Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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MERLE L. LANDRUM B. S., M. A. Professor of Business Education bers, figures, and angles, and thence to the more advanced principles of calculus. Artistic instincts were brought to the front under the direction of Miss CouUing and Miss Bedford, and we developed an appreciation of landscape, columns, and architecture, as well as the technique of wielding a paint brush or modeling clay figures. History classes were a vital means of interpreting the scene of world war, as well as framing present-day facts with a conception of the past. Classes under Dr. Walmsley, head of the History Department, were valuable not only from an intellectual point of view, but in a patriotic and philosophic sense as well. Dr. Simpkins broadened our knowledge and ideas on the Civil War, as well as economics, and Miss Tucker and Miss Peck lifted our studies above mere factual accounts. No one ' s education was considered quite complete until she NORMAN O. MEYERS Ed. M. Assistant Professor of Business Education 9 OTTIE CRADDOCK B. A., M. A. Assistant Professor of Fine and Applied Arts CARRIE B. TALIAFERRO B. S., M. A. Professor of Mathematics LILA LONDON B. S., M. A. Professor of Matliematics AUCE C. WYNNE B. A., B. S., M. A. Associate Professor of Business Education MARGARET L. MEYERS B. S. Instructor of Business Education MARTHA W. COULLING L. I. Professor of Fine and Applied Arts VIRGINIA BEDFORD B. S., M. A. Assistant Professor of Fine and Applied Arts

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: :ary NICHOLS B. S., M. S. Assistant Professor of English LUCILLE E. JENNINGS B. S., M. S. Associate Professor of English JAMES M. GRAINGER B, A„ M. A. Professor of English GEORGIE NORRIS B. S., M. A. Grade Supervisor NANCY FOSTER B. A., M. A. Assistant Professor of English 5. A., M. A. Professor of Speech and Dramatics WILHELMINA P. LONDON B. S., M. A. Associate Professor of English MARY CLAY MINER B. A., M. A. Professor of English crease in defense organization, and the vacancies left by men now in the armed service. The Commercial Department in- creased its enrollment and functioned well under the tute- lage of Mr. Landrum, who was head of the department, Mrs. Wynne, Miss Craddock, and Mr. and Mrs. Myers. Mathematics was the responsibility of Miss Carrie Talia- ferro and Miss Lila London, who inspired our genius for num- 21

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MARY E. PECK S., M. S. Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences FRANCIS BUTLER SIMPKINS B. A., M. A., Ph. D. Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences JAMES ELLIOTT WALMSLEY M. A., Ph. D. Professor of History and Social Sciences MARY BARLOW B. S.. M. A. Professor of Physical and Health Education FRANCES WATERS B. S., M. A. Assistant Professor of Geography GRACE B. MORAN B. S., M. A. Associate Professor of Geography FLORENCE H. STUBBS B. S., M. A. Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences had had Miss Stubbs ' class in marriage, or the interesting study of the Negro. Place geography, Miss Moran ' s pet, assumed vital importance with the advent of the war into new zones involving far-away islands and seas. She and Miss Waters related their lectures to the scenes of the pres- ent conflict. The Physical Education Department, headed by Miss Bar-