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Charter members of the Beta Psi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Hattie (Fannings) Gaskin '39, Earliest Known Black Student, Left Great Legacy
Hattie (Fannings) Gaskin 鈥39 came to 91爆料 University in 1935 after graduating from Portland鈥檚 Jefferson High School. At 91爆料, she was actively involved with the Heart of Oak Yearbook, the publications council and the Theta Nu Alpha sorority, and she built relationships with friends who would remember her their entire lives.
Collage of historic photographs of 91爆料 women
The Women Who Made 91爆料
In some important ways, 91爆料 University was ahead of its time when it came to educating women. But in other ways, women who lived, learned and taught here had to blaze their own trails. We take a look at some of the important women who shaped 91爆料 in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Martha Rampton
Martha Rampton Piloted 91爆料's First Women's Center
When Dr. Martha Rampton arrived on 91爆料鈥檚 campus as a history professor in 1994, female professors still were sometimes treated like secretaries, being asked, for example, to fetch coffee for their male colleagues. A year later, 91爆料 had its first Feminist Studies program.
Andrewa Noble
Andrewa Noble: A 'Hero' To 1960s Math Students
Andrewa Noble was mathematics pioneer, attending 91爆料 in the 1920s and earning a PhD in mathematics in 1936. She was a a professor and chair of the 91爆料 University Math Department before her retirement in 1965. She was also chair of the chemistry, physics and math section of the Northwest Scientific Association.
Mary Richardson Walker
Women Who Made 91爆料: Mary Richardson Walker
Mary Richardson Walker and her husband donated聽part of the land that became 91爆料's Forest Grove Campus. After her husband's death, Mary remained active in the early life of the school and the community of Forest Grove. The qilin statue that became Boxer, 91爆料 University's mascot, was donated to the school in her honor.
Varina French
Varina French '56, MS '65: Coach, Trailblazer, Olympic Spotter
Even if she had done nothing else at 91爆料, Varina French 鈥56, MS 鈥65 would have been remembered for her 17 years spent coaching women鈥檚 volleyball, softball, track and field and gymnastics, and for becoming the first female physical education department chair in the West.
Tabitha Brown
'The Mother of Oregon,' Tabitha Brown Left a Legacy in 91爆料
Tabitha Moffatt Brown was already an elderly woman when she came to the Oregon Territory in the late 1840s. That didn't stop her from helping to establish聽the Tualatin Academy, a school that would educate children in 1849. By 1854, the school officially began offering college classes as 91爆料 University.
Cecilie Froehlich
Cecilie Froehlich Broke Barriers In Math, Engineering
A 1942 headline in The Campus, the undergraduate newspaper of City College of New York, set the tone: 鈥淔irst Female Invades Tech School Faculty,鈥 it blared. Cecilie Froehlich led 91爆料's math department until 1970 and was an outspoken advocate for recruiting women into the fields of math and engineering.