Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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DR. J. B. PRICE [ 11 1

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IN MEMORIAM... In the early hours of Friday, November 8, 1963, death came to our friend. Dr. J. B. Price, quietly ending an active life of service to students of Millsaps College and to the people of Mississippi. The death of this teacher indeed saddened our community; it kindled in us a desire to pay tribute somehow to what he was and to what he did. We wanted to say something, but we found that our words and thoughts could not do justice to our knowledge of Dr. Price. It may well be that the proper tribute is not something that can be spoken, or written and published. Little that we could say or write would add to the tribute evident in another realm. With these thoughts then, we point to another realm, where tribute is far more mean- ingful and dynamic than mere words. The tribute befitting J. B. Price is the noble quality of the attitudes, opinions, and outlooks of the people he influenced. The students with whom he had close contact remember well his quiet, but encouraging and challenging, manner. Many of these same students cannot forget that it was Dr. Price who guided them towards a career in medicine. There are today hundreds of medical doctors scattered throughout the South that were advised and personally encouraged while at Millsaps by Dr. Price. And it is particularly in the lives of these physicians that we view the very real tribute to J. B. Price. These physicians are serving their constituency with the same unselfish dedication with which Dr. Price served them — his stu- dents — when they were at Millsaps. Dr. Price was a scientist with a keen awareness of the needs of other peo- ple, and today we can look to most towns in Mississippi and find physicians who follow this tradition of meeting the needs of other people through the skilled application of science. It is then these men and their dynamic service that compose in a large part the living tribute to this man. Millsaps students, both past and present, will long remember and reflect many of the character traits of Dr. Price. In his own way he helped pass on to us a desire to search for and propagate truth. He gave many of us a living definition of hard-working loyalty and definite- ness of purpose. The tribute that is worthy of Dr. Price, we suggest, is far more than words, but it is an active force working for human betterment in our world. [ 10

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