Catherine Filene Shouse (1896 – 1994) the first woman to receive a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University and the first woman appointed to the Democratic National Committee in 1919 was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007.
The National Women’s Hall of Fame, founded in Seneca Falls in 1969, was created to recognize that “the contributions of American women deserved a permanent home.”
Every year in New York Village, NY, in the very same building where the First Women’s Rights Convention was held in July of 1848, women gather to induct honorees into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes women who have made outstanding contributions to the progress of women’s freedom and to society in general.
Source Cited: http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=224
Justin Hill said,
July 2, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
I am the great great grandson of Catherine Filene Shouse. I did not know her except for what I have been told by my family. I hope to be an accomplished person as she was. I wish I had the chance to know her and for her to know me. My grandmother is the grand daughter of Catherine Shouse. I hope that one day i will get to go to Wolf Trap to see what she has accomplished (even though she accomplished much more then that) I may not have ever met her but I am proud to be her great great grandson. My name is Justin Hill