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Vol. 1, No. 1 Fall 2003
By Jack Ray
Dorothy M. Brown, long-time professor of history and administrator
at Georgetown University and former interim president of the College
of Notre Dame, has accepted an appointment as President of the
Loyola/Notre Dame Library Board of Trustees, effective July 1,
2003. Dr. Brown is succeeding Dr. Rhoda Dorsey, who has served
as Board President since 1995 (and joined the Board as a member
a year before that).
Dorothy Brown has deep and long-lasting associations
with both the College of Notre Dame and with Jesuit education.
Born in Baltimore, Dr. Brown graduated from Notre Dame in 1954
and then earned both her M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1962) in history
at Georgetown. From 1958 to 1966 she taught history at Notre Dame,
and in 1966 began her career in the History Department at Georgetown.
In addition to her teaching, Dr. Brown has served as department
chairman, as coordinator of academic planning from 1979 to 1987,
and as provost from 1998 to 2002 at Georgetown. At her retirement
in 2002, Dr. Brown was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris
Causa, and was further honored with the creation of the Dorothy
Brown Award by the Georgetown Student Government. It was in 1996-97
that Dr. Brown served as interim president at her alma mater.
Dr. Brown has contributed articles to numerous journals
and reference sources, and is the author of three books in the
area of women's history: Mabel Hall Willebrandt: Power, Loyalty,
and Law (University of Tennessee Press, 1984); Setting a Course:
American Women in the 1920s (G.K. Hall, 1987); and (with Elizabeth
McKeown) The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American
Welfare (Harvard University Press, 1997). Dr. Brown has also recently
co-authored with Carol Hurd Green a chapter entitled "Making
It: Stories of Persistence and Success" that includes an
account of the College of Notre Dame's history, in the book Catholic
Women's Colleges in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
Of her new connection with the Notre Dame/Loyola
community, Dr. Brown says, "It's an honor to join the Board
of the Loyola/Notre Dame Library as the library celebrates its
30th anniversary. With consistently strong leadership, the library
has an enviable record of service and innovation. It's a fine
record to build on."
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