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Mary Maples Dunn (April 6, 1931 – March 19, 2017 [1]) was an American historian. She served as the eighth president of Smith College for ten years beginning in 1985. Dunn was also the director of the Schlesinger Library from 1995 to 2000.
22 mar 2017 · Mary Maples Dunn, an educator who brought a scholar’s knowledge of the history of women to her long tenure as president of Smith College and who defended the role of women’s colleges in an...
31 mar 2017 · Mary Maples Dunn, a historian and advocate for women’s education who presided over Radcliffe during its merger with Harvard, died on March 19. She was 85. “Mary always believed firmly in what women could do,” Harvard President Drew Faust said. “She made that clear both in what she said and in the model she represented.”.
Mary Maples Dunn—who served as the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library from 1995 to 1999—died on March 19. A renowned scholar of American history, she was also a talented administrator who led Radcliffe during its 1999–2000 merger with Harvard, as both acting president of Radcliffe College and then as ...
Mary could do both, with equal enthusiasm and with striking success. The coherence and integrity of her life and work embodied a humanistic ideal that cheered and enlightened her associates. Mary Maples Dunn died in Winston-Salem, NC, on March 19. She is survived by her husband, Richard Dunn, and two daughters. Patricia Meyer Spacks
- Patricia Meyer Spacks
1 set 2017 · Mary Maples Dunn, historian, academic leader, and a lifelong, influential advocate for women in higher education and the historical profession, died in March. She was 85. Born in Wisconsin, Dunn lived in places such as Hawaii and China before heading to the East Coast of North America to study history.
Mary Maples Dunn was born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and earned her PhD in history at Bryn Mawr College. Over a span of 20 years, she advanced from instructor to professor to undergraduate dean at Bryn Mawr. Before becoming acting president of Radcliffe, she served as the president of Smith College for 10 years and as the director of the ...
