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

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f f 4 f f X iff? 'ills gsm Bae gas KC william Zlnhn lting CANADIAN by birth, a theologian by profession, a skilled gymnast by way of recreation is a combination seldom found on Virginia soil. Yet all these qualifications are decidedly to the credit of Rev. William John King, the beloved pastor of College Church. Nor rates he one of them as a liability, instead is each a prized asset, zealously guarded. Though for twenty-six years Virginia has been his adopted land, still for him the Maple Leaf is an emblem dear. Born on january 6, l86-4, Mr. Kings early childhood was spent at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. When four years of age his parents moved to Lindsay in the same province, and there were spent school days happy. l-lis real life began at the age of fourteen when, with grammar and high school left behind, he faced the problems of earning a living. Coincident with this step was the beginning of his literary career in 1878 as an employee of the Canadian Post. For this popular publication he was first printeris devil and paper carrier, later being made reporter. During the six years spent in its office the evenings were devoted to the study of shorthand. Little guessed he that experiences of those days would be so often recounted a generation later in the sweet sunny south. And the path by which the reporter passed to a private secretary- ship under Hon. Adam Hudspech, N. P., is without sign posts. For this period the facts furnished are tantalizingly meagre. ln December, l887, a call from Port Hope, to become secretary of its Young lVlen's Christian Association, was accepted andthe following year a gale brought him to Norfolk, Va., as physical director of the same association. Thus in the summer months of 1888 and l889 we find him recorded as a student at Springfield Training School, where the second term he was assistant in athletics to Dr. Luther Gulick. But the year l89O is memorable in the life of our subject, for in that year began Mr. King's connection with student life in Virginia, a connection maintained almost with- out interruption for a quarter century. Randolph-Macon College boasts the honor of having first marked him for her ovsm, and it was in l890 that entering those classic halls he became Physical Director. Three years later he was taken under the care of East Hanover Presbytery, and September of I893 found him entering Union Theological Seminary then at Hampden-Sidney. Without delay the college secured his services as 11