Miss Babb taught Latin for many years in the language department. She was my favorite teacher and lived just a few blocks from the campus. She’d always have us over and have refreshments, and we’d talk for hours. Do you know whatever happened to her?

Shirley Giles Pettingill (’73, ’79 M.Ed.)
Manitou Springs, Colo.

Editor’s note: After teaching at North Texas for almost 50 years, Dorothy Babb (’26) was granted Professor Emeritus status in 1974. She passed away in 1981 after a lengthy illness. Her obituary mentions her nationwide fame as the founder in 1950 of “Old Maid’s Day” in Denton. The annual festivities, which included a tea sponsored by the Denton Record-Chronicle, lunch at the country club and free movies and shampoos, hit the news wires in 1954. She said letters addressed to “The Old Maids’ Friend in Denton” found their way to her and she stopped counting the number of marriage proposals she had received since the first celebration.