Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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m Dr. Goucher presents the plans of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church for the founding of a womanhs college, 1884.

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Dr. Hopkins 0886-1890 the most perfect development of the mental nature of women. Under this atmosphere Gaucher College has grown. Now Dr. David Allan Robertson has brought to Gaucher an appreciation of the fineness of our past, a vital interest in our present, and the assurance of a Greater Gouchef' which will be a continuation of those idealsformulatedjifty years ago. Dr. Robertson 0930- e

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9x DR. J. F. GOUCHER HELPS TO 1 8 8 8 FOUND AWOMEN'S COLLEGE 1 9 3 8 FIFTY YEARS OF DISTINC- TIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE QR 2 Ever since colonial days higher education for X young ladies had been taboo, particularly in the South. There were numer- ous Ladies' Academies and Finishing Schools, but not a single college. It is therefore particularly significant that Dr. John Franklin Gaucher, a young Methodist preacher in the South, should have ventured to break down the prejudice against the higher education of women in Baltimore, and should have sponsored a college where young ladies could be trained for better meeting all the demands of life. More significant is it that through the eforts of Dr. Gaucher and of other leaders of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, on January 26, 1885, a charter was granted by the Legislature of Maryland to the trustees of an academic institution to be known as The Womants College of Baltimore City.