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FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY NEWS FROM FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY NONPROFIT ORG. 412 South Cherry Street U.S. POSTAGE Richmond, Virginia 23220 PAID PERMIT NO. 671 23232 A Gateway Into History WWW.HOLLYWOODCEMETERY.ORG FALL 2012 • VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 Hollywood’s 164th Year 2012 Sees Continued Restoration and Outreach estoration and repair of monuments and fences by turnout of 150 individuals was entertained with guided tours conservator Robert Mosko and his team of interns have aboard trolleys, Good Humor ice cream, and bluegrass music by continuedR at a steady pace during 2012. All Phase I work in the Oak Lane Band. and around Presidents Circle has been nearly completed with a total of 326 monuments and 47 historic iron fences addressed • Complementing Friends’ sponsored tours throughout the in this initial phase. The installation of a newly recast Palmer year, the Valentine Richmond History Center has conducted fence and the reassembly of the ornate Nase family monument four themed walking tours of the cemetery in addition to its are the only remaining incomplete Phase I tasks. These, too, increasingly popular cemetery overview tours. Interest in will soon be completed. Hollywood guided tours has spiked this year with thousands of visitors choosing this option. And school children visits At the present time, Phase II of Hollywood’s multi-phase continue at a steady pace. restoration project is well underway. This second phase will address damage and deterioration in the oldest and most historic • Once again this year, in the spring and early summer, the sections of the cemetery. A total of 1,402 monuments and 81 cemetery was the site of ceremonies honoring Hollywood’s fences are included in the scope of Phase II. To date, work has former U. S. Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler; former been completed on 312 monuments and 51 fences. President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis; General J. E. B. Stuart; and numerous others. In addition to extensive restoration projects, Friends have continued in 2012 to showcase Hollywood through numerous • In August, Hollywood initiatives such as special events, tours, and networking was honored to be selected opportunities with other organizations. For example: by the readers of Richmond Magazine as the “Best • John O. Peters paid another visit to Hollywood on a Historic Site” in the city. sweltering April Sunday to speak to a faithful audience about The cemetery finished in the cemetery. His most recent book – Richmond’s Hollywood second place for “Best Cemetery – has been enthusiastically received. Guided tours Scenic View” in Richmond. followed Peters’ talk and book signing. • In October, the Boxwood • Over one hundred strong, members of the Church of Jesus Garden Club held its fall Christ of the Latter-day Saints spent a volunteer day in the meeting in the Palmer Cemetery in April pulling ivy, picking up debris, and removing Chapel and was treated to a dead limbs. Many additional volunteer hours were provided by presentation by Dr. Hunter the Phi Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Triangle Fraternities McGuire, Jr., followed by a at Virginia Commonwealth University. tour of Presidents Circle. • After a many decades’ absence from the Richmond scene, (continued on page 3) Friends sponsored a Hollywood family picnic on May 20. The Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 10 Page 11 Wreath-Laying 2012 McGuire Hollywood 2012 Officers and Ceremonies Images DVD Cemetery Contributors Directors (Cothran and (As of November 15, Richmond from Hollywood. Engraving image courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society Danylchak) 2012) Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Rawling Jr. Mr. F. Carlyle Tiller George Stuart Woodson Trust For Former U.S. Presidents Dr. Gaylord W. Ray Mrs. Tammy M. E. Tiltman Mrs. Michael B. Wray Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Reed Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Tompkins Dr. R. Lewis Wright 2012-2013 Dr. and Mrs. P. Larus Reed III Mrs. Mary L. Tompkins Mrs. Mildred Wysong Officers and Directors WREATH-LAYING CEREMONIES Mr. C. Edward Richardson III Mrs. Zach Toms Jr. Dr. Henry Yancey Jr. Friends of Hollywood Cemetery ach year, on the anniversary of their birth dates, Thirty days following the Tyler event, in a similar Mrs. Juliane M. Riley Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Toney Mr. and Mrs. David Lee Zorn the sitting President of the United States honors the ceremony held on April 28 and only a few steps away, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Riopelle Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Hoge Anderson – Chair E Mr. Field I. Robertson Jr. Program * Deceased memory and legacy of our county’s former Presidents by Major General James L. Hodge, then Commanding David L. Gilliam – Secretary a formal military wreath-laying ceremony. General of CASCOM, Fort Lee, and Sergeant Major Mr. and Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers