Mary Mason Lyon was an American pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1834. She then established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1837 and served as its first president for 12 years. Lyon's vision fused intellectual challenge and moral purpose. She valued socioeconomic diversity and endeavored to make the seminary affordable for students of modest means.
Mary Emma Woolley was an American educator, peace activist and women's suffrage supporter. She was the first female student to attend Brown University and served as the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900 to 1937.
Elizabeth Topham Kennan is an American academic who served as the 16th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1978 to 1995. She also served as president of the Five Colleges consortium from 1985 to 1994.
Florence Matilda Read was raised in Delevan, New York. She was president of Spelman College from 1927-1953. Prior to that she was acting president of Atlanta University from 1936-1937.
Nancy Gustafson is an American opera singer.
Minerva Josephine Chapman (1858–1947) was an American painter. She was known for her work in miniature portraiture, landscape, and still life.
Abby Howe Turner (1875-1957) was a noted professor of Physiology and Zoology who founded the department of physiology at Mount Holyoke College. She specialized in colloid osmotic pressure and circulatory reactions to gravity.
Lucy Weston Pickett was a Mary Lyon Professor and Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chair in Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College.
Janet Wilder Dakin, was a philanthropist, zoologist. She was the daughter of Amos Parker Wilder and a younger sister of theologist and poet Amos Niven Wilder, author Thornton Wilder and poet Charlotte Wilder and writer Isabel Wilder
Cornelia Maria Clapp was an American zoologist and academic specializing in marine biology. She was born in Montague, Massachusetts, the first daughter and oldest child of two teachers, and was rated as one of the top zoologists in the United States in her lifetime.
Anna Jane Harrison was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years. She was the first female President of the American Chemical Society, and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees. She was nationally known for her teaching and was active nationally and internationally as a supporter of women in science.
Mary Williamson McHenry is "credited with bringing African-American literature to Mount Holyoke College," where she is Emeritus Professor of English. McHenry also introduced her then student, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, to Five Colleges faculty member James Baldwin during the 1980s. Parks would later credit McHenry with her success.
Constance McLaughlin Winsor Green was an American historian. She who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 (1962).
Emma Perry Carr was an American spectroscopist and chemical educator.
Mary Lura Sherrill was recognized for her achievements in chemical research, particularly the synthesis of antimalarial compounds, and for her teaching at Mount Holyoke College. In 1947, she received the Garvan Medal, an award for women in chemistry.
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker was an American botanist and educator. She was one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in botany from an American university. She was born in Gardiner, Maine and died in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Flora Belle Ludington was an American librarian and author. Ludington served as the head librarian for Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, from 1938 until 1964.
Caroline Ransom Williams was an Egyptologist and classical archaeologist. She was the first American woman to be professionally trained as an Egyptologist. She worked extensively with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York and other major institutions with Egyptian collections, and published Studies in ancient furniture (1905), The Tomb of Perneb (1916), and The Decoration of the Tomb of Perneb: The Technique and the Color Conventions (1932), among others.
Sonya Stephens is the current president of Mount Holyoke College and the author of Baudelaire’s Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony as well as the editor of A History of Women’s Writing in France and Translation and the Arts in Modern France.
Carole Ellen Straw is Professor Emerita of History at Mount Holyoke College. She researches various aspects of Christian history and thought in late antiquity and the early middle ages, with particular emphasis on Gregory the Great and Christian martyrdom. She has worked at the University of Chicago and Mount Holyoake College and received the John Nicholas Brown Prize in 1992 for her book Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection.
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