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Davies, Wes

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Wes Davies, originally from Maywood, IL, graduated from Grinnell College in 1940 with a B.A. in History, and an education and political science minor. He married Dorothy Ziegenmeyer, a local Grinnellian and a member of the Class of 1939. After Grinnell, they lived in Alexandria, Virginia.

Kimbo, Conney M.

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Conney M. Kimbo served as the Dean of Student Affairs from 1970-1973. The Conney M. Kimbo Black Cultural Center, originally built in 1970, was later renamed in his honor.

Smith, Edith Renfrow

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  • July 14,1914 -

Edith Renfrow Smith was born in 1914 in Grinnell, Iowa. In 1937, she became the first black woman to graduate from Grinnell College.

Mrs. Smith was given an honorary degree by College in 2019. In 2022, she was inducted into the Grinnell High School Alumni Hall of Fame. In December 2022, it was announced that the college's new residence hall and civic-engagement quad would be named Renfrow Hall in her honor.

Beauboeuf, Tamara

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Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant is a Grinnell College professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. She began at Grinnell in 2019 and is the Louise R. Noun Chair in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies. She is a member of Team Renfrow (Professor Tamara Beauboeuf, Monique Shore, and Grinnell College students Hemlock Stanier, Libby Eggert, and Evie Caperton) who worked on extensive research into Edith Renfrow Smith and her family roots in Grinnell.)

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