Miss Viola Boddie
(image from The Carolinian, 1909)
A native of North Carolina and a graduate of Littleton College, with a teaching license certificate from Peabody Normal College (Nashville TN), Viola Boddie was hired in 1892 as the first chair in Ancient Languages at a salary of $750.00. This salary was raised to $864.00 for the year beginning October 1,1893 and to $900.00 for the following year. She taught both Latin and French.
See below the Department of Latin Report for 1898 located in the UNCG Archives.
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Department of Latin The department has enrolled during this scholastic year about two hundred seventy-five students. A post graduate course in Latin was offered this year and enthusiastically taken by several of the young women. It is the purpose of the department to make this course one that will be especially helpful to those who contemplate teaching this subject. The work in the Freshman class is frequently much hampered by lack of English preparation on the part of students, and the department would recommend that no student take Latin who cannot enter the |
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Freshmen class in English. There is much need of a better reference library; the books that have been purchased were few and cheap, consequently are now much worn.
Respectfully Submitted: Viola Boddie
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