February 2012

The archives recently acquired a scrapbook assembled by Jane Sturgeon, who graduated from PC in 1940 and later was a librarian at Duke University for many years. It contains a wealth of items from her days at the college, among them some amusing anecdotes. This was one of our favorites, involving Dr. Frank Dudley Jones, who taught philosophy and psychology at the college for over twenty years.   In addition to the fact that it’s a funny story, it is rather amazing to learn how different forms of mental disability were described and dealt with in 1940. As is mentioned in the article the doctor doing the demonstration, Dr. Chapman Milling, was also a PC grad.

 

 

Look for more gems from Miss Sturgeon’s scrapbook in coming blogs.