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Golden Anniversary — 1 85 - lO. ' iJi REMOVAL TO SUTHERLAND EELING that the college would be able to expand more rapidly in some other community, members of the board of trustees, meeting in Leesburg in May, 1900, adopted a resolution urging the conference to take steps toward removal. Rev. C. A. Saunders and W. K. Zewadski were appointed to present the resolution to the conference. James P. DePass, chairman of the board of education, recommended removal, and steps were taken to advertise for bids. Quincy, represented by A. L. Wilson, W. M. Corry and E. C. Love, offered $8,000 and ten acres of land. Orlando, represented bv Rev. L. W. Moore, offered $1,500 and land valued at $1,500. White Springs, represented bv Rev. C. A. Saunders, offered $1,000, thirty acres of what was then known as the Hoboken property and city lots valued at $1,000. The Sutherland Land and Improvement Company offered $5,000 and 440 acres of land for $2,000, in addition to two large buildings. Acceptance of this offer was voted by the trustees and the confer- ence in December, 1901, and the following were appointed trustees for the new property: J. P. Hilburn, I. S. Patterson, R. M. Evans, R. F. Mason, H. A. Hodges, W. M. Poage, W. N. Shears, H. H. Sassnett, L. E. Roberson, H. W. Long, I. S. Gid- dens, W. C. Richardson, D. W. Stanley and D. A. Cole. Rev. R. M. Evans and Dr. W. C. Richardson represented the community of Sutherland and the Sutherland Land and Improvement Company. Mr. Evans was also appointed agent for the college at a salary of $50 a month. PRESIDENT WALKER BEGINS Dr. Shade Wilson Walker, a brilliant, energetic young man, with commanding endowments of personality and impressive executive ability, was elected president of the college when the trustees met at Sutherland on the afternoon of March 27, 1902. His salary was fixed at $1,000 a year, and it was voted to board him and his family in the dormitory for $300 a year. Selection of the faculty was left to President Walker and the executive committee of the board of trustees. Dr. Walker was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, July 18, 1871, a son of Stephen and Julia Walker. He attended Hopewell Academy and Fayetteville Presbyterian College, and did special work at Harvard University. Southern College has hon- ored him with the degree of doctor of divinity. He married Miss Lottie Patterson, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Patterson, in 1892, and joined the conference in 1893. St. Augustine Mission was his first work. His first wife was drowned in April, 1904, when the boat in which she was riding capsized a few miles from the mainland of Sutherland. She and several other persons, in- cluding Dr. Walker, were returning from a picnic at Anclote lighthouse. The boat was capsized by a squall two miles off Hog Island, shortly after one o ' clock in the afternoon, and it was ten o ' clock the following morning before rescuers arrived. Four persons besides Mrs. Walker lost their lives. Six children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Walker during his first marriage. They are Mrs. Walter O. Ropp, Howard Walker, George Walker, Mrs. H. R. Laing, Mrs. W. E. Blount and Shade W. Walker, Jr. Dr. Walker married Miss Grace Parker in 1905. She died in 1927, and he married Miss Lillie Mullins in 1929. They have one child, Patricia. Known as one of the most capable pastors in the Florida Conference, Dr. Walker has served with distinction. He is a man of strong intellectual and spiritual power. He has read widely and inten- sively, and he still spends much time among his large collection of books. His messages have always been received as stimulating and original contributions from a positive personality. He is now doing outstanding work as pastor of First Methodist Church, Jacksonville. His brilliant record includes St. Paul ' s Church, San Jose, Cali- fornia; Johnson Memorial Church, Huntington, West Virginia; First Methodist Church, Sanford, First Methodist Church, St. Petersburg; and the presiding eldership of the Tampa District. He has been a trustee of Southern sixteen years, one of which he served as chairman of the board. He has also been conspicuously successful as an evan- gelistic speaker. Just past thirty when he accepted the presidency of the college which had been placed at Sutherland, Dr. Walker, aware of greater possibilities for the institution, set to work with an enthusiasm that quickly spread among Florida Methodists and caused them to take a more active interest in their school. Pastors and parishioners alike began to talk with more conviction about their school, and it was not long before expansion began. It was Dr. Walker ' s task to reorganize the school and start it anew. Aided by loyal trustees, he planned carefully in starting at Sutherland an institution that was to increase in academic strength, prestige and enrollment. To his judi- cious efforts during those early days in a new loca- tion is due much credit for the sustained prosperity which the school enjoyed in that community for nineteen years. NAME CHANGED Upon being removed to Sutherland, the school became known as the Florida Seminary. The trustees later voted for incorporation under the new name, and this was done in 1904. Page Twenty-five • ••• ♦
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