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Woman of the Century — Leonora Beck (1893)

Under the principalship of Miss Beck, with a board of trustees LEONORA BECK. selected from the best-known educators of the land, and with a corps of seventeen assistant teachers in all the various branches of learning and tine arts, the school has Liken rank with the foremost colleges for young women in the South. Socially Miss Beck is very popular. The amplitude of her mind and the generosity of her nature make her a desirable friend and interesting companion. In everything she does there is an earnest purpose, which illustrates a strong mental and spiritual law.
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Woman of the Century — Leonora Beck (1893)

Her success as an educator becoming more generally known, she was urged to accept many positions of trust and honor, but declined them. The Jackson Institute was her next field of labor, and that now famous school owes its popularity and success in a great measure to the energy of thought and action which characterized her work while connected with it. In 1889 Miss Beck removi d to Atlanta to engage in founding a first-class school for girls. That college, first known as the Capital Female College, is now known as the Leonora Beck College.
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