DATE /EVENT
1883
Mary (Mamie) Haygood begins taking classes at Emory College.
1884
Mary (Mamie) Haygood is formally enrolled as a freshman. Her father, Atticus Haygood, is the college president at the time. (October)
1888
Mary (Mamie) Haygood graduates from Wesleyan where she enrolled her senior year as females were not permitted to graduate from Emory.
1905
Wesley Memorial Nurses Training School; Southern Library School of Atlanta Open.
1911
1st marble bench named in memory of a woman, Ann King Davis , Nursing School class of 1911.
1914
School of Theology opens and admits women from time it is organized.
1915
Tommie Dora Barker serves as Head Librarian and director of the Library School for Carnegie Library of Atlanta
(until 1930); Library School associated with Emory in 1925.
1917
School of Law (affiliated 1915) admits women.
Eleonore Raoul registers to begin attending law school while Chancellor Warren A. Candler is out of town; 1st woman admitted to the university.
1918
Emory Medical personnel mobilize for WW1 at Camp Gordon, GA. (March)
1919
Gradie Baggarly (1915 graduate of Wesleyan Memorial Nurses Training School) enlists in Emory Unit.
Graduate School of Law admits women.
School of Arts and Sciences organized, admits women from time of organization.
Pauline Odum begins her 44 year tenure serving deans in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences.
Emory Women's Club founded at Druid Hills Golf Club. (October)

Liberal Arts Faculty moves from Oxford to Atlanta.
1920
Eleonore Raoul is 1st female member of the William Arant Law Club. She attends the 1920 Woman Suffrage
Convention in Chicago.
1921
Margaret Jemison begins 33 year tenure as University Librarian. Associated with planning and growth of Asa Griggs
Candler Library. She established the Special Collections.
1922
School of Nursing is affiliated, opens with women students.
1925
Elizabeth Chappell Duncan begins her 37 year tenure in Emory's Alumni Office. 1st woman to receive the Alumni
Association's Award of Honor, 2nd to have marble bench dedication.
1925
Carnegie Library School of Atlanta becomes affiliated with Emory University; Women are admitted to school from its beginnings. (November)
1927
Library School receives accreditation
1929
Evangeline Papageorge joins faculty as Professor of Biochemistry, becomes the 1st full-time faculty member of the
EU School of Medicine. First woman to hold an administrative post at the school.
1st building named in honor of a woman, Florence Candler Harris Memorial Home for Nurses (Harris Hall), only accommodations for women on campus, limited to nursing students.
1930
Atlanta Library School moves to Emory campus and becomes the Library School of Emory University upon receipt of two $50,000 gifts from the Carnegie and Rosenwald Foundations.
Clara E. Howard begins her five year tenure as Dean of the Emory University Library School.
1st Honorary Degree awarded to a woman, Tommie Dora Barker .
1933
W. Elizabeth Gambrell earns master's degree in biology and becomes instructor in bacteriology.
1934
1st class receives diplomas from the School for Advanced Study of Librarianship.
1935
Lydia Gooding serves as Acting Dean of the Library School until 1936.

1936
Tommie Dora Barker begins tenure as Dean of the Emory University Library School, a position she holds until 1948.
American Library Association (ALA) publishes Librarians in the South: a Report on Developments 1930-10-1935, an account of the work of Tommie Dora Barker.
1938
Agreement between Emory and Agnes Scott College reached. Agreement stipulates women are not admitted as full time students in College of Arts and Sciences, remains in effect until 1952-3 when the agreement is renegotiated.
1939
Kathleen Powell Mackey is 1st medical illustrator at Emory. Trained at Johns Hopkins under Max Brödel, and worked at the Mayo Clinic prior to coming to Emory.
1942
W. Elizabeth Gambrell applies and is accepted to Emory Medical School; graduates in 1946, starts medical practice in Atlanta in 1949, rejoins faculty in 1950.
Emory Unit reactivated at Camp Livingston serves in North Africa, Italy, and France. Most are Emory graduates or
Hospital employees. (September)
1943
School of Medicine (affiliated 1915) admits women.
1944
Lettie Pate Evans is 1st woman member of the Board of Trustees.
School of Dentistry affiliated, admits women 1945, June 1st mention of "daughters" in Alma Mater.
1946
W. Elizabeth Gambrell becomes 1st woman to graduate from the School of Medicine.
1948
Tommie Dora Barker becomes Director of Emory University Division of Librarianship.
1st PhD awarded at Emory (chemistry).
1949
Evangeline Papageorge promoted to associate professor; named acting chair of biochemistry department.
Eva Cunningham McGhee receives 1st PhD awarded in biochemistry. 1st person to receive a PhD in biochemistry,
1st war veteran awarded an Emory doctorate and 1st woman to earn a PhD at Emory.
1950
Ada Fort named Dean of the School of Nursing, a position she holds until 1975.
Dr. W. Elizabeth Gambrell rejoins the Emory Medical School faculty in 1950.
1952
Agreement between Emory and Agnes Scott College renegotiated relieving Emory of obligation to register

