ance societies, and hundreds have taken the pledge. She is at present president of the Virginia Teachers' Temperance Union.
In 1890 she was elected lady principal of the Virginia Norrnal and Collegiate Institute, which position she now holds. Says Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Principal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute:
Mrs. Delia Irving Hayden was at Hampton school four years and made a most excellent record. We all here, teachers and friends, expected a great deal of her, and have not been disappointed. She married a noble young man, Mr. Liudsey Hayden, who soon died—a great loss. Since her bereavement Mrs. Hayden has devoted herself nobly to her people. We hope she may be spared many years. She is among the famous women of her race.
Says Miss Maggie I. Stevens:
Mrs. Delia Irving Hayden well deserves the name woman. I was a pupil in school under her thirteen years ago. It was through her I gained admission into the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. It is to her (through the help of God) I owe my success in literary attainment. She has no peer as a quick thinker and an earnest worker.
James H. Johnston, A. M., President of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, says:
Since Mrs. Hayden's election as lady-principal of this institution she has exhibited unusual tact and ability in the performance of her duty, thereby gaining the love and esteem of the students and commendation of the Board of Visitors. As a temperance worker she has been exceedingly active, and has succeeded in getting hundreds of our students and teachers of the annual summer session to sign the pledge. * * * She does not fail to use her pen and power of speech, which she possesses in no ordinary degree, to advance the Master's kingdom.
Dr. J. F. Bryant, County Superintendent of Southampton county, in speaking of her qualifications as a teacher, said:
