Adele S. Simmons
| Adele S. Simmons | |
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Simmons in 2016
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| 2nd President of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | |
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In office 1989–1999 |
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| Preceded by | John E. Corbally |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan F. Fanton |
| 3rd President of Hampshire College | |
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In office 1977–1989 |
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| Preceded by | Charles R. Longsworth |
| Succeeded by | Gregory S. Prince, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
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June 21, 1941 Lake Forest, Illinois, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | John Leroy Simmons (m. 1966) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Hermon Dunlap Smith Ellen Thorne |
| Alma mater |
Radcliffe College (B.A., 1963) University of Oxford (Ph.D., 1969) |
Adele Smith Simmons (born June 21, 1941) is an American academic, business director, philanthropist, academic administrator, the third president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts from 1977 to 1989 and the president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 1989 to 1999. Simmons also served as the dean of student affairs at Princeton University, from 1972 to 1977, where she was the first female dean.
Simmons currently serves as the president of the Global Philanthropy Partnership, a Chicago-based organization that "provides information and resources to donors and donor advisors interested in addressing issues of global importance."
Simmons, born Adele Dunlap Smith, was born on June 21, 1941 in Lake Forest, Illinois to Hermon Dunlap Smith, former president of Marsh & McLennan who died in 1983, and Ellen Thorne, an ornithologist who died in 1977. Simmons grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago. She has two sisters, Deborah Haight and Ellen Buchen, and one brother, Farwell Smith. Her father, Hermon Dunlap Smith was the president, chairman and chief executive officer of Marsh & McLennan Inc., the International Insurance Brokers, and chairman of the Field Foundation of Illinois. Simmons later attended Garrison Forest School, an exclusive girls' boarding school outside Baltimore, Maryland.
Simmons attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a B.A in 1963. While at Radcliffe College, Simmons served as a protégé of the college's president, Mary Bunting. Simmons subsequently attended Oxford University in Oxford, England, where she graduated with a Ph.D. in African history in 1969. For her doctoral thesis, Simmons stayed on the island of Mauritius in the Red Sea, gathering material for a book and for her doctoral thesis. Simmons went on to work as a reporter for The Economist from 1968 to 1969, where she covered North Africa before returning to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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