Records of the Fellowship of Helen Hadley Hall, Yale University 1945-1978 (inclusive).

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Records of the Fellowship of Helen Hadley Hall, Yale University 1945-1978 (inclusive).

The records were created by the chairman of the Fellows of Helen Hadley Hall and include correspondence and memoranda, minutes, reports, directories, photographs of the fellows, notices, and other materials documenting the fellowship and the operation of Helen Hadley Hall. Included are records documenting the visit of Coretta Scott King to the campus in 1969 and Leona Baumgartner as fellow. Also included are records of Frances Blanshard concerning the Committee on the Status and Special Needs of Women at Yale, created by President Charles Seymour in 1945.

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Yale University Library

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Yale University. Graduate School

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The Yale Graduate School is one of the twelve schools comprising Yale University, and is the only one which awards the Ph.D. The Graduate School (called the Department of Philosophy and the Arts until 1892) was established in 1847 by an act of the Yale Corporation. In 1861, the Graduate School awarded the first Ph.D. degrees. For nine years following, Yale remained the only American university to award the Ph.D. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was formally established in 1892 with the a...

Fellowship of Helen Hadley Hall.

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Yale University. Frances Blanshard Fellowship Fund.

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Blanshard, Frances Bradshaw, 1895-1966

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Chase, Alice Elizabeth.

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Yale University. Committee on the Status and Special Needs of Women at Yale.

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Yale University.

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Lopez, Claude-Anne, 1920-2012

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King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006

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Coretta Scott King (b. April 27, 1927, Marion, AL–d. Jan. 30, 2006, Rosarito Beach, Mexico) was the wife of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and earned a degree from the New England Conservatory of Music studying under Marie Sundelius. She met King in Boston and they were married in 1953. They had four children: Yolanda (1955), Martin III (1957), Dexter (1961), and Bernice (1963).The King family lived in Montgomery, Alabama. Mrs. ...

Baumgartner, Leona, 1902-1991

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Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991), A.B., 1923, University of Kansas; M.A., 1925, University of Kansas; Ph.D., 1932, Yale University; M.D., 1934, Yale University, was the first female Commissioner of Public Health for New York City, 1954 to 1962, and later became an Assistant Director of the Agency for International Development (AID), a position she held until 1965. She was named Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1966, where she served until her retirement in...