LAURA D. WORTH, 1869-1945 Bv Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert LAURA D. WORTH, whose death occurred at her home at ' Guilford College, North Carolina, on January 16, 1945, did a great work for North Carolina Yearly Meeting as Chairman of the Committee on Preservation of Records, and as Custodian. She was educated at New Garden Boarding School and Guilford College, graduating in 1892. After two years at Boston School of Gymnastics, she returned to Guilford in 1895 as the first director of women's physical education. In 1898-99 she attended Woman's Medical College in Baltimore and later entered nurse's training in Charlotte, North Carolina. From 1905 until 1928 she engaged in nursing, spending the years 1926-28 at Guilford College as nurse and matron. After 1928 Laura Worth devoted much of her time to genealogical work and to the collecting and the repairing of minutes and records of North Carolina Yearly Meeting. As William Wade Hinshaw undertook the collection and publication of Quaker records, she entered upon the work of gathering data for the North Carolina volume. This occupation was precisely to her taste, and she spent nearly three years in detailed research and careful transcription. In the preface to Volume I of the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, William Wade Hinshaw said of her: "Miss Worth is known to Friends everywhere as a woman of great intelligence, charming personality and exceptional ability as a genealogist. She knows more about Quaker genealogy in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia than any other living person." Laura D. Worth knew Guilford and North Carolina Yearly Meeting as most people know their own famdies, and through her knowledge had a clear understanding of the relation of each of the prominent families to the life of the college, and the relation of each monthly meeting to the whole Yearly Meeting, in time and in importance. Her interest in the College and in the Meeting never failed. 35Vol. 34, Spring 1945 ...