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

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DR. ASA DUPUY WATKINS COLLEGE LIBRARY UINPDEN-SYDNEY, vA. i,- - r- fz'-I Y'

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, to , To DR. ASA DUPUY VVA-l'KlNS Alumnus, Scholar, Educator The KALEIDOSCOPE of l925 is Dedicated as a small token of the Esteem and Appreciation of the Student Body

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6 The iiialeiuosrope 1925 Asa Dupuy Watkins, A. B., B. D., D. D. HE Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby in his remarkable address delivered at the Centennial of Hampden-Sidney College in I876 said: For l think it may be affirmed that from the opening of the Academy in January, I776, to the present moment there has hardly been an interval of time, however small, in the life of the College, during which either the honorable office of a Trustee, or of a professor, or of a pupil, or of an active benefactor, has not been borne by some one bearing the name or the blood of Paul Carrington, the elder. The same general idea was in the mind of Dr. A. Morrison when he wrote: lt is a fact worthy of noting that hardly ever has Hampden-Sidney been without a representative of the Watkins family on its Board of Trusteesf, Much the same may be said of the families of other charter members of our Board, for in Virginia the ties of heredity are strong, and the patronage of the College has been largely drawn from the descendants of the remarkable men who were its founders. A casual examination of the records will reveal the fact that the contribu- tion of the Watkins family to Hampden-Sidney, both in numbers and in service, has been noteworthy. More than fifty members of the family have been students of the College and at least eleven have been Trustees. Lack of space necessitates a mere reference to Francis Watkins, Trustee of the Academy and of the College, I775-I8I5, from its origin the active, wise and munificent friend of the institutiong to Col. Joel Watkins, of Woodfork, brother of Francis and ancestor of the Watkinses of Charlotte County, Trustee I783-I820g to Col. William lVl. Watkins, John Randolph's Yazoo man, Trustee 1803-1835, to Henry Edward Watkins, graduate of Princeton, soldier in the War of ISI 2, treasurer of Dr. Hoge's Theological School, and Trustee 1807-1831 3 to Capt. Henry A. Watkins of the Class of I793 and Trustee I8l6-1837, to Henry N. Watkins whose diploma, still in the possession of his grandson, shows him to have been a Bachelor of Arts of the Class of l807, Trustee I82l-1839, to a second Henry E.. Watkins, lawyer and planter of Prince Edward County, Trustee I836-1853, to Francis N. Watkins, judge of the County Court, treasurer of the College, and Trustee I844-1885, to Asa Dickinson Watkins, judge and Commonwealth's Attorney of Prince Edward whose bow still abides in strength, Trustee l896 to this present year of grace.