Eugenia Branscomb Hobday, neice of Dr. Lucille Branscomb
Dr. Houston Cole, became President of Jacksonville State University, in Sept, 1942,
…. with vision, aspiration and planning took the fifties as a time to move his Alma Mater to heights with broader areas of curricula, improved facilities and quality instruction. Encouraging all to participate in reaching for the stars, programs were brought forth.
Miss Lucile Branscomb, who had been Dr. Cole’s secretary when he was with OPA (he persuaded her to go to Columbia University for graduate work), developed the B.S. in Business.
Miss Branscomb, with war surplus typewriters, having perfected secretarial education, pushed ever forward for a school of business. A diligent lady, she chartered the FBLA and was a delegate officer to the National Business Education Association. The annex to the business building is named in her honor.
Source: Life and Times of Houston Cole authored by various former JSU faculty and administration, as well as Dr. Cole’s nephew. http://lib-www.jsu.edu/archives/lifetimes/Life-and-Times-of-Houston-Cole.pdf
Lucille Branscomb joins JSTC
Anniston Star, Anniston AL
January 8, 1943
Extract:
“After her graduation from college, she taught French and English before transferring to business training. She had the unusual assignment of serving as private secretary to three successive directors of the Stat Highway Department, leaving that branch of the state government to accept the position as secretary to Houston Cole, then director of the Office of Price Administration. She continued in this capacity to his successor, Dr. A. H. Collins, resigning to accept the place on the college faculty. For the past three years she has taught secretarial science in The University Center at Montgomery, a branch of the University of Alabama, under the supervision of the Department of Extension.”
Eugenia Branscomb Hobday
Written by Dr. Houston Cole, who later became President of Jacksonville State University, in Sept, 1942, …. with vision, aspiration and planning took the fifties as a time to move his Alma Mater to heights with broader areas of curricula, improved facilities and quality instruction. Encouraging all to participate in reaching for the stars, programs were brought forth.
Miss Lucile Branscomb, who had been Dr. Cole’s secretary when he was with OPA (he persuaded her to go to Columbia University for graduate work), developed the B.S. in Business.
Miss Branscomb, with war surplus typewriters, having perfected secretarial education, pushed ever forward for a school of business. A diligent lady, she chartered the FBLA and was a delegate officer to the National Business Education Association. The annex to the business building is named in her honor.
Source: Life and Times of Houston Cole authored by various former JSU faculty and administration, as well as Dr. Cole’s nephew. http://lib-www.jsu.edu/archives/lifetimes/Life-and-Times-of-Houston-Cole.pdf
Lucille Branscomb joins JSTC
Anniston Star, Anniston AL
January 8, 1943
Extract:
“After her graduation from college, she taught French and English before transferring to business training. She had the unusual assignment of serving as private secretary to three successive directors of the Stat Highway Department, leaving that branch of the state government to accept the position as secretary to Houston Cole, then director of the Office of Price Administration. She continued in this capacity to his successor, Dr. A. H. Collins, resigning to accept the place on the college faculty. For the past three years she has taught secretarial science in The University Center at Montgomery, a branch of the University of Alabama, under the supervision of the Department of Extension.”
Eugenia Branscomb Hobday, niece of Dr. Lucille Branscomb [email protected]
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Dr. Houston Cole, became President of Jacksonville State University, in Sept, 1942,
…. with vision, aspiration and planning took the fifties as a time to move his Alma Mater to heights with broader areas of curricula, improved facilities and quality instruction. Encouraging all to participate in reaching for the stars, programs were brought forth.
Miss Lucile Branscomb, who had been Dr. Cole’s secretary when he was with OPA (he persuaded her to go to Columbia University for graduate work), developed the B.S. in Business.
Miss Branscomb, with war surplus typewriters, having perfected secretarial education, pushed ever forward for a school of business. A diligent lady, she chartered the FBLA and was a delegate officer to the National Business Education Association. The annex to the business building is named in her honor.
Source: Life and Times of Houston Cole authored by various former JSU faculty and administration, as well as Dr. Cole’s nephew.
http://lib-www.jsu.edu/archives/lifetimes/Life-and-Times-of-Houston-Cole.pdf
Lucille Branscomb joins JSTC
Anniston Star, Anniston AL
January 8, 1943
Extract:
“After her graduation from college, she taught French and English before transferring to business training. She had the unusual assignment of serving as private secretary to three successive directors of the Stat Highway Department, leaving that branch of the state government to accept the position as secretary to Houston Cole, then director of the Office of Price Administration. She continued in this capacity to his successor, Dr. A. H. Collins, resigning to accept the place on the college faculty. For the past three years she has taught secretarial science in The University Center at Montgomery, a branch of the University of Alabama, under the supervision of the Department of Extension.”
Written by Dr. Houston Cole, who later became President of Jacksonville State University, in Sept, 1942, …. with vision, aspiration and planning took the fifties as a time to move his Alma Mater to heights with broader areas of curricula, improved facilities and quality instruction. Encouraging all to participate in reaching for the stars, programs were brought forth.
Miss Lucile Branscomb, who had been Dr. Cole’s secretary when he was with OPA (he persuaded her to go to Columbia University for graduate work), developed the B.S. in Business.
Miss Branscomb, with war surplus typewriters, having perfected secretarial education, pushed ever forward for a school of business. A diligent lady, she chartered the FBLA and was a delegate officer to the National Business Education Association. The annex to the business building is named in her honor.
Source: Life and Times of Houston Cole authored by various former JSU faculty and administration, as well as Dr. Cole’s nephew.
http://lib-www.jsu.edu/archives/lifetimes/Life-and-Times-of-Houston-Cole.pdf
Lucille Branscomb joins JSTC
Anniston Star, Anniston AL
January 8, 1943
Extract:
“After her graduation from college, she taught French and English before transferring to business training. She had the unusual assignment of serving as private secretary to three successive directors of the Stat Highway Department, leaving that branch of the state government to accept the position as secretary to Houston Cole, then director of the Office of Price Administration. She continued in this capacity to his successor, Dr. A. H. Collins, resigning to accept the place on the college faculty. For the past three years she has taught secretarial science in The University Center at Montgomery, a branch of the University of Alabama, under the supervision of the Department of Extension.”
Eugenia Branscomb Hobday, niece of Dr. Lucille Branscomb [email protected]
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