Isabel Lawrence (acting) (1914-1916)

Isabel Lawrence

• First woman to serve as president, acting or permanent, at St. Cloud State
• Named acting president while Waite Shoemaker was on leave due to illness
• Educated at the Oswego Normal School in Oswego, New York, graduating in 1873
• Before coming to campus in 1879, was Oswego Normal School training school director, assistant superintendent of schools in Yonkers, New York, and Whitewater Normal School training school director, Whitewater, Wisconsin
• The first Lawrence Hall (1885) and the second Lawrence Hall (1905), both women's dormitories, were named in her honor
• Retired in 1921, after serving as training school director for over 40 years