Ferol Esther Thorpe
Toronto Daily Star, June 8 1935
I'm not sure why the editors of a Toronto paper chose to put a photo of a woman from North Dakota on the front page. They had to fill it with something, she seems to be pleasant-looking, and she was the first woman to obtain the fellowship; I suppose that these are reasons enough.
Ms. Thorpe had an unusual first name, but I wasn't able to find much on her when I did a search. I did find her obituary, though: she moved to California, got married in 1942, and passed away in 2000 at the age of 86.
Created September 1, 2025.