AGAR VIDEO: “WOMEN MAKING A DIFFERENCE
IN AMHERST COUNTY,” featuring segments of AGAR interviews from 2009-2018 of the women below:
IN AMHERST COUNTY,” featuring segments of AGAR interviews from 2009-2018 of the women below:
- Edith Jones: teacher at Rocky Seat and Amherst Training School
- Alma Rountrey: teacher at Clifford School, 1935
- Rev. Phyllis Hicks: first Monacan woman ordained Episcopal Priest; first director of Monacan Ancestral Museum
- Lena Sandidge: housewife, mother, farmer
- Octavia Starbuck: director, The Amherst County Museum and Historical Society
- Elvira Morse: Amherst Woman’s Club President, 1985-1987
- Douwina Osinga: Amherst Village Garden Club member and Amherst Woman’s Club conservation chair, late 1980s to early 1990s
- “Wally” Robinson: cook at Winton Country Club for 44 years
- Clara Jackson: teacher at Central High Schools, 1950s and 1960s
- Juanita Roberson: first black female Supervisor; speaking on going to Connecticut to work in tobacco to raise money for college
- Bev Jones: teacher in Amherst County Schools; speaking on her education at Central High School in the 1960s
- Louise McCord Faulconer: worked for Amherst County Schools for 39 years; Principal of Monroe, Temperance, Pleasant View, and James River Elementary schools
- Barbara Hutcherson Parks: Amherst resident; Lynchburg City Schools Principal at Dearington, Bedford Hills, and TC Miller Elementary Schools
- Pastor Marget P.C. Nelson: USAF Colonel retired; Baptist Minister at St. Peter’s Church; nurse and nursing instructor; earned two Master’s degrees
