Hattie V. Feger | |
|---|---|
 Hattie V. Feger, from a 1924 publication. | |
| Born | Hattie Virginia Feger Louisiana |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Years active | 1890s-1940s |
Hattie Virginia Feger was an American educator. She was on the faculty of Clark Atlanta University in the 1930s and 1940s.
Feger was from New Orleans, Louisiana. She trained as a teacher at Straight University, [1] [2] with further coursework at Michigan State Normal College [3] and the University of Chicago. [1] She completed a bachelor's degree in 1921 and master's degree in 1924, both at the University of Cincinnati. Her master's thesis was titled "Teacher Standards in Negro Schools". [4] [5]
While at Cincinnati, she was an organizer and first president of the school's chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. [6] She was a guest of honor at an Alpha Kappa Alpha gathering in Oakland, California, in 1939. [7]
Feger was a teacher in New Orleans as a young woman. [8] [9] In 1893, she attended the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. [10] In 1894, she was a founding officer of the Colored Women's Club of New Orleans. [11] She was a member of the city's Phylis Wheatley Club. [12]
Feger was principal of the Miro Street School in New Orleans beginning in 1911. [13] When the school building was destroyed in a 1915 hurricane. She arranged for temporary classrooms in other buildings after the storm passed, and remained principal when a new school building opened in 1916. [14] She left the following school year to attend graduate school, replaced by Fannie C. Williams. [15] [16]
Feger was director of education at the West End Branch of the YWCA in Cincinnati in 1930. [17] She was active in the Atlanta branch of the NAACP in the 1930s. [18] [19] From 1931, Feger was a professor of education at Atlanta University and Spelman College. [20] [21] She served on the Atlanta University Defense Committee during World War II, [22] and retired from the school in 1944. [23]
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