Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
3-15-2024
Abstract
As we recognize Women’s History Month this March, we’re remembering some of the notable women in Ouachita’s history. Estelle McMillan Blake was an original faculty member of Ouachita Baptist College when its doors opened in 1886. Blake taught English at Ouachita for 53 years. Because of her support of the school’s library, the former Blake Library on campus was named for her in the 1930s. The Arkansas Baptist paper once noted about this beloved faculty member, “every student that has known her has created in his heart an undying love for this great Christian character and teacher.” The following is an excerpt from “Ouachita in the Roaring Twenties,” written by Blake’s nephew-in-law, Donald Tatman.
No history of Ouachita would be complete without a chapter about Estelle McMillan Blake, an extraordinary, talented, lovable lady. For over fifty years she taught at Ouachita and much of what Ouachita is today is due to her strength of character and ability to teach; but more important are the thousands of young people, now old, whose lives have been literally changed and inspired because of her.
Recommended Citation
Tatman, Donald, "Estelle McMillan Blake ("Auntie" Blake)" (2024). Press Releases. 1374.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/press_releases/1374
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