Elizabeth College - Caps and Belles Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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THE FACULTY.

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FACULTY. .6 REV. CHARLES B. KING, A. M., President, Professor of Moral Science, Bible and Christian Evidence. REV. CHARLES L. T. FISHER, A. M., Vice-President, Principal of Preparatory Department, Professor of Greek REV. ROBERT C. HOLLAND, D. D., Chaplain, Professor of Intellectual Science. JULIA LOUISE ABBOTT, Lady Principal, Professor of English Language and Literature, and History. MARIE ISABELLE MATSON, A. B., Professor of Latin and German. CHRISTABEL ORT, A. B., Professor of French and Vocal Music. REV. ROBERT L. FRITZ, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. ERIE CALDWELL, Professor of Elocution and Physical Culture. CHAUNCEY RAKESTRAW, M. D., Professor of Physiology. VONNIE SUMMERS, Professor of Commercial Branches. CONSTANCE ALDYTH CLINE, Preparatory Department. CHARLES R. FISHER, Mus. Bac., F. G. C. M., Professor of Piano, Pipe Organ and Theory Course. M. RUTH MCLINN, Professor of Piano and Stringed Instruments. MRS. C. R. FISHER, A. V. C. M., Professor of Violin and Piano.- ANNA SIEDENBURG, Professor of Drawing, Painting in Oil and Water Colors, China Painting, Glass Painting, Applied Design for China, Glass, Etc. CHARLES A. MISENHEIMER, A. M., M. D., College Physician and Lecturer on Hygiene. NETA J. UMBERGER, Matron. IO

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Historical Points of Charlotte. Charlotte is a thoroughly progressive and modern city of 25,000 inhabitants, with large mercantile and industrial interests that give promise of much larger growth, beautiful for situation and known as the Queen City of the Carolinas. But it is also a historic city. Named in I77I after Charlotte of Mecklenburg, the wife of George III, it links itself to the past as well as the present. In the centre of the city, in what is known as Independence Square, is an iron tablet marking the site of the old log court house, where met the patriots of Mecklenburg county, May I9th and 20th, 1775, and drew up the now famous Declaration of Independence. Half a block east of this is another tablet which marks the headquarters of Lord Cornwallis when he occupied the town in I78O. Half a block west of Independence Square is a tablet which tells us of the visit of President Washington in 1790. On South Tryon street is another tablet that marks the spot where President Davis stood when he received intelligence of the death of Abraham Lincoln. In almost a stone's throw of Elizabeth College is the house in which President Polk was reared andjust back of the grounds is an old graveyard and fort of ante-revolutionary times. Indeed the whole county thrills with romance and history. I 2 ,