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 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