This post contains two inaccuracies, which The Mac Weekly would like to correct. The first is that Ted Mitau was “barely five feet tall”. In fact, he was five feet, six inches. The second was that Mitau was unaware of the place of his mother’s death during his lifetime. In fact, during a trip to…
Mac founder Mary Gwen Owen ’23 is remembered for her larger-than-life presence on campus, both in and out of the theater department. Owen was born in Ellsworth, Wisconsin in 1900 and graduated from Macalester in 1923. She returned to Macalester five years later and taught speech and drama for 40 years. She continued to be…
The fourth founder that The Mac Weekly will feature is Margaret Doty, for whom Doty Hall is named. Doty was the Macalester Dean of Women and an English professor. She was a faculty member from 1924 to 1960. Doty was a Macalester alum herself and graduated in 1914. After getting a masters degree in English…
This is the third installment of the Founder’s Day series where the Mac Weekly looks back at some Macalester Founders who have shaped the Macalester we know today. This week we will highlight Edward Duffield Neill, Macalester’s first founder. Neill was born in 1823 in Philidelphia to a well-to-do family of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians; his father…
By Kasia Majewski [email protected] The Mac Weekly is continuing its profiling of some of the illustrious founders that we commemorate on Founder’s Day. Esther Suzuki is another Macalester founder and woman of color who helped build Macalester’s principles of multiculturalism and service. Suzuki was the first Japanese-American student to attend Macalester. One year after the…
Personally, I have never given much thought to Founder’s Day. I figured the Founders were simply the (old, dead and white) men who founded the college and several Macalester presidents mixed in for good measure. However, this is not entirely the case. Over the next few weeks, The Mac Weekly will be running features on…
