Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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EXCELLENCE Contents Seniors 18 Underclassmen 64 Administration 98 Organizations 126 Events 144 Sports 174 Directory 188 Ads 194 mmmmmtmiw Mil

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recently Mary Baldwin has been . . . mmm® For more than a century, the fu- tures of thousands of young women have been shaped inside the pale yel- low columned buildings at Mary Baldwin College, where generations of students have learned poise and good manners along with Shake- speare and Galileo. But today Mary Baldwin, like most of the 110 women ' s colleges across the nation, is undergoing a dramatic transformation. In place of the liberal arts finishing school im- age that was once synonymous with southern women ' s colleges is a new emphasis on career and professional training. Mary Baldwin ' s catalogue has pictures of computers and mi- croscopes and alumni who are doc- tors and corporate managers. Preparation for independence is the college ' s ne w motto. The new emphasis has meant re- vamping curriculums to attract a new generation of women students who are more, interested in career preparation than liberal arts or old school traditions. At no other women ' s college has the change been as dramatic as at Mary Baldwin, which became one of the first women ' s colleges to impose a professional curriculum on its lib- eral arts foundation in the mid- 1970s. The result has been financial sol- vency, record enrollments, increases in fund raising, a new mix of students that includes older women and some gifted high school students, along with the traditional undergraduates and a heavily professional curricu- lum. The Washington Post The education editor of The New York Times includes Mary Baldwin College in The Best Buys in College