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Hortense Parker Gilliam, born Hortense Parker (1859–1938), was the first known African-American graduate of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, in 1883.She taught music and piano at elementary school in Kansas City, Missouri from 1906 to 1913.
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker (December 12, 1851 – May 13, 1929) was an American botanist and professor at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College).She was the second female doctoral graduate in botany at Syracuse University, [1] which made her one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in botany from any U.S. university.
Hortense Parker, 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist, John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College; Alice Bradford Wiles, 1873 - Chicago clubwoman; Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 1915 - the inspiration for Wonder Woman [3] Ruth Muskrat Bronson, 1925 - poet, educator, Indian rights activist
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A graduate of Mount Holyoke College in 1966, Davenport made documentary films in New York and Maine before becoming a lecturer at M.I.T's Film Section directed by cinema verite pioneer Richard Leacock in 1977.
Her inspirational words in the essay, has earned her a $277,720 scholarship over four years to Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. According to the school's website , the ...
Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. [15] Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she was assistant principal at Ipswich Female Seminary in Massachusetts. By 1837 she had convinced multiple sponsors to support her ideals and the nation's first real college for women.
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