Jean Brosius Walton was an American academic administrator and women's studies scholar.
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20 Facts About Jean Walton
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Jean Walton's spent the bulk of her career at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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Jean Walton's joined Pomona College in 1949 as Dean of Women, and was promoted to Dean of Students in 1969 and Vice President for Student Affairs in 1976, three years before her formal retirement.
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Jean Walton's earned widespread recognition for her work and was praised by colleagues for her independent and dignified personality.
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Jean Walton's grew up on the campus of George School, where her father George was the principal.
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Jean Walton's then enrolled at Swarthmore College, where she majored in math.
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Jean Walton's was socially active and played several sports but found dating difficult.
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Jean Walton's then earned a master's degree in mathematics from Brown University in 1940, following the completion of her thesis on the Riemann–Stieltjes integral.
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Jean Walton began her career teaching math as an instructor at Swarthmore in 1940, serving as an assistant to the dean and then the acting dean of women in 1945.
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Jean Walton's taught math at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1947.
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Together with classics professor Harry J Carroll, Walton helped found an early iteration of Pomona's study abroad program.
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Jean Walton was the president of the California Association of Women Administrators and Counselors from 1957 to 1959, and was chair of the college section of the National Association of Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors from 1963 to 1965.
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Jean Walton played an instrumental role in the liberalization of Pomona's residential life policies and the elimination of parietal rules that had restricted student freedom and segregated housing by gender.
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Jean Walton was involved in ending the Pomona weigh-in, an annual practice in which the college's football team would forcibly weigh and measure the proportions of incoming first-year women during orientation.
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Jean Walton's assisted sponsors who objected to the tradition in 1972, and threatened to report the team for theft when she spotted them attempting to use college-owned scales the next year.
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In 1976, Jean Walton was promoted to Vice President for Student Affairs.
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Jean Walton's co-founded the Claremont Colleges' Intercollegiate Women's Studies Program and was its first coordinator from 1978 to 1983.
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Jean Walton formally retired in 1979, although she remained active in the women's studies programs at the Claremont Colleges.
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Jean Walton's served on the city's Committee on Aging and in other civic roles.
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Jean Walton was awarded the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' top honor, the Scott Goodnight Award, in 1974.
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