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

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GRADUATES WHOSE PICTURES ARE NOT AVAILABLE 1 EDMOND MADISON CHITWOOD. IR. B.S., October, 1943 WYTHEVILLE, VIRGINIA HKA, XB'-P, Secretary-Treasurer of Class 111: President 121g Student Council 11,2,31: Football 1115 Vigilance Committee 143. 2 DAVID ALEXANDER CHRISTIAN. IR. B.S., October, 1943 APPOMATTOX, VIRGINIA AXA 3 IOSEPH WILLIAM EDDINS B.S., October, 1943 APPOMATTOX, VIRGINIA AXA, XBCI5 4 WILLIAM MADISON FLANNAGAN B.S., October, 1943 NORFOLK, VIRGINIA 5 ALLAN LEE FOX BS., October, 1943 DANVILLE, VIRGINIA HKA, UAE, XBQIH, if Kaleidoscope Staff 11,2,31, Assistant Editor 1315 lunior Varsity Football 131. 6 TURNER CLEVELAND LARAMORE B.S., October, 1943 DANVILLE, VIRGINIA KA, XB41 Ionqleurs 11,215 Physics Assistant 141. 7 IOHN THOMAS PAYNE B.S., October, 1943 ROANOKE, VIRGINIA Staff of Key 11,2,31: Phycholoqy Assistant 141. 8 ARTHUR WAINHOUSE MEARS B.S., February, 1944 BELLE HAVEN, VIRGINIA KA 9 WILBUR FRANKLIN AMONETTE B.S., Iune, 1944 RADFORD, VIRGINIA EX, XBQ Tennis Team 11,2,31, Captain 131: Track 121: Mono qram Club 1l,2,3J. 10 HENRY WATKIN S BROCKENBROUGH A.B., lune, 1944 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA AXA Tracl-: 11,2,31g Literary Society 11,2,31.

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IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THE exact day when the news oi the Declaration oi Inde- pendence, adopted in Philadelphia on Iuly 4, 1776, reached Prince Edward County, is not known. We do know that before Iuly 25. a student military company was already drilling, with every student in the College and in the academy on the muster roll: and that the students had elected Iohn Blair Smith, a tutor and student, as Captain. Regular musters were held during the session 1776-1777: and when Governor Patrick Henry called for companies from Prince Edward and other counties, to march to Williamsburg tthen the Capitalj to resist an invasion by the British, the student company, in purple shirts and coonskin caps, was the first in the county to respond. Only those 16 years of age and over were allowed to go. The company remained at Williamsburg for six weeks: was publicly thanked by the Governor: and the boys then ioined the various branches of the Army. The musters con- tinued at the College, and in September, 1778, the student company marched to Petersburg to protect that city. As far as is known, Hampden-Sydney students were the first to organize a military company, and the first to march to war.