Facts and Traditions of The Bryn Mawr School

Headmistresses of The Bryn Mawr School

The school was managed for the first eleven years by a series of four "Secretaries" who carried out the directives of M. Carey Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Garrett. It wasn't until 1896 that the Board of Managers brought in Edith Hamilton, (BA and MA, Bryn Mawr College) from her doctoral studies abroad as the first Headmistress of school.

Eleanor A. Andrews	1885	1889	Secretary
Mary Noyes Colvin	1889	1893	Secretary
Mary Buckingham	1893	1894	Secretary
Ida Wood	1894	1896	Secretary
Edith Hamilton	1896	1922	Headmistress
Amy Kelly	1922	1933	Headmistress
Margaret Hamilton and Elizabeth Thomas	1932	1933	Interim
Margaret Hamilton	1933	1935	Interim
Janet Howell Clark (BMS 1906)	1935	1938	Headmistress
Elizabeth Thomas	1938	1939	Interim
Katherine Van Bibber (BMS 1920)	1939	1962	Headmistress
Diane Howell	1962	1973	Headmistress
Blair D. Stambaugh	1973	1980	Headmistress
Babara Landis Chase	1980	1994	Headmistress
Ellanor Brizendine	1994	1995	Interim
Rebecca MacMillan Fox	1995	2001	Headmistress
Katy Dallam (BMS 1973)	2001	2002	Interim
Maureen Walsh	2002		Headmistress

Contact Information

Elizabeth Nye Di Cataldo
The Bryn Mawr School Archives
109 W. Melrose Avenue
Baltimore MD 21010
410.323.8800 x1366
dicataldoe (at) brynmawrschool.org