Beebe Steven Lynk

Early life Lynk was born in Mason, Tennessee, on October 24, 1872. She was the daughter of Henderson Stevens and Jule Ann (Boyce) Stevens. While it is known that she graduated with a bachelors degree in 1892, it is unknown if she attended school early or if the degree she completed was only 2 years long.

On April 12, 1893, Lynk married Dr. Miles Vandahurst Lynk. Lynk gained a Ph. C. (a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry) from the University of West Tennessee in 1903.

Career After graduating from Lane College with her first degree, she taught in Tipton county for few years. The University of West Tennessee was founded by her and her husband Miles Lynk in 1900 in the town of Jackson, TN but was then moved to Memphis in 1907. After earning her Ph.C at the university, she soon became one of the ten collegiate professors of the university (one out of two being female). Following the Flexner Report in 1910, the university faced some challenges regarding its credibility. The purpose of this report was to analyze medical school programs and standardize them across the nation. The author and developer Abraham Flexner often gave African American medical schools harsh criticism. . In this textbook, Lynk provided chemical recipes for beauty treatments that could be done at home. In the preface of the textbook she mentions her hope that the information would provide success, happiness, and prosperity to women. Very little information is known about her life, in part because the University of West Tennessee no longer exists.