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About Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt (April 1, 1877 - January 28, 1948) was an educator, activist, and prominent member and leader of numerous organizations. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, completed her doctoral dissertation at Yale, and studied as a fellow at Oxford. After teaching at the University of Idaho, the Lewiston State Normal School, and with the Extension Division of the University of California, she was elected president of Mills College in 1916, and held the position until 1943, making her the longest serving president in the history of the school.
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“The future of our country depends on our educational institutions. They will be kept democratic.”
“Today in a land where all women inherit civic responsibility, where professions and business are open to all comers without distinction of sex, leadership through direct influence is woman’s unchallenged heritage.”
“Yesterday’s woman was expected to have individual interests, caring for the brightness of the hearth fire and the comforts of the family group. Today she has inherited the community and the community’s welfare. Civics, religion and education have become her field of activity. She is homemaker and citizen.”
“Religion and education meet in their responsibility to make possible the abundant life—the terms are intellectual and spiritual, rather than material. Humane living is assured only to those ... who have disciplined themselves to choose and who have the ardor to strive for the excellent “with heart and soul and mind.””
“[E]ducation in a democracy, in our democracy, must use all the instruments of civilization, home, church, community, as well as school, for the adequate, suitable development of each child. This means that character and imagination, as well as heart and hand, are developed together.
Education in a democracy must consciously direct reading and observation, principle and practice to the happiness, the responsibilities, and the participation of group living. Government in a democracy is not “they,” it is “us.””
Education in a democracy must consciously direct reading and observation, principle and practice to the happiness, the responsibilities, and the participation of group living. Government in a democracy is not “they,” it is “us.””
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Lyons on Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
“She is a life member of more literary organizations than probably any other woman of California.”
Evelyn Steel Little on Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
“You felt that she cared greatly about you as an individual. She believe in you and what you could become, and her faith in you, like her optimism, was contagious, giving you self-confidence and power so that you could not doubt yourself. She had a strange capacity for making you feel capable of anything.”
Frederick May Elliot on Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
“as distinguished a Unitarian as there is in the land”
About Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt (April 1, 1877 - January 28, 1948) was an educator, activist, and prominent member and leader of numerous organizations. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, completed her doctoral dissertation at Yale, and studied as a fellow at Oxford. After teaching at the University of Idaho, the Lewiston State Normal School, and with the Extension Division of the University of California, she was elected president of Mills College in 1916, and held the position until 1943, making her the longest serving president in the history of the school.