Established by John Drinkwater Bethune, the Bethune College, is the first women's college in India. It was founded in 1879. It is located at 181, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata -700006, just opposite the current campus of Scottish Church College, Calcutta.
Bethune began her career as an educator in earnest when she rented a two-story frame building in Daytona Beach, Fla., and began the difficult task of establishing a school for African American girls.
Bethune served as president of the college until her retirement as president emeritus in 1942.
Bethune's business activities were confined to the Central Life Insurance Company of Tampa, Fla., of which she was president for several years; the Afro-American Life Insurance Company of Jacksonville, which she served as director; and the Bethune-Volusia Beach Corporation, a recreation area and housing development she founded in 1940.
Bethune was an innovator and was known to invent new surgical tools to improve his profession (of his designs, only the Bethune Rib Shears are still in use today), but he was also something of a quack too: it was known that he had an unusually high rate of post-operative fatalities.
Bethune was a radical man of action who believed that when you perceive something as being wrong, the only moral choice is to go and put it right.
Bethune's drink of choice that night was the stuff that most other doctors at the time were using as a hand-rinse after surgery.
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