![]() ![]() The family moved to Iowa City, IA, in 1950 when Harold began Medical School at the University of Iowa. In 1945 she married Harold Schedl, a Yale graduate, who was then working on his PhD. During the 1944-45 school year she taught Art at Salem College, in Winston Salem, North Carolina. In her memoir she writes that she wanted to take courses in Yale College but that was forbidden, while in the Fine Arts classes she and other women were made to sit at the back of the lecture hall. She enrolled in the Yale University School of Fine Arts and received her BFA in 1943 and her MFA in 1944. So, she went looking for other schools and discovered that there was a School of Fine Arts that was connected to Yale and was co-educational. She also wanted to be an artist, but found out that Radcliffe only offered a degree in art history. When she arrived, she discovered that Radcliffe was a women’s school and she didn’t want to go to a college segregated by sex. She came to the USA in 1941 to attend Radcliffe. Naomi matriculated with honors from the Good Hope School in Cape Town. Solomon Ezekiel Kark and Rebecca Rossenstein and had two older siblings, Robert and Bernard. She was born on Januin Cape Town, South Africa. ![]() Naomi Kark Schedl passed away on May 10, 2023. ![]()
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