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Primary source: Southern New York Branch of the American Association of Unviersity Women, mintues of meetings, 1901 & 1908.
Caption: Frances Johnson was the first recipient of a college loan from a branch of the American Association of University Women. This enabled her to attend Cornell University. She is discussed in the minutes of the branch, published in 1925.
I. Minutes. . . May 17, 1901, Papers of the American Association of University Women, Binghamton University Special Collections, Notebook 1.
The committee on scholarship announced that four applications were received before May 7; and that the loan has been granted to Frances Johnson who expects to go to Cornell. The decision was made on four points: Health, the need of money, character, scholarship above the average.
IV. Minutes. . . March 20, 1908, Papers of the American Association of University Women, Binghamton University Special Collections, Notebook 2, p.9.
Miss Johnson gave a talk on "The Growth of City Governments."
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Minutes of the Southern New York Branch of the American Association of Unviersity Women from meetings 17 May 1901 and 20 March 1908, Papers of the American Association of University Women, Binghamton University Special Collections, Notebooks 1 & 2.
Courtesy of the Women and Social Movements web site, a project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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