Mary Sinclair Crawford '03

Mary Sinclair Crawford ‘03 earned her PhD in French from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Bryn Mawr before becoming dean of women at Carleton College in Minnesota. She then became dean of women at the University of Southern California and became known as the “Flying Dean” because of her interest in aeronautics. She was president of the Women’s International Association of Aeronautics which was founded in 1919 to stimulate international friendship through aviation. 

She was also president of the National Women’s Party and a founder of the World Women’s Party which fought for women’s enfranchisement throughout the world. 

During World War I she organized a nurses training school in Washington, DC, and a service camp for soldiers which became the United Service Organization – the USO.