WINTHROP WOMEN MAKE

Winthrop Founding President David Bancroft Johnson created the then-Winthrop Training School in 1886 as an all-female teacher train- ing institution.

“The sun never sets on Winthrop daughters,” Johnson would fondly say, referring to how many women had graduated from the institu- tion and then gone on to build extraordinary

lives in schools, businesses, hospitals, the military, community service organizations and more.

March is Women’s History Month, the per- fect time to reflect on Johnson’s words and to look at the historic impact that Winthrop women have made:

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