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...Cross where religious services are held before a rocky peak on which late melting snows in two ravines form a gigantic white cross. . . . Post delivery trucks continued to block traffic on Champa Street. . . . Everything was as usual. There was nothing to remind the Post reader that notorious Publisher Frederick Gilmer Bonfils had been dead for four months (TIME, Feb. 13); nothing to indicate that instead of "Bon's" bushy grey head bowed over the massive desk in his office, there was now poised the attractive blonde head of his daughter Helen. Following more & more frequent visits to the office...
Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, 72, had visited the Post office on Champa Street for the last time a week before. Troubled by pain in his left ear, he went home to his ornate white stone house on East Tenth Avenue. To the house came doctors, then nurses. Few days later an oxygen tent was brought. That night came a Catholic priest. Before dawn Publisher Bonfils, baptized on his deathbed, succumbed to encephalitis (brain inflammation), result of the ear infection...
...Hollins was Virginia's first chartered institution for young ladies, first in the U. S. to adopt an elective system of studies, first to establish an English department under a full professor. It has some 8,000 alumnae, including Adviser to the Lovelorn Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer). First president of Hollins was Charles Lewis Cocke, member of an old Virginia family, professor at Richmond College. Hollins became more & more in his debt until in 1900 the college was deeded to him. The following year he died. His daughter Matty L. Cocke became president. In 1926 the Cocke...
Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), newspaper adviser to lovelorn gum-chewers . . . Litt.D...
JOHN PARKS GILMER...