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...eighth president of Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...
Living & Learning. Dean Mclntosh will bring to the task a calm flair for managing things. She comes of a Quaker family, went to Bryn Mawr when her aunt, Dr. M. Carey Thomas, was president. After a year at Cambridge, she took her Ph.D. in English at Johns Hopkins...
Back at Bryn Mawr she worked up to acting dean of the college, moved on in 1930, to become headmistress of Manhattan's Brearley School. In 1932, she married Dr. Rustin Mclntosh, director of the Babies Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, bore five children without breaking her career for more than a few months at a time...
...retirement of Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, Millicent Mclntosh was appointed dean of Barnard. She inherited a heads-up academic program which seemed stiff-necked to some, but which struck a sound middle ground between progressive and traditional methods. Mrs. Mclntosh has made few changes, emphasizes that the main business of a college education is to bridge the gap between "learning and living...
...Women Should Realize." Dean Mclntosh also has a bone to pick with the idea that a woman who is "only going to get married" doesn't need college. "Women should realize their own power and influence in the creation of the community and the home . . . It's ridiculous to give a man a very specialized training, and then expect him to do a good job, if the woman he marries ruins his life...