Claim: Helen Gray Crotwell, who decided to work in the church, obtained a master's degree at Emory University, the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia, and landed a job in campus ministry at Winthrop College.
Evidence: After leaving Lisle, Crotwell decided to pursue work in the church. Because the Methodist churches did not ordain women at the time, Crotwell obtained a master's degree in religious education from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Emory is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia and among the 50 oldest private universities in the United States. Upon her graduation from Candler, Crotwell secured a job working in campus ministry in Rock Hill, South Carolina at Winthrop College, at the time a women's college and now the coeducational Winthrop University.