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Kate Graham Cook

James Cook and Kate Graham first discovered the fossil deposits later to become known as Agate Fossil Beds.

Betty Reid Soskin

Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.

Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.

Marianne Roland Michel

Scholar and catalogues raisonnés compiler; dealer of eighteenth-century French art; director of the Galerie Cailleux from 1982-1996

Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra

Modernist art historian

Ada Louise Huxtable

Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin

First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)

Aenne Liebreich

Academic specialist in medieval Burgundian sculpture, particularly Claus Sluter, as well as medieval painting and illumination and costume studies.

Dr Agnes Rindge Claflin

Vassar Professor of Art and Director of the Vassar Art Gallery.

Judith Plaskow

American theologian, author, and activist