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Title: | Captain USNR |
Prename: | Mildred Helen |
Surname: | McAfee Horton |
Name of birth: | McAfee |
Profession: | College president, navy-captain |
Birthday: | 05/12/1900 |
Place of birth: | Parkville, MO |
Date of death: | 09/02/1994 |
Place of death: | Randolph, NH |
Married since: | 1945 |
Married to: | Dr. Douglas Horton |
Profession husband: | Minister, dean of Divinity School, Harvard University |
Education: | 1920 B.A. Vassar College; 1928 M.A. University of Chicago |
Career: | 1920–23 teaches in Missouri elementary and middle schools; 1923–26 acting professor of economics and sociology, Tusculum College, Greenville, TN; 1926–32 dean of women, Centre College, Danville, KY; 1932–34 executive secretary, Associate Alumnae of Vassar College; 1934–36 dean of women, Oberlin College; 1936–42 president of Wellesley College; 1942 director of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, initially as Lieutenant Commander of the Naval Reserve, from 1943 as Captain); 1945–48 again president of Wellesley College |
Memberships: | American Association of University Women (AAUW); 1963–74 president of the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire; Navy Distinguished Service Medal; American Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal |
Biographical literature: | “Miss Mac,” *Time*, March 12, 1945; obituary, *Boston Globe*, September 3, 1994 |
Major works: | *Modern Education and Human Values* (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1954) |