10 DUDLEY MEMORIAL VOLUME 



and to this I attribute the rather lonely life he led after coming to 

 California. 



Unfortunately there are those who knew Professor Dudley only as a 

 name in the university register. I am sure my friend would not thank 

 me to apologize for the modest part he played in this or in any other 

 community, but in closing I am constrained to say a word in behalf of 

 him and of all such men: It behooves us not to lose sight of this blessed 

 truth, that there are fine men and women in this world of ours — and plenty 

 of them, too — who keep out of the limelights, whose names we never see 

 in the headlines of the newspapers, but who lead quiet, sane, and wljolesome 

 lives. Such people always suggest to me the foundations of a great structure. 

 These foundations lie deep beneath the surface of the ground; we never 

 see them; we seldom think of them; they are not decorated with flying 

 flags or written across with gaudy colors or blazing electric lights. But 

 they stand fast and firm, and the stability and the real worth of the entire 

 superstructure depends upon them. 



One of these foundation-men was William Russel Dudley. 



