Meta Glass

Meta Glass was an American classics scholar, educator, and college administrator. From 1925 through 1946, she was the third president of Sweet Briar College. She was also president of the Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Women for several years.

Meta Glass was born in 1880 in Petersburg, Virginia to newspaperman and former Confederate Major Robert Henry Glass and his second wife, Meta Sanford Glass. Her older half-brother was newspaper publisher and Democratic politician Carter Glass. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Graduated from Randolph Macon College. Took Ph.D. From Columbia in Classics. Returned to work at Randolph Macon College but left in 1918 to work as YWCA secretary in France. In summer 1919, served as Dean of the YWCA Training Scgool for Women in Paris. President Sweet Briar College 1925-45. Unmarried.