ANSWERS

1. d. Wellesley. Only five of some 45 schools founded by early Mount Holyoke alumnae have their seals in the stained-glass windows of Mount Holyoke's Williston Library and are known as "daughters." Although Wellesley had close ties with Western -- both Leila McKee and Susan Peabody obtained degrees from Wellesley after graduating from the Seminary, several of the first faculty were from the Seminary, and a member of the Seminary faculty, Miss Ada Howard, became Wellesley's first president when Helen Peabody declined the job -- it is not one of them.

2.  Lolita McDavid '69 has been a member of the MU Board of Trustees since 2000 [WCAA Bulletin, Fall '00]; Anne Adkins Weissenborn '61 was appointed to the MU Foundation earlier this year [see newsletter, "Western Alum on Miami Foundation Board"!]

3.  True. Dr. Nelson graduated from Western in 1920; received her master’s from Smith in 1923, her doctorate from Berkeley in 1933; and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Western in 1968. Oh, and by the way, she was made an Honorary Life Trustee of the college in 1968 -- but we couldn't quite count that as another degree.