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Virginia Stauffer Ogilvy

Virginia Stauffer Ogilvy

  • Class Year:
    1936
  • Induction Year:
    1996
  • Sport(s):
    Basketball, Tennis and Field Hockey

Virginia Stauffer Ogilvy '36 graduated from BW in 1936 and was inducted into the Alumni Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1996.

Ogilvy was invloved on the Baldwin-Wallace campus in sports, and also in academic and social societies. She continued her education, earning her master's degree from the University of Nebraska in 1938.

During her undergraduate years she was a member of the women's basketball and tennis teams, as well as the women's field hockey team. She served as vice president of the Gamma Sigma sorority, president of the Education Club, junior class secretary, and treasurer of the Women's Athletic Association. Ogilvy was a member of two home economics honoraries, Sigma Delta Epsilson for graduate women in science and was the state president of the American Home Economics Association.

She taught high school home economics for 33 years, and worked for the Department of Agriculture from 1975-1978. She worked part-time for the Hillwood Museum and the Kennedy Center since 1977 and was a volunteer at the White House. She received the Baldwin-Wallace College Alumni Merit Award in 1972.

Ogilvy resided in Washington D.C. with her husband Lester '37. The couple had two children.