To the Editor:
The Mar. 3 issue's welcome report on Professor and Chair Marysa Navarro's pioneering service and accomplishments at Dartmouth ("First tenured female professor changed campus culture") unintentionally reinforces a perception that needs to be gently amended. Both the headline and the text refer to Professor Navarro as the first female tenured professor at Dartmouth (in 1968). The sum of the parts at Dartmouth includes Tuck, Thayer and the Medical School as well as Arts and Sciences. It should be noted that Lucile Smith, Emerita Professor of Biochemistry, was tenured in 1965 and that still-active Professors Frances McCann and Valerie Galton of Physiology were both tenured in 1967 (two from one department!). There were -- and are -- a number of pioneers from those days!
