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Wesleyan College is a private, liberal arts women's college in Macon, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1836, Wesleyan was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. Founded in 1836, Wesleyan was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women.
This category includes alumni of Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, United States. Pages in category "Wesleyan College alumni" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Ruth Austin Knox (born June 18, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia) [1] was the president of Wesleyan College, located in Macon, Georgia. She was installed as Wesleyan's twenty-fourth president in 2003 and served until mid-2017. A 1975 graduate (as a Golden Heart), she is Wesleyan's first alumna president and its second woman president.
Alpha Delta Pi (ΑΔΠ), commonly known as ADPi (pronounced "ay-dee-pye"), is an International Panhellenic sorority founded on May 15, 1851, at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. It is the oldest secret society for women. [1] Alpha Delta Pi is a member of the National Panhellenic Conference. [2]
Randolph College, Lynchburg (co-ed since 2007; Randolph-Macon Woman's College 1891–2007) Roanoke Women's College , founded in 1912, merged with Elizabeth College in 1915. Elizabeth College burned under suspicious circumstances in 1921 and officially closed in 1922.
The fraternity was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852, and was announced publicly on March 4 of the same year. Phi Mu is one of the two "Macon Magnolias," a term used to celebrate the bonds it shares with Alpha Delta Pi as sororities founded on that same campus. [1] [2] [3]
William North Rice (1865) – three-time acting president, Wesleyan University (1907, 1908–09, 1918); geologist, earned first PhD. in geology granted by Yale University; B. T. Roberts – founder, predecessor of Roberts Wesleyan College (named in his honor)
De Graffenried attended Macon's Wesleyan College, then known as Wesleyan Female College, graduating with honors in 1865, the same year Union troops took control of Macon. As the school's valedictorian, de Graffenried went off-script in her graduation speech, criticizing the troops led by James H. Wilson who were camped in the city. Wilson ...