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1966 Rose-Mar College of Beauty shooting: 18-year-old Robert Smith took seven people, including four students, into a backroom at Rose-Mar College of Beauty and ordered them to lie down in a circle. He shot each in the head. Four women and a 3-year-old girl died; another woman and a baby were injured but survived.
Helen Faison (BA 1946, MA 1955, PhD 1975), first African American, first woman to become superintendent of Pittsburgh district schools; Claire Finkelstein, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Christine Fulwylie-Bankston (PhD 1974) – educator, writer, civil rights activist; Adam Herbert – president of Indiana University
Lynnland Female Institute or Lynnland Female College, Glendale, Kentucky started in 1867 In the 1870s, it became co-educational as the Lynnland Military Institution with the women taught in a separate department. Closed in 1879. By 1888, the school returned to its former status as a college for women and renamed Lynnland Female College. After ...
UMS-Wright Preparatory opened as University Military School on October 2, 1893, at 559 Conti Street. The school's founder and first headmaster was Dr. Julius T. Wright (1871–1931). The school’s opening day coincided with the 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane. The school had a single teacher and twenty-five pupils at a tuition of $8 a month.
Deshauna Barber (born December 6, 1989) is an American motivational speaker, beauty pageant titleholder and captain in the United States Army Reserve. [2] On June 5, 2016, she was crowned Miss USA 2016 by the outgoing titleholder Olivia Jordan of Oklahoma . [ 3 ]
Dr. Gertrude A. Barber, Founder of the Barber National Institute. The Barber National Institute was founded in 1952 by the late Dr. Gertrude A. Barber. [1] An educator and administrator in the Erie City School District in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dr. Barber, along with a small group of local teachers and parents, opened a one-classroom school in the local YMCA for children with developmental ...
Fork Union Military Academy (abbreviated as FUMA) is a private, all-male, college preparatory Christian military boarding school located in Fork Union, Virginia. Founded in 1898, Fork Union is considered one of the premier military boarding academies in the United States.
This is a list of current and former schools in the Pittsburgh Public Schools district. It includes all of the following: Schools inherited from the old Pittsburgh and Allegheny City districts when the current school district was organized in 1911. Schools inherited from other boroughs and townships which were annexed to the city of Pittsburgh ...