Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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i30iss llrbman pfMMA A. LEHMAN was born in Bethania, North Carolina, Angnst 28th, |P 1841. Her father was a great lover of books, and she inherited his literary f tastes. In 1855, she entered the Salem Academy and College as a pupil, and finished its course in three years. August l6th, 1858, began her life work of teaching, which she lias followed for fifty successive years (ending with the present term in May). The first years she taught near her home place at Bethania, but later, in October, 1864, she began her work at Salem,— making a total of forty-seven years spent within the walls of this venerable institution. With literature as her specialty, she has served many years as Head of the English Department here, and has been in charge of the Senior Class from its beginning, in 1878. In 1889, she went abroad with a North Carolina teachers ' party, visiting Eng- land, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, and up the Rhine. Shortly after her return, there appeared to the literary world her Sketches of European Travel, published in 1890. In 1904, a small volume of poems was published which, however, contained only a selected few of those she has written for publication in various periodicals. An ardent lover of nature in all its forms. Miss Lehman first brought to the notice of the botanical world a new plant, which she sent to the State Botanist ' s Office, in Albany, New York, The species was named in her honor Monotropsis Lehmani. Aside from her literary attainments, she is probably oftenest thought of by her girls as a personal friend, a wise counsellor, and one who has ever en- couraged them to strive only for that which is noblest and best in womanhood. Truly it may be said of her : And here is a woman ivlio understood Herself, her work, and Cod ' s will with her To gather and scatter his sheaves of good. M. K, ' 02. 7