Margaret Clapp

Margaret Antoinette Clapp (April 10, 1910 – May 3, 1974)[1] was an American scholar, educator and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Other accomplishments of note during her tenure construction and remodeling of major campus buildings as well as increasing the college endowment fund.

During her time there, she became the Minister Counselor of Public Affairs for the United States Embassy, becoming the first woman to hold such a position.

[5] She taught English literature at the Todhunter School for Girls in New York City for twelve years while working on her master's degree, which she obtained from Columbia University in 1937.

[7] After leaving Wellesley, Clapp served briefly as administrator of Lady Doak College, a women's college in Madurai, India, then as United States cultural attaché to India, then as minister-councilor of public affairs in the United States Information Agency until her retirement in 1971.

Margaret Clapp with Indian Prime Minister, his daughter, and the Indian ambassador to the U.S.A.
In October 1949, the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, visited Wellesley College with his daughter, Shrimati Indira Gandhi. In this image, they are pictured on the step of the President's House on Wellesley College's campus. (Margaret Clapp is pictured second from the left).
The library at Wellesley College