KATHARINE GIBBS SCHOOL | GIBBS COLLEGE 1911-2011

Katharine Gibbs: Beyond White Gloves

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Timeline

2014
November 3

The National Women’s History Project honors Katharine Ryan Gibbs honored as a woman of Character, Courage and Commitment

2011
November 3

Last Gibbs in Boston closes

2008
November 3

Sale discontinued and teach out announced when no buyers found

2006
November 3

Career Education Corporation announces intention to sell Gibbs

1997
November 3

Career Education Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools

1994
November 3

K–III Communications Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools

1989
November 3

Phillips Colleges buys Katharine Gibbs Schools

1987
November 3

Hostile takeover of Macmillan by Robert Maxwell

1984
November 3

Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, and Piscataway, New Jersey, schools open

1983
November 3

Rockville, Maryland, and Valley Forge schools open

1977
November 3

Philadelphia school opens

1972
November 3

Huntington, Town of Melville, school opens and first degree granted in New York

1968
November 3

Macmillan buys Gibbs

1950
November 3

Montclair, the first suburban school, opens

1940
November 3

Chicago school opens

1937
November 3

Gordon Gibbs opens winter campus in Bermuda

1934
November 3

Howard Gibbs’s suicide and Katharine Gibb’s death

1929
November 3

First Gibbsonian published

1928
November 3

Katharine Gibbs Schools incorporate

1918
November 3

New York school opens

1917
November 3

Boston school opens

1911
November 3

Providence school opens

1909
November 3

Katharine Gibbs widowed

1900
November 3

James Gordon Gibbs born

1897
July 20

William Howard Gibbs born

1896
November 3

Katharine Ryan and William Gibbs marry

1882
November 3

Katharine Ryan graduates from the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville

1863
November 3

1863 Catherine Ryan born in Galena Illinois

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