Bryn Mawr's 125th session and special anniversary year opened in grand style with festive balloon sculptures around the campus, a celebratory opening of the newly renovated Lower School and fifth-grade classroom buildings, the dedication of the Peggy Bessent Library in the Lower School, an all-school flyover with aerial photography of our campus, and a special Founders Day event welcoming alumna Margaret Mock Obrecht '56, who gave the Founders Day address. We even celebrated with a special anniversary billboard message along the JFX.
Dec. 14 - Kathleen Waters Sander, PhD, author of Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age, visits Bryn Mawr to share the fascinating life of the school's benefactress with students and faculty. more...
M. Carey Thomas, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, Mary Mackall Gwinn, Elizabeth Tabor King, and Julia Rebecca Rogers founded The Bryn Mawr School in 1885 to provide girls with a college-preparatory education, which included studies in French, German, Greek, history, Latin, and mathematics? more...
Featured 125th Anniversary items include a new style uniform shirt, polo shirts, and a gym bag. Visit this site for more items to come. more...
"The Legacy of Edith Hamilton" was presented by Bryn Mawr Upper School English and Latin teacher Mary Armstrong Shoemaker '69 speaking in the Graduation Garden on the occasion of the school's annual Founders Day convocation." more...
