Memorial Service Will Be Held In Honor of Millicent
McIntosh, June
3
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Barnard
College Archives
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NEW
YORK, N.Y. -- Barnard College will hold a memorial
service for former president Millicent McIntosh
at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 3. The service will
take place in the lower level of McIntosh Center,
a building named in honor of the late president.
Barnard's
current president, Judith Shapiro, will speak
at the event, as will Helen McIntyre '48, trustee
emerita and member of the first class to graduate
during McIntosh's tenure. Former McIntosh Professor
of English, David Robertson, and Mary-Jo Kline
'61, Gayle Binder '62, and Marjorie Dobkin '44
will share their memories as well. McIntosh's
daughter, Sue McIntosh Lloyd, will speak on behalf
of the family.
Family members Carey McIntosh and Joan Ferrante
will provide music, and a reception and archival
display chronicling McIntosh's life will follow
the service.
McIntosh,
a distinguished educator and advocate died January
3, 2001 at her home in Tyringham, Mass., at the
age of 102. She was long an advocate for the importance
of women's combining a demanding career and rewarding
personal life. She deplored the tendency of many
educated women to "settle down into domesticity
and never raise a peep again."
Born
Margaret Millicent Carey, McIntosh was graduated
from The Bryn Mawr School and went on to earn
a degree in English magna cum laude from Bryn
Mawr College. She studied at Newnham College,
Cambridge University, and earned her Ph.D. in
English from Johns Hopkins University.
She
joined Bryn Mawr as an instructor of English in
1926 and was named dean of freshmen in 1928. In
1930, she was named head of The Brearley School,
a private school for girls in New York City. During
her tenure, Brearley grew substantially and modernized,
moving to a full-day from a part-time program,
introducing aptitude tests and remedial courses
and an expanded science program.
In
1932, she married Rustin McIntosh, M.D., a pediatrician,
who was Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics at
Columbia University's College of Physicians and
Surgeons, and who was later director of the New
York Babies Hospital. He died in 1986.
In
November 1946 she was named as Barnard's fourth
leader, taking office in July 1947. As president
of Barnard until 1962, McIntosh oversaw a period
of substantial growth in endowment and facilities,
including the building of Lehman Hall, housing
the Wolman Library, in 1959 and Reid Hall in 1961.
She also broadened access to the College, paying
special attention to the children of World War
II refugees, enhanced faculty salaries, and increased
the exchange of courses and teachers between Barnard
and Columbia. In 1969, the college's new student
center was named in her honor.
She
and her husband moved to the family's farmhouse
in Tyringham in 1962 following her retirement
from Barnard. Active until the end of her life,
this past Christmas she joined members of her
family in singing carols. She loved to have classical
music around her, and her family, many of whom
play instruments, had frequent musical occasions
at her house.
She
is survived by five children: James McIntosh,
of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a professor of American
Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
R. Carey McIntosh, a retired professor of English
literature, of Tyringham, Mass., and New York
City; Susan McIntosh Lloyd, of Tinmouth, Vermont,
who taught history, urban service, and music at
Phillips Academy Andover; Kenneth McIntosh, of
West Newton, Mass., a professor of pediatrics
at Harvard University, who practices medicine
at Children's Hospital; and J. Richard Mcintosh,
a professor of microbiology at the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
Click
here to read Barnard's
obituary for Millicent McIntosh.
Click here to read alumna and novelist Anne
Bernays's remembrance of McIntosh in The Chronicle
of Higher Education.
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