Interview with Marguerite Tolbert - OH 003

Interviewee

Emmie Marguerite Tolbert

Interviewer

Ron Chepesiuk and Louise Pettus

Files

Abstract

Marguerite Tolbert (1893-1982) was a Winthrop alumna (class of 1914), club woman, and administrator with the Opportunity School in Columbia, South Carolina. In this interview, Miss Tolbert discusses her experience as a student at Winthrop College. She discusses dining hall conversation and interactions with faculty members, her parents, and her home life with her parents. She also discusses riding the train to Winthrop, dorm life, holidays and weekends at Winthrop, Benjamin Tillman and his close supervision of Winthrop students, rules for Winthrop students, and the blue line. She also talks about her pride surrounding graduation, the training school, her internship, the Greatest Educators in America reception at the Waldorf in New York City, the controversy surrounding Billy Mitchell, summer school at Winthrop, notable male professors, Winthrop’s status as the best teaching college in the state, and Dr. D.B. Johnson. She also discusses dating at Winthrop, clubs, free time activities, and a pageant. Miss Tolbert also discusses the shift in her teaching philosophy as well as specific units taught at Winthrop. This interview also includes comments from Wil Lou Gray, (1883-1984) regarding the summer teaching training institute at Winthrop.

Publication Date

6-8-1974

Unique Identifier

OH 003

Format

1 Cassette, MP3; WAV:

Length

01:55:33

Restrictions

This interview is open for use.

Series

Alumni, Faculty and Staff

Disciplines

Oral History

Keywords

Winthrop Training School, Board of Trustees Members, Organ Fund for Byrnes Auditorium, Wil Lou Gray, Summer Teaching Training Institute, Class of 1914

Recommended Citation

Tolbert, Emmie Marguerite, "Interview with Marguerite Tolbert - OH 003" (1974). Winthrop University Oral History Program. OH 003.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/236