Patrick Henry Plantation Board Elects
Resolutions Honor Penick, Freeman
[taken from The News, Lynchburg, VA. Wednesday Morning, June
24, 1953]
The Board of Trustees of the Patrick Henry Boys' Plantation,
meeting in annual session in the directors room of Lynchburg
Trust and Savings Bank yesterday, re-elected all officers of
the board.
Those named were James S. Easley,
Halifax, president; Henry E. McWane, Lynchburg, vice president;
Major John Guthrie, Charlotte Court House, vice president;
J. R. Gilliam Jr., Lynchburg, treasurer; and Mrs. William
Page Williams, Lynchburg, secretary.
An architect's painting of the proposed
plantation layout was displayed for study and Easley announced
that publication of a brochure setting forth the plans and
ideals of the Boys' Plantation and containing the basis of
an appeal for public support of the project will be completed
July 1. The brochure was prepared by the Rev. Ralph Bellwood
of Red Hill, director of Boys' Plantation.
Easley also reported that $4,500 pledged
by the Washington Chapter of Colonial Dames of America for
restoration of the Patrick Henry law office is expected to
be available early next year and the foundation plans to begin
construction of this project for the shrine soon after.
Two Resolutions Passed
Resolutions in honor of the late Sydnor
Barksdale Penick, husband of a board member and benefactor
of the foundation, and Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, who was
a member of the board of trustees, were passed by the board.
Presented by Dr. Robert D. Meade,
author of a definitive history of the life of Patrick Henry
and holder of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the resolution honoring
Penick reads as follows:
"Since its last meeting the Board
of Trustees of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation has suffered
a grevious loss in the death of Sydnor Barksdale Penick, the
distinguished husband of one of our board members and he himself
one of our most generous and useful benefactors.
"Mrs. Penick ad the courage and
enterprise to found his own business in New York City and
to develop it into one of the leading companies in the drug
and chemical industry. he was not only a business executive
of international distinction but a thoughtful friend and a
generous and discerning patron of many philanthropic organizations.
The patrick Henry Memorial Foundation and several of its members
are particularly indebted to him.
"Mr. Penick's career has done
signal honor to Virginia, his native state, and to his country.
To Mrs. Penick and their children, we extend our deep regret
and sympathy. They can all take comfort in what they have
done to make possible such a noteworthy life.
"Be it resolved, therefore, that
the secretary put a copy of this statement in our minutes
and that others be sent to Mrs. Penick and to her aunt, Miss
Ella Miller of Lynchburg."
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