Muir, John; My First Summer in the Sierra
BOSON AND NY, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO, 1911 FIRST, HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: GOOD
with illustrations from drawings made by the author in 1869 and from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, lettering on spine faded, gilt decorated front cover, rubber stamp on front endpage Jere M. Pound , Merritt B Pound 6-7-33 written on top of front endpage, Dr. Jere (pronounced Jerry ) Madison Pound was the second president of Georgia State Womans College. He was appointed in July 1933 by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, and served only until May 1934, due to illness. Dr. Pound was born in Liberty Hill, Georgia, in 1864. He received an A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1884 and an honorary LL.D. from the University of Georgia in 1915. He married Ada Murphey in 1890, and they had five sons: Murphey, Jere Madison Jr. (d. 1910 at age 14), Edwin Aldine, Merritt Bloodworth and William Stokely; and three daughters: Willie Greene, Ida, and Lucy Floyd. Dr. Pound had an extensive career as a Georgia educator and administrator, beginning as a teacher at the Boys High School in Atlanta (1884-85). He was the principal of the Fort Valley (Ga.) Institute (1885-87), then president of the Gordon Institute in Barnesville (1887-96 and 1897-1901). During 1896-97, he was the director of the Normal Department at Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville. He was the superintendent of the Macon and Bibb County public schools (1901-04), and was briefly the superintendent of the East Florida Seminary (1904-05). Pound then returned to his former job as director of the Normal Department at Georgia Normal and Industrial College (1905-08). He was the Georgia State Superintendent of Schools (1908-10), and during this same time, was also the president of the Gordon Institute until 1912. Dr. Pound was then elected president of the State Normal School in Athens, later named Georgia State Teachers' College, and held that position for 21 years (1912-33) until his reassignment as president of GSWC in July 1933.
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