Annie Dove Denmark (1887–1974) was an American music educator and
academic administrator who was the fifth president of Anderson College
(now Anderson University) in Anderson, South Carolina, from 1928 to
1953. A talented musician in her youth, Denmark attended what is now
Meredith College and graduated with an artist's diploma in piano in
1908. She began teaching piano at Anderson in 1917. She is commonly,
though incorrectly, cited as the first woman president of a college or
university in South Carolina. She oversaw Anderson's transition from a
four-year college to a two-year junior college, making it the first
junior college in the state. The school's debt was paid off by the South
Carolina Baptist Convention in May 1938, and attendance increased for
several years after World War II when the school enrolled more men than
it ever had since becoming co-educational in 1931. She left office in
May 1953, concluding a 25-year presidency that remains the longest in
Anderson's history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dove_Denmark>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1779:
Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook
after he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the
island of Hawaii.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook>
1924:
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was renamed as
International Business Machines (IBM), later growing into one of the
world's largest companies by market capitalization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM>
1990:
NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the iconic Pale Blue Dot
photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 au
(6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot>
2007:
The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, killed 18
members of the Revolutionary Guards.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Zahedan_bombings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cutie patootie:
(chiefly US, slang) An adorable and attractive person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cutie_patootie>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits,
and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
--Nathaniel Parker Willis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Parker_Willis>