[1] Bowman Foster Ashe was born in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, on April 3, 1885, one of six sons of a Methodist minister.
Ashe's work eventually led him back to the University of Pittsburgh, where he became a faculty member and supervised the admission, transfer, and academic progress of freshmen and sophomores.
Fifty years later, in 1976, the federal government notified the University of Miami that it was providing significant assistance to Iron Arrow in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
In 1985, breaking with over fifty years of tradition, the society's all-male membership voted to admit women and Iron Arrow was allowed back on campus.
Ashe died December 16, 1952 of cerebral hemorrhage, at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida, at age 67.