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Volume 7, Issue 5 - Feature #154

Greenbrier College for Women

Diane - Do you remember a Physical Ed teacher that went by Kay or Katie? I remember my mother always speaking of her as she remained close to her for many years. I believe that is what she taught at GB. Thank you.

Jenny - 2009-09-29 23:05:05

My mother went to this school in the early 1960's. I believe she went by Rose Marie Petro, Rosa Marie Petro or Rose Mary Petro. Have you heard of her. I am learn about her life and her family, if anyone can help.

Jenny - 2009-09-29 22:10:21

A Greenbrier Alumnae happened on this site. I am so glad. My name is Diane 'Plasman Willis. I am President of the Alumnae Association and am looking for Greenbrier Alumane that attended Greenbrier College. Currently we have 800 in our Alumnae directory. Martha Dean Bell, I did not know your Mom. I graduated in '63. But, I do have the year books from her years. I have seen her brick. Who was your Dad's younger sister?? Please keep in touch.Thanks Diane

Diane Willis - 2008-11-22 07:56:46

My grandmother attended the Greenbriar Institute in 1903-1905. She later went on to become a nurse before marryiong my grandfather, in 1912. Her name was Katherine Ingles, and she married William Palmer Hill, of Richmond. I have a stash of the letter she received between 1899 and 1906, and they include several letters from her first cousin, Margaret Trollinger, who started at Hollins Institute at the same time. Kit, as she was called, was a descendant of Mary Draper Ingles, and her family home was on the New River in what is now Pulaski County. Does anyone else out there have any letters from that time period? If so, I'd be delighted to see them.

Ellen A. Brown - 2008-08-27 09:06:16

My mom attended GCW (as she called it) for 3 years, and always counted it as one of the happiest times in her life. She also taught there as an adult (one of her students was my dad's youngest sister.) My dad attended GMS (also, what he called it) instead of the public high school, and although he wasn't a stellar student, it did help him get into Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now called Virginia Tech-my parents both called it VPI; my dad still does.) I have never had the opportunity to visit the campuses, although my dad and aunt purchased a brick on the walkway at West Virginia Carnegie Hall as a memorial to her. If you get a chance to look, her name was Dean Frazier Bell. It has the date of her birth and the date of her death: May 20, 1934 - January 8, 1998.

Martha Dean Bell - 2007-10-24 16:06:12

"Dorothy" may sound like a flapper and I'm sure she would have been had she been born in a timely manner, but, alas, she went to Greenbrier almost 40 years past the era. "Dorthy" was too young to be a beatnik, too old to be a hippie, but was a nonconformist rebel, just what Greenbrier College for Women needed in its mix in 1960-61. She would have liked Bake had she known her. I think it's great that, yet again, your site has evoked a memory for someone and linked another connection.

SBW - 2006-08-03 13:29:25

Dorothy sounds like a flapper. More power to her. My mother went to Greenbrier. She remembered eating watercress& cucumber & butter sandwiches. She was born in 1909, so was probably there 1926, 27. Her name was Blanche Baker from New Albany, IN. Nickname "Bake"

Gregg Shope - 2006-08-02 20:40:16

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