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

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1 5 t .ff HA1viPnEN-slnrflgisv 7 KQIDOSCOPE citizen, and loyal friend-fills a large place in the life of l-lampden-Sidney and of Prince Edward County. Nursing, too, runs in the family. Miss Brock's only sister, Mrs. I-I. C. Thornton, trained in St. l..uke's Hospital in Richmond, while Miss Brock herself is a product of the Training School at Catawba Sanatorium where she served her apprenticeship under Miss Ewald's practiced eye and guiding hand. Miss Brock's work at Hampden-Sidney has been of the most useful kind. Handicapped by lack of funds, as are all the agencies here, she has used the means at hand with rare good judgment and has, with Dr. lrving's advice and help, been able to fit up a small but adequately equipped hospital in which the students are well cared for in time of sickness. She has been tireless in her efforts to promote the students' welfare, unsparing-nay, reckless -of her own strength, ministering to the boys with the skill of a specialist and with the solicitude of a friend. And her work is fully appreciated by the under-graduates who feel that it is a rare privilege to have such a wise and sympathetic adviser and at all times delight to accord the love and gratitude to which her conscientious and faithful service give ample titleg for under Miss Brock's management the lnfirmary is not a lazaretto, a place of gloom above the portals of which are written Dante's mournful words Leave hope behind all ye who enter hereng but instead an air of cheerfulness prevails and there is no Hlack of woman's nursing , so that the homesick sufferer is sure of the sympathy and loving care of the white-robed superintendent, the warm- hearted ustudents' friend. The community, too, is a grateful beneficiary: for Miss Brock takes us all under her professional charge, visits us in time of sickness and trouble, and brings relief and cheer to those in need. Yea, she reached forth her hands to the needy and in her tongue is the law of kindness. -W. H. WHITING, JR. I 101

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X w Y ' 3 Y- . W H --Y-4 HAMPDEN-SIDNEY X if KALEIDOSCOPE Dr. lrving selected as nurse in charge Miss Delia E. Brock who has ever since discharged most conscientiously and efficiently the arduous and responsible duties of Hospital Superintendent. Passing by the matter of dates-a subject upon which the ladies are always justly reticent-it need only be stated that Miss Brock was born at Rolfeden, the seat of the lrvings near Buckingham Court House, Virginia. She is the youngest child of Professor Henry C. Brock and Mrs. Mary Carter Irving Brock, and has been a resident of the Hill since her infancy. Her mother will be remembered by the older alumni, for she was ever the students' friend and dispensed a gracious hospitality for the many years of her residence here before ill-health made it necessary for her to give up active participation in the life of the community in which her force of character, her dignity, and her charm won for her a leading part. On her mother's side, Miss Brock is descended from distinguished Buckingham families and from others well known in the annals of Virginia. ln her veins Hows the blood of Archibald Cary, the sage of Ampthill, not to mention that of the Rolfes with its dash of Indian coming from My Lady Pocahontas. She has, too, the Eldridge strain-whence came fair women and brave men-crossed on the lrvings, sturdy Scotchmen from Bonshaw Tower in Dumfrieshire, still in the possession of a descendant of the original holder, chief of a Border Clan and comrade of Men so well known in Scollaridks war At Falkirk, Meihven, and Dunbar. On her father's side of the house, this young lady claims a rich heritage of scholarship and of literary taste and achievement. Dr. Henry C. Brock- since l886 a revered professor in Hampden-Sidney College, a gallant caval- ryman in the Confederate army, a brilliant student and assistant professor in the University of Virginia, a scholar of wide attainments and varied culture, a gentleman of the old Virginia type, a friend who binds to him as with hoops of steel those who are so fortunate as to win his friendship-is a part of Hampden-Sidney's history. Her uncle, Dr. R. A. Brock, so long secretary of the Virginia Historical Society, has a nation-wide reputation as a research worker, historian, and antiquarian. Her brother, Dr. Henry Irving Brock, as a member of the editorial staff of the New York Times, is fully maintaining the reputation of the family for versatile scholarship, while another brother, the Hon. R. K. Brock-lawyer, state senator, man of affairs, public-spirited l9l

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