in hand
for every small land;
Molotov,
Bidault,
and
Bevan
May join us in Bruton some day at eleven,
And afterwards jointly attack a Welsh rabbit To make faith and friendship the new - fashioned habit;
The
Editors
With
half - hearted
Sullivan
and
the
apologies
New Yorker)
to
Frank
�Page 4
JAMES
NEWS
LOVE -
In
the
Relations,
OUR
NEW
DIRECTOR
appointment
of
OF
James
PERSONNEL
Harrison
December,
Williamsburg
Colonial
of
1948
RELATIONS
Love
to
the
post
of
Director
of
Personnel
Williamsburg has been fortunate in securing an able successor to
For few men can boast of the long and successful experience in
all aspects of personnel work that has been his.
L.
John
Colonial
Lewis,
Jr.
Big, good - natured, husky- voiced, Jim Love comes to CW from the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, where he was for twenty -five
Industrial
years
Manager.
Relations
In
that
post,
he
supervised
employment,
employee
benefits, and all labor policies, kept a watchful eye on the guard force and safety
program,
and operated restaurants and canteens which fed as many as 9, 000 hungry
He was also responsible for all labor contracts drawn up between
shipyard
workers.
Federal ( a subsidiary of U.
Workers'
Union (
headed
by
S.
Steel Corporation) and the CIO Marine and Shipbuilding
John Green -
no
kin:).
The size
of his job there may be
measured by the fact that Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, with a total of
53, 000 employees during the recent wartime peak, has been one of the nation' s
largest
shipyards,
producing
both commercial
and combat
ships.
Jim' s work with Federal Shipbuilding has given him unusually fine qualifications
for
his
here.
position
arise
which
in the
He is,
fields
of
for example,
construction,
familiar
with the personnel
maintenance,
and
tensive experience in all phases of employee- benefit programs,
briefed
in dealing with the needs
full- time
Jim
of the part -time worker
problems
He
catering.
has
had
ex-
and he is equally well
as he is with those
of the
employee.
to
comes
Williamsburg
through
two fortunate
the
coincidences:
shipyards,
effective January 1, 1949, are being taken over by the Navy to be put away in
mothballs" to be reopened, of course, ready for action should events so demand;
then the Loves'
a Virginia enthusiast who graduated from Roanoke
now
living in Roanoke so, needless to say, she
gave strong support to her parents' move here.
College,
only daughter,
recently .
married
is
and
During World War II, Jim spent nearly half of his time in Washington, where he
worked
on
employer -
employee
relation
in the
problems
shipbuilding
industry.
1941 until 1945, he was one of the twelve management representatives
building Stabilization
Committee,
benefits,
job - classifications,
workers.
Another
and vacations
Government
assignment
War Labor Board' s Shipbuilding
cases
affecting
alternate
member
the
friends
Atlantic
hours,
for a peak group of 1, 600, 000 shipyard
was as a member,
Commission,
on the Ship-
of wages,
from 1942 to 1945,
a group which represented
of the
the WLB in all
For a time,
he was also an
shipbuilding and allied industries.
of the Second Regional
District of the War Labor Board.
Jim' s work
in such activities,
countless
which set nation -wide patterns
From
together
with his long association
in labor and management
with Federal,
alike in virtually
has made him
every shipyard
along
Coast.
He is justly proud of the extraordinary record of the Federal Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company.
He likes to point out that high - temperature
steam propulsion for
ships was first developed and installed there, a step which added vital speed and
maneuverability
to merchant
Another accomplishment
and combat
vessels
as well as reduced
he cites was the erection,
fuel consumption.
during the six months from January
to July, 1942, of a $ 20, 000, 000 shipyard at Port Newark ( five .miles from Kearny)
which
ways.
was
put
In less
into
immediate
troubled
times,
operation.
luxury
Here
liners
LCIs,
such
DEs,
as
the
DDs,
and
CLs
Santa Rosa,
went
Santa
down
the
Clara,
and
�December,
1948
NEWS
Colonial
of
Santa Lucille were turned out by these
Williamsburg
Page
5
BRIEFS
yards.
A member of the American Management
Association, an executive of the North
Jersey Personnel Group, and a past ( 193335) director of the National Safety
Council, Jim will play an active part in
the community, we feel sure, as well as
in the organization.
in
a
moderate - sized
Mrs.
city.
Love, also from Lonaconing, graduated
from the Teacher' s College at Frostburg,
Maryland,
fore
and taught school briefly be-
Marriage.
At present,
ehe
is
see-
ing their furniture into temporary
storage
and will
join her husbend
Lodge within the next two weeks;
at the
then,
having already sold their home in Nutley,
N.
J.,
the Loves will start their Wil-
liamsburg house - hunting in earnest.
While naturally sell in his shakedown spell with CW,
briefed
sufficiently
into
move
charge
of
it
full
all
Jim hopes
soon to be
on his new job to
force.
personnel
He
will
matters
have
through-
out the organization and will report
directly to Executive Vice -President
Bela W.
Lewis,
Norton.
Jr.,
He
reservations
continue
succeeds
who resigned
last
spring
Meanwhile,
shaping
up for the Garden
the final program is
and Flower Sym-
posium to be held from February 28 until
March 4.
This year the general topics
have been broadened, although close attention will still be given to CW gardens.
On the first day' s sessions, Richardson
Wright,
speak;
editor of House and Gs,•:don_, will
among other distinguished guests
will be Professor Bremer Pond; cfHarvard,
who each Friday will discuss colonial
garden
design
in New
England.
CW'
s
own
impressive corps cf experts will be on
hand, inclurii. ng Mrs. Fisher and the
Messrs. Hopkins, Erouwers, and Eaton
Publications sales at the Special Christmas Bock Sale have been brisk,
with The
Williamsburg Art of Cookery the usual
front -running
favorite.
This
sale,
held
at the Goodwin Building from 8: 30 a. m.
until 5 p. m. Mondays through Fridays,
will end at 1 p. m. on December 24
John L.
become associated with James L.
to deluge
interest is a good omen for future winter
forums on this topic, as well as a harbinger of success for the current gathering
A native of Lonaconing, Maryland, he
likes the mid -south and the prospects of
living
Advance
Alma Lee Rowe for the CW- Antiques Forums
in
January and February.
Widespread
to
Cogar in
an antiques and gift shop on York Street.
This note is a little overdue,
but special
mention should be made of the interest in
community affairs taken by CW employees
and their families at Community Night,
when nearly
crowded
Inn
and
costume
Lodge
party
Employees:
A Gay Nineties
for Inn and Lodge employees
will launch National Hotel Week in Williamsburg.
Armond Campbell, chairman of
the party committee,
announces the time,
8 - 12 p. m.
on December 15,
the
Game
Lodge
Room.
and the place,
Charles
Speight
and
Faced Crawford are in charge of the
colored employees
4,
costume ball at Bruton
Heights School on Tuesday,
December 14.
1, 000 friends and neighbors
CWers
Whaley School.
into Matthew
shared in arranging the program, in setting
up many of the 27 exhibits,
munity sing,
in the com-
in leading square - dancing in t
the gym, and in preparing and serving
refreshments.
CW in years may not qualify
as a real " old- timer" in Williamsburg, but
its employees are taking an active part as
citizens
to help the community
even more satisfactory place
live.
become an
in which to
�NEWS
Page 6
Williamsburg
Colonial
of
WINTER PROMOTION PLANS OUTLINED
Colonial Williamsburg' s budget bogyman is that pixie who piles up a big defthe
during
icit
lean
four
winter
months -
November,
December,
January,
and February.
Two months ago lanky Allston Boyer, for the past twelve( years Assistant to the President
except for a wartime stint
PC
as
skipper
the
in
Pacific),
was
relieved
of other duties to attack
Working closely with
CW officials and Newsom and Comthe
problem.
pany, he has already set in motion
a nine -point program to bring more
visitors to Williamsburg during the
winter lull and to lighten a mill-
stone around. CW' s neck, which last
year added up to a loss of more
than $ 200, 000
This
budget.
in our
operating
program,
of
interest to every CWer,
special
is here
summarized:
1)
Increased
The advertising
up
to
America
make
aware
more
the
of
attractions
of
Williamsburg
advertising.
budget was stepped
in the
winter -
a
more restful place, where visitors have a better chance to inspect in the New Yorker
the buildings
Ads
the
where
ant?.
leisurely
weather
is
much
better
than
reputed.
and in many papers in the northeast stress not only comfortable accommodations but
Special events are also
American.,
the
historical
s
city'
significance
for
every .
emphasized.
Co- ordinated
2)
publicity.
Special attention to news releases for press and
radio and to magazine features which point up Williamsburg' s winter attractions.
Many such articles written by Bob Hoke have already appeared in papers throughout
the
nation.
Special
3)
events.
winter
Antiques and Decorations
Highlighting
the calendar for early 1949 are the
Forum and the Garden and Flower Syauposium,
each of which
attracts visitors to the restored city at a time when they can inspect CW comfortably and leisurely, and share in a stimulating and worthwhile educational experience
Other
ur1.g
for.
Christmas
4)
are
events
for
planned
appeal
future
years.
to the traveler
Holiday
features
such as the unusual
and vacationist.
Many convention secretaries
not realize how well our Inn and Lodge can handle small convention groups, and
efforts
Increased
are
under
use
way
of
to
group
correct
meeting
this.
facilities.
do
Already this fall such groups as the Indus-
trial Relations Counselors have convened in Williamsburg ( the I. R. C. for a two week
stand),
visitors.
with CW' s historical attractions
lending special appeal for these
Locally, Tom McCaskey has been working with John Green, Lyn Upshaw, Tom
Moyles, Bill Batchelder and others to sea that conventions are welcomed and made
comfortable.
5) Promotional work with travel agents,
clubs and touring services
Such agencies are being canvassed in person to make certain that the winter attractions of Williamsburg are apparent, and to urge co- operation in eye - catching window
�191+
December,
displays.
8
NEWS
In one case,
in dead - pan
was closed
winter
insisted
ter business
tight
that
Encouragement of school groups.
Ed Alexander
and Dick
this activity,
nounced
Showman
have
headed
which was already a pro -
success
last winter
with a
now
Here
ahead.
the
techniques.
Also,
hotels
are
mak-
and promo-
tion techniques developed throughout the
and abroad.
with
report
cludes
many moves
the buildings
when there is no crowd to hamper inter-
above
pretation.
of
of
Our
boning up on effective new travel promo-
recent
to tour
bet-
travel man Boyer has been
dents
teachers
that
all.
for future winter advertising
tion.
wintertime school travel enabling stuand
result
All this activity has been coordinated by Executive Vice- President
Norton and by Kenneth Chorley.
In a
educational
returns are of primary interest,
the
ing careful records of visitors, with the
resultant " market study" an important tool
country
marked increase already assured in the
months
with
will benefit
9) Market studies and new travel
promotion
services can lend a valuable helping hand
by routing south -bound travelers via Williamsburg.
6)
Page 7
visitors,
in winter
Automobile clubs and touring
months!
Williamsburg
a travel agency
seriousness
Williamsburg
of Colonial
7) Improved routing in the environs
Williamsburg.
Many casual motorists
on his program ( which in-
points)
all
Bela
not
Allston
He
employees.
charted
Boyer
is
in the
asked
anxious
the
to
aid
take
advantage of any ideas which any CWer has
to
offer -
and
urges
that
suggestions
be
have missed Williamsburg because roadside
made in person or by memorandum at any
signs were not
or frequent.
time.
8)
sufficiently
conspicuous
Co- operation with state and local
Continuing efforts to work
atencies.
He points
with all such activities so' that CW and
other Virginia attractions can share in
extent
on
and that
every
increased
the
one
of
NO.
Special:
out that
Eggnog
6
problem
winter - month
therefore
the
served at the Haleigh Tavern Open House on Christmas
1
pt.
1
oz.
Jamaica
1
pt.
Day.
milk
any good whiskey
eggs
pt.
yolks
while
and
very
add
and
whiskey
Yield,
cream
whites
beating.
been beaten
meg.
revenue,
5
1
yolks
of
belongs
us.
3/ 4 cup sugar
Beat
the future
Colonial Williamsburg depends to a marked
five
eggs
separately.
Add 1/ 2 cup. of sugar to the
Add 1/ 4 cup ofsugar to the whites after they have
Mix egg whites, cream, and milk with yolks, then
Stir thoroughly and serve very cold with grated nut-
stiff.
rum.
of
Rum
pints.
to
�Page 8
THE
NEWS
C& M DEPARTMENT:
HOUSEMAKER
The administrative
chart
Colonial
of
AND
Williamsburg
December
1948
HOUSEKEEPER
shown here for the Construction
and Maintenance
Depart-
ment indicates the executive set -up that keeps the department clicking, but gives
only an inkling of the tasks and responsibilities performed by more than 300 employees who work under the overall supervision of able, amiable Henry Beebe, who
can square - dance and mastermind the new construction program with equal authority.
Actually,
C& M undertakes chores which range from purchasing and breaking in carriage
teams to maintaining fire patrol service in CW' s adjacent woodlands and operating a
golf
course.
But builder- engineer Beebe' s chief jobs are ( 1) to carry to completion
the designs which originate on the drawing boards of the Architectural Department,
and ( 2) to keep in tiptop condition all of the buildings, gardens, and properties of
Colonial
capable
general
Williamsburg.
To aid him in providing these essential services, he has a
corps of assistants,
headed by administrative
assistant Monier Williams,
construction superintendent Charlie Hackett, general maintenance superinten-
dent Granville Patrick, and superintendent of landscape work J. B. Brouwers, who with
hia assistant, Alden Eaton, is responsible for the cure of grounds and gardens.
Fortunately for CW,
the C& M Department has numerous loyal, veteran key employees
who have learned their exacting trades and know well the special demands imposed by
CW' s insistence on top -flight workmanship and complete authenticity in all restoration
and
reconstruction
work.
For e.. ample,
all brickwork on all projects is laid
under the supervision of Red Vaughan who just passed his twentieth anniversary date;
this brickwork is one of Colonial Williamsourg' s most attractive features.
Veteran Bill Keller directs all plastering, and mastered the unusual art of repro-
CHART
SHOWING
A.
C& M ADMINISTRATION
E.
KENDREW
Administrative
H.
0.
Officer
BEEBE
Department
Head
MONIER WILLIAMS
Administrative
to the
GRANVILLF PATRICK
General Superintendent
of Maintenance
J.
B.
BROUWERS
Assistant
Director
E.
Superintendent
of
Landscape
Section
M.
SHELDON
Chief
Cost
Accountant
C.
E.
General
HACKETT
Superin-
tendent
of
Construction
�December,
19+ 8
NEWS
of
Colonial.
Page
Williamsburg
9
dicing the colonial type of plaster finishes.
All painting is the responsibility of
long -time supervisor Bob Webb, Jr.
These and
any other veterans provide a continuity of know - how which keeps both workmanship and morale high.
Let'
take
s
a
News -
quick
view
eye
of
in
procedures
Drawings
work.
construction
and specifications ( including floor plans, elevations, and drawings needed for
mechanical work) are submitted by the Architectural Department for a budget estimate.
Then,
when
list
of
authorization
quantities
Department,
mating
Bill
for
headed
one
the
types
field
keep
categories
three
to
of
and
WRI).
might
eye
it becomes
of
such
the
experts.
to offer
skilled
kudos
as
to
President'
architects'
as
Pete
of
Morton,
course,
reconstructed,
colonial
and study by archaeologists
and
other
business
come
Charlie
Dave
are,
a
Esti-
offices
Peters,
There
to be
desk,
the
Thereafter,
job.
such
s
through
and
properties
and has been so certified by the
concern
craftsmen
the
project.
hotels
when the job is completed,
Department,
made
as
the
procured
the
do
buildings
such
from
and
from
to
the
on
colonial
buildings (
group of maintenance
is next to impossible
be
Meanwhile,
necessary
experienced
commercial
Finally,
Architectural
working
It
received
prepared
to be restored ( after careful stripping
architects),
under
is
superintendents -.
construction:
buildings
been
Lee.
may be
Landon -
an
has
materials
which
his
of
work
of
by Randy
drawings
any supplemental
Hackett assigns
or
and
of
a
Granville
300 - man
Patrick
team,
superintendent
Pete
but
and
his
special
Tucker,
in
hard-
mention
charge
of
all mechanical maintenance; Norman Harmon, foreman of our woodworking shop; Charlie
Peterson, Blacksmith Shop foreman whose shop produces so much first rate " colonial"
hardware; Vic Page, foreman of common labor under Patrick, who probably carries out
a wider variety of services than anyone else in CW;
machine
shop head who keeps both automotive
condition;
file
in
Ed
Watkins,
August;
Bud
warehouse
Odell,
who
Camp Peary' s Gene Sheldon,
Mac " McPherson,
tin,
operation,
engineer,
mation
with
Center;
utility
and
important
Augie
the
who
many
foreman
responsibilities
Bloxton,
general
who
of
equipment
subject
all
Walter
foreman
a News
mechanical
janitorial
Martin,
Lodge,
under
in perfect
of
who keeps cost records
at the Inn,
labor
the
superintends
activities;
other
was
installation
chief cost accountant
statistics; "
carriage
superintendent,
directs
superintendent Jennings Taylor,
and construction
Jr.,
and payroll
services,
chief
Craft House,
Charlie
pro-
work;
Hackett;
and InforDick
Johnson, greenskeeper who keeps the golf course in tiptop shape twelve months of the
year; Bert Score, Granville Patrick' s man Friday who superwf
vises
who
all
maintenance
work
handles
skillfully
between
partment
in
the
Granville
rounds
field;
golf ( " I
of
Mildred
Patrick'
s
I'
think
Lanier,
complaint
ve
got
de- /
a. mouse
in my basement "; "
I know it' s five Friday afternoon, but ;" -- ----we' ve got company coming and the sink is blocked up "; /
Junior
just blew a switch and I' m afraid we' ll be electro-
cuted ");
Inman,
only
col eagues
last
but
far
from
least -
capable
Louise
director Beebe' s righthand woman and secretary.
But
remind
and -
this,
as
the
the
all
of
old
beginning -
circus
but
the
barker
perhaps
it
essential
used
to
is
services
performed
say,
enough
is
to
byour
in C&
M, and offer them a hand for the past
and
for
the
future
j
�Page
10
NEWS
REPORT
ON
CRAFT
Colonial
of
SHOPS
December,
Williamsburg
Meanwhile,
Bonnie
Brown
191+8
the Wythe
Spin-
at
ning House spins wool and linen and weaves
Under
the watchful (
crafty ") eye: of Minor
craft
to become
profitable,
this
CW'
s
more
development
fashioned
has
and sale
in the
more
this
Ball
is
not
The
in
to
the
Short-
years,
Scullery, where our
candles have long
Sign
of
considered
in
the
fork
completed
this
in the
1
four
and
has
visitors
or
Palace
five
sold
at $
pre - Christmas
dozen
half
3.
00
season,
of
who
since
these
al-
the
forks -
are
offered
to
employees
at
is experimenting
shoes
which
for
could,
theatrical
Robert
for
companies.
manufacture
H.
White,
a full -
has
just
After studying wigmaking
in Philadelphia,
of
he will undertake
wigs
both
for
the
Colonial
houses.
At
Wil-
the
liamsburg
cabinetmaker' s shop in Ayscough House, the
skilled craftsman Joe Kobelbauer is busy
with a backlog of work, as he has always
been.
Joe
produces
During
each.
of Gloucester
and Virginia
colonial
shoes
to
shawls,
In the
liam and Mary student Edgar Wells,
employed.
Kitchen
on Duke
of
antique
Although interpretation at the Wigmaker' s Shop is now ably handled by Wil-
been
especially useful for outdoor charcoal
grills -
sold
report,
this
are being reproduced by Marion Davis,
to
be
her
capes,
future.
Taylor
purposes -
example,
on
Philadelphia
Charles
and
original
ready
costume
attempt
in the
reproductions
wigmaker,
At the Deane Shop and Forge, two tined forks painstakingly patterned after
November
bootmaker
blankets
to
s Shop
veteran
time
diction.)
has
Street,
Golden
since it is independently leased by Mr.
Reig and is not under the Thomas juris-
an
hopes
handbags
even
with
in wartime
recent
handmade
She
tiny Bootmaker'
hand -
themselves.
program
poured. (
given
and material
except at the Palace
distinctive bayberry
been
been
of articles
shops
of manpower
short
useful,
into
loom.
and
and more interesting to the
Emphasis
visitor.
cut
perhaps,
Thomas,
shops are moving ahead in their
program
ages
and,
Wine
costume
repairs,
fine
refinishes,
furniture
for
and
CW
re-
and private
He is aided by apprentice
Arthur Sedille, ex- serviceman how living
persons.
with
on
his
father - in -law,
Jamestown
a
Mr.
George
Mepham,
Road.
Even when this ambitious
program
is
special price of only $ 2. 00 each. 7 In
set
other'
words,
Other
articles
have many problems, for Colonial Williamsburg plans to restore, rebuild, and ex-
Davis "
added
you will
line; ". with
to
not be
two - tined.)
are to be added to the
income
revenue
from' repair
thus
produced
work
done
in
in motion,
hibit
other
discussion
supervisor
in
shops
at one time
the shop to help make this activity self - been a print shop,
sufficient.
From
terpretation,
the
standpoint
of
in-
this step has proved help-
general
the
store,
confectionery,
Thomas
future.
Under
or another have
an apothecary shop,
a tobacconist'
and
will
a milliner'
s shop,
s
a
shop.
ful, since visitors may now see at first
hand a craftsman actually forging
article in the eighteenth- century
Examples
of
of this
development
also
been
fork
are
found
to
At the Palace
candlemaker,
in various
exhibited
be
of
and
great
Scullery,
Elizabeth
an
manner.
stages
have
interest.
the new
Wallace,
is mold-
ing bayberry candles in larger quantities
th. tn ever before, and is frequently encircled
by admiring guests many of whom
later
purchase
her
candles
at
Craft
House.
Notice:
If
the
employee
who
submit-
ted Suggestion No. 3339 ( unsigned)
will bring the stub to the Personnel
Relations
ing,
Office
in the Goodwin Build-
he will receive
suggestion.
an award for his
a
�December,
INN
AND
191+8
LODGE
NEWS
Colonial
of
ITEMS
Reservation
a
Frances
Office:
trip.
western
left November 19 for
the
Santa Fe
Super
She
BURNS
and
her
an Diego,
Chief
out
is
taking
of Chicago.
N.
husband
Crate
C
left
for
POPULAR
Chicago
and
on
her
December
1.
I11.,
Dearborn,
Mich
and
then
The
continue
southern
of
Georgia
Grace
LAIRD
first
week
in
she
visited
Danville
welcomed
she
back
has
gratulations
with
visited
is
re-
1,
from
been
Lillie
ANDREW
Atlanta,
Georgia,
Eva
vacationing
on
her
Before
CW
Christmas
ten -year'
the
next
s
service
issue
of
the
will be but a happy memory,
CHRISTMAS
to everyone.
David
David
is
now
on
the
owner of a new Crosley.
Engineerin.p Department:
She
at her son' s home in PortsOn December
mouth
BUILDING
to Florida.
friends
Eunice
list.
sick
GOCDWIN
way
a vacation
CLOWES is planning a motor trip to New
York, and we hope she will have sunny
skies
Odell OWENS is receiving con -
began
BARRETT' S parents were in Williamsburg
their
for
returned
and
friends
visiting
is on the
is a MERRY
also
Ohio
Mr.
sons
Mary McGREEVY spent a recent week end in
SA here
she
in Cleveland,
his
two
from
relatives
home
New York.
for
SWEENEY
November
News,
to
their
Carrie
her vacation on November 27 with a trip
friends
and
10
entertained
in Washington rand the Shenandoah Valley
where
where
the country was toured by Lynton and
Josephine UPSHAW.
They covered fifteen
states, including Texas, Arkansas, and
Ohio, after a visit with the family in
Atlanta,
the
WOOD
Wood
Thanksgiving
was
part
Hugh
cuperating
to
on December
Maude
Mrs.
PERKINS
They will attend her sister' s wedding in
Evanston,
leaves
vacation
and
They were delayed enroute by the snow
storm
Harry LYON and his wife have
from a two - week vacation.
returned
They
toured Washington and New York, finishing
the trip with a family reunion in Plymouth,
at
HARGIS
sister
11
Plato MORROW is spending his vacahome in Charles
Melvin
City
mas
tion
taking
Page
Williamsburg
J.
P.
BRIE' S
McELROY
has returned from a vacation -hunting trip
to Washington,
N.
C
Billy Lee BRYAN'T
Shirley STONE spent Thanksgiving week end
in Petersburg visiting her parents
and his wife spent Thanksgiving Day in
W13
Roanoke
Wilma,
retary in Office Services.
husband
is a student
at W& M,
hails
Rapids,
N.
C.,
for
the
tradition-
al family gathering.
Lodge
liberal
Kitchen:
contributions
tist
Church
also
sponsored
lection
Several
on
to the Union
November
Sunday,
a
from the
employees
lovely
Lodge
Bap-
28.
They
The
program.
Kitchen
made
col-
was $ 17.
This collection will be divided equally
between
the
foreign
mission
sponsored
Baptist
a
Union
talent
Church
and
anyone
on
Lodge
who
Church
Elizabeth
the participants
Inn
Baptist
wishes
program
November
were
at
Galax,
die visiting
FELLER,
Jr.,
employees
of
of
the
secwhose
from
welcomes
Another
Ginny'
s
left
spent Thanksgiving
newcomer
is
friends
has
hand
John D.
returned
Alden
Day in Dinwidto
ROCKE-
New York
after spending several weeks at Bassett
Emma LACKLEY is asking
Hall.
to make
MOLDENHOWER
contributions
also
new
who replaced Bernard PAYNE
on
ring
the
Union
JOINES,
Ginny SEAY who replaced Trudy MONSON as
Rumors are
Sing MOOREHEAD' S secretary.
flying that there will soon be a thirdHOPKINS
Most
CW
in the Mail Room
PARRILLA
29.
Wilma
Virginia
Harvey KELLY,
finger
and
Mrs.)
welcome (
Mr.
Rockefeller'
and
Janet
s
secretaries,
WARFIELD,
spent
Aina
two
to the Christmas baskets going out from
weeks in Williamsburg during his stay
The Kenneth
CHORLEYs
returned
to
the Union Baptist Missionary Circle to get here
New York
after a month' s
on Dec.
in touch with her between
now and. Christstay at
3
�Page
The
12
Quarter
been
with
Mildred
us
for
this
LAYNE,
past
who
month,
has
Village
tice bowling at the new Williamsburg
3 with friends and
relatives
in
to
turning
TAYLOR
of
Hilton
the New York
the
Architectural
vacationing
a
after
UPSHUR
has
Department
illness
recent
returned
a business
re-
We'
City
WHEAT back at his
C.
to
It is hoped that leagues
Bowling Alley.
can be formed among the girls from the
Goodwin Building, Inn, Lodge, and Craft
House.
Lorraine Haislip and Mar Kent
Bob
in New York
happy to have L.
desk
before
office
the
trip to Buffalo,
re
Jack
office
N.
Stevens head the committee for organizing
this activity and would appreciate any
constructive
after
of Jimmy
Harold SPARKS spent the Thanksgiving
debut
holidays
with his family
Nov.
Ohio
Mr.
and Mrs.
Vernon,
Paul Segnitz
Petersburg, Fla. will arrive Dec.
spend
CW'
s
Christmas
Film
with
their
Librarian
of St.
21 to
daughter
T
J.
30,
in Washington,
D.
Jane,
WERTENBAKER
C
It
was
a
pleasure to have Libby Hay with us on
Friday, Nov. 26.
Libby, formerly secre-
tary to Gerry Bath,
and
in Roanoke
attended
the VMI - VPI
also
the
VMI - VPI
game
E. Randolph LEE and family spent the
holiday in Roanoke, where they visited
his parents, who have recently returned
from
China
at Norfolk
27
General
nice
contribution
Christmas
Program
is on disability
six
son
made his
Hospital
on
Tom MOYLES
is canvassing for
the Yule Log Ceremony.
If
for
singers
toward making
CW' s
a
John
success
BATTS
leave for approximately
Welcome
months
it would be a
to ( Mrs.)
Margaret
KOHLEP who has recently been added to the
accounting
force.
Lorraine
TRAVIS
Virginia Lee WERTH motored
attended
and Ginny BATEMAN,
Haislip
HOUSE NEWS
game
to Roanoke with friends from Gloucester
and
suggestions
resigned last July
and
is now living in Richmond
Mary
Jane KING and Mar Kent STEVENS spent the
Thanksgiving weekend with their parents
in Radford,
or
called upon to participate,
and his wife will attend a meeting of the
American Historical Association, Dec. 29
and
criticisms
James W. Bateman II, 6 lbs. - 132 oz.
Y
in Mt.
19+ 8
Building got together for a little prac-
spent
the weekend of Dec.
is
December,
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
Diana VAN GEYT flew to
Boston to visit friends during the holiday
Lois CHURCHILL and Ruth JOLLY had as
Letha BOOTH,
well - earned
TH' s manager,
ping."
Included
Wilmington,
N. C.,
is taking a
She will be " trip-
vacation.
in her itinerary are
Miami,
and
Nassau,
where she will stay at the British Colonial
Hotel.
Lake
Charles,
She
will
La.,
Thence to Tulsa,
other
Oklahoma,
We
sister.
spend
with her
hope
Christmas
in
sister.
to visit an-
she
will
have
weekend guests for the W&M - N. C. State
game Miss Greta Churchill and Mr. Robert
wonderful
time
Letha expects
to
around
February
Braswell
a
BALL " takes over" during her absence
Miss
of
Mattie
BIPPUS
Roanoke
Jolly
Rapids,
N.
C.,
and
Richmond
of
Anne
spent the weekend of Dec.
3 visit-
ing friends and relatives
in Washington,
D.
guest
C
Angie
and Mrs.
on
the
COWLES
Harry G.
weekend
addition
Matthew,
born
in
Mr.
Dec.
of
to
of
Fowler of Newport News
proud as a peacock
new
was
the
Sam PEACH is
3
these days over the
Peach
October
family Last
John
week
about a dozen girls from the Goodwin
the
TH
15.
to return
Gertrude
We continue to uphold our tradition of
having
a Phi Beta Kappa among our W& M
students.
When
one graduates,
we
wonder
what we' ll do for " higher learning"
someone
always
comesthrough.
This
but
year
we have two men newly elected to PBK Dick
BETHARDS
heartiest
and
Allen PIRKLE.
congratulations
Our
to both:
�NEW.`.
SECOND STORY
WORK
ON THE VIRGINIA
GAZETTE
Page
W1111amaburg
Colonial
of
13
INDEX
In a big second - floor room in the southeast
wing of the Goodwin Building, half -den by
hid
propped- l up oversized books and stacks of 3- by-5inch cards five young ladies engaged in one of the
most im- portant
but little - projects of
known
Colonial
watchful
the
eye
two
index
boisterous
the
Virginia
which
Lester
Cappon,
Gazette. On
pioneer colonial journal,
social
paper, pin -pointing
names
and
events to
confounded so many
has
the
founded. in
by William Parks, the stirring
political events
life of young America were revealed. It has been the task of
Senior Indexer Stella Duff and her aides to pore through
weekly
Editor
volume
-
of
this
of
1736
and
Wil- liamaburg. Under
Research
office is
just across
tiled
hallway, these indefatigable fact finders are compiling a massive
whoso
pages
of
ease
the
photostat copies of this
tortuous
scholars and authors,
path of
research
Everything of significance is
carefully indexed, from foreign news and shipping announcements to
by gone day has
tavernkeepers. A11. the news of this
been
digested: promulgations by the Royal Governor, proceedings of
the
House of
Cenoral Court on
and
Burgesses
Council, lotteries, and stiff sentences imposed by the
high- spirited
offenders. There is
even the report,. fresh from Switzerland, of the unlucky knave
notices of
local
craftsmen
and
sawed
who
was
listed, too,
in half
paint
from
for
his
villainy.
to
ingredients
Imports from
fustian
England
cloth ( or
are
dandiprat s,"
tortoise - shell
"
which still baffle Miss Duff). A-mong other news od it es are the acrostics in
which
a
colonial
first letter
suitor
wooed
his
by means of verse (usually poor), with the
belle
of each line
spelling the
name of his
beloved. All issues
of the
Gazette have been
surveyed,
from the first copy until 1780, when the newspaper deserted Williamsburg for Richmond
with the Colony' s
along
are those
photostated and
others
located
have
been
in
Gov- ernment. The most
places
distant
such
valuable
as
England'
s
Office. One complete volume, for the crucial year 1775, was secured from
Kirby of Wil iamsburg, and was the Galt family copy,
carefully
with
preserved
other
books.
valuable
Gazette
The
Index
autumn of 1942.Mr.Cappon, after commuting from
moved to town to stay in the fall
and
College
Stella
Duff
reported
at Providence,
in
of
February,
1946. Miss
been teaching
had
R. I.,
are
and
Mary 46)
'
Jane Girten ( Mrs.
and
history
Geiger'
in
two
500 -
page
82x11 - pages will
inch
electric
M.
typewriters
buckram -
bound
volumes
in
be re-dcdpro u e by photo -
used
started
Records
in
the
Charlottesvil e during the summer of 1945,
Duff,
in
Public
Mrs. V. Lee
began
a
the
Geyt ( University
his supervision,
of
graduate
Pembroke
Cranston ( R.
of
former
Rochester
assistant,
148).ipyT sts
s niece)
and Shirlee ( Mrs. Charles) Sanderlin. It is hoped
1949
was
Schwarz ( Mrs. Taylor' s
Van
Diana
project
that year and
I.) Junior Indexers are Dorothy
High School.
and William
collection of copies
bound by the Massachusetts Historical Society, although
for
this
exacting
that the Index will appear late in
an edition of about 500 copies. The
offset, with special I.
B.
job.
An
accompanying
complete
set
�Page
14
film
or
micro - cards,
will
also
be
avail-
husband,
but
Comparable only to such monumental
scholarly aids as Dr. Swem' s Virginia
company
Historical
to Norfolk;
able.
Index,
the Gazette
Index
is
the first published index of any colonial
newspaper:
Financed at first by a Rockefeller
Foundation
carried
on with
Williamsburg,
the
December,
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
grant,
the
the project
support
of
and will be published
distinguished
imprint
was
Colonial
of the
under
Insti-
ture of Early American History and Culture.
not
her
her
doctor - son,
Catherine
ing home to Waynesboro;
Meredith
will
DORRIER
is
Harry MORTON home
DIETZ
home to Rich-
Russell McGEHPE is still in such
a thrill over the deer he shot that he
hasn' t decided whether
go to Charlottesville
Robert McCREARY
plant
to hunt another
herbs
on Christmas Day
Williamsburg, although they are a bit
GOODWIN
LOUDEN
NANCY FOSTER ($
the
JAMES
L.
5) That covered
for trash be placed
in the parking
Reception
15) -
the
Wilma
back
Lodge
so
hopes
Matthew
of
area near
Center.
STALLINGS ($
recep-
That
a mirror
that
employees
to
HOWARD
JOINES,
are
and Jack
who
has
go
is
to
West
going
Point
been
and
Rosa-
hunting
lie MINKINS
is keeping
burning
Craft House personnel
cipate,
be hung on the wall of the service
stairway leading to the Game Room
at
Edith ODELL,
helping at Craft House, may keep her candles burning in town also
Arthur
AWARDS
the hedge
or
is going to plough and
Probably staying on in
cagey about committing themselved,
tacles
acgo-
mond
Jean GIESELMANN,
SUGGESTION
1948
her home fires
anti-
at this reporting, making merry
after all hands hang the ornaments
on
the Christmas tree here some night during
the week of December 6 - 12.
us-
Meredith
Dietz
ing this stairway may have a clearer
vision. (
estimates
such
The
that
a mirror
hotel
the
management
installation
will
decrease
of
break-
NEWS FROM C&M
age on this stairway to a minimum.)
Norman HARMON and family spent the
Thanksgiving holiday with his parents
Berlin,
CRAFT
HOUSE
visited
ANTICIPATIONS
Md
friends
Lyman
HALL
in New
glad to have Jennings
No one at Craft House
is willing
commit
himself
or
herself
or
will
at
Christmas
she
do
is eager to tell where
as
to
to
what
but
after
he
everyone
it will be done.
his
and
his
We
Jersey
TAYLOR back
illness
Robert
E.
in
wife
are
at work
MILLS
is
welcomed as he takes up his duties at the
Warehouse
Hobart RAY and family visit-
ed friends
at Pulaski,
Va.
for Thanksgiv-
Two are taking wing: Anne READ is flying
to her family in Cazenovia, New York,
The Paint Department welcomes and
ing
introduces " Bill" WILLIAMS, student at
and Helen HOBSON is " planing" to be with
W& M and part - time employee,
who recently
her mother and
South Norwalk,
joined
at the paint
had her fling
when
she
and Mrs.
Mrs.
is
sister
in Shorefront
Conn
Caroline
COCHRAN
the first December
weekend
motored
to Waynesboro
John Henderson
Laurance
Park,
Brigham;
homeward - bound
with Mr.
to visit Mr.
at
Page
Christmas
FOLK
and
and
with
her
parents.
Clara'
Our " Bill" spends the evening hours
typing, recording, and filing data pertaining
to
paint
projects.
busy with his regular
found assisting
Clara
competent
the
colorist,
interiors
of
When
duties,
in
the
not
too
he may be
Harold FLATTEN,
any of the multitude
s
staff
shop.
she
OLIVER will hasten to Eastern Shore,
Clara to be
the laboratory
our
production
of colors used on
Exhibition
Buildings
of
�L'e.: er^ oer,
A10,6
1946
Colon-,
of
a1
t
i11 _ .:
C& M vacationers
for the month of November
were Nathan E. TALCOTT, Russell WALKER, G.
his
G.
on
COWLES,
Robert
THORNTON,
STEWART,
and
BURRAGE
McROY,
Wm.
R.
Homer PURCELL,
TUDOR,
BARTLETT,
burned
David WALLACE,
on Oct.
30,
W.
are
his
appearance
studies,
an
escort
he
must
in
hot
and
Anne
Elizabeth
Va
of the
to
James
Saunders,
and her
severely
James
Saunders,
Jr
is recuperating
at his
Nov.
pursuit
CALLIS
of
and
Ala.
Mary CARTER is
in Anniston,
glad
who was
on
concentrate
visited Elizabeth' s mother
Branch,
s
is
W& M
at
Drake'
as
that
decided
degree
at
Page _ 55
Page
r
Fred
daughter
Robert
a member
We
Committee
that
R.
last
15.
a
Milton
William BEVERLY
has been appointed
Safety
hear
P.
Alexander
BEVERLY,
CW
Jessie
Jil
Jii1t
with
her
daughter,
new
Mrs.
grandson,
Dale
CARTER
is
guest of Marguerite BOZARTH during the
in Highland
Dale'
s
The
Park.
mother
first
absence
of
hostess
home
meeting of the winter was held at
Building Nov. 9.
The meeting
the Goodwin
was
HOSTESS
outdoor
days
the way.
preparations
dence
the
for
over
focus
fly by and
North,
on
all
of
Christmas
south,
the
other
east,
holidays
attention
and
pleasant
interlude -
combine
with
the
this
the
short
of
a
of
traffic
There
in
the
is
enter-
the
mented
in Scandinavian
last
visited
his
talk
with
countries,
He
summer.
photographs
suppleand
de-
It was extremely interesting and much enjoyed by the hostesses.
Mary J. Daniel
scriptive
pamphlets.
a brief,
no
need
For
cop.
news
pre - Christmas
is
museums
he
which
a hostess
space
little
prece-
are
crowding,
season we enjoy
serenity
gathered
no
west,
Home
It' s
graciousness
strategy
take
few
in the buildings.
is
and
interests.
visitors
to
Alexander
tained the group with a description of the
BRIEFS
December
Mr.
attended.
well
THEATER
BRIEFS
and
Our publicly declared fears concerning
to be
assistant " profectionist"
weeks
Curtis
TATE' S
vacation aspiration,
pending the arrival
Bob finished
of
to be
Fells,
indeed:
Bob
and
Jo
Anne
ELLERT
left
have
After
us.
at W & M, they moved to Little
York.
Before long Bob hopes to
New
hr.ag out his shingle and embark on his
career
as
a
Fred
lawyer
FLANARY
made
a new car,
A GALA
NEW
O U N
YEAR'
S
C
said
Mr.
DANCE
Tate
and
Halligan
AT
has
but
LODGE
Barney Abramst Orchestra will provide music for dancing from 10 p. m. to
a. m.
included
Midnight
in
the
supper
price
of
and
favors
are
admission -
5. 40 per person, tax included. Reservations may be secured by calling Williamsburg Lodge.
i3
Tom
2
and
wife
took
two - week
a
off
for
South
Curtis
vacation.
declares they both had a really fine trip,
regretting only the lack of more time for
hunting..... " Hap" HALLIGAN took a brief
trip to Kentucky to visit his mother. Mrs.
I N G
EVE
WILLIAMSBURG
well -founded
Immediately upon the appearance
of his new Buick Special 4 - door sedan,
Carolina
A N N
proved
been
McCORMICK
now
in ill
health
better
much
is
on
recently,
Daddy - to -be
pins
and
needles,
awaiting the arrival of the daily expected
Shades of the good ole days:
baby
While driving in from their home at Norge,
Ray PECHAN and his wife were rammed from
behind
by
painful,
admits
Boy"
a
nonchalant
stiff
neck
driver -
for Mrs.
that
she
at first
Baymie
had
whanged
result:
P.
thought "
her
over
She
a
now
Nature
the
head.
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Wot
16
a
NEWS
Eob
man'
LANAHAN
of
has
December
Will iamsburo
Colonial
into
graph Company;
and
come
the theater group as relief usher,
Dodds
of
191, 8
college presidents Harold
Princeton,
Robert
Sproul
of Cali-
understudy to booth -boy Maupin SAUNDERS.
fornia, and John S. Dickey of Dartmouth;
Dr„ Thomas Farran, former U. S. Surgeon General; publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger
of the New York Times; Winthrop Aldrich,
NEWS
chairman
of
al Bank;
Harold H.
AND
CONTENT
pany;
Encouraging preliminary reports indicate
that
l.. ct
year'
a
November
s
deficit
heart
of
Mr.
warmed
Allston
are
Mrs.
headliners
liamsburg
the
was
were
still
Oslo,
usual
from many places
quota
visited
Guadalcanal
hero,
was
guest
of
Armouries
Wil-
honor
at
Foundation
Paralysis.
Infantile
a
sentation
arms
Ben-
is
Master
of
Wallace
made the
certain
of the
This
London.
of
include
part
aboard
cannon,
and
which
ship,
will
Gluyas Williams, who has long poked profitable
marked that the loan of these arras " is a
fun at America' s
of
the
New
Yorker
foibles
and
on the
token and
elsewhere,
Herbert Blunck, managing director of
Washington' s big new air -conditioned
Hotel,
for
fancily
cials
a
stayed
busman'
s
at
the
the
championing
Inn with
holiday.
of cur gocd friend
constant
reminder
Top offi-
human rights
British Army,
CO Railroad,
several
CW
at the Inn recently,
officials
were
Lou
B: -rg, roving feature writer for This 4deek
magazine,
once - over
and
called
to give
The
CW a journalist'
Rockefeller
the General Education
Anson,
Army
to which
invited.
again
The
in the world of
in
ar-
excellent
ing:
Gifford,
president
and
chairman
of the
board of the American Telephone and Tele-
and Dr.
for the U. S.
of Williamsburg
subject
issue
Bilhuber,
of special
of iiotel
in
the
article " What' s Wrong with Resort Hotel
Booklets ?,"
Barnard and Walter S.
the
Gertrude
Here for
business
Chester I.
was
folder
in the November
Management.
his aide,
on dietetics
revised
Lodge
ranged fall meetings at the Inn this year.
this important conference were
and education executives
includ-
co-
spent a few days in Williams-
consultant
Inn and
s mention
Foundation
Board
of the
re-
Major General H. M. Whitty,
today. "....
charge of food and transport for the
his
headed by new president Walter Tuohy, held burg with Colonel Spence,
a reception
visitor
operation of the people of Great Britain
and the people of the United States in
stopped in Williamsburg on his way south.
Statler
distinguished
at the
Magazine.
pages
The
of
military
all to be displayed
equipment -
pre-
century
to CW by the
loan,
Virginia - bound
muskets,
Collection
official
eighteenth -
which will be loaned
Tower
Star, spent several days
Artist
Mrs.
McKelway.
with
who
armor,
is already
Inn
and
Kjellberg' s guests in Oslo...
James,
of art and
jamin McKelway, veteran editor of the
the
at
at the Tower of London and Keep-
bulky Washington
in
Folk Museum
at a department heads'
summer Mr, and Mrs, Alex-
er of the outstanding
Lodge luncheon meeting of the National
for
Sir
Mann.
of
Former Marine Corps
recently.
General
A.
A.
Vandergrift,
Commandant
Reidar Kjellberg,
From England came Sir James Mann and Lady
with the average
the
and many
from overseas
spent several days studying CW,
ander were Mr.
elsewhere
Nation-
III,
visitors
Norwegian
entertained
Last
luncheon.
winter -pro-
the Chase
Rockefeller
guests.
of the
was
travel - wise
whose
recent
of
Swift of Swift and Com-
Two noted
director
Con-
board
John D.
others
York,
reported
Along
America,
it
NEW
Mr.
topped
and New Jersey
Boyer,
issue
and
although
Those
activities
this
revenue
Massachusetts,
plates
motion
in
figures,
month
necticut,
license
gross
the
motion
tions
pointed
example
the
are due the Inn,
Department,
to our
folder
a perfect
as "
sales
an
pro -
The magazine gave illustra-
piece."
showing
of
and
layout.
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the Public Information
our
hotel
advertising
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consultants
ever
you
late?
play,
hear
Well,
of
Col. :
when
The Candidates,
Beta Kappa
Hall
Did
Grohmann
and
first
a
Robert
CONGRATULATIONS!
179 years
night -
Munford' s
The following employees
is staged at Phi
on January
18 - 19,
pleted
this
a
year
attendance
witty,
slapstick,
political
satire will
be given its first performance
behind
Lillian
footlights.
and
published
in
written
1798,
The
about
1770,
Candidates
was
Luta
Bush -
William
Culture,
Orvin J.
which
in the April
reprinted
Quarterly
the
in October com-
with
Treasurer' s
Wynn -
a
perfect
Wine
Curator'
s
Office
Department
Archives
Sewell -
apparently never played, and has been
rescued for a modern audience by the
Institute of Early American History and
Minor
service
record:
Alton R.
Although
of
Dept.
Thomas -
of
Interpreta-
tion
manuscript
and is now sponsor -
D.
McPherson -
Maude
Crisp -
Coral
ing the two - day performances.
The copy
from which the reprint and the play were
devised is owned. by Mrs. G. P. Coleman of
Rogers -
Ora D.
Inn
M.
and
Dept.
Lodge
and Lodge
Inn
Weikel -
C. &
Inn
Browning -
and
ITIn
Lodge
and
John Mack Williams -
Lodge
Inn
and
Lodge
Williamsburg, who made it available to CW
College
and
evidence
ties
will
Other
scholars
of
the
be
Institute'
wade
public
s
this
form of two new publications.
Institute
Director
Carl
conclusive
recent
activi-
month
in
CHRISTMAS
Edited by
Bridenbaugh,
CARD PROBLEMS?
the
Did your wife or husband fail to pick up
the
those
Christmas
pungent comments of a sharp- tongued
don' t
lose
colonial
House
assortment
traveler
in Gantleman'
Hamilton'
s
are
collected
Progress:
s
Dr.
Itinerarium,
for print
Alexander
The
1744,
is
the
new
title is Meeting House and Counting House:
The Phil delphia Quaker Merchcnt by
ferent
Frederick
Tclles.
Both new books
are
being marketed by the University of North
Carolina
The
Press.
retail
price
of
the
is
If
s
wide
twelve - card
employees!).
B.
for
views)
of
year'
and
If you like
reasonable.
second
in time?
this
cards
heart,
prices
color
box (
watercolor
so,
Craft
are
cards,
with
six
there
dif-
reproductions,
selling at just one dollar ( less 20% to CW
there
some
are
of
If
eight
Tom
you
like
gravure
Williams'
photographs,
reproductions
best
camera
of
work,
at
former is 44. 00, with the price of the
Jack
latter tentatively set at $ 5. 00
ninety cents ( less the special reduction).
Upshur' s
special
there are the red and blue Overly boxes at
chandise
was
sale
of
jam- packed
If you happen
discarded merfrom
the
start,
one
dollar
to prefer
less
pencil- sketch
In
discount.
all
cards,
cases,
with employees emptying most of the tables incidentally, the boxes are durable and
during the first strenuous twQ - hour sesseye - catching, and suitable for gift mailing
ion
A big, new batch of 2x2 - inch color or keeping at home.
slides
the
has
NOTICE:
Page
Le
been
Reception
The News,
special
rate
received
and
is
on
sale
at
Center.
keeping
photographic
photographs
of
an eye on its budget
insert
Christmas
So, if any appropriate
keep us in mind.
in this
issue.
gatherings,
photographs
we
in good midwinter fashion, carries
However, if we can round up some first-
plan
are available
to
include
them
after the holiday
in
the
season,
next
issue.
please
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8
NEWS
W
I
L
L
I
M S B U R G
A
THE
December
5: 00 p.
Vesper
Services;
O B
CHRISTMAS
12
m. -
Christmas
m. -
ship;
8: 00 p.
December
1
5: 00
Christmas
Candlelight
December
8:
00
Ser-
Bowl. 6:
14
and
S
cont' d. )
m. -
p.
refresh- ments,
p.
m.
Community Christmas
Tree, at Market
Square
Green,
i\
lighting" of
white
the town.
signali g"
Feh
00
Fol wing this, 1 the caroling group
will form. 1:
30
p.
m.
Holy Communion;
-
Bruton Church. Dec
15
11,'
Christmas musicale by
and Mary Choir; Phi Beta Kappa
p.
24 (
too
carols,
Was ail
Presbyterian Church.
vice; choir directed by Carl A.
Williamsburg Baptist Church. /
R V E
Yule Log ceremony,
Mass; Catholic
Williamsburg
Lodge;
Pageant by Westminster Fellow
m. -
S E
m. -
iam
Church
1
of
St.
Bruton
11:
00
Dedication
m.'
a.
Virginia
of
-
Methodist
gifts
Orphanage %
/
p.
00
Wit` 11k00
Kappa Hall.' :4:
00
by
a:
Christmas .
service;
Parish House. Williams - ethodist
b, arg
m.Open House at
Church. 17: 00 p.
of
00
i Academy; Phi Beta
p.
m. followed
Party -
ham Ter 8: 00
The
Wa
supper
for
children
w Colle 8:
and
0: 00
Corner.
ib0
for,
children
r9g$-_--? ;-_
the
hen
fit
parents;
and
Littlest
Camel
Dec
Wiliamsburg
Bapt
1 '
t,
Williamsburg
p.
m.
Will pms
and
parents
at
tist Church
hildren
ch
and
11:
to
Dan
er
of
i. Christmas
m. Program
on
Heights
Bru
Church.
p. m.
15
to
12:
15
a.m. - 4kTA;
inscribed
G Room. Dece b-
Christmas
Candle1 ightSlrvice of Williamsburg
c14irch". Evening - "
Club
Baptist
28
24
6;
31
Choir; Lodge
City ourthouse. s
C
a.m. New Year'
";
y l N w Year' s
bonfire; place to
Jaycee party
Whaley children, grades
2: 00
Eve
e; Lodge. Janu.
S
for Matthew
r
10:
Presbyterian Church; caroling in
December
8: 15
70— mu
T&
it
00
p open
r Bap- Dec em
dr_ hodist
27
e-;.
23
p.Governor' s
m. -
DQtO
Palace by
ca
-
both
Williamsburg
December
urches\
rge. public
party
Me
without
all
phecy";
TE:.
-
00
Christmas
public
mber-
without
December 20 7:
m. tol Capi by
to
Knelt." / Williamsburg. 1 ervices at
/
Morni g-
light
to
err
p.
candle- open
m.
Presbyterian Church
p.
26
Raleigh Public caroling
p.up; e
gro
parents; Bruton
charge. 5: 30
Communion;
fdrj
m. Pageant, "
4:
WoodenISkp Christmas," by students
High
Church.
Holy
mber 25 liamsburg
Church. ' 3:
Catholic
19
rch
Methodist
dnight - Solemn
,
Bede.
Mass;
December
1948
SEASON
music by Sanctuary and Junior Choirs;
Williamsburg Methodist Church.
5: 30 p.
December,
Colonial
of
1
-
Day
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NEWS
Volume
1,
Number
8
Williamsburg.
we
As
look
take this
message
to
ahead
done during
opportunity
year.
News to send a personal
I appreciate all the good work that has
past year. In many respects I believe it will be one of
the
is much
There
through the
each employee of Colonial
our best. Whatever the final returns may be
better
of another year I want to
at
First, let me say how much
been
January, 1949
to
for 1948, I want to see 19+9 an even
be done. Already we have
more activity
at
this season of
the year than at any such time in the twenty - two years of
the
approved
organization.
And now
be specific -the Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg have
to
a program for this year
that
in construction, in our broad
stimulating
greater
public interest
this
organization continues
meet
the
challenge
educational program, in
Colonial
in
to
of
means jobs and a
offer opportunities
deter- mination
and
that our combined
in
the
year
that
All
productive effort
business operations, and in
of
this
means
for continued growth
that
and advancement as we
each
succeeding year. If each of the 1, employees
133
the
Wil iamsburg.
mighty
fine
best efforts
spirit
which
I
will
of
have seen
make
in
Colonial
recent
Colonial Wil iamsburg
Wil iamsburg works with
months, I
am
even
more successful
confident
�Page
2
NEWS
of
Colonial
Christmas
Letters
A special
insert
1949
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SPECIAL
Two
January,
Williamsburg
in this News contains
two letters
from Mr.
John D.
Rockefeller,
These letters are reproduced here at the suggestion of Mr. Norton so that all employees may share in the Christmas messages
which they convey.
Jr.
Mr.
and
Garden
and
John D.
Flower
III.
Rockefeller
Symposium
March 4
28 -
February
Even in the midst of the stimulating sessions of the current Antiques and
Decorations Forum, Colonial Williamsburg is planning and looking ahead to the Garden
Flower
and
an
even
which this year
Symposium -
wider
than
appeal
in the
an official welcome by Mr. Norton,
has been broadened
two
past
in scope
On Monday,
years.
and should have
February 28,
following
an address on " The Place of Small Gardens in
Your Life" will be given by Richardson Wright, noted editor of the magazine
House and Garden; in the evening, historian Thomas J. Wertenbaker will speak on
in the United States."
Historical Restorations
Tuesday' s morning session is devoted
to " American Gardening,
Yesterday and Today," with John C. Wister of Swarth-
more discussing the north and H. Harold Hume of the University of Florida discussing
the south; in the evening, Pierce Middleton' s topic is " Virginia in the Eighteenth
On Wednesday, the two morning meetings will take up flower arrangements,
Century."
with lectures on arrangements past and present by Mrs. John R. Fisher and Mrs.
Francis F. Merriam of the Garden Club of New Jersey; another CW expert will speak
at the evening session, when A. Edwin Kendrew discusses " The Architecture of
Williamsburg."
On Friday, the concluding day of the Symposium, the subject of
colonial garden design in America will be reviewed by Alden Hopkins and by Bremer
W.
Pond
with
of
residents
should
James
Just
Love
are
consult
H.
had
ness.
Norton
Tours
Harvard University.
Friday
a
Love
night'
eligible
Mrs.
as this
upon
as
issue
as
and
discussion - teas
candlelight
payment
of
the $
15.
at
the
are
scheduled,
Governor'
registration
s
Palace.
fee:
those
together
Local
interested
Rowe.
Resigns
resigned
by
reception
s
Personnel
Director
of the News went
Director
of
the
to press,
Personnel
word was received
Relations
Department
that James
because
of
H.
ill-
This announcement was made with regret by Executive Vice - President Bela W.
on January
25.
Although Jim Love had been at his new post only since
December 6, he already had a host of warm friends throughout the organization who
look forward to his complete recovery soon and who wish him the best of luck for the
Pending appointment of a successor, Duncan Cocke will resume general super-
future.
vision
of
personnel
work,
with
the
able
assistance
of
Virginia Marston.
�Rockefeller
Center
New York 20, I. Y.
Room 5600
30 Rockefeller
Plaza
January 4,
Dear Mr.
1949
Norton:
I am sure that the beautiful
greetings
which
you
have
sent
me
on
letter of holiday
behalf
of
the
Staff
and Employees of Colonial Williamsburg has given Mrs. Rockefeller
as
much
pleasure
as well as my own,
it
as
has
given
In
me.
her
I thank you and your associates
name
for it.
The relationship which Mrs. hockefeller and I have
had to the constantly growing Williamsburg " family" has
been as delightful, inspiring and rewarding to us, as you are
enough
gracious
over,
there
is
to
no
it
imply
place
has
where
been
Mrs.
to " the family ".
Rockefeller'
spirit seems more constantly to manifest
which she
so
Williamsburg,
dearly loved.
place
that
her,
attracted
those for whom you write
but
even
more
itself
than in
It was not only the
the
people -
and other dear friends
whose constant and unfailing kindness
More-
s radiant
all
of
as well -
always gave her such
That I can, and always shall continue to find
there in your midst the sense of her stimulating and inspihappiness.
ring presence,
burg.
The
a
task
of
will ever bind me the more closely
task to which we have all committed
national
c:•. allenge.
and
The measure
world
of
significance.
success
that will
to n illiams-
ourselves
is
It is an unending
be attained
in
accom) lishing it rests largely in the hands and hearts of
those of you v, ho have sent me this beautiful holiday letter.
I have every confidence
in you.
With deep gratitude
for the letter,
with cordial
thanks to each one who joined you in it, and wishing for you
all a happy and prosperous New Year,
I am,
Very sincerely,
Mr.
Bela W.
Norton,
1st Vice President
Colonial Williamsburg
s':
illiamsburg,
Virginia
�30
Rockefeller
New York
Room
Plaza
20, N. Y.
5000
January 5,
1949
Dear Tug:
I
ciated
the
your
can'
t
tell
letter
of
you
how
December
much
Blanchette
23rd,
written
and
on
I
appre-
behalf
of
It is
Colonial
Williamsburg.
an exciting venture we are all associated in- -with challengthe first order.
of public
of
service
We
ing possibilities
staff
and
employees
of
are, I feel, on the threshold of greatly expanded usefulness
and to know of the commonness
interest
of the group as a whole
I know I do not
ure
our
of purpose
relationship
have the association
need
is most
the
what
it is adds
Williamsburg
Mr.
Bela
W.
Norton,
Colonial Williamsburg,
Williamsburg,
Virginia.
staff
Inc.,
a real
is.
pleasTo
so much to the satisfac-
as a whole.
Very
of
gratifying.
to tell you what
with
tion of the undertaking
and the keenness
sincerely,
�January,
NEWS
1949
Coioni
of
HOLLYWOOD
TREK
TO
Kershaw
five, became
Page
Williamsburg
t1
WILLIAMSBURG:
KERSHAW
Burbank, whose
Director of
CW' s
BURBANK'
S
photograph
Public
3
TEN - YEAR
appears on
Information
page
Department on
1.
