Helen Smoyer Pope collection, 1927-1930 (inclusive).

Owen, Ruth Bryan, 1885-1954

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Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was an author and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Owen was the daughter of three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. In 1928, she was elected from Florida's 4th district as Florida's first female U.S. Representative and the second from the South after Alice Mary Robertson. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on the U.S. House Committee on For...

Florida State University. Heritage Protocol

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Pope, Helen Smoyer

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Helen Smoyer Pope (formerly Helen M. Smoyer) was a student at Florida State College for Women, class of 1930 (LI and AB, Education). From the description of Helen Smoyer Pope collection, 1927-1930 (inclusive). (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 526381001 ...

Barber, Lanas Spurgeon, -1946

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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968

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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) devoted her life to bettering the education and treatment of the blind, the deaf, and the nonverbal, and was a pioneer in educating the public in the prevention of blindness in newborns. Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. When Helen Keller was 19 months old she became ill with Scarlet Fever, which resulted in her becoming blind and deaf. In her autobiography The Story of My Life, a book she first wrote in 1903 at the age of 23, she desc...

Florida State College for Women

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According to Robin Sellers' Femina Perfecta, in 1914 members of the even-year classes of Florida State College for Women (juniors and freshmen) wore their green and yellow class colors to chapel on the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving. A spontaneous pep rally ensued. On the following Wednesday, odd-year class members (seniors, sophomores, and sub-freshmen) carried canes wrapped with ribbons in their individual class colors of red, white, and purple. On Thanksgiving Day the odd-year classes d...

Kurz, Herman, 1886-

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Dr. Herman Kurz was born in Iowa in 1886. He entered the University of Chicago in 1916 as a freshman at age 30 and received a BS degree in Botany. He also completed his M.S and Ph.D. degree at that institution in 1921 and 1922, respectively. In 1922, he came to the Florida State College for Women as Assistant Professor of Botany. He taught at that institution as Associate Professor and Professor. From 1940-1947, he was head of the FSU's Department of Botany and Bacteriology, and was head of its ...

Conradi, Edward, 1869-1944

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Dr. Edward Conradi (1869-1944) was President of Florida State College for Women (FSCW) from 1909 until 1941 and taught the first Experimental Psychology course at FSCW; After retirement he was appointed President Emeritus and his name was given to the Biology Bldg. and to the first endowed chair in the Psychology Dept. in 1991. From the description of Edward Conradi Papers, 1911-1981. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 39899902 ...