Smith College

Smith College is a private women's liberal arts college, located in Northampton, Massachusetts. The college was established in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith. It is one of the Five Colleges; the others are Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and Hampshire Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It is also one of the Seven Sisters schools.

The Ada Comstock Scholars Program is a bachelor's degree program for nontraditional students at Smith College.

Alumnae

Notable alumnae include:

• Harriet Boyd-Hawes 1892
• Florence R. Sabin 1893
• Margaret Mitchell 1922
• Julia McWilliams Child 1934
• Madeleine L'Engle 1941
• Betty Goldstein Friedan 1942
• Nancy Davis Reagan 1943
• Meg Greenfield 1952
• Sylvia Plath 1954
• Gloria Steinem 1956
• Jane Yolen 1963 (also a professor of the college)
• Jane Harman 1966
• Molly Ivins 1966
• Catharine MacKinnon 1968
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson 1969
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower 1970
• Tammy Baldwin 1984

Barbara Pierce Bush, class of 1947, did not graduate; she left the college in 1945 to marry George H.W. Bush.

Fictional alumnae include:

• Charlotte York, from the television series Sex and the City
• Ainsley Hayes, from the television series The West Wing

Famous dean of students

• Laura Woolsey Lord Scales 1922-1944 (died at age 110)