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The Shipley School is an independent pre-K–12 college preparatory school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 10 miles west-northwest of Philadelphia. History [ edit ]
Shipley appears to have first been settled in the late Bronze Age [5] and is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the form Scipelei(a). [3]Its early history relies on the records of a succession of Lords of the Manor, not all of whom were in permanent residence.
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[10] [11] [12] She became headmistress of the Shipley School, a nonsectarian girls' boarding school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, [13] in 1944. During her tenure, the school began enrolling African-American and Jewish students. [14] She retired in 1965. [15] In 1979 she traveled to Yenching University with a group of American students. [6]
In 1966, Elvin Ivory, Leslie Scott, and Marv Winkler enrolled at Southwestern Louisiana as the first three black basketball players recruited by Shipley. [1] However, before the 1966–67 season began, Stan Galloway, the athletic commissioner of the Louisiana State Board of Education, requested to both Shipley and Southwestern Louisiana President Clyde Rougeou that they cut the three players ...
Their daughter Margaret Bailey Speer (1900–1997) was dean of Yenching Women's College in China in the 1930s, and headmistress of the Shipley School from 1944 to 1965. [ 4 ] He died on 3 November 1947, in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania .
Nevada Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Nevada, Iowa. It operates an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school. The district is entirely in Story County, and serves Nevada and the surrounding rural area. A very small section of the Ames city limits is in the district. [3]
Coolham is a small village in the civil parish of Shipley and the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is at the crossroads of the A272 and B2139 roads 2.8 miles (4.6 km) south-east of Billingshurst. During the Second World War there was an Advanced Landing Ground nearby called RAF Coolham, used to support the D-Day landings.