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Smith College

Smith College is a private women's liberal arts college, located in Northampton, Massachusetts. The college was established in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith. It is one of the Five Colleges; the others are Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and Hampshire Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It is also one of the Seven Sisters schools.

The Ada Comstock Scholars Program is a bachelor's degree program for nontraditional students at Smith College.

Table of contents

1 Alumnae 2 Famous dean of students 3 External link

Alumnae

Notable alumnae include:

• Harriet Boyd-Hawes 1892
• Florence R. Sabin 1893
• Margaret Mitchell '22
• Julia Child '34
• Madeleine L'Engle '41
• Nancy Reagan '43
• Barbara Bush '47
• Meg Greenfield '52
• Sylvia Plath '54
• Gloria Steinem '56
• Jane Yolen '63 (also a professor of the college)
• Jane Harman '66
• Catharine MacKinnon '68
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson '69
• Tammy Baldwin '84

Fictional alumnae include:

• Charlotte York, from the television series Sex and the City
• Ainsley Hayes, from the television series The West Wing

Famous dean of students

• Laura Woolsey Lord Scales 1922-1944 (died at age 110)

External link

• Smith College

Seven_Sisters_schools: Barnard College | Bryn Mawr College | Mount Holyoke College Radcliffe College | Smith College | Vassar College | Wellesley College

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