Rosemary Ashby to Lead Pine Manor College Once Again

The board of trustees of Pine Manor College in Brookline, Massachusetts, have named Rosemary Ashby as interim president. The college enrolls a highly diverse student body of about 350 students. Women are 85 percent of all undergraduates. The college became fully co-educational in 2013.

Dr. Ashby will serve while the board of trustees searches for a new permanent president for Pine Manor College.

Dr. Ashby served as president of Pine Manor College from 1976 to 1996. She is a graduate of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She earned a second bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in sixteenth-century French literature from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University.