sentences:  She went on to attend Wheaton College while her sister finished up at New Jersey College for Women.Graduating summa cum laude from Wheaton College in 1948 with a degree in chemistry, Mary Ellen Avery continued to earn a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was one of four women in a class of 90, in 1952.Emily Bacon had attended Johns Hopkins and this was a huge motivation for Avery to get in.