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Mount Holyoke College is a private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. [10] It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States. [ 11 ]
Richard Glenn Gettell (March 3, 1912 – August 14, 1988) [1] was an American educator who served as the 12th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1957 to 1968.. His mother, Nelene Groff Gettell (née Knapp), taught at Amherst High School from 1921 to 1923; [2] [3] the 1923 Yearbook was dedicated to her. [4]
Mary Lyon (1797–1849), educator, founder of the female seminaries which became Mount Holyoke College and Wheaton College; George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of ...
[138] [139] [140] In 1921 more than 300 Holyoke residents, Mayor Cronin, the Holyoke Police, and members of Mount Holyoke, International, and Smith College would also receive visited by Colonel Walter Scott (1861–1935), a philanthropist who took great interest in the support of scholarships, Scotch educational and cultural initiatives, police ...
Her inspirational words in the essay, has earned her a $277,720 scholarship over four years to Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. According to the school's website , the ...
Joanne Vanish Creighton (born 1942) is an American academic who served as the 16th President of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, from 1996 to 2010.On August 10, 2011, the Haverford College Board of Managers named her interim President of Haverford College, replacing Stephen G. Emerson, who resigned.
By 1901, Mount Holyoke was the only women's college with the system still in place and Woolley thought the system was old fashioned and an obstacle in her goal of making Mount Holyoke intellectually equal to male colleges. She also created a position for Jeanette Marks, who taught English and Theater at Mount Holyoke until her retirement in 1941.
First academic dean of Mount Holyoke College Harriett M. Allyn (4 May 1883 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] – 7 July 1957) [ 3 ] was an American zoologist, [ 4 ] anthropologist, and college administrator. [ 5 ] She was the first academic dean of Mount Holyoke College , appointed in 1929.