George Petrie, father of Auburn football. And PowerPoint. And putting the fear of God in small children.
From a Dec. 1896 issue of the Opelika Post:
Last Friday evening in the college chapel Dr. George Petrie lectured on Dante to a very large and attentive audience. The lecture was exceedingly instructive and entertaining, the lecturer giving not only an account of Dante’s life and character, but also a vivid picture of the time in which he lived. The lecture was illustrated with a number of stereopticon views taken from Dore’s famous illustrations of “Divine Comedy.” Most of these were terrible in there realism, particularly those depicting the “Inferno.