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Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. [15] Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she was assistant principal at Ipswich Female Seminary in Massachusetts. By 1837 she had convinced multiple sponsors to support her ideals and the nation's first real college for women.
Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - former president, Mount Holyoke College; Carol Geary Schneider, 1967 - president, Association of American Colleges and Universities; Nancy J. Vickers, 1967 - president, Bryn Mawr College; Elaine Tuttle Hansen, 1969 - president, Bates College; Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - president, Mount Holyoke College
Pages in category "Mount Holyoke College alumni" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 456 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Presidents of Mount Holyoke College, originally Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (the Head of the school was called "principal" until 1888, when it was replaced by "president.)" [1] Pages in category "Presidents and Principals of Mount Holyoke College"
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The consortium was founded in 1915 when Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken called Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Mount Holyoke together “to deliver women opportunities for higher education that would improve the quality of life for the human family and that would put them on an equal footing with men in a democracy that was about to offer them the vote.” [3] The success of this Four ...
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.
A graduate of the Calhoun School (she attended from 1963 to 1967), [5] Wasserstein earned a B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College in 1971, an M.A. in creative writing from City College of New York in 1973, [1] and an M.F.A. in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1976.