Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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EDICATE ' T ' PIIS, the fortieth vohime of Tile Yikginian, to ■•■ one who, from our experience with him in the classroom, in school activities, in personal contact, has come to epitomize the dearest meaning Farmville has for us. Our search for the meaning of true scholarship, our desire for honest thinking, our con- ception of the broadness of learning, are closelj ' associated with Dr. James Elliott Walmsley, head of the History Department. It takes not two days in his classroom to observe his pet likes and dislikes, and the qualities of mind and character which make him beloved to is. We know his reaction to belated entrances, even at eight- tifteen, and his opinion of those of us who keep the grass from growing on the campus ; we watch him juggle his pencil more intensely than ever when the point in discussion is particularly interesting or time- ly. AVe always sit forward in our desks when he pre- faces a story with, JSTow, I oxightn ' t to say this . . . He is associated in our minds with all that is truly Farmville, and gives his time unstintedly as adviser, teacher, and public speaker. His classroom lectures, his store of logic, his direction of our minds to a lofti- ness we thought impossible . . . these things we are not capable of commending in the time we are here. His concepts of living are founded on an idealism which has been contagious, which will not soon leave us. Without the influence of his personality our years here would not hold the richness and completeness we have known, and without him the story of a year at Farmville could not be told. We dedicate this volume, with deepest respect and admiration, to Dr. James Elliott Walmsley.