Elizabeth Tryon Ledwith, 103, chair of the board of trustees at the Shipley School from 1970 to 1972, died on Sunday, Sept. 9, at Waverly Heights, the Gladwyne retirement home where she had lived since 1987.
During Mrs. Ledwith's term as chair, Shipley officials decided to make the school co-educational, daughter Mary Tryon Ledwith said in a phone interview.
A 1927 graduate of Shipley, Mrs. Ledwith was the first of three generations of her family to attend the school in Bryn Mawr, her daughter said.
In addition to being a member of the Shipley board from 1956 to 1979, Mrs. Ledwith became a member of the school's alumni board in the 1950s and was its president from 1956 to 1959.
