Notes and Documents

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
DR. EMMA ESTILL-HARBOR, PRESIDENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
In the death of Ex-Governor R. L. Williams, the Board of Direc-
tors of the Oklahoma Historical Society lost its president. Judge
Williams had served as a director and a leader in the work of this
institution for a quarter of a century. It was fitting and it would
have pleased him very much to know that his successor would be
found in Doctor Emma Estill-Harbour whose name he had placed
before the Board to be chosen as a member many years before. Doctor
Harbour had served as First Vice-President for several years and
upon the passing of Judge Williams, she was under the By-laws
elevated to the presidency. This strategic position upon the Board
of Directors has fallen into worthy and capable hands.
Dr. Harbour was born in Liberty Missouri, and came to Oklahoma
in the first decade of the 20th Century. Her education has been
broad and liberal. Receiving her A.B. degree at the Oklahoma College
for Women in 1915, she took her college M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
the University of Oklahoma in 1923 and 1933 respectively. She has
had post-graduate work in Columbia University, University of Colo-
rado and Chicago University. Her home address is: 302 East Sixth
Street, Edmond, Oklahoma.
She is an honored member of many educational and professional
societies including the American Association of University Women,
of which she was State President in 1930-32; Delta Kappa Gamma, of
which she was State Founder and once State Treasurer ; and the
National League of American Pen Women. She was elected by the
Oklahoma Memorial Association to the "Hall of Fame'' in 1935.
For her patriotic leadership she was appointed to serve as a
director on character training at Neuf Chateau, France, during World
War I. Her travels have taken her three times to Europe, to South
America, Mexico, Central American countries, Cuba, Hawaii, Alaska,
the Canal Zone, and Canada.
She was elected to a splendid position in the History Depart-
ient of Central State College in 1912 and she possesses one of the
longest tenures of teaching in that Institution of any teacher of the
State-thirty-six years of service and still a member of the faculty.
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