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Slim, buoyant Frances Willis is a hardworking, tactful career diplomat. A Ph.D. (Stanford), she taught history at Goucher and politics at Vassar before entering the foreign service at 28, served tours of duty in Chile, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Finland. In 1944-45 she was assistant to Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, who says of her nomination to be Ambassador to Switzerland: "I think nobody could do a better job than...
Over the past few years, such efforts have brought promising results. This year Johns Hopkins University was able to raise $650,000 from Baltimore businessmen, and nearby Goucher College (for women) was doing almost as well. In its 1940 fund-raising campaign Goucher got only $2,500 from industry-1% of what it was after; this year it got $280,000, or 28%. Northwestern University had a similar report: $761,000 in 1950, compared to $89,000 ten years...
...president is pretty, brown-haired Anne Gary Pannell, 39, the mother of two sons. Southern-born (in Durham, N. C.), like her predecessor, she went to Oxford for her doctorate in history (Martha went to the University of London), eventually became academic dean of Baltimore's Goucher College for women (Martha was a dean at Radcliffe). In recent years, while global-minded Martha Lucas became a UNESCO delegate and started a Junior Year Abroad program for Sweet Briar, global-minded Anne Pannell has spent much of her time arranging international student scholarships...
...pert and pretty president who was only 33 when she came to the college. Born in Louisville, she had studied at Goucher, later took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of London. When Sweet Briar found her, she was an associate dean at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. In her three years at Sweet Briar, she held fast to her rule that "the administration of a college is the servant of great teaching." She herself taught a course in the philosophy of religion, spent her days wrestling with a shrinking budget and dictating letters "anyplace and anywhere, even under...
...Half of Goucher's activities take place in town, on the old campus, half in the country. To keep student traffic moving between Baltimore and Towson, Goucher has gone into the transportation business, at a cost to the college of about $50.000 a year. Among the commuters is President Kraushaar himself, who has an office on campus No. i and a house near campus No. 2. His main job will be to raise $2,000,000 to complete the move to Towson. If all goes well, his girls will be getting together...