Bookplates

The Millicent C. McIntosh Book Fund

July 1, 1970

This book fund was established in honor of one of the founders of Kirkland College, Millicent C. McIntosh. The fund is dedicated towards purchasing books by and about women for the College library.

Before service to Kirkland as a founder and member of its Board of Trustees, Millicent McIntosh was a well-known educational administrator and American feminist. After receiving degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Cambridge University, and Johns Hopkins University, she taught and served as acting Dean at Bryn Mawr. Soon after, she headed the Brearley School for seventeen years, where she pioneered one of the first sex education courses, and then began service as Dean of Barnard College in 1947. Five years later, she became the President of the college, the first woman to head one of the seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeast that are historically women’s colleges. She was instrumental in helping to found Kirkland College in the 1960s.