Pullman Foundation Women Archives - George M. Pullman Educational Foundation

A Woman with a Bold Idea

Posted on March 26, 2020 (September 23, 2024) by doug

Florence Lowden Miller had a bold idea. As president of the Board of Directors of the Pullman Free School of Manual Training, the vocational school endowed by her late grandfather, the industrialist George Pullman, she faced a dilemma. Innovative for its time, for 33 years Pullman Tech (as it was affectionately known in the community) […]

Pullman Foundation Women in Engineering

Posted on March 20, 2017 (September 23, 2024) by doug

Pullman Scholar Alumna Valarie King-Bailey, University of Wisconsin – Madison, ’82, summed up the importance of engineers perfectly, “look around you, everything around you is courtesy of an engineer.” The air we breathe, the roads we travel on, the water we drink; an engineer has done something with it. With that in mind, the Foundation […]