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Spelman is a member of the Coalition of Women's Colleges, National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, The College Fund/UNCF, National Association for College Admissions Counseling, and State of Georgia Professional Standards ...
Public speaker and educator who taught at Spelman College, eldest and last living sibling of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor Ison Franklin: 1948 Medical physiologist and endocrinologist Tia Fuller: 1998 Saxophonist, composer, and educator Nora A. Gordon: 1888 Began the tradition of Spelman missionary work to Africa [4] Beverly Guy ...
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She was selected from a pool of applicants to go as a missionary to Africa, [1] and began the tradition of Spelman missionary work, [3] as the first graduate to go to Africa. [4] Though she had been offered a job as a school teacher in Atlanta , Gordon chose to accept the missionary assignment of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society ...
A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, which the women’s school says is the largest-ever single donation to a historically Black college or university.
Harriet Elizabeth "Hattie" Giles (1828 – November 12, 1909) was an American educator, cofounder in Atlanta, Georgia, of a school for African American women that would eventually become Spelman College. [1]
Howard was the second Spelman graduate to go to the Congo, after her classmate Nora A. Gordon, who arrived in Lukunga in 1889. [5] The pair taught school, ran an orphanage, and even operated a printing office. "You can not imagine how glad we are to be together here," she wrote home to their friends in 1891. [8]
Helene Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York, to Jacob Astor Gayle, [1] a small-business owner, and Marietta Spiller Dabney Gayle, [1] a social worker. She attended Court Street Elementary School and Lancaster Middle School in Lancaster, New York, and in Buffalo, graduated with honors from Woodlawn Junior High School and Bennett High School (Class of 1972). [1]