CERAMIC ENGINEERING
First female ceramic engineering graduate (1967) ˜ Carol L. Oster, master‚s degree

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
First chemical engineering BS graduate (1970) ˜ Susan Glen (married Ed Herrington in the same class).

First female chemical engineering PhD (1991) ˜Beth Gainey Stoner (Dan Edie was her adviser)

CIVIL ENGINEERING
First female graduate in civil engineering (1967) ˜ Mary Trout Haney. She also earned a master‚s in ESE in 1968. (She married Dr. Donald L. Haney in 1967. He‚s a Clemson grad, Ph.D. in 1969.)

COMPUTER SCIENCE
First two females to receive a BS in computer science (1981) ˜ Francina S. Franks and Philomena Marie Rapp

First two women to earn master‚s degrees (MS) in computer science (1984)˜Virginia Ann Moyer Blake ( Sandra M. Hedetniemi, adviser) and Yi-na C Tzeng (Jack Peck, Adviser.)

First female to receive a BS in computer information systems (1984) ˜Sharon P. Smith

The first two females to receive a BA in computer science (1993) ˜ Joumana M Aboujaoude and Teshia Y Roby

First female to receive a Ph.D. in computer science (1989) ˜Eleanor O. Hare (Her dissertation title was "Algorithms for Grids and Grid-Like Graphs," and her adviser was Dr. Stephen T. Hedetniemi. ehare@cs.clemson.edu.)

ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
One of first three women to graduate in electrical and computer engineering (1975) ˜ Silvia Gilbert Middleton

First woman to graduate with a MS in electrical and computer engineering (1976) ˜ Silvia Gilbert Middleton

First woman Ph.D. from the College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering ˜ Silvia Gilbert Middleton (Dr. Robert Snelsire, adviser .Spent 15 years as a faculty member and/or assistant dean of engineering at UNC Charlotte. Worked w/Clemson through NSF-funded engineering coalitions program, SUCCEED. Now self-employed. Two nephews at Clemson)

GEOLOGY
First female B.A. graduate in geology (1968) ˜ Joan Marie Combs

First female recipient of the Thomas F. Logan, Jr. Geology Merit Award (1974) ˜ Frankie Elaine Campbell (from Rich)

First female graduate of MS program in hydrogeology w/nonthesis option (1994) ˜ Lillian Furlow

First female graduate of MS program in hydrogeology with master‚s thesis (1994) ˜ April James

TEXTILE CHEMISTRY
First female graduate in textile chemistry (1965) ˜ Julie Han Wood M ‚65, also earned PhD in chemistry in 1968 ) (She‚s originally from Insein, Burma. May be among first female foreign students.)