The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-05-04
Seven Appointed
ToLongwood Staff
1861 Session
Two To Retire
One Resignation
Landlord Says

$e Seven appointments to the staff
of Longwood College for the 1856
81 session, two retirementS. and
one resignation were announced
today by President Francis G..
Lankford. Jr.
DR.. Gardner Blake Taplin. Of
Newton, Mass, has been appoint
ed associate professor of English
to take the place of Miss Nancy
Foster, who will retire after teach
ing Twenty-Five years in the Eng
lish department.
Mrs. Blanche C. Badger, of
MountSville, S. c., will assume
duties as associate professor of
mathematics to replace Mrs. Ann
H. DeMuth, of Farmville. who &C
cepted temporary appointment
for the 1955-56 session.
Gary Seamans Dunbar, of Avon.
N Y. has been added to the staff
as an instructor in geography and
Social SCltllCeS.
A. Ray Merchent, of Roanoke.
has been appointed director of
public relations to succeed Mrs
Meade l.. Shackelford. who has
resigned to accept a position in
information and public relations
with public service organization
Dny
to this position has not been an
nounced.
Mrs. Gee Named
Mrs. Frances Walmsley Gee. of
Farmville, will fill the position of
instructor of home economics in
the place of Mrs. Lucy Smith
Green. of Farmville. who had a
temporary appointment for the
current semester.
A new position of secretary Gre
ated i'll the Bureau of Teaching
Materials will be filled by Mrs.
Constance Hubbard ellis. of
Farmville. Charles H. Patterson,
Jr.. assistant professor of educa-
ton and a member of the bureau
staff Will devote full time to
teaching and directing student
teaching at the elementary level
Mrs Beulah w. Eva. of Mo-
hawk. N. Y. now house mother
at Adrian College. Mich. will be-
come a college hostess on the re-
tirement of MIS-. Cynthia z. Green
who first became associated with
the college in 1948.
Dr.. Taplin, whose teaching
fields are Victorian and American
literature. is a lecturer in English
at Boston University and was an
assistant professor of English at
Indiana State University from
1868. He holds the PHI. d. and
A. NJ degrees from Harvard Uni
versity and A. B. from Amherst
College. He is at present writing
a biography on Elizabeth Barrett
Browning to be published by the
Yale University Press in the fall.
and has already published several
articles on Mrs. BroWnings works.
Comes from Tennessee
MIS-. Badger will come to Long
wood from Tennessee POLYTECHNIC
Institute. where she is an assist
ant professor. She has taught at
Florida State University. Memphis
State College. and McMulry Col
lege. She has ap M. A. degree
from the University of Tennessee
and "A. B degree from Winthrop
College. She expects to receive a
Phi. y. degree from George Pea
body College in June.
MI. Dunbar has been a grad
nate assistant at Louisiana State
University for the past three
wears where he expects to receive
a Phi D. degree in June. He re-
ceived the NJ. A. and B. A. de-
erees from the University of Viz
ginia.
An assistant in the office OF
StuQeIl alQ anu iJldSoihNiAe Nv VAN
University of Virginia. Mr.. Merch-
ent is working toward his Doctor
ate there. He holds a M. Ed de-
gree from the University of Vlr-
ginia and A. B. degree from Emory
and Henry College
Miss Foster. an assistant pro-
fcssor of English has taught AT
Lonewood Collge since 1927. and
has for many years advised the
staff of the "Virginian.' college
Yearbook. on editorial work, Be-
fore coming to Longwood she
laugh, in high schools in Mlssis-
sippi, Texas. and Arkansas. she
has a M. A. degree from the UNI
versity of Virginia and A. B. from
Mississippi State College. she
Will retire to her home in Green