Greensboro College - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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MRS. LUCY. II. ROBERTSON.

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MRS. LUCY H. ROBERTSON. jft N the canvases of many of the eminent painters a haunting recurrence of W features may be noticed, causing ofttimes the construction of rosy theories and romances of fancy. Leonardo da inci, the most accomplished genius of perhaps all time, was haunted by a face, the features of which he produced as St. Anne, as the Madonna, as Mary Magdalene, even using the same features in his face of St. John, and suggesting the same in the face of Christ. Was it some youthful influence that lingered pleasantly, or was it a striving to express his ideal ? Greensboro Female College girls and Alumnae find themselves in close sympathy with the great artist in this, for there is one face the) carry constantly in mind, and though memory ' s canvases may differ in background and in grouping, in varying chiaroscuro, that one figure holds the central place, increasing in wonder, in queenliness and in perfection as Life and Memory unfold their canvases. That face and influence is the face of Mrs. Lucy II Robertson, I ' resident of Greensboro Female College. When little Lucy Owen was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, one September morning, we hear of no special rainbow that spanned the town, or of any meteor bursting above the home to announce anything unusual. Little did tin happy family dream that this child would stand before the women of North Carolina, a pattern and model of womanhood, of dignity and executive ability. We hope the parents did not express a desire that she might have been a boy; as parents sometimes do. or did in those days: and such wishes were pardonable when ambitious fathers and mothers saw that only through their boys was there hope of future fame and glor) A few years later this family moved to I [illsboro and this hide daughter had tht advantage of the scholarly old Nash and Kollock school. Even here we do not read that the daisies nodded as she passed, or that the brook rippled a sweeter tone as her reflection fell within. Too much in the realm of fairy tales that might seem, yet there are more things in Heaven and Earth than is dreamed of by the average man. and to the pure in heart who see Cod in earth and sea and sky many things stand revealed. Rapidly she passed from one life-lesson to another. Shortly after graduation she married Dr. David A. Robertson, of Hillsboro. then moved to Greensboro to unconsciously endear herself beyond expression to the hearts of the Greensboro people. Her co-workers in the church realized her superiority and when the mission- ary movement among women was inaugurated she was made Vice-President of IS