Anastasia Dimitrova
Doctor Directress of the first Bulgarian school for young ladies
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Mary Lyon
American teacher and founder of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Anastasiya Tosheva
Having achieved renown as an excellent professor and director of public instruction of Roumelie Orientale, she accepted as guest, the post of Directress of a college for young ladies at Plovdiv.
Alice Muriel Flora Candy
When Alice Candy began teaching at Canterbury College, the academic staff was, with one exception (Elizabeth Herriott, biology), entirely male. She gradually acquired the unofficial status of dean of women – and an influence on college life well above her junior academic status.
Alice Ethel Minchin
In 1918 she became the first librarian of Auckland University College.
Eve Evans
School Secretary at the London School of Economics for 34 years.
Hilde Himmelweit
German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom
Jessy Mair
Sociologist and London School of Economics School Secretary in the 1930s
Jocelyn Hyslop
Having been appointed as Melbourne’s first Director of Social Work Training in 1934, the course which continues to the present as the University of Melbourne Social Work Department, Jocelyn Hyslop spent a decade in Melbourne. She not only established social work training in Victoria but was also the major influence in the establishment of a national social work curriculum which became the basis for today’s strong profession in Australia.
Dr Judith Rees
Judith Rees graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc 1965 and after teaching at Wye College in Kent returned to LSE as a lecturer, completing her PhD in 1978. Judith Rees moved to the University of Hull in 1989 becoming Dean of Geography and Pro-Vice Chancellor. After returning to LSE she was a Pro-Director 1998-2004, later becoming Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute.