LeAta R. Jackson was the first woman of color to receive Union College's Bailey Cup award. The Bailey cup was established in 1912 and is awarded to a member of the senior class who has rendered the greatest service to the College in any field.
Nadia Duvilaire was the first woman of color to win the Daggett Prize. The Daggett prize was established in 1897 by Josephine E. Daggett and is awarded annually to a senior for "conduct and character".
W. Loretta Walker was the first black woman with faculty status to receive tenure. She served in Schaffer Library as a librarian from 1968-1981, retiring as the Head of Information Services, Ms. Walker graduated from Howard University and received an M.A. from the College of St. Rose and Masters of Library Science from SUNY Albany.
Katherine M. Stout was the first woman officially admitted to Union College for undergraduate studies.
She was described as "a top 10 percent scholar, track star, basketball player, sailplane pilot, musician, and girl."
-Encyclopedia of Union History, page 797
Urania Sheldon Nott was the third wife of President Eliphalet Nott.
Prior to her 1842 marriage, she opened a private school for young ladies that eventually moved to Schenectady in 1830. It is likely Urania first met Nott in Schenectady through social connections, in particular Mary Hosford who taught at Urania's schools and married Jonathan Pearson, UC '35 in 1841.
"Miss Sheldon has been for several years past, the principal of the Schenectady Female Seminary, which under her superintendence attained the highest rank as a school for the thorough and accomplished education of young ladies."
-Schenectady Cabinet newspaper, March 24, 1837
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