Marion Edwards Park (1875-1960) was an American academic administrator who was the third president of
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh language, Welsh: ) is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as a ...
, her alma mater, following alumna
M. Carey Thomas.
Biography
Park was born in
Gloversville, New York
Gloversville is a city in the Mohawk Valley region of Upstate New York, United States. The most populous city in Fulton County, it was once the hub of the United States' glovemaking industry, with over 200 manufacturers there and the adjacent ...
, in 1875. Her brother, Dr.
E. A. Park, was head of the department of pediatrics at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
.
During her tenure as a student at Bryn Mawr College, she received the Bryn Mawr European Fellowship and used it to attend the
American School of Classical Studies
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA; ) is one of 19 foreign archaeological institutes in Athens, Greece.
It is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). CAORC is a private not-for-profit federati ...
in Athens, Greece. Park presided over the college during the
Great Depression
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and the beginning of
World War II
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, where she worked with other colleges to employ refugee scholars from European universities.
Park was also instrumental in initiating
cross-institution collaboration between Bryn Mawr College,
Haverford College
Haverford College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Fr ...
,
Swarthmore College
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, and the
University of Pennsylvania
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.
She died in 1960.
Publications
"The plebs in
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...
’s day, a study of their provenance and of their employment",
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, The Cosmos Press, 1921
References
Further reading
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Meigs, Cornelia (1956)
''What Makes A College? A History Of Bryn Mawr'' New York: The Macmillan Company.
External links
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Bryn Mawr College alumni
Presidents of Bryn Mawr College
1875 births
1960 deaths