![]() ![]() ![]() However, the School did not accept women on their digs and she was recommended to work as a librarian. In 1899 she received the $1000 Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship, created by the ASCSA to address limitations placed on women in the archaeological field. She volunteered as a nurses' aid the following year for soldiers wounded the Spanish American War. She was later decorated by Greece for her work in the war. During the Greco-Turkish war when the Turkish army defeated the Greek army, displacing many Greek citizens, Hawes took nursing training to assist them. Starting in 1898 she received a fellowship from the ASCSA school. In 1896 she did her graduate work with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. She was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Classics from Smith College in 1892 as Phi Beta Kappa. From 1892 to 1896 she taught Classics in various schools in both North Carolina and Delaware. Boyd received her early education from Prospect Hill School in Massachusetts where she graduated in 1888. ![]() Her mother died when she was 10 months old and was raised solely by her father. Born Harriett Boyd, her father was Alexander Boyd, a leather merchant, and her mother Harriet Wheeler (Boyd) in 1871, the final of five children and the only girl. ![]() Archaeologist of classical antiquity first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. ![]()
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