The new department head is qualified by experience
to cope with any program presented to him by our policy
Jan- uary
makers. He
has
counseled
Hedy
and
executives
Lamarr;
tele- vision; has
and
personalities
during
Company.
our
glam-
with
visits as a
s
note: This
which
to
writers
pulp
dominated by
individuals,
job: to
twofold
screenland
businessmen
make
clear to the
clear
to
their
public
the
reports
invest
aircraft
media,"
including
and a
Wil amsburg' s
to
engaged in a
products.
or
companies,
place
as
every "
member of Earl
be a good
and
clients
with
statistical
Colonial
senior staff
might
varying
worked
written
learned of
lengthy
editor'
this field is
reactions
has
such
has
that
aura of
relations
to
objectives of
phony
relations.
sober - sided study of
aims and
serial;
Newsom and
dispel
public
Public
radio
plans and
counselors
Actually,
group
have a
their
client, and
the intelligent anticipation of public interest
public. They do this by
trends, by continuous cooperation
with
magazine
to
make
those
inform
the
his
public ( newspaper
responsibilities
and
the
editors,
radio
and
motion
producers), and by the development of
interpretative and descriptive printed
their
own. CW' s new director has had a solid grounding in this difficult
picture
matter
who
client
of
and stimulating work_
7 The ten year path which ultimately led to Williamsburg started precariously
in Hollywood in 1937, where Yale graduate Burbank appeared as a junior writer"
"
for M - G He
M,only to find that the job had vanished during his cross - country
mail
Department of M - G began, instead, in the Publicity
M,pushing a
16_ weekly), glueing and
boy
18).
Thereafter he
stepped
up to
and
also
a
become
a
given
trip.
truck ($
10),
finally becoming a fullfledged office
wrapping ($ 17.
wangled an opening as apprentice writer and ultimately
man" b-for all publicity on assigned
responsi le
pictures,
"
unit
stable" of
"
film
stars
public
permanent
as
These stars included not only Miss Lamarr, but Judy
Massey, Nelson Eddy, and (for a stormy spell) Mickey
relations
Garland, Walter
chorea.
Pidgeon, Ilona
Rooney. Among the early pictures assigned unit -man Burbank were A Day at the Circus
and
Wizard
Oz. In the
of
hours
celebration
for
the
former, one job given him was to stage a zany after starring Marx
Brothers. In The Wizard of
Burbank was confronted with the exacting job of
capacity for trouble - making belied their
Oz,
impresario
shepherding fifty -six
midgets, whose
size. In 1939, Kerk Burbank . moved into the free lance field, placing stories
with This Week, Col ier' s,
and other magazines, preparing experimental television
scripts, and
Hollywood
authoring a radio serial which traced the tribulations of a young
couple. In 1940 he joined the noted Hal Horne
windows,
Exploitation
Department: he was
Organization, heading the Writing
publicity for films such
Valley,
Moontide, A Yank in the R. F•..
F., "
and innumerable
as How Green Was My
pictures," Two years later Fox Films took over the whole Hal Horne
Betty Grable
outfit, and Kerk became Executive Assistant to Horne, working on advertising, publicity,
"
men," and developing
and
promotion, directing a forty - man force of advance
national film tie - ins (
Jane Eyre
wardrobes, cigarette
endorsements, department store
and
responsible for
etc.).
One stray venture in this period was a joint invention with cartoonist
Dr.
Seuss - the
by
merging
male
and
Infantograph, which
female
photographs
with
infanticipated the appearance of the little one
a
trick
camera
and
special
masking
�Pa,
4
e
NEWS
of Colonial
By 1913h. had deserted Hollywood to
become
Director'
of
Richard Condon,
lations'
Look
counselors
is America"
This
was
Pathe'
he
re-
include
s"
and numerous
that
for
public
accounts
Week,
then
extensively
counts,
whose
series,
It
clients.
Promotion
Incorporated,
Magazine,
work
National
This
other
begrn
on non - Hollywood
ac-
including Houghton Mifflin ( pub lishers),
S.
fabrics),
for
his
firm -
owls
what
moti-
Burbank
Associ-
representing the F. H. McGraw con struction firm, Flight Safety Foundation,
ates -
International Roll Forming Company,
Barnes Aircraft, and others; and in July,
1948,
he moved
over
to Earl
for
ready
near
was
at
Greenwich,
completed
only
occupancy -
last
a Week
after
its owners decided to move to Williamsburg:
is
now
on
the
market,
and
the
Burbanks
are again house - hunting ( perhaps, if building costs drop, Mr. Gedcy will have a
client for " Geddy' s Acres. ")
LODGE
vates group reactions).
Two years later he
started
and
which
Re-
Center
out
a new house
Stroock
Group Dynamics ( a fancy name for a burgh of
academics trying to
find
is
Connecticut,
and the
Harvard- M. I. T.
search
19+ 9
The only dark cloud on the Burbank
horizon
It
to
January,
Williamsburg
Newsom
MEAL
PRICES
During the two sessions of the Antiques and Decorations Forum ( beginning
with :_
uncheon on Monday, January 25, and
ending with breakfast on Saturday, January 29, and the following week from
luncheon on February 1 through breakfast
on February 5) meals will be served in
the Lodge dining room only at these fixed
prices:
and
85
Breakfast
Company.
Public
relations
appotntment
of
Public
as
expert
Director
Information
nounced
on December
fective
with
he hopes,
the
new
of
for
28
Burbe_
nk' s
the
CW
was
It
W.
represents,
a logical
Norton,
the
new
department
several
years
and
will
The 40% discount granted CW employees will,
of
course,
Kershaw,
son
Alexandria.
a
geographic
wide
emphasize
FEATURES
both
ex-
activities
and father came,
den,
S. C.,
Kerk
was
Burbank
and
born
hails
Jr.,
and
daughter
The family represents
Kerk' s mother
respectively, from Cam -
Pittsfield,
in
Flushing,
from
Maine.
two
periods,
EMPLOYEES
See
yourself
Massachusetts;
L. I.;
Mrs.
as
Tom
Williams
sees
you in the new Goodwin Building display.
Here,
area:
these
NEW PHOTO DISPLAY
With the new director will be wife
Thorne
for
but will apply only to fixed -price meals.
organization."
Betty,
continue
over the past
ternal and internal publicity
f the
50
head
will carry forward the broad program of
public relations of Colonial Williamsburg
which has been developed
2
ef-
last stop after a
rather
hectic ten -year journey.
Working
closely with Executive Vice- President
Bela
1 65
Dinner . .
an-
and became
year.
Luncheon
Department
view
featuring
for
the
next
two
weeks,
you
selected
publicity
pictures
CW employees.
All are
interesting, all were taken during the
past
few
examples
graphy.
months,
and
all
are
good
of Tom' s top - flight photo -
�New
Appointments
Left,
Kershaw
Burbank,
Director of the Department
of Public Tnformation.
Right, Miss Catherine
Dormer,
Manager
of
Craft House.
Gay
Nineties
Ball --
Inn
and
Lodge
�Goodwin
Building
CHRISTMAS
PARTY
Featuring food committee ( right),
play
cast (
audience
immediately
reaction.
below),
and
�CW' S
NEWS
19+ 9
January,
LICENSED
IV.
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
MANUFACTURERS:
WEDGWOOD,
MASTER
POTTER
OF WILLIAMST3URG
One
I
w
Page
the
America
many
ii
of
closest
through
is
the
AND PflESENT
cultural
the
limes
between
has been
centuries
by
epitomized
PAST
Wedgwood."
name "
England
It
and
which
ceramics -
is
for
a tribute
to one family' s artistic skill and business management
that Wil iamsburg in the twentieth century can receive
fine china from the sauce pottery
planters
The "
Queens Ware," which
Queen Charlot e, wife of
and
tradesmen
master potter
George III, is the
which supplied so
many
century
Williamsburg.
eighteenthWedgwood created in 1765 for
in
Josiah
very
pattern, quality, and composition
of earthenware which is to be sold through
Craft House. The Wedgwo d family' s three- century record in ceramics began
in
1612, when potter Gilbert Wedgwood acquired two hundred acres and a pot bank
near
Burselm, England. Gilbert' s great great- grandson
the
pot
-
increasing production
by
which
banks
ivory
tower
-
of
both "
the
craftsman:
late
eighteenth
was Josiah, who directed
and " ornamental" ware
century
a
was
he
useful"
successful
were
businessman
in
huge, bottle- shaped
world famous. Josiah was no
and
a
political
liberal - in
1778 he bless' d his stars and Lord North that America
is free" as
one refuge "
from the iron hand
of tyranny." Although not all the Wedgwood family stayed
s grandson,
in
for
ceramics Josiah'
example, was
Charles Darwin), many of its .
members joined hands to direct the development of
the plant - now
a huge, modern factory -
estate
at Barlaston, with
employee
hausing, schools, and
playing fields. The president of the North American firm is
who began his training in pottery
World
War
II
with
and
his
the
a
forth- coming
Wil iamsburg
curtailed
Wil-
materials
liamsburg
Canadian Navy. He is a recognized authority in ceramics
as well: both these facts are underscored by
enthusiast
as
invited speaker
since
and
licensed
the Craft
shipping, Wedgwood
mulberry
husk
the Antiques
and
Decorations
design.
An
manufacturer, Wedgwood has been associated with
Program began
in
us with "
supplied
pattern. To make this china even
a
at
will be Josiah Wedgwood and his Contribution to
"
English Ceramics." As a
Colonial
C.Wedgwood,
in 1927, since inter upted only by service during
Royal
appearance
Forum, where his subject
Hensleigh
Queens
1936. Until
Ware"
the
in
war
an
uncolored
more attractive, it will hereafter be produced with
entire
dinner
service
in
this
design
is expected
to
be available late
in
1949. A
have
been
developed
second venture
after
ten
years
with Wedgwood is
of
for this twelve - plate set were prepared by
edition
is
already
under
way
at
Barlaston
and
will
be
the
and
study
Commemorative Plates, which
experiment.
Special
etchings
Samuel Chamberlain, and a first
on
sale
this autumn. Other
projects have
been discussed, and it seems pleasantly and predictably certain that
this
important association, dating from Williamsburg' s
colonial days, will continue far
into
�Page
NEWS
8
Williamsburg
Colonial
of
January,
19+ 9
MEMO
ANTIQUES
RE:
AND
DECORATIONS
Although fingers
both
sessions
hung
out
the
of
the
SRO
FORUM
are still crossed in the hope of good treatment by the weather,
Forum
sign
to be
seem
early
in
an
assured
The
January.
Hard- pressed Alma
success.
Reservations
Office
for
the
Inn
Lee Rowe
and
Lodge has been pleasantly snowed under by requests for accommodations during this
special midwinter activity, and John Green and Henry Beebe have been pooling their
resources and ingenuity to try to complete the rooms in the new Lodge wing in time
for Forum patrons.
The program and distinguished
November
January
list of guest
speakers was
announced
in the
The sessions are scheduled for January 24+ through 28, and from
through
CW is sponsoring the Forum jointly with The Magazine
February 4.
News.
31
Antiques.
It will be possible
out
issued
noon
by
teas
expected,
for certain employees
Arrangements
charge.
Mrs.
the
or
These
Rowe. (
wives
must
Monday
be . made
passes
evening
or husbands
to attend sessions
through
will
Department
not,
course,
admit
of the Forum withwith
the
special
bearer
to
basses
after-
Because of the very large attendance
reception.)
of employees
of
Heada,
cannot
this year be extended this
same
privilege.
If sucby Colonial Williamsburg.
cessful in all respects, it will not only be repeated in 1950 but will establish a
pattern for other large discussion - gatherings held in Williamsburg during winter
This
is
the
in future
months
first
forum
years.
of
Thus
size
such
it
is
arranged
important
both
for
educational
reasons
and
because it may lead to effective annual measures to avoid a seasonal slump in our
hotel
at
operations.
this
forum
It
proceed
is
therefore
to
the
advantage
Any suggestions
smoothly.
of
everyone
to
see
that
for improved efficiency
all
during Forum sessions should be passed along at once to Tom McCaskey.
RECIPE
OF
NO.
THE MONTH -
Williamsburg
6
Inn Honey Dressing
z cup vinegar
1 tsp.
dry mustard
u cup sugar
1 tsp.
paprika
u cup honey
1 tsp.
celery seed
1 tsp.
celery salt
1 tsp.
onion juice
1 cup Wesson Oil
Mix
vinegar,
celery
mixture
seed
into
sugar,
and
honey,
celery
this.
Whip
and
mustard,
salt,
and
onion
pour
paprika.
juice,
on
fruit
Wesson
salad.
Boil
Oil.
and
Pour
chill.
first
event;
or service
Mix
cooled
�January,
NEWS
1949
JIMMY KNIGHT:
Colonial
of
ARCHAEOLOGIST
Williamsburg
houses being prepared for restoration.
His
To
anyone
acquainted
Page 9
with
Williams-
drawings
of
these
old places
led
him
burg,
the sight of a front lawn or vacant
to do a great deal of note - taking in the
field.
Then he was assigned to draw up
field
criss- crossed with
trenches
the
On a
foreman
piles
and
of
is
earth
shallow
familiar.
layout
the Wythe
of
was
assigned
House
to work
A
grounds.
with
diggers,
fair day from two to ten laborers can be
seen digging in the neat two - foot
trenches or carefully clearing the outcroppings
of
excavated
brick.
Today,
but it soon proved unnecessary to have him
present when Jimmy had to instruct the
laborers in practically every move they
made.
So
he
assumed
full
charge
it' s
worked
on
this basis
ever
since.
at
the
House.
A
Hall.
few
House
that
or
wherever
of
the
weeks
Before
Guard
But
site
ago,
notes
notebook,
was
at
there
the
in his
is
Foster
Tazewell
Brush - Everard
is,
same man supervising
making
it
it was
the
it
demolished
old
the
the work ,
CW'
s
archaeologist,
the
on
the
has
4,? ? 6.
never
in his
he
is
field
just
about
in the
the
best . man
He
country.
can
in
it
tell
to
see
the
old
Saunders
Circus
and
has
is
from
the
desk.
is his
phenomenal
of the success
others
can
see
achievement
strata
nothing.
this line
in
location
the
House
old
brick
Guard
or
fragment
shaving"
the
since.
than
Jimmy Knight
casion,
architecture
for
began,
1937,
after
CW,
as
in charge
His
a
to work
of
draftsman.
on the
He
spot.
Department
first worked with Her-
he
of the
ever
who was
a greater
and
ends
did
around
deal
can discern
dif-
where
His
outstanding
was
in
determin-
of the chimney
when
not
of brick
it
soil
a
was
through
in
single
left
to mark
careful
of the earth and his ability to
discoloration
where
greatest
the
has
A great
eyesight.
he
with
Ragland,
of " junk"
is because
been
bert S.
Architectural
odds
the
in
place
he has
of
ferences
at
at Jamestown,
characteristics
keeps
foundations
a slight
the
he
he has had in locating
notice
and the excavations
that
wealth
restoration
battlefields
of
But Jimmy' s greatest blessing
the
Yorktown
became
the
in
Except for four
having started in 1931.
years as a Federal employee during the
the
he
valuable
two personal
ing the exact
been coming ever since.
He also has one
of the longest service records with CW,
of
Thus
the most
One
else
his
more about an eighteenth -century house by
digging around its foundations than a
layman can tell by looking at a photograph of the building.
A native of near -by Yorktown, Jimmy
started coming to Williamsburg as a youth
in Wil-
on his drawing board than anyHe refuses
drafting room.
to clean it up, however, because he says
that whenever anyone wants something he
can' t locate anyplace else, he can supply
one
parti-
like
houses
for
5:;l " Iilijl! lip .
cular type of archaeology to the point
his
subject.
of
accumulation
he
list
a CW' s research men.
Jimmy is noted especially
rr
is
specialized
restored
The
reads
excavated
one
received a formal lesson in this exacting
he
has
the
Although
job.
he
all the
measuring old brick
Knight,
where
of
battered
trenches with his tiny trowel.
Stocky, of medium height,
grayhaired, and hatless, Jimmy
science,
which
liamsburg, and as he did this field work
he not only gained practical experience,
but did a lot of reading on
walls,
or carefully
scraping
the side of one of the
man
plots
a list
House.
always
of
and has
normal
he
the
trick
eye
printed
can
the
of the
fireplace
is
had
to write
see.
entire
On
one
soil
stood.
smaller
oc-
alphabet
in
a line only 3/ 16 of an inch long with a
He
older
sharp
butes
pencil
his
as
He attrionly tool.
for microscopic printing
his
ability
�Page
10
NFWS of Colonial Williamsburg
to his days working for the government.
The
bosses
at
Washington
wanted
Uncle Sam'
so much
point
without
where
no
one
a magnifying
could
read
E"
s "
Bonds:
1949
Rod Jones
passes along an urgent reminder that employees ought to take the opportunity to
buy " E" bonds through payroll deductions.
data on the charts he was drawing that
he finally had to crowd the words to
the
January,
them
Although
VE
and VJ
are long past,
glass.
days
the need
But one of Jimmy' s fortes is his
patience in explaining operations to the
to
countless
tourists
who
see
No
how many
ask
him, "
must be obvious to every
American.
Buying Govern-
matter
doing ?" he maintains
you
obliging
attitude,
explain
about
the
bricks,
old
at
What
the
are
hesitates
oyster - shell
or
work.
his easygoing,
and never
the
of the particular
is working.
him
to
mortar,
characteristics
building
on which
he
citizen
and
good
wise
investor.
roll
a broad
pro-
preparedness
cents
for
the
budget -
Office.
Manager:
Dorrier
Craft
For details,
In
Dorrier,
1946,
new Craft
s
Pay-
House
Catherine
post
in the
She rose rapidly to
office.
mail -order
consult
Waynesboro'
took a secretarial
House
become
NEWS
of
h.). fi T RE ASl1P.y ment bonds the patriotic
makes good
sense for
Catherine
F. F.
finance
gram
The
manager.
latest
chapter in her success story was announced
on January 15,
Williamsburg Night" in Pittsburgh:
CW is fortunate in having a growing unofficial family of boosters, who carry
the story of Williamsburg throughout this
and
country
abroad.
One
enthusiast
is
Pittsburgh' s Henry Reuter, of the public
relations
firm
of
Reuter
and
Craft House,
Jr.,
who
Memphis,
ployee)
Industrial
publicist
staged a gala " Williamsburg Night"
gathering
of
burghers.
over
200 prominent
Tennessee
Reuter
for a
Pitts -
A buffet dinner by candle-
accept
a position
a graduate
College,
and her
Hospitalization
on the
Association,
to
Dorrier,
worked
native
in
of
in
Waynes-
boro before coming to Williamsburg.
that
Advertisers
Miss
Fairfax Hall Junior
who with his family is a frequent
in the restored city.
visitor
Recently,
of the National
resigned
Norfolk.
Bragdon,
Inc.,
behalf
when she became Manager of
replacing Harry L. Morton,
those
premiums
Insurance:
for
Proving
hospitalization
insurance ( paid jointly by CW and the emare
a
good
itvest. ment,
Virginia
Marston toted up statistics for the ten month period frgm February 15 to December
15, 1948.
Claims presented covering both
employee
and
dependents
totalled
110,
light ( using recipes from our cookbook)
was followed by a program featuring our
color
six
with
settlements adding up to $ 9, 212. 33.
slides
and a specially - mitten
script delivered by two costumed students
of
the
showing
Tech Drama
Carnegie
the
candlelight -
last
the
School.
While
Christmas
of this
togethers (
and
the back
scene -
Bruton
Church by
those
who
Negro
Acappella
Chorus
other
gatherings:).
forgot
Dubell
several
Gay Nineties
songs
reminiscent
of
Pages
immortalize
five
the
and
Inn -
Lodge and Goodwin Building yuletide get -
of Pittsburgh appeared in costume to sing
Christmas
Parties:
issue
Studios
to
are
view,
get
of
our
hand to
photographs
Williamsburg'
responsible
for
of
s Von
the
and all the other'
on the Palace Green.
caroling
scenes are the handiwork of indefatigable
String
musicians, playing appropriate eighteenth - Tom Williams.
For full news of the Inn see page
century numbers,
continued the theme in a Lodge fracas,
12
Arrangements
banquet room decorated with displays of
for the Goodwin Building shindig were in
Williamsburg
views.
To enterprising " fan" the capable hands of Harold Sparks, who
Reuter go our thanks and appreciation.
also teamed up
with
Ralph Bowers to con-
�January
NEWS
1949
the Fish -house
concoct
Colonial
The
punch.
March
24+);
these
with
no
was prepared by Monier and Irma Williams,
public
Luta
although
Sewell,
and
Angie
Cowles,
who
struggled long hours over the appetizing
beaten biscuits
Grace
Baiter
for the Smithfield
headed
the
hum.
decorations
com-
mittee,
with help from practically every
department.
Entertainment was staged by
Casey Miller, featuring dancing and a
the
skit:
cast
of
characters
see
familiar
Final
ample.
Department
and 7 of the December
News)
found
a wel-
goes
sonnel
to
Campioli,
ried
and has
the
special
attractions of Williamsburg, and has alEo
make arrangements for .many eye- catching
On
displays.
window
a recent
visit
to
Williamsburg, promotion -wise Ruth Gaffney
boned up on present and future plans of
CW,
and
set
with new
off
again
information
to
make
details,
now
office,
be
in
College
rounds
added
at
the
the
New
next
York
issue.
Many CWers live
Activities:
his
sigh
research
dates
March
Taming
16 - 17,
of the
Music - lovers
often
note:
on
March
will
Shrew
sulk
overlook
the
Don
7).
speak
when
aside
Shakespeare'
radio
static,
College
concerts (
Cossack
Chorus
Phi
Beta
Kappa
Hall,
and
who
are
Paolo Treves of the Italian Parliament (
February 8), Greek diplomat Andre
February
24+),
and Indian
authority Benoy Sarkar of Calcutta
of
on
whose
is mar-
succeeds
has
doctor'
resigned
s
instruc-
Theatre
Gun - wise,
in furnishing
Gordon
architect,
possible
Phil
Russell,
next
News
in
the News
the
news
The
Boston
studies for
business
Draftsman,
have
the
The
issue,
of
Chief
we' ll
in
noted
is at CW preparing
expansion
of
block....
has
his
future
issue.
New
After
Hands:
will no longer
be
this
the
responsibility of the Publications Deand
saw
one
who
eight
the
of
the
Public
infancy,
has
The
employees'
worked
issues,
new
bility
becomes
Relations.
this
precarious
appear
Dr.
Michalopolos (
who
Robb,
who
program
will
and who
he is also advising
Personnel
s
Among coming lecturers,
at
the
will be presented.
at
Campioli,
children,
the First
on
the Departments
set
the
Higgins
Sing, we are glad to report, will
stay with CW as Advisory Consultant, workincluding
ing on special assignments -
Althea
interested,
for
tions.
partment,
if
Mr.
N. J.,
duties
at the distance to Broadway, and overlook
the first rate drama directed by Miss
Hunt;
the
per-
Mario E.
Eggers &
Moorehead,
executive
advantage of the opportunity to participate in W& M' a stimulating after hours
example,
As
important
manager
of
three
P.
resigned;
for
the
the Architectural
announced.
in Norwood,
plans
Playgoers,
in
Department.
tectural
alongside the College and rarely take
programs.
for ex-
that
Magazine
and enthusiasm.
Biographical
will
her
current
New York City, will come to Williamsburg
about February 1 as Head of the Archi-
Singleton
of
Indian
Changes:
several
firm
architectural
the
them
the
is open to local
production
is
remind
the
quintet,
Personnel
were
home
to
the
remember
press,
changes
come and hard -working assistant in Ruth
The persuasive Miss Gaffney has
Gaffney.
been visiting travel agencies throughout
East
to
fans,
borrowers.
Dick
Not long
ago, Allston Boyer, knee - deep in his
winter promotion program ( see pages 6
with
work:
at
note:
Important
Visited:
enough
excellent library
Jane Segnitz, Mary Jane King, Mar Kent
Stevens, Tom McCaskey,
Jack Upshur, and
Agencies
open
11
may overlook the chance to
teams
other
are
Sports
high - scoring basketball
included
Showman.
lectures
charge.
football team,
News
Travel
Page
bu.rg
Willian
feast
of
and
editors
returns
as
to
wants
present
editor,
luck
orphaned
rightful
a
every-
in these
good
of
and
through
to thank
him
wish
this
its
charge
Information
journal
with
to
joint
last
to
responsi-
parents.
�Page
12
CRAFT
NEWS
HOUSE
Williamsburg _—
Colonial
of
ITEMS
a wierd assortment
the
Craft
is
House
January,
in welcoming
happy
graph
on
of costumes
the
to
ridiculous
5.)
page
sublime. (
19+ 9
ranging from
See photo.
When the judging of
back from a hospital stay Russell McGEHEE, raiment was finished, Ray HODGES walked off
looks
who "
the
of
We
good."
illness
in the Stockroom
substitute
is Roland Thomas
weeks
to
are
sorry
McCREARY,
Robert
of
for
LAMPKIN
hear
whose
several
Hold-
of
the
with
honors.
His faded and moth - eaten
bathing suit ( vintage 1900),
dirty
and huge beach umbrella won him
yellow
towel,
first
Another
prize.
highlight
of the
Charles
Matthew
City County
night' s festivities was the election of
HOWARD is on vacation hunting
Clara Bill BATCHELDFR and Laura JOHNSTON as most
and
George OLIVER,
joined by their son,
popular
man
and woman.
Armond CAMPBELL,
croft,
Dr.
Oliver of Richmond,
Bowl game in Memphis
thrilled
they
the
at
enjoyed
parties
in
attended the Deltanominally laundry manager, master - minded
and were especially
banquet
a
While
results.
there
innumerable
and
the
Excited over their adventures
being
from
shunted
to
plane
the affair and is to be congratulated for
the large part he had in making the event
plane
it was.
success
But
everyone
into the spirit of the evening,
entered
so much so
that the party continued to the music of
Anne amid blizzards) Anne READ and Helen the juke box long after the orchestra had
HOBSON
from
for New Year'
returned
Cazenovia
Day
City
New York
and
work
s
left.
Reservation
Office:
Miss
Bessie
Burns,
During Christmas CarolineMr. and Mrs. Alan Burns, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Clara OLIVER, and Page FOLK were Burns and son, and Mrs. Walter Morrow drove
respectively
COCHRAN,
honored
Mrs.
guests
Norman
attended
the
Chewning
at
two
a
the Ludwell
news
is
of
book
second
Costume
and
done
Edith
Bradley,
Ohio
a
Professor
State
this
a
the
has
leave
her
on December
30
absence
of
Crata
after
a
POPULAR
of
home
Ethel
absence
in
N. C.,
Plymouth,
LYON
for
visited
the
New
Year
weekend
is ....
Gene HUGHES was with her family in
textbook
with
of
to work
leave
Mary ROSSEAU spent Christmas in
Meredith Richmond and the New Year in Frederick, Md.
fall
high - school
by
s
returned on January 3 from her vacation and
in
ODELL
absence
collaboration
in
You,
month'
to be
Apartments
out
returned
is back
home
hopes
out
leave
two - month
her
at
FOLK
in
Club
DORRIER
leave
Page
this
DIETZ'
of
Commonwealth
weeks'
into
time
party given by from Jackson Heights,
N. Y.,
Philadelphia,
Caroline COCHRAN
and Washington,
D. C. to spend the Christmas
with Frances
holidays
Mary Beverly
BURNS
Laura LAIRD
Catherine
Waynesboro
moved
dinner
a
debut
the
Richmond
from
at
Drexler
Arts
for
Christmas.
Inn Kitchen:
Carolyn
Fine
Richmond
the
Mary WOOD is enjoying
three - week
University.
vacation
Augustine,
at
Fla
with
Norma
her mother
BAMMAN
a
in St.
entertained
Meredith Dietz the Misses Kathleen and Eveline Chicanot of
NYC during the Christmas holidays.
Norma' s
sister, Katherine also was a Williamsburg
Floyd HONEYCUTT
visitor
ITEMS
FROM
Bustles
the
order
Room
Game
when
out
INN
handlebar
and
of
AND LODGE
the
evening
Wednesday
mustaches
bedecked
Game
the
at
Room
were
Lodge
December
night,
L
practically
every I&
for the " Gay Nineties"
gaily
and his wife
On
Kitty Hawk, N. C.,
recently,
December 3 Sam THOMAS and his " boas"
Forrest GRIFFIN celebrated twin birthdays
visited
employee
Ball.
was
Clinton
15,
turned
The
thronged
QUIGLEY
Quigley,
Clint'
spent Christmas
with
and his
wife
had as
their guest during the holidays Miss Anne
Va
Pedro
s
James
sister
at his home
BLANCO,
of
ABBOTT
in Halifax,
Caracas,
�January,
NEWS
1949
Venezuela,
who
was
at
the
Inn
Colonial
of
last
days
year
learning the American culinary art, sent
a Christmas greeting to all his friends
in the
Hotel
ten
or
He
Inn Kitchen.
of
leaves
service
of
received
a
special
the
a reward
sick
Isabella
for
of
N.
her
Webb' s club
in
Ernest LUND' s family
Tennessee,
was in Williams-
Charlotte MASSEY
burg for Christmas
saw the Delta Bowl game on New Year' s Day
Alice
extra
at Mr.
C
from Memphis,
FEHR
and
her
husband
Harold
Texas
in Austin,
All
retirement.
duck shooting
Currituck,
leaves
BRAYER
dispensation
her
at
at
no
with
absence,
time
working
now
As
Caracas
Averez,
years
is
Page 13
Williamsburg
vacationed
SPARK'
has joined him in Williamsburg,
s
fami:
and they
are making their home at the James Craig
co- workers join in congratulating her at
House
this
The Christmas weekend found Mary Jane KIN,
time.
Lodge
Kitchen:
Mary GRIFFIN
is at home
after spending several days in the RiverHospital
side
News
Newport
at
Dean
SMITH has returned to work following a
two - week
Lee GRAHAM
vacation
spent
a
week with her family in Baltimore during
the
Christmas
On Christmas
season
Melvin HARGIS
returned
vacation "
Chef"
to
thank
all
those
Union
Baptist
which
made
six
Viola
Newark,
who
Emma
of
CW
contributed
the
Basket
wish
to
and
the
Fund,
the recent
of
Ruth JOLLY
Marge
family
a week'
Manchester,
her
has
been
the
latter
who before
to
following
his retirement
1945 was night watchman
new"
that
sent
Richmond,
and her husband
vacation
in
Miss
attended
Stella
American
Histori-
in Washington
N. C.,
and
Va.
entertained
for
in June,
January 7
of
the Treasurer'
at a cocktail
s Department
Gilly GRATTAN spent part of
In
in Richmond
vacation
the
party
on Friday,
the
Police
Force
has
walked
cause
BRIEFS
Phil RUSSELL
and his wife
friends
was
and
married
to Norman
Ethel
spent
a
L.
Meador,
SEAY
had
a student
whose
husband
is
also a student
HICKEY
Fort
some
in
at W& M, is replacing Betty
Files.
Betty is returning to
Lauderdale,
art
CHORLEY,
work
Florida,
and hopes
Ed KENDREW,
and Vanderbilt WEBB
to
do
Kenneth
spent
the
proud
papa
of
a
Cleveland
DEAN
a week - end
Richmond
and his
visit
Louise
family
with
B.
old
it' s bE
fine
your
born
recently
friends
FISHER,
in
Supervisor
of Flower Arrangements for the Exhibition
during the Christmas
BROWN,
George
Hawkshaw"
visiting
Virginia
relatives
at the College,
season
in New York
is
RIPLEY
around
Ripley, Jr.,
November 23 at Riverside Hospital
son,
week' s vacation
he
event
C.
lately with his chest so far out,
BUILDING
the
Jody and Bland
in Boone,
anyone has been wondering why G.
GOODWIN
and
DUFF,
They motored home in their
car and are still happily amazed
The I. L.
they ever made it
JONESES
his
the
December
of
vacationed
Joseph
at the Inn.
Bridgeport
Connecticut
part
CROWDER
sympathy
Va.,
death of her brother,
s
in South Hill with her
PHELAN
cal Association meetings
son
in
Lester CAPRON, Ed ALEXANDER,
Dick SHOWMAN,
Pierce MIDDLETON, Douglass ADAIR, and Carl
Boydton,
A note expressing
Edith Hatke
ville;
BRIDENBAUGH
In December
Street
Lois CHTTRCHILL
of
several
with
in Radford;
of
distribution
groceries
employees
HATKE,
LOCKLEY
at home
of Gloucester
Roanoke Rapids with her family; Alden
HOPKINS in Fredericksburg visiting friends
Sing MOOREHEAD and his wife with his mothf
at the Farmington Country Club, Charlotte
spent
N. J.
Inn:
of
and
to needy families
CURETON
spent
a week
fruit
in
to work from his
Christmas
possible
baskets
Eve
on Duke
several
Buildings,
the
is receiving
completion
in December,
of
congratulations
fifteen
years'
or
service
1948.
Helen Gedd3
�NEWS
Page
14
NEWS
FROM
Williamsbur&
Colonial
of
OUR HOSTESSES
with her son,
and
wife
Christmas
guests
January,
have
come
and
gone.
Mr.
little
Edgar A.
Green,
daughter
19+ 9
and his
Florence
Mistletoe and holly that decked the
TAYLOR and her husband were in Washingtor
with their son, Capt. Gilford Taylor, his
buildings,
candles
wife
Gloucester
Street
windows,
are
gone
On Christmas
once
again
burg.
that
made
an avenue
with
the
of
old
year.
and
Barbara HARDIE,
son
with her
family, spent Christmas in Halifax, Va....
Evelyn Stryker came from New York to make
Day the Raleigh Tavern was
Christmas merry for her parents.....
social
the
Bonnie BROWN,
center
As the day waned,
guests,
Duke
of twinkling
visitors
of
Williams-
hundreds
from afar
of
and townsfolk,
house,
the lady of the spinning
with her husband
Barbara and Mary Lou,
and daughters,
had Christmas dinner
entered its hospitable doorway to find
in Richmond as guests of Judge Thomas C.
festivity
and
Fletcher
in velvet
and lace,
each
A genial
cheer.
Tom FLETCHER,
beside
arrival -
gentleman
him,
Mae
greeted
FLETCHER,
charming in an eighteenth -century dress
the color of holly berries.
In the Apollo Room the long table
gleaming with silver was laden with
Christmas
and
Fannie
confections.
Caroline
LEE
poured
Candlelight,
eggnog.
tea
and
In the hall,
stepped for a moment
eighteenth
century.
into the
A glimpse
of
cos-
tumed ladies under crystal chandeliers
in
the Ballroom,
and imagination peopled the
room
was
gay figures
with
of
the
past -
or
it imagination?
Hundreds
of visitors
the
Palace,
the
fire,
was
strolled
for
through
over.
This
gathered
departed.
and
a moment
around
Christmas,
1948,
saw the
usual
arrivals
and departures, children returning home
for the holidays, parents going to spend
in
the
homes
of children
the
weeks
illness
of
and her
husband,
Mildred
with Marian
Osborne,
drove
and
to Raleigh,
B.
his wife and little sons; Wallace,
Bell
Minnie
PATE
and
N. C.,
M.
Blount, sister of the Osbornes
Imogene ETHERIDGE enjoyed Christmas
Newport News with her son, Wallace,
her
in
and
Jr. and
husband
had as guests their daughter and son - inlaw, Marian and James Macon of Richmond,
their
James,
son,
mained with his
Year' s weekend,
Jr.
Jim,
grandmother
Winnie
Jr.
until
MACKEY
re-
the
and
New
her
husband and sons, Jimmie and Bobbie, spent
Christmas in West Point, as guests of Mr.
Mackey' s sister.
New Year' s day was spent
in Norfolk as guests of Winnie' s brother,
Mr. James Grey
Ruby STEEL has departed
on her annual
A sparktrip to Florida
ling diamond on the finger of Rose Adele
WING forecasts a future event which will
her former home,
Mrs.
of
returned
to Lynchburg,
for Christman with her
Stover Creasy,
Jr
GREEN went to Baltimore
the
News
TAYLOR
ushered
it
a lovely tea at her home on Powell Street
Lily NELSON
eggnog
parties,
entertained
an
event
at a series
of
the
Christ-
mas season anticipated each year by all who
have partaken of her hospitality on former
occasions
to be
Florence
the Christmas season for the hostesses wit
of
Louise ATKINSON
Nouvelle
ADOLPH
and
grandchildren.
daughter,
On New
entertained
be an interesting item for a later editior
Christmas
Christmas
Richmond.
of
Bailie
dur-
Mary CARTER has returned to work after
and
rustling taffeta and lace greeted guests.
guest
Rennies at her home in Williamsburg
Pail
beside a glowing fire, Lucy SNEED in
Again one
Year' s weekend
to spend the holiday with Mrs.
On the night of the twenty -sixth, the
doors.
Rennie
greens,
Christmas
Tavern lived again on Christmas.
its
B.
was
of her sister,
Marguerite
hostesses in farthingales and fichus,
opened
C.
WERMUTH
in the home
served
waiters in knee breeches and hose hurrying back and forth, created a scene which
evoked
a day long past.
The Raleigh
Palace
Mrs.
several
SHIPMAN
Hallie
ing Christmas
a
great
The
privilege
hostesses
to
hear
T.
considered
J.
it
WERTENBAKEB,
�January,
CW'
s
IE S
1949
historian,
speak
on "
The
Colonial
of
Yorktown
Page
Williamsburg
National
Guard Unit.
He
has
been
15
replaced
in the Accounting Section by Dell GARDNER
Campaign" at their meeting on Tuesday,
January 5.
Mary J. Daniel
Toano
of
Bob
a vacation
than
his
the
at
JOHNSON
home
regular
golf
is
is
not
duties
as
sure
that
strenuous
greenskeeper
Arthur
course
not
more
WILSON
and
at
Jim
ROBERTSON moved to their new homes during
FROM
C& M
December.
Bill
LANDON
has
first floor apartment
The early part of December found
Robert WEBB,
Jr.,
making a trip to Phila-
Street,
delphia,
moved
into
the
at 239 South Boundary
Marshall
where
he
visited
the
manufactur-
ers of tinting colors used in CW' s paint
Isham
program
JOHNSON
became
a grand-
father for the fifth time when Cincy
Elaine
Johnson,
Johnsons,
was
employed
daughter
in the
the
November
born
duck
Floyd
23.
is
BURRAGE
at Bell
Hospital
after
Lorraine
HAISLIP
the
families
their
Kent
Construction
PAGE
her
visited
Jr.,
golf
STEVENS
homes
Roger
in
organization
Mechanical
SMALL
to
coming
of
had
course
his
J.
Engi-
Sidney
Morman
pleasure
Archie
WALLACE
Randolph Wallace,
Mr.
Her-
Their
is
a
student
at
home
for
Wallace
sister
and
James
at
the
James
and
E.
to
Files
room.
LAVERY
the
have
Granville
PATRICK'
Miss
Geneva
is visiting
Cornelia
WALKER
SHELDON' s
section
the
S
same
office
accept
the
has
Central
Newton
a position
Office
office,
ville and Monier WILLIAMS
to
of
Payroll
old
Hines
L.
White
Jennings
Ben
CLUB
Under the sponsorship
Taylor
Spraggins
Clyde
AND PISTOL
H.
Wallace
ORGANIZED
of the National
is being organized in this vicinity, with
Raymond RYAN and Patsy
moved
Page
James
Jr.
was
Gene
north
Henry G.
Jones
LOCAL RIFLE
Wallace,
Rifle
Accounting Section of the C&M Dept.
moved
since
vacationists
who
N. Y.,
brother,
recent
Pierce,
holidays
WALLACE
December
vacation
Institute,
Hampton
Brooklyn,
of
her
son,
Harper
Raiford
M.
Richard
bert Rainey, and Southey Lee were Christmas Day guests of E. L. TAYLOR and his
wife.
W.
Ashby G.
re-
turned to work on December 13, after beThe Rev.
ing disabled for six weeks
and Mrs. Moody, Miss Jennie V. Rainey,
Mr. James Holly, Mrs. Gladys Judkins,
and Mrs.
he
John
consultant,
James
Gardner
John
Mr.
Dr.
During
first
Other
CW
Henry hopes to move his family to
It is a
Williamsburg before long
David
where
were:
as
neer.
that
Pa.,
family
inspections
periodic
their
L.
report
the
had a profitable
in York,
vacationed
Nancy
Francis
to
occupies
spending most of his time either
Robert
or killing
hogs
Montieth,
Henry GOODWIN,
the
now
called on December 15 for one of his
with
respective
has , joined
Assistant
Mar
weekend
MORTON
hunting
and
operation
Radford
and
Hampton,
and
Christmas
at
Roanoke
a minor
Vic
vacation,
Don
s
friends
H.
Dept
Curator'
Dave
newly developed first floor apartm4at at
Lodge
Jeter DAVIS recently
spent a week in North Carolina visiting
Floyd
wife is convalescing
McGINNIS'
spent
of
and
into
Gran-
now occupy the
SEAL
with
and
has
the
resigned
local
D.
K.
Association
McGinnis
a rifle
and
R.
T.
and
pistol
Holland
of
club
CW'
s
C& M Department recently elected President
and
Vice - President
respectively.
Other
officers are R. E. Berry, Executive Officer;
Russell Wing, Chief Instructor; and T. B.
Henderson, Jr.,
Secretary - Treasurer.
Persons interested in participating in
this activity are requested to telephone
Mac at 868,
drop him a post card at P.
0.
Box 868, Williamsburg, or get in touch with
Mr.
will
Henderson.
be
Details
announced
within
of the next meeting
two
or
three
weeks.
�Page
16
i TWA of C:aonia! Wili.iawsburg
CW BOWLING
TEAMS
CW' 3
Ladies in the CW Bowling Teams
opened
the
season
on January
surprising
Ten
13 with
Thirteen
results.
the
participated,
and the entire group had a
part in rolling up a total of seven
strikes and thirty five spares.
Diana
Van
Grace
Baiter
0
3
Monie
Price
1
4
Bernice
Geyt
Spares
2
Hudson
correct
questions
answers
below
well - informed
score entitles
our
1949
BOX
or more
thirteen
bowlers
Strikes
QUESTION
January,
will
circle,
to
put
and
the
you
in
a perfect
you to the brass
ring
in
question -go- round.
1) What is the proper
Debtor' s Prison "?
name
for
the
former
2
2)
Where
are
the
William
Randolph
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Volume
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Number
WILLIAMSBURG
9
February,
THE
250th
ANNIVERSARY
OF
1949
WILLIAMSBURG
The year 1949 is one of unusual significance to Williamsburg.
For it marks the 250th anniversary
of the Act passed by
the Assembly in Jamestown " directing the building the Capitoll
and the City of Williamsburgh" at the place known then as Middle
Plantation.
To observe the year with proper ceremonies,
the City Council has authorized
Mayor Stryker to form a Community Committee to plan and co- ordinate
occasions
issued
as
may be
invitations
arranged
to
some
to
mark
fifteen
this
anniversary.
or more
citizens
to
Dr.
Stryker has already
constitute
The events that will mark the year are still in the planning
Citizens'
such special
this
committee.
stage,
but the
Association has announced a special " town meeting" to be held at the Common
Glory Amphitheater on July 4, when it is expected that several of the natiofts outstanding
men
will
We of CW,
overall
year.
250th
that
Anniversary
Community
The
plan.
CW employee
If you have
the
This will be but one of many observances of the Anniversary.
in the meantime,
community
that every
speak.
will
are fast developing a program to fit in with the
News
truly
Committee
carry
take a personal
any suggestions
program
will
interest
on how Colonial
outstanding,
will
details
welcome
please
your
in following
in the events
Williamsburg
let
interest
me
hear
in this
issues.
of this
I
hope
anniversary
can help make the
from
you.
undertaking.
II am
sure
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2
NEWS
AND
NEWS
Colonial
of
COMMENT
Shamrock
ruary
of
News
its
green
is
late
masthead
on this
an appropriate
appearance,
Feb-
indication
with
its
editors
lapped like a two -miler running against
Greg Rice.
But we are hot -footing it for
a
deadline
quick
tant
project
reserved
employees,
to
to
One
next
issue
of
Parents
send
snapshots
all
A
returned.
multilithed
and
15.
is
few
photographs
extra
page
will
One
parent
most
the
the
be
of
good
for
local
golfers
Biles
is
erintend
on
M1M'
0
L
some
sessions,
is
umes
of
but
Tom
of
it
the
10
tor
tinguished "
Merci
baggage"
Train"
of
presented
the
to
Alice
able
the American people by grateful France.
hand for
consultant
Jim
CW for exhibition and use by the State.
It is now in the warehouse being read-
customers (
unprompted),
Minor
Thomas'
for
lost
Louis XV reluctantly
service.
Canada
to British -Amer1
a.
vol-
photoAs
Ed
Magazine
admitted
since
pages
such
and
Wine
a
list
be
still
ediin
Cogar
would
stretch
incomplete.
drew
both
and
success
likened
no - kin)
Thomas.
CW
praise
and
archaeologist
afoot
to the mellifluous
Lowell (
colo-
both
the closing session, there is little point
in listing employees who deserve a special
Allocated to Virginia by the French,
the coach was generously presented to
ied
of
several
story.
both
photos
Antiques
success
take
Antiques
and
Forum give
first -rate
Winchester
dis-
and
three
the
on
whole
Louis
the
Len
after
season
The
Williams'
to tell
graphs
that
town
ready to sup-
new
the
and
of
is
newcomers
would
Alexander
part
a
to
page
eighteenth -century days of
XV -
children.
in
and Decorations
indication
and
the
for
particularly anxious to lend
a hand
to
from
back
a long illness,
the
presented
coach
news
novices
acquisitions
French
and minor
ones
be
6o.
additional
Daily greens fees have now been set at $ 2.,
The
other
daily, Sunday, or holiday
of
CW' s proudest
recent
for wife
an
1949
an annual
effect - $
and
are
wee
of
apiece
JJ/
will
copies
players,
a page
children
in
be
will
impor-
reporters
of
fee
individual
with babies getting top
Bob Hoke:
each
the
photographs
priorities.
urged
in March
for
for
Starting March 1,
poundage
greens
The
February,
Williamsburg
was
delivery
CW'
s
of
licensed
nists, but the French people have joyfully presented a historic coach of his
This winday to their descendants
manufacturers
ter,
tion, and the Wedgwood alligator story
hostesses
usually busy,
slump
and hotels
despite
reported
have been un-
a general travel
Thanks
elsewhere.
are
leigh
of
the Forum.
efforts,
chief
ad
highly
successful
topped
the
campaign,
Antiques
250 " maximum"
and
the
Forum which
for
each
ses-
ston and left a good -sized waiting list
for
1950.
unusually
weather,
Guests
mild
have
been
midwinter
incidentally,
greeted
weather
with
The
has teamed up
with fertilizer and careful greenskeeping to get the Williamsburg
Inn Golf
manager,
master
did
of
sponsors
ceremonies.
and Hens -
experts
center
and
of
atten-
contribution
Antiques
a remarkable
and registrants,
job
busias
Informality
freely among
with
dinner
parties and after -hour receptions keeping
the Inn and Lodge staff busy.
However,
the
most
popular
was undoubtedly
event
every department
with the result
some of its " regu-
Flower Symposium,
of
both
the reception
light at the Palace,
Eyes
themselves, ready to start the official
season with a lower handicap and reduced
the
and good will circulated
early - season shape,
lars" are in good early -season shape
were
as
Bob Baker,
Course in remarkable
that
Scalamandre
town
the best behind -the - scenes
ness
new
in
not businessmen,
due to Allston Boyer' s many promotional
the
Franco
Wedgwood,
sessions
by candle-
in which practically
in CW had a hand
are now turned on the Garden
under way before this News makes
rounds.
be a more
Good
and
which will already be
weather,
important
of
course,
its
will
factor for this get-
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I
Page
3
together
than
centered
antiques-
for
predecessor.
its
Alden
Hopkins,
of
tran-
special
proceedings
Colonial
scription
the
of
Among
recent visitors from New York
who dreamed up this symposium three years
ago, will
again take a
leading part.
The official hand of welcome will be extended
were
represents
his
by
Howard
A.
Rusk, Missouri physician
Bela
charge
W. Norton. Ed
in
with
program,
the
of
Alexander is
Tom Hamilton, New
and au- thority
paper
with
the
the
widely known New
and
his
photographs
camera. ( Tom, by
that
the
assisting.
Tom Wil iams will
with
reports
Showman
Dick
wise
photolab
posted
Forum
with
for
requests
registrants
all
dis- tinguished cast of
will
clude
John
the
dried
CW
the
Messrs.
Hopkins,
Brouwers,
Middleton
Any
Eaton,
casual
speakers
R. Fisher ( who
flower
her
arrangements) and
Kendrew,
reader
or
also
Dr.
in charge
injured
now director of a
York clinic to get
veterans
and
civilians
feet -Dr. Rusk is a
s
veteran'
Joseph
topics
for
Times
of
s Department
the
and
student
address
on
on
Dr.
Virginia'
of Mental Health
principal
back
special writer
the
Bar- rett, Director
and Hygiene,
last
week
at
the meet- ing of the Tri State
Medical Association at
the Lodge, choosing for his
subject
in
a
survey
of
Williams- burg
seventeenth
Wertenbaker,
Thomas,
UN;
gave
visiting experts,
is also staging a group of
celebrated
way,
orders
the
badly
their
swamped
for
sale, with
Mrs.
Symposia -
be omnipresent
now filled). addition to
In
in-
announcements,
the
Times veteran
of re- habilitation for the Air Corps
during the war and
and
York
on Spain, who now
Gilbert &
Sullivan basso Tom McCaskey doing most of
in- troductions
Wil amsburg
medical conditions
and vicinity in
eighteenth
and
centuries
the
The
Lodge
has be- come the scene of more and
more
community gatherings.
The Rotarians,
who regularly meet in the Ballroom for
of anatomy looking over the recent Life
weekly dinners, have been joined by the
spread on
newly
convention
wall
a
might observe
decoration of
Hotel
midwest
a booklet
the Palace as
an
Edgewater
The
room
preparing
potato chip
enterp isng
a
Beach
dinner
C. 0.
&
is
of
the
established
Exchange
Club
meeting
A
packed
dance
the
is
staged
there
scheduled
for
the
room, and
other
architectural attractions of this part of the country
are
not try your hand at CW' s
and
to
stu- dents, and
architectural
schools
Sing Moorehead
has prepared a brief but eloquent
background
story
One
of
on
Williamsburg'
the
most
s
buildings
appropriate
and
successful visits to CW recently wa$ that
four " Voice
of
Democracy"
winners - four young men of 14 to 17 who won
of
a
the
nation- wide
by
broad-
casters
presentation on
for
competition sponsored
the
an
original
meaning of
democracy
today. They came to Wil iamsburg directly
sched- uled
on
March
to
distrib- ute
other
and
groups. The regional Cancer Society
April
4+.
of
benefit
Dimes
dances
this spring Why
later
Quiz Box, on
page 18?Last month, the News itself
scored only 12 out of 13, although it made
the
up
answers' At
the
Jaycee
Bosses Night, visiting Kerk Burbank won a
current - events quiz, with Bob Conkey running
close
a
second.,... Bob, who
graduated from
W&
M this month, is planning to tour
New Eng- land with a
slide -ojector,
pr
lecturing
on
CW
as
a
side
line. Our
slides
have also been in heavy demand by
from
Wash- ington, and repeated their
speeches in the House
of Burges es, to a
recent Forum visitors who have
speaking engagements. Our unofficial family of
boosters con- tinues
to grow Keep your eye
jampacked audience of Matthew Whaley
on plans for cel brating Williamsburg'
and
s
and
Bruton
later
Heights
were
guests
high-
at
a
dinner
school students,
at
the
Inn spon- sored by the Junior Chamber
250th
anniversary
community - sponsored
promises
nation-
this
year
celebration
a
which
wide attention. Any suggestions
of Com erce. WRVA' s
program director,
you have to make the year more memorable
George Passage who broadcasts most of the W&
will
Tom McCaskey. See
be welcomed by
M
football
games), came
down
to
make
a
the
impor-
tant
front -page
story
in
�NEWS
Pape 4
MARIO E.
CAMPIOLI,
CW' S NEW ARCHIThCTURAL
Mario
Campioli,
February 1,
tenant
and
Head of the Architectural
for
the
a
soundproofed
Department
small tom life,
public
school
office
sound
1949
HEAD
likes Georgian architecture,
responsibility,
a perfect
j
DEPARTMENT
who became
community
February,
Williamsburg
Colonial
of
adjacent
good music,
system -
to
on
the
and
so
seems
Goodwin
Here,
under the direction
of Vice- President
Ed
Building drafting room.
Kendrew, he will take a major part in CW' s new building program and
will keep a supervisory eye on the numerous other duties of this
department. Architect Campioli comes to Wil iamsburg from the New York architectural firm
of
Eggers & Higgins, designers of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the National
Gallery of
Art in
Washington. He has recently held the important post of production
with
manager
responsible
concern,
this
was in charge of about seventy
and
senior
junior
eight - year
his
all
for
with
checkers,
writers,
Eggers & Higgins, he had
unex-
notoriety
pected
The
Campioli
in New
York.
High
and
School
Archia
New
family
CW'
just
now
a
as
landmark in
left Italy when young
s
received
future
his
department
Bachelor
the
Parma,
Cole
managers, job
captains,
clerks. Early in
project
head
graduated
from
Architecture
show
Porter
New
degree
Jersey, and is making
his
James Baum of New
the
thirteen
York, an
he became
Wil-liamsburg
first
application for a similar
years of
authority on
practice, he
York' s
from
Greenwich (
colonial
Virginia.
Baum, he
Evander
s
School
New
Childs
of
Design. He
of
Institute
Kate.
settled
York
is
and
license iA
colonial
With
NYU'
in
was
familiar, through research and first -hand
and
Me,
Kiss
old, and
tecture, working collaterally at the famed Beaux Arts
A. I.
corporate member of the
A. He is a
registered
architect
Virginia. For
manager
Italy, a town enjoying
Mario was just a year
of
He
and
been a
himself. The long trail to Williamsburg started in
prepared.
specifications
and
persons, including project
draftsmen, specification
tenure
drawings
associated with
Dwight
architecture, wad it was then that
study, with, the buildings of
worked
on
such
Conn.) Boys' Club and the American Institute of
structures
as
Architects' Building
in
Washington.
firm
With
of
Vir-
Eggers & Higgins,
he
worked
recently - in
conjunction
with
the
Richmond
Baskervill &
Son - on several important new buildings for the University of
ginia. Along with this work in classical architecture, he was active in planning
the 4,500,
000. Archbishop
Stepinak High School in White
Plains, the
Governor
Smith Housing Project in New York, the $ 3,500, 000. Cardinal Hayes High School in New
York,. the Schaeffer Brewing Company in
Brooklyn, and three significant hospital
projects - the
the
U.
Beekman
Downtown
Hospital in New
York, the
Meadowbro k (
anti quated Erie coaches to live in the pleasant suburb of
he
was
L.
I.)
Hospital, and
S.
Naval Training Station Hospital at Bainbridge,
Maryland. Every working
day, commuter Campioli braved a dusty two -hour round
a
Grounds
of
Norwood, New
trip in
Jersey, where
School
the
Board - and lately, as Chairman of the Building and
Committee, overseeing plans by a New York firm for a school soon to be erected
member
there. In his "spare" time, he designed many private homes as well as the small
Catholic Church in Norwood which the family attended and where he sang in a choir which
became proficient enough to provide proper Gregorian accompaniment for Sunday
services.
Williamsburg, house- builder
Campioli is now house -hunter
Campioli.
In
Soon, however, he hopes that
Mrs. Campioli ( the former Margaret Jordan of
Scranton,
Penn-
Margaret
is
Mary (
sylvania)
will join
8). (
He
also
him,together with
already
has
looking forward to
his
attended
his
piano,
which
Genevieve (
first
his
14),
Elizabeth (
Matthew
two
Whaley P. T.
older
11),art
A. meeting.) He
play ( the
daughters
�February,
prefers
NETS
1949
the
facilities,
Finally,
violin).
he
has
for
sent
of
Williambburg
Colonial
with high expectations
his
tennis
and
racquet
Page
5
for the weather and the Inn' s
clubs.
The Williamsburg
golf
community has another promising and active citizen.
FROM THE
PUBLIC
INFORMATION
The merger
DEPARTMENT
of " Special Activities"
with this
department
as part of CW' s expanded public relations program is very welcome news; Tom McCaskey,
in his position as Assistant Director,
will not only continue his expert handling of promotional
events
the
but
will
department'
now
s
lend
an
experienced
hand
in
all
phases
of
activities.
Plans for the 250th Anniversary are moving ahead rapidly;
The Common Glory" will feature it in advertising and publicity;
the joint CW- Jaycee reception of the four " Voice of Democracy"
winners was an opening step; within the next three weeks, CW' s newspaper ads will
250th Anniversary
of Williamsburg 19+ 9," and special
carry the footnote " 1699 stationery has been ordered with the same slogan; plans are now being drawn up for
the opening of the Guardhouse and Magazine to be tied in with the commemorative year;
the 250th theme will be emphasized in Williamsburg' s portion of the Lions Club of
Virginia
exhibit
at
the
international
convention
partment is preparing special newspaper
released day - and - date with the official
Anniversary."
of
and magazine
proclamation
the
Lions
in New
York;
this
de-
publicity features to be
of " Williamsburg' s 250th
Bob Hoke' s copy is finding good reception everywhere; one batch of clippings,
received as this is being written, shows news stories from twenty - four cities on the
Forum ";
CW'
s
sixteen
educational
on
the " Symposium ";
program
for
and
thirteen
The
children
feature
articles
Esso Travel
Film, "
will be premiered locally at the Reception Center on SEturday,
joint
5 P.
auspices
M. -
no
of CW and the Jaycees;
showings
March 19,
music
lovers -
on
Virginia,"
under the
will be held from 1 P. M.
the Common Glory Chorus,
to
under the direction of Carl Fehr, will
give the first of three Friday night recitals at the Reception Center,
all
pictures
Nearly 4+ 0 percent of the color film is devoted to Williamsburg
charge:
On March 11,
continuous
with
Historic
thwarted
and
will
choristers -
want
to
admission 60$;
attend.
This department and the local Chamber of Commerce recently played host to a
group of representatives of tourist attractions from the western part of the State;
on March 15, Tom McCaskey and Bill Bippus will be among those who will pay a reciprocal
visit
issue
to
the
west
under
of the News was
the
supposedly
auspices
of
published
the
under
Virginia
Travel
the aegis
Council
of Public
This
Information,
but
we regretfully admit that the feature in it for which we can take sole credit is its
tardy
publication
date.
For the rest,
thanks
go to John Goodbody
and his staff.
K. B.
1699 -
250th ANNIVERSARY
OF WILLIAMSBURG -
1949
�Page
6
THE
NEWS
WILLL', MSBURG
CW' S
THEATRE:
of
CWN
Colonial
MUSIC
February,
Williamsburg
HALL
Now in its seventeenth year, the Williamsburg Theatre,
redecorated
and
refurnished,
carries
on
Williamsburg.
When it was opened in January,
y
Little
7 "
Radio
were
Music
City
Hall,"
which
several
sound,
the
1933,
recently
showplace
of
it was nicknamed the
just
prior
for
to
local
our
theatre.
There
fluttering
was used in both theatres for such items
tical equipment
tion,
as
referring to the world' s largest theatre in
opened
good
air
1949
reasons
conditioning,
such
and
a
Iden-
comparison.
Comparison
screen.
as projec-
of
the
new
Williamsburg Theatre with the old tin roofed Imperial earned, perhaps,
plywood seats,
lation
in
that
There
nickname.
were
leather
chairs
instead
of hard
full screen vision, new perfect sound, air cooling ( the first instal-
Williamsburg),
and many other modern movie luxuries.
The original staff of the Williamsburg Theatre was headed by Tom McCaskey,
a
graduate
student
at
the
College
William
of
then
Mary.
