Frances Cuthbertson Vick
(1917-2002)
Professor Emeritus,
Wingate University
Frances C. Vick was born on March 22, 1917 to Zeb Cuthbertson and Helen
Williams Cuthbertson in Union County, North Carolina.
In 1934, she graduated Valedictorian from Wingate High School. She then enrolled
in the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and French, graduating in 1938.
She taught high school at Harmony and Oakboro, North Carolina from 1938 to
1940. In 1940, she accepted a position as Professor of English and Dean of
Women at Gardner-Webb College in Boiling Springs, North Carolina where she
remained for nine years. Despite a busy schedule, which included Sponsor of
the Student Government Association, Director of May Day, Director of Drama,
and Editor of the college catalogue, she pursued graduate studies in English
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1947 she completed
an exemplary thesis, The Relationship of Heredity to Action in Edmund
Spenser's Faerie Queene.
She left Gardner-Webb College in 1949 to marry Air Force Captain Giles Wesley
Vick, Junior. Two sons were born to the couple, and when they were of school
age, Mrs. Vick resumed her college teaching at Centenary College in Shreveport,
Louisiana. For five years, she was a valued member of their faculty and also
served as editor of the college catalogue.
In 1961, Frances returned to Union County to teach at Wingate College and
became the chair of the English Department. She also had many other duties,
which included editing the college catalogue, directing May Day and commencement.
Mrs. Vick completed her active teaching career in 1982 and continued to be
highly engaged in the community. She played a major role in planning the Union
County sesquicentennial celebration in 1992 and held leadership positions
in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American
Colonists. Mrs. Vick was the founding president of the American Association
of University Women at Wingate and was an involved member of Delta Kappa Gamma
as a past chapter president. She served on the official board and was a trustee
of Central United Methodist Church in Monroe. Mrs. Vick was a lifelong member
of the Rock Rest Home Demonstration Club and was instrumental in achieving
state recognition of the Rock Rest Clubhouse.
During her retirement, she wrote two books: The Cuthbertson Families of
Mecklenburg and Union Counties of North Carolina, which was recognized
by the North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc. in 1995 and Rock
Rest: More than a Century 1876-2001.
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