Gladys West went from a one-room schoolhouse in rural Virginia to college and to working on planetary motions and modeling. “I really did like geometry,” she said of her high school years. “I fell in love with that.” Courtesy of the West family hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the West family She navigated segregation […]
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Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111 : NPR
Renfrow Smith in her cap and gown the day she graduated from Grinnell College in 1937. Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collection hide caption toggle caption Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collection Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a […]