Episcopal High School - Whispers Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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ag, 41 i .,- ., ,fn I , .ga - ga 1 '3 J .4-5' Y , fjqlf'- ' 'Z ' -' 4-'ffrua - . 3113? Wh' f .. T S. Y - f.. 1-1 rf- 1 - -A we 'Y 2 - V 1 Eta lg' f f' - fs. T fb. rg' jul ggi 1- 35 ve- BW ga BISHOP ATWOOD'S LETTER The outstanding events in the life of John Greenway, college athlete, soldier, engineer, financier and, above all, a patriotic citizen, loving and serving his country in many departments of activity, have already been told in the public press. Today as his body is carried to its burial in the far Southwestern land which he loved and served with rare devotion, we would recall certain characteristics which brought to him the friendship and ad- miration of so many. Born in the South, a graduate of Yale University, which he loved with passionate devotion, he became soon after his graduation a member of Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Here began his friendship for his great chief which was marked by unswerving loyalty until death broke the union and comradeship which existed between the two. His education for life and its responsibilities was continued in great industrial centers, in remote districts of the Northwest, until finally he was called to Arizona as general manager of one of its great copper mines. Ever seeking for new avenues of work, he became one of the new commonwealth builders . . . His was a happy life, buoyant and ready for any adventure in work and play, and never dismayed by any hardship or fear of ability to cope with any experience or problem, and yet one of his chief characteristics was his modesty, his freedom from any form of egotism. He was never self- conscious. He simply went ahead to do the task that was given him to do. It had to be done .... Like a brave knight of old he buckled his armor on afresh and to the writer of these words he said that no longer could the attainment of wealth mean anything to him. He had everything in life and he looked forward to the days that he might give completely of himself to the service of others. The pathos but not the tragedy of human life is revealed in his sudden departure from us. His is the victory, ours the defeat. He was a man who lived eternally in sunshine, which he also brought into the lives of others. Where else can he rest except in the sunlit desert land, surrounded by the radiant beauty of sunrise and sunset as they touch the hills and sweep the plains of Arizona, which receives into its arms all that is mortal of this loved and loving son? He was a gallant soldier and gentleman, and of him it can he justly said as of another Cavalier of the olden times-he lived and died without fear and without reproach. J. WV. Arwoop. Harvard Club, New York. flewn

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F8 .,1w 1-. ,V , f er it ages Ji, i .Q 4 Q 5 'ff' 1 G A 51 ,51 f QQ Way personally directed the activities and greatly encouraged his forces by his pres- ence. Leading them in attack, he demonstrated the utmost valor at the most critical moments and he was the first of his command to enter the German trench which marked the objective of the day's attack. He also received the French decorations, Croix de Guerre, Palms, Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur, and Croix de l'Etoile Noire. After the war he resumed his work as a mining engineer in Arizona as well as his active interest in state and national politics. Repeatedly urged to become a candidate for Governor and for Senator of Arizona, he was never willing to give up his professional work deeply interested as he was in political reform. He received an LL.D. from the University of Arizona in 1921. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Yale Engineering Association, The Sons of the Revolution, a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Arizona and president of the Yale Alumni Association of Arizona. Mr. Greenway married Isabella Selmes Ferguson in 1923. Their son John Selmes, born in 1924, is entered for admission to the Episcopal High School, VVhen it was announced that the State of Arizona had selected him as its repre- sentative in Statuary Hall in Washingtrmn, one of his friends wrote: For those who remember him in life it will be hard to conceive Jack Greenway standing there for- ever-Excellent in intention as the tribute is, it was the last thing he would have thought of. He was adored by his friends because of that great thing called char- acter. He was of flint and granite. Yet into these implacable materials there were mixed kindness, simplicity and above all, modesty. His greatness lay not in what he did but what he was. If this could be explained to generations who will come and wonder who he was, the memorial in Statuary Hall would be a fitting one. It would be extremely worth while for the nation to preserve an understanding of the things for which Greenway stood. But in this attempt to have him as politicians and local favorites are honored, there seems to me, somehow, to be an error of vision. It does not quite fit him. The following editorial appeared in the Nvtv York Herald Tribune: Bishop Atwood's letter upon the death of John Campbell Greenway, which we print in an adjoining column, reviews a fine life finely, from the standpoint of a personal friend. It gives background to the quality which made Greenway both interesting and important to the men associated with him at Yale, in political reforms, in two Wars and in the great iron and copper countries of the North and Southwest. That quality was the noble thing called character. 1fVhen Greenway came upon the field of athletics or war, confidence ran through team or regiment. To know why, to analyze the reasons, would be to analyze life itself. But some of the com- ponent elements all men know-courage, leadership, common sense, un- selfishness, loyalty, mercy. All these Greenway had. Through them, had he lived, he would have brought his career of service into even broader arenas of national life. WVe lament his death. Ten

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JOHN CAMPBELL GREENVVAY