Paul Gray and Gloria Green, 1949

Gray and Green '54
Courtesy MIT Museum

Side-by-side MIT Class of 1954 freshman yearbook portraits of Paul E. Gray and Gloria Green, 1949.

Gloria Green (Hooks)  '54 was the second black woman on record to attend MIT (45 years after the first, Marie C. Turner).

Paul E. Gray '54, SM '55, ScD '60 would later teach at MIT, eventually serving as the Institute's 14th president from 1980 to 1990.

Timeline: 1940s
School: School of Architecture and PlanningSchool of Engineering
Department: ArchitectureElectrical Engineering and Computer Science
Career: Education
Collection: Dunbar High School, MIT Presidents, Paul E. Gray, Potential Output 1946-1954, Students, Women