MSFS in the 1960s

Time for Change

MSFS Enrolls Women

The 1960s brought much anticipated change to the MSFS program. Even though there had been female students as early as the 1940s at Georgetown, the graduate rosters show that the first female graduates from the MSFS program were in the class of 1964. The first three females to receive the MSFS degree were Paula Wiegard, Olga Zoghby, and Phoebe Sharkey. Dr. Sharkey recalls that at the time, they did not know that they would be making history.