In 1911 a nearly penniless widow who called herself Katharine Gibbs sold her jewelry, scraped a $1,000 loan together, and bought a ramshackle “business school” in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, ...

Diana Lin Durand studied mathematics when girls were encouraged to enroll in home economics and secretarial classes. While taking all the very difficult math classes in the mid-1960s at Millersville ...

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women; By Vanda Krefft Algonquin Books; 279 pp., $29.00 Nor was she even a “Katharine.” She had been born ...