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'Today's Woman Needs a College Education'—Scholarship Donor
Daily Kansan Thursday, October 28, 1965
"Well, her degree may not help her hang curtains. But it makes her a better helpmate. Married to a college man, she has to be able to talk to him.
"Don't forget too that there are many demands on women today . . to fill their role in community life."
"I THINK education is required of us all . . . it has nothing to do with sex," said Grace Smith Dickinson.
"You ask me, why educate a girl who settles down to marriage during or after college.
"THEER JUST aren't as many scholarships for girls around as there are for men," said Mrs. Dickinson. "I think everyone should have a chance to go to college . . . but there are so many who can't afford it.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Today's woman needs a college education, no matter if she never goes into a profession, says a woman who has just given $1 million to furthering education.
Mrs. Dickinson is an active
"They also serve—who only do housework," said Mrs. Fairleigh Dickinson, widow of the businessman who helped found the north New Jersey university which bears the Dickinson name.
The $1 million gift is the largest single one ever made to the school's endowment fund, which now stands at $11.5 million. The grant is to be used primarily for scholarships, with emphasis on help for women students and for all who might not be able to attend college otherwise.
Math Important As Language?
Prof. Clark Bricker, head of freshman chemistry, raised the question of why students entering KU without two years of high school language should be required to have five hours added to their graduation requirement.
"Why language?" Bricker said at a faculty meeting yesterday. "Science is a humanity just as English."
Although languages are important, he says that he thinks mathematics are more necessary to the average citizen.
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Mrs. Dickinson recalled that the first library on the campus was patterned after that in their home. And one of the first things her husband did was to decide where the flagpole should be located—in front of "The Castle," the original home of the school and still the administration building.
The first year's enrollment was 153 students. Today, the university is fully accredited with undergraduate and graduate schools and a branch, Wroxton College near Oxford, England. Mrs. Dickinson dedicated the foreign branch last June.
woman in her 70's—although she won't confirm the exact number of years. She travels a great deal, plays competitive golf, and once made a hole in one at the Ridgewood, N.J., Country Club where she is a member. Her figure is as erect as a girl's, and as slim.
HER HUSBAND was the head of Becton, Dickinson & Co., makers of surgical instruments. Their son, Fairleigh Dickinson Jr., now is head of the company and also is on the university's board of trustees.
She shared the interests of her late husband in helping to found the school 25 years ago with an initial gift of $50,000.
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