It was originally built as a women's residence hall and remained so until 1980 when it became co-ed. Named after Dr. Elizabeth Peet who practically grew up in the Deaf Community. Her mother was deaf and her father was an educator of the Deaf. Her grandfather and father were successive principals of the New York School for the Deaf. After passing the Harvard entrance examinations, she stayed with her father until his death in 1889 and her mother passed on in 1891.
Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885, to a wealthy businessman, and the President of the Burlington County Trust Company in New Jersey. As a Quaker, Paul’s family believed in gender equality, education for women, and working for the betterment of the society. Her mother, Tacie Paul, often took her to suffrage meetings, teaching her about the simple life of other women around the country. Tacie was a member of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association. When Paul was asked by an Interviewer, why she dedicated her whole life to women’s equality, she credited her farm upbringing, and the teachings of her mother (“Alice Paul: Feminist, Suffragist,” par.
Her mom always knew her way around a good deal and therefore she hustled to put them in private school. She also traded cleaning services for a neighborhood doctor to make sure her kids had good healthcare. Ursula adds that her mother was her biggest influence for joining Xerox. Her mother Olga was pragmatic, focused and extremely practical, but was the ultimate self determining person. In 1980, Burns first worked for Xerox as a summer intern.
Her parents were Sidney and Rebecca Fishman. When Elizabeth Loftus was 14 years old, her mother drowned. At first she was planning to become a math teacher, then she discovered psychology at UCLA where she received her BA in 1966 in math and psychology. In 1968, she married a man named Geoffrey Loftus and also applied to graduate school at Stanford. While attending Stanford, she became interested in long term memory.
A woman once said "Educate a boy, you educate a man, but educate a girl and you educate a family" (Face To Face: We Founded, n.d. pg.1). This woman was Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, born on February 27, 1857, who was an incredible woman with the qualities of a leader and inspiring other women with her speeches (Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, n.d. pg.1). She changed many women's lives as she made education beyond grade 8 possible for women and girls as well as helping women reach equality with men. It all started when Adelaide went to Ladies College and met John Hoodless whom she married and later had 4 children (Who Is Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, n.d. pg.1). Then, tragedy struck in the family.
Rita Dove Rita Dove was born in 1952. Her family seems to be smart! Her father was the first black research chemist at Good Year tires in the 1950’s. Rita’s mother achieved honors in high school, and had a great passion for reading. Rita followed in her parents’ food steps when she attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as a National Achievement Scholar.
Her father taught a class at the University called “The BLACK experience in America.” Condoleezza childhood plans changed when she talked to the father of former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. She got very interested into the Soviet union and international relation. When Rice turned 19 she got her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She got her master's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and years later she began to work in the State Department. At the age of 26 she received her Ph.
Arlene Dunn Arlene Dunn was a white woman from Boston who first hand experienced working in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. The event that got her started in getting involved with the civil rights movement was the Little Rock Nine movement. She was a sophomore in high school when this happened and it made her want to help. After this she started doing sit-ins at Brandeis University. After she graduated she was active with the SNCC where she did fundraisers to support organizations and campaigns.
In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. The author’s background plays a vital role in delving into the author’s work in any attempt to come up with meaningful explorations and interpretations. Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California. Since her father Laurice, a shoe shiner, died when she was a baby, Butler was raised by her grandmother and her mother (Octavia M. Butler) who worked as a maid in order to support the family. Butler grew up in a struggling, racially mixed neighborhood.
After living with her grandmother for several years, she Attended a finishing school in London, England at Allenswood Academy, where Eleanor was greatly influenced by Marie Souvestre, the headmistress. Souvestre was known for her teachings in women’s equality. In 1902, Roosevelt was forced to come home by her family. That year she would met Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They eventually fell in love, and despite Franklin’s mom disagreeing, the couple got married in