Margaret Wooster Freeman ’45

Margaret Wooster Freeman ’45, of Brunswick, Me.; Dec. 24. She received master’s degrees in musicology from Smith College and English literature from Middlebury College. She taught English literature at Allegheny College before moving to the College of William and Mary, where she was an associate professor and chair of the music department. She chaired numerous campus-wide committees and was the first woman president of the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter at William and Mary. She retired in 1989. She became a senior fellow at Robinson College and Cambridge University (UK), where she spent biannual spring terms. She enjoyed traveling to unfamiliar places at unseasonable times, including New Zealand, India, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, and Italy. She is survived by a daughter; son, John Freeman ’70; three granddaughters; and five
great-grandchildren.