The assistant manager was Fay
LeCompte,
who
is now secretary
of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Doorman was Tom " Happy"
Halligan, who is the third and present manager of the Theatre.
and
Happy Halligan started his movie - house career immediately after completing a
tremendous season as captain of one of William and Mary' s greatest football teams,
the
that
one
beat
Navy,
tied Harvard,
and
ran
amuck
in
the Virginia
Conference.
For
his outstanding end play and out -of -this -world kicking, Halligan was picked for one
of
the All American
as
communications
in
the
capture
teams.
Added honors came to Halligan in another line later when,
in a unit with General Hodge' s advance forces, he took part
Liepez.
For his action here he was awarded the Bronze Star.
chief
of
Nineteen- forty -eight saw the motion picture business in a slight slump nationally, but the Williamsburg
guidance.
sent
as
fine
a
selection
a patron complains
were
he
available
duced
Theatre managed to keep up to normal under Halligan' s
Pictures are chosen from the eight major studios of Hollywood and reprefilms
about a film,
would
in Hollywood
of
each
as
any theatre
Halligan
the
have
year.
From that number,
it.
Some
four
can
country
can truthfully
surely
had
in
Whenever
offer.
say that if any better film
hundred
feature
films
are pro -
the Theatre selects about 200,
leaving the lesser products on the shelf and presenting only the cream of the entire
output.
ducers,
This theatre is unique, perhaps, in that it deals with all the major proand is fortunate in having a selection privilege which enables all good
pictures
reach
to play here.
Usually the films play in Williamsburg
New York.
quite early,
sometimes even before they
Often a really fine picture will play here,
then open in the cities,
fine notices
and
receiving
publicity.
Invariably, patrons who had
its pre - city
playing here will then inquire when it will be shown:
old" film will slip into the bookings,
national
release.
passed it up on
Occasionally
an
one that plays two or even three months after
This happens when certain independent producers get fancy notions
about how a film should be played and what it is worth.
Recently a well -known English producer released an advanced - price epic,
would
not
business,
anything like a normal
double playing time:
Few
accept
and
and
deal.
He demanded 70 per twat of the gross
small - town theatres, even a Little Music Hall,
can afford to play films under such conditions, and the deal for this artistic
triumph
is
still
pending,
waiting
for reason
will be offered later than pictures
and
sanity
to
return
in
the
matter.
It
are usually shown here.
Continued
�There
perhaps,
are
several
qualities
the
about
Theatre.
Williamsburg
It
is,
the only theatre in this country which does not have a " pass list" or season
The fact that everyone pays his way is one reason why the Theatre can afford
passes.
such•. consistency
lower
unusual
than
being
obvious,
in the choice
first
most
made
of high- grade,
impossible
almost
high- priced entertainment
The lack of the usual
runs.
the
by
theatrical ballyhoo
nature
of
our
restored
eof• the Theatre' s promotion is done by direct mail, by newspapers,
I'he' lack
of
a
here
marquee
creates
from
comment
much
Moat
community.
and at the Theatre.
The
visitors.
at prices
here is
architectural
design of the Theatre,
like that of other buildings in the business block, harmonizes
with the town' s eighteenth - century restored or reconstructed houses.
The Williamsburg Theatre was one of the first theatres in America, if not the
first,
to
special
run
for
shows
Back in 1934 the Theatre
children.
and the old Civic
League teamed up to put on programs of short subjects and stage acts,
minded
civice:
doubled
for
movement,
its
ahead
during
purposes
other
ingrestored,
years
of
its
held
parishioners
the
rest
decade
the
of
and
a
each
services
country.
half.
While
The
which was a
Theatre
Bruton
in the Theatre.
Sunday
has
Church
was
be-
During the
War it was used as the orientation center for the thousands of soldiers and sailors
who were brought to Williamsburg from near -by camps as guests of Mr. and Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller,
Jr.
It was one of the first theatres
to run a Museum
of Modern Art
aeries on the history and development of the motion picture as a new form of art.
One of the most heartening experiences of the Theatre is the community response
to: :he
t
best"
so- called "
but
which
often
films -
play
to
i.
e.,
the
half - empty
motion
houses.
pictures
This
which
critics
is a reflection
everywhere
not only of the
Letaste of local residents but of the support for such films almost invariably given by
college
who
students -
Shakespeare
too.
like
This
their
erables
Gables
and
the Theatre
Grebles
as
to offer
well
as
anyone
but
favor
a balanced film diet without
risk -
ing losses at the box office.
The
civic
for
has
been
lectures,
meetings,
Museum
has
management
purposes
of Modern
Art
keyed
always
charity
series
was
the
Theatre
to
Its
service.
community
use
for
Before the coming of Sunday movies it was used
encouraged.
fashion
drives,
run free
for
food
and
several
shows,
months
benefits.
and
in co- operation
The
with Mr.
Leslie Cheek of the College Fine Arts Department to give the community and College
the background
departments
the
Close participation
industry.
in the presentation of foreign- language fi " s,
c::
of
movie
with
various
usually
College
for one showing
only before the regular daily performances begin, has long been a practice here.
Sometimes,
gram
on
when the foreign
a commercial
film was strong
Screenings of important
Whaley students and. faculty.
has
always
children
been
were
stated
Association.
plus
current
practice
a
educational
it was put into the regular
films
have been
shown regularly
Participation
in the
the Theatre.
Regular
Saturday
morning
in 191 +7 in co- operation
with the
local
of
again
Pictures
short
enough,
pro-
basis.
various
drives
for
for Matthew
charity
movies
Parent
funds
for
Teachers
from a specially created library of feature films are used,
subjects.
This
series
has been
a great
success
for both
organiza-
tions which cosponsor it, providing at least one program each week which is good and
proper for the young members of our community.
The Theatre staff, headed by Halligan and his assistant Patrick Buchanan, consists of seventeen people, including two projectionists, James Humphrey and Curtis
Tate;
a relief
McCormick,
Raymond
projectionist,
doorman;
Pechan,
a
and
the
senior
Maupin
remainder,
student,
is
Saunders;
college
chief
of
Matt
Cheeseman,
students
who
porter;
compose
the
Thomas
service
staff.
service.
Continued
�8
Pago
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
One
were
quarter
sold
at
the profits
of a million
admissions
Theatre
the
year,
last
and
from these helped to maintain
February,
1949
their recently acquired ' 49 models
George Washington' s birthday was a good
excuse for Miriam SHEA, Betsy HALL, Helen
and develop Colonial Williamsburg' s edu-
GEDDY,
cational
Ethel BROWN to look over the spring fashions in Richmond
Jody CROWDER attended
program.
T.
MCC. •
Lois CHURCHILL,
Ruth JOLLY,
and
a wedding in Richmond on Friday, February
11
TRAVIS
HOUSE
NEWS
Letha BOOTH returned February 15 after
a 22- months'
trip to Nassau and the
southern
states.
Gay stories of her
visits keep the TH staff entertained
between
However,
meals.
retrospect
all this
and Letha is buckling
Inez Hopkins
work'
Lester
is
SHOWMAN has
to
in
down to
step in January.
BRIEFS
Mrs.)
Virginia
afternoons
working
The
Vernon
GEDDYs
to
Palm
Beach, Florida; Stella DUFF weekending in
New York; Sam PEACH sending post cards
from Sea Island, Georgia; Irma and Monier
WILLIAMS heading south to Florida
Wanda CASTLE, has been in Dallas, Texas,
for
several
weeks
to be with her
who is recuperating
tion
for the
Lorraine
Dorothy WILLIAMS,
Lodge
Charlotte
the staff at
MASSEY
in C&M
The
is
s and
MINORS
and Lucile
FOSTER
also
vacationed
Mary VAN BUREN has had as her
Richmond
Mrs.
Henry Davis of
Alma Lee ROWE
gave
official
recognition to George Washington' s Birth-
day with an appropriate reception at her
Mary KELLOGG' s household has grown
home
with the acquisition of a dog of distinguished
but
unknown
lineage.
sister
HAISLIP' s sister,
has joined
RUNNELS
a. m.'
opera-
The Kenneth CHORLEYs were down
second week of the Antiques
Forum
the
from a major
Irene
Lee WERTH
proud parents of Mary Franklyn, born on
Louise FISHER returned
February 8
February 14 from a three -weeks' vacation.....
guest her daughter,
beckons:
of
Faith was Tom McCASKEY' s secretary) are
recently
The first signs of spring, and the open
road
the week
joined the ranks of vacationers,
Lynchburg (
assisting
Lena CLARK
BUILDING
spent
and Lillian BUSH will fall in this category
the last week in February when she journeys
is now Inez WHITE,
having taken the lifelong
GOODWIN
CAPPON
Ma' garet
February 8 in Washington, D. 0
KOEHLER was at home in Henderson, N. C.
for the weekend
of February 5
Dick
and
her
husband moved to Richmond following his
CRAFT HOUSE COMINGS AND GOINGS
Craft House was stunned when Harry MORTON,
Jr. resigned, for he was very popular with
the personnel;
but all reacted
enthusiastic-
ally to Catharine DORRIER' s taking the
manager'
s
desk.
Harry was very much sur-
graduation
from William and Mary
Helen
GEDDY has taken over Charlotte' s typeprised with a cocktail party kept secret
writer
Diana VAN GEYT has left the
until he walked up the stairs to the
colonial atmosphere of Williamsburg to
Dorrier -Read apartment the evening before
make
her home
in Boston
Alden HOPKINS
he left.
Harry has taken a position in his
lectured to the garden club of Schenectady,
home
New York,
flying,
to escort
during a recent trip north.
While in New York, he participated in the
Transjudging of the Prix de Rome
portation
has
taken
on a " new look"
Virginia MARSTON and C.
J.
CARTER,
for
with
town,
of
Norfolk.....
Anne
READ
is
off -
for a couple of days
her mother from Cazenovia, New
course -
York, for her annual visit to Williamsburg...
Page FOLK is in the throes of moving to the
Ludwell
Apartments.
�CW' S LATEST CONTRIEUTION
tcward
guest - comfort
is the new 46 - room wing of the Lodge ( above,
left).
extreme
Completely air conditioned,
each
room has
a cedar - lined
with fluorescent lighting,
cypress - paneled
walls.
closet,
Six rooms
added feature of studio -beds,
inspected ( above,
Green
and
Tom
a bath
and the familiar
have
the
shown below and
right) by hotelkeepers
Moyles.
John
�VIEWS
FROM
All
Forum.
that
and
THE
both
EPA:
POPULAR
departments
sessions
a
well
ran
done,
Antiques
of
CW
and
pitched
smoothly.
to
all
Decorations
From
hands.
in
KC,
to
see
BWN,
�i'eoruri, ra2
CW'
1949
DEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
S LICENSED
MANUFACTURER
V:
THE
Buffalo Boy Go ' Round and '
Showman - Alexander square dances,
the activities
New York,
for
production
OW'
brass - shy Spencer Kittinger of Buffalo,
to get furniture
Program.
Craft
s
COMPANY
Round" is the title of one of the popular
but it was also an adequate description of
of mahogany- short,
when he tried
KIT"
TINGER
Page
Mr.
reproductions
Kittinger
back in postwar
since 1941 has been
president of the Kittinger Company, exclusive manufacturers of Williamsburg
Restoration Furniture Reproductions since 1936.
Spencer Kittinger' s ability to locate the rare top -grade mahogany wood
for these
hinges,
reproductions,
and handles,
interest
is an indication
in Colonial
seventy - five
and to track
Williamsburg.
pieces
brass
of both his business
Before
furniture.
of
down the scarce
This
the
list
war,
the
plummeted
used for joints,
ability and his
Craft
to
House
zero
carried
when
the
Kittinger Company converted to turn out attack boats for the Navy and wing
panels,
trailing
hensive
collection
and
edges,
bulkheads
of furniture
for
Army
is already
Today a compre-
aircraft.
available
at Craft House and in
Kittinger outlets throughout the country, and by the end of 1949 it is
expected that thirty -five pieces will be in full -scale production.
The Kittinger concern is an outgrowth of Colie and Sons, a Buffalo
firm
founded
business
in 1866.
in 1910,
president
and
Irvine
J.
Kittinger,
manager
Buffalo civic and fraternal
departments of the concern,
until
his
death
year and served as
in 1941.
His
for servicemen,
the
of the
son
Active
company.
started
thereafter
in numerous
groups, he manages to keep a close eye on all
and is particularly proud of its labor -
relations.
Furniture reproductions are,
ProgrLur,
secured control
changed its name the following
general
work during World War I making saddle trees
finishing school and college and rejoining
management
Sr.
and
have been
of course,
since
popular
its
an important part of the Craft
inception.
Antiques
today are
rare and are expensive for most purses, so that reproductions are usually
the only way to furnish a home after the fashions of the great English
furniture- making century.
Typical
furniture
is
of all authorized
produced
designer Beck- 1th,
only
Craft House reproductions,
long
after
for example,
and
careful
each piece
research.
of
Kittinger
will be in Williamsburg next month for
He will
long stay to study twelve new pieces.
set up shop in the basemcr_ of the Wythe House so ~ `
t
a
that fragile and costly antiques need not be shipped y,
to
Buffalo.
Details
carefully
filed from
hand.
supervised.
solid
Handmade
tier
tables.
solid
piece
craftsmen.
eighteenth-
For
at
of all of our reproduced
Craft
a
wooden
is
Drawers
screws
Tilt- table
tops
hand
cut
are /
join post
are
from
hand turned by modern
mahogany,
Insofar as possible,
the tradition
century cabinetmaking is emulated.
first - hand view of this furniture,
It
is
testimonial
the
to
most
the
practical
Kittinger
and
i
by
sections
fashioned
1
hand
and
are dovetailed
of
one
of
House.
explanatory
Hardware
brass.
furniture
1
1)
of ` \
f
I
call
self -
Company
and
its
president.
11
�Page
12
WS
I
Williamsburg
Colonial
of
Irvin Reid ($
AWARDS
unusual
Contributions to safety, convenience,
and economy in CW operations have merited
suggestion awards for the following:
Mack
William
5) -
Information
cheeses
Nathaniel
have
February,
Reid,
given
in
the
questions
concerning
waiters.
Jr. ($ 5) -
occasion
guests'
be
Employees
hotels
be
1949
given
to
who
answer
information
concerning pictures hung there.
Barlow ($
house
in
Light
5) -
service
yard
Dietz ($ 5) -
Meredith
coats
for
Craft
in the
of
the
trash
Lodge.
guard
Rack for hanging
the
customers
at
or board
at
dock
of
Plate
the
Lodge
to
Archie
connect
of
Lodge
Charles
with
Leslie
elevator
R.
to
authorized
Moore ..(:; 510) -
the plate warners
Trollies
screen
under
employees'
wire
Fashioned
Brown
OF ' itit+ MONTH -
Lamb
Stew
With
NO.
size
gates.
until
Dumplings
A
2
3
3
3
onions
in four -inch
over
other
from
pan
the
fire
to
Steamed
this
Serves
dumplings.
and
pan,
salt
when
la
dough
greased
serving.
pan
the
colored
Lodge.
Kitchen
bay leaves
qts. water
tbs, shortening
tbs. flour
and
pepper
add
and dredge
in
meat.
Add
the
fat
diced
from
Cream these
carrots,
top
of
the
ingredients
cook
stew.
to
a
30
minutes
Place
smooth
longer.
fat
in
anPlace
paste.
and add the remaining liquid from the stew to the fat and
Then add meat and
constantly during this procedure.
and season
to taste.
gravy
Serve very hot with steamed
8.
2
flour,
With
should
Inn
and pepper
hot
cups
flour
2 tbs.
be
and
a
baking powder,
large
spoon
quite
moist.
steam
8
fold
and salt,
in
milk
and cut in shortening
gently
until
With the tip of the spoon
minutes.
shortening
1 - 3/ 4 cup milk
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
Sift together
at
the
Stir constantly
Add chopped onions and braise mixture for 15
Add water, tomatoes, and bay leaves, and cook
hour.
skim
flour.
Dumplings:
biscuits.
in
Stir
mixture.
vegetables
stew
stir.
one
fire,
the
with
over a medium
flour
to
for
heat
medium
Remove
shortening
well
browned.
Continue
minutes.
Season with
squares.
in
is
meat
Remove door facing of
5) -
from walkway
salt
Melt
or
used
7
1 cup canned tomatoes
meat
clips
pickets
at -the Lodge.
2 medium
flour.
in-
wrapping
units.
Metal
protect
screen
garage.
bags,
for
restaurant
cafeteria
4 lbs. boneless shoulder of lamb
4 medium size carrots
Cut
paper
sheets,
10) -
to
swinging
Wilson ($
persons.
RECIPE
Old
angles
Warehouse
Waxed
in CW
White ($
M.
Install
10) of
of wax paper
small
Control switch limiting the use
door
Smith ($ 10) -
stead
the dock with unloading trucks.
10) -
Reinecke ($
on west
sandwiches
Howell ($ 5) -
back
of
Clara
House.
Todd W.
convenience
T.
well
as for
mixed.
drop dumplings
The
on a
Remove from pan, place on top of stew when
�are
were
Page 13
They
NEW YORK OFFICE Barbara JEFFREY has
recently joined the staff as secretary
to
Kenneth CHORLEY. Barbara
is
saw
to Forum visitors.
open
the
closed
Palace from
cellar
to third
floor and all but a very few climbed
the spiral stairway to the cupola for a bird' s -
from
eye
view
Lockport, N.
Y Mary BURKE was
married on Saturday, February 19, to William
at the end
J.Simpson, III. The ceremony was held in
declared themselves reluc- tant
Lady
the
Chapel
Cathedral. The
of
of the gardens. They had a
St. Patrick' s
Reverend Walter Darcy, a friend of
to
of
leave
Wil iamsburg. Aside
is
there
the
bride and groom,
performed the ceremony. Mary wore a white
BROWN
brocaded
lace
She
with
which
was
of
on her
Ivy. Joan Burke, sister
a
wreath
her
her
only
Nile green
of
Her gown
marquiset e. She
wore
multicolored small
flowers were
embroidered
enjoying
after
PATE
honeymooners
the
Ludwell
assistant
Apartments
recovering
on
was
are to
spend two weeks
touring the south, after
which
of
has
an
Staff
on
the
returned
illness
Barbara
to
Naval
Academy
work
HARDY has
been a
at Bell Hospital. She is
from her operation Lily
nicely
NELSON spent several
visiting
her
days
son
has
in Warrenton,
and
Philip
are glad to welcome
who
groom. The
a clerk. Madeline
is
at Fort Eustis, are living
the gaiety
Minnie
patient
brother
the
Forum,
news ( Mrs.) Madeline
as
work
in
Virginia,
white kid gloves. The best man
Simpson,
of
attendant.
started
husband, who
the
days,
Jamestown Road Nicky DILLARD spent the
weekend, fol owing the
Forum, at Annapolis,
bridesmaid' s bouquet,
the same spring
the cuffs of her
of
veil.
head and, instead
of the conventional
John
Parisian
spray of
of
around
yoke
duplicated
was
bride,
flowers
was
carried a
Bouvardia and
the
a
has
her
from
little
Judge Advocate
satin dress
and
grand time and,
five
been
his
wife
We
back Mae FLETCHER,
indisposed
for
some time..... recently had as
Hallie WERMUTH
reside in Bro klyn at
they will
guest
her
brother, William
Atkinson
31+ 1949 has brought grandchildren to both Luch
SNEED
9 Adelphi Street. The staff of 5600 is
and June B0C0CK - to
Lucy
happy to announce that Mrs. Simpson will
a granddaughter, Micou Sneed Savage; to June
remain in her position as Allston
William Holliday Bocock. June has
a grandson,
BOYER' s
been in Allen- town, Pennsylvania, with
her son
Branch
and his wife Nancy BOZARTH
paid a visit to her daughter and
law, Nancy
secretary.
Warrenton, Virginia
Joan
and Lynn
Rose
Adele
WING
the
be
has
long,
dull
January and
winter
months,
promise
February,
to
dull no lcnger. Something new
been
added - an
Antiques
great success
for
and
all, in-cluding
a
pleasant
the
and we wish for both of them the best of
luck
in
hostes es. It
their
new ventures.
intensive preparation beforehand, but any
extra trouble was aw ly rewarded by the
privilege
FROM C& M
experience
meant a drastic departure from routine
procedures in the buildings and
some
College in
Richmond, and Barbara BROWN has enrolled at
William and Mary. They will be missed by everyone
and Decorations Forum. The recent Forum was
a
in
has entered
the Pan American Business
Erthal HOSTESS BRIEFS
son in -
Hart,
of
hearing
authorities
on
subjects
of great interest to
the hostess group. During the Forum, places
Mary J.
Daniel Gordon STELE, who acted for
a short time as Fire Warden in
Bassett
Hall woods, was forced to resign
3, of
because
illness
in the exhibi- tion buildings which usually James A.
VAUGHAN,
on
in his
a
January
family
former employee, returned on
January
�Page
14
fire
patrolman
BENTON
was
Inn
at
at work
and
for
Lodge
a brief
Sid
period
in
January but had to return to the hospital
for
to
further
report
Williams
treatment.
that
valescing
on
H.
years
of
carpenter
Section:
replaced
Elwood
Paint
are
gratified
hole
and
Douglas
FLATTEN
in the
as
con-
MacQUATTERS
as
colorist
Douglas
trade
has
spent
Friends
formerly with C& M' s Paint Section,
now in Baker Sanatorium
C.,
where
operation,
recovery
he
has
join in wishing
a major
health
into operation
sure better workmanship
ing and touch -up jobs
and will
in-
wish
Bill
WILLIAMS the best of luck with those midterm exams at the College of William and
taken
paint
careful
Each
off.
inspection
loose
joints,
for
and
and damaged benches were
to the attention
signs
termiteE
called
of Norman HARMON
of the
Carpenter Shop, where Norman, Arthur WARD,
or Bob BURRAGE applied the necessary surPaul
gery.
began
ROHRBAUGH
the painting
pert
sanding,
bench
been
applied
and
three
and
hot
under
then
the ex-
Jr.
After
and dusting,
or
more
coats
final coat
of paint
dried,
benches
the
days
the
and
their
finish
these
of
had
were
in maintaining
to protect
summer
CRUSE
WEBB,
cleaning,
simonized to assist
luster,
John
Robert
received
When the
paint.
and
operation
of
supervision
winter
on the refinishWe
Defective
the
In the near future, the spray booth
all
deterioration,
each
recently installed in the new warehouse
will be put
received
thorough
him a speedy
of good
and
bench
Sr.,
and
the
moved
who
in Charleston,
undergone
and renewal
has
at
1949
As the benches were unloaded, they were
prepared for a dip in a custom -built vat
containing several hundred gallons of paint
remover.
After a short time they were re-
of
CW.
knew and worked with Walter MARTIN,
S.
con -
Edward Moore
service
for
Shop Lab.
years
many
We
now at
Congratulations
January 21
HINES who, in January, com-
fifteen
struction
Paint
is
was born to Bob and Virginia
to James
the
he
satisfactorily
WILLIAMS
pleted
February,
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
through
unpredictable
months.
Taken to their respective
placed with bricks
under
locations
and
each leg to pro-
tect the wood from ground moisture,
they
once again invite the passer - by to sit a
while and admire the beauty of Colonial
For the Carpenter and Paint
Williamsburg.
We know he' ll come through with
Mary.
Headaches?
Christmas
flying colors'
and New Year' s Day are past, and a lot of
shops,
fellows are scheming how they may be able
few months are moving into a new home in
to
cut
here
and
there -
charity
and deductions
Soon
will
it
taxes -
be March
so
much
for
Income
coworker
and
it' s a darn good thing we have
both'
WALLACE
return:
Park
Simon
done:
to hear that our
and
his
bride
MORNING
and
of
a
David
from a week' s vaca-
much- needed
home
The
repairs
Finally complete is janitors of Blocks # 15 and # 23 and of the
the multitude of
Goodwin Building on January 7 organized a
savings
streets
and
Boy'
s
gardens
and restored
was
named
and
WALLACE
just returned
the task of painting
benches that have been placed along the
in
well
tion.
They report useful and successful
vacations during which they accomplished
some
The benches
task
We are glad
David
Highland
for this' n that.
15.
another
Janitors:
around
the
various
properties
for
con-
venience and comfort to the passer -by.
The job began in the summer of 1948, when
club
under
Christmas
the
Saving
secretary
and
name "
The
Club."
Porter
R.
D.
treasurer.
HARRIS
Each
Friday evening, members pay their pledges
the first group of some three hundred
which are recorded in the secretary' s book.
On Saturday morning the money is taken to
benches
the Peninsula Bank and Trust Company and
was
brought
to the Warehouse.
Each and every bench had to be numbered
their pledges recorded in their savings
and
books.
tagged
print
number
on the premises,
marked
of
showing
each bench.
the
and
the blue-
position
and
eight
5.
The club
porters.
and
the
at present
Pledges
treasury
consists
range
total
from
of
50¢
is $ 80. 50.
to
�t;
Fec:.° a: y,
THEATER
L.
two - week
TATE
has
just
Buick.
new
returned
through
the
He
things
HORNER
ant
a bad case
Boston,
of
the
at
with
of virus
pneu-
She has been replaced by Beverly
monia.
Mass.,
Manager,
another
student
Pat BUCHANAN,
College
she
James
vacation
days at his home
Floyd
returned
from
spent
ABBOTT
spent
in South Boston
HONEYCUTT
and
his
a
her four three
recently
wife
enjoyed
a trip to Baltimore last week
Catharine
Bamman,
sister
of
Norma
BAMMAN,
Robert
Williamsburg
MANLY has joined the Inn cooking staff.
has
to
returned
He
from
hails
Robert
Portsmouth
the
a nice Chevy in excellent condition, con-
MARTIN is recovering at his home in Newport News after spending some time in Bell
sult
Hospital. - -
super
Anyone
salesman,
who
Doorman
wants
Thomas
Inn
Mattie
after
the
and John Egan,
who were married
Saturday, February 26,
in Syracuse,
on
N. Y.
John is Assistant Catering Manager at the
Mr.
and Mrs.
in the
OPENING
Egan
will
Carter - Saunders
MARCH
1**
girl at the
has
returned
leave
Leonard
John Haywood
WINN,
Tom
MOYLES,
and
Branson
The Williamsburg
on March
House
and tour
for
make
1
at
the
basis
travel
1
travel
bilities
of
cars,
will
rented
be
last
to
years'
service,
and
CUPID,
waiter
trial
year
at
the
Inn,
and
a half
years
of
accredited
service.
ATTENDANCE
RECORDS
Congratulations
for
perfect
attend-
records:
serve
information
of
this
proved
and practical
the
Ur - Self
L.
For
the
year
ending
Norma Bamman -
seven - month
need
twelve
ance
aid.
center
definite
ten
retired on February 22 after approximately
Office
Craft
Nancy Foster will be manager of
this unit, working under the supervision of Tom McCaskey.
The
of
their
MARCH
Travel
a permanent
on
a center
completion
Kitchen.
OPENING
reopened
as
in December
a pantry
JEFFERSON
months'
several
William
CW extends best wishes to Shirley
home
born
of
Philip FERGUSON chalked up a service record of fifteen years on February 25
CONGRATULATIONS::
Inn.
III,
parents
JUNIOR are receiving congratulations on
mmmmmm'
Varah
proud
Evelyn was formerly
Lelia
Ray' s new Nash is a honey -
are
and
Johnson,
business.
at
has
where
Robert
car
in harness
BRAYER
William and Mary after a semester' s layoff.
He says it isn' t too hard trying to
get back into the swing of things
Ray PECHAN, Chief of Service,
is now in
the
back
LODGE
JOHNSON
McCORMICK.
now
Assist-
week
15
Evelyn
used
is
AND
trip to Florida,
are getting rather rough on the " outside.
dBetty DAVIS, recent addition to the
cashiering staff, was sent to the De Paul
Hospital
INN
Isabella
from
south-
says
Page
Williamsburg
FROM
vacation
in that
land
Colonial
of
BRIEFS
Curtis
a
NEWS
1949
the
Alden Eaton Patricia
Walter
idea.
Hertz
and
cameras
C& M
C& M
Wilkins,
Jr. -
Dept.
of
Interpretation
Driv-
bicycles,
C& M
Jr. -
Lyman Peters -
Dudley
1948
C& M
Lavery -
Martin,
possi-
December,
I &
L
from
this
office
as
a means of defraying its expenses.
For the year ending January,
I &
L
Roy Banks Isabella
Brayer -
Minnie
Pate -
Arthur
Wilson -
1949
I&
L
Dept.
C& M
of
Interpretation
�Page
16
NEWS
Colonial
of
RED
CROSS
It' s Red
liamsburg services
our
TIME -
Cross
February,
which
again
the
and
so
1949
Time
Red
our
that
The
continue.
again
in Wil-
Cross
renders
these
first
services
week
to
time
country -
to
can
in March
i
is
set aside by the James City County Chap-
ter for fund -collecting, and volunteer
solicitors
will be making
1949
time to remember the many
community
give
Williamsburg
their rounds
even before
this
issue of the News makes
its
rounds.
This
the
year,
Henderson
and
Thomas
local
D.
has
quota
Savage
been
are
27
reduced
asking
for $ 4,
Cochairmen
percent.
local
from
363.
Horace
donors.
E.
Promptly at
twelve noon on Tuesday, March 1, the big red grandfather' s clock again took its place
in front of the Post Office Arcade on Duke of Gloucester, signaling the kickoff of
the
drive.
Many employees and their wives and families are helping the chairmen raise the
needed
while
money,
have
other
given
hand
a
with
its
staging
and
If you
promotion.
have forgotten exactly what services your Red Cross offers, look over a few of their
numerous
displays
window
OPERATION
or
read
local
your
HAVANA
HOSPITALIZATION
When the PCS 1376 and the PCS 1383
weighed
anchor
at Newport
Yews
this
month
for a two -weeks'
training cruise in
southern
the
capable
waters,
hands
of
CW'
craft
were
s Naval
in
the
Reserve
Both
of
the
136 - foot
vessels
are
forget
to
give.
A " bonus" of fifty cents per day during hospital
confinement
from February
offi-
don' t
BONDS
to CW employees
cers Harold Sparks and Vernon Spratley,
Jr.
but
newspaper -
has been allotted
and eligible
15 until
dependents
further
notice,
the
Aetna Life Insurance Company announces.
No
extra
charge
bonus,"
will
be
made
for
this
which was made possible by the
permanently assigned as training ships for favorable operation of the plan during
Reserve personnel in the Fifth Naval Dis1948.
The maximum miscellaneous
hospital
trict, the former to the Richmond Division fees will automatically be increased from
and the
sion.
radar
latter to the Newport News DiviEach is equipped with the latest
and
sound
gear,
and
each
mounts
50.
to $ 55.
during any one continuous
confinement.
a
This latest
added benefit
to the
three -inch gun as well as a full complement
of 40' s and 20' s.
The 55 -man crew
Group Hospitalization and Surgical Fee
Benefits Plan will be welcomed by the
aboard each PCS had an extensive
590 CW employees who are participating,
among whom 294 are carrying insurance for
program
a
rugged,
was
not
nation
or
while
of
vacation
were
return
the
was Havana,
was part
program,
ships
windswept
part
three
event.
the
where
refresher
sea,
passage
schedule.
days
at
The
which
eligible
desti-
250
all managed
ashore.
The
with
two
cruise
of the Navy' s stepped - up Reserve
and will probably be an annual
plan
this
the
members
claims
went
have
into
insurance
employee.
of
their
been
operation.
is jointly
Those
families.
settled
who
Over
since
CW' s
The cost
of
borne by CW wad
have
not
yet
joined and wish further information should
consult
Miss
Virginia
Marston
at
once.
�ebr;
1949• • --- .._ _
alry,
RICHARD
KENNETH
lt?
SHOWMAN:
V
bf.-ealonial;
Williamsburg
Page 1 7
THE SAGE OF BROKEN ARROW
Square dancing, chili -concocting ex- telegrapher Dick Showman is too versatile,
prolific,
and far -flung to compress
for this brief profile,
so the editors reluc-
tantly will touch only the high spots in the career of this balding, right -hand aide
to Ed
Alexander.
So much information was already in the public domain that no first-
hand interview was necessary, which is just as well because the subject has been
holed
up on " vacation,"
finishing
the University
of Wisconsin.
and
of a small Wisconsin community,
a doctoral
This
basketball
a
in Broken
Arrow,
players -
for
a
Ph. D.)
for historian Merle Curti
is a thorough - going study
and there is no one with a better background of
general information and experience
Born
dissertation
thesis (
than its author.
Oklahoma -
a state famous
for land rushes,
oil,
and
Dick Showman played high- school football and thereafter tackled
startling miscellany
jobs
of
before
Wisconsin
entering
in
1934.
He
was
clerk
and
telegraph operator for the Missouri- Kansas - Texas Railroad; he patroled the Atlantic
and Pacific as a ship' s steward; and for ten months he kept an eye on Progressive
Party
politics
as
for
messenger
the Wisconsin
State
Legislature.
At the University,
where he took both B. A. and M. A. degrees and completed residence requirements for a
Ph. D.,
he worked as a graduate instructor and found time to meet and marry Mary
Showman
MacKechnie.
Mary
also
has
an
M. A.
in
sociology
from
Columbia.
Both
were
Phi
Beta Kappa.
The Showmans came to Williamsburg in February, 1947, and live in the
airy Carter - Saunders House, a restored home which once sheltered a royal governor.
They have three children ( Peter, Jane, and Margaret) and an elongated dachshund
Christopher Bean).
Dick' s mother, Mrs. N. P. Showman, is also living in Williams-
burg,
and has an apartment on Scotland Street.
As Director of CW' s fast -growing Department of Interpretation, scholar- seaman-
telegrapher - instructor Showman is responsible for the Hostess Section, the Craft
Shops, the Archaeological Laboratory and Museum, the Photographic Laboratory, the
the
Film
Library,
are,
respectively,
the
Reception
and
Director),
Rosa Taylor,
Tcm Williams,
Center.
His chief
Minor Wine
Jane
Segnitz,
associates
Thomas,
and
Bill
list of Showman chores includes school journeys,
in these
activities
Jr. (
recently
made Assistant
to
Bippus.
A long supplementary
outside lectures,
and the slide
duplication program, with collateral duties in motion - picture - making, symposia, and
He has organized garden tours, revised scriptc, studied wigmaking, and has
fora.
taken the Williamsburg Inn Quintet to Washington to make recordings for a forthcoming
album
of
vinylite
records.
He has written at least one annual report and a Lion' s
Club bulletin by the light of bayberry candles during a study he was making on candle
wicks.
He and coscientist Thomas invented an " electric eye" device to co- ordinate
CW' s slide projector and sound recorder, and he even painted red the big Red Cross
clock which hae reappeared
Co-
During the war, Dick began to work with the Navy in 1942, and became
ordinator,"
Wisconsin.
a
recorded
dramatic
able
for the annual fund drive.
or civilian- in- charge of the big Naval Training School in radio at
At war' s end, his skill as satirist and mimic was immortalized
of
parody
training - school life.
Goodwin
talents in the recent Christmas skit.
dialects
He has a working
to
accompany
his
anecdotal
approach
in wax by
Building observers witnessed these
to
our
life
knowledge
and
times.
of innumerHe
is
con-
ceded Poor be the best - versed performer at " The Game" and is uncanny with acrostics,
to Man'
The
s
Alphabet,"
and "
Idiot'
s
Delight."
In short, he is long on
originality, and his activities are bounded only by time.
No matter what technical or educational project the Department
may
herd
attempt
on
it.
next -
and
it
is
often
quite
unexpected -
Oklahoman
Dick
of Interpretation
Showman
can ride
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It
TO CW' S QUESTION
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then -
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capital
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that
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former
and
3)
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and
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CW
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of
Kocher
Howard
also
purpose
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in these
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<p>The <em>Colonial Williamsburg News</em> was the official newspaper of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Publication began November 1940 under the title <em>The Restoration News</em> and was published under that name until February 1942. The title changed to <em>The News of Colonial Williamsburg</em> from February 1942 to May 1950. The name changed again in May 1950 to <em>Colonial Williamsburg News</em>. It is often collectively referred to by the abbreviated title <em>CW News</em>. Production switched to a digital-only format in 2018. The newspaper ceased production in 2020.</p>
<p>When using the <em>CW News</em>, it is important to remember that it reflects the realities of its time. For example, columns in the 1940s issues reported on the “News of the Colored People.” Separate reporting of African American and white social events was indicative of the segregation that was the legal norm in Virginia at the time.</p>
<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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of COLONIAL
NEWS
Volume
1,
Number
BRUSH- EVERARD
10
is
March,
RESTORATION
Restoration
Palace
WILLIAMSBURG
of
the
TO START
Brush - Everard
for the
scheduled
1949
house
attentions
on
the
of
the
green
within
M craftsmen
C&
the
shadow
within
of
the
next
the
few
weeks.
Close on its heels will be the beginning of the restoration
on the
The
old Lee
Property on Duke of Gloucester Street.
work
restore
and rebuild
which were
BOARDS
CONVENE
FOR MEETINGS
large
frame
house
CW
welcomes
its
trustees
and
interest
dir-
in
will
in
meetings
material
this
On hand
week.
for
the
sessions
Thursday are members
Trustees
WRI.
of
CWI
Those
and
Rockefeller,
3rd.,
began
of
include
Directors
John
Vanderbilt
of
D.
that
and
meetings
afternoons
would
the
be
scheduled
free
for
On Thursday,
consultations.
struction
were
projects
were
old
view
the
CW by the
of
the
program
to
Following
Train."
the
Boards
coach
from
at
Center
the
be
given
a
special
one
in
of
the
colonial
ject
for
of
over
members
program,
show-
S
base
of
restoration,
ten
first
original
the
has
accuracy,
oyster
WILLIAMSBURG'
within
of supporting
old
Evera. rd"
ing of the Esso travelogue and will be
entertained at luncheon by the City Counci
1699 -
the
actual
days
steps
will
foundation
foundations
be
walls
to
structure.
Architectural
The
a joint meeting on Saturday
will
around
The
start
the
strengthen
program.
of the promotional
nature
One
the sinking
Friday evening' s
attendance
superintendents
to Charlie Hackett' s construction
schedule.
to
as
si.deralk
gaps"
new
to return it to its colonial ap-
alongside
France
in the
provide
will
according
so
Sched-
presented
and
These
visitor
however,
con-
of Virginia
State
Reception
for discussion
the
the
includes
and
XV
Commonwealth
gifts
the " Merci
roast
Louis
the
chimneys.
uled Friday is a visit to the Warehouse:
to
great
pearance
visits
visited.
area
shops
of the
the Capitol.
of
further " fill
reinforcement
Webb,
Arthur W. Packard, William G. Perry, and
John V. Duncan, secretary in addition to
Kenneth Chorley and Vernon Geddy.
Morning
near
areas
restored
for
small
on the site
of the spring season.
Already certain work has been started
on the Brush- Everard house, primarily of a
of the Board of
Board
present
which
the
two
work will
the two
originally
projects
ectors in the city for their semi - annual
and reconstruction
latter
house,
been
to
Study
the
added
name
for
of
which
historical
was once the home of a prominent
It
gunsmith.
research
a
of
year.
and
has
been
the
architectural
sub-
study
Led by John Henderson,
the Architectural
Department
staff have explored it thoroughly, poking
into musty corners, removing plaster, and
making other dissections to ascertain what
1. (
250TH ANNIVERSARY -
Continued
1949
on Page
10)
�Page
2
NEWS
AND
NEWS
Cuionial
of
COMMENT
Williamsburg
the restaurant
March,
1949
for the nation -wide chain,
known for its twenty - eight flavors of ice
Among the latter pages of this
cream.
month' s NEWS are four full layouts of appealing
youngsters,
a partial
proudly
cross - section
presented
of
CW' s
as
children.
More and more snapshots are needed for
such sections in future issues,
so send
them in to the Public Information Office
at
the
be
given
preference
1)
Goodwin
is
that (
of
parents
be-
attached, (
name
3)
be
be
that
is
age
of
asked
2)
clear, (
and
will
name
child (
ren)
negative be included,
i+)
and (
parents
all
snapshots
and
possible,
babies
Building
that
all
if
employee the
represented
more
More national publicity is being reon Williamsburg:
Better Homes
and
ceived
Gardens
for
April
the
a color
Square Tavern garden
some
from
within
story
on
Williamsburg
published down Texas
garden
of
suggestions
Holland'
way,
cover
and a full -
s
Magazine,
devoted
a gener-
ous
spread to Bruton Church and WilliamsAnd first national attention for
burg
the 250th Anniversary was given in the
New York
Times
and amazingly
merrier.
carried
the Market
travel
page
inclusive
in a special
article on the
city.
The recent series of concerts by
The Common Glory" Chorus at the Reception
Jack Upshur' s lush, new 56 - page
Craft House Catalogue is off the press
Center
and going into the hands of consiuners
resumption
with the
brought forth the interesting fact from
speed of the proverbial
Ten
cakes.
percent
of
the
hot
original
print-
ing order of 15, 000 already has gone out
in the bare two weeks since they were received,
at
awaited,
a
price
cost
the handsome
80¢
of
Long
per.
piece has been
the works for over a year,
in
designed by
the Crafts and Publications Departments
and produced by the Stern printery of
Philadelphia.
Most of the exceptionally
fine photographs are by CW' s Tom Williams.
Betsy Hall is turning her talents
from smiling efficiency as Goodwin Building Receptionist
board operator
assistant
Mrs.
G.
retire
to flower arranging
to Mrs.
Fisher.
She
on
doctor'
arrangements
two
s
advice
and
who
at the Wythe House
as
roasts
the Research Department that roast oysters
the immigrants scared off a group of
Indians, who were calmly roasting a few on
the beach, and John Smith and party helped
themselves.
Institute
Director
Carl
Bridenbaugh
has been appointed to the Harvard faculty
for the summer term to teach a course on
The American People
in the
Colonial
the Jaycee safety measure this weekend and
has
flower
for the
restaurant
response
oyster
were one of the first foods eaten by the
colonists when they first landed at Jamestown in 1607.
Seems
that the arrival
of
vehicles at the high school on Friday and
Saturday
Special emphasis is being
given Garden Week this year with plans for
a special
Johnson
outdoor
have reflectorized tape applied to their
years.
The new Howard
the
Bike owners among the CW
family are reminded to take advantage of
succeeds
for the authentic
of
Period"
Glenwood Clark, who has had to
been responsible
past
and in- between switch-
received enthusiastic
on
tour
of the
Palace
Gardens
and
an evening lecture on gardens of Williams-
the first floor of the Stringfellow Build- burg and the city.
ing is being hurried for a possible openA group of travel advisers from governing within the coming week.
C&
M crews
ment bureaus in Washington will visit the
are making the slight alterations necescity on Sunday in a tour of the State
sponsored
sary for the new tenant, such as moving
by the Virginia Travel Council.
the soda fountain and changing the decoration
scheme.
E.
P.
Lysaght will manage
�March,
NEWS
1949
MAGAZINE
ARMED
FOR
SUMMER
Wil iamsburg'
pro-
s
slight
Atlantic pact,
is
on
readied
or,
with
invasions now
as
stout
Green
to
out
combat
of
is
Indian
invasion -
date, to
being produced locally with Jim Bateman of
show visitors how it was in
the old days. Cannon balls are being
are being located and
cast, muskets
powder kegs are being reproduced. As might
be expected, the armament race is simply against
what
the
time
looked
Examples
to
Magazine
meet
the
date
of
The
and
Guard
open
House
as
CW' s
sometime . around
present
July
1st, the
receiving
the
authentic
logy
lab
experimenting
in
various
like.
records
various
pieces
of
of
some
have
military
equipment
in
listed
not
been
found
equipment used during the French
and
Indian war period have been received
and ammunition
from England
as sketched from
finishing
paintings
touches of the C&
M construction
and landscape crews. Furnishing The Magazine in
an
archaeo-
forms
of castings. One of the main
difficulties, how- ever,is finding out
in existence. Special water color sketches of
unit. Now scheduled
colonial storehouse of arms
is at
the
old
seventh exhibi- tion
to
opening
Page 3
the
progress
making
Square
Market
Williamsburg
rearmament
effect on
the
arsenal
Colonial
OPENING
own
gram, of
of
18th -century
of military men
Collections The best
set
now hanging
find, to date,
of
in Buckingham
Palace.
was the
forty nine "Brown Bess'
manner with all of the assorted colonial military paraphernalia is
s"
which was obtained from Lowther
a
job that has been
time
and
in Scotland. The set was in
excellent condition, having been carefully preserved by descendants
going on for some
is
now
of
being headed up by Minor
Thomas.
Authoratative
Help
Advice
on refurnishing The
obtained
on
authority
on
help
Magazine has been
weekends from
an
and
Wine
Harold
old
18th
century
col- lected
by
for the Preser- vation
firearms
and exhi- bited
and
who
Colonel
lived in the castle and commanded the
regiment. Also some fifty muskets which had
been
Peterson,
the
Castle
the
Association
of Virginia Antiquities
at
The Magazine
editor of historical publications for the
National Park Service. He has been
working with Minor
Wine in identifying guns
and equipment and designing reproductions. Williamsburg' s colonial
industries
due
will
six pounder cannons. The Tower of London
the
have
armament
of
equipment
race
been
busy
re- ng
produci
which
cannot
in
various
be
at
the Ayscough
Shop
making
known
carriages
accordance
certain
leather
work
is
being
done at the Cobbler' s Shop. Powder barrels
are
being
made
from
old
designs
by a Balti- more cooperage. Cannon balls
and special types of
arrive
be
shortly
included
in
the
furnishings
exhibition
The Magazine. Keepers for the new
unit are being sought at the present
time. In- cidentally, the old landmark is
cartridge boxes, stocks and woodwork for gun
and
to
and
of
Kobelbauer
has been
several
Collection, pro-bably one of the most
important and interesting exhibits for the city, is
details
located
in their original form. Joe
be included. The National Park
Service at Yorktown is loaning
cannon shot are
instead
cor- rectly
with
of
as
its
as
The
18th -
such
Magazine
century
in
name
names
Powder Horn,"Powder Magazine" or "
"
"
Public
Magazine" -historically incorrect
terms
�4
Page
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
I N S
I D E
W E S
A REPORT
T E R N
V I R
March,
G
I
N I
1949
A
ON THE OTHER HALF
Banquet - scarred and travel -worn,
Williamsburg' s intrepid delegation to the
West
has
returned.
After four days and nights on a bus
trip to see the travel attractions in
Western Virginia, the local group came
home on March 19th with glowing accounts
of how our neighbors in the great Valley
handle
their
tourist
trade.
Representing CWI on this trip were
Bill
Bippus and Tom McCaskey.
Allen
Matthews joined them as representative of
The Common Glory"
and Fay LeCompte,
the Chamber of Commerce,
explorers'
of
completed the
foursome.
The tour was a project of the Virginia Travel Council, designed to get
the eastern travel interests acquainted
with those in the western part of the
banquet circuit for them to realize that
the boys in the West do a great deal more
with what they have to offer than we do
on this
State.
Nineteen persons, including
Robert Nelson, managing director of the
side of the Blue Ridge.
For
instance,
the Natural
Bridge
Council, who was in charge of the party,
attraction, with only one thing to offer a truly impressive span of rock, has built
made the trip.
Starting at Ash Lawn,
itself up to second place in total tourist
traffic in Virginia according to VTC
the delegates
from the mud flat visited nearly every
figures.
nc.tural
wonder
visitors of Williamsburg,
water.
Representatives
and shrine
eastern attractions
Kenmore, Stratford,
Old Point,
Ocean
beyond
tide-
of the following
made the trip:
Richmond, Tides Inn,
View,
Virginia
Beach,
Colonial Beach, Alexandria and Williamsburg.
They were wined, dined and royally
received
on every
stop,
and met
officials
of practically evern town or city of any
importance
in the West.
Easterners
It is within
in
is
here -
six
wonderful
fectly
craft
shops,
an entire
hotels,
tional activities,
Yorktown,
all
that
city restored,
buildings
per-
The Common Glory,"
recreation,
educa-
plus nearby Jamestown,
and Mariners'
natural wonder
the number one
Despite
exhibition
interpreted, "
our tourist
Amazed
the State.
attraction
offered
a few thousand
Museum,
in the ' lean'
this
one
portion of
area almost equals our annual
visitation.
The eastern group, secure in the
knowledge that 68% of Virginia' s tourist
restoration
business came to the East, went to view
the western attractions which draw the
other 32% of our 15, 000, 000 annual
E. Lee, on which over a million and a half
dollars have been spent, draws less than
one tenth as mAny people as one of the
visitors, feeling slightly superior.
western
However,
it took only one day out on thin
Along the same line,
at Stratford,
caverns.
Kenmore
lovely restorations
the beautiful
home
of Robert
and the
other
in Fredericksburg
CONTINUED
�NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
attract only a few thousand visitors a
Many of our eastern attractions
fold up in the winter season to take a
In the western part, the atlong rest.
tractions are widely advertised as open
year.
the year round,
every day.
Exchange
Idea
contacts
operators,
their
make
ists
east
the tourist
an exchange
west.
and
stay of
is only two days,
according to a survey made by the State
Conservation
Council
Commission.
promoted
operators
extend
these
of travel
this
great
ex-
The
trips
Travel
the
deal
to
meet
They
competition.
are going in for expanded advertising programs;
they already
cover their part
of
the State and nearby feeder areas with a
blanket
plays;
between
attractions
The attractions to the west are doing
great
Florida
of promotional
folders
and dis-
they have good relations with
attractions
which
to try to
average.
In Florida
cooperate
A
greener.
Bridge, at Endless Caverns, at Big Stone
Gap, Winchester, Abingdon, and all along
a
of tour-
The average
in Virginia
fields
pansion program is underway at Natural
the Valley.
with the western
to start
5
ern travel operators are already working
like beavers to build up their fences' and
The easterners went west especially
to make
Page
the
various
so successfully
attractions
with
each
other
in exchanging visitors that the average
stay is many times that of Virginia' s.
If we
could
do that
stay to four days,
here
and
increase
the
Virginia would get
I'
back into the top bracket of tourist
states.
An unexpected result of this trip
was the discovery among the easterners
that
competition
in the
travel
business
has grown exceedingly tough in the past
years
between
quite
sure
the
greatest
tourist
greatest
array
natural
wonders
However,
tourist stays,
ppi.
We
states.
that Virginia
state.
of
to
be
and they are keenly interested
the
lishing very close working ties between
and
the western and eastern parts of Virginia.
It is now up to the eastern attrac-
side
do
have
resorts,
of the
Mississi-
when it comes to average
and the total tourist
sults,
have far out - stripped us in reThe fact is that Virginia must
effort
selves in this highly competitive busiThe efforts
Council
this
to
awaken
tourist
interest
to
fact are encouraging.
Added Factor
Another
flat
boys.
fact did not
It
is
evident
escape
that
picture.
to
spend
the mud
the west-
It
a
is to our mutual
good
deal
of
time
adand
to establish cooperation between
either
through the Virginia
Travel Council, or individually with each
other.
Letters
of the Virginia Travel
the
travel
vantage
ourselves,
get out of the old rocking chair and
start working if we are to maintain ourness.
in estab-
tions to match the efforts of the western
Virginians to improve the State' s over -all
dollar, Virginia is way down the scale.
Other states by intense travel promotion
result in valuable reciprocal advertising;
We
shrines,
this
used
was the nation' s
received
from
other
eastern
delegates by the local group indicate that
they are ready to follow Mr. Nelson' s
exciting idea to a finish.
Williamsburg has already started, at
its Travel
Office,
a campaign
to let
CONTINUED
�6
Page
NEWS Of Colonial Williamsburg
INSIDE
WESTERN
VIRGINIA (
Cont'
d.)
know
tractions.
about
other
Photographs
Virginia
are
at-
displayed
1949
For that reason this rather
attraction.
full report
visitors
March,
is respectfully
submitted
through this paper for everyone' s serious
on
consideration.
every attraction in the State, folders
about them are distributed, complete
Tom McCaskey
information on them is available, maps
are marked to show our visitors
get to the
other places they should
We are taking the
FROM
M
C&
in Virginia.
visit
lead
how to
in this
section
vertise
Chamber
of
to
Virginia
other
Commerce
support
and adThe
attractions.
and the
Reception
severe
Center are also cooperating in this
provide
in Newport
Donald
appendectomy
in the
News
R.
is now our
the
other
job
to
see
in
reciprocate
wflin
this
and
g
with
maintenance
Keller and A. T.
We must
able.
very
from the Army,
a position
throughout
They are
effort.
discharged
that we
attractions
section
vacation
of
the
C&
a
has
automotive
M
W
L.
Vaughan are currently on
Josh Hundley,
returned
be
from
Swan,
accepted
Virginia with the working materials to
ready,
is recovering
Hospital
recently
effort.
It
Bill Bentien
Riverside
who recently
from a Richmond hospital,
is con-
valescing at his home in Highland Park.
equally prepared if the east -west
exchange
of
business
is
to
become
The possibilities
reality.
dous.
STRIKES
The full realization
could solve the financial
now haunt nearly
in Virginia.
of this idea
problems which
all of the attractions
If Virginia
is to maintain
its place in the travel sun,
an effort
must
be
made
to
meet
competition.
wise
we
will
be
left
out
We must,
a
are tremen-
as a State,
of
the
Otherparade.
work together to
get our story before the traveling
and to keep it there.
public
All Can Help
TO
SPARE
The young lassies of the CW Ladies
Bowling Team have been using their
Thursday evenings to a good advantage,
as was proved by Mrs. Bernice Hudson last
week.
Bernice not only copped the honors
among the team but also won the prize
given by the bowling alley for the ladies'
high
score
of
the
week,
Approximately fifteen girls from the
in their daily contact with the visiting
CW offices bowl " enthusiastically" every
Thursday, competing for prizes offered to
team members, and " doing wonders for their
public,
figures
Employees
this
of Colonial Williamsburg,
can do a great
movement.
deal to foster
Of the eastern
section' s
68% of the 15, 000, 000 annual Virginia
visitors, Williamsburg' s estimated
500, 000 total per year is not great.
Full support of Virginia by Virginians
will
produce
also
double
great
business
results.
It
could
here!
In time it will benefit our whole
state and help to assure the future of
Williamsburg as Virginia' s autstanding
as
Team
well."
Managers
Mar
Kent
Stevens
and
Lorraine Haislip point out that bowling,
like water,
seeks its own level and there
is always someone who bowls your kind of
game, be it good, bad, or just plain
mediocre.
They hasten to add that there
is always the chance of winning the jackpot
as
they
urge "
keep
up
the
good
work,
girls."
�1949
March,
NEWS
ANNIVERSARY
f
Colonial
PLANNING
full
Page
7
be in honor of the city' s 250th Anniversary.
Special research on the Act of 1699
Committee machinery has been set in
motion for the planning and co- ordination
of the 250th Anniversary celebrations
following meetings of the special Citizens
Committee appointed by Mayor H. M. Stryker
A
Williamsburg
committee
is
scheduled
Tues-
and
associated
events
in
connection
with
the establishment of Williamsburg as
capital of the Virginia Colony has been
completed for the Citizens Committee by
Pierce
Middleton
Research
and
Department
members
of
the
CW
staff.
day, April 5, for the discussion of suggestions reported by the executive cam Chairman
mittee.
of the Citizens
Com-
mittee for the 250th Anniversary celebrations is Channing M. Hall with Vernon M.
Geddy as vice -chairman and Bela W. Norton
as
The
secretary.
composed
of
these
Stryker,
Mr.
J.
executive
officers
E.
Ward,
the
Committee
Citizens
Eunice
Hall,
Council;
dent
of
Commerce;
of
the Exchange
intendent
of
Historical
James
Mrs.
E.
R.
Park;
Rev.
Vaiden,
P.
E.
A.
Colonial
W.
Judge
Ashton Dovell,
Robert
Taylor,
Clarke
W.
Chamber
president
Hummel,
Super-
Gardner,
Frank
L.
Armistead,
Person,
and
Wallace.
Immediate
plans
call
for
a proclama-
tion by the Governor of Virginia calling
official attention to the anniversary, a
petition
to
the
U.
S.
Post
Office
Depart-
ment for a commemorative stamp in honor
of the celebration along with a special
cancellation stamp to be used by the local
Pest
Office.
Discussions
are
be
observed
from
the
rear
Lodge provide another interesting
April
1st
is
the
first
of
the
series
of outdoor oyster roasts and they will be
repeated on successive Friday evenings
during April, or, as John Green puts it,
as long as the oysters hold out and are
available."
Weather permitting,
they
will be held from 6: 30 to 8: 30 p. m. in
National
E.
will
activity for visitors.
Superinten-
Hospital;
Club;
the
of
Miss
of the Junior
Donald
Songs and the sizzle of roasting
yard of Chowning' s Tavern on successive
Friday evenings as Williamsburg Inn and
and Rev.
Jones,
ROASTS
oysters
of the Community
State
president
of
is
Mayor
Other members
include
Granville
Eastern
Williams,
Jr.
chairman
Dr.
and
Pomfret
Archibald F.
committee
OYSTER
the Chowning' s parking lot where two
temporary pits have been constructed.
Raw
or
roasted
oysters
will
be
available
in quantity for the individual' s capacity,
as well as king - size hamburgers, coffee
and cake.
The charge is $ 3. per person
tickets
and
are
in
available
advance.
The
Williamsburg Quintet will combine melodious Spirituals with oyster -shucking for
the Friday night affairs.
now underway
with a major broadcasting network for a
series
of programs
centering
Other
Williamsburg.
events and activities
special
around
are in the planning
at
the
exhibition
buildings
already are explaining the anniversary as
they escort visitors through the buildings
The first edition of the Williamsburg
Commemorative
Miss Nicky Dillard
of
stage.
Hostesses
CONGRATULATIONS;
commemorative
Plates
produced
for
the
Craft Program by Wedgwood in England will
Interpretation
President
ment
and
and
sorority.
of the Department
just
been
elected
the Women' s Student
Association
William
year,
of
has
at
Mary.
a member
the
College
Governof
Nicky is a junior this
of Kappa
Alpha
Theta
�March,
Page 8
CARRIAGES
REMODELED
with the Air Corps Reserve during the
BACKWARDS
last
Coaches
1949
are in the Williamsburg
war
as
director
of
procurement
New York.
In
World
for
all
mind these days with balmy weather mak-
War
I
ing the carriage rides increasingly
popular, viewing of the French coach
by the Board, and a busy coach authority
been consulting
with CW over a period
of
coaches
ial
to
conveyances
or rather,
up -
he
back -
fit
period - wise
tures
the
work
in
Deane
Wil iamsburg.
16) years
on
to
Eastman
film
accomplish
the
Coach,
doing
the
changed
carriage,
ment,
altered
directly
Interpretation
Depart-
Director
revamped
of
car-
the
to give the entire
t`
leAeL
rig the lower and
appearance
He
has
been
close -
of
his
design
with
Peter-
Warehouse
son
and
at
r
the
Marion :'
Davis of
1700'
Wine
x.
