Women’s Yearbooks, 1912-1952 1912 Yearbook of the Class of 1913

The first women’s yearbook at the University of Pennsylvania dates to 1912 when a group of women from the Class of 1913 prepared a manuscript record of thirty pages. The volume includes a dedication from members of the Class of 1913, a list of the featured Class of 1912 members with brief descriptive quotes, a poem, a prophecy, autographs, and photographs. All copies were prepared by hand, with prints of photographs hand-pasted to the pages.

Class of 1913 women, in 1912 Women’s Yearbook

Women from the Class of 1912 Featured in This Record

Carrie Adler, B.S. 1912
Mary Baylson, B.A. 1912
Lillian Elizabeth Bates, B.S. in Biology 1912
Elsa Wilhelmina Berger, B.S. 1912
Ethel Downsborough, B.S. 1912
Margaret Wasson Henderson, B.S. in Biology 1912
Nellie Welsh Lohr, B.A. 1912
Sarah Evelyn Miles, B.S. 1912
Mary Clagett Patterson, B.S. 1912
Alice Rodman, B.S. 1912
Jessie A. Rodman, B.S. 1912
Florence M. Schlarbaum, B.A. 1912
Myrtle Imogene Schock, B.S. in Biology 1912

Women from Other Classes Found in This Record

The young women identified in the photographs include some of these members of the Class of 1912 as well as 22 women who were members of other classes at Penn.

Class of 1911

Sophie Elizabeth Foell, B.S. in Biology 1911
Blanche Thanhuaser Roggenburger, B.S. 1911
Helen Katherine Sawyer, B.S. in Biology, 1911
Anita Price Shollenberger, B.A. 1911
Lizette Paravicini, B.A. 1911

Class of 1913

Grace Esther Berg, Class of 1913
Gretchen Anna Carow, B.S. 1913
Helen Sarah Gilmore, B.S. in Biology 1913
Mildred Goshow, B.S. 1913
Olive Ray Haldeman, B.S. in Biology 1913
May Lewis Laramy, B.S. in Biology, 1913
Hilda Elsa Lowe, B.S. 1913
Frances Warner Lyons, B.S. in Biology 1913
Marion Richardson Prince, B.A. 1913
Katherine Creamer Read, B.S. 1913

Class of 1914

Clara Amelia Holtzhausser, B.A. 1914
Julia Clara Holtzhausser, B.S. 1914
Mary Gertrude Slaght, B.S. in Biology, 1914
Iva Honora Sprowles, B.A. 1914
Elizabeth Steinbrook, Class of 1914, A.B. 1924

Class of 1915

Belle Davis, B.S. 1915
Achsan Lippincott, B.S. 1915

Members of the Class of 1912 Not Found in This Record

At least ten female members of Penn’s undergraduate class of 1912 are NOT mentioned in this record. The omissions include two women who earned their Bachelor of Arts degrees (Emily Foulkrod and Michele Frasca), two women who earned their Bachelor of Music degrees (Josie M. Holton and Florence Emily Taylor), and six women who earned their Bachelor of Science degrees (Alice Potter Ervin, Mary Thornton Haydock, Anne and Elizabeth Linton, Adeline Kerr Merritt, and Mary Craig Peacock).