Sweet Briar College

Template:Infobox University2 Sweet Briar College, is a liberal arts college for women in Sweet Briar, Virginia. It is located roughly 50 miles south of Charlottesville, Virginia and approximately 168 miles south of Washington, D.C.

Sweet Briar was founded in 1901 on the legacy of Indiana Fletcher Williams, whose only daughter, Daisy, died at the age of 16. Its goal, as stated by Williams, is to prepare young women to be "useful members of society."

The campus is situated on 3,200 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The college's architecture is dominated by the work of Ralph Adams Cram, who also lended his architectural expertise to the campuses of Princeton University and West Point, among others. 21 of the 30 buildings on campus have been designated as the "Sweet Briar National Historic District" by the National Register of Historic Places. In 2004, the Princeton Review cited Sweet Briar's campus as the fifth most beautiful in the United States.

Its sports teams are known as the Vixens. Sweet Briar is a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.

Notable alumnae

• Elaine Dundy - actor, journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright
• Janet Norton Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Morris - mother of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
• Diana Muldaur - actor
• Mary Lee Settle - author
• Michaela English - president of Discovery Enterprises Worldwide
• Fleming Parker Rutledge - Episcopal priest; noted preacher, theologian, author

See also

• GCRT J1745-3009 - a newly-discovered, bursting, transient radio source discovered by Sweet Briar College and the Naval Research Laboratory

External links

• Sweet Briar College
• Women's Colleges in Co-Ed Pressure Cooker - features Sweet Briar's decision to remain a women's college