{"id":500,"date":"2021-08-09T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/women-at-bowdoin\/?page_id=500"},"modified":"2021-08-12T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:17:09","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/women-at-bowdoin\/timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1794<\/td>Bowdoin College founded.<\/td><\/tr>
1833<\/td>Oberlin College becomes first college in the United States to admit women.<\/td><\/tr>
1862<\/td>Mary Jane Patterson is the first Black woman to receive a college degree in the United States.<\/td><\/tr>
1871<\/td>Joshua Chamberlain proposes coeducation at Bowdoin in his Inaugural Address.<\/td><\/tr>
1876<\/td>Seven of the twenty-seven students at Bowdoin\u2019s Summer Science Institute are women.<\/td><\/tr>
1891<\/td>Mary Sophia and Harriet Sarah Walker donate a building \u201cexclusively for art purposes” in memory of their uncle.<\/td><\/tr>
1901<\/td>Sarah Orne Jewett is the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Bowdoin, for her work as a writer; the College will grant twenty-three honorary degrees to women before the introduction of coeducation.<\/td><\/tr>
1922<\/td>Kate Douglas Wiggin, Bowdoin\u2019s second woman honorary degree recipient, founds the Society of Bowdoin Women.<\/td><\/tr>
1943<\/td>During World War II, Bowdoin hires Marion C. Holmes to teach mathematics and Ruth Y. Yeaton and Marguerite D. Little to teach meteorology in a specialized military training program.<\/td><\/tr>
1962<\/td>Bernice S. Engler and Carolyn M. Mann become the first women to be awarded earned degrees through Bowdoin. They both receive a master of arts degree through the Mathematics Institute program supported by the National Science Foundation.<\/td><\/tr>
1969<\/td>The Twelve College Exchange Program brings the first women full-time students to Bowdoin.

The Report of the Study Committee on Underclass Environment (the Pierce Report) recommends implementing coeducation.<\/td><\/tr>
1971<\/td>Susan Jacobson becomes the first woman to graduate from Bowdoin.\u00a0

Seventy transfer and sixty-five first-year women matriculate in the first coed class.

Bowdoin\u2019s first women’s sports event is a field hockey game with coached by Sally LaPointe.<\/td><\/tr>
1972<\/td>Patricia A. (Barney) Geller \u201875 becomes the first woman president of a fraternity in the United States\u00a0Bowdoin Women\u2019s Association is established.

The College hires Helen Cafferty as the first woman faculty member to go through the ranks: from assistant to associate to full professor.<\/td><\/tr>
1973<\/td>Sociology professor Matilda White Riley is the first woman to become a full professor.

Rosalyne Spindel Bernstein becomes the first woman elected to the Board of Overseers.<\/td><\/tr>
1975<\/td>Saddie Smith, one of the first Black women students at Bowdoin, graduates with the first class of women to complete four years.<\/td><\/tr>
1976<\/td>Bowdoin\u2019s first all-women a cappella group, Miscellania, created.<\/td><\/tr>
1977<\/td>First women\u2019s studies class offered, through German department.<\/td><\/tr>
1980<\/td>Bowdoin opens the Women\u2019s Resource Center at 24 College Street.<\/td><\/tr>
1983<\/td>Bowdoin\u2019s first and only all-women fraternity, Alpha Beta Phi, is founded.<\/td><\/tr>
1985<\/td>Joan Benoit (Samuelson) \u201979 receives the Bowdoin Prize, first and only woman to be awarded the prize since its inception in 1933.<\/td><\/tr>
1988<\/td>Women\u2019s studies minor established.<\/td><\/tr>
1989<\/td>Mariko Onuki and Miyako Satoh become two of the first Asian women professors at Bowdoin.<\/td><\/tr>
1992<\/td>Women\u2019s studies major established.<\/td><\/tr>
1994<\/td>The original alma mater, titled \u201cRise Sons of Bowdoin,\u201d is changed to \u201cRaise Songs to Bowdoin\u201d with new gender-neutral lyrics \u201cour nurturer and friend\u201d replacing \u201ca nurturer of men.\u201d Anthony Antolini \u201963, the chorus director, proposed these changes which the Alumni Council voted unanimously to approve.<\/td><\/tr>
1997<\/td>The Women\u2019s Resource Center begins sponsoring annual performances of Eve Enseler\u2019s play The Vagina Monologues <\/em>which details the many experiences of being a woman.<\/td><\/tr>
2002<\/td>Professors Kristen Ghodsee and Jennifer Scanlon are hired as first faculty members appointed full-time to Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/td><\/tr>
2005<\/td>Women\u2019s Studies Program changes name to Gender and Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/td><\/tr>
2007<\/td>Women\u2019s field hockey team first Bowdoin team to win NCAA National Championship.<\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>Kelly Fayard, assistant professor of Anthropology, becomes the first woman Native American hired.<\/td><\/tr>
2015<\/td>The Office of Gender Violence Prevention and Education is officially established.<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>The Women\u2019s Resource Center and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity combine and form the Sexuality, Women, and Gender Center (SWAG).

Inspired by The Vagina Monologues<\/em>, students produce the first performance of RISE: Untold Stories of Bowdoin Women<\/em>.

The Free Flow Initiative provides menstruation products in campus bathrooms.

Second floor women\u2019s bathroom in Smith Union is converted to a gender-inclusive bathroom.<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>The Lived Name Initiative launches.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Bowdoin celebrates fifty years of women\u2019s admittance at the College.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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