McIntosh, Millicent Carey

McIntosh, Millicent Carey măkˈəntŏshˌ [key], 1898–2001, American educator, b. Baltimore, grad. Bryn Mawr, 1920, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1926. From 1926 to 1930 she taught at Bryn Mawr and was acting dean in 1929–30. She was headmistress of Brearley School, New York City, from 1930 until her appointment in 1947 as dean of Barnard College, Columbia Univ. In 1952 she became president of the college; she retired in 1962.

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