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

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. M ,, ., l. gf .gif 4 fi 1. -17 A if f , .S 3 fini: ., .V i ,l Ul ,,,. ,-fc. , !,,-, ' W, .4ff,aff,4 , My ., ps ,i . 2- i'. .s .1 , My A ' 1 il Glharlw Armiateah Ialamtun, HH. E. AMPDFN-SIDNEY COLLEGE from the time of her institution until the present day has been noted for the remarlcable personnel of the men who have constituted her Board of Trustees. l'residents, governors. congressmen. legislators, jurists, clergymen, eminent business and professional men have been on the roster of trustees. Not alone in the past has been her glory in this respect. For an examination of the roll of the present membership of the Board of Trustees will disclose the same notable personnel. lt is an impressive and most inspiring fact that such men leading busy lives and wielding great indu- ence in their different professional spheres are willing to give and do give so lib- erally of their time and means to one of the so-called smaller colleges. This explains to some degree the wonderful influence which the College has exerted, and accounts in large measure for the fine body of young men who annually fill her halls. Among the present membership of the trustees, none, perhaps, is more de- voted to the College, more active in her behalf, more liberal with his means for her advancement, more willing to give his time and influence for her continued progress. and rejoices more in her success and prosperity than Dr. Charles Arm- istead Blanton, to whom this volume of the Kaleidoscope is dedicated. The young men of the College honor themselves and the College in honoring Dr. Blanton. It is always interesting to learn something of the early history of one who is in the public eye, and so some facts of the early life and intluences surrounding the subject of this sketch may not be amiss. Dr. Charles A. Blanton was born at XYest Hill. Cumberland Co., Ya., July 23, 1859, under the very shadow of old Hampden-Sidney. He was the youngest son of Dr. Philip Southall Blanton, himself a first honor graduate of the College. a distinguished physician. and a man of most scholarly attainments. His mother was Mrs. Nancy Miller Armistead Blanton. second daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jesse S. .-Xrmistead, a theologian of wide reputation in his day, and a most elo- quent and forceful preacher, honored and revered throughout the South, but espe- cially beloved in southside Virginia, himself a graduate of the College and for twenty-six years a member of her Board of Trustees. Dr. Blanton's early ancestors came to Yirginia from Lancashire, England. and settled in Cumberland County in 1700. the Hrst settler being Robert Blanton. The name Blanton was or is a corruption of the Scotch Border family name, Bal- lantine, the evolution being through Ballentine, to Blantine, Blanten. Blanton. Reference is found as early as 1459 to the family. - -- Page Fiffecn