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About Wesleyan College

Wesleyan College is a private, liberal arts women's college located in Macon, which is a city in central Georgia, USA, that serves as the county seat of Bibb County, with a population of about 93 000 inhabitants (2008), fact which makes it the 6th largest city in the state.

Wesleyan College was chartered in 1836 and opened 3 years later, as the Georgia Female College. It is the oldest and the first school to be established from inception as a chartered full college for women. Its current name was adopted in 1917, after the college was renamed as Wesleyan Female College, in 1843.

Wesleyan is home to the world's oldest alumnae association, begun in 1859, and it is the birthplace of the first sororities: the Adelphean Society in 1851, now known as Alpha Delta Pi, and the Philomathean Society, now known as Phi Mu.

Athletics

Wesleyan's athletic teams are known as the Pioneers and they compete in NCAA Division III. Their distinctive colors are deep purple and lavender.

Notable Alumni

The list of notable alumni from Wesleyan College contains the following names: Neva Langley Fickling - Miss America 1953, The Soong sisters, Sandra Deer - playwright, Kathryn Stripling Byer - poet and recipient of the 2001 North Carolina Award, Toni Jennings - Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Catherine Brewer Benson - first woman to earn a college degree, and Mary Houston - wife of Young John Allen, the Methodist missionary who preached in China and first mentioning of Karl Marx in China.