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Activities. Mary Emma Woolley, college professor and President of Mount Holyoke College from 1901-1937, was born on July 13, 1863 in South Norwalk, Connecticut to Joseph Judah Woolley, a Congregational minister, and Mary August Ferris Woolley, a schoolteacher. She attended Mrs. Fannie Augur's school in Meriden, Connecticut until her family ...
When Mary Emma Woolley was born on 13 July 1863, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Reverend Joseph Judah Woolley, was 30 and her mother, Mary Augusta Ferris, was 24. She lived in West Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1880 and South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1930.
Blanche Henry Clark Weaver; Life and Letters of Mary Emma Woolley. By Jeannette Marks. (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1955. xii + 300 pp. Illustrations, not
9 apr 2021 · “I must be effective, but not aggressive; womanly but not womanish; equal to social obligations but always on hand for the business ones,” Mary Emma Woolley 1895 wrote to her life partner Jeanette Marks on April 22, 1932, describing the difficulties of being the only woman delegate from the United States to the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva.
Mary Emma Woolley American Educator 1863 – 1947 A.D. Mary Emma Woolley, an American educator, born at South Norwalk, Conn. She graduated from Brown University in 1894, later taught biblical history at Wellesley, and in 1900 was made president of Mount Holyoke College, with the development of which her name became closely identified.
Mary Emma Woolley fue una educadora y activista por la paz estadounidense, además de una partidaria del sufragio femenino. Fue la primera estudiante femenina en asistir a la Universidad Brown, y sirvió como la 11.ª presidenta de Colegio Monte Holyoke de 1900 a 1937.
Mary Emma Woolley in her graduating gap and gown, as first female student to attend Brown University and would later become the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College. Mary Woolley took her experiences from being the first female student to attend Brown University and used it to try to improve women’s education later in life.
