Sweet Briar College

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**Sweet Briar College**
Established	1901
Type	liberal arts women's college
President	Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld
Faculty	71 full time
Undergraduates	750
Postgraduates	14
Location	Sweet Briar, Virginia, USA
Campus	3,250 acres
Mascot	Vixen
Website	sbc.edu

Sweet Briar College is a liberal arts women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia. It is located about 12 miles north of Lynchburg, Virginia, 50 miles southwest of Charlottesville, Virginia, 100 miles west of Richmond, Virginia, approximately 168 miles south of Washington, D.C. and 200 miles north of Raleigh, North Carolina.

It is considered one of the Seven Sisters of the South.

Sweet Briar was founded in 1901 on the legacy of Indiana Fletcher Williams, whose only daughter, Daisy, died at the age of 16. Its goal, as stated by Williams, is to prepare young women to be "useful members of society."

The campus is situated on 3,200 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The college's architecture is dominated by the work of Ralph Adams Cram, who also lended his architectural expertise to the campuses of Princeton University and West Point, among others. 21 of the 30 buildings on campus have been designated as the "Sweet Briar National Historic District" by the National Register of Historic Places. In 2004, the Princeton Review cited Sweet Briar's campus as the fifth most beautiful in the United States.

Its sports teams are known as the Vixens. Sweet Briar is a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.

1 Traditions
2 Notable alumnae
3 Notable faculty
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Traditions

Sweet Briar cherishes its traditions, including Spring and Fall Step Singing when sister classes serenade each other, tap clubs (selective societies with specific community functions), Junior Banquet (when juniors receive their class rings and have their dorm rooms "decorated" by the seniors), Lantern Bearing (when seniors march with their sophomore sisters), the Rock and Hitching Post paint fight between the freshmen and sophomores, and various landmarks throughout the campus which are claimed by specific classes, including the senior doors and bench. Each class has its own color, motto and mascot, which rotate every four years.

[edit] Notable alumnae

Elaine Dundy - Actor, journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright
Janet Norton Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Morris - Mother of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Diana Muldaur - Actor who appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series and L.A. Law.
Mary Lee Settle - Author
Michaela English - President of Discovery Enterprises Worldwide
Fleming Parker Rutledge - Episcopal priest; noted preacher, theologian, author
Diane Holloway - Television critic, Austin American-Statesman

[edit] Notable faculty

Marion Elizabeth Blake - classics professor
Lincoln Brower, Ph.D. - Research Professor, world-reknowned expert on Monarch butterfly migrations

[edit] See also

GCRT J1745-3009 - a newly-discovered, bursting, transient radio source discovered by Sweet Briar College and the Naval Research Laboratory

[edit] External links

In Virginia, three elite women's colleges reinvent themselves and find a new mission in a coed world - 06 November 2006 Newsweek article on Sweet Briar College, Hollins University, and Mary Baldwin College

Old Dominion Athletic Conference
Bridgewater • Catholic^† • Eastern Mennonite^‡ • Emory & Henry • Guilford • Hampden–Sydney • Hollins^‡ • Lynchburg^‡ • Randolph–Macon • Randolph–Macon Woman's^‡ • Roanoke^‡ • Sweet Briar^‡ • Virginia Wesleyan^‡ • Washington & Lee ^† football-only member ^‡ no-football member