Education
Johns Hopkins University. Bryn Mawr College.
Johns Hopkins University. Bryn Mawr College.
McIntosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 30, 1898. McIntosh attended Bryn Mawr College for undergraduate, studied economics at Cambridge University, and earned an English Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University with a thesis on 14th century mystery plays. Later, she headed the Brearley School for seventeen years, where she pioneered a sex education class for sixth grade students.
McIntosh became Dean of Barnard College in 1947, and became the institution"s first President in 1952.
After Barnard, she helped to found Kirkland College in the 1960s.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.