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Alumni (sg.: alumnus (MASC) or alumna (FEM)) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums ( sg. : alum ) or alumns ( sg. : alumn ) as gender-neutral alternatives.
Diane Arbus (/ d iː ˈ æ n ˈ ɑːr b ə s /; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971 [2]) was an American photographer. [3] [4] She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. [5]
The secret, ritualistic meaning of the Coat of Arms is revealed to each member during her Initiation. [1] The Banner was introduced at the 1910 National Convention and was made by Bertha Cruse Gardner as a commission from the National President. [22] The turquoise and gray satin banner bears the letter "A", the Greek word "Themis" and a burning ...
Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States. This list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors (commonly referred to as AKAs [1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.
Martha Priscilla Shaw, non-degreed, mayor of Sumter, South Carolina (1952–1956), first female mayor in South Carolina [14] Marjorie R. Turnbull, ...
Ohio Wesleyan Female College alumni (7 P) Q. Queen Mary College, Lahore alumni (8 P) R. Radcliffe College alumni (819 P) S.
Benazir Bhutto, graduate of Radcliffe College; first woman elected to lead a Muslim state; Pakistan's first (and to date only) female prime minister, serving twice, 1988–1990 and 1993–1996 Elaine Chao , 1975 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Transportation ; first Asian American woman to be appointed to ...
The consortium was founded in 1915 when Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken called Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Mount Holyoke together “to deliver women opportunities for higher education that would improve the quality of life for the human family and that would put them on an equal footing with men in a democracy that was about to offer them the vote.” [3] The success of this Four ...