- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Rankin Foundation Founders
- Date of Original:
- 1978
- Subject:
- College students--Georgia--Athens
Women college students--Georgia--Athens
Scholarships--Georgia--Athens
Nonprofit organizations--Georgia
Endowments--Georgia
Women--Education
Chandeliers--Georgia--Athens
Technical institutes--Students
Women--Georgia--Athens
Jeannette Rankin Foundation (Athens, Ga.)
Women--Scholarships, fellowships, etc--Georgia
Dendy, Gail
Kleiner, Heather
Holt, Margaret
Rivers, Reita
Friedricks, Fred
Dixon, Barbara
Bailey, Sue
Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The founders of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation present the organization's first grant to Barbara Dixon, a student at Athens Technical College, in 1978. Standing, from left: Gail Dendy, Heather Kleiner, Margaret Holt, Reita Rivers. Seated, from left: Fred Friedricks (of Athens Technical College), Barbara Dixon, and Sue Bailey.
Photograph of the founders of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation presenting the organization's first grant to Barbara Dixon, a student at Athens Technical College in Athens, Georgia, in 1978. They pose in a sitting room. Standing, from left: Gail Dendy, Heather Kleiner, Margaret Holt, Reita Rivers. Seated, from left: Fred Friedricks (of Athens Technical College), Barbara Dixon, and Sue Bailey. Bailey hands Dixon a check, and all face forward and smile.
A national nonprofit organization based in Athens, Georgia, the Jeannette Rankin Foundation awards scholarships annually to low-income women thirty-five years of age and older who seek financial assistance for undergraduate or vocational programs. The foundation bears the name of Jeannette Rankin, who in 1916 became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/jeannette-rankin-foundation/m-8685/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Jeannette Rankin Foundation
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/jeannette-rankin-foundation
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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