1896
Mrs. W.J. Jones (Mollie Roberts ’96) with her husband runs the Pineland School for Girls, a boarding school at Salemburg, Sampson county, North Carolina. This school has recently been admitted to the Southern accredited list of preparatory schools and this year has the largest enrollment in its history. Mrs. Jones is helping to educate a number of girls. In addition to her school work she is engaged in regular church work.
Mrs. Jones is remembered as a popular student at Guilford. She has always been full of energy and a hard worker. She was instrumental in establishing Guilford graded school, the first rural graded school supported by special taxation in North Carolina. For a while she was a successful teacher in this school.
1903
Edgar T. Snipes ’03 is a successful lawyer, practicing in Philadelphia and Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He has offices at 505 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, and Morrisville, Pa. He is a member of several Philadelphia clubs and is engaged in Sunday school work in the Philadelphia Meeting. He was a delegate to the All Friends Conference held in London in 1920. He was a most helpful worker in the endowment campaign for Guilford College recently carried on in Philadelphia.
Since graduating from Guilford, Mr. Snipes has attended Haverford College, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Virginia. He has received the following degrees: a.B. and M.A. Haverford College, and L.L.B., University of North Carolina.
On May 4, 1918, he was married to Miss Jane Chance Moon. He has three children, Samuel, Bradshaw and Anne Elizabeth.
1907
Friends at the college were very much grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. A.T. Ashcraft (Linnie Shamburger ’07) of Monroe on March 1st.
1909
Mrs. W.E. Hassler (Agnes King ’09) lives in Port Neches, Jefferson county, Texas. Besides her duties as a housewife, she finds much community and church work that falls to her lot as the wife of a Methodist minister. She is superintendent of the children’s work in the church and each summer is instructor in Handcraft in the Daily Vacation Bible School. She has had one summer course in church activities at the Southern University at Dallas, Texas. Her little daughter, Elizabeth, was born December 11, 1923.
From page 4 of The Guilfordian, March 5, 1924
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