Born: 16 November 1909, United States
Died: 18 July 2005
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Elizabeth Blodgett
Education administrator Elizabeth Blodgett Hall pioneered the “early college” model of post-secondary education.
Hall married in 1930 and had four children before becoming one of the first adult students at Radcliffe College, graduating in 1946. As headmistress of Concord Academy in Massachusetts from 1949 to 1963, she developed the it into a demanding college preparatory school. She went on to found Simon’s Rock in 1964 on the grounds of her family’s Great Pine Farm, supported by a family foundation her mother had started. Opening in 1966, the school was created as an early college, admitting high school students coming from their sophomore or junior years. Hall served as president until 1972, and on the Board of Overseers, as well as the Board of Trustees of Bard College, which Simon’s Rock became affliated with in 1979. She was named an emerita member of both boards in 1996.