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Megan Dowd Lambert, 1996, children's book author; Tosca Lee, 1992, best-selling author of Demon: A Memoir and Havah: The Story of Eve; Madeleine L'Engle, 1941, Newbery Medal Honor-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1928, author of Gift from the Sea, pioneering aviator, spouse of Charles Lindbergh
Helen Chadwick Thayer (née Rand; October 3, 1863 – April 14, 1935) was an American suffragist and social reformer.A pioneer in the settlement movement era, she was a co-founder and president of the College Settlements Association (CSA).
The Smith College Relief Unit (SCRU) was a group of Smith College alumnae who aided in humanitarian relief work in France during and after the First World War.Funded by the Smith College Alumnae Association, the SCRU worked throughout the war serving under both the American Fund for French Wounded (AFFW) and later under the American Red Cross.
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
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Smith created its first Rare Book Room in the 1937 addition to Neilson Library, under the direction of Smith librarian Mary E. Dunham. [2]It was renamed the Mortimer Rare Book Room in 1994 in honor of curator and teacher Ruth Mortimer, who herself graduated from Smith, [3] and served as the collection's steward from 1975 until her death in 1994. [2]
Hobart and William Smith Colleges is a private liberal arts college in Geneva, New York. It was known as Geneva Academy from 1784 to 1822 and Geneva College from 1822 to 1852. Geneva Medical College was a department of the college from 1834 to 1871. Following are some of its notable alumni.
Athletes, coaches inducted in E.E. Smith High School Sports Hall of Fame