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Mary Maples Dunn (April 6, 1931 – March 19, 2017) 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.
- April 6, 1931, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
- Ruth Simmons
31. März 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.”.
22. März 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...
Elected to the Academy in 1994. When Mary Maples Dunn in 2011 began her final administrative position, as co-director of the Visiting Scholars Program at the American Academy, she announced that she would act as “mother hen” to the Scholars.
- Patricia Meyer Spacks
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 ...
1. Sept. 2017 · Karin Wulf | Sep 1, 2017. Academic Leader and Historian of Early America. 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.
who could write a scholarly book. 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.
