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Alumni Gazette of the College of William & Mary in Virginia Volume Iv Williamsburg, Virginia, Wednesday, Sept ALUMNI GAZETTE OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY IN VIRGINIA VOLUME IV WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1936 NUMBER 2 CHARLES M. THRUSTON JOHN WEYMOUTH, '94, HOMECOMING DAY PRESIDENT JOHN STEWART BRYAN WAS FIGHTING PARSON NAMED ASCIRCUIT JUDGE November 7, 1936 The Southern Literary Messenger John Weymouth, '94, was appointed November 7th will be Homecoming ADDRESSES OPENING CONVOCATION of March 1840 carried a five page judge of the eleventh judicial circuit Day for all William and Mary alumni and alumnae. The principal event of Impressive Ceremonies Held At biography of the Reverend and later of Virginia by Governor Peery on the day will be the football game with W-M PRESIDENT ATTENDS Opening of 244th Session. Colonel Charles Mynn Thruston by an September 12th to succeed Judge C. Vernon Spratley, '01, who had a few V. M. I. The cadet corp has been unnamed gentleman wno was at the HARVARD TERCENTENARY REGISTRATION 1,222 weeks earlier been promoted to the invited to attend the game and the time 76 years of age and as a youth Supreme Court of Appeals. presence of these young men on the William and Mary campus will lend President John Stewart Bryan re- President's Aides Inducted Into had known Col. Thruston whose eldest Mr. Weymouth was strongly en- much color and interest to the oc- presented William and Mary at the Office By Blake T. Newton. son, Charles, was only slightly the dorsed for the judgeship by a large casion. The corp, which is allowed Harvard tercentenary exercises on biographer's junior. number of citizens of his district and only two trips during the football sea- September 16, 17, and 18th. He was With a registration of 1222 stu- there was great rejoicing on the Of this fighting parson and alum- son, will vote on the invitation in the accompanied by Dr. Donald W. Davis dents, including 450 freshmen, and Lower Peninsula at his appointment. and Dr. Harold Lees Fowler, both nus of William and Mary the editor near future. representing an increase over last His endorsers stressed his fine legal alumni of Harvard, and by Dr. Grace year's enrollment of nearly 100, the of the Messenger said: "Intense must Other features of the program will ability, his judicial temperament and be a parade of student and Williams- Warren Landrum, Dean of Women at 244th session was formally opened have been the enthusiasm for liberty his scholastic attainments. burg civic organization floats, an out- William and Mary and a direct de- here on September 22nd with a con- which impelled the clergyman to He received his A. B. degree at Wil- door dinner and a dance that night. scendent of Henry Dunster, Harvard's vocation of students and faculty in the throw aside the cassock, and grasp the liam and Mary in 1894 at the age of Hundreds of alumni are expected first president. Phi Beta Kappa Hall. sword instead of the cross." nineteen and made a brilliant scho- here for this occasion. The attend- President Bryan presented to Pre- The convocation was preceded by a lastic record here. As a student he sident James Bryant Conant of Har- colorful academic procession. Charles Mynn Thruston was born in ance has increased each year since was a frequent contributor to the this annual celebration was started vard a scroll inscribed as follows: Dr. Donald W. Davis, senior mem- Gloucester County, Virginia, in Aug- Literary Magazine under the sobriquet several years ago. "To the president, fellows and over- ber of the faculty, presided at the ust 1738. His ancestors for several of Nat Prune. He is a member of Full details of the program will ap- seers of Harvard University on the meeting and Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin generations had been wealthy and re- Kappa Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa pear in the October Alumni Gazette. tercentenary of the founding of Har- offered the invocation. spectable merchants and planters of fraternities. Make your plans now to be here on vard College. Blake T. Newton, Jr., '35, induct- that county. The first known progeni- November 7th. ed the President's aides for 1936-37 tor of the family was^. Thruston who Mr. Weymouth is a devoted and The President, rector and visitors loyal alumnus of William and Mary into office. The aides, who are honor was Chamberlain of the City of Bris- of the College of William and Mary and several years ago was awarded students, are: Blake T. Newton, Jr., tol, England, at the time of the resto- in Virginia gratefully recall the his- the Alumni Medallion. C. VERNON SPRATLEY ON Hague, Va., (law student); George ration of Charles II to the English toric fact that the interval between He has