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Bryn Mawr College

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Women's liberal arts college.

Location:
Bryn Mawr, PA

Founding Date:
1885

Enrollment:
1500

Official Website:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Renata Adler
Journalist
19-Oct-1938   Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker
Merribel S. Ayres
Business
c. 1951   Lighthouse Consulting Group
Emily Greene Balch
Activist
8-Jan-1867 9-Jan-1961 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Susan Blanchard
Socialite
1928   Wife of Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark
Betsy Z. Cohen
Business
c. 1942   CEO of RAIT Investment Trust, 1997-2006
Jill M. Considine
Business
c. 1944   Chairman of Depository Trust Company, 1998-2006
Rhonda Copelon
Attorney
15-Sep-1944   Law Professor at CUNY
Drew Gilpin Faust
Educator
18-Sep-1947   President of Harvard University
Martha Gellhorn
Journalist
8-Nov-1908 15-Feb-1998 War correspondent
Hanna Holborn Gray
Educator
25-Oct-1930   President, University of Chicago, 1978-93
Edith Hamilton
Educator
12-Aug-1867 31-May-1963 The Greek Way
Ann Harding
Actor
7-Aug-1901 1-Sep-1981 Holiday
H. D.
Poet
10-Sep-1886 27-Sep-1961 Imagist poet, Sea Garden
Katharine Hepburn
Actor
12-May-1907 29-Jun-2003 The Philadelphia Story
Linda A. Hill
Educator
c. 1957   Harvard Business School
Marianne Moore
Poet
15-Nov-1887 5-Feb-1972 Collected Poems
Paul Elmer More
Scholar
12-Dec-1864 9-Mar-1937 Shelburne Essays
Shirley D. Peterson
Attorney
3-Sep-1941   Attorney, Steptoe & Johnson
Alice Rivlin
Economist
4-Mar-1931   Founding director, Congressional Budget Office
Ilana D. Rovner
Judge
21-Aug-1938   7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Lisa Schiffren
Activist
c. 1960   Former Quayle speechwriter
Allyson Schwartz
Politician
3-Oct-1948   Congresswoman, Pennsylvania 13th
Elaine Showalter
Critic
21-Jan-1941   Lead alpha Gynocritic
Maggie Siff
Actor
21-Jun-1974   Tara Knowles on Sons of Anarchy
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Actor
30-May-1899 9-Jul-1979 Paris '90
Nettie Stevens
Biologist
7-Jul-1861 4-May-1912 X and Y chromosomes
Mary Thom
Editor
3-Jun-1944 26-Apr-2013 Executive Editor of Ms., 1990-92
Susan J. Tolchin
Political Scientist
14-Jan-1941 18-May-2016 To the Victor...

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles McLean Andrews
Historian
22-Feb-1863 9-Sep-1943 The Colonial Period of American History
Ruth Benedict
Anthropologist
5-Jun-1887 17-Sep-1948 Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture
Robert A. Corrigan
Educator
21-Apr-1935   President, San Francisco State University
Tenney Frank
Economist
19-May-1876 3-Apr-1939 An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome
Felix Gilbert
Historian
21-May-1905 14-Feb-1991 To the Farewell Address
Ross Granville Harrison
Zoologist
13-Jan-1870 30-Sep-1959 Embryology and tissue culture techniques
Richmond Lattimore
Poet
6-May-1906 26-Feb-1984 Translator of Iliad and Odyssey
Jacques Loeb
Doctor
7-Apr-1859 11-Feb-1924 Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis
Thomas H. Morgan
Scientist
25-Sep-1866 4-Dec-1945 Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity
Judith Shapiro
Educator
24-Jan-1942   President, Barnard College
Nettie Stevens
Biologist
7-Jul-1861 4-May-1912 X and Y chromosomes
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Biologist
19-Oct-1856 3-Mar-1939 X and Y chromosomes
Woodrow Wilson
Head of State
28-Dec-1856 3-Feb-1924 28th US President, 1913-21

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edward G. Boehne
Business
c. 1941   CEO of FRB Philadelphia, 1981-2000
Michael C. Davidson
Business
?   Chief Marketing Officer of State Farm
Drew Gilpin Faust
Educator
18-Sep-1947   President of Harvard University
Linda A. Hill
Educator
c. 1957   Harvard Business School
Tony Ibargüen
Business
c. 1959   President of Tech Data, 1996-99
Shirley D. Peterson
Attorney
3-Sep-1941   Attorney, Steptoe & Johnson
R. Anderson Pew
Business
c. 1937   Former Sunoco executive
Judith Shapiro
Educator
24-Jan-1942   President, Barnard College
Harris Wofford
Politician
9-Apr-1926   US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1991-95




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