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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
Chapter Nine: 1890 - 1899
Pre
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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