Endowments; Women--Education (Higher); International relations; United States; Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.). Committee on International Relations; Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.); Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron, 1877-1965
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1901
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 80
Note
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Gildersleeve, Virginia C., Dean
In 1881 Marion Talbot and Ellen Swallow Richards invited 15 alumnae from 8 colleges to a meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of this meeting was to create an organization of women college graduates that would assist women in finding greater opportunities to use their education, as well as promoting and assisting other women's college attendance. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae or ACA, (AAUW's predecessor organization) was officially founded on January 14, 1882. The ACA also worked to improve standards of education for women so that men and women's higher education was more equal in scope and difficulty." [SOURCE: "American Association of University Women." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_University_Women. Accessed 20 Sep. 2018.] "Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (October 3, 1877 – July 7, 1965) was an American academic, the long-time Dean of Barnard College, and the sole female United States delegate to the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization, which negotiated the UN Charter and created the United Nations." [SOURCE: "Virginia Gildersleeve." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Gildersleeve. Accessed 25 Oct. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University