undergraduate women through Agnes Scott.
1953
Recommendation made for the admission of women to the College of Arts and Sciences and Business School
(January), full coeducation implemented (March).
1st co-ed student handbook distributed. Dooley's Rib published.
1954
Margaret Jamison retires.
Tommie Dora Barker named Atlanta's Woman of the Year in Education; retires as Director Emeriti of the Emory
University Division of Librarianship.
Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Evalene P. Jackson named director of the Library School; serves until 1964.
Social clubs organized at Emory.
Woman's Chorale formed.
Women's Honor Organization formed.
1955
1st performance by the Women's Chorale under the direction of Mrs. Bayne Smith.
1956
Elizabeth Stevenson wins Bancroft Prize awarded by Columbia University for books about American History, considered one of the most prestigious awards in the field of American History writing. Stevenson awarded the prize for Henry Adams . New York: Macmillan, 1955.
Evangeline Papageorge appointed Assistant Dean of the School of Medicine; Associate Dean in 1957 and remains in that position until her retirement in 1975. 1st full-time women faculty member in School of Medicine.
Emory agrees to assume ownership of the Yerkes Research Center.
1957
Denny Wells Spencer begins her career as secretary to President S. Walter Martin. She also works with the Emory
Alumni Association.
1958
Student Organizations and Activities Committee recommends national sororities be accepted on campus.
Thomas-Hopkins-Smith complex opens 1st campus housing built for women in College and Business School.
1959
Nancy King awarded the Marion Luther Brittain Award becoming 1st woman to win Emory's highest student honor.
1st woman to serve on Emory's Honor Council.
Original charters granted to ten of twelve sororities.

1960
Elizabeth Stevenson joins Emory as research associate in the Institute of Liberal Arts. 1st woman academic attached to the ILA and 1st woman to win the Bancroft Prize. 1977 named associate professor, 1987 full professor.
1961
Brown vs. Board of Education goes into effect. Emory resolves to admit qualified applicants of all races as soon as tax laws make it possible.
1962
Elizabeth Chappell Duncan retires.
1963
Pauline Odum retires as secretary to the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, having served since 1919 as secretary to seven deans and two acting deans during her employment.
Verdelle Bellamy & Allie Saxon , 1st African American applicants to be admitted to a degree program at Emory
University. (January)
1965
Emory receives status as NIH Regional Primate Research Center; transfer of Orange Park Facility to Emory is completed.
1967
1st school named for a woman: Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
Emory Cooks published.
1968
May E. Smythe Gambrell gives Honors Day Address.
1970
Delores Aldridge hired for Program of African America Studies. Later named Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of
Sociology in 1990. 1st minority woman faculty member.
Laura Robinson Dodson publishes Town of Oxford, Georgia and Its Historic Cemetery .
1972
Gilbert Hall becomes Emory's first coed dormitory.
Title IX of Educational Amendments becomes law.
Construction begins on Panhellenic lodges. (January)
1973
"Hammer-In" Ceremony.
1974
Mary Lynn Morgan is 2nd woman to serve as an Emory Trustee.

Emory Women's Caucus organized as an advocacy group for women students, staff and faculty.
Emory Cooks Again published. (Circa date).
1975
Evangeline Papageorge retires.
Regulations enforcing Title IX are put into effect.
1976
President Sanford S. Atwood establishes President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW).
1977
PCSW completes status report; recommendation made for recruitment of highly qualified women for administrative positions.
Elizabeth Stevenson becomes associate professor.
1979
Eleonore Raoul receives an honorary degree.
1982
Elizabeth Stevenson named full professor.
1983
Women's lockers available in George W. Woodruff Physical Education Center.
1984
Elizabeth Stevenson named Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Studies.
1986
Women's Studies Program created, headed by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese .
1987
Polly Stone Buck publishes Florrie and the Blessed Town (Circa date).
1988
Women comprise 51% of EU student body.
Women and the Constitution Conference held at Carter Center.
Emory University Library School Program closes.
1989
Amy Laura Hall , student activist and feminist founds CHOICES.

1990
School of Public Health organized with women students.
1990
Delores Aldridge named Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology in 1990. 1st minority woman faculty member.
Beckett Editorial Project, Lois More Overbeck & Martha Fehsenfeld , co-editors.
April Task Force on Security and Responsibility issues report recommending creation of Women's Resource Center.
Task Force on Security and Responsibility begin planning for what will be Women's Center.
1991
Mary Lynn Morgan becomes a trustee emerita.
Advisory Committee selected to plan Women's Center goals and organizational structure.
1992
President James T. Laney authorizes establishment of Emory Women's Center.
Women's Center opens in temporary unit outside Dobbs University Center
Ali Crown named 1st Director of the Women's Center at Emory. Women's Center. Advisory board appointed
(September)
1993
Emory Seasons published
1999
Jacqueline Jordan Irvine publishes "The education of children whose nightmares occur both day and night.
" (March)
2001
Amy Wood publishes Lynching photography and the "black beast rapist" in the southern white masculine imagination in conjunction with Without Sanctuary.
2004
Women's Center relocated to permanent space in Cox Hall
2006
Marie Morris Nitschke PhD ., Librarian, receives Distinguished Emeritus Award.
2008
Dona Yarbrough named 2nd Director of the Women's Center at Emory. (Fall)