Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-14
RIF|TR|BuTE TO MEMORY
0fF0UNDER or H0LL|Ns
,HNndrodth Anniversary OF Birth OF
b Charles J.. Cooke Observed Ycstcr.
day With 4 Appropriate Program.
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,,tSHtOLLINS, Va. March 13.--Hollins
4 College! to-day celebrated the hundredth
Snniyersary Of the birth of its founder,
< ohasles L. Cooke. AT 10 "A. NJ. the aca-
3 denic procession. consisting OF the
+ members of the faculty and OF visit
] Inns Chapel for y service in every way
Hitting and beautifcl. The speaker. DR.
Ws2R. 4. Smith. had known and loved
HIS audience Gee again the fine. sisa-
piei dignity OF the man whose clear
vision and steadfast purpose foresaw
and wrought to fulfl,ment the college
In analyains the character OF Mr..
Cooke as an educator, the speaker en-
nhaslssd the on Hons send en
hisrhinrariable. effort, in formulating
school policies. to cast his thought for
ward atleast a generation and 70 fore
seS the conditions to be faced through
out that time.
Any one who knows the history or
the growth OF HOilins from the strus,
to the dignined college OF today will
not siiaa It hard TO believe that these
qualities were possessed 10y the man
who. without capital and with start
linGiy small financial help. wrought the
transformation. Surely no better wish
msv be expressed for the present gen
grafton than that they may De sra ,,,.M
the fostering of whose work is IN
~ T r. Tribute Paid.
The close of the morning exercises
waa marked By ceremony beautitu.
in, its symbolism. The fine litc-size
portrait OF AT. Cooke. which usually
hangs above the stairway landing in
the college library. had been placed At
the back Of tho rostrutn OF the chapel,
and before this The entire student body
passed each gir leaving s,, ;;,; Heilo nS
loyalty 10 the founder of her CO..
leEe. When nnally beneath the por-
trait there was flower bank glow
colors-the entire college sang "a hymn
toi.the memory Of the man who in fS5l
said: In the present state OF society
they game thorough and rigid mental
traihing as that afforded: TO young
At tho midday luncheon number
from the girls OF other years who;
though unable TO be present. wished
to aharc in the day by expressing their
gratitude for the ideals of its founder
lin the evening a simple but str
inSly arresting historical pageant told
fas%ssfI shs two sae centuries that nave
passed since John Carven, the hrst
white settler. came to the neiGhoor-
hood to contest the possession VIII
college campus was the site OF the
famous old Botctourt Springs. and that
from It's SULPHUR springs were La
fayette and later Andrew Jackson.
SS.n BeE1na Work in 1S4G.
,slt was in lSt6 that Charles L. Cooke.
position as professor of mathematics
in Richmond College. and with his
young wife and three small children
came to begin his work AZ president
Of The co-euucational school. the VAL
iey Union Seminary. The memory OF
The young husband and wife was made
charmingly rea! by their impsrs S
M X aary s~ Stuart az e Goakd and
Francis Cooke. A delightful bit 81
hnmor prompted the next memory;
that Hollins was once co-educationa!
school. AS Thomas Lewis and Retsy
Carter, Miss Dorothy Latshaw ana
Mes Marjorie Nix won much applause.
Another delightful ,ouch,-an actual
Icy not IneInoryCwas the sro9Hnp o.
and altogether httingly, took their
place in the story OF llollins. Caesar
Morton. Glenn Boiden. FRINGE smith.
Typical of q large group OF servants,
Whose lives spent at the college PROV"
that the South has not yet entirely
host the beauty and p;cturss'Hne2} S OF
ter and man.
But il the earlier history of Hol-
hns !s-full OF uuaintneSs and humor 10
twentieth century minds inc s,eaaE
e no less n challenge. The last group F!
represented the realized dream oil the
FOUNDER the fine dign!iied college OF
;4rday AZ the senior class. surround (
sig the president OF Hollins. sang
again It's Founders Day lynn one +
Ieit that far from being hn!shed' hol-
Inns College yet possesses the energy
and life of youth; that this generation
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