Mildred Albert
Founded Boston’s first finishing school, co-founded the Boston Arts Festival, and became the “First Lady of Fashion”.
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Pat Kelly
President of the Boston Culinary Historians and editor of their newsletter for over 20 years.
Pauline Durant
Co-founder of Wellesley College
Dr Roxana Hayward Vivian
Roxana Hayward Vivian (1871-1961) was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the University.
Ruth Batson
A former director of the Museum of African American History, Ruth Batson (1921-2003) was chairperson of the education committee of Boston NAACP that led the fight in the early 1960s against segregation in the Boston Public Schools.
Suzanne Revaleon Green
Boston women teacher who successfully challenged the 1880s School Committee regulation that women resign upon marriage
Wilhelmina Crosson
Apioneering African American educator who became the second president of Palmer Memorial Institute
Anna Bobbitt Gardner
In 1932, Anna Bobbitt Gardner (1901-97) became the first African American women to be awarded a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Betsey Draper
Betsey Draper (1784-1871) is considered West Roxbury’s first librarian, housing the town’s book collection in her store.
Ella F Boyd
A teacher, an amateur geologist, an officer in the Boston Society of Natural History and the Agassiz Association, and a member of the Hyde Park school board for fifteen years.