Papers, (inclusive), (bulk) 1926-2002 1960-1978

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Papers, (inclusive), (bulk) 1926-2002 1960-1978

Biographical material, appointment books, notebooks, speeches, etc., of Mary Ingraham Bunting Smith, geneticist and fifth president of Radcliffe College (1960-1972).

2.7 linear feet (6 + 1/2 file boxes, 1 photograph folder)

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Bunting, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998

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Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of th...