Forge have been
completing the iron work; certain
job
and
Thomas,
working
has
admits
woodworking details
and carvings
have
never
car-
riage
has
work
been
accomplished
by
crew at the Warehouse. It
now
to
col- lection
Shop
some
sixty - three
coaches,
a
to
having
call
upon
friends
man from
birth, he has pursued the
all
the
and
assembled
by
way
real
shoeboxes
done
estate
tan
back
officer
father.
to
Grec- ian
three
A
horse-
sub- ject
Roman
chariot
full" of
some day to turn
was
his
days
notes
which
and
he
has
hopes
into a book. Much of this
in off -hours as a
for
one
banks
of
of
the metropoliNew
fourteen
into
coats
of
paint
the
is
Paint
and
the
coat - of arms on the door,
stantiating
Randolph
Coach. • Colonel
of the
of stydying and relishing their lines
and details. Such an unusual hobby started
in
early
childhood when he noted
the care
the family
and " fussiness" given
equippage
for
go
Nor-
sub-
at
times for shelter. Even now he
has a goodly number, never tiring
horse - drawn
ready
Randolph
which he found a bit awkward
store,
to
been done
by Joe
Kobelbauer and Arthur Sedille of
the Ayscough Shop, and other body and
Assistant
man Harmon' s
number
CW'
Charlie
having made one this young before. Before
the war he personally owned a
notable
of
the •
of
Vs"'
craftsmen.
five
Pc
arrange-
may following the execution
"
mid -
but
before
spring
of the body and
times.
6 ei ,
that department. He
riages
Williams-
transformation
the lines
he
ment
Minor
on
make it
the
with
asso-
added other eighteenth -century details
on a consulting basis for
the
an
has
he has lengthened
typical of a The coach expert
is
here,
broader
struc- --
the
of
the
on the " Blue"
back" seventy-
Continued
coach
town
in
seen
Actually
city.
taking it
"
the
carriage,.
colonial
the
of
is
archaeological
the
with
company
century
to be
calvary
that started immediately after
viewed
To
eighteenth-
on
a
He
officer.
burg at a church meeting in Rochester.
Colonel Paul Downing of New York,
who has made a lifetime hobby of coach study in opposition to bridge and golf,
has been taking years off the familiar
Blue" coach, restoring it as an authentic
up - state
was
years
date.
s
he
ciation
who is bringing the Williamsburg colon-
of
York
its new najne as the
Downing
says
that
work has
fifty
per-
cent
been of a
strength - ing nature, to prepare the coach
for
daily
duty
in
carrying
visitors
on half - hour jaunts about the
restored area. Harnes now being prepared for the rig
is
a source of special pride
for the
Colonel. Designed by him
from eighteenth century drawings, it
is being
completed
English
leather
in,_. New
with a
The
two
York
of
second set
sets
have
harness
well
been
underway.
designed
around colonial harness buckles
and
fittings
found
in
:
�March,
19+ 9
COLONIAL
CW
NEWS
COMEDY
and
next
two
early
College
in
the
comedy
of William
and
during
presentation
on
the
of
an
successive
old
will
pin,"
The
play, "
be
staged
in
Cheats
the
of
program
The first
at
of events
performance
8 : 30 p.
m.,
with
for
visitors.
is this Saturday,
succeeding
perfor-
mances on Saturday evenings during April
and May.
Rehearsals have been going well, it
is reported and everything is in readifor opening
ness
night.
Scammon,
recently
tor
The
for
technical
by
named associate direcGlory," is given
assistance
College
will
The
roles.
Howard
Common
Roger Sherman.
the
Director
for
the
Dramatic
take
veteran
the
production
students
old
cast
Brose
of
York,
Incidental
Pa.
music
candles
for
He'
s
with
the
the
Baldwin
have
been made
become
at
ladle -
the
Craft
House.
just
a little
having come from Africa
of
biology
J.
T.
Baldwin
of
He met Dr.
staff.
and accompanied
him on
was
there
on
an
economic
mission.
Liberian Citizenship
the
the
in a tribal village
Gold
Accra
Coast,
Nick
3chool
of
is
a
near Accra
graduate
Commerce.
war he ran a PX at a British
of
During the
air base
in
Accra.
During the last five years he has
been working in Monrovia, Liberia, and has
Liberian citizenship.
His trip to America and Williamsburg
not without
was
difficulty. Unable to
get a ship at Monrovia, he made his way
to Dakar,
passage
alterations
of the
a walking tour of Liberia while the biology
Stewart
Special
at
in Africa
professor
on
Hirsch.
he
in America
assistance
College
on
Abraham
has
sale
been
over a month,
be furnished during the old play by Alan
and
a native
is turning out bayberry
proficient
Born
w' ll
24+,
Dagadu,
ing the candles in the little colonial
industry that Minor Wine Thomas is hard pressed
Where
the old
keeping him in wax.
record was something like 125 candles a
week, Nick is now turning out 200 to 250
costume
Octavian played by John Donovan of
Swampscott, Mass; Shift by George Belk of
Williamsburg; Scapin by David Friedman of
Richmond; Thrifty by Fred Eckert of Union
City, N. J.; Gripe by Richard Bethards of
Wilmington, Del; Leandor by Christian Moe
of New York City; Clara by Mary Gerschank
of Mount
Joy, Pa.;
and Lucie by Mariana
PRODUCTION
America.
from
includes
9
candles at a record clip in the Palace
Scullery as he adjusts to his new life in
So
the
18th century as a special addition to the
nightly
Gold Coast,
of Sca-
manner
Page
CANDLE
Nick W.
Saturday evenings in the Reception Center.
The
Williamsburg
RECORD
are collaborating
months
colonial
Colonial
UNVEILED
the
Mary Theatre
of
foot.
a distance
After
of 850 miles,
considerable
to Paris
where
he
mostly
delay
had
to
he got
wait
sented in an 18th -century manner with
several months and among other things was
He finally got a ship out of
Antwerp for New York and came on to
Williamsburg.
At present, he is living
such
in
to
the
order
stage
that
at
the
details
the
Reception
old play might
as flickering
Center
in
be pre-
footlights.
Tickets for each of the Saturday night
performances of the play will be $ 1. 20,
tax included,
and $.
60 for
students.
The comedy of manners is in three
acts and was written in 1677 by Thomas
It is known to have been given
Otway.
in Virginia during the 18th century and
probably was presented in Williamsburg.
The
plot
concerns
a marital . mix - up.
robbed.
a little
house
out
on Minor
Wine
Thomas'
farm and is eagerly learning all he can
about
America.
He
sees
a good
cross - section
of
it
the
Dressed in
daily
Scullery.
colonial attire, he skillfully produces
at
candles
hundreds
and
of
explains
daily
the
process
visitors
there.
to
the
�Page
10
BEUSH-
EVERARD,
Continued
from
Page
1
Architectural
the
is 18th century
much - altered
this,
the
March,
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg.
and what
is " new"
On
residence.
drawings
the
in the
basis
have been completed
restoration
of
its
original
of
for
Tayloe
behind
the
Chowning'
to
studies
Under
s.
the
which
on
direction
are being
original
was
begun
Street
the
the studies
ascertain
structure
have
on Nicholson
of Ralph Bowers
made
appear-
House
19+ 9
lines
purchased
of
in
ance and use as an exhibition building
1759 by one of the wealthiest of colonial
typifying the less pretentious type of
Virginians,
colonial
highest
dwelling.
The house
beautiful
a surviving
It
period.
contains
original
structure
also
some
woodwork
of
of the most
yet
found
its
type
a
number
contains
and
of
Tayloe,
on
that
for
one
for
record
a wooden
of
the
time.
gardens"
The " falling
uncovered in the rear by Jim
Knight'
s
archaeological
to
colonial
at
the
enigmas -
cryptic
wirings
on
another
form
the " mysteri-
Knight
used
a Craft
House
crew
prestige
of
bear
the
witness
place.
colonial
ous mark"
as
of
window
house
panes
and
the
in
John
prices
hallmark,
At one point
found on some boarding under the eaves.
The house has been known by many as the
are
Johnson
novel
of
the
same
of the grounds,
discovered
Jimmy
five
layers
of
foundations with a twenty square.
Already evident is the
foot
Audrey" house because of its believed
connection with the well -known Mary
has
fact
that the present
additions
made
wings
after
of the
the
house
colonial
period.
name.
Lee Property
Down
the
on Duke
restoration
provide
of
Gloucester
of the
Lee
one of the most
Hcuse
Street,
will
interesting
CRAFT HOUSE
OFFICE MOVES
pro-
jects undertaken in the postwar building
the eastern portion being original and
the western half a 19th - century addition.
The Craft House office literally
moved back into its " ivory tower" in the
second floor offices vacated by the Inn
and Lodge
It will be
Accounting Section.
a pleasure not to hear visitors, peering
Tiets part will be removed and
heLf returned to its original
Museum,
program.
The
present
virtually
twice
Lee
House
its 18th - century
Teterel
It will be
Shop.
by its 18th- century name,
size,
the eastern
appearance,
that of a shall shop remarkably
to the
is
similar
known
Nicolson Shop.
at
us
also
across
the
not
to
gate
of
the Wolcott
Just
ree: vk "
-
some
to
confess
nave
old
lieve
in " Private'
ins,
and
our chairs inspecting tools.
Two Craft House mothers
On the western half of the rroperty, the
Pasteur - Galt Apothecary Shop, closely
their
reeEelibling the Nicolson establish-meet,
Mrs.
C.
will be reconstructed
on the old foundations there after the western portion of
Anne
Bead.
the
Lee
shop
is
and
storehouse
the
business
and,
pleasure
mixed
is
removed.
will
rear.
be
A small
included
in
and
ignorance
when quizzes by gentlemen who didn' t be-
On the rear portions cf the lot, a
kitchen,
and storehouse will be rebuilt.
House
tools,"
our
of
daughters -
Ashland
see
over
are visiting
ilerndo-. Gathright
i
Caroline
Cochran,
and
Walter Smith of Cazenovia to see
in
weekend
off
to
Mrs.
climbed
for
Anne
Clarke
ten
and
her
mother
County
days
to Vera,
we hope,
spent
Helen
a
Hobson
Florida,
on
fcr a little
The Pasteur -Galt Apothecary will
be opened as an exhibition building
demcastrating a drug store of the
with us at the Craft House, while Betty
Cross left to take a flying trip to
colonial
Washington.
period.
in
Edith
Odell
is
back
�We
Present
Pride . . •
with
Nathaniel
H. Reid,
III, age
son of Nat Reid ( WI&L)
Katrina D' Antoinette
Kelley,
Thomas N.
8
mos.;
dtr.
of Harvey Kelley
Jr.,
Flaherty,
21
mos.
Office
Services)
son of Mr. and Yrs. T. N. Flaherty ( WI&L)
Phyllis,
children
Raymond,
Rogers,
sons
2; "
of
M.
Tommy",
W.
4
Thomas (
Int)
6
5
of Alton
Wynn (
Curators)
Horace, 3
John, 9; Mary Sheron,
children
of
3;
E. P. Alexander (
Anne,
11
Educ.)
�Charles,
12;
Billy,
children
of Gene
8;
Ann,
Sheldon (
Elizabeth Eaton,
3
dtr.
Terry A.
of
Runnels,
Mrs.
Office
A. E.
C& M)
3--
Services)
Allyson Wallace,
dtr.
John Eugene
son of Lyman
Joan Hindle,
6 mos.
Eaton (
Runnels
Jim, 9; John, 5 mos.
children of Sam Peach ( Police)
dtr.
Alden
C& 4)
dtr.
Margaret
of
Hall,
of
Wm.
5
Wallace (
WI& L)
2i
Hall ( C& M)
10 mos.
Monty"
of Brooke Hindle ( Inst)
son
of
Bill
Humphrey,
1
Humphrey (
Acct)
�Jane Bernetta Wallace, 10 mos.
dtr.
of James Wallace ( WI& L)
Veola Ashlock,
2
dtr. of John Ashlock ( C&M)
Billy Pat,
Linda Louise Patrick, 2
daughter
children
7;
Bettie Anne 5
of W. P.
Landon (
Nash
C& M)
Broaddus,
grandson
of
Mrs.
Granville Patrick ( C& M)
B.
E.
2-
of
Steel (
Int)
Margaret Evelyn Wilkins, 9
Jacquelin Marrow,
dtr.
dtr.
5
of Plato Marrow ( C& M)
Houston,
children of Mrs.
6; Frances, 7
Houston Caldwell ( Int)
of
Dudley
Wilkins ( Int)
�Robert
Johnson,
III,
2i mos.
son of Robert Johnson ( WI&L)
Catherine
dtr.
of Fred
Crawford,
6
Crawford (
WI& L) I
Vernon Spratley, 6
son
of
C. Q.
Jr. (
Spratley,
Bus.
Op.)
Diana Buckner,
daughter
D. J.
Kenneth Milburn,
son
of
C. V.
Milburn
Charles,
children
son
Cynthia Johnson, 4 mos.
Floyd
Johnson (
Curators)
of
13;
Lawrence,
10
of Cue Willis ( WI&L)
Arthur P.
of
Buckner ( C& M)
2
C24)
dtr.
3
of
Ward,
A. P.
III, 3 yrs
Ward,
Jr. (
C& M)
Philip, 3;
children
of
Catherine Lee,
H.
A.
Sparks (
15 mos.
Crafts)
�1949
March,
GOODWIN
I1E'US of Colonial
BUILDING
BRIEFS
HOSTESS
March 21 and the premiere
Louise Fisher
our
have
started
two of
out
the
He'
yet.
s been
submerged
under
all
the
11
BRIEFS
checked
the
off
Symposium
season appropriately, but a third, Dick
Showman, may not have seen the flowers
Page
Another red -letter
of Spring
and Rosa Taylor,
vacationers,
Williamsburg
the
calendar -
of 1949 has passed.
This
year
the
through
visitors
in like
event has been
hostess
a lion
hostesses
the
took
and the
the
March came
gardens.
garden
tours
were
equipment required for writing a doctorate
in history
Home from their tra-
breezy
vels
Alden Hopkins and J. B. Brouwers, enlarging their knowledge of shrubs, trees, and
are Wanda Castle,
Williams,
who
farewell
to
for St.
are
Monier
and Irma
hours
The
affairs.
in
the
just
in time
to bid
Segnitz
Jane
hostesses
gardens
who
bound
flowers,
and
Jane' s
tions
with
preparation
is
Florida .
Petersburg,
in
of
the
excavations
for
had
and
the
spent
experts,
restora-
trips
later
mother is recuperating from a recent
on.
Mary Tait and her husband
spent a weekend in New York City
Another C &
M' er to visit the Big Time
many visitors enjoyed the gardens,
where,
in
and
operation
was
Otis
Odell
uppermost
and
M
18th
are
a student
pansies,
student,
at the College.
to Sammy Banks,
will
in Wren
take
Chapel
place
June
Department reports two changes
William C. Etchberger of Wilkes- Barre,
Pa.,
has joined their staff, and Dolores
Peterson
has
to Williamsburg
father,
Mr.
Recent
resigned
M.
visitors
were Becky Levering' s
J.
Cromwell
of
Baltimore,
his father,
Mr.
Pittsfield,
Mass.,
Robert A.
and
Burbank
sister,
who
of
Mrs.
the
welcome
Eleanor
Duncan
and Lucile
to Lexington
Louise Fisher
Fortress
Monroe,
and Dr.
lectured at
Wertenbaker
Rhode
short
C.
Sneed
Research."
spent
Hostess
has
Island,
where
Mrs.
Taylor
had
as
their
she
from
has been
John Maloney and
has
just
returned
Lucy Sneed
guests
son - in -law,
and
Section.
returned
Mr.
sons,
and
their
and
Mrs.
W.
of Roanoke
in
1949.
Little
Peter
Sneed
McGuire was born February 22 to her
daughter, Emily, and son - in -law, Francis
McGuire,
of
Chicago
Mary Daniel has
ford,
of
and
time
second
subject
Problems
the
vacation
have
Boetger
Mr.
was "
to
Atkinson
Rosa
a
addressed the history club of his Alma
the University
of Virginia.
His
Mater,
she
Lucy has made the grandmother list for the
to
investigate details of colonial military
costume
Mass.
from Florida where
with her daughter,
daughter
a pilgrimage
Cambridge,
and son- in- law, Mr.
Guerard
Ruby Steel
addition
Bus' ness
Ch.cr1eys
York
in
months
Louise
Dr.
Foster made
proclaimed
Ruby announces a new
grandchild, a little boy born to her son,
Brock, and his wife, Jean, on March 5
Nancy Bozarth Hart and her husband, Lynn,
have returned
to Williamsburg.
Nancy is a
winter
from
trips have brought the Kenneth
and Mildred Layne to us from
crocuses
and violets
been
Albert
has returned
R'_ cardo Romero of New York City
New
has
family
Mrs-.
blustered,
her daughter
Newport,
Kerk Burbank recently played host to
chill,
daffodils
visiting
Mary van Buren' s daughter and son -in law,
Polly and Henry Davis of Richmond.
the
winds
We are happy to welcome back June
and
The Accounting
of
March
it was Spring:
Bocock
another
on
though
defiance
Price
Wicky' s marriage
W&
weddings
in the minds of Wicky Wierum
Monie will marry Ken
Monie
Burbank,
Summer
Even
had as guests
and
Mrs.
Conn.
her daughter
Frank
B.
and son - in law,
of West
Hart-
Mary drove with the Saliske' s
to Greenville,
George
Saliske
S.
Daniel,
C.,
to
and
his
visit
her
family
son,
�2
NEWS
of
C, Aania,i h._
Dorothy Wing accompanied her husband to
Roanoke when he attended a convention of
hardware
dealer9
Minnie
Pate visited
iyiai:: ': a: °
At a tea given by her mother
the engagement
Robert Tannebring
quite
these
glad
to report
she
is
improving
Mary Peyton' s son,
Henry, sailed from Norfolk on the " Coral
Sea" for Guantanamo and the Mediterranean.
The first bus groups of the Spring
at her
of Nancy Norton to
was
Beverly, Mass.,
The wedding will take place
of
us who
are
March, 1949
home,
her daughter and son- in- law, Mr. and Mrs.
James Macon and their little son in
Richmond
Florence Taylor has been
sick but we
g
announced.
in June.
Nancy will be missed by all of
have
past
future
enjoyed
few
her bright
years.
presence
We predict
a happy
for her and Bob.
At a meeting
of hostesses
Goodwin Building,
March 8,
in the
Pierce Middle-
ton talked on " The Role of Tobacco in
have brought back to the buildings a
number of the young escorts seen infrequently during the Winter:
Lois Settle,
Colonial
Virginia."
It
was
most
interest-
ing and much enjoyed by his audience.
Mary J.
Nancy Gotldman, and Fred Flannery.
Daniel
The new hats for the escorts feminine
affairs.
gender
only are jaunty little
They have just arrived and we
look forward to seeing them on escort
heads very soon.
Rosa Taylor, Muriel
Grace Peachy entertained
Mary M. Goodwin,
of March 4th.
Spencer and
the hostesses
at a delightful party at Grace' s home on
Jamestown
Road
Caroline
Lee
TENTH ANNIVERSARIES
enter-
W.
CELEBRATED
Research
Department,
as
Warfield Winn, Department of Inn and
Lodge,
as
of March
16th.
tained at a cocktail party in honor of
Mrs.
Francis
Lakes,
F.
Merriam
New Jersey,
of Mountain
Elizabeth
Parrilla,
who gave an interest-
Lodge,
as of March
Department
of Inn and
17th.
ing talk on flower arranging at the
Symposium.
RECIP E
"
OF THE MONTH -
NO.
8
Try this the next time you have some hungry folks in for a party;
CHOWNING'
S TAVERN
BRUNSWICK
STEW
Cut up a three Pound Chicken ( a tough hen will do) and put in a large pan
with three Quarts of Water, one large sliced Onion, one half Pound of lean
Ham
cut
in
small
Pieces
and
simmer
gently
for
two
Hours.
Add three
Pints
of Tomatoes, one Pint of Lima Beans, four large Irish Potatoes diced, one
Pint grated Corn, one Tablespoon Salt, one fourth Teaspoon Pepper, a small
Pod of red Pepper.
Cover and simmer gently for one more Hour stirring
to prevent
frequently
Scorching.
Add three Ounces of Butter and serve hot.
Serves
3;
6.
�NEWS
1949
March,
THE
GOODBODY:
COLLET
JOHN
Colonial
of
PROFESSOR
PUBLICIST
Nebraska -born John Goodbody,
wanted to write,
did
and,
realized at an early age that he
unlike most would -be journalists,
it.
about
something
Page 13
Williamsburg
began
He
to
His
write.
first
promptly
efforts
were on a grammar - school level, and " just as bad as you would
imagine"
according
to the editor - emeritus.
However, undaunted by the dubious quality of his early prose,
r `.
John
continued
to
While at Kent School,
write.
the Connecticut
preparatory school made famous by its crew -fanatic headmaster
Father Sill as well as by its " self- help" program, he was on the
editorial
staff of the yearbook
The next educational
shorteditor
of
a
pants
the
columnist
and
the
for
in
which
to
He was
for three
Purple
Cow;"
he
assignment
Record;"
he
The
magazine, "
gave our Hemingway- in-
pen.
wield
twice -weekly " Williams
his
was
was
on
the
years
editor
yearbook
staff
John' s present insistence that the Publications
Historian.
Class
as
field
humorous
college
served
also
and
wider
much
and of the Kent News.
stepping- stone, Williams College,
Department keep on the ledger may have derived its strength from the profitable financial condition in which he left his collegiate publications on graduation day in 1937.
Round
the
World
Williams meant more than textbooks and typewriter to John, despite the honors
Active in many campus activities, he won his
numerals in four sports during Freshman year and ran on the varsity cross - country
literary
and
he
output
there.
achieved
team; the latter sport proving of great value to him in his subsequent journeyings
around
the
Smith (
a
While at college,
globe.
spot
John first met Harriet Linen,
Williams
by
frequented
men
in
search
of
culture),
then a student
but
for
once
at
was
caught speechless and it was not until two years and many more meetings that he was
able to convince her that she should become Hattie Goodbody.
During summer vacations,
Newsweek"
ence
to
John had worked as an office boy and proofreader
in New York and upon graduation
a
gain -
and
seek -
berth
he pooled all his news - gathering
foreign
as
correspondent
for United
on
experi-
Press.
He
arrived in China almost simultaneously with the Jap putsch of June, 1937, and spent
the next colorful but harrowing months in covering the bombing of Shanghai, the incidents in Peiping and Tientsin, and the incredible inconsistencies of oriental foreign
Later,
affairs.
felt
his
of
Mussolini'
thence
s
in true tradition to cross - country runners and to newspapermen,
to
wander;
to
Press,"
Free
Singapore
John,
begin
feet
of
minions
they
took
and
to Singapore -
regions
unexplored
empire -
him
of
Afghanistan -
a short
where
he
stint
fell
on the
afoul
to Bagdad, Beirut, and finally to Europe and
home.
Cub
Reporter
Still imbued with printer' s ink, John Goodbody willingly sold his creative
talents to the Toledo News - Bee for $ 27. 50 per week and served the finer beat. as He was
arts
music
and
drama
critic,
while
doubling
for the baser
arts
on
the
night
police
lured from Toledo by an appointment as associate editor of " School Executive Magazine"
in New
York.
This move presaged his growing interest in the educational aspects of
publishing, for his work with this professional educators' journal demanded not only
a knowledge of writing and publishing techniques but close liaison with educational
groups
throughout
the
country.
In February, 1939, Williams beckoned to him again and John III. In line as a
returned, not
Baxter
P.
scholar,
but
as
Special
Assistant
to
President
James
with
�Page
14
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
its previous work, the Goodbody mind was
set to the task of redesigning the
the
side,
the
Boston
Alumni Review" and establishing a work -
Marches 1949
wrote
numerous
papers
and
educator - journalist
College.
Williamsburg
was
but
a
six- months'
reviews
for
journals.
The culmination of the Goodbody
ing pattern of press relations for the
This
book
other
tours was his move to
in October,
1946,
as Dir-
assignment for John' s efficient handling
ector
and by September
Every piece of printed matter seen by the
moved
on
time
to
as
of
the
another
same
year
he
but this
college -
entered
John and his able
the
Harvard
of Publications.
public is the direct responsibility of
scholar.
He
of the Department
Graduate
ment
has
made
staff,
great
and the depart-
strides
under
his
School as one of the early candidates
for the newly- offered doctorate in the
Hi-story of American Civilization" and by
leadership
ing.
His
the autumn of 1941 he had successfully
to be
impossible
passed. the general
some day he will be handed a job that
his
pleted
had
also
examination
residence
embarked
and comHe
requirements.
on
an
the
American
Defense
Committee,
an
Nazi'
of
preparedness
director
for
and
daily
the
Jr.,
of
opinion
t. the world
o
sport
but
coat was
a
was
exchanged
Washington,
Puerto
in
the
Pacific
staffs
of
as
the
was
of
coM.
American
short - waved
for
Rico,
the
the
the
John
and
a
junior
After
four
years'
The
editor
Goodbodys -
of
daughter
Margaretta
in the white house
in the
Red
officer
ATTENDANCE
Department
of
Commander
English
in
the
assistant
and,
later,
Teaching Fellow.
During this period,
he lectured on the contemporary American
novel and modern American poetry, and on
a
as " Burdette' s
Cross
and
the
Citizens'
Congratulations to the following for
perfect attendance,
February, 1949:
for the year ending
he
John returned to Harvard following
the
live
of Glou-
RECORDS
L.
in
David,
Admirals
service,
a graduate
son
in
Curtis
became
able
two
Reserve.
and
and
on the Duke
Taylor -
war
Hattie,
Statesman,"
Community Fund, president of the Williamsburg -James City' County Chapter of the
Virginia Cancer Society, advisor on the
Mental Hygiene Survey,"
and has been
Robert
the
that
John is president of the newly -formed
the
Naval
is
Ordinary" and are famed for their hospitality and interest in civic matters.
M.
Lieutenant
John,
once known
Ernest
of
realizes
fulfillment,
the " Eastern
was honorably discharged and awarded the
He now holds
Navy Commendation Ribbon.
rank
in all printhe
navy
He was still an ediHalsey and Nimitz.
tor, however, for much of his duty consisted of editing intelligence publications.
of
which
Association.
served
then
dauntless
wish,
tomorrow."
active
in Boston.
the Goodbody
USNR.
on
of
Arthur
over WRUL
1941,
Ensign,
years
also
digest
an
of
face
with
which
In December,
blue
ADC
newscaster
Schlesinger,
e7. itorial
the
John not only wrote scores
menace.
articles
in
major
cester `.street
organization which early saw the need for
American
and a cost - reduction
doesn' t have to be off -the -press
extra- curricular
activity which, today, he feels was one
of the most rewarding as well as inThis
teresting sidelines of his career.
was in connection with the Harvard Group
of
format
in achieving a uniformity of
Frank -
Architectural
Dept.
Charles
Tate -
Margaret
Lynton
Theatre
Curator
Cosby -
Edwin Randolph
Frances
Architectural
K.
Lee -
Stevens -
Martin Upahaw -
Inn
Inn
C&
C&
M
M
and Lodge
and
Lodge
Dept.
�March,
FROM
NEWS
1949
THE
WILLIAMSBURG
Colonial
of
THEATRE
Williamsburg
former
Tom
Halligan,
Manager,
just
returned
the
an
time:"
But
improved
Watts,
even
Short
star
so,
usher,
has
College baseball
field,
base
during
also
second
the
of
College,
come with
Ed
for
the
the
Indians
Bob
his
Parker,
intends
April vacation
It
Assistant
belongs
to
Manager,
Pat
who brought
town
in
gratulations
Junior
who
Shop
and
15 - year
Green,
received
in Richmond
his
it back
at
due
flower
the Rockefeller
one
of Service,
ticket
time
Porter,
a
back
another
sight -
plans
to
this
the
to
return
summer,
Theatre
FROM THE INN
Speller
joined the
of
called
mother,
to
the
but hopes
due
to
Mass.,
SUGGESTION
Mr.
Keene,
home
due
Mrs.
for
two
of
Leslie
Cleveland,
James
to
the
Lillie
Wilson
a
and North Carolina
to Pinkie
Robinson
of
AWARDS
L.
the
death
of
Eddie Bath
new
and Mrs.
York,
Assistant
Thomas N.
have
was
at
9.
home
of Boston,
Storekeeper.
Flaherty of
joined
our
That
Wilson to
the
a shelf be
telephone
of
the
Lodge
venience
of
our
staff
booth
for
the
atin
the
con-
guests.
Suggested a time - saving
Bonnie Brown and
his
on March
confined
for their
suggestions:
basement
Ohio,
Garrison
Garrison
is
illness
New
on
Sam Thomas
Congratulations to the following,
fold.
AND LODGE
Lodge
is
C.,
to
staff March 7 as Kitchen Mana-
the
Leslie
for
as
tached
ger
made
Chief
prize -winning
Una
S.
tour
seeing
each of whom received $ 5.
NEWS
she
Norma Bamman
the Travis House for his new baby son:
acted
and
a
is
spent a week visiting points in Virginia,
former
he
after
Jones
illness.
in Charleston,
week
wonderful
of the
Doorman,
days
as well as booth boy and
puncher)
College campus
come
or
Usher,
to
arrangements
And congratulations
staff ( at
to work
quarters
tickets.
Relief
service
a few
Lillie
West Virginia,
general handy man and mainstay
spent
returned
home
pin
last week
tonslectomy
beautiful
spent
Kinkead,
10 - year
on business
Randall
service
The Housekeeping Section is congratulating Laura Johnson on the fourteen
our
it.
Hank
Mr.
and so is Branson
Caldwell
Betty Davis, junior cashier, has returned from a recent trip to a Norfolk
hospital, and is again punching out the
Alumnus
Gooch,
is now
Maude Crisp
daughter - in -law,
on his
Eudelia
confined
from Carolina and has been chugging
around
son
employee,
15
and Mrs. Clyde Crisp in Richmond last week.
Philip Ferguson is receiving con-
recent
plowing
Buchanan,
her
Roselia
to
his farm with a 1 - 3/ 4 ton cast -off Army
truck.
at
visited
pool
Golf
the
working
pin
replacement
Doorman,
swimming
presented by Mr.
and is hoping to
for
is
Tom McCormack,
spend his coming
us
season
coming
the
has
program
left
hold
down
he
Subject
Frank " Boozie"
Georgia,....
Atlanta,
from a booking expedition in Washington,
saying " Things are getting tougher all
Page
more
convenient
procedure
for
having repairs made on shoes worn by
our
Erna L.
costumed
employees.
Honeycutt -
That a soap container
be installed in the pantry at the
Lodge.
Frances
and
Robb for
That
the
as a safety measure
convenience
of
school
Mrs. Flaherty is Coffee
Shop Manager and Mr. Flaherty is Floor
groups having lunch at our picnic
Steward
grounds,
Lrnton
months.
at
the
Upshaw
Inn.
made
a
recent
visit
to
installed
permanent
on
the
bottle- openers
tables
there,
be
�Page
16
NEWS
CHOWNING'
S
Colonial
of
RE- OPENS
Williamsburg
COINCIDENTAL
Since its re- opening on March 18th,
Chowning' s Tavern has been rushed off
about
its feet, with visitors sampling the at-
were
mosphere
of
of
an
on
New
the
shrimp
of
authentic
colonial
bill -of - fare
generous
is
proportions,
the
As
same.
last
year,
CLIPPING
A coincidence
this
1949
month
started
of many parts
as
on
came
architectural
the
Tayloe
studies
House.
In going through the old residence,
Jimmy Knight picked up a yellowed newspaper page
He took
lying on the floor.
pub.
a bowl
but
otherwise the setting and refreshments
are
March,
casual
arrangements
page
look
was
a
then
and
sketch
On
another.
of Warren
K.
the
a
old
Moorehead,
have been made for the sale of beer by
father
the
long article about the discovery of an
case
to employees
The best
prices.
available
at reasonable
premium
brands
are
for this " off premises"
Delivery
sumption.
Aztec
con-
is made in five case
he has been serving
with the
for over
Inn and Lodge food departments
a year under the GI on- the - job
training
program.
floor
Inn
Just recently
His
stewart.
wife,
he was
Gloria,
is
after
Bibber
Chowning
Sanders.
at the
Host
it
was
Further
printed.
is unknown
set aside
a
coincidence
but
it is evident
to keep long before
that
it
Sing was
known to the Coleman family.
San-
ders is a native of Gloucester County
and is well -known
found in the Tayloe House
it was found is the home of Sing' s wife.
years
as Josiah
was
Why it should have been saved all these
was
is Van
page
of the year
is the fact that the Tayloe House in which
Lodge.
Acting
The
few days before St. Patrick' s Day and
Jimiiy Knight presented it to Sing on
March 17, the exact date, fifty -two years
working in the kitchen office of the
Tavern
Iowa.
with a
1897.
It was
Clinton Quigley is the new manager
A graduate
of the Penn
Chowning' s.
State hotel school,
in
manuscript
together
from the Richmond Dispatch
lots.
of
of Sing Moorehead,
Professor
Moorehead
was
archeologist
of Ohio State University at the time and
a man famous for being versed in Aztec
in these parts.
lore
and
knowledge„"
He
was
one
of
the
pioneers in the study of American Archaeology and later became director of the
FORUM
SUMMARY
REPORT
ISSUED
Peabody Foundation of American Archaeology
at
the
Just received are advance copies
Report on the First Antiques and
Decorations
The
April
of
indicated
Forum.
of The
Mass.
supplement
Magazine
to the
Antiques
The
article
concerned
which
that the early Mexican inhabi-
tants may have
eight - page
issue
Andover,
his study of the Aztec manuscript
once lived in what
is now
Iowa.
con-
tains a summary of the two five -day sessions held in January and jointly sponsored
by
pictures
Forum,
major
the Magazine
of
the
the
printed
points
as well
ties.
vidual
monthly
brought
as the
and
various
report
out
various
CW.
Containing
speakers
covers
in
the
of
the
sessions
scheduled
activi-
More detailed reviews of the inditalks are to be given in subsequent
issues
of The Magazine
CARRIAGES,
Continued from Page 8
the
Antiques.
the Raleigh Tavern during the past month.
Stratford has asked him to come there
next,
but
as to whether
he will make
restoration
a profession,
He'
the
s
afraid
automobile
he isn' t
is
here
coach
sure.
to
stay.
�
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NESS
Volume
1,
Number
The Board
and
11
of
Trustees
Colonial Williamsburg,
Inc.
of Directors of
of
the Board
Wil iamsburg
Restoration, Inc.,
met here
until
Sunday,
various
is
to
matters
April
write
of interest
a
from Thursday,
3.
Because
to
summary
brief
meetings. The Trustees
us
March 31,
their
all, the
of
what
consideration
of
News has asked me
transpired
these
at
and Directors in attendance were
John
D. Rocke- feller, 3rd, Chairman of both Boards; Vernon
M. Arthur W.rakcaP d; William G.
Geddy;
Perry; Vanderbilt
Webb;
and
I.
Unfortunately, Horace
M.Albright, Harry F. Byrd,
and Winthrop Rockefeller
to attend. We
G. S.Eyssell,
were unable
had hoped at
this meeting that
our Trustees
and
Directors
might have
a maxi- mum
the
came
opening
amount of "free time” in which to enjoy Wil iamsburg but, as usual,
session on Thursday found a
full agenda. Among the items cf business that
up
here were: New rates fcr the Exhibition Buildings after the Magazine and Guard
House
open - ing. It was dec ±
ded that the
new rates, which will not take effect
until January 1,
1950, will give the visitor a choice of a block ticket of admission to
all seven
exhibition buildings, with
repeat privleges, for $ 3.
00 (ng Federal
includi
tax) or a block ticket of admission to any five exhibition buildings, without
repeat
privi- leges, for $ 2.
40 in(ng
cludi
Federal
tax)The
.
250th
Anniversary
of
Wil iamsburg.
As
you
know, this
year
marks
an impor- tant milestone in the history of this city and this session permitted
the Trustees and Directors to be brought up to date on our plans for commemorating
this event. I am pleased to report that they were in hearty agreement on cur overall
plans and
were
the
especial y interested in the community aspects of
Century Life
in
Williamsburg Virginia."
occasion. Eighteenth
was made for us some years ago by the Eastman
an
estimated
popularity
four
has
million people
threatened
its
in
continued use
this
country
as
Board has taken steps to correct this
the
and
prints
This
film, which
Kodak Company, has been seen by
abroad. However, its
are
by authorizir3
wearing
fast
very
out. The
the processing of enough new
prints to keep us at a level of 100 prjrts to be available for free
loan distribution. Following this busy morning session, the Trustees and Directors joined
with the administrative officers for luncheon at Chowning' s Tavern and, in the
afternoon
went
on
a
tour
of
inspection
of
new
construction
projects.
At
five
o'
clock, corporate duties were put aside while the Board adjourned for a most pleasant reception
at the home of Vernon and Carrie
Cole
Geddy.
Continued
1699 - WILLIAMSBURG'
S
250TH
�Page
2
NOTES
NEWS
ON THE BOARD MEETING (
of
Colonial
Cont' d.)
Williamsburg
staff.
Louis
On Friday morning,
on Interpretation
met
the Committee
and were brought
April,
1949
After lunch they inspected the
XV coach
from
the " Merci
Train"
at the Warehouse and were then given
a well
earned
time - off until
that
even-
up to date on how the presentation of
Colonial Williamsburg to the public is
The commitbeing constantly improved.
ing, when sessions were resumed.
tee,
review of the advertising- promotion
program being carried forward by Allston
Boyer in New York and the Department of
like most
of our visitors,
atten-
ded the showing of the introductory
film and slides in the Reception Center.
They were given a report on the Antiques
and Decorations Forum, Garden and Flower
Symposium,
and our future plans for
events
this
of
kind.
Particular
inter-
Promotion - Advertising
Saturday morning was devoted to a
Public
Information
here.
set up illustrating
utilized
and results
Displays
were
the various
methods
achieved
date.
to
est was shown in a new venture being
At noon, a screening was presented in
the Goodwin Building projection room
undertaken, whereby an Institute in the
of the new Esso travelogue film
Preservation
toric
and Interpretation
Sites
and Buildings
of His-
has been
es-
tablished by the American University in
cooperation
and
vice
ialized
with
the
Colonial
courses
National
Park
Williamsburg.
SerSpec-
will be offered
to a
selected group of sixteen students from
June 6 to 24.
These classes will be
held in Washington from June 6 to 17
and in Williamsburg from June 20 to 24.
Reproduction
The Committee
Program
on Crafts
latter
after
ture
classification
a discussion
for
the
of
reviewed
program.
came
proper
While
Virginia."
about
nomenclathe
The
Trustees
and
Directors were then guests of the City
Council of Williamsburg for luncheon at
the Williamsburg Inn and in the evening
we were all entertained by " The Cheats
of Scapin"
at the
Reception
Center.
These highlights of the activities
of the Boards while they were in
Williamsburg will, I hope, give you
some idea of the scope covered in these
The
meetings.
the Craft Program or, as it is now to
be known, the " Reproduction Program."
This
Historic
interest
of the members
in our activities and their appreciation
of your loyalty and constant effort on
behalf of Colonial Williamsburg
be of encouragement
us
should
and gratification
to
all.
Board
K.
C.
has approved the continued use of the
name "
Craft
House"
for
the
salesroom,
it is felt that the program should hereafter be known as the Reproduction Program to avoid confusion with our craft
shops.
GARDEN
The Board noted with satisfac-
WEEK
PROGRAMS
A special
series of evening pro-
tion the many items that are once again
grams has been scheduled as a new fea-
coming into stock and the new items
that have been added.
The new catalog
ture
was
displayed
and announcement
was
made that the long awaited commemorative plates may now be expected for
delivery in the fall, as is the new
Queens Ware china in the Husk design.
Luncheon was held on Friday at the
Williamsburg Lodge, where the Trustees
and Directors met with members of the
for Garden
Week
visitors.
On
Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, Mrs.
David Holmes will give an illustrated
lecture on " Williamsburg Gardens" at
the Reception Center and on Monday and
Wednesday, Mrs. John R.
Fisher will
give her popular talk " Flower Arrangements
of
Colonial
Williamsburg."
The
special Garden Week programs will begin
at 8:
15 each of the evenings.
�April, 1949
RESEARCH
NEWS
NOTES
ON WILLIAMSBURG'
of
Colonial
S 250TH
Williamsburg
Page 3
ANNIVERSARY
On Sunday, May 1, one of the first featured events of Williamsburg' s
anniversary celebrations will be held in connection with the Spring
Music
Festival
As
a
3 : 30 p. m. at the Lake Matoaka amphitheater.
on the significance of the date and the 250th anni-
at
proper background
versary, the' follooing excerpts are given from the report made for
the Community Committee by CW' s Research Department.)
No one can read through the surviving records of the Council and the House of
Burgesses between October 20,
1698,
when the old state house at Jamestown burned,
and June 7, 1699, when the " Act Directing the Building the Capitoll and the City of
Williamsburg,"
this
which
was passed, without being impressed by the extraordinary ease with
momentous
decision
was
It
made.
is
intelligible
after
two
and
a half
centuries only by supposing that the way had been prepared, carefully and adroitly,
by someone who had an interest in bringing the seat of colonial government to the
neighborhood
of William and Mary.
May Day Celebration
This person was the royal governor, Colonel Francis Nicholson, foremost of the
active
of the College
patrons
of
the
College.
As early as February 25,
1699,
Governor Nicholson
began to lay plans for a gala observance of May Day at Middle Plantation, by calling upon the Indian interpreters to bring representatives of " the severall nations
of
Indians... to Pay their tribute to his Excellency at Middle Plantation."
When the General Assembly convened at Jamestown, April 27, 1699, Governor
Nicholson invited the Council and House of Burgesses to be his guests at the College
of William
and Mary
on May Day.
They accepted and attended, where presumably they
witnessed the performance of the Indians and where they were exposed to orations
delivered
ments
of
by five college
W&
M students
students
to impress
and to interest
them with the intellectual
them in Middle
Plantation
achieve-
as a suitable
site
for the future capital city.
Third
Speech
The third of the five speeches directly appealed to them to build the state
house here,
so
Fogs
setting forth the advantages of the wholesome and pleasant situation,
dry, so free from the plague of Moskitoes and the noisom stinks & thick
of Jamestown.
Fenny, Marshy and Swampy grounds"
The Councillors
and Bur-
high,
of
so
gesses returned to Jamestown greatly impressed by the College and the advantages of
Middle Plantation as a suitable site for the colonial capital.
Until May 18,
student
1699,
the surviving
orator proposed Middle
Nicholson
said " I do now cordially
Building ( wch God Willing
nigh his Majesties
records
Plantation
recommend
you are designed
Royall Colledg
indicate
as the best
that no one other than the
site but on that date Governor
to you the placeing
to have)
somewhere
of yor Publick
at Middle
Plantation
of William and Mary."
Williamsburg Becomes Capital:
So well prepared was the way, thanks to Governor Nicholson,
that on the same
day that Middle Plantation was officially proposed to the Burgesses as a suitable
capital,
they
resolved
to
accede
to
the
proposal.
It
seems
reasonable
to
conclude
that the Assembly was won over to Middle Plantation by what its members saw and
heard at the College on May Day, 1699.
On June 7, the bill became law making Williamsburg
the
capital
of
the "
antient
and
great
colony
and
Dominion
of
Virginia."
�Page 4
NEWS
V7 BFFIND THE " NUMBER
At
ties
the
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
April,
1949
PLEASE"
mid - point
of
the
extensive
CW into amoth- working
telephone
unit is a group
network
of ladies
that
whose
deft touch speeds and makes pleasant the daily business of
the
organization.
The operators at the Lodge,
have
switchboards
busy
a
their boards of cords,
i
Inn and Goodwin Building
life.
interesting
and
Seated before
switches and winking lights,
they
bridge the gap between dial and manual and between the outside and the inside while taking long distance calls, information
in
requests,
their
complaints
and the vagaries
of human nature
stride.
Just
Telephone
Your
recently, "
Company
PBX,"
of Virginia
publication
paid tribute
the
of
C&
P
to the CW switch-
board operators with a fulsome story and pictures and reported that the Inn PBX takes
care of 108
stations,
the
Lodge 239 stations and the Goodwin Building 151+ stations.
Of the three,
the Lodge board is the busiest.
With the opening of the new West
Out of office
hours,
most of the
Wing, it was enlarged into a two - position board.
go
through this board increasing the traffic.
There
incoming calls to CW extensions
are also direct lines to the Chamber of Commerce reservation office, Inn and Lodge
reservation
taxi
office,
and
to the
Inn
and
Travis
House.
board for a brief spell last month to get married,
Mary Taylor, who left the
says that for some reason Tuesday
night seems to be the busiest, but that she has to be on her toes all of the time.
She alternates with Elizabeth Hodges, wife of Lodge desk clerk Ray Hodges,
Andrews
some
comes
in
as
in North Africa
unpronounceable
busy
place
At
operators
the
time
Inn,
with
the
the
board
and
there -
other
have
just
spoken
with
a
guest -
Mabgne
duties.
special
boards,
auditors
trquble- shooting
pgreon
the
from
national
of
ciates
the
dial
the
employees
and
m.
heart
by
with
their
in
the
two
numbers ( "
years
There
scene.
affair.
On busy days
and roves between the
each night,
operator of the Goodwin Building board,
numbers
routine
some as far away as South Ameri-
filling in.
After 11 p.
at each hostelry take over the boards.
Betty Hedgebeth,
all
a
Fish -
Hattie Lee is the Chief Operator for the Inn and Lodge,
ca.
quite
Mary
have an equally
Many' s the time they have been
they place upwards to a hundred long distance calls,
two
not
and
only to look on the register and find that
famous
acme
for
Nellie
startled by a familiar sounding voice,
they
and Mary
Just the other night they had to put through a call to
relief.
she'
goes #
s
the night
has gotten to know
there.
Now
she
asso-
How
been
you
do,
Mr.
283." "
do
3311 ")
Monday is her busiest day and she reports that around 4 : 45 each evening
there is usually a rush of incoming calls for husbands to bring home a loaf of
bread.
The
Goodwin Building
operator
often
has
to
double
as
receptionist.
she has to phone - trace numerous people such as Charlie Hackett,
Williams
so
that
a
telephone
call
can
catch
up
with
them.
Also
Otis Odell or Monier
Relief
for the
switch-
board is provided by Sally Mapel and Betsy Hall.
The real trick of all the switchboard operators is their ability to carry on
several
conversations
virtually
at
once
and
still
be
coherent.
One thing, however,
that still makes them do a double - take each time is the voice that comes across the
wires
to the manager."
saying " I want to speak
That always takes a bit of doing to
figure
out
�April,
RED
NEWS
1949
VAUGHN:
BRICKMASON
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
Page 5
EXTRAORDINARY
The past master of the difficult art of colonial .masonry and producer of what
has been rightly called the " finest brickwork in America" is at the moment reclining
the
near
peacefully
for twenty years'
end
Actually Alonzo
superintendent,
of
made lengthy by a two -week bonus
vacation -
Thomas Vaughn, CW' s efficient and experienced bricklaying
dates
his
restoration
down
Bruton
service
His
organization.
around
deserved
a
service.
Church.
from
first
That
the
days
prior
to
work was with Dr.
in March,
was
1928.
the
official
Goodwin
start
and Elton
of
the
Holland
Since then, many a. million of
the distinctive oversize Williamsburg brick have been laid by his hand or under his
He' s laid the sidewalks of Duke of Gloucester Street from end to end
eye.
watchful
and
worked
one
that
on
he'
virtually
missed
s
project
every
on
working
the time of its reconstruction
was
undertaken
the
here.
Nancy Camp
Strangely enough,
House,
home
he was laid up as the result
while working on the Post Office annex.
Right now Red Vaughn has seven masons,
of
the only
Ed Kendrew.
At
of a broken leg incurred
two apprentices and seven laborers un-
der his supervision pushing up the brickwork with speed and precision in the busy
Red has retrained
a lot
of bricklayers.
building program.
New men have to learn
all over again,
he says. "
bricklaying
Pointing up " -- treatment of the mortar jointis different and must be done with a special tool; the old brick are of different
size and usually harder to work because of their unevenness; and even the bond is
different.
The running or common bond is used in modern brickwork and is simple
-
and fast, but in colonial times the Flemish and English bonds were used, partly
because
ers
as:
of
i
headers
their
i7 -
and stretchers
The
patterns.
pleasing
1 . -=
Flemish bond is alternating headers and stretch-
while English bond is alternating courses of
ij.= ;
T
as:
is
also
mortar
7 _
different.
Back in the early
days,
the Coke - Garrett House with more than seventy - five samples
formula
exact
shell,
could
yellow
sand
be
for
determined.
color
and
It
white
is oyster
Red filled the yard of
of brickwork
shell mortar made
before the
of ground oyster
cement.
At one time Red had as many as thirty four masons working under him and as
many helpers.
That was at the
had nine different jobs to keep
time of the work on the Palace and Capitol when he
an
eye
on.
That
was
also
the
time
that
he
kept
three men going steady for three years in the grinding shed turning out trim brick.
He says it' s that type of wcrk that interests a brickmason most and points to the
rear
doorway
of
the
Palace
ballroom
with
special
pride.
The
delicate
and
compli-
cated moulding
is an exacting job for which Red must cut patterns and carefully
piece
together.
After a job like that he has increased respect for the early
builders of Williamsburg.
Modern jobs,
by such
provided
reconstruction
by comparison,
are simpler and while he likes the change of pace
as the
As in the
Laundry, he prefers the 18th century work.
jobs
of Williamsburg,
brickmasons were doubly important in colonial days.
Without steel for structural supports, masses of bricks had to be used for strength.
For example, the chimney on the Orrell Kitchen, just finished, has something over
7, 000 bricks in it while the chimneys at the Palace have over 70, 000.
Not
all
of
his
work
is
for
Construction
Superintendent,
large amount is maintenance under Granville Patrick,
Charley
Hackett.
A
the greater bulk of which
seems to be repairing the brick sidewalks which give way under the weight of thousands
Continued
�6
Page
NEWS
RED VAUGHN (
of
Colonial
of
Cont' d)
Williamsburg
ISHAM
JOHNSON
visitors.
On
masons
on,
Isham
the
job
have
who
been
the
since
Hudgins
with
Red
with
days
early
are
several
him,
off
here.
J.
tack
and
L.
the
charge
cation,
crew
first
while
Red' s vacation
his
brother.
burg,
was
on
va-
started work here in 1936.
has
day trip to Wichita,
mer Mattie
Red
included
Kansas,
He and his wife,
Virginia
Clowes
a ten -
to visit
the for-
of Williams-
that jaunt.
The offspring range in
age from twenty - one to six years, and
is
even
a grandchild.
was
one
of the
reasons
he
stayed in Williamsburg in the first
Born,
place.
raised
Lunenburg County,
with
a
small
and schooled
near
Victoria.
He was on his way to Florida
job
when
burg,
he
in
Red learned masonry
contractor
stopped
off
to take a
in Williams-
and
he'
s
been
They were married in 1927
here
ever
since.
Before
starting with Dr. Goodwin and learning
his trade all over again, colonial style, Red worked on the bus terminal
at Lee Hall and helped restore Brandon.
Red was fire chief of the local
volunteer
company
for
a number
of years
and otherwise has been extremely active
in the
community.
He'
s
another
on
his
he
started
That
work.
was
was
and respected
His
retired.
plumber' s
fellow
workers
at the Warehouse gathered around as a
cash present
from
them was
presented
to
buildings.
exhibition
Isham
also
was
the recipient of a twenty -year service
button.
In the time since he started work
at the Wren Building until his retirement this month, Isham says he didn' t
lose a single day' s pay.
After working
on the College buildings, Isham next was
with the crews planting the prized tree
box on the bowling green at the Palace.
He also worked on the Palace and Capitol.
Then he went with Pete Tucker' s. mechanimaintenance
For
section.
the
last
ten years or so he has been helper to
tories being built at the College and
Mattie.
drove
On April 6, Isham' s 65th birthday,
cal
took a job on one of the dormi-
met
he "
1929.
faithful
for
His wife
says
him along with a lifetime pass to the
left their seven children behind
there
Johnson
where
helper
the
RETIRES
the Wren
in March,
crews since 1930, Tommy Holland since
33 and Tommy Michie, who has been in
of
19+ 9
Building," another
way of saying he drove a nail in the
at
ground
has been with the bricklaying
Aril,
the
Plumber Frank Strupel.
Isham was born in York County and
before " driving his tack in the Wren
Also he
Building," was an oysterman.
worked for twelve years at a brickyard
in New York
State.
He has nine children
and four grandchildren, one of which,
Cynthia Johnson,
baby daughter of Floyd
Johnson of the Curator' s Department, was
pictured in the collection of snapshots
in the last issue of the News.
long list of CW gardeners and is justly
proud
of the
grows
in back
tomatoes
and lima beans
of his Francis
he
Street
home.
NOTICE
As to the amateur who wants to
build a backyard fireplace, Red says to
go
ahead
and try
it.
You can' t learn
bricklaying by watching; only by doing
it
yourself.
He
advice,
however:
than
looks:
it
would
give
it' s more
this
bit
difficult
of
Burbank Street in Highland Park has now
been completed and there are still a
limited number of lots available for sale
to
our
employees.
purchasing
Spratley
in
these
the
Anyone
lots
interested
should
Goodwin
contact
Building.
in
Mr.
�THE
RIGHT
of
Board
London
Magazine
ical
IN
members
SESSION
inspect
collection
displayed
lab.
before
last
BOARD
the
The
the
arms
Tower
for
The
at the archaeolog-
guns
Board
of
arrived
meetings
the
began
day
late
month.
LEFT
Messrs.
Rockefeller,
in
Tom
Ends 20 Years Service
Isham
Johnson (
hands
Frank
wrench
time
on
as
his
Story
on
for
the
Isham
65th
Page
right)
Strupel
a
last
retired
birthday.
6.
their
Chorley,
Perry
and
deliberations
Williams'
camera.
Geddy,
Packard
to
Pose
Webb,
Pause
for
�The Cheats of Scapin"
successful
run
with
is continuing its highly —
college
students
in
roles. ABOVE, Bill Harper, an adept town
heralds the performances
with handbills.
Mary Gerschank,
before
the
John
Receltion
Donovan
Center
and David
the
old
crier,
RIGHT,
Friedman,
footlights
CW SWITCHBOARD
Elizabeth
OPERATORS
Henderson
Left to right,
LONG
ARMS —
Peterson,
Minor
Wine
consultant,
Thomas
and
Harold
insj,
ect the oldest
gun
in
The
Magazine,
a lengthy Queen
Anne rampart musket, as they Prepare the
arsenal for its summer opening.
and
Lee (
WI &L),
Elizabeth
details
of
Pose
the
with
Palace.
Nellie Mahone ( Inn),
Betty Hedgebeth (
Hattie
at
Goodwin
Mary
Hodges (
PBX
life,
building),
Fish (
Inn),
Lodge).
see
Cage
For
4.
�April,
NEWS
1949
AND
NEWS
Colonial
of
COMMENT
Williamsburg
Page
7
Board.
The Williamsburg Quintet ( Alfred
Springtime
on the
Peninsula
brought many local golfers
has
and
to the Wil-
Fred
Rucker,
Epps,
liamsburg Inn course, with many putt and -pray competitors taking; advantage
of
the
new
unaware
panse
dues (
however,
Tourists,
annual
are
of
of
the
be
album -
Archie
will
in
and
unbreakable)
often
soon
a phonoon
vinylite
records
at
that.
With Dick Showman directing
ex-
and
Gerst,
Stephens)
immortalized
graph
adv.).
well - kept
greensward
Lisbon
and Levi
the party, the Quintet motored
to Washington recently for a
hazards
stretching out behind the Inn
and along South England Street.
which included high waxing,"
lights
from their large
reper-
CW' ers
toire.
could
lend
a hand
to
the
Sets
out.
able
for
day
the
of
rent
clubs
at
one
According
best
golf
is
are
per
with
the
compiled
at
least
one
of
local
be
old
Graves,
this
year
Showman
nine-
along
standbys
Jeff
priced
summer.
Norton,
1
and
Harold
as
Ed
and
Bela
include
Dick
Sparks.
Perhaps influenced by the recent
barn -dances, they have plowed up
hole total of 35 and who is expected to have an uncomfortably
low handicap for the coming season....
Spring has also brought a spate
Vaughan
such
Kendrew,
product of Charlie Hackett, who I
has
to
is expected
Spring gardeners,
to Len Biles,
currently
album,
some time this
avail-
dollar
The
at about $ 4. 00,
golf course budget by reminding
newcomers of the nine -hole lay-
a
sizable
plot
behind
the
Carter - Saunders House ( aided by an unauthentic jeep tractor owned by Minor
fund -raising drives.
Red
his wife spear - headed spon-
Wine
and
Thomas,
Elmo
Jr.).
Jones,
the
versatile
Richmond
sorship of a highly successful dance in
the Matthew Whaley gym to benefit the
P. T. A.' s efforts to equip a school
artist whose Williamsburg work is so
well known, is continuing his long asso-
band.
Alice
the
T.
work for a new ticket -map and plans to
revise the perspective map for our map
P.
A.,
Alexander,
as
president
of
has actively directed
for
ciation
this campaign which is nearing the top
folders.
Ellen Hoke, Tom Williams, and many
others worked long and hard to see the
map and some
Red Cross
in
reach
its
1949
Don
goal
Taylor, ex -CW' er and local attorney,
heading the Cancer Society' s drive,
scheduled
to begin
on April
24,
is
and
featuring a big informal dance and get together at the Skating Rink on Friday
April 29
evening,
After long months
of investigation,
the Community - Council
sponsored Community Chest was formed
and is laying plans for an autumn drive
which
should
reduce
the
number
of cam-
the
last
were
rendered
Times
art
a special
for the
which
section
appeared
year.
over
visitor
has
2, 100
been
attendance
tremendous.
persons
at
exceeding
the
in
There
Palace
the total
for
Easter Sunday and establishing a. mid week
Another
record.
fallen
on Easter
persons
Travis
when
Rieg are members of the Community Fund
New York
last Wednesday,
president
and Max
completed
in the Sunday Magazine
Faster -time
was
Holmes
he
has
related drawings
Williamsburg
paigns next year and simplify life for
local contributors
John Goodbody is
and Virginia
Also,
article
He
CW.
had
eaten
House,
just
one
or
record
Sunday
at
the
Inn,
Chowning'
less
than
would
the
s.
Lodge,
The
persons
were
total
all -time
record number on Memorial Day,
4, 361
have
if just two more
served.
1948,
�8
Page
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
April,
19+ 9
NOTES FROM CONSTRUCTION
they had removed all stumps from 31, 000
Bill Atkinson and Johnny Autry
launched their newly- acquired sail boat
on Easter
Sunday at 9 a. m.
Recently,
they have been quite busy making some
to a 24+ - foot width, and installed 90
linear feet of 12 x 15 - inch drainage
nearly 1, 000 cubic yards of earth to
minor
form
square
changes,
mast.
such
as
relocating
the
This required calculating the
location
of the center
of gravity
feet
of area,
graded the
Bill figures
culverts
the
fill
across
the
street
he moved
ravine,
and
flatten the steep grades of the two
hills, so that it would be acceptable as
in
relation to the center of buoyancy.
a
Billy pulled quite a practical
readiness
solution
first class
Now
street
all
is
in
at Highland Park for homes
to this mathematical problem by simply
be constructed along the newly -laid
pushing the boat up on a roller to the
to
streets.
point
where
it
was
balanced.
Jimmy Knight and Sid Benton have
an agreement between them whereby if
Bill. and Johnny expect to ply the
waters of the peninsula beginning with
one catches the other smoking a cigarette
the
he may
James
River,
and then
the
York,
if
fishing is better there.
C&
the
M welcomes
Construction
a dime.
Poor Jimmy has
been caught twice that we know of
Sid Benton back into
Department.
He
will
collect
If Rand Carter' s wife
take over the superintendency of the
completes
restoration
have
of
the
Brush - Everrard
Otis Odell has
House.
started construc-
tion on his new home out on Route # 5.
It is located on a James City deer
range,
lowed
but
to
the
have
deer will
their
still
be
alIt
right - of way.
is a six -room, two- story, brick veneer
house
he
with
has
none
a
a competent
other
chitectural,
advice
We
cellar
as
than
inspector
C.
