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Join us! Next Campus Club Public Program is Wednesday, April 29, at 3PM!Dear Campus Club Members,
Please join us Wednesday, April 29, 3:00 p.m. at the Kendal Auditorium for our fourth Campus Club Public Program of 2025 - 26! This event is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, so feel free to share this invitation with friends.
HELEN BREWSTER OWENS:
SUFFRAGIST AND MATHEMATICIAN
As a mathematician, teacher, suffrage organizer, faculty wife, and mother, Helen defied many of the stereotypes of early-20th-century women. In 1907, she became the first woman to serve as a mathematics instructor at Cornell after earning her Ph.D. in that department. With her family's support, Helen became active in the Ithaca suffrage movement. She was an energetic worker, an efficient organizer, and an inspiring lecturer in central New York and in Kansas. Throughout her life, Helen remained interested in women’s rights and women in mathematics and science. Her story provides a fascinating glimpse of a remarkable woman.
About the Presenter: Elaine Engst, Cornell University Archivist Emerita, served in the Cornell University Library in many roles, notably as Director of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and Cornell University Archivist, until her retirement in 2015. She has given numerous presentations, curated exhibitions, and written articles and books.
Retirement now allows to do her own research. She co-authored Beulah Land: The Long Struggle for Suffrage in Tompkins County, New York in 2019 and Send These to Me: Immigration and Ethnicity in Tompkins County in 2022, with Carol Kammen, as well as co-editing and writing chapters for Beyond Borders: Exploring the History of Cornell’s Global Dimensions, 2024. She was a member of the Board of Trustees of The History Center and currently serves on the CAPE (Cornell Academics and Professors Emeriti) Executive Council.
Elaine Engst, Cornell University Archivist Emerita
Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 3:00-4:00 PM
Kendal Auditorium, 2230 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca
DIRECTIONS TO THE KENDAL AT ITHACA AUDITORIUM:
We strongly encourage carpooling to this event! Enter the Kendal campus via Savage Farm Drive at 2230 North Triphammer Road. At the end of this short road, turn LEFT onto the “Ring Road” and continue until you see a sign on the right that includes “Visitor South Parking.” Turn right into the Visitors Parking Lot. If this lot is full, it should be acceptable to parallel park on the grass along the side of the Ring Road as long as you are careful not to block the crosswalk or other paths.
Enter Kendal’s main building under the portico. Continue through the hallway at the LEFT of the Reception desk and walk past the coatroom and the restrooms on the LEFT. The Auditorium entrance is just beyond.
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2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850-6513, United States
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