Pauline Tompkins Explained

Pauline Tompkins
Birth Date:March 5, 1918
Birth Place:Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Death Date:November 19, 2004
Death Place:Edgecomb, Maine
Occupation:College president, educational consultant
Known For:General director, American Association of University Women (1959-1967); president, Cedar Crest College

Pauline "Polly" Tompkins (March 5, 1918 – November 19, 2004) was the first female president of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.[1]

Early life and education

Tompkins was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. She graduated from Pine Manor College in 1938 and Mount Holyoke College in 1941 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University in 1948.[2]

Career

Tompkins was general director of the American Association of University Women from 1959 to 1967.[3] [4] She was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the nine-member United States Advisory Commission on International Education and Cultural Affairs in 1964.[5] She was chairman of the board of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching from 1974 to 1976.

Tompkins died in 2004 in Edgecomb, Maine, aged 86 years.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: DR. PAULINE TOMPKINS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR- PASSES AWAY . Cedar Crest College . 2008-10-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929090933/http://www.cedarcrest.edu/Redesign/pressreleases/Nov192004.asp . September 29, 2007 .
  2. News: Pauline Tompkins . November 22, 2004 . . November 26, 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015537/http://www.timesrecord.com/website/archives.nsf/56606056e44e37508525696f00737257/8525696e00630dfe05256f5400586d09?OpenDocument . September 30, 2007 . dead .
  3. Book: Eisenmann, Linda . Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 . limited . Johns Hopkins University Press . Baltimore . 2006 . 0-8018-8261-3 . 156.
  4. Book: Levine, Susan . Degrees Of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth-Century Feminism . Temple University Press . Philadelphia . 1995 . 1-56639-326-4 . 104 . registration .
  5. [iarchive:sim state-magazine 1964-04 36/page/61/mode/1up|"Dr. Tompkins to Serve U.S. in Advisory Post"]

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