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

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not every man of intelligence that can be useful on a Board. Morton l-lolladay, not by design or elaborate programme, was able to be very influential as a part of this most influential of our local governing bodies. He had the ideas, because he was born that way and had done a great deal of reading: and going ahead, he could often get his ideas into effect. Our State Parliament could be prorogued indefinitely if many Boards of Supervisors were as the Prince Edward Board has shown that it can be. A man does his work and passes on. If his work was shabby, the next man has an excellent chance. If his work was excellent, the next man has an even better chance. But no man's work can be lost, because there is a unity in our affairs and everything must count. It is a great thing to say of a good man, fwhat may be said of every good manl, that his work has counted positively for clisentanglement. Morton l-lolladay was a man of feeling. l-le had many warm friends. It is the belief of one who knew him well, that it would be impossible for a man to show a greater capacity for friendship, or so little of that easy tendency to break with friends. The last years of his life, not without many cares, were his happiest? He saw a family of beautiful children growing around him. He was at home in his home of contentment, and everywhere a diffuser of cheerfulness and good will, not an egotist. It could have been wished that he might live many years longer, young as he was. Although our friend is no more, we shall not forget him. ' CSignedJ A. J. MORRISON. ' ln l906 Dr. Holladay married Genevieve Venable. of Prince Edward County, a distant relation. As is well known to readers of THE KALEIDOSCOPE, the family of Venable has been. beyond all others. importantly connected with Hampden- Sidney College. through every period Sf the history of the lnstitution. g iff G, 'H is fir! qv?-if 9

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