This undereducated woman learned her skills in the classroom of life. She took what she knew and created a university where women could learn her skills and manage their own businesses.  In 1918, Anna Turnbo Malone started Poro College, a cosmetology school which also held a manufacturing plant, a retail store, business offices, a 500 seat auditorium, dining and meeting rooms, a roof garden, dormitory, gymnasium, bakery and chapel.

She believed she could do it. She did it.