The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11
TOW FUNSTON DEAD.
Well known Colored university Bar
ber--Known by all h Chapei hh
Students-Regret at His Passing
Away.

and widely known University Baroe
is lead and the news OF his death VIII
bring great and sincere grief 10 nun
dreds and hundreds of University .nsn
and boys throughout the state, VINO
have learned to know the old man well
aud to have high regard for tim.
Without the genial and garrulous pro
fessor" to welcome again the returning
new and old students, Chapel Hill will
not seem like the SANE place.
Concerning his death and as q
article is taken from Yesterdays News
and Observer:
Died yesterday afternoon. in Rex
hospital. Tom Dunstaa-the old Uni
versity Barbert
Their is 10 more necessary To be
said TO the thousands Who knew him
and have had joy in the recollection
of him TO bring them grief and to
| emnhasize with a sharp hnock al the
heart the fact that som thing has gone
out of their lives that they were glad
to know and happy to he eminded of,
let there is no ase grieving over
Tom except as We %rieve over life It
| self in the knowledge tEat it has It's
| limit. For Tom DuasJan lived His
brown face was lrrGdisIcd with life,
| with kindness. with generosity. II
with a love shining through shreHd-
| ness.
For Tom was SbrrHd. No na ever
Dracticed better in his life the motto
that honesty is the best policy" No
negro ever more profoundly measured
his circumstances and tu"ncI them to
his profit and his happiness. Tom was
! a politician and a gen4,ai lie 2alcu-
lated distances. He knew his whit"
folks" He was q judS, Of quality. -
He graduated his enthuslasui. He IA
n graduate himself in thc philosophy
of his life. Aud he was happy.
and proud and loving his old students.
And he Is dead.
And his old student:-and thy
comprise nearly every II Of the tncu-
saIras who have got The smell Of the
University campus in their aostr,Is-
will grieve; and they Will wonder
now that Tom is gOne.-hO long Il
will be before they Will cease TO La
old students and go to add to The gaps
ON the rolls that are rad at The class
reunions,
Tom Dunston was 4 I"ly-~..'v fXt-
ire. lie ran mn It pleased trace
tG come tG him, rhA 7 .nsuria, I'arlDr
| at Chapel Hill. OF late years he ha<
{ been pa! tlCuiar NE0m he shaved SIch
/ details Of ever yGav trade he turned
we to Kenneth, who put III she time
between times play II; III the guitar.
/ Tom was q lar o. meats vita a COM
petence that had come 70 him through
shaving and cutting the long locka Of
/ generations of 8 I'lcrts HE shop,
with its smell of bay ram, Was a pic
tire gallery az :-c!e: nurs and sensto"s
and statesmen gal ~; whorI Eoin Was
proud to have sha1c1 -lnd w:io. a.
commencement. EHe IrGuJ T. shake
the hanrf Of Tom 4ba't the hotH he
stood an gala days in his shop aud
waved constant greetings rs the IA
nous Of the state all The We'll rpmon-
bered of cIa college !a:s rni.:d IN in
carriages from the ueDo:.
Dave Kelly would Civ. his whip an,
extra crack. and poor Henry would
cailt out an insnlt to the oil barber.
proudly standing at his post rs receiv-
ing committee of one.
/ But TO the dispersed abroad making
pilgrimage 0 the Hill, it was the sight
of Tom that made them feel most
aeuteiy, perhaps, that they had come
back home"
L will not try to say over his sayiacs
or repeat the polysyllabIes of his wit
n philosophy. These things are
written in the heart Of the University
Tor generations. To the world it. NAV
be said that the old University barber
is dead and the old University VIII
be ready to cry over the fact. He was
always ready to do q kindness. ALWAYS
anxious to serve. always the first TO
recognize under the side whiskers III.
STRIPPING of years before who came
feeling his way back: to the campus
1t is no longer the-same UNIVERSITY
without its old barber"