Helen Blanche Schleman (1902–1992), an Indiana native, was Purdue University's Dean of Women from 1947 to 1968 and a four-year military veteran of World War II.
She attended Wellesley College where she earned her first Master's degree and a certificate in hygiene and physical education (1928).
[1] In 1934, she moved to Purdue in Lafayette, Indiana, as the Director of Residence Halls for Women and there she met her lifelong friend Dorothy C. Stratton.
[1] During World War II, she took a military leave of absence from Purdue to serve for four years in the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve and attained the rank of Captain while working for the U.S. Navy.
[1][4][5] With Dorothy C. Stratton, she wrote Your Best Foot Forward: Social Usage for Young Moderns (1955).