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A PETITION ashing the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church which met at Petersburg. Va., Janu- ary fo February 8, 1S}7, to estab- lish a female college was referred to ' «ik. Peter Doub. and Sam- uel S. Bryant. This committee asked that the Legislature of North Carolina be petitioned for a charter for Creens- :gh Female College. This charter ratified December 28. 1838. With the resignation of Dr. Turrentine in 1935 Dr. Luther L. Gobbel. Christian educator, came to the college with an array of new ideas, a number of which have already been fulfilled in the extensive improvement program launched under his direction. The prospect is bright for Greensboro College as Dr. Gobbel carries on the forward movement with his slogan that has in a short time become familiar. Nothing less than the best is good enough for Greensboro College girls. Greensboro College is proud of her presidents. Their problems and trials have been many, but holding firmly to the wheel they have guided Greensboro College safely to her one hundredth birthday.
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VJREENSBORO COLLEGE has been singularly blessed with a high type of leadership, men who have matched the needs of the hour throughout the demands of many decades. To guide Greensborough Female College through the precarious years of her infancy the board of trustees chose as first president Reverend Solomon Lea. minister of Leasburg, North Carolina, a gentleman of liberal culture and pleasing manners. School life had been closely interwoven with his nature through his years of teaching experience. To him went the honor of organizing the classes in the first regularly chartered female college in North Carolina, and he fulfilled his duty well from 1846 until his resignation in 1 847. Dr. Lea was succeeded by Reverend Albert M. Shipp. D.D.. a man of correct liter- ary taste and broad scholarship. who possessed qualities of mind and heart that rend- ered him peculiarly well adapted to the position. When in 1850 he resigned to accept a professorship at the University of North Carolina. Reverend Charles ' F. Deems. D.D.. afterwards widely known as the pastor of the Church of Strangers in New York City, was culled to fill the position. Though only thirty years of age. Dr. Deems led the col- lege through four years of great prosperity. His superior natural endowments, his varied attainments in learning, his agreeable and attractive manners, and his liberal views of edu- cation, qualified him. m an eminent degree, for the presidency of a female college. The fourth president of the college was the beloved Dr. Turner M. Jones, who from 1854 to his death in 1890 dedicated his devotion to the great cause of the educa- tion of women. Scores of women Went out from Greensborough Female College during his administration, but few have forgotten Dr. Jones ' noble ideals and the inspira- tion of which he was a constant source, and fewer still have failed to love him. War and fire threatened but Dr. Jones ever clung to the ideal that his college must be the best, offer the best, and receive the best possible at all times under all circumstances. From 1890 to 189 3 the helm of Greensborough Female College was ably held by Dr. Beniamin F. Dixon, whose administration was one of sound progress and steady growth. Succeeding Dr. Dixon was Dr. Frank L. Reid. able minister, educator, and eililor. whose period of service at the college was cut short by his death in the fall of 1894. Dr. Dred Peacock came to the leadership of the college in 1894 and remained until his resignation in 1902 one of the outstanding presidents. His contribution to the college was distinctive and his place is secure in the affections of those who love Greensboro College. Upon Dr. Peacock ' s resignation the first woman to become president ol a college in the South, Mrs. Lucy H. Robertson, began an administration marked by cultural in fluence, loyalty, love, and outstanding success in spite of almost superhuman problems. Reverend Samuel Bryant Turrentme. D.D.. now beloved president emeritus and pro- fessor ol Bible, came to the college in 1913. A true gentleman of the old school. Dr. I urrentine will ever he remembered and loved for his untiring patience, understanding sympathy, scholarly dignity, and humble reverence lor God.
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