E.
as
The
and
side -walk
that
on the
H'
structural,
well
note
job
ar-
general
has been
wondering why it' s so long before he
the
his
home -
new
answer,
Mrs.
we
think
Carter.
we
He
was
sitting down on the job the other day.
But he claims everything is finished
now except for a leak in the
that is down the vent pipe.
roof,
and
Ralph Bowers, just before proceeding to his Bridge Club meet, made a bet
giving ten to one odds that he would win
high
so
score
he
among
did::
the
eight
it
players.
Ralph.
And
Keep
up,
think of it, that was an 80 to 1 shot;
Come
superinten-
dency also has been extended by other
CW
employees.
Congratulations
whose
wife
child
on
baby boy,
Curtis
to Emanuel
presented
April
8.
him
with
Owens
his
first
GOLFERS
and shall be christened James
Owens. (
ATTENTION
It is a 74 pound
Mother,
father,
and
enter
All employees who expect to
the annual CW golf tournament
baby are all doing fine:)
at the picnic this summer,
To the surprise and pleasure of
the residents of Highland Park, Bill
quested to start turning in their
scores for handicap purposes by
Atkinson,
with F.
M.
Snidow' s excava-
tion equipment and personnel, moved in
on Friday,
April 8.
By ' zesday, April
12, they had staked out the proposed
Burbank Street from its intersection
with North Henry Street westward 1200
feet over two hills and across a ravine;
Committeeman
scores
Caddy
Harold
should
Sparks.
be turned
House.
are re-
Linksman
in at
Sparks
All
the
points
out that this will be a great help
in
assigning
a
fair
handicap
to
all.
to
�April,
1949 NEWS of Colonial
Wil iamsburg SO YOU' RE
GOING ON A
VACATION? Comes Spring and folks who directly or
indirectly serve a large chunk of
America' s
vaca- tioners start thinking of their own
vacation
pay. Feeling the urge for the open
with
road, the News herewith starts its own travel
section as a timely aid to CW -ites already
collecting
road
maps
and
travel
folders. The vogue in vacations this
according to travel
home. Chief reason is
a
should
each
other
r To the
great
economic, but in Virginia there' s
reason that the East and the
better
know
year,
forecasters, is to take them nearer
mountain
average
and
West
complet ly.
more
valley
Tidewater
of
country
Virginian, the
the
Old
Dominion
is
often -
Page 9 unknown. It is so near home that we are
apt to put it off from year to year in
favor
attractions.
distant
Apple
Blossom
Festival
of
All
that
will
more
change
Already plans are ready for many local travel fans
great
the
April
days (
pageant
in
of
Apple Blossom Festi- val. Ti ^ one
is
29) and
drawing as
28 which 2, 000
actors
from Hollywood and
we are told.
Vir,;
iria' s
greatest shows, lastiLs
many as 100,000 persons. Its
pa ;: ticipate
in
It is a
costume.
two
main attraction is a
great
extravag=
a
western climes ( Bill BippusPete
party to
LeCompte, Allan Matthews
making plans to get to
know the .* coin r7. Such things r.,= W.;
Paley
t%
n
are
Tom McCaskey)
to
other attractions. Other local folks, after talking with Wil iamsburg 0:
ion
p1orn.';
at
i
year, so
.and color, two parades, f;
music
miliar names
i
ti_ Tunnel
ial
of
this
to go out to Winchester to see
Gate
C
"' Mountain
ol
j.
and
Barter
oas
ty; marvel
Theatre at
at ..
ray, t`
T. t
caverm
+,
and Salem,;
Vo:
Abingdon and
the
Bridge
near
4ez: ngi, oa'.,
are only a few of the things Yith which all
Virginians should be acquai: atr., the Skyline Drive there is a waling path which
On
parallels
the Drive for 94 miles. It is known as the Appalachian Trail and
states from Maine to Georgia. The rangers in the Shenandoah
Park report that hikers use
this trail the year round. It runs along the crest of
extends
National
the
into other
Blue
There
where
Ridge
are
overnight
In addition
offers
shelters,
some
fire
of
the most
beautiful
and
pits
supplies
scenery
of
is
wood
to
available
to the usual hiking facilities, the
excellent fishing, swimming, camping, tennis, and motoring over
be
free
along
Shenandoah
found.
the
trail.
Park
the far famed Skyline Drive, the
best known item in the
Park' s
vacation possibilities.
Bath
County,
Va.,
just around
Va. If
it' s
just
a
varied
rest
you'
re
after, Warm
Springs,
the corner from the Park, is tempting for the jaded CW -ite where your
money will buy the same mountains and the Watteau - like landscape that tenants of
the
more plush Hot Springs consume. If you are bored with taking warm baths at 75$
a throw at The Springs," there
"
in
the
are movies at Hot Springs, free Sunday night concerts
lobby of The Homestead, and, if you feel more reckless, a quick
drive over the mountains for luncheon on the porch of the Casino at the
lush
Greenbrier
overlooking
the
eight- eenth
hole
of
the
most
magnificent
golf
course
you
can
�Pale
10
NEWS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
April,
19+ 9
SO YOU' RE GOING ON A VACATION ( Cont' d)
from Richmond to Mexico City is $ 198;
take
can sleep
if terra firma is your medium and you
a look around
the Greenbrier
the public
rooms
of
and see the face - lifting
job performed on the furnishings of the
spa.
All this is available if you
old
can engage
a room
John Steele,
running
at the
home
of Mr.
only $ 30
who has a mountain brook
right
back.
through his front yard,
for $ 2. 50 per day, one person to a room.
Meals can be had at the home of Miss
Somers Anderson, if her tables are not
filled, at $ 3 per day.
Before
we
get
out
of Virginia,
the
Travel Office has folders and details
on the better - known attractions to our
west.
sitting
up,
the day coach fare
from Williamsburg to San Antonio round
trip is $ 85. 22, or you can take a bus
over the Inter -American highway for
there
back -
and
if
The round trip train
you
get
fare from
San Antonio to Mexico City is $ 48. 93.
There is a former Dutch consul,
H.
Ph.
DeKanter, Rosas Morena # 103, Mexico D.
F.,
who will take you as a paying guest
room, board, laundry) for about $ 25 per
week,
and
you
are
always
invited
into
the salon before dinner for a small
glass of Tequila, the effective drink of
Nancy Foster there will help you
plan that trip and tell you about many
things you will want to see along the
the
country
made
from
cactus.
While
you
are still feeling the effects, if it is
Sunday afternoon you can go to a bull
way.
fight, or, if you can' t stand the blood,
Down across the border in the mountains of North Carolina,
seven miles out
go out to Xochimilo and see the floating
of Hendersonville,
carnations for 35$.
Mountain
is the Huckleberry
Workshop.
This
might
appeal
islands
of flowers
and buy an armful of
to
those who like living out -of- doors,
writing,
studying,
music,
trying out
for radio programs, doing handcrafts or
just living among fascinating people
along with hiking and eating all home killed heats,
eggs
home - raised
and home - grown
tables.
chickens
fruits
and
beautiful Asheville and the Smoky MounMeredith Dietz
of the Craft
House says she especially enjoyed having
her meals
at a table
AWARDS
Each of the following received $ 5.
for their prize- winning suggestions:
and vege-
It is only forty miles from
tains.
SUGGESTION
in charge
of a
Central American family whore only
Horace
Morecock -
stairway
be
That a disappearing
installed
floor hall to attic at
from
second
Williamsburg
Inn to assure ready access to exhaust
fans, air conditioning unit, etc.
Helen
C.
Dewing - That memoranda and
information from Research Department
Spanish was spoken at mealtime.
Nag' s Head
And of course you have heard about
to hostesses be prepared for insertion
in three -ring binders so that they may
how many people have enjoyed Nag' s Head
be kept in better order.
at the other end of Tar Heelia,
where
Frank
you
to
park
dance,
your
shoes
when
you
go
a
and sleep and eat in a bathing
suit.
Jacobs,
breakage
That
Jr.,
and
William
to prevent
T.
further
of glass by the mail trucks,
a mail guard be installed on doors
But if you' re really anxious to
get
S.
Reinecke -
away from it all,
there' s Mexico
no
kidding.
It' s really not
as
expensive
as
might
be
so far or
thought.
If
you are air -minded the round trip rate
.
leading to the Post Office platform.
Melvin
Hille -
That
telephone
numbers
of
Company physicians be listed in the CW
Directory.
��1949
ITEMS
NEWS
C&
FROM
M
N.
from his
C.,
for
Hedgecock
home
has
ar-
the New York contingent
Under the wary eye of Ed Wat-
kins,
Nat has been busy assembling
tools
and
Weather
equipment.
permit-
ting, he hopes to soon be in full operation
Floyd Martin returned to work
after
a
pleasant
Dave Mor-
vacation
ton and his family were recently called
to Mt.
Vernon,
N.
Y.,
following the
in order
to take care of the recent spring increase
of
Between
visitors.
and soakings
of
Joseph Jenkins, of Hagerstown, Maryland;
George Bennett of Wilmington, Delaware;
Eric Enholm,
of Mount Vernon,
and Loren Curtis,
the
Virgin
New York;
who was formerly
Islands
in Delaware."
are quite busy these days keeping harand carriages
consisting
and
Guam.
employed
Mr.
Bennett is the author of " Early Houses
Willie Meekins and Ben Spraggins
horses,
11
Kenneth Chorley, Mildred Layne, Barbara
Jeffrey, and Mae Peterson
A welcome
is extended to four new members of the
Architectural
Department.
They are:
in
death of Dave' s father.
ness,
Page
Fresh on the heels of spring came
in Winston - Salem,
to resume hand - making of brick
CW.
Williamsburg
NEWS FROM THE GOODWIN BUILDING
Nathaniel R.
rived
Colonial
of
showers
the boys are doing a good
shelves
of
a reference
the
book
department.
on
the
Catherine
Daniel Saliske, former secretary in the
Architectural Department, is spending
a month in town and is lending a helping
hand with the " specs"
that the increased
job.
force is grinding out at break neck speed.
J. B. Brouwers recently attended
the Southern ; shade Tree Conference at
Mrs. Rose Keyser is also " translating" the
Gainesville,
While away, J. B.
southern states in search
toured several
of
landscape
Robert
material
Robert
tendant,
recently
Robinson,
returned
wife
warehouse
typescript
and daughters
Mario Campioli' s
spent Easter week with
him.
Webb
Alden Hopkins attended the fiftieth
is again enjoying a well- deserved vacation
to
specs
Fla.
at-
to work
anniversary
Society
of Landscape
Shoreham
after being out with a badly burned arm.
meeting
of the American
Architects at The
He recently
in Washington.
entertained two former classmates
at
Ralph E. Gunn,
landscape
architect for that sensational new
Out at the old College Airport, a
thing of beauty will soon emerge from
Harvard:
its winter cocoon,
hotel,
ful hands
up,
spun by the skill-
From keel
Harry Sutton.
Harry has built, in his spare time,
a cabin
of
cruiser
Charles
utility man,
son
left
off.
has been promoted
to
him lots
in Houston,
landscape
and
architect
of
We regret to report the passing of
New Jersey.
a
taking up where Isham JohnWe wish
Riley,
Mrs. Barone, mother of Mrs. Bert Koch, in
christened " Last Penny."
Jones
F.
Boston.
as trim as any afloat.
A bit ruefully, but with justifiable
pride, he says she may have to be
Ewell
the Shamrock,
of good
luck and success in his new venture.
David Wallace and his wife spent
Mar Kent Stevens and Mary Jane King
went to Delray Beach,
Trudy Monson,
on
Florida,
to see
where she takes dictation
the beach'
Schuyler
P.
Roberts,
veteran of World War II, and Ann McCulley,
wife of Professor McCulley at the College,
a quiet Palm Sunday in the country with
David' s mother - and father -in -law; they
are recent additions to Gene Sheldon' s
went to Newport News Easter weekend.
Angie Cowles and her son, Carter III,
spent Easter weekend with her twin sister
R.
D.
Harris
and his family spent
the Easter holidays with Roosevelt' s
mother
in
Hampton,
Va.
staff.
in
Hanover
County
Shirley Stone' s
Continued
�Page
12
NEWS
of
Colonial
NEWS FROM THE GOODWIN BUILDING ( Cont.)
Williamsburg
April,
1949
her vacation between Norfolk and Washington.
mother, Mrs.
her
Audrey Starnes,
Charles
recently
moved
to
311
East
visited
Willis
has
Scotland
afraid to raise
Robert Judkins is on vacation.
chapters
and New York,
of Boston,
New Haven,
on the present state of
the College of William and Mary and
its
alumni
Duncan
society
Cocke
relieved the " monotony" of a vacation
at Camp Peary with side trips to Wash-
ington, Philadelphia, Charlottesville
and Warrenton.
Patrolmen Dean,
are
attending
ted by F. B.
Ripley and Alphin
a police
school
County.
Alma Lee Rowe and her sisters,
recently
held " open house" in their flower garden
ters
in
Ginter
Perk.
Three
of the
sis-
in New York as a
guest
of Preston
Ellett.
They had
tickets for several hit plays, and
Alma was entertained at a reunion
luncheon with Near East friends at
Plainfield, New Jersey
Wicky Wierum
spent Easter
was a bridesmaid in the wedding of Gary
Clark ( son of Mrs. Glenwood Clark) at
Wren
Chapel.
the Shenandoah Valley with her sister;
Winchester
Peg Fisher
and Becky Levering visited their
parents
on Palm Sur', y weekend in
Baltimore
weekend
Lillian
Bush
in Washington
entertained
Mrs.
Walter
spent the
Grace Raiter
Blau,
former
indexer for the Virginia Gazette,
and
her husband the other day.
North
Carolina
recently
Lester
Cappon " endured" one of those business
trips to New York and Princeton
Jane Gerten spent Easter weekend in
New York
Shirlee
Sanderlin
Colonel
Wheat
reports
The " Boas"
was heard to say in
the Caddy House that he can' t hit a
ball since he took lessons from Len
Biles.
It is reported that Harold
Sparks broke the record for the course high
as
Mildred Lanier
scorer::
training
is
in
for winning the golf prize
again at this year' s picnic.
end
Mary Stephenson spent Easter weekCarolyn Muser,
County
in Sussex
who calls herself " general flunkey" for
tha New York office,
spent
a week' s va-
in
Mildred
Williamsburg
Layne' s sister, Mrs. Lefevre, spent a
week with her in Williamsburg.
cation
Wanda R.
Castle
INSIDE THE CRAFT HOUSE
Visitors are pouring into the
Craft House
make
and there
isn' t even time
However,
Page Folk
de-
serves " Society Column"
headlines
for
news.
the cocktail
party she gave Craft House
and its several husbands,
wives,
sons "
one
and
Sunday afternoon;"
and
were
this a country weekly, the list of refreshments would be published in tantalizing
Jr.,
detail
Dr.
George
Oliver,
interning at Medical College in
Richmond,
spent his two -weeks'
vacation
with his parents.
Louise Fisher talked about her
great love, flowers, to the garden
clubs of New Castle, Delaware, and Newton,
heads
an 87 of which he seems to be pretty
proud.
to
Elizabeth Stubbs motored through
destination -
divot -diggers.
conduc-
I. instructors in Warwick
the Parker girls of Richmond,
their little
these days because of the onslaught of
Vernon Geddy spoke before the
alumni
The dandelions and bL tercups on
the Williamsburg Inn Golf Course are
split
Catharine Doi ' ier enjoyed a long
Palm Funday weekend at her home in
Waynesboro
Clara Charlton and her
husband,
Lt. Nelson Charlton,
cherry blossoms
at their
saw the
height
in Wash-
ington last week.
M.
Dietz
�April,
1949
NEWS
Colonial
of
WILLIAM AND MARY AND CWI COOPERATE
Williamsburg
Chorus
the
event,
maestro
Within the past few weeks the two
great Williamsburg organizations,
the
and his
College and Colonial Williamsburg,
staging
have
sales
joined hands
of .mutual
stored
to put on activities
interest
community
which bring
new
our re-
color.
the
direction
of Howard
while
of
the
efficient
Richard
Showman
Bill
plays.
Reception
13
is
Bippus
Center
staff are doing a grand job with the
of both
events and the ticket
It is hoped that all
for them.
employees
will
get
to
see
both
events
before the spring season closes on May
The William and Mary Players,
under
Page
28.
Scammon
Tom McCaskey
and with the cooperation of Miss Althea Hunt, have started a series of
Eighteenth Century players on Saturday nights at the Reception Center.
HOSTESS
BRIEFS
The William and Mary Chorus under
the
direction
undertaken
of Carl
a series
A.
Fehr,
has
of spring con-
fickle
beautiful.
and
The
tourist begins his day in April sun-
certs with his nationally known singing group on Friday evenings at the
Reception
April,
Center.
shine,
April
to be caught an hour later in
showers
Every state in the
union is represented by the cars on
Both events have brought highly
favorable comments from our visiting
public.
Both have been reasonably
Duke
successful
point, but
horses step briskly while Ben points
insure
a
from the financial standextra support is needed to
their
continuance.
All employWilliamsburg are in-
ees of Colonial
Street
the buildings,
panorama
the
out
is
Gloucester
of
throng
of
spring
sights
open
Visitors
the
streets
loveliness.
are
The
The door of Chowning' s
Summer is on the way;
Nouvelle Green left her post at
vited to have a part in this evening
the Palace desk to spend a few days in
entertainment
Washington while the cherry trees were
visitors
program by directing
to both the
on Fridays,
Chorus
concerts
in bloom
and the Scammon plays on
Saturdays.
attend a luncheon at the Women' s Club,
It is hoped that both activities
will
be
time
it is expected
resumed
in the
fall.
At
that the Chorus
variety
five
At the present
concert
time
of music
Mr.
centuries.
research
this
summer
gram
make
Chorus
concert
program,
here
such
will be
as might
in Colonial
The
it is
plans
arrangements
and
to
build
so
to
a
a
do
pro-
that
the
an authentic
have
been
heard
times.
admission
for the
Chorus
is
1. 00 for adults, 60¢ for students,
3T ::: r the play the price is $ 1. 20 for
ed. alts,
70¢
for
students.
All
of Mrs.
Minnie
Pate
Laurie
spent
Smith.
several
days
Scottsville with her mother, Mrs.
from the past
Fehr
as guest
that
will feature an all Eighteenth Century
concert.
Lilah Dunn was one of a
party which motored to Richmond to
of
these prices include the Federal tax.
Tom McCaskey is coordinating the
M.
David,
who
has
been
ill
in
R.
Mrs.
Shipman was a delegate to the State
Convention of the D. A. R. at Roanoke.
She spent the following weekend in
Lynchburg.
Nancy Hart dropped in from Richmond to visit her mother, Mrs. Walter
Bozarth and was just in time to lend
a helping hand during the Palm Sunday
rush
at
the buildings
Chloro
Marsh
has donned farthingales and joined the
hostesses
A few
days
ago Gwendolyn
Haller of City Point, hopewell, Va.,
dropped in with the welcome news that
Continued
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Page
NEWS
HOSTESS
BRIEF' S (
she
Ruth
and
Cont'
of Colon9al
d.)
Woody -
Williamsburg
NEWS
also
who have both served as "
of
FROM
Hopewell -
summer
hos-
April,
THE
INN
Ed Hughes
zation
as
AND
has
roam
LODGE
joined
clerk
1949
the
the
at
organi-
Inn.
A
tesses"
for several years would be
graduate
with
again
the Cornell School of Hotel Administra-
us
this
summer.
Helen Young flew to New York
to spend the Easter Holidays with Evelyn
Stryker
Annette
Wattles
and
Capt.
Wattles have gone to Charles
Town,
West Va.,
festivities
Wattles'
Capt.
of the wedding
niece,
David
George
small
to take part
B.
of Capt.
erine
his
wife,
and
a week at Williamsburg
and son - in -law,
and Frank Saliske
Cath-
of West Hart-
ford, were here also to attend the
christening
of little
George
Myers
Daniel at Bruton Parish Church.
Hallie Wer uth' s another, Mrs.
Chastain Attkisson, will make her home
in Williamsburg with her daughter.
The Hostess Section extends
pathy to Rose Wing on the sudden
death of her father, Mr.
Virginia Holmes
J. W.
sym-
Beaston.
and her husband
beauty of the Capitol in springtime
Mary Carter' s brother, W. F. Carter of
Harrisonburg, has been visiting her.
Gift Shop,
of
telephone
Hattie
Lee.
offices were taken over by the crew.
For the first
has an office
time, the front office
and a cage similar to
that at the Lodge
Dorothy Williams,
formerly in the Lodge front office, has
been transferred to the Inn and had the
honor of opening
Bill
Corr,
the new front
Lodge.
the new window.
of
Gloucester,
office
cashier
is
Va.,
at the
He replaces Dorothy Williams.
Yancey Spurlock, veteran member of
the Lodge Bell crew, has been promoted
to Bell Captain.
Hardy Reed and Wendell
Wright have joined the Bell crew at the
Inn.
Elizabeth Parilla, Head Baker at
the Lodge Kitchen, received her ten year
pin
in March.
Elizabeth has been
with the Inn and Lodge continually
starting
ago.
surgery
Mr. Rockefeller' s annual spring
visit to Williamsburg was ended unexpect10 because
Dr.
of the
Irving H.
death
Pardee,
husband of his daughter, Abby Rockefeller
Dr.
under
the new Inn front
at the Travis
House
ten
Annie Taylor recently underwent
PARDEE DIES
of his son - in- law,
business
formerly at the Inn
operators
since
on April
hotel
has transferred to the staff
years
edly
in the
also attended
places.
Mary Andrews,
mace a trip to Washington to enjoy the
DR.
been
On April 11,
Lodge visiting his mother, Mary Daniel.
Mary' s daughter
other
USA.
Daniel,
son spent
Ed has
he
for three years, having worked at the
Sun Valley, Idaho, inn and lodge and
in the
Nan Fox of England to
Pierce,
tion.
of Lafayette,
Pardee was an eminent neurologist
at Buxton
Hospital
in Newport
News and is now recuperating at her
home
here.
Several employees have married reAmong the happy people are
cently.
Martha Carter Cumber, Mary Flood Bowman,
and Willie
Potter,
Davis, who married Isabella
a former employee.
and was connected with Columbia Univer-
sity, Presbyterian Hospital,
Luke' s Hospital,
and several
smaller
member
hospitals.
Saint
other
He was an active
of many medical
and was descended from a family of distinguished
physicians.
SERVICE RECOGNITION
organizations
Alma Wallace completed ten years'
service
with
the
I& Dept.
L
on
April
5.
�1949 ,
April,
NEWS
of
Colonial
SCHUMACHER AND WILLIAMSBURG
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
Williamsburg
RECEPTION
Page
CENTER
15
NOTES
TOGETHER
of Williamsburg Restoration Reproduc-
A day at the Reception Center is
novel experience
only the
other day we learned from a visitor
that it was Mellon who restored Wil-
tions, : joins hands this year with Wil-
liamsburg, not Mr. Rockefeller, and no
liamsburg
amount of ensuing oratory on the part
of Id. Carpenter would convince our
a
The F.
York,
Schumacher Company of New
exclusive
licensed
in celebrating
manufacturer
an anniversary
Schumacher' s 60th and Williamsburg' s
250th,
very
visitor
This associate of our Reproduction
Program specializes in printed and wofabrics '-
ven
a
d is known
as one
of the
otherwise.
The other members
of the Carpenter
family working at the R. C. are Ann and
Joan.
Ann is very conscientious; in
finest fabric houses in the world, with
offices throughout the United States
fact, only the other night she was play-
and
pass,"
abroad.
Schumacher has been our licensed
manufacturer since 1939 and they have
reproduced many beautiful fabrics for
Jack
can
Upshur'
be
s
seen (
extensive
and
These
program.
purchased -
plug)
ing
bridge
and
she
instead
of
I
saying, "
May I help you please."
said, "
So if you see a blue -eyed blonde walking
down the street mumbling " May I help you
just tip your hat and say,
please,"
Hello,
Ann."
Louis Pagano is the new projection-
at
the Craft House every weekday from 9
ist
to 5.
heard " Life with Luigi" you will appreTwo
New
Two additions
Fabrics
have
recently been made available in our fabric
line.
These are " The Williamsburg
Liner" and " The John Marshall Chintz."
Sparks, Dorrier, and the whole Craft
R.
C.,
Louis.
ciate
from Schumacher
the
at
Louis
ton' s hair and ever
been
a
if
you
once
have
Louis has
The other
comedian.
Quick,
in
the
call
day he came
here:"
saying,
there
cops -
ever
cut Red Skel-
since,
running out of the auditorium
House are excited about them, going in-
is a riot
The auditorium was empty.
Of course, part of the evening' s
to raptures when they tell customers
entertainment
that " the Williamsburg
Savage,
Liner is a very
and
at the R.
Jclhn Fox,
C.
are Mike
and Clem Vaughan,
sweet, very dainty little overall print
fabric in glazed chintz, which comes in
several very lovely colors, and sells
for: Only $ 1. 50 per yard!" (
said with
who have a difficult time keeping the
gestures.)
lashes
John Marshall
Chintz
the John Marshall Chintz is a note worthy
addition
to the
it is a reproduction
once
used
program
Leeds"
in the bedroom
in
ladies
away from
especially
partial
the
desk.
to the
They
groups
of
69 -year old " girls" who flutter their
Girls,
and say in school
girl voices,
here is a nice young man who
can help us:"
in that
of our
Bill
Bippus
great
SERVICE
RECOGNITION
Fauquier
A
County, Va.
piece of this old fabric was given us
by Dr. Norton Mason, of Richmond, who
is a great -great grandson of John
Marshall.
are
of an old fabric
Chief. Justice, John Marshall, when he
lived in the plantation home of his son
at "
young
Ralph E. Bowers completed ten years
of service as Draftsman for the Architectural
Department
on
April
21.
�Page
16
NEWS
CW' S QUESTION BOX ( No.
1)
of Colonial
Williamsburg
3)
In what category have the largest
number of artifacts
archaeology
Page
16
been found in the
cotton
What is the whiteish material used
for garden paths at the Palace and
other gardens that have been restored?
after the War Between
the
States, many of the Rebels
abandoned their homes and invasion- scarred
work?
2)
Just
fields in the South to
the
Mississippi into
move across
Texas, where
whole
sections of land could be had for
the
asking. The
migration
became so
enor- mous that it was not unusual to see
3)
The wavy glass used in windows of
the exhibition buildings has what name?
What are the hoops in the colonial
dresses worn by the hostesses called?
sign, "
and bearing the
T."GONE TO
meaning "
TEXAS," History repeats itself
because there now hangs over the door of an
of- fice in the southwest corner of
5)
T.
4)
What is the approximate
date for
the opening of The Magazine and
Guard
House?
6)
closed
the Goodwin
Building a sign
T."
The
re-ng to her native
turni
Texas. She
reading "
occupant, Wanda
says
that
G.
Castle, is
state; that
she is
reluctant to dcn her boots and saddle and
Can we furnish escort service for
May tourists
exhibition
8)
office
T.
is,
foreign speaking persons?
7)
an
G.
greatest
the
take photographs
in the
buildings?
Up to the present time,
number
of persons
Governor' s Palace
begin her trek to her little gray home in
West, but circumstances require
it.
Wanda has chosen May 6 as the day
of her
departure and she
requests
friends not to send
what is the
visiting
the
in a single day?
flowers. She is leaving Wil iamsburg to
ac- cept
an
eminently
good
position
with Remington Rand in Texas in order
that she may be nearer a sister in
Dallas who is in ill
9)
Is Colonial Williamsburg endowed?
10)
open?
What date does " The Common Glory"
health. Wanda' s services with
Colonial Williamsburg include approximately
ten
years as Office Manager and
as
Assistant
Archivist„
three
Lt. Wanda
R.
Castle was in the U. S. N. R.
from
December, 1942, to
March, 1946,
on military
leave. PERFECT ATTENDANCE FOR THE YEAR
ENDING
MARCH,
1949. Patrick
Buchanan,
Theatre, and
Abraham
Barksdale, Ernest
Billups, David
Holmes, Thomas Kearney, Harold Loughrie,
Eliza- beth
Thomas
In
Parrilla, Judge
Patton, and
G. Peyton, all from the Department of
and
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of COLONIAL
NEWS
Volume
1,
Number
WILLIAMSBURG
12
May,
1949
JULY 2
The
Magazine
and
Guard
House,
CW'
s
newest
exhibition
unit
and
the
first
since
the war, will be opened to the public on July 2 as part of the significant Independence Day weekend
events a high point in the 250th anniversary celebrations.
Plans for appropriate opening ceremonies are going forward along with final work
on the multitudinous
details in opening this important colonial military exhibit.
Authentic furnishings are being assembled preparatory to installation,
attendants are
being obtained and instructed in the interpretation of the structures and new block
tickets, map folders, and related matter are being readied.
The re- opening of The Magazine on Saturday, July 2, ties in closely with the
important
events
The
On Friday, July 1, "
during the Independence
Day weekend.
Common Glory" will open for its third season with a special American Legion night.
other
On Sunday, July 3,
a Union Vespers Ser-
vice is being arranged at the Lake Matoaka amphitheatre by the Williamsburg
Council
ing
Churches
of
keyed to
event
another
as
the
250th
outstand-
anniversary
NEW
LAUNDRY
SCHEDULED
COMPLETED;
FOR
BARBER
SHOP
RECONSTRUCTION
celebrations.
On Monday,
July 4,
the Citizens
As-
sociation of Williamsburg and Vicinity
will hold an elaborate " town meeting"
entitled " Platform for Democracy" in the
evening at the Lake Matoaka amphitheatre.
Plans call for a notable group of men to
speak
on
the
democratic
principles
upon
plans
for
the 250th anniversary
establishment
as
a
the
of
of Williamsburg'
features.
commemorative
reconstruction
of the
King' s Arms Barber Shop across from
Tavern
capital
establishment
s
number
within
the
next
ten
of
will
be
structures
the
to be
first
ings are now being completed for the
celebrated
Tavern
which
with
Purdie'
Dwelling
ton as chairman
other outbuildings
along with an
sive garden will be reconstructed
Gladys Guy,
Williams
and Kerk
Fletcher Cox,
eating
Land,
Lloyd
will provide
place.
s
a new 18th century
Stables,
kitchens,
and
extenon the
Continued on page 4)
Burbank.
1699 -
a
Purdie'
A publici-
and includes Robert
of
reconstructed
ty sub - committee has been named and is
functioning.
It is headed by Bela NorMrs.
days.
in the extensive King' s Arms Tavern and
s Dwelling project.
Working draw-
are
being advanced by the Community Committee for further events during the year
and
the
The little 18th century tonsorial
celebration
colonial
will begin
Raleigh
which this nation ie built.
Other
Hardly catching their breath after
completing the new Laundry for Williamsburg Inn and Lodge one month ahead of
schedule, CW' s fast- moving craftsmen
WILLIAMSBURG'
S 250TH ANNIVERSARY -
1949
�Page
2
NEWS
AND
NEWS
Colonial
of
COMMENT
Williamsburg
May,
1949
through the west gate on busy days.
With this issue of the News the
George,"
Jennings Taylor' s Chesapeake Bay retriever seen with other CW
pets on the multilith insert is, his
proud
proprietors
remarkable
very
will
dog.
have you know,
The
a
story goes
that every so often he gets bored with
staying at home way out on Route 5, and
so trots into town, seeks out Rose Taylor' s car,
opens the door,
gets in and
settles down to wait in solid comfort.
It' s gotten to such a point that the car
doors are now locked to discourage him.
At this writing, George has not found
out
they keep
where
of pets,
of
the
the
incidentally,
CW
The
key
page
is but a sampling
More would have been
family.
Jimmy Knight didn' t have a
desirable.
editors hope to have established
ular mid - monthly
will
permit
publication
a more
a reg-
date
systematic
which
prepara-
tion and production of the issues.
Henceforth, your paper will be issued
on the Friday nearest the 15th of the
month,
with the
deadline
set
for Wednes-
day of the preceding week
Orchids
go to the capable reporters who are do-
ing such a commendable job in rounding
up the news with fewer and fewer gaps
left
As
untouched.
always,
comments
and
contributions are especially welcome.
Alice Winchester, gracious editor
of The Magazine Antiques,
ended a ten -
day stay here this week assembling
snapshot of his pet snakes and Jody
material for a special Williamsburg
issue of The Magazine Antiques to appear
Crowder couldn' t get her white canary
in September
to keep still long enough for a picture,
it
seems.
Other
snapshots
of pets
or
children from CW employees will be
welcomed in the Department of Public
Executive
V - P Bela
Norton was co- chairman and a presiding
officer of the first A11- Virginia Public
Relations Conference held in Richmond
this
Information for succeeding sections.
week.
Williamsburg' s long- awaited subway
April was a banner month for Williamsburg Inn, the first time in the
was officially opened to vehicular traf-
history of the hostelry that 100% tc-
ting
cupancy was registered
for the entire
month.
Such a record is difficult to
attain even during the peak months because
of
sudden
cancellations
and other
fic on Tuesday with Mayor Stryker cutthe
tape.
For the present
serve principally
it will
as an unique drive and
distribution for cross -town traffic off
of the Parkway
but when Congressional
appropriations
come through
vagaries which leave desk clerks with
hair
graying
April was a busy month
vide a connecting
all around,
it will pro-
pleted
as public
will attest,
contact
employees
and the month of May shows
early indications of similar heavy visitation.
Dick Showman and Rose Taylor
have found that the 1941 attendance
figures give a fairly accurate forecast
of
what
to
expect
this
year.
By a stu-
dy of them, it has been found possible
tc bpot peak days and plan for extra
gt.i;ies and hostesses accordingly
Bc.
use of press of visitors at the Pal -
aca and the long lines which form and
block the entrance,
it has been decided
to experiment with having visitors enter
link between the York-
town and Jamestown sections of the comColonial Parkway.
Many will remember the engineering difficulties,
comments and disruptions when the tunnel
was under
the war.
construction
in the
days
before
The 250th anniversary celebrations
got off to an auspicious
start last Sun-
day when Channing Hall, Williamsburg' s
statesman
anniversary
and chairman
committee,
of the city' s
spoke
before
the
overflow audience at the Spring Music
Festival.
The former mayor declared
Williamsburg to be a " mecca of patriotism,
a field laboratory of architecture and
landscaping."
�May,
NEWS
1949
Colonial
of
Page 3
Williamsburg
OUR PUBLIC
How do our guests come to know about Williamsburg and what do they enjoy most?
The answers given in terms of specific questions are providing interesting study and
for future service and promotion.
a guide
Questionnaires are being placed in the
of
rooms
the
the
entire
who
take
Inn
Lodge
and
month
controlled
at
April -
of
to obtain
so far,
periods -
a sampling
of guest
one week
reaction
in February
and
Most surprising and gratifying result to date is the high percentage
to
time
unsolicited
fill
praise
the
out
turn them
and
slips
in.
Another
is
the
and
opinion.
of persons
amount
and the fact that more than 60% of those who answered
of
requested
to be put on the mailing list for news of future events in the city.
The tabulations
ings
and
a
immediate
are only a partial
complete
more
interest,
sampling
and await returns from future test -
The answers to three of the key questions are of
report.
however.
They are given in percentage of the total questionnaires returned and do not total 100 since the majority of the guests checked two or
more
answers.
For
the
What
was your
chief
month
reason
of
April
the
INN
LODGE
for
answers
How
were:
coming to Williamsburg?
Sightseeing
67%
83%
4%
Rest
to
your
19%
Travel
Other
Hotel
visit
53%
40%
R. R.
74%
50%
Motion
1%
3%
24%
Hotel Facilities
Sports
5% 35% 23%
Friends
25%
Books
or brochures
7%
Other
media
5%
5%
4%
51%
Gardens
Reception
1%
5% -
signs
Previous
12%
1%
64%
63%
buildings
Exhibition
14%
Agent
Roadside
What have you enjoyed particularly?
Atmosphere
73%
attention?
Advertising
1%
27%
Business
INN LODGE
did Williamsburg
come
Center
program
6%
Facilities
1%
Information
Newspaper
3%
65% 499
or relatives
20%
24%
or magazine
Picture
While the largest number said they had never been to Williamsburg before, the
number
the
of
repeat
predominate
Publications
ing.
Herald- Tribune,
was
of
where
The automobile was
slightly smaller percentage.
upwards
of two- thirds
had noticed
our advertis-
only a
travel
and
visitors
method
it was most
National Geographic
often seen were
Magazine,
the New York Times,
New Yorker,
New York
and Holiday.
A surprising number offered suggestions and comments ranging all the way from
such things
indoor
as shoy
cloths
and
activities
and facial
radios
in
each
tissues
room.
in the rooms
to game room facilities,
Some suggested larger sized bath soap,
a
display of antiques in the lobby of the Inn, better train connections between Richmond and Williamsburg, a car or bus to meet the local trains, and post card pictures
of men connected with the early history of Williamsburg,
Many guests showed interest in the educational program.
films on American history and on Williamsburg,
exhibition
buildings
and
even
a
tour
of
the
They wanted to see more
slower and fuller trips through the
Costume
Section.
A few
sale of movies on Williamsburg and some wanted to see the documents
restoration work and the actual work under way.
And,
short
The
of
course,
people.
floor
lamp
some
guests
urged "
better
pens,"
suggested
the
used in
and lower bathroom mirrors
for
But some sort of prize should go to the person who stated simply that
in
the
corner
has
a
short."
�Page
4
NEWS
Colonial
of
NEW LAUNDRY COMPLETD ( Cont' d from p.
1)
NEWS
FRCM
The King' s Arms Barber Shop will
reconstructed
on
its
original
site
close by the Servient House and will
have a gambrel roof facing the street
and
an attractive
dance
with
old
Barber
will
and
and
be
bow window
It
records.
as an exhibition
nishings
THE
Peruke
moved
s
this
ficient
establishment
authentic
both
his
comparable
The
Sal
Warehouse
ber
ing the winter,
virtually
af-
weather
dur-
it is being finished
a month
ahead
of
The completely outfitted plant for laundry and dry cleaning operations will be
used exclusively for the various units
of Williamsburg Inn and Lodge and will
the
that.
Staff
Pechan' s
a tremendous
Tom
Patrick
Halligan,
Buchanan.
will
be
of
A
hard
to
is
also
graduation
cashier
for
and Betty Davis,
cashier'
s
a vic-
class.
a year
Junior mem-
league,
both
are
and both have been accepted as
hostesses
we
booth
regular
the
leaving,
s
College
and a half,
While
schedule.
to Manager
replacement
Adams,
favorable
been
cashier'
of
of
gradua-
Floor
find.
tim
area is an ultra- modern
to
has
assistant,
Contrasting with the 18th century
work under way and to be started, the new
Laundry back of Franklin House in the
Because
Theatre
prior
Doorman
service
more
THEATRE
of College
the
Floor Management
and
present
June,
1949
is dealt a body blow with the loss of
Raymie " Nature Boy" Pechan, genial Chief
of Service since December, 1947, and ef-
the
of
Maker'
into
planned
this
and the fur-
building
equipment
in accoris
tion
location.
fair.
WILLIAMSBURG
With the coming
property.
be
May,
Williamsburg
for
Pan - American
hate
to
see
our
airplanes:
old
dependables
leave, they have both stepped into a
very fine occupation.
Curtis
Tate,
Assistant
Projection-
Campbell,
chief of the WI& L laundry op-
ist, recently took his wife for a vacation along Virginia' s Skyline Drive, and
both were very much impressed with that
erations,
will
section
provide
for
service
weekend
take
for
Armond
guests.
over
the
a two -week
place
this
of
Tom
shakedown
the
period during which time it will be
Charlestown
closely watched by C &M for operational
bugs" and necessary adjustments to the
equipment.
Following its shakedown
cruise, the Laundry will get into regu-
face
than
emptier
the
box,
the
of
the
winners
the
strained
for
an
200, 000 turned out in the
cramped
laundry
Much
of
the
tion
will
new
of
spaces
equipment
be
moved
at the Warehouse.
at
and
the
old
installed
from
smile
the
on
his
fuller or
Seems
started.
he
used
rest
of
like
evolution
feature
the
the
returns
day:
that,
in
If
can
we'
maybe
the
on that
he
re
choice
pick
in
of
offerings:
locax
in the
plant.
one
against
a
neither
he
when
and
lar production geared for a monthly outas
with
won the Daily Double first crack out of
put
300, 000 pieces
returned
races
and a pocketbook
for
over
State.
Halligan
The laundry building incorporates
the
most
straight - line
advanced
operation
designs
with
of
soiled
material being received at the upper
level directly back of Franklin House,
processed
through
delivered
at
Lafayette
Street
the
the
structure
second
end.
level
and
on
the
Down at the Lodge,
completed
the
they have
installation
of
an
just
air
conditioning unit for the Coffee Shop, a
welcome addition that undoubtedly will
receive
few
even
stallation
open
the
dining
greater
praise
Also
months.
the
of
in
the
Lodge,
the
next
in-
electric -eye mechanisms
doors
rooms
at
between
have
been
the
kitchen
completed.
and
to
�May,
1949
GREEN
NEWS
THUMB"
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
partment,
5
DEPARTMENT
With clippers and flit gun firmly in hand,
maintenance
Page
section,
often referred
the landscape
to as the " scrub"
de-
is up to its neck in work at this time of year
preening the old city and waging a war of attrition on
weeds,
insects
and excessive
grass.
With warmer weather comes the need for almost
constant attention to the approximately
colonial
gardens
throughout
the
sixty -five
restored
area.
In addition, there are the hundreds of trees along
the streets of the restored area as well as those
on the fore -campus of the College which require
tender
care
and
attention.
South of the city,
there are 700 acres of forests with about twelve
miles
of
woodland
paths
throughout
cleared
the
and
fire
lanes
to
be
Hundreds
year.
of
cords
kept
of
firewood are cut from these woods each year for use in the many fireplaces
of the
organization.
Covering this verdant segment of the restored city are some fifty men who work
under
the
crews
of
direct
men
J.
B.
Brouwers
supervision
of
permanently
are
assigned
to
his
and
assistant,
blocks
certain
of
Alden Eaton.
gardens -
Seven
regular
itinerant
gardeners moving from one plot to the next keeping them in trim and so
authentic
that
a
daisy
modern
dares
not
raise
its
head.
Two
other
crews
spend
their ;:,
time planting, feeding and watering trees and shrubs and doing extra project work.
Garden - wise foremen such as Sam Towler,
Arthur Wilson,
Richard Stewart,
Dewitt Post,
Bert Hargroves, Nathan Talcott, R. H. Stewart, William Tudor, who retires on May 20,
and
Calvin
Jones,
direct
these
crews.
Among the gardeners who have been with the work here for many years,
a large degree are responsible for the attractive gardens,
Jim Jones,
Johnson,
Jr.,
Willie
Taylor,
Clyde Wallace,
and
included in the landscape maintenance
sect, cn are numerous
cal
behind -- the- scenes
equipment
Jim
operators
Robertson
and
who
his
speed
tree
the
men,
all
of
whom
are
and who to
are Coleman Banks,
Ivan
Linwood Williams.
Also
truck drivers and mechani-
work.
virtual
aerialists,
take
care
of the pruning, spraying, and repairing of the nearly 7, 000 trees in the restored
area.
Just the other day, Charlie Milburn, who is in charge of spraying, finished
giving most of the shade trees their preventative coat of arsenate of lead which
chewing insects
trees are
oak
controls
beech,
and,
such
as
caterpillars,
sprayed
at
this
season
inchworms,
to
prevent
and
beetles.
leaf
The
diseases.
sycamores,
Just
to
show what a job it is, 4, 500 gallons of spray mixture were used on the trees and
shrubs
about
town
last
To the members
characters,
century
and
as
year.
of the " scrub"
distinctive
have
developed
section, many of the old trees are distinguished
Some of them certainly were here in the 18th
through the years.
personality
Among those accorded
as
people.
special respect due their age and worthy of close inspection are:
Paper Mulberry
in front
gnarled
and twisted tree
perhaps
the
most
of
the
is reported
photographed
one
in
Carter - Saunders
House
on
Palace
as one of Virginia' s historical
Green.
trees
This
and is
town.
Osage Orange tree in front of the Palace has interesting branch formations.
Continued
�Page 6
NEWS
Colonial
of
GREEN THUMB" DEPARTMENT ( Cont' d)
Hornbeam
in front
PLANTATION
of The Magazine
is very likely an 18th century tree.
Pecan
of
the
tree
at the north
Tucker - Coleman
fenceline
reports
property -
Williamsburg
Mayt 19+ 9
INFORMATION
In response to many inquiries made
at your Travel Office, Reception Center,
and Chamber of Commerce,
calendar
which
the weekly
Alma Lee Rowe
edits,
now
say this tree was grown from some pecans
lists a Plantation Trip.
sent to the Tucker family by Thomas
This announcement is an attempt to
let visitors know that several plantations are open to the public in the
Jefferson.
Nancy Camp elm is the largest and
most picturesque
colonial
elm in the restored
Black mulberry
east of the Capitol
wall is another of Virginia' s very old
and historical
trees.
Evergreen water oak ( 7)
north side
of Market
on the
Experts
name.
from Massachu-
setts to Florida are interested in this
tree which is a very rare species and
detailed studies are being made of it.
Some day it may be called Quercus
Brouwersii ( Brouwer' s oak) after J. B.
Brouwers who discovered it
E.
Among those
and Evelynton.
Folders and full details about a
trip to these plantations are available
the Travel
Office.
Here Nancy Foster,
or her able assistants Harry Morton,
Harry ;:, izemore, and Mardee Mahone, will
mark a map showing the location of each
plantation,
the latest
admission
and will give the visitor
information
charges,
as to hours open,
etc.
In addition to the folder,
maps,
and information, the Travel Office also
has photographs of most of the river
plantations
A.
Williamsburg.
are Shirley, Brandon, Westover, Berkeley,
at
Square Green just
southeast of the Tucker - Coleman property.
This is the only tree in town without a
complete
of
vicinity
gardens.
open
to
public
most popular plantation
the Route 5 homes.
view.
The
tour is up to
Starting at Shirley, approximately
35 miles from Williamsburg, the visitor
RETIRED
can view an unrestored plantation house
buildings.
From there they come
and
Mr.
Robert F.
Liptow was retired
from service with Colonial Williamsburg
about six miles back toward Williamsburg
and see Berkeley,
on May 5 after approximately one year
restored
of
which is a beautifully
finally Evelynton,
accredited
service
as
Plant
Engineer
in the C& M Department.
plantation,
then
Westover,
and
a plantation home
built in the 18th -century manner, completely furnished with antiques.
Visitors can view only the ground
Joseph Donlan Piedmont
of Norfolk,
who likes to be known as Don, has joined
the Department of Public Information as
a
writer.
He
is a recent
the University
was
staffs
there.
and
of
member
several
of
and
and Westover,
Evelynton.
The entire trip takes
one full afternoon, involves approxiround
sion
he
the
student
at Shirley
but can see the interior of Berkeley
mately 100 miles of driving for the
of Arts degree in
Well- versed in writing,
a contributor
editorial
lications
of
of Notre Dame where he
received his Bachelor
Journalism.
graduate
and gardens
pub-
trip,
and
will
cost $
4+.
in admis-
fees.
If the visitor
wants
to cross
the
river, Brandon' s gardens and grounds are
open,
as
are
those
of
Chippokes.
Also
on that side is the John Rolfe House and
Bacon'
s
Castle.
�Beau Chien Noir COCKER OWNED
BY
Nixie
George
OWNED
BY
CHESAPEAKE
JENNINGS
TOY
OWNED
BY
CLINTON
QUIGLEY (
WI & L)
POMERANIAN
IRMA
WILLIAMS
RETRIEVER
TAYLOR (
C & M)
Lady OWNED BY
C.
Hildegard
BY
KERK
OVER
GREAT
BURBANK
THORNE
DANE
J.
CARTER (
C& M)
OWNED
TOWERS
Chiang SIAMESE CAT
BURBANK
OWNED
Gargantua
OWNED
BY
MEXICAN
MARY
BY
BETSY
HALL
CHIUAHUA
WOOD (
WI & L)
s
1
COL.
Fitz -Hugh
Gansett
BY
KENNETH
BOXER
OWNED
CHORLEY
CHARLEY
OWNED
HACKETT
BY
WHEAT'
Copper
BORN
S
SIAMESE
ON
MANX
GOVERNOR'
S
CAT
ISL.
�DEPARTING
last
week
GIFT —
to
Wanda
take
from Ernie Priest,
Lois
SERVICE
RECOGNITION —
15
service
near
Ed Alexander.
Mildred
Adolph
Fleming Brown
recognition
Others
and
Pin
present
Virginia
at
the
Churchill
Castle,
who
a new position
Ethel Brown,
left
from
were Eleanor Duncan,
Holmes.
Tar Heel Nathaniel Hedgecock
who
has
summer
of
returned for another
style.
brickmaking,
old —
Texas
a gift
Lester Cappon,
and Luta Sewell.
receives his
Palace
for
unwraps
�May,
1949
FROM
PIT
NEWS
TO BRICK:
Over
back
of
Williamsburg
of Marshall
Colonial
Williamsburg
Clay is Put Through the Mill by Brickmaker
Lodge,
brick used here two centuries
Nathaniel R. Hedgecock was puffing on a
thimble - sized pipe and ruminating on the
many bricks he had turned out by archaic
methods
for restored Williamsburg.
Before hits, a pit already the size of a
truck was rapidly getting larger as his
He
art.
learned
father,
Salem,
and
hand
production
It' s
a
used
slow
two
and
labor-
brickmaknr
specifications
shortly
ago.
ago is an
technique
from
his
of Winston -
C.,
and is modestly proud of
the fact that the first kiln he set up
here in 1929 matched exactly in design
Williamsburg clay.
That clay will be turned into fine
Williamsburg brick this summer by the
of
Hedgecock
N.
colonial
centuries
the
a veteran
crew carted off load after load of plain
methods
Page 7
still
kiln
the
which
to
Nat
of
and
a
discovered
Winston - Salem
afterwards.
home
foundations
were
when
he'
s
is
not
in
Williamsburg he' s down there turning out
brick, sometimes by the old hand methods
and
sometimes
in the
modern
commercial
ing process but the only way of accurately duplicating the original quality
to meet the exacting needs of restoration
and
reconstruction
For
in Williamsburg.
Nathaniel Hedgecock,
veteran of forty
years of all kinds of brickmaking, it
manner.
will be the fourteenth summer of making
Because the bricks are made by hand,
the men who do the job are doubly important.
Several of the men he had working
in the yard in 1947 stayed on in other
bricks
the
hard
born and bred,
most places
the
job,"
Nat Hedgecock
someone
times. "
Carolina
says that in
200
years
behind
Nat.
Colonial"
He' s
at
just
his
Brickyard
started
again
colonial - style
for
another
brickyard
in a stand of pine between the By -Pass
and the
He will use much
Parkway.
of the simple equipment set up there in
Road
1947,
the last time he was here and the
first
time
bricks
since
the
war that
he
made
in
In 1947, his
Williamsburg.
principal job was making bricks for the
Guard House.
This
year
he
will
fill
and quickest
out
of
a
says
he
gets
challenge.
Old Hands
C& M
jobs
crew
after
he
finished
so
that
he
had
Big
Willie Springs, his molder and key man
who came up with Nat in 192.9 for the
first " burning,"
has been driving trucks
and doing other work in- between since the
summer of 1947.
The other vital factor in the making
of
all
virtually
bricks
by
hand
assembled.
is the
It
clay.
is
only from clay dug in Williamsburg that
the distinctive color of the Williamsburg
brick can be obtained.
Not just any
It
do,
will
either.
Williamsburg clay
must
be
even
oystershell
sizes which are in low supply for other
the
brick
the
lot
projects.
he
a kick out of doing it the old and diffiway.
It' s more interesting and more
restoration
and reconstruction
but
cult
his
the
I guess that' s why I got the
says
summer
North
they are seeking men ahead of
Here in Williamsburg,
they
times.
needed
here.
way
The modern way is by far the
easiest
in
when
at
texture
and
free
which would crack
the
He
burned.
rear
of
the
of
and break
believes
that
Marshall
Lodge
Nat Hedgecock' s brickmaking combined
with Red Vaughn' s bricklaying discussed
in last month' s News provides a vastly
will be a satisfactory source for the
important
lot
and
much
admired
detail
of
re-
stored Williamsburg.
Getting the exact color, texture
and
sizes
to match the mellow
orange - red
time -being.
Last
time
he
obtained
his
clay from the rear of the large vacant
across
Duke
of
Gloucester
Street
from
Casey' s.
Production
When the clay is brought to the yard,
Continued
�Page 8
NEWS
Colonial
of
FROM PIT TO BRICK ( Cont' d)
HISTORIANS
it is allowed to soak for about
in
a
trench.
shallow
into
eled
the "
with an open top,
cular
shaft
with
a week
Then it is
mill" -
pug
shov-
a square
box
in which a perpendiiron
cross
pieces
re-
volves to break up and knead the clay
into
the
proper
The
consistency.
shaft
is turned by means of a long beam attached with a patient
end plodding
the " mill."
of
a slot
a
mule at the other
circular
tract
around
The mixed clay oozes out
at the bottom
where it is scooped up,
of the " mill"
their molds on long planks to dry about
seven days and then put in the kiln to
be burned by a slow hardwood fire when
kiln
is
filled.
A kiln
will
hold
upwards of 60, 000 bricks depending on
their size,
burn"
and Nat Hedgecock hopes to
three
kilns
this
The
summer.
Maw 19+ 9
CONVENE
Carl Bridenbaugh' s new book on the
colonial
period,
American
Architect,
Peter
was
Harrison:
precented
First
to
the Council of the Institute of Early
American History and Culture during the
sessions
here last weekend.
The book is dedicated to Lawrence
Kocher, architectural editor of the
Architectural Department,
and is another
in the Institute' s series to re- awaken
interest
and study in the early American
period prior to 1815.
rolled in send
and plopped into the rectangular wooden molds
by the molder.
A good molder
can turn out twelve bricks a minute or
something like three to four thousand
a day.
The bricks are then turned out of
the
Williamsburg
The members of the Council during
their two - day meeting here re- elected
Samuel Eliot Morison of Harvard, Pulitzer Prize winning historian as chairman
of the Council,
heard reports
and plans
for the coming year and discussed designs for the Steuben Glass project.
The Institute is joining with the Steuben
Glass Company as historical advisor for
a monumental 49 - piece set of glass bowls,
one representing
the
Federal
each
Government.
state and one for
On each bowl
will be engraved a scene from the history
glazed end headers so distinctive of the
or folklore of each particular state.
The historians also toured the
Williamsburg brickwork are obtained by
the intense heat received by some of the
Yorktown battlefields and visited
Carter' s Grove" during the weekend.
brick
next
to
the
fire.
The
ice - like
glaze was the source of numerous experiments
with
chemicals
until
it
was
found
that it was simply caused by heat from
the
hardwood
logs.
Nat Hedgecock has made some forty
different sizes of Williamsburg colonial brick to meet the varying demands of
the
different
projects.
especially in stacking the kiln
for
burning.
Most of the old brick are
larger than their modern machine -made
counterpart
tinctive-
and a great deal more disNat maintains that
looking.
they will hold up just as well if not
better. "
have
Just look at how long they
lasted
Heel Master
around
here,"
Brickmaker.
Congratulations to the following
for service with CW during the years
indicated:
It' s the vari-
ety of sizes that causes the most trou-
ble,
SERVICE RECOGNITION
says
the Tar
Forrest Griffin, ten years April 17,
and Mary Rosseau, ten years May 5,
Department
of Inn and Lodge.
Fleming Brown, fifteen years May 1,
Curator'
s Department.
Angie H. Cowles,
Services
ten years May 5, Office
Section.
Grace Baiter, ten years May 15, Accounting
Department.
�May,
NEWS
191+9
EVOLUTION
OF AN
Colonial
of
Page
Williamsburg
9
OPUS
If you have sensed a certain air of expectancy around the Publications Department in the last couple of weeks there' s a very good reason because that department' s
first major publication is at this very moment being trimmed, folded, gathered,
stitched, smashed, glued, cased, stamped, and otherwise manhandled in the bindery of
the Haddon
Craftsmen
and
the
inch.
der
of
out
Koch'
Bert
and
the
in Scranton,
map for the rear
k.' d.
has been o.
s
jacket
Three
Pennsylvania.
stages
of proof have been in
Layout has been checked to the last seventy -second of an
office.
end
papers
The
has
press
been
run
The
plated.
over,
it' s
index
quite
is
in
possible
or-
that
now lettering
real
gold is
When the machines
of
being stamped on the backbone.
stop clacking and the pressure is released from the last pile of cased - in books, the
Its Buildings
and Gardens will have
long incubation of Colonial Williamsburg:
reached its happy conclusion.
In the meantime, two other members of the organization are sweating out this
right
final
stage with,
It
partment.
if possible,
was
in
April
even greater
a year
ago
when
anticipation
authors
A.
than the Publications
Lawrence
Kocher
and
De-
Howard
Dearstyne
crossed the final " t" in their manuscript and delivered it up for the long
manufacture.
Although it' s a rare author who can say how any years of
thought and research went into a book before he began the actual writing, it' s probably true that Lawrence Kocher' s contribution to this book dates back to the days
when he sat with seven other nationally known architects on the Advisory Committee
for Colonial Williamsburg.
And that was 1928.
The collaboration
of Kocher
and
process
of
Dearstyne
didn'
Williamsburg
tectural
t begin
until
late
1946,
however,
expressly to work with Mr.
when
the
latter
came
Kocher on house histories
to
Colonial
and other archi-
studies.
Still another member of Colonial Williamsburg can take great personal pride
when on June 20 the brand new volumes, still smelling of cloth and ink and glue,
first
go
graphs,
and
Tom Williams will be represented by 62 of a total of 186 photo-
sale.
on
and will share top photographic honors with the famous Swiss photographer
poster
designer
in the
involved
Herbert
development
Matter,
of
now
Colonial
of
New York
and
Its
Williamsburg:
Of
California.
Buildings
all
and
those
Gardens,
Tom Williams seems to be taking things most calmly, possibly because he' s already
to
used
having
EMPLOYEE
his
work
in the
public
eye. - -
C.
M.
COLONIAL
RECREATION
WILLIAMSBURG
FOLLOWING
So
wish
that
may
employees
actively
A PERFECT
partici-
creation
Program
this
those
CEDING
L.
RECORD
1949,
FOR
THE
WITH
PRE-
YEAR:
Thomas
persons
will
ATTENDANCE
THE
PASSED ANOTHER
SERVICE ANNIVERSARY IN APRIL,
who
pate in the Community Remer,
CONGRATULATES
EMPLOYEES WHO
S
sumWilliams,
Department
of
Inter-
pretation.
John
forming men' s and women' s
softball
their
ton
teams
interest
in the
please
known
Personnel
make
Mars-
office
so that arrangements may be made with
the
local
committee.
Jr.,
Curator' s
to Virginia
Relations
Lee,
Thomas
of
Inn
Ezekiel
Jessie R.
and
J.
Neese,
Department.
Abbott,
Gordon,
and Nellie
Lodge.
Fields,
Hodges,
James
L.
Department
�Page
NEW
10
NEWS
ITEMS
ADDED
Three
AT
more
CRAFT
ideas
Colonial
of
HOUSE
from
GARDEN
out
of
tha
past are being offered to the homes of
America
and. with diaOolznt
Williamsburg
appeal: to.
PHOTOGRAPHS
In
the
of
official
Thomas ' L.
