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CWRU's First Women - Graduates, Faculty, Deans, Honorees, Athletes
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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.
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
Claire Doran was the first woman to receive a varsity "R" sweater from Western Reserve University.