LEXINGTON — Washington and Lee University professor Pamela Hemenway Simpson, who played a key role in the school's transition to co-education, has died.
The university said in a news release that Simpson died Tuesday at her home. She was 65. She had been diagnosed with cancer this summer.
From 1984 to 1986, Simpson headed a committee that implemented Washington and Lee's decision to admit women.
Simpson was an art and architectural historian and a member of Washington and Lee's faculty for 38 years. She was the Lexington school's first female tenure-track professor. In 1993, she became the first female professor to receive an endowed chair.
A memorial service is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday at the R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church in Lexington.
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