1954 - Special Collections

68 YEAR BOOK AMERICA N CLAN GREGOR SOCIETY
Q. Give names of any Magruders of note.
A. Dr. Woodford Trautman, heart specialist of Louisville. Miss Lucille
Magruder, professor of H ome Economics at the University of Kentucky. Mr.
William Marion K. Magruder, retired furniture merch ant of Lexington, Ky.
Th e Chieftain would like to have such a report from each State. Much of
the above information was obtained from W. C. Barrickman's Twelve Generations
of Magrud ers in America.
The Clan Year Book of 1947 contains the full account of the marking of
the gravestones of Archibald Magruder by the Magruder Family Gathering,
headed by Guy Russell Henderson, who had the "S on of th e American Revolution"
plaque fastened to the stone. H e was assisted by O. K. Magruder, son of James
Ed wart Magruder.
RANDOM NOTES
Miss June Lippincott Stockham entered the Salisbury State T eachers' College
on the Eastern Shore of Maryl and, in September 1954.
John William Freeman, a former junior member now transferred to Adult
Membership, is a Private at the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center at
Jacksonville, Fla.
Daniel Dillon, Ill, one of our Ju nior Members, is a student in the Hi gh
School in Berkeley, Calif.
Abbott Frances Hayden, Ir. , is with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F ra nk
Cecil Magruder, in San Diego, Calif., where he is a student at the Helix Hi gh
School. He was voted the "No. I Speake r" and spoke before the Lions Club
as his school's representative.
Miss Jane Magruder is taking an active par t in H igh School work at Indianola,
Miss. She is editor of the school paper, "Smoke Signals", a member of the H all
of Fame, Student of the Month for December, 1954, and winner of the E ssay
contest on "I Speak for Democracy." Jane and her sister Alice were both in
the home economics Style Show, and Anna, another siste r, was on the Chris tmas
program.
The Clan has its first Life Member among the junior set. Alexander Leonard
Covington Magruder, 11, age 21, has been presented with a Life Membership by
his cousin, Wm. B. Hamilt on Magruder, of San Antonio, Tex.
Commander Daniel Dillon, Jr., father of our junior member, Daniel Ill,
is serving as Staff Commander of the Service Division with the Fleet near J apan.
Commander Dillon is a nephew of Mrs. O. O. van den Berg, Clan Registr ar.
John E well passed the Virg inia State Bar examination. He is the son of
Nathaniel Ewell, Sr., and a nephew of Mr s. Helen Woods E well Hard.