1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

562 THE SCROLL.sure hours he wrote numerous poems of great merit, amongwhich may be mentioned "'The Night After the Battle,"printedin the first volume of his commandery's "Sketches ofWar History" and "A Song of Freedom," which was set tomusic and sung by the public schools of Cincinnati on DecorationDay, 1894.He was married in 1865 to Miss Louisa Alej^^nder Anderson,of Louisville, Ky., who survives him with their twochildren, Caroline (Mrs. Bulkley) and Captain James BrownKemper, U. S. -\., Ohio Theta, '99.PINKNEY DANIEL POLLOCK, GEORGIA, '83.A Phi Delta Theta who exemplified the highest ideals ofhis brotherhood was Dr. P. D. Pollock, who died July 24,1905 at Monroe, Ga. For eight years he was president ofMercer University and only a few months before his death illhealth compelled him to resign the position. The followingis an editorial tribute to him from the Christian Index ofAtlanta, Ga.:As one recalls the conditions prevailing at Mercer Universit\ and,indeed,in the educational work of the Baptist denomination in the state and thenconsiders the results that followed his eight years of service as president ofMercer University and, for a part of the time, chairman of the F^ducationalCommission, he can but feel that Dr. Pollock was a man especially raised upof God to do the work that was then needing to be done.Having himself fought his way through many difliculties to the attainmentof a fine education. Dr. Pollock was prepared to sympathize wifh andencourage other young men who were meeting difficulties. No one will everknow how much his work was worth to many an'inspiring youth. And thatwhich he had acquired of learning it was a joy to him to impart to others.His enthusiasm of learning inspired his students. At the same tiiiie hisgreat executive ability, his wisdom and prudence, combined with his loftyChristian character, made men everywhere trust him as a leader well worthyof their following. The trustees of Mercer had learned to rely upon hisjudgment with great confidence, and had come, as well, to love him for hisgreat heart. Concerning him all of us may well say; "Know ve not thatthere is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?"RICHARD GORDON SIMPSON, COLUMBIA, '99.Richard Gordon Simpson, A. B., Columbia, '99, died onOctober 22, 1905 at the Hahnemann Hospital, New YorkCity, after a short illness of typhoid fever. Brother Simpsonwas the fourth child of the Rev. S. P Simpson and MarieLouise Simpson. He was born on August 3, 1878 at Irvington,New Jersey, where his father was rector of TrinityChurch. Owing to a change of pastorate the family went to