
Question 6. This educational institution in Baltimore County was founded in 1888 as the Woman’s College of Baltimore. It was a Methodist institution originally and its first president served from 1890 to 1907 without pay. What is the current name of this college?
Answer: Goucher College was named for its first president, Dr. John F. Goucher, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore. In 1914 the school became nonsectarian and in 1953 it moved to its present campus in Towson.