Blondie (comic strip) was adapted into a long-running series of 28 low-budget theatrical B-features, produced by Columbia Pictures. Beginning with "Blondie" in 1938, the series lasted 12 years, through "Beware of Blondie" (1950). The two major roles were Penny Singleton as Blondie and Arthur Lake (whose first starring role was another comic strip character, Harold Teen) as Dagwood. Faithfulness to the comic strip was a major concern of the creators of the series. Little touches were added that were iconic to the strip, like the appearance of Dagwood's famous sandwiches—and the running gag of Dagwood colliding with the mailman amid a flurry of
Horace Bumstead Asa Ware. Bumstead started his work at the school as a professor of natural science. After the sudden death of Ware in 1885, the University had a couple professors including Bumstead who acted as interim president until in 1888. Thereafter, Bumstead was named the second president of the university in 1888. After being granted this position, Bumstead began his fight for equal rights for African American education. Horace Bumstead Horace Bumstead ( September 1841- January 1919) was a Congregationalist minister and educator. He used his career to fight for African American education and became the second president of Atlanta University