CLAUDIA GALLOWAY & HARRY JEROME
Omaha University didn’t have its first graduating class until 1913, but by then already had two graduates. How so? Claudia Galloway became the university’s first graduate in June 1911 — as a class of one. Harry Jerome followed suit as a class of one in 1912. They are the university’s first female and male graduates. Galloway was a transfer student to OU, earning a BA. She went on to teach Latin at Omaha High (now Central High School). Jerome later earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research, then joined the Wisconsin faculty as an economics professor. His textbook “Statistical Method” was widely used in teaching elementary statistics.