Dean's List and First Group Scholars

SmithieandProud
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:12:26 +0000

I think she likes to talk about President Mendenhall because she’s a history geek at heart and he was one of Smith’s greatest and probably most beloved President. The President’s House that currently stands was built for President Mendenhall, because it was a condition of his wife that he not take the poisition unless they built them a bigger, nicer house for all the official entertaining they had to do.

The person buried in the President’s garden is a former music professor at Smith, who really liked the particular view from the top of that hill. President Mendenhall is buried in the rock garden at the edge of the science quad, near the fountain of the water lady. If you look closely, there’s a gravemarker hidden in the rocks. And there is a third person buried on campus I think, but I forget who and where.