Phyllis Birkby
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Noel Phyllis Birkby was an American architect, feminist, filmmaker, teacher, and founder of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture. Early life and education Noel Phyllis Birkby was born in Nutley, New Jersey to Harold S. and Alice Birkby. As a child, she made drawings of cities and towns, and miniature three-dimensional environments in her mother's garden. An early fascination with architecture led her to express interest in the profession at the age of 16, to a career counselor who would tell her the profession was inaccessible to her, despite her aptitude: "Well, Miss Birkby, it appears that if you were a man, you should be studying architecture." In 1950, Birkby entered Women's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina to study fine art, and she was an active participant in extracurricular activities, such as Canterbury club and art club. She was considered a rabble rouser. In 1954, she was expelled in her senior year after an incident that purportedly involved drinking beer. Birkby later attributed the outcome to her public expression of love for a classmate. "I wasn't hiding my love for another woman," she explained, "... didn't think there was anything wrong with it." After Birkby returned to her family home in New Jersey for a brief period of time, she moved to New York City.
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