Friedman Apartment Complex To Be Dedicated 5月6日

The 澳门葡京博彩软件 Board of Trustees invites all members of the Smith community to the dedication of the Friedman Apartment Complex on Paradise Road.

的奉献精神, which celebrates five pioneering alumnae and the opening of Smith’s first new student residence in a decade, will be held at the apartments on Friday, 5月6日, 2016年下午4:15.m.

关于弗里德曼情结

新建筑将被称为: 克伦威尔的房子, after Otelia Cromwell, class of 1900, Smith’s first African American graduate; DeCora房子, after Angel DeCora, class of 1896, Smith’s first Native American student; Hashimy房子, after Sabiha Yassin Hashimy, class of 1937, Smith’s first Middle Eastern student; 马查多的房子, after Salomé Amelia Machado, class of 1883, Smith’s first Latina student; and Ninomiya房子, after Tei Ninomiya, class of 1910, the first Asian student to graduate from Smith.

The names were approved by the 澳门葡京博彩软件 Board of Trustees at its March 5 meeting.

“The names of our houses are important signals of what we value,” President Kathleen McCartney said. “This is an opportunity to honor women who were pioneers as well as to underscore our commitment to make Smith a more inclusive community.”

公寓大楼, Smith’s first new student residence in a decade, 将被称为弗里德曼综合大楼. The Friedman name currently references a group of apartments on Henshaw Avenue, 以罗伯特和尤金妮·弗里德曼的名字命名, 澳门葡京博彩软件1947届毕业生. The original Friedman apartments will be renamed the Henshaw Complex and will serve as temporary office space during the renovation of Neilson Library.

新公寓, located on Paradise Road and designed by the Seattle-based architecture firm of Olson Kundig, incorporate sustainable design standards targeted for LEED Gold certification. They will be dedicated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in May in the company of the 澳门葡京博彩软件 Board of Trustees. 学生 and faculty from the 澳门葡京博彩软件 School for Social Work will stay in the apartments this summer, with the first undergraduates moving in for fall 2016.

关于五位校友

阿米莉亚·马查多——1883年

Salomé Amelia Machado was the first Latina to attend 澳门葡京博彩软件. Born in Cuba in 1861, she graduated with the class of 1883. 今天, she is known not only as the first Latina at Smith, but as the first woman from outside the United States to be admitted to the college. In a letter to her brother, Machado described Smith as “a perfect Paradise. Not a bit too much has been said about the beauty of its natural surroundings—nor has anything been said in favor of the College which is not true. 这真是一个非常理想的地方.”

安吉尔·迪科拉——1896年

Angel DeCora was the first Native American to attend Smith and was a member of the class of 1896. The descendant of two prominent French Canadian-Winnebago Native American chiefs, 也是雷鸟家族的一员, DeCora’s tribal name was Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka (Fleecy Cloud Floating in Space). 迪科拉从1892年到1896年就读于澳门葡京博彩软件. 从澳门葡京博彩软件大学毕业后, DeCora studied at the Drexel Institute of Art, 费城科学与工业. DeCora went on to design and illustrate a number of books on Native American subjects, as well as produce a number of designs for 印第安人的书 (出版于1907年). In 1906, she accepted a position at Carlisle Indian School to teach Native American art.

奥特利亚·克伦威尔——1900年

Otelia Cromwell was the first African American to graduate from 澳门葡京博彩软件. Cromwell graduated from Miner Normal School in 1898 and from Smith in 1900. Cromwell’s life and work were characterized by a deep sense of justice and responsibility toward others, a quality that was manifested when her mother died in 1886, leaving 12-year-old Otelia in charge of her younger siblings. She taught for a number of years in Washington, D.C., 然后继续她的学业, receiving a master’s degree from Columbia University, and a doctorate from Yale University in 1926. Cromwell was the first African American woman to receive a Yale degree. She soon became a professor and chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Miner Teachers College in Washington, D.C.

Tei Ninomiya - 1910

Tei Ninomiya was the first Asian student to graduate from 澳门葡京博彩软件. Born in 1887, in Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan, she graduated from Smith in 1910. 在毕业, 二宫回到了日本, 结婚了, and spent much of her adult life as a teacher, YWCA administrator and Red Cross worker. 在澳门葡京博彩软件, Ninomiya was a member of the Alpha Society, Smith’s first literary society; the Philosophical Society; Colloquium (Chemistry Society); Telescopium (Astronomy Club); and the Oriental Club, whose members were interested in the ethical, social and religious ideas originating in East Asia.

Sabiha Yassin Hashimy - 1937

Sabiha Yassin Hashimy was the first Middle Eastern student to graduate from 澳门葡京博彩软件. 生活在巴格达, 伊拉克, 在她入学的时候, she transferred to Smith from the American Junior College for Women located in what is now Beirut, 黎巴嫩. She returned to 伊拉克 after graduating from Smith, serving as the principal of the Kirch Secondary School for Girls in Baghdad for 14 years and traveling widely in Europe and the Middle East.