Miss McGehee founded the school with a purpose in mind in regard to the place of women in our society at this time. Many girls’ schools were founded in the period from the 1880s to the 1920s, but McGehee’s was one of the few girls’ schools that answered the need of Newcomb College and the like, an all-girls’ school that was more than a finishing school, a school that offered academic rigor commensurate with the education offered to young men. McGehee’s is also one of the few independent, nonsectarian girls’ schools in this country to remain in operation and true to its original mission.