19+ 9
EXIBITED
celebration
Virginia
CW,
May,
Garden
Week
in
photographer
Williams,
prepared
of
a
employees through the' Reproduction
beautiful exhibition of garden scenes
Program.
which were on display at the Reception
One
of
these
to be
seen
at
the
Center
Craft House is a copy of the cast
iron fireback from the Small Dining
Room
of the
embellished
Palace.
This
with
Georgian
of- arms
and
serves
purpose
that
the
it
the
piece
same
served
in
The reproduction
century.,
is
three
useful
been designated
has
see
fireback
is priced
at $ 30.
employees'
less
CW - 21 - 3.
the
weeks.
of
It
some
our
master metal -
bloom.
his
others
time
sconce
is
a
the: Clerk'
s
in' brass.
two - armed
copied from the
Office
at
wall
original
the
moved
and, citizens
of
beautiful
these
pictures
ever made.
pictures
received
wide-
during - Gar-
It showed a close- up:• of• the
the. dogwood.
Also. 5.
the
display is a color shot of the Orlando
Jones
This
of
most
gardens
flower,
state
reproductions
been
are invited to come in and
the
local
den Week.
smith, at the Sign of the Golden Ball,
cif
of
One
has added another handsome piece to
line
now
spread use in the newspapers
usual
discount.
Artisan Max Rieg,
has
Employees
Williamsburg
18th
is made by the Virginia Metalcrafters
and
erhhibition
up to the corridor of the Goodwin Building where it will be on display for
coat -
the
during the last two weeks.
The
tulips
at the height
Numerous
in
the
requests
Williams'
of their„ ,
fox this
garden
and
exhibi-
tion were received while; they were being
in
shown
Capitol.
at
the
Reception
Center.
The
sconce has been designated CW - 74+ and is
available at Craft House at $ 25.
F.
Schumacher and Company has in-
troduced a new cotton print fabric
called the " John Marshall Chintz. "..
The. criginal
reproduced
from which
was
obtained
They are having to wear smoked
this
fabric
was
from
a great,
great g andaon of John Marshall ty a
direct descendant,
of
Richmond.
The
Dr.
H.
document
Norton Mason
is
a curtain
from the bed used by the great jurist
Marshall
Leeds,"
after hi9 retirement
a plantation
to
situated
WERTH- HUTCHESON'
in
glasses
these days
the excess
ision -
in the Education Divlight comes from. the
new engagement ring Virginia Lee Werth
has been wearing
since
Virginia
Monday.
promises to stay -until fall but, after
that her pld. s call for. poultry and dain
Robert
ry farming' in Gloucester
County.
Buxjuier County,, a few miles; from. where
Francis Hutcheson, of Fiddlers Green in
Gloucester,
is the happy man.
He and
Marshall
Virginia
was born..:
are remodelling
the house on
the adjacent farm to Fiddl,ers._
Green.
ti
JOSH HUNDLEY DIES
PROMOTION
ley,
died
After a lengthy illness, Josh Hunda truck driver in the C&M Department,
on May 3.
Josh had approximately
eleven
and one - half
years
of
accredited
service with Colonial Williamsburg.
Ernest H.
sifier
promoted
Priest, formerly a Clas-
in the Archives
to Archives
Department,
Assistant
on
was
May
1.
�May,
1949
NEWS
FRCM
THE
INN
AND
LODGE
Lodge Dining
won
If
to
this
you,
you
column
don'
are
Page
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
t
adjust
victims
die Frechette
last
issue
into
the
looks
of
and Mr.
a
glasses
new
reporter.
want
for
in the
flattered me
you
to
take
ceived
Room.
prize,
second
Again
Vaughan
prize,
part-
to
appreciate
Hart
service,
good
James
her
home
third.
People
courtesy,
a pleasant
attitude
along with
food
Pauline Curley is now
at
re-
Mayo
three.
all
Wallace
Mitchell
and
Congratulations
Fred-
swan song
Moyles
I
strange
your
wrote his
job
a bit
first
in Emporia,
11
and
goad
resting
Virginia,
after
icular note of the scarcity of news
receiving treatment at a Richmond hos-
this
pital.
time.
The only possible way for
this column to grow in length and enjoyment
is for you to send the news
me.
Please
cooperate:
The
B.
P.
enoying
Lee
was
intestinal
with
has
out
for
been
and
about
a
Taylor
malady.
Tillie
is still
Nellie Mahone
have
a
week
paper
goes
to
out but feeling
decided
throat
strep
abcut
the
but
the
press
Inn
salad
girls
pantry
have
been
the
at
Inn:
added
to
Lnnie
Essie Batchelor, Ethel Bagley,
Gibbs.
Mary
Evelyn
Johnson
re-
turned to the Inn salad pantry April 24
after
a
few
leave.
months'
Arnold
is
doing
the pantry.
and
He
well.
John-
cook roster
was
employed
in
better.
she would rather
than
has
in
son has been placed on the
who took her turn to come down with the
As
new
salad
Adams,
She returned
flu.
just in time to relieve Tillie
same
Some
the
Department
works
pantry.
in to
ill health for the past two
Hattie
woks.
week
X.
Pauline
flu.
She was
out
Laura
returned
CRAFT
HOUSE
WANDERINGS
Johnston of the Housekeeping Section is
also
out
sick.
Clara
Rebecca Flaherty left for her home
in New York on May 1 after working in
the
Coffee
Ozment
Shop
from
her place
for
two
Charlotte,
Charles
months.
N.
C.,
is taking
of the Coffee Shop.
as manager
It is with regret that we say " au renot
voir" (
good - bye)
husband,
Thomas.
sume
management
at
the
Charlevoix,
Hera' s hoping
organization
to Rebecca
and
of
the
Chicago
for
the
they will return
some
time
Club
summer.
to our
At
soon.
the
Inn
Thomas' place will be filled by John S.
Hedgepeth, who has already made many
friends
a
few
here though he has been here but
a
couple
home
back
tion
the
next
the guest
of
underwent
weeks
ago
doing
nicely.
to work in the
but
She
an
is
operation
now
back
soon will
Newport
be
in
the
S.
a
Cochran
Stewart
was
Cole-
is
S.
Chriatobel"
Mrs.
and New York,
relative
of
at
Suman,
the
Caroline'
s.
The party started with dinner at the
Williamsburg Inn, overnight at the Chamberlain Hotel
at
the
James
to
orchid
overnight
at Old Point,
River
Caroline?
Read
and
Country
She
her
and luncheon
Club.
wore
mother
An
two
made
an
tour of the Eastern Shore gar-
dens
Meredith Dietz and Mrs. Courtney
Bixby of the College faculty, had Craft
White
waiters
spent
celebrating
Shipyards.
Texas,
been
the
011 "
News
sponsor,
House
to
husband
and Mrs.
of Houston,
Coffee Shop.
The
cute little blonde Coffee Shop cashier
is Barbara Perry, wife of a William and
Once again prizes have
Mary student
awarded
her
Shore
Caroline
of Mr.
the Standard
the
Anne
Smith
and
Clara' s father' s eightieth birthday,
with lobster dinner one day and recep-
days.
Clara
Oliver
on Eastern
man of New York at the christening of
her
They are going to reMichigan,
a weekend
friends
faculty
for
to New York
and some
a "
for
May
of the College
Bowl."
several
She
motored
days with friends
and publishers for the opening of the
Turkey Inn in Danbury, Connecticut.
�Page
12
INSIDE
NEWS
TIIE
GOODWIN
Colonial
of
BUILDING
New Hampshire,
Dartmouth
Lester
the
ville
Bush
has
Cappon drove
a
NEW
to Charlottes-
May
of
weekend
1
Lillian
Chevrolet'
Alden
Charlotte.
He will
address
the
annu-
al meeting of the Garden Club of Virin Danville
ginia
the
on
18th
Middleton
families,
and
home
their
guests
attentive
days
re-
article
the
the
from
on
current
Middletons
the
audience
York,
American
has
to
of Stewart
the
says
a
at
his
lecture
on
was the convention
Chemical
joined
Maryland,
Pierce
Colonial Williamsburg
Vernon Knapp
several
And
in Toano.
his vacation ( digging in his garden:).
spent
an
in
recently have entertained both their
of
Kendrew
has
Clipper"
Neptune.
company' s burrowing Jimmy Knight is on
Ed
recently, visiting at
Baltimore
most
The
1949
College.
Pierce
the "
American
Hopkins spoke May 11 at the annual meeting of the Garden Club of North Carolina
at
May,
Williamsburg
Association
Manor,
New
Architectural
cently in Ncw York City conferring with
Kenneth Chorley and Mr. Rockefeller;
visited
De-
Mario Campioli and Sing Moorehead
while
there he made
feller
Center
Gene
a tour of Rocke-
gardens,
Sheldon
is
partment
as
a
specifications
Brandon (
on
writer.....
the
James
River)
has
returned
during Garden Week.
on vacation
John
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Spratley attended a
dance recently at the James River Coun-
Henderson
Louise
vacation
Fisher
will
from
spend
try Club sponsored by the Hampton Roads
May 18 lecturing in Bordentown, New Jersey
Virginia Marston is spending a
German
week of her vacation
Club
dred Layne
New York
Kenneth Chorley and Milarrived
for
a
late
short
last
week
from
Monier
stay
and
she will
forty -fifth
Irma Williams attended a Rotary Conven-
Chapter
tion
ern
Bridenbaugh
week
Beach
Virginia
at
at
an
was
a guest
exhibit
Institute
of
Lester
Carl
recently
lecturer
the
last
Chicago
and Mrs.
Art
Cappon
Churchill,
Ethel
Brown,
and Ernie Priest were " among those present. "....
Margaret Kinard' s father ( she' s
with the William and Mary Quarterly)
visited Williamsburg
weekend,
and
the indexing
Gazette)
Stella
who
of the colonial
oversees
Virginia
joined them for a trip to
races
Mrs.
in Maryland
Hammond
of
their daughter,
went
to the
Mr.
recently
Philadelphia
and
visited
Miriam Shea recently
Bippus are setting up happy housekeeping in the James
Robb
Craig Kitchen
spent
a weekend
she
spent
was
a weekend
entertained
Congressional
Hotel,
Stark,
firm
E
sisters
sorority
and C.
of Lybrand,
B.
C.
Peck,
Ross
Jenson,
members of
Brothers
and
Montgomery, Auditors, have returned to
New York since, after five weeks ( more
or
less),
they could find no discrepancies
in Rod Jones'
figures.
Ruth Jolly had a week' s visit from
her
Janet
sister,
Jack
Upshur
spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in Norfolk repreHarold Sparks
and wife
spent
the last weekend of April attending the
Luta Sewell spent the first weekend
of May in Portsmouth
Ann and Bill
Frances
Order of the East-
Price
given in her honor by her William and
Council
Lee Werth
for the
of the Grand
senting Bruton Parish in the Diocesan
Charlottesville.
Virginia
Monie
in the
over the Easter
Duff (
of Virginia,
at a luncheon
the
for her home in Dallas.
session
where
left
Lois
in Richmond where
Grand Page
in Washington,
Mary
W. E.
Saturday
as
annual
Star
entertained the members of the Archives
Department in honor of Wanda Castle,
who
Luta Sewell,
serve
in Hanover,
Apple
Blossom
Festival
in Winchester
Marge Phalen of the Institute spent a
day or two exercising her artistic talents
assembling a display of pictures by Tom
Williams taken during performances of
The Candidates early in the year, to be
shown
to the
which
met
Council
last
of the
weekend.
Institute,
�1949
May,
C&
NEWS
Colonial
of
M NEWS
Hall
woods
fora
refresher
course
in handling the variou's fire fighting
tools and equipment maintained
fire boxes.
woods
and procedure
ection
J.
of
crews
This
Mrs.
and
George Washington Jones,
93
Sunday,
Highland
consist
Four
husbands
spent
with him at his home in
Park.
in the
W.
D.
McPherson
review of tools
Brcuwers
of
The
fifteen
men
fire
each,
The crew leaders
and Red Vaughn.
Alden Eaton
and
was held under the dirB.
property.
and their
May 8,
Mr.
aged 83
Simon Morning' s
respectively
daughters
who
HOSTESS
are subject to call at any time in case
of forest fires on, or threatening, C.
W.
Page 13
Mother' s Day with their parents,
The two woods fire crews of C&M
recently met at the fire tower in Bassett
Williamsburg
fire
boxes
are
BRIEFS
With the passing of Garden Week,
affairs in the Hostess Section settled
down
are maintained,
to
gates
routine.
At
and doors
the
open,
stroke
of
ten,
a stream of visi-
equipped with tools that are used only
Each box
fighting woods fires.
Every day
contains equipment for approximately
mount by rapid hundreds and piloting
for
twenty - five
cated
at
woods,
One
men.
fire
our Warehouse,
and two
box
one
in Bassett
is
lo-
Hall woods.
twenty - three water barrels
maintained
the
at
strategic
real
maintenance
duties
carpenters
Bert
and
his
are dressing up the restored
fences.
Lightfoot
Kitchen,
St.
George Tucker, Craig' s Golden Ball, and
Russell House are some of the properties
fenced
recently
part
of his
recent
Robert
Webb
vacation
spent
came
measles.
Webb,
Grandpa
down with
either
in
reversed
roles
Virginia
to see,
as tourists,
plantations.
toric and lovely places in Richmond
Dorothy Wing, Nancy Bozarth, Virginia
Holmes, Lilah Dunn, and Elizabeth Callis
journeyed into the Gloucester section
Mary Carter visited Gloucester and later,
with Virginia Holmes
in Cedar
Grove, New Jersey, with his daughter
and
family.
Shortly after his arrival
the grandchildren
old
Polly
Peyton, Nouvelle Green, Imogen Etheridge,
Lily Nelson and Minnie Pate visited his-
area with many new and attractive picket
o' clock was never
and to greet with a smile
achievement.
tesses
innumerable
Score
Five
art.
During Garden Week many of the hos-
in
the
to their
the day has begun
Figures
busy day now.
a
the party which shows up at 4: 50 is a
woods:.
In addition
an
in is
so welcome,
are
locations
files
becomes
in Bozarth
As a further aid in fighting forest
fires
tors
visited Berkeley,
Elizabeth
several
days
Fletchers,
sym-
and Shirley.
and John Henderson
the Eastern
on
Mae
and Doris Sizemore,
Westover,
and Tom,
to visit Gloucester,
spent
Shore.
took
Brandon,
to the
The
road
and Cumber-
pathy or to amuse the ailing children,
land Farms
developed
New Kent to see Sweet Hall, Windsor
Shades,
and old St. Peter' s Church
Mildred Adolph with Mr. Adolph has gone
to Florida to spend her vacation
Carolyn Lee and her daughter, Elizabeth
the
mumps:
Robert
reports
a
swell trip.
It
is
a pleasure
to
announce
the
progress being made on the two acres
of land in Highland Park given to the
Hallie
Wermuth
went
into
people in that community for a recreation playground.
We hope each and every
Henderson visited Mr. Ed Lee in Washing-
one, old and young, will help to get
this ground in usable condition
Ewell Jones and his four brothers spent
accompanied her husband to Charlottesville
and, while Dr. Pate attended the Political
ton,
D.
C.,
last
week
Minnie
Pate
Continued
�Page
14
NEWS
of
Colonial
HOSTESS BRIEFS ( Cont' d)
Williamsburg
May,
Va.,
renton,
as
guests
Washington Reed,
Service
meetings
visited her mother
Mori
Smith
V.
U.
at
A.,
Minnie
of Mr.
returned
and Mrs.
former residents
of
Williamsburg.
at Scottsville.
has
1949
Mary J.
from New
Daniel
York where she bid her mother bon boy age
as
shs
and Mrs.
tle daughter,
were
for
sailed
England
Mr.
James Etheridge and their lit-
recent
Candy,
guests
of Kinstree, S.
of
Mr.
Etheridge'
NEWS FROM lab; CONSTRUCTION
s
Johnny Autry and Bill Atkinson report that sailing and fishing is fine
Imogen
mother,
Mary Daniel' s daughter, Mrs. Franit Salisko, who has been
visiting her mother for several Meeks,
has retained to her ?Jana in West Hart fort ?, Conn
f1t t::.
her,
k• v=.oe
Mr.
and Mrs.
en route
in dristo. ,
Conn.,
lic sburg to visit
the James on
they caught two fish Sunday!
They expect to take time off from
sailing to go to the Preakness in Balti-
Fred S.
from Florida
stopped
more
to their
the
on
21st
Buck
Perdue
struck
real luck the other day when he acci-
in Wil-
their parents,
DEPARTMENT
C.,
dently walked into the wrong store and
Mae
won
a
a:a,1 Tors Fletcher.
radio
phonograph.
Henry Goodwin
Little Wayne Wermuth Cronk of
of a seven - pound,
is the proud father
fourteen - ounce baby
Yorktown has been spending se7eral days
boy:
with his grandmother, Hallie Wermuth
Michael Henry was born on Saturday,
April
30,
Polly Peyton' s eon,
Hackett is enjoying a vacation in Williamsburg performing the three " G' s" Gardening, Golfing, and GLOATING.
Henry,
paid a visit
to his mother and father just before
leaving on the " Coral Sea," for the
Mediterranean.
Her daughter,
Mrs.
N.
same
C.,
Mrs.
mo;;. th,
vr :
ile
L.
J.
Va.,
Carpenter
G.
C.
of Raleigh,
Howard
their
you'
of Ports -
sister
Charlie
the office
ve
scale
Nou-
with
his
tenth
got
competition'
Progress
of Bud Odell
4 shallots
4 pt. Bordelaise Wine ( a good Claret
2 oz.
substitute)
boil
for
chopped
in
shallots,
through
five
garlic.
slowly
the
add
butter
garlic
z lb. beef marrow
Simmer
chopped
wine
minutes.
and
very
reduce
fine,
in butter.
until
nearly
if
desired
When thoroughly
dry.
Then add stock and
Add sliced parboiled beef marrow,
and a little
Sprinkle with chopped parsley and before serving stir
two
ounces
of
butter.
re-
shows
in the ground and will more than likely
reach second floor level shortly.
1 pt. concentrated beef stock
warmed
of
that he hauled himself out of the hole
WILLIAMSBURG LODGE BORDELAISE SAUCE
can
that
Watch out you gardeners -
acre.
port on the mansion
Elizabeth and John Hena recent weekend in War-
spent
professional
an
visited
Green
drson
a
time.
and Mrs.
Hospital
Jack Bailey has gone into gardening on
Mary and Sidney of Norfolk, visited her
the
Bell
Word has reached
Carol Turner and small granddaughters,
at
the
at
Serve poured
over
meats,
or
separate.
�
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Text
of COLONIAL
NEWS
Volume
2,
WILLIAMSBURG
Number 1
GENERAL SMITH TO SALTE MAGAZINE
Lieut.- General
Walter
Bedell
former Ambassador to Russia,
as the Magazine
military
commander
of the '
and Guardhouse
are opened
first Army and
speaker here on July 4
with ruffles
and flourishes
of
pageantry.
General
Smith' s address
at the
ceremonies
1
Smith,
will be the principal
which will
include
planes
flashes
colonial
and
of
Magazine
will keynote
the impressive
a parade,
and
a salute by a squadron
color.
present - day military
of jet
The
formal
opening of CV' s newest exhibition unit will be a highpoint in the 250th
4,14V/1 anniversary celebrations which will be further commemorated during the
5
significant weekend ( see story on page 4).
A colorful parade led by General and Mrs.
Winthrop
J.
Rockefeller
procession
in an open
will begin at the
car will
Capitol
Smith and 11r.
start the morning
at 10: 30 a. m.
for
and Mrs.
activities.
The
the march to the
Magazine and will he made up of a thirty piece band from Fort Eustis, a
company of 100 dismounted r.rmed troops and a company of 100 dismounted armed Marines.
As the dignitaries
ruffles
and a
and flourishes
squadron
Market•
Square
attendant
cannon
will
at the Magazine
be played
his
who
three passes
speakers platform,
from Lant- ley Field
over the assemblage
on
turn over the keys to the Magazine
General
speech,
will
Service
In attendance
unlock
in
luncheon
At this precise moment, an 18th century
will be fired in walute by three members of the
Continental
will
to
the doors.
at the Iagazine
ives of the Army, Air
Force,
ion of Virginia Antiquities,
A formal
to the
Green,
on loan to Col from Yorktown,
a tional.. Park
and . cove
by the 9th Air Force Bend
of four jet planes will make
Following
the
dismount
uniforms.
ceremonies
Navy, Marine
State, City,
be given
at
as honored
guests will
be representat-
Corps, the Association for the PreservatCounty, College, and National Park Service.
the
Inn at
the
conclusion
of the
ceremonies,
following which the honor guests will be taken on a tour of tho exhibition buildings.
Later in the day they will be entertained at Raleigh Tavern and Chowning' s Tavern.
Alter the dedication ceremonies on the morning of July 4th, the Magazine and
Guardhouse
Admission
to
include
related
will be opened
charges
this
will
new
materials
go
to the public
into
exhibition
and
effect
unit
informational
free of charge for the remainder of the day.
Revised
combination
tickets
following day.
the
have
been prepared
together
with
all
other
data.
Two of the attendants for the ragazine already are being indoctrinated in their
new duties and are working at the Gaol temporarily to become accustomed to the
interpretive
0.
Clarke,
process.
They
are
William
R.
Buckbee
of
St.
Johnsbury,
originally of England, who lives near Williamsburg.
1699 -
WILLIAMSBURG'
S
250TH
AN
7
IV_^SARY -
1949
Vt.,
and
Herbert
�Page 2
NEWS
NEWS
AND
COMMENT
The
annual
Colonial
of
craft
conference
of the
Associations
was the producer
Air-
this
year
of much curiosity
performed
taxi
as
services
virtually at the Inn' s front doorstep.
The
conference
strangest
set
the
owners
Herald,
also
of
An Inn guest,
produced
one
circumstances
Edmund F.
yet
Jewell,
of the Washington
reported his
car
of the
seen.
one of
Times -
of the lean green
vertible
were
flashed
Oldsmobile
to all
con-
State
Police.
and
puzzler
turned
with
had
a
out,
full
a
simple
tank
but one rife with
The manager
given
one of the Board members (
to
keys
President
Engine &
his
car
it
of the AIA group had
to be the
Fairchild
as
coinciden-
ces.
happened
The
of, gas.
explanation,
Airplane
the
with
who
It'
tomorrow.
s
a
Jewell'
first
s
car
happened
and
Many of CW' s accidents
either to carelessness
to
just
in
The
two
except
cars
one
I' ll be
film
utilize
charts,
and
strips, "
pictures,
a
The
approach
all
over
this
part
of
lighter
the
thief
State
Col.
Wheat
singled
hasten
to
in lost month' s NEWS
correct
trial
That is due primarily to
plant.
he says,
be avoided."
that " accidents
Besides Col.
mittee
includes
W.
D.
Wheat,
Minor Wine
Burrage
the
secretary.
SERVICE ANNIVERSARY IN MAY, 1949, WITH
A PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORD FOR THE PRE YEAR:
Grace Raiter, Accounting Department
report
that April was the
adds,
any
however,
that
the
itfs
war.
a
neat
He
also
feat
in
year.
Fleming
Brown,
William
L :istead,
registered
for
with
widespread
notice
CW
in
recent
of
the
Ernest
John
Ethel
Dept.
J.
Reese
Inn
and Lodge
Lee,
Jr.,
It
Milligan,
tt
Waltrip,
ten2nce
of
11
Callaway,
Construction
and Main -
Department
weal : s
250th
anniversary,
and the color cover of
THIS WEEK Magazine in metropolitan newspapers.
J.
Curator' s Department
Monier Williams,
Some notable publicity breaks have
been
and Vir-
COLONIAL WIL.LIAMSBURG CONGRATULATES
THE
FOLLOWING EMPLOYES IIHO PASSED ANOTHER
Early Lyon,
before
0.
Thomas,
is *
tory of the Inn.
Tommy Moyles reports
that the happy situation came about
twice
J.
Koch,
H.
and
the Safety Com-
Peyton,
R.
McPherson,
Lydia
or
can
Thomas
Albert
first 100% occupancy month in the his-
once
out the Paint
splendid" safety records, but said that
our safety record does not compare favorably with that of the average indus-
CEDING
After mentally chastizing our
we
are
Shop and the Motor Section as having
ginia Marston,
without being apprehended.
sources,
graphs,"
which
almost
shade
his head as to how the unwitting
drove
safety
of
to
Sam Peach is still scratching
color.
all
available to CW employees for study.
Browning,
happened
were
was
can be traced
or ignorance, he
out.
use the trunk key which fitted the locks
perfectly.
identical
of the
The program for Safety Education
will
Corporation)
Oldsmobile."
green
just
chairman
adds
glad to have you use my car all day
industralist
Wheat,
individual carelessness,
of the
words: "
Leslie
will stress the idea of working safely,
and intelligently, thus avoiding risks.
points
The following morning the car was back
in the same spot in the parking lot, unharmed
Col.
Safety Committee,
reported that a campaign of Safety Education is to get unThe Campaign
derway for CW employees.
stolen from the
Inn parking lot and accordingly descriptions
949
COLONEL WHEAT ANNOUNCES SAFETY CAiIPAIGN
Industries
a heliocopter
June, /
Williamsburg
Dorothy
ginia
Gazette
Wollon
has
Indexing
joined
Office.
the Vir-
�June
NEWS
Colonial
of
COLONIAL WILr, IAMSBURG -
A.
Lawrence
Kocher
Pennsylvania, $
ITS BUILDINGS
and Howard
Inc.,
Williamsburg,
Williamsburg
Page 3
AND GARDENS,
Dearstyne,
1949,
by
Colonial
Printed by Haddon Craftsmen,
Scranton,
2. 75.
The first building to be restored in
Williamsburg had scarcely been completed
architect
when it became evident that there would
the
be
men have had in the
a public
demand
for
information
re-
Mr.
as
and designer,
Kocher'
s
experience
joined
our staff
In view
of
which
assistant.
these
and knowledge
field of architec-
garding the history, architecture, and
garden layouts of this colonial city, as
ture,
well as a keen interest
and gardens which they gained in preparing the architectural records, it was
and
progressed
this
and
other
in restoration
techniques.
procedures
As
the
work
demand for reference
printed
material
became
data
great-
As a stop -gap during the first few
er.
years
certain
booklets
ing questions
brief guide
to prepare
Book."
the restoration
to
supersede
the " Blue
of the vari-
assembled
some
the
tained
Colonial
in
bnrg -
Record
Its
dens,
articles
for the Architectural
and
buildings
ous members of the staff during
the past two years they have
and
issued.
prepared
comprehensive
a book
With the assistance
In 1935 the architects for
rather
and publications,
of Williamsburg
felt that they would be well qualified
contain-
and answers
books were
education
the knowledge
which
the
material
Buildings
last
presses
con-
Williams -
and Gar-
week
came
off
of the Haddon
magazine,
covering
various
phases of the work and illustrated
Craftsmen
with photographs
here and in leading bookshops
throughout the country.
by F.
This magazine
coln.
S.
and
Lin-
was pub-
has
have
known
as
the '
been
Blue
made,
The
need
for
and
it
has
become
Book."
publications
of such scope has long been recognized,
but the heavy schedule of work, together
with interruptions caused by the war, has
made it extremely difficult for the members
of
the
take
such
architectural
tions -
the
staff
to
Lawrence Kocher,
former
Record,
and
Matter
well
staff
each
of
the
buildings.
architectural
restored
In
1946
and
records
of
reconstructed
Howard
Dearstyne,
200
of
illustra-
the
most
part
a number
Photographer,
of
drawings
L.
as
prepared
Department.
book,
of Restoration
through
its
pictures
and
text, tells the story of the restoration
of Williamsburg in a manner which will
make it attractive and interesting to
been
and
some
for
Staff
Story
our
ing complete
our
Architectural
has
Recorder,
and
of New York City and Thomas
as
onial
Architectural
sale
on
by the authors, and a handsome new
guide map of the city drawn especially
for the book by Albert M. Koch of the
the
engaged in the work of compil-
text
photographs,
under-
Recorder
Architectural
Pa.,
placed
made especially for the book by Herbert
a member of the Advisory Board of Architects for Colonial Williamsburg,
joined
as
of
The
In 1944 A.
of
pages
work.
Architectural
editor
50
Williams,
additional
Scranton,
The new book consists
lished in extraordinarily large
quantities but it was not long before it
was completely sold out and since that
time many reprints of it bound in blue
cloth
of
been
casual
tive to
visitor
the more
history
first purpose
sent
and
as
as
informa-
student
architecture.
of the authors
a comprehensive
buildings,
well
serious
picture
was
of
of colThe
to prethe
the building interiors and
gardens_ of the
town as they appear
today;
Continued
�Page
4
NEWS
COLONIAL
iIILLIAMSBURG -
GARDENS (
Colonial
of
Cont' d.
to
analyze
the
the
original
used
the
of
in
nature
and
and
AND
significance
development
types
and
construction,
interiors
gardens
and
plan,
house
their
BUILDINGS
to
the
materials
treatment
discuss
plant
of
of
The
the
six
first
the
main
Capital,"
ters'
END
divisions
The
or
In addition to the ceremonious opening of the Magazine
and Guardhouse
on
the Independence Day week end
a
have
crowded
docket
of
events
in-
Glory" will have a gala opening night
Plan-
gives a brief history
HIGHLIGHT
CELEBRATIONS
termixed with celebrities keynoting the
250th anniversary celebrations.
On Friday evening, the " Common
chapters.
Virginia
TO
will
of
types
materials.
these, "
of
4TH WEEK
1949
July 4th,
A foreword by Kenneth Chorley precedes
JULY
250TH ANNIVERSARY
town
characteristic
ITS
June,
Williamsburg
performance
of
It will
launching
be American
the third
Legion
season.
Night
for the
the background and economy of the Virginia
symphonic
Colony.
Commander Perry Brown in attendance.
Sunday, July 3rd, a Union Vespers Service
is being arranged by the Williamsburg
II, " Buildings
Chapter
of
of
the
buildings
it
designing
explains
served,
of
how
and
of
the
and
ty.
relates
burg,"
in Williamsburg
the
these
Council
of
related
of
the
Gardens
gardens
out at the
in which
the
same
layouts
will
be
at
July
5
4th
The
m.
p.
Citizen'
s
held
begin-
Associa,
Williamsburg & Vicinity will
hold a town meeting on the evening of
communi-
of
service
the Lake Matoaka amphitheater
ning
tion
the
of Williams-
development
as another outstand-
The
celebrations.
at
and
to
of Churches
Legion
ing event keyed to the 250th anniversary
elements.
pointing
manner
of
methods
of Furnishings,"
women
The
IV, "
types
furnishings
interiors
men
establish-
the
the
Manner
furniture,
Chapter
the
and
and constructing
decoration
time
plan
III, " The
Chapter
life
town
Builders
the
describes
Williamsburg,"
ment
and
drama with National
of
the
at
This
amphitheater.
Platform for Democracy" program is
scheduled to begin at 8 p. m.
of
Parallel proclamations on the 250th
the grounds of various buildings and houses
anniversary year were made on Friday,
evolved.
June 17 by Mayor H. M. Stryker of Williams The
burg and Governor William M. Tuck.
Chapter
an
American
of
the
It
of
care
followed.
by
as
the
which
Chapter
photographs
of
the
a
the
magnitude
restoration
proclamations
and
these
points
principles
forms
a
principal
liamsburg and were issued on the same. day
were
establishing Williamsburg as capital of
the Virginia Colony.
selection
of
buildings,
and
are
extraordinary
of
te.< en and
po
es
of
carefully
the
ing theme
the
book.
achievement
The
typography.
outstanding
to
years
chosen
for the pur-
of
and is a valuable
field
of
skillfully
Altogether
presentation
in
photographs
quality -
an
it is an
outstand-
contribution
education.
A.
Edwin
ago,
that
the
act was
passed
Other commemorative events are being
Kendrew
The
planned.
readying
layout
recognition
250
captions.
is a notable
official
out
gardens and details with fully descriptive
The book
give
to the anniversary celebrations in I+il-
principles
work
VI
of
Williamsburg.
forth the
guide
with
Restoration
explains
scone
sets
to
The
posed
such
further
adopted
the
Town,"
problems
project
V, "
a
Virginia
commemorative
Gazette
edition
of
is
the
weekly journal which will be issued on
July 4th week end and plans are going
forward for the re- enactment of July 25th
of the Declaration of Independence proclamation
in Wi.
originally
on
m burg as
that
date.
The
it was
done
re- enact-
ment will follow along the lines of the
event held last summer with members of
the " Common
Glory"
staff
participating.
�June,
1949
NEWS
QUEEN' S
Colonial
of
PORTRAIT
PRESENTED
Williamsburg
Page 2
LAST CALL FOR SOFTBALL!
An active community Softball
TO C W
League
is promised
for the summer with CW being
represented
with
Games
Down at the Capitol
face
there' s a new
will
Field.
Stadium
a
begin
men' s and
on
June
Two
women' s
20 on
League
the
team.
College
contests
will
Hostesses are pointing
with pride at the valuable painting of
take place each evening, Monday through
Friday, beginning at 7: 30 p. m.
Employ-
Queen Caroline,
ees who haven' t yet spoken
on
view.
wife of George
II, which
now hangs in the South Committee
Room of
The painting is the kind gift of
A.
interest
Virginia
the building.
Miss
their
Gertrude` H.
Shurcliff
of
Shurtleff
Boston.
and
Mr.
Mr.
or
Arthur
Shurcliff,
Pete
known
Marston,
Tucker.
at
men
up should
once -
make
women
to Charlie
to
Hackett
CW' s women' s team will
play on Wednesday nights,
will play twice a week,
and the men
to be announced.
who recently ended his spring visit here,
is well -known as consulting landscape architect and the mars who directed
toration
dens
the res-
of many of the 18th century
Hostesses at the Capitol will
you that the rare portrait
tained
at
an
auction
representatives
ily.
S.
gar-
of
sale
the
Ide
of New York,
was once
over
The
Germany
A
castle.
overbid,
the
American.
made to Mr.
and
fam-
of Miss Shurt-
the portrait
of
went
like
He
requested
The
of Mr.
Later
portrait
and
was brought
retained
in
the
willed
to his
them
to this
Miss
Gertrude Shurtleff, and kept by her unthis year
when
it was
Queen Caroline,
minor
princeling denburg- Ansback -
1773.
given
1933
to CW.
Margrave
of Bran-
lived from 1683 to
Her husband acceded to the throne
as George
II in 1727 and
considerable
influence
political
with George
as
vice,
she
power
II.
1
the
which
time
change
the
CW.
one
started at the Theatre
of its
assistant
not
In
order
ushers,
and
manager,
to
chief of ser-
house
manager
enable
in
graduated
manager,
of the Theatre.
him
to
concen-
trate entirely on CW' s promotional program, McCaskey has been relieved of his
supervisory duties at the Theatre.
Associated with Tom Halligan in the
direction of the Theatre will be Patrick
has
atre
the
the
as
assistant
manager.
Pat
had
eight years of experience in thework.
He was chief of service at
Byrd Theatre in Richmond before com-
ing to Williamsburg and has been at the
Williamsburg Theatre four years.
Before
the war
the
Theatre
as a part of the Business
operated
Division
of CW
Geddy' s direction.
During
1946 -7 - 8 it was a part of the Public Reunder
Vernon
exercised
lations
through
operations
her
of
The
ivicCaskey.
at
and is now general
the daughter of a
the
June
of
Buchanan
possession
niece,
on
Tom
on up the line to doorman,
Ide and his wife for many years.
it was
made
taken over the reins
from
Halligan
to
to press him for it and they acceded.
country
was
Division
Ide by the royal family to
wife.
has
management
the
An offer was subsequently
his
at
Theatre was made a part of the Business
purchase it at any price because of the
Mr. Ide replied that it
family context.
had an equal family context with him, the
fact being that Queen Caroline looked exactly
changed
Williamsburg Theatre and Thomas " Happy"
English royal family was at the sale but
was
been
Halligan
royal
representative
has
of
about 1870 by John
uncle
guard
ob-
bids
British
It was purchased
tell
leff, at an auction sale in a Hamburg,
til
THEATRE TRANSFERRED TO BUSINESS DIVISION
here.
Duncan
Division.
in
Cocke'
the
s
It
will
Business
direction.
now
resume
Division
under
�6
Page
NEWS of Colonia
WEDGWOOD,
PRODUCE
CW, COLLABORATE TO
COMMEMORATIVE PLATES
Williamsburg_
reproduction
pennant,
conducted
be - bop was yet undiscovered, and
Twelve
started.
years
project
was
and countless
these handsome plates are scheduled
in
Advance
Williamsburg.
ple set is on display
the
to
orders
priced. at $ 25.
each,
CW
for
ary,
some plates will be ready for Christmas
delivery.
Let'
was
s
back
get
to
then that talented
1937
William
Perry and talented etcher Samuel Chamberlain pooled talents and began a three -
year collaboration
cial
for
drawings
include
notable
ings
the
in
to develop
the
public
restored
twelve speRenditions
plates.
and
private
build-
Sprays
area.
of
Virginia flowers which border these central drawings
Bodleian
bottom
were adapted
Plate.
of
Virginia
the
and
from the
famed
Cartouches at top and
plate
enclose
the
Arms
the Seal of Colonial_ WilOn the back of each plate,
addition
a
dated
backstamp
and
ready,
with only a catalogue
Department.
and the Craft House display,
her
and
able
sales
handsome
ling
facsimile
low
scene
is
described
in
bearing
the august sanction
trained
historian,
At
first,
Pierce
three
noted
English
and
not find comparable
nobody ( but nobody:)
as the manuand
Spode,
submitted
was
Barlaston,
firm
at
firm
which
ware
for
century.
Virginia
Each
with
the
England -
supplied
much
of
Colonists
plate
will
Gim-
anywhere
in the U.
S.:
For years to come, these plates
will weather good and bad cooking, con-
servative
dinner parties and wedding day
buffets, to serve as decorative and informative reminders of Colonial Williams burg.
Employees
bandwagon
for
who want to jump on the
the
First
Edition -
ought to be a valued collectors'
to
years
come -
should
visit
which
item
Craft
soon.
To all who have had a hand in the
development of the plates, both CW and
the public
owe congratulations.
J. C.
Goodbody
1946
Wedgwood
the
the
in
be
a
RETIREMENT
Wedgwood.
In
samples.
placed
at
bel' s could beat the $ 25 - per- set -offer,
which includes crating+ and safe delivery
pot-
Cauldon,
order
This
of Harvard -
were considered
three
force.
Middleton.
tery firms
the
or-
themselves and on this
Macy' s cost - samp-
captions
facturer All
advance
price.
squad could
House
in
plates
remarkably
of Samuel Chamberlain' s signature, each
center
Yet alannouncement
ders have been corning in to Catharine
in
of
liamsburg.
to
eye of Jack
tom - toms of Kerk Burbank' s
Information
prices,
It
again.
architect
the watchful
interest is based both on the remarkably
Delivery is promised in Januthough it is still hoped that
1950,
and Cogar.
A mailing brochure has been designed
Dorrier
employees
entitled to their usual twenty per cent
discount.
under
the discreet
where a sam-
in a rack made
with
Thomas,
Public
Sets are reasonably
warehouse.
Moorehead,
and will be distributed later, and public
attention will be invited further through
the occasion by our own woodturning shop
at
com-
Negotiations from the start have been
con-
for the twelve - plate sets are already
being taken at Craft House,
its
ware -
Upshur.
ferences later, four thousand sets of
a^ rive
colonial
ing gamut of the Craft Advisory Committee
and experts
Plate
of
19A2_
position and color having run the exact-
Back in 1937, the Japs started open
war in China, the Yankees won another
CW, s Commemorative
June,
same
dinner-
the
18th
skillful
William R. Tudor,
in the C& M Department,
service
with
CW
on
May
garden foreman
was retired from
20.
At the
time
of his retirement, William had slightly
more
than seventeen
service
with
the
years
company.
of accredited
�Tom McCaskey
to
Tom
ferred
Arthur
Sedille
lends
a
for opening The Magazine
hang
in
the
turns
Halligan
to
the
as
over
the
Business
booking
Theatre
records
is
Operations
trans-
Division.
preparations
and Guardhouse
on July 4.
Kenneth Chorley and Ed Xendrew confer on
restoration
Puerto
Robbins,
Senora
of
San
possibilities
Rico.
Left
to
in
San
right,
Juan,
Stratton
Chief of Tourist Affairs;
Felisa
Mrs.
Juan;
Professor
University
Rincon
Gautier,
Chorley;
Rafael
of
de
Puerto
W.
A. E. X.;
Ramirez
Rico.(
X. C.;
mayoress
Story
and
of
the
page
14)
�Reservation
Office
at
the
mid—afternoon
rush
period. (
See
story
next
page)
Charlie Hackett tees off at the
Inn Course where the City Golf
Tournament
Elizabeth
the
Henderson
student —
made
views
facsimile
of Lord Botetourt placed by
night
at
Harry
Peebles,
Berwin
Watkins
visitors
the
Capitol.
Connie
Saunders
cart
think
Right,
Allen,
and
it
it
Edward
off
before
authentic.
now
is
in
full
swing.
�June,
1949
NEWS of Colonial Wj Uamsburr
Page
ReservationsLTD 7
When the Reservation Office moves from the Stringfellow Building to its new
quarters in the lower floor of the West Wing at the Lodge it will be making its thirteenth
Where
move.
it
has
been
before?
Almost everywhere
except the Goodwin Build-
ing.
The
Reservation
Office
has
now
a
staff
of
twelve
It has
workers.
grown indeed
from its first beginning in 1937 when it was part of the work of the secretary of
General
the
Manager
signed all
the
of
the letters
Inn
to handle
the
reservation
mail.
The Manager
even
in those days:
Of the present staff, Frances Burns has carried on the reservation work since
before the building of the present Williamsburg Inn, and is now Reservation Manager
of
Inn
Williamsburg
Lodge.
and
Soon after graduating from Vassar,
Frances joined
the staff of the Dodge Hotel in Washington and was associated there with Mary Lindsley for more than 15 years. She and Miss Lindsley came to Williamsburg when the old
Inn was located on the Duke of Gloucester Street at the present site of Chowning' s
Tavern.
Rosseau
Mary
her
received
ten
years'
service
has been with the office more
than three years;
Barrett,
two
Marks
messenger,
are
newer
than
more
members
of
the
Juliette
years.
is
next
the
past -
that
year -
is
the
and
Lodge -
3, 000
38, 640.
tween
was
1943
and
the
total
telephone
and
coming
spending
The
is
Each
made
crime
that
be
on
which
because
these
all
comment,
The
of phone
calls,
seem
who
coming
her time handling
and
letters
an
out
tomorrow -
Neita
each
These
week -
next
more than 100 reservations
month
of
figures
The
listed.
and
average
next
month
Office.
the
of
not
The
year.
3, 000 letters
do
office
on
include
for the
receives
total
be-
in
1948
In
reservations.
teletypes,
wires,
this
office.
be
committed
In
terms
of
one
person,
this
would
is
in the office,
are
entered
to "
overbook."
before
one
Every reservation
for the Inn and one for the
the
to have some quick means
nearly
to
meet
the
who are interested
has
developed
mean
on the phone.
To check on how reservations stand at any one date,
Office
bureau are
from
not
most
Reservation
but
Reservation
confirmed
35, 179.
machines
so all friends
stenographic
Guests"
must
reservations
machines
Helmer,
dealing almost entirely in " futures."
past -
the
each day just talking
honored.
are two reservation
James
Upshaw
and David
On an average two -day period this spring there were 384 in-
calls
outgoing
mails
was
out
messages.
nine hours
must
it
Josephine
May.
Marcia Mays,
Garrison,
Office must provide
reservation
month
sent
of
acknowledged,
all
4, 000
and
almost
province
Each day the Reservation
Inn
is
present
the
Lyon,
staff.
The Reservation Office is a busy place,
Yesterday
this
award
Ethel
space
is
Lodge,
It is necessary,
what is available and
promised.
of knowing
need.
that
there
They are always the object of much
are invited to come up and see how they work.
a
number
of
side
functions.
It
acts
as
a
and as a publicity bureau in issuing weekly lists of " Special
to
Williamsburg.
the thousand
of dollars
It
checks
on
of deposits
advertising.
One
which this office
clerk
spends
receives.
Continued
�Page
8
NEWS
RESERVATIONS
LTD. (
Cont'
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
June,
1949
d)
The office works with the Chamber' of Commerce in placing reservations in private
homes that cannot be filled at the hotels and one clerk spends a major part of her
time writing letters
about these reservations.
Not only must the staff he on its toes in answering letters, wires and telephone calls,
Needham
but also when it receives a yard -long message every afternoon from
Grohmann,
and
the
New York
which must be separated,
checked,
by the following morning.
It is
the
reservations
usually equivalent
ty reservations and changing part of them.
The Reservation
reservations
for
quests
and
1950
This comes
representatives.
made,
in one long message
and the message
Office works very closely with other departments
for
reservations
Antiques
Forum
special
have
For instance,
events.
been
placed,
replied
to
to making between twenty and for-
with
more
in making group
already over 400 reReserva-
daily.
arriving
tions and registrations
total.
250
at
vidual
for
for the Forum have to be checked carefully to keep the sum
session.
They constantly have other large groups making indi-
each
Recently
reservations.
the whole
office
was
given
a shot
in the arm when a
trustee of Colonial Williamsburg made the remark ( he was attending a convention
the
where
had been
reservations
mixed
up) "
Well,
that
ne,. * r would
e
have
happened
in
Williamsburg."
Last year there were so many requests
form had
special
to be
for " The Common Glory" tickets that a
Larger
mimeographed.
hotels,
of
course,
have
facilities
for
handling
taxi
requests for tickets, tours, flowers, baby sitters, dinner reservations,
requests,
etc.
The opening of the Travel Office was a blessing to the Reserva-
tion Office,
relieving
arrangements,
them of a multitude
requests
for
tickets
of " Information
Please"
questions,
taxi
and tours.
During the spring and fall months the Reservation Office is open twelve hours a
day,
seven
vance,
ing
of
days
a
especially
the " lest 1[
Then reservations
week.
for
ing
the
at
last
the
of
March,
Lodge
are booked
through
there
is
a
April
total
from six to eight weeks in adand
into "_
With the openlay.
room
of
capacity
275.
To
this
next spring will be added a block of fifty rooms at the Inn, making a little over
325 rooms with the new cottages.
take
The move to the more convenient location in the Lodge lest Wing is expected to
place
exposure,
The new quarters
shortly.
are three
air- conditioned
rooms,
on the sub - ground floor of the West Wing with a pleasant
with southern
green outlook.
The most modern telephone equipment is being installed with a flashing light system,
hold call" switches,
calls from any desk.
and a functional
unit that w. vi. 11 make it possible
to answer all
In this new location, the Reservation - fists will still hum their old ditty:
Day in, day out,
from morn till night,
Our typewriters
click and our lights burn bright;
For the Lodge and Inn must be filled every sun,
100% -
SERVICE
or our duty' s not done:"
RECOGNITION
If the employees who submitted the following unsigned suggestions will call at
the Personnel Relations Office in the Goodwin Building, explanations as to their disposition
will
be
given: /
4552
and #
4557.
�June,
1949
NEWS
EVANS -
BOB
Colonial. Williamsburg
of
Pase
9
BUDDHA
BUDGET
If CW made awards as the King of England does, the next Honours List would be
include the following citation:
Robert Henry Evans, Knight Commander of the
Accounting System, Guardian of the Financial Files, and Royal Custodian of the Budget.
All these things, and more, come under the jurisdiction of Bob Evans in his job as
sure
to
General
Auditor
of CW.
In his office in the northeast corridor of the Goodwin Building where we found
hint, Bob sits at his desk, surrounded on two sides by filing cabinets, on another by
a
window,
and
the
on
fourth
W.
by
J.
Blackwell,
the
assistant
auditor.
On
his
desk
is a formidable array of books on accounting, taxes, and tax laws, all of which are
unintelligible for the layman, but duck soup to Bob Evans.
Complicated
After talking to him for a few minutes,
of
the
biggest
and
most
jobs
complicated
in
you realize that you have stumbled on one
the
whole
CW
As general
gallery.
auditor,
Bob supervises and checks all accounts and figures of all CW departments ( except the
Inn and Lodge,
which have
their own auditing
offices),
prepares and issues monthly
and annual statements,
works with departments on budget problems,
figures and budgets into one,
designing
new
ones
ing, issuing,
when
supervises
system,
consolidates all
revising old forms,
The list could go on and on;
necessary.
computing,
the accounting
supervising,
check-
and generally carrying on in such a way as to completely con-
fuse anyone else but super - mathematicians.
Our big job actually,
is coordination
and consolidation,"
Bob. "
We get budsays
gets and accounts from all departments and compile one master report for the treasurer.
We asked hiin if there was anything especially exciting in this work of figuring.
No,"
of
he
gold
wered "
It'
said. "
as
s
No,"
but
cut
all
playthings,
and
At
added, "
dried."
and
if
asked
least,
We
there
not
so
himself
t
doesn'
like
look
an
of great accounts
romantic
anything
to
it.
and
Again
he
bags
ans-
far."
Virginia
Evans
had visions
was
Bred
Somehow,
auditor.
you
think
of
an
auditor
as
a cross between_ Scrooge and the insidious Professor Moriarty, but Evans doesn' t match
this conception.
He is a tall, quiet, smiling gentleman, born and bred in Virginia.
After finishing at the University of Richmond, he came to Williamsburg in 1930 to
work
with
Todd
the
and
Brown,
Center
Rockefeller
the
In 1934,
work.
restoration
original
he went
contractors
to New York
but
Corporation,
for
the
to work
to . -.
returned
f('
Williamsburg in 1938.
cept
for a thirty three
and
his
wife
it
When
and
bowling.
live
comes
been
here
hitch
month
on
to
s
Indian
hobbies,
ever
in
He
Road.
i, ientions
1
golf
only
We thought
with
you
and
if
you
he
called
wrong.
golf
whom
think
might
In
him "
a
Prof,"
he
college
you
taught
and Auditing
professor,
wouldn'
courses
t
in
at William
be
:.
far
Ad-
r --
and `'
Mary while Professor Gibbs was absent in Europe,
working
with
Bob,
the
waving
War
ICJ
was
resembled
1946,
vanced Accounting
says
a,..
ex -(
Navy.
the
Springs
Bob
since,
it was refreshing to find
a
hobby and not a passion.
If you saw Bob Evans walking down the street,
someone
from
now
He'
with
Settlements
Commission. "
his hand to indicate
This,
his office
Continued
1(
r
�Page
10
NETTS
BOB EVANS (
his
and
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
June,
1949
Cont' d)
work, "
was
silently.
One hobby
much
Bob
which
than answering
easier
didn' t pennon,
i:: nt
students'
we
which
We
questions."
was
observed,
sympathized
Aside
neatness.
from the row of books mentioned, his desk contains only an ash tray ( he smokes cigars),
a
desk
and
pad,
an
and
office
little
very
The work to be done is piled neatly on one corner,
else.
the
machine
is
General
adding
of the
Auditor.
on
opposite
All
corner.
is
neatness
and
light
in
the
When we decided to do this article, we had in mind explaining some of the pro involved
cesses
in
Accounting
work.
But after talking with Bob, we came away with
credits, consolidations,
cost, percentages,
and it was
our
idea drop.
educational
But if you ever want to get
our mind swirling with debits,
too
W' e
much.
decided
let
to
the inside story of the auditing and accounting world, look in on Robert Henry Evans,
Knight Commander of the Accounting System; he' s got the straight scoop.
Don
HOSTESS
BRIEFS
some
time
with Minnie
Hallie
Memorial
Day week end passed
smooth-
ly and pleasantly, thanks to the wholehearted
cooperation
of the weather
who produced three delightful, cool days;
and to the combined efforts of the personnel
of the
hostess
department,
all
of
Pate
and
attended
Dr.
the
Pate.
annual
dinner of the Woman' s College Alumnae
at
man
Wermuth
Piedmont
Westhampton
in Richmond....
Essa
Mae
Cormack who went to Texas several months
ago because of her sister' s illness, has
returned
will
to
soon
her
be
home
back
and
we
the
in
buildings....
hope
she
whom loaned a hand to help the holiday
Virginia Holmes
crowds
honor of Nancy Norton, whose wedding will
enjoy
the
buildings.
Exams have been claiming the time
of
some
of
our
these
esses
younger
past
few
escorts
and
take
host-
We look for-
weeks.
ordeal
is
niston,
and
are
son,
Jimmie,
visiting
her
her
Mrs.
son
and
James
of An-
Va.
home
for
response
to
into
their
daughter - in -law, :: ". .
r
and
new
home
were
Nouvelle
and Norfolk
now
C.
Howard
sister,
Florence
Mrs.
George
Taylor and Dr.
lor drove to Arlington, Va. to visit
son, Capt. Robert G. Taylor.
Taytheir
their first wedding anniversary,
James
son,
a
trip
Macon
to Washington,
of Richmond
Bobbie Macon,
is convalescing
and
D.
June 7,
C
their
Mrs.
little
have been spending
is
nice-
surprised
Lord
on the
placed.
to
Hostesses arriving
one morning not long ago
the
to
find
Botetourt.
his
College
He
bore
figure
a
which
Me Back"
predecessor
marked
had been
for several
His
appearance
a
his
is
resemblance
was
Botetourt was
who
had been
however,
with
the
Botetourt
campus
nights.'
rived
within
Lord
big as life, stood where
long ago,
Carry
Doris and Harry Sizemore celebrated
with
Ar-
summer.
221
in plaster,
once,
her
to
much
portico,
Green spent several days in Portsmouth
with
the
at the Capitol
Philip Nelson, who have recently
moved
son,
an operation at Buxton Hospital
in Newport News.
7e hope it may not be
long before we hear her voice again in
Lily
Nelson made a trip to Warrenton,
visit
Virginia' s
ly after
little
Ala.
25.
at tea in
thur, a student at Cornell University,
Muriel Spencer
over.
t'ary Carter' s daughter, Lirs.
Saunders
June
place
ward to having them with us again w'_ien
the
entertained
camera
of
at the Capitol,
Before
mystery.
deposed,
a part
hilarious
Lord
Tom : Williams
to
record
the
scene.
Mary
J.
Daniel
ar-
�June,
1% 2.
NEWS
TRAVEL
OFFICE SELLS
MINUTE
DURING
SIX POST CARDS
EASTER
Colonial
of
PER
of the first three month' s operation for
this Sear, disclooed that something of a
record had been made at the local travel
center.
sold
a total
she and her as-
of 23, 758
post
representing the sale of over six cards
was
Craft House is trying to make the
news with the majority of its ladies
tripping back and forth, and a couple
for every minute
the office
open:
In the
three month
period,
March
through May, income from post cards has
been the leading source of income at the
Travel Office, outstripping the bicycles,
which have heretofore lead the field.
tripped."
staying "
Jean Gieselmann
flies on : Jene 5 to San Francisco for a
fortnight with her parents Captain and
A.
0.
Gieselmann.
Clara Charlton
moored for a week' s stay to visit her
in
parents
which was a daily average of 3, 394
per minute
11
TRIPPIMGS AT CRAFT HOUSE
Mrs.
During Easter Week,
sociates
Page
WEEK
Mrs. Nancy Foster, Manager of the
Travel Office, in retorting the results
cards,
Williamsburg
Bireii
Alabama....
n gham,
Anne
Read, by boat and car, made New York
City over a tong week end with her mother,
who spent the winter in Williamsburg....
Catherine Dorrier dashed off to Waynesboro, and Clara Oliver took her mother
home to Eastern Shore over a week end....
Mrs.
Ed Westgate,
the former Rhody Hen -
dereon of Craft House, came for a visit
with her baby daughter, from Stockton,
During that time 117, 476 penny cards have
been sold, along with 6, 432 nickel cards,
California.
giving a total of 123, 908 pieces of direct mail advertising for Williamsburg
per at Chowning' s Tavern on June 1 as a
which
went
out
from
this
one
place:
This
Eight of the Crafters had a gay supfarewell to Helen Hobson and Meredith
Dietz.
Helen drove array on June 3 for
is an average of over 1, 3fi2 cards a day
her
for ninety - one days.
Adding to this the thousands of
cards which are sent daily from the ho-
where
tels,
July and thereafter to lecture hither and
and
Reception Center,
shops,
tourist homes,
the importance
of post cards
to Williamsburg looks like a large and
item.
useful
vertising,
represent
are
t
to ! cord - of - mouth
picture
the
tact between
who
Ne
cards
best
medium
visitors
gotential
very
of
home
at Vero
Beach,
Florida,
she will be near her sister
mother.
Meredith
and
Dietz is leaving on
June 22 to fly to Mexico
for the month of
yon for the International School of Art,
located in New York and various foreign
countries.
probably
direct
con-
and their friends,
Maybe
visitors.
is what the Chinese
ad-
her
future
have
this
FORMER EITLOYEES ENJOY THE NEWS
in mind when
they say that " one picture
is worth
The
a
thousand words."
reports
Personnel
that
Relations
comments
from
Department
our
and former employees concerning
are
most
gratifying.
retired
the NEWS
Maude Rae Swartz,
a former secretary in the Research DeSERVICE
REC OGNITICN
Congratulations
Treasurer,
years
son,
who
of
to I.
had served
on May 20,
Dept.
partment,
Inn
1949;
and
L.
Jones,
with
Jr.,
CW fifteen
also to Sam JohnLodge
who
served with CW ten years on May 24,
1949.
recently:
Many thanks for sending us the NEWS
I don' t know when I' ve appreciated
so rnuch....
anything
Receiving
every
month.
the news from CWI makes me feel
to
had
wrote
you
and
the
read it right
writings
about
closer
there.
I
through and love all
the
work
the
going
on
restoration
projects."
�Page
12
GOODWIN
NEWS
BUILDING
NEWS
Vernon and Mrs.
Geddy attended their
Jr.' s graduation
on
June
from
returned
Spratley,
worked
Irma
at Princeton
Duncan
14
Cocke
Messrs.
vacation.
Cocke,
to
such
an
to take a complete
T.
June,
Department
of
the
same
rest from work.
New
law,
Mr.
Charleston,
she
will
be
reports
back
and
with
from
us
Wilma Mines is " pinch hitting"
while
she
is away from
Lester
and
Mrs.
soon.
and
Jane
Virginia
Girten
spent
Beach
The
in
of an eight - pound
last
Mon-
Institute
baby girl
Marston
spent
last
week
end
in Blacksburg attending exercises at Virginia
Polytechnic
brother,
Institute
Randolph (
a
where
former
George
from
the
Office
Chi
Goodwin
the
war
been
to
will
be
Building
Mail
a unit
partment
in
left
accepted
Public
of
a position
of Dan-
in
the
Information
s entertained
the
De-
The
members
of the
Architectural Department at their hone,
the James Anderson house,
ing,
8
Rev.
the
Dr.
Dr.
Pierce
even -
Middleton
baccalaureate
sermon
to
the
class at the Toano High School
June 5
Ralph
from a vacation on June
evening,
returned
of San
Mary
Saturday
June 4.
of
Church-
Sarah
Mary Lee Fitzgerald
has
charge
Lois
Camp Feay
ville
graduating
on Sunday
of the
Department.
s
versity
preached
During
Betty Jo Fletcher
to join her husband who has transferred
his classes to Washington and Lee Uni-
Bowers
in
Bernice
Sarah Webb as secretary
Curator'
of
Room.
operated
the
Section
the
Beach
last week with a shower
18
has replaced
The
of
transferred
He
George
Office
has
Department
Services.
the
Post
Davis
June
married
her
employee
graduated on Monday with honors.
