Professor W. C. Robinson; Winn Parish, LA Contributed by Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report.This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. Professor W. C. Robinson Now Superintendent of the Winnfield High School. The school has about 500 pupils and 18 teachers and is the pride of Winnfield and surrounding country. Prof. Robinson is a son of Robert H. Robinson, who was born and reared in Virginia. He was a farmer. He married Virginia A. Vaughan. They only had two children. The parents are both dead. W. C. was born in Virginia April 25, 1861, and was educated at Richmond College in Richmond, Va., where he graduated. The 24th day of Dec., 1887, he married Miss Etta A. Moore, whose father has been for so long one of the truseted and loved members of the faculty at Mt. Lebanon, La. Prof. Robinson is a teacher by training, natural endowments, and a wide and varied experience. he was for many years president of Mt. Lebanon College, at Mt. Lebanon, La., and also president of the Industrial Institute at Ruston. He brings with him to his new position in the Winnfield school the ripest and most varied experience and it is fully expected that with the most excellent faculty which he has gathered around him that he will develop a school interest here second to none anywhere. He has strong executive ability and in due time will make a most excellent State Superintendent, and without his knowledge or permission we here and now nominate him for that position in the near future. We are to have an elegant new brick building, which when finished will have cost $ 75,000.00 which will enable Prof. Robinson to give our city and section the very best school advantages to be found. His motto: "The betterment of my fellowman." (The above article appeared in The Guardian newspaper, Vol. XXVII, No. 8-9, published September-October, 1907 at Winnfield, LA. This newspaper is on file at the Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, and was submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, LA.)