Dr. Benjamin Clark Holtzclaw
Professor of Philosophy 1929-1965, Dean of Graduate School 1938-1965
Dean of Richmond College 1942-1945
On April 15, 1993, Benjamin Clark Holtzclaw was added to the University of Richmond Trustees' Honor Roll of Distinguished Faculty, Administrators and Staff. Dr. Fred Anderson of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society had the following remarks:
Benjamin Clark Holtzclaw proved that one could enjoy collard greens and cornbread yet go to Oxford. A native of middle Georgia, he attended the Georgia Baptist Jerusalem, Mercer University, was selected a Rhodes Scholar and became a master of Greek and philosophy. He was a natural fit into this Virginia Baptist school and for nearly40 years he gave of himself in teaching and in administrative duties. He earned a reputation as a "hard-nosed [yet] charitabl, get-it-done sort of administrator." He was such an odd mixture--this small-town Southern boy turned philosopher--that it led one wag to observe that he was "a liberalized conservative who is a pessamistic optimist."