In an unpublished reflection from August 4, 1930, Slowe confidently writes, "...as an individual, I have always been ambitious to develop whatever power I possessed and to achieve distinction by so doing." Eight years prior, Howard University President J. Stanley Durkee knew that he needed an innovative young woman to lead the next era of Howard women and invited Lucy Diggs Slowe to become Dean of Women. Despite the long negotiation process, Slowe accepted to the new challenge of uniting the woman on Howard's campus. In this new Scurlock portrait, she reverts back to a more genteel laced collar and cropped curls for her new role.