Who went to Bryn Mawr? Women whose commitment to excellence and integrity distinguishes them in every field: women who have broken down barriers, expanded scientific knowledge, captivated audiences, enthralled readers, shaped national and international policy, advocated for the powerless, founded corporations, changed the world. Some of them:
Class of: 1889
Emily Green Balch was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and class exploitation. Founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
1892
Ume Tsuda, who attended Bryn Mawr from 1889 to 1892, founded one of the first private institutions of higher education for women in Japan in 1900, with Bryn Mawr as her model.
1894
Edith Hamilton introduced generations of readers to classical Greek and Roman culture through her books The Greek Way , The Roman Way and Mythology .
1903
Nettie Stevens was the first person to observe that the X and Y chromosomes determine sex.
1906
Hilda Dolittle published poetry under the initials H.D. and was a leader of the Imagist movement in poetry.
1907
Margaret Ayer Barnes won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1907
Marianne Moore was considered one of the major poets of the Modernist era. Among the many awards she won was the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
1915
Susan Brandeis Gilbert was one of the first woman lawyers to argue a case before the Supreme Court.
1917
Katherine Burr Blodgett was the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University.
1918
Jeannette Ridlon Piccard was the first woman to pilot a balloon and the first American woman to enter the stratosphere.
1922
Dorothy Klenke was the first woman neurosurgeon in the U.S.
1927
Agnes Mongan was the first female curator and later the first female director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum.
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1931
Isabel Benham was the first woman to be named partner in a Wall Street bond house and the first rail analyst to propose the business concept of "open access" now applicable the railroad, telecommunications, pipelines and utilities industries.
1939
Anne Wight Phillips was the first woman to perform surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and the first woman to teach at Harvard Medical School.
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1943
Anne Dean Truitt is a sculptor whose work is in the permanent collections of many museums, including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. She is also the author of a critically acclaimed trilogy of memoirs.
1945
Kate Rand Lloyd, Class of 1945, a writer and editor, has served as a commissioner of the National Commission on Working Women. Under her editorship, Working Woman became the second-largest business magazine in the United States.
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1950
(Ph.D. 1956) Emily Townsend Vermeule was named National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecturer, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for intellectual achievement in the humanities.
1952
Alice Mitchell Rivlin is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." Rivlin was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, served as the vice chair of the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors and directed the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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1962
Sherry B. Ortner has been called "one of feminist anthropology's founding mothers." A professor of anthropology at Columbia University, Ortner received a MacArthur "genius grant" in 1990.
1968
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust is the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University.
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1970
Neuroscientist Candace Beebe Pert discovered the opiate receptors in the human brain, leading the way to the discovery of endorphins, the brain's natural painkillers.
1979
Sari Horwitz has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting in The Washington Post .
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1986
Lauren Liss is the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
1989
After earning a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Chicago, Karen Kerr '89 joined ARCH Venture Partners, which funds emerging high-technology companies. As ARCH's managing director, she is one of the nation's top female venture capitalists.
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1991
Reporter Clea Benson was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her work on an investigative series in The Philadelphia Inquirer that revealed how Philadelphia police had routinely minimized and did not investigate many sexual assault claims. The series led to reform of the system.
1995
A design by Julie Beckman and her design partner Keith Kaseman won the nationwide contest to design a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack at the Pentagon.
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