Tuckahoe Garden Club of Mr. Edwin M. Rucker Jr. Westhampton Corporations, Peter C. Toms – Treasurer James E, Riddick, CASCOM’s top noncommissioned CDR. James C. Ruehrmund (Ret.) Judge John Randolph Tucker Jr. Foundations and In the spring of the year, two such ceremonies take place officer, placed a red, white and blue wreath at President Mr. Raymond A. Ruth Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Turnbull Organizations Mary Hoge Anderson at Hollywood Cemetery. They honor our fifth and tenth Monroe’s tomb in a similar ceremony. Mrs. Calvin Satterfield III Mr. Halcott Mebane Turner Mary Lynn Bayliss, PhD Presidents, James Monroe (born April 28, 1758) and John Mr. Lee Schulte Mr. Joseph V. Turner III Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Schutt Mrs. Marguerite B. Turner Bank of America Matching Gifts Program William R. Claiborne Tyler (born March 29. 1790). Hollywood is one of just “He was the last of the “Virginia Dynasty” and the last of Edward M. Farley, IV three cemeteries in the country in which two Presidents of the “Revolutionary Fathers” to occupy the White House,” Mrs. Elizabeth P. Scott Mrs. Lynne C. Valentine The Beirne Carter Foundation Segway of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Granville G. Valentine III The Biscuit Factory Matthew D. Jenkins the United States are interred. General Hodge remarked. “In his lifetime, President Mr*. and Mrs. Rankjit Sen Mr. and Mrs. Hubert P. Van Horn Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Peter C. Toms Monroe contributed immeasurably to the building of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Shands Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Van Sickle Overton and Katharine Dennis Fielding L. Williams, Jr. John Tyler was nominated as the Whig Party’s vice this nation, and he established a remarkable record of Mr. Howard W. Shields Van Yahres Associates Foundation presidential candidate in 1840 and ran with William service to the citizens of America.” Monroe was born in Mr. Robert H. Shultz, Jr. Varina High School Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Henry Harrison, also of Charles City, Virginia, under the Westmoreland County, Virginia, and on Christmas Eve, Mr. Thomas A. Silvestri Vineyard Productions, LLC Friends at First Baptist Church 2012-2013 much trumpeted campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler, 1776, at eighteen years of age, crossed the Delaware with Mrs. Sarah S. Sinsabaugh Mrs. George R. Wagoner GE Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Slagle Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Wallace Genworth Foundation Officers and Directors Too.” Tyler was thrust into the Presidency one month into General George Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Smith Ms. Sandra E. Waller The Hermitage at Cedarfield Harrison’s term when the President died from pneumonia Hollywood Cemetery Company (continued on page 3) Mrs. Rosemary T. Smith Mrs. Frances M. Waller Historic Richmond Foundation on April 4, 1841. Mrs. Schuyler O. Sneed Mrs. Mary P. Ware Hollywood Cemetery Company Mr. and Mrs. William H. Snider Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Warthen III The Linhart Foundation Matthew D. Jenkins – President Mrs. Mary L. Soukup Mr. Ten Eyck T. Wellford Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Peter C. Toms – Vice President Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Spain Jr. Mr. Jay Laird Welliver Program David L. Gilliam – Secretary and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sparrow Mr. and Mrs. Jack West Richard S. Reynolds Foundation General Manager St. John’s Church Foundation Mr. Ralph C. White Jr. The William H., John G., and Woodrow C. Harper – Treasurer Mrs. Ursula F. Stalker Mrs. Raymond H. Whitney Emma Scott Foundation Star Brite Enterprises Inc Mrs. Kathy Whittington Segway of Richmond Mabel E. Toney – Assistant Mrs. Hazeltine P. Strother Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wickham Star Brite Enterprises,Inc Secretary and Assistant Treasurer Mr. and Mrs. James E. B. Stuart Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Wilbanks The Triangle Fraternity Mrs. Mary N. Sutherland Mr. Carrington C. Wilkerson Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Lynn Bayliss, Ph.D. Mrs. Ruth W. Taylor Mrs. Hilda L. Williams Program Edward M. Farley, IV Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Tentor Mr. and Mrs. Fielding L. Williams Jr. Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton Mr. and Mrs. Walter TeStrake Jr. Mr. Robert G. Willis Jr. Valentine Richmond History Center Matthew D. Jenkins Dr. James A. Thompson III Mrs. Virginia L. Wilson Van Yahres Associates Elizabeth Cabell Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Thompson Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Winkler Varina High School Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D. George N. Thrift MD, Trust Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Witt III Vineyard Productions, LLC E. Bryson Powell Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Evelina M. 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