Cecil Dorrian

[1][2] She wrote about the war in France and England for the Newark Evening News, beginning in 1914, and her work often ran on the front page.

[1] When Dorrian died, in 1926, a front-page article in the Newark Evening News claimed that she had been “the first accredited American woman war correspondent to reach the battlefront in France in 1918.”[3]

[7] In the Barnard yearbooks Dorrian participates in activities from dance committee and theater, to basketball, journalism and pingpong.

[11] She wrote about the war in France and England for the Newark Evening News, beginning in 1914, and her work often ran on the front page.

[1] When Dorrian died, in 1926, a front-page article in the Newark Evening News noted that she had been “the first accredited American woman war correspondent to reach the battlefront in France in 1918.”[12] In October 1918, while she and two other women war correspondents were touring a battlefront with the Press Department of the Foreign Office, their guide was killed by a hand grenade.