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This website is the creation of the Spring 2003 Website Development Class offered by the School of Communication at The University of Akron. This class was offered through the Mass Media Area (News concentration) and was taught by Kathleen Endres. Students enrolled in this class were advanced undergraduate News majors and graduate students.

Students worked with a list of some 400 women from Akron who, by virtue of the job they held, business they ran or volunteer organization that they were involved with, made important contributions to city, regional, state or national life. That list was developed from an examination of primary and secondary materials relating to Akron.

Students used primary and secondary materials (for a complete bibliography, click here) to prepare the biographical essays provided in this website and the historical materials that appear in the kid's website. Additional materials on other women will be added later to this website.

This website was designed by Joshua Surgeon, a graduate student in the School of Communication. Writers and researchers were: Angela Abel, Janelle Baltputnis, Stephanie Devers, Nicholas DiGennaro, Penny Fox, Zachary Jackson, Gina Monroe, Casey Moore, and Jennifer Petric.

Students also developed the related publicity and promotional materials associated with this website.

We're pleased to announce that this website has won a number of awards. To see them, click here.

Photo courtesy of The University of Akron Archives.