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MISS ABBY SHAW MAYHEW, Principal of Ladies' Hall and Instructor in Gymnastics, was born at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and was graduated from the High School of that place in 1881. In the fall of 1881 she entered Wellesley College and was there until 1885 with an interim of a year.
After leaving college, two years were spent in teaching in a private school and one year in travels. In 1889 she entered into the study of physical training in Minneapolis, and in 1891 attended Dr. Sargent's School of Physical Education at Cambridge. In the spring of 1892 she was appointed Physical Director in the Young Women's Christian Association of Minneapolis, where she remained until the summer of 1897. In 1894 she took the summer course in Physical Training under Dr. W. G. Anderson, of Yale, at Chautauqua.
Last summer she accepted her present position of Principal of Ladies' Hall and Instructor in Gymnastics for Women.