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Sarah Elmina
Sprague
1846-1913
Born: Gouverneur, N.Y.
St. Lawrence Class: 1866
Distinctions:
● One of St. Lawrence’s frst two alumnae
● Professor at University of Washington; deputy state superintendent
of schools, Minnesota
● Textbook writer (Primer and First Reader; Sprague Classic Readers),
Rand-McNally
● Part owner of Educational Gazette Co., school supplies purveyor
Florence Lee
Whitman
1862-1948
Born: Canton, N.Y.
St. Lawrence Class: 1882
Distinctions:
● Head of vocal music, Knox Col-
lege; teacher at Radclife College
● First woman elected to
Cambridge, Mass., City Council
Just a Few More…
◆ Charles S. Brewer, SLU 1891, one of the
frst to prove a baseball pitch could curve.
◆ Berton S. Clark, SLU 1911, developed
specifcations for the canning industry that
solved contamination problems; consultant
to founding government of Israel, 1948.
◆ Phyllis Forbes Clark, SLU 1912, a founder
of the North Country Library System and
developer of microflm collections.
◆ Ogden F. Conkey, SLU 1908, pioneering
ob/gyn and obstetrics professor; authority
on birth injuries and Caesarian births.
◆ Olive Mason Gunnison, SLU 1912,
renowned columnist, author and radio
hostess on gardening.
◆ Lucia E. Heaton, SLU 1879, frst woman
doctor in St. Lawrence County, and
possibly in New York State.
◆ Charlotte Kimball Kruesi, SLU 1892,
feature writer for the Bacheller Newspaper
Syndicate; public relations ofcer for In-
dustrial Relations Counselors of New York
and Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association,
in an era when these were almost exclu-
sively male felds.
◆ Frederic S. Lee, SLU 1878, president of
the American Physiological Society and
founder of its American Journal of Physiol-
ogy; U.S. Public Health Service consultant
on industrial fatigue.
◆ Almon W. Lytle, SLU 1901, long-time
New York State Supreme Court justice;
early advocate for psychological consider-
ations in crime.
◆ James Ricalton, SLU class unknown (Civil
War era), associate of Tomas Edison in
development of the incandescent lamp and
motion picture camera.
◆ Ernest L. Robinson, SLU 1911, key con-
tributor in production of the frst jet engine
built in the U.S.
◆ Dorothy Kendall Cleaveland Salisbury,
SLU 1912, outdoors writer for such
periodicals as Te Saturday Evening Post,
American Home and Family Circle; outspo-
ken advocate for Native American rights.
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