Timeline
Gertrude Weil, 1879 - 1971
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1879 |
Born on December 11 in Goldsboro, NC, to Mina (Rosenthal) and Henry Weil |
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1897 |
Graduates from Horace Mann High School at Columbia Teachers College in New York |
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1900 |
Participates in mock presidential election at Smith College, sparking her interest in the cause of woman's suffrage |
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1901 |
Graduates from Smith College, Northampton, MA, becoming North Carolina's first Smith alumna Joins Goldsboro Woman's Club, later serving three terms as president |
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1914 |
Helps establish and becomes president of Goldsboro Equal Suffrage League Elected First Vice President of North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs |
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1916 |
Begins fight for state-wide survey of women's labor conditions |
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1919 |
Becomes president of North Carolina Equal Suffrage League |
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1920 |
Founds and serves as first president of North Carolina League of Women Voters |
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1924 |
Elected to first of three terms as president of North Carolina Association of Jewish Women |
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1926 |
Begins decades of work with North Carolina Conference for Social Service |
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1927 |
Becomes president of Goldsboro Bureau of Social Service |
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1932 |
Joins North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation, serving on it and its successor organization for over 25 years Serves as president of Temple Oheb Sholom Sisterhood, Goldsboro |
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1933 |
Appointed Director of Federal Public Relief Work for Goldsboro, responsible for administering local New Deal relief efforts |
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c.1936 |
With her mother, begins years of efforts to rescue Jewish refugees from persecution in Europe |
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1957 |
Receives honorary doctorate from University of North Carolina-Greensboro |
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1963 |
Organizes Bi-Racial Council for City of Goldsboro |
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1964 |
Receives Smith College Medal in its first year, "for a lifetime of service to the cultural, charitable, religious and political welfare of her state" |
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1971 |
Dies on May 30 at the age of 91, in same house in which she was born |

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