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Singing & Talking. To her own present position, Margaret Clapp brings more talent than training: she was never a dean like Vassar's President Sarah Blanding or Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride. But ever since her childhood, when she tried to tag after her two older brothers and sister as they marched off to school, she seemed to know what she wanted to do next. "She was always pretty," says her brother Alfred. "She always had brains, and she could always take care of herself...
...Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...
Last winter, it came close. New York City's Board of Higher Education was ready to name Bryn J. Hovde, historian (The Scandinavian Countries), housing expert and head of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, to the $15,000-a-year job. But some Queens residents had a candidate of their own: Acting President Margaret V. Kiely. Others, including Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet, attacked Hovde because he had been critical of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had attended the Moscow-sponsored World Congress of Intellectuals in Breslau last summer (where...
Each side had its candidate. Margaret Kiely, a dean at Queens, was backed by O'Dwyer's group. Bryn Hovde, president of the New School for Social Research, was supported by the second group. Neither candidate was finally picked; John J. Theobald, a City College dean, was named president instead by the Board of Higher Education...
...search for a president was a long one, but by February, 1949, the Schultz committee had brought at least two candidates up for the Board's consideration. One was Dean Kiely; the other was Bryn Hovde, president of the New School for Social Research. Hovde, it was understood, had the inside track...