Timeline
2014
The National Women’s History Project honors Katharine Ryan Gibbs honored as a woman of Character, Courage and Commitment
2011
Last Gibbs in Boston closes
2008
Sale discontinued and teach out announced when no buyers found
2006
Career Education Corporation announces intention to sell Gibbs
1997
Career Education Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools
1994
K–III Communications Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools
1989
Phillips Colleges buys Katharine Gibbs Schools
1987
Hostile takeover of Macmillan by Robert Maxwell
1984
Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, and Piscataway, New Jersey, schools open
1983
Rockville, Maryland, and Valley Forge schools open
1977
Philadelphia school opens
1972
Huntington, Town of Melville, school opens and first degree granted in New York
1968
Macmillan buys Gibbs
1950
Montclair, the first suburban school, opens
1940
Chicago school opens
1937
Gordon Gibbs opens winter campus in Bermuda
1934
Howard Gibbs’s suicide and Katharine Gibb’s death
1929
First Gibbsonian published
1928
Katharine Gibbs Schools incorporate
1918
New York school opens
1917
Boston school opens
1911
Providence school opens
1909
Katharine Gibbs widowed
1900
James Gordon Gibbs born
1897
William Howard Gibbs born
1896
Katharine Ryan and William Gibbs marry
1882
Katharine Ryan graduates from the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville
1863