sentences:  She was not only the first female African-American Ph.D. to be hired at Lowell Teachers College, but the first within the Commonwealth's public higher education system.Marguerite Gourville was originally hired as director of physical education in 1936, and quickly distinguished herself as founder of the Modern Dance Club.Gourville, like McGauvran want on to fill many important administrative roles including dean (1944) and interim president (1950).