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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.
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
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.
Pitts graduated from Mount Holyoke College (then called the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in 1859. After her graduation, she returned to her parents' home in Honeoye. [3] After the American Civil War, she taught at the Hampton Institute, a school that educated black men and women. While teaching at the institution, she caused local controversy ...
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 ...
In 1837, Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (Mount Holyoke College). [16] Mount Holyoke received its collegiate charter in 1888 and became Mount Holyoke Seminary and College. It became Mount Holyoke College in 1893. Vassar, however, was the first of the Seven Sisters to be chartered as a college in 1861.
[7] [2] She attended high school at the Williams Memorial Institute, before enrolling at Mount Holyoke College. [6] There, she was an active participant in a number of student government organizations. [6] An entry for Allyn in the 1905 Mount Holyoke yearbook reads: To grind Harriett is to "pursue things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme".
The protagonist, Frances "Baby" Houseman (named after Mount Holyoke graduate Frances Perkins), plans to attend Mount Holyoke in the fall to study the economics of underdeveloped countries and then later to enter the Peace Corps. The film is screened annually for first-year students. [117] National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), which is set in ...