Members of the Tigerbelles Track Team at Tennessee A & I State University, Wilma Rudolph and Lucinda Williams, Train for the 1959 Pan American Games. They Were Also Members of the 1960 United States Olympic Team.
Wilson Hall, Erected in 1912, Was the First Resident Hall for Women, Serving Both Students and Faculty, at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial Normal School. The Dormitory Was Named in Honor of the School's First Dean of Women, Mrs. Mary L....
Wilson Normal School;
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College – Buildings
The Franklin School building, at 660 K Street NE, Washington, DC, was the first home for Wilson’s Teacher College, then known as the Washington Normal School. By an act of the Legislative Assembly for the DC Territorial Government, the new...
Wilson Normal School;
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College -- Buildings
In 1911, Congress appropriated funds for a new building, which was constructed at Eleventh and Harvard Streets, NW, and completed by 1912. The new building was occupied in 1913, under the name – James Ormond Wilson Normal School, who was...
Wilson Normal School;
Wilson Normal School -- Buildings
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College -- Buildings
In 1911, Congress appropriated funds for a new building, which was constructed at Eleventh and Harvard Streets, NW, and completed by 1912. The new building was occupied in 1913, under the name – James Ormond Wilson Normal School, who was...
Washington (D.C.) – Public Schools;
Washington Normal School;
Wilson, James Ormond;
Wilson Normal School;
Wilson Teachers College
The college was named in honor of James Ormond Wilson (1825-1911). Wilson graduated from Dartmouth University. He was trustee of the Washington Public Schools from 1861 through 1869, and the second superintendent of schools for Washington Public...
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- Wilson Teachers College;
Higbie, Edgar C.;
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College -- Presidents
Dr. Higbie (1875- 1944) was appointed president of Wilson Teachers College in 1931. Dr. Higbie retired as President of Wilson Teachers College in February 1941, because of ill health. He remained on the faculty until his death in 1944.
Higbie was...
Carr, Paul O.;
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College – Faculty
Dr. Paul O. Carr earned his BS from State Teachers College, Mo, and his MA and PhD from the State University of Iowa. He was a high school teacher and school superintendent in Iowa. Coming to Wilson Teachers College in 1935, he became Associate...
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- Wilson Teachers College;
Hager, Walter;
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College -- Presidents
Dr. Walter E. Hager (1895-1990) was appointed president of Wilson Teachers College in 1941. He earned is Bachelors in Science from the University of Nebraska in 1916; his A.M. from Columbia University in 1927, and his PhD from Columbia University...
Wyomia Tyus Was the First Olympic Athlete to Successfully Defend Her Sprint Title in a Subsequent Olympiad. At the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Tyus Ran the 100-Meter Dash in 11.2 Seconds in the Preliminary Heats, Tying Wilma Rudolph's World Records, and...
Zora Neale Hurston (standing), a famous African-American novelist, playwright, folklorist and anthropologist at a North Carolina College for Negroes football game. Zora Hurston was a professor in the Drama Department at North Carolina College for...
