Education Archives - Page 20 of 82

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 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.

Jane Smith Williamson

Jane Williamson was a schoolteacher and anti-slavery activist in Ohio before she came to the Presbyterian Dakota Mission at Lac qui Parle in 1843. She spent the remaining fifty-two years of her life working with Dakota people.