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6 unusual facts about Bryn Mawr College


Betty Draper

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with an anthropology degree, and briefly modeled in Italy (where she learned fluent Italian) before moving to Manhattan.

Eleanor Jorden

Jorden taught Japanese at many educational institutions, including Cornell University, Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, Williams College, the University of Hawaii, International Christian University in Tokyo and Ohio State University.

Geoffrey de Freitas

Two years at Yale followed, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law, and in 1936 on the voyage home he met his future wife, Helen Graham Bell, a Bryn Mawr graduate and daughter of Laird Bell, a prominent Chicago lawyer and Democrat.

HERmione

In the novel, she represents herself as Hermione Gart, a woman in her twenties, shortly after failing at Bryn Mawr.

Lucy Donnelly

Lucy Donnelly (September 18, 1870 – August 3, 1948) was a teacher of English at Bryn Mawr College.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

The book presents a description of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr.


Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway

An archaeology scholarship allowed her to continue her studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she came under the tutelage of Rhys Carpenter.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College (1918–1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921.

Diane Elam

Elam was also professor of English literature and critical and cultural theory at Cardiff University in Wales, at Indiana University in Bloomington, and at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

Dorothy Maharam

She earned her B.S. degree at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1937 and her Ph.D. in 1940 under Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler from Bryn Mawr College with a dissertation entitled On measure in abstract sets.

Elmalı

Excavations, by Machteld Mellink from Bryn Mawr College, of the burial mounds of Semahöyük and Müren have shown signs of copper production dating back to 2500 BC.

Hanna Holborn Gray

She has also served as a Director, Board Member or Trustee of various institutions, including the Harvard Corporation, the Yale Corporation, the Smithsonian Institution, JP Morgan Chase, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Marlboro School of Music, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Concord Coalition, the Mayo Clinic, the Brookings Institution, and Bryn Mawr.

José Manuel Caballero

He worked as a Contemporary Spanish Literature Professor at the Centre for Hispanic Studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1978.

Lady Jaye

She is a Bryn Mawr graduate, and also did graduate work in Trinity College in Dublin, before graduating from intelligence school at Fort Holabird.

Marion Edwards Park

Marion Edwards Park was the American alumna and the third president of Bryn Mawr College, following alumna M. Carey Thomas.

Paul Rehak

In 1980 he obtained his M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, writing on Mycenaean shrines under Machteld Mellink, and Ph.D. in 1985, writing on Roman sculpture under Brunilde Ridgway.

Python Robotics

The principal investigators on the NSF grant were Douglas Blank of Bryn Mawr College, Kurt Konolige of SRI International, Deepak Kumar (computer scientist) of Bryn Mawr College, Lisa Meeden of Swarthmore College, and Holly Yanco of University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Tasker H. Bliss

His daughter Eleanor, born in 1885, attended Bryn Mawr College where she became the first women to gain a doctorate in geology.

Women's basketball

By 1895, the game had spread to colleges across the country, including Wellesley, Vassar and Bryn Mawr.


see also

Berthe Marti

Education and degrees: Baccalauréat, Gymnase classique Cantonal, Lausanne, 1922; Licenciée-ès-lettres (in Latin and English literature), University of Lausanne, 1925; MA in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1926; PhD in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1934.

Sherman Fairchild Foundation

Notable Grants: 10 Million Dartmouth College, 10 Million Caltech, 10 Million Columbia, 5 Million Connecticut College, 5 Million MIT, .48 Million Bryn Mawr College