Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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ALUMNI C. A. RUSH, Pres. Southern University W. E. MARTIN, Pres. Ward-Belmont J. D. SIMPSON, Pres. Birmingham College COLLEGE PRESIDENTS 18

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CLASS OF 1861 From Joseph Atkinson, A.M., M.D., Class of 1861: The old live in the past. See the aged eteran as he luiUs on the steep declivity of time witli JKilf averted face reading the volume of life liackward like a Hebrew book. Is it any v. ' onder your corres])ondent asks himself ' Where are the friends of my youth? ' The echo comes ba:ck from the voiceless grave- yards of Tennessee and the silent burying grounds of Virginia. I have been in active practice forty-nine years and am in my seventy-sixth year. J. Atkinson. J. ATKINSON W. J. Spillman, San Antonio, Tex. One of the two oldest living alumni, born in 1841. He writes: As you will see from the catalogue there were only two who had degrees conferred in the Class of 1861, Joe Atkinson and my.self. The last time I heard from him, lie was prac- ticing medicine in Louisiana. He married a Greensboro lady the day after we received onr diplomas, and I had the pleasure of attending his marriage. He survived the war. . bout two weeks after graduating, I joined the 2nd Ala- bama Regiment and served with it until its en- listment expired, re-enlisting tlie following spring with the 35th Mississippi Regiment and served with it in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi until the war closed. I was wounded at the battle of Corinth and captured after the siege of Vicksburg. My life since has been devoted to school work in Mississipjii and Texas, serving as President or filling chairs in various institutions. Three years since, owing to increasing age and jihysical infirmity, T retired from work. ' i(h best wishes, W. J. SHII.LMAN. W. J. SPILLMAN 17

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ALKUIil) I ' . HAMILTON, A.H., M.A. A. 15., Soiitluin I ' liivcrsity ; A.M., University of I ' ciiiisylviini:! ; two .semesters study at tlic University of I.ci|i ,i};-, CicniKiiiy ; I ' rofVssor l«itiii iind CcniKiii al Woman ' s Collrp ' of Alabama, 1912— KDWAHn KI.MUKOt ' CM Tl ' HN ' KK, I ' li.l)., Class IHild. . .li., 1SI)(I .nul .. I., IH!)2, Siiiitlicrn L ' Miversity ; (iivuliiate Fellow, lH!)3-!);5, and . ..VI., I!»(l.), an(lcrl)ilt lni Tsity ; Headmaster, Vanderliilt Traininj; School, Hrid{re])ort, Alabama, lSi!)5-97; Princ-ipal Snli-Fresliman Dei artment, 1K97-!)H; Adjnnct l rofessor of .Modern l,an- gnages, 189W-99; and Professor of . neient Languages, 1H99-19()0, Southern Universitv; Stu- dent at I.ei)) ,ig-, Herlin, Halle-Wittenberg, 1900-1902; Ph.D., Halle-Wittenberg, 1902; Pro- lessor of Greek, 1902-03, Southern University; Professor of Latin, Emory College, since 1903— CH. RLES PRESCOTT ATKINSON, A.M., Ph.D., D.D. H.S., Southern University, 1888; A.M., Southern University, 1890; Teacher in High School, 1888-S9; Tutor in Southern University, 1889-90; Graduate Work l)y Correspondence in Illinois Wesleyau University; Ph.D., Illinois Wesleyan University, 1910; Two Courses Philosophy, Harvard Sunnner School, 1905; D.D., Southern University, 1910; Professor of Philosophy, Southern University, 1904 — FRANK ELIJAH CHAPMAN, M.A. A.B., Southern University, 1902; M.A., Vanderbilt, 1907; Fellow and Assistant in Mathematics, Vanderbilt, 1906-07; Member American Mathematical Society; Professor of Mathematics, Southern University, 1907 — H. C. HOWARD, B.S., CLASS OF 1889. Professor in the Methodist University, .Vtlanta, Sept., 1914. Scarcely anything gives me a more sensible measure of the flight of time than the con- templation of my college days. How silently and tenderly the years have watched beside the graves of those who are gone ! Out of my own class, that of 1889, I think: of Luther Smith, and Caleb Williams, and ,liiu Lockhart, and others. nd how kindly and wake- tully the years have kept guard over the jiathway of those who still are here! Jim McCoy is a Bisho]), Sheb Chadwiek has developed line gifts as an editor, Ira Hawkins, as long as ever but not quite so lean, is one of the shiftiest of the elder.s, and Edgar Elliott has been to the legislature, and is a famous merchant. Jim Morris, and Pruett, and all the rest, are doing well so far as 1 have information of them. Notwithstanding they are retreating into a past which begins to grow a little dim the years spent at the old S. U. stand ont among the tremendously vital experiences of my life. Those were the days when Dr. . ndrews was there, and Prof. Peterson, and Prof. Grote, and Prof. Moore, and Prof. Sturdivant, and Prof. Geisler. There was not one of Iheni who did not show me all the kindness I deserved, and throw in something for good measure. To the fidl extent of the iiower that I jiossess would I bring down the blessings of God on the dear old institution, on .ill its alumni, ,ind on .ill its officers, students, and friends, present and to come. . Vtlanta, Ga., Feb. 13, 1915. H. C. HOW. RD. 19