It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

The Center is named after the Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw a Methodist minister medical doctor and suffragist. During her time in medical school Shaw became an outspoken advocate of political rights for women. At the age of twenty-three Shaw was invited by Dr.

She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States.