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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSHe lias done much to direct the Southern Baptist work among the negroesand has been a member of the committee directing educational work in theSouthern mountain regions, and has written much from his experiences amongthese people. In 1916 lie became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Audcrson,South. Carolina. Doctor White is author of the "Silent Southerners/'1906; "My Old Confederates," 1908: "Prohibition, the New Task and Opportunity of the South," 1908: joint author in "The Man that Rum Made,"1912; and author of "Southern Highlanders," 1913. Doctor 'White wasuniversity preacher of the University of Chicago in 1914, 1915 and 1916. lieis a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. On October 12, 1892, he marriedMiss Erne I. Guess of Gary. North Carolina. They are the parents of threechildren, two sons and a daughter.WILLAHD EARL QUIIXIAN, M. D. A thorough knowledge of all that pertains to the prevention of disease and preservation of health has broughtpublic recognition and private esteem and consideration to Dr. Willard EarlQullian. who is president of the Atlanta Board of Health and professionallyidentified with leading medical institutions of the South.He is of notable professional ancestry and bears a name that has beensignally honored for generations in Georgia. Willard Earl Quillian was bornat Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia, September 30, 18T6, the eldest son. ofhis parents, who were Rev. William Fletcher and Lucy (Vail) Quilliau.An extended sketch, of his late father will he found elsewhere in this publication.The son of a Methodist minister, Doctor Quillian altended school in thevarious places where his father performed his ministerial labors, being successively a student at Dalton, Rome, LaGrange and Augusta. At the age ofsixteen he graduated from Richmond Academy at Augusta, and was thus wellprepared to enter Emory College, from which institution he was graduatedat the age of twenty with the degree A. B. He stood fourth in a class ofthirty-seven members. His year of graduation was 1897.In the meantime having chosen medicine as a career, he had directed hisprivate studies toward that end, and in 1897-98 and 1898-99 took his first andsecond courses of medical lectures in the College of Physicians and Surgeonsat St. Louis, Missouri. His third year course was taken in the Atlanta Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons, in 1899 and 1900. in April of the last namedyear he graduated and received his medical degree. It. is indicative of hisdetermination to become thoroughly qualified for his important professionthat he at once entered upon post-graduate work in Johns Hopkins MedicalCollege Hospital at Baltimore, where he spent the summer of 1900.Doctor Quillian then accepted a position as interne in St. Joseph's Hospitalat Savannah, Georgia, where he spent two years. During that lime at intervalshe was also Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Public Health andMarine Hospital service. In the fall of 1902 he was employed in specialpost-graduate work in different hospitals in the City of New York, welcominghis opportunities in these clinics and performing very creditable work in theNew York Lying-in Hospital. Doctor Quillian gives special attention tosurgery, diseases of women, and obstetrics, finding' in these fields a greatneed for his training and scientific attainments.In 1903 Doctor Quilliau came to Atlanta and has built up a very largeand profitable practice. He has been and still is connected with many of thecity's medical institutions and scientific bodies. For eight years he was amember of the faculty of the Atlanta School of Medicine, from the date ofits organization until 1914, when it was merged with the Atlanta, College ofPhysicians and Surgeons, the two uniting to form the present Atlanta Medical College. Since the date of its organisation he has been on the medicalstaff of the Wesley Memorial Hospital of Atlanta and was also identified