Lunch & Learn for April

“Wrought With Steadfast Will

and
The Historic Connections Between Emma Willard and Rensselaer” 

 

Presenter:  Trudy J. Hanmer,

Associate Head Emerita at Emma Willard School

As associate head of Emma Willard School for 30 years, Trudy played a variety of roles, including director of college counseling, director of admissions, and member of the history department.  During 1986-1987 and 1989-1990, she served as acting head of school.  From her earliest days on the campus, she was fascinated by the school's history and was determined to capture that history in a book someday.  Wrought With Steadfast Will: A History of Emma Willard School  is the result.  Find out what connections Emma (1787--1870) had to RPI, which was founded three years after she founded Troy Female Seminary, the original name for her independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women. 
 

Image of Emma Willard
courtesy of Rensselaer's
Archives and Special Collections

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:  Friday, April 12

Time:  12noon to 1pm

Place:  Folsom Library's Fischbach Room

 

 

Adrienne Birchler

Coordinator

Friends of the Folsom Library