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
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Career Education Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools
1994
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K–III Communications Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools
1989
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Phillips Colleges buys Katharine Gibbs Schools
1987
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Hostile takeover of Macmillan by Robert Maxwell
1984
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Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, and Piscataway, New Jersey, schools open
1983
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Rockville, Maryland, and Valley Forge schools open
1977
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Philadelphia school opens
1972
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Huntington, Town of Melville, school opens and first degree granted in New York
1968
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Macmillan buys Gibbs
1950
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Montclair, the first suburban school, opens
1940
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Chicago school opens
1937
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Gordon Gibbs opens winter campus in Bermuda
1934
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Howard Gibbs’s suicide and Katharine Gibb’s death
1929
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First Gibbsonian published
1928
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Katharine Gibbs Schools incorporate
1918
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New York school opens
1917
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Boston school opens
1911
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Providence school opens
1909
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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