CW),
Virginia
at
ing entertained
Kendrew'
Marge Phelan left Monday for her vacation
Virginia
sister.
in honor of Monie Price who is being
Margaret Lee Bailey formerly of the William and Mary Quarterly) announce the arrival
her
Hudson, Jodie Crowe.er, and Becky Lever-
children
day
entertained with a picnic Saturday, June
4, in honor of Shirlee Sanderlin who left
the Virginia Gazette Indexing staff June
8
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tinkcom ( nee
at
Section is on a trip to
with
cationing
the office.
Cappon
from
Jr.,
Sadie Cottingham
Lawrence Kocher and family are va-
for her
left June 9 for a month' s vacation
Wisconsin
all
and son - in-
Davis,
Henry
Va
W.
of the Costume
weeks,
her husband to
her daughter
Mrs.
and
California
two
from
Mary van Buren had as
Irma has been on Disability Leave for a
than
Information,
resigned
to accompany
Orleans
little
more
Public
Department,
recent guests
Dewey
of
1949
is spending the week end of June 17 in
Washington watching the Senators and the
Tigers
play
Irene Runnels, formerly
her position
extent
that she has been ordered by Dr.
Davis
has
Geddy,
and this NEWS have over-
Williams
Williamsbur
to the
son Vernon,
Tuesday,
Colonial
of
and Mrs.
Francisco
Henry A.
were
Stephenson
Stephenson
recent
Alice
guests
of
Carl
Fehr
and
tending her brother' s graduation at
spent Memorial Day w{.:ek end in Washington
Fanona Knox recently entertained
guests who attended her niece' s wedding
Davidson
College
and her sister' s gradu-
in Wren
ation
Roanoke
Rapids,
ill
spent
at
friends
a week' s vacation
in
the
girls
Information
and
in N.
C.
at-
in
the
June
Department
18.
eral other of Wicky' s friends were presPiedmont,
a
recent
HARRY
B.
FOLK
DIES
In ad-
Saturday,
being
dition to the girls from the office sevmarried
Don
Luta Sewell
with a kitchen
shower in honor of Wicky Wierum who is
ent
Chapel.
visited
Alma Lee Rowe
Greensboro
entertained
of Public
at
addition
A retired
employee
of
the
Craft
Department,
Harry B. Folk, passed
on
May 7 after a lengthy illness.
away
�June
Nick o'
WILLIAMSBURG
CQZQni al
Page
Wi l 1 i ama,iu,
13
ON THE ROAD
After many years of roadside silence,. the
Williamsburg hotels will soon blossom . out with
an
attractive
colonial - type
sign
on
the
roads
leading into Richmond and Williamsburg.
Designed by Ralph Bowers, the Williamsburg
hotel
sign will
tive
in
type
sign
high
and
five
tive . irona
white
something
with
be
a
post
four
about
feet
10..
feet
11.
long:
It will stand atop a
feet tall and will hang in a decoraframe.
work
enamel
The
letters
and
are
in
red
and
black )
background.
The Williamsburg
marker
will
a panel
Hotel signs are being put up by the
Jamison Sign Com: an : of Roanoke,
r
age
very distinc-
It
advertising.
in metal,
post eight
on
present
roadside
for
advertisement
and are a combination milethe
hotels.
Those
sins near
Williamsburg, on Routes 60 and 168 may be done in Scotchlite
so that the after -dark driver may find his way into the city
with
more
ease.
Fifty signs are being erccted covering the
area between Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, South Hill, Little Creek, Suffolk, and Williamsburg.
The top line in the new signs will indicate how far it is
to Williamsburg from that point.
The next lines indicate that
there are two fine hotels in Williamsburg, and that there are
According to the sign
company, these will be the most attractive signs on the roads
and should sot a now pattern in giving the tourist much needed '
restaurants
and
information
in
a
a
coffee
shop
tasteful
available.
manner.
NOTES
unable
to
Unanimous
Memorial
of
news,
Day week end brought
views,
Bill
and
Iandon
and
us lots
comments:
Pete
Tucker
attended
many of the PGA matches in Richmond
Charlie
Hackett
and
Bud
Odell
find
the
decision
famous
beach
Nagshead.
is that he needs
John-
ny Autry and Bill Atkinson to escort him
there on his next
trip (' cause they did
get
to
Nagshead -
and,
we' ll add,
had an
exciting time:)
joined
Bob Williams
two
The
Shack"
in
and wife motored
Moyock,
N.
C.
to
for a plea-
out- of- town friends on a trip to the
Carolinas their purpose being to fish
sant week end cf boating and fishing -
in
Pete
Currituck
Sound.
It
they caught their limit
day that their purpose
is
rumored
so early
was
that
in the
defeated.
Peters,
It
seems they spent most of the day throwing
the
truck
back
in::
Dave Morton and family packed bag
and
head.
baggage
for
a
nice
week
end
at
Nags -
After a long, herd struggle, he
gave up and ended up at Great $ ridge, Va.,
hear,
Up- to- the - minute
public
fish
we
spent
a
glorious,
Memorial Day week end simonizing his car
last
just
that Gene
news informs
Sheldon
all the way to the
drove
the
the
fire
site of- the fire
He said he got the truck there
in time to see the barn on the old
week.
lilliamsburg
Road collapse:
Mar
Kent
Stevens
�Page
NEVIS
14
FLYING
DOWN
RICO:
TO
Colonial
of
Restoration
June.
Williamsburg
Possibilities
Viewed
1949
in San Juan
A quick six -and -a - half hour trip out of New York late last month landed Kenneth
Chorley and Ed Kendrew in San Juan,
historical
Puerto Rico, where the two CW executives viewed
landmarks
dating back to the early 16th century.
The flying trip aboard
a non - stop Pan American Constellation was made at the invitation of the Puerto Rican
Office of Tourism,
which
portions of San Juan was
requested advice as to whether restoration
of certain old
worthwhile and asked for recommendations
as to the best means
of carrying it through.
They spent four days there touring the historic areas;
were entertained
and pre-
sented keys to the city by Mayoress Gauthier, and attended a reception at the Govers
House.
The modern city of San Juan with a metropolitan population of over
nor'
800, 000 persons, extends far beyond the limits of the ancient willed city, first established about 1521 by the Spanish.
The old
portion
is about
the size
of
Williamsburg and has many of the original buildings
and
the
still
old
wall
this portion
even a large
portion
It
standing.
of
PICNICS
OMITTED
is
For reasons
that is being considered
for restoration as part of the develop-
of CW have
ment
employees'
of
tion.
the
island
as
a
tourist
attrac-
taken
including
the passage
of a bill
serves
an
act
light
as
which actual
The
out.
enabling
restoration
under
may be carried
two most dramatic
the
San Cristobal,
have been preserved by
the
U.
S.
the
restoration
Both
National
CW
Park
executives
of tremendous
traction
forts
structures
on the island,
for
of
of El Morro and
San
historic
Juan
value
that
would
miles
the
old
ectly
distant
church
from
of
San
Porta
Juan,
Coeli,
Jamaica,
RECEPTION
hemi-
The
Mel
stopped
on the return
those
were
here.
built
He found
at
the
same
that while
from the same English
Reception
archi-
wife
of
work
can
mak-
counterparts
of the
James
and semiRiver
lost
Use
both
wish
Jamaiestates.
Joan
Carpenter
a short trip
will
re-
to Chicago.
herself at W& M by ex-
the
Flat
John
Hat
Another
is Shirley
Egan
Egan,
Projection-
ist Louis Pagano is the father of an
eight - pound,
to
on
Caterer
lyn
and had been adapted
He also visited
has
Vaughan.
to the Center
eral appearance
climate.
Center
Clem
Joan distinguished
tecture they are quite different in genthe local living requirements
and
turn to us after
addition
tropical
qffi-
been
NEWS
However,
cellent
sprang
have
them good luck in whatever they undertake
tures
which
CENTER
Savage
trip to look over the 18th century struc-
they
heads
in the
the
saw
Chorley returned dir-
over at Kingston,
as
activity
which
ing in recent weeks.
Because of greatly
increased operating costs it has become
necessary to make this and other econo-
supposed-
to New York while Ed Kendrew
time
after
be
about
and
church in the western
from about 1516.
and Mrs.
there
this
taken
visitors.
ly the oldest
sphere dating
Mr.
year.
been
studies
department
officers
annual
and an at-
They also visited San German,
50
reviewing
of budget
and
has
the
the
mies throughout the organization in order to balance the budget this year.
Service.
commented
old
cers
this
action
carefully
which
to omit
picnics
This
Certain steps already have been
of economy
decided
June
Cecelia,
three - ounce baby girl,
Eve-
who was born on Sunday,
12.
Bill
Bippus
�June,
INN
NEWS
1949 .
AND
LODGE
Celcn &
al Wi llaam lzurg
of
ITEMS
Ralph Moody' s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C.
his
Moody of East Haven, Conn.,
neice, Ars. Frank Hartmann ( and her hus-
James
band),
12
of Now Britain,
to
few
a
spend
Conn
days
arrived
here
June
Frances
Boswell lids returned to her duties after
recovering from an illness of several
On her vacation
weeks
next week,
Paulette Chambers will visit her aunt in
B1ack.:,tone...,.
Ruth Crowder, cashier at
Chown . ng' s,
vacation
Page !
is spending her two week
at her home
in Boytendon,
Va.
Molly McGreevey has returned from
At the Inn,
gardens
as plentiful,
the
biggest
Ars. Thompson is
thing.
quite proud of it, and so are we all.
James Abbott of the storeroom
spent a
couple
Beach
Forrest Griffin is spending a
week' s " vacation" working on the new
home he is building on route # 5
Norma Haman has just *roved into the
new house
the
on Parkway Drive,
time
little
250
chickens...
girt Margaret
love - the
her
new home
and spends most of her
her
chasing
into
literally
tries to
death
to
chickens
her
Hugh
Hitchen$ is back after an illness of two
weeke
Mrs. Spoiler, dietitian at the
Lod e, flew to Cleveland to visit her
father....,. Mrs. Allard has returned from
a two week vacation,
visited
friends
Pennsylvania
Moore,
relatives
West
and
in Ohio,
Virginia
Julia
Annie
illness
an
Taylor
of
five
is back at work
Norma
weeks
Shepherd has moved from the staff dining
room to the Inn Pool for the summer
Saint Holland has come back after
an abbreviated
five day vacation during
NEWS
as
the
Lodge
dining
room
waiters.
for
First
prize of 0_ 00 went to James Wallace,
0.
5. 00
the
winners
Again
for
congratulations
fine
to
Folks
service
will
employee
hotel.
be glad
All
from
a
Pedro' s
to see him main.
both of the dish room visited with
relatives in Newark while on their
vacations
recently....
11 : full -time up-
holsterer has joined the Lodge - Inn
He is Nathan
housekeeping section.
Dacknar° of New York,
and we welcome
to
the South to Williamsburg, and to our
organization....
Accounting
Ray Townsend of the
Office was graduated from
recently....
slipped
lnn des
a fast one
clerk
Ed
over on all
of
us
recently.
Bright and early one
morning, he tip -toed dcwn the steps of
Raleigh
of $
who was with us last
exchange
Donetta Alston of the Salad Ps.ntry
Winnie
took third prize
are
is spending her vacation in New York
Leonard 1 Iartin and George Cutler
second prize of 0. 50 was won by. V.
Cenady-,
an
friends
Mitchell,
and E.
as
4r.
and Mrs Pedro Blanco
American
South
Hughes
h a s ended
known
Floyd Honeycutt pass on to the
remember Pedro,
year
V&i4
contest
Street
Lodgings....
returning to Williamsburg for a short
visit.
Many at the Inn and Lodge will
Another
service
Randolph
that Mr.
he visited
in New York
Yancy
Spurlock' s wife has left the hospital
following a successful operation
which
on Nicholson
William
and Ars.
she
pantry girl, is on two weeks
vacation....
after
and
during which
supervis-
or at the Inn kitchen, recently attended her niece' s wedding in Danville
a five day business trip to New York....
has , moved
of days at Virginia
Elizabeth Pollock,
Lela
Smith
news in just
with the new Gift Shop
Tavern and eloped with winsome
They tied the knot at
Sheldon.
Elizabeth
Head.
City,
then went on to Nags
Good luck and happiness
to you
here at the Lode are turning into hort-
both....
iculture
of the Virginia Hotel Greeters, received
a beautiful serving tray when the ( teeters held their convention in Rieh:rond.
experts.
Mrs. Arthur B. Thompson has a great quantity of vegetables
growing
in her
Ars.
garden
Honey-
fo:nmy Molyes,
retiring prexie
cutt and Mrs. Mallory have snapdragons,
We all congratulate Tommy,
gladioli,
cannot
and
all
the
rest
in
their
admit
surprise.- -
but we
Anne
Lumbye
�Page
16
NEWS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg _
C& M NEWS
short
June,
vacation.
Bert Score
C.
Carter recently returned from
a
week' s vacation.
It comes by the grapevine that C. J. completed many needed
jobs
J.
home
around
look."
new
longer
holes
Roosevelt
blue
from the green,
Bob and
his
men are
in best possible
on the
the
janitorial
job at
who
has
est
left
in the
Blackie"
of the door
crew,
Boston,
will
third
recently retired,
Isham, "
She is plenty fast
but I will soon get her down to my gait."
Members of C& M and their wives enjoyed a fish and chowder supper at Bar retts Ferry
last Friday evening.
Reports
indicate that orchids of appreciation
Succeeding them as Goodwin
doormen are Lorin Brown and S. E.
DuVall. "
Says
son.
succeeding George Davis
CW.
Building
David
season.
Isham Johnson,
their college courses being completed,
have
Nolly Wyatt,
has been presented a huge horse by his
transferred
to Office Services
Jim LePhew and Warren Tinsle :-,
Section
Harris reports a unique
duce the most vegetables over the long-
keeping the course
supervisor
sta-
at the new laundry.
blocks.
business
condition.
Goodwin Building,
of mechani-
has been
Wallace, Simon Morning, and Charlie
Scott are striving to see who can pro-
Randolph I1cKown recently came with
C& M as
vacation.
contest among his fellow workers in
have been installed.
out
5: 30 a. in. these days,
Martin
section,
tioned permanently
stakes, designating 100 yards from the
green, and red stakes, designating 200
yards
on a short
Floyd
away
cal maintenance
Bob Johnson and his
On the
is
He hopes to catch up on some fishing
while
crew have recently given the golf course
a "
1949
are
return after a
in order
and
member
Robert
for Ed Watkins,
Webb,
Alden
C&. M entertainment
Eaton
com-
mittee.
W.
D.
MacPherson
SALE FOR EMPLOYEES:!!!
CW
WILLIAMSBURG
3,
All
BOOKS
In
Books
the
Price
of
WILLIAMSBURG IN PHOTOGRAPHS
a,
the
Stiff - bound
a,
AMERICA' S WILLIAMSBURG
Building
RECORD * * * *
ART
Monday,
NOTE
Half
Stockroom
Goodwin
ARCHITECTURAL
DAMAGED
IN VIRGINIA *
Leather - bound *
COLORING
B00KS -
CARDS
June
20 -
Tuesday through Friday, June 21 - 24
9 - 12
and
varios:
pages,
pages
some books are only slightly
overprinted
or
printed
COOKERY
OTHER
upside
shopworn,
down,
TITLES
sr
2 - 4: 30
All interested are urged to come and select their own copies,
damage
OF
4: 30 -6: 00 p. m.
etc.
as the extent of
but some have missing
Selections
will be made
at the buyer' s risk:
Employees who do not work in the Goodwin Building will probably wish to take advantage of the one - hour period on Monday, which was arranged especially so that
they might get to the sale at its beginning.
COME
EARLY
BEFORE
THE BEST
BUYS
HAVE
BEEN
TAKEN
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NEWS
Volume 2,
Number
LLIAMSBURG
2
S
LUNCHEON BUFFET
POPULAR
Buffet
1949
popular
and
attraction for
visitors
are
townsfolk, according to latest
simul- taneously
hotels. The
with
the
WEEK The Russell and Lewis houses
being completed this week in the
fast moving building program almost
advices from the
price
RUSSELL, LEWIS
offerings of
Inn -- is catchin" as
g on"
another
buffet
combines low
best
July,
HOUSES COMPLETED THIS
Luncheon -- latest
wrinkle in the top drawer
the
COLONIAL
traditions
of
two
non
Inn
with the
removal of
colonial
structures. The
Russell
House on
Duke of
cuisine. It is served
daily except Sunday' s from 12 noon
until 2 p. m. and is priced at $ 2 per
Glou- cester
person. The innovation was started on June
The
29
across from the Inn entranceway will be
ser- vice
and
and
is
in
addition
to
Street next to the
s shop is being completed th: l. s week
with the
exception of
landscaping.
minor
the
regular Sunday night buffet
Lewis
House
on
TOURNY
SET
S
GOLF
onto the
additional chance at
annual
is
held
in
acres. The
exact
on
the
Inn'
the
open
and
All
will
to
be
both
employees
wives are
annual
scores
Len
should
be
the
Inn
course
eligible to play
The
Pro
will
be
the
date
Streets
Knight
in
may
of
that
area.
colonial
the
street
the
is
line and
Lightfoot
determined
be
It
House
there. The
Theodore
Harris
house
removed
next to the
is the small
Ludwell- Paradise
stable
on Nicholson Street at the rear of the
wig- shop
property. Work is progressing on the King'
s Arms project with framing
suspended
of
the actual tournament play for the
entrants.
Tavern
Queen
for wrecking and salvage by August
purposes.
on
category, the
Square
and
15th. Also to be
Golf
fees
Gloucester
their
Biles at the Caddy
House. Greens
at
of
Market
house has been sold to
men
and
to
to
18 -
turned
in
that
next door
handicapping
for
next
out-buildings
provided they have turned in five attested
scores
Duke
by Jim
announced in
an
House
is being removed as a non colonial
structure and to permit archaeological probing
Tournament
believed
date of
future. It
tournament
husbands or
at
golfing
hole
women.
out
tournament will be
near
the
an
Handicap Golf
September
manicured
golf
have
Kyger
laurels when the
Employe ' s
s
will
original
chimney. In the wrecking
SEPTEMBER CW' s divot diggers and
perfectionists
according to the
schedule. It will be used by
wide attention because of being rebuilt
FOR
putting
Street
Inn. The house attracted nation -
the
EMPLOYE '
Francis
com- pleted next week
pres- ent
supper.
pewterer'
1699
virtually
complete on the
kitchen and
foundation work on the tiny King' s Arms
Barber Shop ready for
- framing.
WIL IAMSBURG'
250TH
ANNIVERSARY -
�Page
2
NEWS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
NEWS AND COMMENT
1949
The recent City Golf Tournament out
on the
Ginny and Bess are the new light in
the eyes of Horseman Colonel Downing.
The two black mares,
half sisters, were
purchased this month to provide an addi-
tional pair of mares to draw a second
carriage for sightseeing.
Ginny and Bess,
or more formally, Virginia and Queen
Bess,
July,
are a close patch for Fancy and
Nancy, the first pair of blacks and
the mainstays of the coach circuit.
They were obtained from a horse -breeder
Inn course
has
attracted
increased
interest in the links and served to put
CW - ites in the proper frame of mind for
the September Employee' s Tournament. The
Inn' s Har -Tru tennis courts also are
coming in for increased play these days
with both visitors and locals enjoying
the perfection - plus facility.
The Editors of the NEWS feel caught
between the proverbial " Devil and the
Much as the NEWS seeks
deep blue sea."
items from all departments and employees,
in Ashland- who had raised
occasionally
Fancy and Nancy - and,
accord-
must be cut for the sake
of
ing to Col. Downing,
have
space
pub-
and
quickly become accustomed to
natural
balance
lication.
the Williamsburg ways.
A subdued
banner
on
the
here
ing " Welcum You- all" heralded the opening on Monday of the 34th
national
Alumni
conference
Council
of
the
American
The majority of
and guests from vir-
tually every state departed on Thursday
after a series
of business
entertainments
and
alumni
and
well
universities
of
They were the
U. S.
Rain
on
the rug was quickly rolled up in the
entirely
especially
make
sources
before
and
up the spacious
Lake
all
glee
in the
mation.
Jose
pianist- conductor
Iturbi.
The
remain-
ing concerts in that series will be on
July 18 and July 25.
During Monday
evening
concerts
Peninsula
suited
in August, 18th century " pop"
will be presented by the
Orchestra
of
to the occasion
oftentimes
to consult
with
the
It is hoped
trimming.
Newport
News
in 18th century
clothes and conducted by Cary McMurran.
As always,
are
Department
Incidentally,
welcomed
of Public
any
with
Infor-
the capable group
of reporters in the various departments
and areas deserve untold orchids and
credit for their labors in assembling
items.
An editorial
of July third was
Williamsburg,
of
necessity and
individuals.
dark Monday nights is a series of
im ortant musical events.
Last Monday
the first of three concerts by William
distinguished
in the
They
employees.
contributions
a
protege
for
that deadlines
it impossible
Matoaka amphitheater on the previously
Haaker,
shunned
is
possible
interests of keeping this
journal
Inn lobby to make room for the dancers.
and
but
whenever
larger
that such occurences do not serve to
Wednesday caused a minor jolt in plans
for a dance on the Inn pool terrace but
Lighting
in
discourage
of the major colleges
the
is
normal
In their wake
arranged.
secretaries
the
sessions,
tours.
is the pleasant memory of an important
conference
and
rer*ret the occasional
here.
the 396 delegates
in
items
Such procedure
periodicals
front of the Lodge proclaim-
individual
Colonial
part was
Town."
the
in
the
New York
entitled " Growth
Times
of
It was about
but the most interesting
last
paragraph
in which
the mighty metropolitan newspaper issued
a sigh of longing for relief from city
pressure.
It read: "
Williamsburg
is still full of the meat of pleasant
living.
Who can say whether its rediscovery of the unhurried pace of the
eighteenth century isn' t even more reto the modern observer than
its
reflection
institutions."
of political
and
economic
�July.
1949
NEWS
Colonial
of
Press and radio reports on the
coverage of the July 4th activities at
the Magazine and Guardhouse continue to
in.
pour
Two national networks, MBS
carried major portions of
and NBC,
his
words -
Winthrop
Virginians
and those of Dr.
Rockefeller
Stryker
to
the
General' s ringing words
page
of even
the
New York
is working overtime
to keep up with all the other clippings
that are arriving hourly.
Unhappiest man during the ceremowas "
nies
Mac"
McPhercon.
For
Well,"
said the
opening). "
General, " I see Lord Dunmore has been
keen
and
as
general
soon as the parade
was
over,
hurried
off with
the
then,
to
cooler positions under nearby trees.
Jet
revealed
that
this
was
the first formation flight ever made by
the
F - 86
type
planes.
nude up the squadron
The
pilots
visited
who
the mint
julep party later in the afternoon at
Chowning' s and made as great a hit on
the ground as they did in the air.
Fri:; e remark was made during the exhibiting of. the Magazine to the VIPs.
Vernon Geddy, having explained to General
Smith
at
some
length
that
the most
expects
to
in
one
hand.
Lodge.
takes:
his
corral
Dick Showman trying
dashsund, "
General
Smith'
s
Christopher
Bean,"
Arthur
address....
Buie' s expert convoying of General Smith' s
three -star official car ( plus, for part
the way),
two jeeps filled with Air
of
Police to Williamsburg from Langley Field.
Minor Wine Thomas' delight at finding
colonial
a term we just learned)
of the jets,
General Old, who is Commander of the
tir Force,
He
General Smith to be a real expert on
Porformance
After the thrilling fly- bys ( that' s
Ninth
events"
at the
Short
the
chairs
of
Loughrie
shade- seeking populace descended on his
orderly array and, like ants with grains
of sugar,
honor.
band members by Tommy Moyles and Harold
swelt-
public -
of
sense
and may be credited to the excellent
luncheon and refreshments served to the
during
the
all
The added concert by the Ninth Air
Force Band in the afternoon was impromptu
crew had worked to line up in even rows
for
delighted
come down soon again, when he can enjoy
to
seats
Rockefeller
who met him with his easy friendliness
ering hours in the morning he and his
300
emphasis -
the
schedule
Times
And the glue - and- scissors branch of
Public Information
flung open the doors
CW without having to hold a split- second
hit the front
austere
Room,
with dramatic
Winthrop
The
nation.
Powder -
here again::"
who weren' t in attendance;
throughout
in the
those
the event was also carried in two television programs and by all the top commentators
hibit
for
three state - wide hock - ups brought
and
Page 3
only to see an empty room ( the
powder kegs not having arrived in time
General Smith' s speech via transcription;
Williamsburg
inter-
esting part of the Magazine was the ex-
Monier Williams worrying
arms....
over Low General Smith, Mayor Stryker and
Winthrop Rockefeller would all get out of
their two -door " official" car before the
parade
overtook
them
at
the
review
stand
Alina Lee Rowe' s
they did)....
dexterous juggling of the luncheon seatp.
s.,
ing arrangements
when it was discovered
that Senator and Mrs.
over
for
it...
Connally would stay
Thessalonians
room serving at the Inn,
praise
from
the
Kelly and Sgt.
General
Judkins'
fine
which brought
himself....
Lee of the U.
S.
Lt.
Marine
Corps trying to teach the " Continental
Guard of Honor" the 18th Century manual of
arms
in two
easy
lessons....
continued
Col.
on
Wheat,
next
page)
�Pale 4
NEUS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
July.
NEW BLOCK TICKETS
JULY 4th ( Cont' d from page 3)
PLACED
back in harness for the day,
1949
IN EFFECT
the marchers
Under
Showman
the watchful
and i'tose
eye
Taylor,
of Dick
the
new series
of block t4. ckets, carefully designed to
meet the varying demands of the touring
public,
went
hitch
into
effect
without
Jack Upshur,
second...
a
with the opening of the Magazine
and Sam Peach
serving
information,
fan
Vernon Spratley
dog- catching,
and baby -
the
and Guardhouse and are receiving the
Caskey)...
steady runchings
playing of the Fort Eustis
the marching of the troops
exhibition
of the escorts
buildings.
The new block tickets
same
at the
general
format
with
all have the
o]. d- style
Eustis ( "
General.
typography and individual sketches of
it
seven
color
and
legend
to meet
for children,
and between
which
are
punched
They are varied
admission.
upon
ces
buildings
the
student
the five-
heat...
A mighty
Smith)...
Marines...
the
the
the
heat...
the
Why didn' t I have
bemoaned
concession ?"
to the
as a joint police,
committee...
watching
boom in fan sales ( "
a
getting
off at 10: 30 a. m.
10% Ivc-
the
fine
spirited
band...
from Ft.
bunch,"
the
said
always
heat...
the
perfect
relief
that
didn' t rain:
in ink
differen-
and adult rate
and seven - building
C&
M NOTES
the
largest
combinations.
The
three
new
arrangements
choices
give
of methods
of seeing
buildings - -( 1)
exhibition
the
the
pulled
seven -
building block ticket including repeated
to
admission
2)
all, (
the
new
five -
good
seven
for
exhibition
period
of
adults, $
and
to
buildings
all
during
the
It is
set at $ 3 for
over 12 years
personnel,
between
7
and
and
11
p1.. 20
years
for
of
age.
The new five- building combination
for
for
students
and $.
90
admission
Guardhouse,
Wythe
60
House
for
Admission
adults
broke
the
there
seem
his
line:)....
adults
to
and $.
at the Magazine
Capitol,
and
the
Raleigh
Gaol
been
has
and $.
30
Palace
60 for
for
children.
House
either
children.
or
it
Tavern,
set
at
children.
is $ 1. 50
Ludwell- Paradise
adults
he
the
season.
line
off. (
One
of
to
remember
a
large
the
for
For
is $. 30
the
for
Bill Bentien, Accounting
divided
his vacation
between
the Race Track and Shark fishing at Ccean
City
Lorraine Haislip just returned
from
a
week'
mountain
in
s
vacation
air;
the
Washington,
part
of
which
was
latter
D.
C.--
part
she
birthplace
spent
of " hot
Randy Lee is also trying to
air"
escape the local weather conditions by
retreating ( if a Lee has ever retreated)
to
the
joined
Department
W.
Ryan
ranch
at
will
the
in Gene
plans
received
Tait
Schuyler
mountains
recently
children.
Single
and
1. 25
adults, $
where
of
spent in Roanoke breathing that good ole
ticket is good for one visit to any five
of the exhibition buildings during the
of one week.
It is set at $ 2. 40
period
for
lake
fish
He still has all debating as to what the
fish was.
After pulling a long time, he
Department,
1. 75 for students
enlisted
children
visits
week.
one
water
biggest
sunken tree at the spot where Rod hung
building.
repeated
fresh
the
finally
The new seven -building block ticket
is
in
natives
building ticket covering admission to
any five, or ( 3) single admission at
any exhibition
Rod Small spent the 4th fishing on
visitors
to
C&
spend
drivers
need
much
Roberts
M Accounting
Sheldon' s office
Walkers
her
P.
his
vacation
on
his
Ann McCulley just
license
Mary
rest
after
all
the
cramming she is doing to get her learner' s
permit.
MarKent
Stevens
�July, 1949
NEWS
Coloni '
of
Williamsburg
Page 5
AS OTHERS SEE US
In the daily mail that flows into CW, there are, happily, often words of
appreciation
and compliment from visitors who were particularly impressed
found here.
Among the more recent of these is the letter
they
with
what
from
George
0.
Ludcke,
Jr.,
of
Genera?_ Mills,
Inc.
in
fact
to
we
might
a
tribute
add
that
of
the
department
We quote it herewith
all
the
a member
members
SeaBee'
s
of
the
letter
public
in its entirety
sent
as
service
since it is
By way of postscript,
organization.
was
of
requested. -
The
Editors)
My wife and I had the privilege of spending four memorable days of our recent
honeymoon at Williamsburg.
Undoubtedly you receive many complimentary letters
help adding mine.
We were greatly impressed,
of course,
such as this but I cannot
with the manner in which
the Restoration has captured both the historical detail and also the graciousness
of living which characterized your little city when it was the hub of Colonial
America.
I sincerely
Williamsburg
believe
and its historic
that each citizen
neighbors,
who is fortunate
Jamestown
and Yorktown,
enough
to visit
will come away a
better American.
We were happy to see democracy at work in your city just as the early statesmen who were members
of the House
of Burgesses
in the
capitol
intended
it should.
We were happy to see Jews and Negroes enjoying this shrine of American history in
and welcome
to it.
harmony and accord with their fellow- Americans, - We were happy
to see hundreds
of people
in cars
ranging
from shiny Cadillacs
to dusty jalopies, which bore license plates from every state in the union, enjoying
your
reconstructed
city.
We were happy to hear
as they drank
in the scenes
all
these
hir:.
that preceded
varied Americans talking
the birth of our nation.
a little
quieter
We felt that old John D. Rockefeller must be pretty proud of John D. Jr. for
diverting some of the family' s fortune to this living memorial to America' s past.
We were happy to note that accommodations and rates are such that prices need be
trip to Williamsburg
were pleased at Virginia' s liquor laws which must help some
the entire city as you desire it.
no
barrier
to
those
who
can
afford
the
from
their
in keeping
We
homes.
the
tone
of
We were proud of the students of William and Mary, many of whom work in part
time jobs for the Restoration, and all of whom show remarkably good manners toward
the tourists who throng their beautiful campus.
We were pleased at the cordial hospitality
the
Restoration,
from
the
oil
station
attendants
we received from all ernp?.oyees
to the
gracious
ladies
who
of
are
hostesses in your many public buildings.
A former ' Sea Bee' from somewhere in Michigan or perhaps it was Pennsylvania,
who revisited Williamsburg,
He
has
written
a
letter
expressed the feelings of all of us who visit your city.
hangs in the vestibule of Chowning' s Tavern.
May I
which
ask for a copy of that letter?
I spent six years in the Marine Corps in World War II, two years in the European Theater and two years in the Pacific, and I know well what your Sea Bee means,
having seen lads from all parts of this country of ours, give their lives for this
country.
I hope you will find it possible
more of the Spirit of Williamsburg,
brochures
can
possibly
do."
to grant me this favor as that letter reflects
past and present,
than any of your excellent
�6
Page
NEWS
HOSTESS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
BRIEFS
of Mrs.
July,
Shipman on N. Henry Street.
Bonnie"
Another exhibition building, new
tickets, the Common Glory, all came
The
July.
with
new
tickets
ning house,
week in the mountains
of Virginia,
stopping at Lynchburg and Natural
Bridge
Fannie Lou Stryker is enjoying the` company of her daughter
It' s a safe guess
purchasers.
Brown of the Wythe spin-
with her husband and daugh-
ters, Barbara and Mary Lou, spent a
were
launched without difficulty by competent clerks and were well received by
the
1949
that, so far as junior is concerned,
the latest addition to the exhibition
her
vacation
buildings,
has
returned from her vacation in FloriChi oro Marsh has seen daughter
the
most
kets
the Magazine,
is going to be
Heretofore
popular.
in the Palace
Evelyn who came from New York to spend
the mus-
have claimed
da
his
eclipsed
by the
doah
show at the
department;
hostess
and
will
Le
in
Spotswood
costume
We are glad to have Muriel
polis to greet her new grandson, William
D.
Honeycutt is appearing frequently as
escort
Adolph
Annette Wattles made a trip to Anna-
There rave been numerous additions
the
Mildred
Spencer back at her place in the office.
Magazine
to
home
Nancy off to summer camp at Mont Shenan-
eager attention but they have been completely
at
Spiegel,
Jr.,
who
arrived
June
10th.
Novelle Green spent a week in Kinston, N. C. guest of her sister, Mrs. L.
before
long
Jo inn Smith has been doing
sco intensive stt. 3y and observation and
will soon be taking groups through the
C.
buildings. Jo Ann is the wife of John
Smith who has been an escort for some
Raleigh Tavern was the center of a great
ti
....
Cynthia
Edwards,
a student
On the first official day of
summer,
the
whose
husband
any Mary,
ess
Mrs.
summer...
lice
is a student
alarm
Wise
Jr.
Street.
cester
at William
Skillman,
when
sounded.
at
11
With
the
a. m.,
admirable
the
fire
promptness
the fire trucks dashed up Duke of Glou-
Holland,
No smoke nor flames
greeted them, only the incessant clangs
is a recent addition to host-
ranks
and the hottest to date,
commotion
at
William and Mary is preparing to escort
during
Ferrell.
of
has
the
fire
alarm
gong.
Crowds
waited
According to all
the little devices on the fire alarm, the
expectantly
outside.
Gvndol. yn Haller and Ruth Woody of City
Raleigh
in
Foint,
was discovered and in a few minutes busi-
been
the
added
to
the
Hopewell,
list
of gaolers
Virginia
are
here
for
They are living at the home
summer.
RECIPE
OF
THE
Here' s a refreshing
12 Sprigs
MONTH,
No.
concoction
Fresh
ness
10
for
was
was
resumed. -
WILLIAMSBURG
a
flames.
INN
But
not
a
Mary L.
MINT
spark
Daniel
PUNCH
humid afternoon ( or evening) gathering:
Mint
cup Lemon Juice
1 cup Hot Sugar Syrup
1 pint canned Grapefruit Juice
1 quart Gingerale
Pour
stand
1
juice
and
to
which
syrup,
taste
hour
in
should
covered
chill.
according
be
very
container.
hot
but
not
boiling,
When cool,
over
mint
leaves.
Let
add lemon juice and grapefruit
Add cold Gingerale when ready to serve. Spirits may be added
to
Harold
Loughrie.
Fills
14
punchcups.
�July,
NEWS of Colonial
1949
THE
and
and
just
plain
fat,
slim,
the
of
Lodge.
Sigma. was holding
and
the
girls
old
Tri
its annual convention,
46
were
rally-
I' ve been in the hotel business
I
twenty - one years," Tommy said. "
started in 1929 or so when I was still
for
keeping house for 300 females of varying ages would be a job to frighten the
My first job was mail clerk
and then,
lion- hearted,
calling for as it
To
and
diplomacy.
Tommy Moyles, the slight, trim, end greying and affable manager of the
Lodge,
after my spell in the Bank of
the United States, I went into the hotel
business for good in hew York."
Mr.
Moyles
Comes
How
did he
come
was
a
collectively
little
more
attractive than,
Association
and
aight
the
but
still
as
night
It
auditor
old annex
up
the
When
ladder.
Lodge opened,
he was
gular night auditor,
of Outer Mongolian
Merchants,
1939
where Chowning' s is now."
From there on, Tommy went str-
bigger,
charming
say,
in
to Williamsburg
Williamsburg?
to
for the Inn and the
it was just another
convention;
Fish
school.
in the Pittsburger Hotel in Pittsburgh,
tact
courage,
stopovers,
the homey
in
does,
of
every job in a hotel except cook or
ing around each other with great cheer.
To many people,
the business of
most
a multitude
waiter.
Good
of ' 04 and '
lies
during which Tommy held just about
buxom
brunette,
blonde,
and whatever is left, filled
corridors
poles
girls, young,
undeterminable,
7
MR. MOYLES
IMPECCABLE
The year was 1947;
old,
Page
Williamsburg
no-
thing out of the ordinary.
The handling of large
groups is but one of the many
there
big jobs for Tommy and his
to -war transitional
colleagues
1943 he was upped to execut-
in
the
ions
Most
of
tourists
home
ive
division,
years
later,
dur-
and January when
inclined
to-, rds
The increase ir due,
the
Tommy Moyles,
panelled
office
us all about himself,
ness,
and
how
much
he
and told
the hotel busiit.
liked
It' s
a
Greek
to
who
the
wanted
to
genial
dependencies.
Latin
gentleman
guides the destinies
its
teach
In
who
manager
and
of
In
the
three
in 1946,
position
peace -
period.
he took
as Resident
Lodge.
is
back
again
ends around
earlier,
at
His
nine o' clock,
sometimes
pending on business.
Tommy is well known
burg in hotel circles.
five.
later,
outside
Proof
of
de-
Williamshis
ability is found in the fact that he recently completed H. term as President of
now
the Virginia
of the Lodge and
between
the
at
named
and
long jump from the Duquesne University
student
but
sometimes
sat in his
at the Lodge
two,
day finally
cool and
unruffled by the July heat,
the
in
was
hours .left over from has brief foray into financial circles.
The only day he
He comes into the
off is Monday.
t4-Ykes
office at nine in the morning and leaves
at
tine.
looking
of
clerk
he
Tommy does not keep the bankers
to activity cn the part cf Allty
convention
assistant
over his present
Manager
say
Boyer in New York and Tom McCaskey in
the Goodwin Building, who have convinced many groups that winter time is
perfect
manager
hotel
December
hearth.
Tommy,
assistant
rooa
1942,
convent-
the
feel more
In
Inn end
come to Williamsburg
ing November,
regular
Inn.
the
Department
of the Williamsburg
Lodge.
to
the
named reand from
those
two
ers
of
Chapter
America,
an
of the hotel
organization
Greetnot
given. to choosing its president lightly.
Continued
on
next
page)
�8
Page
NEWS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg,
MOYLES ( cont' d from page 7)
ERNEST
July.
FRANK
PROMOTED
ARCHITECTURAL
He was Virginia correspondent for the
Southern Hotel Journal, and is a member
of the Virginia Hotel Association.
Ernest
work
While Tommy can still run off a
Latins
except
declares
that no
hotel
as
nating
them,"
Greeks).
been
a
his
you see new groups of people almost
the average stay here is
We suggest cynically that
perhaps they weren' t so wonderful when
of
department.
Pa.,
days
and has become
a
Ernie
at Cornell
a specialist
architecture
registered
Virginia
Archit-
architecture
undergraduate
vicinity.
He is
state
of
been
of
has been acting
the
Lansford,
of
in the colonial
make it fascinat-
in
student
University,
pointing
the people
shop) "
native
started
has
Director
designer
since
of
first
ago,
He previously
has
fasci-
because
who
years
Assistant
chief
A
through his
office
door at the Lodge lobby; ( guests
were milling around at the desk and the
gift
he said,
is as
It' s
ten
as
Tommy now
business
work. "
Frank,
ecture.
they would for anybody,
and
TO
ASSISTANT
CW
appointed
few phrases in the classical, languages
have lost most of their charm for him
as we imagine
with
1949
and
of this
architect
in
corporate
a
member
the
ing;
of
every day...
two days."
He has previously been associated with
bills. "
had
That'
not
s
People
two
are
checks
said. "
bounce
fair,"
Tommy
I' ve only
honest...
bad
on
me
American
Institute
of
Architects.
Mott Brothers Builders of Long Island
engaged in preparing drawings of small
houses; with Madigan - Hyland Consulting
Engineers in the preparation of parkway
grading plans and later in Puerto Rico;
it came to passing bad checks and beating
the
in
and
with
We both sat silenttwenty ly for a minute or so, admiring this
display of integrity in a world filled.
Eggers
with axe - murders,
the
office
of
John
Russell
Pope,
Pacific.
one
years."
and
Higgins,
architects
in
New
York
During the war he served for
City.
eighteen months on destroyer duty in the
spy rings and investi-
gations.
He
first
joined
the
The day we talked to him, Tornrny
looked distressingly cool in a seer-
department
sucker
suit,
collar,
architectural
ly under Mario Campioli.
wilted
a
stiff,
and
and
somehow
immaculate
new
un-
Tommy,
Junior,
Kitchen.
in
the
Tommy,
Market
Jr.,
has
Square
his
and
heart
Marines
FANFARE
and
FOR AN
colonial
OLD
assemble
can
Horace
set
ARSENAL - (
soldiers
the genial,
the hotel
Tommy,
rattle
as
well
guard
at
the
In
1939.
will
work
his
direct-
Guardhouse
in
layout
the
at
advance
off
a
the
as
man who knows
backwards
good
next
and forwards,
translation
on
next
Capitol
of
the
Tommy Moyles.
Piedmont
page) -
Top row,
modern
for
parade;
General
the
Smith
and Common Glory -ites
ceremonies;
center
row,
General
Commanding Ninth Air Force, and Colonel Evans, Commanding 4th Fighter Group, discuss a fine point of the jet fly bys; the colorful parade passes the LudwellParadise House; Winthrop Rockefeller and General Smith reach for pencils to
accommodate
autograph
and guests inspect
Connally of Texas
seekers;
the Magazine
center
bottom
row,
following
chatting
with
luncheon
the
General
guests
tete - a - tete
at
ceremonies -- that' s Senator
Smith
of
the
man...
Don
calls for " peace power" in his address at the Guardhouse;
stand
he
friendly
business
Impeccable Mr.
on attending Notre Dame.
So behind the smoothly running Lodge
MILITARY
responsibilities
stands
his wife and son,
live
in April,
buckskin
We felt very untidy.
shoes.
CW
of
and
Minor
Wine
the
Tom
Thomas.
Inn;
Old,
�MILITARY
FANFARE
FOR
AN
OLD
ARSENAL
�SOFTBALL
VIGOR
Mary Jane King shows the girls how it' s done,
TO RIGHT,
they
are
MarKent Stevens,
Miller,
Grace
Raiter,
Joyce McCoy,
Annabel
Jody Crowder,
Peggy Fisher and Elizabeth
LEFT
Thomas,
Casey
Bennett.
Joyce McCoy out at first on a close play
during a recent Practice of CW' s Women' s
Softball Team.
The first basewoman stret-
ching a la Lou Gehrig
is MarKent
Stevens.
ABOVE,
John
one.
LEFT,
Hugh
Vaughan,
Seal,
and
Robert
Charles
Autry swings
Harold
Sparks,
Charles
Patrick,
Phillips
at
Frank
Hackett,
Bill
wait
a
high
Gooch,
Newton
Stillwell,
their
turn.
�July.
1949
AT
NIGHTS
Was
who
it
won
it Grantland
lost...
or
was,
Colonial
NEWS.,
the
CW
it'
DIAMOND
THE
Rice who
how
s
Softballers
you
can
said " It matters
the
Dean.
So far unable
to notch
the
girls'
and
teams
they'
had
ve
lot
a
men' s
fun
of
agree
their
can
at
It
trying.
not
If
game. "?
play
and will
the
the
Pape 9
Williamsburg
with
first victory,
least
is
claim
unfortunate
that things have gone wrong in their games to date,
but we can console
knowledge
fact
ourselves
even
time
from
slumps
ical
that
that
the
to
time.
cellar
the most outstanding
in 1945,
St.
Browns
for
As
facts.
bration
Red
example
in 19. 44.
have
being
Let
General
these
around
Sox
It is 4 matter
dwellers
won
Smith
parts, "
us
of histor-
pennants,
the Boston
Braves
and even the /
gain
said
The
have
the Chicago Cubs
the Cincinnati Reds in 1940,
Louis
these
and
Also, incredibly enough,
1914.
of
with the refreshing
Yankees
strength
in
a
from
recent
cele-
too
stakes
high
irresolution." <.
The
CW Softballers
have
drawn a great
deal
of
credit for their do - or -die spirit in their long hours of
and
practice
ment,
recreational
out
CW supplied
games.
the uniforms
and
equip-
while other CW employees have provided a spark in the
to
the
know
teams
Wednesday
program
re
we'
night,
of endorsement
and support
by coming
They say that' s the best way to let the
games.
them
behind
all
the
The girls play every
way.
and the men twice a week.
The Community
League
The softball league in which the teams compete has been sponsored
Committee.
by the city for several years through the Community Recreation
laid
has
cooperation
the
out
diamond,
set
up
the
lights
furnished
and
the
Community
The
fence.
bleachers belong to the College, but have been generously loaned to the Committee for
the
summer.
The
league
divisions,
two
has
men' s
and
women'
s.
The
girls'
league
has
three
teams; CW, College Pharmacy, and the Blue Belles, allegedly from the Chesapeake and
of
Every fourth game for each team is played against an out Company.
On the distaff side, the CW squad includes Grace Raiter, Peggy Fisher,
Telephone
Potomac
-town
team.
Jody Crowder,
Ethel Brown, Virginia Marston, Miriam Shea, Elizabeth Bennett, Mary
Tait, Mar Kent Stevens,
the
baseman
on
Thomas,
Vivian
three
games
Bob Ward,
the
face
Mary Jane King ( to our knowledge the only left- handed second
the
of
Moses,
Casey
and
girls
have
Bland Crowder,
Margaret Koehler,
earth),
Miller.
played ( as
and B.
A.
Virginia
of
Fisher,
July
Larry Ward,
Meador
12).
husbands
has
Joyce McCoy,
pitched
in all
of
Anabel
the
A vote of thanks should go to
and coaches all, who have gener-
ously given up their time to tutor the girls in the complexities of softball.
Men' s
The
and
each
men'
s
plays
team
two
in
moves
games
a
week.
r^ ague
Eight teams comprise that male league,
Harold Sparks, Newton Seal, William Shannon, and
faster
com.
par.,..
continued
on
next
page)
�Pag,e 10
NEWS
Colonial
of
WOMAN' S PAGE FEATURE
The NEWS,
called
being short - staffed,
well - known
sypdicated
writer
Amazons.
ribbon.
Hollywood
Girls,
of society news,
Her account
but
the
score
of the game was
without
in
position
left
of the game
mention
second
manner
noticed
in
a
field.
And
a
wind -
and
blown
had
fixed
hair
she
NIGHTS AT THE DIAMOND (
s
in
didn'
t
am
not
is
cal': ed
sure
the
how
it
explain
on
it
the
to
New
me.
second
game
Times)
tried
only she isn' t there any more,
there
before
the
line
can
to
played
credit,
an
at
the
fans
have
shown
which
It
place.
is
so
close
the whole
that
one
complexion
of
league.
a modicum
A
ous
to work - weary
has
been
put
keeping the fans posted on the
the
scores,
sandwiched
of
patter
also
hear
resight
of comfort
loudspeaker
and
and interpretation
between
throughout
the
usual
devoted
the
an amusing
the
number
One
game.
and qual-
to the umpires'
abilities
of
the
vari-
players.
and the
she does,
so it
out.
third
too.
John Good-
and William Atkinson.
and
ity of remarks
I can tell
as
We all should be very
proud of our girls for making such a
rare
and
unusual
play.
Joyce McCoy, who
counts
Robert
Charles Phil-
in the pennant race,
can change
of rules,
Who is a sports
As near as
Hackett,
at this moment is being led by the Williamsburg Shop, with a three way tie for
into use,
it involves someone catching a ball and
throwing to a base where a runner was,
ball gets
attended,
batters,
double- play."
I
happens,
but , Lrthur
York
Bonine
spectators.
a "
Daley ( Dear Arthur,
writer
George
render
crowd to its feet roaring in acclamation two enemy runners were put out
what
Charles
Bleachers have been set up and
game.
And in a play that brought
in
girls.
cont' d from page 9)
William Stillwell,
much interest
with John Goodbody' s timely hitting in
men'
our
All the games so far have been very
well
have a chance to bat, Vivian' s sparkling
play afield gave the Publications Department something to cheer about, along
the
Vaughan,
body,
unVivian
her
Although
style.
as
lips, John Autry, Roger Small,
efficient
which unfortunately
went
by the capacity crowd.
shorts,
and
Patrick,
was eye - catching in a white shirt and
brown
side,
attractive
chic
Hugh
who held
quiet,
other
and Curtis Owens have been the mainstays
of a pitching staff, and they are backed
up by a squad that includes Frank Gooch,
of the all round quali-
base
of the
of which were not nearly
slight-
could be printed
ties of Miss Vivian Moses,
down
in favor
so
the game by dropping every fly ball hit
her
34- 3,
even
face glove of yellow leather,
and shows
a commendable disdain for the rules of
into
I cannot
the members
Virginia
Marston lookly against them.
ed positively exquisite in an off the-
no account
that
there „
was
Girl' s
College Stadium, and I want everyone to
though
regret
So,
to
imply is no space.
each and every girl, I say WELL DONE:
Incidentally,
I am told that the score
team played last night at
know that they looked. stunning,
I only
tell you more about this exciting game,
follows.)
The Colonial Williamsburg
Softball
1949
coiffure was set off by a charming blue
Luelleyn
to report on a recent game of the
CW
July,
tire game wearing blue dungarees,
sweat
socks of Battenberg illusion, and her
on an old friend,
Parrsons,
Williamsburg
base,
She
went
deserves
through
no
the
end
en-
SERVICE
RECOGNITION
Thomas
of
year'
s
Crump,
service
on
WI &L,
June
completed
25th.
ten
�July,
1949
PAINT
NEWS of Colonil. Williamsburg
DEPARTMENT
D.
Dianne
J.
GOODWIN BUILDING NEWS
Buckner,
enjoyed
his wife and daughter
a vacation
state and in Washington,
around
D.
C.
the
during the
has
Stubbs
in
vacation
burn
part of
June.
They first visited
Buckner' s home in Richmond and then
has
returned
Gloucester
accepted
Gazette
ginia
Hol-
in
the
Vir-
Jane
a position
Index
from
Marian
Gir-
office
ten left last Friday for two weeks
toured the Valley of Virginia visiting
Natural
Elizabeth
a
latter
Mrs.
Page 11
in
vacation
Bridge and the Endless Caverns.
Chicago
Dorothy
Wollon
After a brief stay in Washington the fam-
spent the Fourth of July week end with
her family in Alexandria.
Marge Phelan
ily returned to Williamsburg and did extra duty at Yorktown Beach enjoying the
had as guests the Fourth of July her
While
sun.
in Washington "
a charming
J.
case
V.
Buck"
of ptomaine
O' Neal,
sister
developed
Mr.
poisoning.
who has recently
joined
the paint staff, made a hurried trip up
to cover quite
Turnpike
Carlisle
to
after
moved
Bed-
to
cross -
down the Skyline
country
home.
D.
A.
McQuatters,
colors,
has
been
glimpse
at
terest. "
the
house
for
Jr.,
Webb,
lobster,
Oscar
his
the
Bostonian
a
novel
with
side
a
of
his
Millard
announces
Martha
to
Clifton
his
son,
has
accepted
Department
a
position
Lois
Church
at
Virginia
Beach
Richard,
Forge,
are
a
guests
Ruth Jolly had as
her sister Janet Jolly and
Cowles
and
position
Ed
her
son
Carter
III
are
Joyce McCoy has accepted
vacation
in
the
Alexander
Treasurer'
is
in
s
Department.
Cooperstown,
New
York, taking part in the seminars sponsored by the New York State Historical Association
Dick
Showman
is
back
in
the
office after deserting us for a while to
the
Caro].
Saturday, June 25 at the
and
Cogle
Archives
ill and Faith Jolly spent the Fourth of July
on
James Lee McMullan,
Millard
to
Misses Tommy Cates and Rusty Hinson
a
daughter,
in
Street
on Scotland
says
kiddies,"
Christian
Church
Houses
recent
showed
Samuel
of
of Gloucester
in-
nature ( literally) a few weeks back when he
went to Virginia Beach for a quiet Saturday
and returned Monday looking for all the
world like a lobster just ready for serving.
marriage
Duke
Charlton
Jeanne
in
Angie
Robert
on
the
for
and
Street.
Mac.
love
Campioli
of historical
points
Education
on Duke of Glou-
Mary and Roy Tait have moved
Kitchen
Selby Mit-
the
over
the Skyline Drive with his. wife and family,
Hope,
In addition the
Tommy and Faith.
group went to Washington to give the kids
a
vacation.
iario E.
one of the Harmon
the man who mixes
recently
s
chell has moved from Nicholson
Added
to all this he managed to visit Luray.
CW' s 1100
week'
family are making their home at the
land over to Front Royal,
then
a
Street
Charlton
ford, then swung down to Cumberland, Maryand
Mrs.
Desmond of BridgeMary Goodwin has
to the Kerr House
cester
Street
Drive
and
Kershaw Burbank and family have
a bit of ground.
from
Leo J.
Connecticut
returned
He visited the strip mining anthracite coal
districts in Pennsylvania, traveling on the
Pennsylvania
Mr.
Reilly of Lakeland, Florida, and
and Mrs.
port,
the coast during the Fourth holiday and
managed
and brother - in- law,
David E.
Virginia.
employed
complete
his
dissertation
Dora
Jenson
of the Costume Section recently spent a
week in New York with her family
Lucille Foster spent the Fourth of July
Virginia
Tom McCas-
Beach....
by the paint department and live in Hampton,
week
Virginia. -
key and family are spending their vaca-
Bill
Williams
tion
The restored area of Williamsburg
totals approximately 1/ 3 square mile or
roughly 215 acres.
end
in
at
the
western
part
of
the
state.
Belo. and Mrs. Norton are spending
their vacation at York' s Camp, Loon Lake,
They will be joined
Rangeley Maine.
there by their daughter and son -in -law,
Continued
on
page
12
�Page
12
GOODWIN
NEWS
BUILDING (
Nancy
and
visit
Mrs.
fore
Bob
Con' t from page 11)
Tannebring.
home
NEWS
in Canada
Eleanor
be-
Duncan
and her son Dick are spending their vacation on a trip through Canada, accompanied by Eleanor' s mother and sister.
We
are
glad
to
see
Williamsburg
Muriel
Spencer
July.
OF CRAFT
They will also
Norton' s mother
returning
Colonial
of
HOUSE
Craft House has four gay new office
employees
within a few weeks
who seem to
like Williamsburg and the other Crafters
and
the feeling is mutual
for:
Elizabeth
Burns, known as " Peggy" comes from Portsmouth,
Virginia,
3 College
and is delighted to have
Lodge on Fraternity
Terrace
back after an absence due to illness
the
Jeanette
Harris of Scottsville, Virginia,
Morris
Peggy and B.
is on vacation
A.
Fisher went to Kannapo-
lis, North Carolina last week where Peggy
Summer
sang at the wedding of her friend, Miss
view
desk;
last
Friday
Vivian
her
on
Moses
left
Lorraine
vacation
Haislip spent her vacation in Roanoke...
Jane
in
Segnitz
New
Mrs.
York
spent
City
and
a week'
Wheat are spending
and Mrs.
cationing
Skyline
Koch
New
spent
two
a month' s vacation
Bob
states
va-
graduates
in
Ernie
Frank
was
Beach
at
Miller'
this
her Craft
House
year.
in
back
her
the
the
Adirondacks.
gladly receives
from
parents
with
Dietz.
in the
Vernon Knapp flew to his home
at Stewart Manor, Long Island, New York
to spend the 4th of July week end with
family...
from
Jean Gie-
her wonderful
vacation
in California.
sunshine
Jean
of California
re-
and `
nesday that we had to say goodbye to our
faithful co- worker and friend, Meredith
With
Meredith
go
our
best
wishes
in her new adventures.
state
Tavern and Colonial
lawn
it comes in nicely since it was just Wed-
his father' s 50th commencement anniver-
his
who left
Pratt from Roanoke who is
Craft House
selmann
turns
Taylor
and spent ten days visiting
Inn
friends
with
flew to the University of Vermont for
sary,
for
Susan
looking for an apartment for herself and
with
at Virginia Beach and on the
Sing and Ars. Moore-
England
the
Gladys
Ohio...
weeks
Jr.:
Ann Read spent a " wonderful week"
Drive
head are enjoying
the
and
Ohio and with
Wheat' s family in Defiance,
Bert
of
their vacation
with their son in Toledo,
Mrs.
Col.
George
son,
her twelve -year old son, Philip; and Ann
Minor, who was one of the Matthew Whaley
s vacation
Buffalo
her
with
the handsome building of the State Highway Department in Richmond to enjoy the
Margaret
Brooks
1949
Russell
McGehee,
stockroom manager,
has just returned from his vacation and
states a lot was accomplished and much
s
for the holi-
day week end.
rest
fun.
and
ly called
the
Clara Charlton
to Sweetwater,
illness
and
death
of
was
Alabama,
recent-
due to
father.
her
Mrs.
Rose Keyser spent the 4th of July
week
Harry B.
end
tion and expects to visit various points
with
relatives
in
Waynesboro.
George Bennett and family entertained
Miss Anne
Appleford
same
end....
week
and brother
from Elkton,
Virginia
from Victoria
Meador'
Md.
s
in Virginia
mother
visited her
maid at the Bigger - Coleman
wedding
took
Estil
place
in
Richmond
and the Carolinas.
the
Helen Geddy was a bride' s
recently
Folk left July 4th for her vaca-
which
Hazel-
Woodley
vacation
for
her
and Eloise
Louise
vacation
Blackwell
Inman
left
are
this
on
week
Becky and Tim Lev-
wood who is in charge of blueprinting
is away on sick leave; he is expected
ering spent the Fourth in Baltimore visitMargaret
Koehler
ing their parents
back
spent
August
graduate
1
Paul
Buchanan,
of the University
a
of Virginia,
has recently been employed in the Architectural
Department.
last week end at her home
in North
Carolina playing soft ball with her five year - old son Billy.
Luta
Sewell
�NEWS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
Page 13
July being right smack in the middle of summer, it' s
the traditional month for vacations and the many vacant
places to be noted as one wanders around the hotels, down
by the warehouse,
through the exhibition buildings,
or in
the Goodwin Building attest the point.
William Landon is missing from his desk at the Construction Department - - he and Mrs. Landon are driving out
to
their
home
old
in Proctor,
Minnesota.
For
a
part
of
the time they will be visiting the family but there are
prospects of good fishing at his uncle' s cabin in " The
a tract of wild country in northern Minne-
Wilderness,"
On the way back home,
sota.
the Landons
will make a
ewide detour to take in a show or two on Broadway- - they
prefer " South
Button
Pacific"
but had
to
Bela Norton nearly always
land
be
hunting
Mr.
Norton
his
state
fishing,
or
would
add, "
his
and
or
be
satisfied
with " High
Shoes."
native
swimmir ,
sailing
Don' t forget
the
state
heads north for New Eng-
about
hiking or golfing,
lobsters,"
as
one
time.
this
Whether
it
Maine offers them all.
who
appreciates
Nancy and her new husband, Bob Tannebring,
Rangeley, with the Nortons for part of their vacation.
the
best
will be at Loon Lake,
produces.
