 Mary Markley (educator, pioneer women's church executive, Christian higher education)
Markley's teaching career included public school and college posts prior to World War I.
During that war she organized and supervised service centers for the National Lutheran
Commission for Soldiers and Sailors. In, 1919 Dr. Markley became the first woman staff
member on any board of the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA), serving its Board of
Education for 27 years. Her work was both international and ecumenical, and as executive
with the Women's Missionary Society, she toured mission stations throughout the world in
1928. Her contribution to student ministry was monumental: as vice president of the
Student Volunteer Movement (SVM) executive committee, one of the organizers of the
ecumenical United Student Christian Council (USCC) and a tireless worker for the Lutheran
Student Association of America (LSAA). Co-author of Going to College with Mildred Winston
(1936), and a prominent speaker on college campuses, she wrote after her 1946 retirement
The Lutheran Church and Its Students. She died in 1954.
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