Roosevelt for Bryn Mawr?

Famed, scholarly, 54-year-old Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, recently began looking for a new president. Its third president, Dr. Marion Edwards Park, will retire a year from next June. Last week it became known that "prominent Bryn Mawr alumnae" want as their fourth president a certain Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

If Eleanor Roosevelt were asked for a statement of her qualifications for the job, it would be something like this:

EDUCATION--private tutors until the age of 15, three years at Mme Souvestre's school near London, three months in a French convent.

DEGREES--Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary) from Russell Sage College. Doctor of Laws (honorary) from John Marshall College of Law, Jersey City.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE -- six years as teacher of civics, American history and 19th-Century literature at Manhattan's Todhunter School for Girls, of which she was associate principal.

PUBLICATIONS--four books (When You Grow Up to Vote, It's Up to the Women, A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty, This Is My Story), a daily newspaper column, magazine articles.

EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE--eight years managing the White House, vice president of New York League of Women Voters, chairman of legislative committee of New York Woman's City Club, etc.

MONEY-RAISING EXPERIENCE--four years as women's finance chairman of the New York Democratic Committee.

PUBLIC SPEAKING-- considerable.

TRAVEL-- extensive.

PUBLIC RELATIONS-- excellent.

But no one knew last week whether Mrs. Roosevelt would 1) be formally offered or 2) accept the Bryn Mawr presidency. That depended among other things on whether a certain Franklin Delano Roosevelt is 1) formally offered, and 2) accepts, and 3) gets elected to another Presidency next year.

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