practiced law at Hampton, Anner, Williamsburg, Va.; Harold throne. This Thruston kept a book in the establishment of the two insti- Virginia, for thirty-six years, during SUPREME COURT BENCH tutions is substantially that which Gouldman, Fredericksburg, Va.; Pete which important events were entered which time he has served as city at- separate Hampden's protest against Hansen, New York; James Keilor, New and which was handed down to the York; James Knox, Manassas, Va.; torney, member of the city council Another good and loyal William the levy of ship-money from the Dec- oldest son of the family for several Edward Lawlor, Norfolk, Va.; William and the county and city school boards. and Mary alumnus was advanced to laration of Right. Themselves, the generations. In 1840 it was in the pos- P. Lyons, Portsmouth, Va.; J. O. Man- Like Judge Spratley, he taught school the highest judicial tribunal of the children of revolution in England, session of Col. Thruston's oldest son, ly, Staunton, Va.; George Mason, '36, for several years after leaving col- State recently, a position adorned by these colleges became the foster mo- Charles. One entry made by the origi- Colonial Beach, Va.; (law student); lege and before entering the legal many brilliant William and Mary thers of wider revolution in America. nal Thruston reads as follows: "On Carl Mitson, New Jersey; Warne Rob- profession. men in the past, when Governor William and Mary thus has had the this day there were great rejoicings inson, Pennsylvania; William F. Peery appointed Judge C. Vernon longest opportunity of surveying the in our good City of Bristol, on ac- Thomas, Newport News, Va.; and W. Spratley, '01, of Hampton, Va., to labors of an elder sister in Massa- count of the restoration of his blessed W. Woodbridge, Jr., Seattle, Wash. the Supreme Court of Appeals on chusettes and of appraising her ser- majesty, Charles II, to the throne of COL KEY-SMITH WRITER Dr. Davis introduced the new mem- August 27th. vice in the emancipation and enrich- these realms; the very conduits ran bers of the faculty; Dr. Hoke present- Judge Spratley was highly en- ment of the mind. In a time when with wine." By an interesting coinci- The Alumni Office received during ed the heads of departments and Chas. dorsed for the position by the Bar men's hearts fail them for fear, most dence, Scott in his novel, "Wood- the summer two pamphlets by Col. J.Duke, Jr., introduced all officers of Association of Newport News and of strong confirmation of faith is found stock", used similar language when he Francis Scott Key-Smith, '92, one en- the administration. Elizabeth City County in resolutions in the purpose of Harvard and in her wrote, "The restored monarch trod titled "An Essay upon Constitutional President John Stewart Bryan de- that pointed out his "notable legal influence not less on the nation than slowly over roads strewed with flow- Amendment and Two Addresses" and livered the principal address which training, wide experience as a law- on her own sons. Here are manifested ers and conduits running wine." the other entitled "The Right and was highly praised. He said in part: Wise (An Encomium) and Two yer, fine judicial temperament, un- the appeal and the mastery of the In 1754 Charles Mynn Thruston was "Not since 1776 have such magnifi- Poems." The poems are "Our Coun- usually high personal character, and spirit. Here are projected the hori- at William and Mary studying for cent rewards of fame and honor and try's Past and Future" and "The Old his splendid record as a circuit zons of humanity. Here in the realm the ministry. Among his classmates power and blessing awaited the wise Chimney Place." judge." He also had many prominent of the transitory is the certitude of were Theodric Bland, later a Colonel leaders of this country as those which Col. Key-Smith is a thorough stu- individual endorsers throughout the the imperishable. For these gifts of in the Revolutionary War and a mem- now attend the right solution of its dent of the Constitution and has writ- state. Harvard, and for the assurance they ber of Congress; four sons of Benja- problems. ten and lectured much on this sub- Judge Spratley is a native of bring, William and Mary thanks God min Harrison, and John Tyler, after- The men who dominate the situa- ject. Surry County but moved to Hampton and takes courage. tion are the men who know what to wards Governor of Virginia. In 1911 he wrote a short biography in 1894 from where he entered Wil Done at Williamsburg, Virginia, keep of the past and what to seek ia Four years later when he was just of his great grandfather, Francis liam and Mary in 1898, receiving his this sixteenth day of September in the future. twenty years of age, Thruston's fight- Scott Key, author of the "Star A.
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