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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Sept. 16, 1971 include conferring of the Fel lowship Degree on Saturday morning, the Governors-Secre- taries Luncheon Saturday noon, the President’s Banquet and Ball on Saturday night, and the Candlelight Breakfast Class En rollment on Sunday morning. COLLEGE CALENDAR One of the Orientation Week activities berry College was a picnic in Margaret at Newberry College last week for the Hunter Park, freshman and transfer students at New- Calvin Crozier hears paper on Jefferson Davis The Calvin Crozier Chapter of the U.D.C. held its first meet ing of the new season at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7th in the home of Mrs. W. Ray Feagle. Associate hostesses were Mrs. John Sanders, Mrs. William Beard, Mrs. R. E. Hanna, and Mrs. John Epps. Upon arrival the group enjoyed a brief so cial period, during which de licious refreshments were serv ed. Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, Presi dent, presided and the Chaplain, Mrs. A. T. Neely, led the Open ing Ritual. Mrs. Judson Bishop, Historian, spoke briefly of days to remember in September, the birthday of Admiral Raphael Semmes and the U.D.C. Found ers Day on Sept. 10th, paying tribute to Mrs. Caroline Meri wether Goodlet, Founder of the U.D.C. Mrs. Bishop then introduced Mrs. W. Roy Anderson, who presented a most interesting and informative paper on Jef ferson Davis. Mrs. Anderson be gan her remarks v.'th a brief biography of the family of Jef ferson Davis. On his father’s side, his ancestors were Welsh Baptists who came from Wales to Philadelphia in Sept. 1701, later joining fellow church men in Deleware. In 1735, this co lony came to South Carolina and settled on the Pee Dee Ri ver at a place called Welsh Neck. Samuel Davis, Jefferson's father, served in the Revolution as a Captain. After the war, he married Jane Cook, Jefferson’s mother, daughter of an eloquent Scotch- Irish Baptist preacher. About 1790, the family, now living near Augusta, Georgia, started through the Wilderness of Ten nessee to the famous Blue Grass region. Jefferson, the last of the ten boys and girls was born June 3. 1808 at Fairview in Kentucky. The family later moved to Wilkinson County, Miss. Jefferson's education began early and at the age of seven he went to a school for boys known as St. Thomas College, kept by Dominican Fathers, then to the County Academy. He then entered Transylvania College in Kentucky. At the age of sixteen he entered the U.S. Military Academy. His army career took him to Forts Howard and Crawford on the Wisconsin Frontier. He fought i n campaigns against the Indians and took charge of Indian prisoner removal after the Black Hawk War. After he resigned from the army in 1835, he married the daughter of his Commander, Col. Zach ary Taylor. He took his bride to Mississippi and settled down as a cotton planter, but, within three months, both he and his wife became ill with a fever and his wife died. After travel ing a year, while he regained his strength, he returned to his plantation, Briarfield, on the Mississippi. While managing the plantation and becoming weal thy, he studied history, econo mics, political philosophy and the U.S. Constitution. He won a seat, as a Demo crat, in the House of Repre sentatives in 1845, but resigned from Congress in 1846 to be come Colonel in a regiment of Mississippi Volunteers in the Mexican War, serving under Gen. Zachary Taylor in the bat tle of Monterey, and Buena Vista, where he fought all day with a bullet in his foot. He returned home on crutches. The Governor of Mississippi appointed Davis, in 1847, to fill out the term of a U.S. Senator who had died, and he was elect ed for a full term in 1850. He believed in strict interpretation of the Constitution and loyally supported John C. Calhoun. He resigned from the Senate to be come States’ Rights Candidate for Governor, but lost and re tired to his plantation in Wil kinson County. President Franklin Pierce appointed him as Secretary of War in 1853. He introduced an improved system of Infantry tactics, secured new and better weapons and enlarged the Army. At the close of Pierce’s administration in 1857, he was re-elected to the Senate from Mississippi. He no longer ad vocated secession, but defended the right of a state to choose and maintain its own institu tions. After Lincoln was elected President of the U.S., Mississip pi passed an Ordinance of Se cession and Davis resigned from the Senate to become head of the Army of the Confederate States. Shortly after his return to Mississippi, the Convention in Montgomery named him Pro visional President of the Con federacy. He was inaugurated as regular President on Feb. 22, 1862. Always he acted with dignity, sincerity, and strict devotion to Constitutional prin ciple. Soon after Robert E. Lee’s surrender Davis was imprison ed at Fort