MARY MacCOLL
1874 - 1941
The Faculty of Vassar College with deep regret
records the death of Mary MacColl on February lh,
l94l. For the past twenty-five years her life was
wholly devoted to the well being of the college
which she served in the triple capacity of teacher,
resident, and active member of the community. Fro
the time of her graduation from Vassar she was as-
sociated with educational work, first as a teacher
at Stratford, Connecticut; later, when a graduate
student at Columbia University, as secretary in a
Barnard College dormitory. Having been granted the
degree of Master of Arts in 1915 she returned to
Vassar in February 1916.
As Associate Warden and Resident she was an untir-
ing and valued liaison officer between the students,
the parents, and the Faculty. With patience, human
understanding, unfailing tact, and sound judgment,
she gave herself gladly and.generously to the ad-
justing of the problems forever arising in a complex
comunity. These same gifts were brought to bear on
her duties as social head of the Vassar Nurses Train—
ing Camp in 1918 and for the Vassar Summer Institute
of Euthenics from 1926 to 1934.
Guests, alumnae, members of the college pay grateful
tribute to Mary MacColl, hostess of Main Building,
for her ever kindly, gracious hospitality. Her as-
sociates in Poughkeepsie and in Dutchess County too
pay tribute to her, for her well-known constructive
interest in civic affairs.
For all her friends the regret for her going will
always be tempered by gratitude for having known her
gay kindly wit, her loyal gallant spirit.
Mary Sague
Mathilde Monnier
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