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The Savannah Tribune
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
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Miss Irene C. Dobbs, Spelman College French instructor and daughter of Atlanta Mason leader J. Wesley Dobbs, awarded General Education Board scholarship for year-long study at University of Toulouse, France, starting September 1932.
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FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIP
Daughter of Grand Master
J. Wesley Dobbs
Miss Irene C. Dobbs, of the Department of French, Spelman College, Atlanta, will sail for France on the S. S. Europa on September 9th to study for a year at the University of Toulouse, under a scholarship granted by the General Education Board.
Miss Dobbs has been associated with Spelman as student and teacher for the past ten years. She was graduated from the college with honors in 1926. During the summer of 1929 she studied at Middlebury College; at L'Universite of Grenoble, France, during the summer of 1930; and at the University of Chicago during the summer of 1931. Following her graduation in 1929 she taught French in the high school department of Spelman and since 1930, she has been a member of the college faculty. She has been granted leave of absence for the academic year 1932-33, and will study at Toulouse at L'Institut Normal d'Etudes Francaises de la Faculte des Lettres which leads to the Diplome our l'enseignement du Francais a l'etranger. This offers training in methodology, theory and practice history of the country and language, literature and geography.
Miss Dobbs is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Dobbs of 540 Houston St., N. W., Atlanta. Mr. Dobbs is Grand Master of Masons of Georgia.
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Atlanta, Georgia; Toulouse, France
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September 9th; Academic Year 1932 33
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Miss Irene C. Dobbs, French teacher at Spelman College, receives scholarship to study at University of Toulouse for 1932-33, sailing on S.S. Europa September 9th. Background includes graduation in 1926, summer studies at Middlebury 1929, Grenoble 1930, Chicago 1931; taught at Spelman since 1929. Daughter of J. Wesley Dobbs, Grand Master of Masons of Georgia.