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see in our mind's eyes the long line of those who in this and other
centuries laid out the ground on which we stand today.

MEMORIALS OF 1933

We recall this morning the faces and spirit of the members of
this body who have died in the brief thirty months of your existence
as a consolidated board. Committees of trustees have recorded and
will record your memorials of the lives and services of these honored,
beloved, and lamented members. No word of mine is needed. I simply
pause with you and call their names in recognition of their private
virtues and public service, and in commemoration of their pioneer
work as members of the first consolidated Board of Trustees of the
University of North Carolina: C.W. Gold, B.F. Shelton, C.A. Penn,
A.J. Connor, J.D. Murphy, A.A. Shuford, J.M. Horner, J.G.
Murphy, E.S. Parker, Jr., and R.N. Page.

In the year since our last January meeting we have lost by death
from the several faculties, Dr. Eric A. Abernethy, Professors E.C.
Branson, P.W. Price, W.D. Toy, and W.B. Cobb.

Eric A. Abernethy, valiant, generous, lovable, was a physician
whose ministry of healing carried him across the blasted fields of
France as lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Medical
Corps. A battle wound, cumulative suffering, and consequent physical
misfortune lay back of his resignation and later tragic and lamented
death after thirteen years of unsparing work as community and
university physician.

Eugene C. Branson was Kenan Professor of Rural Social-
Economics, director of county surveys in many parts of the United
States, founder of Know-Your-Own-County clubs and the North Caro-
lina Club, editor of the University News Letter, with its weekly wide-
flung package of socially disturbing facts and figures, an eloquent
evangel of the live-at-home idea for two decades, and the dynamic
center of a constantly radiating wave of light out of Chapel Hill
that made a campus minister to a commonwealth. He was nationally
distinguished as a rural-social-economic philosopher and locally
beloved as neighbor, citizen, teacher, and genial spirit, who will
always abide to keep us eager to make our civilization in the pattern
of his dreams.

P.W. Price, an alumnus of the Lowell Textile School, became
assistant in the Textile School at State College in 1918, and in 1925,