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Terry Truitt Whitcomb Class of 1949
Terry
Truitt Whitcomb is a professor
emeritus of Art History at the University of San Diego. She also is the retired
director of Institutional Design and served as curator of the University of San
Diego collection of fine and decorative arts. She was chair of the University of
San Diego Art Department from 1969-1990. As director of institutional design Ña
job that does not exist on most campuses Ñ Professor Whitcomb has been
responsible for keeping the visual surroundings of the private Roman
Catholic-Affiliated university in harmony and preserving and protecting its
Spanish Renaissance theme.
Professor Whitcomb earned a MasterÕs of Arts degree with Distinction from San Diego State University. She was the first woman to complete undergraduate studies at the then-brand new San Diego College for Women. (Later, the College for Women merged with the College for Men to become the University of San Diego.)