Fortnightly Club of Boulder Collection 1884-2000
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Fortnightly Club of Boulder (Boulder, Colo.)
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Mary Rippon and eight other women formed the Fortnightly Club of Boulder in 1884. Membership was originally divided equally by women associated with the University of Colorado in Boulder and women from the city of Boulder. From the description of Fortnightly Club of Boulder collection, 1884-2000. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 232304573 ...
Rippon, Mary, 1850-1935
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Mary Rippon (1850-1935) was born in Lisbon, Illinois. After completing high school, Rippon unsuccessfully sought higher education, which was unavailable to women during this time in the United States. Instead she spent five years studying in Germany, France, and Switzerland. Upon returning to America, Rippon began her career teaching high school in Detroit. After the continual persuasion of Dr. Joseph A. Sewall, Rippon's former high school chemistry teacher in Illinois and the first president of...
Fortnightly Club of Boulder
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Mary Rippon and eight other women founded the Fortnightly Club of Boulder in 1884. The Club had a literary intent and began for the “promotion of literary and scientific culture.”(1) Although the Fortnightly Club is not a University of Colorado organization, there is a University influence. For most of its history, the Club has been equally divided between women associated with the University, “the gowns,” and women from the community of Boulder, “the towns.” In 1891, the first offi...
