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tion of the Northern and Southern branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a member of the St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church, and as a delegate to the General Conference and a member of the Judicial Committee, he assisted in the phrasing of the Articles of Unification. Secondly, at seventy-four years of age, Daddy Durham solved a mathematical problem that has stumped the experts since the beginning of time. His article, "A Simple Construction For The Approximate Trisection Of An Angle," was published in the April, 1944 issue of The American Mathematical Association of America, Inc. He was a member of this organization.

Daddy Durham was renowned for his ability as an athlete. During his college years, he was very active in baseball and 
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football, and is considered the "father of football" in the south. He made the first kick-off in the first football game played south of the Potomac River. He was a four-letter man and a member of the All-Time Duke University Football Eleven. As proof of his football fame, Daddy Durham's name is still often mentioned over the radio on various sports programs. Daddy Durham was also interested in swimming and horseback riding during most of his life-time. At sixty-five, he could do a back-flip from our spring board, and at seventy-two, Daddy Durham was riding a five-gaited show horse.

A mathematician, a sportsman, a musician, a lawyer, a writer and educator--Daddy Durham was all of these things and more. He was both an author of books and a composer of music--a graduate civil engineer and a practicing lawyer. His only published novel, "The Call of the South," a book dealing with the race question, was published in 1908. His autobiography, which he completed shortly before his death, is in the hands of a publisher at the present time and will soon be released. Daddy Durham also wrote much occasional verse and was the author of a number of college songs. He was something of an inventor, too, having worked out six or seven very practical mechanical devices. He was the kind of man who, when he saw a need, went ahead and invented something to fill that need. His artistic ability can be seen in the lobby of Southern Seminary. On the mantel of the fireplace, carved by Daddy Durham himself, are the words, "God rest you all that linger here."

Daddy Durham was a member of the Masonic Order and of the Knights of Pithias, and was a past president of the Rotary Club of Buena Vista.

At seventy-eight years of age, Daddy Durham died. We who came here last year and this year only wish that we could have known such a man better. But to those who knew him, even slightly, he will never really die. His principles are the basis of our school; his spirit will live here, and in our hearts, forever.
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