The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-26
Sweet Briar President Will Be
Guest of Honor at Dinner Tonight

Miss Meta Glass, who is presi,
dent of Sweet Briar college, Sweet
Brlar, Va, and who will be guest
OF honor this evening at the Sweet
Brlar alumnae dinner party to be-
given at the Cape Fear Country
club. Miss Glass comes to Will
mlngton from a our of other south
ern cities and will be the princi-
pal speaker tonight. All alumnac
and interest friends are invited
to attend and are asked to arrive
at 7 o'clock. While in Wilmington
Miss Glass will be houseguest IF
Mrs. Peter Browne Ruffin, Sweet
Brlar alumna.
Miss Glass has been president of
Sweet Briar college since 1925
when she succeeded the late DR..
Emily Watts McVea. She came t..
Sweet Briar from the faculty Of
Columbia university whe:-e she was
assistant to the director of univcr-
slty extension and assistant Pro-
lessor of Latin. Miss Glass took
her MA: degree from Randolph
Macon Woman's college in Lynch
burg, Virginia, taught for some
years and then took her Phi D
degree from Columbia university
in 1913. For a number of years
after that she was assistant pro-
lessor of Latin at Randolph-Ma-
con Woman's college, resigning IL
1913 to do war work in France
with the Y.W.C.A. She was in
charge of that organizations work
among the nurses of the A.F,.F.
until the summer of 1919 At that
time she was asked to take charge
OF the training school for women
which was undertaken by tue
World Committee of the Y.W.C.A
in Paris and which for four months
trained women from fourteen na-
tons of Europe in social servics
work, so that they might continue
the activities of the Y.W.C.A. after
its withdrawal. For this work Miss
Glass a awarded the Recon
Nuisance Franchise by the French
Government.
1t was upon her return to the
United States that she became a
member of the faculty of Colun.-
bia university. leaving there IN
the summer of 1925 to assume he
presidency of Sweet Briar. Miss
Glass was awarded the honorary.
degree of Doctor of Literature by
Columbia in. 1929 and the degee
of Doctor Of Laws by the Univec-
sity of Delaware in 1884, the degree
of Doctor Of Literature by Mount
Holyoke college in 1888, the de-
gree of Doctor of Civil Laws by
the University of the South in 1886.
The degree of Doctor of Laws by
Brown university in 1888 and BY
Williams college in 1910.
She was elected national presi-
dent of the A.A.U.W. at its biennial
convention in Minneapolis in May
1888, succeeding DR.. Mary E. Wool
ley, and held that office for four
years until the summer of 1887.
In her capacity as president, Miss
Glass spoke to A.A.U.W. groups in
many cities in various sections of
the country, and four times rep
resented the American Association
abroad, having attended the coun-
Gil meetings of the International
Federation of University Women
in Budapest in 1884 and Krakow
in 1896 as well as two conferences
in London. She is now a member
of the Finance Committee of the
international Federation. Miss
Glass has also been for years an
active member of the Association
of American Colleges and was
president of the association in 1859.
She is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, a former president of the
Association of Virginia colleges,
is second vice-president of me
American Council on Education