Ghillie Dhu the Ghillie Dhu was a gentle and kind-hearted mountain spirit, or a "rather unusual nature fairy." The Ghillie Dhu was an individual male modern day fairy described by Osgood Mackenzie, a Scottish landowner and horticulturist, in his memoirs that were published in 1921. The fairy was generally timid, yet he could also be "wild". Residing in the birch woods near Loch a Druing, in the north-west Highland area of Gairloch, he was mainly seen in the latter part of the 18th century. The woods are in a dip alongside a hilly area around from where Rua Reidh Lighthouse was later
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