Louise McNair

[3] McNair was a student of Mary Institute,[4] and after graduating there she taught three years in Hosmer Hall, and then attended Wellesley College, class of 1896.

[5] Returning to school after her course at Wellesley McNair again taught Mathematics[6] at Hosmer until the death of Martha Matthews, when she accepted the position of principal in 1903.

[3] The aim of Hosmer Hall was to fit girls for the responsibilities and opportunities of later life and to develop the highest type of American womanhood.

McNair was often asked why should a girl spend time in learning mathematics and Latin in college, studies which they rarely ever put to practical uses.

There were many who were successful — Sara Teasdale, Caroline Risque, Zoe Akins, Berenice Wyer — were among the notable women in St.

Grace Burnham was the assistant principal, with a degree of Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis; Cora L. Swift, French; Alice M. Miller, Latin; H. Carolyn Percy, English, and Florence Elizabeth Lange, German, represented the teachers of languages.

Senta Goldberg, Harriet Downing-Macklin, Arthur Lieber, Emily J. Griffin, Elizabeth D. Slack, and Mary F. Gold, as the very efficient matron, composed the Faculty.