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• 1 2020-08-14T17:00:01+00:00 Lucy Rider Meyer 2 plain 2020-08-14T17:03:36+00:00 Lucy Rider Meyer (1849-1922, OC 1872) was an educator and missionary. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1872 with a A.B. in the Ladies Course. In 1880, she received an honorary A.M. degree from Oberlin College and an M.D. from Northwestern University in 1887. She worked as the field secretary for the Illinois State Sunday School Association between 1881 and 1885. Rider Meyer was a writer and editor for the Deaconess Advocate magazine. She also wrote several songbooks, children’s books, and novels. She and her husband, Josiah S. Meyer, opened the Chicago Training School for City, Home, and Foreign Missions. Rider Meyer was the principal of the school for thirty-two years. She developed the school curriculum, which taught women to become deaconesses. She was often called the “mother of the deaconess movement,” due to her devotion to the education of American deaconesses.
  
  Sources:
  Student File (Lucy Rider Meyer), Alumni and Development Records, Box 704, O.C.A.