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American lawyer and college president

Nancy Bekavac was the sixth president of Scripps College and the first woman to hold that position. She began her tenure on July 1, 1990, and concluded it on June 30, 2007. Scripps College is a liberal artswomen's college in Claremont, California.^[1]

Early life and education

Bekavac was born and raised in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where her family ran the Bekavac Funeral Home. She graduated from Clairton High School in 1965. She earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1969, and she graduated from Yale Law School in 1973.

She was one of four Swarthmore College team members on the weekly College Bowl "quiz" show during the 1968-1969 season ^[2] that defeated competing teams for five consecutive weeks. She was also a Watson Fellow, traveling in South Asia and Eastern Europe. At Yale Law School, she was a classmate of presiden Ny times!