Persons of the Week: Biographical Snapshots from Wellesley's Past

As part of the celebration of Wellesley College's 125th Anniversary, each week this web site has featured one or more notable individuals from Wellesley's past.

Ruth Nichols, early aviator (week of May 8, 2000)

Alona Evans, international criminal law expert (week of May 15, 2000)

Katharine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful" (week of May 22, 2000)

Annie Jump Cannon, astronomer extraordinaire (week of May 30, 2000)

George Stambolian, late Wellesley College professor of French (week of June 5, 2000)

Virginia Durr, activist, organizer, and leader in the civil rights movement (week of June 12, 2000)

Natalie Wipplinger, an exemplary teacher who helped shape Wellesley's German department (week of June 19, 2000)

Carolyn Heilbrun, feminist scholar and mystery writer (week of June 26, 2000)

Elizabeth Roche, decorated WW II veteran (week of July 3, 2000)

Jane Bolin, first black woman judge in the U.S. (week of July 10, 2000)

Walter Houghton, leader among Victorian scholars (week of July 17, 2000)

Tilly Edinger, renowned paleoneurologist (week of July 24, 2000)

Geneva Overholser, award-winning newspaper writer and editor (week of July 31, 2000)

Emily Greene Balch, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (week of August 7, 2000)

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political leader and artist (week of August 14, 2000)

Nora Ephron, writer, producer and director (week of August 21, 2000)

Florence Ladd, former Dean of Students (week of August 28, 2000)

Vivian Pinn, Associate Director of N.I.H. (week of September 4, 2000)

Margaret Taylor, "...hands down...the best teacher I had at Wellesley (or anywhere)." (week of September 11, 2000)

Del Nickerson, retired master of the greenhouse (week of September 18, 2000)

Eliza Newkirk Rogers, teacher and architect (week of September 25, 2000)

Alice Rebecca Appenzeller, a minister and educator who devoted most of her life to the people of Korea (week of October 2, 2000)

Julie Moir Messervy, landscape designer (week of October 9, 2000)

Pamela Melroy, astronaut (week of October 16, 2000)

John McAndrew, artist, architect and professor emeritus (week of October 23, 2000)

Paul Barstow, actor, director, producer, and creator of Wellesley's Theatre Studies Program (week of October 30, 2000)

Marguerite Church, former six term Illinois congresswoman (week of November 6, 2000)

Virginia Mayo Fiske, former professor of biological science and groundbreaking researcher on the pineal gland (week of November 13, 2000)

Wendy Liebman, comedian (week of November 20, 2000)

Grace Zia Chu, renowned cooking teacher (week of November 27, 2000)

Mary Ellen Crawford Ames, former director of personnel and director of admissions (week of December 4, 2000)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, reporter, writer, protector of the Everglades (week of December 11, 2000)

Katherine K. Davis, composer, pianist (week of December 18, 2000)

Barbara Loomis Jackson, educator, social activist, trustee (week of January 1, 2001)

Vladimir Nabokov, professor, writer, butterfly collector (week of January 8, 2001)

Ella Smith Elbert, only black student in her graduating class, teacher (week of January 16, 2001)

Amy Morris Homans, teacher, activist, proponent of physical education as a way to improve the lives and future of women (week of January 29, 2001)

Nardi Reeder Campion, writer, mother, historian (week of February 5, 2001)

Judith Tarcher Krantz, novelist (week of February 12, 2001)

Robert E. Garis, English professor, critic (week of February 19, 2001)

Barbara Babcock, actress (week of February 26, 2001)

Debra Chasnoff, social activist, filmmaker (week of March 5, 2001)

René Galand, Emeritus professor of French (week of March 12, 2001)

Patricia Zipprodt, costume designer (week of March 19, 2001)

M. Margaret Ball, political scientist, specialist in international organizations (week of March 26, 2001)

Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Clarissa M. Scott Delany, Wellesley alums during the Harlem Renaissance (week of April 2, 2001)

Annemarie Anrod Shimony, anthropologist and social activist (week of April 9, 2001)

Phyllis Brauner, chemist (week of April 16, 2001)

George Sims, head of the sheet metal/roofing shop and president of the Independent Maintenance and Service Employees' Union (week of April 23, 2001)

Molly Sanderson Campbell, Dean of Students (week of April 30, 2001)

Helen O'Bannon, expanded women's opportunities in business, public service and academia (week of May 7, 2001)

Ann Johnston, attorney (week of May 14, 2001)

Alice Schafer, mathematics teacher and promoter (week of May 21, 2001)

Rosario Ferré, Puerto Rican writer (week of May 28, 2001)

final person of the week (week of June 4, 2001)