Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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RAYMOND BINFORD

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DR. RAYMOND BINFORD UILFORD college esteems herself fortunate in the possession of Dr. Raymond Binford as her President. After a period of unsettlement she now feels that progress is guaranteed and her future secure. We are confident that the affairs of the college are in competent hands. We have as president a man who possesses in an unique manner the necessary qualifications. He was reared as a Friend among Friends, he was educated at a sister Quaker college, he is an University man, he is a sound scholar, a capable administrator, an eloquent and forceful speaker, and above all, he thoroughly understands local conditions. We regard him as one of ourselves, for in a long period of probation he proved his worth as a mem- ber of the Faculty. Therefore the class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty, dedicate this book to him as an expression of our love, honor and confidence. Raymond Binford, son of Josiah and Margaret Binford. was born near Carthage, Indiana. In his boyhood the family moved to Kansas, where he received his early education in a community of Friends. He later attended Earlham College, and received the degree of B S. in 1901. Then began his connection with Guilford College. Coming here as Professor of Biology and Geology he remained intimately associated with the college for the next thir- teen years. His activities and interests were in no way limited to his lecture loom and laboratory. He identified himself with all our Social and Literary interests, and made a place for himself in the Yearly Meeting at large. As a true student he naturally continued his scientific investigation. In 1906 he received the Degree of S.M. from the University of Chicago and in 1912 the Degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, where he had held a Fellowship. He was at the United States Fisheries Laboratory, Beaufort, N. C, as Scientific Assistant during the summers of 1908-11 : and was Instruct- or in Invertebrate Zoology at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., during the summers of 1912-17. Aftei receiving the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy he was called to his Alma Mater as Professor of Zoology, where he remained four years and until he was elected as our President. In 1913 he married Helen Titsworth, a grand-daughter of Naomi Jay. Mrs. Binford is a woman of letters, being a graduate of Earlham college, and having been Professor of French and German at the Friends ' University, Wichita, Kansas and at the Maryland College for women Pa Iff Four