Mary Schmidt Campbell '69

President of Spelman College

What has been most remarkable in my experience is the institution's unwillingness to let me go. Like Dean Cobbs' insistence that we find a way for me to stay, the College in the past 35 years has been insistent that I - and its alumni in general - stay a part of the ongoing dialogue and dialectic that compose the discourse of the community. I have learned in the decades since I left that essential to the meaning of Swarthmore is the way in which it becomes a lifelong enterprise, a living community for its members.”More