•Mary St. John Douglas S43 and Susan Savage Speers S50 became the first two female trustees.

•Linda Blackburn ’71, Terrell Nash ’71 and Carla Wilson ’71 became the first black women to graduate from Princeton with undergraduate degrees.

•Women’s Center is founded.

•Princeton created the women’s varsity intercollegiate sports programs. These sports included field hockey, tennis, squash, and crew. The first women’s athletic event was a tennis match against Penn on April 12, 1971.

•The first recipient of the C. Otto von Kienbusch Award (awarded annually to a Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who has demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and the qualities of a true sportswoman) was Helena Novakova ’72 in 1972

•First Female National Champion — Wendy Zaharko (women’s squash)

•Women join the ranks of freshman class presidents (Abby Rubenfeld ’75), Pyne Prize recipients (Marsha Levy-Warren ’73), Marshall scholarship winners (Annalyn Swann ’73), Fulbright recipients (Dinah Seiver ’73).

•The Society of Women Engineers is founded by thirteen of the seventeen women majoring in engineering.

•Admissions quotas for women (previously 300 out of 1,100) are abolished.

•Eva Lerner Lam ’76 becomes the first woman elected Sophomore Class President.

•First Ivy women’s champion: women’s basketball

•Tina A. Ravitz ’76 serves as the first female president of The American Whig-Cliosophic Society in the Society’s then 210-year history.

•Commencement features both a woman valedictorian (Cynthia Chase ’75) and salutatorian (Lisa Siegman ’75).

•Sue Perles ’75 (field hockey) was the first Princeton female student athlete to be named a Rhodes Scholar

•Valerie Bell ’77 becomes the first woman elected Senior Class President.

•Sally Frank ’80 files a lawsuit with the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights to contest discrimination at three all-male eating clubs.

•Barbara Barrow ’81, is elected Junior Class President and becomes 1st woman Honor Committee Chair.

•Kimberlee Thompson ’81 becomes Princeton’s first female ROTC cadet commander.

•Women’s Studies program is founded, now Program in the Study of Women & Gender.

•Michele Woods ’84 becomes the first female USG president.

•The Standing Committee on the Status of Women is formed to identify and address issues and concerns of Princeton women. Its first chair is Georgia Nugent ’73.

•Tiger Inn, the last of the all-male eating clubs, admits women.

•The court stated that the clubs must admit female students, though they had already been doing so since the spring of 1991.

•Shirley M. Tilghman assumes the office of President on June 15.

•The entering freshman class (of 2006) becomes Princeton’s first with an equal number of men and women.

•The Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, issues its report. “If this report could be summed up in one idea, it is that for Princeton to fully realize its potential as an academic and social community, all its members need to be full participants—ready, willing, and able to use their talents as they themselves judge best. That is our charge going forward.”

•“She Roars: Celebrating Women at Princeton,” a University conference for Princeton alumnae, brings more than 1,350 undergraduate and graduate alumnae and guests to campus.

•Mollie Marcoux Samaan ’91 named the first female Athletic Director of Princeton University

•Ashleigh Johnson ’17 (women’s water polo) was the first female to compete for Princeton having already won an Olympic gold medal (won gold with the USA Women’s Water Polo team in Summer 2016); Bill Bradley is the only other Princeton student-athlete to accomplish such a feat

•Nine of the eleven eating clubs elect women as club presidents.

•Sydney Jordan ’19 (women’s basketball) won the Moses Tyler Pyne Prize