University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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COLONEL THOMAS H. CARTER

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1906 CORKS AND CURLS 7 anlntwl Ehnmaa '13. 01mm hapless readers misguided as to a Virginia type, but widely loved by hearty men and women, admirers of the real type; not the arbitrary creation of a facile writer of fiction but the true handiwork of the great Creator of Facueour Colonel Carter is the subject of this sketch. Fortunately he still Wives and therefore no summary of his life as a tale that is told is in place. When the noble old soldier, true to every relation in life and recreant to no trust, shall on tfame's eternal camping groundi answer the roll call of the Great Commander with the modest but unfaltering adsum, some worthy biographer may gather his deeds and thoughts, his life and its significance, for full record and across the face of his report write posterityis fixed acclaim of his faithfulness, but it is our pleasure and true privilege to pay a tribute to a living friend and give to him the evidence of the love in which he is held. I am commanded by my young friends, who edit this Annual, to write, but I am cautioned that no sketch that does not breathe affection will represent them. No more would it rightly represent me, and, therefore, in accepting the com- mand I can discard the caution. Our personal knowledge of Col. Carter began when he entered upon his duties as Proctor of the University of Virginia, but this was rather the Closing than the opening act of his life's drama, of which his patient waiting for the curtains fall is but the peaceful epilogue. He came among us with nothing to learn of the lessons Virginiais University teaches of manly bearing, sensitive, honor, and self-sacrihcing service, for these were the flower and fruitage of his own rich experience; but everything to learn of the petty details of an office assumed after he had passed the years of ready acquisition of new duties. Yet, as he illustrated continually his loyalty to a past of potent privilege and enriched experience, so he evidenced anew his devotion to his present task and his un- swerving purpose to prove worthy of this new trust. C OL. CARTER, not of Cartersville but of Pampati'ke; not widely known to :FBy a strange and suggestive coincidence, as I write these words tMarch 23, 1906i about Col. Carter, the re- mains of his dear old friend, and ours, Col. Wm E. Peters, lie in the death chamber awaiting final sepulture. How they loved each other, these brave old soldiers of a cause, that history records as lost, but that lives with the per- ennial freshness of discovery and disclosure in the intimate talk of these old Comrades.