The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07

| on her own merit and ability this very valuable scholarship at Vassar college. | She becomes the center of interest not 1 only for the committee on education of the United Daughters of the Confeder- acy, which is composed of Miss Mary B. Poppenheim of Charleston, s. C., chair
 man; Mrs. B. B. Ross of Auburn, vice chairman; Mrs. w. w. Watt of Charlotte, N. C.. Mrs. M c. Goodlett of Nashville, and Miss Lamar Cobb of Athens, Ga but
 of all United Daughters of the Confed- eracy.
 Miss Thach is the daughter of pr. Charles Coleman Thach, president of the Alabama Polytechnic institute, and Mrs. | Nellie Smith Thach; the granddaughter of and bears the honored name of Dr.. Otis David Smith, who was for many years professor of mathematics in the Alabama Polytechnic institute, and whose memory is revered and loved by the. old students of that institution every where. Her mother, Mrs. Thach, is a charter member of the Admiral Raphael Semme3 chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Auburn, and chair | man of the committee on education of the Alabama division, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
 l Miss Thach was a charter member of ! the George Paul Harrison chapter, Chill
 dren of the Confederacy, in her native
 city of Auburn, and from a little girl has worked faithfully in this organization to honor the veteran hero of our state, whose name it bears, and carry forward the objects and purposes of the Children of the Confederacy.
 The Confederate lineage of Miss Thach is unusual, in that she had two grand fathers and seven great uncles who bore arms in defense of the Confederacy. Two of these uncles, who were very young, Capt. John Hartwell Coleman. and Lieut..
 Richard vassar Coleman, laid down their lives on the field of battle.
 She is young girl of unusual ability, and possessed of many lovely graces of character, a worthy type of her brilliant ancestors.
 After graduating from the Auburn High school, Miss Thach entered Con- verse college, Spartanburg, s. C., from which institution she graduated with highest honors in June last. For two years she won the prizes offered by her college for the best short story and best essay Miss Thach will enter the senior class of Vassar college and specialize in English Her friends in Alabama and in South Carolina, where she was educated will congratulate her upon winning this honor.
 Apropos to the awarding of the gen eral United Daughters of the Confederacy scholarship to one of Alabama's charming daughters. it will be of interest to know | %t.... -I- ..l...~ &l,< ner of it's distribution and of other schol- | arships at the disposal of the United Daughters of the Confederacy committee | on education.
 One of the chief objects of the organza- | ton of the United Daughters of the Con- l federacy is educational and that this ob- l feet touches a responsive chord in the hearts of southern women is shown by | the number of scholarships conducted by divisions and chapters in sixteen of .he | states. an account of which was reported bv the educational committee at the gen. | eral United Daughters of the Confederaey convention one year ago at Llttle ROCK. | The aggregate number was l5S, valued | at s10000 The summing up and tabulat- | ing the educational work of all the hi- l visions being new. not every chapter and | division doing educational work had re- | ported to the general United Daughters l of the Confederacy committee. therefore | at the approaching convention or the | United Daughters of the Confederacy at | Richmond in November, the report Will show vast increase in educational work
 over the figures given above.
 This work of educating the sons and
 danughters of Confederate soldiers ana
 broadening their resources, is record that the United Daughters of the Con l federacy can point to with pride.
 l The scholarship at Vassar, known as
 the general United Daughters of the Con
 federacy scholarship, carries with it spe- cial honors to the young woman who | wins it. as she does through q competi- 1 tive examination, when it falls to hel state to dispense this honor
 This scholarship was first established at