The log cabin Democrat., 1914-07-02
CENTRAL FACULTY
 UNUSUALLY STRONG SEVERAL CHANGES MADE
FIVE OF NEW TEACHERS ARE MASTERS OF ARTS FROM
 BIG UNIVERSITIES.

Central College for the ensuing ses- sion, and the first official announce ment of the new staff is contained in the annual pictorial edition of the Centralian, issued today from the press of the Conway Printing Go. The Centralian is beautiful volume of 88 pages, profusely illustrated and bound in the college colors, old gold and brown.
 The new members of the Central College faculty include five teachers who are masters of arts from some of the greatest universities in the na- ton. Several of them have also en- ioyed study and travel in foreign countries, and as a whole, the faculty IS declared by the president, Dr. John W. Conger, to be by far the strongest ever assembled for Central and to be the peer of any woman's college in the south.
 The following sketches of the new faculty are taken from the current number of the Centralan:
 Our lady principal, Miss Mamie NJ. Hiden of Virginia, is woman of fine intellectual gifts, which she has cultivated by years of earnest study. She has quick perception, keen in- sight into character and motives, good judgment, a remarkably amia- ble, cheerful, Iorbearing disposition, and possesses an exceedingly social nature that makes her beloved by both faculty and students. Miss Hid en is a graduate of some of the best southern colleges, having degrees of A. B. from Woman's College, Rich mond, Va, A. M from Greenville Fe- male College, Greenville, s. C., six years graduate work in the summer schools of the University of Virginia and Columbia University of New York.
 Miss Fidelia M. Abbott, teacher of English, comes to us with unusual ad, vantages in her line of work, having taken her A. B. and A. M. degrees from Ottowa University, and special work in English in Bryn Mawr. She is a consistent, earnest, faithful teach CT, one who is deeply in love with the noble calling of teaching, and who makes the students work a pleasure, She will spend this summer doing special work in English in Columbia University, New York.
 Miss Winnie Timmons, who has had the very best advantages in her line of study in America, and in France. has the department of mod ern languages. She has had most thor ough preparation for the classroom work. both in the knowledge of her subject and in the method of presen tation. With her pleasing personal ity. high ideals and unquestionable ability, she will be a strong addition to the faculty.
 Miss Maidelle Boatwright, of the history department, is spending the summer in Paris, France. She has ! A. B. and A. M. degrees from the Col ! lege of Women, Columbia, s. C., and A. NJ. degree from Columbia Univers- ity. New York. She inspires in her students an interest and enthusiasm which furnishes a most certain foun- dation for success.
 Miss Florence N. Smith, teacher l. of science, A. B. from Agnes Scott College. Decatur, Ga, will be in New York this summer, where she is study ing for the A. M. degree at Columbia University. Miss Smith is conscien- tious and just, thorough and broad and will succeed in whatever she un- dertakes.
 Miss Eva F. Hamilton, teacher of expression and dramatic art, has few speriors from a standpoint of ability and preparation for her work, and having an unusually strong and Iowa lble character, she has made decided success of her department. Her pu- pills the past two years were victor lious in the college reading contests in the Arkansas inter-school contests, and in some of the debating and ora ltorical contests.
 "Prof. W. C. Utermoehlen, director of music, is from a long line of musi- clans and composers. He has demon strated his unusual ability in organ ization and in leadership in all lines of musical art. He was taught from childhood by Charles Utermoehlen of Oldenburg, Germany, who was a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Berlin and violin pupil of Joa- .chim. MT. Utermoehlen has studied with Dr. Henry c. Hanchett of New York. Dr. John C. Griggs. Metropoli- tan College of Music, with Emil Lieb- ling of Chicago. He has had l9 years experience as head of music schools, as we'll as holding positions of influ- ence and honor among his colleagues. He has been very successful as cho- raj and orchestral conductor and has found time, with his many duties as teacher, to compose over 8 compost