A Male President for Mount Holyoke College: The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937

By Ann Karus Meeropol

A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women's college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female. Beginning in 1933, a group of male trustees determined to change the college. This book tells the story of how this group dominated the search process and ultimately convinced the majority of the trustees to offer the presidency to Roswell Gray Ham, an associate professor of English at Yale University.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786471336
• ISBN13: 9780786471331
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher