A Celebration of Excellence and Leadership

In June, Agnes Hsu-Tang ’94, Ph.D., Chair of the Board of Trustees at the New-York Historical Society, New York’s first museum founded in 1804, presented Drew Gilpin Faust ’68, Ph.D. with the institution’s 2024 Women in Public Life Medal at an award ceremony.

Hsu-Tang and Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University, were joined by President Emerita Kim Cassidy.

As she presented her with the award, Hsu-Tang spoke of Faust’s strength and conviction, recalling how, as a student, Faust and other student leaders persuaded the administration to drop the historical 2 a.m. curfew and how she traveled to Alabama to join the Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

“Two values deeply ingrained in all Bryn Mawr students are the pursuit of knowledge and honor,” Hsu-Tang said in her speech. “For those who have followed the trail that Dr. Faust has blazed, she is the personification of our school’s dictum ‘veritatem dilexi’— I have chosen truth.”