Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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llngrr Atkiminn rgnr, illli. E. TT' 3 AMPDEN-SIDNEY COLLEGE prepared and sent out several X 7 it clusters of brilliant sons in the tirst half of the nineteentli Z' Q eenturv, more than hfty years ago-the tullest htty years 111 ' in Ha .' . Y V - A -,si 4, ggi' .5xlllCI'lCZ1I1 lnstory, measured by events and changes. f.- ri -gf-L , . -V Y -.. . if ,, Judge Roger Atlcliison Pryor, of Xen' X ork Lity, 15 o11e of J TT e the few 111611 of these oliler groups who still lives, and none was more brilliant than he. lt pleases the 111idc,lle-life people i11 these parts, who remeni- ber l1i111 i11 war, to speak of l1i111 as General Pryor, but the older folk, whose mincls go further back, love to call him simple Roger Pryor, nntitlerl i11 worcl but high i11 esteem 5 or to insert the mifhlle initial and to sax' in strono' tones Room A PRYOR . b ' J 9

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Rockingham Association. 1897. REV. A. 5. YERGER, Pl't'IZ'tI1'IIf. ......... . PROP. H. A. CONVERSE, Senwlfzzgf and Trvzlszlrsl' . . Johns Hopkins Association. 1898. C. W. SOMMI-:Iu'II.LE, Praszkfeazf ........ H. B. ARBUCKLE, St'L'I't'flZlj' zum' Trnzs111'w' ....,..... University of Virginia Association. 1898. A. J. BIURRISON, P1-es1'de1zf .......... M. B. DICKINsON, Seuwifzzy and Trezzrzrrer ...... . . Wythe County Association. 1898. E. LEE 'TRINKLIQ Pres1'n'ez1f .......... . Dk. E. P. MAGROOCH, Seuzvffzzjf ami Treaslrrvr . Richmond Association. 1898. DR. PAL'I.I's A. IRVING, Pnfmiezzl . DANIEL GRINNAN, Sefrefazy . . . M. M. GILLIABI, Trmxznw' , ............ Farmville Association. 1898. +CoL. J. P. FITZGERALD, Pr-rsz'1z?z1f ........ DR. j. H. C. XVINSTON, Senehzfjf ami' Trm.rzn'ar . . Union Seminary Association. 1899. THOS. C. JOHNSTON, D. D., Pres1'd:11l ...... J. GRAY luCALI.ISTER, .S'f'fre'la1j'a11n' Trmsurw' ........ Pocahontaszkandolph Association. HON. S. B. HANNA, Pres1'ff'e1zf . ......,...... . . DR. J. D. ARBUCKLE, .S'rfn'la1jf ami Trea.vm'cr . . ilfieceased. 8 . . Harrisonburg, Va Harrisonburg, Va . . Baltimore, Md . . Baltimore, Md Charlottesville, Va Charlottesville, Va . . VVythevil1e, Va Max Meadows, Va . . Richmond, Va . . Richmond, Va . . Richmond, Va . . Farmville, Va , . Farmville, Va . . Richmond, Va . . Farmville, Ya. . . Cass, W. Va. . . Cass, XV. Va.

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as if they could still hear the sheriff calling him into court for a case or to the court-house steps for a speech, the rostrum of the hustings of the common people then. As a judge he belongs to New York. His Alma Mater points with pride to this older child and her younger sons look up to him with admiration. His many moods and phases, his versatile talents, rapid action, and impetuous temperament make him in much an unknowable man. lint: Iivrannalitg. He was born I0 d1'sf1'11cl1'm1 in his personality by nature. No one, who hears him or sees him once, ever forgets him. He is a man of Ere that never abates: of Ere in a figure, ever in motion, of restless, rapid gait 1 in the pose of a head crowned with long, tossing, glistening, raven hair: in the flash of the steel-gray eyes: in the expression of a mobile, classic face, of high forehead, indicative nose, prominent cheeks, clean of beard and moustacheg in the lines of a strong, large, and strangely nervous mouth and chin from which, when stirred deeply, torrents of eloquence issue so rapidly as to defy stenographic report: in a voice that vibrates often like a trumpet blown by tiowing thought or the escape of compressed pas- siong and his figure is commanding, full six feet high, slim and elastic in middle life, always erect as a shaft: a rejected Irish applicant before his court spoke of him as that confounded Injun of a Pryor. Of fire in a sparkling mind of quick decision. ever in action with vigorous thought and positive convictions: of fire in tiaming passions of ardent patriotism, of strong devotion to the people and scenes of his boyhood, of love of literature from his childhood, of love of politics, of love of law. Of tire too in ambition, but the best of this fire is in a determined purpose to be the thorough master of that which is undertaken, a trait of character which he did not prove, even to those closest to him, till he was well advanced into the second part of his double life, but which he early expressed, when a boy of twelve, saying to a kinswoman Cas kinswomen were counted in Virginiaj I I am going to make my mark at whatever I do: if it is blacksmithing, I will be a good blacksmith. YVith his fire, there is gentleness: gentleness to children, consideration of the lowly, tenderness with suffering, deference for age. Anrwtrg. He was born of d1'sf1'11cz'1'011 by ancestry, as each of his names indicates: Roger Atkinson Pryor. His birth was in Dinwiddie County, Yirginia, July 19th, I828. His father, Theodorick Pryor, was a lawyer then. but afterwards became a Presby- IO