{"id":218,"date":"2011-01-15T02:18:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-12-09T01:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T01:21:57","slug":"susan-jacobson-orient-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/process-of-coeducation\/susan-jacobson-orient-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Jacobson Orient Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Susan Jacobson: Bowdoin\u2019s First Woman Graduate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article \u201cBowdoin Graduates Its First Woman Student\u201d in Bowdoin\u2019s student newspaper, the <em>Orient<\/em>, from June 4, 1971 (Document EN, 21), highlights an important milestone in Bowdoin\u2019s history. Susan Jacobson studied at Bowdoin as an exchange student from Connecticut College through the Twelve College Exchange Program during her junior year. She was able to return for a third semester in the fall of 1970, which happened to be the same semester that Bowdoin decided to become coeducational. Although women were not expected to graduate until the spring of 1972, Jacobson made a strong case for herself and, after conversations between Bowdoin\u2019s Dean of the College, Professor A. LeRoy Greason, Jr., and officials at Connecticut College, it was decided that she would be allowed to transfer and then graduate from Bowdoin in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The interview with Jacobson reveals some of the intricacies of life for Bowdoin\u2019s first women students. Jacobson recalls that in her first year at Bowdoin, men seemed unable to find the women\u2019s house a few blocks away from campus, but that, having moved closer to campus her second year, the women had many more visitors. She stated that \u201c\u2018Bowdoin men have gone out of their way to be nice,\u2019\u201d but also that some of the men \u201c\u2018don\u2019t know how to treat girls and often put them on a different plane.\u2019\u201d Jacobson\u2019s experiences parallel those of other women from the first and early classes at Bowdoin, as the oral histories for this project reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Susan Jacobson passed away in the fall of 2010, so we could not interview her as part of this project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-403\" title=\"EN21- Bowdoin Graduates Its First Woman Student\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/document-en-21.jpg\" alt=\"EN21- Bowdoin Graduates Its First Woman Student\" width=\"650\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/document-en-21.jpg 650w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/document-en-21-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EN21- Bowdoin Graduates Its First Woman Student<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Jacobson: Bowdoin\u2019s First Woman Graduate The article \u201cBowdoin Graduates Its First Woman Student\u201d in Bowdoin\u2019s student newspaper, the Orient, from June 4, 1971 (Document EN, 21), highlights an important milestone in Bowdoin\u2019s history. 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