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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy











                                                                       Chapter Nine: 1890 - 1899

















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                                          President Oscar Clute allowed female students
                                            at FAC to wear cadet uniforms and to drill.




                                     Daisy Rogers,
                                  who earned a degree
                                  in    engineering
                                  (1895), was the first
                                  woman to graduate
                                  from FAC. She was
                                  one of seventeen
                                  women         who
                                  received
                                  undergraduate
                                  degrees from FAC
                                  between 1884 and
                                  1904, during which
                                  period the college
                                  awarded ninety-nine
                                  undergraduate           The class of 1895 at FAC included
                                  degrees. 29                 Daisy Rogers (see arrow).




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