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

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LAWRENCE GERALD NELSON, A. B., M. A. Professor of Education. Associale Professor of Creek and English A. B., Luther College, Decorah, lowa, I927, M. A., University of Texas, l928: Professor of Education, Associate Professor of Greek and English, Hampden-Sydney College. since l928. U31 IAMES ROBERT GRAHAM, JR., B. A. Associate Professor of English and French K -tg B. A., Hampden-Sydney College, I9l9g Graduate Student in Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, l9l9-l920g Teacher of Latin and French. Blacksburg fVa.J High School, Principal and Teacher of English, History and Bible. Yencheng High School, of Southern Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board, Yencheng, Kiangsu Province, China, l922-l927: Present Position since l927. W. JOE FRIERSON, A. B., M. S. Assislanl Professor of Chemistry A T ip II , X B 'Pg A. B., Arkansas College, Batesville. Ar- kansas, l927: M. S., Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1928, Student Assistant, Department of Chemistry. Arkansas College, 1926- l927g Professor of Chemistry, Arkansas College. Summers, l927. l928g Graduate Assistant in Chemistry, Emory University, 1927- 19285 Present Position since l928.

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WALTER HERMAN BELL, A. B. CII I ICQ 0 A Kg E T5 Hopkins Club: A. B., Randolph-Macon College. l922g Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University, l922- 19234 Student, University of Dijon. France. Summer, I924g Graduate Student ancl Assistant, johns Hopkins University, l9Z5-l927g Present Position since l923. THOMAS EDWARD GILMER. B. S.. M. S. Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Cerman IT K .tg 'IF B K5 X B -T13 E Eg B. S., Hampden-Syclney College, . I923g Instructor in Mathematics, Greenbrier Military School, 1923- l925 ancl I926-19275 M. S., University of Virginia, I926g Present Position since l927. sift' ' DEN gt 11553 151 SYD a Professor of French MAYO SCOTT NININCER, B. S. Professor of Spanish E II TQ B. S., University of Virginia, l925: Student, Summer Session, La Progresiva College, Cuba, I925g Student, National Uni- versity of Mexico, Summer, 19265 Present Position since l925. 1 l Iwi

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.,, , , N, . , -.- ' Q' . ' X. ii DEN J -sg ,, SY l '- il ' 1' Rev. Moses Waddell, D. D. Sf , VERY AC-E. and every religion has held in the highest esteem its priest and preacher. The tribe of Levi was considered especially . '- blest because it was divinely chosen to attend the priestly duties of the nation of lsrael. ln the years of the Divided Kingdom the prophet of Jehovah was accorded veneration by all those who were true to their God. ln the Christian era the ministers of Christ have been regarded as divinely called. ln our own Southland, many a home has set aside a preacher's chamber -a modern counterpart of the prophet's chamber set aside by the great woman of Shunemn for Elisha. The preacher, especially in the rural districts, is his community leader: he is usually one of the most edu- cated men in the neighborhood, and before the present school system was adopted, was often the teacher. ln times of sickness and sorrow he is the comforter, he rejoices with the happy, he buries the loved dead and adds the consolation which can come only from God's'elect. As the minister, so the teacher is the object of veneration and esteem. The one is the instructor in matters spiritual, the other in things material. Moses Waddell combined in a rare degree the duties of minister and teacher. The annals of the Presbyterian Church boasts no more honored name than that of Waddell. The history of education in the South would be incomplete without a discussion of the contribution of this great man. John Caldwell Calhoun wrote that he might justly be considered as the father of classical education in the upper country of South Carolina and Georgia. The long list of distinguished pupils, to be named in part later, bears testimony to his abilities as teacher. A vessel bound for Georgia, but baffled by adverse winds and weather. docked at Charleston, South Carolina. On board was William Waddell and family, immigrants from the neighborhood of Belfast, lreland. The Waddells tarried in Charleston but a short time and ere long permanently settled in Rowan fnow lredellj County, North Carolina, on the banks of the South Yadkin River. Here Moses Waddell was born, July 29, l770. Regarding his name, Judge Longstreet says: 'il-le was the last of three sons born on the same spotg and so confident were his parents that he should not survive his birth a single day that, when they found themselves mistaken, they gave him the name of the patriarch who was providentially preserved in his infancy. Waddell first attended a school about three miles from his home, in l 777- l778. Here he learned to read and to write a neat hand. ln 1778 Moses ll9l