Historian Jill Ker Comway, 83, First Female President Of Smith College

"The Australian-born Dr. Conway was just 40 when, in 1975, she became the first woman to lead Smith, the nation's largest liberal arts institution for women. In her decade-long tenure, she presided over a transformation that brought the women's movement to a school dominated for more than a century by conservative male faculty and administrators. ... In a wide-ranging career, Dr. Conway was an accomplished scholar who focused on early-20th-century women's reformers but later wrote a trio of critically acclaimed memoirs."

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