An Encyclopedia of Pathbreaking Women at The Ohio State University Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................... 1 An Encyclopedia of Pathbreaking Women at The Ohio State University ........................... 6 Background of Project and Request for Assistance ......................................................................... 6 An Encyclopedia of Pathbreaking Women at The Ohio State University ........................... 8 Women are People, Too: The Early Years at The Ohio State University, 1873-1912 .... 8 President Canfield ................................................................................................................................................... 9 William Oxley Thompson ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Pathbreakers ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Alice and Harriet Townshend ............................................................................................................................. 11 Miss Powers and the “Gab Room” Women .................................................................................................... 11 “Eve” .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Bertha Lamme ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Alice Williams ............................................................................................................................................................ 11 Browning Literary Society ................................................................................................................................... 12 Olive Jones................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Perla G. Bowman Gibbs .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Katherine Morhart ................................................................................................................................................... 13 Jessie Frances Stephens ......................................................................................................................................... 13 Ruth Postle .................................................................................................................................................................. 13 The Era of the Dean of Women, 1912-1967 .................................................................................. 14 Pathbreakers ................................................................................................................................................. 18 Carolyn Breyfogle .................................................................................................................................................... 18 Shirley Dunlap Bowser .......................................................................................................................................... 18 Grace Marie Bareis .................................................................................................................................................. 18 Edith Cockins ............................................................................................................................................................. 18 Elizabeth Conrad ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 Esther Allen Gaw ...................................................................................................................................................... 19 Ruth Ella Moore ........................................................................................................................................................ 19 Mildred Newton ........................................................................................................................................................ 19 Alma Paterson ........................................................................................................................................................... 19 Christine Conaway ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Gladys Branegan-Chalkley ................................................................................................................................... 19 Marlene Owens Rankin .......................................................................................................................................... 20 Dorothy Scott ............................................................................................................................................................. 20 Sarah Miller Smith ................................................................................................................................................... 20 Ruth Weimer Mount ............................................................................................................................................... 21 Cynthia Wentz ........................................................................................................................................................... 21 Eva Donelson Wilson .............................................................................................................................................. 21 1 Pathbreakers The Era of Commissions and Activism: 1967-2000 ................................................................... 23 E. Gordon Gee .................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Pathbreakers ................................................................................................................................................. 29 Adrienne Adams ....................................................................................................................................................... 29 Myra Alexander-Starr (Muscogee-Creek) ...................................................................................................... 29 Yolanda Allen ............................................................................................................................................................. 29 Linda L. Ammons ...................................................................................................................................................... 30 Carole Anderson ....................................................................................................................................................... 30 Rebecca Andre ........................................................................................................................................................... 30 Janet Pichette Ashe .................................................................................................................................................. 31 Lena Bailey.................................................................................................................................................................. 31 Phyllis Bailey .............................................................................................................................................................. 31 Bettina Bair ................................................................................................................................................................. 32 Andrea Balas .............................................................................................................................................................. 32 Deb Ballam .................................................................................................................................................................. 33 Karen Bell .................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Rusty Beloite .............................................................................................................................................................. 34 Linda Bernhard ......................................................................................................................................................... 35 Rudine Sims Bishop ................................................................................................................................................ 35 Sue A. Blanshan ......................................................................................................................................................... 35 Lydia Block ................................................................................................................................................................