{"id":5235,"date":"2019-02-07T17:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=5235"},"modified":"2019-02-07T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:07:26","slug":"first-female-honorary-degree-recipient","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/features\/women-at-the-summit\/first-female-honorary-degree-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"First Female Honorary Degree Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/files\/2019\/02\/Hewins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5302\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/files\/2019\/02\/Hewins-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"newspaper clip\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a>Caroline Maria Hewins, chief librarian of the Hartford Public Library, became the first female to receive an honorary degree from Trinity when she was awarded an honorary master\u2019s of arts degree in 1911. She was recognized for her work in opening libraries to children, sparking a transformation in the purpose and reach of institutions across the country. Connecticuthistory.org has more on <a href=\"https:\/\/connecticuthistory.org\/the-public-library-movement-caroline-hewins-makes-room-for-young-readers\/\">Hewins and her impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Hartford <em>Courant<\/em> article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/files\/2019\/02\/W19coedfirstsCarolineHewinsJune1911CourantfromHHC-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity College Commencement in 1911<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Maria Hewins, chief librarian of the Hartford Public Library, became the first female to receive an honorary degree from Trinity when she was awarded an honorary master\u2019s of arts degree in 1911. She was recognized for her work in opening libraries to children, sparking a transformation in the purpose and reach of institutions across &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/features\/women-at-the-summit\/first-female-honorary-degree-recipient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Female Honorary Degree Recipient&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":5419,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5235\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-winter2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}