]PAR@ ` UTEXT ` GTowle, Katherine Amelia1898╨1986educator and marine officerBorn on April 30, 1898, in Towle, California, Katherine Towle graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1920, and after a year as assistant admissions officer at the school she spent a year, 1922╨1923, in advanced study at Columbia University. She then rejoined the administrative staff at Berkeley. In 1927 she was named resident dean of a private girls╒ school in Piedmont, California, and she became headmistress in 1929. In 1933 she resumed studies in political science at Berkeley, receiving a master╒s degree in 1935. From that year to 1942 she was assistant to the manager and a senior editor of the University of California Press. In February 1943 Towle took a commission as captain in the newly established Women╒s Reserve (WR) of the marine corps. Until September 1944 her duties were divided between corps headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the women╒s training centers at Hunter College, New York City, and, from June 1943, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Promoted to major in February 1944, she became in September assistant director of the WR, advancing to lieutenant colonel in March 1945, and in December 1945 she was promoted to colonel and named director to succeed Colonel Ruth C. Streeter. Towle remained in that post until June 1946, when the WR was inactivated. During 1946╨1947 she served as administrative assistant to the vice-president and provost of the University of California, and in July 1947 she was appointed assistant dean of women. With the passage of the Women╒s Armed Forces Integration Act of June 12, 1948, the women╒s reserve of the marine corps, like those of the other arms, was integrated into the active line. Colonel Towle was recalled to active duty as director in October. She retired from that post in May 1953. She then served as dean of women and associate dean of students at the University of California at Berkeley from 1953 to 1962 and as dean of students from 1962 until her retirement. During her tenure as dean of students, she ordered that political activity on the campus be limited. The students reacted with sit-ins and demonstrations and formed a protest group, the Free Speech Movement, which kept the student involvement and activism high for months. She died on March 1, 1986, in Pacific Grove, California. ╓styl `
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