 Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (July 10, 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin – July 18, 1998 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States.The grandson and namesake of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841–1924), physicist and meteorologist, his father was a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Charles Elwood Mendenhall (1872–1935), and his mother, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874–1964), a well-known pediatrician.