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SUMMARY:Bayer to Speak at Blackwell Dedication Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer joins a panel of distinguished speakers for the unveiling of the historic plaque marking the hospital founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Class of 1849\, the first woman in America to receive her degree as a Doctor of Medicine. \nThe dedication ceremony\, hosted by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation\, will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday\, May 14 at 58 Bleecker Street in New York\, N.Y.\, the site of The New York Infirmary for Women and Children\, the first hospital for women\, staffed by women\, and run by women. \nFollowing her graduation at the head of her class from Hobart’s precursor\, the medical school of Geneva College\, Blackwell not only founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children but aided in the creation of its medical college. After returning to England\, she helped found the National Health Society\, was the first woman to be placed on the British Medical Register\, and taught at England’s first college of medicine for women. She was a pioneer in preventive medicine and in the promotion of antisepsis and hygiene and was responsible for the first chair of hygiene in any medical college. \nFind out more and register for the event. \n \nBayer is an expert on the intersections of women’s history\, psychology\, science\, religion and spirituality. She has explored the abolitionist and women’s rights movements\, and their common history in central New York. Recognized for her outstanding teaching\, Bayer received the Colleges’ Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2004 and the Community Service Award in 2009. She has served as the chair of the Women’s Studies Program since 2001 and directed the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men from 2002 to 2009. Bayer serves as president of the board of directors of the National Women’s Hall of Fame where Dr. Blackwell is among the inaugural class of inductees named in 1973. Follow the NWHF on Facebook\, and on Instagram. \nA former senior fellow at the Martin Marty Center for the Study of Religion at the University of Chicago\, Bayer earned her Ph.D.\, M.A. and B.A. in psychology from Carleton University\, Ottawa\, Canada. \nGeneva College was renamed Hobart Free College in 1852 and Hobart College in 1860. \nThe statue of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (pictured above) sits on the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. It was sculpted by HWS Professor of Art and Architecture A.E. Ted Aub.
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