Fanny Buddecke
The Buddecke sisters founded St. Nicholas School at the behest of a group of Seattle parents who wanted their daughters to have the benefit of a first-class nonsectarian college-preparatory education.
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Aileen Fitzpatrick
Director of the Board of Social Study and Training, New South Wales.
Patricia Roberts Harris
First African-American woman to serve as a US Ambassador
Áine Ní Chanainn
Irish headmistress and co-founder of Cumann Scannán na nÓg
Helen Brill
American educator and activist.
Helen Thayer
Helen Thayer was the first woman and oldest person to make a solo journey to the magnetic North Pole. She competed internationally as a world-class discus thrower, and in 1975 became the U.S. National Champion in the ice-sledding sport luge.
Vivian Fine
Vivian Fine was an American composer, pianist, and educator.
Gratia Alta Countryman
In June 1922, the Minneapolis Public Library book wagon made its first trip from Minneapolis to Excelsior, a small village on Lake Minnetonka. Riding aboard the book wagon was Gratia Countryman, the library system’s visionary director.
Julia Bullard Nelson
Nelson spent the summers of the 1870s and 1880s in Minnesota, where she emerged as a state and national leader in the movement for women’s suffrage and the temperance campaign against alcohol use.
Florence Rood
Florence Rood was one of the first Minnesota women activists in the Farmer Labor movement. She worked to improve the treatment of teachers and was active in their local and national organizations. Many of the successful struggles in which she participated informed the public of the importance of education and laid the groundwork for improved working conditions for educators.