815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs,
New York, 12866
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518-580-5000
Sarah Gridley Ross
Sarah Gridley Ross was Skidmore's
dean from 1915 to 1929. She taught sociology, helped shape academic
policy, and oversaw social discipline. She organized a Red Cross
branch on campus during the First World War and took a maternal
interest in many students' lives.
When President Charles Henry Keyes died in January 1925, Dean Ross assumed the
president's duties for the rest of the academic year. That included
discussions with a representative of the Middle States Association,
which would grant Skidmore accreditation that November.
Ross left Skidmore for a position at the University of Wisconsin,
but she visited the College many times, attending reunions up
until her death in 1962. A residence hall on the downtown campus
was named in her honor, and one of the apartments in Scribner
Village now bears her name.
Creative Thought Matters.
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