Background
Robey, Margaret Durham was born on April 14, 1898 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Robert Lee and Mary Willie (Craton) Durham.
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Margaret Durham Robey
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AB cum laude, Duke U., 1917; Master of Education, University of Virginia, 1952; Master of Education, Mary Washington College.
Career
Instructor French and English literature, Martha Washington College and Southern Seminary president, Southern Seminary Junior College, Buena Vista, Virginia. Junior college representative committee women in college and defense National Committee on Edition and Defense. Speaker on international relations and world organization at educational meetings in east and south.
Achievements
Membership
Local chairman American Red Cross, Children's Home Society. State chairman international relations Virginia Federation Women's Clubs, 1936, 69, 40, state chairman scrapbooks, 1944-1947;chairman 7th congressional district Virginia, Women's Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace. President Rockbridge History Society, 1948-1951.
Member Southern Association Junior Colls. (Executive Board from 1964), International Platform Association, Marathons (state chairman), National Committee on Cause and Cure War, American Association of University Women (state chairman international relations 1939-1940), Administrative Women in Education (Virginia county), National Council Women United States, Association Virginia Colls. (vice president 1958-1959), American Association Junior Colls.
(chairman women's division 1944-1945, member of commission on administration 1960-1963), American Academy Political and Social Science, Daughters of the American Revolution, E-Ko-L, Kappa Delta.
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Connections
Married Harry Russell Robey, September 12, 1922.
