Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

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lntiall - is a colIcfi;e fortunate enough to have as its president an who is the emtiotliment of all the ideals for which that coIlejj;e It so Miss (ilass has heen as prcsitlent of Sweet liriar. lor years her dignity and crisp intelligence, her charm and dynamic i e inspired Sweet Briar girls. She has heen an ever-present the heights attainahle in the scholastic, spiritual atui social announcement of her resignation in 1946 was heard with deep |V4Jryone connected with the college, past and present. They felt r was losing someone who was as much a part of the college as ' t itm ' ospTTere in which it exists. But though she herself resigns, the pat- tern Miss (ilass has set will remain and Sweet Briar girls will continue to li e hy that trailition of high scholastic standards set m an atmosphere of graceful li ing. With this in mintl we dedicate the nineteen-hundred ami fortv-six Briar P.xrcll to Dr. Meta (ilass.

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Iiislninoy III Randoll ' h-Macon W ' nimni ' s College [jweniij ' 0ne Dr. iMeta Glass assunicd Uic prL-sideiK-y it ' Sweet Briar Colles e in 1925, the ninetrcntli year of the college. She was well prepared to bring int tlie nffice the requisite academie prestige. Miss Glass had been engaged almost constantly in edu- cational work ever since she was graduated from Randolph- Macon Woman ' s College. She took her master ' s degree there before going to Columbia University for study leading to a doctorate. She returned to Randolph-Macon Woman ' s College as assistant professor of Latin in 1912, a position she held for six years. 13uring the first World War, 1918. she went to France as Y. W. C. A. Secretary and durmg the summer of 1919, she was made Dean of the Training School for luiropean Women in Paris. Recognition of her service came in the form of the Reconnaissance Frani;aise which was awarded in 1920. Returning to Columbia Uni- versity, Miss Glass was appointed to the faculty as assistant professor of Latin and Greek. In addition, she was assistant to the director of University I ' :xtension. Miss Glass held these positions until her acceptance of the presidency of Sweet Briar. She is Sweet Briar ' s third president. Miss Cilass and her leadershi]) in education have been widely recognized. She has been given honorary degrees by seven ' universities and colleges : Litt. D., Columliia Univer- sitv and Mount Holyoke College; LL.D., Brown Univer- sity, Universitv of Delaware. Williams College and W ilson College ; D.C.L., The University of the South. Taking an active part in the educational life of the state and nation. Miss Glass has served as president of the Asso- ciation of ' irninia Colleges, 1 )30-.51 : jiresident of the Ameri- y. V . C. A. Secretary in I ' raiic 1 1S I ' resideul of Szceet Uridi