Previous Persons of the Week Ruth Nichols Week of May 8 early aviator Alona Evans Week of May 15 international criminal law expert Katharine Lee Bates Week of May 22 author of "America the Beautiful" Annie Jump Cannon Week of May 30 astronomer extraordinaire George Stambolian Week of June 5 late Wellesley College professor of French Virginia Durr Week of June 12 activist, organizer, and leader in the civil rights movement Natalie Wipplinger Week of June 19 an exemplary teacher who helped shape Wellesley's German department Carolyn Heilbrun Week of June 26 feminist scholar and mystery writer Elizabeth Roche Week of July 3 decorated WW II veteran Jane Bolin Week of July 10 first black woman judge in the U.S. Walter Houghton Week of July 17 leader among Victorian scholars Tilly Edinger Week of July 24 renowned paleoneurologist Geneva Overholser Week of July 31 award-winning newspaper writer and editor Emily Greene Balch Week of August 7 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Madame Chiang Kai-shek Week of August 14 Chinese political leader and artist Nora Ephron Week of August 21 writer, producer and director Florence Ladd Week of August 28 former Dean of Students Vivian Pinn Week of September 4 Associate Director of N.I.H. Margaret Taylor Week of September 11 "...hands down...the best teacher I had at Wellesley (or anywhere)." Del Nickerson Week of September 18 retired master of the greenhouse Eliza Newkirk Rogers Week of September 25 teacher and architect Alice Rebecca Appenzeller Week of October 2 a minister and educator who devoted most of her life to the people of Korea Julie Moir Messervy Week of October 9 landscape designer Pamela Melroy Week of October 16 astronaut John McAndrew Week of October 23 artist, architect and professor emeritus Paul Barstow Week of October 30 actor, director, producer, and creator of Wellesley's Theatre Studies Program Marguerite Church Week of November 6 former six term Illinois congresswoman Virginia Mayo Fiske Week of November 13 former professor of biological science and groundbreaking researcher on the pineal gland Wendy Liebman Week of November 20 comedian Grace Zia Chu Week of November 27 renowned cooking teacher Mary Ellen Crawford Ames Week of December 4 former director of personnel and director of admissions Marjory Stoneman Douglas Week of December 11 reporter, writer, protector of the Everglades Katherine K. Davis Week of December 18 composer, pianist Barbara Loomis Jackson Week of January 1 educator, social activist, trustee Vladimir Nabokov Week of January 8 professor, writer, butterfly collector Ella Smith Elbert Week of January 16 only black student in her graduating class, teacher Amy Morris Homans Week of January 29 teacher, activist, proponent of physical education as a way to improve the lives and future of women Nardi Reeder Campion Week of February 5 writer, mother, historian Judith Tarcher Krantz Week of February 12 novelist Robert E. Garis Week of February 19 English professor, critic Barbara Babcock Week of February 26 actress Debra Chasnoff Week of March 5 social activist, filmmaker René Galand Week of March 12 Emeritus professor of French Patricia Zipprodt Week of March 19 costume designer M. Margaret Ball Week of March 26 political scientist, specialist in international organizations Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Clarissa M. Scott Delany Week of April 2 Wellesley alums during the Harlem Renaissance Annemarie Anrod Shimony Week of April 9 anthropologist and social activist Phyllis Brauner Week of April 16 chemist George Sims Week of April 23 head of the sheet metal/roofing shop and president of the Independent Maintenance and Service Employees' Union Molly Sanderson Campbell Week of April 30 Dean of Students Helen O'Bannon Week of May 7 expanded women's opportunities in business, public service and academia Ann Johnston Week of May 14 attorney Alice Schafer Week of May 21 mathematics teacher and promoter Rosario Ferré Week of May 28 Puerto Rican writer