Sarah Logan Wister Starr: The Iron Fist Who Saved the School

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #072, segment 4

 

By 1921, Women's Medical College was on the verge of failure. The new president Sarah Logan Wister Starr was a master fundraiser who treated Women's Medical School and its hospital as her private philanthropic project. She did save the school, but she infuriated both faculty and student body when she fired the popular professor of obstetrics and gynecology Alice Weld Tallant.