Year Honored: 2010

Birth: - 2011

Biography

Kathryn Young Hazeur, alongside Cora Berry Saunders, was the first African American Woman to earn a degree from the University of Delaware. Hazeur said “on their first day, the provost addressed all members of the student body. “Your grade will depend not only on academic acumen,” he said, “but on how well you get along with other people.”” Which had a clear subtext to her, as there were 700 white students, and 10 African Americans. “That was an awfully tense year,” Hazeur remembered in a 2004 interview. “But whenever a professor was around, everyone wanted to get along with me.”

After graduating in 1951, Hazeur was a teacher and principle at various elementary schools throughout the state for more than 40 years. She also served as the first director of the free pre-school program, Head Start, for Wilmington Public Schools. She is “remembered for her humor, smile, and gentle way of relating to others.”
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Sources and Additional Readings

A history women university of Delaware. (n.d.). Retrieved January 19, 2022, from https://www1.udel.edu/udmessenger/vol23no1/stories/pdfs/womens-timeline.pdf

Kathryn Young hazeur obituary (2011) The News Journal. Legacy.com. (n.d.). Retrieved January 19, 2022, from https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/delawareonline/name/kathryn-hazeur-obituary?pid=151261612