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Alumni Spotlight: Hermione Clark Hill-Logan
September 6, 2011
Alumni Spotlight Focuses on Hermione Clark Hill-Logan
The Cheyney University Alumni Spotlight shines on recent honorary degree awardee Hermione Clark Hill-Logan.
Born March 16, 1911 in Manassas, Virginia, she is the second daughter of Dr. Leslie Pinckney Hill, the renowned educator, author, poet, dramatist, community leader and first president of Cheyney State University, and Jane Ethel Clark, who was a teacher at Tuskegee Institute with Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Hill-Logan is described in her father’s poem, Melrose at Christmas as “Hermione with the Heart of Gold.”
Mrs. Hill-Logan graduated from West Chester High School. She graduated from Cheyney State College in 1932 and received a master’s degree in home economics from Columbia University in 1939. She taught home economics, and worked as the school dietician at Frederick Douglass Junior High School for over 39 years.
Father Thomas W. S. Logan Sr. and Hermione Hill were married in 1938 at the St. Simon of Cyrenian Church in South Philadelphia. The couple had one son, the Reverend Thomas Logan Jr., five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The Logans reside in Yeadon, Pennsylvania and recently celebrated seventy- two years of marriage. Mrs. Logan was recently honored by the Philadelphia City Council on the occasion of her 100th birthday.
