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Ninetta
Ninetta is an Italian given name that is a diminutive form of Antonietta (given name), Antonietta and Antonetta in use in Italy. Notable people with this name include the following: *Ninetta May Runnals (1885–1980), an American academic *Nineta Barbulescu (born 1968), a Romanian career diplomat *Ninetta Vad (born 1989), a Hungarian canoer *Netta Eames, born Ninetta Wiley (1852–1944), American writer See also *Nietta Zocchi *Nineta Barbulescu *Ninette (other) *Ninetto Davoli Notes {{given name Italian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninetta May Runnals
Ninetta May "Nettie" Runnals (January 14, 1885 – June 1, 1980) was an American academic and college administrator. She served as Dean of Women at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, her alma mater, for 27 years, advocating for gender equality for women students and faculty members. She also helped raise significant funding for a Women's Union on the Mayflower Hill campus, which was renamed Runnals Union in her honor in 1959. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. Early life and education Ninetta May Runnals was born on January 14, 1885, in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, to William Frank Runnals and his wife, Ida Jane Bowker Runnals. Her father was a machinist in a nearby mill. She earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Colby College in 1908. Career Runnals was a math and languages instructor at Foxcroft Academy from 1908 to 1911. In 1911 she moved to the Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, serving as Dean of Girls and mathematics instructor until 1916. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
