Emory and Henry College - Sphinx Yearbook (Emory, VA)

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HONOR AWARDS THE F. E. ANDERSON MEDAL IN DEBATE During the 1925 Commencement, Mr. Frank E. Anderson, Richmond, Virginia, established an endowment fund at the college sufficient to pro- vide a permanent medal to be awarded each year to the best debater in the college. THE WILLIAMS MEDAL IN DECLAMATION During the session 1888-89, the late Col. Frank E. Williams, a graduate of the college, donated a permanent fund, the income of which furnishes a handsome medal for Declamation, awarded annually to the best de- claimer in the freshman and sophomore classes. THE COLLINS MEDAL IN ENGLISH This prize, founded by Rev. Charles Collins, D. D., first president of Emory and Henry College, is awarded in the form of a gold medal for excellence in English Composition. THE ROBERTSON MEDAL IN ORATORY For the encouragement of proficiency in Oratory there has been estab- lished through the liberality of Wyndham Robertson, Esq., a sufficient and permanent fund from which the income in the form of a gold medal is bestowed at each annual commencement upon the student in the Junior or Senior class who excels in Composition and Oratory. THE BYARS MEDAL IN SCIENCE To increase interest and promote scholarship in the Natural Sciences, the late Col. William Byars established a permanent fund from which a gold medal is annually awarded to the student who attains the highest grades in this department. THE PEERY MEDAL IN SOCIAL SCIENCE This medal has been established by John B. Peery, Esq., in memory of his father and mother, and is conferred on the student submitting the best essay on subjects selected by the professors in charge of the depart- ments of History, Economics, and Political Science. THE HILLMAN MEDAL IN ORATORY FOR GIRLS In the spring of 1929, President J. N. Hillman endowed a medal to be awarded annually in Oratory for girls. This contest is designed to par- allel the Robertson Contest in Oratory for men. Page 14

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FACULTY John Edwin Allen 1937 PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE » « B. A., Emory and Henry Col- lege; M. A., University of Vir- ginia. Arthur Speece Withers 1925 PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH »« B. A., Emory and Henry Col- lege; M. A., Vanderbilt Univer- sity. Minnie Osborne 1935 INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE » c B. S., State Teachers College, East Radford, Va. Benson Suesserott Alleman 1936 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH » « B. A., Roanoke College; M. A., University of Virginia. Charles Park 1935 PROFESSOR OF FINE ARTS » « College of Music of Cincinnati; Institute of Musical Art, New York City; Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Juliet Miller 1935 INSTRUCTOR IN ART » « B. A., Emory and Henry Col- lege; Art Student, Columbia University. Page 13

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