Says former Agnes Scott English Professor Dr. Linda Hubert of the career planning office developed by the late Ione Murphy in Thursday’s AJC…

“It was an office that was sensitive to the evolving needs of women,” she said. “Ione saw a huge need and took it upon herself to fill it. I don’t know that it wouldn’t have happened without her, but it certainly happened with her. She was very much a feminist in that she saw the worth of a woman. She put a lot of energy in that pursuit.”

Ione Murphy died this past Sunday from complications of emphysema and kidney cancer at the age of 93.