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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.
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. It opened in 1839, two years after the opening of Mount Holyoke College. [2]
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. Before becoming ...
Wesleyan College alumni (36 P) Pages in category "Wesleyan College" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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)
Viola Felton Ross was born in Macon, Georgia on February 14, 1881. Her grandfather from her mother's side was one of the city's founders. After graduating in 1901 from Wesleyan College, [2] she became a schoolteacher. During her teaching career she met and married a lawyer, Hendley Napier Jr., in 1907.
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]
The first professional position held by Glenn on a collegiate level was as president of Columbus Female College, which he began in 1875. He remained in this position until a fire destroyed much of the college's campus in 1884. In the same year, Glenn became a professor of physics at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. He served at Wesleyan ...