The National Association of University Women Founders
Dr. Sara W. Brown, 1894 while a teacher of English at the Normal School in the District of Columbia took a leave of absence from Cornell University. Upon her return she taught science at the prestigious M Street School and enrolled at Howard University's medical department from which she later graduated. While advancing in her career as an educator, she took advanced courses, in pathology and physiology at Howard and maintained a part-time medical practice for twenty-five years.
She was a pioneer in health education for women and girls; was a member of the "flying squadron" of fifty women physicians appointed by the Women's War Work Council; was appointed by the American Red Cross to do relief work in flooded areas of Mississippi and Louisiana in 1927. Dr. Brown was elected four times alumni trustee of Howard University. She was one of the medical officers appointed to accompany the Gold Star War Mothers to France in 1930. Dr. Brown was the fifth president of the College Alumnae Club.
Dr. Nancy Fairfax Brown received her A.B. degree at Howard University and professional training at Howard University and Columbia University. She earned an A.M. and Phar.D. For many years Dr. Brown was an English teacher in the Washington, D.C. high schools. In 1919 the government sent her to France as a Y.M.C.A. secretary and in 1930 she, too, accompanied the Gold Star War Mothers to France as a hostess. |