1. Meta Glass was an American classics scholar, educator, and college administrator.
17 Facts About Meta Glass
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Meta Glass was president of the Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Women for several years.
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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.
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Meta Glass earned a PhD degree in classics from Columbia University in 1913, although she had known no Greek before beginning that program.
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Meta Glass taught Latin for four years at Roanoke High School.
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Meta Glass was then an instructor at Randolph-Macon Women's College for three years.
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Meta Glass knew about the newly formed Sweet Briar College, but was told in 1906 that no positions were open.
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Meta Glass remained in France after the war's end and in Paris she trained European women in social work.
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Meta Glass had been elected to Sweet Briar's Board of Overseers in 1929, and in 1934 secured alumnae representation on the board.
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Meta Glass was president of the Association of American Colleges for many years.
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Meta Glass achieved international recognition for speaking out against Nazi suppression of intellectual freedom.
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Meta Glass assisted in that war effort, as did many Sweet Briar students.
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Meta Glass had announced her pending retirement at age 65 in 1944, but agreed to stay on until her successor was selected.
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Meta Glass was an active Democrat, and was an actress in local theater productions in Charlottesville.
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Meta Glass spent her final years in a nursing home in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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In 1967, Meta Glass died in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 86.
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Meta Glass is buried with other family members in Lynchburg's Spring Hill Cemetery.