MISS EDITH COOPER
Miss Edith Cooper, graduate of local
schools and bachelor of arts from Mor-
gan College. She has the unusual dis-
tinction of being the first colored su-
pervisor of elementary grades.
Dr. Georgiana E. Simpson was born
in Washington, D. C. She studied at
Fraulein Wahrendorf's Seminary for
Young Women and Girls in Rostock,
Germany, and in Paris and Tours
Allance Francaise. She received her
Ph. D. degree from the University of
Chicago, June, 1921. Dr. Simpson is a
teacher of Latin, French and German
at Dunbar High School. Dunbar High
School is the only school in this coun-
try with two female members of its
faculty with a Ph. D. degree, namely,
Dr. Simpson and Dr. Dykes.
EVA BEATRICE DYKES
Eva Beatrice Dykes, one of the first
three colored women to receive the de-
giee of Ph. D., June 1921. Educated
in the public schools of Washington,
D. C.
A. B. "summa cum laude," Howard
University, 1914, College of Arts and
Sciences,
A. B. "magna cum laude," with hon-
ors in English, Radcliffe, 1917.
A. M. in English, Radcliffe College,
Cambridge, Mass., 1918.
Ph. D. in English, Radcliffe, 1921.
Subject of doctor's dissertation. "Pope
and His Influence in America from
1715 to 1850."
While at Radcliffe received two
scholarships of $200 each, one in the
under-graduate department and one in
the graduate department. At present
teacher of English, Dunbar High.
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