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A TRIBUTE TO SYDNOR BARKSDALE PENICK
From "Patrick Henry Plantation Board Elects"
Lynchburg News
June 24, 1953

Dr. Robert D. Meade, a Patrick Henry biographer and Guggenheim Fellow read the resolution honoring S. B. Penick, of Montclair, New Jersey. Mr. Penick, a founding member and trustee of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation, concurred with the Foundation Board's plans to establish a boys' home on Red Hill Plantation acreage.

The Foundation, formed in 1944, developed a dual mission--to preserve the Henry family graveyard and plantation buildings located at Red Hill and to support t he establishment of a home for young boys on Red Hill Plantation acreage. For lack of funds, large acreage was donated to a Rev. Ralph Bellwood to establish a self-supporting home for boys. The remaining acreage was retained for the preservation of the family graveyard, plantation buildings, including Patrick Henry's law office, and especially the reconstruction of Patrick Henry's cottage which had burned in 1919.
"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.

"Mr. Penick had 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 may 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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