Lawrence Croft

Gary Goodman (Col ’67 L/M), Jim Morgan (Col ’67, Med ’71 L/M), Ken Poates (Col ’67, Med ’73), Laurie Croft (Col ’67 L/M), Bruce Thomas (Col ’67, Res ’77), Fred Jones (Col ’67 L/M), Ned Jones (Col ’67 L/M) and Bill Marr (Col ’67 L/M), members of the 1963 first year football team known as The 21 Jewels, were together at their 50th reunion. Officially, the team was so-named because 1963 was the first year UVA awarded a record number of 21 football athletic scholarships. However, there was general consensus that the team’s nickname most accurately described the gem-like quality of the players; let history so record.   

Lawrence Croft (Col ’67 CM) was elected president-general of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2013, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The organization’s mission is to strengthen the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and memorialize the men who, in signing the document, pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.