Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-06-11
Election Of Officers at the Institution for the
Deaf ard Dumb and the Blind.


Deaf ard Dumb and the Blind.
The annual election at the Institution
Yesterday resulted in the election Of Capt
Thos S. Doyle, Principal; Prof L. Poyntz
1st teacher in the Blind Department, and
Prof. G. D. Euritt, LIST teacher in the Deaf
Mute Department, no change in the ether
officers and teachers.
The new Principal is peculiarly well-ft-
ted for the position to which he his bsei,
promoted, having been an instructor inshe
institution fol- 9 years, and being gentle
man Of fine attachments and scholarship.
Capt. Doyle is SO years of age, a son of
Col. Robert Doyle, Of the 62d Virginia
Regiment, who was killed at Piedmont.
He commanded a company in his father s
regiment and came out Of the war at it's
close with an enviable reputation for gal
lant1y and soldierly conduct. Having
adopted teaching as his profession he took
his FIRST school in this county, afterwards
taught In Rockbridge and then was elect
ed to an Assistant p ofessorship in an
academy in Natchez, Miss, where the late
Capt. c. d. Mccoy, was Principal
When Capt. Mccoy came to the Institu-
ton here, Capt. Doyle was elected Princi-
pal in the Natchez Academy and was after
wards appointed Superintendent of Public
Schools in that city. Nine years ago he
was elected teacher in the Deaf Mute de-
paltment in the Institution, which place
he filled with acceptability until the death
Of Capt. Mccoy, when he was promoted to
he charge of the Blind depar tment, from
which position he has just been elected to
the Principalship Of tbs important State
Institution. Capt. boy :e's many friends
in Virginia and esewh re sill be glad to
hear'of his well-merited success ill his chos-
en- profession.
A LIVELY TINE FOR RETUR MING
ScnooL GIRLS. From the Chicago
'Timas'' of June 5h, it would appear
that at least two pal ties of school girls.
returning home had "a Lice time" Under
the heading of ga Notable Party-Hand-
some and accomplished Hamilton and Au-
gusta Graduates, it says
Col q. A. Haslett, Central Passenger
the lucky man in getting the school girls
of Augustus Female Seminary at Staunton,
Va, and of the Hamilton Female College
of Lexington, KY; and lie escorted them
into the city via the steamer Buckeye State
Thursday evening. Eacn girl was array
ed m linen duster and a military cap
bound in blue silk, with gold cable cord,
and they looked the nObbiest of all parties
that have taken in the city this spring.
Colonel Haslett secured cabs and escorted
them to the Bellevue, Zoo, Music Hall
&C., after which they took the y. & NJ,
train for St. Louis, Where they were met
by Mr.. Ruggles, General Passenger Agent
of the Iron Mountain Route, who presen
led each lady with a beautiful bouquet,
and relieved Mr.. Hasleo of his pleasant
charge and took tie girl, on to their homes
in Arkansas and Texas. There were TWEEN
Y-four ladies in the p lrty, among them
the Misses Clara Ahrasbeck, Hattie Ais
| burg, Maud Harlan, Il eorgia Campbell,
Matte Ransland, Jennie Moore, Nellie
sPucketts, Bula aud Florence Childress,
Katie Everhart, Fannie Rose, Mary Aid
rich, Fannie Moore and Myrtle Jacobs.
Professor st. Clair of the Hamilton Fe
male College was with tie party.
The names of the other ten ladies could
not be obtained. The girls swear eternal
allegiance to the popular Iron Mountain
route, and Colonel Haslett sWears by Ham
ilton and Augusta.