To celebrate Women’s History Month, Monday’s trivia question asked about the female graduates of Western Reserve College.
Nancy Talbot Clark was the first woman to graduate from Western Reserve’s medical school, nine years after it opened in 1852. She was just the second woman in the United States to earn a regular medical degree.
However, it wasn’t until 50 years after the establishment of Western Reserve College that the first female undergraduate—Viola Smith Buell—obtained a degree from the college in 1876.
To learn more about the history of women at Case Western Reserve, check out the timeline created by University Archives at case.edu/its/archives/Women/women.htm.