| 词条 | Kate Vixon Wofford |
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Wofford graduated from Winthrop College in 1916[3] and taught at Laurens High School shortly thereafter.[4] At the onset of World War I, she joined the United States Navy as a yeoman, one of the first women to enlist in the war effort.[3] Returning to Laurens after the war, she was elected in 1922 as the county superintendent of schools, becoming the first woman in South Carolina to discharge that role as well as the first woman in the state to be elected to public office. She would serve two terms.[4] She also served a term as the first president of the South Carolina State Teachers Association,[3] and worked as a school principal as well as teacher.[5] She continued her education through Columbia University, from which school she received a doctorate, before becoming head professor and director of rural education at the State Teachers College in Buffalo, New York.[4] She also taught education at the University of Florida,[6] and held a degree from Cornell University.[5] Winthrop wrote two books on the subject of education, Modern Education in the Small Rural School and Teaching in Small Schools, for which she gained some recognition;[4] she was also published by the National Education Association during her career,[7] and wrote numerous other works on the subject.[8] She was an avid golfer and collected antiques, and was listed in Who's Who during her career.[5] Wofford is buried in the cemetery of New Prospect Baptist Church in Laurens.[1] A small archive related to her career is held at the library of the University of South Carolina.[9] Wofford Hall, a women's residence hall constructed in 1967 at her alma mater, is named in her honor,[3] and her family presented the school with a portrait of her, painted by a fellow Winthrop alumna, after her death.[10] The school also offers a scholarship in her honor.[11] The third floor north of Rawlins Hall, a women's dormitory at the University of Florida opened in 1958, also bears her name; sections of the hall were named after various significant women in Florida history.[6] Wofford's brother, Thomas, served as a Winthrop trustee from 1945 until 1953.[3] See also
References1. ^1 {{Find a Grave|8240051|Kate Vixon Wofford}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wofford, Kate Vixon}}2. ^{{cite book|author1=Marjorie Julian Spruill|author2=Valinda W. Littlefield|author3=Joan Marie Johnson|title=South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F8-_fKSa5cgC&pg=PA52|year=2012|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-4215-3|pages=52–}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://www.winthrop.edu/recservices/default.aspx?id=3168|title=Winthrop University: Recreational Services – Wofford Hall – 1967|work=winthrop.edu|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://etvradio.org/post/w-wofford-kate-vixon#stream/0|title="W" is for Wofford, Kate Vixon|author=Walter Edgar|work=etvradio.org|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19370328&id=3kgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y8oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4647,2497542&hl=en|title=Herald-Journal – Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://education.ufl.edu/centennial/feature-stories/women-of-the-coe/ |title=Women of the COE » Centennial Celebration » College of Education, University of Florida |publisher=Education.ufl.edu |date=2012-10-25 |accessdate=2016-06-17}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/education-of-teachers-for-rural-america/oclc/1802662|title=Education of teachers for rural America,|work=worldcat.org|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2002035926/|title=Wofford, Kate V. 1898–1954 (Kate Vixon) [WorldCat Identities]|work=worldcat.org|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/kate-vixon-wofford-papers-1933-1954/oclc/31399929|title=Kate Vixon Wofford papers, 1933–1954.|work=worldcat.org|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/67494328/|title=Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina · Page 7|work=Newspapers.com|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.schoolsoup.com/scholarship-directory/state/Kate-V-Wofford-Scholarship-198029/|title=Kate V. Wofford Scholarship|work=schoolsoup.com|accessdate=10 September 2015}} 21 : 1894 births|1954 deaths|People from Laurens County, South Carolina|Women in South Carolina politics|American school superintendents|Winthrop University alumni|Columbia University alumni|University of Florida faculty|Buffalo State College faculty|American naval personnel of World War I|American schoolteachers|Educators from South Carolina|American education writers|Writers from South Carolina|20th-century American non-fiction writers|20th-century American women writers|Cornell University alumni|20th-century American politicians|20th-century American women politicians|American women non-fiction writers|20th-century American educators |
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