Monroe. A grand jury indicted him for treason and he was held for two years awaiting trial. In 1867 he was released on bail but was never tried. He spent his last years at his home “Beauvoir” at Biloxi, Mississippi, where he wrote “The Rise and Fall of the Con federate Government,” as a de fense against his critics. It has been said that, if any two men showed mutual re spect, and singleness of pur pose, and recognition of abi lity, Davis and Lee, from be ginning to end, maintained that relation to each other. While on a visit to Briarfield during Nov. 1889, Davis was exposed to cold rain, which brought on an acute attack of Bronchitis. He started home at once, but on arrival at New Orleans, was so ill he was ta ken to the home of a friend. On Dec. 6th he was stricken with a congestive chill and died at midnight. Verina Howell Da vis, his second wife, was with him to the end. She was known as a brilliant hostess and is cre dited with helping advance her husband’s political career, and after the war, she assisted him in writing “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern ment.” After his death she wrote his biography. Governors of nine Southern states were present at the church for the funeral. Burial was in New Orleans, but in 1893, the body was removed to Richmond, where a monument was built to his memory. The state of Mississippi presented a statue to Davis to Statuary Hall in 1931. The life of a true Southern gentleman has been brought to a close, but the re^ spect, admiration, and love of thousands have lingered on over a period of many years. Arts and lectures series announced Music, Mark Twain, and eco logy are on the schedule of the Arts and Lectures Series at Newberry College during the 1971-72 school year. The series will open with a concert by the North Carolina Symphony Chamber Players at 8 p.m. October 12, in Wiles Chapel on campus. The Play ers, an ensemble featuring 12 select musicians from the full Symphony orchestra, were re ceived enthusiastically through out North Carolina and Virginia during the first concert tour in 1970. John Chappell, a young actor, will portray “Mark Twain To night” Nov. 18 in the Wiles Chapel. The portrait of Samuel Clemens is the presentation ori ginally created by Hal Holbrook who has given permission for a limited number of solo perfor mances by Chappell on college campuses and towns in the South. A professor of atmospheric science and the administrator of the Sea Grant Institutional Program of the University of Miami will speak on environ mental problems on April 27, 1972. A fourth program in the Col lege’s Arts and Lectures Series will be announced later, accord ing to Thomas Epting, the chair man of the Arts and Lectures Committee. All programs in the Series are free of charge and are scheduled for 8 p.m. in the Col lege’s Wiles Chapel. The Newberry College Indians take to the road again Satur day as they travel to Boiling Springs, N. C. to meet the Gardner-Webb squad. In the season’s openers for both teams last week, Newberry defeated Emory and Henry 27-7 and Gardner- Webb downed Lenoir Rhyne 24-6. The Rev. Harry Weber will conduct Holy Communion at the 11:15 a.m. Services on Sunday, September 19, in the Wiles Cha pel. A carrillon service is plan ned for 7 p.m. Sunday in the Chapel. Looking ahead to the follow ing week, a reception honoring Dr. and Mrs. Fredric B. Irvin, the College’s new president and his wife, is planned for Sunday, September 26 from 3 to 5 p.m. The Newberry College Air Force ROTC Deatachment will be for mally activated at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, September 30. CITY BUILDING PERMITS City building permits for the past week totaled $61,880.00. They are as follows: Curtis Bates, 701 Wise St., repairs; James D. Perry, 2110 Adelaide St., repairs; Ed A- dams, 2531 Fair Ave., addition; C. F. Garner, 2714 Deloache Ave., erect building; Edna Phillips, 2822 Nance St., re pairs; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hill, Morgan St., erect dwelling; Pearl Boyd, 816 Taylor St., re pairs; Earl Burton, 712 Mor gan St., repairs; Herman Lang ford, 1506 Caldwell St., repairs; and G. B. Setzler, 2115 Spring- dale Drive, erect dwelling. Moose convention underway at Myrtle Beach Members of the Loyal Order of Moose from throughout South Carolina and their ladies will gather in Myrtle Beach this weekend for the 17th annual State Association convention. Headquarters will be at the Ocean Forest Hotel. Presiding at the various func tions will be John Miller of Orangeburg, state president, and C. E. Myers of Camden, state director. Representing the Supreme Lodge at Mooseheart, 111., will be Jay Stoehr, assistant enroll ment director. Stoehr will speak at special meetings and the memorial service on Sunday morning. Also holding its own sessions will be the Order’s auxiliary, Women of the Moose. 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