Mount Holyoke College Profile
Located in: South Hadley, Massachusetts
First admitted students: 1837
Original name: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Also commonly known as: Mt. Holyoke College
Formally chartered as a college: 1888
Traditionally affiliated with: Dartmouth College; originally sister school to Andover Seminary
Founder: Mary Lyon
Some famous graduates: Virginia Apgar, Olympia Brown, Elaine Chao, Emily Dickinson, Ella T. Grasso, Nancy Kissinger, Frances Perkins, Helen Pitts, Lucy Stone. Shirley Chisholm served briefly on the faculty.
Still a women's college: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
