Virginia Moscrip papers

Virginia Moscrip (1897-1975) was born in Upper Alton, Illinois. She was the daughter of Lydia Bell DeLany Moscrip (1856-1953), a suffragist and Red Cross Relief worker during World War I, and Reverend Charles H. Moscrip (1848-1920), a graduate of the University of Rochester (1874) and Rochester Theological Seminary (1877). Lydia and Charles were married in Keokuk, Iowa, and by 1900, they had settled in Rochester, New York. They had seven children (Charles B. "Charlie", 1880-1910; Minerva L., 1882-1892; Lydia Bell, 1888-1892; two unknown), but Virginia and her brother, Amos D. (1884-1955), were the only children to live past the age of 30. Virginia attended East High School in Rochester, where she showed an early interest in Latin and the classics as a member of the Roman State Club and contributor to the Vox Populi newsletter. After the Moscrips relocated to Galen, New York, Virginia graduated from nearby Clyde Public School in 1915. Virginia was hired as a teacher at Savannah Public School in Savannah, New York, while attending college at the University of Rochester. She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1919 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year. She went on to earn her Master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1921 followed by her doctorate in 1928 from the University of Chicago. In 1925, Virginia Moscrip was hired by the University of Rochester as a Latin instructor. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1928, associate professor in 1935, and finally full professor in April of 1961. She belonged to American Association of University Professors, the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, and she was especially interested in Latin, Greek, and the Middle Ages.