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When Mary Maples Dunn, acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, taught a senior seminar at Bryn Mawr about the Monroe Doctrine in the spring of 1968, Drew Gilpin was one of her most outstanding students...
...nominate "Rosie the Riveter." She epitomizes the independent, working-class woman. MEG RYAN Bryn Mawr...
Still, though the co-education debate has died down, it quietly lingers among faculty. "Women still need women's colleges because society's playing field isn't level yet," argues classics professor Leslie Day, one of 17 women on the faculty and a graduate of all-female Bryn Mawr College. "I worry that the message the guys get here is that women are just for weekends." She rolls her eyes as a student enters her office wearing a jesting T shirt that reads WABASH DOESN'T NEED WOMEN...
...wrote endless letters trying to get jobs at various history departments but no one would give me a tumble," she says. She ended up teaching history at Bryn Mawr...
Mary Dunn rose quickly into the administrative ranks and served as Dean of Bryn Mawr College for seven years. In 1985, she was tapped as president of all-female Smith College in Northampton, Mass...