![]() Before she was to enter her junior year at Oberlin College, she put her studies on hold while she returned to her family’s home to take care of Orville. In 1896, Katherine found herself in one of these situations. While everyone has heard of the famous Wright brothers, whose dreams were so huge they couldn’t keep them on the ground, only a few know the story of their sister, so dedicated to her brothers and their dreams that on a number of occasions, she would leave her own ambitions behind in order to provide support for the pair. Katharine graduated with a degree in Classics and took a job as a Latin teacher at a local school, while managing the Dayton bike shop that her brothers Wilbur and Orville were running. At that time, Oberlin students rose early at 6 a.m., attended daily chapel, were not allowed to smoke or drink, and retired at 10 p.m. How many times has each of us passed the Wright Laboratory of Physics without a moment’s concern with the history locked inside it on our way to Stevie, or hurrying past the Science Center, looking ahead towards Tappan Square? Named after the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, the Laboratory of Physics is dedicated to a woman - Katharine, the Wright sister.īorn in 1874, Katharine Wright seems to be, as the Alumni Magazine put it in an article from 2004, “among most unsung heroines.” She began attending Oberlin College in 1893 only after her father, a bishop, found the college to be appropriate for the values he wanted to institute in his daughter. ![]()
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