Thomas C. Mendenhall
Professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States. Early life and education The grandson and namesake of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall , physicist and meteorologist, his father was a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Charles Elwood Mendenhall , and his mother, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall , a well-known pediatrician. The young Thomas Mendenhall grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and went to Andover before graduating from Yale University in 1932. At Yale, he served on the business staff of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, he attended Balliol College, Oxford, from 1935 to 1936, earning a B.Litt. degree. While at Oxford, he was captain of the Balliol Boats. Mendenhall returned to Yale, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Welsh wool trade in the 16th and 17th centuries, receiving his Ph.D. in history in 1938. As a graduate student, he rowed on the Berkeley College intramural crew.
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