The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-01
Mrs. R. O. Everett Heads I'D c..
BRIGHT Outlook For n. G.. Division
By Mrs. C. N. Shipp,
Publicity Chairman

nocember 1, the recently elected
floors of the N. c. Division, u.
pliIC r take up their offices with a
L.;oh+ outlook for a successful
p p The North Carolina Division
ysi long been one of the most ac-
i Hno divisions in the United States,
.nd at the Montgomery, Alabama,
General a.. U. D. C. convention, No.
amber 1922, North Carolina won
,be award for the best report made
u. .n1 onv division having over a thou
-srd members. Succeeding Mrs.
1'''I F Fisher, of Asheville, who for
.so mast two years has served ably
NV head of the N. c. Division of
sorae 1900 members, is Mrs. R. O.
Trorett. of Durham, already we'll
Lnown throughout the state, and
,,bo by birth and ability, should
n'atp an outstanding leader of an
outstanding organization.
Mrs. Everett, nee Miss Kathe-
vino McDiarmid Robinson of Fay
a~++ov;l1e. comes from distinguished
rnaooe on both sides. A direct de-
scendapt of Samuel Robinson, who
ssrved as a captain in the French
ond Indian wars in 1854, founded
Bennington, Vermont, and whose
eon an outstanding physician,
came to Fayetteville around 1905.
Mrs. Everett numbers among her
Robinson kin governors, chief-jus-
tres. U. S. senator's, generals and
colonels, She is also a direct de-
scendant of Angus McDiarmid,
graduate of the University of Edin-
borough, who came to Cumberland
county in 1893 as a Presbyterian
minister to L~ongstreet, and other
historic churches near the Cape
Fear river. and who married Anne
Mcneil, aunt of James Mcneil
Whistler's mother. Daughter of
Mary Faison Hill (Robinson) of
Faison, Mrs. Everett inherited the
culture of a family tree whose
branches reach through the Cape
Fear section of the state, and in
clude many relatives of note, in
the Dudley, Whitfield, Hicks, and
Hill lines.
Not alone by inheritance but by
her personal career, Mrs. Everett
has added new distinction to a
family name long noted in this
state. and was one of the women
in North Carolina selected by the
California publishers of "Ameri-
can Women for inclusion in its
volume.
After graduating from the Wom-
ans college. U. N. c., Greensboro,
Mrs. Everett took courses at Co
lumbia university, N. Y, Washing
ton, D. c., Cornell university, and
the University of North Carolina,
getting her IL. B. degree from
the latter in June 1920, and there
winning the Callaghan law prize
for scholarship. Passing the state
bar examination in the fall of 1920
at the head of around 100 appli-
cants, as junior partner, she joined
her father, the late Henry Nc
Diarmid Robinson, who for some
years was dean of the bar of Fay
e~tteville, and from 1920 until her
marriage in 1926 MI. Robinson and
his daughter actively practiced law
together in Fayetteville under the
firm name of Robinson and Rob-
lnSon,' 1t was at this time that
Mrs, Everett won a case before
the N, c. Supreme Court and with
1t the distinction of being the first
woman in North Carolina to win a
case she had argued before that
court, and the second woman in
Inc state ever to argue a case be-
lore that high tribunal.
During the World war, Mrs. Ev,
efett served the government as
secretary to the director of the Re.
search Information Committee Of
the National Research Council,
Washington. On June "a, 1926, she