University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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MARVIN HENDRIX STACY MAY 12. 1877 JANUARY 21. 1919

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MARVIN HENDRIX STACY What, hei-e so soon? Sunset and night? Why I have work to do that needs the noon And day ' s broad light! See! On the pallet, there the colors are but set, The canvas still unwet — And it is night! IN the death of Marvin Hendrix Stacy, the University of North Carolina suffered the loss of its chief executive for the second time within three months ; and the State bowed its head in mourn- ing at the passing of another of its ablest educators and most devoted citizens. While in Raleigh, attending a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees, on January 14, Professor Stacy was stricken with an attack of influenza. One week later (Tuesday, January 21), he passed away, at his home in Chapel Hill. At the time of his death, Professor Stacy was serving as chairman of the Faculty, with full duties and powers of president, pending the election of a suc- cessor to the late President Edward K. Graham. Thruout the late summer and the early fall of 1918, President Graham ' s duties as Regional Director of the Students ' Army Training Corps kept him away from Chapel Hill a great deal of the time, and during his absence the administration of the internal affairs of the University fell upon Dean Stacy. These extra duties overtaxed his strength, and no doubt weakened his usual power of resistance. He worked day and night. But never a word of complaint came from his lips, nor ever a request for needed assistance in carrying the load that fell upon his shoulders. To carry it was his duty as he saw it, and to him duty was not only the sublimest word in the English language — it was the keynote of his creed. Then came the tragic end of President Graham ' s labors. The trustees promptly asked Stacy to become chairman of the Faculty, and thus he assumed additional obligations and responsibilities. As was his habit in everything he undertook, Stacy threw himself into his new duties with complete devotion and with utter disregard of self. He was no shirker. The brief period of his administration was crowded with critical problems of a perplexing character. The University was temporarily a military post, and the work of the institution was on a