Pauline Tompkins

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Pauline Tompkins
A middle-aged white woman with short hair cut into a short fringe
Tompkins in 1964
BornMarch 5, 1918
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
DiedNovember 19, 2004
Edgecomb, Maine
Occupation(s)College president, educational consultant
Known forGeneral director, American Association of University Women (1959-1967); president, Cedar Crest College

Pauline "Polly" Tompkins (March 5, 1918 – November 19, 2004[1]) was the first female president of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

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.[3]

Career[edit]

Tompkins was general director of the American Association of University Women from 1959 to 1967.[2][4][5] She was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the nine-member United States Advisory Commission on International Education and Cultural Affairs in 1964.[6] She was chairman of the board of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching from 1974 to 1976.[2]

Tompkins died in 2004 in Edgecomb, Maine, aged 86 years.[2]

Published works[edit]

  • Pauline Tompkins (1949). American-Russian Relations in the Far East. Macmillan.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "PAULINE TOMPKINS (1918-2004) - Social Security Death Index"
  2. ^ a b c d "DR. PAULINE TOMPKINS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR- PASSES AWAY". Cedar Crest College. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
  3. ^ "Pauline Tompkins". The Times-Record. November 22, 2004. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2005.
  4. ^ Eisenmann, Linda (2006). Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 156. ISBN 0-8018-8261-3.
  5. ^ Levine, Susan (1995). Degrees Of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth-Century Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 104. ISBN 1-56639-326-4.
  6. ^ "Dr. Tompkins to Serve U.S. in Advisory Post" Department of State Newsletter (April 1964): 61. via Internet Archive

External links[edit]

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