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President of Bryn Mawr College From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marion Edwards Park (1875-1960) was an American academic administrator who was the third president of Bryn Mawr College, her alma mater, following alumna M. Carey Thomas.
Marion Edwards Park | |
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3rd President of Bryn Mawr College | |
In office 1922–1942 | |
Preceded by | M. Carey Thomas |
Succeeded by | Katharine Elizabeth McBride |
Personal details | |
Born | 1875 |
Citizenship | American |
Residence(s) | Pennsylvania, United States |
Education | Bryn Mawr College (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) |
Park was born in Gloversville, New York in 1875. Her brother, Dr. E. A. Park, was head of the department of pediatrics at Yale University.
During her tenure as a student at Bryn Mawr College, she received the Bryn Mawr European Fellowship and used it to attend the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.[1] Park presided over the college during the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, where she worked with other colleges to employ refugee scholars from European universities.[2] Park was also instrumental in initiating cross-institution collaboration between Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania.
She died in 1960.
"The plebs in Cicero’s day, a study of their provenance and of their employment", Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Cosmos Press, 1921[3]
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