Virginia Intermont College - Intermont Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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|T is eminently fitting and proper that, at intervals in the life of onr school and societies, the literary expo- nent of our progress within the walls of Southwest Virginia Institute should be dedicated to him who has always stood like a faithful sentinel, keeping vigil over our best interests — guarding them even as his own treasure. At best it is but a feeble demonstration of the quick appreciation we each of us feel in love for, and gratitude to, Mr. Jones. We do not desire that those of the Southwest Virginia Insti - tute family who have preceded us in the walls of the Institute should find us lacking in filial love. We are eager to be foremost in doing him honor that our successors may feel sure that others before themselves have known him, and knowing him have loved him r and loving him have praised him. The name of “Jones” is legion! If each country chose a national name as it does flower, that name would be “Jones,” for like the flower, it springs up everywhere. Simply to dedicate our pages to Mr. Jones would be tossing this honor, petty as it is, like an air-blown bubble into the faces and at the feet of

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i •5 • 5 •5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4» 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Hlumnae association. president : MISS lvITTIE 15. St. JOHN, : : : : jftrst Uicc=II rcsidcnt : MRS. CORA ADAMS PEOPLES, : : Second !)ice= president : Chilhowie, Ya. Jonesboro, Tenn. •£» MISS CLARA MAE SHERWOOD, 4 Secretary : MISS LIZZIE PRICE, 4 4 4 4 MRS. CARRIE ST JOHN CURTIN, Gladys, Ya. {Treasurer : Members : 4 - 4 4 4 - 4 - 4 4 4 4 - M orristown, Tenn. «£» 4 4 4 4 - Bristol, Tenn. 4 4 - 4 - 4 4 4 - 4 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 4 4 - 4 4 - 4 4 4 4 4 - 4 - 4 4 i kj fcj. 5% 4 4 Mrs. Cynthia Shumate Wolfe, Miss Amanda Barnes, Miss Inez Quisenberry, Mrs. Kate Easley Evans, Miss Mamie St. John, Mrs. Nannie Winston Wood, Miss Josephine Weston, Miss Nina B. Morriss, Miss Ella V. Jones, Miss Katherine P. Coles, Mrs. Lida Davis Jones, Miss Lizzie B. Evans, Miss Fannie M. Hardy-, Miss Della C. Phipps, Miss Bessie B. Hardy, Mrs. Georgie Hall Park, Miss Clara Kirn, Mrs. Alice St. John Dulaney - , 4 Miss Leora Booth Yaiden, «£» Miss Emma J. Lamb, Miss Lola Brown, Miss May Venable, 4 Miss Annie Tompkins, Miss Lillie Karnes, Miss Lois Hundley - , Miss Juddie Davis, Miss Minnie E. May, Miss Lizzie Ford, Miss Mary D. Rice.

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s SENSE A ND NONSENSE. thousands and tens of thousands ; hence we particularize the one from among the ten thousands and the chiefest of them all and say that this edition is dedicated to our beloved president, our wise coun- sellor, our faithful teacher, and our loyal friend. Mr. Samuel D. Jones was born on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1857, in Campbell County, Virginia. He graduated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1878, and at Rich- mond College in 1879. A Virginian by birth, education, and asso- ciation, a fact that evinces itself in all of his relations, his genial and unstudied hospitality, his broad charitableness, his warmheart- edness, his convictions steadfast and clear, his unswerving earnest- ness, his happy faculty of letting his fatherliness for the girls shine through and temper all the judgments of the disciplinarian — of combining consideration and firmness, stoutness of will and deter- mination with kindness. His robe of authority is so truly a Joseph’s coat in which harmoniously blend the colorings of justness, upright- ness, unchanging purpose and gentleness, that there is no feeling of rebellion toward the judge, so surely do we know the sincerity and largeness of his heart. For he is made on a generous scale, mind and soul and body, and as Webster once said of Calhoun : ‘ ‘ He possesses the indisputable basis of all high character — nothing groveling low or meanly selfish ever came near his head or heart.” The girls know him as a ready sharer in their pleasures and joys, and a quick sympathizer in all troubles and griefs. They know him as a confidant, worthy of utmost trust and as a companion genial, conservative and ready. Sociability is as natural to him as breathing and his office has oftener served as an after-tea rendezvous for bright-humored groups than an assembly-room for those dreaded conventions known as ‘ ‘ faculty meetings. ’ ’ Since his marriage in 1883, to Miss Bettie Harrison, eldest daughter of Rev. J. R. Harrison, the honored and much loved founder of Southwest Virginia Institute, Mr. Jones has had the interest