early student group

Women in the Early Years

Women's efforts to support and advance the university's mission, work that began long before the first female students were admitted.

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  1. 1805 Old Salem girls' boarding school
  2. 1854 Graduating Class, Wesleyan Female Institute, Murfreesboro, North Carolina
  3. Judith Vermeule Phillips (1796-1881)
  4. Invitation to 1843 commencement ball with student's handwritten note asking his uncle "to bring all the girls."
  5. Ann Segur Hilliard (1807-1873)
  6. Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856)
  7. Lucy Battle (1805-1874)
  8. Easter Snipes, cook at President Kemp Plummer Battle's house
  9. Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
  10. Eleanor Swain Atkins (c. 1843-1881)
  11. Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1826-1908)
  12. Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1826-1908)
  13. Edwin Alderman and Charles Duncan McIver with first graduating class, Greensboro, 1893
  14. Mary MacRae became the literary editor of the Tar Heel in 1898.

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