The Washington Post
Alumnae Saved Sweet Briar College. Now One of Them Will Lead the School.
December 01, 2023
Eight years ago, the president of Sweet Briar College
abruptly announced that the more-than-century-old school would shut down. Horrified alumnae rushed in to save the small private women’s college in Virginia — and
they did. Now, after a national search, one of those women, Mary Pope Maybank Hutson, will be the school’s 14th president, college leaders announced Thursday. She’ll be the first alumna in the role.