EXPECT GREAT THINGS! How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

Eliza Foss gives a performance as elegant and energetic as any "Gibbs girl" graduate in this entertaining and surprising account of the founding, growth, and eventual demise of the Katharine Gibbs School and the capable women who forged ahead with confidence from its several academies. In 1911, the widowed and destitute Gibbs opened her first secretarial school. Her goal was not merely to provide typists and stenographers to businessmen (they were always men), but also to train young women to move out of the secretarial pool and into the corner office. In fact, the Gibbs philosophy prepared women to go anywhere they wanted to, as attested by the many famous graduates featured in this fascinating history. It's all enhanced by Foss's brisk cadence and crisp tones. S.G. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2025]