Volume 7 , Issue 5

Greenbrier College for Women

"Greenbrier College for Women was never a 'finishing school' ... whatever that is.  In 1961, it was a two year preparatory school and junior college, with junior and senior highschool students as freshmen and sophomores at Greenbrier.  It was established, for the purpose of educating young women, on 7 Apr 1858 by an act passed by the Virginia General Assembly which incorporated it as the Lewisburg Female Institute Company in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County.

On 17 Aug 1874, the Lewisburg Female Institute was incorporated in West Virginia.  In 1922, the Lewisburg Seminary, formerly the Lewisburg Female Institute, became Greenbrier College for Women.  Greenbrier College and Greenbrier Military School both closed in 1972.   The classroom building built in 1902 as a gift of the Carnegie Foundation to the school became the Carnegie Hall of W. Va, a nonprofit arts and education center in 1983.  The main building which contained the dormitory rooms, library, study halls, parlors, dining room etc. has been renovated as the Greenbrier Campus of the New River Community & Technical College.

The dinner in the 5 photos you found was the annual Sophomore Class dinner held off campus at one of the hotels in Lewisburg.  Your sister, Dorthy, was President of her class and held the distinction of amassing more demerits than anyone in college history for failing to make her bed, failing to dress properly for dinner, failing to take her stacks of demerit notices off her bulletin board, tinting her hair a lovely shade of lilac, etc."   |  View or Add Comments (7 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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