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• 1 2020-04-14T20:19:06+00:00 1900-1949 58 CWRU's First Women - Graduates, Faculty, Deans, Honorees, Athletes plain 2021-03-03T13:51:47+00:00 1900
  
  Lucy G. Hoffman

   

  
  1910
  Lucy Gertrude Hoffman was the first woman Western Reserve University Dental School graduate, eighteen years after the School's establishment.
  
  
  58% of American colleges were coeducational, 15% were women only, 27% were men only.

   

   

   

  
  
  
  
  Birdie Rehmer

   

  
  1912
  Four years after the Cleveland School of Pharmacy affiliated with Western Reserve University, Birdie Rehmer became its first woman graduate.

   

  
  1920
  Women represented over 47% of all students enrolled in American higher education institutions.

   

   

  
  
  Hannah Mirsky

   

   

  
  1921
  Hannah Mirsky was the first woman graduate of Western Reserve University's thirty-year-old Law School

   

   

   

  
  Carolyn E. Gray
  1923
  The School of Nursing became Western Reserve University's second school to open with a woman dean, Carolyn E. Gray (1923-1924).

   

  
  1928
  Forty-eight years after its establishment, Case School of Applied Science graduated its first woman, Edith Paula Chartkoff. She received an M.S. in Metallurgy.

   

  
  1930
  69% of American colleges were coeducational, 16% were women only, 15% were men only.
  
  1935
  Olive Baxter Stevens was the first woman to graduate from the School of Architecture, six years after its affiliation with Western Reserve University.
  
  
  Chemical Engineering Faculty
  1938
  Irene Levis was the first woman appointed to the Case School of Applied Science faculty.

   

   

   

  
  
  Laura L. Diehl

   

   

  
  1945
  Laura Diehl was the first woman to receive an undergraduate degree from Case School of Applied Science, a B.S. in Physics.
   

   

   

   

  Jo Godley

   

  
  1948
  Jo Godley was the first woman to win the Case Honor Key, awarded for outstanding achievement in extracurricular activities.

   

   

   

   

  
  Claire Doran receiving the R letter sweater

   

  1949
  Claire Doran was the first woman to receive a varsity "R" sweater from Western Reserve University.