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Dr.
Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard
1884-1922, 1923-1929
Founder, president, professor, and later board member of Cottey College. She
received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Iowa Wesleyan College
in 1930.1 |
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Dr. J.C. Harmon
1922-1923
Formerly the superintendant of Nevada schools. Seven of Cottey's 19
faculty members resigned in protest of his appointment.2 Harmon himself
resigned after his first year, in the face of pressing financial
difficulties. |
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Dr. Mary Rose Prosser
1929-1933
Formerly of the State University of Iowa.
Prosser was asked to resign because the board felt she was not
placing enough emphasis on religion at the college.1 |
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Dr. Florence E. Boehmer
1933-1937 |
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Dr. Orpha L. Stockard
1937-1938, 1942-1943
Stockard, who was the Dean of Faculty, acted as Cottey President for 15 months following Dr. Boehmer's
release in 1937. She again acted as president during the second semester of 1942-43 while President Mitchell
completed her doctoral dissertation. |
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Dr. Marjorie Mitchell
1938-1949
Mitchell earned an Master's in English from Radcliffe College and was a
candidate for a Doctor of Education degree at Columbia University. (She
completed and submitted her dissertation, but never received her degree
for unknown reasons.) She received an honorary doctorate degree from
Iowa Wesleyan College in 1942. Before coming to Cottey, she was a
professor of English and Dean of Women at the University of Akron.
Dr. Mitchell was the first to suggest that Cottey purchase what would
become B.I.L. Hill. |
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Dr. Blanche Hinman Dow
1949-1965
Dow established Cottey as the College of International Friendship. |
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Dr. Ted McCarrel
1965-1969
Formerly executive dean of student services at University of Iowa. He
was also a co-founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of the
American College Testing program (ACT). |
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Dr. Jon Olaf Hondrum
1969-1974
Formerly the Dean of Instruction at the College of the Sequoias in
California. His spouse, Ona Lou Ackley, taught voice at Cottey in 1958-59. |
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Dr. Evelyn L. Milam
1974-1986
Formerly the first woman Director of Admissions for Austin College in
Texas. |
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Dr. Helen R. Washburn
1986-2004
Dr. Washburn helped to establish Cottey's Center for Women's Leadership,
which opened in 2000. |
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Dr. Judy R. Rogers
2004-Present |
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Works Cited:
- Troesch, Helen DeRusha. Life of Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard. Wayside
Press, Inc., 1955: 264. Print.
- Troesch, Helen DeRusha. Life of Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard. Wayside
Press, Inc., 1955: 241-45. Print.
- Rhodes, Dr. Mary. “Dried Flowers: The History of Women’s Culture at Cottey College, 1884-1965.” Diss. Ohio State U, 1981. PDF file.
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