Description
Nellie Sue Fleming, from High Point, North
Carolina, attended Elon College as a student in the Preparatory
Department during the 1907-1908 academic year. During the 1908-1909
academic year, she is listed in the Bulletin of Elon College as an
undergraduate student. She graduated with the class of 1913.
According to the 1913 Phi Psi Cli yearbook, she was involved with
the following during her time at Elon: member of the Psiphelian
Literary Society, Collector at Christian Endeavor (1910), Marshal at
Psiphelian Entertainment (1910), Class President (1911), Society
Representative (1911), Corresponding Secretary of the Class (1911),
Treasurer of the Y.W.C.A. (1912), Society Representative (1912),
Vice-President of the Christian Endeavor Society (1913), Basketball
Manager (1913), President of the Expression Class (1913),
Certificate in Expression (1913), Class Historian (1913), and
Marshal at the Junior-Senior Debate (1912). The scrapbook contains
materials from 1913 and 1914. The majority of the items in the
scrapbook are newspaper clippings documenting the commencement
exercises at Elon College in 1913. At that time, the largest number
of students graduated from Elon (52 graduates). During the
commencement program, Nellie Sue Fleming read the senior class
history that she composed. A typescript copy of this essay can be
found on page 53. The scrapbook also houses Elon College
commencement programs, Literary Society programs and invitations,
and programs from the Expression class recitals. The last pages of
the scrapbook contain photographs of the following members from the
Elon class of 1913: Alonzo Lohr Hook, Virgie Estelle Beal, Janie Lee
Beale, Viola Frazier, Alonzo Tomlinson Banks, Pearle Fogleman,
Lillian Pearl Tuck, Walton Staley Wicker, and Charles Titus Rand.
There are a few non-Elon related items in the scrapbook which
include a 1913 High Point High School commencement program and
invitation, as well as a 1914 Liberty High School commencement
program and postcard with a picture of the high school on the front.
Nellie Sue Fleming was the daughter of Dr. P.H. Fleming (class of
1905) and Mrs. Ella Sipe Fleming of Burlington, North Carolina.
After she graduated from Elon, she taught in the Burlington public
school system for a number of years. In addition to teaching, she
was very active with the First Christian Church in Burlington (where
her father served as pastor for a number of years), civic and
community affairs. She passed away on August 31, 1968, following
several years of illness.