KATHARINE GIBBS SCHOOL | GIBBS COLLEGE 1911-2011

Katharine Gibbs: Beyond White Gloves

  • 1863

    Catherine Ryan born in Galena Illinois

  • 1873

    Remington perfects the first commercial typewriter

  • 1882

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

  • 1896

    Katharine Ryan and William Gibbs marry

  • 1897

    William Howard Gibbs born

  • 1900

    James Gordon Gibbs born

  • 1909

    Katharine Gibbs widowed

  • 1911

    Providence school opens

  • 1917

    Boston school opens

  • 1918

    New York school opens

  • 1928

    Katharine Gibbs Schools incorporate

  • 1929

    First Gibbsonian published

  • 1934

    Howard Gibbs’s suicide and Katharine Gibbs’s death

  • 1937

    Gordon Gibbs opens winter campus in Bermuda

  • 1940

    Chicago school opens

  • 1950

    Montclair, the first suburban school, opens

  • 1968

    Macmillan buys Gibbs

  • 1972

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

  • 1977

    Philadelphia school opens

  • 1983

    Rockville, Maryland, and Valley Forge schools open

  • 1984

  • 1987

    Hostile takeover of Macmillan by Robert Maxwell

  • 1989

    Phillips Colleges buys Katharine Gibbs Schools

  • 1994

    K–III Communications Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools

  • 1997

    Career Education Corporation buys Katharine Gibbs Schools

  • 2006

    Career Education Corporation announces intention to sell Gibbs

  • 2008

    Sale discontinued and teach out announced when no buyers found

  • 2011

    Last Gibbs in Boston closes

  • 2014

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