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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1977
Page
3
Verne A. Ferguson, newly elected president of the Danville Historical Society, sits in his Southland Drive home chair and reflects on initial plans. He says nothing revolutionary is planned, just early mapping of ideas for the society's direction.
Ferguson, elected in May, leads the Danville Historical Society, vowing active work beyond chairing meetings. A former tobacco buyer and Belk Leggett salesman, he champions local history, archives, and finding a permanent DHS meeting place in the historic district while balancing family life.
In Pittsylvania County Neil Payne is noted for a highly diversified and entertaining personal history. He is described as the unique local figure who keeps the hip bone of a Gompotherium propping open his door, illustrating his stubborn, eclectic interests.
Payne, current president of the Pittsylvania County Historical Society, discusses a life of exploration in ornithology, archaeology, journalism, and art. He and wife Lucille live near Axton in a historic home and pursue family and county histories, court records, and local sites like Yates Tavern and Callands Courthouse. He aims to connect with area societies, map old roads, and preserve memories before they fade.
Alease Rae Motley returned from a three week study tour in Arborfield England where she studied a British Infant School course. The program offered six hours of post graduate credit through the University of Delaware. Motley is instructor at Delaware State College and a Hampton Institute graduate with a bachelor’s in education.
More than 300 Virginia high school students will attend leadership workshops at Averett College over two weeks, with 75 elementary students joining on Aug 1 and 2. Courses in communications and group tasks will be taught by Averett faculty, plus a dance and banquet planned for attendees. Mary Jo Davis and Ivey Rogers coordinate the program, the first Averett sponsorship of a high school conference.
AP reports Virginia's 1977 floor tax on beer will cost the state money as administrative costs exceed expected revenue. Retailers like Charlie Pool of Butterfield Stage Restaurant and others paid small checks, totaling far less than anticipated, with about 10,000 retailers involved and estimated returns under $7,000.
Jesse W. Beams, 78, internationally known physicist and University of Virginia professor emeritus, dies Saturday night in Charlottesville. He won the 1967 National Medal of Science for developing high speed centrifuges to separate U 235 from natural uranium. UVa President Frank L. Hereford called him outstanding and said his death is a great loss. Beams’ early 1940s lab work grew into a key part of President Carter’s energy program, focusing on a lower-energy uranium enrichment process.
A Winslow Homer oil painting titled Girl Seated in a Garden, circa 1878, was donated to the Virginia Museum by Mrs. William B. Massey of Richmond. It is the museum’s first Homer work and is on display in the North Wing lobby alongside other 19th century pieces from the Williams Fund. The loaned work is described as contemplative and romantic, with Homer’s late 19th century style noted by curator Pinkney L. Near. The donation accompanies a preview exhibition of 19th century American paintings by Cole, Durand, Ryder, Roesen, Goodwin, and Vedder, ahead of new American Galleries opening Sept. 20.
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