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On this page are some of the vintage photographs from a Center for Women
exhibit that records women's history at Emory. The display was assembled
for Emory's first official celebration of Women's History Month in March
1993. The photographs were a gift of Woodruff Library's Special Collections.
Each year, with the guidance of library staff, we choose another group
of pictures to add to the collection for Women's History Month. Almost
seventy photos are now featured on permanent display at the Center for
Women.
They span the lives of women at Emory primarily form the time the university
became officially coeducational in 1953 to the present. Included in the
collection is a remarkable photograph of Eleonore Raoul, who was a debutante
in 1916 and Emory's first woman law student in 1917, after she managed
to enroll while the chancellor was out of town. The pictorial history
of women's accomplishments in the arts, sports, science, scholarship and
a variety of campus organizations is a vivid reminder of how recently
women gained access to these activities.
Sororities and intramural sports are a well known outlet for
both socialization and fun for women at Emory. Kappa Delta sorority
sisters learn the meaning of playing tough as they compete in
an intramural sorority volleyball tournament in the mid 1970s.
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Fighting gender discrimination at Emory has often
been a difficult battle since the University first became coeducational.
Offensive grafitti such as this draws the attention of three young
women in 1968. (Graffiti reads, "You can tell boy pancakes
from girl pancakes by theway they are stacked.")
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Affiliate artist Brenda Bynum performs with Stephanie
Kallos in the Theater Emory production of Shakespeares' All's Well
That Ends Well in 1988.
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Eva Cunningham McGhee was the first woman in the
history of Emory to receive a Ph.D. in the field of biochemistry
in 1949. Having served for three years as a WAVE during World War
II, she also became the first war veteran to be awarded the Emory
doctorate.
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Amy Laura Hall, '90C, a committed student activist
and feminist, co-founded CHOICES, Emory's first undergraduate feminist
group in 1989. She received her Mdiv from Yale Divinity School in
1993 & her PhD in religious ethics from Yale in 1999. She is
now assistant professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School.
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Miss Alberta Dozier became the first Superintendent
of Nurses in 1907 at Wesley Memorial Hospital. She continued her
work as Superintendent until 1923, the year after Wesley Memorial
Hospital on the Emory University campus received its first patients.
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Marsha Houston, an outstanding
Emory undergraduate, speaks to five white male judges in a moot
court competition. Houston, one of two African-American women
enrolled in Emory College in the late 1950s, graduated from
the College in 1960. During her time at Emory she participated
in Theater Emory and was a member of the Women's Honor Organization,
the highest honor a woman could receive at Emory during this
time.
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