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When she married a Columbia medical school pediatrics professor in 1932. Millicent Carey Mclrrrosh considered resigning as headmistress of Manhattan's top-notch Brearley School, changed her mind after her aunt, Bryn Mawr's late President M. Carey Thomas, coldly reminded her: "You can have your babies in August." Last week, after five babies, 17 years at Brearley and 14 more as head of New York's Barnard College, Educator Mclntosh, 62, announced that she would finally retire come next commencement. Future plans: to squander a year on "a real holiday," then move off to rural Massachusetts...
...marriage to John Barrymore, she married Wall Street Attorney Harrison Tweed, returned to the Social Register and determined to make a lady of Diana. The girl was sent to Miss Hewitt's Classes (where "the Astors and Vanderbilts always voted for each other in class elections"), to the Brearley School and to Garrison Forest, where her father wound up in a necking session with one of her schoolmates. ''You look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note in her dress. "Sometimes," says Diana, recalling her mother...
...Dean is also an alumnae trustee of Radcliffe, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brearley School...
Died. Carl Van Doren,† 64, journeyman of letters; of a heart ailment complicated by pneumonia; in Torrington, Conn. Onetime teacher (Columbia), headmaster (Manhattan's fashionable Brearley School) and editor, he wrote a dozen volumes of literary studies and criticism, three Revolutionary War histories, a Pulitzer Prizewinning (1939) biography of Benjamin Franklin, an autobiography (Three Worlds), a novel (The Ninth Wave), short stories and introductions to scores of old & new books...
...College awarded the James Adams Woolson Prize Scholarship in the Classics to Mary Frances Raphael, of New York City and the Brearley School. Fay Raphael, of Boston and the Girls Latin School, received honorable mention...