After passing the Harvard entrance examinations, she stayed with her father until his death in 1889 and her mother passed on in 1891. She came to Gallaudet in 1900 to teach at Kendall School and the college. Dr. Peet received her Bachelor's from George Washington University in 1918. She received three honorary degrees: Masters' from Gallaudet in 1923, Doctor of Pedagogy from the George Washington University in 1937, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Gallaudet in 1950. She also received a special certificate from the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Raised by his single mother, Rud developed a very close relationship with his brilliant sister, Fanny Hayes, who encouraged him to achieve the prominent career denied to her because she was a woman. With the help of his wealthy uncle, Sardis Birchard, Hayes went to Harvard Law School and then made a name for himself as a successful criminal defense lawyer in Cincinnati. There he married Lucy Ware Webb. Lucy advocated temperance and abolition, and was a strong Methodist who placed more emphasis on good works than on being "born again." Without nagging, she influenced her husband.
Much of Barton’s education was provided by her older brothers and sisters, and while still a teenager she started to teach in Massachusetts. In 1850, she took a break to attend the Liberal Institute of Clinton, New York, an advanced school for women educators. She resumed her teaching career in New Jersey where, in 1852, she founded one of that state’s first public schools in Bordentown. She started this school with six students, and by the close of the year there were 600 attending.
Apgar was born in Westfield, New Jersey, on June 7, 1909, She was the youngest of the three children Her early interest in science and medicine may have resulted from witnessing her eldest brother passing due to tuberculosis as well as her other brother’s struggle with chronic childhood ilnesss. She graduated from Westfield High School in 1925 and entered Mount Holyoke College the same year. There she majored in zoology and supported herself with a number of part-time jobs. Apgar received her AB from Mount Holyoke in 1929 and began her medical training at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (P & S) Most notable is the fact that she is one of only nine women in a class of ninety. she graduated fourth in her
It was the first school devoted entirely to the medical education of women and to upgrading that education, unlike school in her time, where it only took 3 years of private study with a practicing physician and 32 weeks of pass/fail college study before you obtained a medical degree. It later became one of the first medical schools in America to mandate four years of study. In additional to her private practice and efforts for women's rights, Blackwell took up the fight against venereal disease, or more specifically, the fight to repeal the Contagious Disease
John Phillips (partner at McClur’s) convinced Ida to write an outline to show to McClure. McClure accepted the Ida’s idea. After many years of researching, Ida Tarbell had a detailed analysis of Standard Oil’s monopolies; which appeared in McClure's Magazine, beginning in November of 1902. Later to be published as a two-volume book in 1904. To Ida’s dismay, she was labeled a "muckraker" by President Theodore Roosevelt.
These three elements set the foundation for a sustainable culture.” Honesty is what brings Leaders together, but it’s the distance they are willing to go that sets them apart. IV. Martha Stwart A. Martha Stewart, was born Martha Kostyra on August 3, 1941 (age 72), in Jersey City, New Jersey. 1.Academy of Achievement (2010) “A straight-A student, she won a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City and worked as a model to help pay expenses. She began her college career intending to study chemistry, but later switched to art, European history and architectural history.” Although some like to remember Stewart because of the convictions in 2004 of Insider Trading, Martha shows that can she take responsibility for her own actions and she is willing to use it as a Learning experience.
EUPHEMIA LOFTON HAYNES BY: MIRACLE RICHARDSON Martha Euphemia Lofton was born in Washington, D.C. in 1890, the first child and only daughter of Dr. Willian Lofton and Mrs. Lavinia Day Lofton. After graduating from Washington D.C. Miner Normal School with distinction, she went on to earn an undergraduate mathematics major and psychology minor from Smith College in 1914. In 1917 she married Harold Appo Haynes. Haynes pursued graduate studies in mathematics and education at the University of Chicago, earning a masters degree in education in 1930.
In 1885, when she was twenty-three, she married Edward ("Teddy") Wharton. Wharton eventually settled permanently in France, thereafter visiting the United States only rarely. In Paris in 1908 she began a briefly fulfilling but ultimately disappointing affair with Morton Fullerton, a journalist on the London Times and a friend of Henry James. Considered one of the major American novelists and short story writers of the 20th century,
Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt was a very influential woman in her life time. One of the reasons she became famous was because she was the niece of one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America. She was niece to Theodore Roosevelt. Another reason was she married the man Franklin D. Roosevelt who, interestingly enough, was he distant cousin. Her and Franklin Roosevelt had 5 children whom they raised and she became very active in politics along with her husband who had become the president of the United States of America, but she had not become active in politics until after her husbands Polio attack in 1921.