Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-25
Among the Aiumnae and For
mer Students of Winthrop
College.

I0Sr SIUOSbRtS "a w AkAtAA3oP
College.
The past weeks have been replete
with action in the field among the
alumnae and former students. 1t is
of great interest to note how effi-
GENTLY the Winthrop girl is render
ing service to South Carolina. The
phases of work through which this
service is rendered vary widely from
that of a mother tied rather closely to
her home in a remote part of Berke-
ley or Horny county to that of n
leading the social life in the busy
mart of Charleston or helping to d.
rect the affairs of state in Columbia.
In the teaching profession the service
varies from that of a teacher in an
isolated one-teacher school in the
mountain wilds of the northwestern
part of the state or in the undevelop-
ed sections of the Santee swamps to
that of principal of a large rural
graded school, OF county rural super
visor, or head of a collegiate depart
ment in some of our leading colleges
of South Carolina. In the field of in
dustry again the service is varied.
In the Pee Dee section a Winthrop
girl is directing the management OF
a large tobacco and cotton farm and
another owns and directs the work OF
a large greenhouse, has acres Of car
nations which she markets in Wash
ington, D. c., as we'll as in this state.
Wherever the Winthrop girl is found
she is rendering efficient service to
home, to school, to church and to
state.
The experiences of the Alumnae
Executive Secretary for a day in
Marion, S. c., will give a fine illus
tration of the last statement. After
spending the night in the charming
home of a Winthrop daughter, Miss
Mabel Montgomery, she arose to hear
her and her mother discussing the
price of cotton and planning to make
a big sale. A little later she was in
vited to go around to the city schools
and was told that the superintendent
was putting religious education into
the schools, each denomination or
ganizing it's work in connection with
the school. This was the day for the
Methodists to organize. Reaching the
school building at recess, she was
greeted by a number of Winthrop
girls in charge of the various class
rooms, and then she learned that the
young woman to take charge of this
religious education in the primary de-
partment was Miss Mabel Montgom-
cry, a Winthrop girl; the n doing
the work in the junior department
was Mrs. Lonnie Leitner, formerly
Miss Estelle Aull, another Winthrop
girl, and, if not mistaken, Mrs. L. D.
Lide, nee Miss Fleetwood Montgom-
cry, another Winthrop daughter, was
to have charge of the senior depart
mrent. One of these young women has
been serving as a steward in the
Methodist church for some time.
In the afternoon at a meeting of
the Winthrop Daughters of Marion
County, when the girls from the va
rious parts Of the county assembled,
there were discussions pertaining to
the development of the county and of
the state. These young women felt
that the cause of Winthrop College
was a partisan one, that it was the
cause of the state of South Carolina,
and hence the way in which the col
lege is being hampered by inadequate
appropriations and Disseminated
against by the General Assembly was
discussed and resolutions endorsed
urging the gentlemen of the Legis-
lature to make a just division of the
States money between her young
men and her young women when
making appropriations for higher
education.
This body of young women showed
that they were greatly concerned also
for the best interests of Marion coun-
ty. They had learned that there was
a movement on foot to have the sal
airy of the young woman who is CIV
ing efficient service as rural school
supervisor struck from the county
budget. They agreed to see the repre-
.~sentatives concerning this matter as
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