Ghillie Dhu Ghillie Dhu In Scottish folklore the Ghillie Dhu or Gille Dubh () was a solitary male fairy. He was kindly and reticent yet sometimes wild in character but had a gentle devotion to children. Dark haired and clothed in leaves and moss, he lived in a birch wood within the Gairloch and Loch a Druing area of the north-west highlands of Scotland. "Ghillie" is an English equivalent of the Scottish Gaelic word ; Edward Dwelly, a Scottish lexicographer, lists "gille" as a "lad", "youth" or "boy" with "dubh" translating as "dark" or "dark-haired". According to folklorist and scholar Katharine Briggs
Gillie Larew "Randolph–Macon's most valuable alumna". The annual Gillie A. Larew Distinguished Teaching Award is the oldest of Randolph College's faculty awards. A portrait of Larew by painter Winslow Williams, commissioned in 1986 by the alumnae of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, is part of the permanent collection of the Maier Museum at Randolph College. Gillie Larew Gillie Aldah Larew (July 28, 1882 – January 2, 1977) was an American mathematician, the first alumna of Randolph–Macon Woman's College to become a full professor there, and eventually the dean of the college. Larew was the daughter of farmer and lawyer Captain I. H. Larew, and