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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.
On the business agenda will
be election of officers for the
1971-1972 year.
Activity begins Friday with
the State Moose Golf tourna
ment. Convention features will
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