{"id":1822,"date":"2011-07-18T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2011-07-18T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:00:28","slug":"firsts-for-women-in-uconn-history-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/07\/18\/firsts-for-women-in-uconn-history-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Firsts for Women in UConn History (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student government began at Storrs Agricultural College in the 1890s, but it wasn\u2019t until 1918 when a woman would serve as its leader. Gladys Dagget, who also made a first for women as business manager of the student newspaper in 1918, was president of the Students Organization that same year. When men returned from World War I, they resumed control of the student government. A separate Women\u2019s Student Government Association was established in 1918, coordinating activities and campus life for women until 1971. After a change in the constitution of the male-run student government, Henrietta Spring, a member of the Class of 1945, was elected as its first woman president in 1944.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1823\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/nutmeg_1920-1921_0148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1823\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1823   \" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/nutmeg_1920-1921_0148.jpg?w=233\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/07\/nutmeg_1920-1921_0148.jpg 553w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/07\/nutmeg_1920-1921_0148-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women&#039;s Student Council, 1920-1921 Nutmeg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>-Mark J. Roy, University Communications (retired)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student government began at Storrs Agricultural College in the 1890s, but it wasn\u2019t until 1918 when a woman would serve as its leader. Gladys Dagget, who also made a first for women as business manager of the student newspaper in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/07\/18\/firsts-for-women-in-uconn-history-part-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}