{"id":298,"date":"2015-03-02T10:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:38:28","slug":"celebrating-womens-history-at-american-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/celebrating-womens-history-at-american-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Women&#8217;s History at American University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFor over fifty years, the AU Women\u2019s Club hosted events ranging from welcome teas for foreign students to fundraisers. Founded in 1930 as the Faculty Woman\u2019s Club, it offered an annual award to a woman student who made an outstanding contribution to life of university. The student\u2019s name was engraved on friendship tray.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_299\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/Faculty-Womens-Club-Plate-Closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/Faculty-Womens-Club-Plate-Closeup-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Faculty Women's Club Friendship Tray\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty Women&#8217;s Club Friendship Tray<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The AU Women\u2019s Club membership included faculty and staff and wives of faculty and staff. Starting in 1972, they began awarding a scholarship for a woman student. By the 1980s, they were offering two awards for juniors to use in their senior year.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about women on campus, visit our exhibit, <em>All About Women: 90 Years of AU History 1893-1983<\/em>, on display on the first floor of the library.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over fifty years, the AU Women\u2019s Club hosted events ranging from welcome teas for foreign students to fundraisers. Founded in 1930 as the Faculty Woman\u2019s Club, it offered an annual award to a woman student who made an outstanding contribution to life of university. The student\u2019s name was engraved on friendship tray. The AU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-university-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}