Background
Green, Garner Leland was born on April 22, 1883 in Franklin, Vermont, United States. Son of Lucius Davis and Cora Belle (Chamberlin) Green.
Green, Garner Leland was born on April 22, 1883 in Franklin, Vermont, United States. Son of Lucius Davis and Cora Belle (Chamberlin) Green.
Bachelor of Science, University of Vermont, College of Agriculture, 1906. Honorary Doctor of Pedagogy, University of Georgia, 1928. Doctor of Education, University of Vermont, 1936.
High school, Highgate, Vermont, 1907-1908, Franklin, 1908-1909, Richford, 1909-1911. Principal Vermont State School of Agriculture, Randolph Center, Vermont, August, 1911-1920, except Young Men's Christian Association work in France, 1918. Principal The Berry Schools, Mount Berry, Georgia, 1920-1931.
President Berry College, Mount Berry, 1931-1944.
Chairman of the division of education 1944-1954. Specialty was rural organization and cooperation.
Educational buildings named in his honor at Randolph Centre, 1969, Berry College, Mount Berry. Winner Kaleidography poetry magazine quatrain prize, 1939.
Page poet American Bard poetry magazine 1950 (1st prize winner Peace and Unity poetry contest).
Member Vermont State Teachers’ Association (Vice-President and chairman 1919 convention), Civil Legion, Georgia Education Association (Vice-President 1939), Georgia Teachers Education Council (chairman division education and instructor creative writing from 1944), Poetry Society American, American Poetry League, Academy of America Poets, Poetry Society of Georgia, Bookfellows. Member Public Safety Committee. Mason.; Clubs: University (Randolph, Vermont).
Married Flora Gertrude Humphrey, July 10, 1907. Children: Gardner H., Gordon L., Randolph B., Virginia B. Teacher of science, Thetford (Vermont.