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Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Jane Stewart
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She was among the first female executives in her field She was named by Printer"s Ink in 1966 as one of America"s 40 top women in executive positions in communications and marketing. Stewart was born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania.
She attended Randolph - Macon Woman"s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, then transferred to Ohio Wesleyan University, where she graduated with a bachelor"s degree in 1939.
Stewart became an assistant for press relations at Long Island Rail Road. In 1945 she became John West. Hill’s secretary at Hill and Knowlton.
They joined Hill & Knowlton when Group Attitudes was acquired in 1956. She retired in 1968. Following a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Stewart committed suicide in Litchfield Park, Arizona.
