Blackstone College - Acorn Yearbook (Blackstone, VA)

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E. S. Bennett Assistant Secretary and Treasurer Mary Lee Bennett Librarian Norfolk and Farmville Colleges; Ran- dolpli-Macon Woman’s College; New Eng¬ land Conservatory of Music, Boston; French Student in Paris. Mrs. H. A. Taylor Matron Will B. Otey, B. 1ST. Nurse Graduate Virginia Hospital; Member, Na¬ tional Organization Public Health Nurses; Red Cross Nursing Service. W. A . Atkins, M. D. Physician Graduate Louisville Medical College; Vir¬ ginia Polytechnic Institute. Virginia Preston Office Secretary Graduate Commercial Department, Black- stone College. [ 20 ]

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Eva Antoinette Wiseman, B. Mus. Voice and Public School Music B. Mus., Converse College; Pupil of Frederick Y. Wodell. Richmond Seay Violin and History of Music Peabody Conservatory of Music; Summer Term at Peabody Conservatory, 1! 28; r l heory and Composition under Otto Oil¬ man n. Mary Holmes Smith Accompanist Graduate Blackstone College; Teacher’s Certificate and Diploma in Piano, Black- stone College. Margaret Harding Jones, A. A. Expression, Physical Education, and Hygiene Arnold College; A. A., Marjorie Webster School of Expression and Physical Educa¬ tion. Mrs. L. E. Wallace Art Lebanon Normal School, Ohio; Pupil of Professor Bellows, New York City. 119 ]

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Bernard S. Via DIRECTOR OF ENDOWMENT HE editors of the 11)30 copy of the Acorn 1 are happy to have the privilege of intro¬ ducing to our readers the most forward-looking movement Blackstone College for Girls has ever undertaken. Following suggestions contained in resolutions from the 1929 Farmville Dis¬ trict Conference, the Board of Trustees in their Annual meeting in June requested the Executive Committee to draft plans for initiating a movement to raise $500,000.00 for the College. The executive committee immediately began its work with the result that in September the Trustees accepted the plans presented and through a committee appointed for the purpose selected Bernard S. Via as director of the movement. With the approval of the Virginia Annual Conference, Mr. Via was appointed to this task and the Campaign was given full endorsement by the Conference. On the first of November offices were opened in the Administration Building, withj three of our own girls, Misses Rosa Cummings, Lillian Wingo, and Louemma Gresham, as assistants. Work was immediately begun in revising the Alumnae directory and in working out organizational plans. The editors feel that this movement marks the beginning of a new day for Blackstone College for Girls. That the Goal will be reached, we feel assured for there is widespread, growing interest on the part of the Alumnae and the public in general throughout Virginia and the surrounding States. We feel that the trustees have acted wisely in taking such a forward step at this time. The liquidation of the debt, the spending of a modest amount for additional equipment and new buildings and the providing of additional endowment, as proposed in this effort, will insure not only the permanency of our Alma Mater, but will enable the college to take her rightful place of leadership among similar educational institu¬ tions in the South. Mr. Via. is a wide-awake director and is giving unsparingly of his time and effort in the interest of the further progress of our school. We call on all students, Alumnae and friends to give of time, service, and money, commensurate with their love, hopes and ideals for dear old Blackstone. [ 21 ]