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NOTABLE FIRSTS
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FIRST woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946:
EMILY GREEN BALCH, Bryn Mawr |
FIRST to win Nobel Prize in Literature:
PEARL S. BUCK,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College |
FIRST environmentalist who awakened public consciousness through her book, Silent Spring in 1961:
RACHEL CARSON, Chatham |
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CLICK TRAIL:
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A dress by New York fashion designer and Mount Mary alumna Donna Ricco made its way to national television twice during the week of June 16... The dress was purchased “off the rack” by Michelle Obama, according to Vieira. Ricco said she was surprised and pleased that Obama had chosen her dress to wear for her TV appearance...
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When she chose a small women's college in Baltimore, Jennifer E. Hale never imagined how the next four years would broaden her horizons and transform her outlook on life from bashful to bold. "In high school, I was a homebody, always afraid to branch out," said the North Harford High graduate.
Her attitude changed on a pre-admission tour of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. MORE » |
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The opportunity to work for Gap, Inc., one of the world’s largest specialty retailers, happened by chance for Camille Palmer ’04. While working late one evening at Jones Apparel Group in New York, she received a call from a recruiter and soon found herself as the newest member of the Gap International Technical Design Department in New York.
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When NASA astronauts first walked on the moon in 1969, eight-year-old Pamela Melroy was watching. Very few people who saw the Eagle land have forgotten the sight, but for Pam, the experience was more than awe-inspiring-it changed the course of her life.
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When they graduated from Smith College in May, Kirby Capen ’07 of Washington D.C., and Neema Scott ’07 of Newton, Massachusetts, both had money in the bank and Africa in their sights. Before long, they were roving in far-flung places, urban and frontier, Capen in Ghana and Scott in Kenya.
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When Katie White applied to PhD programs in chemistry, she was nervous but hopeful about the process. How many graduate schools should she apply to? Were the programs she dreamed of too elite to accept her? If she got in, could she compete with the best?
That was then, this is now...
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Aghion, an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker, spent four months in Antarctica last fall documenting what that extraordinary place does to the people who live and study there. "Some people feel obliterated by it. Others feel enlarged."
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Academy award winning team member and 1997 Agnes Scott College alumna Amy S. Kim credits her alma mater with at least some of the leadership skills she now possesses.
“I loved the part where we went to orientation when someone brought up the statistics about how males dominate coeducational schools and how I could actually become a leader at this school,” MORE » |
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Hollins graduate and Roanoke native Stephanie Via’s “True Story” was selected for the Short Film Program at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, which was held January 19-29 in Park City, Utah.
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Soon after arriving in Africa, Trish Anderson '98 visited the home of a woman whose husband had died recently of AIDS and who herself had AIDS. The woman warmly invited Anderson in for tea and corn on the cob by the fire.
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Senior year, Miner worked as a mentor in the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program, helping students hone their arguments and write and edit their work. "It made my own writing better. As you critique their work, it gives you a sharper eye for your own."
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“I chose St. Kate's because I wanted to go to a women’s college,” says Cassie. “I visited the Twin Cities area and really liked what I saw. And once I got to school I discovered that St. Kate's had a really open atmosphere. My parents liked it because it was less expensive than going to the in-state school in Montana.” MORE » |
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What would happen if someone combined the hit television shows “Survivor” and “Trading Spaces”? Ask Nicole Facciuto, Cottey Class of 1995, Stephens Class of 1997. She was one of the professional designers on USA Network’s series “House Wars.”
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"I'm fascinated by how contemporary events become recorded as history, and by how what we teach as history is colored by the viewpoints of our historians," says Kate Meehan '00. Meehan, who is working toward her Ph.D. in history at the University of Illinois, notes that historians are not nearly as impartial as we often believe.
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