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His wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller; [2] her sister, Lucy Spelman; and their parents, Harvey Buel and Lucy Henry Spelman also supported the school. The Spelmans were longtime activists in the abolitionist movement. In 1884 the name of the school was changed to the Spelman Seminary in honor of Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents ...
In September 1958, 300 students began their school careers as students at Cardinal Spellman with Sister M. Vera, CSJ as the founding Principal and a faculty of ten Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston. Many Sisters worked at Cardinal Spellman over the years. There are no longer any Sisters of Saint Joseph currently working at Spellman.
The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUC Consortium) is a collaboration between four historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in southwest Atlanta, Georgia: Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and the Morehouse School of Medicine.
A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, which the women’s school says is the largest-ever single donation to a historically Black college or university.
Angelina Jolie is a proud Spelman parent! The actress moved her 17-year-old daughter, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, into her dorm room at The post ‘I’m going to start crying,’ Angelina Jolie says as ...
Public speaker and educator who taught at Spelman College, eldest and last living sibling of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor Ison Franklin: 1948 Medical physiologist and endocrinologist Tia Fuller: 1998 Saxophonist, composer, and educator Nora A. Gordon: 1888 Began the tradition of Spelman missionary work to Africa [4] Beverly Guy ...
She continued in that post and as president of the school until her death, at which time Spelman Seminary had 464 students and a faculty of 34. Spelman Seminary became Spelman College in 1924, and in 1929 it became affiliated, along with Morehouse College, with Atlanta University. Sophia B. Packard died in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 1891.
Helene Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York, to Jacob Astor Gayle, [1] a small-business owner, and Marietta Spiller Dabney Gayle, [1] a social worker. She attended Court Street Elementary School and Lancaster Middle School in Lancaster, New York, and in Buffalo, graduated with honors from Woodlawn Junior High School and Bennett High School (Class of 1972). [1]