Pauline Tompkins
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Pauline "Polly" Tompkins (died, November 19, 2004) was the first woman President of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States and a pioneer in American education and women's education.
Tompkins was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and graduated from Pine Manor College in 1938 and Mount Holyoke College in 1941, Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University in 1948.
