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Article: DR. RUTH MARIE ADAMS, AT 90; GAVE CAREER TO HIGHER EDUCATION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2004
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Dr. Ruth Marie Adams dedicated her life to higher education. She
was president of Wellesley College and was vice president of
Dartmouth College during itstransition to coeducation in the early
1970s.
Dr. Adams, of Hanover, N.H., died Wednesday, apparently of natural
causes, at her home in the Kendal at Hanover her bachelor's degree in
1935 from Adelphi College in Queens, N.Y. She taught high school for
several years before earning a master's degree at Columbia University
in 1943. She was a housemistress at Radcliffe College for three years
and a teaching fellow and tutor at Harvard University from 1944 to
1946. Dr. Adams received her doctorate from Radcliffe in 1951 and
received a Ford ...