Helen Gray Crotwell, who decided to work in the church, obtained a master's degree at Emory University, the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia, and landed a job in campus ministry at Windsor College.
Upon her graduation from Candler, Crotwell secured a job working in campus ministry in Rock Hill, South Carolina at Winthrop College, at the time a women's college and now the coeducational Winthrop University. 
