North Georgia College - Cyclops Yearbook (Dahlonega, GA)

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RESOLUTIONS Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the North Georgia Agricultural College on the death of William Pierce Price, THE President OF THE Board. LLIAM P. PRICE is dead. This melancholy announcement has brought the sadness of a personalliereave- ment to each member of this Board. To most of us he has been a life long friend and to • onie of us he was bound by the most intimate personal and professional ties. In addition to the sense of personal loss his death has made a vacancy in our own number that all of us feel it will be very hard to fill. For 36 years he has presided over the annual meetings of this body and, in all of that long period, has never missed an annual Commencement. It was while he was a member of Congress from the 9th District of Georgia that he secured from the government the old mint building and 10 acres of land as the beginning of the institution. He prom ised the government at that time, that if this property should be devoted to education that he would devote the balance of his life to an eiTort to remove the dark lines of illiteracy from his native State. How well he has redeemed this promise in the devotion of his strong young manhood and maturing years to the cause of education, all of us know. He has given not only his time, but he has generously appropriated a large part of his personal income in helping the needy, young peo- |.le of this section of the State. When the old mint building was burned he pledged his personal credit to secure the money for a new building until the Legislature could make an appiopriation to replace the loss. The members of this I ' .dard, as well as the members of the oki Board of Trustees, can all bear cheerful testimony to his tireless devotion to the institution, through his long period of service of 30 years. In this long period of time he has seen the institution grow in power and in usefulness. Largely through his powerful influence with friends, in the Legislature and out of it, the college now owns four well appointed buildings well equipped for successful work. Even in his last protected illness, through weary hours of almost ceaseless pain, his eye would brighten and his face grow radiant at the reports of a larger attendance and growing facilities for better work in the institution. In one of his last reports to the Governor he said: For 3G years I have presided over the Board of Trustees and directed as best I could, the destiny of the school. The enfeebled condition of my worn-out body admonishes me that this may be my last report to the Governor and to the General Assembly. I had hoped to round out forty years of my ministry of education in this section of the State, Init it may be that I shall be called away before the time comes to make another annual report. If this be my last word, let me make it an earnest word to the Governor and to the Legislature ; cherish this child of my affection. You have no institution that has done and is doing nobler service for the State. . n - review of his long and useful career will show that he stands well at the front, in that company of distinguished Georgians who have rendered such noble service to the State. For distinguished loyalty to duty he won promotion after l)romotion in the war between the States. In that hard and trying period of the Reconstruction days he served his people well. He e.xerted a potential influence in framing the new constitution of the State and in passing legislative enactments

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Trustees of the N. G. A. College, Dahlonega, Ga. Hon. H. H. Perky, I ' lcr-Frcsidt nt Gainesville, Ga. F. C. Tate ■ tlaiita. Ga. W. B. JMcC.xxTS Winder, Ga. J. F. Moore .■ Dahlonega, Ga. Cou. R. H. B. KER, Secretary Dahlonega, Ga. Preston Arkvvright Atlanta, Ga. Dr. a. J. Cavender Dahlonega, Ga.

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adapted to the needs of our people. W ' itli liis own hand he penned tlie ccmMitntinnal i)rii l i( n that Tlu- I ' .ilile shouhl Udt he exchuled from the jtuhHe schools of the State. In the Congress of the L ' nited States his leadership was so tactful as to win the atTectionate regard of the strong men from all sections of the L ' nion. Among the last messages sent hy (ien. Ciraut when he was dying at Mt. Gregor was a message of warmest love and friendship to his Georgia friend, Col. Price. When the wires flashed to us the message that the end had come to him, our venerahle leader and friend, dur nwn hearts ' oiced their sense of loss in the language of one (if iild, Know ye not that there is a |)rince .-ind a great man fallen this da ' in Israel. The workers die hul the work must go on. The members of this Board desire to put (Hi record tlieir pnifnund sense of gratitude to God tiiat He spared for useful service the life (if our hcmnred President thrdugh so long a ])eriiid of vears. Therefore be it resolved: First, That in tiie death of W. P. Price, the honored President of this Board, the Institution has lost a presiding officei who has faithfully and wisely directed its afifairs for 3G years. Second, That in his public career, as well as in his private life, his high sense of moral rectitude, his unselfish devotion to duty, his unwavering loyalty to what he believed to be right, his patient love of his feliow man, and his unclouded faith in the All-wise Ruler of men, are shining facets of the bright jewel of his soul that shouM reillnmine for us all what is true and what is good and what is beautiful in human life. Third, That the cause of education in the State, and especially in this section of the State, has lost its oldest and wisest friend. Fourth, That his long public career, unstained by any reproach, and his bright and sunny home life, blessed with every human afifection, make a shining example of civic righteousness and domestic happiness that all of our young men would do well to imitate. Let a copy of this preamble and resolutions be presented to his family and spread upon our minutes.