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Delphine Feminear Thomas
Delphine Feminear Thomas (October 1, 1890 – July 22, 1963) was an American educator and civic leader in Auburn, Alabama. Early life Delphine Feminear was born in Bay Minette, Alabama, the daughter of Joseph Feminear and Delphine Byrne Feminear. She graduated from Troy University, Troy State Normal School in 1910. She attended a summer program for teachers at the University of Alabama in 1914. Career Feminear was a high school teacher in rural Pike County, Alabama as a young woman. In 1913 she became principal of a school in Edgewater, Alabama, Edgewater, a mining community near Birmingham. In 1915 she presented a paper on "Homes for Rural Teachers", and was elected vice president of the Alabama Educational Association, and the association's meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery. From 1919 Thomas was an assistant in the English department at Auburn University. While at Auburn, she volunteered as a nurse during the Spanish flu, 1918 flu pandemic. She taught junior high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auburn, Alabama
Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama, with a 2020 population of 76,143. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 158,991, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 501,649 residents. Auburn is a historic college town and is the home of Auburn University. It is Alabama's fastest-growing metropolitan area and the nineteenth fastest-growing metro area in the United States since 1990. U.S. News ranked Auburn among its top ten list of best places to live in the United States for the year 2009. The city's unofficial nickname is "The Loveliest Village On The Plains," taken from a line in the poem ''The Deserted Village'' by Oliver Goldsmith: "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain..." History Inhabited in antiquity by the Creek, the land on which Auburn s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
