Dyer, Thomas G.

"In 1857, Amelia "Jennie" Akehurst moved from New York to Georgia seeking better opportunities in her chosen profession of teaching. What followed was an odyssey that took her to numerous Georgia towns as she searched unsuccessfully for a position offering sufficient remuneration along with satisfactory living and working conditions. Jennie's diaries and letters chronicle these moves, portraying a teacher's life in a wide variety of educational and geographical settings. Also described is Jennie's courtship and eventual marriage to Connecticut- born printer Sylvanus DeForrest Lines, the births of their three children, and the loss of two, Lillie and Herbert, to childhood illnesses." -- [Review of To Raise Myself a Little: the Diaries and Letters of Jennie, a Georgia Teacher, 1851-1886.] Herman, Debra. American Journal of Education, Vol. 91, No. 2 (Feb., 1983), pp. 262-265.

"Thomas G. Dyer is University Professor Emeritus and Vice President for Instruction Emeritus. Over his 31 years at the University of Georgia, Professor Dyer has distinguished himself as a consummate and nationally recognized scholar of both history and higher education. His primary interests are in the history of American higher education and southern history...A former editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly (1982-89), Dyer also served as chairman of the editorial board of The New Georgia Guide (University of Georgia Press, 1996), was a senior consultant for the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and served three terms as chairman of the editorial board of the University of Georgia Press. He has also been a member of the editorial board of the Review of Higher Education. Dyer was on the board of the U.S. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education and was a member of the University Council of Jamaica. In 1996, he was an exchange professor at the University of Heidelberg." -- "Thomas G. Dyer." IHE Faculty. http://www.uga.edu/ihe/dyer.html (Retrieved Novemger 23, 2009)