Ghillie suit when viewed using these methods. The ghillie suit was developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind. Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by the British Army during the Second Boer War, is the first known military unit to use ghillie suits. In 1916, Lovat Scouts went on to become the British Army's first sniper unit. The term "ghillie" is derived from "gille" (), the Scottish Gaelic for "servant" or a "lad". In English, this term was especially used to refer to those assisting in deer hunting, deer stalking or fly fishing expeditions in the Scottish Highlands. The
Gillie Larew She became an adjunct professor in 1909. After completing her doctorate she became an associate professor. In 1921 was promoted to full professor, the first Randolph–Macon alumna to reach that position. She took a year leave in 1929–1930 to study in Europe with Constantin Carathéodory, and in 1936 became head of the mathematics department. In 1950 she became dean of the college, and served as dean until her retirement in 1953. She died on January 2, 1977 in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1948 the Randolph–Macon alumnae association endowed a professorship at Randolph–Macon, the Gillie A. Larew chair of mathematics, to honor