There are several vacant desks over in the Inn and Lodge Reservation Office:
Mary Rosseau is having a little time with her sister in Frederick, Maryland; Ethel
Lyon has joined her family at their cottage at Atlantic Beach, near Moorehead City,
North Carolina; and Crater Popular is away for the entire summer.
The Curator' s Department is getting along without its regular acting director at
the present time while Eleanor Duncan and her son, Dick, are vacationing in Canada.
Eleanor joined her mother and sister for a " real rest" at some quiet spot near Murray
Bay.
Henry
their
the
Beebe
was
country
and Mrs.
Beebe have boarded a train for California with San Diego as
It is somewhat like going home for Henry as that part of
destination.
ultimate
his
stamping
ground
for
fifteen
years
or
En
more.
route
the
Beebes
will visit Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Sequoia National Park, Salt Lake City, Denver,
Colorado Springs, Rocky Mountain National ark and Yellowstone. With such an itinerary,
they should return full of fresh air and magnificent scenery:
Angie Cowles'
desk looks lonesome - - she is doing a bit of traveling also but not
in so much territory.
First, she went to Beaver Dam, Virginia, to pay her sistaking
ter a visit;
for
the
Red
then on Wednesday,
July 6,
in Washington;
Sox up
now,
she and " little Carter"
she
is
spending
some
returning to Williamsburg,
Angie plans to stay sometime
laxing at the friend' s summer cabin on the river.
Some
of
Etheridge
ness,
son,
ing
to
hostesses
a
s
are
also
has gone with her daughter
Kingstree,
for
Dot'
the
family
sister,
South
Mrs.
Jeane,
who happily
in Roanoke.
with a friend in Hampton,
this
has
month
of
recovered
re-
Imogene
July.
from her ill-
There they will join James Etheridge, Imogene' s
Beach.
Dnt Wing and her husband Russell are visit-
Myrtle
Morton
Gooch,
on
ti
river
Severn
near
Annapolis.
cipate the fishing and swimming will be excellent in Maryland waters,
are
Before
Carolina.
at
party
around
gallivanting
were among the rooters
time
They anti-
even if they
Virginians.
However,
crowded
lists
postcards
the best proof the summer urge for " getting away from it all" is the
of
should
resting
be
and
returning
traveling
thick
and
in
the "
fast. -
personals"
A.
L.
columns
Rowe
of
the NEWS.
The
�Page
NEWS
1L
NEWS
FROM
INN
AND
Col_onL.
of
LODGE
SUGGESTION
These hot days are not only melting people, but the news column as
well.
For
energy
to hold a paper and roll
head
of
from
those
line
who
to
still
line,
here
mail
If the employees who submitted Sug-
ago,
McAllister,
the
their
Goodwin Building they will be given an
a
is
the
took " French
got
and
explanation
bit
living
Kentucky
the Accounting Office
Mrs.
Martha
Virginia
new
leave"
is
is
graduate
Steed
at
her
Paulette
Spoiler
jllst
vacation;
she
desk
at
disposition
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBUIRG
FOLLOWING
cottage
Chambers,
at
is
Booker
ATTENDANCE
PRECEDING
PASSED
Gieselmann,
Lucile
Foster,
Clinton
H.
RECORD
RED- LETTER
his
from
hot
is
at
to
has
Kitchen
Bruce B.
Chicago,
as
Otis
THE
ANOTHER
1949, WITH
Craft
FOR THE
House
Jr.,
Quigley,
WI &L
back
from
C &M
Jr.,
C& M
her
Thomas
his vacation
off.
his
Wallace,
hand
June
sent
returned
honeymoon,
Hardy,
Odell,
Williams-
home
cool
to
is
and
now
from
will
the
recover
Haywood,
Ethel Bagley is now
DATES
work
she formerly
a cook
15th,
work
another
from his
and
Inn
June
the
1776
Declaration
1722
Date
the
been
We
rejoin
cook,
of
burned '
ab-
hope
he
John
us
returned
to
Pauline
vacation
Curley is sporting a ring.
Lumbye
HISTORICAL CALENDAR
Independence
read
at
the
Capitol,
the
Courthouse,
Palace.
of the charter
August
3,
1676
Gathering
August
6,
1736
Date
of
Inn,
then
since
soon
at
and he has
Anne
ON THE WILLIAMSBURG
and
granted
of followers
first
issue
in the Virginia
August 8,
1695
Foundations
August
1701
Day on which
8,
their
Curator' s Department
worked in the Inn Salad Pantry
July 28,
of
YEAR:
Jean
June
Lodge
is taking
Frechette
from
as
rested
work
the
working in the new Laundry;
July 25,
the
CONGRATULATES
WHO
SERVICE ANNIVERSARY IN JUNE,
Howard
a
EMPLOYEES
A PERFECT
of Blacksburg,
He
call
is
mountains
Fred
In_
n
a
Barksdale
the
back
at
got
Martha
burg
in
hostess
Paulette.
Mid - west
Abraham
the
in
from VPI in Accounting.
she
the
now
Dick Adams,
Mrs.
and
is
s
replacing
said
of
office
now
Billy Corr of
will visit his
Beach
She
us.
Johnson'
Relations
Lodge
the charming front office cashier, has
left
Personnel
two
She
married.
in
sister,
4460 and 4545 will call at
the
suggestions.
clerk,
weeks
1949
SYSTEM
gestion Nos.
news...
Margaret
at
have
July,
Williamsburg
of
the City of Williamsburg.
of Nathaniel
Bacon
the
Gazette -
Virginia
at Middle
the
Plantation.
first
Colony.
of the College
foundations
of William
of Capitol
from
the
and Mary laid.
building
were laid.
Research
Department
newspaper
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of COLONIAL
NEWS
WILLIAMSBURG
Volume 2 , Number 2
August,
FIRE
Eighteenth
century Williamsburg
will
take to a modern miracle soon.
EQUIPMENT
INSTRUCTIONS
A fifteen-
minute program to be broadcast
1949
over Rich -
moad television will take up the 250th
As part of its organization - wide
arrLversary of Williamsburg with Vernon
campaign to make every CW employee
Geddy telling the story in an interviewtype
discussion.
Tom Williams'
photos
safety
of
various phases of the restored city will
be flashed across the ether as illustra-
of fire extinguishers
been hold at the
The program is entitled " Richmond
Roundtable"
WTVR
scription
and is scheduled
on
Friday, August
of the
at 5: 30 n. m.
19.
portions
sound
the
A
tran-
will
Allan
of
NBC
J.
Jr.,
Fhaup,
coast - to - coast
who
handled
broadcast
of the
July 4th events here.
other
with a total
consisting
Ed
course.
and
women'
of Bob Evans,
Pete
Lee.
There
s
will
events
and
be both men' s
eligible
requisite
five
to
all
employees,
to be
careful
The only preis the submission of
to Len
Biles
Greens
purposes.
be avoided,
his
part.
dents
providing
each employee does
The main cause of all acci-
still is carelessness,
they point
out.
In addition
to Col.
Wheat,
for handi-
J.
O.
Bob Burrage,
Browning,
M. W.
T.
G.
and the
committee
as
as
for
all
the
motion
Thomas and Bert
of safety
throughout
the organi-
zation.
to register
omen'
s
division.
ident' s Cups"
will be sterling
winners
in
1699 -
silver
both men' s and
WILLIAMSBURG'
S
D.
Koch and has as its purpose the pro-
fees will be
possible.
The prizes
bowls
urges
the
Peyton,
dispensed with on the day of the tourney
soon
while
emphasized that on - the -job accidents can
McPherson,
compete.
for entry
scorecards
capping
employees
it
in
work.
Safety Committee is made up of W.
including respective husbands and wives,
are
lost.
The Safety Committee has repeatedly
The tourney will be
held on Saturday, September 24, on the
Inn
of 112 rnanhours
While this record shows improvement,
is still too high, Col. Wheat states
Final details concerning the CW
Golf Tourney have been worked out by a
and
jobs and at
locations.
were twenty -two on - the -job accidents,
TOURNEY
Tucker
construction
strategic
The Safety Committee meeting early
this month revealed that in July there
advising
committee
and at
The sprinkler
Building.
on all
at
GOLF
have recently
Inn and Lodge
system at the Craft House also was testplaced
the same day.
The program will be
broadcast and televised under the direction
Goodwin
various
10: 45
Committee
ed recently and safety posters have been
be
broadcast over WMBG and WCOD ( FM) at
the
the Safety
struction periods on the various types
tion.
over
conscious,
headed by Col. Wheat reports that in-
These
and are
are
look well over any mantel,
bookcase.
250TH
ANNIVERSARY -
1949
the
guaranteed
or on
�Page
NEWS
2
NEWS
AND
CONTENT
a
demand.
pleasant
predictable
New
drums
must
be
for editcr
for
editor
in
the
neither
Although
be
this
dol-
A former editor,
is vestigial, and
like an appendicitis,
should
mid- summer
Iioke to call in an ex-
column.
a
seen
gives
nor
me
heard
a
from..
chance
August.
Colonial_ Williaiasburp
of
excellent
Dunmore -
pipe,
clay
pass along assorted kudos to Bob, Kork
sketch
and
Burbank,
place
improvement
to
the switch
the
the severe
acader : ic
friends
Pierce
and
The
end,
Science
has
der
if anyone
influx
of
for
Campiolis,
and
as
well
assortments
Art of Cookery,
new
ern
home
House
as
of
happily
people,
Beautiful
kitchen,
such equally
neighbors as
won
Clementine
rod -
alongside
celebrated
Sam Chamberlain' s
in
the
Kitchen
and
Fanny Farmer?
Despite
Capitol
Burbanks,
the
style),
box of pencil
three
the
shaped
Browns
joyed"
Gloucester
the
of
And we
and comfortably a -shelf in
for the
or
job
the
I won25 cents ( edvt)....
else happened to notice
The Will.iamsburp
Street has picked up life and
some unusual sounds lately with
in
at
Monitor.
downtown,
of
Don
notes,
cards
acrutiny• of
influenced
of Duke
marked
cen-
Middleton,
including a columnist
Christian
the
from Notre Dame
eighteenth
tury. Hi. s " Announcement"
the July Fourth shindig,
under
for
issues.
recent
of
neatly managed
releases
Piedmont
did
of a double - deck of playing cards ( one
of which features Henry Beebe, puffing
Overly
Don
overtime
blowups.
mounting
a new ( green)
and
Williams
might slip a word also of the appearance
a
to
and
making
Tom
1p19
ball
the
St.
Louis
season currently " enby the CW men' s soft-
outfit,
loyal
rcoters
have turned up for every
the
classic,
Spratleys.
with
booster
Jeff
The booming voice of tree -loving'
Graves even reportedly risking a wager ( 1 - 50 odds) that
Hildegarde,
CW wins
merges
authentic
Great Dane,
with the agrecsive
counter -point ( sic)
wide - ranging
Spratleys.
season
of Richard,
Airedale
patiently
of the
Background
is
a game before
battled
charl. eyhorse,
pro-
the
Rod Small_ has
ends.
umpires,
and
aging
a
vet-
and white performer owned by the Laverys,
erans to nurse the team along,
with new blood offering hopes
for the second half of the scheduler
Any
and
CWers
vided
by Mickey,
the
two
imported
by
perennial
undersized
Bill
and
black
soprano
Anne
Chihauhaus
I•.ean-
Bippus.
find
not
a
yet
while, the Cappons'
cat took. to brooding
to the point of a new litter, thus evening
encounters
the participants
somewhat
between
all
the
sizes
in. this pint -sized war
Small
species.
also
now
range
children
the
of
premises,
2),'
Cappon (
3),
Burbank (
2),
Sparks (
Not
the
be
new
to
of
the
Kocher - Dearstyne
reported
first
overlook
that
the
month:
been requested
and Richmond,
sales
chance
book,
topped
window
in New York,
to
boost
it :right
1000
the
displays
have
Washington,
with reviews - -which are
just beginning to appear -- stirring up
the
staged
to
these
games
each
Gazette,
elT:lost
every every
will
with
evening
dim arclights
Stadium.
College
spectators
in the
For
prefer
to
shadow of
some
reason,
watch
the
girls!
team- perform.
2),
and Spratley ( 1).
in
at seven and eight thirty under the
most
with the latest box -score listing Campioli
exposed
schedule
Allan
Matthews
reports
attendance
at this year' s Common Glory outstripping
last year' s gate despite some spotty
weather.
The
Paul
siderably
revised
Green
this
pageant,
season,
con-
is worth
another visit by CWers- - and is a " must"
for
new
employees.
way threw
a block
The weather,
at the efforts
by the
to get
the Haaker- directed Virginia Symphony
Continued
on
next
page)
�NEWS
NEWS
AND
underway,
cont'
d
of
from
1949
August,
page
Colonial
2)
although the' three scheduled
performances
held.
were
3,
G.
CHANGED
TITLE
EDUCATION
Successive
Page
Williamsburg_
Monday evenings will find the Peninsula
Orchestra, directed by Cary
playing under the stars at the attractive
lakeside
amphitheater.
The Community Fund for Williamsburg
and James City County is past the organ i.
eat: ional stage and' is perfecting plans
for an autumn drive.
Heading the fund= raising will be Bob Wallace, while Mrs.
Guy directs education and publicity.
Although the heat drove many golfers
to
cover,
most enthusiasts
roam the Williamsburg
continue
Iiin col! se,
to
the
a
Dobson,
who (
seventh
drive
for
example)
green
from' the bacl,
iron.
record still stands
The
at 66,
Edu- cation
the
month
tee with
course
Interpretation.
Department
At
the
same
Interpretation
naive to the
It is understood
seeks.
ings. The
Lenempte
and
Williams
b. r' s now pay little
snouts
raised
when
families
attention
two - foot
duties.
Richard
to the
a-
5
Segnitz
art
from
comic
strips
Reception
has
been sent to various CWers by Allen
SeLnders,
who does the continuity for
Worth ", "
ary
srips,
Steve
Roper ",
Ma: ket
of
behind
from
the
Gloucester
is
under
Director
of
the
change
Assistant. The name of the Film
has
been
changed
Audiovisual
to
the
new
Library with Jane
Audiovisual
Librarian. The
Section, Photo Laboratory and
Center
ment
before.
will
of
The
continue
under
Exhibition
other
the
Fuildings
departments
as
of
the
Division --Publications,
and
Archives --remain
Research
other
congestion:
however,
new
of
old
the
stand
on
unchanged.
Farmer'
to a
larger
has
relieved
some
stand,
former
tracked
and
area
patrons,
their
should
favorite
inspect
these
of Marlow
Free,
C & N,
passed
away during the month of July, after
having served with CW for ap roximately a
year. c was a r, of the Group
renber
Life
quarters.
This
brings
us ( if
is
right) to the
the
bottom
of
our
our
count
barrel
as
Insurance
Plan. The
bottom of the page
nears
a:
Duke
Street
have
his
removal
Station
the Fire
uptown
to
department
and was a recent Williamsburg
visitor. The
s
and
Showman
as
Depart
Original
also
Hostess
go
in
Exhibition
and
and
Buildings
title of
neigh -
putts
changed
with Minor Wine Thomas continuing as
the
and
time, the
was
functions
division
Exhibi- tion
Sparks,
that
this
Director
Department of
the
of
Library
and
to
Interpretation
as
of
his
Thorn,
Alexander
name
of
remain the same, the name change being
made to more correctly identify its
despite an
Hackett,
in
title
Division
of
such
as
changed
of
Ed
occasional nine in the low thirties by
performers
better
the
was
Division
with
provide a
functions,
Build-
reached
eight
and
its
responsibil ties
with
tho most spectacular clay turned in by
Jack
To
for
and
well. - J. C.
entire
organization
joins
with the staff of the NEWS in eXtending
sin- cere sympathy to Mrs.
Free.SUGGESTION
SYSTEM
Award
of
Department for his
X10. 00
to
Lyle
N.
Briggs
Suggestion # 4712 that
of
voltage
the
failure
Construction
relays be
Maintenance
instal ed on the
motors
in the pump house under the Inn swimming pool and be so connected that the motors
are dreered out of service just before motor protective devices permanently shut
down se:
when
rvace. This arrangement would
voltage
returns
to
automatically return the motors to service
�Page 4
NEWS
ANNOUNCING
The
Colonial
of
A NEW ARRIVAL
Public
Williamsburg
CHOWNING'
Information
Department
August.
S(
PRONOUNCED
CHEWNING'
1949
S)
and Office Services Section last week be-
Not long ago a courtly Virginia gentleman of the old school entered my office,
came
announced
the
proud
parents
of
an 800
pound
that
he
was
from
Urbanna
on
the
baby.
This offspring has been christened
Elliott Addressing - Machine I, and is expected to pitch right in and help the
In addition to the parents,
sevfamily.
Rappahannock, and graciously observed that
in his opinion Colonial Williamsburg was
justly celebrated for historical accuracy
eral
he
uncles,
cations,
Craft
and
House,
Theatre,
Interpretation,
Publi-
welcomed
the
down
to
in
This
hearts.
at
estimated
size
of the
by t .e fact
arrival
can
be
that part of him
brothers
Mimeograph,
will
and
and
sisters,
Typewriter),
brass
the
be in the Public
Information
Adelaide
has
nurse,
and
Hoffman
invites
all
been
rest
offices.
engaged as
friends
of
the
ing hours are from 8: 30 to 4 : 30,
through Friday.
Monday
said
Research
which
admitted -
put
get
him
we
nrme,
and always
proceeded
to
down
to
it
seems,
But
Chowning.
it "Chew - ning,"
was
has
been in both Virginia
and
England.
Then he laid before my slightly skeptical eyes a quantity of historithrough
Visit-
and
insisted on pronouncing
cal
Machine.
Addressing-
But,"
the
and informed me that it is so pronounced
to
young
even
tacks.
family to drop into the Goodwin Building
see
tone, "
modestly
His
Teletype,
and
I
ease -
will be in Office Services Section ( along
with his
detail. "
minutest
graver
Department is not wholly infallible."
infant monster with open arms and glad
The
the
a
and genealogical
the
data he had gathered
His family had resided
in Middlesex County, Virginia, for three
years.
centuries.
Whenever a member of it signed
a document,
he wrote his surname " Chowning,"
but whenever
uensis
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG
FOLLOWING
SERVICE
EMPLOYEES
WHO PASSED
ANNIVERSARY
A PERFECT
IN JULY,
ATTENDANCE
CEDING
Halligan,
RECORD
THE
FOR
WITH
THE
PRE-
William
E.
Denton
W.
William
Gustafson,
P.
G.
Henry
Exhibition
Exhibition
Speight,
Landon,
Page,
DeWitt
Post,
Edward
A.
C&
C&
Watkins,
Buildings
Buildings
Inn
Inn
and
and
Lodge
C&
Lodge
all
experiment
M
of wnich
like
it
points
to
the
prob-
his
kinsmen
elsewhere
in
spelt his name " Chowning" but pronounced
it "Chewning."
That puts Chowning' s Tavern in the
spelling
and
Henceforth,
M
with
wrote
ability that our eighteenth- century Josiah
same category
a
with
the George Wythe
pronunciation
and
in that its
are
at
let us all be diligent
variance.
in the
observance' of the propriety of pronouncing
M
it
SHORT
An
he
the Taliiafe.rro -Cole houses,
M
C&
narue
the colony and in the Mother Country,
Theatre
Bippus,
Milbard,
Charles
evidence,
Chowning,
Harold
the
Chewning."
From English sources he had similar
phonetically, "
ANOTHER
1949,
YEAR:
Thomas
CONGRATULATES
a county clerk or other aman-
recorded
closed
carriage
Chewning'
s
Tavern: -
A.
P.
Middleton
TOUR
was
started
last
week
to
enable
persons
to
see the city carriage style offering a short ride from the Museum to the Capitol and
return
for
50¢.
This little
jaunt is in addition
to the regular
half hour rides
on
Financially, this self -supported
big circuit for $ 1. 00 in the open carriage.
operation took in more than it I:- d previously with two carriages making longer trips
and
the prospect of heavy feed all winter.
the horses are enjoying
the
�August,
1949
NEWS of Colonial Williarisbur,g_ -
CW' S LANDROMAT
fi
Opening a new laundry is getting'
to be a habit with Armond D. Campbell,
manager of Colonial Uilliamsburg' s
scrub - and suds
Currently, he
is coring up for air after the massive
plant,
job of moving from the old laundry to
the new building on Lafayette Avenue
and getting the operation smooti; ed
out.
The first grand opening in his
career was a hospital
mington,
Delaware,
laundry in Wil-
That was
in 1940.
can
He only stayed there a few months
turn
before he was brought to Williamsburg
the
by John Green to take charge of the
rescent
first plant here, which opened under
his management at the warehouse in
March,
1941.
Now, he' s opened another,
just across the brickyard from the cld
laundry.
Campbell can' t help but Get enthusiastic when he talks about his new
building.
He talks proudly about the
two 125 horsepower generators, the
pair of 5, 000 gallon tanks,
and the
three water softeners each capable of
holding 50, 000 gallons. "
It' s absolute-
ly the newest thing in laundry plants,"
he
says,
The design is functional
throughout, and even the layout of the
main
workroom
straight
flow
is
here...
to be done comes
out
clean
laundries
different. "
that
is,
in one door,
through
and
shaped
layout.
we think it will be more effici t „ t."
Ccr pbel]. also points out that the
new laundry has a forced air cooling
system, which will keep a mass of cool
air circulating at all times through
the building.
This, says ;' erpbell, will
do away with the suffocating heat and a
good bit of the steam smell
laundries.
The
roof
that plagues
is
that long glass skylights jut
face
the
north
to
let
built
so
up and
in daylight.
lights
ultra-
The
laundry.
building is also
equipped with lounges,
modern
rooms,
showers
When
the sun isn' t bright enough, Campbell
and
dining
toilets.
The laundry does all the bed and
table linens from the Irn and Lodge, as
well as the
cooks
and waiters
uniforms.
This new laundry can turn out four hundred thousand
finished pieces
That compares
Campbell. "
says
a month,"
with the
125, 000. pieces we turned out in the old'
laundry.
The summer is our busy season,
and we' ll do about a quarter of million
feces
that
is
month...
every
flat
work...
rinety percent of
napkins,
sheets
and
tablecloths,"
He explained the process that the
dirty laundry
The straight flow is something new; and
most
in his
goes
1Sost •
another.
use a ' U'
We use a
the work
on
flou-
goes
through.
In an up-
stairs
room,
workers
sort out the pieces
and
throw them down two chutes.
These
empty directly into two washers which
pounds
of wash.
Bluing, soap;
water and sour are added automatically,
hold 350
the amount of each determined
by whether
the wash load is " light" or " dirty ".
After a certain tine' has elapsed ( around
four minutes),
thirty the washers automatically
stop and empty the load
aluminum baskets,
on
a
mono - rail
to
into
which are then conveyed
the "
extractor ".
This
machine removes about fifty percent of
the
moisture
from
the
pieces,
continued
on
next
After
page)
this
�6
Page
NEW cif Colonial Williamsburg_
August,
1949
CW' S LAUNDROMAT ( Cont' d from page 5)
SOFTBALL
operation, the flat work goes into a
tumbler."
The tumbler removes wrinkles,
halfway post, the two CW teams are still
and generally
prepare
this,
shakes
them
for
out
the pieces
ironing.
to
in
Following
the "
called
Super Sylon,"
which
the
of
type
in
today.
appears to be a great mass of belts,
aprons,"
and rollers,
use
sensus
It
to take
but it can iron
tablecloths,
sheets
is
process
this:
them
onto a conveyor
through
a
a
or
folding
De-
then
it
on,
The
girls'
be
will
team,
It
easy. (
too,
can-
year
or
so,
in
perhaps);
a
recent
game,
they scored an all time high of nine runs.
So with batti. ng eyes sharpened, and throw-
sheets
ing arms in mid- season
belt which takes
The
machine.
here in the Sports
not be too far away from a winning streak
and tablecloths come off the ironing
rollers
From
here.)
says
and can also iron smaller
The
pieces.
the biggest
However,
victory.
partment is that Victory # 1 cannot be far
It is ninety inches wide, big
enough
first
of opinion
away.
sheets at the rate of ninety feet a
minute.
that
of
in both fielding and hitting, and - the con-
Ce mpbe.11 says is one of two imp :'oved
machines
quest
in the games played in the second half,
both teams have shown marked improvement
the flat pieces are fed into an
ironer
As the softball season rounds the
form,
we can rea-
sonably expect some heartening news on
the softball front before long.
smaller pieces also go through the roll -
For the benefit of our thousands of
readers, here is the schedule of games
ees,
to
but are automatically
into
machine
there,
another
the smaller
er machine
counts
which
sent by the
From
conveyor.
pieces
folds,
go into anoth-
stacks,
and
from dropping in-
to the washer to coming out clean and dry
The new system and new ma-
minutes.
chines
flat
will
work (
turn
out
about
about
900
pieces),
450
pounds
and
of
the
new
laundry will have a 50 per cent increase
in
finished
output
over
folding machine folds,
2700 pieces an hour,
to Campbell,
production
the
The
old.
following
stacks and counts
which is, according
paced by mascot
The season ends on August 25,
the distaff title,
men'
s
game
one
of
the
iastically
guests.
chine
in the dry cleaning
Campbell
points
out
a
ma-
department.
then
successful
will
con-
recrea-
with every game well and enthusattended.
Campbell came to Williamsburg in
he
says. "
In
end
is
clean
press.
and
dry.
Another
here until he went
Al] .
laundry
still
mp' bell.
But
1945,
he
duties.
In spite of the habit,
and
in
where he was an instruc-
tor in the Navy Training School Laundry.
returned to his
this
in dirty and dry,
and remained
After his discharge in October,
This is the coming thing in the dry
do
which the
This
hand workers.
Lodge
to
when
seen around these parts
the Navy in 1944,
have
played.
most
tional programs
in years,
following
be
will
tion of the new valet service for Inn and
you
Bernice
the final championships are decided.
The two best girls' teams will tangle for
1941,
business,"
the
the game between CW girls ( the
but the slack is taken up by the institu-
end you put clothes
they come out this
17,
able.
The work to be done in the new laundry requires less employees than the old,
cleaning
August
week:
Hudson, and College Pharmacy. Up to press
time, that- was the only schedule avail-
clude
roughly equivalent to the
of three
next
men' s team will play the VFJ immediately
at the other end, takes just about fifty one
played
Restorettesi),
them.
The whole process,
be
opening a new
held headaches
when
the
first
for Armond
pile
of
trend is the use of Perkoethylene for
cleaning purposes instead of petroleum
sheets tumbled down the chute right on
schedule, everything became as bright and
shiny as that new Super -Sylon to Armond
products."
Campbell -- Laundryman
par
excellence,
�CW' S YOUNGSTERS
Jimmy,
GRAND -
Mary
4;
OF
CHILDREN
MR. &
1; Dennis Honeycutt, 3
MRS.
FLOYD HONEYCUTT (
WI& )
L
Karen Lee, 3
DTR.
OF TOM WILLIAMS
PHOTO)
Audrey Lynn, 5
DTR OF
HAROLD
LOUGHRIE
WI& L)
Bill,
SONS
Kremer, 2
OF BOB HOKE (
PUB.
INFO.)
Ned,
6
Bobby, 3 yrs.
mos.;
CHILDREN
OF
BOB
WILLIAMS
cam)
Ellen Reid,
DTR.
OF
JULIAN
6
DICKENS
C& M)
Billy, 5
SON
OF
MRS.
MARGARET
ACCOUNTING)
KOEHLER
Jeanne Allison Thomas,
GRAND -
DAUGHTER
OF
MR. &
WIBL)
MRS.
15 mos.
RALPH
MOODY
�Phyllis
DTR.
James Saunders,
GRAND -
SON
OF
mos.
CHARLES
MRS.
Jr.,
CARTER
HOSTESSES)
Michael,
SON
OF MRS.
5
HOKE
SMITH
WI& L)
Nancy,
CHILDREN
OF
Link, 6
LYMAN
PETERS (
CbM)
OF
Maureen,
WENDELL
20 mos.
WRIGHT (
WI& L)
�August,
1949
NEWS
Colonial
of
Williamsburg
CRAFT HOUSE NEWS
Vacation
R.
time
is
here
again
T." (
and
the surf being wonderful
guests
Mrs.
Mrs.
G.
W.
returned
brother,, Horace P.
Jones,
Baltimore
ill
and
Odell,
Mt.
time',
whose
father,
Vernon,
N.
Odell
flew
Mrs.
Y.,
Parke
V.
Otis
Hogan,
of
motored
spent
Harris
and
to Scottsville
the
and Mrs.
week
with
George
Oliver
from
and
his
Washington...
clerk,
spent
in
William
Rose,
who has played
the
band.
left us to join the staff of the International School of Art and is now
Dr.
relatives...
shipping clerk has
vacation,
Most interesting letters have
been received from Meredith Dietz, who
Dorrier
last week and
with
end
Sladen of
the drums in Jimmy Lunsford' s band,
to be with
Catharine
of Brooklyn,
went to New York to fill an engagement
her family.
Susan
Adams
Maryland.
also a shipping
died very suddenly.
to New York
George
Arthur Landon,
had been
to Mrs.
and the water
Batler and Mr.
Cambridge,
Mrs. Harry Folk, who was called to the
Eastern Shore by the death of her
some
of the Shipping
COLDIII Betty Cross has had as recent
This column extends sympathy to
for
Lampkin)
7
Department spent last week end at Virginia Beach with relatives, and reports
Jack Upshur is one of the fortunate
ones missing the heat wave in Williamsburg - though he and Mrs. Upshur chose
Atlanta, Georgia and visited relatives.
who
Page
have moved from
traveling
with a group in Mexico,
Scotland Street to one of the newly
she
decorated
where
fiestas gay and colorful.
George
College
houses
on
Prince.
atreet...
Young Philip Pratt, who
has been spending tLe summer at Camp
Roanoke,
Ph lip
has
joined
his
Russell
Pratt...
Gra.; er Heights,
mother,
challenges
of. Mc-
anyone
if
the
Showman - Sparks
August
DATES
20,
1716
garden
4,
1632
the
Einstein,
in Princeton.
From
the
18th Century to the Atomic Age is quite
a jump, but she seems to have taken it
can
in
her
stride.
Anne
HISTORICAL
Read
CALENDAR
Day on which Gov.' Alexander Spotswood and companions set out from
Williamsburg for expedition over the Appalachian Mountains
Knights
September
and
lives across the street from Professor
Albert
ON THE WILLIAMSBURG
cool
the Institute for Advanced Study, and
to
cozpare or is Harold Sparks too busy
burning up the golf course?
RED- LETTER
weather
Mrs. John D. Leary, formerly our
Mrs.
McGehee
the
Assistant Manager, is now assistant to
Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer, Director of
raise bigger and better tomatoes or
cabbage than he has in his garden.
Gfor_
der
reports
of
the
Golden , iorseshoe"
expedition) .
Act passed encouraging the settlement of land between Archer' s
Hope
Creek
Note:
and
Queen'
s
Creek -
subsequently
Middle
Plantation.
This was the fifty first act passed by the General Assem-
As the
bly which convened at Jamestown on September 4, 1632.
journals of the Assembly are not in existence,
we do not know
the
September
5,
1774
exact
Sate
The Continental
on which
Congress
the
met
bill was
at
introduced
Philadelphia.
ing Peyton Randolph. of Williamsburg
At
and the act passed.)
the
first
meet-
was unanimously elected Presi-
dent.
September 14,
1781
Generals
where
Washington,
Rochambeau,
they were greeted
and Hand arrived in Williamsburg,
with enthusiasm.
from
the
Research
Department
�Page
8
NEWS
GOODWIN
BUILDING
Colonill
of
NEWS
Williamsburg
August.
to
marriage
Bernice
L.
Smith...
1949
Helen
Geddy visited
their
John and Harriet Goodbody have announced
the
birth
of
a
daughter,
Joan
Nancy and Dick Foster
Irvington,
home
in
Harvey Kelley is spending part of his
Tuthill, on July 14 at Johnston- Willis
in Richmond...
Hospital
Casey Miller is
vacation
has accepted
a position
spending
Department...
Bill
three weeks vacation at Gilman -
ton, New Hampshire,
Mildred
Layne
spending
House...
man
the
and New York City...
of the New York Office
her vacation
Annabel
staff of the Virginia
Alice
New
Fehr
York
has
Gazette
Pierce
City...
Middleton
Joan
fice
visited
from
Erthal
Virginia
last
us
Alma
exciting"
vacation
week,
where
training
Lee
end
Captain
in
rangement
and
a"
Washington
in
an
of
with the National
of Congress
Maryland
The
purpose
ize
the
of
the
custodian
script
material
phases
of
work
the
Archives,
is
to
to remove
parked
turned
at
held
Sulphur
White
at
vacationing
in
most
turned
has
Rose
from
also
Prior
ment
has
as
mother
a
joined
the
Hotel
Keyser
returned
and father
with
him
ceiving
congratulations
recently...
leaves
this
Temagami
Rod
week for
region,
Jones
Bernice
from
a
week'
has
re-
Hudson
s
vacation.
L. M. S.
FAREWELL
Bowers
Corps...
Robert
Carl
Taylor'
Gscar
Cooke
Departs
S.
on his recent
the
Architectural
Department, aided and abetted by Grace
Raiter, who makes out the pay checks,
gave Larry Curtis,
estive
party
one of the newer
a gay and
send - off at a farewell
15th.
July
bigger
all
is
of
cocktail
Larry resigned for
and better
fields
in Venezuela.
The party was held in the James Geddy
Garden, convenient to Ralph' s living
the
from Spartanburg,
visited
They were
authorities.
r? raftsmen in the Department,
Jeff
Architectural
draftsman...
from a station
Eustis
vacation...
ARCHITECTURAL
Bar
Island...
Beach
Training
Fort
Ontario...
of
Architectural
Guard
Eustis
trip in Lake
quarters
National
Fort
a radio
Priest
two
Virginia
from
at the Lodge.
to
is spending a week at Mt. Lake,
Virginia... Eunter Chaulkley
is spending
at
proba-
and
Graves
weeks
the
on
manu-
important
Greenbrier
Springs...
Rhode
before
them
familiar-
the State
the
taken
the
spent last week end at Baltimore visiting
her sister... Jimmy Knight motored to New
York during his vacation...
Alden Hopkins
is
over
Province
Vernon and Mrs. Geddy and Vernon and
Association
ran-
and the
and
manuscripts
attended
Gardner
placed
soldiers
Ralph
Spratley
Sergeant
year old boys
were
who
tempt
records.
Mrs.
and
at Annapolis.
course
with
boys
Two
a canoe
Historical
of archival
with
Church-
The
Justice
Ernest
Ar-
at Washington
Hall of Records
Lois
parked cars of guests at the
extensive
on the Collection,
Description
last
This training course is offered by the American University in coLibrary
Peach
fourteen
wagon
in
spent a re-
were caught by Captain Peach in an at-
most
Manuscripts.
operation
two
tion.
trip.
was
caught
Trial
vaca-
on
Ruth Jolly
returned
Lodge.
Of-
She came up
off
has
sacking
York
s
Bentein
in Smithfield...
end
Cooke
ill is spending this week in New York
Index
is
she .
is
lectured
course
New
where
Rowe
Cappon
he
the
week.
Beach,
tioning...
Lester
of
week
Lucille
with the C& M
jity.
spending his vacation at his home in
Toano...
vacation...
cent
is
joined
spent a recent week
in Baltimore...
from
at the Waters - Cole-
Schmidt
at
Virginia...
reported
downpour
party
C.
re-
in
and
spontaneous
continued
Geddy
Kitchen.
Department
a
wonderful
of rain,
began,
spirits,
the
time.
choral
exhibitions
indoors.
and
The
a few hours after
did not dampen
the
The
attended
renditions
of
the
their
talent
and
were
�August,
1249
STETHOSCOPE
TIPS
Doctor
angular
man
short,
are "
R.
slender
patches
and
J.
who
Tucker
wears
CWers.
ailing
up
B.
who
him too)
wears
men
such
are
in
the
Ticker
Bell was out on an emerand he
observations
first place,"
Clinic, "
iced
as
a
glasses
Both
and
about hot weather,
Tucker
body
also
patches
is
Doctor
as we sat sweltering
drink
Bell
or we would have talked to
up with several
tions. ".
In the
the
tall,
and
our personnel
with
other day ( Dr.
a
CWers.
ailing
talked
gency call,
I.
physicians
charged with keeping
top shape.
is
glasses,
Dr.
man
up
company"
We
Page 9
NEWS of Colonial Williamsburg
and
he
came
suggessaid,
in his office in
you
should
liquids
in hot
temperatures -
drink
never
weather;
cool
raises
liquids."
We thought fleetingly of tall pitchers
of
ice
water
that
wu
were
never
to
taste,
sacrificed for lower body temperature.
How,"
slyly, " can we beat the
tablets ?"
Dr. Tucker shrug-
asked,
we
heat?
Salt
If
ged. "
provide
body
needs
we
You
sodium
all
see,
five
five." "
All
he
five
put out a thing
called
nate
which
gives
all
have
to
is
you
shake
it
Very helpful
The
about
salads,
meals
crackers
You
Laboratories
citrocarbo-
five.
into
a
doctor
too. "
and
what?"
All
Light
the
like,
his face which made shaving impossible.
It
a word
foods,
are
the
even
for
a
met
took
They require
less
diges-
seven
tion
and
an
over
heavier
partment
foods."
We
not launch
gestive
other
were
grateful
into detail
processes,
and
that
he
did
concerning
he
passed
to
a
trouble
Richmond
clear
it
While
up.
above
members
of
the
Architectural
sent greetings
cartoon,
itself
unsigned.
to
6st
last quarter,
March,
reed, May, and June, Doctors Tucker and
Fell were entertained by 509 visits to
by
offices
CW
folk.
The
two
made
home visits, and gave 125 pre- employphysical
indicate
to
examinaticns.
what
extent
our
All
two
figures
physicians
keep Colonial Williamsburg on its
collective feet, gorged with only
00l liquids, and carrying untold
quantities
give
you
of citrocarbonate (
all
five) .
Don
De-
by means of the
the dion
on
hospital
He took us to the recepwho produced a sheaf of docu-
In the
m=
n.
ment
to
skin
matters.
tionist,
i.,: it
e
him
some
he was languishing and scratching in
the new capital of Virginia, twenty -
things.
advantage
with
days
few
best
have
Architect Mario
Campioli
of
glass
had
Not too long ago,
you
in hot weather."
soft - spoken
summer
tabthe
said. "
have
water.
and
Upjohn
chlorides.
do
salt
chloride,
Chlorides,"
asked. "
need
like.
you
lets
Piedmont
they
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INN
10
AND
NEWS
LODGE
Colonial
of
ITEMS
He
has
has
desk
the
past
borne
two
weeks
a slight
the
Lodge
resemblance
we ask
to
a
and
have been pouring
dations
and
thanks
to
cheerful
some of Gus,
Freddie and Raymond,
have
to
had
not
spent
Gus
long...
wait
three-
they
Gustafson
a' recent
enjoyable
weekend
in
Fred
Frechette
reports
Bride
cester,,..
Caroline'
s
is
Glou-
Raymond and Betty Hodges bought a beautiful
Irish setter pup in Newport News the
cooking
wonderful,,'.,
Her name is Scarlett O' Hara
clay.
Bill Batchelde ,
is on vacation
at
other
Lake
New
Mahopac,
Jersey,
He and family
are due back this week.
Margaret
the
Burgess
She
office:
accounting
returned
to
said the
the
office
tobacco
cashier.
market
until the season
closes
and we hope he will be back in the spring.
Jack
Milligan
and
John
Adams
is he pay us a visit
division
golf
fores"
Lee,
is
of
your
to
a.. m,
that
while
honest
for
say
date,
their
The
parked,
folks.
cars
driver
the
were
porced the accident immediately,
he
fell
asleep at the wheel,
received the greater
Pontiac
the
damage
of
the
two
good
About 3
rammed
phoned
and
re-
saying
John' s
amount
new
of
cars.
Florney Williams was married to
Clarence Bateman on Friday, July 29, at
Faptist
the
bride
and
Church.
Blessings
congratulations
to
to the
the
groom
Eutch Calloway is leaving August 7
for
home
his
his
in
Smithfield,
he
and
sister
in
will
Penasylvania....
We
Va.
visit
wish
Later
relatives
to
He
his
the
man,
father....
dish
room
a
visit
Charles
tion
and
Norman
in
his
Una
to
Spaller
Washington,
Ozment
home
has
has
state,
Warfield
his
putter
understand
is
so
hit
a
he
in-
reports
to
his
given to
keeps
above
it
named
Loughrie
snag.
and
in
the
foresome
Upshaw
Harold ? Lerner,
unprofitable
very
hails
from
He is given a hearty welWilliamsburg.
Incidentally,
Har-
to
come
old owns a beautiful shepherd dog which
he has- entered in shows along the east
coast,,,,
to say,
Pert Billie Snead, we are sorry
has left us to return to her
home
Baltimore.
in
The
Pelle
for
WI&L
for
three
all miss her and hope that
time to
bugger
comes
visit
is
us
taking
from
Billie'
the First
s
she
News.
Welcome
tion...,
Lynton
Upshaw
to
She
Bank
the
flew
We
Ellen
National
Newport
known
can find
place.
in
organiza-
to
Atlantic
City recently to see how they run conventions in the greatest convention city
in
the
Norma Barman is enjoy ing- a vacation traveling about the country.... William Brooks and Pauline Curley
are
married
getting
shortly.
They will
leave
and
world....
on the
28th for
a combined
vacation
honeymoon.
Tommy Moyles
has been named
man of the Southeastern
Regional
The
Conference
alier
Hotel
at
forth
the
Virginia
Confer-
of America.
Beach
Regional
states
Carolina,
co- chair-
will be held at the
4ncluc: os
Carolina.
the
years.
then. '
and
now
ence of the Hotel Greeters
posi-
of
as she is more familiarly
worked
The Southeastern
a
Winn,
find the competition a little too " lucky"
D. C.
North
score
hot
The
refrigerator ??
has
low
which we are
returned
accepted
Winn
watch-
Marshall,
a
Among the
Loughrie,
of
recently were at the Rivers of Dan,
Virginia....
from
Herman Whisnewski
Cot boast
The following
quartet.
attributes
faithful
express
sympathy to Charles Ozment on the death
of
of
his first " 39" on the local golf course.
has
words
All
every now
majors,
Upshaw,
reporter:
Basement
have a few
coffee
formation was procured at gun point by
24 h for a while
and
of
the
links
accounting department won' t forget July
yet
the
much.
Connecticut.
She replaces Billy Corr as
Billy has gone on
please;
front
in
very
the new Inn floor manager,
mountains were lovely, but, from a distance,
job
him
miss
number
fair
and
has
will
The hotel
in for accomo-
the
a marvelous
we
1949
then,
bargain basement counter at Casey' s.
Guests
done
and
shop
For
August.
Williamsburg
in
Conference
of Florida,
South
Cav-
October.
Carolina
Georgia,
and
Virginia,
Anne
Lumbye
�August.
1949
NEWS
Colonial
of
FROM YE OLDE THEATRE:
Williamsburg
Page 11
CONSTRUCTION &
New -comer to the ticket keyboard is
MAINTENANCE
William Ashby
NEWS
and James Wallace,
Mary Gound from the College who takes
over when Chief Cashier Katy Hanrahan
Jr. are busily engaged in the annual
takes
mately six hundred
inspection
break...
George Burns, of local
origin, has been added to the usher' s
a
staff as replacement
for Charlie
Nimmo,
veteran floor man and present Acting
Chief
Service.
Charlie
M this month,
W&
and will
of
graduates
leave
from
at once
for Richmond for further studies at RPI.
Vacation Daze" struck the first of
July, and gathers speed as the summer
rolls
First
on:
to take
off was
Chief
Projectionist Jimmy Humphrey who spent
his time at his wife' s home in Maryland
Assistant
Manager
sailed off next,
Patrick
Buchanan
whiling away the hours
and
recharge
through CW properties.
Incidently,
we wonder how many tenantd and employees
of CW realize that this often cussed,
seldom discussed,
monstrosity
2 - 1/ 2 gallon
adorning
our living rooms,
most
valuable
piece
home
or
of
place
only piece
of
of equipment
Winston - Salem,
river,
relaxed
at
N. C...
his
Manager Hap
place
fishing and boating,
returned
and
plans
another
on the
other
pieces
and
even
all
become
of
next
a ''
not exactly
what one might
still,
vacation,"
Dave
Deal,
Doorman,
is now in the midst
National
Guard
uv
Training
Hank
places:...
all
able himself,
finishes
when
summer
been
with
1943,
on
his
the
Door,
official
but
for
status
Edu-
winds up its pros-
off
the
who
and
standing
is
Beach,
reli-
in Physical
Kinkead,
Theatre
is at present
the
ole
know where
to
made
on
that
has
since
in for Deal
summer
of
period
Chief
of
Service.
better
who
submitted
unsigned Suggestion Nos. 4534 and
4535 will call at the Personnel
Relations
office
Building,
explanations
disposition
will
in
be
the
Goodwin
of their
given.
let' s
with our
that all mem-
and household
are located
and
Recently a call was
CW'
s
business
properties
attendant
told us
in
there
the
It
building.
was
located for him.
A spreading fire
does not allow much time for locating
and learning to operate your fire exextinguisher
tinguisher.
James H.
in
both
Hines,
long a carpenter
Maintenance
and
Construction,
was recently promoted to construction
foreman.
He is making good progress on
the Kitchen and Barber Shop of the King' s
Arms group...
Pete Tucker and family have
moved from North Boundary Street to the
Donnegan
House
MacNeil
on
North
will
England
retire
Street...
August
26th,
approximately
a year' s service
with
Hardy in construction work... John
Pierce
employees
The
no
after
Bruce
the
See
home,
such,
acquainted
them.
of
your
As
extinguishers
one
charge.
was
Willie
If
use
to
part # 1 of a three -
the College
session.
full -time
at Virginia
si. mmer term for his M. A.
cetTon
term
of two weeks
Kinkead,
your
the
to pick up their extinguisher for re-
week to old Kaintucky to see his family.
While
in
is
that may possi-
equipment,
family.
your
extinguishers.
how
when Buchanan
jaunt
It
bly save from destruction all of your
fire
of
equipment
business.
bers of your business
out
copper
kitchens, or halls is potentially the
pitching hay and tearing down tobacco
Halligan
the approxi-
used
barns
on his brother - in -law' s farm just
of
fire extinguishers
and
Thomas
Morgan,
Jr.
have
re-
cently
joined the janitorial crew at the
Goodwin Building...
Mrs.
Neils Neilson of
San Francisco is visiting Mr.
Crval
Hopkins.
Neilson
ed
a
Neils
as
far
as
plane
for
Denmark
New
and Mrs.
accompanied
York
to
where
attend
Mrs.
he
board-
the
golden wedding anniversary of his parents.
Bill Landon
and family are vacationing
Continued
on
next
page)
�Page
12
NEWS
C& M Cont'
Colonial
of
d
Williamsburg
tested
found
in
Minnesota...
from vacation
Having recently returned
at Wrightsville
other North Carolina
home
reports
along
North
at
spent mostly
the north shore beaches of Massa-
chusetts
New
and
Hampshire...
Bill
Atkin-
son, Randy Carter' s right -hand man,
turned
to work this week from a reported
pleasant
now
on
Johnson,
Harold
Charlie
Hobart
ters, Chip,
turned
from
The family
laski,
the
a
vows
whirl - wind
Miss.,
of
the
of
Memphis,
Scott.
the
Ala.,
Tenn.,
Hartsell,
South.
Marion,
and Lawrenceburg,
Ray' s mother.
was
somewhat
Sutton
with
The Rays returned
Mountain
says, "
to
National
Park
and
returned
Charlie
With an empty
and
Harvey Johnson,
son,
at
the
Wadell
York where
paint
Johnson,
mountains
in
his
new
shop,
ventila-
in
town
than
of
pots &
that his
brought
his
who is well known
Jacobs,
spent
Sr.
a
of the
Doctor
Roanoke
remainder
Wh©
varied
of
his
weeks
de-
visit-
Jake visited Nag' s
eldon.
Island,
two
paint
the Lost Colony
and
Ocean
vacation
View.
was
The
spent
on the beach at Yorktown.
While in
ing through West Virginia.
Pennsylvania they visited Pittsburgh and
stopped off in Clarksburg,
West Virginia.
Proeress
The East Wing
spent
of the Williamsburg
expectation
Izaak Waltons
voyage
Virginia where they anchored for
Being cautious mariners they
of raising
roof rafters
this
week.
Wadell
Queen' s Creek and made an uneventful
go-
Inn is progressing rapidly with the
Harry Sutton and Ed Watkins
left on the good ship Last Penny from
night.
State
Spruce
of the CW family.
from New
reputations.
the
he
Ray Peterson,
a member
Pasteur - Galt
under
way with
Outbuildings
the Storehouse
are
well
almost
completed and the foundations being
erected
It
recently added fame and some fish to their
to Dandy,
visited
ing up on the Skyline Drive and return-
tank
recently graduated from Bruton Heights
where he was outstanding in athletics.
Two of CW' s outstanding
him
North
Chevvy made a tour of Pennsylvania
Wadell
Williamsburg."
With
from a trip
Old
gas
a week in the big city and says it is " a
faster
more
Hobart
a
reports
action.
a
around Colonial Williamsburg and is again
he saw the All -Star baseball
Robinson,
of
Raymond Sharpnack, family and new
game and particularly his sports hero,
Jackie
He
Head where he attended
returned
transpor-
the smith without
the
Dodge.
N. C.
Pines,
brother,
of
torrid
as
fish
returned
ing
entrepreneur
has
wj th
tree,
the
partment
match."
buckets
of modern
Peterson,
to
by the Smoky
route...
laden
the chestnut
Frank
Tenn.,
sane
pocket
aid
ing for bonita ( which weren' t striking)
loafing
through
the
their assistance with another battery.
bat
temperature
Follow-
The boys eventually got around to fish-
at
the
dead.
tation and a fine sense of humor came to
Hobart
more
and that the
completely
was unearthed and the two hardy souls
paddled their way to shore where Mrs.
than that in Williamsburg but he learned
that the natives have found a way to comtion.
were
ing a quarter -deck conference a crab net
Ala.,
Mrs.
heat
batteries
Elnorris
and Charles
tour
that the battery switch had
humble but edible variety.
Ray, his wife and three daughStanley and Sue, recently re-
Decatur,
home
C &M
Dickens,
McCandlish,
Milburn,
visiting
Oxford,
of
visited Hobart' s mother in Puand then really dared the heat
Va.,
by
members
Julian
are:
Taylor,
Ark.,
Cther
vacation...
vacation
Harvey
wave
re-
and
Upon
in the morning it was discovered,
been left on all night
Alden
1949
and spots
shape.
ship
however,
Mass.
a pleasant vacation
arising
lights
in
vessel
Lyman
resorts,
Reading,
the running
the
Beach and
Peters and family report much better
fishing " down there" than " up here "...
Alden Eaton and family have returned from
his
August,
for the Small
is
anticipated
Shop.
that
the
Nicolson
Kitchen will be completed by September 1.
Some very interesting replacement of the
old framing timbers and underpinning work
of the old
being
done
brick
on
the
foundation
Nicolson
walls
Shop.
is
�August.
1949
NEWS
Colonial
of
OFF THE DRAWING
Williamsburg
Page
13
BOARD
The weird figure below, strangely enough, can be manipulated into an accurate
of
the Pasteur - Galt Apothecary Shop.
Talented George Bennett calls it simply
an application of " descriptive geometry" and says it' s easy if one has the time.
model
Using
a single
piece
of paper,
the new member
of the Architectural
Department
deftly cuts and folds together a correctly - proportioned model complete with all details
as
such
chitectural
chimneys,
how a structure
dormers,
cornice,
renderings
or
expensive
will look when completed,
He volunteered
and
It
porches.
hand - pieced
models
to
and to George
the Pasteur - Galt model
takes
give
the
an
place
advance
of
ar-
view
of
is a lot of fun.
to show what could be done with a blank
On his own time, working nights, he turned out the model which already has served the purpose of showing the shop in relationship to the Scrivener
House
to
paper.
of
piece
adjoining.
is about
The tiny model,
six
and
colored
marked
the
exactly
high
inches
with
scale,
is ,
and
chim-
roofing,
ney,
tion
front.
if
siding and distinctive wood- rustica-
the
of
right
the
It
type
colonial -
is
is
bow
from
made
The
elements
the
of
are
on
how
Nothing
is
for
a flap
pushed
proper openings in the roof section. George
through
the
room detail paper -a light cardboard - - and from actual
portions
exterior
gerrymandering
example,
dor• mers
regular drafting
the
stuck
folded under, the
and
shaped
was
by
are connected to the pattern by
which
4
the
is
windows,
Dormer
process.
at
house
models
the
the " Bennett"
model
all
together.
joined
the
sketch
part - outline
the
which
showing
to
complete
a much - reduced
pattern
various
even
windows.
of
parti-
the
cular
structure
in
what
uses
plans draws out
a
like
looks
job
of political division. The
entire pattern is then cut out, folded
forming
takes about twenty - five hours
and glued
together
the structure. Each model
work. George says he started making the one - piece models years ago to get away
architects'
the usual
per- spective drawings,
necessity of preparing
from
the
rendition of a proposed building. He maintains that making such a model is a lot more
interesting
does
only
from
a
person
and
the
to
single
a
piece
better
do
architecture
Delaware,"
published
at
Syracuse
in
paper.
architectural
University
job of showing a planned
It'
s
an
been
interesting
career. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he
and
1931,
structure. So far as he knows, he' s
model
of
sideline throughout his
studied
a
is the
author
in ad it on to numerous other articles. For
of "Early
Architecture in
a time
he made
a specialty of tearing down old homes and re-ing them at more desirable locations
erect
sale
for
consultant
Art
in
the plush Wil- mington- Philadelphia area. He has
on antiques and has
done numerous drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of
in New York for reproduction work. Prior to taking up
in
his architectural work here
April, he served
as an engineering consultant
in
served as a
one
of
the
in Philadelphia. For the summer George, his wife and two children are living
M
W&
fraternity
lodges, the
Pi
Kappa
Alpha
house
�Page 14
NEWS
HOSTESS
Colonial
Williamsburg
BRIEFS
by soaring
stream
into
temperatures,
the
Mr.
buildings.
could be no greater
We have enjoyed
our
home has
every minute of
With the mercury hovering around
the greatest
appeal
Mrs.
Charles
R.
John
leave
for
some
time.
ciently
John and Jo Anne Smith visited Jo
Anne' s parents, General and Mrs. Zimmerman
Fortress
at
Monroe.
Carter
with
aunt,
several
her
W.
Prickett, at Harrisonburg,
Va.
the
at
Raleigh
janitor
charge
at the Capitol
of
the
she
Branch
to
returned
Bocock,
of
effi-
Robert
to janitor
Magazine
Herman Goodrich
and
Guard
has recently
in
House.
joined the
staff as janitor at the Raleigh Tavern.
June Bocock, who has been indisposed
for some time, received a warm welcome
when
substituted
Tavern...
Lockery has been changed from assistant
Mrs.
spent
F.
days
Dale
Harri-
During Lula' s ab-
to fill
column.
are
Mrs.
Raleigh Tavern after being absent on sick
and
sence Carrie Richardson
news
Harrison
Fisher.
there has been little coming and going
the
1949
son formerly worked with Mrs. Fisher in
the Flower
Section.,.
Betty Jo Fletcher
and Joyce McCoy spent the week end in
Blacksburg, Virginia, at Joyce' s home...
Lula Lee has returned to her work at the
visit."
95°
and Mrs.
visiting
tribute to
the charm of Williamsburg than the enthusiastic assertion on a broiling hot
day ... "
August.
CURATOR' S DEPARTMENT
Undaunted
visitors
There
of
Mary van Buren
June' s son,
work.
Allentown,
his wife and children, Jim,
Pa.,
with
Sandra and
SERVICE
RECOGNITION
little William, visited June during her
enforced
holiday. Lily Nelson made one
of her periodic trips to Warrenton to
see "
Philip
Nelson
Bessie,"
and
Louis
Helen
and
to meet
Young
Halligan
her. daughter
Fannie
Lou
Stryker
to the Southern
week
their
who
has
been
in
Taylor
with
Industrial
the
son
wife
Soon
little
D.
C.
son,
to visit
Barbara Hardy spent several days
Virginia
Annette Wattles'
William
Spiegel
with
daughter
her
little
son
William
her
mother
and
father.
aunt.
Pattie,
of Annapolis,
her
Jr.,
Mrs.
Md.
Mrs.
with
is visiting
Spiegel
will remain here for the wedding of her
sister,
Joan.
of Exhibition
years -
8/ 1/ 49
C& M Department
20
after
Guilford
them.
Halifax,
Dept.
years -
8/ 9/49
Relations
Capt.
and
came from Washington,
at
15 years
a delightful
mountains.
their
his
Theatre -
15
Nolly Wyatt
They spent
return,
years
Buildings
Florence Taylor accompanied her
husband, Dr. A. G.
Taylor, to Ashville
cool
20
and returned with her
to Williamsburg.
Conference.
York -
7/ 22/ 49
flew out to St.
her mother,
visiting there,
New
7/ 7/ 49
Thomas
Callis
Anne, have been guests of Elizabeth' s
sister, Mrs. Charles Harper at Crewe,
Virginia.
Stone
her son Philip
and his wife.
Elizabeth
Alice
Nouvelle
Green
spent
several
days
in Baltimore visiting her son Edgar Green
his family.
Ruby Steel took a trip
and
to Charlotte, N. C. to see her daughter
Mrs. Nash I3roadus and grandson, little
Nash, then went on to Florida to see her
son Brock and his family.
Lose Taylor is enjoying
the company
cf her son Lt. Worthington Mahone and
his wife of Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.
Lt.
Mahone will go from here to Germany for
a
period
of
service.
Mary
J.
Daniels
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<p>The <em>Colonial Williamsburg News</em> was the official newspaper of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Publication began November 1940 under the title <em>The Restoration News</em> and was published under that name until February 1942. The title changed to <em>The News of Colonial Williamsburg</em> from February 1942 to May 1950. The name changed again in May 1950 to <em>Colonial Williamsburg News</em>. It is often collectively referred to by the abbreviated title <em>CW News</em>. Production switched to a digital-only format in 2018. The newspaper ceased production in 2020.</p>
<p>When using the <em>CW News</em>, it is important to remember that it reflects the realities of its time. For example, columns in the 1940s issues reported on the “News of the Colored People.” Separate reporting of African American and white social events was indicative of the segregation that was the legal norm in Virginia at the time.</p>
<p>The number of issues published every year varies. No papers were published between January 1943 and June 1, 1948. From August 1979 through May 1992, a supplemental publication titled <em>Colonial Williamsburg News Extra</em> was sometimes published to include additional information for staff, especially during those periods when the paper was published every other month. There are occasional Public Relations-style news releases published as <em>CW News Telenews</em> or sometimes just as <em>Telenews</em>.</p>
<p>The publication was produced principally for employees to inform them of important and relevant goings-on in a timely fashion. Although distributed fairly widely at CWF properties and now online, the paper covers topics including Restoration (and later Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) building openings, new programming, Historic Trades, special events, historical and architectural research, archaeological discoveries, new employee hires and retirements, employee activities and achievements, employee profiles and personal milestones, employee benefit and charity concerns, donor activities, museum exhibitions and acquisitions, film productions and book publications, educational initiatives, celebrity and VIP guest visits, restaurant and hotel news, product and reproductions releases, Merchant’s Square shopping, and relevant local area news.</p>
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Title
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News of Colonial Williamsburg, volume 2, number 2, August, 1949
Creator
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Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated
Publisher
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Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated
Date
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1949-08