Daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jane Williamson Paslay.
Rosa Peebles, Class of 1891 of the Industrial Institute and College, remembered the faculty continually impressing upon the students the need for them to work hard if the II&C were to succeed: At that time a new student, Miriam Greene Paslay, arrived who made at once a striking impression because of her great physical beauty, her reticence, almost aloofness, her grace and what we felt to be an intellectual sophistication.
Miriam's parents both passed away while she was attending school. That made her work "all the harder to earn one of the first bachelor of arts degrees and after some graduate training, [she] was hired to teach in the Classics Department in 1891."
Miriam met Pauline Van de Graff Orr at school. They became lifelong friends and were roommates until Miriam's sudden death at age 63.
Rosa Peebles, Class of 1891 of the Industrial Institute and College, remembered the faculty continually impressing upon the students the need for them to work hard if the II&C were to succeed: At that time a new student, Miriam Greene Paslay, arrived who made at once a striking impression because of her great physical beauty, her reticence, almost aloofness, her grace and what we felt to be an intellectual sophistication.
Miriam's parents both passed away while she was attending school. That made her work "all the harder to earn one of the first bachelor of arts degrees and after some graduate training, [she] was hired to teach in the Classics Department in 1891."
Miriam met Pauline Van de Graff Orr at school. They became lifelong friends and were roommates until Miriam's sudden death at age 63.
Daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jane Williamson Paslay.
Rosa Peebles, Class of 1891 of the Industrial Institute and College, remembered the faculty continually impressing upon the students the need for them to work hard if the II&C were to succeed: At that time a new student, Miriam Greene Paslay, arrived who made at once a striking impression because of her great physical beauty, her reticence, almost aloofness, her grace and what we felt to be an intellectual sophistication.
Miriam's parents both passed away while she was attending school. That made her work "all the harder to earn one of the first bachelor of arts degrees and after some graduate training, [she] was hired to teach in the Classics Department in 1891."
Miriam met Pauline Van de Graff Orr at school. They became lifelong friends and were roommates until Miriam's sudden death at age 63.
Rosa Peebles, Class of 1891 of the Industrial Institute and College, remembered the faculty continually impressing upon the students the need for them to work hard if the II&C were to succeed: At that time a new student, Miriam Greene Paslay, arrived who made at once a striking impression because of her great physical beauty, her reticence, almost aloofness, her grace and what we felt to be an intellectual sophistication.
Miriam's parents both passed away while she was attending school. That made her work "all the harder to earn one of the first bachelor of arts degrees and after some graduate training, [she] was hired to teach in the Classics Department in 1891."
Miriam met Pauline Van de Graff Orr at school. They became lifelong friends and were roommates until Miriam's sudden death at age 63.
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