Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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spr • . -■ ®fe W Jfacultp g cf)ool of Utiieral Slrtss CHARLES EDWARD BREWER, A.M., Ph.D. Wake Forest College, A.M.; Graduate Student Johns Hopkins University; Cornell University, Ph.D. President ROSA CATHERINE PASCHAL, A.B. Meredith College, A.B.; Student University of Chicago Lotly Principal J. GREGORY BOOMHOUR, A.B., A.M. Colgate University; University of Chicago Dean — Professor of Natural Scit net SUSAN ELIZABETH YOUNG, A.M. Brownsville Female College. A.M.; Student at Leipzig and Berlin Professor of Modem Languages ELIZABETH DELIA DIXON-CARROLL, M.D. Woman ' s Medical College of the New York Infirmary Professor of Physiology —Colli Physician ELIZABETH AVERY COLTON, B.S., A.M. Student Mount Holyoke College; Columbia University, A.M. Professor of English MARY SHANNON SMITH, A.B., A.M. Student Radcliffe College; Leland Stanford Junior University, A.B.; Columbia University, A.M. Professor of History ami Education

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At the beginning of Dr. Vann ' s admini stration there was no endowment and a debt of $35,000 on the property. This debt has been raised and an endow- ment of ,$121,431 has been accumulated. All the while Dr. Vann was gathering around him an unusually strong fac- ulty, and the standard of the college has been steadily raised. In the vital welfare of the people Dr. Vann has always maintained a deep and enthusiastic interest. He has had a prominent part in the work of the Anti-Saloon League. When the Webb-Kenyon bill was introduced he went to Washington and made a telling speech in its behalf. In 1914, when the consti- tutional amendment to require the reading of the Bible in the public schools was before the Legislature, Dr. Vann strongly opposed it — allying himself al- ways on the side of religious liberty. At the Baptist State Convention in 1914 a board of education was estab- lished, and again an executive head was needed. The choice fell on Dr. Vann as the man best fitted for the work. He pleaded unfitness, but finally yielded and accepted the new responsibilities with characteristic consecration and faith- fulness. It is impossible to estimate the worth of a man like Dr. Vann, for his great- est and most enduring work cannot be told in facts and figures. It is found in those lives he has strengthened and sent on with a new and clearer vision of life and with a new courage. The following tribute to our Alma Mater hymn is found in the resolutions adopted by the trustees when Dr. Vann ' s resignation was accepted: The beautiful college hymn, the words and music of which he composed, will be a tender tie binding the name of Richard Tilman Vann to Meredith Col- lege through all the coming years. We trust that his voice on many occasions, in the future as in the past, may add melody to this heart-thrilling song.

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LEMUEL ELMER McMILLAN FREEMAN, A.B., A.M., B.D., Th.D. Furman University, A.B.; Harvard University, A.M.; Newton Theological Institution, B.D.; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D.; Student University of Chicago Professor of Bible and Philosophy MARY HASSELTINE VANN, A.B. Cornell University, A.B. Professor of Mathematics HELEN HULL LAW, A.B., A.M., Vassar College, A.B., A.M. Professor of Latin MRS. KATHERINE PARKER FREEMAN, A.B., B.S. Meredith College, A.B.; Simmons College, B.S. Professor of Home Economics MARIE WHITE, B.S. Simmons College, B.S. Associate Professor of Home Economics KATHERINE CAMPBELL JOHNSON Meredith College Diploma Instructor in English g cf)00l of rt IDA ISABELLA POTEAT, PaoFS330R New York School of Art, Cooper Union Art School, New York; School of Applied Design, Philadelphia; Pupil of Mounier; Chase Class, London MISS FLOSSIE NOBLE Student at Chowan College; Student of Mrs. Martin, Washington, D. C. Instructor in China Painting