THE WAY OF lIFE
...am Livingstone, by Queen Victoria for his exploits in the Napoleonic Wars. After William Livingstone’s death his first-born son, John, received it. The idea was for the medal to be handed down to the eldest son in each generation but since Brown’s father Robert did not have any sons, it ended up with her. Brown was first introduced to Livingstone College in the ‘70s while searching for the burial site of David Livingstone’s son Robert who is buried in Salisbury National Cemetery. After seeing the signs that bear her ancestors’ name, Brown found her way to the college where she met then-president Dr. George Shipman. In 1998 she met Dr. Phyllis Galloway, director of Heritage Hall. “When I met Dr. Galloway it was love at first sight because she was so efficient and so bubbly and so knowledgeable and so everything!” Brown said. Galloway said having the medal at the college gives it prestige. “It is out of the goodness of her heart that she, being the senior living member of the family, would give us the medal.” Brown explained that she turned down offers from larger, more world renown establishments like the Smithsonian because she thought they were “too large and was afraid (the medal) would get lost.” “I want to make David Livingstone a little more tangible to Livingstone students. I tried to give thought to something that would be meaningful a...