An Incomplete and Unauthorized History of Women at IU INDIANA UNIVERSITY BICENTENNIAL

An Incomplete and Unauthorized History of Women at IU INDIANA UNIVERSITY BICENTENNIAL

1502 1608 1742 1777 1809 Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity (Cambridge) Juliana Morell law doctorate in Spain Bethlehem Female Seminary All states pass laws prohibit women s voting Mary Kies, first patent for a woman

1816 1820 1828 1833 1838 State of Indiana Founded Indiana State Seminary Founded Renamed Indiana College Oberlin College founded Renamed Indiana University

1820s 1835 1800s 1848 1851 Lizzie Breckenridge first staff member? Monroe County Female Seminary founded Boarding House mothers in town Seneca Falls Convention 1 st women s rights convention in Indiana

1852 1853 1853 1855 1855 MCFS adopted as Normal Department Beginning of Coeducation at IU Daniel Read lectures U Iowa first state school admissions Building Campaign

1865 1866 1867 1868 1871 Maria Mitchell, 1st female faculty at Vassar Sarah Jane Woodson, 1st African-American woman professor at Wilberforce First Women Enroll directly at IU First known IU staff member, Robert Gamble, janitor First Full-Time Women Graduates

1880 1882 1883 1888 1891 Maria Brace teaches Elocution Mary Kimble, Professor of Elocution Katharine Graydon, Assistant in Latin & Greek 3 women on library staff First Course in Indy

Harriet Colburn Saunderson, director women s gymnasium Mabel Banta, instructor in Latin & Greek Louise Goodbody, first president s secretary Rebecca Rogers George, lecturer on physiology & hygiene Mary Bidwell Breed named Dean of Women 1890 1894 1895 1899 1902

Keller asked in 1910 whether the Executive Committee had dismissed her because she was a woman: Is it possible there is not a man on that committee big or broad enough to permit a woman to be the head of a department, however small that department might be? Alternatively, is it just friends that were retained? 1900 1902-1920s 1900s 1908 1910 35 women graduated from IU Geneva Jacobs, Black staff member to president WLB Growth of Assistant Instructors Amelia Keller, Associate Professor of Medicine 98 women graduated from IU

1910s 1911 1914 1915 1919-1933 Edith Elizabeth Anderson staff roles Edna Henry, Dean of Social Work School of Nursing established 825 women enrolled Edna Shover, Principal, Herron Art School

1918 1919 1920s 1920-1930 1920-1965 Vestie Burks begins staff tenure Agnes Wells named Dean of Women Ruth McNutt president s secretary Flora Anderson, Professor of Botany Alice McDonald Nelson runs housing

1920 1908-1946 1919-1923 1920-1948 1937-1972 School of Business founded Sarah Kirby, secretary to the dean Blanche Wean, first woman admitted Lulu Westenhaver, instructor Esther Bray, Associate Professor

1922 1924 1925 1926 1926 Berry and Maxwell first full-time faculty Nellie Showers Teter elected Trustee 1650 women enrolled Josephine Ketchum Piercy begins in English Gertrude Heberlein, Indy pioneer

1930s 1932 1930s 1930s 1930s Gladys Frith, IUSB Elizabeth Bridwell, IUK Mary Harman, Geological Field Station Mabel Wellman, director of home economics Florence Busse-Smith, home management lecturer

IUS: Alma Lewis, Margaret Ruck, and Mabel Vogel IUK: Terry Agnes Francois and Maureen Shriver And these two girls are as much responsible for the growth of the Kokomo campus as I was Virgil Hunt, director/chancellor 1945-1956 1941 1940s-1960s 1941 1942 1945-1956 Lyda Radford, First IUS Student Lewis, Ruck, Vogel at IUS IU s First Tenure Policy Adopted IU Careers for Women booklet Francais and Shriver at IUK

I attended the Owen class. It was better than Fox s Burlesque. Miss Owen is about 5 feet 5 1/2 inches tall, weighs around 130 pounds and wears her hair high in a pompadour and flowing tresses to the back of her neck. She wore a tight-fitting sweater, which left little for my, or in fact, any one else s imagination. She wore sport shoes, and a short suit skirt which did reach almost to her knees. To top it all, except when she wrote on the black board, she sat on the corner of the desk, facing the class with her legs crossed. 1945 Chamber of Commerce Report sent to Herman Wells.

1950s 1950 1954 1956 1958 Kate Hevner Mueller, Dean of Women Rebekah Fisk founded dental hygiene at IUSD Ingeborg Schmidt joins IU Optometry Jeannette Morrow Matthew joins IUPUI Clare Assue, first female professor of psychiatry

Your Daughter at IU (1953)

1954 1950s 1950s 1960 1963 Ivy Chamness, editor Anna Strickland, Ball Residence staff Downtown Indy operators FDA Approves Birth Control Congress passes Equal Pay Act

Camilla Williams at March on Washington, 1963 (Wazee Digital) 1960s 1960s-1980s 1960 1963 1964 Engle, Schaeffer, Birky, and Long first computing staff Ruth Nelson, IUN staff member Claudia Crump, IUS Center for Cultural Resources Camilla Williams sings March on Washington Civil Rights Act

1965 1967 1964-1975 1970 1971 Goldie Ivory, first Black woman on IUSB faculty Lenora Kepfer, IUS bookstore manager Girl Friday Club Women of IU-Indy first 150 th donation Naomi Osborne, IUE staff member

Gloria Kaufman s one-liners: Q: How come you re not married? A: Sheer Luck! Q: If you re so liberated when are you going to take me out? A: When I take home your paycheck. 1970 1970 1971 1973 Early 1970s IUSB women s studies courses Martha Dawson, first Black woman tenured Lola Lohse, Dean of PETM IUB women s studies program Title IX and Roe v Wade

1974 1975 1978 1980 1992 IUPUI Continuing Ed Center for Women IU East Women s conference Alma Eikerman, artist, retires Elaine Sloan, first woman dean of libraries Dean of Women s office vandalized

1984 1986 1987 2000 2003 Peggy Gordon Elliott Miller, first woman chancellor Judith Palmer, first woman vice president Polly McClure, first woman in charge of IT Astrid Merget, Dean of SPEA Lauren Robel, Dean of Maurer Law