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Began the tradition of Spelman missionary work to Africa [4] Beverly Guy-Sheftall: 1966 Author, feminist scholar, founder of Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College Evelynn M. Hammonds: 1976 Dean of Harvard College, Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University: Marcelite J ...
Spelman's notable alumnae include the first African-American CEO of Sam's Club and Walgreens Rosalind Brewer, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, former Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, activist and Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, college ...
Beverly Daniel Tatum, 2002–2015, Spelman College Denise Trauth , 2002–2022, [ 36 ] Texas State University Nancy Cantor , 2004–2013, Syracuse University ; 2014–present, Rutgers University [ 37 ] [ 38 ]
St. Mary's Female Seminary Junior College, St. Mary's County, in St. Mary's City (converted legally to coeducational in 1949, but in reality was still mostly female, then mostly a women's college); name changed in 1949 to St. Mary's Seminary (dropping the word "female" from the name - not to be confused with a similarly named Roman Catholic ...
Johnnetta Betsch Cole (born October 19, 1936) is an American anthropologist, educator, museum director, and college president. Cole was the first female African-American president of Spelman College, a historically black college, serving from 1987 to 1997. She was president of Bennett College from 2002 to 2007.
Alice Walker, attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College; Pulitzer Prize–winning author; Barbara Walters, graduate of Sarah Lawrence College; journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine , and on World News (then ABC Evening News)
A photo of Spelman College signs Four Milwaukee teenagers are celebrating after getting into the college of their dreams despite the prestigious school only having a 25% acceptance rate.
The college closed in 1881. From 1898 to 1904 the building was the Worcester Domestic Science Cooking School and was finally closed in 1934. [1] The institute lent its name to Mount Oread, a hill in Lawrence, Kansas, upon which the main campus of the University of Kansas is currently situated.