Religion and education meet in their responsibility to make possible the abundant life—the terms are intellectual and spiritual, rather than material… - Aurelia Henry Reinhardt

About Aurelia Henry Reinhardt

Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt (April 1, 1877 - January 28, 1948) was an educator, activist, and prominent member and leader of numerous organizations. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, completed her doctoral dissertation at Yale, and studied as a fellow at Oxford. After teaching at the University of Idaho, the Lewiston State Normal School, and with the Extension Division of the University of California, she was elected president of Mills College in 1916, and held the position until 1943, making her the longest serving president in the history of the school. She was a peace activist during the First World War, was an active member of the Republican Party, and supported the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, and the formation of the League of Nations. She wrote on and spoke extensively throughout the US and Europe, to a range of social, political and business groups, on topics including the education of women, women's suffrage, world peace, and international cooperation. She was president of the American Association of University Women, and a prominent member of the American Unitarian Association, serving for two years as its first female moderator, as the only female member of its Commission of Appraisal, delivered the Ware Lecture in 1932, and was briefly a minister in Oakland, California. She was a director of the Starr King School for the Ministry, and was a delegate at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations in 1945.

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