Leaders
- Ella Weed, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and college Secretary ?–1894.
- Emily James Smith, Dean 1894–1900
- Laura Drake Gill, Dean 1901–1907
- Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean 1911–1947
- Millicent McIntosh, Dean 1947–1962, President 1952–1962
- Rosemary Park, President 1962–1967
- Martha Peterson, President 1967–1975
- Jacquelyn Mattfield, 1975–1981
- Ellen V. Futter, 1981–1993
- Judith R. Shapiro, 1994–2008
- Debora L. Spar, 2008–present
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Famous quotes containing the word leaders:
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“For aesthetics is the mother of ethics.... Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe—not empirically, alas, but only theoretically—that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
“Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation’s leaders wouldn’t know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)