Jill Tietjen, co-author of Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, appeared on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Biscuits to Biscuits sharing information about the founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon Low.
Women contribute in every field of endeavor – including as architects. Their contributions have been recognized for more than 100 years in this profession.
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Women’s contributions to education which include everything from endowing the schools to running them have occurred at every level from pre-school through graduate school. In this month’s ENewsletter we profile two women who served as college presidents, where they improved higher education with their groundbreaking accomplishments.
The second president of Bryn Mawr College, M. Carey Thomas,was raised in a Quaker family and overcame her father’s objections to attend college. She graduated from Cornell University in 1877 and then pursued graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Leipzig.
